[RECOVERY][SHARED][surya]OrangeFox Recovery Project[R11.0_A] Xiaomi POCO X3 NFC

[Master One]

I'll try ArrowOS first before going to MIUI
How do you handle the arrow OS nightlies updates? Update every time or only like once a week? Dirty flash or clean flash?

They are OTA updates, which are always dirty flashes, no problems and you can choose to apply an update whenever you want (no need to do it daily, any the updater shows you the changelog automatically once you start the download so that you can decide).

 

[temporarium]

What about internal storage when using miflash?

More likely than not, internal storage will be wiped. Be safe and back it up!

 

[warisha]

OrangeFox Recovery Project
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Your warranty is now void. * * We're not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, * thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please * do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this recovery * before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if * you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will laugh at you.

OrangeFox is FREE SOFTWARE​

Supports MIUI and Custom Roms

Credits
* OrangeFox Recovery Project Team
* @LUNARIO, who did ALL the work, but sadly opened a thread violating the rules and the link to Recovery was deleted and the thread moved. Original here.

FEATURES:
* Touch Screen every single time
* Decryption works
* Fixed Error 7 while clean or dirty flashing (starting from version 6)
* Migrate backup installation (starting from version 6)
* OTG support
* ROM Flashing works 100%
* F2FS Support
* Fastboot commands supported

NOT WORKING FOR NOW:
* Fastbootd
* ADB Sideload
* Backing up and restoring Image Flash (system-vendor-product)

DOWNLOAD
Version 6 - Google: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eHM9ST9ni-55bbT3z-TGSZQsgE3KYr9s/view


OLD VERSION DOWNLOAD
Version 4 - Google: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qq6hqaEOstxajOC7Y6AGeRYajhMWjttL/view
Version 0 - Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/or...x-R11.0_0_Alpha-Unofficial-surya.img/download


INSTALLATION
1. Download the OrangeFoxRecovery IMG file to your PC.
2. Restart your POCO X3 in Fastboot mode (Power+Vol Down)
3. Use ADB and type in the following command:

fastboot flash recovery "OrangeFox-R11.0_6_Alpha-Unofficial-surya.img"

4. After it is installed successfully, type in this command:

fastboot boot "OrangeFox-R11.0_6_Alpha-Unofficial-surya.img"

5. The device will automatically reboot into OrangeFox Recovery after installation (allow this to happen)
6. Enjoy!


Version Information
Status: Alpha
Alpha Release Date: 2020-10-14

 

[warisha]

Better then twrp recovery

 

[Master One]

Better then twrp recovery

Indeed, I have just come back from TWRP 3.5.0_10-5 because of an occasional error when processing addon.d scripts after an OTA update.

The only problems with OrangeFox are now that

1. the OP is outdated and not maintained with the current version from 10th January 2021 to be found here.
2. it is still labeled as unofficial beta software with the uncertainty when/if it will become official/stable.

@jeryll
@billabongstaff
@LUNARIO

Has there been any more info or update since then?

Because it would be really great to track this here on XDA and not on Telegram (which I'm not using).

 

[jeryll]

Has there been any more info or update since then?

nope, not that I know of
only @ManoloRey know more, maybe he will share some info, when he will be here again...

 

[ygb7]

CounterC said:
What about internal storage when using miflash?

More likely than not, internal storage will be wiped. Be safe and back it up!

Temporarium gave the best advice you will ever receive in this or any forum “Be safe and back it up!”.

If you ever consider flashing a custom ROM or restoring your phone device to Stock MIUI ROM, please, please, please be safe and backup any data & apps you do not want to lose to your external micro-SD card or even copy it to your local computer. Using tools like OrangeFox, TWRP, MIFlash etc has risks of data lost that you assume when you choose to use these tools.

If you use MIFlash to flash MIUI ROM, it will return the phone to stock MIUI OS. Just like it was fresh out of the box. The Boot Partition, the Recovery partition, the Super Partition (Product, Vendor, System), etc will all be returned to stock.

That means Internal data will be wiped. OrangeFox or TWRP Recovery partition will be gone after MIFlash of MIUI Stock ROM. It will be the stock MIUI ROM recovery. You will have to flash the OrangeFox of TWRP recovery again.

For example,

OrangeFox
fastboot flash recovery OrangeFox-R11.0_6_Alpha-Unofficial-surya.img
adb reboot recovery

TWRP
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.5.0_10-5-surya.img
adb reboot recovery

As I mentioned previously, It will not relock your bootloader if you Do NOT select “Clean and lock” radio button on bottom right corner of the MIFlash UI. Even if you did relock the PX3NFC bootloader, you can easily & immediately unlock it again with Xiaomi Mi Unlock Tool . You will not have the Xiaomi 5-10 day waiting period if the phone bootloader has already been previously unlocked.

This is the way it worked for me when I received my new PX3NFC phone a couple months ago. I bricked my POCO X3 NFC phone over 10 times with trial & error. I had to restore my phone to MIUI v12.0.4.0 Global Stock ROM, unlocked bootloader again, install TWRP again over 10 times before I finally identified this solution that worked for me.

Do not use any hacks. I used the official way to unlock my bootloader by Bind your Mi Account which means sign in to the Poco device using your Mi account by heading to Settings > Additional Settings > Developer Options > Add account and device and log in.

Best wishes & Happy flashing. I hope this email helps you.

 

[CounterC]

CounterC said:
What about internal storage when using miflash?



Temporarium gave the best advice you will ever receive in this or any forum “Be safe and back it up!”.

If you ever consider flashing a custom ROM or restoring your phone device to Stock MIUI ROM, please, please, please be safe and backup any data & apps you do not want to lose to your external micro-SD card or even copy it to your local computer. Using tools like OrangeFox, TWRP, MIFlash etc has risks of data lost that you assume when you choose to use these tools.

If you use MIFlash to flash MIUI ROM, it will return the phone to stock MIUI OS. Just like it was fresh out of the box. The Boot Partition, the Recovery partition, the Super Partition (Product, Vendor, System), etc will all be returned to stock.

That means Internal data will be wiped. OrangeFox or TWRP Recovery partition will be gone after MIFlash of MIUI Stock ROM. It will be the stock MIUI ROM recovery. You will have to flash the OrangeFox of TWRP recovery again.

For example,

OrangeFox
fastboot flash recovery OrangeFox-R11.0_6_Alpha-Unofficial-surya.img
adb reboot recovery

TWRP
fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.5.0_10-5-surya.img
adb reboot recovery

As I mentioned previously, It will not relock your bootloader if you Do NOT select “Clean and lock” radio button on bottom right corner of the MIFlash UI. Even if you did relock the PX3NFC bootloader, you can easily & immediately unlock it again with Xiaomi Mi Unlock Tool . You will not have the Xiaomi 5-10 day waiting period if the phone bootloader has already been previously unlocked.

This is the way it worked for me when I received my new PX3NFC phone a couple months ago. I bricked my POCO X3 NFC phone over 10 times with trial & error. I had to restore my phone to MIUI v12.0.4.0 Global Stock ROM, unlocked bootloader again, install TWRP again over 10 times before I finally identified this solution that worked for me.

Do not use any hacks. I used the official way to unlock my bootloader by Bind your Mi Account which means sign in to the Poco device using your Mi account by heading to Settings > Additional Settings > Developer Options > Add account and device and log in.

Best wishes & Happy flashing. I hope this email helps you.

Thanks a lot bro. I saw your post too late though. Yesterday I already managed to get back to the latest MIUI rooted with Magisk, Viper4Android, OFox, and other mods I need. Just what I wanted!

Thanks anyway. I'm sure it will help some other people as well.

 

[Alv32]

I'm on latest MIUI global ROM with device encryption and have recently installed OrangeFox from post #102, my concern is now I am unable to install OTA updates because I no longer have stock recovery.

Can I flash the OTA zip using OrangeFox using the steps below once the OTA update has been downloaded to the "downloaded_rom" folder?

1.) Unroot via Magisk "Restore Images"
2.) Reboot to recovery
3.) Flash the OTA zip
4.) Reboot to system

Is it safe to assume OrangeFox recovery in still intact after the steps above?

Are there any pitfalls that I should be aware of with this version of OrangeFox because I would like to prevent a bootloop or hard brick due to MIUI boot check and dm-verity check?

 

[CounterC]

Two more questions:

- Being on MIUI and OFox I always need to decrypt storage upon entering OFox. Will the disable enryption zip work permanently in my case?
- Also OFox has the option for (MIUI) OTA. I tried it yesterday but it failed. Next update it would be nice to test again instead of installing the whole system image. There are some devices that can do it but we don't have the wipe system option so it might not work like that. Anyone any ideas on this??

Thanks in advance.

 

[Master One]

OrangeFox R11.0 - UNOFFICIAL | Beta Updated: 10/01/'21 By @ManoloRey

Found a bug:

OTA updates don't work if an OrangeFox access protection (Settings >> Security) is active.

I thought it's a good idea to protect OrangeFox with a PIN code and disable "Run ADB on startup", but with that setting and after an OTA update has been initiated, when the ROM reboots to recovery to perform the update, first the data encryption PIN is asked, then the OrangeFox PIN is asked, and then it ends in the "Files" tab without proceeding to performing the update.

 

[jeryll]

Found a bug:

OTA updates don't work if an OrangeFox access protection (Settings >> Security) is active.

I thought it's a good idea to protect OrangeFox with a PIN code and disable "Run ADB on startup", but with that setting and after an OTA update has been initiated, when the ROM reboots to recovery to perform the update, first the data encryption PIN is asked, then the OrangeFox PIN is asked, and then it ends in the "Files" tab without proceeding to performing the update.

please read how OTA in OFOX should work

also I'm not an OFOX maintainer for POCO X3, so even if it's a bug, I can't do anything about it, sorry

 

[Master One]

please read how OTA in OFOX should work, also I'm not an OFOX maintainer for POCO X3, so even if it's a bug, I can't do anything about it, sorry

That wiki page has absolutely nothing to do with the bug I have mentioned.

With OrgangeFox access protection disabled, everything is working, but OTA updates definitely don't work if enabling that security feature in OrangeFox settings.

So where/how to report a bug? @ManoloRey?

 

[Morello12]

Hi all!
Is there any chance to return to stock recovery without flash all stock ROM?

Thx un advance.

 

[pnin]

[Is] there are any chance to return to stock recovery without flash all stock ROM?

Probably yes, provided someone still on stock is able to extract the recovery image. No one has bothered with it up to now...

 

[Morello12]

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[brackenhill_mob]

Hi all!
Is there any chance to return to stock recovery without flash all stock ROM?

Thx un advance.

Download the ROM that you are on from Xiaomi and extract the recovery

 

[Morello12]

and then just flash in Fastboot mode?

 

[brackenhill_mob]

and then just flash in Fastboot mode?

Yes, or an image flash in orange

 

[Alin45]

That wiki page has absolutely nothing to do with the bug I have mentioned.

With OrgangeFox access protection disabled, everything is working, but OTA updates definitely don't work if enabling that security feature in OrangeFox settings.

So where/how to report a bug? @ManoloRey?

Did u do all procedure to activate OTA in OrangeFox as discribed in the link Jeryll provided (activate that option - flash the custom ROM - use in build ROM update app only) and did not work? I used this method with ArrowOS about 1 month ago and all worked as expected (I had PIN protection on OF tho).
If u don't use in build OF OTA option, but in build ROM update app, having problem to update because of security measures of OF is because of the update script inside the ROM which is not adapted for OF specific functionality (so, u can blame developer not OF.....if u wanna blame someone ).