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brainchild said:
The boot partition is shared by both slots, or each has a separate boot partition? It seems two recoveries are resident on the device.
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Yes, I mispoke. There is a boot_a and boot_b partition, so twrp would always need to be injected into the active ramdisk, lineage usually places it's own recovery in the ramdisk by flashing their own boot image.
 
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bigbiff said:
Yes, I mispoke. There is a boot_a and boot_b partition, so twrp would always need to be injected into the active ramdisk, lineage usually places it's own recovery in the ramdisk by flashing their own boot image.
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What is the difference between Flash Current TWRP and installing to ramdisk. Presently, I see an option only for the latter, whereas previously I had seen both.
 
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What is the difference between Flash Current TWRP and installing to ramdisk. Presently, I see an option only for the latter, whereas previously I had seen both.
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They are the same action, but Flash Current TWRP will automatically install the version of TWRP you are running currently after you install a zip without any action from you.
 
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bigbiff said:
They are the same action, but Flash Current TWRP will automatically install the version of TWRP you are running currently after you install a zip without any action from you.
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Do you mean that Flash Current makes no immediate modification, but installs a hook lasting the rest of a session for some modification action, the same action that would occur immediately upon invocation of the menu item for installing to ramdisk?
 
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Do you mean that Flash Current makes no immediate modification, but installs a hook lasting the rest of a session for some modification action, the same action that would occur immediately upon invocation of the menu item for installing to ramdisk?
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It modifies the ramdisk of the current slot, by reinjecting the ramdisk files into the boot image so that TWRP will persist when you boot to recovery mode. If you install the recovery image via the install menu, it will do the same thing. Flash Current will only activate after installing a zip provided the option is selected..
 
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bigbiff said:
It modifies the ramdisk of the current slot, by reinjecting the ramdisk files into the boot image so that TWRP will persist when you boot to recovery mode. If you install the recovery image via the install menu, it will do the same thing. Flash Current will only activate after installing a zip provided the option is selected..
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How long is the effect of selecting Flash Current? Is it only a modification of the current TWRP session, or is it somehow persistent?

More broadly, is there any preferred method for using TWRP and LineageOS with OTA updates on the same device?
 
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Is there any possiblity to switch between ROMs using TWRP without formatting internal storage? Yes, I can backup my internal storage before flashing a ROM but it's an extra step for most of us. Any suggestions?
 
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How long is the effect of selecting Flash Current? Is it only a modification of the current TWRP session, or is it somehow persistent?

More broadly, is there any preferred method for using TWRP and LineageOS with OTA updates on the same device?
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It would last until something rebuilds the boot ramdisk, such as update_engine updating boot during an installation. Lineage is always going to overwrite boot, so you always have to reinstall TWRP.
 
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bigbiff said:
It would last until something rebuilds the boot ramdisk, such as update_engine updating boot during an installation. Lineage is always going to overwrite boot, so you always have to reinstall TWRP.
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Then I am still confused about the intended difference between the two options. It seems that both immediately install the recovery to the boot partition (only for some reason one of them apparently only works on slot A, and removes itself from the menu when the recovery is already detected in that slot).
 
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How does Flash Current TWRP compare to the TWRP A/B retention script?

TWRP A/B Retention Script - Magisk

Keeps TWRP installed after an A/B OTA. This is NOT a normal module - it will NOT show up in Magisk Manager's installed modules list.Flash this script zip after each OTA has installed, but before you install Magisk to Inactive Slot from Manager
themagisk.com themagisk.com

I've been using the TWRP A/B retention script for a couple of years now and it works very well.
 
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b8842dc0 said:
How does Flash Current TWRP compare to the TWRP A/B retention script?

TWRP A/B Retention Script - Magisk

Keeps TWRP installed after an A/B OTA. This is NOT a normal module - it will NOT show up in Magisk Manager's installed modules list.Flash this script zip after each OTA has installed, but before you install Magisk to Inactive Slot from Manager
themagisk.com themagisk.com

I've been using the TWRP A/B retention script for a couple of years now and it works very well.
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The Retention Script is designed for flashing after an OTA has been installed, and will flash TWRP to both slots (including the just updated inactive slot), provided the current boot ramdisk already has TWRP installed. It's really made for use with Magisk and for flashing while booted into Android.

The "Flash Current TWRP" feature allows the currently fastboot booted TWRP to be installed to both slots of the device. Obviously this has to be done while in TWRP, and it doesn't matter whether some version of TWRP is currently installed. This also means that no zip or image file needs to be copied to the device for TWRP to be installed after it's fastboot booted.
 
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Captain_Throwback said:
The "Flash Current TWRP" feature allows the currently fastboot booted TWRP to be installed to both slots of the device.
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So the difference between this command and the ramdisk one is whether the installed image is read from storage, versus applied from the running session?

I am still struggling to understand the difference between the two commands (as well as why one, but not the other, has disappeared from the menu).
 
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brainchild said:
So the difference between this command and the ramdisk one is whether the installed image is read from storage, versus applied from the running session?

I am still struggling to understand the difference between the two commands (as well as why one, but not the other, has disappeared from the menu).
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If you're referring to the difference between the Flash Current TWRP option and the Install Recovery Ramdisk option, then yes, the former uses the loaded ramdisk, while the latter requires you to provide an image from which to extract and install the ramdisk.

Neither option should be getting removed from the list, afaik. Have you tried scrolling the list to confirm whether it's still there? There are quite a few options there, and they can't all be seen without scrolling.
 
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Captain_Throwback said:
Neither option should be getting removed from the list, afaik. Have you tried scrolling the list to confirm whether it's still there? There are quite a few options there, and they can't all be seen without scrolling.
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Yes. I just booted to the image by loading it through fastboot. The Advanced menu includes four boxes, labeled Copy Log, ADB Sideload, Terminal, and File Manager.

Beneath the boxes is a scrolling list, of the following items:

- Theme Options
- Partition SD Card
- Fix Contents
- Install Recovery Ramdisk
- Install Kernel
- Fix Recovery Bootloop
- Install TWRP App

Nothing else shows on this page.
 
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brainchild said:
Yes. I just booted to the image by loading it through fastboot. The Advanced menu includes four boxes, labeled Copy Log, ADB Sideload, Terminal, and File Manager.

Beneath the boxes is a scrolling list, of the following items:

- Theme Options
- Partition SD Card
- Fix Contents
- Install Recovery Ramdisk
- Install Kernel
- Fix Recovery Bootloop
- Install TWRP App

Nothing else shows on this page.
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Standard TWRP doesn't have a "Theme Options" item there. Are you using a custom theme? If so, you need to remove it to see the current options.
 
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Standard TWRP doesn't have a "Theme Options" item there. Are you using a custom theme? If so, you need to remove it to see the current options.
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I installed a theme, which as I understand, was simply copying a file to the data partition. The booted image is the identical file to the one supplied in the first post of this thread.

If you wish, I can test again without the theme, but my observations were the same from before I installed a theme.

I doubt the theme is the issue, but I would try a further test, if you specify one.
 
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brainchild said:
I installed a theme, which as I understand, was simply copying a file to the data partition. The booted image is the identical file to the one supplied in the first post of this thread.

If you wish, I can test again without the theme, but my observations were the same from before I installed a theme.

I doubt the theme is the issue, but I would try a further test, if you specify one.
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The theme is the problem, like I already said. Themes need to be updated to support new options added to TWRP.
 
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    [RECOVERY] TWRP 3.6.0_11-0 - TeamWin Recovery Project




    Introduction:

    Team Win Recovery Project or TWRP for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. We started from the ground up by taking AOSP recovery and loading it with the standard recovery options, then added a lot of our own features. It's a fully touch driven user interface , no more volume rocker or power buttons to mash. The GUI is also fully XML driven and completely theme-able. You can change just about every aspect of the look and feel.

    Key Features:

    Touchscreen driven with real buttons and drag-to-scroll
    XML-based GUI that allows full customization of the layout true theming!
    Settings are saved to the sdcard and persist through reboots
    Ability to choose which partitions to back up and which to restore
    Ability to choose to compress backups now with pigz (multi-core processor support for faster compression times)
    Onscreen keyboard
    Easy selection of internal/external storage

    In addition to the above new features, TWRP features a scripting engine that allows an app to send commands to the recovery for the recovery to perform during startup. We call this scripting engine OpenRecoveryScript. The app will also let you choose to install multiple zips from within Android, wipe, and run a backup.

    We are looking for other talented developers, themers, and device maintainers if they are interested in helping with a free, open source project.

    Source Code:

    GitHub - https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery

    Gerrit Instance - http://gerrit.twrp.me

    If you have made your own TWRP build for an unsupported device, please let us know. We might add your build to the list of official builds.

    Device Config: https://github.com/bigbiff/android_device_google_crosshatch

    Hello, this is a test build for crosshatch users.

    If others thing don't work, please report the issue and let me know.

    I am opening this thread to replace @Dees_Troy's thread with his blessing.

    http://twrp.me
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    Captain_Throwback
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    b8842dc0 said:
    How does Flash Current TWRP compare to the TWRP A/B retention script?

    TWRP A/B Retention Script - Magisk

    Keeps TWRP installed after an A/B OTA. This is...
    themagisk.com themagisk.com

    I've been using the TWRP A/B retention script for a couple of years now and it works very well.
    Click to expand...
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    The Retention Script is designed for flashing after an OTA has been installed, and will flash TWRP to both slots (including the just updated inactive slot), provided the current boot ramdisk already has TWRP installed. It's really made for use with Magisk and for flashing while booted into Android.

    The "Flash Current TWRP" feature allows the currently fastboot booted TWRP to be installed to both slots of the device. Obviously this has to be done while in TWRP, and it doesn't matter whether some version of TWRP is currently installed. This also means that no zip or image file needs to be copied to the device for TWRP to be installed after it's fastboot booted.
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    CRCinAU said:
    @bigbiff - It seems that the fstab entry for `/usb_otg` is incorrect for blueline.

    Line 7 on this file should read `/dev/block/sdg1` - which is what I see in `dmesg` when connecting an OTG USB device.

    android_device_google_crosshatch/crosshatch/recovery/root/system/etc/twrp.flags at android-12 · bigbiff/android_device_google_crosshatch

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    Big thanks to @bigbiff for fixing USB OTG for blueline and Android 12.

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    dcarvil
    brainchild said:
    I tried to boot to this image on my bootloader-unlocked Pixel 3, but the operation failed.

    With the device connected and the bootloader active, I ran the following command:

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