Team Win Recovery Project for the LG G Pad X 8.0 (V521, V522, V525)

[skywalker-live]

Hi,
Has there been any movement on making TWRP work with SD or OTG thumb drives?
eriklion mentioned manually mounting them using terminal - can anyone explain exactly how to do this?
This is the main issue concerning be about rooting - I want to be able to Nandroid backup to a thumb drive after rooting.
I would really appreciate any help with this - thanks!!!

TWRP sees my SD card just fine (formatted on my v521 booted in android), TWRP let me do a backup to external SD too. I haven't tested USB OTG yet.

 

[kfernandes29]

I haven't seen a single person with a v522 confirm that this works. Does it actually work on a v522?

 

[joeblowma]

I haven't seen a single person with a v522 confirm that this works. Does it actually work on a v522?

I don't see why it wouldn't, v522 is the exact same hardware as v521... only thing missing for v522 is a way to unlock to allow unsigned images to boot.

 

[Ravoz88]

Hi,
Has there been any movement on making TWRP work with SD or OTG thumb drives?
eriklion mentioned manually mounting them using terminal - can anyone explain exactly how to do this?
This is the main issue concerning be about rooting - I want to be able to Nandroid backup to a thumb drive after rooting.
I would really appreciate any help with this - thanks!!!

Did you ever find a fix for this? I'm trying to get this sorted out too so that I can flash LineageOS. It's pretty frustrating not being able to mount or use external drives.

 

[konradsa]

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8/21/2016
updated the link, same file name fixed internal storage mount and a few other minor issues

8/20/2016 - initial release

Youll need to use flashify to flash the image after rooting. this should work on all b3 models, aka lg v525, v521 etc

For the test version i had of 2.7.8.0 i had to do this, since i have already done it i cant confirm if you need to on 3.0.2.0 or not. ----- data/internal storage wont mount/work until you go to wipe> format data and format without encryption reboot recovery and then do a factory reset. this will wipe your ENTIRE device but allow you to use twrp normally.

Thank you so much for providing this. Can you please recompile TWRP with F2FS support enabled? Appears to be just a compile time flag that needs to be set in the config. Thanks!

 

[ahrion]

I cant acaccesinternal sdcard in TWRP with v521. It goers for all data. Any ideas?

 

[emilyrugburn]

I cant acaccesinternal sdcard in TWRP with v521. It goers for all data. Any ideas?

it's because of encryption I think?

 

[MicroMod777]

OTG and external SD Mounting isn't working in TWRP 3.0.2.0? I was trying to backup to a usb or even the micro sd slot and it is unavailable. Anyone have any luck with this?

EDIT: I was able to get it working by formatting the external storage as ext4 format.

Ext4 works, but then isn't readable is 7.0 once booted.

I found formating the sdcard in FAT works for both.

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[MicroMod777]

Any updates on this V521 TWRP that fixes these SDCARD mounting issues?

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[Ravoz88]

Any updates on this V521 TWRP that fixes these SDCARD mounting issues?

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I found removing the SD card or OTG, and then reinserting it while in TWRP, they will then mount. Works every time for me.

 

[MicroMod777]

I found removing the SD card or OTG, and then reinserting it while in TWRP, they will then mount. Works every time for me.

Interesting. Thanks

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[Ravoz88]

Interesting. Thanks

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I should also mention that after plugging in the OTG or SD card, you then need to click on them in TWRP. For instance after plugging the OTG in, it doesn't mount right away, you need to select "Install" option for example, and then "Select Storage" and then click on the OTG or SD card. It will then Mount, and show correctly.

 

[MicroMod777]

Any of you guys have problems after wiping system, then flashing a rom? I get into twrp bootloop afterwards. Then have to flash stock recovery to get out of it. And start all over rerooting n getting twrp.

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[Munns86]

Any of you guys have problems after wiping system, then flashing a rom? I get into twrp bootloop afterwards. Then have to flash stock recovery to get out of it. And start all over rerooting n getting twrp.

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Few of us have had this issue :

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70851933&postcount=39

 

[MicroMod777]

I found removing the SD card or OTG, and then reinserting it while in TWRP, they will then mount. Works every time for me.

What is your SDCard formatted as?

 

[MicroMod777]

Flashable:

LG-V521-TWRP.ZIP (Thanks to shabbypenguin)
***Also adds flashing TWRP to recoverybak so if an error comes up your stock recovery doesn't get reflashed.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298934005

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[Ravoz88]

What is your SDCard formatted as?

I have now used cards formatted as ext4 and fat32, both worked fine, after following the quirky method I mentioned.

 

[abced123]

Flashable:

LG-V521-TWRP.ZIP (Thanks to shabbypenguin)
***Also adds flashing TWRP to recoverybak so if an error comes up your stock recovery doesn't get reflashed.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=673368273298934005

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what is this TWRP about ?

 

[MicroMod777]

what is this TWRP about ?

Its same one but flashes to recoverybak also.

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[Ascii3]

As a heads up, TeamWin TWRP 3.1.0-0 had been released. The release notes are available at:
https://twrp.me/site/update/2017/03/10/twrp-3.1.0-0-released.html

Perhaps this version, if made available, can be used to properly install LineageOS 14.1