Why won't Team Win make TWRP for the pixel 6/7 line? Maybe I don't know something and there are some restrictions? This would really make it easier to create/install firmware and GSI firmware
TWRP is generally of little use on Pixel devices, which do not have a recovery partition. Since the bootloaders are easily unlocked and accept flashing commands, firmware can be flashed via ADB.
Installing GSIs is easy, just flash the system image to /system.
Installing GSIs is easy, just flash the system image to /system.
I have spent more than 6 days installing Moto UI,OneUI,MIUI. Nothing helped, you need permissive magisk, which can only be installed via TWRP, and if you put it from a task in the system, then it does not want to work... Maybe I'm doing something wrong, if it's not difficult, could you give me instructions on installing GSI?
I literally just told you. GSIs come as an image. Flash to /system. Only works if the system partition is bigger than the image. Not sure how to safely resize.
There's also several guides around XDA that can help you. There's also the official Android Source guide.
Kind of wanted to follow up...
If recovery on Pixel isn't that useful (I don't know how much I agree with that. TWRP has saved me multiple times on my Pixel 5 and 2XL in the past), what is everyone doing for backing up/restoring the entire phone image?
If recovery on Pixel isn't that useful (I don't know how much I agree with that. TWRP has saved me multiple times on my Pixel 5 and 2XL in the past), what is everyone doing for backing up/restoring the entire phone image?
100% agree. Both myself and a friend of mine never try new ROMs because we don't have a perfect backup of the current setup.
Thanks-I got this in hopes of trying some gsi's - returning it sadly ...and this is not related to your efforts but just in general about this device-am not interested in some super security graphene o/s etc....for that I simply take out my google account and don't sync (re-add it once in a while for some update) (and also remove many google apps, and change permissions in all or lock them down) regardless which flavor of android I am on....even the overlooked snooping gboard
from what I recall on mi max 3, mix 2s etc when trying out gsi, there are other files that need to be flashed to make them boot-not sure how that can be done without a custom recovery
This should fix it without TWRP
fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta_a vbmeta.img
fastboot --disable-verity --disable-verification flash vbmeta_system_a vbmeta_system.img
Same for the b slot. You will find the needed images in the Factory Images ig.
Absolutely agree. I like to randomly change things and revert... Like all the time. This is the first phone I can't really play with the way I like.
This should help u understand. Btw. Lineage OS and some ROMs are coming with own Recoveries since quite a Time. Had Xperias for long without TWRP and it sucked. But TWRP has hard Times with modern Android so...
TWRP is never needed solely for flashing, given that we have fastboot and other similar utilities.
The main reason for my and many others' usage of TWRP is for nandroid backup/restore capabilities.
Only being able to backup and restore apps in the /data partition (for example, with a utility like SwiftBackup) is far from enough for many of us. It's much more helpful and important to be able to backup and restore /system, /boot, and other system-level partitions, as well ... and nandroid permits this.
TWRP and OrangeFox are the only utilities I know about which offer nandroid backup and restore.
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TWRP is never needed solely for flashing, given that we have fastboot and other similar utilities.
The main reason for my and many others' usage of TWRP is for nandroid backup/restore capabilities.
Only being able to backup and restore apps in the /data partition (for example, with a utility like SwiftBackup) is far from enough for many of us. It's much more helpful and important to be able to backup and restore /system, /boot, and other system-level partitions, as well ... and nandroid permits this.
TWRP and OrangeFox are the only utilities I know about which offer nandroid backup and restore. -
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Absolutely agree. I like to randomly change things and revert... Like all the time. This is the first phone I can't really play with the way I like.1
TWRP is never needed solely for flashing, given that we have fastboot and other similar utilities.
The main reason for my and many others' usage of TWRP is for nandroid backup/restore capabilities.
Only being able to backup and restore apps in the /data partition (for example, with a utility like SwiftBackup) is far from enough for many of us. It's much more helpful and important to be able to backup and restore /system, /boot, and other system-level partitions, as well ... and nandroid permits this.
TWRP and OrangeFox are the only utilities I know about which offer nandroid backup and restore.
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