TWRP Restore Fails

[panzerscope]

Hey guys,

So this is the first device I have had where the TWRP Restore does not seem to work.

I recently had a full backup of a stock ROM all partitions etc. When I tried to restore this backup it seemingly went fine, no error displayed. However when booting back into the restored ROM it was all messed up as in it was asking me to resetup the device as if factory reset, which you could not complete as the process would loop and the interface was all funky.

This kind of renders TWRP half pointless at the moment, anyone else had this issue and resolved it ?

Cheers

 

[colthekid]

https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-plus/development/twrp-recovery-huawei-p10-plus-vky-t3605063

Did you actually read the OP when you were downloading/installing TWRP?

Bugs
1. /data does not work at the moment. Finding the right decryption method takes some time
because we have no device in front of us -please exlude it from any backup for now

 

[panzerscope]

https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-plus/development/twrp-recovery-huawei-p10-plus-vky-t3605063

Did you actually read the OP when you were downloading/installing TWRP?

Yes I did but the system partition works just fine as per the OP. Surely if that works then the system itself should function such as the interface etc ?

 

[colthekid]

Yes I did but the system partition works just fine as per the OP. Surely if that works then the system itself should function such as the interface etc ?

No, as your "restore" of the data partition messed up the encryption, so the phone will not work now until you factory reset, which will re-encrypt the data partition.

 

[panzerscope]

No, as your "restore" of the data partition messed up the encryption, so the phone will not work now until you factory reset, which will re-encrypt the data partition.

I get the premise of what you are saying but If I didnt backup the DATA partition then it would not get restored. I get however that basically restore functionality is a no go currently on this device. Hopefully at some point.