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[andr0idbeliev3r]

Cool recovery good work!

[targetbsp]

Snap.IT, on 15 August 2012 - 10:25 PM, said:

TargetBSP for the suggestion to remove FTM mode to fix HW keys.

Great of you to credit people but I can't take credit for that one.   Dunno whose idea it was, but it wasn't mine.

[matt4321]

Anyone finding it takes a very long time to restore the sd-ext. all other partitions restore at an average rate, but my sd-ext takes about 20mins

[targetbsp]

matt4321, on 20 August 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

Anyone finding it takes a very long time to restore the sd-ext. all other partitions restore at an average rate, but my sd-ext takes about 20mins

Well, I've technically spent 36 hours trying to restore my sd-ext.   Not this particular recoveries fault.  I think there's something not quite right with CWM6 and sd ext and I'm still trying to narrow down what exactly.  Maybe when moving certain things (app data or dalvik or something) and or having multiple different roms both using sd ext.  Somewhere, something isn't quite right.

[Snap.IT]

What filesystem are you guys using for sd-ext and what flags?

[Snap.IT]

matt4321, on 20 August 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

Anyone finding it takes a very long time to restore the sd-ext. all other partitions restore at an average rate, but my sd-ext takes about 20mins

targetbsp, on 20 August 2012 - 09:42 AM, said:

Well, I've technically spent 36 hours trying to restore my sd-ext.   Not this particular recoveries fault.  I think there's something not quite right with CWM6 and sd ext and I'm still trying to narrow down what exactly.  Maybe when moving certain things (app data or dalvik or something) and or having multiple different roms both using sd ext.  Somewhere, something isn't quite right.

Try the new version, it restores my sd-ext in less than two minutes and i have a few hundred MB's worth on there.

[matt4321]

Snap.IT, on 20 August 2012 - 11:44 AM, said:

What filesystem are you guys using for sd-ext and what flags?

Snap.IT, on 20 August 2012 - 12:14 PM, said:

Try the new version, it restores my sd-ext in less than two minutes and i have a few hundred MB's worth on there.

Its sd-ext.ext3.dup and I'm not sure what you mean by flags. I have the same issue on the latest version

[Snap.IT]

matt4321, on 20 August 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

Its sd-ext.ext3.dup and I'm not sure what you mean by flags. I have the same issue on the latest version

I'm referring to the filesystem flags on your sd-ext partition, like journaling.

I'm using ext4 with journaling disabled, that may be the reason why it's as fast as it is to make the backup.

I'll look into it further, it must have something to do with how it handles ext3.

[vNa5h]

there seems to be a bit of delay after touch i mean between menu changes

is is possible to fix that

[targetbsp]

ext 4 journaling disabled I think for me.  I do have over 1.5gb in my Ext partition so I kind of expect mine to take a while.  Though does often seem to just sit there with the animations frozen before continuing again.

I was more moaning about the amount of time I've spent trying to get to the bottom of an issue with my Ext partition and backups.  Sorry that wasn't particularly helpful.  I've just been without my phone nearly 2 days and its taken a frustratingly long time to narrow down the issue.   My problem doesn't specifically lie in your recovery. I also tried the non touch version and the previous version.  My problem is either in the 6 series as a whole or both of my backup were just screwed.  I'm still investigating!

Edited by targetbsp, 20 August 2012 - 05:16 PM.

[Snap.IT]

vNa5h, on 20 August 2012 - 04:06 PM, said:

there seems to be a bit of delay after touch i mean between menu changes

is is possible to fix that

In a final version i'll speed things up a bit, i'll put a test version in the thread by the end of today. Hopefully that version will help with both sd-ext restore performance issues and flipping through menu delays (though i can't say i've noticed that at all).

[Snap.IT]

targetbsp, on 20 August 2012 - 04:26 PM, said:

ext 4 journaling disabled I think for me.  I do have over 1.5gb in my Ext partition so I kind of expect mine to take a while.  Though does often seem to just sit there with the animations frozen before continuing again.

I was more moaning about the amount of time I've spent trying to get to the bottom of an issue with my Ext partition and backups.  Sorry that wasn't particularly helpful.  I've just been without my phone nearly 2 days and its taken a frustratingly long time to narrow down the issue.   My problem doesn't specifically lie in your recovery. I also tried the non touch version and the previous version.  My problem is either in the 6 series as a while or both of my backup were just screwed.  I'm still investigating!

Ahhh, well that's another thing, i actually measured how long it takes to restore sd-ext for me and it takes exactly 25 seconds for 210MB to be backed up.

Best of luck with that backup, i'll probably be using the tar file format in the future, just in case something like that happens, with the tarballs it's a lot easier to fix problems.

[Snap.IT]

matt4321, on 20 August 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

Its sd-ext.ext3.dup and I'm not sure what you mean by flags. I have the same issue on the latest version

How is the speed if you use tar for backup/restore rather than .dup? Is there any change?

[t181]

Thank you guys...
I wasnt really believed that this project will be successful...
But now... I have got a fully functional touch recovery...

[targetbsp]

Snap.IT, on 20 August 2012 - 05:17 PM, said:

Best of luck with that backup, i'll probably be using the tar file format in the future, just in case something like that happens, with the tarballs it's a lot easier to fix problems.

I've spent the day backing up and restoring between CM7 and 10 and cannot get it to go wrong.  If anything that bothers me more.  I'd rather than a known way I can break it (and then avoid it) than some unknown event that can take out my backups.  I lack confidence in this new format so I might do the same.
Loving the touch though.

[Snap.IT]

Testing version, should be a tad faster:

Fastboot flashable: https://dl.dropbox.c...performance.img
MD5: 7aac32f4d4b525da4e22b521f2aa618b

Recovery flashable: https://dl.dropbox.c...performance.zip
MD5: b820717b87f5ea79394c47704c593a81

[matt4321]

Snap.IT, on 21 August 2012 - 12:22 AM, said:

Testing version, should be a tad faster:

Fastboot flashable: https://dl.dropbox.c...performance.img
MD5: 7aac32f4d4b525da4e22b521f2aa618b

Recovery flashable: https://dl.dropbox.c...performance.zip
MD5: b820717b87f5ea79394c47704c593a81

Snap.IT, on 20 August 2012 - 05:18 PM, said:

How is the speed if you use tar for backup/restore rather than .dup? Is there any change?

I'll try the new version see how that is with my sd-ext and if it's really long i'll also try using tar backups.

[matt4321]

Using the test version! Just made a backup and restored. The restore stock 15mins which is what an average backup takes me so I think (for me anyway) the sd-ext problem is fixed! excellent job mate

[andr0idbeliev3r]

targetbsp, on 20 August 2012 - 09:27 AM, said:

Great of you to credit people but I can't take credit for that one.   Dunno whose idea it was, but it wasn't mine.

It was tomm13bs idea

[Snap.IT]

matt4321, on 21 August 2012 - 11:10 AM, said:

Using the test version! Just made a backup and restored. The restore stock 15mins which is what an average backup takes me so I think (for me anyway) the sd-ext problem is fixed! excellent job mate

Well that is a 25% improvement.

I'll leave it as testing for a while to see how well it works.