[RECOVERY] [THEME]TWRP & Dual Recovery - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A

As some of you might know ive been working lately on porting TWRP to our device, and now, after many hours work, I can finally release it to the public.
GENERAL
Team Win Recovery Project 2.3, or twrp2 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.
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http://teamw.in/project/twrp2
INFORMATION
There are 2 version:
- Flykernel 0.8 with only TWRP (v 2.3.2.3)
- Flykernel 0.8 with both TWRP (v 2.3.2.3) and CWM (v 6.1.0.9).
I also made a custom theme, see Download and Usage.
Its named: 'This is black and white'. As the name says its a black and white minimal theme.
INSTALLATION
- Make sure you are on a FXP based jellybean rom.
- Choose one of the the two images
- Flash them with fastboot : fastboot flash boot IMAGENAME.img
- You will also need the wifi modules of flykernel (0.8fix): http://www.mediafire.com/?16ytgk56ioiko6z
USAGE
- TWRP only recovery:
Use volume down when home led is pink
- CWM / TWRP dual:
Use volume down for CWM when home led is pink
Use power button for TWRP when home led is pink
- Custom TWRP theme:
Place the ui.zip (from download folder mediafire) in /sdcard/TWRP/theme
DOWNLOAD
http://www.mediafire.com/?lcdana76k8ews
BUGS
As far as I know and is tested there are 2 bugs:
- Mount USB Storage in TWRP
- Reboot to recovery (boot from recovery and rom)
Please report bugs if you find them.
Much work has gone in to this, so I would appreciate a Thanks or a donation
Also I want to give credit to Championswimmer for providing the base dualrecovery ramdisk.

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Congrats bro you are ****ing awasome:beer:
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File Type
My id10t corporate network drops img files, cannot download. I'll check it out when I'm home. Thanks! :highfive:
EDIT: Great Stuff! Successfully flashed dual, booted into both with no problem. Then I wiped and installed PACv18 with all my extras in one go by queueing the zip files. Rebooted the phone, all 100%
One thing I did notice: the time shown in TWRP was not my local time, I have GMT +2, where the time that was displayed was UMT -6 (Houston, Chicago those places) I think it's CST (not sure)
I did not attempt a backup/restore operation yet, but wiping flashing, queueing woks 100%
Good Job thomas !!

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Very sweety thing! Using it daily - very great job done! I like it! Thanks man! Dual Recovery makes my day =)

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Langes said:
My id10t corporate network drops img files, cannot download. I'll check it out when I'm home. Thanks! :highfive:
EDIT: Great Stuff! Successfully flashed dual, booted into both with no problem. Then I wiped and installed PACv18 with all my extras in one go by queueing the zip files. Rebooted the phone, all 100%
One thing I did notice: the time shown in TWRP was not my local time, I have GMT +2, where the time that was displayed was UMT -6 (Houston, Chicago those places) I think it's CST (not sure)
I did not attempt a backup/restore operation yet, but wiping flashing, queueing woks 100%
Good Job thomas !!
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you can change time settings in twrp

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will it work with CM10 FXP 150 ??
EDIT: err tried it works like a charm!!

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Yes
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sarangkunte05 said:
will it work with CM10 FXP 150 ??
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Should work
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how bout its performance??it is same as flykernel v8..:good:

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ezr said:
how bout its performance??it is same as flykernel v8..:good:
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So far, performance is same

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It is fly kernel 0.8... Just another ramdisk
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thomas1991_12 said:
It is fly kernel 0.8... Just another ramdisk
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Just to clarify: So, if you were not on fly before, you need to flash WiFi modules from flykernel thread? I was on FlyKernel and WiFi still works like a charm

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Langes said:
Just to clarify: So, if you were not on fly before, you need to flash WiFi modules from flykernel thread? I was on FlyKernel and WiFi still works like a charm
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Yes thats correct (will update OP). Because sony devices dont have a seperate recovery partition, it needs to be embedded with the kernel.

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do i need to wipe anything after install new kernel??

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ezr said:
do i need to wipe anything after install new kernel??
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Nope, shouldnt be necessary.

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ezr said:
do i need to wipe anything after install new kernel??
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I did not need to. I only wiped after successful boot to test if wipe and flashing works ok

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To clarify a Android memory management issue (which I was unclear on) for others;
Both TWRP and TWRP/ CWM recoveries in the new kernel image increase the size of the files to be flashed into the boot sector (TWRP = 6.8MB, TWRP/ CWM = 8.3MB), FlyKernel 0.8 including CWM is only 5.3MB.
If a user is using FXP150 stock ROM build with the Xperia Keyboard flashed as well the /system folder is virtually full (974kB free only). Don't let that worry you! The boot sector that the new kernel image files (including recoveries) occupies is completely separate to the /system ROM part of the device and it will fit!!

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This is fantastic, didn't know TWRP was miles ahead of CWM in terms of user friendliness.

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Can you share your sources please? I want to port TWRP on my Xperia Mini

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Just extract boot image
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