[TWRP] Team Win Recovery Project 2.6 [Alpha-1] [Preview] - Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go

Team Win Recovery Project 2.6, 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.​
This recovery is WIP and intended for a preview only. Touch is a total mess and devs are working on it. The boot image will boot to system as usual, only touch is buggy. While recovery image will only boot to recovery.
Download:
The complete boot image, thanx @Abhinav2: http://d-h.st/Jvs
How to (for boot image):
1. fastboot flash the boot image
2. Press Volume down repeatedly to enter TWRP
Only Recovery Image by me: Recovery.img
How to (for recovery image):
1. Download recovery image
2. Make NANDROID backup of current Rom, also have its boot.img ready
3. Enter fastboot mode and " fastboot flash boot recovery.img"
4. Start the phone, it will go directly into recovery
5. When finished, press Power + Volume up untill 3 vibrations
6. Enter fastboot mode and "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
7. Restart
CREDITS:
- munjeni
- Abhinav2
- wan5xp

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it won't boot CM or stock ya? so we just test the recovery right?

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itachilinux said:
it won't boot CM or stock ya? so we just test the recovery right?
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there is no boot.img complete boot image is also WIP
Sent from my Nexus 7

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XperiaMT27 said:
there is no boot.img complete boot image is also WIP
Sent from my Nexus 7
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will test it tonight, also changing my rom from carbon to your AOKP
will report bugs also.

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Here- http://d-h.st/eE0 This is my version. It SHOULD boot into twrp by pressing power button when phone vibrates. I've turned on LED. This SHOULD also boot normally into system. @XperiaMT27 I'll explain you how to do this later. If you want you can go through its ramdisk to see how it works. Basically a init script which separately controls ramdisk and recovery. Recovery related stuff is removed from main ramdisk as it is triggered separately. A bootrec-device defines all the partitions and FOTA partition is used with elf_extract method. Will let you know more later. BTW touch won't work and don't bother I'll work on it. I have enough logs now and can work. If any of you is willing to help, they are more than welcome. Help of any kind, big or small, is appreciated.
This version is untested but it should work as it works for Xperia P and Xperia U but flash at your own risk. If you don't know how to repair your device, I won't recommend you to flash.
Cheers,
AJ

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Abhinav2 said:
Here- http://d-h.st/eE0 This is my version. It SHOULD boot into twrp by pressing power button when phone vibrates. I've turned on LED. This SHOULD also boot normally into system. @XperiaMT27 I'll explain you how to do this later. If you want you can go through its ramdisk to see how it works. Basically a init script which separately controls ramdisk and recovery. Recovery related stuff is removed from main ramdisk as it is triggered separately. A bootrec-device defines all the partitions and FOTA partition is used with elf_extract method. Will let you know more later. BTW touch won't work and don't bother I'll work on it. I have enough logs now and can work. If any of you is willing to help, they are more than welcome. Help of any kind, big or small, is appreciated.
This version is untested but it should work as it works for Xperia P and Xperia U but flash at your own risk. If you don't know how to repair your device, I won't recommend you to flash.
Cheers,
AJ
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this does not stop at recovery, same thing happened to me before.

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XperiaMT27 said:
this does not stop at recovery, same thing happened to me before.
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You tried this one? And you mean it doesn't vibrates for recovery? Cause that's basically impossible as I've added the line for vibration in init.sh but I guess there must be something different with sola. I'll work on it
Cheers,
AJ

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Abhinav2 said:
You tried this one? And you mean it doesn't vibrates for recovery? Cause that's basically impossible as I've added the line for vibration in init.sh but I guess there must be something different with sola. I'll work on it
Cheers,
AJ
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vibration and led is there but i think there is ramdisk corruption.. see PM

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XperiaMT27 said:
vibration and led is there but i think there is ramdisk corruption.. see PM
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Nope. Ramdisk is alright. The problem is sola uses event1 while event2 is defined in bootrec. Connect your device to PC(usb debugging on). Open terminal and type the following exactly-
Code:
adb shell
su
cd /dev/input
ls -al event1
Let me know the output.
Cheers,
AJ

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Abhinav2 said:
Nope. Ramdisk is alright. The problem is sola uses event1 while event2 is defined in bootrec. Connect your device to PC(usb debugging on). Open terminal and type the following exactly-
Code:
adb shell
su
cd /dev/input
ls -al event1
Let me know the output.
Cheers,
AJ
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yes ramdisk is fine, was my fault.
here is the output
Code:
[email protected]:/dev/input # ls -al event1
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 65 Feb 26 14:49 event1
actually 10 events from 0 to 9 are defined

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XperiaMT27 said:
yes ramdisk is fine, was my fault.
here is the output
Code:
[email protected]:/dev/input # ls -al event1
crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 65 Feb 26 14:49 event1
actually 10 events from 0 to 9 are defined
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No. I'm talking about bootrec-device, that's different.
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Anyways, test this guys- http://d-h.st/Jvs It should work
Cheers,
AJ

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Abhinav2 said:
No. I'm talking about bootrec-device, that's different.
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Anyways, test this guys- http://d-h.st/Jvs It should work
Cheers,
AJ
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not power button but good old Volume Down button
OP updated with Abhinav2's kernel.

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how to adb-ing when i'm in recovery?
Sent from my Xperia Sola using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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itachilinux said:
how to adb-ing when i'm in recovery?
Sent from my Xperia Sola using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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I think it should work the usual way. Just try and report
Sent from my Xperia Sola

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Abhinav2 said:
No. I'm talking about bootrec-device, that's different.
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Anyways, test this guys- http://d-h.st/Jvs It should work
Cheers,
AJ
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Thanks a lot @XperiaMT27 and @Abhinav2 for your hard work!
Just want to ask whether in this version is the touch fixed?
Or just the boot.img is added now?
I think I read it in OP, but sorry to bother you again.
Sent from my Xperia Sola using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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XperiaMT27 said:
This recovery is WIP and intended for a preview only. Touch is a total mess and devs are working on it. The boot image will boot to system as usual, only touch is buggy. While recovery image will only boot to recovery.
Download:
The complete boot image, thanx @Abhinav2: http://d-h.st/Jvs
How to (for boot image):
1. fastboot flash the boot image
2. Press Volume down repeatedly to enter TWRP
Only Recovery Image by me: Recovery.img
How to (for recovery image):
1. Download recovery image
2. Make NANDROID backup of current Rom, also have its boot.img ready
3. Enter fastboot mode and " fastboot flash boot recovery.img"
4. Start the phone, it will go directly into recovery
5. When finished, press Power + Volume up untill 3 vibrations
6. Enter fastboot mode and "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
7. Restart
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I can install without problems (i'm on cm11)? Does it work the touch? which of the two linked is better to install?
Sorry for my bad english and my STUPID QUESTIONS

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Petru97 said:
I can install without problems (i'm on cm11)? Does it work the touch? which of the two linked is better to install?
Sorry for my bad english and my STUPID QUESTIONS
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no, it doesn't even work well. touch screen is messy.