Team-Win-Recovery-Project

Core recovery files for the Team Win Recovery Project (T.W.R.P) - this is not up to date, please see https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery/

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Core recovery files for the Team Win Recovery Project (T.W.R.P) - this is not up to date, please see https://github.com/TeamWin/android_bootable_recovery/

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LoganDark·Jun 18, 2024

I mean my Messages app. I installed it years ago and never updated, because why would I ever updated an SMS app, the only thing that can ever happen is for things to break that used to be working, lol. I don't even know if I run A12. I do know, though, that the OP7Pro is one of the last Android devices that are whitelisted by Google to pass SafetyNet without hardware-backed attestation. Shame that TWRP wiped my working setup. I've been trying to get them to add any basic protection against that for over three years: https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/issues/... It is an amazing phone. Notchless, relockable bootloader (not just unlockable, but custom AVB key support!!), in-screen fingerprint sensor, 90Hz AMOLED, and great build quality.

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LoganDark·Sep 6, 2023

B is super important to me, so my phone right now is a OnePlus 7 Pro. It was one of the last models ever made that can still pass SafetyNet while rooted (due to being whitelisted for "basic" / non-hardware-backed attestation). Unfortunately now it's several versions out of date and will stay that way for the foreseeable future, on top of the fact that nobody's figured out how to lock the bootloader on a custom ROM, despite the fact that it'll get you back Widevine L1 keys (the 7 Pro doesn't erase them on bootloader unlock like most phones do). But this all stopped mattering to me when something accidentally activated a "feature"[0] of TWRP that erased my device and the maintainers have so far been completely hostile to the notion of adding an option to disable that functionality. ADHD now permanently bars me from any form of tweaking beca

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use the risk of TWRP suddenly erasing my device one day cannot be mitigated whatsoever. Even making backups from TWRP is off-limits because I'm afraid of it erasing my device instead. Now I just use my phone because OxygenOS is great, the hardware mute switch is great, lack of camera cutout is great (fuck rounded corners though), and it has some serious flagship specs. Not an advertisement or anything, but this was $300 refurbished from Back Market. [0]: https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project/issues/...

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commoner·Jul 26, 2020

That is true, but there has been some progress on the adoption of the FOSS model in the Android developer community. The most commonly used Android recovery software, TWRP, is open source. https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project The most popular Android rooting solution, Magisk, is also open source. All Magisk modules (plugins developed by the community) in the official repository are required to be open source. https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/submission

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