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Originally Posted by Renate
What? That's criminal. I haven't used TWRP in ages. I just don't get the need for a fancy recovery unless you don't have access to a desktop. I just make my own recovery and that gives you rooted, permissive ADB in a few seconds.
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It is very strange. I must admit i havent timed it and theres probably some exagerarion here. It is probably 45 secinds to 1 minute in general, but if you have a lot of small files (like running a chroot linux with many small binaries) ive had tablets in the best take >5 minutes. Not sure if it is a coincidence ive only ever had this issue with tablets and not phones.
Im sure there is a flag that can be set when compiling twrp that disables some type of filesystem checking that i would guess is the cause the long boot time, i just havent taken the time to investigate. you do get an adb interface in normal time, a few seconds, before twrp shows splash screen, but data wont be mounted until twrp does whatever it does
the "unless you dont have access to desktop" is a pretty big "unless", i think that alone justifies its use case. it is a mobile device after all.... along with providing a good/convnient way to perform backups, flash zips including otas, etc. id strongly disagree with your assesment that its just a fancy recovery. but the good news is if you dont like it, no need to install.
not to mention its pretty cool to see twrp running on e-ink
