Which custom recovery possible for FP4?

[yvmuell]

Some comments

Advice about bootloader unlock, root

Locking and unlocking the bootloader will wipe userdata as well, yes. Mostly because TWRP (so far) has no access to encrypted userdata, so it’s not really that useful for backups. All the custom ROMs ship their own recovery, which takes care of your basics like sideloading and wiping data. You can do “interesting” things with TWRP and adb. But in the unlikely case you have to, you can just fastboot boot TWRP, instead of installing it and causing yourself another hurdle for OTA updates.

I think ADB backup is doing the same, however

Adb restore does nothing

Good day! I used my FP4 for a couple of weeks now without issue. It was rooted using Magisk which also worked fine untile the last update to A.099 after which Wifi stopped working, it didn’t want to activate for some reason. So I made a backup using adb backup -apk -shared -all -nosystem -f backup.ab and uninstalled Magisk. After that I got stuck in a boot loop. Switching the active slot and flashing the factory image A.064 brought me back to where I came from. Up to this point everything i…

I’m not aware of any recovery doing what TWRP could do in the past.

Overall reg back-up there are several topics in the forum, that might give further hints.