How To Guide [RECOVERY][UNOFFICIAL] TWRP for Galaxy A02s (Snapdragon)

[Android-OS]

Team Win Recovery Project 3.x, or twrp3 for short, is a custom recovery built with ease of use and customization in mind. Its 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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Supported Models:
Galaxy A02s , A025F, A025M and A025G.

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Download & Guide:
1. Unlock your bootloader.
2. Download Galaxy A02s : a02q.
3. Reboot to download mode and flash vbmeta_disabled.tar in AP slot and reboot. Device will reboot to stock recovery mode prompting you to wipe data so wipe data and reboot to download mode again.
4. Put the TWRP tar for your device with Odin in the AP slot and click start.
5. Reboot to recovery via recovery key combo.
6. Disable encryption:
- Go to Advanced > Terminal, type: multidisabler.
If vendor complain about free space left on device, will attempt to resize vendor. and it ask to - Run multidisabler again!.
- Type: multidisabler again. will see - Finished. when done.
7. Go back to Wipe > Format Data > type yes.
8. Reboot to recovery.
9. Flash magisk apk in twrp.
10. Reboot to system, Enjoy.

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Note:

To disable encryption manually:
You need to replace fileencryption=ice with encryptable=ice only in userdata line (maybe rest lines) in vendor/etc/fstab.qcom
To avoid stock recovery restoration manually:
Rename system/recovery-from-boot.p to recovery-from-boot.p.bak

Bugs:
- Encryption not fully working.

Thanks:
TWRP team
@jesec for unlock guide
@ianmacd for multidisabler
@@CFKod & @Topser99 for testing

Sources:
Kernel tree
Device tree

 

[Android-OS]

Changelog:
29.11.2021 - Update to TWRP 3.6.0
- Add Symlinked dynamic partitions to fstab
- Update multidisabler
- fstab clean up
20.06.2021 - Initial Release.