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Andy Yan
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  1. False. Many newer devices utilizing the A/B partition layout don't have a dedicated recovery partition. See landing page for Google Pixel for a full explanation.
  2. FalseTrue. Certain devices have exploits that allow recovery on locked bootloaders - this kind of recovery is often referred to as "Safestrap". Do note "exploits" - most devices don't have such discovered.
  3. True - partition size is usually the same as boot. On my Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, both are 67108864 bytes, i.e. 64MB.
  4. ? True - not sure what you meanrecovery can be considered a minimal OS by itself (with complete display, input, file management subsystems). If you want to start a regular OS by booting into recovery, just flash a regular boot image (one that usually goes into boot) to recovery.
  1. False. Many newer devices utilizing the A/B partition layout don't have a dedicated recovery partition. See landing page for Google Pixel for a full explanation.
  2. False. Certain devices have exploits that allow recovery on locked bootloaders - this kind of recovery is often referred to as "Safestrap".
  3. True - partition size is usually the same as boot. On my Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, both are 67108864 bytes, i.e. 64MB.
  4. ? - not sure what you mean. If you want to start a regular OS by booting into recovery, just flash a regular boot image (one that usually goes into boot) to recovery.
  1. False. Many newer devices utilizing the A/B partition layout don't have a dedicated recovery partition. See landing page for Google Pixel for a full explanation.
  2. True. Certain devices have exploits that allow recovery on locked bootloaders - this kind of recovery is often referred to as "Safestrap". Do note "exploits" - most devices don't have such discovered.
  3. True - partition size is usually the same as boot. On my Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, both are 67108864 bytes, i.e. 64MB.
  4. True - recovery can be considered a minimal OS by itself (with complete display, input, file management subsystems). If you want to start a regular OS by booting into recovery, just flash a regular boot image (one that usually goes into boot) to recovery.
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Andy Yan
Andy Yan
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  1. False. Many newer devices utilizing the A/B partition layout don't have a dedicated recovery partition. See landing page for Google Pixel for a full explanation.
  2. False. Certain devices have exploits that allow recovery on locked bootloaders - this kind of recovery is often referred to as "Safestrap".
  3. True - partition size is usually the same as boot. On my Xiaomi Mi Mix 2, both are 67108864 bytes, i.e. 64MB.
  4. ? - not sure what you mean. If you want to start a regular OS by booting into recovery, just flash a regular boot image (one that usually goes into boot) to recovery.