[RECOVERY][UNOFFICIAL] OrangeFox Recovery Project [OnePlus 8t / 9r] [05-JUN-2023...

dahawthorne said:

A question for Bill Goss.
"Things to be aware of:
EU only: You MUST have Airplane mode turned ON"
OnePlus 8T, OOS 13 F.63 EU. OrangeFox-R12.1-OPKONA-V17.img.
The above quotation is from Bill's TWRP instructions of August 2022, and I've assumed that it also applies to OrangeFox. But after several new releases of OF & TWRP since then, does this "airplane on" still apply?
Thanks for your very helpful contributions, Bill.

Firstly, if you want to get someone's attention you need to write @<user name> otherwise they don't get notified.

Now for the long answer to your question.
I no longer turn on airplane mode before taking a backup on KB2003. Unfortunately I can't tell at what point I changed my process. And, to make matters worse, I've used this Orange Fox, @apophis9283's TWRP version, and an unpublished version of TWRP from @Siddhant221 and I can't remember at which point I no longer needed to not turn airplane mode on before taking a backup.

My guess is that it was when I was using @apophis9283's version because he made some great changes and @Siddhant221's version (which is currently my preferred version) is based on his version.

But I've not tested (or more correctly "I've no recollection of testing") this on the latest version of Orange Fox, so the safe option is to turn on airplane mode before taking the backup.

Of course, you could take two backups: one with Airplane mode on, one with it off. Then restore the airplane off backup and if it doesn't work, restore the airplane on backup. And post your results here so that others can benefit from your testing.

Update: I tested if Airplane mode was necessary for restoring a backup using OrangeFox-R12.1-OPKONA-V17 on KB2003_11_F.63 and the answer is "You don't need to turn airplane mode on".
And I think that it's F.63 (or possibly F.62) that changed the behaviour rather than the recovery. But I can't be sure because I didn't keep a record of when I noticed the change in behaviour.
Bottom line: on the latest Orange Fox (and TWRP) a backup of F.63 can be restored without enabling airplane mode for the backup.