I forgot to backup my data before I flashed a new ROM. I already flashed it and now I am at the screen where I either press VOL up to restore or anything else to cancel. If I cancel it and boot it without restoring it, will I mess up the phone?
If you have already flashed the rom there is nothing left from your previous data anyway, so you mite as well go ahead and hard reset, the data on your memory card will be fine tho and will still be there, just the data on your device is lost
thanks, come to think of it, my pictures would automatically save on my memory card
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So the past 2 days I've had an interesting problem, with even more interesting results.
Both mornings I've tried to use my GPS and it just hangs on trying to connect to it. The GPS says it's on, and I can toggle it off and back on again but it never finds any sats.
Yesterday I reboot the phone and it takes a while to boot the phone back up (most like the first time you boot after a fresh install), and when the phone came back online the GPS worked but all my bluetooth pairings were gone.
Today I have the same GPS problem so I reboot again, and again it takes a while to boot and so far I still have my bluetooth pairings, but I've been unable to connect to the devices, all my sound settings are back to the defaults, when I hold down the power button now the only option I have is Power Off, nothing else, when my screen times out and I hit power to bring it back on it goes right back to wherever I was, I don't see the lock screen anymore. And to top it all off my home button and my search button do not work.
What a mess, this phone is getting worse by the day, I'm actually starting to regret the purchase. I guess it's time to call it in and see what they say.
Edit: Forgot to add all my SMS messages were deleted as well.
Rooted? Have you done anything to it? That's definitely not normal but I guess you know that
Ya it's rooted and has nvflashed clockworkmod recovery installed. Rooted the day I got the phone and clockworkmod recovery has been installed for about a week.
I just tried clearing the cache partition, wiping Dalvik Cache, fixing permissions, and no change. Running a full backup via Titanium Backup now before I try a factory reset to see if that fixes it.
If that doesn't do it I'll try restoring a backup image from last week.
gohawks1 said:
Ya it's rooted and has nvflashed clockworkmod recovery installed. Rooted the day I got the phone and clockworkmod recovery has been installed for about a week.
I just tried clearing the cache partition, wiping Dalvik Cache, fixing permissions, and no change. Running a full backup via Titanium Backup now before I try a factory reset to see if that fixes it.
If that doesn't do it I'll try restoring a backup image from last week.
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I would guess it's not the phone but the CWM made the mess. You probably want to try factory reset.
My Bluetooth settings and profiles randomly appear and disappear and I'm bone stock.
Well, factory reset got all my buttons working again, and my screen locks again. Since I'm back to stock now and have to re-setup everything now I think I'll go try out the Eaglesblood ROM and see how that goes.
Anybody who reads this, i have ****ED up. I pressed factory reset on the recovery menu and iT deleted EVERYTHING, i mean every single folder. /System /Data /dbData. My phone wont boot up at all. I mounted the usb and absolutely everything was gone I really need help. Im running Speedmod on the Cyanogen nightlies. SAMSUNG CAPTIVATE
reflash cm and gapps, unless you have a recent backup to restore
No dude, i mean no folders the phone wont even boot up, so i cant flash anything
What happens when you turn the phone on?
It does the att screen than the samsung model screen than its stops. What had happened was i used clockwork recovery and pressed complete data wipe and factory restore and it deleted every single last thing on the internal sdcard because there is not even a systems folder on it
Look up the Odin flash files for your phone. That should do the trick.
So last night, I was trying move the dalvik cache to my ext2 partition. I am on a custom rom, b2tb. while trying to move dalvik, I did something wrong and it seriously screwed up my phone. I had a backup, but when i tried to restore it, i got an md5sum mismatch. I had two choices: odin, or wipe data/factory reset. not wanting to deal with going all the way back to stock, root, install cwm recovery, flash again, all that, i chose to wipe data through recovery mode. it fixed whatever i screwed up, but now when i reboot, my phone doesnt connect to data right away, and i get a message saying process com.android.phone has stopped working. i force close it and then it connects, but then it usually force closes again. i think its because my apn isnt connecting right away, and also think my apn settings could somehow be stored on my sd card, because it wont stay connected until after it says media scanning completed in the notification bar. i could be wrong about where my apn settings are being stored, but im still having problems with my internet connection not working right away on reboot. if i cant fix this, im gonna have to reflash b2tb and i dont want to do that. please help.
try to reset the apn settings i forgot what app does that to save the battery
So here is a quick rundown of what happened:
-DL Beats audio, opened it, it was supposed to restart my phone, but it froze it.
-Could not power off or reset it, had to pull battery
-Was then stuck on the 4G LTE rainbow and would not load. Tried pulling battery nothing.
-Went into recovery mode and tried loading, nothing happened and I read someone say the only way out of it was to wipe everything and start over, so I wiped Data and Cache and Dalvik Cache with Clockwork. Nothing happens.
-Finally I Odin it supposedly back to stock. Hooray I can get into my phone, weird thing is all of my apps are there, email is set up, contacts are there with pics from FB, syncmypix, etc. It even retained the fact that I had disabled the stupid ongoing Wi-Fi notification. Just the homescreens are blank again.
-I never made a CWM backup, I think I made a Titanium backup, I know I used MyBackupRoot (the one that is a life preserver). That being said I thought I wiped everything in CWM. It said it had formatted the internal and external SD.
Question is should I go ahead and try to wipe everything clean again?
Am I going to run into issues using my phone how it is?
Should I back it up and then load a recovery from this or would that be pointless?
Or do I leave it alone and consider myself lucky?
Thank you and by no means am I a developer or anything, just getting back into android after 2 years on iOS and apparently know just enough to get myself into trouble.
If everything is working fine then you sgould be good. You must haved had the restore thing checked or verizon backup crap restored your stuff. When you odin that will flash the file system img so there is no way that your data survived
Did you check the md5 on the beats audio thing before you flashed it? Cause i have ran that fine.
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Using LG Spectrum 2 on Verizon.
I rooted my phone and the first thing I did was install TWRP. I clicked Backup, named it, and clicked okay. My phone immediately reset. It went to the setup screen I saw when I first got my phone! I filled everything out and now my phone seems completely reset.
Please tell me I can get my data back! Oh, and information on how would be especially awesome.
It seems supremely ironic that attempting to Backup my data would result in Wiping my data......