I've tried searching for this throughout the forums and I guess it's to vague to find an exact answer. So here's my problem:
A while back I had backed my original JI6 ROM for my Samsung Vibrant. I've been playing with a good set of ROMs from Team Whiskey since then. Each one I've been able to restore to a backup made of the previous ROM. However, the backup I had made for my Original Stock ROM will never restore. It just stalls during the restore. I've let it sit for about eight hours overnight a few times, but no real progress there. I'm not sure what I can do really to get that backup restored to my phone.
I have two backups, one when I first installed ROM Manager to my phone and another I made when I wanted to try out a new ROM. Each do not work. I'm either assuming some where the same file was not backed up correctly or the backup is to big? It is about 1.5GB.
Please any help in this matter would help greatly as Samsung is finally ready to release a 2.2 Update and I'd like to try this from my original-ish stock ROM.
Thank you!
nothing? no ideas?
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Hello,
This may be a silly question but I can't find a solution to it. My Epic is working perfectly. I get excellent battery life (about 20 hours on 3G, no Wifi, light use). However, my phone has always been stuck on the original release S700.0.5S.DG17 never prompting me for any update.
Since I am happy with the phone currently, I wanted to make a backup of the current firmware/baseband etc. before tinkering with any of the modded ROMs.
It is my understanding that flashing the Clockwork recovery will require a custom kernal, so I will be unable to nandroid the stock.
I cannot find any Odin files for the original DG17 release either, only DG27. Is there any way to backup my phone prior to clockwork kernal and recovery?
Thanks
oktanedroid said:
Hello,
This may be a silly question but I can't find a solution to it. My Epic is working perfectly. I get excellent battery life (about 20 hours on 3G, no Wifi, light use). However, my phone has always been stuck on the original release S700.0.5S.DG17 never prompting me for any update.
Since I am happy with the phone currently, I wanted to make a backup of the current firmware/baseband etc. before tinkering with any of the modded ROMs.
It is my understanding that flashing the Clockwork recovery will require a custom kernal, so I will be unable to nandroid the stock.
I cannot find any Odin files for the original DG17 release either, only DG27. Is there any way to backup my phone prior to clockwork kernal and recovery?
Thanks
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Use noobnl's CWM- it uses the 3 button push and does not need a custom kernel. HOWEVER my understanding of a nandroid restore is that is doesn't overwrite the current kernel- thus if you tried to restore a nandroid backup of DG17 after you had upgraded to DG27 you might get some strange behavior- someone please correct me if I am wrong!
I have 2 of these and have been waiting for somebody to post an updated or custom ROM, but it seems there hasn't been one yet. I have rooted them with Z4root and that works well. I have to keep defaulting them after a while, because they both eventually start the download hang issue after a week or so. I backed up my data to the sd card and it restores easily enough, but it is a pain that they do not work as they should. If anyone has any updates in this area it would be greatly appreciated.
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Do you have the original boot and restore images? I happened to brick one (the 2.1 version)
Yesterday i updated to the at the time latest CM9 nightly, and im not sure if that is the cause but before then my backups were aroud the 1gb mark, then, when i tried to do another backup after updating it kept failing. when i restarted my phone the entire memory was full of the aborted backup.
I deleted stuff until the free space outweighed the used space so i could definitely fit whatever size the backup was and it worked but the result was 6gb!!
Is this a problem anyone else has had with or without cm9? as i said im not 100! sure that was the cause but it does seem likely.
If theres a better place to ask this question please let me know.
... Ive tried re flashing clockwork mod recovery and re installing rom manager. I also flashed the touch version with rom manager. None of that has made any difference so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated as im no expert.
Updating/Installing/Uninstalling ROM manager doesn't affect ClockworkMod recovery at ALL. ROM manager's sole purpose is to install Clockworkmod and help beginners with flashing ROMs. And if you have the money HELP you find ROMs as far as I can see.
As for your problem, it looks very weird, Reflashing a ROM would probably solve it, but you would love to make a backup first.
Try using Titanium backup to backup your apps and some information. Sync your contacts and calendar most importantly and make sure you backup everything. Then try flashing a different ROM. Remember the ROM is nightly for a reason; this could be the reason.
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well i think i've found what it was... its a known problem with recovery version 5.8.4.5... its backing up everything resulting in huge backups... the weird thing is its the same version ive been using for a few weeks and ive never had that problem before. Now i just have to work out how to replace this version with the older version.
Greetings to All the wonderful hardworking people here!
Grab a coffee I'm going to try to be as thourogh as possible.
To start with I own and am writing this post on a SCH-I535 that is rooted, unlocked and running cm10.0.
Two weeks ago I flashed cm10 to my phone. The first time I flashed from ROM manager and it didn't take; went to rolling boot. So I restored my backup and the phone worked perfectly as it should. <-- key point there. So I waited a few days and decided to try again after doing more research and successfully flashed cm10 to my phone. I have been very happy with it as a daily driver for the last two weeks. MMS doesn't work but I can live without it. After initial flashing Skype worked flawlessly. As of yesterday 2-11-13 I can hear people but all they can hear from me is the sound of a wind tunnel. I have tried re installing Skype... re flashing the ROM to no avail. I have searched for a fix and have been unsuccessful.
So now I want to return to stock and wait till cm10.1 stable is out. I restored from my backup thinking it would be smooth like last time but I was wrong. 1st attempt android KB won't load. 2nd attempt the desktop app wouldn't load and third attempt it just kept failing on everything it seemed like. Finally I re flashed my cm backup I had and am rolling for now. What do I need to do to get my stock backup working?
If u need any additional info I'll be more than happy to get it for u.
Figured it out,,,
I solved it myself. when directly searching for a similar problem to mine i found nothing. I was watching some flashing videos and seen that some users would format /data /cache /system. I did this, restored my stock backup and everything is working fine now.
Please help me, I think i ruined my phone.
I was trying to learn about changing roms and stuff, first i created a backup via CWM then changed a my rom. It worked fine and i restored my backup, which is the stock rom. Then found out that it is ok. I enterned CWM again to try another rom but i wanted to try some other features of CWM and played with SD CARD PARTITION, set it up and waited until the process is done, then i tried to restore my STOCK ROM after that but the BACKUP was gone so i have nothing to restore. I think it is because of the partion that deleted backup. Please help.
P.S. I have a fever and little sleep which might contributed to my carelesness.
I am from the Philippines and a newbie here, hope to have friends, tell me if i posted in the wrong section, i am so tired and needing a rest.
DEVICE: SAMSUNG GALAXY YOUNG GT6310
WHAT SHALL I DO MASTERS?
Already fixed it, no one helped. Ghost