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[Q] Epic 4G Stuck on Boot

Hi, I'm a complete noob at this so help is appreciated. I rooted my Epic 4G and have been playing around with custom ROMs. I flashed the Quantum ROM manually using clockworkMod v2.5.1.0, and the phone wouldn't get any service and took FOREVER to scan media on the SD card so I tried to restore to a previous backup also made manually. It seemed to restore ok, but when trying to boot it would get stuck on the screen with "Samsung" in large white text and the website "www . samsungmobile . com" (without spaces) directly below it.
I tried wiping the cache, and then a factory reset with clockworkmod to no effect. Every time I try to restore to backup I get the following:
Checking MD5 sums...
Restoring system...
Restoring data...
.android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
Restoring cache...
sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restore of /sd-ext/..
Restore complete!
I then select reboot system now, which results in the same screen. I hear the usual boot music play, but the screen never changes. Please help a confused newbie!!!

Follow the process in this post to restore to stock...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773032
This would seem to be the best path if clockwork isn't getting you anywhere.
from there I would re-root and then apply the recovery

Jedi Master Jesus said:
Hi, I'm a complete noob at this so help is appreciated. I rooted my Epic 4G and have been playing around with custom ROMs. I flashed the Quantum ROM manually using clockworkMod v2.5.1.0, and the phone wouldn't get any service and took FOREVER to scan media on the SD card so I tried to restore to a previous backup also made manually. It seemed to restore ok, but when trying to boot it would get stuck on the screen with "Samsung" in large white text and the website "www . samsungmobile . com" (without spaces) directly below it.
I tried wiping the cache, and then a factory reset with clockworkmod to no effect. Every time I try to restore to backup I get the following:
Checking MD5 sums...
Restoring system...
Restoring data...
.android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
Restoring cache...
sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restore of /sd-ext/..
Restore complete!
I then select reboot system now, which results in the same screen. I hear the usual boot music play, but the screen never changes. Please help a confused newbie!!!
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When you're flashing the new 2.2 roms, you need to make sure you have also flash the appropriate modem as well using odin. With Quantum rom, you will need to flash the DK17 modem in order to get your phone to work properly. Instructions on how to odin DK17 modem can be found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849753
Additionally, when trying to restore your phone, I would suggest doing a full wipe. I was having similar issues restoring a back-up, and it would hang-up on the samsung screen. Wiping seemed to fix this problem.

Thanks for the help! I used Odin to restore my phone to stock and it's been working since. I appreciate the help.

boot loop help

HTC EVO V/3D. im stuck in boot loop, im on pac man rom and my phone ran out of battery and once i put it to charge and tried to turn it on it boot looped. all i really want is my data to restore but when i wipe all flash the rom and restore data it boot loops again. i didnt have anything on the data or system that would cause a boot loop. is the any way to restore my data another way from my 4 ext recovery backup. or is there a way to fix the boot loop?

suicidalerik said:
HTC EVO V/3D. im stuck in boot loop, im on pac man rom and my phone ran out of battery and once i put it to charge and tried to turn it on it boot looped. all i really want is my data to restore but when i wipe all flash the rom and restore data it boot loops again. i didnt have anything on the data or system that would cause a boot loop. is the any way to restore my data another way from my 4 ext recovery backup. or is there a way to fix the boot loop?
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Boot loop is probably caused by offline charging, the ROM may have a bug with it, one solution is to prevent the phone from running out of battery and plug it right away.
About the data restore from the 4 ext, you can use CWM recovery 6.0.2.7 which has support for SD card extensions, it will detect your partition and will manage your data, and all your apps linked to the partition.

You could try this. I use a gnex toolkit posted on xda. It saved me from a couple of boot loops.
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[Q] Cyanogenmod 10.1 Stuck On Bootanimation?

Hello XDA
I tried updating from Cyanogenmod 10.1 to 10.2 nightly( I understand it was development), and my phone froze on starting apps (cleared cache), and never booted. Next boot it stayed in a boot loop, so I decided to restore from a backup. I wiped my system and proceeded to restore both system and boot (didn't want to override my apps so I unchecked the rest), and then cleared caches again to be safe. Now it is in a bootanimation loop and has been so for 5+ minutes. What could possibly be the cause of this? Is there any way to fix this without having to wipe my apps and data (I have a backup of system, boot, android_secure).
Thanks,
ccrama

Did you flash the boot with fastboot?

leit4444 said:
Did you flash the boot with fastboot?
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No, I updated with the CM updater. It did all the installing/wiping, but got me stuck in the original boot loop. Now, I used a backup to restore my old system files (from 10.1), but it is still in a boot loop D:
EDIT: I'm on TWRP and the backup was a nandroid backup

Give it a try to flash boot with fastboot. Your can extract it from your backup.

leit4444 said:
Give it a try to flash boot with fastboot. Your can extract it from your backup.
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I'll try that, lets hope it works :fingers-crossed:

Flashed wrong hotspot... Will it be included in TWRP backup?

I flashed it but forgot to backup, stuck in boot loop (yellow sprint screen) ... So I backed up everything in TWRP... if I do a system restore /factory wipe, and then restore from twrp backup, will the bootloop go with it?

Blakestr said:
I flashed it but forgot to backup, stuck in boot loop (yellow sprint screen) ... So I backed up everything in TWRP... if I do a system restore /factory wipe, and then restore from twrp backup, will the bootloop go with it?
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Sadly, if you made the backup while your system was in a bootloop, that backup will bring back the bootloop when restored.
Sorry about that.

twrp backup restore and app help

hello, I have an issue..
I create complete rom backup with trwrp, but..
When I need to restore this backup , I restore it in TWRP, then reboot to OS but it NEVER boots up. It just stucks on white Sony logo and thats all
I have tryed wiping everything before 4restoring, and not wiping anything before restoring.. but my rom backup never boots up..actually it doesnt even start to load system OS never gets to bootup animation just stays on sony logo.. also tryed switching boot slot from A - B with twrp after restoring but no go.. please any ideas?
Also If I may.. have a second question regarding TWRP, when I install in system TWRP app, it never detects that twrp is installed .. maybe because xa2ultra doesnt have recovery partition or ? any solution to get twrp app to work when system is booted up?

no ideas why rom backup can't be restored? need ideas/help please..

is there any other way to make flashable rob backup excwpt in twrp wich doesnt work?