[Q] Clockworkmod recovery not recovering - General Questions and Answers

I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (rooted stock 4.0.4). I decided I would test out Clockworkmod touch recovery before doing anything too serious with it. So, I made a backup, rebooted, deleted an app, went back to recovery, and restored my backup. But, while it was restoring my data, it suddenly stopped and said "Error while restoring /data!" I rebooted and, after waiting through a really long boot, it booted into a semi-reset version of my phone. All of the apps claim to be installed but will not start.
So, thinking it could be a touch recovery issue, I flashed an older version of clockworkmod recovery and tried restoring after clearing my data, cache, factory reset, and Dalvik cache. Still, the exact same thing happened. I also tried restoring older backups, but the exact same thing happened.
What is going on, and what should I do? Thank you for your time.

Please, guys. I need help. I have no clue what to do.

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[Q] Help needed - stuck on CM10 boot-up animation

Hi All,
I have the Telstra HTC One XL, and have just recently attempted to install CM10 ROM - however have run into some problems that I would appreciate some advice to rectify. I had recently updated to Jelly Bean OTA.
I followed the guide on these forums - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859478
I Successfully unlocked bootloader by following the steps at HTCdev.com
I Successfully installed TWRP Custom Recovery
I Downloaded CM10 as per - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1790032. I transferred this as well as Google Apps onto my phones storage.
When attempting to install CM10, I created the Nandroid backup as recommended, and proceeded to wipe the mentioned items using TWRP (a guide I saw said to wipe everything). This is when my Nandroid back-up got wiped. TWRP gives you the option to wipe cache, delvik cache, factory reset, system, external storage, internal storage and format data. I did alll of these, and this was my mistake I believe? I proceeded to try and install CM10 and gapps from internal storage (I had to re load these back on after I wiped everything), and the install of CM10 displayed as successful.
Upon rebooting to system, the HTC screen comes up first and then goes to the CM10 animation. The phone then stays on this animation (rotating circle) for up to 10-15 minutes.
I have read thread after thread with people experiencing similar issues, and have tried rectifying my problem with various versions of roms and different guides out there. I can still boot into recovery (TWRP) mode via bootloader, and this means I can still mount my phone's storage onto my PC and have access to the storage directory. As I have deleted the Nandroid backup though, and because the ROM's won't install, I am stuck in no man's land.
There must surely be a way to have a ROM installed (even if its back to stock Telstra) from the position I am in, it would be greatly appreciated if someone may be able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Robbie
maybe yall need to "fastboot flash boot boot.img" now
robbie.d said:
TWRP gives you the option to wipe cache, delvik cache, factory reset, system, external storage, internal storage and format data. I did alll of these, and this was my mistake I believe?
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Why do people keep doing this??? Just because TWRP gives you all those options, doesn't mean you should use them.
Sometimes, people will say to do a "full wipe" when flashing a ROM. But that term is a bit misleading. Factory reset (from TWRP, never from hboot), wipe Dalvik and wipe cache is all that is technically required when flashing a new ROM. Some people like to wipe more "just in case". But if you aren't completely confidant in what you are doing, keep in simple and don't make it more complicated than it needs to be.
I don't know if wiping everything is the cause of your woes, but it certainly didn't help, and caused you to do some extra steps.
Flash boot.img via fastboot as previously suggested. Otherwise, just try to re-download and flash the files agin. Its seems that some people are having troubles booting after flashing CM10 (even after doing the correct wipes and flashing boot.img). Doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason, but just flashing again has fixed the problem for at least one person.
Thanks so much, such a simple fix! That has me booted up into CM10.
I have installed cm-10-20130107-NIGHTLY-evita and cm-10.0.0-evita , however with both of these versions, my touch screen is not working once it boots up. I can function with the volume up/down, and with the power buttons, but cannot get past my SIM card lock screen.
I noticed this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2083314 (no solution yet)...
Does anyone have a solution to this issue that seems a common one?
Alternatively, more than happy to get an alternative ROM on my phone in the interim...Can someone recommend me a ROM?
Again, I really appreciate the quick response to my problem, very happy my phone is in operation!

[Completed] completely wiped everything.

hello. when i tried to flash a new rom, i wiped system, did a factory reset, wiped data and dalvik cache. then i did a reboot by mistakely. when i tried to boot, i was stuck at the sony logo. now, cwm has also been wiped! when i tried to flash cwm, the terminal said that the phone needs to be rooted. what can i do to salvage my phone?
aaditya1803 said:
hello. when i tried to flash a new rom, i wiped system, did a factory reset, wiped data and dalvik cache. then i did a reboot by mistakely. when i tried to boot, i was stuck at the sony logo. now, cwm has also been wiped! when i tried to flash cwm, the terminal said that the phone needs to be rooted. what can i do to salvage my phone?
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Can you tell us for which device you having these problem .
sony xperia tipo dual(ST21i2).
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Stephen

CM logo keeps spinning (after flash, restore)

Hello,
I have this very annoying thing:
+ tried CM11 but that worked not Ok for me.
+ reverted to CM 10.1, 10.1.3, with the correct 4.2.2. Gapps; did factory wipe, cache wipe, dalvik wipe
rebooted and it then worked (native), I got into the trenshbucket.
Then I restored with Titanium Backup, which worked always good on 10.1.3
When I do a reboot after that, the logo keeps spinning and doesn't go further with the booting.
Searched this forum and used google, but no solution found.
Can someone please help me with this, cause I am going bunkers ......
Thanks a lot!
Regards
Kees

[Completed] Please I need help with cyanogen recovery problem.

I installed and flashed cm12 on my samsung galaxy s2 sgh t989 from cwm recovery and it was successful. After some time i had to check some things in developers options and there was something like that said update recovery with the cyanogemod updates and I checked it or turned it on, and then after a day I decided to go back to my original rom that I had backed up, which was CM11. So I went into recovery but it wasnt cwm recovery it was cyanogen recovery and it was useless because it didnt have restore or backup options, but then I accidently click delete cache parition or whatever its called. After that I rebooted my phone from the recovery but it didnt boot instead it took me to cyanogen recovery. I tried to wipe and delete all user data and some other options that i thought might help and then reboot but stills takes me to cyanogen recovery. I tried flashing cm12 and gapps that i had in sdcard but wontfinish to complete and then it takes me to the recovery. Any help would be appreciated.
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I installed and flashed cm12 on my samsung galaxy s2 sgh t989 from cwm recovery and it was successful. After some time i had to check some things in developers options and there was something like that said update recovery with the cyanogemod updates and I checked it or turned it on, and then after a day I decided to go back to my original rom that I had backed up, which was CM11. So I went into recovery but it wasnt cwm recovery it was cyanogen recovery and it was useless because it didnt have restore or backup options, but then I accidently click delete cache parition or whatever its called. After that I rebooted my phone from the recovery but it didnt boot instead it took me to cyanogen recovery. I tried to wipe and delete all user data and some other options that i thought might help and then reboot but stills takes me to cyanogen recovery. I tried flashing cm12 and gapps that i had in sdcard but wontfinish to complete and then it takes me to the recovery. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hello and thank you for using XDA Assist.
Sorry to hear about your trouble but fortunately there is an XDA area dedicated to the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2-tmobile which would be a good starting place. I suggest you post your question with all relevant details in the friendly Q&A forum there at http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2-tmobile/help where the experts familiar with your device will be best able to guide you.
Good luck!

Xperia mini issue - recovering from boot loop - how to recover data

Ok, so I asked this in XDA Assist but can't post reply there.
This is what happened on my Xperia mini St15i, with firmware 4.1.B.0.587:
1. I turned on Bluetooth and the phone got stuck in infinite boot loop - apparently this is a known bug.
2. I decided to try out CM 9. Installed CWM Recovery and did backup on sd card and flashed CM.
3. I remembered that I did the backup earlier so I thought maybe there is a way to keep my apps and data.
4. I went back to CWM and restored from backup. CM didn't boot then, so I flashed back stock rom with flashtool and booted the phone. The apps and data was there( at least for one app which was very important), but contacts and messages were gone.
So my question is, is there a way to recover ALL user data from the backup? I don't care if it's on stock rom or CM at this point.
I hope some of you knowledgeable people can help!
Many thanks,
Paul
Can someone please help. :crying:
I managed to restore it with all the data by trial and error (I don't know HOW). Then at night the phone lost battery and is back to rebooting forever.
If I restore all via CWM and then flash stock, it boots up saying "Android is upgrading" and then keeps rebooting.
If I do a factory reset via CWM and flash stock rom, the phone is back to factory setting with no data.
WHICH partitions should I recover and which should I flash to retain the data??? HELP :crying:

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