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Hello,
I'm a new poster here, but a long time lurker... Anyway I'm having a problem.
I just rooted and flashed the Heinz57 rom, got everything set up the way I want it. I booted into recovery to do a back up and it says "Error while backing up Boot Image." Yes, I've disabled lagfix. USCC Mesmerize, btw.
What is this error and how do I fix it?
CwM 3.x, fyi.
Thank you for any help!
Do you have lagfix enabled? If so, try disabling it in CWM, reboot, and try backing up.
Ha! Just edited the OP!
I have it disabled everytime I try to back it up. No luck.
But have you disabled it and rebooted your phone to actually let it convert the file system back?
I disable, reboot, let it do its thing and when it's done, go back into recovery. Try to backup, it gives me the error.
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Just making sure. Have you tried using CWM 2.5?
No. But wouldn't I need to flash a whole new rom to use it?
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MooreC1 said:
No. But wouldn't I need to flash a whole new rom to use it?
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No you don't...I just tried making a nand this morning and am having this same issue, had to odin 2.5 recovery to make a nand. I tried to odin cwm3 thinking it was the .zip, reflashed the rom, kernel and other recoveries, nothing worked just the same error in the op..im trying all the recommended fixes I can find..
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never mind my last post, I reflashed the OTB 1.3 TW kernel and everything is back to normal with that recovery...making a cwm3 nand now.
So it's a problem with Heinz? Or am I reading that wrong?
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I wanna say its something with the recovery and whatever kernel you've got going, specifically. Wish I knew more.
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So I can odin flash 2.5 without losing my rom and settings? I didn't know that... lol
Why r y'all disabling lagfix? Ive not been disabling and my backups r restoring just fine. I vaguely remember that disabling was recommended at some point but thought it was on cwm2.5 so when we got 3.0 I tried not disabling and been good so far on every Rom I've flashed.
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wired-turtle said:
Why r y'all disabling lagfix? Ive not been disabling and my backups r restoring just fine. I vaguely remember that disabling was recommended at some point but thought it was on cwm2.5 so when we got 3.0 I tried not disabling and been good so far on every Rom I've flashed.
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If you leave it enabled and end up with a bad Rom flash that forces you to have to use Odin you can end up with a lot of issues.
What would happen if I didn't wipe before flashing? And do I need to flash the 12.2 kernel
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I'm not sure what would happen. It would probably be less stable or not work... You could always try it though.
You do not need to flash any kernel. Only flash LeanKernel if you want to. If you don't want to mess with BusyBox, I'd wait on the kernel.
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From my experience on other devices when flashing ROMs and not wiping I would almost always bootloop. Again that is my general experience. I would assume there would be similar results.
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I usually backup the current ROM first, then factory reset before wiping cache. I end up with good results that way. The only time I installed a ROM without wiping, it was unstable.
Well, I tried flashing it, and it seemed to work. This is without the wipe.. But the only thing I found incorrect was that the wifi notification didn't go away. That was an easy fix though.
Should the battery life be noticeably better?
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Yeah I was kind of retarded the other day and forgot to wipe.:laugh: I was greeted with a nice bootloop until I pulled the battery and tried again (this time the correct way) then everything worked great..
I haven't wiped for any of the Synergy builds and my phone is running great Running Imos kernel too. Awesome battery life from this thing
So.. Even though I didn't get a boot loop after flashing without the wipe... Do you guys think I should just wipe and flash again?
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I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but I'd say if it's working then leave it be..
ahlexkim said:
So.. Even though I didn't get a boot loop after flashing without the wipe... Do you guys think I should just wipe and flash again?
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A wipe may not be completely necessary but if you do run into problems (FCs, etc.) and post a problem the devs or users are going to ask if you did a full wipe or not - and then recommend that you do one. In the end it wouldn't hurt to wipe even if you are fully functional.
I used to hate wiping all the time but with the proper backup applications it doesn't take long at all. I use Titanium Backup to backup apps and then also do in app backups for specific things like nova launcher, minimalistic text, and gosms,
Just a quick pointer here, I've seen a lot of questions regarding removing or uninstalling a flashed in theme with inaccurate or poor answers on how to do it with the most common answer of reverting back to nandroid backup and starting over. That will work, but is completely unnecessary and alot of time/work to do that.
Here's the simple easy fool proof way to remove a theme if you don't like it:
Go into recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, DO NOT do a full wipe, re flash CURRENT rom zip, reboot. Theme will then be gone, without any reconfiguring of your setup. That's it.
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Just a quick pointer here, I've seen a lot of questions regarding removing or uninstalling a flashed in theme with inaccurate or poor answers on how to do it with the most common answer of reverting back to nandroid backup and starting over. That will work, but is completely unnecessary and alot of time/work to do that.
Here's the simple easy fool proof way to remove a theme if you don't like it:
Go into recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, DO NOT do a full wipe, re flash CURRENT rom zip, reboot. Theme will then be gone, without any reconfiguring of your setup. That's it.
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Not that I disagree but how is this less work then restoring a nandoid? If they made a backup right before flashing the theme they dont have to reconfig any of the setup stuff either.
True, stated as if the nandroid was of a different rom/configuration, not just made. But who wants to wait all that time to create, restore a nandroid? I don't!
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True, stated as if the nandroid was of a different rom/configuration, not just made. But who wants to wait all that time to create, restore a nandroid? I don't!
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Also if you restore a nandroid you would lose a bit of saved data for say....a game or what not. (Basically if you've progressed in a game since you made the nandroid).
Reflashing the rom with out wiping data is the best theme removal in my honest opinion.
I agree, I do not wipe my data cache or dakvik, just flash the rom. I only stated to do those wipes so that there would be a "cleaner" flash of the rom, like flashing a nightly. That way I don't have to get flak if something goes wrong for someone, as unlikely as that may be.
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Since the New TouchWiz JellyBean leak dropped, we quickly found out that the Rootdebug method no longer works for rooting...Not a big deal as developers rolled back to our grass roots and used the original Odin method to achieve root. My only issue is with the suggestion to flash a modified No Wipe image of the stock K1 leak...Im not sure if I agree with this. I have dirty flashed with Odin in the past and things appeared to work fine on ICS, but stepping up to JellyBean seems to be different!
Point is since the leak has dropped many folks complain of media server causing battery drain, I was one of them. So I decided to odin back to stock using the rooted FULL WIPE VRBLK1 version by Mr. Robinson...and I have had substantially less battery drain!!! Battery life is currently at 15hrs with 65% left...2 hrs screen on.
I would suggest to anybody that flashed a no wipe image in odin and is having issues with media server draining the battery, and/or any other issues appear, try flashing the FULL WIPE version! As others have said, I believe the problem is a corrupted file on the internal sd causing the issue. Also a few other small issues I was having appears to be fixed, such as touch screen being unresponsive at times...also gps seems to lock faster. Anybody else noticing the same??
This is interesting. I did the no wipe to the newest leak and I felt it was horrible. Battery for me was not as good and the phone was always hotter. So I went back to J1 leak. If I get time I might try the full wipe version of the newest leak. Try the theory out.
As an addition, my CPU was always acting crazy. Random low frequency locks (would not ramp up). Sometimes it would stay high, probably the cause of the warm phone. And weird battery drain from the system I just could not explain.
Thanks for this and as I said I'll try fresh after the weekend. Holiday weekend is my family time.
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I know this is somewhat off topic so I apologize for derailing....are you guys having any issues with NFC on AOSP ROMs after flashing the leak via Odin?
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Marcismo55 said:
I know this is somewhat off topic so I apologize for derailing....are you guys having any issues with NFC on AOSP ROMs after flashing the leak via Odin?
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I've only flashed an AOSP once. That was the last time. Too choppy, and i like my TW features. So, to answer your question, I don't know.
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I did full wipe and everything is great except gps.
I did a no wipe version moving from J1 to K1, what I saw was the RAM footprint increase by 50%...
I did the full and footprint went back to what I recognized on J1...Barry seems as good or better than J1 too
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I did Robinson's no error via Odin and don't have any apparent issues. what should I be looking for?
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I did Robinson's no error via Odin and don't have any apparent issues. what should I be looking for?
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Did you use the full wipe or no wipe version in odin? Thats the point of this thread...no wipe seems to be causing a foul odor with media drain and random issues for folks. The full wipe leaves you so fresh and so clean!!
Sorry for sounding like a noob, but what exactly is media drain? Battery use by "media server?"
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US Marine said:
Sorry for sounding like a noob, but what exactly is media drain? Battery use by "media server?"
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yes
Hmm...I did the no-wipe flash, and I haven't had any issues whatsoever.
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US Marine said:
Hmm...I did the no-wipe flash, and I haven't had any issues whatsoever.
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Thats good! Im not saying everybody is going to have issues with the no wipe version...most likely its going to be folks that have flashed a bunch of roms and accumulated alot of folders/files on the internal SD. The point is if you are one of the unfortunate folks thats having issues, try the FULL WIPE version.
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Thats good! Im not saying everybody is going to have issues with the no wipe version...most likely its going to be folks that have flashed a bunch of roms and accumulated alot of folders/files on the internal SD. The point is if you are one of the unfortunate folks thats having issues, try the FULL WIPE version.
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Yeah, I flashed from bone stock the day I got the phone.
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My phone seems a little laggy which I did not experience on the first leak. I don't not have the typical problems people have with flashing the no wipe version... That's what I flashed. Thinking of trying a factory reset but this thread makes me wonder if flashing the wipe version might be better? What's the difference though? Both wipe and no wipe are from the same file, right?
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Question, I did the no wipe version on odin from the stock samsung s3, and now my RAM usage is almost always close to 1 gb. Before on ICS it was like 600 or 700 mb. Is this normal for jelly bean?
Ryno77 said:
My phone seems a little laggy which I did not experience on the first leak. I don't not have the typical problems people have with flashing the no wipe version... That's what I flashed. Thinking of trying a factory reset but this thread makes me wonder if flashing the wipe version might be better? What's the difference though? Both wipe and no wipe are from the same file, right?
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Full Wipe will repartition the Internal SD and wipe rom data...this will get rid of any corrupted files that reside on the internal. Its the same principal as reformatting and installing windows. Dirty Flashing writes your data over the top of data and nothing else in the internal sd is touched...not saying dirty flashing is bad, I do it alot, but when wierd issues arise, 90% of the time a Full Wipe with Odin fixes things.
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Question, I did the no wipe version on odin from the stock samsung s3, and now my RAM usage is almost always close to 1 gb. Before on ICS it was like 600 or 700 mb. Is this normal for jelly bean?
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I believe touchwiz jellybean uses more ram.
Is the full wipe version included everything like the original Verizon release version? (radio, rom, kernel, bootloader etc...)Thanks.
buhohitr said:
Is the full wipe version included everything like the original Verizon release version? (radio, rom, kernel, bootloader etc...)Thanks.
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Yep
I have just realized that the hotspot is broken. Every time I try to turn it on, it force closes Settings. Anyone else having this problem?
EDIT: So I downloaded a hotspot toggle widget, and it works fine. I only have a problem if I try to enable hotspot via Settings. Interesting.
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I have a backup of all the user and system data on a CM10.1 nightly (3/16, not that it really matters) and was going to do a clean flash of the most recent nightly. Is it safe to restore the system data after flashing the ROM? I assume this is where all my ROM settings, homescreen layouts, etc. are stored. I've seen a lot of threads where people say not to restore the system data, but I wouldn't think that would be an issue going from one nightly to another on the same ROM.
You can restore system apps but not other system data as far as I know.
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You can try it but I wouldn't recommend it. I've had luck with restoring only the system data that has the tibu icon, wifi, accounts,etc.
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Ahh that's a bummer. So do you guys just write down your settings and manually set them up again? There should be an easy way of restoring this stuff, at least the homescreen layouts/Trebuchet settings.
Sheeze said:
Ahh that's a bummer. So do you guys just write down your settings and manually set them up again? There should be an easy way of restoring this stuff, at least the homescreen layouts/Trebuchet settings.
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I remember exactly how my phone is setup. 30 minutes max and I'm all done from scratch.
I never restore anything from anywhere, it causes nothing but problems
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xcrazydx said:
I remember exactly how my phone is setup. 30 minutes max and I'm all done from scratch.
I never restore anything from anywhere, it causes nothing but problems
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Yep I'm the same way I could probly set my phone up with my eyes closed I've done it so many times at lest I'm on rogers and don't need to put my apns in.
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Yep I'm the same way I could probly set my phone up with my eyes closed I've done it so many times at lest I'm on rogers and don't need to put my apns in.
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I'm on att and never have to mess with apn. Not once in hundreds, maybe thousands of flashes.
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I remember exactly how my phone is setup. 30 minutes max and I'm all done from scratch.
I never restore anything from anywhere, it causes nothing but problems
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I've only ever restored the user data and that seems to work okay. I guess another question would be how often do you do a fresh flash? Unless I encounter problems, I usually just dirty flash.
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I've only ever restored the user data and that seems to work okay. I guess another question would be how often do you do a fresh flash? Unless I encounter problems, I usually just dirty flash.
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Same, although my number of flashes is definitely not close to yours
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I have a backup of all the user and system data on a CM10.1 nightly (3/16, not that it really matters) and was going to do a clean flash of the most recent nightly. Is it safe to restore the system data after flashing the ROM? I assume this is where all my ROM settings, homescreen layouts, etc. are stored. I've seen a lot of threads where people say not to restore the system data, but I wouldn't think that would be an issue going from one nightly to another on the same ROM.
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Clean flash + restore data = dirty flash
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I never understood why Titanium Backup didn't explain that better. The app rocks but they make it sound like a lazy man's restore tool lol
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Oh, I thought it just meant not doing the wipe data/factory reset step when installing the ROM, though I do see your point that restoring data over a clean ROM would be essentially a dirty flash. What about when you're just restoring user data and not any system data?
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Oh, I thought it just meant not doing the wipe data/factory reset step when installing the ROM, though I do see your point that restoring data over a clean ROM would be essentially a dirty flash. What about when you're just restoring user data and not any system data?
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Clean flash every time, or you're gonna be one of the dummies making stupid threads about why your apps fc, and blaming the Rom for your mistakes.
Yes dirty flashes work sometimes, but for noobs it causes problems.
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Oh, I thought it just meant not doing the wipe data/factory reset step when installing the ROM, though I do see your point that restoring data over a clean ROM would be essentially a dirty flash. What about when you're just restoring user data and not any system data?
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Restoring the data for user apps via titanium backup is usually OK. I am yet to experience any issues doing so.
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