I've been reading through and I had a question. Is there no way to back up everything from a stock A2 bootloader, recovery partition, everything. That could be used to reinstall in case something when bad? I'm new to android development and all but it seems to me if you just copied all the partitions from a stock A2 that you should then be able to restore those partitions to any a2 and get it back to stock.
If you have the bootstrap and CWM on boot, you can just create a nandroid through CWM. Boot onto CWM, select "backup" and that's that. You might see a problem (error) with backing up system image data, maybe not.
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If you have the bootstrap and CWM on boot, you can just create a nandroid through CWM. Boot onto CWM, select "backup" and that's that. You might see a problem (error) with backing up system image data, maybe not.
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Yeah but I am thinking he is asking for an oh-sh*$ factor.... and right now we have no CWM on boot, but you might be able to do the BP tools thing to pull up CWM, but that can even be iffy if you bootloop.
What i mean is, what keeps us from making our own fxz type recovery. The problems returning to stock from ICS for example. Would it not be as simple as copying all the partitions from a stock a2 and then overwriting all the partitions on an A2 you wanted to return to stock.
Using something akin to romdump or something. I guess a better analogy would like Ghost. You ghost the phone and use that image to restore on another phone.
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What i mean is, what keeps us from making our own fxz type recovery. The problems returning to stock from ICS for example. Would it not be as simple as copying all the partitions from a stock a2 and then overwriting all the partitions on an A2 you wanted to return to stock.
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Yeah we are throwing around creating our own fxz solution, but it will take time for that, so we are kinda screwed until we get it all hammered out.
Ok.. so if I try to restore my 2.3.6 backup from ICS with CWM i`ll brick my phone (or it will simply not work)?
i`ll not try to fxz back and everybody knows why.. but not even CWM can do that?
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So I have a I-9020A with at&t. I have rooted followed by flashing -su and roms instructions using instructions on the net. But after following that process and then going backwards (flashing stock w/ no root locking bootloader) I have realized after that I have more questions.
So first: Unlocking the Bootloader erases the phone. Unlocking the bootloader is needed to flash CWM and SU. I have read many many things about NANDROID, how is NANDROID different from CWM?
So I guess my next question is: How does one remove SU? In the process of rooting and flashing CWM and ROMs I make a backup prior to going to deep... that Backup will have SU, I have unrooted, but SU is still on the phone and I cannot seem to remove it.
Another question is: where are the data files on the phone for apps like Plants vs Zombies? I would like to move them off my phone prior to root, though I'm not sure if that is possible (is it?).
The last question is: If I wanted to muck around with ICS and the source code, is it as simple as flashing the source as explained on the google site? because they make it sound rather easy.
Thanks for any and all help,
toonhead
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So I have a I-9020A with at&t. I have rooted followed by flashing -su and roms instructions using instructions on the net. But after following that process and then going backwards (flashing stock w/ no root locking bootloader) I have realized after that I have more questions.
So first: Unlocking the Bootloader erases the phone. This process is needed to flash CWM (but not -su?). I have read many many things about NANDROID, but I have no idea what that is except a backup of a stock rom. When I power my phone off and press Vol up and power on then go to recovery I get an Android w/ a triangle with an exclamation and cant do anything at that point.
So I guess my next question is: How does one backup a stock rom (like you would using CMW) without rooting? or is there not a way and I should just except that when I root for the first time I should expect to loose everything and take off things like pics ect before hand.
The last question is: If I wanted to muck around with ICS and the source code, is it as simple as flashing the source as explained on the google site? because they make it sound rather easy.
Thanks for any and all help,
toonhead
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Sounds like you should have read more.
When you open the bootloader (the lock) it will wipe your personal data off the phone (not SD storage). This just means you get it as if you just bought it from the store. There is no way around it but happens only once and you'll never have to do it again. Unless you lock it back
Once the bootloader is unlocked you can now flash a custom recovery such as CWM which will let you manage and back up your phone with whatever ROM you want/have.
Once recovery is on your device you also have to root the phone. For this you'll need a zip flashable file with the superuser apk and SU binary files. Flash it in recovery and you should be good to go.
The last step is to install a ROM of your choice. You can just run what the phone has and it will work fine and even take updates without a problem. However, every time you want to flash something you'll need to flash CWM again because the stock image flashes the default recovery on reboot. There is a file you can delete to prevent this from happening. I forgot the path so look around. However, I would recommend you flash a stock ROM which already comes loaded with good stuff and all other things are done for you Just stop by the development section and pick a ROM you like.
Naroid is just a backup.
Oh, and BTW, mocking around with ICS... I would leave that for later. First get your head around basic flashing/rooting stuff. Changing the source code requires knowledge of code and even phone hardware. I'm guessing it's not for you just yet
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Sounds like you should have read more.
When you open the bootloader (the lock) it will wipe your personal data off the phone (not SD storage). This just means you get it as if you just bought it from the store. There is no way around it but happens only once and you'll never have to do it again. Unless you lock it back
Once the bootloader is unlocked you can now flash a custom recovery such as CWM which will let you manage and back up your phone with whatever ROM you want/have.
Once recovery is on your device you also have to root the phone. For this you'll need a zip flashable file with the superuser apk and SU binary files. Flash it in recovery and you should be good to go.
The last step is to install a ROM of your choice. You can just run what the phone has and it will work fine and even take updates without a problem. However, every time you want to flash something you'll need to flash CWM again because the stock image flashes the default recovery on reboot. There is a file you can delete to prevent this from happening. I forgot the path so look around. However, I would recommend you flash a stock ROM which already comes loaded with good stuff and all other things are done for you Just stop by the development section and pick a ROM you like.
Naroid is just a backup.
Oh, and BTW, mocking around with ICS... I would leave that for later. First get your head around basic flashing/rooting stuff. Changing the source code requires knowledge of code and even phone hardware. I'm guessing it's not for you just yet
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i was going to write something similar. toonhead85 you should do a bit more research and reading before you start hacking on your phone. youve hearts in the right place, but youre not quite ready just yet. at least take small steps at first
A little more clarification or nandroid backups:
Nandroid is a specific type of backup of the phone's system files. I think that includes system rom and radio. I not sure if any data is included in the backup. You should make a nandroid backup of the stock rom bbefore you flash any custom roms. If something goes wrong with a rom flash or if you want to restore to a previous stock or custom rom, you can restore from the backups you have made. You create these nandroid backups by booting into recovery and selecting the backup option (I think maybe named backup and restore). Backups are usually found on your SD card, but you can copy them to your computer to save additional copies.
If you want to also backup apps, get a good backup program from the market. Two that I have used are Titanium Backup for Root and MyBackups for Root. They can backup and restore apps and data as well as system data.
Thanks for all of the amazing replys. I do know that I am not at the point where I wanna muck around in the system to much as this is my one and only phone. But I would like to at some point.
But something I wanna know is this: If in flash CWM, can I use it without root? Say to make a backup of the stock rom before flashing SU? I only ask because I am currently at work and can't test the idea.
Another question is this: I know how to get to the stock recovery, but from what I read you use the VOL UP to get the "Menu". When I push any (hardware) button I get nothing and the image being displayed is an Android with a triangle and there is an exclimation point in it. Any thoughts?
a nandroid saves everything in your phone, just how it is at that moment. and when you restore it, your phone goes back to that very moment you made that nandroid backup. all your data remain. everything. its like you didnt do anything in between backing up and restoring
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a nandroid saves everything in your phone, just how it is at that moment. and when you restore it, your phone goes back to that very moment you made that nandroid backup. all your data remain. everything. its like you didnt do anything in between backing up and restoring
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and you need root to use NANDROID? Or just an unlocked bootloader and to flash it over?
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and you need root to use NANDROID? Or just an unlocked bootloader and to flash it over?
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unlocked bootloader
FANTASTIC!!! Thank you all so very much!!
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unlocked bootloader
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And CWM recovery.
You don't need root to backup but remember that when you reboot it will flash back to stock recovery (the triangle). You can simply repeat the adb command to flash CWM again.
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And CWM recovery.
You don't need root to backup but remember that when you reboot it will flash back to stock recovery (the triangle). You can simply repeat the adb command to flash CWM again.
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So I could flash unlock my bootloader > flash CWM > Make a backup and save it to my computer then when i reboot my phone it would automatically reflash the stock recovery? and if this is correct, then all i would need to do is flash CWM to restore the saved backup?
So here's a question, is it the action of flashing SU that keeps the phone from removing CWM and reinstalling stock recovery?
You must rename the /system/etc/install-recovery.sh file or it will keep replacing the stock recovery. See this post, item 2.
Ok so i backed up my tf using cwm and everything worked perfectly. When i try restoring the back up it first restores the system apps but then there is an error saying the is no .androidsecure file. And my tf wont boot up after. I then have to flash an old tf version for it start working again.
If anyone has a solution that would be great
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Ok so i backed up my tf using cwm and everything worked perfectly. When i try restoring the back up it first restores the system apps but then there is an error saying the is no .androidsecure file. And my tf wont boot up after. I then have to flash an old tf version for it start working again.
If anyone has a solution that would be great
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It might not have anything to do with the 'error' which is maybe not an error, just an informational message from the "Froyo" days. This is all guesswork, but I seem to recall that .android_secure was for apps that were movable and moved to the sdcard. That just doesn't really make sense on the TF101 using Honeycomb, so if you don't have that folder (.android_secure), that that's cool.
Does the restore complete entirely aside from the message about .and* ?
Another thing I wonder about with cwm restores is the kernel. Did you have a working kernel in your tf101 before you got started with this restore? I'm not really seeing how it restores the kernel (boot.img/zImage/whatever) in this version of cwm. All I see saved is system.img, the md5sum, data.img and cache.img. My guess is that you might benefit by picking a kernel, like either the latest stock one or say, Prime's kernel, and burning that in afterward, clearing dalvik and rebooting again.
Note: It might be that everything needed is somehow in system.img and that cwm has the smarts to burn what it needs to the right places, but in every other version of cwm I've seen, there is a boot.img file in the cwm backup that contains the kernel.
If anyone knows how cwm is burning a blob for the kernel, I'd be curious to know how since I'm not looking at the code. Thanks.
Good luck
the restore doesnt completely restore.
It goes something like this....
System apps restore
I think another restore
Then the error
Restore cache
And then its done. It boots me up to an Asus image and wont go past.
These are the files in my cwm restore
Cache.img
Data.img
Nandroid.md5
System.img
Also i have stock kernel
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the restore doesnt completely restore.
It goes something like this....
System apps restore
I think another restore
Then the error
Restore cache
And then its done. It boots me up to an Asus image and wont go past.
These are the files in my cwm restore
Cache.img
Data.img
Nandroid.md5
System.img
Also i have stock kernel
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So it sounds like the restore is completing with the message about the secure folder then dropping dead during the kernel load. If I understand you right, it sounds like you "had" a stock kernel when it was working, but I wonder if you've got any viable kernel right now?
Since your tf101 isn't working and is basically useless, you could try to boot back to cwm and burn some known working current kernel in there. I don't have the links right now to the stock one, but you could try a nearly stock one from the Prime ROM http://roach.qap.la/Roms/Prime_v2.0/OCKernel_Prime_v2.0.6.zip .
I don't know what his zip file looks like but at least it'll force the issue of burning a blob into the boot partition and you can tell if the kernel was the problem.
If that doesn't work, then your backup was possibly corrupted and I don't have a good answer other than to install either a stock image or one of the ROMs people use like Prime or Revolution and see how they do.
I'm also guessing that blowing a new image on there is a last resort because you had stuff setup the way you wanted it, but it's for you to decide that. You could search the forums for something that does some sort of integrity check on the cwm backups, or better yet, get in touch with Solarnz or Daoist via messages and ask their advice. They're experts here in cwm and I'm not.
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So it sounds like the restore is completing with the message about the secure folder then dropping dead during the kernel load. If I understand you right, it sounds like you "had" a stock kernel when it was working, but I wonder if you've got any viable kernel right now?
Since your tf101 isn't working and is basically useless, you could try to boot back to cwm and burn some known working current kernel in there. I don't have the links right now to the stock one, but you could try a nearly stock one from the Prime ROM http://roach.qap.la/Roms/Prime_v2.0/OCKernel_Prime_v2.0.6.zip .
I don't know what his zip file looks like but at least it'll force the issue of burning a blob into the boot partition and you can tell if the kernel was the problem.
If that doesn't work, then your backup was possibly corrupted and I don't have a good answer other than to install either a stock image or one of the ROMs people use like Prime or Revolution and see how they do.
I'm also guessing that blowing a new image on there is a last resort because you had stuff setup the way you wanted it, but it's for you to decide that. You could search the forums for something that does some sort of integrity check on the cwm backups, or better yet, get in touch with Solarnz or Daoist via messages and ask their advice. They're experts here in cwm and I'm not.
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I flashed another kernel but I still get the error when trying to restore. I've been searching around and I guess I'm missing the .android_secure file in the data.img. I just dont know how to fix it.
Btw my tf is usable and all I am just not able to restore all my apps and such. So its basically like new..
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Btw my tf is usable and all I am just not able to restore all my apps and such. So its basically like new..
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Couldn't you extract data.img and then make a CWM zip out of that?
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Couldn't you extract data.img and then make a CWM zip out of that?
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I dont know if that would work because, i think, the error is in the data.img.
I could try that though, how would i change it to a cwm zip?
Google "extract data.img android" and "make cwm zip" or search here.
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Google "extract data.img android" and "make cwm zip" or search here.
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I found this app called app extractor and it can extract apps from old nandroid backups. It works when trying to restore the system apps but when i try to restore user apps it is unable to. If been searching around on how to extract the data.img and what ive found is that i need to use something call unyaffs. If you can point me in a way of a great tutorial that would be great because i can not find one...
Haven't really done much to my phone in a while but now that I got the sdcard issue fixed and the phone is stable I got on here to see if any new developments in the ulocked bootloader front and noticed we now have an update to 2.3.6. I wish it was ICS but that's coming, so I'd like to upgrade to the latest firmware and would like to know the best way I should go about it.
I'm currently rooted and have removed most of if not all of the bloatware, I've read that can cause problems when doing the OTA update. Is that true? If so, will doing a factory reset restore all that's needed to allow me to do the OTA?
I have no desire to flash lfabers deodexed 2.3.6 since the volume rocker isn't working right (or so I heard).
If a factory reset is not good enough should I install RSDLite 5.6 and flash the 2.3.5 FXZ and then do the OTA?
Let me know what you think as I'd like to make this happen as seamless as possible, don't need any surprises ya know?
This is covered in the noob thread, but...
Factory reset will not be good enough, since the OTA update actually looks for the bloatware to update.
Before you do anything, I recommend going into Atrix 2 Bootstrapper and creating a backup. You'll have to flash back to stock, update, then use the Motofail one click root in the noob thread. Then you can restore your data using the Bootstrapper.
I highly recommend the Supercharged V5_1 ROM and ICS theme, though.
Go ahead and take the jump, you won't be disappointed. Both the stock and V5 are very good
At first the deodexed 2.3.6 wasn't completely working because of a bad deodex, but lfaber06 got that all worked out.
If you want to update to stock 2.3.6 you will have to flash the 2.3.5 fxz first to get all your bloatware back.
Doing the OTA while rooted is fine, it will just remove your root and then you can just re-root.
Thanks guys...I have followed the steps outlined above (and in the referenced noob thread) and have successfully flashed the 2.3.5 fxz. Downloading the OTA as we speak.....Gonna get root back once that's installed then reinstall the CWM bootstrap and then restore from the backup I made at the beginning of this process and i'm good to go right?
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Thanks guys...I have followed the steps outlined above (and in the referenced noob thread) and have successfully flashed the 2.3.5 fxz. Downloading the OTA as we speak.....Gonna get root back once that's installed then reinstall the CWM bootstrap and then restore from the backup I made at the beginning of this process and i'm good to go right?
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Restoring the CWM backup will restore you back to 2.3.5. However, CWM is awesome enough that it will let you restore only parts of the backup. Boot into CWM, got to backup and restore, then go to Advanced Restore. If you select "Restore data" you will get back your apps and settings but keep 2.3.6.
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Restoring the CWM backup will restore you back to 2.3.5. However, CWM is awesome enough that it will let you restore only parts of the backup. Boot into CWM, got to backup and restore, then go to Advanced Restore. If you select "Restore data" you will get back your apps and settings but keep 2.3.6.
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Cool...restoring as we speak. Thanks for your help
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Cool...restoring as we speak. Thanks for your help
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Glad to help!
You guys are the ****!
The flashing/update/rooting/restoring process went off without a hitch and my device is back to how I had it setup before I started it. This was my first time ever using the CWM Recovery bootstrap and RSDLite so I was a bit nervous but after using then I realize that CWM Recovery and RSDLite is just like xRecovery and FlashTool for my previous SE Xperia X10.
Well it gets even easier then using RSD lite. Get jydaddy's RAZR boot into CWM exploit and install it! Well worth it. With his exploit everytime you boot you boot into CWM.All you do is perform one extra step to reboot. Say you flash something and it goes wrong , instead of having to boot into fastboot and flash the fastboot files with RSD you simply pull the battery, let it boot into CWM and perform a simple restore. Your phone never gets hooked up to a single cord and saves sooo much time for!!!
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Well it gets even easier then using RSD lite. Get jydaddy's RAZR boot into CWM exploit and install it! Well worth it. With his exploit everytime you boot you boot into CWM.All you do is perform one extra step to reboot. Say you flash something and it goes wrong , instead of having to boot into fastboot and flash the fastboot files with RSD you simply pull the battery, let it boot into CWM and perform a simple restore. Your phone never gets hooked up to a single cord and saves sooo much time for!!!
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+1 the exploit is great!
Ok so i've finally decided im ready to unlock and flash. My question is this: whats the deal with returning to stock and redoing everything on certain roms? Can anyone explain to me the variables here?
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once you have your device rooted and have a recovery installed, make a nandroid back up your stock rom, flash whatever rom you want, then if you need to go back to stock rom, just flash the nandroid back up you made. If you want to go 100%, then you will have to find the stock recovery image, and flash that over your custom recovery as well, then just use OTA Rootkeeper... and temp unroot your phone... and viola, your 100% stock again.... but if you plan to go back to 100% stock then DO NOT UNLOCK YOUR BOOTLOADER!! there is no way to lock it again once you unlock it.
I think it's worth while to note
currently the only custom recovery that is able to flash stock is CWM
TWRP is not able to flash a stock rom
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I think it's worth while to note
currently the only custom recovery that is able to flash stock is CWM
TWRP is not able to flash a stock rom
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If you flash a stock ROM using CWM you will lose all data on your device, including any backups you made using CWM. So be sure to backup those files to your PC (they're located in the clockworkmod/backup folder of your internal storage) before flashing the stock Asus ROM.
I've been changing my ROM's throughout the day and have basically memorized the process of flashing CWM, root, and ROM's by now
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I think it's worth while to note
currently the only custom recovery that is able to flash stock is CWM
TWRP is not able to flash a stock rom
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TWRP can flash stock. I've done it.
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Ive read about problems reflashing ROMs when youre on the CM or AOKP. Need to return to stock, then flash other ROMs, dunno why exactly. So is it enough just to restore my stock nand backup or do I need to do something differently? :good:
This is exactly what im talking about. What are the rules when coming from cyan to a stock flavor?
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So lets say right now im ready to unlock and root. I would want to unlock the device, then root, then flash CWM (not twrp) so i could still retrain (and boot in to without reinstalling) my original rom? Because i still want to titanium my apps.
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not sure if I understand your question right, but yeah you can use your stock rom when you root or flash cwm. Untill you wont wipe anything within CWM, theres no reason you coulndt use it. But dont forget to do backup of your stock mate.
I think part of the confusion is defining what "stock" means, and I've got two different views on it over the past few days:
COMPLETE STOCK means flashing ASUS' original stock firmware, which completely wipes out everything on your tablet (including your nandroid backups) and CWM and takes you back to a fully stock tablet (except it will still have unlocked bootloader). From here, if you want to install ROM's like CleanROM or Hydro you have to re-flash CWM each time, then flash the appropriate ROM.
MODIFIED STOCK would be making a nandroid backup of your stock settings as soon as you flash the stock ROM, install CWM, then back it up and you can revert to it accordingly. I don't know if this would break things when you tried to flash Clean/Hydro and so maybe someone can clarify.
I wanted to try both hydro and cleanrom so I spent many hours yesterday flashing between stock/modified stock. Its kind of a pain, but all part of the learning process.
And one thing I want to note both for myself and for anyone else: if you flash stock without removing CWM it'll give you the broken bootloader logo (android on his back w/ exclamation point), and my solution has just been to do a 'wipe data' from the fastboot menu and the stock will work fine. What I mean by this is I've done this at least three times, where I flash STOCK from within CWM and when I try to boot into recovery, I'll get that android. That's because STOCK completely erases everything including CWM so in order to restore the normal operating procedure, you just need to 'wipe data' from within the tablet.
Hope my understanding of these situations is correct, if not anyone can feel free to correct me
People like to experiment with their tablet, they get easily bored with the same thing.
So they go back to stock and flash another rom like Hydro which is stock based because when you flash CM or AOKP it won't let you just flash to Hydro.
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I think it's worth while to note
currently the only custom recovery that is able to flash stock is CWM
TWRP is not able to flash a stock rom
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NOT TRUE!
It should be noted that TWRP is now more functional than CWM. TWRP can now flash stock ROMs just fine. It can now restore complete nandroids, including /boot, and it can now flash from and store to the external SD card. It was just recently updated for this, which is why all the information until now has said to use CWM to flash the stock ROM. So, go ahead and use TWRP. It's perfect now.
I have the moto q ota update and rooted. i used online nandroid app to make backup. I was playing around with bootstraper because i didn't want to unlock just yet. phone rebooted but stuck on yellow sprint screen. will not go passed that. I wiped cache and did factory reset but to no luck. i can see my nondroid backup but how do use it.
i just got this phone someone pls help
dwaynet89 said:
I have the moto q ota update and rooted. i used online nandroid app to make backup. I was playing around with bootstraper because i didn't want to unlock just yet. phone rebooted but stuck on yellow sprint screen. will not go passed that. I wiped cache and did factory reset but to no luck. i can see my nondroid backup but how do use it.
i just got this phone someone pls help
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Just boot into either twrp or cwm recovery and install nandroid from there. be sure to wipe before installing nandroid back-up
I dont have either one. I only rooted. Didn't unlock or add custom recovery.
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dwaynet89 said:
I dont have either one. I only rooted. Didn't unlock or add custom recovery.
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You... need a custom recovery in order to take and restore any backups.
Why were you messing with things like this without a way to restore your backups? You need a proper recovery in order to do these things.
Perhaps try unlocking & flashing CWM/TWRP. You've got nothing to lose at this point...
you might have to unlock and flash one now i dont know what bootstrapper you used but i dont think one has been made for the Q since we have a unlockable bootloader
arrrghhh said:
You... need a custom recovery in order to take and restore any backups.
Why were you messing with things like this without a way to restore your backups? You need a proper recovery in order to do these things.
Perhaps try unlocking & flashing CWM/TWRP. You've got nothing to lose at this point...
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I was just looking into unlocking and flashing one. But to answer q I was trying look into possibly modifying a bootstrap for the q for people like me who really didn't want to unlock and that seems to have been a very stupid idea.
Thank you for the replys and any other suggestions you have I am all ears
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Rangerbry said:
you might have to unlock and flash one now i dont know what bootstrapper you used but i dont think one has been made for the Q since we have a unlockable bootloader
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Okay I unlocked and tried to flash twrp but this is what I get
Sending recovery
Okay
Writing recovery
Bootloader Battery low
Failed remote failure
Finished
Do I need to wait for it to charge or am I doing something wrong
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Okay I unlocked and tried to flash twrp but this is what I get
Sending recovery
Okay
Writing recovery
Bootloader Battery low
Failed remote failure
Finished
Do I need to wait for it to charge or am I doing something wrong
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Yeah, let it charge for a bit & try again.
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You we're right after letting it charge I got twrp installed. Now how do I use the nandroid backup. I can get to it but it doesn't let me install it.
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Do you have a backup saved on your memory card or is your nandroid saved online? If it's online only you might be somewhat screwed over.... luckily someone hosted a stock backup. I'll walk you through it once we see exactly what's going on.
sixxt9 said:
Do you have a backup saved on your memory card or is your nandroid saved online? If it's online only you might be somewhat screwed over.... luckily someone hosted a stock backup. I'll walk you through it once we see exactly what's going on.
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Okay when i say i love yal I LLOOVVEE all of yal. my photon is up and running. I did have an online nandroid backup but what i did was download the twrp photon backup extract it and took the backup i made with twrp and swapped out the files. I Love yal and i take no credit for the last part. someone else did that in a different thread. Now i can go to bed without the fear of my wife killing me.
one question- i am back to pre-ota update. how do i go about installing it now s
ince im unlocked. but take your time responding im bout to go to bed with a smile on my face thanks to you guys.
dwaynet89 said:
Okay when i say i love yal I LLOOVVEE all of yal. my photon is up and running. I did have an online nandroid backup but what i did was download the twrp photon backup extract it and took the backup i made with twrp and swapped out the files. I Love yal and i take no credit for the last part. someone else did that in a different thread. Now i can go to bed without the fear of my wife killing me.
one question- i am back to pre-ota update. how do i go about installing it now s
ince im unlocked. but take your time responding im bout to go to bed with a smile on my face thanks to you guys.
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go to the settings/system update and click on update motorola software... you should get the update downloaded again. oh, make anothere backup with twrp to your sdcard BEFORE you update. and after you update also... if you like., it will save you a hell of a hassel, as you well see..
Just to amend that ... you need completely stock system and boot partitions as well as a stock recovery or the update will fail on install.
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Just to amend that ... you need completely stock system and boot partitions as well as a stock recovery or the update will fail on install.
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Okay do i get that from shabbys files and flash? I think i have a stock system i used the stock odexed files from here to restore my phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
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That link won't load but assuming your system partition is bone stock and odexed you're good there. If not yogi hosted his a few pages back and I can vouch as well that those work perfectly. You'll for sure need the stock recovery and to be on the safe side I'd flash the stock boot partition, both img files are hosted with shabby's files.
Here are the steps:
1. Restore your stock system partition
2. Download stock recovery.img (and boot.img recommended) to your adb folder.
3. Reboot into bootloader/fastboot mode
-adb reboot bootloader
4. Flash stock recovery (and boot partition recommended)
- fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- fastboot flash boot boot.img
- fastboot reboot
5. Accept OTA prompt or force update via settings.
6. Once it finishes downloading, it'll prompt to install. Accept it and it'll power off your phone and apply the update. Assuming your system, recovery, and boot partitions are correct the update will install with no problems.
7. Phone will guide you through some prompts and update profile and PRL once it loads. Once this completes it's recommended that you force update those again as the PRL the update downloads seems to be old.
You should be golden from there. If you wish to re-root, simply reflash your recovery (twrp or cwm), reboot into it and install the superSU zip again.
***NOTE*** Arrrghhh's kernel (at least up to .05) isn't completely compatable with this update. Flashing it WILL mess up your wifi, and we haven't found a fix for that other than reverting to the old software and starting the update over.
sixxt9 said:
That link won't load but assuming your system partition is bone stock and odexed you're good there. If not yogi hosted his a few pages back and I can vouch as well that those work perfectly. You'll for sure need the stock recovery and to be on the safe side I'd flash the stock boot partition, both img files are hosted with shabby's files.
Here are the steps:
1. Restore your stock system partition
2. Download stock recovery.img (and boot.img recommended) to your adb folder.
3. Reboot into bootloader/fastboot mode
-adb reboot bootloader
4. Flash stock recovery (and boot partition recommended)
- fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- fastboot flash boot boot.img
- fastboot reboot
5. Accept OTA prompt or force update via settings.
6. Once it finishes downloading, it'll prompt to install. Accept it and it'll power off your phone and apply the update. Assuming your system, recovery, and boot partitions are correct the update will install with no problems.
7. Phone will guide you through some prompts and update profile and PRL once it loads. Once this completes it's recommended that you force update those again as the PRL the update downloads seems to be old.
You should be golden from there. If you wish to re-root, simply reflash your recovery (twrp or cwm), reboot into it and install the superSU zip again.
***NOTE*** Arrrghhh's kernel (at least up to .05) isn't completely compatable with this update. Flashing it WILL mess up your wifi, and we haven't found a fix for that other than reverting to the old software and starting the update over.
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Okay thanks for that. Im sorry about the link not working but i looked at the stock files you were talking about and they are the same. Im going to give this a try tomorrow after church b/c i gettn ready to go to work but i will let you know how i end up.
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pleeease send me a copy of ur twrp nandroid photon q 4g lte backup
dwaynet89 said:
Okay when i say i love yal I LLOOVVEE all of yal. my photon is up and running. I did have an online nandroid backup but what i did was download the twrp photon backup extract it and took the backup i made with twrp and swapped out the files. I Love yal and i take no credit for the last part. someone else did that in a different thread. Now i can go to bed without the fear of my wife killing me.
one question- i am back to pre-ota update. how do i go about installing it now s
ince im unlocked. but take your time responding im bout to go to bed with a smile on my face thanks to you guys.
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Will u plz post a link with the nandroid backup that works to get my Photon Q back to stock? Thnx
c2gemineyes said:
Will u plz post a link with the nandroid backup that works to get my Photon Q back to stock? Thnx
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Here is the link where I got mine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=
If the link dosen't work just go a couple threads down from this one to the that says their phone gets stuck on Sprint screen and follow the links there.
Edit: I don't know why but the link dosen't work just go to the thread
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Okay I am trying to flash stock recovery and all I'm getting is waiting on device. Is this normal?
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dwaynet89 said:
Okay I am trying to flash stock recovery and all I'm getting is waiting on device. Is this normal?
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Do you have ADB enabled?
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