So earlier today my phone stopped getting service . After trial and error i ended up in a boot loop so i nandroid backped and factory reset. I reflashed PAC man ROM and all seemed good, so i went to nandroid advanced restore and tried to only restore data to try and not boot loop again.this ddidn't work so i wiped and flashed PAC man again. This time however i restored the boot and system and my phone works fine. I'm unsure of what restoring sd-ext will do. So my question is, how to i restore my data now from nandroid without getting boot looped? All i really need off of it is my texts. (Apps are on titanium)
shewantsmyduck said:
So earlier today my phone stopped getting service . After trial and error i ended up in a boot loop so i nandroid backped and factory reset. I reflashed PAC man ROM and all seemed good, so i went to nandroid advanced restore and tried to only restore data to try and not boot loop again.this ddidn't work so i wiped and flashed PAC man again. This time however i restored the boot and system and my phone works fine. I'm unsure of what restoring sd-ext will do. So my question is, how to i restore my data now from nandroid without getting boot looped? All i really need off of it is my texts. (Apps are on titanium)
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I think your best option is to download nandroid manager from the playstore. That will allow you to pull your data from your backup and restore it from the app, it's similar to the way titanium backup restores data.
I think the issue you're having has to do with restoring data from a 4.2.2 rom. Most recoveries have issues with restoring data because 4.2.2 is setup for multiuser and the data locations are different. I think when you're restoring data only, it's not actually writing your data correctly and it's soft bricking your phone.
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I got nandroid manager and it worked perfectly! Thanks a million!Exactly what I needed
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Hi, just recently I flashed my Backup ROM to retrieve contacts that I have lost. Before, I had only flashed the CleanROM and a theme from Wasabiwa3. But because my contacts were lost, I decided to start over and flash my Backup ROM. Using TWRP, I did. However, when I did, my phone hard bricked. It would not turn on, but would rather vibrate when I attempted. I have pulled the battery multiple times, plugged it into the computer, everything. Wasabiwa3 was able to get me out of my bricked phone. However, it seems as though my Backup is dead. I don't understand how restoring my Backup would cause my phone to brick. Why did that happen? Is there anything I can do to restore my Backup ROM/contacts?
Your backup is a ROM not a phone so how can a backup be dead? Also you didn't mention the name of the backup ROM. Nor did you say if you did what you supposed to do when flashing which wipe cache, dalvik and factory reset which you need to when switching from aosp and Touchwiz.
Make sure the backup contains a system partition back up within it, next wipe the system partition of your current rom and retry restoring from the backup. Or if you have a stock nandroid, use the advanced restore option to restore the system partition.
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Ill start off. I've tried both a live backup and a standard backup with no luck. It was backing up data for over 2 hours before I finally canceled it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Got the backup to work successfully in both recovery and live. However, I tried to restore a backup and it would not restore the data partition. Has anyone else had this problem?
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:
So, everytime I restore my backup with twrp, I always get some errors after restore.
Sometimes systemUI error, sometimes restore doesnt run successfully, etc.
I just want to know, is there actually a proper way to backup and restaore using twrp (like wiping things first, etc) or just directly backup and restore?
Thanks!
I never managed to get backup done and restored, never on this phone, no matter what twrp i use
Hi all,
I have A6000 with OOS 9.0.5. I installed magisk and TWRP with this guide. I did a full backup, however I cannot restore it. I get error 255 on tarExtractFork(). I use official TWRP 3.3.0. After failed restore I can still boot to (now freshly wiped after attempted restore) system. Even backups of this clean system cannot be restored.
For the record, I don't have a second profile, no "999" user id, I didn't change slots, I removed screen lock before making backup. I still have this problem even if I backup just data, with all other options unticked.
Any help? I come from a device, which didn't have any problems with backup/restore so this is a bummer for me. But I'm sure that users of OP6 can do backups and restores.
Thanks!
For anyone that also has the same problem:
This helped me. I have a feeling that flashing just data through fastboot could be enough, but I didn't have an occasion to check it, as even subsequent restores worked.
I used this to flash device in fastboot mode.