Please help me, I think i ruined my phone.
I was trying to learn about changing roms and stuff, first i created a backup via CWM then changed a my rom. It worked fine and i restored my backup, which is the stock rom. Then found out that it is ok. I enterned CWM again to try another rom but i wanted to try some other features of CWM and played with SD CARD PARTITION, set it up and waited until the process is done, then i tried to restore my STOCK ROM after that but the BACKUP was gone so i have nothing to restore. I think it is because of the partion that deleted backup. Please help.
P.S. I have a fever and little sleep which might contributed to my carelesness.
I am from the Philippines and a newbie here, hope to have friends, tell me if i posted in the wrong section, i am so tired and needing a rest.
DEVICE: SAMSUNG GALAXY YOUNG GT6310
WHAT SHALL I DO MASTERS?
Already fixed it, no one helped. Ghost
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I've tried searching for this throughout the forums and I guess it's to vague to find an exact answer. So here's my problem:
A while back I had backed my original JI6 ROM for my Samsung Vibrant. I've been playing with a good set of ROMs from Team Whiskey since then. Each one I've been able to restore to a backup made of the previous ROM. However, the backup I had made for my Original Stock ROM will never restore. It just stalls during the restore. I've let it sit for about eight hours overnight a few times, but no real progress there. I'm not sure what I can do really to get that backup restored to my phone.
I have two backups, one when I first installed ROM Manager to my phone and another I made when I wanted to try out a new ROM. Each do not work. I'm either assuming some where the same file was not backed up correctly or the backup is to big? It is about 1.5GB.
Please any help in this matter would help greatly as Samsung is finally ready to release a 2.2 Update and I'd like to try this from my original-ish stock ROM.
Thank you!
nothing? no ideas?
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I said I would flash cyanogenmod on a friends G1 because he was fed up with 1.6. I've flashed many custom ROM's on several different devices before but I've made a mess of things with this G1 and I can hardly hand back an unusable phone so I would really appreciate your help.
I rooted the phone using Androot, backed up the apps and settings using titanium backup and then the texts using a text backup app. I then downloaded Rom manager and flashed the latest clockworkmod recovery. Next I downloaded the latest official cyanogenmod rom for the dream/g1 and placed it on the phones SD card using my computer. I then re-opened rom manager and used it to select the zip file from the sd (to flash it) on prompt I checked two boxes one to wipe data and one to wipe the dalvik cache and pressed ok.
The phone rebooted into the recovery wiped the stuff, supposedly flashed the rom and rebooted. However it got stuck on the t-mobile g1 boot screen(it never showed anything else first or anything after) I left it for ages with no joy. I then tried wiping from the recovery and flashing again - same thing so i put cm5 on and tried flashing that. Same problem. Then i realised that it probably would not work because I would need to use DangerSPL as the /system partition is too small on the dream/g1. To be honest at this point I can't be bothered with to do that and this guy will be happy with anything above 1.6 to be honest so I thought I would try and flash CM4 because that's based on Eclair I believe (and so it not require I use DangerSPL or any other method to repartition the NAND). However, I tried it twice and still no luck.
At this point I'm somewhat panicking as I cannot seem to make the phone boot and it isn't even mine! Is anyone able to help?
Anyone? Please?
Look, at this stage I will forget custom roms etc. If anyone can tell me the easiest way to get this phone booting android again i would be very grateful.
Even if you could just tell me exactly how to restore it to stock 1.6 from here?
I have flashed roms on phones before - never had a problem but this is driving me crazy - please help!
wollac11 said:
Hi I said I would flash cyanogenmod on a friends G1 coz he was pissed off with 1.6 but im having trouble and I can hardly hand back an unusable phone so i really need your help.
I rooted the phone using Androot, backed up the apps and settings using titanium backup and then the texts using a text backup app. I then downloaded Rom manager and flashed the latest clockworkmod recovery. Next I downloaded the latest official cyanogenmod rom for the dream/g1 and placed it on the phones SD card using my computer. I then re-opened rom manager and used it to select the zip file from the sd (to flash it) on prompt I checked two boxes one to wipe data and one to wipe the dalvik cache and pressed ok.
The phone rebooted into the recovery wiped the stuff, supposedly flashed the rom and rebooted. However it got stuck on the t-mobile g1 boot screen(it never showed anything else first or anything after) I left it for ages with no joy. I then tried wiping from the recovery and flashing again - same thing so i put cm5 on and tried flashing that. Same problem. Then i realised that it probably would not work coz i would need to use DangerSPL coz the /system partition is too small on the dream/g1. Tbh i'm tired so I cba to do that and this guy is not that technical so he will be happy with anything above 1.6 so I thought I do CM4 coz thats 2.0 or 2.1 i seem to remember (and it not require I use DangerSPL) - tried it twice and still not luck.
HOW THE HELL CAN A GET THIS STUPID THING TO WORK AGAIN!??
MAJOR PANIC AS THIS IS NOT MY PHONE - PLEASE HELP!!!
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Try this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803482. I hope it helps.
It's been way too long since I rooted mine to be of any real help but I shall try nonetheless.
Firstly, there is a guide in the G1 forum to unroot and get back to stock firmware: Here (but note that I've never done this).
I must stress though (admittedly from memory) that if you have flashed an SPL or radio image at all, be VERY careful about the order in which you revert back to stock (or go to get a custom ROM depending on which way you decide to go). The G1 is very picky, and flashing things (mostly SPL and radio IIRC) in the wrong order will brick the device. That said, if you follow the instructions you find to the letter you should be OK. But yeah, read twice, flash once.
There is a lot of information in the stickies in the G1 forum. It could take a while to wade through but it should all be there. Failing that, post in the Q&A or General G1 subforums and I'm sure a current user will help you out.
I apologise if I've just posted a bunch of stuff you already know/have read - like I said, I've not used the phone in a while - just trying to offer what I can.
Thanks
No worries now guys i've done it! It was quite complicated but its all sorted now. If anyone is trying this and has the same (or similar) issue then pm me and I will tell you how I sorted it.
Otherwise thanks guys and you can conciser this thread:
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Yesterday i updated to the at the time latest CM9 nightly, and im not sure if that is the cause but before then my backups were aroud the 1gb mark, then, when i tried to do another backup after updating it kept failing. when i restarted my phone the entire memory was full of the aborted backup.
I deleted stuff until the free space outweighed the used space so i could definitely fit whatever size the backup was and it worked but the result was 6gb!!
Is this a problem anyone else has had with or without cm9? as i said im not 100! sure that was the cause but it does seem likely.
If theres a better place to ask this question please let me know.
... Ive tried re flashing clockwork mod recovery and re installing rom manager. I also flashed the touch version with rom manager. None of that has made any difference so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated as im no expert.
Updating/Installing/Uninstalling ROM manager doesn't affect ClockworkMod recovery at ALL. ROM manager's sole purpose is to install Clockworkmod and help beginners with flashing ROMs. And if you have the money HELP you find ROMs as far as I can see.
As for your problem, it looks very weird, Reflashing a ROM would probably solve it, but you would love to make a backup first.
Try using Titanium backup to backup your apps and some information. Sync your contacts and calendar most importantly and make sure you backup everything. Then try flashing a different ROM. Remember the ROM is nightly for a reason; this could be the reason.
Cheers
well i think i've found what it was... its a known problem with recovery version 5.8.4.5... its backing up everything resulting in huge backups... the weird thing is its the same version ive been using for a few weeks and ive never had that problem before. Now i just have to work out how to replace this version with the older version.
Hello all, first time poster, long time thread stalker. I pray to the Droid gods that you guys can help a poor lowly noob. I recently got a Nexus S which is my first android, woo-hoo! Figured I'd try an oldie but goodie before getting something new. I was running 4.1.2. and I was pretty content but I wanted the freedom to play around a bit. So a few weeks ago I rooted it (using CWM 6.0.4.3) without any problems. Yesterday I decided to be brave and flash a ROM, CM 10.2.1. Before I flashed anything I made a nandroid backup which seemed to go fine. I then decided to make sure the backup worked so I tried to restore it. The restore was unsuccessful, I got some error about not being able to mount /system. Cue panic attack! I tried to boot up the phone which of course didn't work. The Google logo was all like, you shall not pass! More panic! In my head I'm like, way to go you dunderhead, ya broke it! I took a couple hours to woosah and goosfraba in front of the tv and decided to go on with the plan to flash CM since I couldn't boot into my phone anyway. That went fine and I'm running it now. My orange level panic has been downgraded to yellow now that my phone is functional. But I would really like to be able to restore my nandroids at least for the sake of app data. I read something about CWM having problems with 4.2 even though I tried to restore before flashing. Also I've read multiple posts with many contradicting each other all over the interwebs about where nandroids should be, mine are in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup. Does anyone have an ideas what the problem could be?
(Sweet baby jesus please don't make me have to do all those Candy Crush levels over again. I beg of thee! All other games I shall shamelessly cheat back to my last known place.)
Hey!
First of all, this post will be too hard to write because of my English.
I had decided to improve the performance of my Fame a long time ago (I have to clarify that I'm a noob at flashing roms and doing related stuff). So I flashed Galaxy Fame - Stock deodexed and it worked perfect.
After a while my cell phone became slow again so I installed Cyanogenmod 12.1. I didn't like that rom due to the bugs and performance.
So I wiped the data/cache/dalvik and re-flashed the previous deodexed rom again.
What's the problem? It boots and stays in the "s6810L" screen for a few seconds, then reboots and stays in that screen again for a few seconds and THEN it shows the CWM recovery menu.
I haven't tried another rom yet, but I want to know why it didn't work this time... I really like the deodexed rom because it's so smooth and fast.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm sorry for my english again, thanks in advance, and regards!
Edit #1: I'm using this CWM
Hi !
When flashing roms a factory reset is recommended especially when flashing between 2 totally different based roms , cyanogen / stock
My advice is to use odin and revert to stock , don`t flash via recovery
Also , I can move this thread to the designated location if you continue to have problems and the solution I suggested doesn`t work , there may be more users with the same device.
Use the same thread you have linked above to get the firmware
Good luck and let me know !