I am on latest official signed cm12 (stock) and on stock recovery(without root). My device started bootlooping. I havent taken backup of my pictures . Is there a way by which I can take the backup before flashing other roms
Make Hard reset.
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wont that delete the pictures on my phone?
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Hi Folks, I hope this is posted in the right forum and sorry if I've missed seeing something similar already here.
I have a rooted Verizon GSIII on which I have been flashing custom ROMs and restoring nandroid backups without any problems for a while now (most recently I've been on Paranoid Android). Today I decided to try out Carbon ROM. I generated a nandroid backup using TWRP, then downloaded the ROM (the most recent nightly) and Gapps zip files using GooManager and flashed these after doing a factory reset. After rebooting the phone it seemed to start up OK... but it got as far as trying to find the network, which it unable to do. After selecting the skip option I then tried to sign in to my WiFi, but the keyboard didn't show up for me to type in the password. So I figured I'd cut my losses and just reboot into recovery and restore my PA backup. I was able to reboot into recovery and restore the backup but the PA backup pretty much did the same thing the carbon ROM did... just looped trying to find the network.
So... I'm not sure what went wrong or what to do next. Any suggestions???
I am able to boot the phone into recovery, but I'm afraid to start messing around too much without help as I'm no expert!
I do have the most recent nandroid backup and several earlier ones that did restore OK on my computer. Is there a way to flash any of these to the phone or to go back to stock?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Wipe catche dalvik factory reset then flash fresh batch of rom and gaaps if that works well getting tru start up then flash ur backup thats what i did.. If that dnt work then u gotta go tru odin back to stock
Way back when, I modified my 4.1.2 tab so I could use the Switchme app. Since it hasn't had a software update since then, I need to unmodify my system, so I did a hard reset but that doesn't seem to unmodify it so I can get it updated. Do I have to flash to a stock ROM, or won't that help either? I've done a hard reset twice now and restoring my Samsung account does seem to work either. Help PLEASE!
Nope it does not.
Stoney60 said:
Way back when, I modified my 4.1.2 tab so I could use the Switchme app. Since it hasn't had a software update since then, I need to unmodify my system, so I did a hard reset but that doesn't seem to unmodify it so I can get it updated. Do I have to flash to a stock ROM, or won't that help either? I've done a hard reset twice now and restoring my Samsung account does seem to work either. Help PLEASE!
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Factory reset only Clears out use added content apps and Personal Settings. To get back to stop you will ..
1 Download the Correct Latest Version Of Android From Sam-mobile or Samsung For your Device.
2. Download odin for your device
3. Make sure you can access your device from windows or os your using.
4. Follow instructions for getting into download mode and flashing the samsung firmware with odin from your computer.
5 . Reboot the device and Leave it be..
Never flash anything on any Device until you know how to get back.
There are many Threads with step by step details on the above. even many youtube videos..
Good Luck
Hey,
I don't think you have to flash back to a stock ROM in order to upgrade to a different ROM. I was able to upgrade my tab with 4.1.2 (I can't remember what ROM it was) right to GNABO then a few hours later to Carbon, and a few hours later to Hyperdive and I'ts running fine with no issues besides the Aroma freezing, but what else is new...
You shouldn't have to flash back to a stock ROM to flash to a modified ROM, reason being is the modified ROM Flashes over the current ROM on the device, so the original ROM will be deleted anyways. The new ROM contains the updates for you, that's the advantage of androids. I recommend trying a few OS's before you pick the one for you stick with it. If you want to go stock there is a thread somewhere in the DEV section with the stock ROM just do some searching.
Make sure when you install a ROM to ;
Backup your device and make sure to keep a copy of the backup to your pc!
Boot into CWM Recovery or TWRP
Wipe data / factory reset
Wipe cache
Wipe dalvik cache
Install ROM from SD
Good Luck
Hi --
Nexus 5 on Sprint.
I'm running into a boot loop issue when trying to restore a Nandroid Backup built on a fresh N5 about an hour after a clean install.
Details are:
I just this week updated from Stock KK (4.4.4 I think) to Stock LP (5.0.1) -- I've been waiting because of needing/wanting XPosed framework....
After unrooting and returning to stock recovery on KK 4.4.4,
I did the LP OTA followed by a Full Erase after the OTA to start fresh. (Note: I have subsequently experienced the same exact problem after installing the LP using the flash-all.bat from the Nexus 5 image extracted to the SDK/platform-tools folder.)
After completing the login and google's restore process perfectly... All things LP appear to be working well and my phone is set up the way I want. So...
I then installed CWM recovery 6.0.4.5 using fastboot.
I then used the CWM recovery to root with SuperSU v2.40
I then used CWM recovery to make a Nandroid backup... (after completing a rooted power up and returning to the recovery)
Long story short (kind of), within the first several hours I messed something up (install of Nine email app AFTER the Nandroid didn't work and was leading to android.process.acore stopping issues. Nine has since told me that the app is not compatible with my company's MDM security solution Maas36). So , I wanted to return to the Nandroid point in time and just put my company exchange email into GMAIL - Acore issues continued after removing Nine.-- but were NOT happening at the time point where I created the backup. So I booted into CWM Recovery and selected to restore and picked the backup I had made of the fresh device.
Restore via CWM recovery proceeds fine and completes. However, it goes into the flying circles boot loop (I tried leaving it go for upwards of 2.5 hours at the longest time
I can easily recover from this with a flash-all.bat in fastboot
I have done this numerous times today and it is completely repeatable. Same thing happens each time.
I have definitely restored from Nandroid previously using this process on KK. But so far no Nandroid restore possible for me on LP. To be clear, the LP install works fine, but just can't be recovered from the Nandroid backup. I guess I'm OK with that, but I'd rather not fly without a backup safety net.
Hopefully that's enough detail for someone to comment. If I've missed any helpful details, let me know.
So, have I done anything wrong? The only thing I can think of at this second is possibly needing to unroot before attempting the restore? Is that it? I don't think I've done that before.
Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide.
greenawayj
One quick addition. I figured someone would suggest using TWRP instead of CWM, so I'm going through that process now. I'll update the post if I find different results. I'm also making my TWRP first backup pre-root just in case that matters...
Let me start out by saying your help is very much appreciated. I was on stock rom 4.4.2 and really never bothered with updating. I'm rooted(w/unlocked bootloader) and have made backups in TWRP and restored them without issue in the past.
I wanted to try installing the Chroma ROM, but I think i made a mistake by ticking off all the boxes and deleting everything first. I have 2 full backups on my USB-OTG drive along with the Chroma ROM. At the moment, I can't flash the ROM and I cant restore the backups I have on my USB-OTG drive. I try to restore them and it just goes back to the TWRP homescreen after one second. There's no OS, but I can boot into TWRP version 2.6.3.4. I suppose I shouldn't have wiped system before flashing the ROM? Did this happen because I tried flashing the ROM from my USB-OTG that it didn't flash? Should I have kept it on the root my SD Card?
What's the easiest way to get my backup up and running? Do I have to get a factory image back on the device? I'm so lost with what to do next.
Thank you all for your assistance.
Just fastboot the android system img of your choice
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Throughout my phone's lifetime, I've made a lot of backups, most of which have ended up saved on my hard drive. I recently wanted to go back to stock from a custom rom, so I copied one of the emui backups over and restored to it. Everything seemed to go smoothly, no error messages, but attempting to boot only got stuck on the blue honor boot animation. Tried several other backups, some rooted and heavily customized, some fresh unmodded installs, but all of them did the same thing. Meanwhile, all my custom rom backups work just fine. What gives?
I tried it too and it doesn't work. I think its because to install a custom ROM we format the data using twrp which also removes the encryption of some sorts, when we restore the backup that encryption is lost so it stays stuck at the blue Honor logo. That's my two sense on this. I don't know the real details.
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I tried it too and it doesn't work. I think its because to install a custom ROM we format the data using twrp which also removes the encryption of some sorts, when we restore the backup that encryption is lost so it stays stuck at the blue Honor logo. That's my two sense on this. I don't know the real details.
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That does make more sense than anything I've thought of so far. So to restore from one of these backups, would I just have to reinstall emui from scratch first to get that encryption back? Is there another way to restore them without first having emui? Or are they just useless now?
Gannondalf said:
That does make more sense than anything I've thought of so far. So to restore from one of these backups, would I just have to reinstall emui from scratch first to get that encryption back? Is there another way to restore them without first having emui? Or are they just useless now?
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I haven't been able to find a solution to this. What I do is use firmware finder to download the firmware+region zip and then install them together in any order via twrp. By this process you lose the data and twrp too as it is replaces by stock recovery. Before booting you must try to get into the stock recover and hit factory reset. You'll get EMUI back but no matter what you do you won't get your data back. Twrp backup is helpless I think because I've tried all sorts of things to get my data back.
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I haven't been able to find a solution to this. What I do is use firmware finder to download the firmware+region zip and then install them together in any order via twrp. By this process you lose the data and twrp too as it is replaces by stock recovery. Before booting you must try to get into the stock recover and hit factory reset. You'll get EMUI back but no matter what you do you won't get your data back. Twrp backup is helpless I think because I've tried all sorts of things to get my data back.
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I've tried flashing emui firmware through twrp before and the region zip always works, but I've never gotten it to load the update.zip (using adb sideload for everything). But I'll try a few different things and see if I can get that to work. Getting back to emui is my primary focus since most of my data is backed up somewhere else, but if I find a way to successfully restore data from backups I'll let you know.
Gannondalf said:
I've tried flashing emui firmware through twrp before and the region zip always works, but I've never gotten it to load the update.zip (using adb sideload for everything). But I'll try a few different things and see if I can get that to work. Getting back to emui is my primary focus since most of my data is backed up somewhere else, but if I find a way to successfully restore data from backups I'll let you know.
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What I'm telling is probably the easiest way let me break it down for you again.
1. Download firmware+region zip file from firmware finder.
2. Go to twrp, clear everything (format data).
3. Install the two downloaded zip I usually flash firmware and then the region zip.
4. After installation is over don't reboot go back to twrp home screen and reboot to recovery, which will be stock.
5. Format data using stock recover and then clear cache.
6. Restart and everything should work.
And if you find a way to get the twrp backups do post here.