Hello there
I have about 25 google nexus 5 phones to be distributed to some people. I installed all the necessary apps and removed some system apps from one of the phones. Now i want the rest 24 phones to have the same composition as the first one. I tried creating a cyanogenmod backup coping it to the other phone and restoring it - then the phone keeps on showing the loading screen for long time so i got back to recovery mode and made a factory reset and tried to start the phone. unfortunately it is not opening - just shows the loading screen. it has been more than 15 minutes now.
Please help me on how i could get access to the phone and how I can clone my "customized phone" to all the others.
Any help and suggestion is welcome. Thank you
Cyanogenmod backup? So you are rooted, yes?
Install TWPR Recovery on the first phone, and use that to make a backup.
Then install TWRP on your other phones, and make a backup on them to create a backup folder. You'll need to unlock the bootloaders on all of them first.
Transfer the backup from the first phone into the backup folders on the others, and restore the backup in recovery (TRWP).
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Uhhhmmmm Hello,
I got a Huawei Ascend Y210D Cellphone, and i got it rooted, and i deleted some files, now it wont open, when i open it, it shows the logo and its animation only, it keeps on repeating, until i tried to factory resset , now i could open it , but when i press something like the manage apllications, it says com.process.manage applications has stopped something like that, but when i tried like the sound or display in settings , i could access it, i downloaded an app, now i have clicked the shutdown button , it will display the logo with its animation again, repeating, now i removed the battery, and open it again, it shows the logo with animation again,
Is there a way to fix this??? i cant seem to find a custom rom for this device, do i still need to download a rom or just use some tools to recover the files? i think i havent unlock the bootloader.
really thank you in advance, any answers will be appriciated by me , im sorry if i made a mistake
Have you made a nandroid backup prior to deleting files? If you have, restoring this nandroid backup should fix these problems. You will lose app-data that has been changed after you created the nandroid backup when restoring.
If you have not created a nandroid backup you should try to flash the stock rom as can be found here; huaweiy210d.blogspot.in/2013/04/stock-rom-for-huawei-y210d.html. Note that I do not own this device and have not tested this rom!
Thread closed as per Op's request.
Somehow my phone is bricked, although I still am not sure if it's because I actually did something wrong or it just decided to brick itself out of spite. Here's the rundown of events:
This past August I rooted my phone and installed cm-10.2. I made a backup of the stock rom beforehand (which for some reason is dated from 1970). Since then there have been a bunch of bugs, but nothing super major.
Today I decided to upgrade to cm-11, so I backed up everything important to my PC and used the auto-updater. I got a Status 7 error and the installation didn't complete, and I got stuck in a reboot loop that kept returning me only to the bootloader. I read on another forum that the problem was probably my CWM version (6.0.1.2 instead of 6.0.1.3). Anyway, I tried restoring one of my backups, but the bootloader said the folder was empty and no backups were found. I ended up reinstalling cm-10.2 and gapps from the same zip files I used months ago. This let me properly boot up my phone, but for some reason the google play store still wasn't working. I did a simple reboot and it started working again, so I downloaded rom manager and updated cwm. Rebooted into bootloader, made another rom backup, and tried again to install cm-11. Same error, install aborted. This time, however, my backups magically reappeared (along with an extra mystery backup that had today's timestamp but was ~10 hours in the future), so I restored the original (1970, stock rom). Things boot up fine.
I decide to try installing cm-11 one more time because at this point I assume that if it fails again I can safely restore a backup or at the very least reinstall cm-10.2. It fails again, but this time, when I try restoring any of my cm-10.2 backups I get a DM5 mismatch error and it immediately stops. Restoring 1970 is different, it starts recovering but then halfway through says "error restoring /system" or something like that. So now I'm left with no choice but to reinstall cm-10.2 from the same zip file again. Only this time, booting up only shows the cyanogenmod logo forever. I go back into bootloader and my backups are once again suddenly not recognized. I make a new backup of my broken phone to see if it will make the folder show up. I reboot, and now that new backup is the only one that does show up. Trying to restore gives me a DM5 error. I've now tried reinstalling cm-10.2 several times, but my phone will never get past the cyanogenmod logo. I'm out of ideas for how to get my phone to work.
My questions:
1. Any idea how to unbrick my phone? I have not done any factory resetting because I was worried it would erase my backups and also I don't really see how it would help.
2. Does anyone have a backup image I could use? I don't have mine stored anywhere but on my phone's internal SD, but I could maybe try loading one from my external SD if I had one.
3. What did I do wrong here? From my viewpoint it seems I basically tried the same thing twice and got different results. Is there something I'm missing?
4. If I get a new photon q, how the hell should I go about installing cm-11? I know people have gotten it to work before. Which version are you using?
Thanks for any and all help
I'm guessing you don't have a backup of stock?
Have you tried restoring stock everything using RSD Lite?
Also, how long have you let the phone sit? If the phone requires a 'fsck' (file system check) on you /data partition, you could be waiting for an hour or more at the boot animation.
I do not have any backups stored externally. I'm not familiar with RSD lite, could you explain and/or link? I have only left my phone for about half an hour at the most before hard rebooting it. I'll let it sit for a couple hours and see if it does anything different.
DRH48 said:
I do not have any backups stored externally. I'm not familiar with RSD lite, could you explain and/or link? I have only left my phone for about half an hour at the most before hard rebooting it. I'll let it sit for a couple hours and see if it does anything different.
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See this thread for information on how to restore stock... always a good idea to know how to reset the phone back to a complete stock configuration
Earlier today, I got an error upon starting up my Samsung Galaxy S5 (T-Mobile) that says "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped." My background has been turned to black and none of the buttons work properly. The phone IS rooted (and has been for about a week), but runs on stock OS (5.0 Lollipop) and stock recovery. I have never flashed a rom on this phone. I already tried restoring from a Titanium Backup I made yesterday before this error ever showed up, but it did nothing. Perhaps it's relevant that this error first happened after I booted the phone in recovery mode (to see what stock recovery looked like), then selected "reboot phone." I also already tried wiping the cache partition, wiping the System UI cache, and rebooting is Safe Mode. None of these worked. I thought unrooting the phone might help, but I accidentally uninstalled SuperSU without removing the root. With the System UI down, I can't install any apps at all, such as SuperSU again or a file explorer that would allow me to remove the "su" folder in /system/bin/. Now I have no way of unrooting, short of wiping the phone. I DO NOT want to do that. How do I get my phone back to normal?
--EDIT-- I finally gave in and did the factory reset. I rooted it again using the same method as before (in order to use Titanium Backup), and just to see what would happen I went to recovery mode. Sure enough, I was greeted with the same error as before. I had already rebooted the phone normally multiple times before trying to use recovery mode, so I have no doubt that the stock recovery mode is the cause of these issues.
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Personally, I don't like Titanium Backup. I seem to be in the minority with that opinion, but it's given me issues in the past. Try flashing a non-stock recovery like TWRP for your S5 and either wiping your phone or wiping and flashing another ROM.
Samsung phones seem to dislike rooted users for some reason
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Too late, I already wiped the phone. I re-rooted using Chainfire's auto-root, then flashed CWM so that stock recovery doesn't screw me over again. Before restoring from the backup, I booted into CWM recovery and restarted the phone. No error. I hope it stays that way, this whole thing is a huge hassle. There really needs to be a disclaimer with Chainfire's auto-root telling people to get rid of stock recovery!
Hi there
You'd be best served asking for help from the experts who own your device, here:
T-Mobile Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck
(with stock android backup, i mean the default andorid recovery tool, which is preinstalled)
Hey there.
Im totally lost on this one... and also not so skilled with Android....
The Device is a ASUS Zenfone MAX 3 - X008 (ZC520TL) with the latest Official Firmware.
No mods, no nothing.
So my bottom microphone broke a few days ago and ASUS Support told me to try a Factory Reset.
But since i dont wanna brick my Phone or loose my Guarantee (because the Microphone is broken),
i was very limited with the Backup method. So i backed up all my User Data with Android Stock Recovery.
This created "UserData_w454387564835693.backup" Files without a Problem.
Then i did the Factory Reset and tried what ASUS suggested me.
But it didnt work and so i wanted to recover my just backed up files.
Booted to Recovery and recovered the Files without Problem.
Then started the Phone and after the BootLogo and a little time it displays me an error:
"Decryption unsuccesfull! Yout Password is correct, but your Data is corrupted, please Reset your Phone"
..... and now i dont know what to do.... but my userdata backup is very important.
i dont even know what format it is with ending at *.backup....
PLEASE HELP!
*edit*
i did the recovery via my sd card and when i reset the phone again it works (with factory reseted stock firmware)
but as soon as i succesfully recover my backup files, it gives me that error...
Ok, so ASUS Support just replied me that they do not support Backup and Recovery via the Stock Android Recovery. Its just for resetting the Phone.
And the Reason why its not supported is that Android Auto-Activates the Encryption which breaks the Backup, they saied.
Well ok... Luckily i did backup the most important Data via Google Sync,
but many things like my Photos are only in this Backup File.
Is there any way i can access this *.backup Files and extract Data to my PC?
Please help!
I made a Backup in my old rom (miui 12.5) with the idea of restoring ONLY application data in the rom that I would install later (Pixel Experience A13). When I installed the rom I started it normally, went into recovery mode to restore the backup, and I didn't know which partitions to select. I selected Data(exclude...whatever) and boot once it was done I just rebooted to the system and it stayed at the google logo. Flash a zip (I don't know what it's for, I just know it's necessary to use the rom in the first place) and reboot the system again and this time it started fine....I found the miui launcher and more applications they were installed (logically if the back up was from miui I was going to find that) so I decided to delete them, but when I connect to the internet something very curious happens, the phone after 10-20 seconds turns completely black. I restart it and nothing, absolutely nothing, loads the google logo and launches me into what I think is the system, but with a completely black screen. Help please, I can use the rom normally but I really need that app data
Draskyl said:
I made a Backup in my old rom (miui 12.5) with the idea of restoring ONLY application data in the rom that I would install later (Pixel Experience A13). When I installed the rom I started it normally, went into recovery mode to restore the backup, and I didn't know which partitions to select. I selected Data(exclude...whatever) and boot once it was done I just rebooted to the system and it stayed at the google logo. Flash a zip (I don't know what it's for, I just know it's necessary to use the rom in the first place) and reboot the system again and this time it started fine....I found the miui launcher and more applications they were installed (logically if the back up was from miui I was going to find that) so I decided to delete them, but when I connect to the internet something very curious happens, the phone after 10-20 seconds turns completely black. I restart it and nothing, absolutely nothing, loads the google logo and launches me into what I think is the system, but with a completely black screen. Help please, I can use the rom normally but I really need that app data
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Extract the app data from the backup then physically move the app data to your Android folder using a PC.