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Okay guys,
I know its a pretty noob-question because of multiple reasons, but anyway I need your help:
I rooted my Nexus5 with NRT and I worked without issues. After having it rooted I was playing around alot, overwrting some files (like email.apk). Now I would like to start from scratch. Staying rooted is good, but my question is: Does a "standard-factory" reset which I can select in the settings also roll-back to the original system files (like stock email.apk)?
Loosing my settings isn't a problem, but do I really need to download/flash the hammerhead factory-rom?
Thanks for your support.
quicky
quicky said:
Okay guys,
I know its a pretty noob-question because of multiple reasons, but anyway I need your help:
I rooted my Nexus5 with NRT and I worked without issues. After having it rooted I was playing around alot, overwrting some files (like email.apk). Now I would like to start from scratch. Staying rooted is good, but my question is: Does a "standard-factory" reset which I can select in the settings also roll-back to the original system files (like stock email.apk)?
Loosing my settings isn't a problem, but do I really need to download/flash the hammerhead factory-rom?
Thanks for your support.
quicky
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doing factory reset in the rom only wipes data/settings. it does not restore the factory image.
if you want all your non-modded files gone, the easiest way is to fastboot the factory rom to your phone.
quicky said:
Okay guys,
I know its a pretty noob-question because of multiple reasons, but anyway I need your help:
I rooted my Nexus5 with NRT and I worked without issues. After having it rooted I was playing around alot, overwrting some files (like email.apk). Now I would like to start from scratch. Staying rooted is good, but my question is: Does a "standard-factory" reset which I can select in the settings also roll-back to the original system files (like stock email.apk)?
Loosing my settings isn't a problem, but do I really need to download/flash the hammerhead factory-rom?
Thanks for your support.
quicky
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You dont need to use any type of Rooting program / script to root a nexus phone. Get ADB and Fastboot working. Factory reset your phone from the settings. Download TWRP or CWM recovery and save to the folder you have fastboot / adb in.
1. fastboot flash recovery (name of recovery).img
2. boot in to recovery
3. flash zip from SD-Card (superuser.zip)
4. reboot phone
5. enjoy factory image with root.
I'm running TWRP already and I can boot into recovery. But as I've overwritten the email.apk for example I was wondering if a "original" apk is still accessible from my phone.
dabbill said:
You dont need to use any type of Rooting program / script to root a nexus phone. Get ADB and Fastboot working. Factory reset your phone from the settings. Download TWRP or CWM recovery and save to the folder you have fastboot / adb in.
1. fastboot flash recovery (name of recovery).img
2. boot in to recovery
3. flash zip from SD-Card (superuser.zip)
4. reboot phone
5. enjoy factory image with root.
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quicky said:
I'm running TWRP already and I can boot into recovery. But as I've overwritten the email.apk for example I was wondering if a "original" apk is still accessible from my phone.
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Factory reset might restore the apk. If it does not you can always download the factory image and extract the email.apk from that and push it to your device.
dabbill said:
Factory reset might restore the apk. If it does not you can always download the factory image and extract the email.apk from that and push it to your device.
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I can try (of course) but before doing a "standard" factory reset and reinstall everything to see if it got me the original email.apk back I thought there should be a clear definition about which system-files will be restored and which will be kept.
dabbill said:
Factory reset might restore the apk. If it does not you can always download the factory image and extract the email.apk from that and push it to your device.
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sigh... no it wont.
ALL FACTORY RESET DOES IS WIPE YOUR DATA/SETTINGS NOT MODIFICATIONS YOU MAKE TO THE SYSTEM APPS.
Zepius said:
sigh... no it wont.
ALL FACTORY RESET DOES IS WIPE YOUR DATA/SETTINGS NOT MODIFICATIONS YOU MAKE TO THE SYSTEM APPS.
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Thats what i thought, but was not 100% sure thats why I said it might. Not worth yelling about it. :good:
dabbill said:
Thats what i thought, but was not 100% sure thats why I said it might. Not worth yelling about it. :good:
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In his defense, he already stated *EXACTLY* what a factory reset does....
If you delete anything from a partition that is not normally user accessible without root, it simply does not come back magically with a factory reset. Your device does not have a hidden partition with the original os on it.
Sent from my Nexus 5
Pirateghost said:
In his defense, he already stated *EXACTLY* what a factory reset does....
If you delete anything from a partition that is not normally user accessible without root, it simply does not come back magically with a factory reset. Your device does not have a hidden partition with the original os on it.
Sent from my Nexus 5
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When I first read this thread the #2 post was not listed. I replied to the first post. Then when i came back to the thread i skipped down to my last post and continued reading so I never seen the #2 post on this thread. My apologizes.
I am unrooted and on stock 4.4.
I have tried installing the 4.4.2 OTA 3 times, failing every time on 20-30%.
Then I tried to go to recovery mode and wiping cache partition, and after that I immediately got another OTA 4.4.2, but that also failed.
I have no idea why this is happening, and what my options are.
Do anyone know about this problem, if it is with my phone or a general problem, and how to fix it, or get 4.4.2 some other way.
did you install any mods, kernels, change any files? if so its been documented all over the forums.
No, the only thing I've done that might be causing a problem (I've just now learned), is that I had Google Keep deactivated, which apparently is a no-no since it's a system app.
I've re-activated it now and waiting until I get another OTA, then trying again.
danielvago said:
No, the only thing I've done that might be causing a problem (I've just now learned), is that I had Google Keep deactivated, which apparently is a no-no since it's a system app.
I've re-activated it now and waiting until I get another OTA, then trying again.
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It didn't work. I have no idea what to do, can I sideload the APK?
Something similar happened to me to my wife's Nexus 5. Not even manually down loading the OTA file and flashing it using CWM worked properly (it flashed all right, but the phone became unstable after). So in the end, I downloaded the factory image for 4.4.2 and did a flash-all. Detailed instructions for doing that are available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701. It seems to run fine now. If you would like to preserve your data, unzip all of the factory image file and flash one component at a time, skipping userdata.img (as doing so wipes your data).
danielvago said:
It didn't work. I have no idea what to do, can I sideload the APK?
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I've never had a problem flashing an update because system apps were disabled. Deleted yes, disabled no. If you were at one time rooted and deleted Keep from system/app sideloading it will not install it in the system, it will be installed as a user app. Also, if you put Keep back in system/app it needs to be both the apk and the odex files or it will fail again anyway. If you delete anything from the system you need to save those files somewhere because that will affect being able to do updates. Instead of deleting a file I would just rename it by adding the number 1 at the end of the name (Keep.apk1). At this point you would need to be rooted to replace anything in the system. Or you could use adb to flash the system image. Anyway... all this is conjecture on my part because it's not very clear if you have EVER been rooted or not and what exactly you mean by "deactivated," then asking if sideloading would work. If you "Disabled" Keep you don't need to sideload it because it's still there inside system/app. The update does not care if you have system app updates installed or not as long as the original is in system/app.
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Theory said:
Something similar happened to me to my wife's Nexus 5. Not even manually down loading the OTA file and flashing it using CWM worked properly (it flashed all right, but the phone became unstable after). So in the end, I downloaded the factory image for 4.4.2 and did a flash-all. Detailed instructions for doing that are available here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701. It seems to run fine now. If you would like to preserve your data, unzip all of the factory image file and flash one component at a time, skipping userdata.img (as doing so wipes your data).
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I believe you can open the flash-all script and delete the -w part and it will not flash the userdata image. I have a new original version of the 2012 N7 I'm going to try that with here in a minute to update to 4.4.2 but like you mention doing each image separately works great.
wantabe said:
I've never had a problem flashing an update because system apps were disabled. Deleted yes, disabled no. If you were at one time rooted and deleted Keep from system/app sideloading it will not install it in the system, it will be installed as a user app. Also, if you put Keep back in system/app it needs to be both the apk and the odex files or it will fail again anyway. If you delete anything from the system you need to save those files somewhere because that will affect being able to do updates. Instead of deleting a file I would just rename it by adding the number 1 at the end of the name (Keep.apk1). At this point you would need to be rooted to replace anything in the system. Or you could use adb to flash the system image. Anyway... all this is conjecture on my part because it's not very clear if you have EVER been rooted or not and what exactly you mean by "deactivated," then asking if sideloading would work. If you "Disabled" Keep you don't need to sideload it because it's still there inside system/app. The update does not care if you have system app updates installed or not as long as the original is in system/app.
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I believe you can open the flash-all script and delete the -w part and it will not flash the userdata image. I have a new original version of the 2012 N7 I'm going to try that with here in a minute to update to 4.4.2 but like you mention doing each image separately works great.
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Sorry for not being clear, I have never rooted, un-locked, flashed anything, etc. I am using the phone very stock-y, not messing with anything.
It boggles me, that I can have such a problem, when I am going completely stock.
The most "extreme" things I've done is install an adblock apk and flashplayer 11.1 apk, that Dolphin browser suggested.
I don't know if the only solution is to do a factory reset, which I hate doing, since it took so very long to set everything up the way I wanted it.
I've read of other people having this problem, and no solution, and some have tried a factory reset but that didn't fix it.
danielvago said:
Sorry for not being clear, I have never rooted, un-locked, flashed anything, etc. I am using the phone very stock-y, not messing with anything.
It boggles me, that I can have such a problem, when I am going completely stock.
The most "extreme" things I've done is install an adblock apk and flashplayer 11.1 apk, that Dolphin browser suggested.
I don't know if the only solution is to do a factory reset, which I hate doing, since it took so very long to set everything up the way I wanted it.
I've read of other people having this problem, and no solution, and some have tried a factory reset but that didn't fix it.
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What is the error when the OTA fails?
Adblockers usually require root, which in turn edits the hosts file, so that could be the culprit. I'd go the factory image way and edit the flash-all.bat using Notepad++ before running it to remove the -w flag so you don't lose your data
try incremental install
danielvago said:
I am unrooted and on stock 4.4.
I have tried installing the 4.4.2 OTA 3 times, failing every time on 20-30%.
Then I tried to go to recovery mode and wiping cache partition, and after that I immediately got another OTA 4.4.2, but that also failed.
I have no idea why this is happening, and what my options are.
Do anyone know about this problem, if it is with my phone or a general problem, and how to fix it, or get 4.4.2 some other way.
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try sideloading 4.4.1 first. .and then sideload 4.4.2 after that. see if that works.
EddyOS said:
Adblockers usually require root, which in turn edits the hosts file, so that could be the culprit. I'd go the factory image way and edit the flash-all.bat using Notepad++ before running it to remove the -w flag so you don't lose your data
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I just updated a new 2012 N7 from 4.1 to 4.4.2 and I couldn't get removing the -w flag to work. I think the script needs more editing than just removing the -w part. Something new I had never tried before which I actually don't personally have much use for because it still flashes the stock recovery over a custom recovery if you are using one. Anyway.. flashing the bootloader and radio separately and then flashing the update zip with "fastboot update image-hammerhead-kot49h.zip" would be a little bit of a shortcut versus flashing ALL of the images and you don't lose data.
Never had an issue myself, but I always prefer to flash each image manually one at a time
EddyOS said:
Never had an issue myself, but I always prefer to flash each image manually one at a time
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I've always flashed each image separately also, I was just being lazy and experimenting. Removing the -w from the .bat and/or the .sh wouldn't work for me.
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danielvago said:
Sorry for not being clear, I have never rooted, un-locked, flashed anything, etc. I am using the phone very stock-y, not messing with anything.
It boggles me, that I can have such a problem, when I am going completely stock.
The most "extreme" things I've done is install an adblock apk and flashplayer 11.1 apk, that Dolphin browser suggested.
I don't know if the only solution is to do a factory reset, which I hate doing, since it took so very long to set everything up the way I wanted it.
I've read of other people having this problem, and no solution, and some have tried a factory reset but that didn't fix it.
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If you don't want to try a factory reset (can't blame you) you're probably going to need to use adb. If you don't have it setup this is a good video showing how to setup adb.
wantabe said:
If you don't want to try a factory reset (can't blame you) you're probably going to need to use adb. If you don't have it setup this is a good video showing how to setup adb.
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Thanks a lot.
I followed his steps and got it to show me the phones serial number when I wrote "adb devices" in cmd, in SDK -> platform-tools but... now what?
The guide just stops, and I don't know what to do.
I've done everything in this other guide ( http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/12/...-4-4-2-kitkat-update-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7/ ), but when I get to "adb sideload kk.zip" it just says "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable command or batch file" and I'm stuck again.
What to do?
danielvago said:
Thanks a lot.
I followed his steps and got it to show me the phones serial number when I wrote "adb devices" in cmd, in SDK -> platform-tools but... now what?
The guide just stops, and I don't know what to do.
I've done everything in this other guide ( http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/12/...-4-4-2-kitkat-update-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7/ ), but when I get to "adb sideload kk.zip" it just says "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable command or batch file" and I'm stuck again.
What to do?
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Your path to adb isn't correct. Put the zip file in the same folder as adb
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Your path to adb isn't correct. Put the zip file in the same folder as adb
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Thanks, that was it, got it to begin.
Unfortunately it didn't work, it gave me an error about 30-35% through (like the normal OTA).
It says:
"/system/framework/framework-res.apk" has unexpected contents.
E:Error in /tmp/update.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
From this link ( http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/12/...-4-4-2-kitkat-update-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7/ ) I chose:
"Nexus 5
Android 4.4 to 4.4.2 OTA update"
as I am on 4.4.
danielvago said:
Thanks, that was it, got it to begin.
Unfortunately it didn't work, it gave me an error about 30-35% through (like the normal OTA).
It says:
"/system/framework/framework-res.apk" has unexpected contents.
E:Error in /tmp/update.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
From this link ( http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/12/...-4-4-2-kitkat-update-nexus-4-nexus-5-nexus-7/ ) I chose:
"Nexus 5
Android 4.4 to 4.4.2 OTA update"
as I am on 4.4.
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You're going to have to flash the system and boot image in fastboot in order for the update to work. You modified something
jd1639 said:
You're going to have to flash the system and boot image in fastboot in order for the update to work. You modified something
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I am unrooted and locked, I have no idea how I modified something, or what, or how, I have kept it really stock.
What does it mean to flash the system and boot image? Can I do it without rooting, unlocking and/or factory resetting?
danielvago said:
I am unrooted and locked, I have no idea how I modified something, or what, or how, I have kept it really stock.
What does it mean to flash the system and boot image? Can I do it without rooting, unlocking and/or factory resetting?
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Ok, so you're doing an adb sideload while in recovery?
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Ok, so you're doing an adb sideload while in recovery?
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Yes.
Hi
Earlier I installed TWRP via Philz and that worked fine.
I then reset my phone and flashed Bigxie's Android L, again this worked fine.
I flashed the new radio for the same thread and that worked fine.
I then downloaded CF-Root from here:
http://download.chainfire.eu/363/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5.zip
Ran the Windows Batch file all seemed to go well. Bootloader was unlocked and the big red android appears on screen.
Phone booted back to TWRP, a script ran and then my phone started constantly booting the the TWRP screen.
All I'm getting is teamwin flashing up.
If I power off it goes back to this loop.
Any way I can get this working again ?
Not worried about any data.. I've got all I need backed up.
Thanks
albert_htc said:
Hi
Earlier I installed TWRP via Philz and that worked fine.
I then reset my phone and flashed Bigxie's Android L, again this worked fine.
I flashed the new radio for the same thread and that worked fine.
I then downloaded CF-Root from here:
http://download.chainfire.eu/363/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5.zip
Ran the Windows Batch file all seemed to go well. Bootloader was unlocked and the big red android appears on screen.
Phone booted back to TWRP, a script ran and then my phone started constantly booting the the TWRP screen.
All I'm getting is teamwin flashing up.
If I power off it goes back to this loop.
Any way I can get this working again ?
Not worried about any data.. I've got all I need backed up.
Thanks
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dont use root toolkits.
flash the factory img via fastboot. then flash twrp again, flash a kernel that allows root, then flash the latest supersu.
Thanks for the reply.
Just want to claify to make sure I don't make it worse..
I've got the L image from Googles site, do I extract the factory.img from that ?
Then flash it using :
fastboot flash factory factory.img
Thanks
Think I may have made things worse..
I extracted the tgz file and while browsing double clicked the flash all batch file.
:silly: Not sure how the hell I clicked it twice.. but it's doing something.. .hopefully not killing my phone.
Any suggestions how I did myself out of this hole..
albert_htc said:
Think I may have made things worse..
I extracted the tgz file and while browsing double clicked the flash all batch file.
:silly: Not sure how the hell I clicked it twice.. but it's doing something.. .hopefully not killing my phone.
Any suggestions how I did myself out of this hole..
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i dont think hitting it twice will do anything. but you might have to flash the img files separate, as in the flash-all is giving some ppl issues.
simms22 said:
i dont think hitting it twice will do anything. but you might have to flash the img files separate, as in the flash-all is giving some ppl issues.
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Found out how I've managed to double click.. The trackpad on my laptop is playing up.
I'll have to remember to use a USB mouse with it.
The phone has just rebooted and is coming back up.
Thanks for the advise.. looks like it's working.
I'll start a new thread with a couple of follow up questions.
Thanks
simms22 said:
i dont think hitting it twice will do anything. but you might have to flash the img files separate, as in the flash-all is giving some ppl issues.
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When doing this, is there any specific order to follow when flashing all the .img files separately? I am also getting errors stating recovery.sig and boot.sig are missing. Does installing separate also take care of this?
Jmurf said:
When doing this, is there any specific order to follow when flashing all the .img files separately? I am also getting errors stating recovery.sig and boot.sig are missing. Does installing separate also take care of this?
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it appears that the flash-all is having issues and skipping. so by flashing them all individually, you will make sure to flash them all.
it's a pretty long story but currently my system partition is wiped after it soft bricked, i also couldn't reflash stock roms with twrp so i tried to extract the recovery.img from the stock rom and flashing it over twrp to get the original recovery mode back to flash the update but for some reason it didn't work.
so now i can only boot into EMUI which keeps telling 'getting package info failed' meaning i can't update through it. i'm also able to reach the 'fastboot&rescue mode' screen but i know nothing about adb and even tho i watched 2-3 tutorial videos i couldn't really get it to work. all videos wanted me to boot up the phone and enable usb debugging which i can't. my phone was rooted before and i'm positive i've enabled it in the past but i'm not sure if it's still enabled or not, either way i'm not able to get it working.
is this salvageable?
i'd really appreciate some help if possible, thnx
nope. but even when i had twrp it wouldnt let me flash update.zip's
i still have fastboot screen so my guess is that i have to run it through adb, which i don't know how to do
Rommco05 said:
Hm, and which is your model and last function system?
edit: u can boot to system? If good understand u can
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last update i had working was frd-l09c432b120
can't boot system
can't boot recovery mode (twrp)
i CAN boot to 'fastboot&recovery mode'
i CAN boot to EMUI (but EMUI keeps telling me 'Getting package info failed', it tries to connect and download but from what i can tell on the screen the download never starts)
Ok. Ive tried running 'adb devices' but i cant see my device, if i type 'fastboot devices' i find one device.
Dont know if im missing something or if this even matters.
But i'll try flashing twrp with fastboot
Rommco05 said:
This is right way
edit: frp is unlocked?
edit1: you need to flash old twrp 3.0.2.0 I think is right (if was your last firmware Marshmallow
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TWRP is back!!
but how do i flash marshmallow with twrp? and what marshmallow file are you talking about, the one i mentioned above?
because i tried flashing these update.zip's with twrp before but it wouldn't let me.
i'm currently packaging the update.app files into a zip and moving it to the sdcard, that's the only way i can think of to flash these update files with twrp.
since it didn't work last time, i have my doubts but i'll give it a try
Rommco05 said:
Ok, just for clarification, your model is frd-l09c432, right?
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yes. can't remember how to double check but way back when i downloaded these update files i was extremely careful to download the correct files.
and they worked and been working since they were the newest version, so i guess that has to be my model.
EDIT: and it's twrp-3.1.1-0
yea now it told me corrupt zip, last time i tried i got some other error, think it was some error about writing to system partition.
U can also flash this https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwXB-CJiljwpS1o4UXo5b1JlRjQ/view and after
Dload this link once http://www.hihonor.com/uk/support/details/index.html?DOC_ID=92101
Rommco05 said:
Ok download this firmware B120 and flash via twrp https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=129477 after this go to reboot and tap reboot recovery. Now you should be in stock recovery and tap factory reset and after reboot. Now you hopefully will be able boot to ROM. (If u got some errors in twrp, don't care, installation must take about with minutes)
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there's no B120 on that site, only B101 and B131. should i take B131 instead?
Any updates for your issue OP?
Sent from my Honor 8 using XDA Labs
Rommco05 said:
Sorry so flash B131 is better then B120
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it's up and running again thank you so much, you're a life saver. i'd actually kiss you if you were here lol
i spent a few hours yesterday trying to find zipped update files ready for flashing in twrp, like the ones you linked.
do i have to do a factory reset after that? i haven't tried everything yet but my phone looks and works as if it never even stopped working in the first place.
i'm just happy i got all my files, numbers, photos etc back...
thank you so much once again
EDIT: yea sorry for the delayed response, i had to run an errand
Wow another one rommoco05 :highfive:
Add the fixed tag to the thread OP. Enjoy the device
You both are awesome ???
Rommco05 said:
lol. No u don't need to make factory reset, phone start from like factory reset. Upgrade to Nougat . If u want kiss me, kiss thanks button you're welcome
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i'm trying to backup everything i need before doing a factory reset and i have a problem.
first time booting up i get the contact names on call logs for a few seconds and then they disappear because the contacts are gone. if i restore my data partition in twrp and boot up the system again i get the exact same thing. i'm guessing the contacts are saved at least temporarily somewhere on the data partition, is it possible to extract them somehow? i don't care if i have to write them down one by one from a .log, i got some important numbers that are worth the hassle for me
JimZiii said:
i'm trying to backup everything i need before doing a factory reset and i have a problem.
first time booting up i get the contact names on call logs for a few seconds and then they disappear because the contacts are gone. if i restore my data partition in twrp and boot up the system again i get the exact same thing. i'm guessing the contacts are saved at least temporarily somewhere on the data partition, is it possible to extract them somehow? i don't care if i have to write them down one by one from a .log, i got some important numbers that are worth the hassle for me
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If you synced the contacts already then you can from google contacts.
I know this is completely backwards, but i found a twrp backup i did on my broken systems partition before i tried anything else. Maybe if i can undo what soft-bricked my phone i can get them back.
I installed/flashed a magisk module for xposed and after that i wasnt able to boot the system any longer. Is it possible to somehow uninstall this module and get the phone to boot again? Or is the only solution to flash a new stock rom?
Edit: havent synced with google in a while
JimZiii said:
I know this is completely backwards, but i found a twrp backup i did on my broken systems partition before i tried anything else. Maybe if i can undo what soft-bricked my phone i can get them back.
I installed/flashed a magisk module for xposed and after that i wasnt able to boot the system any longer. Is it possible to somehow uninstall this module and get the phone to boot again? Or is the only solution to flash a new stock rom?
Edit: havent synced with google in a while
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Flash the backup of boot files
venugopalu007 said:
Flash the backup of boot files
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the backup of the boot partition made no difference. even after flashing the new rom and the boot after nothing changed.
but i just solved it, i found a magisk uninstaller and after flashing that the phone booted up with all contacts, photos, apps+data intact.
when i first posted here i had wiped the systems partition and didn't know i still had a backup hidden away in a folder, so i'm extremely grateful for all your help and patience.
i still think i'm gonna update to nougat and i'm using hisuite that came with the phone, do you recommend any other backup application? do you know if app backups work if i update to nougat from marshmallow?
JimZiii said:
the backup of the boot partition made no difference. even after flashing the new rom and the boot after nothing changed.
but i just solved it, i found a magisk uninstaller and after flashing that the phone booted up with all contacts, photos, apps+data intact.
when i first posted here i had wiped the systems partition and didn't know i still had a backup hidden away in a folder, so i'm extremely grateful for all your help and patience.
i still think i'm gonna update to nougat and i'm using hisuite that came with the phone, do you recommend any other backup application? do you know if app backups work if i update to nougat from marshmallow?
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For apps backup just download from playstore , because some apps are compitable with mm and some are nougat .so better to download again from playstore after updating to nougat.
Rommco05 said:
Huawei backup is pretty good I start saving my SMS on P8lite and now I have +15000 SMS saved and 2 years old calls logs
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That was huge bro
Rommco05 said:
Yes, resume SMS take about 15 minutes
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Bro can you make a guide how to backup and restore in Huawei.
Im not sure at all what happened here?
I got in a boot loop after trying to run fornight (replaced build prop then restarted)
No problems ive got a back up, so i choose my fresh back up of 5.1.9, it restores and then goes to reboot another bootloop, so i head back into TWRP, check file manager, its deleted ALL my data and i dont have a backup to restore at all!
Any ideas how to proceed, i only have the version of TWRP (3.2.2.0) that doesnt let me ADB sideload and i dont have magisk on the SD or absolutely anything!
Vivasanti said:
Im not sure at all what happened here?
I got in a boot loop after trying to run fornight (replaced build prop then restarted)
No problems ive got a back up, so i choose my fresh back up of 5.1.9, it restores and then goes to reboot another bootloop, so i head back into TWRP, check file manager, its deleted ALL my data and i dont have a backup to restore at all!
Any ideas how to proceed, i only have the version of TWRP (3.2.2.0) that doesnt let me ADB sideload and i dont have magisk on the SD or absolutely anything!
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same happens to me, either flash stock 5.1.9 from fastboot https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/rom-stock-fastboot-roms-oneplus-6-t3796665 or restore to 5.1.5 https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3796051 then upgrade to 5.1.9. When restoring better copy to your computer first in case this happens.
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same happens to me, either flash stock 5.1.9 from fastboot https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/rom-stock-fastboot-roms-oneplus-6-t3796665 or restore to 5.1.5 https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3796051 then upgrade to 5.1.9. When restoring better copy to your computer first in case this happens.
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Thanks for your reply mate, so i just grab the files and run a BAT file?
Which one is 5.1.9?
I cant copy anything to my computer cause theres nothing on the device!
Vivasanti said:
Thanks for your reply mate, so i just grab the files and run a BAT file?
Which one is 5.1.9?
I cant copy anything to my computer cause theres nothing on the device!
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Yes ofc coz it already gone... but for the next restore, just backup the data portion and restore the data (this is what im doing nowadays.)
For the restore, for me personally, i'm using the mega unbrick https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3796051 then proceed to update to 5.1.9 using OTA. Then after that you can unlock and do your stuff again.
For the bat, you probably good with running the flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat. See the instruction in the thread though.
darknessdsc said:
Yes ofc coz it already gone... but for the next restore, just backup the data portion and restore the data (this is what im doing nowadays.)
For the restore, for me personally, i'm using the mega unbrick https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-mega-unbrick-guide-hard-bricked-t3796051 then proceed to update to 5.1.9 using OTA. Then after that you can unlock and do your stuff again.
For the bat, you probably good with running the flash-all-partitions-fastboot.bat. See the instruction in the thread though.
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Thanks ill try and proceed now, and that was my next question, how the heck to i even make a working back up!
I used to be so confident with flashing but this thing is a PITA, so i just need to tick Data?
Cheers for your help!
Didnt work, i ran the .bat file in fastboot mode, i got alot of errors, it went through a, then b, then got to the end, hit key to continue and im still in fastboot mode
/EDIT - worked, just had to reboot.
Vivasanti said:
Thanks ill try and proceed now, and that was my next question, how the heck to i even make a working back up!
I used to be so confident with flashing but this thing is a PITA, so i just need to tick Data?
Cheers for your help!
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Yep.. PITA for this devices because of this A/B Partition. Anyway, for creating the backup for me the steps are:
- Remove Security Lock (In case you forgot this you need to delete some files for restore later)
- Backup in TWRP (Tick Data Only)
Restoring just flash new OOS then after you got in (setting up the devices), then go restore your backup (Data).
For these A/B partition things you better read this thread
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/how-to/guide-noobs-guide-to-b-partitions-op6-t3816123
Cheers.