I've accidentally erased the OS off of my Galaxy S5 while in TWRP, and was wondering how I would be able to install Lollipop back on it.
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oggerz said:
I've accidentally erased the OS off of my Galaxy S5 while in TWRP, and was wondering how I would be able to install Lollipop back on it.
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You could
1) restore a backup if you ever made one:silly:
2) flash stock ROM (this will wipe your data though)
3)or if you're not that picky download a custom Rom(like cyanogen) of android 5 along with gapps and flash them in twrp (this will be choice if hadn't made any backup that I could restore)
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I recently rooted my galaxy tab 2 P3110 with Odin and CWM recovery 6011 and i seemed to have wiped the stock android os as i cannot boot into it anymote - the Tablet automically boots into CWM all the time
Then when i try to install Slimrom or CM installer to flash and install a new OS but i getting an error 7 - unverified file so i cannot put any Os back on the device
Can anyone help?
Sounds like you flashed the wrong recovery, possible that you installed the p3100 recovery.
Try reflashing the recovery.
miksol said:
I recently rooted my galaxy tab 2 P3110 with Odin and CWM recovery 6011 and i seemed to have wiped the stock android os as i cannot boot into it anymote - the Tablet automically boots into CWM all the time
Then when i try to install Slimrom or CM installer to flash and install a new OS but i getting an error 7 - unverified file so i cannot put any Os back on the device
Can anyone help?
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Flashing KK ROMs on outdated recovery will get you a status 7 error. Grab the latest (I'd go with TWRP as CWM support will be ending soon) version from here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548257 update to the latest one you like (CWM is 6.0.5.0) Load up a ROM and give it a go. I put all my ROMs on an external card to be safe. Maybe do that and then just install from such.
p,s. CM installer never works, I dont think our tabs are compatible with it. At least I've never got it to work.But, you dont need it anyways.
Trying to flash 5.0 OTA from 4.4.4 without losing data on Nexus 5.
I don't know how to remove custom recovery so I can sideload the OTA zip in the stock recovery. It keeps loading into TWRP instead.
Can someone explain step by step how I flash the factory recovery.img?
That's not even possible (as far as I know)...
XDA Visitor said:
Trying to flash 5.0 OTA from 4.4.4 without losing data on Nexus 5.
I don't know how to remove custom recovery so I can sideload the OTA zip in the stock recovery. It keeps loading into TWRP instead.
Can someone explain step by step how I flash the factory recovery.img?
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Removing a custom recovery while preserving data is not possible, you should backup all your data, remove the custom recovery, flash 5.0 and then restore your custom recovery.
Are you using the Nexus Root Toolkit? It's incredibly easy and I use it for almost all my flashing, rooting, etc.
You can't apply an OTA on a rooted phone. On Kitkat and before you could end up in a boot loop. After Lollipop the OTA changed to system-level verification, and any change to the ROM stopped the OTA - all you get is a reboot to an unchanged system.
In any case, major ROM jumps usually work best with a total wipe and clean install of the new ROM. somerandomatoms is right - back up and install the new ROM. But why go to 5? You may as well go straight to 6.0.1.
Hi
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy s2 GT-I9100, I have copied over to my phone the nessessary files to flash a custom Kitkat based rom (Rom, Kitkat compatible CWM and Gapps) my question is simple, is it possible to flash the rom etc without wiping the data and factory reset etc?
Cheers
yes, it is
Rom installed but a little niggle exists
Ok
I have used CyanogenMod's brilliant online utility to install the latest KitKat rom 4.4.4, all is fine except that I have some contact details missing. I backed everything up using Kies the night before I installed KitKat, but now Kies doesn't want to connect with my phone even though I have enabled USB Debugging.
Is there any other way I can retrieve the missing contacts?
Cheers
I usually wipe.
derekpayne said:
Hi
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy s2 GT-I9100, I have copied over to my phone the nessessary files to flash a custom Kitkat based rom (Rom, Kitkat compatible CWM and Gapps) my question is simple, is it possible to flash the rom etc without wiping the data and factory reset etc?
Cheers
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I usually wipe before installing any ROM but to be safe just go by the instructions for the ROM.
Please ask in your respective fourm
derekpayne said:
Hi
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy s2 GT-I9100, I have copied over to my phone the nessessary files to flash a custom Kitkat based rom (Rom, Kitkat compatible CWM and Gapps) my question is simple, is it possible to flash the rom etc without wiping the data and factory reset etc?
Cheers
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You should ask here....
Hi Guys,
I had a 6.0.1 MM custom ROM (found here in the ROM section) installed on my Galaxy S7 SM-930F last year. I made a TWRP backup prior to upgrading to Nougat however stupid me I have forgotten a folder to manually back up when I was on MM. I've tried to downgrade and restore using TWRP to no avail.. it would say the restore is complete and stay stuck on the Samsung logo. My nanadroid backup ends with G930FXXU1APGH so I searching the ROM section of XDA forum to see if I can go back to what I installed as it appears I have no record of the ROM I downloaded here so I can restore the backup successfully. The backup I am trying to restore is from TWRP 3.0.0 and I am now using a 3.1.1
My questions are:
1.) Do I need to be on the same exact build number of Marshmallow for the TWRP restore to work? (I've tried older/newer TWRP/different build # for Marshmallow)
2.) Is there a best way to find out which custom rom I installed last year (search function?)? All I know is that my backup ends with G930FXXU1APGH so that build # is the only lead I have to search through the forum
3.) Restoring the backup always leads to a stuck Samsung logo. I've tried different TWRP, rooted and gone to Nougat/MM and restoring from there, cleared data/factory settings/cache etc. Any other suggestions?
Thank you for your help.
My samsung phone shows "samsung galaxy " and then just black screen . I INSTALLED CUSTOM ROOM and gapps using TWRP . When I rebooted this happend.
keni0 said:
My samsung phone shows "samsung galaxy " and then just black screen . I INSTALLED CUSTOM ROOM and gapps using TWRP . When I rebooted this happend.
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Did you create a backup of your stock ROM before you flashed the custom ROM? If not, you should have. A prepared user always makes a backup via TWRP before making any kind of changes to the system and before flashing ROMs, that way they can restore the backup via TWRP if something goes wrong.
Can you boot into TWRP?
Droidriven said:
Did you create a backup of your stock ROM before you flashed the custom ROM? If not, you should have. A prepared user always makes a backup via TWRP before making any kind of changes to the system and before flashing ROMs, that way they can restore the backup via TWRP if something goes wrong.
Can you boot into TWRP?
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I solve it by removing battery and then boot in recovery mode and flashed stock firmware , but I still can not install custom rom
keni0 said:
I solve it by removing battery and then boot in recovery mode and flashed stock firmware , but I still can not install custom rom
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That is because you triggered Knox, you won't be able to flash anything custom now that Knox has been triggered. The firmware that you flashed, was it the same build number as what you had originally or is it a newer, updated firmware? If you flashed a newer firmware that has a bootloader that can't be unlocked, you will not be able to flash TWRP or custom ROMs.
Droidriven said:
That is because you triggered Knox, you won't be able to flash anything custom now that Knox has been triggered. The firmware that you flashed, was it the same build number as what you had originally or is it a newer, updated firmware? If you flashed a newer firmware that has a bootloader that can't be unlocked, you will not be able to flash TWRP or custom ROMs.
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I do not know my old build number