So, i have root for about 2 months. Everything went fine until i got a notification that the Su binary had to be updated. So i pressed the button ton update it the normal way. After that my phone went into a boot loop. I searched up hundreds of post to see how to get out of a boot loop. But nothing worked. But when i was in the boot loop i connected my phone to my PC and copied everything to it. Then i got some hope. After my phone started with the official firmware, my phone downloaded all the apps by itself. But it didn't put my contacts back. So after that i realized that i had a NANdroid back-up. I was happy again. But unfortunately after i restored it, my pone went back in a boot loop and got stuck.:crying:. After i installed the firmware AGAIN all my apps and basically how it was before everything changed, came back. I was happier than ever before. I went to bed with a nice feeling. Than i woke up and got the message again about updating the Su binary. So now i thought nothing would happen. And this time i updated it with TWRP. But again i failed and got stuck again. I installed the firmware again for the 3rd time. After it started, i looked if i still had a NANdroid backup. And i actually had. So i restored and my phone got stuck again. So i installed the firmware again, hoping it would put everything back like the previous time. But it didn't. I searched up how to get your contacts back. My contacts weren't in my Gmail account. The Android Data Recovery program did nothing but ****. I couldn't import my contacts. Because somehow there weren't any. My last hope was my whole back-up of my phone. It took approximately 5 hours to restore. But even that didn't put my contacts back. I lost my hope. But then i saw that i had backed up my contacts with Titanium Backup. And i restored them and restarted my phone. It only restored some contacts and Skype names i didn't care about. Then my hope was officially lost. I didn't know what to do. I rooted my phone for only one reason and that was to get IOS emojis. And i even got them. I never knew that this Su binary update would totally F*UCK up my phone. Well thanks for that. And if somebody still has a clue, let me know. Because my contacts were me number 1 priority.
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I'va had CM7 a10 flashed on my Sensation for a few days. A couple of days ago I've decided to get back to Stock ROM, and then the problems started. Before installing CM7 everything was fine. After restoring my backup from before flashing CM7 weird things started to happen (apps dissapearing, settings changing on their own, hangs, and other stuff). So I've done a SuperWipe a few times, and flashed a completely new Stock ROM via USB using: RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.50.401.1_Radio_10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01_M_release_223042_signed file. Then I've done a few factory resets, just in case. But still weird things are happening (eg. now I have a clean phone - once again - and trying to setup the sync options and the options app hangs everytime. and installing something from market is like praying for a miracle). I've tried doing factory reset, clear cache/dalvik (but with dalvik CWM recovery says that the partition or files wasn't found). Don't know what to do. Does anyone have any ideas ?? Please help. Phone worked fine before, and after CM7 everything is f*cked up
Wierd, looks like you've tried everything I could think of while reading the post.
Do you still have a nandroid backup of CM7, if so does that work if you restore ?
Can you use ADB to get to the phone ? If so you could check some things from there.
When you installed the RUU from the PC, did it install without errors ? Presumably you had to re-install CWM after that.
CM7 nand backup works fine after restore.
I can use ADB to comunicate with the phone.
No errors while updating RUU.exe / CWM recovery flashed without problems also after that.
I think that there's something screwed up with the file permissions.
I've downloaded and installed about 20 apps since the last HR, and now I have about 40 apps more queued in Market, and as before the downloads are stuck every 1-2 apps. Then I have to restart to CWM recovery and run fix permissions. After that another 1-2 apps will download and get stuck again, and so on...
Anyone has any ideas what the hell is going on ? Because my I'm getting more then irritated by this, and beggining to think that the best solution will be to send my phone flying through the window.
A few questions first.
What country are you in?
Who is your carrier?
What version did your phone originally come with? I believe 1.5xxxxx RUU was released recently, but I could be wrong.
Did you ever change your CID?
Have you ever flashed a new radio and RIL?
Did you copy all of the data from your SD card to your computer, then format your SD card using the phone?
Answer these questions and try the SD card thing, then report back. I may be able to help.
Poland.
T-Mobile (Sensation) / Play Mobile (Gio)
Don't remeber what version my Sensation originally came with - I have a 1.50.401.1 RUU that I'm flashing with currently.
Yes, I've changed CID to 11111111 some time ago, but I'm back to original HTC__001 now.
No I haven't changed my radio or RIL.
I've tried formatting the SD card using the phone, my laptop, my linux NAS, my other phones.
The weird thing is that yesterday all of this was progressing. It came to a point that after a factory reset or even a whole ROM reflash nothing would install (not even Market update). And this also started to happen on my Samsung Gio. So after very very very frustrating evening, and part of the night I gave up. And in the morning it was still the same (on both my android phones). But now things are starting to work (updates/installs). So I think I'm going to blame the whole thing on Google and Market. I'll see what happens while I'll install all my apps in the next few hours.
Still have to restart the phone every 1-3 apps installed. This is driving me crazy
The past few times I have restored a backup, the phone acts like it's the first time I've used it. Whats weird is all my apps are there less the data and I have to sign into my account again. Luckily I use Titanium Backup, so I don't lose data. But my screen setup is gone, my ringtones are different. This has all happened once I went to 4.2.2 with Carbon. I am constantly getting mismatched md5's upon restore (I fixed that). I have used CWM since Droid 1 days and never a problem!
Any suggestions?
Something else I just thought of, last week I couldn't get a gps fix so I flashed back one recovery and it worked perfectly. (gps, too) Today I tried to restore same recovery and same result apps but no data and screens back to stock.
Is the back up your trying to restore on on 4.1.2?
Surge1223
No all backups I have are 4.2.2
Let me start by saying that I am not new to rooting and flashing firmware, its just been a while since I last did it. I've had a nexus 5 for a few months with sprint in the US. I continually have reception issues and dropped calls so I took the phone in to a store. Before I could do that I had to reset everything to stock. I had no trouble doing any of that. I made a complete backup of my ROM before I did all that using TWRP. I went to the store and they told me to turn off lte in order to reduce dropped calls. After the I got home I set to work re-rooting and unlocking my bootlaoder. However when I went to restore in TWRP it would not recognize the backup even though it had been made only a few hours before. I spent several hours trying to get TWRP to recognize the backup. Whenever I navigated to the directory containing the backup the directory was always empty. I even tried zipping the backup and flashing it but it did not work. Eventually I decided to cut my losses and move on. I plan on taking the phone back to sprint tomorrow because I still have horrible reception issues. I really want to avoid having to go through the whole ordeal again but I am not sure what I did wrong. The only thing I can think of is that immediately after making the backup I moved it off the device onto my laptop but did not modify it in any way. I had some experience with CWM back when I had my old HP touchpad but none with TWRP, however they don't seem that different. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Let me start by saying that I am not new to rooting and flashing firmware, its just been a while since I last did it. I've had a nexus 5 for a few months with sprint in the US. I continually have reception issues and dropped calls so I took the phone in to a store. Before I could do that I had to reset everything to stock. I had no trouble doing any of that. I made a complete backup of my ROM before I did all that using TWRP. I went to the store and they told me to turn off lte in order to reduce dropped calls. After the I got home I set to work re-rooting and unlocking my bootlaoder. However when I went to restore in TWRP it would not recognize the backup even though it had been made only a few hours before. I spent several hours trying to get TWRP to recognize the backup. Whenever I navigated to the directory containing the backup the directory was always empty. I even tried zipping the backup and flashing it but it did not work. Eventually I decided to cut my losses and move on. I plan on taking the phone back to sprint tomorrow because I still have horrible reception issues. I really want to avoid having to go through the whole ordeal again but I am not sure what I did wrong. The only thing I can think of is that immediately after making the backup I moved it off the device onto my laptop but did not modify it in any way. I had some experience with CWM back when I had my old HP touchpad but none with TWRP, however they don't seem that different. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Did you put your backups in the correct sub-directory?
Should be something like: TWRP/BACKUPS/87095jgjg9034/nameofyourbackup
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Did you put your backups in the correct sub-directory?
Should be something like: TWRP/BACKUPS/87095jgjg9034/nameofyourbackup
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Yes, I did. I even tried renaming the backup to "backup" and still had no luck.
Well, this is interesting. I went to Sprint today and they weren't much help but before I went there I reset everything back to stock. I made a backup yesterday and when I got home I put it on my phone and it was recognized immediately by TWRP and I was able to restore it. Not sure what I did wrong last time, if I did anything wrong at all.
UserNumberZero said:
Well, this is interesting. I went to Sprint today and they weren't much help but before I went there I reset everything back to stock. I made a backup yesterday and when I got home I put it on my phone and it was recognized immediately by TWRP and I was able to restore it. Not sure what I did wrong last time, if I did anything wrong at all.
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Yeah, that's a bit odd. Glad you got it working now.
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Here's a step-by-step of what happened:
Two days ago (I think) the KitKat update for XT925 was released. When the download was done, as I was playing CoC on my phone, my handset asked for permission to instal it. Right after I allowed it, I left for lunch or w/e, and when I came back my phone was on this boot image, with the motorola "M" logo sitting there, laughing at me. Went the rest of the day without my phone because I thought it was still finishing the installing. When I finally got home at night, still the same screen.
I DID root it, but no such things as CyanogenMod or anything else were flashed to it, so I got no backups. Bootloader is still locked. Already tried wiping cache and a factory reset from the recovery mode. After googling it for some good time now, this is my last hope. What am I supposed to do? I encrypted it if that helps in anything. Complete newbie here.
phmrr said:
Here's a step-by-step of what happened:
Two days ago (I think) the KitKat update for XT925 was released. When the download was done, as I was playing CoC on my phone, my handset asked for permission to instal it. Right after I allowed it, I left for lunch or w/e, and when I came back my phone was on this boot image, with the motorola "M" logo sitting there, laughing at me. Went the rest of the day without my phone because I thought it was still finishing the installing. When I finally got home at night, still the same screen.
I DID root it, but no such things as CyanogenMod or anything else were flashed to it, so I got no backups. Bootloader is still locked. Already tried wiping cache and a factory reset from the recovery mode. After googling it for some good time now, this is my last hope. What am I supposed to do? I encrypted it if that helps in anything. Complete newbie here.
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being locked, i believe the only way to "try" and fix it would be to re-flash the kk sbf for your region with rsd. however, if the update is just rolling out, i doubt that is available yet.
im pretty sure you are stuck until you find this stock file, or it is released.
What was your battery at when you started the update?
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Hi guys, wasn't sure where to post this and I've been searching the web for hours without coming up with an answer with the best way to fix the problem I've got.
So yesterday my sister gave me her phone saying it was shat and slow and generally rubbish (S4 i9505 running 4.4.2). So I had a brief look at it and she had absolutely no room on the phone at all, it was completely clogged. So I deleted all the cache data (4 gigs!!), as soon as I did this the phone came back to life and started updating everything it could, then made a backup in CWM. Thought while I'm here I may as well put the official Lollipop firmware on it from Sammobile. All was good until I realised that she has never backed anything up to google or any other cloud storage (pretty dumb!) and all of her important stuff I couldn't get back.
So I then had to try and extract some data from the CWM backup... couldn't do it. I just couldn't find the files that she wanted restored. Mainly whatsapp messages and pictures and also Smemo. These are all she needs, there's really important memos apparently, why the hell she never backed them up or had another copy of them is beyond me if they were that important!
So I tried restoring just the data part of the 4.4 CWM restore to the 5.0 rom, looking back now I see this is where I went wrong and was asking for trouble.
So I then tried rolling back to the full CWM backup, all went well so I assumed and it said it was successful. This was until the phone booted. Constant spamming of gapps has stopped working, and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to stop, the phone was unusable with it constantly pinging up, every app was failing, and then it would turn itself off and reboot.
So I Factory reset again and wiped everything, installed the backup again, same thing happened again. Even tried flashing the latest version of gapps, but nothing had any effect.
So now I'm thinking oh feck... I didn't make a backup of the Lollipop install as I thought the rollback would have just cured it, and she had already started messing about with it, making it look pretty and getting people to send her some of the important files she had.
So I thought balls, tough luck and you'll have to start again, your fault for never backing anything up. So I reflashed Lollipop, and for some reason it wouldn't boot. Would just hang at the Samsung logo, this was 4am, I was panicking as I'd effectively bricked her phone. So after lots of boot loops and countless flashes I was looking on ebay for a new phone for her, then suddenly it finally boots on one of the flashes.
Anyway after a lot of faffing about, flashing 4.4 which worked, so flashed 5.0 again, and luckily it booted, I don't know what happened, maybe I missed something as I was so tired, so I signed her into google and let all the apps download while I slept.
Now the question is, I seem to have found a site that explains how to extract individual files vaguely, I just need to get the smemos and whatsapp files and I'm not entirely sure where to look and extract these files. Also, will they corrupt if I try to install them on the 5.0 firmware?
Any help would be much appreciated as I'm really in the stinky brown stuff.
Morning bump if anyone can shed some light on this :crying:
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Thanks for writing to us at XDA Assist. Have you tried using this tool?
[Tool] Cwm nandbackup file Extractor ( .img/ .tar files )
It should extract exactly what you need. If you're only reinstalling those specific apps with their data you should have no issues, just don't restore any system data, that's what caused your problems after restoring the KitKat backup on top of the Lollipop ROM.
No response in two days, thread closed, thanks.