Hello everyone, I bought my hero on launch and used it until the 2.1 root was found.
I rooted the phone on 2.1 and installed Recovery ver: 1.5.2 and the rom the phone has is fresh hero 2.3.3(this was done before switching phones)
work asked for a blackberry and I had to retire the hero for a few months up until now.
What should I do with the phone in order to get the new roms installed? wipe it fully or unroot?
I was sort of a noob when I got the hero but I managed to root it and get the rom I wanted working, now that I've been gone I really don't remember much
any help is appreciated
fw ver: 2.1 update1
baseband 2.42.01.04.27
kernel: 2.6.29 bc0d2cff
buld: fresh rom 2.3.3 by flipz
First I would probably reacquaint yourself with the ins and outs of flashing and whatnot just to be safe.
Next I would update your recovery image. You can easily do this by downloading ROM Manager from the Market and select the Flash Recovery Image button. That will install ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.7 onto your phone.
Now that you have a newer recovery image, you want to download the ROM you want to install. Now that your ROM is downloaded and on your SD card, you want to backup any information and data you want saved. You can save app data with Titanium Backup from the Market. You may also want to enter recovery and do a nandroid just to be safe.
Now that you have your information backed up, enter your recovery and flash your new ROM. Enjoy!
I have an Old nandroid backup, stock 2.1 with just superuser, do I keep that one or wont it work with the new recovery image?
Thanks for the prompt reply
Forgot to ask, when flashing roms, do you still need to go into recovery and wipe before flashing a new rom? Thanks
gab2012 said:
I have an Old nandroid backup, stock 2.1 with just superuser, do I keep that one or wont it work with the new recovery image?
Thanks for the prompt reply
Forgot to ask, when flashing roms, do you still need to go into recovery and wipe before flashing a new rom? Thanks
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Keep your nand. You can use it to update your profile/prl, and yes, you should wipe between rom flashes.
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Guys..I want to ask whether i can use a lot of tweaks at a time..now i'm using 99XTweaks..I want to know if i can use S97ramscript and E15Optimizer by LtHuNTer_StepheN with 99XTweaks on my current rom..??
at the risk of myself sounding like an ass. best thing for you to do is the following.
1. Backup your current rom (if you have CWM Recovery) if not then skip or dont continue reading.
2. Flash every single thing you want to flash.
3. If it boots and is stable then awesome million and one tweaks installed.
4. If it all goes tits up restore the Nandroid backup or just reflash the rom with a full wipe
So there has been a lot of discussion in other threads about backing up,
and restoring ICS ROMS. I had to find out what is possible and what not.
I wrote down the steps for reference,please if you find that there are corrections or additions, post!
Here's the deal:
It can be done, you just have to flash the Abysnote 4.0+ kernel everytime you want to do a backup or restore. This is also the way to safely revert to a Gingerbread Nandroid backup, after you're done playing with ICS.
There's a few caveats, if you do a backup of ICS and you forget to reflash
the ICS kernel, you will be trying to boot ICS with an Abyss kernel...
Something I never did, but it might end you up in the, well... abyss.
Also, I found myself first scared, then confused with the occurence of
an LP5 repack from Chainfire, that is admitted to be a high risk release.
Then you see LP5 ROM's popping up, so you think, might they be using
that LP5 repack and am I inherently in danger? Seems not the case.
One can flash the ROM's by the Chef's containing LP5 kernels, but from what I learned, the base is OK anyway. *please correct me here if I'm wrong.
Here's the scenario's, tested once by me on accounts 1 and 3. 2 is beta but hearsay says it works. Anyway, it most probably won't hardbrick your device if it doesn't You'd still have recovery mode from holding down home-volume up-power until white samsung logo appears.
1- Howto create Nandroid backup from a working ICS rom that you have.
So, if on ICS, and want to make an ICS nandroid (i.e.progressive installation/configuration backups), you can :
- reboot to recovery mode
- flash abyss 4.0+ kernel
- reboot to recovery after the kernel flash is done, dont boot the Android phone
- you are now in a different looking recovery mode, don't panic, its almost the same
- do your nandroid thing
- after the nandroid has finished, reflash the kernel you had in your ICS ROM
- after that, you can reboot to recovery again, or select reboot system.
(I always reboot system after I reboot once more to recovery)
2- Howto restore ICS Nandroid backup from a working ICS rom that you have.
So, if on ICS, and want to restore an ICS nandroid (i.e.progressive installation/configuration backups), you can :
- reboot to recovery mode
- flash abyss 4.0+ kernel
- reboot to recovery after the kernel flash is done, dont boot the Android phone
- you are now in a different looking recovery mode, don't panic, its almost the same
- go to restore menu, select the ICS nandroid that you want to restore
- **not tested by me, but there should be no need to reflash the ICS kernel as it has been overwritten by the restore**
- after the nandroid restore has finished, you can reboot to recovery to reboot system
(I always reboot system after I reboot once more to recovery)
3- Howto revert to Gingerbread Nandroid backup from a working ICS rom that you have. (Safely going back to GingerBread without much trouble)
reboot to recovery mode
- flash abyss 4.0+ kernel
- reboot to recovery after the kernel flash is done, dont boot the Android phone
- you are now in a different looking recovery mode, don't panic, its almost the same
- do a fullwipe/factory reset
- restore your GB nandroid using backup/restore menus in CWM
- after the nandroid restore has finished, do a factory reset/full wipe again
- after that, you can reboot to recovery again, or select reboot system.
(I always reboot system after I reboot once more to recovery)
Hi ... I got a hint from stunner thread that backups work on lp5 kernel ... I've done one without any apparent issues but don't know whether it would properly restore if required? ... If yes, it would avoid the need for this multiple flashing of kernels .... You can also try and confirm ...cheers.envy
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envyofindia said:
Hi ... I got a hint from stunner thread that backups work on lp5 kernel ... I've done one without any apparent issues but don't know whether it would properly restore if required? ... If yes, it would avoid the need for this multiple flashing of kernels .... You can also try and confirm ...cheers.envy
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+1 I'd like to know this as well. I made a direct nandroid in stunner recovery without flashing abyss.. Hope it won't be a problem.
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Well.. if you guys already made the backup with the LP5 kernel,
could you take the ""risk" and try a restore ? You would the first the really
confirm it, and the thread would grow in information worth.
I guess the worst that can happen is that you have to use ODIN to restore a stock
ROM and then restore your ICS backup using Abyss.
More likely is that you can just flash abyss if it doesn't work, then flashback ICS backup. Hope you will try. Im back on GB.
lucid said:
Well.. if you guys already made the backup with the LP5 kernel,
could you take the ""risk" and try a restore ? You would the first the really
confirm it, and the thread would grow in information worth.
I guess the worst that can happen is that you have to use ODIN to restore a stock
ROM and then restore your ICS backup using Abyss.
More likely is that you can just flash abyss if it doesn't work, then flashback ICS backup. Hope you will try. Im back on GB.
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Sorry for hacking in
I too wrote the instructions how to shift to GB rom from ICS rom !!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24535533&postcount=2
Thanks for you detailed instructions on various scenarios!! Good one!
Cheers! Enjoy your Note!!
Sorry but I'm a bit confused. I'm on Stunner, and would like to do a nandroid backup, and continue using stunner as is.
Steps:
1. Get into recovery and flash latest abyss, then reboot to redpill recovery, then perform nandroid.
2. How do I revert stunner as I had it before, since kernel has changed? The only file I have is the stunner rom package itself. No separate kernel to flash. Should I just restore the newly made nandroid to get back to the way I had it pre-abyss? Wouldn't the nandroid backup have stunner rom+abyss kernel, which I don't want?
Thanks!
Tested by me - the ICS kernel has not been overwritten by the restore
octavian90 said:
Sorry but I'm a bit confused. I'm on Stunner, and would like to do a nandroid backup, and continue using stunner as is.
Steps:
1. Get into recovery and flash latest abyss, then reboot to redpill recovery, then perform nandroid.
2. How do I revert stunner as I had it before, since kernel has changed? The only file I have is the stunner rom package itself. No separate kernel to flash. Should I just restore the newly made nandroid to get back to the way I had it pre-abyss? Wouldn't the nandroid backup have stunner rom+abyss kernel, which I don't want?
Thanks!
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First of all thanks to "lucid" for the thread!
I am on ICS Stunner 1.4.19. I followed the instructions above and did backup and restore as described.
I have tested to restore the nandroid backup and reboot without reflashing the kernel. Well, that didn't work. My Note stuck on Samsung logo. Fortunately I was prepared for it beforehand. I had previously extracted the kernel from my Stunner. So I rebooted into recovery again and flashed the ICS kernel (3.0.15-I9220ZCLP5-CL295568).
Peace!
I was using Ultimate ROM XXLSZ_JB_4.1.2_v5.2 without any problems apart from poor battery performance.
However, I attempted to install Rocket ROM-V1-XXLSZ and have now got myself into trouble.
I followed the instructions to flash the latest XXLSZ-OXA cwm kernel and then flashed the Rocket ROM. It worked ok but I would like to return to the Ultimate ROM and kernel I had before.
I have a pevious full Nandroid backup of the phone (made with ROM Manager Premium) of the Ultimate ROM and the PhilZ kernel it came with but cannot restore it. I get the error "MD5 Mismatch" and the restore aborts.
Even if I reflash the original Ultimate ROM with all the usual wipes, the XXLSZ-OXA cwm kernel is still there and I still can't restore from the Nandroid backup. I tried re-flashing PhilZ 3.1 kernel separately and then the Ultimate ROM file but this didn't work either. The kernel is still the same.
Can anyone tell me how to either
1. completely wipe the phone so I can install Ultimate ROM AND the built-in PhilZ 3.1 kernel.
OR
2. get the phone to the point where I can restore from my Nandroid backup which I assume will restore the earlier version of the ROM at the same time.
I hope I've explained the situation clearly enough.
Thanks in advance.
Trevor
Install a cm kernel then wipe your phone then install a fresh ultimate rom and later on advance restore the data
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Go to cwm/backup and restore/misc nandroid setting/ untick md5 check. And try to restore again
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You don't want to restore your nandroid. It is a bad backup.
In philz recovery go to mounts and storage. Format system data preload cache. Them go to advanced from main page and wipe dalvik
Flash ROM. Guaranteed to work.
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Thanks. I know I can flash the ROM again but I was hoping to learn why the Nandroid backup no longer works.
Since posting, I gave up trying to restore the Nandroid backup, did all the usual wipes, re-flashed the Ultimate ROM and re-installed all my apps from scratch so my phone is more or less back to normal (Incidentally, I notice that no matter how many times I do this, all my music and photos are still there even though they're stored on the internal sd card. Dunno why).
Most of the ROMs I've tried have the kernel built in so all I needed to do was do the usual wipes and then flash. If I didn't like the ROM, I just wiped again and restored the Nandroid backup using CWM (Vol Up + Menu + Power) and the phone was back to its previous state.
The only thing I did different this time, as per the Rocket ROM instructions, was flash a kernel first. I may have done something wrong with that step or messed it up somehow. Even when I flashed an earlier version of the PhilZ kernel, the restore still didn't work. I've still a lot to learn about ROMs and Kernels, I guess.
As I said, I have successfully restored from Nandroid backups many times before this without any problem after experimenting with different custom ROMs. Can I ask you why Nandroid is a bad backup? Is it a problem with ROM Manager?
(One problem I've always had with ROM Manager is that if I choose to write the backup to the external sd card, it falls over with error messages. If I choose the option to backup to the internal card, it works but writes the BACKUP TO THE EXT CARD ANYWAY! I cannot get a reply from the dev about this).
Is there a better, more reliable backup method you'd recommend that does the same thing as the Nandroid?
I notice that different ROM managers use different CWM Recovery versions ie ROM Manager Reboot Recovery = 6.0.1.2, ROM Toolbox Rebooter = CWM 6.0.2.8 (same as Vol Up + Menu + Power). Could that be part of the problem?
Sorry for the long winded post.
Trevor
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You don't want to restore your nandroid. It is a bad backup.
In philz recovery go to mounts and storage. Format system data preload cache. Them go to advanced from main page and wipe dalvik
Flash ROM. Guaranteed to work.
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Hi guys,
I'm new to Sony devices and rooting/flashing procedures.
I run CWM recovery 6.0.4.7 and CM11 with the included Kernel 3.4.0-g14fe8eb
As the title says: when I try to flash a cm11 rom, other than the one I'm currently on (2014-03-01), I end up in a bootloop (CM arrow doesn't stop spinning). When I try to restore a backup via recovery, I end up with a missing IMEI and thus a not working mobile radio. My procedure to fix this is: full wipe, flash the current nightly.
To me it doesn't make any sense that the IMEI is missing after a restore (when I created the backup everything was fine). What is the correct procedure to update to the next nightly?
Best regards,
bumbum