Hello, I have installed CWR from rom manager and I have made several nandroids backups.
There were no errors, so I thounght it was everything ok. Yesterday I tried to restore a backup of the CM7, and it freezes on the LG logo.
Then I tried with a restore of the stock rom and happens the same.
I used the fix of Paul Obrien of back to ext3 and then the restore, but I am not able to restore any nandroid I made...
The only way was intalling again everything starting from zero...
Anyone with the same problem??
Hey guys,
I used odin to get boot it back up and then I used ClockworkMod to restore backed up data....
After phone said 'restore complete,' I let the phone reboot, but the phone will not reboot
at&t screen pops up and then black out then pops up again then into android recovery mode.
Any ideas?
Could you please provide a little more information about how you got to where you are? (e.g. what rom/kernel/modem/theme you were flashing, what ODIN you used, what version of CWM, etc.) Anything you provide will be helpful in troubleshooting.
Well I had cognitive 4.5.3 installed and I tried restoring using clockmod recovery
the restore wasn't successful and the phone would stay black screened after Galaxy S logo screen
So I turned on odin3 and put my phone on download mode then hit start on odin3
that successfully restored the phone to froyo 2.2 without any of my data
so I tried using clockmod recovery once again to restore the backup
and then... that's where I am
The phone won't boot. It will just go into recovery mode
Here's the message I got after trying to restore once again
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ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.2
Checking MD5 sums...
Restoring system...
Restoring data...
Restoring datadata...
.android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
Restoring cache...
sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restore of /sd-ext/.
Restore complete!
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When did you make that nandroid backup? If you made it while on stock, you'll have to go back to stock first, then run the restore command. If on cognition, you'll need to be on the version you were on when you made the backup and restore there.
Here's the link I found on how to return to stock rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
I've done the first part - before the master reset and then tried restoring the backup and that is how I got to where I am right now.
Do I need to factory reset as well?
If I do factory reset, won't that erase the backup file?
Thanks. I really appreciate your help
jc830 said:
Here's the link I found on how to return to stock rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
I've done the first part - before the master reset and then tried restoring the backup and that is how I got to where I am right now.
Do I need to factory reset as well?
If I do factory reset, won't that erase the backup file?
Thanks. I really appreciate your help
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To answer your question, doing the master clear will erase EVERYTHING stored in the phone's internal memory. Don't do that step now, as you should be able to get out of where you are without doing that.
I think where your problem occurred is that at some point you made a nandroid backup in CWM, and by trying to restore that on stock, it's freaking out. If you can remember what ROM setup you had on your phone when you made the backup, you could try to get back to that setup to use the restore option in CWM.
Before doing any of the things you're doing now, had you made a backup in Titanium Backup?
I do have backup made with Titanium Backup.
apps data and everything that I could backup with Titanium Backup
Will restoring what I had backed up with Titanium Backup and then restoring the system using CWM work?
I am currently at 2.2 Froyo, which was the rom I was using when backing up using CWM
You've flashed 2.2 stock? If so just flash the rom you previously had with cwm then let it boot. After it boots reboot into cwm then perform a restore in cwm. If that doesnt work nand backup might not be good and you will just have to flash stock again and just rub tibu and leave it at that.
**Thing about NAND backups is that you have to use the same system when you restore (i.e. you nand backup usng cognition then you flash another rom when you nand restore its not going to boot).
Thanks guys for the suggestions!
My phone has been saved!
I accidentally did a factory reset while in Safe mode. My first time ever getting into Safe mode and I have no idea how I got in there, only realized after the wipe. Thus, I lost all my pictures, videos etc... I made a Nandroid backup before the wipe so that got deleted as well. I have another Nandroid backup on my SD card that I have been trying to copy to the phone's internal memory but I keep getting errors.
First error on CWM was the annoying MD5 mismatch - I think I was able to fix that with the terminal emulator and the Notepad++ and MD5 calculator. Then the next error was, 'error restoring boot image.' I made this Nandroid backup with Semaphore 2.7.4 and still is my kernel now.
I believe this Nandroid recovery is corrupted. Is there any chance of recovering it? I've tried PhotoRec and Recuva already and they didn't work for me. PhotoRec gave me weird filenames and Recuva didn't find the stuff I was looking for. I still have this untouched backup on my SD and everything else on the SD works by the way.
Zytorious said:
I believe this Nandroid recovery is corrupted. Is there any chance of recovering it?
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Have you tried to flash your semaphore kernel + recovery via Odin/Heimdall, so you have a clean recovery?
Cheers
EDIT: If this isn't working for you, you are always able to flash a stock samsung rom and then get back to your current rom + recovery.
If this does not work, i would guess your backup is corrupted. Had this by myself in the past... corrupted backups
Hello all,
I was messing around with the systemui.apk and framework-res.apk to theme my phone according to my liking.
Did something that the phone didn't agree on and entered into a bootloop.
I went into CWM to restore as I made a nandroid backup earlier. The process took about 20 minutes where it said something about security script not found and then it proceeded to clear the cache. It froze there as I waited for another 15 minutes and I decided to manually restart the phone. I could use the phone normally once again, but I couldn't go to the CWM menu anymore. I tried installing it multiple files but to no avail.
I am now in the process of doing a restoration from Sony update tool (Slow connection here) and was wondering, what can i do in the future to regain the CWM after a nandroid restore ?
this it because you have corrupted your cache partition when restoring your Nandroid back next time restore with advance backup only system data boot
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this it because you have corrupted your cache partition when restoring your Nandroid back next time restore with advance backup only system data boot
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Got it. Thank you very much.
rickwyatt said:
this it because you have corrupted your cache partition when restoring your Nandroid back next time restore with advance backup only system data boot
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Hello, I tried to restore (after making a new nandroid) and followed your method.
This time, after rebooting from the cwm menu, the phone freezes at the "SONY" logo.
Im trying to make a backup on v2.6.3.3 and system and data backup fine but it fails to backup boot. Ive made backups before on this version with no error and I tried to backup on 2.7 TWRP and I get the same issue. I installed CWM and tried a backup and everything backed up fine with no error, so what could be the issue?
EDIT: Im able to make a backup of them separately so I guess ill just have two separate backups