So I had my phone working and decided to try a kernel found here.
I went on, flashed the kernel through cwm, and nothing worked (stuck at loading screen with continous reboots).
So I flashed my recovery image, rebooting stopped by stuck it was at the loading screen anyhow.
So, since I could not come out of it, I downloaded a stock rom (I was running stock by the way), flashed it (with smartflash), rooted it (superoneclick), installed cwm (now v5) and I'm back on.
So I flashed the recovery, and most of the data is back but I lost all the apps on the SD card.
The SD card is the same from which I flashed the recovery image through CWM, and all my music is still there.
So might it be possible that the apps are still there too?
What can I do?
Why all the SD apps disappeared?
Edit: ok maybe we're talking about internal SD card... may it be the CWM v5 doing recovery from a v4 zip?
had this problem very, very, often...
nobody really could help me, but i know, its because of problems with the android_secure folder.
so i´m not an expert and i really don´t know what s the reason, but i tried some things and sometimes it helped...
it can appear if something goes wrong when you install an app or move an app from phone to sdcard, or when you want to restore them with titanium or cwm.
the possibiltythat it happens increases when you do both at the same time or, move many apps at the same time p.e. with gemini or install many apps at the same time (p.e. with panda pc suite).
or if something goes wrong with a market update.
mostly, it starts that you can´t install apps anymore. after reboot all apps on sd are away.
with luck you can repair it and get the apps back.
-delete the market cache.
-delete file smdl2tmp1.asec in android_secure folder on sd card or in mnt/... secure.. damn forgot the path of the second folder where this file can be. gotta google for it.
-or create a new android_secure-folder. unmount sdcard. rename android_secure folder to something different, so that there´s no more an android_secure folder. put sdcard back in the phone, reboot the phone. there will be a new empty android_secure folder. shut phone down, put sdcard into pc again, copy all files from renamed folder to the new android_sd folder, put card back into the phone, restart it and wait. with luck, your apps are back again.
don´t now, maybe it helps when you delete dalvik cache and cache before restart. sometimes it worked, sometimes not.
in your case, your apps are away after restore and not because of install/move2sd issues... so in this case its important to completely delete android_secure folder before restore. make a fullwipe. and after fullwipe i would restart phone once, so that a new clean android_secure folder could be created. hope something helps.
edit:
i did a little trick, that my external sd is mounted as sdcard in my phone. so normally the internal sd card is the "sdcard" in the phone. so, cos you can´t put your internal sd into the pc, you gotta mount it with usb connection.
Thanks but I'm afraid in this case the content really got deleted after I reflashed the rom...
IS there a way to really save everything via cwm?
Or should I use another software?
Also if flashing baseband: what will get deleted?
Flashing baseband will wipe /data
Rusty! said:
Flashing baseband will wipe /data
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And how does /data relate to my problem?
Is /data backed up by cwm or not?
What is not backupped by cwm and how to backup it?
Rusty! said:
Flashing baseband will wipe /data
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but you can restore it with nandroid, right? it's going to be just as before?
punyategar said:
but you can restore it with nandroid, right? it's going to be just as before?
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If you mean baseband then the answer is no. It restores your ROM and all the apps including their data.
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but you can restore it with nandroid, right? it's going to be just as before?
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Assuming you remembered to back it up yeah.
My radio flash procedure is:
NANDroid backup
Smartflash radio
NANDroid restore
Push new RIL
Use phone
Rusty! said:
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I don't think so.
Kdz tool and official updater didn't wipe data. (Aren't you ?)
They did change only baseband and systems.
But you have to nandroid backup to avoid bricked.
You may not think so, but it does.
kitty's_daddy said:
I don't think so.
Kdz tool and official updater didn't wipe data. (Aren't you ?)
They did change only baseband and systems.
But you have to nandroid backup to avoid bricked.
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Definitely wipe /data
Both Rusty! And myself always test new basebands and it definitely wipe /data.
Edit: sorry I'm referring to smartflash.
temasek said:
Definitely wipe /data
Both Rusty! And myself always test new basebands and it definitely wipe /data.
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I think you would be correct.
It's only my opinion.
i use kdz tool, no user data will lost, only system(happened on me 2 times). don't use smartflash it will wipe all data
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I don't think so.
Kdz tool and official updater didn't wipe data. (Aren't you ?)
They did change only baseband and systems.
But you have to nandroid backup to avoid bricked.
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dont know about kdz, official updater didn't touch my /data at all. i mean, my apps were just as before, the settings...
just use titanium backup and make sure the save location is in the sd card
For certain apps that have their own way of saving data, it might not always work.
I just can't find the correct answer in the posts I've read so far.
If I flash a kernel that doesn't work, and then I restore a CWM backup, why it wouldn't boot again?
If I reflash the stock rom and then restore a previous CWM backup, why something won't be there?
What exactly should I do in CMW to obatin a complete backup?
Or should I use something else?
Quick back story - gave the gsm honeycomb rc1 a go last night, but decided it's not quite ready to be my daily rom. So via odin with repartition/pit/pda/phone (modem) I flashed overcome stock safe v.5. Rebooted fine. Then via odin flashed overcome kernel 3.3.1. Rebooted fine. Obviously there was nothing on my sd card other than the stock stuff. Prior to flashing hc I did a nandroid/titanium backups and copied the contents of my sd card to my 'puter. I copied just the clockworkmod folder with my nandroid to my sd card.
I then booted into cwm recovery and restored my nandroid backup. After that finished I rebooted but it is stuck at the Samsung Galaxy Tab screen.
Am I a douche who doesn't understand what nandroids are about (likely) or could it be a bad backup? Should I copy all the original contents of my sd card back to it, do a full titanium restore of apps and system data, and then do the nandroid restore??
Can anyone tell me what, if anything, I should do about this error which appears after restoring a Nandroid backup? The phone seems to be working ok so far. I've done Nandroid backup and restore several times without errors before but obviously something has changed.
Error while restoring /sdcard/.android_secure!
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log. Please open ROM Manager to report the issue.
I cannot see any file called "recovery log" in the /sdcard/clockworkmod folder. There is a file called "recovery-update.zip".
I tried uninstalling/re-installing ROM Manager and then making and restoring a new nandroid backup but the result was the same. The backups are to the internal sd card.
I'd be grateful for any advice. I tried trawling around the forums for some hours as this seems to be a widely discussed issue but cannot find any clear explaination of the cause or fix.
GT-N7000
Android ICS 4.0.4
Baseband version N7000XXLS3
Kernel version 3.0.36_HydraCore_v5.34
Trevor
do you use an external sd?
check if there is a clockworkmod folder in that.
Yes, there is a Clockworkmod folder on my ext/sd card. I wanted to do Nandroid backups there but the option to Use External Storage is greyed out on the settings page.
Right now, the only Nandroid backup I have in on the int/sd card
nokiamodeln91 said:
do you use an external sd?
check if there is a clockworkmod folder in that.
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which settings page ?
in CWM you need to go to backup & restore and choose backup (this will backup to external SD).. there is another option to select backup to internal SD
I'm using ROM Manager (Premium) and under the settings there's an option to use external sd card but it's greyed out.
nokiamodeln91 said:
which settings page ?
in CWM you need to go to backup & restore and choose backup (this will backup to external SD).. there is another option to select backup to internal SD
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Use CWM directly to make backups to your desired storage
Can you tell me where to get CWM? I can only see ROM Manager on the Google Play site. I understand that RM is really just a front end for CWM but I'd have assumed the functinality would be the same.
Thanks again for the reply
if you are having hydracore the cwm will be already there. It's a recovery. you need to boot into recovery mode.
vol up + power + home
In as few words as I can muster.
I recently tried to back up my current ROM CheckRomV6 using CWM. In attempting so the following occurs.
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Screen goes Dark.
Clockwork Mod Opens and Reads:
ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.1.5
Waiting for SD Card to mount(20s)
SD Card mounted...
Verifying SD Card marker...
SD Card marker not found...
Checking Internal SD Card marker...
Error processing ROM Manager script. Please verify that you are performing the backup, restore, or ROM installation from ROM Manager v4.4.0.0 or higher.
/tmp/recovery.log. was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/
recovery.log. Please open the ROM Manager to report the issue.
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I need to get this fixed so that I can begin the progress change my rom. What is causing this? I'm thinking it's the kernel, but to be frank I really am at a loss. I'm still rather inexperienced with all this. Any suggestions? (I have searched.
You're probably using CWM or a ROM manager to do a backup
Try rebooting in recovery and use the option (Backup & Restore) to do a backup, use .tar format if available in the menu
Backing up the ROM doesn't require a safe kernel, but restoring a backup does
Best of luck
Mohammed Atef said:
You're probably using CWM or a ROM manager to do a backup
Try rebooting in recovery and use the option (Backup & Restore) to do a backup, use .tar format if available in the menu
Backing up the ROM doesn't require a safe kernel, but restoring a backup does
Best of luck
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I just tryed that. Not. Good. This has officially gone over my current know how.
CWM won't let me select anything. Regardless if I scroll up or down ( to try to select Backup & Restore) The cursor moves... then the screen "blinks" black... and then my cursor is back where it originally was at (reboot). I need to make sure that this isn't a deeper problem before I flash something.
I am open for suggestions.
whats the kernel you on?
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whats the kernel you on?
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2.6.35. 14-ver.4.2
[email protected] #3
you could try a different kernel for you rom
i am having complete nandroid backup of asylum cm10.1nightly with asylum kernel cm10.1 with all apps and data. same kind of back up with stunner 2 2.4.2 and nx kernel 1.0.9. can i restore either of backup anytime i want. i mean swithover from asylum to stunner or vice versa. do i need all wipe data/cache/dalvik/format system/data/ache/ preload. once i tried to restore by doing so in the procees of switchover and restoration of backup from CWM, restoration terminated from "data restoration" my phone booted and stuck at samsung gt-n7000. second time i repeated same process in CWM and phone booted and took me to basic setup and after basic setup i checked that i lost all my apps installed and data also.
what could be reason. am i missing some step. is it possible to do so? tried lot to search about this but could not find an answer.
can someone pls help.
yes u need to do a full wipe if it's different rom.
in ur case it is possible ur backup not completely successful or lack of free space.
alvinhaw said:
yes u need to do a full wipe if it's different rom.
in ur case it is possible ur backup not completely successful or lack of free space.
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my nandroid message after generating md5 gave me message as back up is complete. steps while backup shows are backing boot image/recovery/system/data/cache/android secure/preload/efs and md5 generation.
so i dont think there is problem with backup. also i have suffiecient space in my ext sd card. 32gb card and haft empty. backup saves in clockwordmod folder in ext sd.
is it the problem of cwm recovery or gapps package of aosp rom and aokp rom. both dated 20130301.
i really want to know. because everytime one swichover from one rom to other after full wipe he has to redownload and install apps from play store which were installed on previous rom. everytime time one has to download from play store over wifi or 3g.
someone pls help.
amanverma17 said:
my nandroid message after generating md5 gave me message as back up is complete. steps while backup shows are backing boot image/recovery/system/data/cache/android secure/preload/efs and md5 generation.
so i dont think there is problem with backup. also i have suffiecient space in my ext sd card. 32gb card and haft empty. backup saves in clockwordmod folder in ext sd.
is it the problem of cwm recovery or gapps package of aosp rom and aokp rom. both dated 20130301.
i really want to know. because everytime one swichover from one rom to other after full wipe he has to redownload and install apps from play store which were installed on previous rom. everytime time one has to download from play store over wifi or 3g.
someone pls help.
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did you ever find an answer to this? I have been experiencing similar problems.