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.
punyategar said:
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
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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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?
I get this error while backing up using CWM
Error: Ext sd cannot be backed up, your device may not support backup of Ext sd!!!
And when restoring i get
Error: Ext sd cannot be found.
Why does these errors occur?
At a guess you are on an ics ROM?
Why do you want to bloat a nandroid with a back up of an external sd?, just copy contents to pc if you want to format it
Sent from the depths of despair
slaphead20 said:
At a guess you are on an ics ROM?
Why do you want to bloat a nandroid with a back up of an external sd?, just copy contents to pc if you want to format it
Sent from the depths of despair
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came back to stock GB Rom. Some apps were FCing so decided to reset.
Missing Ext_Sd didn't cause any trouble.
All went well now need to check if those app work or or not.
But one question:
I have a really nice backup with all the installed apps and there data but couldn't restore it correctly as i forgot the kernel that i flashed with CWM using odin.
The backup file looks like a CWM 2 & i remember it was green CWM, but when i use any other kernel with CWM 2 other than the one used to back it up the files isn't restored properly. But i restored it once properly but forgot to see which kernel it was.
Is there any way to find out the kernel & CWM and restore it back properly?
How to find the real CWM used to backup those file?
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.
Hi all !
I had OmniRom installed, and after trying to go back to my stock ROM via a CWM backup I had, I cannot restore backups from my external SD card anymore.
Whenever I try to restore a backup (either a newly made one or an old one), I have "error while restoring /data". The WM lock says "can't partition non mmcblk devide /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc1".
Backing up to the internal card and then restoring works.
I tried to move a backup from the external card to the internal card and then restoring, but it did not work (same error).
Any idea where this might come from ?
How can I solve this ?
Thanks !
thewild said:
Hi all !
I had OmniRom installed, and after trying to go back to my stock ROM via a CWM backup I had, I cannot restore backups from my external SD card anymore.
Whenever I try to restore a backup (either a newly made one or an old one), I have "error while restoring /data". The WM lock says "can't partition non mmcblk devide /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc1".
Backing up to the internal card and then restoring works.
I tried to move a backup from the external card to the internal card and then restoring, but it did not work (same error).
Any idea where this might come from ?
How can I solve this ?
Thanks !
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Answering my own question : after reflashing boot.img from FXP250, restoring my backup worked ! I thought it was the one I had restored in the first place, but obviously I was wrong !
So I have an Exhibit that started freezing up on the red AOIP logo with "pulse" animation..
Clearing cache/dalvik doesn't help -- phone reboots to "optimizing apps" but gets stuck on "starting apps". If power cycled, it gets stuck at AOIP logo (it's an AOIP rom)
Tried reflashing the rom (AOIP-2.0-ancora_tmo-OFFICIAL-20131006) -- same result
The internal SD card appeared to be out of space -- mounted it over USB (thanks to CWM) and cleaned it out so it's at ~60% now.. but the phone still doesn't want to boot!
Created a backup with CWM and wiped the data (after removing the ext sd card) -- phone boots up properly!
Restored from the backup -- phone doesn't boot
What else can I do?
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So I have an Exhibit that started freezing up on the red AOIP logo with "pulse" animation..
Clearing cache/dalvik doesn't help -- phone reboots to "optimizing apps" but gets stuck on "starting apps". If power cycled, it gets stuck at AOIP logo (it's an AOIP rom)
Tried reflashing the rom (AOIP-2.0-ancora_tmo-OFFICIAL-20131006) -- same result
The internal SD card appeared to be out of space -- mounted it over USB (thanks to CWM) and cleaned it out so it's at ~60% now.. but the phone still doesn't want to boot!
Created a backup with CWM and wiped the data (after removing the ext sd card) -- phone boots up properly!
Restored from the backup -- phone doesn't boot
What else can I do?
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wipe both internal and exernal sd cards and do a fresh install
det0xx said:
wipe both internal and exernal sd cards and do a fresh install
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I think it was implied that I'm able to boot after /data wipe -- but I'd like the data back!
And it's not so much the apps themselves (which can be reinstalled pretty easily) -- but the data that they saved for the user.
Oh, and it's not my phone per se
BTW, I have adb set up on my laptop, and I'm able to get shell at the frozen boot.. just don't know what command(s) to give it since I'm not really familiar with android environment
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BTW, I have adb set up on my laptop, and I'm able to get shell at the frozen boot.. just don't know what command(s) to give it since I'm not really familiar with android environment
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do you have your app data in a nandroid backup?
if you do install the rom freshly and download app nandroid manager. app will let you restore apps and its data through its app to your current rom
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do you have your app data in a nandroid backup?
if you do install the rom freshly and download app nandroid manager. app will let you restore apps and its data through its app to your current rom
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No, it was a CWM backup... and I didn't see an option in nandroid to restore just the data or just the apps from this backup..
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No, it was a CWM backup... and I didn't see an option in nandroid to restore just the data or just the apps from this backup..
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cwm backup is a nandroid back up...
Fry-kun said:
No, it was a CWM backup... and I didn't see an option in nandroid to restore just the data or just the apps from this backup..
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In CWM look in advanced restore.
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det0xx said:
cwm backup is a nandroid back up...
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After trying a few things, looks like Nandroid finally found my backup and is letting me restore things one by one.. yay