i am trying to revert my phone back to stock. there are no RUU's available for my phone but have found a nandroid cwm. how do i use this? what should i do.
sorry if this is a silly question.
blaze0121 said:
i am trying to revert my phone back to stock. there are no RUU's available for my phone but have found a nandroid cwm. how do i use this? what should i do.
sorry if this is a silly question.
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well, technically, you unzip the CWM backup on your PC, which would give you a "backup folder" (usually yyyy-mm-dd.hh.mm.ss), then you put this (adb push) into /data/media/clockworkmod/backup/yyyy-mm-dd.hh.mm.ss, and then choose RESTORE in CWM recovery.
EDIT: if you are going from the updated firmware 2.xx back to a 1.xx ROM, your touchscreen drivers won't work, and you'll need to use an OTG cable + mouse to be able to make it work!!
Doing a wipe data / factory reset in cwm i have:
Formatting /data ...
Formatting /cache ...
and nothing more, seems to be freezed.
Known bug ?? any trick ?
thanks
after a long wait (3 minutes ?): Data wipe complete
...
strange no ?
same long wait (perhaps more, 5 minutes?) after a /data restore ...
wtf ...
Yup, you need to wait above 5 minutes..
it's normal if you dont want to wait more try TWRP recovery
normal ?
what cwm is doing during all this time (and without notifying anything) ???
sambastrakan said:
normal ?
what cwm is doing during all this time (and without notifying anything) ???
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CWM is really slow. Try TWRP it's fast.
well, thanks!
But just to be clear: the data restore itself seems to be as quick as twrp, but when it finishes backup (last action displayed) it's "hanging" for a while.
sambastrakan said:
well, thanks!
But just to be clear: the data restore itself seems to be as quick as twrp, but when it finishes backup (last action displayed) it's "hanging" for a while.
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Happens with me too dude..!
CWM actually has a bug with 4.3 and 4.4
I face two issues one is wrong date backup creattion another is very slow backup but the best and most reliable backup is of CWM.
Well I have some good news for you
Flash all the three recoveries at once into your Xperia SP!
Isn't it great
Here follow this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649923http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649923
Enjoy!
Hit thanks if I helped Also check my work if you like
I already installed these 3 recoveries with this tuto.
But with twrp, i faced something like corrupted backup files (.win). When trying to open them as .tar on PC it was impossible.
With cwm it's ok but slow ...
Well, i don't know if it's not a problem on my xperia system files ...
sambastrakan said:
I already installed these 3 recoveries with this tuto.
But with twrp, i faced something like corrupted backup files (.win). When trying to open them as .tar on PC it was impossible.
With cwm it's ok but slow ...
Well, i don't know if it's not a problem on my xperia system files ...
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you cant open these on pc they are fine
they are backed uo that way so no one can ness with ur backupps so they are safe to restore
twrp can restore them and arent corrupter
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SpaceCaker said:
you cant open these on pc they are fine
they are backed uo that way so no one can ness with ur backupps so they are safe to restore
twrp can restore them and arent corrupter
Sent from my Xperia SP using XDA Free mobile app
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I used twrp on my mortorola Atrix and it was possible to extract backup content on my pc with 7zip (.win files).
So perhaps it's a newer twrp version used here and backup files are criated in a different way ?
I also faced this strange thing when restoring with twrp: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-sp/help/issue-restore-twrp-t2836727
So I'm now using cwm ... but it is slower.
sambastrakan said:
I used twrp on my mortorola Atrix and it was possible to extract backup content on my pc with 7zip (.win files).
So perhaps it's a newer twrp version used here and backup files are criated in a different way ?
I also faced this strange thing when restoring with twrp: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-sp/help/issue-restore-twrp-t2836727
So I'm now using cwm ... but it is slower.
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new backup method i think,
even if you cant extract with pc it doesnt mean that it doesnt work in recovery
i personally use twrp as i dont trust cwm and this is due to me using cwm on my first android phone till now cwm always failed with something and twrp worked fine always
SpaceCaker said:
you cant open these on pc they are fine
they are backed uo that way so no one can ness with ur backupps so they are safe to restore
twrp can restore them and arent corrupter
Sent from my Xperia SP using XDA Free mobile app
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I found a way to manage twrp backup files on PC: with TotalComander and renaming files as .tar
This wasn't necessary with twrp on Motorola Atrix (can be open with 7zip), but the version with Xperia is different.
I put the new rom on another partition and accidentaly wiped all the **** before install...
Now I have a cell without rom and it dont have sdcard to make my life easier.
Any idea how can I fix this stupidity that I did ?
Thnks guys.
Bordin said:
I put the new rom on another partition and accidentaly wiped all the **** before install...
Now I have a cell without rom and it dont have sdcard to make my life easier.
Any idea how can I fix this stupidity that I did ?
Thnks guys.
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you can use adb push or adb sideload to transfer a new rom on your phone memory. Newer TWRP version like 2.8.6.0 also include MTP so you can access your phone storage from your computer when booted in twrp.
THANKS BROOOOO
This new TWRP saved my ass...
adb never worked fine in my pc.... now this new trwp made my pc recognize my m7
Thanks again..
You saved my m7
N is nice and all but I think I'm going to go back to M for now. Should I do a restore via the actual phone or adb it.
chrisxpratt said:
N is nice and all but I think I'm going to go back to M for now. Should I do a restore via the actual phone or adb it.
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if its a nsndroid backup, backup via recovery, then restore it in the recovery. but it all depends on what kind of backup you're actually talking about :silly:
I take regular images in TWRP. I tried N, found too many things broken, and restored the latest M backup in TWRP directly from the phone. No problems.
I was make a back of Le2 stock rom using TWRP
Can I restore that backup using TWRP any problems plz suggest me
I am using Miui8 but there is a problem when i am going to send any zip file on my pc to mobile it's showing Device either not responding or can't copy
I want to restore to stock rom
can you provide the stock rom backup?? Yes you can restore that backup using TWRP
Le2 X526 backup
Balajiping said:
I was make a back of Le2 stock rom using TWRP
Can I restore that backup using TWRP any problems plz suggest me
I am using Miui8 but there is a problem when i am going to send any zip file on my pc to mobile it's showing Device either not responding or can't copy
I want to restore to stock rom
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I was also looking for Le2 x526 stock ROM backup but I couldn't find on the internet. Can you plz provide the link of ur backup file .
U can easily come back to stock using backup...