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I am rooted on a Sprint One and had stock HTC. Then downloaded the Viperrom 1.0.4 and had no trouble get it on, did not loose any of my settings or folders. Now when I download and try to run the viper 1.1.0 zip, it does the install and starts up shows my walpaper and icons appropriately, then crashes and constant reboots to the same point. Able to get on to recovery and reinstall the back up i had made with no rpoblems.
What do I need to do? If I wipe, what do i wipe? Have TWRP.
Will I loose all my settings and data?
Please help
Under advanced wipe select the first 4(dalvik,cache,system,data).
Then reflash the Rom.
You will lose settings.
Thanks, will try that in the morning.
Is there anyway we can save settings and restore them after upgrades?
aviatordoc said:
Thanks, will try that in the morning.
Is there anyway we can save settings and restore them after upgrades?
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Htcs built in backup through dropbox works very well. It restores apps, settings, homescreens. About the only two things it doesnt restore are accounts, autorotate and lockscreen password
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youkosnake said:
Htcs built in backup through dropbox works very well. It restores apps, settings, homescreens. About the only two things it doesnt restore are accounts, autorotate and lockscreen password
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yes but i also disables google backup
I fond HTCs better than googles. The only thing I manually use google sync for is contacts. And thats just force of habit.
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youkosnake said:
I fond HTCs better than googles. The only thing I manually use google sync for is contacts. And thats just force of habit.
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good to know, thanks
aviatordoc said:
I am rooted on a Sprint One and had stock HTC. Then downloaded the Viperrom 1.0.4 and had no trouble get it on, did not loose any of my settings or folders. Now when I download and try to run the viper 1.1.0 zip, it does the install and starts up shows my walpaper and icons appropriately, then crashes and constant reboots to the same point. Able to get on to recovery and reinstall the back up i had made with no rpoblems.
What do I need to do? If I wipe, what do i wipe? Have TWRP.
Will I loose all my settings and data?
Please help
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Need to wipe before installing. In TWRP, hit Wipe>Swipe to wipe
gmentals said:
Under advanced wipe select the first 4(dalvik,cache,system,data).
Then reflash the Rom.
You will lose settings.
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Do NOT do this. It will wipe everything including your internal SD card
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I did the same thing as you. Mine got caught in a bootloop, I couldn't get the damn thing to force restart either. The bottom home & back key just kept flashing no matter how long I held it. I had to wait forever for the battery to die. I think something might be wrong with the restart fail safe HTC built in. So I relocked it, flashed back to stock, go to sprint store of course it reboots perfect every time. The people at the store are morons I hate going there. The guy says to me you just hold it down and the restart menu will come up. I'm like if the phone is frozen that doesn't work. None the less I don't expect them to replace something that is working. So I re-unlocked, cleared everything and installed latest build fresh works great haven't had any issue. I didn't back up either so I had to re set everything up which takes forever. I'm not a fan of restoring backups anyway as it can cause issues. I will be doing a nandroid next time and be more careful with dirty flashing. I always dirty flashed on MeanBean on my LTE without issues and Mike made it very clear when dirty update was not advised. In my opinion they shouldn't release a major update that will bootloop a phone over goo manger. It's still my fault but I didn't think twice about it when I tried to update viper. It still pisses me off that I have to fight with it to get the phone to reboot, the entire point of a fail safe is incase something goes wrong. It's the first time I have ever bootlooped a phone.
Do NOT do this. It will wipe everything including your internal SD card
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I do this everytime I flash a new Rom and it doesn't wipe my internal SD...
Thanks all, I am just where I was. so many opinions and would like to have a concensus.
It won't wipe internal unless you specifically check it in advanced. Never wipe internal, but davlic, cache, data and system are fine and constitutes a full wipe..you should always wipe that way when trying different roms or going to a new base. Or use a superwipe script to make things easier.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2237021
[TOOL]smw6180 Superwipe
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Mrlakadaddy is absolutely correct.
Consensus achieved
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OK here it goes. Went to advanced, wiped all except internal. will see how it goes.
scottspa74 said:
Mrlakadaddy is absolutely correct.
Consensus achieved
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What's up Scott did you get a One?
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All went well and am on the new base. Only, I lost all my settings and it is such a pain to recreate all the screens, shortcuts, sign ons and accounts...
Thanks to all.
same problem
ive had the same problem, i actually had to use the ruu to get back to stock, unlocked it again s-off rooted and no matter what i do everytime i install any custom rom it goes into bootloop. ive tried every rom on here i cant even get viperrom to fully boot up. looking thru all the forums nobody has a clear answer as to why this is happening.
im stuck in boot loop after the viper rom and i just got it yesterday .. i dont know what to do at this point . when it does boot it ask me for the wifi login and fails says poor connection when its right next to me
Boot Loop
I'm also stuck in boot loop. I've done research and tried all kinds of stuff with no luck. This is what I get...
Phone boots
I get the notification bar and a black screen
Can't do anything with that.
After about a minute, it reboots.
Can anyone help with this? I have the 1.31 version. Clearing cache/data/delvik does nothing for me.
Can someone help me get it back to stock, or at least usable?
Thanks in advance.
erickr5 said:
ive had the same problem, i actually had to use the ruu to get back to stock, unlocked it again s-off rooted and no matter what i do everytime i install any custom rom it goes into bootloop. ive tried every rom on here i cant even get viperrom to fully boot up. looking thru all the forums nobody has a clear answer as to why this is happening.
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Are you wiping before you flash a new rom?
matt406regal said:
im stuck in boot loop after the viper rom and i just got it yesterday .. i dont know what to do at this point . when it does boot it ask me for the wifi login and fails says poor connection when its right next to me
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Same question are you wiping before flashing a new rom?
huebenthal said:
I'm also stuck in boot loop. I've done research and tried all kinds of stuff with no luck. This is what I get...
Phone boots
I get the notification bar and a black screen
Can't do anything with that.
After about a minute, it reboots.
Can anyone help with this? I have the 1.31 version. Clearing cache/data/delvik does nothing for me.
Can someone help me get it back to stock, or at least usable?
Thanks in advance.
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RUU following this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2390821
All of you should really start your own topic so people see it and help you.
I've rooted my phone and downloaded ROM manager off the Google Play store. I'm assuming I need that to flash ROM's and such. I don't want a custom ROM like cyanogen or anything like that. I'm just interested in a few mods to enhance my display. Do I need clockworkmod in order to install them or can I just install zip files?
I'm still fresh as a newborn when it comes to stuff like this, despite being on my third Xperia device and being on here for a good few years. I can never feel confident enough to just 'try' and this phone cost me a fortune so I'd rather not mess it up.
Any help greatly appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275632
Doesn't really help to just throw a url at me. I read through those posts but it didn't mention anything I'm looking for. Thanks though.
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Nifnodge said:
I read through those posts but it didn't mention anything I'm looking for.
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Then you've not read enough.
Is it this bit - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606
And specifically the windows installer part. I've already rooted and I have a locked bootloader so I just want to be able to flash bits and bobs so would the windows installer bit be what I want?
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Anyone else with some actual insight into my question, thanks...
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your just too lazy...its literally on the first post of his link. hope u dont go through life expecting people to hold ur hands and point you to things
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606
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or this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2167381
Nifnodge said:
so I just want to be able to flash bits and bobs so would the windows installer bit be what I want?
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Or use the app, it's up to you.
I've rooted .434 and removed quite a bit of bloatware. Will that matter if I use the installer?
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Nifnodge said:
I've rooted .434 and removed quite a bit of bloatware. Will that matter if I use the installer?
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No. Just play about, if you screw up reflash and start again.
XperienceD said:
No. Just play about, if you screw up reflash and start again.
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OK so I used the app from here:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2187363
Installed and tested it while booting. No problems there. So now, do I just download any mods and roms and then open CMW while booting to install them?
I installed ROM manager from the G-Play store. Is that ok to use?
Edit 1
Decided to do a small test. Tried to install this:- http://www.mediafire.com/download/61y6tfgf4g6n4rq/Xperia_Z_Reboot_253_ODEX.zip
Which is a restart option added to the power button menu. Went to CMW and installed zip from SD, backed up beforehand and then said success but got stuck in bootloop so restored backup.
Now I'm kinda worried about what I can and can't install, lol..
Edit 2
Recovery won't even start now. I hammer the volume keys but it just boots up.
Nifnodge said:
OK so I used the app from here:- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2187363
Installed and tested it while booting. No problems there. So now, do I just download any mods and roms and then open CMW while booting to install them?
I installed ROM manager from the G-Play store. Is that ok to use?
Edit 1
Decided to do a small test. Tried to install this:- http://www.mediafire.com/download/61y6tfgf4g6n4rq/Xperia_Z_Reboot_253_ODEX.zip
Which is a restart option added to the power button menu. Went to CMW and installed zip from SD, backed up beforehand and then said success but got stuck in bootloop so restored backup.
Now I'm kinda worried about what I can and can't install, lol..
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Recovery won't even start now. I hammer the volume keys but it just boots up.
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...use flashtool to flash a ftf to fix, you softbrick ur phone.
Everything works. It just won't open cwm.
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My HTC One is with Rogers and I had it rooted using the all in one toolkit. The last time it was running I was on the Nandroid backup as listed below which comes unrooted, but I rooted it with CWM recovery. .
Nandroid Backup: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207874, in particular Rogers Nandroid Backup from Whampahoofus
(http://bugsylawson.com/files/file/1857-m7-cwm-nandroid-backup-cid-roger001-12963117/)
So tonight I decided to go and unroot and flash the stock recovery because there was an OTA update available but would not install due to custom recovery. I followed the same process which is restore the nandroid backup from Whampahoofus as it is by default unrooted, I restored my data from tonights nandroid backup, booted up fine and tested that I was able to use the phone as is. I then went ahead and flashed the stock recovery (which is below)
Stock Recovery : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270552&page=3
Success, I now had stock recovery, and unrooted. I didn't relock my bootloader as I didnt feel it was necessary just to successfully install an OTA update. I went ahead and it did go through and download the OTA, it started to install the downloaded OTA and about a quarter of the way through the progress bar, it is still there. Going for the past >30 minutes now. I cant seem to reboot out of it or anything. Thankfully cause that would probably be a bad idea if it was still going.
Anyway, anyone experience this before or have suggestions?
cue_32 said:
My HTC One is with Rogers and I had it rooted using the all in one toolkit. The last time it was running I was on the Nandroid backup as listed below which comes unrooted, but I rooted it with CWM recovery. .
Nandroid Backup: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207874, in particular Rogers Nandroid Backup from Whampahoofus
(http://bugsylawson.com/files/file/1857-m7-cwm-nandroid-backup-cid-roger001-12963117/)
So tonight I decided to go and unroot and flash the stock recovery because there was an OTA update available but would not install due to custom recovery. I followed the same process which is restore the nandroid backup from Whampahoofus as it is by default unrooted, I restored my data from tonights nandroid backup, booted up fine and tested that I was able to use the phone as is. I then went ahead and flashed the stock recovery (which is below)
Stock Recovery : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270552&page=3
Success, I now had stock recovery, and unrooted. I didn't relock my bootloader as I didnt feel it was necessary just to successfully install an OTA update. I went ahead and it did go through and download the OTA, it started to install the downloaded OTA and about a quarter of the way through the progress bar, it is still there. Going for the past >30 minutes now. I cant seem to reboot out of it or anything. Thankfully cause that would probably be a bad idea if it was still going.
Anyway, anyone experience this before or have suggestions?
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Mine also hanged during update and required the "press power under bright light" trick. Then after reboot it hanged again (for 30-40 minutes) and i restarted it. After the second restart it rebooted successfully BUT the sdcard contents were still under /data/media instead of /data/media/0 so i rooted and moved the files manually from adb shell.
It is recommended to flash the original RUU... After that, you shouldn't face any issues during OTA... I did the similar process as you, but i was getting a red triangle on OTA update process....
I flashed RUU and everything went smoothly then.
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mathrania said:
It is recommended to flash the original RUU... After that, you shouldn't face any issues during OTA... I did the similar process as you, but i was getting a red triangle on OTA update process....
I flashed RUU and everything went smoothly then.
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Problem is there is no original RUU yet for Rogers... any suggestions?
samflorin said:
Mine also hanged during update and required the "press power under bright light" trick. Then after reboot it hanged again (for 30-40 minutes) and i restarted it. After the second restart it rebooted successfully BUT the sdcard contents were still under /data/media instead of /data/media/0 so i rooted and moved the files manually from adb shell.
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I'm gonna look for the steps for 'press power under bright light', as straight forward as that may sound. =)
Thanks
cue_32 said:
Problem is there is no original RUU yet for Rogers... any suggestions?
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I dont have any other idea...but you can request ROGERS RUU on the XDA thread...may be someone having it is willing to share it with you...
cue_32 said:
I'm gonna look for the steps for 'press power under bright light', as straight forward as that may sound. =)
Thanks
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That's easy. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=42284914&postcount=2
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Thanks for all your help, bright light trick did it.
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mathrania said:
I dont have any other idea...but you can request ROGERS RUU on the XDA thread...may be someone having it is willing to share it with you...
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I've tried everywhere to look for a stock recovery image for ROGERS HTC one or Rogers RUU.. I'm tired.... please someone help. I just need to get my phone back to normal, how it use to update automatically through stock recovery.. I currently have a ROGERS HTC one, unlocked bootloader rooted and CWM.. I'm almost there I just need these files!
Thanks,
Nuj
evox2012 said:
I've tried everywhere to look for a stock recovery image for ROGERS HTC one or Rogers RUU.. I'm tired.... please someone help. I just need to get my phone back to normal, how it use to update automatically through stock recovery.. I currently have a ROGERS HTC one, unlocked bootloader rooted and CWM.. I'm almost there I just need these files!
Thanks,
Nuj
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Try sending a PM to LlabTooFeR, he might be able to help you out. I had a similar issue earlier this year with a HOS RUU.
Good luck.
Sousou
fansou55 said:
Try sending a PM to LlabTooFeR, he might be able to help you out. I had a similar issue earlier this year with a HOS RUU.
Good luck.
Sousou
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Thanks!
EDIT: Per gharlane00's post below on 11/06/13, TiBu has apparently fixed this issue with a new release.
I found this out the hard way, but TiBu is broken on S4's that go to 4.3. Here's their warning:
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/latest-news/attention-samsung-s4-users.html
If you restore any apps with it, you'll get a security warning when running it, if it runs at all. I've been slowly restoring everything one app/setting at a time. Frustrating to say the least when I paid for TiBu to do it for me.
On this subject, does anyone know if just restoring the "data" from TWRP will just intall apps/settings from MF9 to MJA? I'd guess it's not a good idea, but curious if anyone knew for sure.
jejb said:
I found this out the hard way, but TiBu is broken on S4's that go to 4.3. Here's their warning:
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/latest-news/attention-samsung-s4-users.html
If you restore any apps with it, you'll get a security warning when running it, if it runs at all. I've been slowly restoring everything one app/setting at a time. Frustrating to say the least when I paid for TiBu to do it for me.
On this subject, does anyone know if just restoring the "data" from TWRP will just intall apps/settings from MF9 to MJA? I'd guess it's not a good idea, but curious if anyone knew for sure.
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It borked my phone terribly. Got tired of uninstalling/reinstalling each app due to force closes. I then decided to wipe my phone and then it soft bricked.. been that way for 2 days. Avoid TiBackup like the plague until they resolve their issues.
jejb said:
I found this out the hard way, but TiBu is broken on S4's that go to 4.3. Here's their warning:
http://www.titaniumtrack.com/latest-news/attention-samsung-s4-users.html
If you restore any apps with it, you'll get a security warning when running it, if it runs at all. I've been slowly restoring everything one app/setting at a time. Frustrating to say the least when I paid for TiBu to do it for me.
On this subject, does anyone know if just restoring the "data" from TWRP will just intall apps/settings from MF9 to MJA? I'd guess it's not a good idea, but curious if anyone knew for sure.
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Yep, happened to me to. To fix the issue, go back into stock recovery and do a factory reset. Or just forgot about Samsung's crappy update and flash an AOSP rom like I did.
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I saw some were having trouble with TB so before I upgraded I backed everything up with TB, then I did a factory reset in recovery. I then odined the mf9 full tar file to bring me to completely stock. I then ran cf autoroot on the stock mf9. Loaded up TB and restored everything I wanted restored with TB. This left me with a stock rooted mf9 with all the apps and data restored. I then installed the MJA update using the stock recovery. This way I didn't have to restore my apps after the MJA update since I heard TB was not working right after the update. Hopefully this helps some people that don't want to lose their game progress or app data.
I've never been a fan of tb kinda glad now I've been using mybackup pro and everything went smooth for me
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maxpower7 said:
Yep, happened to me to. To fix the issue, go back into stock recovery and do a factory reset.
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Sorry, a little confused by your answer. Are you saying after doing a stock recovery factory reset, TB would restore the apps for you? If not, what did you use to recover your apps (if anything worked for you at all)?
jejb said:
Sorry, a little confused by your answer. Are you saying after doing a stock recovery factory reset, TB would restore the apps for you? If not, what did you use to recover your apps (if anything worked for you at all)?
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Sorry, I should've been clearer. Doing a factory reset allowed me to have a usable phone again. It didn't fix the problem of not being able to use TB.
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The reason for this is selinux.
I'll post a flashable boot.img with the danged thing disabled tomorrow.
CNexus said:
The reason for this is selinux.
I'll post a flashable boot.img with the danged thing disabled tomorrow.
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Can you give us more info on it? I can't find it in App Manager, etc. Thanks.
selinux is part of Linux. It wasn't present in earlier versions of Android. You won't find it in app manager because it's not an app.
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afazel said:
selinux is part of Linux. It wasn't present in earlier versions of Android. You won't find it in app manager because it's not an app.
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I wasn't sure either... googled it. SELinux = Security-Enhanced Linux.
What caught my eye was that it was started by none other than the NSA back in 2000. You know, because the NSA is so concerned about making sure prying eyes can't get to your stuff.
I know it's open source and all, but still, makes ya think...
There is an app in the play store called TB restore fixer, it's supposed to solve the problem of restoring with TB on a 4.3 phone. It was written for the Note 3 but may work for us too.
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cruise350 said:
There is an app in the play store called TB restore fixer, it's supposed to solve the problem of restoring with TB on a 4.3 phone. It was written for the Note 3 but may work for us too.
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WOW good find! Now to see if it works. Have you tried it yet?
ChadH42 said:
WOW good find! Now to see if it works. Have you tried it yet?
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From the reviews it sounds like it has fixed other S4 issues, so it should be safe
I just got an update to Titanium that supposedly fixed the problem with system apps (see changelog)
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I just got an update to Titanium that supposedly fixed the problem with system apps (see changelog)
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I don't think that new update (from today) fixed it, I just restored a backup for an app and it keeps telling me about there was an app it stopped for bad behavior. I also tried the TB restore fixer, didn't work for one app for me. I only tried one so far. I will try a couple more...
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likearaptor said:
I don't think that new update (from today) fixed it, I just restored a backup for an app and it keeps telling me about there was an app it stopped for bad behavior. I also tried the TB restore fixer, didn't work for one app for me. I only tried one so far. I will try a couple more...
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Never mind, the TB Restore Fixer did work. You still get a notification in the status bar but the application does not force close and you can continue to use it. I only got one notice. So after getting one notice, I cleared it and then went back into the app and didn't get a second notice. So that is better than nothing
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One last update, so I force closed the app I restored, opened it up again and I did get the security warning again in the notification. But it is a small price to pay if you have an important app that you have valuable data that needs to be restored now.
likearaptor said:
I don't think that new update (from today) fixed it, I just restored a backup for an app and it keeps telling me about there was an app it stopped for bad behavior. I also tried the TB restore fixer, didn't work for one app for me. I only tried one so far. I will try a couple more...
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Never mind, the TB Restore Fixer did work. You still get a notification in the status bar but the application does not force close and you can continue to use it. I only got one notice. So after getting one notice, I cleared it and then went back into the app and didn't get a second notice. So that is better than nothing
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One last update, so I force closed the app I restored, opened it up again and I did get the security warning again in the notification. But it is a small price to pay if you have an important app that you have valuable data that needs to be restored now.
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I just wanna restore my data for Zombie Gunner lol... Im gonna try it now myself....
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TB Fixer worked for me.
Restored my phone log and old messages without a problem. Haven't been able to restore data on the few apps I tried.
Edit: I just tried TB Restore Fixer from the play store. I manually installed the app and used Fixer. It hung on the first attempt but had already applied the fix. After a reboot, the second app worked great.
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Here's what i did and i kept everything. I was currently on a stock rooted mf9 rom, i downloaded the 1click odin stock mf9 Tar and flashed that to unroot myself and get rid of my custom recovery. This way, i didnt need a factory reset and all my apps and data were still there. Then i just downloaded the ota MJA and flashed that through the stock recovery thus getting me to MJA with everything working and my apps and data on there too. After that, i got some force closes cause NOVA u have to be rooted to use nova launcher. I then odin the CF-Auto root file and downloaded su from market and updated it. after that everything worked fine. for now im not going to risk getting any custom recoveries. So im just on stock rooted MJA for now and everything works good. If you guys would like me to post the links to the files i used. just quote me x).
Can I install stock recovery and then try to take a ota to update. Will I loose root and will I loose my rom? Will I be able to reinstall a rom or will I need to reroot?
you can try, you shouldn't loose root or anything but once you have unlocked and flashed stuff I doubt stock recovery will like your system enough to take the update. try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53518227
HOW Change ...... ???
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From my understanding, as long as /system is stock, you can install the stock recovery and then take the OTA. Afterwards, you'll need to re-root your phone. Make a backup of your current setup before you get started. Once you've taken the update and get rooted again, you can always restore your backup.
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Magnum enforcer is correct.
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I will give it a try this weekend and let you know how it goes.
Edit does not work but thanks for helping me.
Must be the fact that I am s on. We need that s off before we can do anything as far as updating
This one is tricky. I flashed the stock rooted rom from mikmik, I then unrooted and flashed the stock recovery via fast boot. When applying the Ota, it fails because the build.prop is not stock. Comes back with an error like /system/build.prop unexpected.
dilaynie said:
This one is tricky. I flashed the stock rooted rom from mikmik, I then unrooted and flashed the stock recovery via fast boot. When applying the Ota, it fails because the build.prop is not stock. Comes back with an error like /system/build.prop unexpected.
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I just tried it to and did the same exact thing except I had boot loops as we'll.
when I flashed back to the stock recovery to take the recent OTA, I had a reboot bootloop like every 2-3 minutes, I was ready to throw the phone against a wall, then it hit that I read recently someone else had the same issue, and mentioned a factory reset fixing the issue, yup after a factory reset, the reboot bootloop was gone, I just now rerooted and flashed a backup
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scott_0 said:
when I flashed back to the stock recovery to take the recent OTA, I had a reboot bootloop like every 2-3 minutes, I was ready to throw the phone against a wall, then it hit that I read recently someone else had the same issue, and mentioned a factory reset fixing the issue, yup after a factory reset, the reboot bootloop was gone, I just now rerooted and flashed a backup
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But after all that we're you able to update the radio and second did it fix the signal issues?
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But after all that we're you able to update the radio and second did it fix the signal issues?
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yes, I was able to take the latest OTA, and no, it did not help with my signal at all, my device didn't drop calls or anything, but it has a hard time latching onto lte at times before and after the OTA.......
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Do we know how to get passed the build.prop error?
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this might be a really stupid question (and my first post no less), but does performing a factory reset take me back to stock, unrooted form?
currently i am rooted with S-on, TWRP and Chainfire SU.
i followed a youtube video to root and im basically clueless with regards to doing anything more.
thanks in advance.
Tbaggington said:
this might be a really stupid question (and my first post no less), but does performing a factory reset take me back to stock, unrooted form?
currently i am rooted with S-on, TWRP and Chainfire SU.
i followed a youtube video to root and im basically clueless with regards to doing anything more.
thanks in advance.
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no, a factory reset will not unroot you, you need to restore a stock backup, then flash stock recovery in fastboot to unroot while s-on
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no, a factory reset will not unroot you, you need to restore a stock backup, then flash stock recovery in fastboot to unroot while s-on
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Thank you. I saved a stock backup (i think) while rooting so ill see what i can do tonight. fastboot is the white background screen that uses volume buttons to select, right?
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Thank you. I saved a stock backup (i think) while rooting so ill see what i can do tonight. fastboot is the white background screen that uses volume buttons to select, right?
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yes sir, power off the phone completely, hold down power and volume down, select fastboot
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Hey everyone.
I've spent the better of the last three hour scouring the inter webs, Google, and these forums trying to find the answers to my questions - but to no avail (I've found partial answers, but I am afraid a partial answer could lead to a total brick).
Here we go:
I bought one of the first Sprint HTC One M8's through Amazon. Here are the details:
Model: 831C
Android Version 4.4.2
Software Version 1.12.651.17
Unlocked but S-On (Using TWRP)
Naturally, right out of the box I rooted it. However, I did not save the original ROM.
* I want to restore the phone to its original state so I can accept the OTA update and hopefully address the god-awful cell signal.
I've found a lot of stock recoveries online, but none that match 1.12.651.17.
Do I need to find that specific recovery to flash to my phone? Will another one work (e.g. 1.54.654.13)?
I've never worried about saving my stock recovery in the past (been rooting since the HTC Evo days) but it looks like not doing so finally caught up with me.
Thanks in advance.
PS I did find something 1.12.651.17 related here, but how to flash this to my phone (or whether or not it will brick) is beyond me. I've downloaded all 6 files and am waiting to figure out how the heck to get them to my phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2736048