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[SOLVED]Black screen after bootscreen.

Sorry for posting here, I realized after I posted it, I usualy read only this subforum, my bad, someone move it please. Sorry again!
Hey, I am scared out of my mind, the whole day i tried to install maxisma's latest ROM and I used switchrom to restore 2-3 times my slacerxs/dwang ROM.
My problem is that I gave up trying to install Maxisma's ROM and I restored with switchrom a ROM of mine and I see the T-Mobile Logo (recovery Works) and them the ROM's loading screen for 10-20 seconds, and then the screens turns black, it is backlighted, but blank screen, and it remains like that .... I tried to restore a even older ROM (original dwang1.13) and it does exactly the same.
What is the problem I really hope I didn't bricked my phone, of course I did all the wipe repartition ext things.

dont do a restore FLASH a new rom not restore you should be fine fyi post this in q&a next time hope they dont flame you to bad

r_dub said:
dont do a restore FLASH a new rom not restore you should be fine fyi post this in q&a next time hope they dont flame you to bad
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Sh*t, didn't realize that! I am formatting my SD Card and then I will install a fresh ROM, no backups and so on.

m3s_4ev3r said:
Sh*t, didn't realize that! I am formatting my SD Card and then I will install a fresh ROM, no backups and so on.
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Yeah flash a new rom sign in just to make sure its okay then you should probably be able to do switchrom back to one of your custom mods

Me too
I had exactly the same problem yesterday, no idea what the actual cause was but the only way to fix it was to do a Nandroid restore of a previous ROM.

r_dub said:
Yeah flash a new rom sign in just to make sure its okay then you should probably be able to do switchrom back to one of your custom mods
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Thanks, I was 'trigger'(keyboard) happy, thing is maxisma's 2.0 ROM really pissed me off ), right then I really thought i did some damage to my phone through countless flashing. I think imma stay with my custom ROM(if I get it to work) for a while now, this can't be healthy, all this flashing )
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ghostofcain said:
I had exactly the same problem yesterday, no idea what the actual cause was but the only way to fix it was to do a Nandroid restore of a previous ROM.
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In my case by doing a nandroid restore it won't work, I will format my SD now(X-Tremely SLOWW, hard format) and let's hope for the best.
EDIT: SOLVED, a entire format really helped.

tried searching, no answers found

I have a samsung galaxy exhibit II 4g. I would like to root it and put Cm10.1 on it. can anyone point me towards a step by step? I've done it on the nook.

OK well first you need two files 1. A custom recovery cwm or twrp 2. Grab the rooted stock file located here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686384
Flash your recovery reboot wipe everything then install the rooted stock file when it boots check and see if superuser or su is installed if so your root and then find the rom you like wipe then flash then your done.
Make sure you back up your contacts photos or anything you need before wiping or it will be erased.
Please note to those who's going to say there no need to wipe i do it to avoid any fc's taking the extra step aint going to hurt.

I would also make a nandroid backup just in case
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You can just flash a ROM after you install a recovery. No need to root a ROM you are just going to replace.

meekrawb said:
You can just flash a ROM after you install a recovery. No need to root a ROM you are just going to replace.
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Not all ROM are rooted unless stated in the op

still no answers-please help
I have asked a few places, all wrong I am sure of it. Newbie! I have successfully rooted. Successfully been using 10.1. I am just having a hard time getting the swap sd function that is right for this phone. some zips don't show up on my sd card during recovery. so that just tells me I need to try something new. I even tried starting over and attempting slim bean and aoim 1.0. these weren't there either. For fear of totally jacking up my phone. I will stick with 10.1 I like it and it is working.
to make a long story short. anyone know of a sd swap that will work on this phone? please include instructions if possible. I am loosing my mind. and I know it has to be a simple fix and probably a really dumb oversite on my end, I can admit it. I need my music and need to take pics that I can save!
Thanks guys
schuylkillparanormal said:
Not all ROM are rooted unless stated in the op
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jmcpheeters said:
I have asked a few places, all wrong I am sure of it. Newbie! I have successfully rooted. Successfully been using 10.1. I am just having a hard time getting the swap sd function that is right for this phone. some zips don't show up on my sd card during recovery. so that just tells me I need to try something new. I even tried starting over and attempting slim bean and aoim 1.0. these weren't there either. For fear of totally jacking up my phone. I will stick with 10.1 I like it and it is working.
to make a long story short. anyone know of a sd swap that will work on this phone? please include instructions if possible. I am loosing my mind. and I know it has to be a simple fix and probably a really dumb oversite on my end, I can admit it. I need my music and need to take pics that I can save!
Thanks guys
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If you want to use aoip, i can walk you through it, couldn't be easier to swap sd on aoip and it works great.
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yes please
That would be awesome! Is there anything special to remove 10.1 and are the gapps the same?

For best results wipe 3x flash ROM then gapps. Whenever you flash a new ROM you lose gapps unless they are included.
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jmcpheeters said:
That would be awesome! Is there anything special to remove 10.1 and are the gapps the same?
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When you do a wipe and install aoip and it's gapp's let me know, I'll subscribe to this topic so I get a notification when your ready
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Here is a walk through for you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341881
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schuylkillparanormal said:
OK well first you need two files 1. A custom recovery cwm or twrp 2. Grab the rooted stock file located here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686384
Flash your recovery reboot wipe everything then install the rooted stock file when it boots check and see if superuser or su is installed if so your root and then find the rom you like wipe then flash then your done.
Make sure you back up your contacts photos or anything you need before wiping or it will be erased.
Please note to those who's going to say there no need to wipe i do it to avoid any fc's taking the extra step aint going to hurt.
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reckin i'll be able to get cm10.1 with gapps on it?

vikingmedic said:
reckin i'll be able to get cm10.1 with gapps on it?
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There should be a link in the op for gapps

thanks
wiped 3x. put it on my sd card. still cant put it on this darn phone!!!!
[\\QUOTE=mwhitt;43026239]When you do a wipe and install aoip and it's gapp's let me know, I'll subscribe to this topic so I get a notification when your ready
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no matter how many times I wipe my sd card and re copy the zip files over, they aren't showing up on my sd during recovery mode.
mwhitt said:
When you do a wipe and install aoip and it's gapp's let me know, I'll subscribe to this topic so I get a notification when your ready
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What recovery are you using
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clockwork mod
mwhitt said:
What recovery are you using
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What version
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2.0
sorry for the time lag in response. but I am new so I am moderated. no biggie. I appreciate the help
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What version
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What version of cwm, what size is your sd card?
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it just says clockworkmod . i'm sorry. mayby 2.0 isn't right. I have a completely empty 16gb sd card
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What version of cwm, what size is your sd card?
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[Q] proper data directory after flash

I'm currently running ViperROM v1.1.0
I decided to try the CyanogenMod 10.13RC2 to check it out and see if I wanted to switch.
In TWRP (v2.5), did a nandroid backup, wiped, then flashed new CM. Upon rebooting, ASOP something kept crashing, but error message went away to fast for me to see it. Regardless, decided didn't want to keep it, until a Stable version is released.
Went back to TWRP, wiped System/Data/Boot/Cache, then went to restore, and none of my backups were listed. At first I thought I screwed up, or forgot to backup, did a little research, found that if installing a 4.3 ROM where a 4.2 ROM used to be, a /sdcard/0/ directory is created, and everything gets moved there.
Moved my TWRP backup files into /data/media/0/TWRP/Backups/ and was able to sucessfully restore my nandroid backup, so I think I'm back to normal now.
My question is, what is my default directory now, and where should my files be located?
/sdcard/ ? or /sdcard/0/ ?
As a follow up, if it is /sdcard/0/ now, is there any way to restore it so it's not longer looking in the /0 subdirectory?

Zxurian said:
Went back to TWRP, wiped System/Data/Boot/Cache, then went to restore, and none of my backups were listed. At first I thought I screwed up, or forgot to backup, did a little research, found that if installing a 4.3 ROM where a 4.2 ROM used to be, a /sdcard/0/ directory is created, and everything gets moved there.
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I think you mean going from 4.1 to 4.2. 4.3 isn't officially out yet.

Zxurian said:
I'm currently running ViperROM v1.1.0
I decided to try the CyanogenMod 10.13RC2 to check it out and see if I wanted to switch.
In TWRP (v2.5), did a nandroid backup, wiped, then flashed new CM. Upon rebooting, ASOP something kept crashing, but error message went away to fast for me to see it. Regardless, decided didn't want to keep it, until a Stable version is released.
Went back to TWRP, wiped System/Data/Boot/Cache, then went to restore, and none of my backups were listed. At first I thought I screwed up, or forgot to backup, did a little research, found that if installing a 4.3 ROM where a 4.2 ROM used to be, a /sdcard/0/ directory is created, and everything gets moved there.
Moved my TWRP backup files into /data/media/0/TWRP/Backups/ and was able to sucessfully restore my nandroid backup, so I think I'm back to normal now.
My question is, what is my default directory now, and where should my files be located?
/sdcard/ ? or /sdcard/0/ ?
As a follow up, if it is /sdcard/0/ now, is there any way to restore it so it's not longer looking in the /0 subdirectory?
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This post explains it all
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2304138

jdjohn said:
I think you mean going from 4.1 to 4.2. 4.3 isn't officially out yet.
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correct, my mistake
budeone said:
This post explains it all
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2304138
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Thank you for the link. Tried searching ahead of time and knew the cause, but didn't find this post that explains how to get around it / restore it to pre 4.2.

Zxurian said:
correct, my mistake
Thank you for the link. Tried searching ahead of time and knew the cause, but didn't find this post that explains how to get around it / restore it to pre 4.2.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42512892

[Q] CWM Backup taking more than an hour?

So I decided today to make a CWM backup, because I do that from time to time. I deleted my old backup from within ROM Manager, then clicked the option in the Manager to create new backup. I've never done that before (I usually just go directly to recovery from power off and then select backup in there).
I left it to do the backup, left, and checked again in about ten minutes, the amount of time it usually takes. It was not finished. I left it and forgot about it for at least an hour. It was still on "data" when I checked again.
In the end, it probably took about an hour and a half at least. What is going on? (At first I thought it was because I deleted the backup before making a new one, so it had to make lots of new files, but I just made a second backup to test, and it's taking the same time. This has never happened before.)
EDIT: So now I'm fairly sure what's happening is that it's backing up my SD card as well. So now I'm just wondering what in the world caused it to start doing that and how should I turn it off?

Which version are you on? I read complaints from other people about the time it took to backup/restore, and improvements in a later version. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to specifics but I held off upgrading until I confirm it's OK again.

Did you figure this out? It's been backing up my One for an hour already and normally takes 10 mins or so too! Still spinning through text as it's backing up data, but it's been going for a long time. Scared to interrupt it
Edit. So new ROM beta had bad dialer and had to restore looong backup. It took just as looong to restore. Thought I'd restore to a 4.3 backup and it was 3 mins. So maybe it has to do with Kitkat backups. I was running CM Kitkat beta 5....now back on Slim 4.3.1
iarejohnsmith said:
So I decided today to make a CWM backup, because I do that from time to time. I deleted my old backup from within ROM Manager, then clicked the option in the Manager to create new backup. I've never done that before (I usually just go directly to recovery from power off and then select backup in there).
I left it to do the backup, left, and checked again in about ten minutes, the amount of time it usually takes. It was not finished. I left it and forgot about it for at least an hour. It was still on "data" when I checked again.
In the end, it probably took about an hour and a half at least. What is going on? (At first I thought it was because I deleted the backup before making a new one, so it had to make lots of new files, but I just made a second backup to test, and it's taking the same time. This has never happened before.)
EDIT: So now I'm fairly sure what's happening is that it's backing up my SD card as well. So now I'm just wondering what in the world caused it to start doing that and how should I turn it off?
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deeevan said:
Which version are you on? I read complaints from other people about the time it took to backup/restore, and improvements in a later version. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to specifics but I held off upgrading until I confirm it's OK again.
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Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking this thread lol. I am on ARHD 22.0 so 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.0, latest ROM Manager and latest recovery (flashed it manually).
In the end, I didn't really get a solution. The one thing that I noticed that was different was that it looked like it was mounting the internal SD before backup, so it could be possibly backing up my 17GB storage. It doesn't seem to be any corruption issue.
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Did you figure this out? It's been backing up my One for an hour already and normally takes 10 mins or so too! Still spinning through text as it's backing up data, but it's been going for a long time. Scared to interrupt it
Edit. So new ROM beta had bad dialer and had to restore looong backup. It took just as looong to restore. Thought I'd restore to a 4.3 backup and it was 3 mins. So maybe it has to do with Kitkat backups. I was running CM Kitkat beta 5....now back on Slim 4.3.1
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I never really got an answer, sorry. I am on ARHD 22.0, 4.3 with Sense 5.0. I think it may just be the fact that it's backing up my 17GB virtual SD data haha. But I don't know for sure since I haven't had to do a full restore yet, thankfully.
If that's the case, I wonder why they don't have a selection for what you want to include in the backup, although I think you can probably try backing up each individual thing in "advanced". Maybe I'll try that and see if the total time is less, next time I make a backup.

Had the same issues with backups taking 30/45mins on my One, i now switched to TWRP, and i can get it backed up in less than 5 minuites with the same amount of data..

iarejohnsmith said:
Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking this thread lol. I am on ARHD 22.0 so 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.0, latest ROM Manager and latest recovery (flashed it manually).
In the end, I didn't really get a solution. The one thing that I noticed that was different was that it looked like it was mounting the internal SD before backup, so it could be possibly backing up my 17GB storage. It doesn't seem to be any corruption issue.
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I meant which version of CWM Since you said latest version, I'll assume you mean 6.0.4.x.
I still have 6.0.3.6 on my phone but 6.0.4.3 on my tablet. The tablet backup takes excruciatingly long but it's only 1.36gb so I don't think it's including sdcard data. My backup folder is on sdcard with CWM pointing to a symlink so I expect the sdcard to be mounted.

deeevan said:
I meant which version of CWM Since you said latest version, I'll assume you mean 6.0.4.x.
I still have 6.0.3.6 on my phone but 6.0.4.3 on my tablet. The tablet backup takes excruciatingly long but it's only 1.36gb so I don't think it's including sdcard data. My backup folder is on sdcard with CWM pointing to a symlink so I expect the sdcard to be mounted.
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Yeah I have 6.0.4.x. I think the last digit is a 4. Weird. Mine's 2.42 GB, not sure if the size changed from before (even if it did, it definitely didn't change more than 2x, so why would it take 10x longer? lol).

IINexusII said:
Had the same issues with backups taking 30/45mins on my One, i now switched to TWRP, and i can get it backed up in less than 5 minuites with the same amount of data..
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Haha you know it's CWM 4 lyf tho. I personally just can't deal with the TWRP interface. I never even bothered to find out if they could flash the same backups.
Did the backups have the same size?

iarejohnsmith said:
Haha you know it's CWM 4 lyf tho. I personally just can't deal with the TWRP interface. I never even bothered to find out if they could flash the same backups.
Did the backups have the same size?
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The backups are compressed in TWRP so the file sizes are slightly smaller.
I was a CWM for life guy too until i saw the backup speed on twrp, havent looked back since. Just change the theme if you dont like the stock interface

Just to deliver a sense of finality to this thread...
I have finally switched over to TWRP, and it's great.
After reading through numerous comparisons of CWM Recovery and TWRP, I caved and flashed 2.6.3.3, and the backups are made in about 5 minutes max.
So for anyone else having backup troubles on CWM, just try out TWRP. Take it from a hardcore CWM user from the start. :good:

I needed to switch to TWRP to flash ARHD 40.2. The issue I have is what to do with all the CWM backups I have. Particularly the stock ones. I might convert them over, but it's not going to be fun.

complete software backup Note 9

Hey everyone thanks to @BIOKNOX who recently helped me get my Note 9 working again, I want to make a complete software backup. A complete IMAGE of the current software so just in case something goes wrong, I could have somewhere to come back to. So I need help with that. I use twrp will that work? Is their a better software? Will Twrp work the way i want it to? Thank you in advance

BlackJackN9 said:
Hey everyone thanks to @BIOKNOX who recently helped me get my Note 9 working again, I want to make a complete software backup. A complete IMAGE of the current software so just in case something goes wrong, I could have somewhere to come back to. So I need help with that. I use twrp will that work? Is their a better software? Will Twrp work the way i want it to? Thank you in advance
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Since you're using TWRP then that's the best. Make a backup of all partitions. If there is a problem while restoring try to restore one by one, maybe some cannot be restored, can't say nothing here. But a nandroid TWRP backup is the way to go, yes.

koragg97 said:
Since you're using TWRP then that's the best. Make a backup of all partitions. If there is a problem while restoring try to restore one by one, maybe some cannot be restored, can't say nothing here. But a nandroid TWRP backup is the way to go, yes.
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You made me really happy then really sad. xD
anyways thanks
ill try them both.

koragg97 said:
Since you're using TWRP then that's the best. Make a backup of all partitions. If there is a problem while restoring try to restore one by one, maybe some cannot be restored, can't say nothing here. But a nandroid TWRP backup is the way to go, yes.
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Hey, I backed up the file in steps, cause I did not had a big SD card at hand. The problem I am facing is I cannot backup system image. How can I backup that file? Is it important? Btw all back ups are done using twrp and I just realised that I could have just backed everything up in the phone storage and then copied it all as one file on to my laptop.

BlackJackN9 said:
Hey, I backed up the file in steps, cause I did not had a big SD card at hand. The problem I am facing is I cannot backup system image. How can I backup that file? Is it important? Btw all back ups are done using twrp and I just realised that I could have just backed everything up in the phone storage and then copied it all as one file on to my laptop.
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I haven't had any experience with TWRP or such things on phones newer than the Galaxy S5. I don't see a point to root or tinker with my Note 9 as it's perfect stock so can't really test if i can backup the system image myself. All things are important in a backup, is it grayed out or something? I'd always do a full 1 backup though, not in parts. Seems easier to restore later.