Hi there,
I've been using Samsung's XWJVI firmware (2.3.3) for a while and decided to have a look at custom ROMs. So I created a backup using CWM Recovery, flashed the latest Darkys ROM, played around with it and found that I'd want my old system back. After I rebooted the phone into recovery mode and chose to restore my backup, I did not exactly get what I expected.
What CWM successfully recovered:
- my wallpaper
- data such as photos taken by the camera
What CWM apparently forgot to restore:
- my launcher
- my apps
- my google account
- my settings
In other words, the current state of my system is close to factory defaults with slight traces of customization. What am I missing? Is my backup corrupt or am I restoring it incorrectly?
Ok this might sound retarded but I just installed a new rom (temasek's KANG)on my phone after some of you guys suggested it to me.
Anyways, it worked fine, but the ROM doesn't include Google play or Gmail app? wtf? Why would that not be included? I can't do anything without google play I can't install any of my apps...
I tried installed the APK files for google play and when I start it it says :
"You must add an account to the device to continue. Do you want to add one now ?" When I click Yes, the app just closes back to home screen....
The gmail app crashes in a similar way
I've on this for hours.. you can't imagine how much I've been messing with my phone for stuff to work properly and there is always something retarded like this not working... :|
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also I can't seem to be able to delete apps, why is this?
You need to flash a separate addon called gapps which includes essential google files and the market (play store). Gmail is downloadable from market.
Download gapps from here and flash from recovery.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?115vksf8fc32ve6
I also installed the latest Temasek's build but I'm having a problem with battery drain. Back when I used stock based roms and horsepower kernel my phone would lose about 7% battery while it was idle during the night. Now I got to bed and when I wake up my phone has lost 20-30% of its battery. I know this isn't the right forum but since I can't post in dev section and Temasek has replied to this thread maybe I could get a little help?
Help, please!
I'm new here and the first ROM I've tried installing was RC1 91 but after I finished the procedure, my phone doesn´t leave LG home screen and rebooting. What did I do wrong?
Steps:
- Root;
- Download the ROM;
- Copy in external memory;
- Power off the phone;
- Boot in recovery;
- Backup current ROM;
- Wipe cache partition and wipe data/factory reset;
- Wipe dalvik cache
- Finally, flash ROM and reboot.
And the restore isn´t work too.
I have Samsung i897 Captivate (i9000) with SlimICS 4.1.1 Cyanogenmod installed.
Yesterday morning I've found, that my phone is repeatedly show me boot screen (video on boot with many blinking pieces/elements colors shown to me), but did not load an Android at all. I've tried to reboot the phone (with battery eject), but nothing changes: phone shows start-up animations repeatedly.
Last my action evening before was setting alarm (usual task that I've done for one year probably). Dont know what reason to reboot was, maybe no free space available, but dont sure. Before this problem with load I have no problems with phone at all.
I have Clockworkmod installed, but there's no options to boot an Android in safe mode or some similar options. I could get access to the internal phone memory, but not for system partitions. I've tried to wipe dalvik/cache, fix permissions, but no changes at boot.
So could you gents help me to get access to the filesystem: I have memo's & uncynchronised contacts & SMS, which I would like to save before do anything. I know how to reinstall the system (I have backup for it, but not for contacts & memo's).
Thanks.
kalabazoo said:
I have Samsung i897 Captivate (i9000) with SlimICS 4.1.1 Cyanogenmod installed.
Yesterday morning I've found, that my phone is repeatedly show me boot screen (video on boot with many blinking pieces/elements colors shown to me), but did not load an Android at all. I've tried to reboot the phone (with battery eject), but nothing changes: phone shows start-up animations repeatedly.
Last my action evening before was setting alarm (usual task that I've done for one year probably). Dont know what reason to reboot was, maybe no free space available, but dont sure. Before this problem with load I have no problems with phone at all.
I have Clockworkmod installed, but there's no options to boot an Android in safe mode or some similar options. I could get access to the internal phone memory, but not for system partitions. I've tried to wipe dalvik/cache, fix permissions, but no changes at boot.
So could you gents help me to get access to the filesystem: I have memo's & uncynchronised contacts & SMS, which I would like to save before do anything. I know how to reinstall the system (I have backup for it, but not for contacts & memo's).
Thanks.
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The I9000 and the I897 are 2 different phones. I9000 is the international version of the Captivate, therefor, if you flashed the I9000 bootloaders on a I897 Captivate, you'll have distorted colors/screen.
What exactly was done to the phone before this happened?
Pardon, I have AT&T i897 Captivate phone. I did not flashed, nor updated phone, nothing similar, that could affect phone booting process. Just set an alarm (default, from Clocks), then go sleep. In morning found that my phone stuck in boot process - it show boot-up animation but don't load OS.
kalabazoo said:
Pardon, I have AT&T i897 Captivate phone. I did not flashed, nor updated phone, nothing similar, that could affect phone booting process. Just set an alarm (default, from Clocks), then go sleep. In morning found that my phone stuck in boot process - it show boot-up animation but don't load OS.
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Have you tried re-flashing the ROM (Without factory reset)? Wipe cache and dalvik.
BWolf56 said:
Have you tried re-flashing the ROM (Without factory reset)?
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No, I'm no so clean understand reflashing process, so worry to lost my data (I know that my contacts lie here - /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts , but can't found where memo's saved). I could choose "Restore /system" from
"Backup & Resore -> Advanced" in CWM, you mean this?
BWolf56 said:
Wipe cache and dalvik.
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Yes, did it, but no changes at boot at all (wait there >10 minutes).
kalabazoo said:
No, I'm no so clean understand reflashing process, so worry to lost my data (I know that my contacts lie here - /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts , but can't found where memo's saved). I could choose "Restore /system" from
"Backup & Resore -> Advanced" in CWM, you mean this?
Yes, did it, but no changes at boot at all (wait there >10 minutes).
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Reflashing your ROM won't touch your data as long as you don't wipe/factory reset. It's what we call a dirty flash, you just wipe cache/dalvik and flash your ROM again with the Gapps.
Thank you for the way to resolve the problem. Spend some time to understand the process of reflashing. Now I collected all files (bootloader, ROM, essentials, gapps and so on of my actual setup) and ready to reflash it with Heimdall.
But still have a question: is there any possibilities to get access to filesystem (for maybe just copy all files from system partitions into Big Brother) before take action in my case?
Will I get access to my contacts & memo's after reflashing? As I understand, if I reflash phone, /data & /datadata partitions (as part of freshy ROM reinstall) will be touched too, then I lost as minumum link to the Wizard Memo (and I'm not sure that installing it from Google Play will restore access to my memo's).
As you could realise, I have no actual backup of my data, so asking maybe dumb questions (
Could I simple use Clockwork's mod option "Restore /system" & "Restore /data" (as I have it in almost fresh backup - 2 months ago)? Will it be analogue to reflashing? Or it revert /system and /data to the stage when it was make, with contacts, programs and so on with 2 months ago state, not current?
kalabazoo said:
Thank you for the way to resolve the problem. Spend some time to understand the process of reflashing. Now I collected all files (bootloader, ROM, essentials, gapps and so on of my actual setup) and ready to reflash it with Heimdall.
But still have a question: is there any possibilities to get access to filesystem (for maybe just copy all files from system partitions into Big Brother) before take action in my case?
Will I get access to my contacts & memo's after reflashing? As I understand, if I reflash phone, /data & /datadata partitions (as part of freshy ROM reinstall) will be touched too, then I lost as minumum link to the Wizard Memo (and I'm not sure that installing it from Google Play will restore access to my memo's).
As you could realise, I have no actual backup of my data, so asking maybe dumb questions (
Could I simple use Clockwork's mod option "Restore /system" & "Restore /data" (as I have it in almost fresh backup - 2 months ago)? Will it be analogue to reflashing? Or it revert /system and /data to the stage when it was make, with contacts, programs and so on with 2 months ago state, not current?
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I guess i wasn't so clear. What I mean by reflashing is to simply get in recovery mode and reflashing RemICS and their Gapps. Not to start fresh with stock.
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You explained well, errors on my side Resolved this issue with copying all data from filesystem, then reflashing with fresh slimrom . For those who fall into same situation: you could get access to filesystem of your phone trough ADB tool, and just copy sensible data to another partition/SD/device. See QtADB program also, very friendly for that.
I upgraded my Samsung Tablet SGH-T849(P1000) from "cm-11-20140207-NIGHTLY-p1.zip" to "cm-11-20140729-NIGHTLY-p1.zip ".
After the upgrade, most of the Google Apps don't work esp Google Play Store.
I previously had "gapps-kk-20140606-signed.zip" installed.
I have tried to wipe data, wipe cache, re-installed Gapps from different versions but doesn't help. I also downgraded back to "cm-11-20140207-NIGHTLY-p1.zip" but no help either.
I also deleted the google account on the tablet but now I cannot add it back.
Am using CWM-Based Recovery v6.0.5.0
Appreciate any pointers.
I took the below steps and it still doesn't help.
boot to clockworkmod recovery
make a backup
format system
wipe cache
wipe dalvik cache
flash rom
flash gapps
reboot
Also noticed that I was out of space and installed minimal apps and am able to open Play Store but it does not connect to the internet - it just goes into a circular loop and finally says connection timeout...
This post helped. http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/...unning-cm11-google-play-services-not-working/ but it doesn't resolve the play store unable to connect to internet
Since you can't really uninstall or reinstall gapps, did you format system, re flash rom, re flash gapps, after you realised the lack of space?
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Hello guys,
My Huawei Mate 20 lite has just updated to latest firmware (SNE-LX1 8.2.0.138(C432))
Now all application notifications are gone from the drawer and the lock screen. I have tried enabling all possible settings, including ignoring battery saver, allowing to draw over other apps, etc.
All messengers get just a dot on the icon - no banner, no lockscreen notification.
Spotify and Poweramp have no drawer and no lockscreen control as well - to skip a song, I need to unlock the phone and open the actual application.
I did honestly try to google, disabled smart lock (no face unlock present) and smart cover - no luck.
I have tried re-installing Spotify - no result.
Any ideas?
Worked just fine up until the firmware update.
This can be caused by a bad configuration in settings or an application that affects notifications.
If you really tried everything and nothing worked, I recommend you factory reset the phone from the Recovery mode. You have to enter the recovery mode and factory reset the phone, then clean the cache (Wipe Data / factory reset & Wipe cache partition).
This can be an operating system error that occurred when updating the phone. Resetting the phone and cleaning the cache eliminates the logs and settings. It also makes the system start properly correcting any system error.
Obviously this removes everything you have on the phone. I recommend it if absolutely nothing works.
CamoAndres said:
This can be caused by a bad configuration in settings or an application that affects notifications.
If you really tried everything and nothing worked, I recommend you factory reset the phone from the Recovery mode. You have to enter the recovery mode and factory reset the phone, then clean the cache (Wipe Data / factory reset & Wipe cache partition).
This can be an operating system error that occurred when updating the phone. Resetting the phone and cleaning the cache eliminates the logs and settings. It also makes the system start properly correcting any system error.
Obviously this removes everything you have on the phone. I recommend it if absolutely nothing works.
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Thanks for suggestion, but I couldn't say it's a fix. I'm rather trying to check if anyone else is having the same issue with the latest firmware and if there is an actual solution (ok, selling this phone and buying a normal one is another considerable option)