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[Q] Brick and can't restore

Hello everyone!
I just installed CM9 by the clockworkMod method (after doing a backup of my former official ROM) and it worked great exept I forgot to save my contacts...
So I did another backup of the CM9 and tried to restore the previous ROM, so I would be able to save my contacts and restore the CM9 again.
BUT the restore didn't go well and my phone crashed...
Now I can access both download mod and Clockwork recovery mod, I can see my 2 backups in clockwork recovery mod but when I try, I have the following message:
"data.img not found. Skipping ...
datadata.img not found. Skipping...
[ and it's going on for a few lines...]
Restore complete!"
but it's way too fast (couple seconds) and when I try to reboot I'm stuck on samsung logo.
I tried some solution to unbrick I9000 but nothing worked and I'm kind of desperate after some hours trying to fix it^^
I have clockwork recoverymod v 2.5.1.2 if that's any help.
What can I do to repair my phone?

CM9 use CWM 6.x if I'm not mistaken. If your backup was created with CWM 5.x or other version, please try flash the same CWM version first before you restore your backup.
If still fail, mount the storage via CWM and copy clockworkmod folder from your phone into your computer, you can check what file is missing/etc.

Hey
Or ur can downgrade and root (like 2.3.6 link given below)
then restore from recovery and save ur contacts...

Thanks for your answers. I finally get to re-flash CM9 and back up my contacts by another way.

[Q] NANDROID restores: TWRP won't boot, CWM corrupts data

Sorry for this being lengthy, I wanted to make sure I gave enough info.
Neither of the two most popular recovery tools are working for me. They both state the backups are successful but the restores have flaws. Is anyone experiencing the problems I am? If so, does anyone know what to do about them?
CWM Recovery Touch (and non-touch): Data restores leave certain things not working. I'm not sure what processes are stopping because it flashes and disappears to fast. I know that it causes the ROM Manager for CWM, Titanium Backup Pro, Google Play, and likely more to crash (disappear) immediately upon opening. Chrome browser *might* bright up the keyboard on the first click but it won't work then it will disappear and not come back (but the keyboard does work in other areas, I use Swype Keyboard). I've tried clearing cache and/or data on all 3, uninstalling them then re-installing via APK and various other things. This occurs regardless of whether a factory reset (data/cache) wipe is performed before the restore. However, if I restore with CWM Recovery *then* do a factory reset, Google Play will work and nothing crashes, nor are their long delays.
TWRP does not boot after a restore. It will pass the initial screen showing the phone model, the phone carrier splash screen, then sit on Samsung with the LED solid bright blue and hang.
My goal is to simply trust my backups. The CWM Recovery problem is workable in a terrible situation since my Titanium backups will get my phone *almost* to where it was (barring widgets, which are pain to re-setup, and a few other things).
Titanium Backup Pro question: Is it normal when you remove a system app with Titanium Backup Pro, then do a restore in CWM for that app to still be gone? Since I use the Swype keyboard I removed the other once, did a restore with CWM, had the problem so I did a factory reset and my stock keyboard was missing still (I think it's a Samsung keyboard)
App Details:
CWM Recovery Touch 6.0.4.7 (for Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE (GT-I9305))
TWRP 2.6.3.0 (for Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE (International i9305))
Phone Details:
Carrier: T-Mobile (Germany)
Model number: GT-I9305
Android Version: 4.3 (stock from Kies, so I do have Knox and it's disabled via SuperSU 1.91 from chainfire)
Baseband version: I9305XXUEMK1
Kernel version: 3.0.31-2051278
Build number: JSS15J.I9305XXUEML5

Titanium Backup Pro question: Is it normal when you remove a system app with Titanium Backup Pro, then do a restore in CWM for that app to still be gone?
No a Nandroid backup wipes the phone .
make a Nandroid then in recovery format system sdcard data cache .
You now have an empty phone and restoring the Nandroid should return exact same state .
All this reads as you are doing something wrong .

JJEgan said:
All this reads as you are doing something wrong .
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I hope it is as simple as that. I'm booting up in recovery mode (Volume Up + Home + Power) choosing the backup or restore option, then backing up to the External SD card. Then on the restore I'm doing the same except selecting restore from the SD card (I've re-created the CWM problem 5 times, once was with advanced restore of just data the rest were basic restores doing everything). I'm not really sure what I could be doing wrong.
I have the 4.3 stock ROM before I did any custom stuff to the phone (which installed KNOX). I used chainfire's tar.md5 auto root image with Odin 3.09 in download mode when I root the phone, and I've installed CWM Recovery with ROM Manager and with an Odin tar flash in download mode. The install of TWRP was from an Odin 3.09 tar flash in download mode too.
With regard to the TWRP and CWM Recovery, I'm not really sure how easy it is for me to have messed up that part. Do you have this same model phone? Is it possible KNOX is involved in my issues? Maybe I should downgrade one of the recovery tools?

Downgrade your recovery and try again.

jonesjw362 said:
Downgrade your recovery and try again.
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That's what I was thinking might be the best solution. Since the flaw in the restores with CWM Recovery are workable for me, I figured I may just wait until I have a need to restore to do that though. Once I do, I'll probably do a bunch of tests until I find something that works solid.
I've already restored my backups and widgets etc. a couple of times and don't really want to do it over again only to test. If there's a way to restore all of that without my having to set it up myself then I'll do it. Right now my Titanium restores don't include wallpaper (except lock screen), most of my widgets (maybe all, can't remember), and I think there was one other thing.

Advanced restore in recovery restore data only .

JJEgan said:
Advanced restore in recovery restore data only .
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I tried that once, that's why I believe the CWM Recovery issue to be specifically with data. I'm going to do it again right now though and if things are messed up again I'm going to try jonesjw362's suggestion.

Downgrading didn't help (6.0.3.6 had a constant barrage of 4-5 apps re-crashing over and over again during the process).
I tried the following with CWM Recovery Touch 6.0.3.6, 6.0.4.5 and 6.0.4.7:
Factory reset wipe, open and test Google Play (more things break but that's the one I chose to test). Reboot into recovery mode and backup to the SD Card (not the external). Immediately advance restored data only (no wipe). Booted up, Google Play crashed, rebooted back into recovery and factory reset (data/cache) and advance restored data again with the same result.
I didn't try a downgraded version of TWRP (probably won't for now). I'm back to 6.0.4.7 and restoring my backups to get my phone back fully. Hopefully CWM Recovery comes out with a new version sometime in the near future that works for me or someone has some insight into what I can do to fix it with the existing (I'm out of ideas).

Issue Samsung stock 4.3 ROM
I ended up switching to CM 10.1.3 (was going to hold off until 11 was stable) but the Samsung stock 4.3 ROM was destroying my battery. After switching, I tested a NANDROID backup and restore with CWM Recovery Touch 6.0.4.7 (same version I was having problems with). The restore worked as it should, no problems.
End Result: As far as I can tell, the cause of the CWM Recovery data partition problem is due to the Samsung 4.3 ROM.
Edit: I was going to mark the post Resolved but I can't seem to find the drop down to do so (at least not in the same place I thought it was).

[Q] Can't Restore GPE ROM

Hey guys, having some issues restoring a backup of a GPE ROM that I made with ROM Manager on a working device. It goes through the process of doing the restore and then boots to the google splash screen, but never goes past that point (waited 45 minutes twice).
The ROM is GPE 5.0.1 rooted. I'm using the lastest recovery from clockwork mod and have tried several times. Not finding anything on the web regarding this issue. Perhaps the backup is just borked?? Im (obviously) S-Off and unlocked. Not sure why im not able to restore to my prevous state. Works like a charm with cyanogenmod ROMS...
Any thoughts?

I want to help but I don't entirely get what you did.
so you made a backup and you can't restore it, right? I have some questions, if you were kind enough to answer them, I may be able to help you:
> What "ROM Manager" did you create your backup with?
> Is it an entire ROM backup, like the TWRP, CWM do it?
> What Android Version is the backup?
I am thinking that you might didn't backup the boot partition properly so you can't boot your phone. there would be a compatibility issue with your boot.img and the system and data partition. So you can boot but because of the compatibility issues you can't boot entirely and keep stuck in the bootloop. that's what I think what it is but I am not 100% sure so I asked you the questions above.
And it would be very helpful if you could make a photo of the backup restore screen (inside cwm/twrp .. with whatever of those you are trying to restore the backup)

[Q] Bootloop "Unfortunately the process com.android.phone has stopped"

Hi everybody !
I have a very annoying issue with my Nexus 6
I did a full nandroid backup with TWRP before sending it for RMA
I received yesterday my phone repaired, and I have tried to restore my nandroid backup
unfortunately, I've got a bootloop with the message "Unfortunately the process com.android.phone has stopped"
Can somebody help me please ? thank you very much
I will be very grateful...

MrMoi said:
Hi everybody !
I have a very annoying issue with my Nexus 6
I did a full nandroid backup with TWRP before sending it for RMA
I received yesterday my phone repaired, and I have tried to restore my nandroid backup
unfortunately, I've got a bootloop with the message "Unfortunately the process com.android.phone has stopped"
Can somebody help me please ? thank you very much
I will be very grateful...
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You can't restore a back from one device to another. Boot to recovery and do a full factory reset. You'll have to set it up as a new device.

This is triggered by the phone application or sim card application. Can you get into bootloader or twrp?

thank you !
but it's the same phone, just the screen is new
And I have access to twrp and the bootloader of course

Nobody ? I can pay for a solution...

MrMoi said:
Nobody ? I can pay for a solution...
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Have you tried a factory reset in recovery, as I suggested previously?

You can try to flash system.img using fastboot (download factory image from developers.google.com/android/nexus/images, and extract system.img, and fastboot flash it - no guarantees it will work, but worth a try )

I have already try to flash only the system.img
And a factory reset works.. But I wont lost everything ..

MrMoi said:
I have already try to flash only the system.img
And a factory reset works.. But I wont lost everything ..
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Pick your poison...

if someone know which apps cause the issue, I can try to delete it with adb shell

You have a nandroid backup, so do a full reset to get the phone up and running again...
After that, let the Google backup feature install all your apps from the playstore and then use Titanium Backup to restore data only from the nandroid.

I've flashed a clean system, and after I tried to restore my app with Titanium Backup with my nandroid backup but it doesn't work..

Details please... "It doesn't work" doesn't say anything.

Stop using the nandroid to restore things.. They almost always cause issues. Also never restore a nandroid after a repair. The parts are different. So things could easily get messed

I use Google backup and MyBackup Pro.

When I try to restore with titanium backup, I can browse my nandroid backup, see all my apps.. Restore them (it tooks long time ) titanium tell me "success" but nothing append

zelendel said:
Stop using the nandroid to restore things.. They almost always cause issues. Also never restore a nandroid after a repair. The parts are different. So things could easily get messed
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There's a reason he has zero thanks. He won't listen to advice....

cam30era said:
There's a reason he has zero thanks. He won't listen to advice....
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I would like.. but a nandroid backup is the only backup that I have ... for the next time, I will do a different backup..
Do you have a better alternative for the next time ?
for the moment.. I have only a nandroid backup.. I need to try with it

MrMoi said:
I would like.. but a nandroid backup is the only backup that I have ... for the next time, I will do a different backup..
Do you have a better alternative for the next time ?
for the moment.. I have only a nandroid backup.. I need to try with it
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Just flash stock, it's that easy!
As long as you sign in with the same Google account that was previously on the device, there will be something in the setup asking if you would like to restore from a previously used device, and you just select Nexus 6 from the drop down menu (make sure you select the right date), it will restore all of your apps, contacts, and it'll be back to normal within a few minutes. You'll lose your app data, but this doesn't matter much unless you play games. You'll have to flash twrp and root again, but at least you'll have a working device.
Although this is coming from someone who doesn't have any important data on their phone, it doesn't matter. You still have between having a device that doesn't boot or starting fresh. It's kind of fun sometimes .

[SOLVED] A functional CWM recovery for the Pop Plus (S5570i) ?

Hi,
I have a Galaxy Pop Plus (S5570i - rooted) which I currently renewed by reflashing the stock rom: I’ve done optimization/customization of both system and applications and now I’d wish to do a Nandroid backup of everything, since I plan to install/test some other rom.
In the past months I’ve tried some CWM recovery which installed fine, and all CWM which I tested were able to correctly performs the Nandroid backup on my SD card, but none of these CWM recovery were able to restore the backup; I don’t exactly remember the exact error message, but was something about the mounting of some partition, furthermore this failed restorings caused my phone to become bricked and I was forced to reflash the stock rom.
By searching on this forum I've find this discussion, about another version of CWM for the S5570i, especially on the following post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27179828&postcount=119
The user in such post ( draiyan ) said that he was able to backup and restore a Galaxy Mini Plus using the Skin1980-GT-S5360+CWM.zip file. Well: this CWM, as the other which I tried, boots fine on my phone and as the other which I tried, has been able to make a Nandroid backup, but I’d wish to have some other confirmation: is the CWM kin1980-GT-S5360+CWM.zip recovery able to restore the backup? Or maybe someone can suggest me a tested CWM for the Galaxy Mini Plus with the stock rom, which is able to correctly restore a Nandroid backup?
Many thanks.

Mister_Dave said:
is the CWM Skin1980-GT-S5360+CWM.zip recovery able to restore the backup? Or maybe someone can suggest me a tested CWM for the Galaxy Mini Plus with the stock rom, which is able to correctly restore a Nandroid backup?
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Well, I reply to myself, also for future references/needs of the people which will read this topic:
Yes: the CWM Skin1980-GT-S5360+CWM.zip recovery is able to properly backup and restore the Nandroid Backup on the Galaxy Mini/Pop Plus (S5570I), yesterday I decided to take the risk to restore the Nandroid backup and everything went fine: the restore was properly done, because using a root file explorer I made a text file under /system and /data: after the Nandroid restore these text file were no longer present, and after the reboot I found my phone in a previous state (before the restore the phone was in plane mode, after the restore the plane mode was disabled).