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Hey guys, I just have a general question that (seemingly) applies to all Android phones. I'm posting this question in the GS3 mini section because I have a MetroPCS Galaxy Exhibit [SGH-T599N] and I guess that's where we're we've been relegated to, but this question, as I said, could really apply to any phone. My question is this: how can I verify that my NAND backups are not corrupted?
Here's some context: I recently flashed to CM 11. Everything's running great, it's my daily driver, and I love it. It's easily the best, most smooth ROM I've ever used but I recently discovered a need to flash back to the stock ROM backup I was running pre-CM 11. Before I flashed to CM 11 I was running the standard JB stock and incidentally I was also using a different Kik username. After flashing to CM 11 and installing Kik, I decided to make a new username. Now, given that I never logged out of that old username (the one I was using on JB stock), I know that if I were to flash back to that old ROM, I'd boot into a ROM that's logged into that old account. I need to be able to do this because I need to access that old Kik account's chat logs for personal reasons. My problem now is due to two issues: my amazing stupidity and...well, no that's really it.
At the time I was running stock I was running CWM recovery. I made a backup using Rom Manager but like an idiot I backed up to my internal SD card. In order to flash to CM 11 I had to wipe my internal memory, which eventually lead to me losing that backup. My only silver lining is this: I made one backup to external sd about a week before I flashed to CM 11.
Here's where it gets messy: Not knowing that the backup on the external sd was for my stock pre-CM 11 ROM, I stupidly deleted it to free up space and began saving files onto the external sd card. After I had flashed to CM 11 I made about three CM 11 backups. I deleted my pre-CM 11 backup because I mistook it for one of these three CM 11 backups. Upon realizing the height of my stupidity, I just finished recovering these lost folders and files using a data recovery program, but I have no idea whether or not the files have been irreparably corrupted. Is there any way I can verify that this backup is still good to use? I don't want to risk attempting to flash back to my old ROM only to have it wind up bricking my phone. Does anyone know of a good way I can figure this out? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
an idiot
adamryanx said:
Hey guys, I just have a general question that (seemingly) applies to all Android phones. I'm posting this question in the GS3 mini section because I have a MetroPCS Galaxy Exhibit [SGH-T599N] and I guess that's where we're we've been relegated to, but this question, as I said, could really apply to any phone. My question is this: how can I verify that my NAND backups are not corrupted?
Here's some context: I recently flashed to CM 11. Everything's running great, it's my daily driver, and I love it. It's easily the best, most smooth ROM I've ever used but I recently discovered a need to flash back to the stock ROM backup I was running pre-CM 11. Before I flashed to CM 11 I was running the standard JB stock and incidentally I was also using a different Kik username. After flashing to CM 11 and installing Kik, I decided to make a new username. Now, given that I never logged out of that old username (the one I was using on JB stock), I know that if I were to flash back to that old ROM, I'd boot into a ROM that's logged into that old account. I need to be able to do this because I need to access that old Kik account's chat logs for personal reasons. My problem now is due to two issues: my amazing stupidity and...well, no that's really it.
At the time I was running stock I was running CWM recovery. I made a backup using Rom Manager but like an idiot I backed up to my internal SD card. In order to flash to CM 11 I had to wipe my internal memory, which eventually lead to me losing that backup. My only silver lining is this: I made one backup to external sd about a week before I flashed to CM 11.
Here's where it gets messy: Not knowing that the backup on the external sd was for my stock pre-CM 11 ROM, I stupidly deleted it to free up space and began saving files onto the external sd card. After I had flashed to CM 11 I made about three CM 11 backups. I deleted my pre-CM 11 backup because I mistook it for one of these three CM 11 backups. Upon realizing the height of my stupidity, I just finished recovering these lost folders and files using a data recovery program, but I have no idea whether or not the files have been irreparably corrupted. Is there any way I can verify that this backup is still good to use? I don't want to risk attempting to flash back to my old ROM only to have it wind up bricking my phone. Does anyone know of a good way I can figure this out? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
an idiot
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if you recovered it immediately after deletion - then it's most likely still good. I don't think there's any way to fully verify backups; but I will say this if you do chose to use that backup and it fails, you should easily be able to flash any rom over again to correct it, or even use odin to go back to stock rom and try again. The only way you truly hard-brick phones is flashing something over usb and it gets disconnected haflway through, or you accidently flash somethign to the wrong partition (if you were using hiemdall), generally speaking for nearly 80% of bricks are sem-bricks and should easily be able to recover from.
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if you recovered it immediately after deletion - then it's most likely still good. I don't think there's any way to fully verify backups; but I will say this if you do chose to use that backup and it fails, you should easily be able to flash any rom over again to correct it, or even use odin to go back to stock rom and try again. The only way you truly hard-brick phones is flashing something over usb and it gets disconnected haflway through, or you accidently flash somethign to the wrong partition (if you were using hiemdall), generally speaking for nearly 80% of bricks are sem-bricks and should easily be able to recover from.
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Thanks for your quick reply, Exo. I'm curious, do you think inspecting the .log file would be able to give me an indication about the integrity of the backup? In going through old backups I was able to open the .log file in Notepad and read in plaintext what was written there. If this could be used as an marker of the backup's health, then it seems I may be out of luck as the .log file for this backup seems like nothing but jibberish. I've opened it with Notepad, Notepad++, and I even installed a different third party program that's reads .log files exclusively (called Baretail), all to no avail. I'll try flashing to this backup in the meantime but I'm curious: do you think attempting to read the .log file could be a good way to verify the backup's integrity, or is there something I'm missing here? Thanks for your time.
Adam
First you should make a nandroid of your current ROM (CM I presume) so that if you brick your phone while trying to restore the stock backup, you'll still have the CM backup to restore if something goes wrong and the phone can't boot or says that there's no os installed.
Hello can anyone help me install a cwm for my 4.4.4 z1 c6903 unlocked bootloader (also rooted . version 4.4.4 with the .108 on the end) ?! I really want to flash a new custom rom for this phone and unlike samsung phones the tutorials on youtube for 4.4.4 are missing !
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Hello can anyone help me install a cwm for my 4.4.4 z1 c6903 unlocked bootloader (also rooted . version 4.4.4 with the .108 on the end) ?! I really want to flash a new custom rom for this phone and unlike samsung phones the tutorials on youtube for 4.4.4 are missing !
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Hi,
Check this out ...
http://prntscr.com/4ow7hp
Download file, then unzip. Run BAT file and follow screen directions. You will end up with three recoveries to choose from.
Need help
Hello, i'm newbie here, trying to learn some stuff, i searched the forum but i couldn't find it, i think this page is most appropriate to post it here.
Well i want to flash a custom rom, but my first attempt went not good for me. I've lost my imei and panicked, anyway by flashing stock sony rom i recovered it.
Now i unlocked my bootloader again (it was locked again after i flashed my stock firmware back), rooted my phone, and learned that nandroid app can make a full backup, and even i screw things up (except hard bricking i guess), that backup will save me. So i downloaded it made a full back up, but it says "back up type: clockwork or TWRP,"
And i heard that TWRP is not for Xperia Z1. Thats why i decided to not install it,
Then i installed clockwork rom manager, it said "this app requires clocwork recovery", but i couldnt find a appropriate version of clockwork recovery, the ones i found on play store were for android 4.0.4, and mine is 4.4.4
You guys probably understand that i know almost nothing about this stuff, (i have only got what i read form forums), so what should i do, which version of clockwork should i install or is there any other supported apps that i can use my nandroid backup?
Soka, i checked your link but couldnt be sure about which link should i click.
And another question, do i still need titanium backup while i have nandroid?
Thanks in advance
My device is C6903
4.4.4
14.4.A.0.157
CWM Recovery
There two methods:
1. Unlock your bootloader and flash a custom kernel (Bootloader Unlock is required for flashing custom roms which are not stock based; for example cyanogenmod)
-> with a custom kernel you have cwm and often twrp also.
2. check this out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z1/development/newroot-z1-t2807092
maybe you have to flash .108 kernel to use newroot, after rooting you can flash the actually kernel from your firmware....
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Özgün Özerk said:
Hello, i'm newbie here, trying to learn some stuff, i searched the forum but i couldn't find it, i think this page is most appropriate to post it here.
Well i want to flash a custom rom, but my first attempt went not good for me. I've lost my imei and panicked, anyway by flashing stock sony rom i recovered it.
Now i unlocked my bootloader again (it was locked again after i flashed my stock firmware back), rooted my phone, and learned that nandroid app can make a full backup, and even i screw things up (except hard bricking i guess), that backup will save me. So i downloaded it made a full back up, but it says "back up type: clockwork or TWRP,"
And i heard that TWRP is not for Xperia Z1. Thats why i decided to not install it,
Then i installed clockwork rom manager, it said "this app requires clocwork recovery", but i couldnt find a appropriate version of clockwork recovery, the ones i found on play store were for android 4.0.4, and mine is 4.4.4
You guys probably understand that i know almost nothing about this stuff, (i have only got what i read form forums), so what should i do, which version of clockwork should i install or is there any other supported apps that i can use my nandroid backup?
Soka, i checked your link but couldnt be sure about which link should i click.
And another question, do i still need titanium backup while i have nandroid?
Thanks in advance
My device is C6903
4.4.4
14.4.A.0.157
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you can install twrp on z1 as well: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606
for cwm check my other post in this thread
hope this will help
Thanks, ive already unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone as a mentioned above, just needed to know if i can use TWRP and CWM, got my answer thanks, both will work fine with Nandroid backup right? Should i prefer one over another? Cause i dont want any problems
Özgün Özerk said:
Thanks, ive already unlocked my bootloader and rooted my phone as a mentioned above, just needed to know if i can use TWRP and CWM, got my answer thanks, both will work fine with Nandroid backup right? Should i prefer one over another? Cause i dont want any problems
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Hi there bro...
In the Link ...
Check this out ...
http://prntscr.com/4ow7hp ... download the one the red arrow is pointing at. Unzip and run BAT file. When Prompted onscreen connect device to PC.
This will install recoveries and an app called NDR Utils. With this app you can choose the primary recovery of your choice.
I prefer using Philz...(CWM) based. Important rule i've always followed make backups ( Nandroid).
Current situation: pretty much complete newbie. I broke my factory OS after rooting it, I think I deleted something Settings needs, so anytime it needs to access settings I get "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped." I factory reset it hoping that would help, but now after loading it gets stuck on a cycling white screen reporting that error (I think it's trying to set up the phone.) The error message prevents me from doing the touch-four-screen-corners trick I've read about and bypass set up. So, stuck on phone setup errors as near as I can tell.
I do have my user apps backed up with TiBu, but couldn't get the recovery zip from TiBu to work. I downloaded CWM but didn't figure it out yet. Also unfortunately I can't get the USB drivers to work (the LGE Android MTP Device won't install), so I think my only way of getting files to my phone now is using the microSD cards.
I'd love some help! I think my factory OS is FUBAR, so I'm not trying to fix that, instead I'd rather just get a cool ROM loaded so I can continue learning with a working device with said cool ROM. I don't fully understand terms that I know I need to like "bootloader" or what CWM / TWRP actually does or how to use them (I need to make a custom recovery ROM?). Or where to get a cool ROM or which to pick, some step by step basics on from some experienced users would be fantastic! Thank you so much!
So you were on stock, rooted, backed up and then messed the ROM? Flash stock ROM again using LG Flash tool (there is a thread in the main section), it should not wipe your data but you'll lose root. Hard to fix if you're not sure about the problem and have no easy access to files. Just make sure you flash the correct version for your model (D405, D410hn, etc), preferably the same version you have now so you won't need a factory reset after flashing...
lfom said:
So you were on stock, rooted, backed up and then messed the ROM? Flash stock ROM again using LG Flash tool (there is a thread in the main section), it should not wipe your data but you'll lose root. Hard to fix if you're not sure about the problem and have no easy access to files. Just make sure you flash the correct version for your model (D405, D410hn, etc), preferably the same version you have now so you won't need a factory reset after flashing...
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Thank you, this put me in the right direction. I ended up discovering that even though the " LGE Android MTP Device won't install," the flashing process worked with this program via USB anyway. I'm going to lick my wounds a bit before trying to flash a custom ROM. Thank you!
For the rom installation, after unlocking your bootloader and rooting, download the app Flashify from Google Play, then install TWRP or CWM zip file as recovery image. Then, from there, you can install custom ROMs or make backups of your phone, etc. A cool custom ROM I recommend is CyanogenMod, it ports newer versions for older devices. So, you can have Android 6.0.1 in your phone
Could any one help me flash xiaomi.eu in my 8 Se, step wise?
I am going to try using MIUI 10.3 8.12.20.
I have already bricked my device once while restoring from a twrp backup. :silly:
So if anyone can help me like step wise, it would be of great help.
My device currently has twrp installed.
I wish our forum had development tracks and some guides that would help newbies.
I too once bricked mine while restoring a TWRP backup. I think this unofficial TWRP isn't fully functional, often it won't work the way it should ??
hallo guys, i have issues when i try to go back to a version of the stock rom because they wont boot
not sure what im doing wrong, i hope someone can tell me..
here the full story: when i got the device, i checked the stock rom which was ok.
my plan was to use lineageos, so i unlocked the bootloader,installed TWRP and flashed the global vendor, unofficial 17.1 and gappswhich.
this is working fine and i can always reinstall this lineage the way i mentioned above, but i saw that the finger unlock is not working in that rom as expected.
since i didnt test it in stock rom, i thought lets try this and now comes the issue, i can not find any solution to go back to stock rom which is working.
#1 tried to download rom from https://mi-globe.com/miui-firmware-rom-builder-features/19/ which should be flashed with TWRP (howto there).
when flashing, this is not finishing and looks like its stuck in twrp flashing. ok, since the download for other config was broken yesterday, there might be issues.
#2 downloaded stable rom from https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20-pro/how-to/rom-miui-11-xiaomi-eu-t3984691
flashing works, but device is in boot loop then. im sure i was missing something or doing wrong, so i searched for another option.
#3 found a youtubevide about BACK2STOCK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBsWNrKNZzA
downloaded all the needed packages and did it like it was in the video.
result: all flashed like shown in the video, when system reboot is done MI logo is shown around 60seconds and then rebooting to TWRP
#4 i would go for the solution to flash via MIFLASH, but before i break something i thought i better ask here.
since there are so many issues, i would need your help to point me to the mistakes im doing here.
going back to lineage 17.1 is not a problem, i just did again and this is working.
so if you read this, please find time to explain me if you want to.
thank you
yeah, you are missing a step.
you have to format data partition.
check my guide on how to install roms: https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20-pro/how-to/simple-beginners-guide-to-raphaelin-t4020543
also, may I suggest EU/masik instead of stock, its a lot better
in #3 you can see that in the video data is also formated: https://youtu.be/KBsWNrKNZzA?t=190
of course i did this too....was also not working.
reading your simple beginners guide and downloading MIUI EU ROM (xiaomi.eu_multi_HMK20ProMI9TPro_V11.0.5.0.QFKCNXM_v11-10.zip)
flashed it, was also not working/booting. tried also with flashing vendor (the one from lineage) before, no change.....
what should i do?
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reading your simple beginners guide and downloading MIUI EU ROM (xiaomi.eu_multi_HMK20ProMI9TPro_V11.0.5.0.QFKCNXM_v11-10.zip)
flashed it, was also not working/booting. tried also with flashing vendor (the one from lineage) before, no change.....
what should i do?
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Don't flash vendor, theirs no need, eu.miui has everything in the one zip file. Just to clarify have you formatted in twrp? The option where it requires you to type 'yes'? Everything gets wiped from your photos and apps all to the rom itself. Then just flash eu.miui and reboot. Works everytime for me without fail.
no i never formatted in TWRP wipe, only used the factory reset and swiped to wipe.
just did a format and flashed xiaomi.eu_multi_HMK20ProMI9TPro_V11.0.5.0.QFKCNXM _v11-10.zip
ITS BOOTING!!
first please let me thank you very much for this help, i was already quite desperate about nothing working except LINEAGE.
fingerprint in MIUI rom is working great, unbelievable!
can you please explain me why this FORMAT in WIPE is needed and what its used for? i was not aware and i can not find it in any of the howtos..
haha, glad it's working. Knew the problem was that you didn't format.
however since you posted on xda, I just assumed you knew format data is not the same as wiping data.
(literally, the most common beginners mistake for this phone)
it's cause of the encryption keys, when moving from MIUI to AOSP (and vice-versa) a format data partition is required.
I stated this in How To Change My ROM? I wanna Try them all!
section in the first post.
under there, FOR MIUI ROMS (since that is what you were trying to do)
you missed the 7th bullet point. (you can also text me on telegram)
(also, in the same guide, I inform people to flash their vendor first -4th bullet point- then in the 5th bullet point you wipe it.)
(this is cause often miui customs and some people are usually on a vendor that isnt there's. you have to be on your region vendor, then wipe it, then allow the miui custom's vendor to take over, else you will face fingerprint problems)
This is just another point most just don't follow.
Umm, if my guide needed anything to be included, or like... needed to be more easy to read and follow... I can edit that if you like.
(use can text me on telegram as well)
edit: just read the xiaomi.eu one, I'll edit it to make it more informative
motorh3ad said:
hallo guys, i have issues when i try to go back to a version of the stock rom because they wont boot
not sure what im doing wrong, i hope someone can tell me..
here the full story: when i got the device, i checked the stock rom which was ok.
my plan was to use lineageos, so i unlocked the bootloader,installed TWRP and flashed the global vendor, unofficial 17.1 and gappswhich.
this is working fine and i can always reinstall this lineage the way i mentioned above, but i saw that the finger unlock is not working in that rom as expected.
since i didnt test it in stock rom, i thought lets try this and now comes the issue, i can not find any solution to go back to stock rom which is working.
#1 tried to download rom from https://mi-globe.com/miui-firmware-rom-builder-features/19/ which should be flashed with TWRP (howto there).
when flashing, this is not finishing and looks like its stuck in twrp flashing. ok, since the download for other config was broken yesterday, there might be issues.
#2 downloaded stable rom from https://forum.xda-developers.com/k20-pro/how-to/rom-miui-11-xiaomi-eu-t3984691
flashing works, but device is in boot loop then. im sure i was missing something or doing wrong, so i searched for another option.
#3 found a youtubevide about BACK2STOCK
downloaded all the needed packages and did it like it was in the video.
result: all flashed like shown in the video, when system reboot is done MI logo is shown around 60seconds and then rebooting to TWRP
#4 i would go for the solution to flash via MIFLASH, but before i break something i thought i better ask here.
since there are so many issues, i would need your help to point me to the mistakes im doing here.
going back to lineage 17.1 is not a problem, i just did again and this is working.
so if you read this, please find time to explain me if you want to.
thank you
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You're not installing stock ROMs. You are installing custom ROMs based on stock.
If you want to return to true stock grab a fastboot ROM from here and flash it with the Mi Flash Tool. After fully extracting the ROM delete the flash_all_lock.bat file before flashing. That way you cannot accidentally lock the bootloader.
Then choose the 'clean all' option in the Mi Flash Tool before you hit the flash button.
thank you.
my mistake, i didnt write clear. i just wanted to test a miui rom to see how the fingerprint is working there. im happy now with the custom rom based on stock.
but i also went for this solution you mentioned and noticed that on the https://www.xiaomiflash.com/ site only older xiaomi devices are mentioned as beeing compatible.
looks like this is not the point, so im happy to have this option too.