I am new to this whole rooting thing but I have successfully rooted, created backups, and flashed cyanogen rom. I am just wondering if clockwork mod will wipe data and cache prior to installing a new rom or if I need to manually do it. Thanks again
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you must do it manually
firsttimer44 said:
I am new to this whole rooting thing but I have successfully rooted, created backups, and flashed cyanogen rom. I am just wondering if clockwork mod will wipe data and cache prior to installing a new rom or if I need to manually do it. Thanks again
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Manually ofcourse, unless you use rom manager to install a new rom them the automated UI asks you if you want to wipe data/cache
That's what I meant....if I go to install a rom off the list within rom manager will it prompt me to wipe data/cache
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firsttimer44 said:
That's what I meant....if I go to install a rom off the list within rom manager will it prompt me to wipe data/cache
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yes it will
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I installed my first rom (MIUI) yesterday and everything went well thanks to alot of reading. I like the way it look but i miss Sense. I did a backup before I flashed it so what is the steps to recover the back up with clockwork??
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Go back into recovery > backups> restore > choose the one you want. The names of the backups are based on the date you made the nandroid
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Before I do that do I have to wipe anything?
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OneDeep said:
Before I do that do I have to wipe anything?
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I won't hurt........I always wipe cache and dalvik cache. Your phone will take a few minutes longer to reboot.....that's about the only drawback.
OneDeep said:
Before I do that do I have to wipe anything?
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Not necessary, but it wouldn't hurt anything. Calkulin's Format_All.zip wipes Cache, Userdata, Dalvik, System, and a few others that I'm forgetting. If I remember correctly, it's just a script that tells your recovery to wipe all those things. Like I said before, I like to use it if I'm ever changing ROM "brands" (ie going from MIUI to CM7, or From Myn's to CM7, etc.) because the systems are usually significantly different
i believe wiping before doing anything regardless its restoring or flashing a new rom is the way to go with Calkulin's format all and his clear temp. just in case it misses something. but thats just my opinion =)
I've been trying to put mazwoz ice or aokp or any other ics rom on my wife's evo but every time I do the phone Says I have no sd card, it ran cm7 for a while with no problems, and if I go to any sense rom (like the backup of synergy i made before trying all this) the sd card is there. I'm not as familiar with the evos progress as my phone is the epic (not touch). Can anyone suggest anything for me???
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Bump. Help please!?
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Are you flashing any additional mods kernels ect? What is the wiping process your taking to flash the rom? What recovery are you using?
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Are you flashing any additional mods kernels ect? What is the wiping process your taking to flash the rom? What recovery are you using?
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I'm not flashing any additional mods, I'm using whatever kernels comes with the rom, I'm on cwm and
Installation:
Wipe cache, dalvik, and data
Install rom
Install gapps
Reboot (no SD card)
Install nandroid backup of synergy (SD card works again)
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justen7723 said:
I'm not flashing any additional mods, I'm using whatever kernels comes with the rom, I'm on cwm and
Installation:
Wipe cache, dalvik, and data
Install rom
Install gapps
Reboot (no SD card)
Install nandroid backup of synergy (SD card works again)
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I wouldn't recommend using cwm it doesn't always wipe correctly. The most used recovery on the evo4g is amon ra recovery which I recommend. But if you decide to stay with cwm try doing factory reset through recovery twice then wipe dalvik cache twice
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evo4gnoob said:
I wouldn't recommend using cwm it doesn't always wipe correctly. The most used recovery on the evo4g is amon ra recovery which I recommend. But if you decide to stay with cwm try doing factory reset through recovery twice then wipe dalvik cache twice
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I usually wipe all three, 3 times each when flashing roms, but I will try out amon ra and go from there. Thx.
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So, I was fully rooted (4.0.4 Stock) I just went in to try to remove another system app, using "System App remover" and it tells me that it cannot mount system R/W, so I go into root explorer, and go to system, and click the R/W button, and nothing.
System app remover was working fine before, as I have removed apps.
Any ideas?
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I just restored back to when I KNOW I had root, and it is doing the same thing.
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So, I was fully rooted (4.0.4 Stock) I just went in to try to remove another system app, using "System App remover" and it tells me that it cannot mount system R/W, so I go into root explorer, and go to system, and click the R/W button, and nothing.
System app remover was working fine before, as I have removed apps.
Any ideas?
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I just restored back to when I KNOW I had root, and it is doing the same thing.
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Maybe this time you denied SuperUser permissions?
Restoring nandroid backups has been nuking permissions for months now. You'll have to wipe and fresh install.
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Restoring nandroid backups has been nuking permissions for months now. You'll have to wipe and fresh install.
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What about Fix permissions? would that fix it?
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Interesting..............fix perms will fix it, but you can only go in once (system app remover), if you go out, and back in, it gives the same error
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Restoring nandroid backups has been nuking permissions for months now. You'll have to wipe and fresh install.
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When you say wipe and fresh install, how would I do that with Stock 4.0.4?
idbl_fanatic said:
When you say wipe and fresh install, how would I do that with Stock 4.0.4?
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You don't need to fresh install. Grab the superuser flashable zip from androidsu's website (get the ARM one)
http://downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
Boot to recovery and flash it. Fixed it for me.
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You don't need to fresh install. Grab the superuser flashable zip from androidsu's website (get the ARM one)
http://downloads.noshufou.netdna-cdn.com/superuser/Superuser-3.1.3-arm-signed.zip
Boot to recovery and flash it. Fixed it for me.
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Giving that a try, will report back.
Nope........no go there.........
Any other ideas?
Thanks
Try supersu
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When you say wipe and fresh install, how would I do that with Stock 4.0.4?
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If your recovery isn't stock, you should be fine. If it is, you'll probably have to Odin a custom one on your phone and go from there.
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If your recovery isn't stock, you should be fine. If it is, you'll probably have to Odin a custom one on your phone and go from there.
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But I was wondering what was meant by fresh install? the whole ROM?
I am using CWM
idbl_fanatic said:
But I was wondering what was meant by fresh install? the whole ROM?
I am using CWM
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Wiping everything and then installing. Darkside super and cache wipes first, then the ROM. Factory reset before you install can't hurt either.
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I'm new to rooting on S3. When updates come out can I just flash the new one on top of my old one without doing a factory reset. I am stock. I don't want to have to reinstall and configure all of my settings. Will it work if I just flashed the odex version? Or can I just use that app OTA Root Keeper?
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I have found it to be better to wait for someone on XDA to incorporate the new OTA into a new flashable rom.
Then you do not have to worry about trying to save root or your data, because you were just clear the cache partition and dalvik cache and then flash the update.
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I have found it to be better to wait for someone on XDA to incorporate the new OTA into a new flashable rom.
Then you do not have to worry about trying to save root or your data, because you were just clear the cache partition and dalvik cache and then flash the update.
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So just clear the caches and flash the rom? Will all of my apps, text, homepage icons and settings still be the way it was before the new rom was flashed?
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mystical80 said:
So just clear the caches and flash the rom? Will all of my apps, text, homepage icons and settings still be the way it was before the new rom was flashed?
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right all your data will remain
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right all your data will remain
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Last question. I reseted my flash counter after I went back to my stock nandroid backup. Everything is reset, but status still says modified.Is there a way to put it back to normal so I get notified if any new updates are available?
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OK guys, lately I've been seeing a little too many people complaining about bootloops and UI crashes, etc when installing/flashing a new rom. This guide includes installing an update of the rom you're currently on that has been re-based as well.
The only reason I'm making this guide is so that users stop filling threads with these issues that are caused by user errors (99% of the time). I haven't bootlooped or had any problems at all when flashing a new rom and I can promise you that I am a huge flashaholic. Here are the steps for a TOUCHWIZ rom:
1. Download rom and calculate md5 checksum (this can be done using ES file explorer from the play store)
2. Reboot into recovery and make a nandroid backup! Can't stress this enough...
3. Do a FULL wipe. This is where I notice the error that most people make. You must do a wipe of data, cache, dalvik cache, preload AND SYSTEM.
- Don't just do a Factory reset, you must manually wipe system as well to prevent any issues. In TWRP this will be under advanced wipe, and in Philz touch recovery this is done by selecting the "Full wipe to install a new rom" option.
4. AFTER wiping all of the above mentioned partitions, then look for the rom in your internal/external SD card and install/flash it.
- if the rom has an aroma installer, sometimes it'll include a full wipe option in there, this doesn't mean that you can skip the full wipe done in step 2 of this guide.
5. Allow the rom to install everything and then choose the reboot option within your chosen recovery.
6. Let the phone reboot, input all of your info in the initial setup and then let the phone sit for a couple minutes. After this I usually reboot the phone again as a habit.
If you follow these steps to the T you shouldn't have any problems. I've yet to bootloop once on this phone with any rom. Now go and flash away!
Other possible issues/fixes:
- if you have a 64gb SD card, your current kernel or the kernel included with the rom you're flashing might not support 64gb SD cards in EXfat format. A fix for this would be to either flash another kernel that has 64gb SD card support or to copy everything from your SD card to a computer, format your EXfat sd card to fat32 format and then retransfer the files back to your sd card.
-some people have reported that moving the zip file from the internal SD to the external SD or vice versa has fixed flashing issues so make sure to try this as well, not sure why this works but it does sometimes.
-if a specific cause can't be diagnosed it's always recommended to restore your phone back to complete stock using Odin to flash stock firmware. Here is a link to the stock firmwares (I take no credit for that thread): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
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Just in case.
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The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory rest/data, and the two caches
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shengwang917 said:
The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory reset/data, and the two caches
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-Data wipe/Factory reset. In Philz CWM version when you chose this it stated "Wipe phone for new ROM"
Every recovery as far as I've seen has a system wipe option, just have to look for it. Only mention TWRP because I haven't used the other recoveries in a while.
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Question, for restoring nandroid backup : before I first started to flash roms last week. I did the following with Twrp, backup, - wipe data and caches(no system), then I backup again before moving forward with the flash. My question is: can I just restore my second backup with just the system without the data.?
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Why do you backup twice? And why would you restore just the system partition? You might as well just reflash the rom so you don't waste space having a system only backup.
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shengwang917 said:
Question, for restoring nandroid backup : before I first started to flash roms last week. I did the following with Twrp, backup, - wipe data and caches(no system), then I backup again before moving forward with the flash. My question is: can I just restore my second backup with just the system without the data.?
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A nandroid will restore your phone exactly how it was when you made the back up.
If I read it correctly, on the 2nd backup, you did a wipe before you did a backup.
So if you restored that 2nd backup, it will have wiped ROM (no data and will need to set up phone again). Hope that make sense.
Yeah that's what I want, I want to go back to that clean clean rom, I don't need my user data
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Then don't restore a backup for that. Just reflash the rom.
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marcoxx626 said:
Why do you backup twice? And why would you restore just the system partition? You might as well just reflash the rom so you don't waste space having a system only backup.
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Cause I'm OCD when comes to things like this, seriously lol. I move all the backups to the external SD and my computer lol. So not too worried about taking up space. I just want to see if everything is working normally with the clean stock rom. I.e. Able to send MMS. Read and write to ext SD properly.
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shengwang917 said:
Cause I'm OCD when comes to things like this, seriously lol. I move all the backups to the external SD and my computer lol. So not too worried about taking up space. I just want to see if everything is working normally with the clean stock rom. I.e. Able to send MMS. Read and write to ext SD properly.
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Well if you just want to go back to a fresh clean install there's no point in restoring a backup. Just reflash the rom bro. Any kernel changes or system app changes will still be there if you restore a system backup but won't be there if you reflash the rom (after doing full wipe that is).
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marcoxx626 said:
Well if you just want to go back to a fresh clean install there's no point in restoring a backup. Just reflash the rom bro. Any kernel changes or system app changes will still be there if you restore a system backup but won't be there if you reflash the rom (after doing full wipe that is).
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This is it right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895 , I think there is a Odin back to stock thread on here too
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shengwang917 said:
This is it right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895 , I think there is a Odin back to stock thread on here too
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Ok, now you lost me. What is your ultimate goal in this? Back to complete stock like out of the box?
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Ok, now you lost me. What is your ultimate goal in this? Back to complete stock like out of the box?
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Sorry lol, yeah i want to go back to right out of the box stock.
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Yeah follow that thread. Please hit thanks if I helped at all.
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After I flash unwizzed rom in aroma after it installs everything it says assert failed : package_extract_file("boot.img","/temp/boot.img") ?? It boots the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen then turns off then back on then back into recovery.. been doing this for alot of ROMs i try to flash
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The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory rest/data, and the two caches
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For cwm:
Mounts/Storage - Mount/System.
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Robdizz said:
After I flash unwizzed rom in aroma after it installs everything it says assert failed : package_extract_file("boot.img","/temp/boot.img") ?? It boots the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen then turns off then back on then back into recovery.. been doing this for alot of ROMs i try to flash
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Not sure what that could be. Did you check the md5?
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I've been asking everyone it does this on alot of roms i flash the only one that worked was Alpha 5.0 but tried to go to 7.0 and did same thing. How do u check the Md5?