[Q] Please Help! - Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

updated to 2.2 rooted and s-off. when restoring my titanium backups i reinstalled some system app data. didn't really cause any problems, but wouldn't let me set up my mail accounts. made a nandroid backup right after upgrade to 2.2 and tried to restore with clockworkmod (no rom manager??). still new to some of this think i f'd up!!! after tring to do a restore phone doesn't boot and freezes on htc incredible screen. please help!!! leaving for vacation and need my phone!!
ok, let me be more specific. can i reapply the downgrade image and start from scratch? install a good rom image? i'm assuming it didn't work because i didn't use rom manager and the backup wasn't actually an image. please give assistance!! thanks
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AARHG Help Please.. Phone Broke?

Im really hoping someone can help me.
I rooted the phone.. And I installed the Cyanogen mod. But I screwed it up without adding market. I tried to flash get it back using backup from Nandroid, but all Im getting is a loop with my HTC "quietly Brilliant", Verizon, and Incredible bootscreens..
Help... what do I do??????
Make sure you wipe data and cache before flashing a Rom.
Mammal186 said:
Im really hoping someone can help me.
I rooted the phone.. And I installed the Cyanogen mod. But I screwed it up without adding market. I tried to flash get it back using backup from Nandroid, but all Im getting is a loop with my HTC "quietly Brilliant", Verizon, and Incredible bootscreens..
Help... what do I do??????
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If you did a nandroid backup before installing the cm rom, then just boot into recovery and restore the backup. If you did a nandroid after installing the CM rom then try to reflash the CM rom.
Got it.. thanks.
Had to track button + Power after battery pull, then used Unrevoked Painless Reflash to get back and tried an earlier save from Nandroid.
was scared from a bit there.

Please advise! S-OFF 2.2 reverted back to 2.1 after Nandroid restore

Guys, I had been rocking it with an Unrevoked S-OFF root + OTA update. Everything was great. Then I got careless and tried to flash some mod .zip files today and got caught in a splash screen loop. All I could do was nandroid restore from Clockwork. It got me out of the loop, but my phone is now back to 2.1 and all my apps are gone etc etc. But I'm almost certain that I did the backup AFTER I applied the OTA, so I don't understand why I reverted.
The good news is that I'm still S-OFF and I should have Titanium backups on my SD card. The bad news is two fold.
A) I'm not sure the proper steps to take to get back to OTA w/o any issue.
B) when I go to Market, I can't install any apps (getting a download error failure everytime)
Please help! Thanks!
EDIT: RESOLVED!
flash the 2.2 update.zip again
dirtydozen said:
flash the 2.2 update.zip again
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Hey thx for responding. Not sure what you mean - I used the OTA to get to 2.2 last time. Since I'm still S-OFF, do you think it's safe to take the update again?
These are the instructions I followed the first time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755035
Other note: The only apps I still have installed are the stock apps AND Superuser. Not sure how/why SU survived while the others did not, but it's there.
If your already rooted, which there's no reason you shouldn't be, grab a 2.2 ROM and flash it. Even a stock rooted 2.2 ROM.
Occum's Razor says you didn't back up after the update and restored with a 2.1 backup.
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Occum's Razor says you didn't back up after the update and restored with a 2.1 backup.
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... well I know someone that is damn sure making a 2.2 backup when I get this issue resolved!
I think I found the solution (using OTA).
First I had to data wipe my hard drive, because until I did that i could not access any market downloads and basically the OS was behaving like it was crapped up. Data wipe fixed all that and put me back to stock 2.1. Of course then I couldn't apply the OTA because i was rooted. So I moved the OTA zip to SD card and renamed it update.zip, and launched it from Clockwork. Looks like it worked
PS. No offense to the ROM guys on here, but I'm just not really into custom ROM's. Mostly b/c I don't understand them. But in any event, I just like having the "official" ROM, and then tweaking it to the Nth degree.

Can I flash nandroid backup of tmous 2.2 on 2.1?

So I was trying to backup a nandroid of the beta official tmous 2.2. I have two phones, one has the beta official 2.2 and the other stock 2.1. I rooted both, did a titanium backup of both, installed system recovery and ran backup of both. Then I went and loaded the 2.2 backup sd card onto the 2.1 phone and ran system backup and restored the backup. You are probably cringing by now...so it installed the backup and rebooted, and , is now in bootloop on the M logo. Can I somehow restore using the backups, or do I have to flash using rsdlite and use one of the roms on here?
Thanks in advance to any that can help!!! My wife just said she will not buy another phone for me, on my 4th phone within the last year...bricking it is a first though
So that's what you did...
To fix the 2.1 phone you bricked, try restoring the 2.1 nandroid you made.
If I'm correct, Moto's locked bootloader saved you and stopped Recovery from loading the new kernel that's used by FroYo. Which is why you're bootlooping...
If I'm wrong, you'll have to flash the leaked FroYo SBF and restore the FroYo Nandroid you made onto it...
yea, as you know I was trying to make a 2.2 tmous nandroid backup to post on here, but since I'm a noob at this I didn't want to post a possible corrupt nandroid, so I wanted to make sure it was good by trying it out. I couldn't restore the 2.1 nandroid, so I went ahead and flashed the UK 2.34. Thank goodness it worked.
So, now how can I flash the 2.2 nandroid backup onto this UK 2.34 to verify that I made a correct nandroid backup? Is it possible? I am thinking that it would have worked if I wiped data and cashe, wich I forgot to do that the first time...
well, just figured out that wiping didn't have anything to do with it...as I'm back to bootloop. Flashing the 2.34 again
The way you can test your nandroid backup is by booting into recovery, make a backup, wiping the phone, making another backup, and then booting the phone. This will allow you to see what is actually on the backup. Yes you will have to reboot and play around a bit to check, but it should be free and clear of things, at that point reboot into recovery, and restore your rom. That will mean that the second backup you made will be exactly what you just experienced. Hope that helps.
thanks. On a side note, last night when I was researching how to recover, I could have sworn I came across nandroid backups of the tmous 2.2 in the development section...Beach Head...have you looked in there (I think I saw it posted in the thread about the tmous 2.2 OTA update, thought I saw several people post a nandroid backup in the thread). Anyway, I still plan on getting this uploaded as soon as possible, but thought you might want to check in that thread...
You can restore nandroid backup of 2.2 when you are on 2.1. But you will have bootloop. It's beacause you have new kernel (from 2.2) that is not compatibile with bootloader. After restoring nandroid you should try flashing a 2.2tmo_boot only .sbf http://www.mediafire.com/?pkjkk75emk6x83f . Maybe that help. But i really not tested this with tmobile roms. With jboogie mods its working fine. Also remember about gsm fix if you use phone not in US. All 3g fixeS are in this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944258 . You should use the file with the frequencies of your country. If somethings go wrong you should flash 2.1 rom sbf (version that you are using now).

[q] help with gingerbread rom!!

I'm still fairly new to ROM's/rooting etc. A few weeks ago I rooted my Incredible. It was working fine, and I found a ROM for gingerbread. I would really like to go back to when my phone was rooted, or back to unrooted so I can start over again. I would greatly appreciate ANY help at all. Pardon my idiocracy
So you flashed a ROM? Did you perform a Nandroid backup first? If so, simply go into recovery and wipe. and hit backup and restore, restore, and choose the correct backup. If not, follow this thread.

[Q] How to take back up of exciting ROM

HI everyone,
Can any one explain how to take backup of ROM with installed applications before fashing the new ROM. I am using 2.3.3 with hardly 50 apps. Every time when I flash the ROM I should download all the apps from begining. Please help me by providing the solution.
spdgowda said:
HI everyone,
Can any one explain how to take backup of ROM with installed applications before fashing the new ROM. I am using 2.3.3 with hardly 50 apps. Every time when I flash the ROM I should download all the apps from begining. Please help me by providing the solution.
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hey dude installl cwm to flash zip files or roms of what ever you like... and for your aps you may like to checkout Titanium Pro backup google it or buy it from market.
and titanim pro backup will also help you in linking the apps with market and also the paid ones if you have purchased it from the same google account..
How to install cwm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL62BUZjmgw) check out thats worth seeing..
I have done as per your guidance , but I unable to get back my apps, please help.
matrixrewriter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TB+-+User's+guide check this out hope it will help
Is your phone rooted ? If so, then it's easy, use TitaniumBackup to backup all your apps.
If you don't have permanent root (i.e. by using the HTCdev bootloader unlock tool and then rooting, or by using the XTC Clip device and rooting), then you can get temporary root and still do the backup/restore that way. Just with temp root you will have to re-do the rooting after a reboot.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
Easiest way is to use CLockwork Mod and create a nandroid of your current Rom, then when you try other roms and decide to go back to previous Rom, you just use cwm and select restore.
Also use Titanium Backup as suggested earlier.
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Aef 101 said:
Easiest way is to use CLockwork Mod and create a nandroid of your current Rom, then when you try other roms and decide to go back to previous Rom, you just use cwm and select restore.
Also use Titanium Backup as suggested earlier.
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Thanks, Yesterday I have I have installed CM7 from 2.3.3 even I have taken back up with Titanium back up. Now I have installed Titanium backup in cm7. Now please guide me how to install my previous apps .
spdgowda said:
Thanks, Yesterday I have I have installed CM7 from 2.3.3 even I have taken back up with Titanium back up. Now I have installed Titanium backup in cm7. Now please guide me how to install my previous apps .
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Thanks, Yesterday I have I have installed CM7 from 2.3.3 even I have taken back up with Titanium back up. Now I have installed Titanium backup in cm7. Now please guide me how to install my previous apps .
Please can any one help.

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