I have a MyTouch 4g and I recently rooted and installed rom manager and the premium version as well. I followed the steps via youtube video and was trying to download the rom Cyanogen 7. (forgot the numbers) I first made sure to backup my current phone via rom manager then i proceeded to install the new Cyanogen rom but once rebooted it was stuck on the cyanogen boot menu. I then booted the phone to recovery mode hit recovery which brought me to the rom manager recory mode. I accidently hit backup instead of restore and now there are two choice for when i go to hit restore. I just want to get my phone back to the way it was before my trying to flash the rom. any advice? once again sorry for the noob question.
Just select to restore your original backup.
when i go to do so it freezes on the mytouch 4g boot screen. I've even tried to do a factory reset but it keeps bringing me back to clickworkmod. and i hit the option wipe data factory reset and i click restore now and it has the same effect. I'm about to smash my head into a wall. All I want is to go back to the original way the phone was.
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hello I just replaced a broken EVO and now that it is rooted I am trying to restore my old backup from my previous evo.. I am having a problem though
I go through all the normal process to restore a backup and everything works fine the super user permission pops up and the phone reboots but instead of rebooting directly into the reboot session it just boots me into the clockwork mod recovery recovery menu.. when i select the folder the recovery files are located in it shows up blank.. what am I doing wrong here? In the past when I selected to restore a backup from inside the os it just rebooted and started restoring automatically.. I feel like an extra step has now been added and I dont know what it is?
I should also not that while I do not know if it is related or not when I try to restore the backup from the nandroid section of the recovery menu it hangs on checking md5 sums and then says error while flashing boot image!
mind you this is on 2 separate backups I created in the past with clockwork mod recovery
It's probably not a good idea to use an old nandroid backup on a new phone. Think of how kernels run well on some EVO phones and not others. Your current phone might even be one of the EVOs with new hardware.
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ok but can I still get all my apps and data back?
it would be terrible to lose all of that
and now to make matters even worse my phone is stuck on an endless loop on clockwork mod recovery I every time I select reboot system now instead of it booting into the stock rooted rom it just reloads the clockwork mod recovery menu.. what gives?
yeah, not good to load a backup from a different phone. This has been documented as happening. Just reflash whatever rom you want then radios then kernel. Sorry but if you didn't use a backup prog I thinkyou will have to manually restore apps. You may want to try titanium backup, solves the problem, use it and follow the backup instructions in Titanium backup wiki on their web site and you should be good to go next time.
Did you try a battery pull and reboot?
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Nandroid backups are phone specific, you can't move them from phone to phone. You probably hosed your RSA keys which means your 4g may be broke. If I were you I would try to flash a stock rom and then reroot if needed. If that gets you out of the bootloop your in. You maybe visiting a Sprint store for a replacement phone again.
guys I could really use some help here please!
I went back to the stock rooted rom today.. all day I was adding apps making changes restarting the phone no problems.. I finally get my phone set up how I like it so I decided it was a great time to make a backup so I open clockwork mod recovery and select backup it gives me the superuser permissions prompt and restarts.. instead of starting the backup automatically it sends me directly to the clockwork mod recovery menu and now it will not load the phone's OS at all just reboot after reboot into clockwork mod recovery this is a 1 day old evo what is going on here!!??
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guys I could really use some help here please!
I went back to the stock rooted rom today.. all day I was adding apps making changes restarting the phone no problems.. I finally get my phone set up how I like it so I decided it was a great time to make a backup so I open clockwork mod recovery and select backup it gives me the superuser permissions prompt and restarts.. instead of starting the backup automatically it sends me directly to the clockwork mod recovery menu and now it will not load the phone's OS at all just reboot after reboot into clockwork mod recovery this is a 1 day old evo what is going on here!!??
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Hey that exact thing happened to me. it happened the first time i ever loaded anything on my phone. I freaked out. Turned out the Clockword mod recovery I had must have had something wrong. I went back into the part where you load the CWM from the computer. My phone is different than yours so I cant be sure but you go into bootloader by pressing stuff, its where the logo stays there the whole time. then you flash the CWM again. and then reload the operating system and stuff. should work but just redo the CWM again. Hope it works out for you. Hope thats what it is for you too.
hi xda
first post, 2 week old first android phone (galaxy s GT-I9000).
I've just rooted my phone using super one click. im always reading that i HAVE to perform a nandroid backup before i do ANYTHING after i've rooted my device.
When i google "how to nandroid", i just get "get into recovery mode, select 'nandroid backup'.
But there isn't any back up options, only the standard 4 options: reboot, apply update, wipe data/facotry reset and wipe cache.
2 questions:
1) what must i do after rooting to make the nandroid option available? Surely doing THAT is doing something, therefore putting my phone at risk?
and thus,
2) what can i exactly do after rooting, before performing a nandroid? one click lag fix? normal use? installing a ROM? My understanding is that the nandroid backup is in case installing a ROM goes wrong, but then again a lot of the 'how tos' say you should instal clockworkmod, or rom manager before making a nandroid.
Please shed light.
Jon Alex
South Africa
You need a custom recovery like cwm installed to do a backup and for flashing ROMs. Whether you choose to do so is up to you, but there are advantages to being rooted either way i.e Apps that require root access to work.
thanks for your reply - please clear something up for me...
Everything i read says do a nandroid before you flash anything, but then it sounds like you have to flash a recovery ROM in order to do a nandroid?
Please let me know
1) how to install cwm recovery ROM and
2) what can go wrong? (since i'm doing this before making a nandroid)
3) can i install the recovery ROM before i root?
okay
at the moment i've got this far:
rooted? check. (super1click)
rom manager installed? check.
problem:
when i click flash clockworkrecovery ROM in ROM manager, it prompts me to choose my model (Galaxy I9000 International). Then it prompts me to allow poweruser functions, which i do. Then it saus something to the effect of "ClockworkRecovery ROM has been downloaded!"
note: not flashed, or installed, downloaded.
That finished the 'flashing' process. Now, if i select back up, it boots into recovery mode, but its still running the stock android recovery (2e), without any option to perform a nandroid backup!
How the hell do i do this? aargh.
help would be apprciated.
Go back into Rom Manager and again select install CWM and then backup current ROM. (sometimes it just needs doing again).
While you are using a stock ROM the stock Recovery will reassert itself on every boot, so having to flash CWM multiple times is not uncommon. Of course, this behaviour stops if you flash a custom ROM.
I've flashed it 3 times.. still no cwm recovery Rom... how many timed should I do this before trying something else, and what is that something else?
Just flashed another 3 times. Still nothing... please help!
THIS is the correct section for your device. I'm sure you'll find the answers you need there.
Good luck.
I was using warm z twopointtwo and I decided to try skyraider 4. I backed up the warmz rom and installed skyradier 4. Well I decide to go back to warm z but my backup will not restore. I get stuck on the white htc droid incrdible screen. Any ideas?
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I was using warm z twopointtwo and I decided to try skyraider 4. I backed up the warmz rom and installed skyradier 4. Well I decide to go back to warm z but my backup will not restore. I get stuck on the white htc droid incrdible screen. Any ideas?
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did you do a full wipe b4 restoring?
yes i did. The restore doesnt seem like it take as long though. I backed up through rom manager. Would that have something to do with this issue
Try downgrading CWM to an earlier version such as 3.0.0.5 and then reupgrading to 3.0.0.8, I had an issue with CWM before and this fixed it.
i will try that
ive never made a back up with rom manager but it could be your problem.....
ROM manager could be your problem, it is known for unsuccessfully completely backing up or restoring ROMs. IF you are trying to use ROM manager to restore your backup try going into recovery and doing it manually. Perform a full wipe and wipe Cache and Dalvik. The go to back up and restore > restore > and find the .zip on your SD card.
If that doesn't work than try downgrading CWM and retry the restore.
If it still doesn't work it is likely ROM manager didn't successfully back it up and you will have to reflash WarmZ, at this point I would flash the newest version possible since you will be starting fresh.
And next time to remember to back up in recovery, that way you can watch it as it backs it up and watch for errors.
So whenever this official HTC Gigerbread update comes out, I'd like to try it. I made a full Titanium Backup and a full back up with CWM (with no errors) before first installing CM7. Can I just use that backup to go back to the stock ROM and then update to Gingerbread? And how can I tell if I have S On or Off? I think I turned it back on after running UnRevoked Forever, but it wasn't really that clear. I have the ability to grant SU access, that my understanding was that SU is different from S On or Off.
If your backup is the stock rom with all the bloatware then you should be able to restore it and get the update. I've heard it said that the phone also needs to be S-ON but I'm not sure, I do know you need all the bloatware though. To check S-OFF, boot into bootloader (power and volume down) and look near the top of the screen when you get to the white hboot menu, it will say S-ON or S-OFF.
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So i tried to flash muiu rom thru rom manager and got caught in a reset loop at the boot screen. I then flashed a old cm7 zip from the recovery screen just to get the phone to boot. When i tried to restore my backup from rom manager it takes me to the recovery screen and does not restore ( just stays at the recovery screen). i really would like to restore that backup. any suggestions?????
Well, this won't help your back up problem, but trying wiping everything you can, except the SD Card and the flash MIUI in Recovery.
ROM Manager is really not a dependable way to flash a ROM.
Also, you try to reflash your recovery before you do anything and try the back up again.
Oh, and if you're not on it now, use Amon Ra for Recovery. Plenty of threads that tell you how to get it.
Thanks but is there any way to restore the backup I made with rom manager in recovery?
Hi,
I have rooted my samsung galaxy s3 phone. Then I have installed the CWM6.0.1.2 and later installed the beanstalk custom rom today. Everything was working fine untill I accidentally tried to restore my system data using Titanium backup. The phone restarted and now it is stuck in the boot animation of the Beanstalk.
I am a novice in doing all this and I am not sure if I have a nandroid backup. I only have the apps data backup and system data backup which was taken using Titanium backup. Is there any way I can restore it back to the way it was working before. Please advice, any help is appreciated.
Is there any way to enter in to the CWM mode while restarting so that I can try to re install the Beanstalk rom on my phone?
I tried pressing the volume down and power button+ menu button, But it is going in to the Downloading mode instead of CWM mode.
I'd be happy to donate through paypal to the person who can help me resolve the problem.
I went into the CWM mode and did a factory reset and now it is working fine.