Hey All,
I was hoping for some help.
I did a nandroid backup of my mikfroyo setup. I only selected the default settings when doing the backup, should I have selected anything else?
When I went to restore, I wiped cache, dalvik, and data reset, and then did the nandroid restore. When I rebooted I got to the first mikfroyo screen where but it never made it to the second where the letters light up one at a time, it just looped on the first screen with the "flame" type effect comes out, over and over.
I tried a battery two times pull but it did the same thing.
Any thoughts???
chefdrew said:
Hey All,
I was hoping for some help.
I did a nandroid backup of my mikfroyo setup. I only selected the default settings when doing the backup, should I have selected anything else?
When I went to restore, I wiped cache, dalvik, and data reset, and then did the nandroid restore. When I rebooted I got to the first mikfroyo screen where but it never made it to the second where the letters light up one at a time, it just looped on the first screen with the "flame" type effect comes out, over and over.
I tried a battery two times pull but it did the same thing.
Any thoughts???
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What recovery are you using? I'vei swear I've heard that with Amon Ra 2.3 deleting the android.secure folder from you'r sd card will alleviate that problem. I've never had an issue, but I'm almost positive I've read that somewhere around here. Also, maybe try wiping both dalvik cache and cache right after you restore your backup, but before you boot.
I am using AmonRA. I do have an .android_secure folder but there is never anything in it.
might not help much but, for next time you do something like that, everytime i do a nandroid with amon ra i select everything there is to backup, worked flawlessly every time, if you backed up your apps and data with TB or myback up you should try reflashing your rom again
Make sure you have at least 500 MB free on your SD card when you back up a rom
i don't provide soluution here just sharing my nandroid experience :
i once nandroid backup my warm z rom (sense 2.0)
ater it finish i got bootloop and made me use the nandroid backup i just create (lol)
boku_baka said:
i don't provide soluution here just sharing my nandroid experience :
i once nandroid backup my warm z rom (sense 2.0)
ater it finish i got bootloop and made me use the nandroid backup i j
Something like that happened to me before because I ran out of space on my SD card
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chefdrew said:
I am using AmonRA. I do have an .android_secure folder but there is never anything in it.
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Try deleting it. See if that makes any difference. I know I read that somewhere, I'm not losing it..haha.
intel i7 quad said:
Something like that happened to me before because I ran out of space on my SD card
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i didn't run out my sd card space though.
another nandroid story :
i did nandroid restore, and everything's fine, except i lost my keyboard (touch input).
no keyboard was shown when it's needed! other input method is available normally (swipe) .
but just no normal keyboard.
funny.
Thanks for the replies. I have about 18 G left on my SD card so it is not a space issue. Maybe I will delete and backup everything???
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chefdrew said:
Thanks for the replies. I have about 18 G left on my SD card so it is not a space issue. Maybe I will delete and backup everything???
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Don't rule out the possibility that the backup could be corrupted. I just found the post I was referring to, about deleting the android.secure folder. The recommendation was to wipe sd-ext and delete the android.secure folder from the sd card. If you really, really need to restore that backup, and don't want to start fresh, you got nothing to lose by trying that. I'm actually not sure if wiping sd-ext formats the entire card or not, so as a precaution, I'd back up the contents of your card. Although I'm sure it wouldn't delete the entire card, because then there'd be no nandroid backup left to restore!
emcp422 said:
might not help much but, for next time you do something like that, everytime i do a nandroid with amon ra i select everything there is to backup, worked flawlessly every time, if you backed up your apps and data with TB or myback up you should try reflashing your rom again
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So in the options, there is...
Boot
System
data
cache
recovery
wimax
sd-ext
.android_secure
So from what I have gathered from you all, I should...
1) delete the .android_secure folder.
2) Boot into recovery, select nandroid backup, select EVERYTHING there is to select, except for .android restore
When I might want to flash back from a different ROM back to my mikfroyo setup, I would
1) wipe cache, wipe dalvik, factory reset.
2) select nandroid restore
3)Reboot system
Do I need to do a Caulkins Format all before I do the restore?
chefdrew said:
So in the options, there is...
Boot
System
data
cache
recovery
wimax
sd-ext
.android_secure
So from what I have gathered from you all, I should...
1) delete the .android_secure folder.
2) Boot into recovery, select nandroid backup, select EVERYTHING there is to select, except for .android restore
When I might want to flash back from a different ROM back to my mikfroyo setup, I would
1) wipe cache, wipe dalvik, factory reset.
2) select nandroid restore
3)Reboot system
Do I need to do a Caulkins Format all before I do the restore?
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I have never backed up sd text or android_secure, and I have never had a problem restoring a nandroid. The android_secure is for the apps on your sd card, you can save those with titanium or mybackup.
And to answer your question about flashing/restoring to a different rom. Yes, wipe data/factory reset, dalvik/cache, and cache. You can use the format all before/after if you choose to just, just to be sure it all gets erased. Then do your restore
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I have never backed up sd text or android_secure, and I have never had a problem restoring a nandroid. The android_secure is for the apps on your sd card, you can save those with titanium or mybackup.
And to answer your question about flashing/restoring to a different rom. Yes, wipe data/factory reset, dalvik/cache, and cache. You can use the format all before/after if you choose to just, just to be sure it all gets erased. Then do your restore
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Do you still have your .android_secure folder on your sd card?
I was told to delete it from the card.
Do you select "recovery", as well, when you ar doing a backup?
chefdrew said:
Do you still have your .android_secure folder on your sd card?
I was told to delete it from the card.
Do you select "recovery", as well, when you ar doing a backup?
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Yes. It will automatically create a new android_secure folder when you begin downloading apps And yes I choose recovery. And listen to K2Buckley also. Guy is genius.
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jayharper08 said:
Yes. It will automatically create a new android_secure folder when you begin downloading apps And yes I choose recovery. And listen to K2Buckley also. Guy is genius.
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Yea, a new one will be created, and yea, k2buckley is the man.
Sounds good to me, I will give it another shot. Also, in ASTRO mrg, I do not see a folder for sd ext, should it be there? I did the sd partition before I actually flashed anything, was that supposed to create the sd ext?
chefdrew said:
Sounds good to me, I will give it another shot. Also, in ASTRO mrg, I do not see a folder for sd ext, should it be there? I did the sd partition before I actually flashed anything, was that supposed to create the sd ext?
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Nah. Sd ext won't be there. Never has been for me anyway.
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Ok, tried to delete it in astro and it says error deleting files, even though there are no files in it...
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Astro doesn't have permission to delete that folder.
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I sort of started explaining my issue in the Skyraider Vanilla RC2 thread... but I didn't want to take over that thread for my own issues.
This is what happened-
I tried to install this update that was on the thread, I did a nandroid +ext back up before I did so. When I ran the update it said something about sense 3.1 update so I thought something was a bit wierd, when I turned on my phone, all my apps were rapidly force closing in front of the setup window so I rebooted my phone into recovery and did the nandroid restore. I cleared dalik cache as well, just to make sure things restored smoothly. My phone turned on, but was laggy and and the sd card was read only, it didnt show up when I attached it to my computer... I didn't have the original Vanilla RC2 file on my card, since I initially installed with rom manager, but then switched over to the amon ra recovery image so it was not there.
I rebooted into recovery again, and cleared dalik again, and cache, and then cleared the ext part of my sd card because I thought maybe there was an issue there... Now i turned on my phone my launcher is gone, some of the apps that came with vanilla in the first place are gone along with most of my other apps aside from appbrain for some reason. The phone is so laggy it is almost not even usable as a phone... What should I do?
Buy a new sd card? factory reset? I am totally at a loss..
to andrew
this is what I would do... go back into recovery and do all wipes. then format the card to your desired partitions. toggle usb and redrop the rom you want back on there and run zip from sdcard. You will have a bone stock system again and have to load all the things you want on there, but at least you will have a normal running phone again. If you happened to have things you wanted to save from the sdcard then the nandroid backup you had saved , well you should have drug it off the sdcard to your computer first. Then after you have a setup with the same rom running that you had your nandroid originally made from should load fine when you reload the backup.
1 save that nandroid backup to your pc
2 wipe completely and reformat your card
3 load the rom zip on the card and run it
4 load the nandroid backup to your sdcard and run it
or do 1-3 and start from scratch... hope this helps
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this is what I would do... go back into recovery and do all wipes. then format the card to your desired partitions. toggle usb and redrop the rom you want back on there and run zip from sdcard. You will have a bone stock system again and have to load all the things you want on there, but at least you will have a normal running phone again. If you happened to have things you wanted to save from the sdcard then the nandroid backup you had saved , well you should have drug it off the sdcard to your computer first. Then after you have a setup with the same rom running that you had your nandroid originally made from should load fine when you reload the backup.
1 save that nandroid backup to your pc
2 wipe completely and reformat your card
3 load the rom zip on the card and run it
4 load the nandroid backup to your sdcard and run it
or do 1-3 and start from scratch... hope this helps
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If do have a few backups saved to my computer, (from vanilla 2.5.2) but not the new one. (which is fine)
If I repartition the card, will it go back to being normal again? right now it is read only and will not show up on my computer at all so.. Also when you say wipe, do you mean wipe all data also?
yes wipe all the wipes they recovery you use offers then do a factory wipe THEN go into the format options and reformat your card. It wipes it all but you get a fresh start. then after you drag your rom back onto the sdcard and load it then do your nandroid Its possible your sdcard is hosed but not very likely
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yes wipe all the wipes they recovery you use offers then do a factory wipe THEN go into the format options and reformat your card. It wipes it all but you get a fresh start. then after you drag your rom back onto the sdcard and load it then do your nandroid Its possible your sdcard is hosed but not very likely
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It's alive!!!! Thank you so much =)
Gotta reload everything but, who cares!
your very welcome
Been having a few problems with random rebooting on my EVO. I had been using Sprint Lovers Rom since Jan. Haven't had any issues. I recently decided to try Calkulin's EViO 3 v1.0 Beta 2. Which I'm really liking as well.
But my phone has been randomly rebooting.Most times it reboots and will not boot back to main screen without me having to pull the battery , reboot into recovery and reinstall the rom. When get the phone to boot back to the main menu, it reboots at least 3 or 4 more times. I usually have to reboot into recovery, then wipe cache, dalvik, and data again in order to stop the reboots for awhile.
So I wiped everything again and used a nandroid backup to go back to SprintLovers rom. Will I had the same rebooting issues with that too, which I never had before. So I'm beginning to think I have a issue with the bootloader. I had started another thread in the wrong forum and someone suggested wiping the SD-EXT Partition of my memory card since I'm using Apps2SD. Problem is I don't have SD-EXT partition. I tried mounting it and formatting it. I keep getting a error message saying 'path volume sd-ext invalid".
Any ideas to stop this random rebooting to stop?
Using Clockwork Recovery if that matters.
Download the PC36IMG.zip file for amon_RA from HERE and flash from the bootloader screen. Afterwards, go into the wipe menu and wipe cache & dalvik and then make a nandroid backup of your current setup. Afterwards, go back to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card and then flash the rom you want to use. By the way, the sd-ext is listed in the wipe menu.
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dougjamal said:
Download the PC36IMG.zip file for amon_RA from HERE and flash from the bootloader screen. Afterwards, go into the wipe menu and wipe cache & dalvik and then make a nandroid backup of your current setup. Afterwards, go back to the wipe menu and wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card and then flash the rom you want to use. By the way, the sd-ext is listed in the wipe menu.
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Thanks for the reply. How is the sd-ext partition created? is it automatically created by App2SD?
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Thanks for the reply. How is the sd-ext partition created? is it automatically created by App2SD?
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Yes. I never use A2SD because I've never even been close to running out of space, and read/write speed is faster on internal memory.
Hope wiping solves your problem
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
I am unsure what options I should choose in the NAND backup section. I usually just leave it on the default (data, system, boot). Backing up only these three will make the ROM to like I had it before correct? Or do I need to select extra options? Thanks
I do em all just to make sure, but would be good to know.
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Backing up .android_secure will back up apps that you've moved to the SD card using the built in apps to SD that was introduced in FroYo. Backing up sd-ext will backup your ext partition if you have one. If you don't know what an ext partition is or how to use it, you probably don't have it and don't need to back it up. I have a separate backup of only wimax and don't back it up every time. It isn't something that you need to restore every time, so I'd make a wimax backup once and keep it safe. I can't remember what other options there are, if any. I usually just backup boot, data, and system since I never move apps to my SD card. If they install to my SD card, I move them to internal memory. They run better there, and I've never even come close to running out of internal memory.
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I just choose 'perform backup 'at bottom,never had a problem...gets everything I need
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I do everything but cache
Nobody knows for sure?
When doing your firsr backup always do 2 backups. One backup with everything unchecked except WIMAX. You always want to keep this backup incase your 4g ever stops working. After that make a backup with only boot system and data checked. Do this and you will be all set. Also I recommend downloading titanium backup and making a backup of every app that you use on a frequent basis.
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Thanks man. And I have a backup of my RSA keys that I got through a root method. It has wimax.img in it. Same thing correct?
Will wiping the data (before ROM flash) also wipe the "SD Card" data? I know on other phones, that have a physical SD card, when you wipe data the SD data remains. But, with the Nexus having a virtual SD card, I didn't know what would happen.
In essence, I'm thinking Titanium Backup is useless unless you pull the backup data from the phone before flashing a new ROM, because the backed up data would be deleted with a data wipe for new ROM flash.
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Will wiping the data (before ROM flash) also wipe the "SD Card" data? I know on other phones, that have a physical SD card, when you wipe data the SD data remains. But, with the Nexus having a virtual SD card, I didn't know what would happen.
In essence, I'm thinking Titanium Backup is useless unless you pull the backup data from the phone before flashing a new ROM, because the backed up data would be deleted with a data wipe for new ROM flash.
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The "sd card" data remains. Nothing is messed with in that portion of memory. TiBu works great.
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The "sd card" data remains. Nothing is messed with in that portion of memory. TiBu works great.
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Thanks! I wondered what would happen with a data wipe.
If you flash a stock ROM via fastboot it WILL WIPE THE "SDCARD". EVERYTHING.
Basically:
Stock recovery data wipe/factory reset = SDcard wiped
Custom recovery data wipe/factory reset = SDcard untouched
So if you haven't rooted/CWM'd your phone yet, don't put anything big and important on the SDcard. If you have put stuff on your card just make a backup of it on your PC and then do the unlock/recovery install procedure. Then you'll be set. Titanium Backup will be back to working just like it does on any other phone once you have a custom recovery installed. No worrying about the SDcard getting wiped.
you'll definitely want to install a custom recovery if you're going to be wiping anything. Id highly recommend the clockwork touch recovery. The standard one is really a pain to use as the navigation is odd and its hard to select what you want.
^ I wonder as well, but I proceed without thinking about sdcard. Lucky enough our great dev took care of that. Btw, I didn't have time to see the recovery since when I got it I flash CWM immediately.
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Hey everyone.
Well, I'm getting back into rooting devices and changing roms etc... So, last night I refreshed myself (it's been a few years) and decided to flash Chameleon OS. With that said, I backed up some OS data by using My Backup. I also did a Nandroid backup, wiped my SD card (full of junk), and performed a system reset, cache wipe, and Dalvik cache wipe. Afterwhich, Chameleon installed fine; however, my SD card now has ALL of the junk back on it again. I still see old references to pictures, apps, and db files. As a result Chameleon, is not running at its best. Can someone tell me how/why my data was restored to my SD card?
Also, the backup I created using My Backup is no longer on my SD card. I re-downloaded to app after flashing Chameleon and attempted to perform a restore of my APN data...needless to say, My Backup reported that it could not find the backup on my SD card. Presumably due to the restoration of the old junk back to my SD card????
Can someone shed on light on this??
Thanks.
Jordan
jaykel941 said:
Hey everyone.
Well, I'm getting back into rooting devices and changing roms etc... So, last night I refreshed myself (it's been a few years) and decided to flash Chameleon OS. With that said, I backed up some OS data by using My Backup. I also did a Nandroid backup, wiped my SD card (full of junk), and performed a system reset, cache wipe, and Dalvik cache wipe. Afterwhich, Chameleon installed fine; however, my SD card now has ALL of the junk back on it again. I still see old references to pictures, apps, and db files. As a result Chameleon, is not running at its best. Can someone tell me how/why my data was restored to my SD card?
Also, the backup I created using My Backup is no longer on my SD card. I re-downloaded to app after flashing Chameleon and attempted to perform a restore of my APN data...needless to say, My Backup reported that it could not find the backup on my SD card. Presumably due to the restoration of the old junk back to my SD card????
Can someone shed on light on this??
Thanks.
Jordan
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seems like nandroid backup wasnt backing up anything when it was saying it did lol. delete and install the apk again just to make sure it wont do it in the future