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How come Nandroid backups never work for me?!

I do a nandroid backup... the whole process finishes.. Then I go to restore to it.. And it brings me back to a FRESH install of whatever Rom I backed up. It's done this to me now with Baked Snack and CM6

What recovery are you using? Just curious.
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What recovery are you using? Just curious.
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Clockwork...

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Clockwork...
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I've never used Clockwork so I'm afraid I can't really give you much insight. I might suggest taking 15 min and installing one of the AmonRA recoverys. I've used them since I had a MT3G and they seem to be pretty flawless. As long as you store your backups on your SD card you shouldnt really be at risk of losing anything. Does Clockwork allow you to make and store multiple backups?

Clockwork works just fine for me. I'm not sure what your problem might be.

i use Amon Ra and i have been having the same issue lately, kinda...when i go to restore a nand backup it gives me an error message saying to push it adb style or sumthing along those lines...very frustrating ...kinda lost too for me...any one have any ideas what the problem is ? using FrEakEfroyo v2 with king#6

dezel29 said:
i use Amon Ra and i have been having the same issue lately, kinda...when i go to restore a nand backup it gives me an error message saying to push it adb style or sumthing along those lines...very frustrating ...kinda lost too for me...any one have any ideas what the problem is ? using FrEakEfroyo v2 with king#6
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Have you, by any chance, renamed your backups? If you have, you CAN'T have any spaces in the name. If you named it the full version of what you're running it would have to be FrEakEfroyo_v2_with_king#6

dezel29 said:
i use Amon Ra and i have been having the same issue lately, kinda...when i go to restore a nand backup it gives me an error message saying to push it adb style or sumthing along those lines...very frustrating ...kinda lost too for me...any one have any ideas what the problem is ? using FrEakEfroyo v2 with king#6
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Your problem most likely is that your battery is too low. Happened to me several times usually if the battery is below 30% or there abouts. Plug your phone in, juice it up and try with at least 50 % battery, should work.
Or, I've heard it can happen if you renamed your backups. I never rename my backups because I've heard it can cause issues like this, so I can't tell you for sure if that's the problem.
I'm guessing battery.

This is really getting frustrating. I did a nandroid backup last night of my Baked Snack install. I then wiped and installed CM6. 5 minutes later I had a problem and restored Baked Snack. And it went right back to a fresh install of Baked Snack. I then flashed AmonRA. Installed CM6. Setup CM6 how I wanted it. Did a nandroid backup in AmonRA. Then wiped and restored it. And I was right back to a fresh install again.

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Have you, by any chance, renamed your backups? If you have, you CAN'T have any spaces in the name. If you named it the full version of what you're running it would have to be FrEakEfroyo_v2_with_king#6
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i have renamed them...i will check to see if that is the problem or not...thanks for the info...hope this helps me in the future with my nand backups...

I tried not renaming and had the same issue
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Amon Ra- 2.3 Nandroid Recoveries Won't Boot

I've searched other threads but they were lacking so I thought Id try for the evo. I like many others am addicted to flashing roms. I make backups and restore and they complete fine. When I go to boot a restore it gets to the boot animation and just keeps cycling the boot animation. It seems to happen across different roms. I tried doing a complete factory restore with an pc36img re-rooted and found I'm still having the same issue. Any ideas? Thanks for the help.

You didn't make any changes to the file?

I chanaged to folder name, but this never used to be a problem. I use root explorer or plug in the phone usb mass storage, rename the folder that holds the backup. I don't usually have a problem. But it seems to be a constant problem now.

When you renamed did you put spaces or all together? Make sure there are no spaces.
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eeeeeeeeek said:
I chanaged to folder name, but this never used to be a problem. I use root explorer or plug in the phone usb mass storage, rename the folder that holds the backup. I don't usually have a problem. But it seems to be a constant problem now.
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re-rename them, but you can't use spaces. Periods, hyphens, and underscores are fine though.

Also remember to wipe cache and dalvik after restoring, and give it a good ten minutes to do the initial boot.

i just do simple rename like rom04, no spaces or dashes, it says it restores it, I don't know if I wipe the dalvick after the restore, I'll try that.

Were your backups made with the same recovery you're trying to restore them with?
Your post implies you're not using an evo, in which case I dunno what recovery you're using, and thus how to help troubleshoot. More info.
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I have an evo and all my backups and restores come from the same recovery which is amon-ra 2.3. I've tried formatting my sdcard and then restoring. Last night I did a restore and went to bed while it was booting, I woke up later in the night and the phone was dead. I'm beginning to wonder if there is something wrong in the phone. It's a replacement phone I got about three weeks ago, but I was able to do restores/backups that were fine. It just started all of a sudden that it won't boot after recovery says it restore complete. The phone has some speaker issues and every time and place or recieve a call it starts on speaker phone. Unless someone has other ideas. I did rename the file after the inital rename. No luck. Any other ideas, other then whats already been mentioned above?

are you trying to restore backups you made with your previous phone?? like copied them off the sd card to computer, got new phone, copied onto new phones sd card, and tried to restore?...if so thats not a good idea

No same phone, I got a replacement about 3 weeks ago, I did backups and restores with no issues. I didn't change anything or do anything different I would normally due. Its a new issue. The restore was made and restored from the same phone and the same sd card.

Didn't work door me either , I made a recovery and about 1 hr later tried to recover but for some reason it didn't work .
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Well, Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over expecting different results, needless to say I tried restoring again from a fresh restore of king coco. Low and behold it worked this time. Here's what I did
Full wipe including system, restore, wipe dalvick, reboot. It actually booted in like 4 minutes. This might be a localized incident, as you know I have to keep tempting fate and continue the insanity.....

Anyone got a fix for that ?
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I think the corruption occurs because of a mismatch in the caches after the restore vs when the backup was done.
That is, normally neither cache nor dalvik cache is wiped when a backup is performed. Depending on your setup with a2sd and possible other tweaks like moving the cache, some portions may get backed up.
So, two solutions.
1) do a cache/dalvik cache wipe before doing the backup
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2) do a cache/dalvik cache wipe after doing the restore, but before the initial boot

Thx ;-)
I will make a new nand backup & gonna wipe the cache/dalvik before .
Will I still need to wipe after the restore?
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oranium said:
Thx ;-)
I will make a new nand backup & gonna wipe the cache/dalvik before .
Will I still need to wipe after the restore?
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I personally never wipe before or after making a backup/restore. But no, you don't need to wipe after restoring, since it restored the old cache.

teh roxxorz said:
But no, you don't need to wipe after restoring, since it restored the old cache.
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Who backs up their cache?

What exactly do I need to back up using ra2.3 ?
Boot, system, data are checked when going into nand backup
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oranium said:
What exactly do I need to back up using ra2.3 ?
Boot, system, data are checked when going into nand backup
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It's good to have a couple backups with the 'wimax' included. That backs up your RSA keys, and includes that in the backup when you have that checked off. It's recommended to have a good backup of your wimax.img in a safe place, preferably on your pc somewhere. That way if you ever lose your RSA keys for 4g, you'll have a backup of them. Other than that, just the 3 that are checked is all that's necessary. You don't need to backup the wimax every time if you don't want to, as long as you have a good backup of them somehwere.

Hey Guys...HELP WITH "APP2SD" PLEASE !!!!

Hey whats up guys?
so......Im not really new here guys, But i am new to APP2SD....i partitioned my card for the KINGDOM ROM which turned out to be really cool. Everything went GREAT with the partition, I followed VIRUS direction to the "T".......now i deleted all my old backups because i was told that some files may be corrupt and what not, so i made 2 backups of the B3 ROM from virus.....to try to make a long story short, when i restore one or the other of the backups i have, the APPS that required ROOT, tells me they cant find ROOT>....and believe me...im ROOTED LOL.....im not that lost.....i was even given a command for TE......"app2sd--cachesd"......and the PERMISSION WERE DEINED ACCROSS THE BOARD......now i can get to the titanium backup's =main screen and it shows i have APP2SD= 1.91mb........so im guess the app2sd isnt installing the apps onto my SDcard...im not sure if i have to move every app to my SDcard myself...not sure if that the issues....but to me something sounds wrong....ya know, ive deleted all the apps and re-installed them....i even installed them from amazon...NO GO....so if i RE-Flash, the apps will work...cause i setup my phone with TB.....but its after when i RESTORE my backup, that everything goes screwy...ohh and i am backing up SDtext.....and wiping it if i flash another ROM or restore a differnet backup.......Cant really find any info on anyne having this same problem....This is the first time im actually making my first thread so go easy on me LOL......thanks alots guys...I really appreciate it...
EDIT:.....ohh and all my apps sometimes show up in SU and they are allowed.....and SU is updated
JON

I'm not sure I quite follow you, but, if you have the time, try this: after you've gotten your rom setup how you like it, reboot into recovery. Hopefully, you're using amon RA v2.3 as your recovery. If so, go to the wipe menu and wipe the cache & dalvik. After that, go to the backup/restore menu and, in addition to what is already selected to be backed up, select sdext and .android.secure. now create the backup and afterwards, reboot. Now to test it out, for back into recovery, wipe EVERYTHING in the wipe menu EXCEPT the SD card and then go to the backup/restore menu and restore the backup you just made. If using amon RA, the name of the backup *should* have a BSDEA beginning or something to that extent. Afterwards, reboot. Your system *should* restore back to the way it was without any problems.
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dougjamal said:
I'm not sure I quite follow you, but, if you have the time, try this: after you've gotten your rom setup how you like it, reboot into recovery. Hopefully, you're using amon RA v2.3 as your recovery. If so, go to the wipe menu and wipe the cache & dalvik. After that, go to the backup/restore menu and, in addition to what is already selected to be backed up, select sdext and .android.secure. now create the backup and afterwards, reboot. Now to test it out, for back into recovery, wipe EVERYTHING in the wipe menu EXCEPT the SD card and then go to the backup/restore menu and restore the backup you just made. If using amon RA, the name of the backup *should* have a BSDEA beginning or something to that extent. Afterwards, reboot. Your system *should* restore back to the way it was without any problems.
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well thats something new.....hey thanks for the reply.......so i gotta run out the door for a few mins, but when i get back imma reflash B3 and try it....ohh and of course im on AMON..LOL....its wierd cause this never happened before....im usually pretty god with troubleshooting but this APP2SD is totally outta my realm.......but i will DEF give it a shot........thanks alot guy.....much appreciated
EDIT......so basically when i restore my backups after i set everything up with TB......all the apps that required root liek root explorer, TB, screenshot, ect cant wont grant me access cause it cant find ROOT on my phone.....real wierd.....

reverepats said:
well thats something new.....hey thanks for the reply.......so i gotta run out the door for a few mins, but when i get back imma reflash B3 and try it....ohh and of course im on AMON..LOL....its wierd cause this never happened before....im usually pretty god with troubleshooting but this APP2SD is totally outta my realm.......but i will DEF give it a shot........thanks alot guy.....much appreciated
EDIT......so basically when i restore my backups after i set everything up with TB......all the apps that required root liek root explorer, TB, screenshot, ect cant wont grant me access cause it cant find ROOT on my phone.....real wierd.....
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You're welcome. Let us know how it goes at your convenience.
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You're welcome. Let us know how it goes at your convenience.
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oh yea definately......im re-flashing as we speak......imma try and do all this while im dribing my daughter to her friends house LOL....that may be a lilttle hard, but no biggy HEHE.....ill ckeck back in a few......thanks again!!!!

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but one more before i go.....because i partitioned for ROMs that take app2sd......does that have to be activated after u flash the ROM?.....i know that may sound stupid, cause the SD acts as internal emmory

Yes, it does, but my focus is on making sure you can restore your nandroid backups without a hitch.
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reverepats said:
but one more before i go.....because i partitioned for ROMs that take app2sd......does that have to be activated after u flash the ROM?.....i know that may sound stupid, cause the SD acts as internal emmory
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It will be automatically activated if whichever Rom you are flashing had it cooked into it
If it's not cooked into the ROM, then it must be activated ( by flashing the script via recovery, i think....) Sorry, in kinda new to aa2sd too

Vinchenzop said:
It will be automatically activated if whichever Rom you are flashing had it cooked into it
If it's not cooked into the ROM, then it must be activated ( by flashing the script via recovery, i think....) Sorry, in kinda new to aa2sd too
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nah thats good to know...thanks alot man

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Yes, it does, but my focus is on making sure you can restore your nandroid backups without a hitch.
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well whata ya know...LOL......IT WORKED>....all my apps open wiht no problem now.....but all i did different here was wipe dalvik before i backed up....and select android secure along with SDtext.......cause all i usually select is SDtext........now the way i have been wiping could be the cause of it......i always use CAULKIN's format all....so i've benn suing that and just WIPING SDtext manually, and then restoring the backup.....that may have caused the problem as well.......well all i know is, what u told me worked.....and thats how i'll do it for now on as long as my SD is partioned.......thanks alot man....couldnt thank you enough......

Quick question here... What apps2sd app are you guys using? And how do I make it go to my partition in my sd card to act as internal memory as opposed to just the normal sd card?

reverepats said:
well whata ya know...LOL......IT WORKED>....all my apps open wiht no problem now.....but all i did different here was wipe dalvik before i backed up....and select android secure along with SDtext.......cause all i usually select is SDtext........now the way i have been wiping could be the cause of it......i always use CAULKIN's format all....so i've benn suing that and just WIPING SDtext manually, and then restoring the backup.....that may have caused the problem as well.......well all i know is, what u told me worked.....and thats how i'll do it for now on as long as my SD is partioned.......thanks alot man....couldnt thank you enough......
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You're very welcome. As for calkulin's format-all zip, I no longer use it because before flashing a rom, I wipe EVERYTHING in amon RA's (v2.3) wipe menu, EXCEPT the SD card, and I only have to do it once and I've never have a problem. Anyway, I'm glad you were able to get it taken care of. Take care and enjoy Mom's special day....
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DacMaddy said:
Quick question here... What apps2sd app are you guys using? And how do I make it go to my partition in my sd card to act as internal memory as opposed to just the normal sd card?
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Personally, I don't use it, however, the app at the below link gets great reviews.
https://market.android.com/search?q=link2sd&so=1&c=apps
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dougjamal said:
You're very welcome. As for calkulin's format-all zip, I no longer use it because before flashing a rom, I wipe EVERYTHING in amon RA's (v2.3) wipe menu and I only have to do it once and I've never have a problem. Anyway, I'm glad you were able to get it taken care of. Take care and enjoy Mom's special day....
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Yeah see I bet the issue was from the format all.......yeah u also enjoy the day.....and thanks again
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[Q] Cant flash sense anymore or make a nandroid backup

Hi I recently flashed evo-decks 1.2 stable after I did that I had errors with any nandroids and I can't flash any sense or aosp ones either. I'm stuck and and stumped as to what my course of action should please any ideas would be fantastic thank you.

Well first, do you have a current working rom at the moment?

What he ^ said.
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yes I do its the evo decks 1.2z the one I found to be more of a stable version

[email protected] said:
yes I do its the evo decks 1.2z the one I found to be more of a stable version
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Well backup the rom; make sure you have at least 500mb free space. Do a full wipe [factory/data, cache, dalvik cache], flash the new rom. Make sure you have more space, because the sense 2.1/3.0 can be big in backup size.

What happens when you try to flash another Rom?
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I get stuck at the HTC evo 4g screen just stays white and wont boot I have wiped it numerous times and I get the same result never happend until I flashed the 1.2 stable I also did flash the vipermod and Google apps as well as available memory mod I found I had used that multiple times before as well

Wipe everything 3x, use Virus's CR super wipe after you manually wipe everything. Factory wipe, cache and delvik cache. That should clear everything out. Then flash a Rom. It sounds like something isn't getting wiped.
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Well it says report to the recovery log to see what went wrong its preventing me from even Making a backup at all it says depot to recovery log to see what went wrong seems more serious no?

So because somethings not wiping properly that will give me an error telling me to view the recovery log and then prevent me from flashing different builds and making a nandroid backup I don't seem to see a link for the superwipe under virus I tried searching and i could not locate it is it on his website?

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So because somethings not wiping properly that will give me an error telling me to view the recovery log and then prevent me from flashing different builds and making a nandroid backup I don't seem to see a link for the superwipe under virus I tried searching and i could not locate it is it on his website?
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here you go.
http://bit.ly/jEjuoN

If I were you, I'd backup my SD Card, format it, repartition it, if you're using partitions, and then copy the essentials back over. Specifically, you're nandroid folder, then reflash your Recovery, which hopefully, is Amon Ra.
Then either try to reflash one of your nandroids, although if it was me, I'd just copy the ROM you want first, and then try to flash that, and it if goes well, try a nandroid you have saved.
I've had this happen twice and both times, reflashing recovery did the trick

Alright ill try thanks alot everyone I appreaciate your help ill get back to you guys hopefully with good news

Well so there's no way I could just wipe it with recovery and flash it over cause apparently I'm not the only one with this issue and somebody said it has to do with partitions of my SD card I'm trying to look into it deeper.
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Well so there's no way I could just wipe it with recovery and flash it over cause apparently I'm not the only one with this issue and somebody said it has to do with partitions of my SD card I'm trying to look into it deeper.
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You don't have to partition it; first reflash your recovery via PC36IMG image, then copy your sdcard to a pc, format it, then copy the files back over, try to restore a backup, or reflash the rom.

[Q] Can't format/wipe after Bamboozle

I have CWM 3.1, and ever since I installed the Bamboozle ROM, I get "E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2" when attempting to wipe/reset. I'm not blaming the ROM at all, I might have just missed something.
Yes I've tried google. I've also tried backing up my sdcard, formatting it (fat32) and restoring. I've tried UNrooting and RE rooting even. Also tried a different SD. I'm stumped. Any ideas?

Are you trying to wipe the SD card, or the phone, it looks like the SD card from your post, but I was unsure

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Are you trying to wipe the SD card, or the phone, it looks like the SD card from your post, but I was unsure
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Trying to wipe/reset the phone in CWM like before installing any ROM when I get the error. I wiped the SD card in attempt to resolve as suggested by someone.

I'm wondering if removing or replacing "mmcblk0p2" would do anything?

The same thing happened to me. I even odined and it's still doing it. I may try odin with a repartition and see if that fixes anything
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The same thing happened to me. I even odined and it's still doing it. I may try odin with a repartition and see if that fixes anything
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PLEASE let me know if that works. I wasn't really sure how to Odin with the repartition thing and didn't wanna mess anything up.

somehow cwm thinks you have a dbdata on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

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somehow cwm thinks you have a dbdata on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
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Any idea how to set it straight?

I had the same issue after flashing bamboozled. I've tried to reflash the rom and other roms and it pulls old phone data (apps, theme preferences, and texts)
I can restore to SFR 1.2 and luckily I like it

spikedtea said:
I had the same issue after flashing bamboozled. I've tried to reflash the rom and other roms and it pulls old phone data (apps, theme preferences, and texts)
I can restore to SFR 1.2 and luckily I like it
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Yup. Same thing. I love SFR 1.2 as well. Lol

spikedtea said:
I had the same issue after flashing bamboozled. I've tried to reflash the rom and other roms and it pulls old phone data (apps, theme preferences, and texts)
I can restore to SFR 1.2 and luckily I like it
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Thats because acs roms look to restore a backup they make, or a previous acs rom made. Delete the ACSBackup folder on your sd.
I get this error too. Doesn't seem to actually effect anything.

vita10gy said:
Thats because acs roms look to restore a backup they make, or a previous acs rom made. Delete the ACSBackup folder on your sd.
I get this error too. Doesn't seem to actually effect anything.
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Good to know!

I ran bamboozle twice, once with journaling off ... day and a half later, random reboots. went back to midnight 5.3 ec05 for a few then back to bamboozle and I flashed journalingon zip directly after flashing the rom ... it was awesome.
no issues at all, I have been trying eg22 to see if it was just ef02 with the cell standby again, but eg22 does it as well. just have to wait for release
guess I got lucky. I've read quite of few people that had that issue, wonder if it was only coming from an ACS rom to Bamboozle. I wasn't on an ACS rom before hand.