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[Q] Trouble getting recovery image and superuser access

Hey guys I looked all over for a solution for hours and I didn't see a thread containing my exact problem/solution so I will post it here. Here is my problem:
I flashed TMartin's Gingersense Rom and thought it was flashable back to recovery, but I realized it was a complete system dump after doing so. I have downloaded the new Superuser update to 2.3.6.1 although the phone doesn't detect it. This is what it says: "an error occurred and su was not updated. A zip file (su-2.3.1-bin-signed.zip) has been placed on your sd card, please reboot into recovery mode and flash it to update your su binary."
My Evo doesn't think it's rooted even though it has the superuser app installed. I also tried using Rom Manager to reboot into recovery mode but it says this: "you must root your phone for Rom Manager to function. Superuser was not found at "/system/bin/su" or "/system/xbin/su". Use google search on your computer to find instructions to root your phone." I have also tried to turn it off and press "voldown+power" and it goes straight to the rom. I believe I've overwritten the recovery image and I even know where to begin. I had clockwork 2.6 and 2 nandroid back-ups before doing this. Is there something I'm missing? Please help!

same thing happened with me and a couple evo's on my xp pro box.
what i did was, i just started the process over from the beginning...one of them took a couple times to stick.

Solicitous said:
Hey guys I looked all over for a solution for hours and I didn't see a thread containing my exact problem/solution so I will post it here. Here is my problem:
I flashed TMartin's Gingersense Rom and thought it was flashable back to recovery, but I realized it was a complete system dump after doing so. I have downloaded the new Superuser update to 2.3.6.1 although the phone doesn't detect it. This is what it says: "an error occurred and su was not updated. A zip file (su-2.3.1-bin-signed.zip) has been placed on your sd card, please reboot into recovery mode and flash it to update your su binary."
My Evo doesn't think it's rooted even though it has the superuser app installed. I also tried using Rom Manager to reboot into recovery mode but it says this: "you must root your phone for Rom Manager to function. Superuser was not found at "/system/bin/su" or "/system/xbin/su". Use google search on your computer to find instructions to root your phone." I have also tried to turn it off and press "voldown+power" and it goes straight to the rom. I believe I've overwritten the recovery image and I even know where to begin. I had clockwork 2.6 and 2 nandroid back-ups before doing this. Is there something I'm missing? Please help!
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Well Tmartin had a flashable zip of the gingersense rom. In the thread that got closed, in the OP, there were a few links. One was for a flashable zip, and the others were the system dump, as you noted.
When you boot to the bootloader, does it show you S off, or S on? When you select recovery from the bootloader, what is your result? Do you get a black screen/red triangle? Or does it just hang at the splash or something? If you're S off, you should just be able to flash a PC36IMG of recovery, and then flash a new rom from there. If you're S on, and have no recovery, then you'll need to re root your phone.

How do I even go about doing that?

Oh woops I didn't see you reply k2buckley lol. I can't boot into the bootloader, it goes straight into the rom.

Solicitous said:
How do I even go about doing that?
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Shut down your device. Simultaneously press the DOWN volume button and the power button until your device starts. After a short pause, a few lines of text will scroll across the screen. You will then be in the bootloader menu. At the top, you should see either S-ON or S-OFF.
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Hold the power and volume down buttons till bootloader shows on the screen.
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Solicitous said:
Oh woops I didn't see you reply k2buckley lol. I can't boot into the bootloader, it goes straight into the rom.
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K2, doesn't he have to disable fastboot to fix this?
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Just tried it. It doesn't boot into the bootleader, it just goes straight to the rom. I can imagine it has to be S-Off because it has superuser permissions (even though I can't access) it

Solicitous said:
Just tried it. It doesn't boot into the bootleader, it just goes straight to the rom. I can imagine it has to be S-Off because it has superuser permissions (even though I can't access) it
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You can't get to your bootloader? Are you on the Gingerbread Sense rom? If so, go to menu>settings>applications. Uncheck "fastboot". THen shut your phone off, and try to get to the bootloader again. Should work this time.

dougjamal said:
K2, doesn't he have to disable fastboot to fix this?
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THat would be it Doug! That silly little setting has been giving a lot of people confusion while trying to enter recovery, lol.

I got into the bootloader! Brilliant! It is S-Off and I am in recovery with clockwork. I'm reverting to my back-up now. Thank you!

k2buckley said:
THat would be it Doug! That silly little setting has been giving a lot of people confusion while trying to enter recovery, lol.
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I thought so. Heck I couldn't remember where the setting was being that I'm on Salvage-Mod...LOL..I will more than likely stay with it at least until Myn releases his newest rom.
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dougjamal said:
I thought so. Heck I couldn't remember where the setting was being that I'm on Salvage-Mod...LOL..I will more than likely stay with it at least until Myn releases his newest rom.
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Yea, I only remember because it happened to me when I tested out that rom, lol. I too am running SalvageMod 1.2.1. It's been my daily for a bit now, just super smooth and stable for me. I was running some of the Salvage Nightlies too, which were good. The nightly 13 I tried had music controls on the lockscreen, which I'm a big fan of. It also came with Tiamat 3.3.7 kernel, which my phone hates. I went back to the stable build for now. I'm also curious to see Myn's next project. That interview that was on Good and Evo revealed that he's working on Warm Gingerbread. I keep hoping for one of those emails from Myn, with a nice link to some beta action!
To The OP:
Glad you got it worked out! Good deal man.

k2buckley said:
Yea, I only remember because it happened to me when I tested out that rom, lol. I too am running SalvageMod 1.2.1. It's been my daily for a bit now, just super smooth and stable for me. I was running some of the Salvage Nightlies too, which were good. The nightly 13 I tried had music controls on the lockscreen, which I'm a big fan of. It also came with Tiamat 3.3.7 kernel, which my phone hates. I went back to the stable build for now. I'm also curious to see Myn's next project. That interview that was on Good and Evo revealed that he's working on Warm Gingerbread. I keep hoping for one of those emails from Myn, with a nice link to some beta action!
To The OP:
Glad you got it worked out! Good deal man.
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No doubt, my friend and you can best believe we will receive that email soon. As for Tiamet, my device loves it. I haven't tried any of the nightlies because the stable version is more than I expected. Anyway, take care and enjoy your weekend....
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[ROM] PlainJane Froyo for Incredible 2 (Stock, root, busybox, sqlite)

This is pretty much rooted stock. As with all of "my" (HTC's) plainjane roms, there won't be improvements until the next OTA.
http://www.multiupload.com/RVUCMAHD1M

thanks jcase. im excited to experience the inc2 on stock froyo without the vzw bloatware. its been a great handset out of the box.

jcase said:
This is pretty much rooted stock. As with all of "my" (HTC's) plainjane roms, there won't be improvements until the next OTA.
http://www.multiupload.com/RVUCMAHD1M
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Thanks Buddy.

this is still just the rom right? s-off and root is still in beta?

applejacks108 said:
this is still just the rom right? s-off and root is still in beta?
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Its a stock rom, for those with s-off. Mainly to get ppl back to stock but rooted, if they desire to.

Is it the chinese - english Stock Rom froyo ?

Just get s-off and tried to flash this rom. Everything went fine but i see no su in programs (( No any root sw wont work. Maybe im doing something wrong ? Ive opened zip and su and busybox is there in xbin folder but no su after rom flashed .

Getting stuck on the htc splash screen any time I try to install this...

I also am getting stuck at the HTC boot splash. I'm kind of new to the custom roms though.
I used fastboot and flashed the boot.img to the boot partition. Then took the /system and repackaged it into a yaffs2 image. Flashed the result to the system partition. Don't know if thats exactly what to do.
-Jim

You just have to flash it in recovery. Nothing tricky or difficult like what the previous poster described. The instructions for flashing can be found in almost any ROM thread.
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I have to return my phone to Verizon because the power/usb cable connection stopped working. I'm downloading this ROM to my sdcard and will flash with this.
Do you think this will be good enough to not void the warranty? I was linked to this: http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php...X-INCREDIBLE-2-(vivow)-ONLY&p=39759#post39759 but I have no way of connecting my phone to a computer to run the commands.

Just attempted to install this using recovery... upon reboot I'm stuck at HTC splash screen. -this seems to have happened to others as well.

New Link
Hi The MutiUpload link is not working. Can anyone post the link to download this ROM? Thanks

xyz99002 said:
Hi The MutiUpload link is not working. Can anyone post the link to download this ROM? Thanks
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This is very outdated.
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thenaut said:
This is very outdated.
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But if you are looking to go stock you might peruse this thread.

update to new Rom made.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24791768#post24791768
just wondering how I go about updating to new rom that just came out for a100 by these guys.
tried update.zip method but did not work. got an android with a exclamation mark while trying to flash.
edit: also how do i tell what recovery I have?
i followed these steps
- Root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531646
- Unlock the bootloader: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1557445
- Install CWM:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558595

just do a full wipe and flash through cwm.
Personally, I don't like it. The gains aren't worth what you sacrifice

Crimson Ghoul said:
just do a full wipe and flash through cwm.
Personally, I don't like it. The gains aren't worth what you sacrifice
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what do you lose?

not much aside from the acer ring, whenever you rotate you get a black flash. it's a bit irritating and you don't get much as it is incomplete

sv7007 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24791768#post24791768
just wondering how I go about updating to new rom that just came out for a100 by these guys.
tried update.zip method but did not work. got an android with a exclamation mark while trying to flash.
edit: also how do i tell what recovery I have?
i followed these steps
- Root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531646
- Unlock the bootloader: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1557445
- Install CWM:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1558595
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Make sure you flash it with this recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601663.

Theonew said:
Make sure you flash it with this recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1601663.
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thanks and got it flashed on there now!
EDIT: Obviously I am an Idiot.... I flashed this recovery and now I am not sure how to get to the recovery to make a nandroid backup and whatnot. i tried t backup using ROM manager and got the android with exclamation on boot. and I also tried to bring up recovery by holding the volume up while booting and all it did was try to update and fail.
I just need a little bit more detail in getting this and once I get this squared away I swear I will be good to go for now on. Also I appreciate your alls patience and helpfulness!
edit 2: found recovery. hit home key after red android thing. shows Android system recovery<3e>. is this correct? nothing in the options there allow me to backup nandroid.

sv7007 said:
thanks and got it flashed on there now!
EDIT: Obviously I am an Idiot.... I flashed this recovery and now I am not sure how to get to the recovery to make a nandroid backup and whatnot. i tried t backup using ROM manager and got the android with exclamation on boot. and I also tried to bring up recovery by holding the volume up while booting and all it did was try to update and fail.
I just need a little bit more detail in getting this and once I get this squared away I swear I will be good to go for now on. Also I appreciate your alls patience and helpfulness!
edit 2: found recovery. hit home key after red android thing. shows Android system recovery<3e>. is this correct? nothing in the options there allow me to backup nandroid.
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nope...you must have a install-recovery.sh ....remove that and reflash the cwm in my dev thread. then you should be good.
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ptesmoke said:
nope...you must have a install-recovery.sh ....remove that and reflash the cwm in my dev thread. then you should be good.
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ahh thanks for letting me know. I will do this now and see what happens!
edit: I actually see no such file anywhere on my tablet or sd card? anything else it could be?

sv7007 said:
ahh thanks for letting me know. I will do this now and see what happens!
edit: I actually see no such file anywhere on my tablet or sd card? anything else it could be?
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It's located in the /etc/ and /system/etc/ directories.

Theonew said:
It's located in the /etc/ and /system/etc/ directories.
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found it thanks!
worked like a charm after that was gone! Now to flash roms.

[Q] Inescapable Bootloop So Far

I tried to flash cm10.1 from 9.1 stable but nothing would boot after. came to believe that they stopped anzu development at 10.0 so then wanted to flash for just 10.0. but i cannot escape the bootloader and thus cannot load the zip to my sdcard. i have tried flashing lt15i v. 4.0.2.A.042 using flashtool like 10 or more times it says it completes successfully but everytime, bootloop. ive tried the remove battery for 30 seconds and restart computer. still no luck. so pretty stuck now. can anyone kindly point me in the right direction?
ps im right about the 10.1 not being available right? is this what has caused this problem? also forgot to mention i fastboot the 10.0 img as well in the hope this might work and i also fastbooted recoveryimg afterwards.
edit: tried seus it just says i have latest update. pc companion wont connect because phone just keeps looping.
edit 2: i loaded the doomkernel which has allowed me to access cwm i performed a restore from one i had but it just loaded to a black lit screen. at a loss for where to go from here.

cheetaa said:
ps im right about the 10.1 not being available right? is this what has caused this problem? also forgot to mention i fastboot the 10.0 img as well in the hope this might work and i also fastbooted recoveryimg afterwards.
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Our device does not have a recovery partition! Recovery is included in the boot.img. And where did you get that from?

soumya_digi said:
Our device does not have a recovery partition! Recovery is included in the boot.img. And where did you get that from?
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yeah that was actually my next course of action. to get the boot.img for 9.1 and flash that back on, see if that will get things working again. i got the cm from freexperiaproject. let me know if you have any further ideas for me or if you think this will work now when i give it a try. i will post back if i am successful or not.
thanks
edit: correction, i must have got 9.1 from cyanogen.org to be precise.
ps: once and if i get this back in working order, would you mind recommending which build i should go with for best solid usage. ie should i go with the nightly (probably not i would imagine) or like the 7.1.0 stable build or what have you. reason i was trying to go to 10.1 from the stable 9.1 was because of the wifi being dropped after a certain amount of idle time. i figured this had something to do with the build. anyways, let me know i would appreciate it.
edit 2: haha phone is back working, shouldve thought of that solution before, i guess im still learning the ins and out of these systems. do hope to hear back on what build you would suggest. thanks again

Tred to flash the kernel included?
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TheHaso said:
Tred to flash the kernel included?
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yeah thats exactly what i did everythings working again. dont know why i didnt think of it earlier lol, been sick these past days brain isnt working fast enough.thanks for the help anyways man.

Need Stock Rom

I had a backup of stock before root but when i tried to back up to it today it gave me a md5 mismatch so i couldnt back up to it. From what I seen in beaups thread that I need to be on a stock rom and stock kernal for his s-off method to work. Is there a stock rom that I could flash to use the s-off method?

I'd like this answered as well. I think andy's stock rom near the bottom of the page works, but I haven't had a confirmation yet. Also wondering if odex versus deodexed versions matter.

Same boat im in just waiting for somebody to say which one we can use when we are already rooted and unlocked. I dont know how my md5's mismatched on my stock before root backup but I can't go back to it so Im kinda stuck here until we get a answer.

Aggies1288 said:
Same boat im in just waiting for somebody to say which one we can use when we are already rooted and unlocked. I dont know how my md5's mismatched on my stock before root backup but I can't go back to it so Im kinda stuck here until we get a answer.
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Just heard andy's bonestock works trying it myself to confirm.
EDIT: Downloading the 1.1 download not the newest. Under old downloads. I would think the more stock the better.

cstrife999 said:
Just heard andy's bonestock works trying it myself to confirm.
EDIT: Downloading the 1.1 download not the newest. Under old downloads. I would think the more stock the better.
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Just tried v1.0a..... No dice.

I'd test 1.1 but for some reason it won't let me copy the zip over to my phone... Keeps saying the device has stopped working or has been disconnected. Tried many different USB ports.... Going to have to bluetooth it which is going to take even more time...

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I'd test 1.1 but for some reason it won't let me copy the zip over to my phone... Keeps saying the device has stopped working or has been disconnected. Tried many different USB ports.... Going to have to bluetooth it which is going to take even more time...
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Im downloading 1.1 now. Ill get back with y'all on how it went.

Aggies1288 said:
Im downloading 1.1 now. Ill get back with y'all on how it went.
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I found VZW_Stock_Rooted_deodex from Andy
Trying that now..

mcampos7 said:
I found VZW_Stock_Rooted_deodex from Andy
Trying that now..
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This is what I've been on since launch day. Curious if this will work.

m4rk0358 said:
This is what I've been on since launch day. Curious if this will work.
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Actually I'm having more problems with this than I did trying it on 1.0a and NOS...
I'm trying to find my nandroid of stock rooted but I think it was on a drive that failed.
Linux boot, next???

mcampos7 said:
Actually I'm having more problems with this than I did trying it on 1.0a and NOS...
I'm trying to find my nandroid of stock rooted but I think it was on a drive that failed.
Linux boot, next???
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Yea i got made fun of when using that lol...

SUPER MEGA ULTIMATE DISCLAIMER: IIRC = IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THIS DOESN'T WORK/SCREWS UP YOUR DEVICE/BRICKS/ETC. YOU ARE WARNED. THIS WORKED FOR ME IN THE PAST WITH MY GALAXY NEXUS BACKUPS USING CWMTOUCH 6.0.3.6 AND 6.0.4.3.
YOU ARE WARNED.
I HAVE NEVER USED TWRP FOR BACKUPS. IT IS A MERE SUGGESTION THAT THIS METHOD WILL WORK WITH SIMILAR RESULTS. I HAVE NEVER BROWSED A BACKUP FOR TWRP. ANY ATTEMPT YOU MAKE USING A TWRP BACKUP IS OF YOUR OWN COGNIZANCE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
YOU ARE WARNED.
YOU ARE WARNED.
IIRC: If you have an md5 mismatch while trying to restore in a recovery, try this process:
IF YOU HAVE A BACKUP I HIGHLY SUGGEST STORING THE BACKUP FILE ON YOUR DESKTOP JUST IN CASE!!!!
Boot into whatever ROM you're on ATM.
Browse to your ClockworkMod (or TWRP backup must have an accessible folder for it's backups) using a Root file explorer, which I happen to use "Root Explorer" and open the backup file you just made.
Inside of that will be a nandroid.md5.
Delete that file and reboot into recovery, and try restoring again.
SUPER MEGA ULTIMATE DISCLAIMER: IIRC = IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THIS DOESN'T WORK/SCREWS UP YOUR DEVICE/BRICKS/ETC. YOU ARE WARNED. THIS WORKED FOR ME IN THE PAST WITH MY GALAXY NEXUS BACKUPS USING CWMTOUCH 6.0.3.6 AND 6.0.4.3.
YOU ARE WARNED.
YOU ARE WARNED.
YOU ARE WARNED.
This method did work for me several times on several backups, but root and S-Off being so new, I cannot attest that it works for the One. YOU ARE WARNED**!!

cstrife999 said:
Yea i got made fun of when using that lol...
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For using what? Linux? NOS?

mcampos7 said:
For using what? Linux? NOS?
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The sojo app called my issues dumb lol. It's hard to get frustrated when humor is involved with the errors.

cstrife999 said:
The sojo app called my issues dumb lol. It's hard to get frustrated when humor is involved with the errors.
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Looks like we may have to flash the boot.img that they are talking about in the s-off thread anybody have a guide for doing that?

I take it nobody tried deleting the nandroid.md5?

rmaccamr said:
I take it nobody tried deleting the nandroid.md5?
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I just tried looking for where the nandroid file was. I went to my sdcard on root explorer then to clockworkmod and didn't find any of my backups there. Is there another spot that i need to look in to do that?

Aggies1288 said:
I just tried looking for where the nandroid file was. I went to my sdcard on root explorer then to clockworkmod and didn't find any of my backups there. Is there another spot that i need to look in to do that?
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If using CWM, they will be under the /data/clockworkmod/backup directory, not /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.

I tried the odex stock rom, but it won't flash... Anybody have this issue?

santod040 said:
If using CWM, they will be under the /data/clockworkmod/backup directory, not /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
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Ok i found it it was under /data/media/clockworkmod/backup but i dont see any files inside of that that are a md5 file im going to look in the data.ext4.tar file and the system.ext4.tar.a. Does any of those ring a bell? i see the boot.img, data.ext4.tar.a, recovery.img, system.ext4.tar.a, and system.ext4.tar.b. Thats all the files inside the backup i made before i rooted.