I was able to successfully flash my stock nandroid through amon ra. But now every time i boot my evo it keeps going back to boot loader. Am i in trouble?
I had this happen to me, and what I was able to do is this: I pulled the battery, then booted into recovery. I wiped data/cache/dalvik. I then flashed one of my nandroids, and it booted up just fine after that. Do you have more than one nandroid? You stated that you are using amon RA, did you use amon
RA to create your nandroid backup? If you used clockwork to create the backup, you need to use clockwork to flash the backup, they are not interchangeable. Hopefully this was helpful to you.
After going about... i think it has to do with the hboot being .76 insted of .79 which is what is suppose to be for 2.2. Or am i wrong? - and every time i try to do the hboot update it keeps telling me an error about a update file, cant figure it out.
Yes i have other nandroid's but, i'm really wanting to get some stuff back from my original stock 2.2. I try doing a titanium backup, but it just kept telling me i wasnt root, but i am.
FIXED!!! It was the bootloader. Spent a good time trying to look for a flashable hboot, and finally had to restore my phone back to stock 2.2, then root and restore. The solution was here, the files.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780141
Greetings,
I searched on this, but could not find an answer:
The 3.29 update I performed (over stock 3.26) has apparently screwed up my 4G. It will scan, connect for a second, drop immediately, scan and so on...
Prior to the 3.29 I did a full nandroid backup, but I did it with Clockwork because that was what was installed by Unrevoked. I am just now learning that apparently AmonRA is the way to go?
I ask because after I discovered that my 4G was borked, I first tried to do a full restore using my nandroid backup I did of 3.26 prior to trying the update. The restore of the 3.26 nandroid was successful, but I noticed that I still had a PRI of 1.77, and the 4G still would not connect.
Is it true that clockwork does not correctly back up your wimax certs? Even if that is probably true, where is the procedure detailed to convert your wimax cert info into an image you can flash in an attempt to recover your 4G connectivity?
After spending hours on the phone haggling with Sprint, learning my local repair store does not have any replacements in stock, they FINALLY agreed to ship me an advanced exchange when I went through business care.
So, in the meantime while I wait for the replacement to arrive, what can I try to do with the Clockwork/Nandroid backup I have prior to the 3.29 update to see if I can't get it going after all?
If I can't, what is safest procedure to follow with the replacement unit? All I want is a stock 3.29 that is rooted and has working 4G. What root method should I use? How can I safely replace Clockwork with AmonRA?
Sorry for all the questions, I am just frustrated and stuck at the moment.
Thanks in advance,
-Rob
Clockwork doesn't backup WiMAX at all. Only Amon RA 1.8 does. So if all you have is a Clockworkmod backup, you're hosed.
Did you try reverting to PRI 1.34 to see if that fixes your issue?
Easiest root method for new phones right now is Unrevoked 3.21. It should be just as safe as the long manual method. After rooting, you can grab Amon RA 1.8.0 here.
Thanks for the info!
Ninja,
Thanks for the info. I haven't tried 1.34, but with a new phone on the way, I am not sure I am going to bother unless I get bored.
I am pretty sure UnRevoked will install Clockwork, so how do I go about safely replacing Clockwork with AmonRA? Do I just flash right over the top?
Thanks, just wasn't sure about that part.
-Rob
I just downloaded rom manager. It had an option to install RA and did a back up that way.
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robroy90 said:
I am pretty sure UnRevoked will install Clockwork, so how do I go about safely replacing Clockwork with AmonRA? Do I just flash right over the top?
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Yeah, that's what I did.
hazakins said:
I just downloaded rom manager. It had an option to install RA and did a back up that way.
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Hey, I see it has 1.8.0 now. That would be the simplest way to install it, then.
Yesterday i decided to downgrade to hboot .76 so i could use CM6 and has been working great, but needed to check something on my old ROM. Before flashing to CM6 I made a back-up of the ROM i had, but when i tried to restore it today my phone would just go to the hboot screen. Could it be because i have .76 hboot? I was looking for .93hboot file but could not find it anywhere....any help here.
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Yesterday i decided to downgrade to hboot .76 so i could use CM6 and has been working great, but needed to check something on my old ROM. Before flashing to CM6 I made a back-up of the ROM i had, but when i tried to restore it today my phone would just go to the hboot screen. Could it be because i have .76 hboot? I was looking for .93hboot file but could not find it anywhere....any help here.
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the bootlaoder should have nothing to do with doing a nand restore
Just curious, what ROM did you nand?
i nand backed up 3.26 ota with custom kernel. well i cannot restore back to any previous nand's. I made 2 via amon and 2 via clockwork mod and both dont work. While restoring in clockwork i got this error "error while flashing boot image". I know these nand's work because i have restored them before. Any suggestions? the only thing that worked was to reflash to cm6
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i nand backed up 3.26 ota with custom kernel. well i cannot restore back to any previous nand's. I made 2 via amon and 2 via clockwork mod and both dont work. While restoring in clockwork i got this error "error while flashing boot image". I know these nand's work because i have restored them before. Any suggestions? the only thing that worked was to reflash to cm6
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that aint a bad thing!!! i'd get s-off and then you should be able to flash roms as PCIMG36.zip files
My evo got pretty ****ed over the past day, originally I rooted it by installing the hboot drivers then using unrevoked,I assumed everything would be done from there, I never got to flash Amon ra or any custom roms so I wanted to try it out, every guide I found involved using adb shell and a Tom of other steps I never used while originally rooting.
I got so fed up with all the error messages that I decided to start from the absolute beginning and root again and then try unlocking nand, one method involved me putting all these files on the sdcard and using adb a lot, I followed all if these steps exactly and DEFINITELY DID A NAND BACKUP but then after rebooting in one step my phone went back to eclair 2.1 and all my info was deleted and now its as if I bought it today, its not even rooted anymore so all the apps I backed up with titanium I can't even access anymore since it requires root
One step told me to do the nand restore and when I went the folder was empty, I would kill to have my old evo back or at least all my apps, any and all help would be HIGHLY appreciated
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If youre back on 2.1, just root it, put whatever recovery you used to make your nandroid on there and then restore your nandroid.
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I assumed onceI was on 2.1 I would be rooted again, I tried unrevoked once it was on 2.1 but it just stayed saying "running root" and never changed, and my nandroid restore didn't show up before so why would it now
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The root method you used was older, and was the way to go before Froyo was officially rooted. It involved downgrading (which you did) and then rooting 2.1 and then flashing a froyo ROM. It sounds like you made it to the downgrade part and then you stopped for whatever reason. You aren't in bad shape, you just need to get that 2.1 rooted and you're good to go.
As far as the nandroid is concerned, if you made it, then it should be there. You said you never got to flash a custom recovery but you must've if you were able to do a nandroid. Now if you made your nandroid with clockwork you won't be able to restore it with Amon and vice versa, which is where I think the confusion lies. Do you remember what recovery you made the nandroid with?
Your only real option at this point is to root your 2.1 and restore your nandroid with the correct recovery. Check your SD card, if there is a folder called Nandroid then it was made with Amon, and I'm pretty sure clockwork puts it's nandroid into a folder called Clockwork.
As far as why the root wasn't finishing, I'm not really sure because it's been a while since I used that method. It could be a driver issue. Have you installed the proper drivers?
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The root method you used was older, and was the way to go before Froyo was officially rooted. It involved downgrading (which you did) and then rooting 2.1 and then flashing a froyo ROM. It sounds like you made it to the downgrade part and then you stopped for whatever reason. You aren't in bad shape, you just need to get that 2.1 rooted and you're good to go.
As far as the nandroid is concerned, if you made it, then it should be there. You said you never got to flash a custom recovery but you must've if you were able to do a nandroid. Now if you made your nandroid with clockwork you won't be able to restore it with Amon and vice versa, which is where I think the confusion lies. Do you remember what recovery you made the nandroid with?
Your only real option at this point is to root your 2.1 and restore your nandroid with the correct recovery. Check your SD card, if there is a folder called Nandroid then it was made with Amon, and I'm pretty sure clockwork puts it's nandroid into a folder called Clockwork.
As far as why the root wasn't finishing, I'm not really sure because it's been a while since I used that method. It could be a driver issue. Have you installed the proper drivers?
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yae the recovery is where the whole issue began, i assumed i was good so i tried flashing amon RA with the terminal emulator and whenever i typed 'su' it always said permission denied, i was rooted for sure so some people said i had to probably unlock NAND and more errors came from there so i tried that other rooting method so i definitely flashed with clockwork and i remember seeing the build name on the bottom as well which makes me pretty happy as well since i found it in the directory which you said under my sdcard with the date name and whatnot so major kudos for that
i installed the hboot drivers before so i assumed i didnt need to do it again but when unrevoked kept staying at "running root" i tried installing again, and on this video online from djr3z he said under 'My Devices' that Android 1.0 would show up where I could click to install it but it never showed up so I've been stuck since that point, are there any other alternative root methods you recommend/should i try updating the drivers? or perhaps i can delete the driver and reinstall?
Check your hboot, are you S-ON or S-OFF? Also, what hboot version are you?
im definitely S-OFF, saw it all the time in the bootloader screen, how do i check the hboot version exactly?
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im definitely S-OFF, saw it all the time in the bootloader screen, how do i check the hboot version exactly?
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you load it up with volume down and power button, same way you go as if your going to boot into recovery
ok and my hboot version is .76.2000
can anyone confirm if .76.2000 is the latest hboot driver? everytime i connect my phone and check device manager it shows android bootloader interface which, from what i heard, is what im supposed to see
everytime i run unrevoked it stays at "running root..." and doesnt change from there
The latest hboot is 2.02 I believe but you don't want that one, I hear it's a pain to root. Yours is the engineering hboot which must have gotten put on there from whatever rooting method you were using. It's fine to leave that one on there, it will allow you to flash CM6 if you ever decide to. What happens when you select recovery from the hboot menu?
Have you tried downloading ROM manager from the market and using it to flash clockwork? I would give that a whirl.
when i select recovery from bootloader it gives me the black screen with the phone and red triangle, i started button mashing and it seemed like a recovery image but it said 'Android system recovery <2e>' with a few commands like wipe/reboot etc.
i was trying the clockwork before, i installed rom manager, then tried "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" but it kept giving me error messages about attempting to run privilleged commands, assuming that means im not rooted again
i dont even think i have the clockwork recovery image on my sd card, it does however show my amon RA one, but there's no point in flashing that if the clockwork has my nandroid backup right? and couldn't i just put the clockwork recovery image on my sdcard from online somewhere?
Try this- Download THIS FILE, put it on the root of your SD card, and boot into hboot. It will automatically find it, load it and ask you if you want to run it. Choose yes and let it go. It *should* install clockwork recovery on your phone. If it doesn't work, no harm no foul and we can try something else. If it does work, you should be able to restore that nandroid that you made. It will only work if you are S-OFF, which you say you are so it's worth a shot.
okay and if it works, before i do the restore should i wipe everything?
It won't hurt but when doing a nandroid restore wiping is not necessary.
so close...your method worked, but i couldnt restore it gave me an error messgae..
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
Error whille flashing boot image!
takes me back to the main menu of the recovery =\
do you think it has to do with me still being on 2.1 rather than 2.2?
So you now have clockwork on there? That's a step in the right direction! Try restoring your nandroid once more and if that doesn't work, you can flash a ROM and then restore your titanium backups.
It shouldn't matter what ROM you're on when restoring a nandroid. Do you remember what hboot version you were on when you made the nandroid? If I remember correctly that could cause an issue but I'm not entirely sure about that.
hmm i cant even get out of the bootloader screen now though..even when i reboot it takes me straight to bootloader
and also if i flash a rom will have to be designed for 2.1 since im still technically on that?
no idea about the hboot version =\ just assumed it was upgraded to the most advanced version when i updated the driver
but i cant even put any ROMs on my sdcard now because i cant even leave the bootloader screen?
No, flashing a 2.2 ROM will upgrade you from 2.1, it should work fine. You must have made your nandroid on a different hboot version then the one you have now.
What I would do in this situation is run the 3.29 RUU found HERE which will bring you back to full stock, and then you can run Unrevoked and reroot it. The whole process should only take you a half hour or so. I don't know if you will be able to restore your nandroid because of the hboot discrepancy, but at the very least you will be able to restore your titanium backups.
I rooted with revolutionary and am now s-off with su and clockwork recovery. I assume I can recover one of my old cw backups without any issues, correct?
legasus233 said:
I rooted with revolutionary and am now s-off with su and clockwork recovery. I assume I can recover one of my old cw backups without any issues, correct?
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I'm guessing as long as you were s-off when you made the nand it should be all good!
as long as you are on the same exact phone that made the backups in the first place
Now all I need to do is remember which ones are which, I have like 6 backups, 3 in CW and 3 in RA!
Also make sure your MD5's are intact too!
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I rooted with revolutionary and am now s-off with su and clockwork recovery. I assume I can recover one of my old cw backups without any issues, correct?
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STOP!!!!!!!! Do not restore a Wimax partition from another phone. If you do you will break your 4G. Otherwise yes you can restore a backup from your old phone. Just remove the Wimax image.
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