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nandroid restore ,titanium backup and market borked

So I try a different Rom about every 2 weeks. All of a sudden ,last week I tried one of the liquid acer roms. Afterwards I went to restore a backup and shortly after starting ,I got an error sayin use adb to restore. Tried an earlier backup and it works but titanium backup only restores some of my apps and the market doesn't work. If I hit ok,install in market it does nothing. So I wipe everything and try a fresh install ( tried virus ,azreal, ava) azreal 3 has been my daily. And still same problem with market but now titanium won't restore any apps. It just sits there with the progress pop up on screen but doesn't do anything. Only recent changes. Updated pri to 1.90 ,reverted to 1.77 to try that. And using amon ra 1.80 ,tried goin to ra 2.1 but still no dice. Has sumpin on my SD card got corrupted or what

Try formatting your sd card.
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I had recently done that bout thanksgiving but I'll try it again. Thanks

I get the same error with aman ra wanting my to restore nand from adb. It started sometime around the 3.70 upgrade which was when I upgraded PRI to 1.90. I switched back to clockwork 2.6.0.1 but haven't tried to restore a backup yet.

i think when amon ra tells you to nand from adb that means that you dont have enough battery power to do the recovery. i think the battery should ne at like 30 %

Got a question i see everyone write borked wtf is that??

Its liked saying its fu*keked without actually saying its fu*ked
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caguirr4 said:
Its liked saying its fu*keked without actually saying its fu*ked
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Lmao oh ok i thought they ment broke at first lol good to know
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caguirr4 said:
Its liked saying its fu*keked without actually saying its fu*ked
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Or like Tango & Cash said " Fubar'd". Fugged Up Beyond All Recognition .oh and formatting the SD card worked. I always have a full charge when doin this stuff

CWM 2.5.1.2 Problem

I've been playing with CM7, and of course did a nandroid incase I didn't like it. My backup of my apps got screwed and went to nandroid back, and it's hanging on md5 check. Not sure why, but when I reflashed CWM 2.5.0.5 it works fine as intended. Just want to warn people if they are having problems restoring in 2.5.1.2, use unrevoked and go back to 2.5.0.5 and restore that way.
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Out of curiosity did you use ROM Manager to do the initial nandroid? I've seen similar behavior on mine and have given up using RM, instead rebooting to recovery and doing the nandroid from there, and then using recovery to install the new ROM's from SD (and also for subsequent nandroid back) No issues with 2.5.1.2 using it in that fashion. I have the paid version of RM too.

curiouser and curiouser...what model screen do you guys have...slcd or amoled?
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Pete..I'm SLCD. thanks
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I did use rom manager. But the thing is, the nandroid was made with 2.5.1.2, which is what is odd......
And I have a AMOLED.

I had the same experience earlier...scared the sh*t out of me. If you are just patient it should eventually make it past the md5 and keep going.
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blake.cheek said:
I had the same experience earlier...scared the sh*t out of me. If you are just patient it should eventually make it past the md5 and keep going.
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Naa. mine makes it past the MD5 and restores just fine, just boot loops once it does. I just accept the fact that I can't do a backup from RM when downloading and installing a ROM , whereby doing it all within recovery works fine. Just another step - no big deal.

It just doesn't make sense to me. Why should backing up through Rom Manager make a difference? I could see if I was trying to restore from RM (which did work just fine on 2.5.0.5 btw). Since going back to 2.5.0.5 I've done two restores and now it's working just fine. CM7 was actually more stable and snappy than my sense rom, but there's a few apps that just aren't supported yet in GB. Finding alternatives is a easy fix usually, but haven't found anything yet for one of them. All in All, I was quite happy with CM7, just the lack of a widget for my Widget Locker (small calendar widget) and then m:IQ isn't working on GB apparently (if I got something to manually backup call log / sms I'd be fine. I'm sure there's something out there that will do it). 2.5.1.2 just doesn't do what I need it to do, luckily we have choices! I'll just stick to 2.5.0.5 for my rom flashing pleasures =]

Nandroid and bootloops.

I am using the newest amon recovery. Everytime i try to restore a nandroid i save it gives me bootloops. I normally wipe everything twice and flash caulks format all zip. Is there something im doing wrong?
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i would love to have this answer also...was getting the same thing happening to me, sumtimes bootloop off a hot restart...various roms, mysn, mik, virus, miui, didnt really matter which i was coming from or going too...
have since unrooted my phone and rerooted it just to see if sumthing was off...so far so good...would still like to have answers as to why though.
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Same here i rerooted and then reooted back and i still get the same result. Wonder if i am supposed flash the rom, then restore? On my hero i never had issues.
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Is your usb plugged in while either backing up or restoring? Have you tried loading a different version of amon?

U need to flash a kernel, nandroid dont save that
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so your are saying flash the kernal first then restore nandroid restore?

Okay I just tried what you said and I still got bootloops. And my USB is never plugged in when i do a nandroid.

Something in the backup is giving you bootloops. Try completely wiping, the flashing a new rom.

You can review the recovery log too.
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U need to flash a kernel, nandroid dont save that
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Yes it does. Likely the issue is that a wipe is not being performed before restoring the data in the nandroid.
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Garbage in, garbage out.
If your device was unstable when you backed it up, it will continue to be so after you restore.
Try a different Sd card. If your device continues to be unholy, revert back to a stock based rom or even RUU. If your issues persist, you likely have a hardware fault.
Basic troubleshooting 101...

Nandroids dont replace the kernel, do the nand then flash the kernel
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i really need sum help...have posted here once before on this issue...i just flashed mik4.5 last nite...made a backup this am...flashed sum mods and made another nand backup this afternoon...needed a text message off the first nand backup so i wiped everything and started the nand restore...installed just fine and started to boot up just fine untill the boot animation stopped...then it started bootlooping...wth man...i have had my evo since it came out and been using amon ra since i started this adventure we call rooting...never have i had so many things go wrong with nand restore or backups...9 out of 10 backups i have made since 1.8 has become obsolete has not worked...please help...ty

Man I'm having bootloops all the time now ever since i updated the new combo radios and flashed myn RLS5. On sense with rls5 my phone reboots a lot kinda and with AOSP roms like MIUI my phone reboots like every 24 hours and goes on a bootloop. I can't figure out what's going on. Tried messaging some devs but they don't answer me

Did u run Calkulins Format All.zip?
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LuvThyMetal said:
Man I'm having bootloops all the time now ever since i updated the new combo radios and flashed myn RLS5. On sense with rls5 my phone reboots a lot kinda and with AOSP roms like MIUI my phone reboots like every 24 hours and goes on a bootloop. I can't figure out what's going on. Tried messaging some devs but they don't answer me
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When you switched roms, did you do a format data/calkulin's format all? doing either or should fix your bootlooping problem.

I always use caulkins format all. Still get bootloops. Wipe everything, still get bootloops. I dont know what to somwtumes except star all over from scratch.
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marcusva79 said:
I always use caulkins format all. Still get bootloops. Wipe everything, still get bootloops. I dont know what to somwtumes except star all over from scratch.
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Same here bro. I've tried 3 different roms this weekend thinking it was just miui causing the problem but I actually got bootloops on all of them . This is weird
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"Wipe everything", is that a factory restore/reset?
Cause that's what I do (factory reset).
Then the nand restore............

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I always use caulkins format all. Still get bootloops. Wipe everything, still get bootloops. I dont know what to somwtumes except star all over from scratch.
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Are you flashing kernels over that?

Formatting system...?!?

I used to format /system every time I flashed a ROM on my gs2, but I saw in the numerous imei threads some posts about not doing so because it may be part of the lost imei issues. Do you do it ? Have you had issues ? I'm reluctant to do so , but feel it will be " beneficial to my flashing" if I did...
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jasonren29 said:
Format system does not wipe out imei. It's when you root it the wrong way. If you want to play safe, you can go to development section use imei back up method to back it up
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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Did you changed the backup in any format? Change name or date? Any minor changes to the backup will fail md5 check
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None what so ever. I really just flashed the stock back up right before I flashed my gsfree back up so no I made no changes what also ever. Some times when you format systems in clockworkmod recovery this could happen because it happen to me. Can't wait till ext4 touch recovery comes to us here in this forum. Not saying cwm recovery isn't nice but I never had any problems with other recoveries that have been offered.
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einrae214 said:
No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.

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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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Yes you are right. But I didn't want to go thru all of that. Really didn't have time so just unrooted my phone so there would be no more problems. I get like alot of people and become flash aholics. So I just stop it from being problem later down the road. Look I like rooting and adding mods to my phone like the next guy but there comes to a point where unnecessary issues can be avoided. Like the one I had.... but on the real tip I really enjoy the phone just the way it is STOCK I have zero issues and love the battery life that I have. So until some cooler roms come out I just don't have interest in cm9 or cm10 base roms. I mean I came from the sensation where I could flash a lot more variety of roms. I like this phone the way it is and really that's why I bought it.
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TWRP Problem!

Hi, So when I tried to open up twrp recovery, it wouldnt open....it would just stay at the logo and blink every now.and then....So I used oden and installed cwm over twrp and it was fine....I didnt like cwm so I went back to twrp..... it works fine and I can do everything EXCEPT some files are inaccessible and every time I flash something,it works but also gives me the error measages in the image I posted... does anyone know how to fix this?
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Hi, So when I tried to open up twrp recovery, it wouldnt open....it would just stay at the logo and blink every now.and then....So I used oden and installed cwm over twrp and it was fine....I didnt like cwm so I went back to twrp..... it works fine and I can do everything EXCEPT some files are inaccessible and every time I flash something,it works but also gives me the error measages in the image I posted... does anyone know how to fix this.
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Maybe try installing twrp from goo manager while connected to WiFi to ensure a good download
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I had the same exact problem a couple days ago. I fixed it by going Into goo manager and re flashing a new TWRP. I did it on Mobile Data, worked fine!
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Go back to 2.3.3.0. Search for the flashables ones. Since 2.4.2.1 TWRP have a lot of issues.
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I see a lot of people complaining about TWRP related issues with various versions of this recovery.
Is there any reason people don't talk about CWM around here? I've been using different versions of cwm touch and twrp ... And I'm honestly pretty happy with cwm.
Why does it appear that people avoid talking about cwm? ... If indeed it works as well as it seems to me that it does?

One reason is that a lot of people think it's better and recommend it to others. I used cwm on my old evo and was going to when I got my s3, but most people and roms were recommending twrp. I've been using it and have tried out cwm as well. For me, at least it hasn't been problematic, but I don't download them through the goo manager. As I feel like I have less control over what I'm getting (I don't even know what version I'm getting until after I download it). That, and I just don't trust the phone to download without errors even when on Wi-Fi.
Just my two cents.
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I just actually switched to cwm a couple days ago because twrp had been giving me backup and restore problems.. everything twrp can do cwm does also, and it seems to be faster backing up and restoring also, but that might just be placebo... devs recommend twrp because that is what their Rom/kernel/mod was tested with... 99% of the time cwm will work just fine also
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It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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Actually, having used both, I think TWRP had been the better of the two because of the ease of naming your nandroids and the fact that backups in TWRP don't take up so much space as the CWM backups do. Have you seem the crazy Blobs folder in CWM? I like backing stuff up to the PC, but the CWM backups made that process extremely painful. I don't know what happened to make TWRP so unreliable recently, but I just noticed a newer version is out: 2.5.0.0
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DurhamHusker said:
I see a lot of people complaining about TWRP related issues with various versions of this recovery.
Is there any reason people don't talk about CWM around here? I've been using different versions of cwm touch and twrp ... And I'm honestly pretty happy with cwm.
Why does it appear that people avoid talking about cwm? ... If indeed it works as well as it seems to me that it does?
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There's nothing bad about CWM, but is 2013 and you can't rename your nands which is very important(not necesary) in a phone which date as 1970. Also the touch version looks like a '90 recovery.
But if you want a issues free TWRP go back to 2.3.3.0.
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I did that... Now it only recognizes my ext sd card and the 0 folder in my internal storage that I clear out a while ago
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topherk said:
One reason is that a lot of people think it's better and recommend it to others. I used cwm on my old evo and was going to when I got my s3, but most people and roms were recommending twrp. I've been using it and have tried out cwm as well. For me, at least it hasn't been problematic, but I don't download them through the goo manager. As I feel like I have less control over what I'm getting (I don't even know what version I'm getting until after I download it). That, and I just don't trust the phone to download without errors even when on Wi-Fi.
Just my two cents.
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If you update from goo manager, a pop up will tell you what version you are about to install beforehand. Also the webpage that it takes you to in order to start the auto download also states the name of the .IMG which also indicates version. I know what you mean about trusting downloads from the phone though. I personally think that is the reason a lot of people have issues with twrp. I've always updated to the latest twrp and flash almost daily, but have never had to switch versions because of bugs. All versions have ran perfect for me.
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It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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I've used both for quite a while. I used to only use cwm for the longest but decided to try out twrp because of those ridiculous blobs! What's with that? So I decided to try twrp and I've stayed because of all the little features like a warnings before you wipe things you shouldn't, option to flash more than one zip at once, option to clear cache and dalvik right after flashing, etc... Plus there are some pretty major features that get overlooked. Like the built in file browser. I installed miui once and it created a folder I could not delete and keep deleted. Every time I would reboot, it would come back. Twrp file browser deleted it and kept it deleted. The only thing I don't like about twrp is the system date and time being way off.
Edit: Lol. I've edited like 5 times because I keep wanting to add more info. Also, twrp doesn't take ages to fix permissions. As long as cwm takes, I can just do it manually
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I've been on 2.4.0 and 2.4.4, and only had to do backups but haven't tried to restore yet, so after hearing all the war stories, I went back to 2.3.1.

UPDATE: I just upgraded from 2.3.1 to 2.5.0, performed wipes, a backup and a restore and all went perfectly smooth. The only issue was the time was 2 hours behind what it should have been for US central, so I selected 2 hours ahead and chose military time (my preference) and I'm happy.

Where did you get 2.5.5?i only found 2.5.0
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oops, I mean't 2.5.0