I'm on an EVO 4G running Fresh 3.5.0.1 with Netarchy Toastmod 4.3.4 cfs havs-less no sbc. I'm currently using ClockworkMod recovery 2.6.0.1.
Last weekend, I wanted to try Synergy with GodMode. I don't know if it wasn't in the thread when I read it (I see the thread's been updated since my attempt), or if I just missed it, but either way, I was unaware that I couldn't install the GodMode ROM with ClockworkMod.
So I did a Nandroid backup and attempted install (I'll admit, I initially forgot to wipe data/davlik/cache). It seemed to install fine, but then couldn't make it past the boot splash. So I figured I'd cut my losses and just restore my backup. After restoring, it once again got stuck at the bootsplash (never had this issue in the past). And when I say stuck, I mean I let it sit at the boot splash screen for 5-10 minutes, pulled the battery, repeated (including wiping everything), and it could never get past it. To get the phone working again, I had to restore to a much earlier Gingerbread Deck backup that I had made while fooling around with that ROM, then I was able to restore the most recent backup without issue.
Fast forward to this evening. I figured I'd try again, but now I know I need Amon_RA's recovery. So my plan was to do another Nandroid backup, install Amon_RA, and try Synergy with GodMode. I never made it past the first step... after creating the backup (no changes were made, just the backup created), the phone wouldn't progress past the boot splash. I had to go to an earlier restore point (last weekend's) to get the phone to work. Tried restoring today's backup after getting it to work on the old backup, no luck.
Thinking perhaps the attempted GodMode install messed something up, I did a fresh install of Fresh 3.5.0.1 (pun semi-intended), fresh install of my kernel, and then tried restoring the most recent backup. Once again, couldn't get past the boot splash.
I feel like something is seriously wrong, and I don't feel comfortable going into recovery to make any changes until I have some insight into what the issue is.
To make matters worse, I rely on 4G tethering for internet, and have no landline, so if the phone is bricked while trying to resolve this issue, I'll have no resources to get help.
Any help is GREATLY appreciated. I've searched, but it seems that the problems everyone has that are like this occur immediately after changes are made and are remedied by wiping data/davlik/cache. I made no changes this evening, and wiped everything multiple times in my many attempts.
Edit: Almost forgot, some things did stand out as I was trying to get it to work.
While whiping Davlik, I was given the line:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(File exists)
While restoring today's backup:
sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restore of /sd-ext/.
There was a nandroid restore issue using a previous version of twrp that was remedied by restoring nandroid and then flashing the rom over top of the nandroid. Maybe try that
Sent From My Pocket
Ok I had the same problem. I wiped everything three times also wiped dilvak (might have spelled wrong) cache, and wiped battery stats. Then flashed it. It took forever also close to 15 mins. This is what I did I hope it helps.
Just a followup: I decided I could do without restoring to that specific backup (tried restoring it after wiping data a few more times, but oh well). I only installed a couple apps and changed a couple other things since the last backup that worked, so I installed Amon_Ra since it seems to be the consensus that it's a better recovery and made a backup with that... rebooted just fine afterwards.
Related
My phone is mullered :-(
Whenever I flash a new ROM, all I get is a constant boot loop on first boot.
Flashing a different ROM results in the same behaviour.
The only way out of it is to re-root, taking me back to version 1.15 or something, and then if i try to flash a new ROM - you guessed it, boot loop....
This first started when I had OpenDesire installed, which was fine to begin with, but then it randomly rebooted and started boot looping.
Since then I've tried about 4 or 5 different ROMs and nothing changes.
Any ideas as to what's wrong/a solution?
Just to add, I have one the lastest radios (.08) when I try and flash.
Perhaps flashing the radio after might help?
After much struggling, I've managed to sort it.
Ended up clearing storage in recovery, which helped so long as there was no SD card in it. Had to format and repartition the card, and fingers crossed, all seems well now.
Whenever you change between diferent ROMs it is a good practice to do a full wipe via recovery. 90 to 99% of the boot-loops can be fixed doing it...
The strange thing is that I did wipe between ROMs. I'm not sure why I had a problem this time round, as I haven't had with the previous 10 flashes...
Still, it's sorted now
Funny.. found this thread via google.
I'm having the exact same issue where no matter what rom I flash it gets stuck on bootloops during the startup animation and never makes it into the rom.
NANDroid backups are perfectly fine to restore, just unable to flash any new roms. Spent all last night trying everything from swapping recoveries, to re-rooting, flashing multiple roms, urgh.
Only thing I didn't try is re-formatting the SD card so gonna give that a go now (thanks to this thread) and report back later.
Annoying to say the least.
Well what do you know... a 'partition my SD card' through rom manager (after copying said contents to my computer) worked a charm.
Most interesting......... Praise this thread and any others that gain help from it.
Did you update your radio ?
Sent from my spectrum zx
Man i'm lucky. Two hugely annoying problems in one go.
First up, yes I have replaced my radio, many times The SD card was obviously not too happy with its ext partition, so repartitioning that worked.
I also had another issue crop up straight away that was probably caused by unhappy sdcard, where when restoring apps via titanium backup, phone would reset.
After running a RRU, re-rooting, all the full works.. I find that some of the apk backups are 1kb... Which is not normal. There were about 15 apps like this. I had a backup of these apps from a week or so ago and copied those to the titanium backup directory, restored, no problemo.
Even more annoyingly TB has a verrify backups option which reported all was well. FML.
Well that was a fun morning. Time to finally get back on track *sighface*
This evening I was playing around with my Evo and got thinking, "I really like how everything is running right now! I've been running SteelH I.2 ROM stable for a few weeks, launcherpro, all my homescreens setup... perfect! I should take a backup."
I reboot into recovery, take a nandroid backup, then go to reboot the phone. Backup completed without any errors, but the phone would not restart. It sat at the white HTC and would not budge. I removed the battery several times and rebooted, but nothing. I could still get into recovery, so I wiped data, cache, dalvik and attempted to reboot. Again, nothing... just sat at the HTC screen. At this point I was thinking, "great... gonna have a long night ahead of me troubleshooting this one." I restored the backup I had just taken about 30 minutes earlier, but wasn't very confident that it would help at all... reboot, and after a few seconds, my boot screen starts loading!
So, here is what I am wondering.... I had not done any "hacking" since the last reboot... just installed/uninstalled a few apps from the market. What could have caused my phone to react like this? Also, if it wouldn't reboot in the first place, why did restoring the backup work? I had just taken the backup a few minutes earlier....
thanks!
Well, that certainly is unique. I've had problems doing nandroid back-ups (recovering from and creating them) before but it always booted just fine no matter what happened. Maybe there was a small software error that was fixed when you recovered.
Either way, I wouldn't worry about it. Recovering a nandroid back-up = problem got deleted.
That's why I tell everyone to nandroid before doing anything
Hello,
I'm trying to Restore one of my backups from recovery and after reboot, the phone stuck on the white HTC screen, It happen to all the backups I have.
It's the first time this is happen, I managed to do that before without problems.
My recovery version is 3.0.1.5 and always has been (I didn't upgrade/downgrade) it ever.
I'm able to install a new fresh ROM, but I'm not able to Recover and this is very important for me.
I read other threads about it but neither are solving my issue.
Please advice.
Thanks!!!
(The backups are Coredroid and RCMixHD both Gingerbread).
I had the same problem and solved it by first flashing the old, clean ROM (in my case RCMix) and after the first successful boot restoring only data and system (in CWM "backup and restore" -> "advanced restore"). And I suppose if you restore system, the backup should be the same ROM as the one you have installed.
After that everything worked fine again...something must be wrong with CWM, seriously...
frosty_ice said:
I had the same problem and solved it by first flashing the old, clean ROM (in my case RCMix) and after the first successful boot restoring only data and system (in CWM "backup and restore" -> "advanced restore"). And I suppose if you restore system, the backup should be the same ROM as the one you have installed.
After that everything worked fine again...something must be wrong with CWM, seriously...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes, but from then, are you able to do Restore as regular, like you did before without any problems ?
Or that only your system is working but your'e still unable to do restores ?
Well I am unable to do a complete restore, but it works when I first install the ROM and afterwards manually restore system and data. So I have got everything set up as if I did a normal restore.
It's almost the same as a regular restore any way, you won't notice any difference.
I will take a look into the CWM backups, maybe I'll find the reason for this bug.
thanks, that's nice, it's not so comfortable, but if I wont have a choice I will do that.
In the meanwhile I prefer fixing this issue, anything can do to fix it ?
(Strange, but my problem has been started since I'm using RCMix, may something in this ROM conflicts with CWM?!)
Quite the same here, I'm using RCMix too. But it might just be a random correlation, unless more people have this problem.
Until it is fixed I will just use my workaround, it is not too much trouble luckily
Oh yeah and I took a look in my backups. On the surface everything seems to be in order....
frosty_ice said:
Quite the same here, I'm using RCMix too. But it might just be a random correlation, unless more people have this problem.
Until it is fixed I will just use my workaround, it is not too much trouble luckily
Oh yeah and I took a look in my backups. On the surface everything seems to be in order....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm using CM7 and have no problem restoring my Nandroid backup, so IMHO it may be a specific issue with RCMix
Ok guys, problem has been solved by installing the latest recovery version from Rom Manager app. Then restart, wipe and... Restore successfully.
I still suspect the RCMixHD, because the problem has been started since I have installed it, maybe it changed something in the CWM, I'm afraid to reinstall it now , I'm sticking with Coredroid 5.3
Before I went to sleep last night I decided to backup my phone via recovery. After it backed up I rebooted and I had no service and a service called com.phone or something like that would force close every 5 seconds. I went back into recovery and reflashed CM7 and it bootlooped. I went back into recovery and restored a backup from the day before and it worked flawlessly. I hadn't changed any type of settings, I had just installed the new Swiftkey Beta and Robot Unicorn Attack between the 2 backups. Through trial and error and many reboots into recovery I found out that it is the data portion of the backup that was causing the problems. Does anyone know why this happened? I am a little nervous about doing another backup for fear of not being able to use my phone.
CM7 Stable
Incredikernal (latest)
hboot .92
3.0.0.8 recovery
I suspect the backup had nothing to do with it. I'd bet you would have had the same problems after a simple reboot.
As far as I know, a nandroid backup simply reads from the phone and writes to the SD. I don't see how it could have changed anything on the phone itself.
That's what I thought. I can't remember if I had recently rebooted at that point but after getting the phone working through a restore of the previous backup I tried one last time and restored the backup that had caused the problem and the problem persisted.
How much free space do you have on data/data?
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
I've been curious about a few things. For one, is there a "proper" way to restore a backup from TWRP? Should you do a wipe first before you restore, or does that not matter? Let me give an example of an issue I ran into. I have a (Verizon) Galaxy Nexus, and I've mostly stuck to AOKP, but a while back, I wanted to try out a different ROM. This was back when TWRP was on version 2.4.x.x, so maybe it was just an issue with that. But anyway, I made a backup in TWRP, did my wipe, then flashed the new ROM to play around with. I played with the new ROM a little, but ultimately decided I didn't like it. So I went back into TWRP, wiped again, then used the restore function to go back to the backup I made. When my phone rebooted, though, I was dismayed to find that lots of stuff did not restore properly, and I had to waste a bunch of time fixing things that didn't restore. I was under the impression that when you restore, it just returns exactly the way you left everything before you wiped it out?
Also, I'm doing something similar now, on 2.6.0.0 of TWRP. I wanted to try a new ROM, so I made a backup, wiped, flashed the new ROM, played around with it, and decided to restore my previous backup. The backup file was about 7GB. My phone seems to be "stuck", though, in the recovery process. The bar is all the way at the end (the little slanted lines are still moving), and it's been stuck at "Restoring data..." for about 10-15 minutes, now. Is this normal? I don't remember it taking this long before, although I've only ever restored a backup a handful of times. Should I just leave it alone, or should I pull the battery, or what? I don't want to screw anything up, but I kinda need to have my phone working within the next five or so hours...