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[Q] Clockworkmod/Amon Ra Switch: I'm stuck in the bootanimation

I feel like an idiot.
I'd been using Clockworkmod backups.
I switched to Amon Ra for the first time and flashed a zip to change the taskbar battery icon to stock.
I didn't realize that my Clockworkmod backup wouldn't be able to be restored while in Amon Ra recovery.... so I hadnt made a Nandroid backup.
Now I'm stuck in a boot animation loop.
Is there any way I can get the Clockworkmod backup I'd made previously restored?
Any help offered would be greatly appreciated.

Well if you have an sd card reader you can search for the thread that has a PC36IMG.zip of clockworkmod and put it on the root of the sd card then put the sd card back on the phone and press volume down and power at the same time, this will put you in bootloader screen, let the phone do its thing it will find the file and ask you to update, hit yes, that will put clockworkmod recovery back in your phone, then try going into recovery and restore, after that if it works delete the pc36img.zip from your sd card so yourphone doesnt recognize it next time you go into bootloader, if you di.t have sd card reader get a friend with an evo and put your sd card there just to copythe file, then back to your phone and same procedure
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Remove the -1 in the name, place the PC36IMG on your sdcard, boot into the bootloader, apply update, reboot, reboot into recovery, and you'll be on clockwork 3.0+.

Thank you. I appreciate the help.

CECHOI said:
Thank you. I appreciate the help.
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Never a problem man.

just had the same problem and got it fixed thanks for that link

IDRFT95S14 said:
just had the same problem and got it fixed thanks for that link
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And thank you for searching and not making a new thread!

[Q] i think i borked my phone help!!!

was flashing new kingdom rom and switched to aman ra 2.3 but didnt do nandroid backup. all backups where done with clockwork.... rom wont boot!!! what can i do to restore?????

cazman420 said:
was flashing new kingdom rom and switched to aman ra 2.3 but didnt do nandroid backup. all backups where done with clockwork.... rom wont boot!!! what can i do to restore?????
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Gotta get clockworkmod onto your SD card through amon and flash PC36IMG.zip through bootloader to restore backups...what version of CWM did you use?
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First try wiping data, cache and dalvik cache then reflashing. If you can boot back up you can make a backup through Amon Ra or flash ClockworkMod through Rom Manager. If that doesn't work, put the PC36IMG of CWM on your SD card. If you don't have a card reader, go into recovery & plug your phone into the computer, then choose usb/ms from the "other" menu. You can then move the file to your SD card, don't put it in any folders or rename the file. Then power down the phone and boot into the bootloader. It will scan, find the file, and ask you to update. Choose yes, let it flash, then no to reboot. When it puts you back in the bootloader, choose recovery and then you can restore from your backup.
PC36IMG.zip of ClockworkMod: http://db.tt/9sksyTK

the fix
thanks for responses. was able to use amon ra and go to usb mode then put myns warm 2.2 on and disabled usb. then flashed. all is good. whew. dodge a bullet there........

Nandroids not working... help?

Apologies for what is probably an often asked question, but the search seems to be down at the moment. I'm currently running Ras 2.3 and when I make a nandroid backup of my MIUI, it always runs into an error when trying to restore? I don't even know where to begin looking for solutions to the issue, is this a common thing? Should I just re-flash Ras or something?

Seems the backup was corrupted, reflash your recovery, then make a new one.

Yeah every backup I do seems to get corrupted. I'll try reflashing AmonRa.

thegregbradley said:
Yeah every backup I do seems to get corrupted. I'll try reflashing AmonRa.
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Let me know how it goes. Also make sure to have at least ~500mb available for a backup.

So I finally re-flashed AmonRa 2.3, and my nandroids STILL show an error! It gets like one dot into resotring and says "oops! an error occurred, check the logs" or something like that. What is happening

first thing would be to check your memory card to see if you have enough space like the post above says. if that doesn't work move the recovery.log via your recovery screen to the sd card and post it here. that should get some questions answered.
edit: also i had this happen to me a couple times when trying to restore it only happened when i changed big things like the radio or the hboot or switching from aosp to sense. that kinda stuff. you might just need to start over and flash a new rom. good thing you used titanium...right? p.s. just relized you were trying to restore not backup so the memory card issue shouldn't apply sry.

I have my MIUI backup so it's not so much of a big deal since that works, but I'd like to have a 100% working nandroid backup in the event that I wanna try out a new rom. Where to I find the recovery log so that I may post it up on here? Thanks for the help guys, I'd be lost without xda

So I just tried moving my recovery log to the SD card and I got the same message, "Oops... something went wrong! Please check the recovery log!"
WTF is going on here?

Potential causes and solutions:
Corrupt SD card. You're screwed, reformat SD card and flash the rom over again.
Corrupt Nandroid file. You're screwed, delete from SD card and flash the rom over again.
Corrupt Recover. Download Rom Manager and re-flash recovery (if you use clockwork, flash alternate then back to clockwork or vice versa if you use amon ra). If this doesn't work, it's likely one of the two above.
However, this is usually the problem when they mess up.
Is there a space in the name of the Nandroid backup? Nandroid backups can NOT EVER have a space in the title. Go into your favorite file manager and remove the space if it has one and it should work just fine.
For example:
MikFroyo 4.61 is NOT an acceptable name. There's a space between the o and the 4.
KonisEliteSeriesIII IS an acceptable name. Notice, there's no spaces.
Hit the thanks button if I helped. Toodles!

Don't use ROM Manager to reflash Amon Ra. Just use the PC36IMG
Trust me on this.

Is it possible that your original nandroids were with clockwork and now that you have updated to amon that they will not work?

Okay so I've re-flashed Amon Ra and reformatted my SD card and I STILL can't get the nandroids to work or my recovery log to move over to the SD card! I've only used Amon Ra for as long as I've been rooted, and nandroids previously worked. Also, these are nandroids that I made within the last 2 weeks or so, they're not old and I have not renamed them. Should I maybe try an older version of AmonRa or something?

OMG I figured it out! Here's the story:
So I bought a new SD card a few weeks back and put it in with just a straight copy of my old SD card in there. This included my nandroid folder. I had been making backups and deleting old backups, but the folder under sdcard/nandroid/HT089HL02240 simply needed to be deleted. I kept sdcard/nandroid, deleted HT089HL02240, then made a new nandroid so that the recovery could simply make this folder itself. Somehow this worked, I don't know why, but it seemed like it might help being that you can't restore nandroids between phones. Perhaps the recovery thought I was attempting to do this, given the SD card switch. Well it works now!

RA Recovery Error

First off I have searched through the threads and Google and havent found an answer to my exact issue.
I was messing with BootManager 2.0 and running CM7 and trying to install a stock sense rom as a SD boot ROM. The rom wouldnt run from the card. So I backed up CM7 and tried to run the sense rom as my default and then run CM7 as the SD bootable. Then when I tried to run the RA Recovery of CM7 I got the generic "oops somthing went wrong" and it hapend on all the recoveris I have. I cannot move the recovery log to the SD card either because of the same error.
I copied my needed content off my SD card and formatted it and coped back mu pics, downloads, and nandroids, and tried again and still same error. Even after reflashing RA nothing is changing.
Is there anyway to get my nandroids back?

Was there enough space on the sd card when you made the backup?

Yeah I had plenty of room. I had at least 1.4 GB free after the backup.
My origanal WiMax and Stock Rom recovery are looking like they are corupted as well.

spotopolis said:
Yeah I had plenty of room. I had at least 1.4 GB free after the backup.
My origanal WiMax and Stock Rom recovery are looking like they are corupted as well.
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Have you tried re-flashing the recovery via PC36IMG? And if your wimax is corrupted, then its shot. You have no other copies of it?

My wimax still works, its just the backup, the very first backup I made when I rooted my phone will not even work now. Any new rom I install will still run wimax. The partition is fine.
I wiped everything and then placed my recoveris back on my card and went to CWM and then back to RA to try to get rid of anything lingering. I know my previous backups worked because I use them all the time. It was after using BootManager that none of my recoverys new or old will work. It will let me flash new roms and even back them up but then I can not even restore those
Edit: One thing I was thinking of doing. What if I compleatly whent stock unroot and s-on and then rooted again. Would that have any effect? It seems like its something on the phone or in RA that is causing the issues. Just because any new backup I make it will give the same error. So if I go back and start fresh, then try to use my backups, would that work?

Why not try re-flashing Amon-Ra first
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I have through the bootloader and still no change. I then wiped everything and then installed CWM, then reflashed RA 2.3 and still when selecting Recover or Move Log to SD Card It starts working and gives 1 progress dot and then stops and says Oops something has happend, and ask me to check the log, but I cant because it wont let me move it because of the same error. I tried to look in the cache/recovery folder with ES File Explorer with root access but the folder is empty, so I have really no idea whare it is breaking at.

imheroldman said:
Why not try re-flashing Amon-Ra first
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This.
I've had that happen twice since I got my Evo (Both times on CM7, ironically) and I reflashed AR and it was good to go.

As I have said in 3 of my 4 post I have re-flashed RA. No change.

Reflash via pc36img not through bootmanager. Put it on root of ur SD card. Boot into boot loader and accept the update.
free the dirk

As I said also in post #7 I flashed it through the bootloader as well. BootManager is for duel booting roms, or quad-booting rather. I wasnt trying to flash through that. I went as far just now as compleatly unrooting to stock GB 2.3.3 with s-on and then rerooted and reflashed RA 2.3 and they are still not working. Why and how did my backups become corrupt? I did not touch them. What could I do to bring them back?

spotopolis said:
As I have said in 3 of my 4 post I have re-flashed RA. No change.
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Just want to double check, did you download RA to make sure your download isn't corrupted... Also I wonder if you were using sdcard multimount, which can corrupt data on the sdcard

The only mounts I was using was the USB-Mount built in RA and the Disk Mode in the roms. The download of RA I am using is the same one I always have that has never given me issues before.

Have you tried formatting your SD card from Amon Ra? I know that you formatted an reflashed, but it's just odd. It seems like one of those two things would do something. You can make backups but just can't restore, correct?
Do you have an extra card you could use? Maybe that way you can narrow down if it's the card or your recovery. I don't know if it's even possible, but can your recovery partition get messed up?
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I formatted the card threw windows after running a chkdsk on it. then I formatted again through RA. Still no go. Now I am trying to partition it and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Success! for whatever reason that makes no sense at all, partitioning the SD Card to a ext4 made the recovery work. I have never ran my card with partitions before so I have no idea why this worked. Thoughts?

spotopolis said:
I formatted the card threw windows after running a chkdsk on it. then I formatted again through RA. Still no go. Now I am trying to partition it and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Success! for whatever reason that makes no sense at all, partitioning the SD Card to a ext4 made the recovery work. I have never ran my card with partitions before so I have no idea why this worked. Thoughts?
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I was so going to suggest partitioning your card, but I thought formatting would do the same trick. Don't know why it worked, but I'm glad it did
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spotopolis said:
I formatted the card threw windows after running a chkdsk on it. then I formatted again through RA. Still no go. Now I am trying to partition it and see if that makes a difference.
EDIT: Success! for whatever reason that makes no sense at all, partitioning the SD Card to a ext4 made the recovery work. I have never ran my card with partitions before so I have no idea why this worked. Thoughts?
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Honestly...no reason why that should have worked, though beware, you pc may not read you sd card because windows only likes ext 2 and 3 partitions; it won't see ext 4.

I already checked to make sure and so I could transfer my files back and it reads it just fine

spotopolis said:
I already checked to make sure and so I could transfer my files back and it reads it just fine
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Well that is a plus.

Papa Smurf151 said:
Reflash via pc36img not through bootmanager. Put it on root of ur SD card. Boot into boot loader and accept the update.
free the dirk
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This.
Pardon my harshness but Boot Manager, ROM Manager, Kernel Manager, it's all crap. Add CWM in there too.
The BEST ways to do something is to not shortcut the process with these programs. Like flashing radios. You know if you find a pc36img of the radio you want ot flash, there is no reboot to recovery, wait, blahhhh.... it does it all in Hboot, just like this. Put the PC36IMG on your SD Card and flash it in Hboot, as it was designed to be done

[q] i need help! I need help!

alright i have cwm recovery 5.5.0.3 and went to restore a previous rom but now it wont pick up my sd card. i downgraded to 5.5.0.3 cause 5.5.0.4 was giving me problems but looks like that was a mistake. what can i do guys? i already wiped everything and am trying to either mount the sd card to load another ROM so i can flash. what should i do?