Hey all, I had Clockwork installed, and needed to flash stock to take into sprint. I tried to do a backup 5 times, but it kept freezing up on me. So i rebooted and went into ROM Manager and flashed Amon Ra. I rebooted into that, and did a backup, and it said it went fine. I checked the sd card and the backup file was about 500mb which is what it should be. I flashed the stock rom, took into sprint, and then went to restore the backup. I did a full wipe before restoring, and then went to restore. It started with the dots across the screen, but never stopped. I waited over an hour, and it kept going with the dots, which I know shouldnt take more than 10 minutes tops. So I pulled the battery, did another full wipe, and did the restore again.
This time the restore took about 5 minutes, I rebooted, and my rom's boot animation started playing, a good sign. However after the boot animation, all I can see is the stock HTC rainbow bubbles background (which was not my wallpaper) and I also see the Mik rom status bar. But nothing else. No lockscreen, no apps, no nothing. I have since tried multiple battery pulls, multiple wipes and multiple restores again, and the same problem still happens. I flashed the stock rom again, and that works fine.
So am I pretty much screwed here with this backup? Unfortunately, I did not use Titanium to backup my apps and texts, as I figured it would just be a quick flash to stock to take into sprint and then a quick restore.
You might be screwed. I was having that problem. I switched to amon-ra haus mod and I back up everything but recovery. Wipe cache and dalvik cache before and after and it works fine. But right now you may be S.O.L.
We're comin from a pure power source.
Did you try rflashing the rom and then restoring? Just a thought
We're comin from a pure power source.
metalfan78 said:
Did you try rflashing the rom and then restoring? Just a thought
We're comin from a pure power source.
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I'm trying to do that now, reflashing the base mik rom, then I will try a restore without wiping, hopefully I can get all my apps back long enough to back them up, and then I will do another full wipe and flash
Edit: well that didnt work at all, a restore just puts me back to where I was, just a backround and status bar, no buttons or lockscreen or anything. I guess that backup is corrupted. So much for Amon Ra being better than clockwork...
This is the only recovery that has worked flawless for me. Its amon-ra haus mod. I don't know the difference I just know it works.
http://db.tt/cFafuzp9
Give it a shot
We're comin from a pure power source.
Not that it's the cause, but you shouldn't use ROM Manager, for any reason, really and definitely not to flash recovery.
The best way is the PC36IMG.zip from the thread for AR in the DEV section, flash it in Hboot and then try to flash your ROM, after you wipe everything, except the SDCard: option.
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So got my G2 today, rooted, installed Hboot, started up the phone, logged into all my accounts, got stuff how I wanted. Made a backup via Clockwork.
Then I tried out CM7 Nightlies, decided its pretty good but I wanted to go back to my backup. Loaded into Clockwork hit recover, picked my backup. The phone then just sits on the HTC screen. Never going to the G2 screen or getting back into the OS. I can't get a logcat from it either to see if it is crashing. I can get back into recovery, and flash another rom, but why isn't my backup of my original image working? There are no errors when restoring, I've tried a few times.
crater said:
So got my G2 today, rooted, installed Hboot, started up the phone, logged into all my accounts, got stuff how I wanted. Made a backup via Clockwork.
Then I tried out CM7 Nightlies, decided its pretty good but I wanted to go back to my backup. Loaded into Clockwork hit recover, picked my backup. The phone then just sits on the HTC screen. Never going to the G2 screen or getting back into the OS. I can't get a logcat from it either to see if it is crashing. I can get back into recovery, and flash another rom, but why isn't my backup of my original image working? There are no errors when restoring, I've tried a few times.
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If you are using CM7, does this mean you upgraded to one of the CWM3 recoveries? Not sure if this has changed, but backups made with the older CWM2 recoveries are not compatible with CWM3. You will need to reflash back to the older recovery before restoring your backup (pretty sure there are lots of warnings about this in the CWM3/CM7 threads, so you should probably check those out to see if this is no longer the case).
I used CWM3 to make the backup, i assumed that would work to restore it.
EDIT: Okay. so CWM3 can't handle ANY Froyo, regardless of if the backup was made with it. Misunderstood that part. Flashed to CWM32 and it worked. Thanks.
Hello all,
I believe I am having trouble with "wiping" or clearing data. It does not matter what recovery I use, clockwork of RA, whenever I do a wipe, none of the programs I had installed on a prior rom are deleted. It does not matter if I flash from AOSP to Sense, or Sense to Sense, AOSP to AOSP, nothing seems to delete the files. I've even ran the calkin's format file, and that does not clear out the problem. Do I have something messed up?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
That's odd. Maybe give virus super wipe a shot. Its on his kindom port thread. Hope that works for you. Good luck.
"praise the lord and pass the ammunition"
If you haven't already, download the PC36IMG.zip for amon RA v2.3 and flash it from the bootloader. You can click on amon RA in my signature, if you'd like. Anyway, after you've re-flashed the recovery, boot into it, go to the wipe menu and then wipe EVERYTHING in it EXCEPT the SD card. Afterwards, flash the rom. You do not need a wipe-all zip. None of your previous 3rd party apps should be installed when you boot into your homescreens. Having said that and depending on the rom, your apps may automatically get installed if you have them backed up to Google's, HTC's or another cloud based service with auto backup and auto restore services.
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I'll give that a shot. I don't think google would have all my apps backed up....because I usually wipe and stuff while I'm at work, and I have little to no signal where I work at.
Front to back is preferred
I installed kings rom with the 3.0 sense. I only put a few app on it and it was working great. I wanted 2 do a backup before I used titanium back up 2 restore the rest of my apps. After i did a back up, it is stuck on the white screen. This is the third time in a row this happened..I did the backup from rom manager which took me into clock recovery. I can still go into recovery put system isn't booting. Any suggestions?? Thanks
Dump ROM Manager and CWM. Get Amon Ra.
Wipe EVERYTHING, except SD Card
Reflash your ROM
Seem the boot may be corrupted; you'll have to wipe everything [cache, data/factory, dalvik cache] then re-flash your rom.
I haven't used clockwork in about a year I've stuck with amon ra and my boot is corrupted I've dumped everything five times and still if I want to flash a mod or anything in recovery I have to reflash my ROM . Any suggestions would be appreciated .
Have you run a RUU on your phone lately?? A few months ago, mine was acting up like that (not as bad) where my recovery got corrupted a few times out of the blue, so I ran the RUU (Without using S-Off tool, btw) and basically started over and all has been fine since.
Also, this may seem silly, but i alwasy flash ROMS from my Stock/Rooted setup, not whatever current ROM I'm using.
What's an ruu?
It's an image of the out-of-the-box stock setup for your phone. It's basically starting from scratch
Thanks..I re flashed and its fine now...
Just wondering what course of action I should take. If anything could get me back to my first nandroid. I just rooted my phone, and I started trying out roms, seeing which I liked best. Not sure how it works exactly, but I figured it was that I could go from one nandroid to any other and it would work. I flashed mik3d, made a nandroid, and then flashed destroyer. All correct steps done, all fine up until that point. Tried to restore, and neither of the nandroids worked. And i tested them before I flashed destroyer. I was stuck in destroyer. Since then ive been able to flash either destroyer or mik3d, but i tried cyanogen and it gets me stuck in bootloop no matter what I do. After flashing mik3d or destroyer, it let's me restore to the last backup before the flash. No other. I backed up my apps originally, but not the data. i guess i just wanna know if I could find a way to restore the original nandroid and get my apps back instead of losing all the data. Also, mik3d is currently running EXTREMELY slow. Computer unavailable for the next few hours, typing this on my phone, and its so laggy. This has taken about 15-20 minutes to type. And if there really is no way to restore my app data by restoring the original nandroid, then what should i do to restore to stock ROM, rooted or not, doesnt matter.
OK, first off, if you're just rooted, you probably have Clockwork Mod for recovery.
You want to change that to Amon Ra.
There's a post in the development section with the file and how to flash it.
This will make your nandroids obsolete.
If you DO have Amon Ra now, or after you flash it, so this:
Go to Wipe.
Wipe All User Data/Factory Reset.
Then wipe ever sub-option, EXCEPT, SD Card: or Battery Stats if you're not fully charged.
Hit return and USB Toggle. Put the ROM you want to flash on your SD Card, then you can flash that. If I were you, I would just use the Stock/Rooted ROM from the Dev section first. You need to have a Sense ROM anyhow, if you ever need to update PRL, Profile, or take your phone into Sprint.
Once you have that loaded up, go back to Recovery and make a Nandroid of it. I always backup everything except cache, which ensures that if I have to restore, it's exactly back to how I had it all set up.
Then, put a custom ROM on that you want to flash, repeat the Wipe Procedure and flash away!
Well I'll try all that when I get home. In the middle of a 4 hour drive now. But I realized that I might have an out. Just got a new SD card yesterday, and I was using that. Switched to the old one, which happens to be after I loaded mik3d but not yet destroyer, and I'm back to the stock Rom rooted. I'll deal with the rest later.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2(AT&T). I have it rooted w/CWM recovery. I recently flashed Jedi X12 rom to it following the directions to the tee. It installed perfectly and all was going well. I then tried run TiBu to put all apps with data back and system files. This cause several issues most of which were pop up boxes telling me various processes were failing. Tried to run the backup again and the problems persisted. So I restore to my CWM .zip image from before the whole process and it all is fine and where it should be. I then went back through the Jedi X install process and when it is all wiped, flashed, clear chached, it just hangs on the first black and white Samsung Galaxy Note 2 page. I let it sit for an hour hoping it would eventually boot, but no luck. So i restored to backup zip(CWM) again and the phone is fine. I repeated this process half a dozen times trying clearing different things, but nothing has gotten the rom to boot. It says all went fine in install.
*It worked the first time, got messed up by a TiBu, and hasnt worked since
*tried reflashing and restoring several time
*re-dl'ed the rom zip again and copied to phone incase file was corrupt
*In between every restore and rom flash I
-Wipe data ( factory data reset)
-Wipe system (Format system (in mounts/storage) if on CWM)
-Flash ROM
-Wipe cache/Dalvik
-Boot system and DO NOT TOUCH FOR 10 MIN
-After the 10 min, reboot phone
*All restoring/flashing was done through the CWM recovery.
I assume I have to clear/wipe/format/flash some other location to fix this. But Im going nuts trying to figure out where. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Use Odin to get back to stock/unbrick. and NEVER restore system data using Titanium Backup
mrevankyle said:
Use Odin to get back to stock/unbrick. and NEVER restore system data using Titanium Backup
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Thanks. I'm going to try app2zip the next time i get it to work. The phone works fine after i do a restore in clockwork mod, but I should still flash back to stock in odin again,, and start over? The recovery doesnt do that for me? Sorry if these are dumb questions, just getting into the android stuff, but have years exp. modding iphones.
if the phone is working fine, then no, you dont have to go back to stock; just NEVER EVER restore system files in TB, and you will be fine
Also, if you are going to be flashing alot of roms, you might want to switch to TWRP recovery, insted of CWM, as most folks have far fewer problems flashing when TWRP is their recovery..
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if the phone is working fine, then no, you dont have to go back to stock; just NEVER EVER restore system files in TB, and you will be fine
Also, if you are going to be flashing alot of roms, you might want to switch to TWRP recovery, insted of CWM, as most folks have far fewer problems flashing when TWRP is their recovery..
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Thanks all good info. Definitely learned the hard way about TB. Ill check TWPP out.
wase4711 said:
if the phone is working fine, then no, you dont have to go back to stock; just NEVER EVER restore system files in TB, and you will be fine
Also, if you are going to be flashing alot of roms, you might want to switch to TWRP recovery, insted of CWM, as most folks have far fewer problems flashing when TWRP is their recovery..
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+1 on this...
I do a complete backup in TWRP...data and all saved to my external SD before doing any changes to my phone...and have not had 1 issue restoring it completely. FWIW...I make a complete back up every week regardless..then delete the previous one..and have everything available to me when it is restored all apps & data....TWRP makes it very easy to do this..and you can name & date your backups any way you choose to..I've found doing it any other way..causes more headaches than needed..and in less than 5 minutes I can be back up and running with all my apps & data with no problems in case I downloaded something that was causing an issue or changed something that caused issues. It's no different than using any desktop computer...you just need to get in the habit of doing it on a regular basis.
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