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nandroid?

Do we have nandroid with full backup/restore of all partitions working yet?
If so, some instructions would be greatly appreciated

we wont have nandroid until we have a custom recovery image and possibly full /system access

So... are we seeing any progress in the nandroid department yet?
I distinctly remember seeing a twitpic (from Paul?) of a Desire running custom recovery image so that shouldn't be a problem.
What's holding it back?

You can make nandroid backups from the recovery....

abats said:
You can make nandroid backups from the recovery....
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That's precisely what I thought.
Golgo said:
So... are we seeing any progress in the nandroid department yet?
I distinctly remember seeing a twitpic (from Paul?) of a Desire running custom recovery image so that shouldn't be a problem.
What's holding it back?
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I'm sure he said it wasn't a recovery image, but just an app/script. In any case, if we run the recovery script we have the NAND backup/restore options amongst the others (wipe/partition/etc).
alex101uk said:
we wont have nandroid until we have a custom recovery image and possibly full /system access
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Can you elaborate on this please? You can write /system (and probably any other partition) from within the recovery.
Run the step2.sh from Paul's given files, and you'll see a quick adb shell and mount /system gives full rw to /system.

Really? And it's fully working?
I've been reluctant to try other roms until I knew nandroid was a go.
So just to be crystal clear - I can take a nandroid backup of EVERYTHING, the full stock-rom incl. every partition and restore it later just as easily?

Golgo said:
nandroid backup of EVERYTHING, the full stock-rom
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Nope (unless you invent/modify the method yourself using the RUU and recovery shell - not 100% sure it's possible). You can only nandroid what's on there past Pauls rootedupdate.zip if you use his instructions.

jayshah said:
Nope (unless you invent/modify the method yourself using the RUU and recovery shell - not 100% sure it's possible). You can only nandroid what's on there past Pauls rootedupdate.zip if you use his instructions.
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Ok, so you cant make a full backup of /system, /data etc?
Too bad. nandroid is damn handy when you'r messing around with custom roms!

Nandroid make full back as usual. I used it many times without any issues when playing with different desire roms.

Golgo said:
Ok, so you cant make a full backup of /system, /data etc?
Too bad. nandroid is damn handy when you'r messing around with custom roms!
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Of course you can. I said you can nandoid past Pauls update, and not the stock ROM as you said.

jayshah said:
Of course you can. I said you can nandoid past Pauls update, and not the stock ROM as you said.
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Ah, alright. Shame

Im new to this so let me get this right, I currently have a rooted stock ROM by Paul using the original linux rooting method. Can I use nandroid to back up this up and then flash a cooked ROM and if I do not like it then I can use the back up to reflash back to where I was?

Nekromantik said:
Im new to this so let me get this right, I currently have a rooted stock ROM by Paul using the original linux rooting method. Can I use nandroid to back up this up and then flash a cooked ROM and if I do not like it then I can use the back up to reflash back to where I was?
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Yes. If you nandroid restore, it will be as if absolutely nothing has changed (excluding any SD card data changes).

jayshah said:
Yes. If you nandroid restore, it will be as if absolutely nothing has changed (excluding any SD card data changes).
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thanks
I still need to push the recovery files in order to get into the recovery menu in order to flash etc. Will that mean I cant nandroid my current ROM?

That's something I've wondered for a bit - can you push the recovery files (step 2) without doing step 1? And if so, can you trigger a nandroid backup on it?
I don't THINK you can, but I skipped it entirely, so it might be worth trying. Worst thing that happens is it fails, right? Can you get into recovery without rooting?

The Professor said:
That's something I've wondered for a bit - can you push the recovery files (step 2) without doing step 1? And if so, can you trigger a nandroid backup on it?
I don't THINK you can, but I skipped it entirely, so it might be worth trying. Worst thing that happens is it fails, right? Can you get into recovery without rooting?
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I cant get into the custom recovery menu without pushing the recovery files so I think we need a custom ROM to be able to get into the recovery menu directly from the phone.

The Professor said:
That's something I've wondered for a bit - can you push the recovery files (step 2) without doing step 1? And if so, can you trigger a nandroid backup on it?
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Yes, this is exactly what I did. I have a recovery.sh file which is just step2.sh without the push of rootedupdate.zip each time.
Code:
# pwd
/sbin
# ./nandroid-mobile.sh -b
cp: './nandroid-mobile.sh' and '/sbin/nandroid-mobile.sh' are the same file
nandroid-mobile v2.2.1
Using G1 keyboard, enter a prefix substring and then <CR>
or just <CR> to accept default:
Using - prefix to create a backup folder
mounting system and data read-only, sdcard read-write
checking free space on sdcard
Dumping boot to /sdcard/nandroid/HT044PL07434/BCDMRS-20100505-1350/boot.img...done
Dumping recovery to /sdcard/nandroid/HT044PL07434/BCDMRS-20100505-1350/recovery.img...done
Dumping misc to /sdcard/nandroid/HT044PL07434/BCDMRS-20100505-1350/misc.img...done
Dumping system to /sdcard/nandroid/HT044PL07434/BCDMRS-20100505-1350/system.img...done
Dumping data to /sdcard/nandroid/HT044PL07434/BCDMRS-20100505-1350/data.img...done
Dumping cache to /sdcard/nandroid/HT044PL07434/BCDMRS-20100505-1350/cache.img...done
generating md5sum file...done
unmounting system, data and sdcard
Backup successful.
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Edit: Running a nandroid using the GUI method worked too, the 2nd time. 1st time failed, hence I did it manually above.

-edit- hm, got this
Code:
Using - prefix to create a backup folder
mounting system and data read-only, sdcard read-write
checking free space on sdcard
mtd: MEMGETBADBLOCK returned 1 at 0x00240000 (errno=0)
Dumping boot to /sdcard/nandroid/HT03WPL08829/BCDMRS-20100511-1419/boot.img...mt
d: MEMGETBADBLOCK returned 1 at 0x00240000 (errno=0)
done
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Backup successful.
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what does this mean?

[Q] Can't mount /data

I have a problem, and I'm dealing with it since this saturday. I really need my phone this evening so I really want help. My phone has since saturday a bootloop with every rom. Today I found out that it could have something in common with a error in the recoveryscreen which says it can't mount /data. CWM and the stock recovery both have this problem. Can please anyone help me? I'm really confused, because I have tried everything.
//I've discovered that the problem is that the /data partition is crashed. Is is possible to recreate the internal partition table?

install a stock rom then re-install cwm 5.0.2.7

Msulviu said:
install a stock rom then re-install cwm 5.0.2.7
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I have done that already a few times.

Try flashing an ext4 converter, or re dd'ing an empty RFS format partition into place.

Already done. When I try to use ext4formatter in CWM it doesn't give an error, but when I try to do the data reset I will get an error again because it can't mount (and unmount) /data.
//And how do you add a RFS partition on the phone? Or do you mean on the SD?

Factory reset?
Have you tried doing a factory reset with Kies?

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Have you tried doing a factory reset with Kies?
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Thank you for trying to help, but your answer is stupid. It's impossible to go to Kies without a (working) rom...

I think I just found something interesting to know. I tried again to install Cyanogenmod 7.2 (ported by Phiexz) and in the Aroma installer I looked at the System Info. Almost everything looks fine, but this is not good I think:
Data Size : -1MB
Free : -1MB
(/mnt/sdcard) : -1MB
Free : -1MB
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Are those partitions crashed? And how do I resize or reformat them back?

Which ext4 converter did you use?
Phiexz's if I remember correctly, uses the formatting tools included in the recovery. Mine has its own, separate binaries.
To reflash an RFS partition into place, you could use the dd command (carefully). Here's an empty RFS formated /data partition.
Or reflash back to the stock recovery and use that to format the partitions back to RFS.
Extract to your SD card and use the following command:
dd if=/sdcard/data.rfs of=/dev/block/stl13 bs=4096
Good luck,
Darkshado

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Which ext4 converter did you use?
Phiexz's if I remember correctly, uses the formatting tools included in the recovery. Mine has its own, separate binaries.
To reflash an RFS partition into place, you could use the dd command (carefully). Here's an empty RFS formated /data partition.
Extract to your SD card and use the following command:
dd if=/sdcard/data.rfs of=/dev/block/stl13 bs=4096
Good luck,
Darkshado
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I did use Phiexz's first yes. But I can't install yours. And where do I have to use dd commands? :$

What do you mean by "can't install mine"? Is there an error message or you're not sure how to do it?
If so, just apply it from the SD card like any other update.
The dd command has to be input through ADB shell while in recovery. So get ADB working if you haven't already.

Darkshado said:
What do you mean by "can't install mine"? Is there an error message or you're not sure how to do it?
If so, just apply it from the SD card like any other update.
The dd command has to be input through ADB shell while in recovery. So get ADB working if you haven't already.
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I did know how to install a zip, but I tried 2 times and I think both were a bad download. Now I'm installing your Ext4 Converter.
// YOUR EXT4 CONVERTER WORKED!!! After a week without a phone it finally worked! Thank you so much!

Glad to hear that!
I had a similar problem of being unable to mount /system after installing a CM9 beta (can't remember which) and ended up solving it like that.

Hey guys i have a question relating to this dscussion. I have my gio running CM9 and i recently used BML5 to find my phone's unlock code. I have a nandroid backup of Rooted stock ROM, and when i tried to flash back to it, it said "Could format dev/block/stl13". I have the CWM 5.0.2.7 with RFS and EXT4 support, so it should work. What is the problem?

That's the thing; the exact behavior of those RFS+ext4 CWM builds when changing from one type to the other hasn't been very well documented.
I'm not sure they can format back to RFS properly.
You could always try that empty RFS partition set and attempt a restore afterwards.

What can i do if dd says, that it can't open '/dev/block/stl13': Invalid argument? I placed the data.rfs to the root directory of sdcard. Am I doing something wrong?

Can't mount /data
Hello, I have a bricked phone, and no idea why, and so far I'm unable to fix it. I've been waiting for an RMA so I can send it back to GSM Nation to evaluate and hopefully fix. My problem started when Samsung support told me to do a factory reset of my Samsung Galaxy S3, and it rebooted, then said it could not find or mount /data or anything therein. I have Not, repeat NOT, rooted my phone, it had the stock Android 4.3 OS and updates from T-mobile. The tech at the Samsung Experience Shop in the Best Buy store could not reflash it, when Kies tries to talk to the phone in Side Load mode it freezes or something, nothing happens. I downloaded ODIN 3 on Dad's win XP laptop, and in ODIN download mode the computer sees it as a new device with no driver to make it talk to it, and the drivers I've downloaded simply will not install. The installers die as soon as they run having done nothing. I am using my Samsung Chromebook to write this and have no Linux machine to work with. I am at a loss. Can you help me? Maybe I could re-install android using a microSD card?

I have the solution for data partition crash or any other partition
please do it with your responsibility but your phone is alreay bricked so it doesn't matter
hi every one i 've been through this problem for a long time and just yesterday hamdo lilah i discovered the solution it is by repartitioning your partitions with a pit file . i tried this method with samsung galaxy fit and it works even the pit file is for samsung .all you have to do is open odin included in the package then select pit file included then click start and there you go 'even if it doesn't show PASS ' after that just flash a stock rom ' or maybe any rom ' and that's it you are ready to go . i uploded the package on gulfup cause i have no account in mediafire enjoy if you face any problem just contact me or add a replay
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Why cant i restore from backup in CWM ?

Ever since i installed Android 4.2, this whole emulated storage thing is a mess. I have some backups, and i am trying to restore from them in CWM touch. When i go to restore, it always says "cant open directory/cant find files" or something of the sort. I have verfieid that the files are in the 0 storage.
Its frustrating. Does anyone know of a way to restore from a cwm backup ? It would be much appreciated ! I have the latest CWM touch by the way.
Thanks !

Did you update your cwm recovery to one that supports the new 4.2 sdcard layout?
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saadkhan07 said:
Ever since i installed Android 4.2, this whole emulated storage thing is a mess. I have some backups, and i am trying to restore from them in CWM touch. When i go to restore, it always says "cant open directory/cant find files" or something of the sort. I have verfieid that the files are in the 0 storage.
Its frustrating. Does anyone know of a way to restore from a cwm backup ? It would be much appreciated ! I have the latest CWM touch by the way.
Thanks !
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This is a problem with flashing 4.2. TWRP has a fix for the issue you are talking about, but right now the fix for you can be found in this post, or others like it. This is how I fixed my problem!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762846&page=256
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I flashed this build and later tried to go back and do a restore on my CWM backup. When I attempted the restore it couldn't find any backups! I found the problem to be that it moves the sdcard contents to /data/media/0 then mounts /sdcard/ to /data/media/0. Clockwork mounts the folder /data/media and is searching for the backups in that directory. It fails to find it because it is not there. To fix this I made a backup of my sdcard by doing an adb pull then moved the clockwork folder in the /data/media/0 to /data/media/. so the commands that I executed are as follows:
adb shell <enter>
su <enter>
cp /data/media/0/clockworkmod /data/media/clockworkmod <enter> (you could also replace the cp command with mv. This will keep from creating a duplicate of your backups - suggested by tiny4579)
reboot recovery <enter>
go through the process of restoring a clockworkmod recovery and when it is finished reboot into your restored backup. If you explore the sdcard with root explorer or adb you will notice the 0 folder inside your sdcard.
I suggest you dont try this if you are unfamiliar with the command line. Has anyone else experienced this issue and have a better fix?
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ual4720 said:
This is a problem with flashing 4.2. TWRP has a fix for the issue you are talking about, but right now the fix for you can be found in this post, or others like it. This is how I fixed my problem!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762846&page=256
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BUT if TWRP is installed....can i restore from a CWM backup ???

saadkhan07 said:
BUT if TWRP is installed....can i restore from a CWM backup ???
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No
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If there is way to point CWM to the proper directory, is there a way ? Can i restore via ADB ?
I have all the CWM files to restore from, just cant due to the location of the files i guess. Does CWM default to the 0 ?

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saadkhan07 said:
If there is way to point CWM to the proper directory, is there a way ? Can i restore via ADB ?
I have all the CWM files to restore from, just cant due to the location of the files i guess. Does CWM default to the 0 ?
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I actually ended up resetting the whole device, and actually was able to restore by using the MD5 mismatch fix. I have reinstalled CWM and everything.

i am currently running cm10.0.0 and completely satisfied with it. just for curiosity reasons i would love to flash 4.2 to see how it feels. my problem now is, can i simply return to cm (4.1) by reflashing my cwm backup?
as with 4.2 the file-system was changed (sdcard0), is that pretty easy with cwm recovery, or do i have to invest an hour of work with adb pulls and pushes?
thanks for your experiences!

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I actually ended up resetting the whole device, and actually was able to restore by using the MD5 mismatch fix. I have reinstalled CWM and everything.
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Same with me... :/ it was annoying... Just because of that new sdcard layout on 4.2

Sd-ext backup corrupt

Hello everyone, i tried to restore the nandroid backup, when the recovery shows error in sd-ext tar file.i need the data. Exist a tool to try the fix for tar file?
Thanks in advance, sorry for my bad english.

It isn't very smart to leave your backups on your sd-card only.

DevWithCookies said:
It isn't very smart to leave your backups on your sd-card only.
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Thanks for the advice.
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thexavier said:
Hello everyone, i tried to restore the nandroid backup, when the recovery shows error in sd-ext tar file.i need the data. Exist a tool to try the fix for tar file?
Thanks in advance, sorry for my bad english.
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Use cwm to connect to usb card.
Make backup.
Erase data directory( was. Center of corruption my case....
Rearrange sd card for cleannes( always improve order)
reformat all and restore nano or anything...
Enthusiastic Gio User
Very glad with the work done
But sometimes a pusher for results( nothing bad intended)

[Q] Bricked HTC One M8 - No OS Installed

Hi there - i am completely new to this so please excuse my ignorance. I rooted my phone and due to some Apps not working that I really needed, I tried to unroot to get back to where I was to start with.
I have now found myself in the awful position of my device having no OS installed and no matter what threads I have followed, I cannot get any ROM to install.
What I have is:
Unlocked Bootloader
TWRP installed
S-On
HBOOT 3.16.0.0000
I think I have the right ROM for my device (Vodap001) and i have tried using sideloading and ADB push but none of these work.
Can anyone please help me to get back to a stock ROM

Did you try to sideload a full ROM, or a backup? Asking as backups can't be installed using sideload. If tried to sideload a full ROM, what exactly happened?
You could just sideload any full sense ROM, the place the TWRP Backup for you version into the TWRP Backup folder on your phone and run a restore.
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HTCNerdYoda said:
Did you try to sideload a full ROM, or a backup? Asking as backups can't be installed using sideload. If tried to sideload a full ROM, what exactly happened?
You could just sideload any full sense ROM, the place the TWRP Backup for you version into the TWRP Backup folder on your phone and run a restore.
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Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried to sideload a stock nandroid backup from one of the links. Is this not correct?
Sorry- quite new to this!
Where would I find a full ROM from?

drc_1975 said:
Hi, thanks for the reply. I tried to sideload a stock nandroid backup from one of the links. Is this not correct?
Sorry- quite new to this!
Where would I find a full ROM from?
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exocetdj said:
see my sig mate
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Hi exocetdj
I've followed these instructions but I get a 'failed' message.
Here is the string:
E:Unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/TWRP/Backups/rom.zip'
Updating partition details...
Does this mean the zip file is corrupt or something?
I have taken this from one of the Stock nandroid backups here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376

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Hi exocetdj
I've followed these instructions but I get a 'failed' message.
Here is the string:
E:Unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/TWRP/Backups/rom.zip'
Updating partition details...
Does this mean the zip file is corrupt or something?
I have taken this from one of the Stock nandroid backups here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376
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Put it in root directory of external sd card.
That apart, I saw that some .zip files doesn't open properly at all but keeps on throwing errors even if you try to open it on a PC. If you have 7zip try and extract the .zip file and use 7zip to make it a .zip file again.
On a side note, are you trying to flash a backup again instead of a ROM? Just because you download a backup and rename it ROM.zip doesn't make it a ROM anymore than taking a baseball bat and naming it a soccer ball makes it a "soccer ball"
Download any stock ROM from Android Development ROM Repository. You could also just download a custom ROM quickly, flash the ROM. When that's done go into recovery and restore the nandroid backup for your device.

drc_1975 said:
Hi exocetdj
I've followed these instructions but I get a 'failed' message.
Here is the string:
E:Unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/TWRP/Backups/rom.zip'
Updating partition details...
Does this mean the zip file is corrupt or something?
I have taken this from one of the Stock nandroid backups here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701376
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Zip file is not corrupted ... the way you do it totally wrong.
Stock nandroid backup is NOT a ROM.zip
See this on how to use a nandroid backup in proper way (replace the numbers with the one that you downloaded) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55316046&postcount=1894

HTCNerdYoda said:
Did you try to sideload a full ROM, or a backup? Asking as backups can't be installed using sideload. If tried to sideload a full ROM, what exactly happened?
You could just sideload any full sense ROM, the place the TWRP Backup for you version into the TWRP Backup folder on your phone and run a restore.
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same with my phone no OS..but i have in internal storage TWRP restore 2014-09-04--12-57-49 KOT49H release-keys,what to do?

shengaurhen said:
same with my phone no OS..but i have in internal storage TWRP restore 2014-09-04--12-57-49 KOT49H release-keys,what to do?
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If you just wiped the system partition you can got into TWRP, choose Restore and using this menu restore your OS that you have backed up and on your internal storage.

Hi, I'm still not having any luck with trying to get an OS back on my HTC One M8.
I've followed the advice and done the following:
1. I have extracted a nandroid stock backup, put this into the TWRP\backup folder and attempted to restore this from TWRP. This appears to do everything, i get no errors and looks great until I swipe to reboot and i get the mesage stating No OS Installed. Am I wrong in thinking this shoudl restore the OS?
2. I have downloaded ViperOneM8_2.4.0 and put this zip file in the root of my SD Card. I have then used the Install menu in TWRP, selected the .zip file and I still get the message E:Unable to open zip file. I have checked using 7Z and the file appears in tact and not corrupt.
can someone give me an idiots guide of how to get out of this mess I have created?
Thanks