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[Q] How To Nandroid Restore? *Without Computer*

I am on CM6 Nightlies and I flashed the Gala S Theme. Now I'm stuck in a bootloop. Is there a way to nandroid restore without a computer?
Thanks.

This is what I can do with my phone to get into recovery on the fly
Assuming you are fully rooted with Nand Unlocked (Toast Part 1 & Part 2 or the equivalent using simple root)....
1. Turn your phone off
2. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold power
3. A white screen will pop up, wait for it to finish, then navigate to recovery using the volume down button and press the power button.
4. You are in recovery!
This works on my phone, if you get the Android with an exclamation point after clicking recovery from the white bootloader screen, I am almost positive you will need a computer.

hecklbrg said:
This is what I can do with my phone to get into recovery on the fly
Assuming you are fully rooted with Nand Unlocked (Toast Part 1 & Part 2 or the equivalent using simple root)....
1. Turn your phone off
2. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold power
3. A white screen will pop up, wait for it to finish, then navigate to recovery using the volume down button and press the power button.
4. You are in recovery!
This works on my phone, if you get the Android with an exclamation point after clicking recovery from the white bootloader screen, I am almost positive you will need a computer.
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ohh, i guess i'll be needing a computer since i got the red exclamation inside the triangle, right?
thanks for the reply.

If you are fully rooted then the easiest and fastest way to get to recovery is via Rom Manager, there is an option to boot right into recovery. This takes the less amount of time. Once in recovery there will be ab option for Nandroid then the back and restore option...

jahnile said:
If you are fully rooted then the easiest and fastest way to get to recovery is via Rom Manager, there is an option to boot right into recovery. This takes the less amount of time. Once in recovery there will be ab option for Nandroid then the back and restore option...
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He's in a bootloop...rom manager isn't available.
Have you tried pressing volume up and power at the red exclaimation point? In the older versions of Clockwork Recovery, that was required to get it to load. (Which recovery were you using to get the nandroid in the first place?)

brndnwbb said:
ohh, i guess i'll be needing a computer since i got the red exclamation inside the triangle, right?
thanks for the reply.
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you can run the older method of recovery from when before we could flash nand, i dont have the link, but a search should turn it up.

thecodemonk said:
He's in a bootloop...rom manager isn't available.
Have you tried pressing volume up and power at the red exclaimation point? In the older versions of Clockwork Recovery, that was required to get it to load. (Which recovery were you using to get the nandroid in the first place?)
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This takes me to Android System Recovery
-Reboot System Now
-Apply sdcard:update.zip
-wipe data/factory reset
-wipe cache partition
i'm not even sure, which recovery i have. i used toastcfh method to root.
is that amon ra?

Pull the battery then power down and volume down like normal...seriously it won't hurt !!!
Just wipe the theme from there!!!

wipe
hooover said:
Pull the battery then power down and volume down like normal...seriously it won't hurt !!!
Just wipe the theme from there!!!
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and that would just wipe the theme?
and not everything else?

[Q] Boot into recovery without Vol(+) button?

I got my phone a bit damp while skiing and now the + vol button doesn't work. I would like to keep playing around with Roms however the inability to flash an update.zip to boot into clockwork mod worries me too much.
Is there anyway to get into the standard recovery without holding the + and pushing power? Or possibly hard-flash clockwork mod?
Gas
---Solved, flashed recovery using unREVoked, works well now. Thanks everyone, back continuous unadulterated flashing---

Well, ROM manager can boot into recovery, but obviously that requires a working ROM.
Regards,
Dave

Install ROM Manager from the Marketplace, use the custom clockwork recovery image in my sig (fake flash). You can then install the custom recovery image from the root of your sd card using ROM Manager. To flash ROMs in the future, in ROM Manager, select the 'Install ROM from sd card option'. You can then use the trackpad to navigate through the recovery menu options instead of the Vol key.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Yeah I know I can get there from Clockworkmod, but the rom needs to be working. I'm worried about flashing anything else in case one of the roms is broken.
I've read that unrevoked rooted phones can do it, can I use the unrevoked method even though I'm already rooted with Paul's riskfree?

If you turn on your phone while pressing the "Back"button on the right of the (OJ)optical joystick, your phone boots in "Fastboot"
Then you select "Bootloader" by pressing the powerbutton
If one of your vol buttons still works, you can press it untill you've selected recovery
Et Voila

Marcell-o said:
If you turn on your phone while pressing the "Back"button on the right of the (OJ)optical joystick, your phone boots in "Fastboot"
Then you select "Bootloader" by pressing the powerbutton
If one of your vol buttons still works, you can press it untill you've selected recovery
Et Voila
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I can get to the recovery screen, black phone with red exclamation mark in triangle. It is at this screen I need the vol(+) button. Hmmm...not too confident about flashing roms anymore

ClassicalGas said:
I can get to the recovery screen, black phone with red exclamation mark in triangle. It is at this screen I need the vol(+) button. Hmmm...not too confident about flashing roms anymore
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Use UnrEVOked to permanently flash a recovery image onto your phone.
Regards,
Dave

From terminal
su
reboot recovery
Also works

Where to from here?
I have been reading up on fastboot, in which I should be able to restore a nandroid backup if flashing a rom fails. This doesn't need the recovery console, there is some contingency I guess.
Has anyone used unrevoked on a prerooted device? are the steps the same?
Gas

For instructions for flashing a permanent recovery image (UnrEVOked) are pretty straightforward. Please see the following link for more information:
http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=709146
Just make sure you have HTC Sync uninstalled beforehand. To remove UnrEVOked, simply flash your original RUU file, which will also return you to stock and remove root.
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Cant get into CWM...

hi.. after i tried to upgrade CWM to 5.8.4.5 using terminal emulator method, i cant not get into CWM...
this is the message i get
it says
Could not do normal boot..
odin mode
Product name: sgh-t999
custom binary download: yes (2count)
current binary: custom
system status: Custom
qualcom secureboot: enable
and there is the green android robot
and under it it says
Downloading...
Do not turn off target!!
I can boot into my FreeGS3 R6 rom fine, and the phone it self runs as normal, but when trying to boot in to recovery i cant.
even when i try to boot in to download mode i get a similar message.
plus my computer wont detect my phone too. tried reinstalling driver but fails to install....
What do i need to do... how do i get CWM back so that i can continue to install custom roms in the future.
Please Help.

Just install ROM Manager and flash CWM from there.
Another great alternative is to flash TWRP using the Goo Manager app.

You're actually in download mode. This is where you can load ODIN and flash base roms onto your phone.
Are you sure you're pressing the right buttons? It should be holding volume up and home as you power on the phone.
Are you saying holding volume up and down both brings you to the same screen? That's a rare one...

WoW... i hate(or love) it when there is a such a simple solution to my problem....
Thank You...
Would you happen to know why my computer isnt detecting my phone

Davidion said:
You're actually in download mode. This is where you can load ODIN and flash base roms onto your phone.
Are you sure you're pressing the right buttons? It should be holding volume up and home as you power on the phone.
Are you saying holding volume up and down both brings you to the same screen? That's a rare one...
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yea... vol up + home + power took me to that message.
but yea flash thru rom manager and cwm is back....but wont recognize sdcard... guess i got to go search the threads again...

babymatteo said:
Another great alternative is to flash TWRP using the Goo Manager app.
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+1

Can't boot to recovery using buttons after cwm recovery

Noob here... So I just bought a Galaxy S3, my second Android phone, yesterday through AT&T. I decided to root the phone right away and istall clockworkmod recovery using Odin for both. I rooted the phone first and then rebooted to make sure everything was ok and it was. The phone would still boot into recovery and into download mode. After this I flashed clockworkmod recovery and everything seemed to go fine ... Odin did it's thing and I got the green "pass" box. I then tried several times to enter recovery using the button press method and the only thing that happened was my phone turned off. When I couldn't get into recovery mode using the button press method I downloaded rommanager and tried to boot to cwm recovery using that method and got an error message that told me I first needed to flash cwm recovery to the device so I flashed cwm recovery to the phone using rommanager. After flashing cwm recovery to the phone using rommanager I am now able to boot to recovery using rommanager but I'm still not able to use the button press method and I also realized this morning that I am not able to enter into download mode using the button press method either. I really want to flash the stable cyanogenmod9 rom to this phone but am scared to without having the button press recovery method as an option incase anything goes wrong.

Just to double check, what button combos are you using?
recovery=from a powered down state.volume up,home button, and power. hold all three until blue writing appears on the top of the screen, then release all three buttons.
download=volume down,home, and power.
Also, if its not the method you used to install CWM, you could try the Snapdragon tool kit to install it as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665

jeeper11 said:
Just to double check, what button combos are you using?
recovery=from a powered down state.volume up,home button, and power. hold all three until blue writing appears on the top of the screen, then release all three buttons.
download=volume down,home, and power.
Also, if its not the method you used to install CWM, you could try the Snapdragon tool kit to install it as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
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Yeah those are the button combos I am using. Thanks for the input I was thinking about trying to reinstall cwm recovery when I get home from work using a different method I'll look into the snapdragon tool kit.

MileHighLife said:
Noob here... So I just bought a Galaxy S3, my second Android phone, yesterday through AT&T. I decided to root the phone right away and istall clockworkmod recovery using Odin for both. I rooted the phone first and then rebooted to make sure everything was ok and it was. The phone would still boot into recovery and into download mode. After this I flashed clockworkmod recovery and everything seemed to go fine ... Odin did it's thing and I got the green "pass" box. I then tried several times to enter recovery using the button press method and the only thing that happened was my phone turned off. When I couldn't get into recovery mode using the button press method I downloaded rommanager and tried to boot to cwm recovery using that method and got an error message that told me I first needed to flash cwm recovery to the device so I flashed cwm recovery to the phone using rommanager. After flashing cwm recovery to the phone using rommanager I am now able to boot to recovery using rommanager but I'm still not able to use the button press method and I also realized this morning that I am not able to enter into download mode using the button press method either. I really want to flash the stable cyanogenmod9 rom to this phone but am scared to without having the button press recovery method as an option incase anything goes wrong.
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You are gonna have to change 2 file names.
/system/recovery-from-boot.p
/system/etc/install-recovery.sh
Just rename them so that you can get them back if you ever need to update. I added -delete- to the end of mine. Reflash CWM through ROM manager & then try to manually boot CWM. Hit thanks if this does the trick.
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Koodo T989D custom roms

i have a rooted Koodo SG S2X i tried flashing CM9 and CM10 and a couple other roms for the T-mobile version but even following the instructions still leads me to get stuck on boot. i have let it load for like 15 minutes before restarting it. just sits at the boot animation.
is thier anything i could be doing wrong during the flashing process?
i have cwm recovery running 4.0.4 koodo stock rom (of course)

Most of the ROMs requires the latest version of CWM, make sure you update to that.
However I would suggest the TWRP recovery it is pretty solid:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1768742
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989

Don't use cwm use twrp
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Rom: Jedi Jelly 4
Kernel: Insecure Kernel
Radio: LB7 Blaze
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Re koodo T989D stuck on boot
1 - Launch Odin by double clicking the Odin3 v1.85 file. Plug your USB cable to your computer but not your phone.
2 - Power off your phone. Then hold down both volume buttons and plug the USB cable into your phone. (Telus: hold volume down and power button). Press the volume up button You will then go to the download screen.
3 - Wait for the Com port in Odin to turn yellow as in the picture. You do not need to check anything that isn't already. Just be sure that Re-Partition is NOT checked. The default setting is not checked so it should be blank.
4 - Select PDA in Odin and browse to the rom file you downloaded and extracted. Select it. Now press Start and Odin will flash the stock rom. When it is finished you will see a green PASS in the top section. It should take about 7 minutes.
5 - Odin will reboot your phone and you can unplug it. You will probably get some errors and force closes. Its normal. Proceed to step 6.
6 - Power off your phone again. Hold both volume buttons and the power button at the same time. When the phone vibrates, let go of the power button but keep holding both volume buttons. In a few seconds you should be in the recovery menu. Use volume buttons to move up/down and power button to select. *if power button doesn't work, use your home key*. Go to wipe data/factory reset and select it. Next, select format cache partition. Now select reboot. Enjoy your new stock rom.

wipe your phone
did you wipe your phone before installing? if not, it may will cause the boot loop/stuck.

ArianaGrande said:
Don't use cwm use twrp
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Man I'm seeing a lot of people recommend not to use CWM. I've used CWM 5.0.2.6 exclusively and haven't had any issues so far. Should I be concerned and switch?

Cody42 said:
Man I'm seeing a lot of people recommend not to use CWM. I've used CWM 5.0.2.6 exclusively and haven't had any issues so far. Should I be concerned and switch?
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Cwm is a great recovery. But it does not get along with the Hercules at all! It took some getting used to because I swore by Cwm on all my other phones. But now that I use twrp, I replaced Cwm with it completely. Never gives me a hard time.
One more thing, don't extract the image file when using odin. Odin looks for zipped files like .tar and stuff so if you extract it you won't be able to find it lol
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