I backed up aokp milestone 5.1.1 and wiped cache and dalvik before installing milestone 5.2. That might have been a mistake but then I flashed gapps cus I had forgot to after flashing 5.2 but then decided to wipe everything and just restore my backup of milstone 5.1 I had (I backed it up using twrp) but when I click restore, there's nothing there. No package to choose. Any help?
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Can't restore a nAndroid from twrp. You need to reinstall the aokp first. Be sure to Unchecked "inject twrp" when doing so. Then reboot into cwm and restore your backup.
Happened to me too.
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You can't restore nandroids made in clockwork mod in TWRP if you make a nandroid in twrp then you can. But cwm nandroids aren't compatible.
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He said he backed up using twrp. It seems it is not finding his backup on the sd card.
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He said he backed up using twrp. It seems it is not finding his backup on the sd card.
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My mistake.
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swiftstrike763 said:
..........then decided to wipe everything and just restore my backup of milstone 5.1 I had (I backed it up using twrp) but when I click restore, there's nothing there. No package to choose. Any help?
Thanks.
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I restored my CM9beta3-pre3 twrp Nandroid perfectly..............found it in the GooManager folder (obviously NOT clockworkmod / downloads folder) in the SD Card.........if you didn't create a GooManager, just keep looking, it's in there somewhere.
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If I try to restore from recovery, it goes through the restore process then when I reboot it bootloops. It will restore from advanced restore if I do all four separately. Is there any fix to restore restore> Sorry for the stupid play on words.
Are you wiping everything b4 you restore
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Yes, wipe data, dalvik and cache. It will boot after advanced restore just not typical restore.
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Still need suggestions please.
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You say it restores fine and you can get it working after the advanced restore? Perhaps try going into rom manager if you use that, and hit menu -> settings and make sure erase recovery is on. Then flash an older version of recovery to your phone, then flash the latest. Maybe that'll help?
Just tried that. Did not work. I don't know what to do. Thank though.
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What clockwork version?
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Had 3.0.0.8 backup. It will restore in advanced, not normal restore. Flashed 3.0.0.7 did nandroid and full wipe, same result, only advanced doing all but sd-ext individually.
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Have u upgraded back up to 3.0.8 in rom manager after flashing 3.07?
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Yeah. Flashed 3.0.0.8 after. 7 tried to restore. 7 nandroid, failed. Did a .8 nandroid and tried to restore, failed.
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What error does it give you when you try
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No error, just bootloop.
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Here try this and let me know if it helps cwm 3.x.x.x don't wipe things very good so wipe like usual then flash thus zip twice after wiping then try your restore
http://db.tt/s1VTbac
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Tried it, did not work.
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Was ur restore made with Cw 3.0.8?
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I have tried all 3 ways. Made nandroid with. 7 and tried to restore with the .7 and .8. Thirdly, made nandroid with .8 and tried to restore with .8.
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I can'tcreate a single nandroid backup, nor restore old ones when gear shifting my roms and room manager always fails to create a backup, it's tragic.
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Are you booting into recovery, or using ROM Manager? I've had issues in the past w/ ROM Manager actually creating a backup, but if I reboot into cwm and start a backup, it works fine.
As for restoring prev. nandroids, are you changing the name of the file/folder of your backup? From what I've heard, it cannot have any spaces between characters, make sure it's a . or - or something.
Hope that helps!
I've tried using cwm and ROM manager and none of them work, I'm wondering if I should use my internal SD.
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I've tried using cwm and ROM manager and none of them work, I'm wondering if I should use my internal SD.
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If that doesn't work, you can try reflashing cwm through Odin
I'll give it a whirl.
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If I flash a rom and empty all data, then wouldn't the backups be erased too? Is there any way I could transfer the backup files from phone to pc?
Titanium backs up to your sd card
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Titanium backs up to your sd card
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Custom recoveries don't touch the "sdcard" when doing a factory reset.
In other words all you have to do is wipe all your data and flash a new ROM or whatever you want to do. Boot up and open the play store and download titanium backup and batch restore all your apps back.
Yes, but doing backups to external source is not a bad idea. Always.
You can also backup to dropbox.
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I have installed cm7 and ı want to update it to final version. but ı'm afrait of my telephone might brick. so can ı update ? (Sorry for bad eng.)
Normally you can update and just wipe cache and dalvik cache, but a nandroid wont hurt
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Normally you can update and just wipe cache and dalvik cache, but a nandroid wont hurt
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What's Nandroid?
In cwm there is an option: nandroid backup. It's a complete backup of your current rom together with your apps and data. In that way if something does go wrong you always have a backup
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In cwm there is an option: nandroid backup. It's a complete backup of your current rom together with your apps and data. In that way if something does go wrong you always have a backup
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And where can I find this option in CWM?
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And where can I find this option in CWM?
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Backup & restore
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If you want to make a nandroid backup, make sure you have 500+mb free on your SD.
OK guys, lately I've been seeing a little too many people complaining about bootloops and UI crashes, etc when installing/flashing a new rom. This guide includes installing an update of the rom you're currently on that has been re-based as well.
The only reason I'm making this guide is so that users stop filling threads with these issues that are caused by user errors (99% of the time). I haven't bootlooped or had any problems at all when flashing a new rom and I can promise you that I am a huge flashaholic. Here are the steps for a TOUCHWIZ rom:
1. Download rom and calculate md5 checksum (this can be done using ES file explorer from the play store)
2. Reboot into recovery and make a nandroid backup! Can't stress this enough...
3. Do a FULL wipe. This is where I notice the error that most people make. You must do a wipe of data, cache, dalvik cache, preload AND SYSTEM.
- Don't just do a Factory reset, you must manually wipe system as well to prevent any issues. In TWRP this will be under advanced wipe, and in Philz touch recovery this is done by selecting the "Full wipe to install a new rom" option.
4. AFTER wiping all of the above mentioned partitions, then look for the rom in your internal/external SD card and install/flash it.
- if the rom has an aroma installer, sometimes it'll include a full wipe option in there, this doesn't mean that you can skip the full wipe done in step 2 of this guide.
5. Allow the rom to install everything and then choose the reboot option within your chosen recovery.
6. Let the phone reboot, input all of your info in the initial setup and then let the phone sit for a couple minutes. After this I usually reboot the phone again as a habit.
If you follow these steps to the T you shouldn't have any problems. I've yet to bootloop once on this phone with any rom. Now go and flash away!
Other possible issues/fixes:
- if you have a 64gb SD card, your current kernel or the kernel included with the rom you're flashing might not support 64gb SD cards in EXfat format. A fix for this would be to either flash another kernel that has 64gb SD card support or to copy everything from your SD card to a computer, format your EXfat sd card to fat32 format and then retransfer the files back to your sd card.
-some people have reported that moving the zip file from the internal SD to the external SD or vice versa has fixed flashing issues so make sure to try this as well, not sure why this works but it does sometimes.
-if a specific cause can't be diagnosed it's always recommended to restore your phone back to complete stock using Odin to flash stock firmware. Here is a link to the stock firmwares (I take no credit for that thread): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2335109
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Just in case.
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The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory rest/data, and the two caches
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The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory reset/data, and the two caches
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-Data wipe/Factory reset. In Philz CWM version when you chose this it stated "Wipe phone for new ROM"
Every recovery as far as I've seen has a system wipe option, just have to look for it. Only mention TWRP because I haven't used the other recoveries in a while.
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Question, for restoring nandroid backup : before I first started to flash roms last week. I did the following with Twrp, backup, - wipe data and caches(no system), then I backup again before moving forward with the flash. My question is: can I just restore my second backup with just the system without the data.?
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Why do you backup twice? And why would you restore just the system partition? You might as well just reflash the rom so you don't waste space having a system only backup.
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Question, for restoring nandroid backup : before I first started to flash roms last week. I did the following with Twrp, backup, - wipe data and caches(no system), then I backup again before moving forward with the flash. My question is: can I just restore my second backup with just the system without the data.?
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A nandroid will restore your phone exactly how it was when you made the back up.
If I read it correctly, on the 2nd backup, you did a wipe before you did a backup.
So if you restored that 2nd backup, it will have wiped ROM (no data and will need to set up phone again). Hope that make sense.
Yeah that's what I want, I want to go back to that clean clean rom, I don't need my user data
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Then don't restore a backup for that. Just reflash the rom.
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Why do you backup twice? And why would you restore just the system partition? You might as well just reflash the rom so you don't waste space having a system only backup.
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Cause I'm OCD when comes to things like this, seriously lol. I move all the backups to the external SD and my computer lol. So not too worried about taking up space. I just want to see if everything is working normally with the clean stock rom. I.e. Able to send MMS. Read and write to ext SD properly.
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Cause I'm OCD when comes to things like this, seriously lol. I move all the backups to the external SD and my computer lol. So not too worried about taking up space. I just want to see if everything is working normally with the clean stock rom. I.e. Able to send MMS. Read and write to ext SD properly.
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Well if you just want to go back to a fresh clean install there's no point in restoring a backup. Just reflash the rom bro. Any kernel changes or system app changes will still be there if you restore a system backup but won't be there if you reflash the rom (after doing full wipe that is).
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Well if you just want to go back to a fresh clean install there's no point in restoring a backup. Just reflash the rom bro. Any kernel changes or system app changes will still be there if you restore a system backup but won't be there if you reflash the rom (after doing full wipe that is).
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This is it right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895 , I think there is a Odin back to stock thread on here too
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This is it right ? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2267895 , I think there is a Odin back to stock thread on here too
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Ok, now you lost me. What is your ultimate goal in this? Back to complete stock like out of the box?
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Ok, now you lost me. What is your ultimate goal in this? Back to complete stock like out of the box?
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Sorry lol, yeah i want to go back to right out of the box stock.
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Yeah follow that thread. Please hit thanks if I helped at all.
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After I flash unwizzed rom in aroma after it installs everything it says assert failed : package_extract_file("boot.img","/temp/boot.img") ?? It boots the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen then turns off then back on then back into recovery.. been doing this for alot of ROMs i try to flash
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The twrp has the system wipe option. I don't see that with Cwm, just factory rest/data, and the two caches
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For cwm:
Mounts/Storage - Mount/System.
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Robdizz said:
After I flash unwizzed rom in aroma after it installs everything it says assert failed : package_extract_file("boot.img","/temp/boot.img") ?? It boots the Samsung Galaxy S4 screen then turns off then back on then back into recovery.. been doing this for alot of ROMs i try to flash
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Not sure what that could be. Did you check the md5?
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I've been asking everyone it does this on alot of roms i flash the only one that worked was Alpha 5.0 but tried to go to 7.0 and did same thing. How do u check the Md5?