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Phone is really messed up... need help!

I sort of started explaining my issue in the Skyraider Vanilla RC2 thread... but I didn't want to take over that thread for my own issues.
This is what happened-
I tried to install this update that was on the thread, I did a nandroid +ext back up before I did so. When I ran the update it said something about sense 3.1 update so I thought something was a bit wierd, when I turned on my phone, all my apps were rapidly force closing in front of the setup window so I rebooted my phone into recovery and did the nandroid restore. I cleared dalik cache as well, just to make sure things restored smoothly. My phone turned on, but was laggy and and the sd card was read only, it didnt show up when I attached it to my computer... I didn't have the original Vanilla RC2 file on my card, since I initially installed with rom manager, but then switched over to the amon ra recovery image so it was not there.
I rebooted into recovery again, and cleared dalik again, and cache, and then cleared the ext part of my sd card because I thought maybe there was an issue there... Now i turned on my phone my launcher is gone, some of the apps that came with vanilla in the first place are gone along with most of my other apps aside from appbrain for some reason. The phone is so laggy it is almost not even usable as a phone... What should I do?
Buy a new sd card? factory reset? I am totally at a loss..

to andrew
this is what I would do... go back into recovery and do all wipes. then format the card to your desired partitions. toggle usb and redrop the rom you want back on there and run zip from sdcard. You will have a bone stock system again and have to load all the things you want on there, but at least you will have a normal running phone again. If you happened to have things you wanted to save from the sdcard then the nandroid backup you had saved , well you should have drug it off the sdcard to your computer first. Then after you have a setup with the same rom running that you had your nandroid originally made from should load fine when you reload the backup.
1 save that nandroid backup to your pc
2 wipe completely and reformat your card
3 load the rom zip on the card and run it
4 load the nandroid backup to your sdcard and run it
or do 1-3 and start from scratch... hope this helps

buzzdroidx said:
this is what I would do... go back into recovery and do all wipes. then format the card to your desired partitions. toggle usb and redrop the rom you want back on there and run zip from sdcard. You will have a bone stock system again and have to load all the things you want on there, but at least you will have a normal running phone again. If you happened to have things you wanted to save from the sdcard then the nandroid backup you had saved , well you should have drug it off the sdcard to your computer first. Then after you have a setup with the same rom running that you had your nandroid originally made from should load fine when you reload the backup.
1 save that nandroid backup to your pc
2 wipe completely and reformat your card
3 load the rom zip on the card and run it
4 load the nandroid backup to your sdcard and run it
or do 1-3 and start from scratch... hope this helps
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If do have a few backups saved to my computer, (from vanilla 2.5.2) but not the new one. (which is fine)
If I repartition the card, will it go back to being normal again? right now it is read only and will not show up on my computer at all so.. Also when you say wipe, do you mean wipe all data also?

yes wipe all the wipes they recovery you use offers then do a factory wipe THEN go into the format options and reformat your card. It wipes it all but you get a fresh start. then after you drag your rom back onto the sdcard and load it then do your nandroid Its possible your sdcard is hosed but not very likely

buzzdroidx said:
yes wipe all the wipes they recovery you use offers then do a factory wipe THEN go into the format options and reformat your card. It wipes it all but you get a fresh start. then after you drag your rom back onto the sdcard and load it then do your nandroid Its possible your sdcard is hosed but not very likely
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It's alive!!!! Thank you so much =)
Gotta reload everything but, who cares!

your very welcome

Changing SD cards question...

Guys,I recently bought a Desire HD and have the following issue.I have a Kingston 16gb Class 10 SD card in my Desire and I want to use it with my DHD.However,I have an ext4 partition on my Desire's card and have ReflexTSense HD 1.4.1 Apps2SD+ version installed.Now,If I make a Nandroid backup of my rom,copy ALL of the card's content to my HDD(including the nandroid backup) and then copy it all to a new card(partitioned with a 1gb ext4 partition) will I be able to restore the nandroid backup normally after a full wipe or does it need another procedure?
Thanks!

Using Titanium Backup should work nicely. Or failing that, if you are using ClockworkMod Recovery you should be able to copy and paste to the new SD, make an EXT3 partition, then just restore the EXT3 partition using the advanced setting.

I was thinking of trying some other roms prior to restoring...Anyway,that is without losing any of my data,right?And what about the things I asked?
Thanks!

tolis626 said:
I was thinking of trying some other roms prior to restoring...Anyway,that is without losing any of my data,right?And what about the things I asked?
Thanks!
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You want to restore your Desires nandroid to your DHD? I would be surprised if that was possible. The Desires DHD ROMs are ported so they are different to the stock ROMs of the DHD.
When I got my DHD I just started afresh, installed all apps from new, as the DHD has around 1.1 gig of internal memory you really don't need the EXT3 partition on SD card anymore.

Kalavere said:
You want to restore your Desires nandroid to your DHD? I would be surprised if that was possible. The Desires DHD ROMs are ported so they are different to the stock ROMs of the DHD.
When I got my DHD I just started afresh, installed all apps from new, as the DHD has around 1.1 gig of internal memory you really don't need the EXT3 partition on SD card anymore.
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No no no,I'm not that kind of idiot!
I want to try some other roms on my Desire(NOT HD) and change my SD card at,let's say,the same time.If I flash a rom from another card,would I be able to restore a backup that was just copied to the new one,or would I have to reinsert the card I am using now?
I know I am saying it too complicated,sometimes not even I can understand what I'm saying!
But to be more understandable...Say I make a nandroid backup now,ok?I copy it from my SD to my HDD(Hard Disk Drive,my PC,in case you don't know what it stands for.Damn I must stop using this many acronyms! ).Then I change my SD card to a new one(partitioned and stuff) and flash another rom from a zip in the new card.After that,am I able to just copy the nandroid backup I did in the beginning to my new SD card and restore?
Thanks!

Lmao, I literally had to read that twice! Using nandroid, as long as you flash the ROM that it was backed up from first, and then restore you will be fine to install any ROM. Just copy Clockworkmod/backup/(filenamehere) from your SDcard and you can drag and drop it into any SDcard and restore/backup from it.

Kalavere said:
Lmao, I literally had to read that twice! Using nandroid, as long as you flash the ROM that it was backed up from first, and then restore you will be fine to install any ROM. Just copy Clockworkmod/backup/(filenamehere) from your SDcard and you can drag and drop it into any SDcard and restore/backup from it.
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See?I told you it was me saying everything complicated!
Anyway,that's what I wanted to know!Thanks Kalavere!

[Q] Starting from scratch?

Okay so here's my question. I've been running a variety of different roms since I rooted almost a year ago and it seems like my sd card is just full of junk from all the apps I've installed/removed as well and any number of files/folders injected when flashing. I would like to know what method I can use to reformat my sd card and wipe it clean. I guess what I'm asking is that if I boot to recovery (AmonRa) and check the options to wipe EVERYTHING, what am I left with? I'll still have the recovery along with usb mass storage capability right? If so, that would mean I could throw whatever rom onto the sdcard that way and reflash it? I'd just like to start over without any bloat at all and try to keep the card trimmed of fat. Sorry to be long winded and most likely not clear at all. Lol. Any direction would be appreciated.

Also, where is the backup information for titanium located so I can transfer it and restore my apps after all this. Thanks again.

I would like to know what method I can use to reformat my sd card and wipe it clean.
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menu-settings-sd and phone storage-format sd card.
I guess what I'm asking is that if I boot to recovery (AmonRa) and check the options to wipe EVERYTHING, what am I left with?
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I dont believe you can format the sd card through recovery.
Also, where is the backup information for titanium located so I can transfer it and restore my apps after all this. Thanks again.
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In the titanium Backup folder on the sd card.

[Q] CWM 5 Internal SD Card Issue (Mount, Backup, Restore)

I know I'm not the first person to post about it. I've seen this problem mentioned numerous times, and what follows is the simple instructions of re-flashing cwm. However, let's not jump ahead of ourselves.
The problem:
I do not have an external sd card. When I go into cwm 5 and try to create a NANd backup, I'm told the cwm cannot mount my sd card. I would like to create the backup in the internal card. If I go to Mount and Storage and try to mount sd card, I'm told the same. This basically boils down to not being able to make a backup via cwm. So far I have found no work-around except to flash cwm 4.0, but this gets "undone" every time I update my rom of choice (ie. StarBurst). Naturally, I would like to find a way to make backups without having to revert cwm to v4 every time.
PARAMETERS:
1. I do not have an external sd card.
2. I have already tried re-flashing cwm v5 numerous times, since most posts simply instructed to re-flash the latest cwm.
3. CWM v4 does detect (and allows backups to) the internal sd card.
4. I paid for Titanium Backup Pro and use it regularly. I am,thus, not looking for a simple "restore data with Titanium" answer. I would like to make NANd backups in case I need to revert changes after a bad flash, etc.
So, wall of text over, does anyone have any answers / insight into the topic? I'm sorry if this is a duplicate, but I promise that I did search first, and apart from sporadic posts on the subject, found no real match to my situation.
Thanks
Sent from my Galaxy S II.

The functionality was taken out. I don't know the details, but something was getting borked up with internal sd. I believe your options, for now, are limited to what you already know.
1) Re-Flash v4 every time you flash a kernel or ROM with v5
OR
2) Bite the bullet and buy an SD card. I'll admit, I don't really get why this may be a problem, but we all have out reasons for things.
Anyhoo, I hope this helps. Maybe someone more intimate with CWM can chime in with more info or correct me if I'm wrong.

New Rom Manager/Clockwork won't see my sd card, help please

So I have been using Rom Manager/Clockwork recovery since I got the S3 (sprint),
I have all my backups on the sd card (external). It asked me to update Rom Manager/new clockwork mod for Sprint,
so I did. Now I can not see any of my sd card contents and backups. In Clockwork recovery I go to backups and see none,
I go to install zip from sd card and it shows all the files in the phones INTERNAL system memory, not my external sd card,
I maybe I am a noob (not really), but I can not find out how to get clockwork recovery to see the external sd card instead of the
internal, so I can get at my files/backups. Maybe it is a problem since I have the 32gb S3 instead of the 16gb standard?

hotstocks said:
So I have been using Rom Manager/Clockwork recovery since I got the S3 (sprint),
I have all my backups on the sd card (external). It asked me to update Rom Manager/new clockwork mod for Sprint,
so I did. Now I can not see any of my sd card contents and backups. In Clockwork recovery I go to backups and see none,
I go to install zip from sd card and it shows all the files in the phones INTERNAL system memory, not my external sd card,
I maybe I am a noob (not really), but I can not find out how to get clockwork recovery to see the external sd card instead of the
internal, so I can get at my files/backups. Maybe it is a problem since I have the 32gb S3 instead of the 16gb standard?
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Go to the bottom of the menu in ROM Manager and choose the all versions (or something like that). You should have the option to flash an earlier version of CWM. Choose the earliest version, flash it, reboot into recovery, and you should be fine. I would give you version numbers, but I have moved to TWRP for recovery.

Just use twrp its better in every way

Well thanks, kinda. Going back to the earliest version of clockwork DOES allow me to see the files on the SD card (external),
but now under ext sd/clockworkmod/backup/ ALL my backups say the name with / after it such as 2012-08-16-Stock/
when I chose one, it says no files found, Like it is looking at a directory instead of the backup file which should NOT have a / after it.
Any ideas?

Yeah, but you can't use your old clockwork/nandroid backups with twrp,
so I would lose everything!

Ok, I got it to work using the oldest clockwork recovery and not being an idiot.
Once I was able to see the external sd card, I was trying to install my backup from zip.
When I went to backup and restore and restored it from there, it allowed me to chose the
correct file and it worked. And yes, twrp looks slick and allows choosing internal or ext sd,
if I had a new phone without a bunch of stock and cyano backups already in clockwork,
I would go with twrp. But twrp SHOULD make the clockwork mod backups compatible, or offer
a converter program, because who can really switch if they can't use any of their old backups?

hotstocks said:
Ok, I got it to work using the oldest clockwork recovery and not being an idiot.
Once I was able to see the external sd card, I was trying to install my backup from zip.
When I went to backup and restore and restored it from there, it allowed me to chose the
correct file and it worked. And yes, twrp looks slick and allows choosing internal or ext sd,
if I had a new phone without a bunch of stock and cyano backups already in clockwork,
I would go with twrp. But twrp SHOULD make the clockwork mod backups compatible, or offer
a converter program, because who can really switch if they can't use any of their old backups?
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Copy those CWM backups over to your computer (rename them as needed to be able to remember what they are). Install TWRP and start using it for your backups. If you ever need/want to go back to one of those earlier backups you can always go flash CWM over TWRP and re-install them. If you want to, you could even do a restore in CWM then flash TWRP, then back it up in TWRP, back to CWM, back to TWRP, etc., until you have them all in both formats. Depending upon how many backups you have that may or may not be all that time consuming.

Neil Fruit said:
Copy those CWM backups over to your computer (rename them as needed to be able to remember what they are). Install TWRP and start using it for your backups. If you ever need/want to go back to one of those earlier backups you can always go flash CWM over TWRP and re-install them. If you want to, you could even do a restore in CWM then flash TWRP, then back it up in TWRP, back to CWM, back to TWRP, etc., until you have them all in both formats. Depending upon how many backups you have that may or may not be all that time consuming.
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Nice idea, but CWM has been the standard and reliable for so long. I don't know if I would trust my
backups to TWRP yet. But maybe I could start using it and just save a couple old backups one of Cyano and one stock.
I don't want any black screens, bricks, or problems because I don't know ADB and am not great with problems/odin.
Will TWRP give me more or less headaches than Clockwork witch I am used to? And can you run it from a phone app like
Rom Manager runs clockwork?
Thanks guys

Gotta admit, I'm fairly new to TWRP myself, but I am not aware of an integrated app like ROM Manager and CWM. As far a reliability, I know TWRP has been around a while and while it may not be as widespread as CWM I trust most of the people who I checked with who say that TWRP is not only as good as CWM, but even better. I know it takes a while to get used to a new UI and program, but with time I am sure I will feel as comfortable with TWRP as I was with CWM.

no sdcard (microsd)
same issue, have tried a variety of different rom manager versions. Want to do a full wipe/clean flash but need the card working for the rom and gapps after the wipe.
Any suggestions?

Had to get card formatted fat32.. All good!
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