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My wife is going to be pissed if this does not get resolved.
I wanted to backup her phone. I already flashed Mr X's telus stock rom a week or so ago. I realized I hadn't done a nandroid backup so I though i'd install rom manager to quickly backup that rom. When I selected it it said clockworkmod recovery wasn't installed so I started the process to flash it (i thought it was strange). It went slow and I thought that I'd flash it again for good measure.
I selected the backup option expecting it to reboot into recovery and back up but nothing happens. I tried to pull the battery and boot into recovery but nothing but black, same with a regular pull and try to boot. I get the boot screen for a second and nothing but black. It will go into download mode.
My guess is it did not flash cwm successfully and this is the cause of problems. How can I fix this without having to wipe even if I can get recovery flashed properly? Can I flash cwm onto it from my pc and possiblly have it boot properly?? I would like to not have to set her phone up again and wipe her sms and things.
Thanks
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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Flash CWM from ODIN.
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+1
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hompsar said:
Flash CWM from ODIN.
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+1 if it doesn't boot up after that might try flashing darkside cachewipe. If that don't work she's gonna be mad at you for flashing rom again and wiping her stuff, might try a dirty flash to save her data.
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Thank you all for the quick advice. I flashed CWM and it rebooted right into my wife's glorious setup! I had the prompt to assign Apex launcher as default but that was it at a glance.
XDA rox.
jets76 said:
Thank you all for the quick advice. I flashed CWM and it rebooted right into my wife's glorious setup! I had the prompt to assign Apex launcher as default but that was it at a glance.
XDA rox.
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Not that i had anything to do with helping you but glad your still alive. I know from experience messing with the wife's phone can result in couch time.
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Not that i had anything to do with helping you but glad your still alive. I know from experience messing with the wife's phone can result in couch time.
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Or just a cold shoulder and no dinner for a week!!
That's the truth! I found it ironic that this happened because I wanted to back it up lol
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Also don't forget how we have to tip toe around our wives when it comes to flashing! "Why are you messing with your phone again?! " Geez
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^^I have found this to be the issue with anything that does not revolve around my wife or child.. It used to be the phone she complained about, until I got a car.. then I started getting complaints about "I really don't see the purpose of brighter lights" or something of that nature.
My wife doesn't let me touch her phone anymore....
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Mine complains, but also won't take my advice on what phone to get. The truth she'll never admit: her G2 running ILWT CM7 is the best any phone has treated her yet, and if she'd just try to learn what a problem means when I've occurs, she could solve it in 10 secs.
My wife doesnt like me wiping her data at all when im flashing a rom...even if her rom is full of bugs and needs a serious update lol stubborn
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Does anyone have experience in using this? I bought it but it does not work. 1st it forecloses immediately if I try and back up my current kernel. I have also auto-flashed every kernel in there and they say successful but are not. I reboot and same OLD kernel. I am not sure what I am missing but very frustrated with this app.
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Do you have root?
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Well I did earlier, but now it appears I may not. Not sure why, I think I am going to start over fresh tomorrow.
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That's your problem. Efrant has a good root guide, link is in his signature.
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Thanks for the help. I lost root but when I got it back it all worked great
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Does anyone have experience in using this? I bought it but it does not work. 1st it forecloses immediately if I try and back up my current kernel. I have also auto-flashed every kernel in there and they say successful but are not. I reboot and same OLD kernel. I am not sure what I am missing but very frustrated with this app.
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He has done two or three updates in the last couple days to address those issues. You should at least read his kernel thread, even if you are new and cannot post there yet. Read the last three or four pages.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367341
I saw this thread in the Epic and Rezound forums and related to most of them so I thought I would bring the fun over here... so just post and complete this sentence "You know you're rooted when.."
Examples:
masaidjet: You know you're rooted when you tell a neighborhood hoe to " wipe her cache "
wscott9903: You know you're rooted when 1/2 of your apps require superuser permission.
feralicious: You know you're rooted when your spouse tells you they're leaving you and taking the kids and you think "perfect timing, (insert dev name here) just released a new ICS ROM".
jayochs: you know you're rooted when your phones buggy as hell lol
putney1477: You know you're rooted when, you husband, wife, significant other gets a new phone and says, don't you dare come near this phone, it works fine!
jackpot08: You know your rooted when when spend more time flashing roms than using your phone"
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You know your rooted when....you flash so many ROM's you can't even remember what options or apps the phone actually came with.
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You know you're rooted when half your SD is filled with Nandroids >_< lol
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You know you're rooted when.. You wipe your cache and dalvik more than you wipe your own ass...
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You know you're rooted when.. You wipe your cache and dalvik more than you wipe your own ass...
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Lmao!!! :thumbup:
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You know you're rooted when you wake up in the middle of the night and your phone is in a bootloop.
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You know your rooted when you sleepFlash every night (Cuz you know sleep walk is walking while you sleep and sleep flash is flashing a ROM while you sleep...)
You know when you're rooted when you flash something and forgot to backup, the phone boot loops and you're like $%&#!
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You know you're rooted when...you stay up all night reading posts on XDA.
SGSlll AT&T
You know you're rooted when... Your upset you don't have 4.2 yet
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You know your rooted when your posting in this thread.
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You know you're rooted when... Your upset you don't have 4.2 yet
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Au Contraire, You likely only have 4.2 if you're rooted. If you're rooted and don't have 4.2 you are a noob.
Members we have an Off Topic thread>>>>HERE
Edit: too many stupid questions, have not read much before posting, PLEASE CLOSE.
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It'll likely be a security or improvement update. No official announcements of s2 getting jb yet.
It won't be jb.
Can't offer any help....you'll be the first with it! LOL
Good luck! Hope its what you think it is, and not that ics update from awhile ago!
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Im already on 4.0.4. But my other two questions still bugs me though not much now. Thanks for the replies.
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Im already on 4.0.4. But my other two questions still bugs me though not much now. Thanks for the replies.
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Did you ever update?
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My phone had that installed when I opened the box, my wife's phone, which I got first, updated from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 about two months ago, if that's what you mean, I haven't found anything about a newer update
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My phone had that installed when I opened the box, my wife's phone, which I got first, updated from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 about two months ago, if that's what you mean, I haven't found anything about a newer update
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You said you got an update today. What was it? Jb or ics
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Well, i did update. Don't know what was updated, the phone rebooted to cwm in about 5 secs after process started. Got root and nothing new, nothing different...except some numbers now are different from my wife's phone. I'll try to post pics. First one is my wife's phone, second is mine.
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Could someone tell me which is the newest, maybe I didn't received nothing.
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Well, i did update. Don't know what was updated, the phone rebooted to cwm in about 5 secs after process started. Got root and nothing new, nothing different...except some numbers now are different from my wife's phone. I'll try to post pics. First one is my wife's phone, second is mine.
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Yeah that was the update from like a month ago. The radio was changed with some security fixes. UVLI4 is the latest one, and i got that like a month ago.
Thank you all very much, seems I haven't received anything at all cause mine is the second one. Im such a noob, don't matter how much I've roamed around here. Lol!!!
I have a q, again, will that update mess up with like cwm or root when/if I receive it? Will I have to root again?
Also the first one went from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 with that update, but mine had 4.0.4 out of the box. They were bought with a difference of there months at most. First one I got starting last December, the second one at the end of this February but still outdated according to those numbers. But when I check for updates it states there are none. Whatever, thanks again.
I didn't notice that I had posted on the general thread instead of q&a thread, please move if needed. Sorry about that too.
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You will not be able to update like that with cwm installed. Has to be on the stock recovery. Doesn't really answer your questions, just more of an FYI.
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You will not be able to update like that with cwm installed. Has to be on the stock recovery. Doesn't really answer your questions, just more of an FYI.
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Hey, you should have posted before, lol, that answers all the questions I had, and probably a couple of the questions I might have, hahaha. Since I didn't wait for any updates before rooting and haven't searched for any either this was bound to happen. I should have searched more. What a waste of 1 and 0.
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Hey, you should have posted before, lol, that answers all the questions I had, and probably a couple of the questions I might have, hahaha. Since I didn't wait for any updates before rooting and haven't searched for any either this was bound to happen. I should have searched more. What a waste of 1 and 0.
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Yup it's the custom recovery that will prevent an update. When you load a custom recovery you are basically saying "I am the administrator of my phone, not T-Mobile". So it is up to you to apply updates. Also if you dont want to see the update notification anymore you can freeze the Device Management process with Titanium Backup or Rom Toolbox.
Well, not long after there was an update, Lol, though not directly from tmous, at least for me.
What a bump. Hahaha
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Hello everyone. My wife has a newly purchased S4 from Tmobile. We rooted it right away and installed TWRP. Everything else is stock. Even kept the bloatware hanging around... She has had some random reboots from time to time not often but like 3-4 times since she has had the phone. Google searches turn up random bits of info so I thought I'd ask the experts here at good olé XDA. I've seen some advice to factory reset but wouldn't that lose root? Also some say it could be SD card related.. There is no common theme to it happening.. I guess we could return it. I was hoping to avoid that though... Any thoughts? Thanks for any help!
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Yes it will lose root but it's better than the phone rebooting itself alot so if it still does it then try to flash a rom and if it still does it it might be the phone then
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Factory reset won't actually loose root. Root stuff is stored in the system while factory resetting wipes the user's data. Factory reset through TWRP would be my first recommendation
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So as far as I know simply rooting doesn't cause this issue... My gut says no but this is a new phone to me...
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jcnbama said:
So as far as I know simply rooting doesn't cause this issue... My gut says no but this is a new phone to me...
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Simply rooting does not. Touching system stuff can so yeah simply rooting wouldn't cause that.
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What did she recently install? if anything. Some apps will cause random reboots. And the answers here are correct, you will not lose root doing a factory reset.
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What did she recently install? if anything. Some apps will cause random reboots. And the answers here are correct, you will not lose root doing a factory reset.
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Well thanks we may try that. She hasn't installed anything new really. She's not the techie I'm more likely to have RR than her.. Lol. We just rooted used TB to restore basic apps like Go Launcher and such. No system restored apps at all. We may try factory reset and then if that doesn't work we may return it... Thanks for the help.! Feeling the XDA love today... :beer:
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Well thanks we may try that. She hasn't installed anything new really. She's not the techie I'm more likely to have RR than her.. Lol. We just rooted used TB to restore basic apps like Go Launcher and such. No system restored apps at all. We may try factory reset and then if that doesn't work we may return it... Thanks for the help.! Feeling the XDA love today... :beer:
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hehe I caught my wife installing stuff, she wouldn't admit it to me, but I can tell. Ouch, she just hit me. anyways, try factory reset, and test.
And if you do decide to return it, clean it up, don't need no surprises at the att store oops my bad, scuse me, T-Mobile store. Sorry, forgot where I was at, and the wife beatin on me.
Btw, thanks for supplying us with your device info here, it aides in the help. Others just do not get it.
The Ax says, very good post from the OP.
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Why does your wife need a rooted device?
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Ad blocker... And Titanium Backup....
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jcnbama said:
Ad blocker... And Titanium Backup....
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Hey next time it reboots retrieve file /proc/last_kmsg and post it. I wanna see what's causing the reboots. Any file browser will work so long as you can browse the root level stuff.
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elesbb said:
Hey next time it reboots retrieve file /proc/last_kmsg and post it. I wanna see what's causing the reboots. Any file browser will work so long as you can browse the root level stuff.
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So I will if we don't reset it soon.... May wanna take it back... She said today she was watching a video she had recorded and it was buffering like a dang you tube video... Wonder if it's SD issues...
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soccerswag said:
Why does your wife need a rooted device?
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Why does it matter to you?? You remind of me of that ahole @androidsoccer. He got banned for being an ahole. Hmmmm androidsoccer and soccerswag??
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soccerswag said:
Just because there is a common word in both usernames doesn't mean they are related
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And the fact that both of you act like douches, plus the fact that he was a 14 year old boy and you're using the word "swag". And also the fact that you crested this account around the time he got banned. Hmmmm
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If I was you I would Odin back to stock.
Then gaining root again is only a tiny problem.
CF-Auto Root literally takes about 25 seconds to root.
Refer to this thread to odin back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
Refer to this video to root again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You're probably getting reboots because of the method you used to root.
I was getting tons of problems with my phone because the way I previously rooted the device.
I used this way and I get absolutely no more problems.
Now, after you root with the above method, you will have to install a custom recovery (I recommend TWRP).
Do that through goomanager.
(Search goomanager in app store, install, open, hit menu, then hit "install custom recovery.)
Hope this helps.
Damn, Eflip douche is on a roll today.
Someone hasn't got laid in a while ;o.
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devynbf said:
If I was you I would Odin back to stock.
Then gaining root again is only a tiny problem.
CF-Auto Root literally takes about 25 seconds to root.
Refer to this thread to odin back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258628
Refer to this video to root again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONzxfyTnWIY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You're probably getting reboots because of the method you used to root.
I was getting tons of problems with my phone because the way I previously rooted the device.
I used this way and I get absolutely no more problems.
Now, after you root with the above method, you will have to install a custom recovery (I recommend TWRP).
Do that through goomanager.
(Search goomanager in app store, install, open, hit menu, then hit "install custom recovery.)
Hope this helps.
Damn, Eflip douche is on a roll today.
Someone hasn't got laid in a while ;o.
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Thanks for the info. She appears to be on an MDL baseband. Would it work with that? I forget exactly which thread I used to root it.. I used Odin and some zip files with TWRP and it seems like we had to do something with the bootloader... This was a few weeks ago.
And a follow up question. How would the rooting method effect the stability of the device, Causing RR added such?
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Thanks for the info. She appears to be on an MDL baseband. Would it work with that? I forget exactly which thread I used to root it.. I used Odin and some zip files with TWRP and it seems like we had to do something with the bootloader... This was a few weeks ago.
And a follow up question. How would the rooting method effect the stability of the device, Causing RR added such?
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Ah yes the TWRP root method.
That's the faulty method that is causing problems.
Once you odin to stock by following the steps in the thread above, everything will be taken off the phone, it will absolutely work with that baseband, yes.
Use the CF Autoroot method in the video I posted above and follow the steps i explained about goomanager.
You will love being rooted with TWRP from goomanager. You will then be able to flash custom roms which will make the phone a lot speedier and more responsive. In most cases, better battery life also.
(I am on the Darthstalker rom and it is super fast!)
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Ah yes the TWRP root method.
That's the faulty method that is causing problems.
Once you odin to stock by following the steps in the thread above, everything will be taken off the phone, it will absolutely work with that baseband, yes.
Use the CF Autoroot method in the video I posted above and follow the steps i explained about goomanager.
You will love being rooted with TWRP from goomanager. You will then be able to flash custom roms which will make the phone a lot speedier and more responsive. In most cases, better battery life also.
(I am on the Darthstalker rom and it is super fast!)
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Well great thanks! I will do this. We will most likely not flash a custom rom for her purposes. If I root per the method above would it be necessary to install TWRP via Goo? If we're not going to be flashing mods and roms to her phone I'm not sure what we would use it for...
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Well great thanks! I will do this. We will most likely not flash a custom rom for her purposes. If I root per the method above would it be necessary to install TWRP via Goo? If we're not going to be flashing mods and roms to her phone I'm not sure what we would use it for...
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No, it is NOT necessary to install TWRP, you can have the rooted device with the stock recovery on it with no problems .