So I was backing up in TWRP and I had the power plugged in and the power went out. Everything seemed fine with the backup. I rebooted post back as normal.
Now it comes up the Samsung Logo and shuts off. I can get into TWRP and I have tried a restore but the result is the same. I was able to flash another ROM but I want to get back to where is was originally.
SO my question is my ROM corrupt or the Kernel? My plan is to retore my bad backup again and reinstall either the ROM or the Kernel. Any suggestions.
TIA
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So I was backing up in TWRP and I had the power plugged in and the power went out. Everything seemed fine with the backup. I rebooted post back as normal.
Now it comes up the Samsung Logo and shuts off. I can get into TWRP and I have tried a restore but the result is the same. I was able to flash another ROM but I want to get back to where is was originally.
SO my question is my ROM corrupt or the Kernel? My plan is to retore my bad backup again and reinstall either the ROM or the Kernel. Any suggestions.
TIA
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You should still be able to get into recovery... How else were you able to flash another ROM?
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You should still be able to get into recovery... How else were you able to flash another ROM?
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Right I can get in but I need to find a way to get the phone back up to reset Google Wallet. Si I am trying to determine how to diagnose the cause that might keep me from starting over.
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Right I can get in but I need to find a way to get the phone back up to reset Google Wallet. Si I am trying to determine how to diagnose the cause that might keep me from starting over.
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No working nandroid?
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No nandroid?
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Yes and no....
I wasclearing up SDCARD space and deleted my old Nanodroids and only have the one that it was making when this happened... My STUPID move.
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Yes and no....
I wasclearing up SDCARD space and deleted my old Nanodroids and only have the one that it was making when this happened... My STUPID move.
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I haven't made an nandroid in years... Unfortunately it looks like you'll be starting over... and here's a tip... If you don't use TiBu, and always use the same gapps, the play store restores your apps for you... but not the first time, you'll have to download them manually...
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I haven't made an nandroid in years... Unfortunately it looks like you'll be starting over... and here's a tip... If you don't use TiBu, and always use the same gapps, the play store restores your apps for you... but not the first time, you'll have to download them manually...
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I have TIBu but you can't restore Google Wallet because of the secure elements.
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I have TIBu but you can't restore Google Wallet because of the secure elements.
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I think you missed what I was saying... I fully wipe everytime, and never use TiBu except to remove a few system apps... as long as I don't switch gapps, the play store batch downloads every app I had before I wiped... Wallet is a different issue...
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I just tried flashing the new wimax update and it went through and succeeded, but now my phone reboots after a minute or 2 once it's fully booted. If I'm in recovery mode it doesn't have that problem at all. I'm using baked 1.5.
michaelm718 said:
I just tried flashing the new wimax update and it went through and succeeded, but now my phone reboots after a minute or 2 once it's fully booted. If I'm in recovery mode it doesn't have that problem at all. I'm using baked 1.5.
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Have you tried the standard "wipe cache and data, then reflash your ROM"?
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Have you tried the standard "wipe cache and data, then reflash your ROM"?
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I have re-flashed the wimax radio and wiped the dalvik/regular chache and did a factory reset.
did you wipe? that will solve most of your problems with out the need of a thread being made.
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did you wipe? that will solve most of your problems with out the need of a thread being made.
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First of all, mods please move my topic to Q&A. I did not mean to post this in this forum. Also yes I've wiped everything about a million times.
michaelm718 said:
First of all, mods please move my topic to Q&A. I did not mean to post this in this forum. Also yes I've wiped everything about a million times.
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Did you try flashing an older version or a nandroid? If you are using clockwork make sure signature checking is turned on too, you could have a corrupted file.
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Did you try flashing an older version or a nandroid? If you are using clockwork make sure signature checking is turned on too, you could have a corrupted file.
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I tried flashing an older version and that didn't work either. What is this thing about nandroid? How do I go about that?
Edit: I fixed it by restoring google proprietary stuff(forgot the name) and restored nand. Which one fixed it? I have no idea, but it basically restored me to factory 2.1, but with root access. Mods please lock/ delete this. It's in the wrong forum and I apologize. Thank you
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I tried flashing an older version and that didn't work either. What is this thing about nandroid? How do I go about that?
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A nandroid is a backup of your system you can make from the recovery, it's always a good idea to make one before you flash anything. I'm not sure if that covers your radios though.
Do you use titanium backup or anything? Without knowing how your phone is set up (what recovery you are using, etc) the only thing I can think of would be to flash the engineering bootloader. That should fix it but you would have to reinstall your ROM afterwards.
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A nandroid is a backup of your system you can make from the recovery, it's always a good idea to make one before you flash anything. I'm not sure if that covers your radios though.
Do you use titanium backup or anything? Without knowing how your phone is set up (what recovery you are using, etc) the only thing I can think of would be to flash the engineering bootloader. That should fix it but you would have to reinstall your ROM afterwards.
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The nandroid restore worked because I had a backup I made while following the guide. I fixed it doing that, but while trying to update the radio to the current one again figuring if it messed up I can restore it and again the same problem came up, but this time nandroid restore wont work and it's telling me to use adb restore, but adb says your device is not found.
BTW all of my phones stuff come directly from the idiot proof guide(recovery etc)
bump... I'm sorry I'm sitting here with a semi broken phone. Is it possible to download someone else's nandroid back up and install it on mine? I know it will fix my problem as it already did, but for some reason now it's telling me to do it with adb, but my usb seems to not be working either.
While restoring using Nandroid after it was finished it took longer then usual. So I took out battery, wiped, and restored again . No success and just flashed myns Rom. I'm using RA Nd backed up before I downgraded hboot. After downgrading installed new splash screen, and then upgraded back to 93 hboot and tried to restore. I also have enough memory for Nandroid
When you say no success, what was the result? Did it error out? Did dots keep filling up the screen in perpetutity, etc. etc.
Can't diagnose it without info
O sorry I meant it wouldn't boot
Any suggestions?
Im trying a restore currently and the dots just keep going and going.
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Im trying a restore currently and the dots just keep going and going.
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its simply a botched backup. no big deal. reinstall everything like you want, delete the bad nand backup and create a new one.
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Impatient :'(
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OP you're not making much sense. Are you trying to say when you restore a nandroid the phone won't boot?
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Yes it stays on the splash screen
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its simply a botched backup. no big deal. reinstall everything like you want, delete the bad nand backup and create a new one.
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please read the quoted msg. agian !!!
OK, So I have been running Beast MOD just fine using either the bullet or synergy kernel.. and everything has been great..
Then yesterday i flashed over to the latest faux kernel to give it a whirl and for the entire day everything was great..
Then today I WAKE UP TO A MILLION FORCECLOSE WINDOWS AND A FROZEN SCREEN. I was pissed. Rebooted and it went to the same place.. forceclose after force close. So i did a wipe and re-flashed, restored my apps from titanium and boom same problem after a reboot...
So i wipe and install again, this time restored from my nandroid data and it gave me an error that it can't read my data files??
Even if i do a clean install without restoring anything, after a reboot everything seems to be corrupted...
any help would be great.
EDIT: Well i was able to get into download mode but after Odin failed twice on the last step the phone wont even turn on... Sucks too because i am going out of town on the 26th and needed my phone..
I have not installed any new apps or scripts or anything. the only change i made was to flash the faux kernel and thats it.
Are your apps and nandroid from sd card or internal storage?
Titanium restore was from the internal and the nandroid was from the external.
This happened to me once. Your nandroid backup files have become corrupted (million things can cause that.) You'll most likely have to re-install everything from scratch.
One thing you can try is to fix permissions in cwm under advanced. (This will sometimes help with the fc's.)
Good luck.
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This happened to me once. Your nandroid backup files have become corrupted (million things can cause that.) You'll most likely have to re-install everything from scratch.
One thing you can try is to fix permissions in cwm under advanced. (This will sometimes help with the fc's.)
Good luck.
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Yeah tried that.. no luck. I am odining to stock and then ill go back to where i was before and hipefully it was just a fluke.
PJcastaldo said:
Yeah tried that.. no luck. I am odining to stock and then ill go back to where i was before and hipefully it was just a fluke.
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All you have to do is uninstall everything you backed up with titanium and install them from the market. Happened to me once
LMAO ODIN Failed and wont go past the last step.. guess im calling TMO for an exchange..
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All you have to do is uninstall everything you backed up with titanium and install them from the market. Happened to me once
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No Man... even if i don't install anything i get force closes after a reboot. NTM this all started by its self.
Hey guys,
I have kind of a serious issue right now. I used Touch Recovery 5.8.0.2 and made a full backup today of my whole ROM (2.5GB) before trying out some mods which eventually didn't work. So I decided to wipe and restore the backup I made. No matter what I do I cannot get it to restore my data partition properly. I keep getting "Error while restoring /data!" message, however it does the boot image and system fine but doesn't continue to cache and sd-ext because of the failed data. Whenever I boot it up, some of my apps are missing from the home screen and practically all of them are not working when I launch them (force close). I also get boot up error of Google+ force close, among a bunch of other issues. This is happening even when I try to restore an older backup as well. My device is not working state right now and although I can just restore the stock images to get it working again, it is urgent that I restore my data ASAP! I tried wiping several times and even using the non-touch 5.5.0.4 recovery to restore and same thing keeps happening.
Any help would be highly appreciated!
Please don't tell me my backup is corrupt
Update 1: Eventually I gave up and started from scratch but I have confirmed already this happened on a fresh backup as well, at this time we are trying to figure out what is causing this so I can go back to safely backing up and restoring backups.
Update 2: We have test builds of TWRP Recovery that may have resolved this issue! We need testers!
Please see this post: Link Here
Update 3: We have test builds of ClockworkMod Recovery 6 that may have resolved this issue as well! We need testers!
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Unfortunately I also have the same error today!
Please help us out.
JayantSparda said:
Unfortunately I also have the same error today!
Please help us out.
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is your phone encrypted?
are you running stock recovery?
are you running a stock Rom?
have you done a factory reset yet?
Hi Spectre85,
My phone did fine yesterday, I was running AOPK Milestone 3 with FAUX123 kernel.
But when I woke up, my phone looked like it's battery was emtpy.
- When I plugged the phone with the charger, I started the phone again.
- Unfortunately my phone keep looping at the Google screen over and over.
So I pulled the battery and put the battery back again in the phone.
- I went to the bootloader and went to CWM recovery.
Deleted Data, Cache and Dalvike cache.
- Tried to retrieve my backup rom, but keep getting this "Error while restoring /data!" message.
I've tried to install other roms as well, but I still keep getting the bootloop at the Google screen.
Have you guys have any advice for me?
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is your phone encrypted?
are you running stock recovery?
are you running a stock Rom?
have you done a factory reset yet?
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For me, no, no (CWM Touch 5.8.0.2), yes (stock rooted 4.0.4), no but my goal is to restore my data not erase it.
I had this happen to me before, what I did was flash a factory image through fast boot and it was fine after.
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Thanks guys..I flashed the factory image through Fastboot mode and the phone works perfectly again! Too bad I lost all my data, but I'm happier that I have my phone fully functional again
You can't access your backup right? There's no way you can copy the file to your desktop?
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You can't access your backup right? There's no way you can copy the file to your desktop?
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I did copy it. I have full access to the file. Also, just fyi my goal here is not just to get to working state (I'm aware of the stock images) but to actually recover my data. My phone is currently on stock images completely blank and working now.
Fast boot flash the nand images just like u did the stock ones.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Fast boot flash the nand images just like u did the stock ones.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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Nanadroid files can be flashed in fastboot? Are you sure? First time I'm hearing this. Doesn't fastboot need .img files? These are .tar files.
Open it up and see if its image...sorry all my recoveries use images.
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Open it up and see if its image...sorry all my recoveries use images.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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I guess it depends on the recovery version you use. I remember older versions actually had .img files. However 5.5.0.4 and Touch 5.8.0.2 both have ext4.tar files.
Which version of recovery do you use?
If you have root, you can restore your data partition using Titanium Backup. Use "Export from Nandroid Backup" within TB, select the nandroid backup and then select all apps that you want to restore
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If you have root, you can restore your data partition using Titanium Backup. Use "Export from Nandroid Backup" within TB, select the nandroid backup and then select all apps that you want to restore
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Interesting...will this include settings as well like my home screen icon/widget layout, wallpaper, etc?
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Interesting...will this include settings as well like my home screen icon/widget layout, wallpaper, etc?
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Yes. Titanium Backup can restore all your system apps as well as downloaded apps from a nandroid backup. Not as clean as a nandroid restore from CWM but essentially the same thing. But try to see if Titanium Backup can extract your nandroid backup. It all depends on what exactly went wrong with your nandroid backup to begin with. I don't think it restores cache. So not sure about wallpaper.
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Yes. Titanium Backup can restore all your system apps as well as downloaded apps from a nandroid backup. Not as clean as a nandroid restore from CWM but essentially the same thing. But try to see if Titanium Backup can extract your nandroid backup. It all depends on what exactly went wrong with your nandroid backup to begin with. I don't think it restores cache. So not sure about wallpaper.
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You're right. This works great for restore data to select apps (got my notes and game saves back). I think the icon layout is held in the launcher settings, I'm about to try and restore the data to the launcher app and see what happens. I'm making a CWM backup of first of my current state (that's assuming this backup will actually work).
EDIT: Yes! That did it! Widgets position weren't saved but it's ok I only had a few so I manually put them back. Thank you! I never knew TB had the ability to work with nandroid backups.
I guess this now just leaves me figuring out what went wrong with the CWM backup. It happened twice (I have two backups from the same day that won't restore). Does anyone else use CWM Touch 5.8.0.2 and have successful backups? I would experiment to see if it works now but I don't want to end up with a corrupt backup and redo everything again.
Yes with me its the same thing my data its corrupt is even worse every time I do a nanobackup and restarted my phone the phone freezes on the boot logo and I have to go back to recovery trying to use my backups but I can't so I have to flash a new from again and start from the beginning again!!!! Anybody here has the same experience with that ???
So AGAIN, I'm having the same issue. This time on a recovery 5.5.0.4 that used to work for me when I originally got my phone. I think either my data partition might be too big or something but this really needs to fixed pronto. Anyone know how to contact Koush directly in regards to this matter?
Hello
I made a Nandroid Backup with 4Extrecovery. Then I flashed Sabsa Prime, but I forgot to make a backup of the bluetooth, wifi, and other data. Then, I was thinking maybe I could recover with an emulator, but I dont know if it is possible to do it.
How could I recover that info?
Thanks in advance
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Hello
I made a Nandroid Backup with 4Extrecovery. Then I flashed Sabsa Prime, but I forgot to make a backup of the bluetooth, wifi, and other data. Then, I was thinking maybe I could recover with an emulator, but I dont know if it is possible to do it.
How could I recover that info?
Thanks in advance
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Easiest thing to do would probably be to make a nandroid of Sabsa Prime, restore the original nandroid, back up the data, restore Sabsa Prime, and restore the data.
I've also heard that Titanium Backup Pro can extract data from a nandroid. Never tried it myself.
I'm not sure what you mean by doing it from an emulator. Like, through ADB? I don't know of a way to do that.
The thing is that now, Sabsa goes perfect, battery wifi and all perfect, and I dont know if changing to the previus and then putting it again will work as fine as now.
With an emulator, I was thinkiing of a program for PC that can emulates the phone. Then I could install one app and recover the info, but in the PC. Then I would copy that info to the mobile again.
kalandrak said:
The thing is that now, Sabsa goes perfect, battery wifi and all perfect, and I dont know if changing to the previus and then putting it again will work as fine as now.
With an emulator, I was thinkiing of a program for PC that can emulates the phone. Then I could install one app and recover the info, but in the PC. Then I would copy that info to the mobile again.
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A nandroid backs up everything. It's basically an image of the hard drive partition, like a snapshot. So as long as the backup finishes correctly Sabsa will be exactly the same as what you have now.
I don't know anything about how you would use an emulator or which "one app" you would install.
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A nandroid backs up everything. It's basically an image of the hard drive partition, like a snapshot. So as long as the backup finishes correctly Sabsa will be exactly the same as what you have now.
I don't know anything about how you would use an emulator or which "one app" you would install.
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Thanks, so I think the safest and easiest way will be what you have said, backup, restore previus backup, and restore backup. Thanks
wifi storea login info in /data/misc/wifi/wpa-supplocant.conf
you could restore that feom your nand backup, but not the whole file, because each rom has different config. i restore my wifi saved hotspots by manually copyong body of that file from new to old in text editor. you can try it, jist make sure to make a backip of current file and turn off wifi while you do it. much faster then the other option. im guessing you should be able to pull something similar with bluetooth...
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wifi storea login info in /data/misc/wifi/wpa-supplocant.conf
you could restore that feom your nand backup, but not the whole file, because each rom has different config. i restore my wifi saved hotspots by manually copyong body of that file from new to old in text editor. you can try it, jist make sure to make a backip of current file and turn off wifi while you do it. much faster then the other option. im guessing you should be able to pull something similar with bluetooth...
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Thanks, I gonna try it.
I have one problem. I restore the previus backup but I cannot power on. I mean, everytime I start it, it goes automatically to 4EXT recovery touch?
Any idea?
try clearing cache from recovery
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Thanks. I did it, but the same. I also did dalvik wipe.
Any other idea please?
full wipe, and restore again? im guessing tbh. i know there is some command you can run that boots in recovery on next startup. it writes a flag somewhere but thats all i can remember, sorry. try searching xda
Thanks mate, doesnt work. I've read something about flashing the previus kernel, how could I do that? Because I can only enter into the recovery.
I have installed boot.img of the backup via fastboot, but doesnt work. Im stuck.
Any idea???
kalandrak said:
Thanks mate, doesnt work. I've read something about flashing the previus kernel, how could I do that? Because I can only enter into the recovery.
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When you navigate to "reboot" in recovery (instead of reboot recovery) what happens? And try full wiping and re-restoring.
I reboot, then it switchs on until HTC screen appears, for 2 seconds approximately. Then, it switches off and then switchs on again but it enters directly to the 4EXT recovery.
What I made was:
Wipes
Format all except sd card
Restore
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I reboot, then it switchs on until HTC screen appears, for 2 seconds approximately. Then, it switches off and then switchs on again but it enters directly to the 4EXT recovery.
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Did you root with AAHK or with HTCDEV? As in, are you S-OFF?
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Did you root with AAHK or with HTCDEV? As in, are you S-OFF?
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I dont rememeber which method I used, but im ship s-off
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I dont rememeber which method I used, but im ship s-off
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Yeah, you don't need to flash the boot.img. Just try wiping and restoring. What version of 4ext do you have?
EDIT: oh, and make sure your volume buttons aren't stuck or pressed or anything like that.
EDIT 2: and make sure to wipe dalvik and cache.
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Yeah, you don't need to flash the boot.img. Just try wiping and restoring. What version of 4ext do you have?
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I did all wipes, formatted all except sd card and restore, but same problem 3 times. I have RC8
kalandrak said:
I did all wipes, formatted all except sd card and restore, but same problem 3 times. I have RC8
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Check my edits above.