I decided to peek at the newest Cayanogenmod from my stock (but rooted) Gnex toro. I made a quick nandroid backup so that I could revert back to my previous image when I was done peeking. However, android 4.2.1 (Cyanogenmod 10.1) seems to have rearranged the file system a bit, so I had to figure out how to get CWM to work with it.
Once I did that, I tried restoring my image. It stopped restoring giving the error "error restoring /system". I did some googling and found that sometimes you need the right version of CWM, and you need to be on the same android version. So I reverted back to sock 4.1.1, rerooted (using CWM and su.zip method), and flashed CWM from the recovery.img of my backup. When I tried restoring the backup again, the same thing happened. It's got something to do with my backup, because I made a new backup of my phone as it is now and it restored without a problem.
I also cannot run ADB as root, getting the error "adbd cannot be run as root on production builds". I don't know whether that is related to the problem described above (if not than ignore this paragraph).
I have attached the log file (renamed the extension so it would let me upload it). Any help is greatly appreciated and I will be sure to use the thanks button.
Phone: Gnex
Carrier: Verizon Wireless
Android: 4.1.1 Jellybean
Build: JRO03O
Rooted:Yes
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Well, hi there. It seems I'm stuck trying to restore app data from a backup created with Galaxy Nexus toolkit. I believe it uses "default" JB backup method, described here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351
Well, how it all went. I made app backup using the Toolkit, all data boiling down to a 2.8 Gb .bak file
I unlocked and rooted my phone (after more than a year on stock ICS and JB), installed recovery, flashed last nightly build of CM 10 (I've had some good experience with earlier iteratons previously). After that I tried to resotre from the said backup, using the toolkit. I've got the dialog window all rigth, confirmed restoration etc. After that CM boot animation appeared on the screen for a minute or so and than an error message stating that Settings app has terminated unexpectedly. No app data restored. I tried that a couple of times more with same result.
What is a problem here? Can I restore something from that .bak file and how? Should I save the image of my current CM ROM, flash stock JB and try restoring with it?
I'm currently on 4.1.2 ROM with ClokworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.0 and I'm going to flash 4.2.2. To my understandings, I should install newer version of recovery - TWRP. Will that erase my previous nandroid backups? Will I be able to restore them if anything goes wrong? Is there anything else I should do besides wiping data/cache?
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I'm currently on 4.1.2 ROM with ClokworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.0 and I'm going to flash 4.2.2. To my understandings, I should install newer version of recovery - TWRP. Will that erase my previous nandroid backups? Will I be able to restore them if anything goes wrong? Is there anything else I should do besides wiping data/cache?
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I'm in a similar situation. I'm running 4.1.2 and am considering finally trying out 4.2.2. My main hesitancy has been the reports of poor Bluetooth performance, so I want to make sure I can return to 4.1.2, if need be. The thing that's made going back to 4.1.2 so problematic has been the change in the way the internal "SD card" is partitioned.
So, my plan is to do a full Nandroid backup before the upgrade using my current recovery, which is CWM 5.5.0.2, and then using "adb pull" to copy the full contents of my phone storage to my PC. Then I'll upgrade to the latest version of CWM's recovery and update the phone to Android 4.2.2.
If I decide to revert, I'll then do a full wipe of my phone, including the SD card, to get rid of the 4.2.2 partitioning, restore to stock 4.1.2, copy the saved copy of my SD card memory back to the phone from my PC, re-install CWM 5.5.0.2, and then restore from my Nandroid backup.
I know this process will work because I just had to do all but the OS upgrade before sending my phone to Samsung for a screen replacement under warranty--I had bad horizontal striping. I backed it up as described above and then restored it yesterday and all is well.
Hope that helps!
highvista said:
I'm in a similar situation. I'm running 4.1.2 and am considering finally trying out 4.2.2. My main hesitancy has been the reports of poor Bluetooth performance, so I want to make sure I can return to 4.1.2, if need be. The thing that's made going back to 4.1.2 so problematic has been the change in the way the internal "SD card" is partitioned.
So, my plan is to do a full Nandroid backup before the upgrade using my current recovery, which is CWM 5.5.0.2, and then using "adb pull" to copy the full contents of my phone storage to my PC. Then I'll upgrade to the latest version of CWM's recovery and update the phone to Android 4.2.2.
If I decide to revert, I'll then do a full wipe of my phone, including the SD card, to get rid of the 4.2.2 partitioning, restore to stock 4.1.2, copy the saved copy of my SD card memory back to the phone from my PC, re-install CWM 5.5.0.2, and then restore from my Nandroid backup.
I know this process will work because I just had to do all but the OS upgrade before sending my phone to Samsung for a screen replacement under warranty--I had bad horizontal striping. I backed it up as described above and then restored it yesterday and all is well.
Hope that helps!
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what if i want to restore my call logs and contacts from a backup of 4.1.2 rom to a 4.2.2 rom?? will titanium backup help? or there will be dc's irritating me "android acore stopped working". Please help me and reply fast
pranavthombare said:
what if i want to restore my call logs and contacts from a backup of 4.1.2 rom to a 4.2.2 rom?? will titanium backup help? or there will be dc's irritating me "android acore stopped working". Please help me and reply fast
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Titanium Backup should restore your call logs and contacts with no problem. It has always worked for me when I've had to recover them after a clean install of some sort
So, I've been using TWRP since I purchased this device. I did a TWRP backup today as usual since I wanted to flash back to TouchWiz to update my PRL. I did so, then went to restore my backup. Only part of the backup restored. Now, no matter what I do in TWRP, I get the same error:
E error opening 'data/data/com.newegg.app/share (there's more text here but it's truncated by the recovery)
E error: Not a directory
This happens when I try to wipe (any option), flash a ROM, create a backup, restore a backup, etc. I've updated from TWRP 2.5 to 2.6.3, still to no avail. I don't believe it's a recovery issue. Recoveries don't just stop working, especially after using Odin to write a new recovery partition.
My ROM is screwed up. It boots, but no apps open. The hardware keys don't work (except home).
Any ideas or suggestions? I don't really want to switch to CWM but will if absolutely necessary.
Thanks!
I would suggest doing an ODIN back to Stock. Make sure everything is working correctly. Then Root the Device again.
I did something similar. I used a flash to stock and reset counter .zip that worked. It still threw that newegg error, but once I rebooted, reinstalled twrp, rooted, flashed Slim 4.3 Stable 2 and did another nandroid, the weird error is now gone. So glad I didn't ruin my phone! Thanks!
Your welcome. Happy you got the issue resolved .
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Hello everyone,
I have rooted and unlocked my bootloader, and installed CWM 6.0.2 I believe (summer 2012). I was using 4.3 Deodexed ROM and decided to upgrade to 4.4, so I mad a nandroid backup through CWM. Then I found out that 4.4 required me to update my CWM to 6.0.4.3, so I did. After upgrading CWM, I was unable to restore my old 6.0.2 backup. Is there any way to restore it, or do I have to downgrade CWM?
If I need to downgrade CWM, can I first perform a backup of my current 4.4 ROM and then downgrade, or is there a chance it will mess with old CWM?
Thanks in advance,
silentz0r
Sorry for bumping, I have noticed that after upgrading CWM, it made new directories into /sdcard and moved my old directories into /sdcard/0. I tried copying the contents of the old CWM directory into the new one (/blobs and /backup) and tried to restore, but still got the same error message notifying me that no backup is found. Is there no way to restore an old CWM backup with newer CWM?
If anyone ever has this problem, I suggest installing ROM Manager. My backups spontaneously started working through ROM Manager (even in CWM recovery). I have no idea why the backup could not be found before, but using this pretty much fixed itself. Marked as Solved.
silentz0r_ said:
If anyone ever has this problem, I suggest installing ROM Manager. My backups spontaneously started working through ROM Manager (even in CWM recovery). I have no idea why the backup could not be found before, but using this pretty much fixed itself. Marked as Solved.
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Thanks for the heads up!
But shouldn't you just have made a back-up before CWM upgrade, then upgrade CWM, make another backup (just in case) and then install 4.4?
I am still on 4.3 and I will do it this way in the near future.
Okay let me start by saying that I have 3 backups of my entire phone made through TWRP. Yesterday I was configuring some flashable ZIPs to install a simple app like SMSgo through recovery. I then installed the ZIP. It was successful but the app was nowhere to be found so I decided to restore a backup. I restored the newest one, when I booted I ran into some problems, I was stuck in a loop of lock screen and boot animation. I then searched the web for solutions. On some forums somebody suggested to wipe internal storage and flash boot.emmc.win from my backup through fastboot. I did so and when I booted my phone was factory fresh and okay. But I didn't have my numbers and sms so I restored a backup... BAD idea. My phone was optimizing apps as I booted, it failed near the end, System UI has stopped it said and then threw me on setup screen without on screen buttons. I tried to restore every single backup I had, the same story with everyone, the best result I got was that it optimized all aps and then crashed system UI.
I went on web and searched for TWRP backups that fit my CID HTC__032 and restored. As I'm typing this I'm running factory fresh 4.4.4 from backup and only OTA I can download is 70mb fix. I didn't update yet cuz I dont have stock recovery.
I am currently not rooted as this downloaded backup wasn't but all backups I made myself are rooted. I have also unlocked bootloader and S-ON running TWRP.
What should i do now? I want to get to stock (preferably get one of my backups working) so I will be able to receive OTAs
The downloaded back is for HTC__032cid, 3.28.401.6 version as it was one of few which had working download links.
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f485/htc-m8-collection-stock-backups-1882892/
Also worth mentioning that when I rooted before all this happened I had problems with crashing of TV app and I couldn't browse internal storage that I solved with:
adb shell
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
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Okay let me start by saying that I have 3 backups of my entire phone made through TWRP. Yesterday I was configuring some flashable ZIPs to install a simple app like SMSgo through recovery. I then installed the ZIP. It was successful but the app was nowhere to be found so I decided to restore a backup. I restored the newest one, when I booted I ran into some problems, I was stuck in a loop of lock screen and boot animation. I then searched the web for solutions. On some forums somebody suggested to wipe internal storage and flash boot.emmc.win from my backup through fastboot. I did so and when I booted my phone was factory fresh and okay. But I didn't have my numbers and sms so I restored a backup... BAD idea. My phone was optimizing apps as I booted, it failed near the end, System UI has stopped it said and then threw me on setup screen without on screen buttons. I tried to restore every single backup I had, the same story with everyone, the best result I got was that it optimized all aps and then crashed system UI.
I went on web and searched for TWRP backups that fit my CID HTC__032 and restored. As I'm typing this I'm running factory fresh 4.4.4 from backup and only OTA I can download is 70mb fix. I didn't update yet cuz I dont have stock recovery.
I am currently not rooted as this downloaded backup wasn't but all backups I made myself are rooted. I have also unlocked bootloader and S-ON running TWRP.
What should i do now? I want to get to stock (preferably get one of my backups working) so I will be able to receive OTAs
The downloaded back is for HTC__032cid, 3.28.401.6 version as it was one of few which had working download links.
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f485/htc-m8-collection-stock-backups-1882892/
Also worth mentioning that when I rooted before all this happened I had problems with crashing of TV app and I couldn't browse internal storage that I solved with:
adb shell
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
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Here's a stock recovery download.
Here's a stock rooted backup. I'm not sure if that's really what you are looking for though.
You could also try running the 4.16.401.10 RUU to update. That would clean up your phone so that you can start with a fresh slate. The RUU download is here.
After the RUU, you should be able to restore your nandroids. Probably after the OTAs as well.
As I'm typing this I have successfully flashed stock recovery and made an OTA update with my phone from 3.28.401.6 on 4.16.401.10, what concerns me is that I cannot access internal storage and TV app is crashing.
Same problem as my previous post:
Also worth mentioning that when I rooted before all this happened I had problems with crashing of TV app and I couldn't browse internal storage that I solved with:
adb shell
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
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Also I can't turn on WIFI after OTA so I'll try to run that RUU and report if the problem fixes itself. I don't really want to mess with root unless I have to.
EDIT: RUU fails with error code 155: UNKNOWN ERROR, shall I just do what used to work before? or you have other ideas?
Edit2: Did a factory reset and all problems are gone. Just obe more thing, the mobile signal seems weak, is it possible that my radio got messed up? Can I restore radio from one of my backups ?