so i upgraded TWRP to 2.4.1.0 and now i cant flash or restore . it says failed . is it because of the new recover ..can somebody help me how i would get the old recovery back .. thanks !!
If you can boot.
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery/d2spr
If not, Odin.
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that happened to me when I tried to restore a backup. I copied a prev twrp backup to my internal hd and failed over and over. I fixed it by creating a new backup in twrp and just replacing the files of that backup with the backup I actually wanted. I think it was due to a permissions issues. Another difference tween my first and second attempt was i originally tried to flash from internal drive second time it was from sdcard.
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I flashed PARANOIDANDROID 2.99 BETA3 from stock DLK4, 4.1.1. It worked but I was ready to revert back to the stock using the nandroid I made before flashing and realized that I did a factory reset when flashing pdroid and lost my nandroid backups. Fortunately I have older Nandroids from 12.12 on my pc. I placed it into the clockworkmod directory, sdcard\clockworkmod\backups, as I normally would but when I reboot into recovery I don't see the nandroid that I placed there. What do I do from here? I tried to do a factory reset from kies of DLK4 but afterwards I get stuck on the "Samsung" loading screen.
Any help would be appreciated. I spent the last 4 hours going through treads as I normally do when having problems but I created my first thread because I screwed up beyond what I can repair myself
edit: while in recovery, I made a backup of pdroid2.99 to see where it saved. When I opened the directly using my pc, I couldn't find that backup I just made. I put the nandroid onto my external sd card and that I could see it in recovery but I get the following error "Error while restoring /system!"
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I flashed PARANOIDANDROID 2.99 BETA3 from stock DLK4, 4.1.1. It worked but I was ready to revert back to the stock using the nandroid I made before flashing and realized that I did a factory reset when flashing pdroid and lost my nandroid backups. Fortunately I have older Nandroids from 12.12 on my pc. I placed it into the clockworkmod directory, sdcard\clockworkmod\backups, as I normally would but when I reboot into recovery I don't see the nandroid that I placed there. What do I do from here? I tried to do a factory reset from kies of DLK4 but afterwards I get stuck on the "Samsung" loading screen.
Any help would be appreciated. I spent the last 4 hours going through treads as I normally do when having problems but I created my first thread because I screwed up beyond what I can repair myself
edit: while in recovery, I made a backup of pdroid2.99 to see where it saved. When I opened the directly using my pc, I couldn't find that backup I just made. I put the nandroid onto my external sd card and that I could see it in recovery but I get the following error "Error while restoring /system!"
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You flashed a 4.2 ROM with an out of date recovery by the sound of it. 4.2 modifies the directory structure of you're phone which is unsupported in old recoveries. I run TWRP myself and I just moved my backups to my new root folder which can be found in: /storage/emulated/0
CWM stores recoveries in blobs and I'm unsure if this method will work for you. Your only option if that doesn't work is to ODIN back to stock. Once you've performed an ODIN back, go into your recovery and factory reset, wipe cache and wipe dalvik.
Then update your recovery for future flashes. I recommend TWRP. Overall an easier recovery.
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I successfully flashed back to stock 4.1.1 using ODIN using the rom I got from samsung-updates. I've lost IMEI so I have to inject l that back later on. I'm using CWM 6.0.1.2 and when in recovery when I try to restore my backup and get to "error while restoring /system!"
I've been trying to find other threads, tried what they suggested but no luck
edit: I've found TWRP v2.3.3.1 and but I don't see /storage/emulated/0 instead I put my backup in /storagr/TWRP/BACKUPS/911de9 and tried to restore but it fails
What I did was make a nandroid on the ROM you have and just copy and paste the old one into the new directory and you can flash that old nandroid. Worked perfect for me
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hednik said:
What I did was make a nandroid on the ROM you have and just copy and paste the old one into the new directory and you can flash that old nandroid. Worked perfect for me
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This is what I typically do but now I get "error while restoring /system!" when restoring any of my old nandroid backups!
Why I like twrp. Maybe most of it is just a placebo but it seems more stable and easier to navigate
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I have a problem with my cellphone,
I install cyanogenmod but i am stuck with the boot logo and its not moving from here.
I tried to go to the recovery mod but I cant access it
I did to a backup of my rom but whitout the access to the recovery mod i d'ont know what to do ?
Can you help me ?
Thanks
(sorry for my english)
How are you trying to access CWM ??
pull the battery. ..then after placing it back in. .
Hold volume up / home button / and power button all at the same time. ..
You should boot the recovery. ..
If not. ..your recovery may be gone. ..
If so. ..boot into download mode. ...volume down / home button / and power. ...then odin push the recovery again. ..g
Thanks for your help, I finnaly access the recovery mod.
But I still have a problem. When I am trying a complete reboot from my external card it say: «Error while flashing backup image»
What can I do for that ?
Remove the SD card...
Place it into the PC with a card adapter.Then download a fresh rom and place it on the card..
Then put the card into the phone and flash using recovery. .
You may have a bad copy. .
Odin could also push a factory build via PC as well. ..g
If you can access download mode Flash your rom using odin from link below and do factory reset in recovery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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Thanks for everything, i finnaly recover my cellphone but in the process i lost my titanium backup and at the same time some contact.... but its a small price
Last question: Do you know a good program for the backup, I tryed rom manager, rom toolbox and nandroid online and all of them wasn't able to do a backup with my note 2 N-I370m....
Try MyBackupPro
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I was more thinking about a backup of the rom for having a working rom if the same thing appen to me again but thanks
Oh... Why not just make a nand in recovery?
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aslan001 said:
Thanks for everything, i finnaly recover my cellphone but in the process i lost my titanium backup and at the same time some contact.... but its a small price
Last question: Do you know a good program for the backup, I tryed rom manager, rom toolbox and nandroid online and all of them wasn't able to do a backup with my note 2 N-I370m....
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Make a complete backup from within your recovery....then you will be protected if this happens again in the future.....g
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.
Hello! I am posting this because i'm new to this rooting/custom roms thing. OK. So i have a Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100. I rooted it using odin, then tried to install new rom. Downloaded CWM, booted into recovery mode and installed new rom. After this, i accidentally pressed 'Reboot' instead of installing gapps & wiping cache and that stuff. Now, my phone starts with the new rom, but i can't get back into recovery mode to start over. When i press vol-, home and power button, after pressing vol+ it goes into download mode (i can't do anything here). Any help will be appreciated!
UPDATE! I tried to flash odin recovery, and now my phone is stuck at the bootscreen. The only thing i can do is get into download mode. PLEASE HELP!
I've managed to get rid of the problem above by installing original firmware from samsung (android 4.3) and worked. The problem is, after that, i installed X-note rom (v2.1) and i think my imei is corrupted now. When i installed x-note, it asked me if i want to make an efs backup, and i accepted. If this is the problem, does anyone know how to restore the backup made? I found it on phone memory (i know it exists) but when i go into recovery mode in cm and i click restore from /sdcard nothing happens (no files to restore). Can someone tell me how could i restore the efs backup?
P.S. I checked phone's IMEI and it starts with 0049.
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I've managed to get rid of the problem above by installing original firmware from samsung (android 4.3) and worked. The problem is, after that, i installed X-note rom (v2.1) and i think my imei is corrupted now. When i installed x-note, it asked me if i want to make an efs backup, and i accepted. If this is the problem, does anyone know how to restore the backup made? I found it on phone memory (i know it exists) but when i go into recovery mode in cm and i click restore from /sdcard nothing happens (no files to restore). Can someone tell me how could i restore the efs backup?
P.S. I checked phone's IMEI and it starts with 0049.
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Alright so what is the back up extension ? Is it efs.IMG? Is it 20 KB ?
Please note that restoring efs backup has nothing to do with CWM recovery, its a program you download on PC that backs up and restores your device.
With regards,
Overdub
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Hi! My efs file is .tar and it is <1kb, somewhere around 20 bytes. When i open it, it doesn't show any items in the archive.
Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.
The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.
Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.
Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.
Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.
I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.
Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
ColeTrain! said:
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
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Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
alexandnen said:
Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
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That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.
If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.
Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.
Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.
I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.
Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.