hi everyone
i upgraded my phone to 4.2.1 and than flashed the paranoid android.. the problem is that the gapps couldnt be installed i tried few versions so i want to go back to my 4.2 which i made a backup to. thing is the clockwork also have changed probebly with the paranoid rom and i cant find my backup someone knows how can i find it?
thank you
zahico said:
hi everyone
i upgraded my phone to 4.2.1 and than flashed the paranoid android.. the problem is that the gapps couldnt be installed i tried few versions so i want to go back to my 4.2 which i made a backup to. thing is the clockwork also have changed probebly with the paranoid rom and i cant find my backup someone knows how can i find it?
thank you
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The recovery was not changed by the rom. You simply need to point your recovery to the correct backup location. This is an issue often caused by users neglecting to upgrade their recovery to a current version prior to installing anything based on 4.2.
najaboy said:
The recovery was not changed by the rom. You simply need to point your recovery to the correct backup location. This is an issue often caused by users neglecting to upgrade their recovery to a current version prior to installing anything based on 4.2.
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now i have the teamwin recovery btw...
ok, so how do i find the right backup location?
zahico said:
now i have the teamwin recovery btw...
ok, so how do i find the right backup location?
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To begin with, you can't restore a CWM backup with TWRP. You need to use the recovery that was used to make the backup.
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Hi guys
I'm having g some weird issues I have a gs3 from bell. I rooted it and been flashing all kinds of Roms and never having any issues going back to restoring stable Roms until I decided to try twrp recovery but I noticed that I couldn't restore anything backed up by cwm so I flashed cwm though Rom manager and since then whenever I try to backup a Rom it finishes then when I try to restore them they say md5 mismatch. So after a lot of research I managed to notice that cwm isn't making any nandroid md5 files.
So my question is have I flashed a bad version of cwm through Rom manager or may I have just screwed my phones files somehow I was thinking of uprooting my phone and rerooting it but I don't know if that will fix this. Please help
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Good luck
Just so u know i've read through that 3 times already I don't have that issue ... I dOnt have a nandroid md5 like showing up in any of my backups so thanks for nothing if you would have read my post you would have understood That already
solved***** unrooted......rerooted..........backups and restors working fine..........my guess. rom manger`s update of cwm got messed up no more rom manager for me ;p
DLM2583 said:
solved***** unrooted......rerooted..........backups and restors working fine..........my guess. rom manger`s update of cwm got messed up no more rom manager for me ;p
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Hi, I am still having the same problem as you, and I bought Cwm touch from rom manager and i created a backup and when i restore it it says md5 mistmatch.. So did you get a different older version of cwm? How did you end up using the backup that you couldn't open? Thanks for your help
To begin, let me assure you I've read through every forum post I can find regarding this issue and none seem related, or are too old to apply at this time. If I am mistaken I apologize and would appreciate someone pointing me in the correct direction.
I upgraded to 4.2.1 (Shiny). I have some issues so I want to restore my CWM backup of CM10. Since I upgraded and apparently did CWM as well, it is not letting me restore the old backup, giving me the "error while restoring /system" message.
It appears from researching here that the solution is to downgrade CWM, but I am unable to find a download site to get older versions of CWM anywhere. All links that have been posted here are no longer valid ("Forbidden 403"). Any ideas would really be appreciated.
Another possible cause is I updated the bootloader when I went to 4.2.1, is it possible that is causing the problem? If so, which bootloader should I replace it with?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
I never experienced such an issue honestly, but by reading through this, try wiping all, installing CM10 again or any 4.1.2 ROM which is the same version as your backup, then restore the nandroid backup.
Hope this works
the backups for cwm changed with the 6.0.X versions and incompatible with previous versions.
Zepius said:
the backups for cwm changed with the 6.0.X versions and incompatible with previous versions.
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Right, but there is no way to get 5.X.X versions of cwm because the directories are private now, so I can't flash an old version to restore my old nandroids.
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 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.
tx_dbs_tx said:
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.
Hello there
I want to install CM11 or Vanir nightlies on my friend's T999. His phone is unlocked, as we are in Spain and use a network called Orange. If I install the rom (I prefer installing CM by the installer, as his phone isn't rooted and that would simplify the process) would he lose his network connectivity? I know he probably won't but... Anything can happen. Also, should I go for the installer or the manual way? Do themes for CM work in Vanir nightlies? And what is the EFS folder for? Should I make a Backup of it?
Thanks
P.S: He runs on Official 4.3, he upgraded from OTA. Your help is much appreciated
Yes I'd back up EFS Folder. There's plenty of threads and posts around here. You will need to flash custom Recovery before flashing CM11 or others.
Thank You!
Perseus71 said:
Yes I'd back up EFS Folder. There's plenty of threads and posts around here. You will need to flash custom Recovery before flashing CM11 or others.
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Thank you Perseus71!
I will backup the EFS folder as you said. Also, should I root and install CWM recovery manually or should I just use the CM Installer App to make things easier and go anywhere from there?
Don't bother Rooting first. Just install CWM either with the app or via Odin. Once CWM is working, flash supersu zip via CWM to Root.
Thanks
Ok, I will do that
I found some kind of tutorial that uses ODIN to install CWM, in a page called Team Android, but it is from 2012 and I don't know if it is outdated/doesn't work.If it doesn't work with UVUENC2, could you please link some kind of tutorial to install CWM and Root? Thanks
That should be good. Try this one as well. Odin hasn't changed much to make it different. Make sure to use Odin Version 3.x or higher.
Odin
Ok I've got Odin 3.09 and the root .tar file. One last question, can I both root and install CWM by using Odin? Will the phone brick or something similar if I install them both by Odin? I found the root method for UVUENC2 and CWM 6.0.4.5 Advanced Edition (Philz Recovery) from a page called trueandroidblogspot(dot)com. It uses the same method as the video you posted in your reply. As always thanks for the help
Also, if I flash the SuperSU.zip file in Chainfire's thread, Can i have root Access just by doing that? I didn't know I could flash it, thanks again
Sounds like too complex round about way to do this.
1. Flash CWM you have via Odin.
2. Flash CM 11 via the CWM of Step 1.
I don't think you need to root beforehand unless you intend to keep Stock Touchwiz. CWM can take a Nandroid without Rooting the current Stock.
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Sounds like too complex round about way to do this.
1. Flash CWM you have via Odin.
2. Flash CM 11 via the CWM of Step 1.
I don't think you need to root beforehand unless you intend to keep Stock Touchwiz. CWM can take a Nandroid without Rooting the current Stock.
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Well I didn't know I could install CWM without Rooting thanks for the help again Can I recover the EFS folder via CWM? If I toy around with the phone's network, I will be in a really BAD situation and wouldn't forgive myself. Also, should I go for CM11 or CM10.2.1? I prefer stability to newer features.
If you take an EFS backup now while you are still on Touchwiz, you can retain it forever. I do believe you can restore it back on CM. If not then you can restore the nandroid of Touchwiz you took and restore that way.
I believe CM 11 is pretty stable as of now. Just make sure to grab their Stable release and not a nightly release.
Perseus71 said:
If you take an EFS backup now while you are still on Touchwiz, you can retain it forever. I do believe you can restore it back on CM. If not then you can restore the nandroid of Touchwiz you took and restore that way.
I believe CM 11 is pretty stable as of now. Just make sure to grab their Stable release and not a nightly release.
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Will be taking CM11 m3 as d2lte only has nightlies, thanks for all your advice. One last question, will I have a corrupted EFS folder if I upgrade from Jelly Bean 4.3 to Kitkat (CM11) or is it the same thing? I found that the best way for restoring it is to get a root explorer, copy and paste it (overwriting if it exists) and then booting in recovery and wiping data, cache and dalvik cache. Have you tried this method or any other?
So long you don't flash a different Modem, EFS won't be lost. You can update from 4.3 to CM 11 (Not the same. CM11 = 4.4).
Typically I use Terminal Emulator and Run Reboot NVRESTORE to restore corrupted EFS Partition.
Perseus71 said:
So long you don't flash a different Modem, EFS won't be lost. You can update from 4.3 to CM 11 (Not the same. CM11 = 4.4).
Typically I use Terminal Emulator and Run Reboot NVRESTORE to restore corrupted EFS Partition.
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Well I think that is all that I need, I thank you for all your help. This is the first time I flash a ROM in a GSM phone, other times it has been on Tablets and damaged cellphones. Really, thank you for all your assistance. I think this thread could be really helpful to noobs like me who are new on flashing ROMS