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[Q] Can't restore nandroid after flashing PARANOIDANDROID 2.99BETA3

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!"

michaeln91 said:
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You flashed a 4.2 ROM with an out of date recovery by the sound of it. 4.2 modifies the directory structure of you're phone which is unsupported in old recoveries.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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[Q] IMEI is wiped out after each phone restart

My note 2 is less than a month old. i had a bad flashing experience after flashing MIUI Rom for my phone on the note 2 android development thread.This was my first rom flashing on the phone. I luckily backed up my EFS.img before flashing. After flashing the rom i lost my IMEI...i had another issues with the rom hence restored nandroid backup of my phone using CWM. & since then after restoring my EFS.img each time i will get my IMEI back but if i reboot my phone for any reason the IMEI is wiped out. I have tried restoring using the command from the elevated Terminal emulator & using EFS pro tool.
Still the same...each time i have to restart my phone i will lose my IMEI.
is there any way of keeping my EFS partition or IMEI intact after each reboot . I am on stock ROM but i didnt flash it back using ODIN as i mentioned earlier i restored my nandroid backup.
Any help will be greatly appreciated...Please help

rohit83 said:
My note 2 is less than a month old. i had a bad flashing experience after flashing MIUI Rom for my phone on the note 2 android development thread.This was my first rom flashing on the phone. I luckily backed up my EFS.img before flashing. After flashing the rom i lost my IMEI...i had another issues with the rom hence restored nandroid backup of my phone using CWM. & since then after restoring my EFS.img each time i will get my IMEI back but if i reboot my phone for any reason the IMEI is wiped out. I have tried restoring using the command from the elevated Terminal emulator & using EFS pro tool.
Still the same...each time i have to restart my phone i will lose my IMEI.
is there any way of keeping my EFS partition or IMEI intact after each reboot . I am on stock ROM but i didnt flash it back using ODIN as i mentioned earlier i restored my nandroid backup.
Any help will be greatly appreciated...Please help
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it seems that the backup u created u must have left your efs in selecting while backup thus the recovery backup is not giving your imei back rather u are doing it manually so once u get it done , I would suggest to flash fresh using odin

shhbz said:
it seems that the backup u created u must have left your efs in selecting while backup thus the recovery backup is not giving your imei back rather u are doing it manually so once u get it done , I would suggest to flash fresh using odin
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Thanks for your reply...tried that but flashing stock rom using odin didnt help ...still the IMEI is wiped after each restart of the phone..
any other suggestions please...

rohit83 said:
Thanks for your reply...tried that but flashing stock rom using odin didnt help ...still the IMEI is wiped after each restart of the phone..
any other suggestions please...
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flash the pit partition first using odin and then the stock it should solve the issue permanently if not take it to service center
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801134&postcount=4
download pit from here and then flash the stock rom
if you dont want to take risk just go stock completely and use triangle away and get your status normal and count zero and give it to ss saying that the imei gets off. let them solve

shhbz said:
flash the pit partition first using odin and then the stock it should solve the issue permanently if not take it to service center
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801134&postcount=4
download pit from here and then flash the stock rom
if you dont want to take risk just go stock completely and use triangle away and get your status normal and count zero and give it to ss saying that the imei gets off. let them solve
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thanks again for your time & reply...before flashing the pit partition i would like to know what are the risks involved in flashing pit...do i need to backup my data on internal memory..i flashed pit on my samsung galaxy s advance a few months back to recover the complete storage space on it as it was reduced to 4 gb from 16 gb after flashing jellybean update from sammobile.com..so tell me what are the risks involved & what does flashing pit actually does on the phone..
looking forward for your reply

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rohit83 said:
thanks again for your time & reply...before flashing the pit partition i would like to know what are the risks involved in flashing pit...do i need to backup my data on internal memory..i flashed pit on my samsung galaxy s advance a few months back to recover the complete storage space on it as it was reduced to 4 gb from 16 gb after flashing jellybean update from sammobile.com..so tell me what are the risks involved & what does flashing pit actually does on the phone..
looking forward for your reply
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btw...before installing stock rom via ODIN i put the phone in the download mode & as it had to restart to go into download mode the IMEI was wiped automatically as that was the issue...but i flashed stock firmware via ODIN & as the phone booted up IMEI was not there & hence i restored i using EFS pro again & i now i have checked it the IMEI stays after the phone restart...so the issue is fixed...thanks a ton for your reply & help :good::good:

flash back to stock recovery for ZVC update?

im stock rom zva, rooted, cwm recovery
can i flash stock recovery without loosing all my data?
or does that mean i have to flash a total stock image and go back to like when it came out of the box?
i dont mind loosing root for a while with the new update, and i know you can update with the other recovery. i just went with cwm cuz im used to it from every other phone ive had
any help would be great.
thanks!

majorahole said:
im stock rom zva, rooted, cwm recovery
can i flash stock recovery without loosing all my data?
or does that mean i have to flash a total stock image and go back to like when it came out of the box?
i dont mind loosing root for a while with the new update, and i know you can update with the other recovery. i just went with cwm cuz im used to it from every other phone ive had
any help would be great.
thanks!
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You would have to flash stock recovery and unroot, but it is always recommended to do a factory reset after an OTA update anyway, as you may experience issues. The easiest way is to make a backup with titanium and copy all necessary files to your PC, then flash the ZVC tot using LG flash tools. Root after this with ioroot25 and restore your files and data with TBU. Keep that backup on your PC as you never know when you'll need it. You'll have a reliable update this way and minimize or eliminate any update problems.

scottdanpor said:
You would have to flash stock recovery and unroot, but it is always recommended to do a factory reset after an OTA update anyway, as you may experience issues. The easiest way is to make a backup with titanium and copy all necessary files to your PC, then flash the ZVC tot using LG flash tools. Root after this with ioroot25 and restore your files and data with TBU. Keep that backup on your PC as you never know when you'll need it. You'll have a reliable update this way and minimize or eliminate any update problems.
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i realize i would have to unroot.
titanium doesnt backup everything tho correct? like sms/mms?

majorahole said:
i realize i would have to unroot.
titanium doesnt backup everything tho correct? like sms/mms?
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It does, sms/mms will be in yellow and there are 2 options, select the one that says XML and you will be in business when you restore them.
Edit: By 2 options, I mean don't confuse it with "Messaging" app. Been there done that.

scottdanpor said:
It does, sms/mms will be in yellow and there are 2 options, select the one that says XML and you will be in business when you restore them.
Edit: By 2 options, I mean don't confuse it with "Messaging" app. Been there done that.
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i ended up flashing twrp and using that method of update rather ethen wiping everything and having to restore it all from titanium.
it worked great! and i still have twrp recovery and root
thanks for the info tho.

Put my original nandroid backup back on, but now issues.

I am just tired of wiping, trying a new rom, setting it up, finding problems too big to live with and repeating the process. So I used TWRP to put my backed up system back on the phone but when it boots up tons of things are missing. Google apps are all gone, no root. Did I do something wrong? I backed up all the tick boxes when I made my backups, yet so much is missing?

Flash th stock through odin. Then flash twrp and this time restore only data from nandroid.

sasank360 said:
Flash th stock through odin. Then flash twrp and this time restore only data from nandroid.
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Thanks. I did flash my original firmware just now via odin, but I thought that would resolve my encryption problem. I made a thread about it here, I don't know if you could chime in on that thread if you have any ideas on my new issue? Thanks: http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help/questions-relating-to-fresh-odin-t3057860

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I was on stock rooted NK2. My home button broke and I sent the phone to Samsung. Before I did I did a Nandroid backup in TWRP on to my SD card and pulled it before I sent it in. When the phone returned it booted fine I went into TWRP to restore. After restoring it bootlooped. I tried wiping and restoring several more times with same result. I then tried to flash in ODIN the same stock NK2 tar I started with originally and it failed several times. I went back to TWRP and wiped everthing again to start over. The internal storage is now unaccessable. I can see the phone through the file manager when I am in TWRP but cannot add a file. Now when I try to restore the original backup I get this message "No partitions selected for restore". I am lost and cannot find a relevant thread to help. Has anyone seen this? Thanks for the help
Also when the phone returned from Samsung I did not check to see what firmware it was on. I am thinking they updated that while it was there.

I bet you that they did update to OE1 or OF5, at which point you cannot go back to anything earlier like NK2. I think your only choice is to Odin OF5 and you'll have to start all over with your apps/data. Unless you did a TitaniumBackup.

I did a titanium backup but nothing will ODIN I have not tried OE5. Is that what you suggest? Do you have a link to the stock TAR it can't hurt to try at this point.

crowly100 said:
I did a titanium backup but nothing will ODIN I have not tried OE5. Is that what you suggest? Do you have a link to the stock TAR it can't hurt to try at this point.
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OF5 stock Tar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=61877147&postcount=1