I'm using regular Clockworkmod 5.0.2.6 (not touch, which I've never tried).
I made a bunch of Nandroid backups of my phone. In the past I've restored to some of them and they worked. However, now, whenever I try restoring any of them from CWM, including the ones that worked before, it restores for a while and then it fails stating:
"Error while restoring /data!"
I searched on Google, and the only references I've found to this problem are from Galaxy Nexus owners. For them, just reflashing stock over Fastboot fixes it, so I reflashed stock 2.3.5 over Odin, but the problem remains.
I've also tried doing wipe data/factory reset from inside CWM and that didn't help.
Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas on how to fix this?!
I've discovered the log function under Advanced of CWM. This is what the log is ending with:
tar: can't remove old file data/system/packages.xml: Operation not permitted
#92997temp.dumpefs1.binefs2.binefs3.binS30edt_perms.logzipalign.log.cid.info.psm.info.mac.infoentropy.datbatterystats.binuiderrors.txtusage-20120304usage-20120305usage-20120229usage-20120301usage-20120302usage-20120303packages.xmlError while restoring /data!
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I Googled around, and came up with this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461658
Again, the Galaxy Nexus, with the same problem being this data/system/packages.xml file, and the same solution being Fastboot.
What the heck is going on? Is it possible for us to use Fastboot on our T989's?
manekineko said:
I'm using regular Clockworkmod 5.0.2.6 (not touch, which I've never tried).
I made a bunch of Nandroid backups of my phone. In the past I've restored to some of them and they worked. However, now, whenever I try restoring any of them from CWM, including the ones that worked before, it restores for a while and then it fails stating:
"Error while restoring /data!"
I searched on Google, and the only references I've found to this problem are from Galaxy Nexus owners. For them, just reflashing stock over Fastboot fixes it, so I reflashed stock 2.3.5 over Odin, but the problem remains.
I've also tried doing wipe data/factory reset from inside CWM and that didn't help.
Has anyone seen this before or have any ideas on how to fix this?!
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You're not alone my friend and I know how to fix it, albiet temporarily, although I haven't actually had the issue in quite some time.
Do a full wipe and clean install of your favourite rom. Once it boots and you let it settle for a few minutes reboot recovery and restore your backup. I have done this method about 12-15 times. The error restoring was accompanied by the inability to reboot my phone at all without having a complete meltdown of every app force closing. It was after the first "bad reboot" I had that I got the error while trying to restore a backup. Hopefully you don't have o go through that. It sucked big time to say the least. Hope this helps
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raycaster3 said:
You're not alone my friend and I know how to fix it, albiet temporarily, although I haven't actually had the issue in quite some time.
Do a full wipe and clean install of your favourite rom. Once it boots and you let it settle for a few minutes reboot recovery and restore your backup. I have done this method about 12-15 times. The error restoring was accompanied by the inability to reboot my phone at all without having a complete meltdown of every app force closing. It was after the first "bad reboot" I had that I got the error while trying to restore a backup. Hopefully you don't have o go through that. It sucked big time to say the least. Hope this helps
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Fixed it, just as you were typing up your response. (Thanks for the tip nonetheless!)
I just ran Darkside Super Wipe on my phone, and after that my restore proceeded perfectly.
I wonder if that's really the key. I don't suppose your favorite ROM is Darkside Digital Warfare, which has Darkside Super Wipe built-in?
manekineko said:
Fixed it, just as you were typing up your response. (Thanks for the tip nonetheless!)
I just ran Darkside Super Wipe on my phone, and after that my restore proceeded perfectly.
I wonder if that's really the key. I don't suppose your favorite ROM is Darkside Digital Warfare, which has Darkside Super Wipe built-in?
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Of course it is lol.
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Thanks for the fix, same thing happened to me. I had the Optimus T before this so I whent flash happy 12 hours after I unboxed this beautiful phone. I've only had this phone a week, you saved my life lol.
this is just now happening to me, this threat is old but very help full lol
Hey all,
not trying to rehash a "solved" thread but Im having this issue and then some.
First, I tried Darksides wipe script and tried to restore the boot and install a new rom, then install the backup, all to no avail. I tried everything. When you get this error, it seems (at least from my experience) that your only hope is to restore from the stock 4.02 google image and then restore from the nandroid. This first happened to me when my phone dropped and off the couch and the battery came out. It seemed to have corrupted the sdcard, or, at least that was my guess.
However, upon redoing everything to stock and restoring the nandroid (even upgrading to the latest ver of clockworkmod recovery), the problem comes back. Im worried about permeneant damage, possibly, but it makes no sense that I would be able to revert to stock and have it working fine. When I reverted and restored from my nandroid, everything worked flawlessly. Then, today, I turned off my phone (which is a rarity, if ever) and it wouldnt boot back up a few minutes later. Bootlooop and the dreaded "error while restoring data!" message. Im going to revert to stock again and start completely from zip, no nandroid. Its possible that the nandroid is corrupted I suppose but i dont believe it would let me restore it than. Any ideas? Could this be from me leaving my phone on practically all the time, without ever turning it off? or the battery coming out while in use? (which makes sense in theory but I've done a battery pull countless times and never had a problem like this). Would there be a way I could determine, for sure if its a hardware problem? Verizon Nexus (hardware ver 9 I believe) now running JB Sourcery 2.0 (from team sourcery...an AWESOME rom, so I dont believe it to be that.)
Cheers!
raycaster3 said:
You're not alone my friend and I know how to fix it, albiet temporarily, although I haven't actually had the issue in quite some time.
Do a full wipe and clean install of your favourite rom. Once it boots and you let it settle for a few minutes reboot recovery and restore your backup. I have done this method about 12-15 times. The error restoring was accompanied by the inability to reboot my phone at all without having a complete meltdown of every app force closing. It was after the first "bad reboot" I had that I got the error while trying to restore a backup. Hopefully you don't have o go through that. It sucked big time to say the least. Hope this helps
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Wow thanks so much for this! Just happened to me on my note 2 and after doing some googling I came across this post and it worked perfectly, first try. thanks again!
i had this problem now.. my hearth stopped to work.. but this guide helped me ! thanx ! so it is working in year 2014 too
raycaster3 said:
You're not alone my friend and I know how to fix it, albiet temporarily, although I haven't actually had the issue in quite some time.
Do a full wipe and clean install of your favourite rom. Once it boots and you let it settle for a few minutes reboot recovery and restore your backup. I have done this method about 12-15 times. The error restoring was accompanied by the inability to reboot my phone at all without having a complete meltdown of every app force closing. It was after the first "bad reboot" I had that I got the error while trying to restore a backup. Hopefully you don't have o go through that. It sucked big time to say the least. Hope this helps
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plz help me :crying: i am new to this here is my situation i hav a galaxy s4 i9500 i rooted my device 2 days ago and i backed up during the back up it showed no .android_secure found. skipping backup of applications on external storage andalso root error fix . i google it and found its not a big deal so i factory formatted it but when it restored it and restored it all the applications started showing error msg so i formatted sd card and replaced backup folder and tried to back up it showed md5 mismatch so i editted nanroid.md5 with notepad++ and tried to reboot again now its showing recovery data error . what to do?
I have used Clockworkmod to backup and restore my Samsung GS4 Many, Many times. I have never had any problems restoring any previous backup before. Today after my phone updated an app from the play store, it started acting funny, so I made a backup, (like I have many times before) and after it was completed (no error messages) I proceeded to recover a previous backup that I restored a few times before, and it ended in a "Error while restoring /system!
I tried rebooting the phone and it just hung in the boot animation so I booted back into the recovery mode and again tried the same restore image, but same error. I then tried one that was done before the one I was having problems with, and got the same error. I have a hard time believing that all these backups have suddenly become bad! They ALL PASS THE MD5 CHECKSUM so they must be good!
UPDATE:
I failed to mention, that the phone was UNLOCKED when I made the backup and tried to restore it...
Not sure if that has any bearing on the result. I can restore an older version that was not unlocked when I made the backup, but it's waaaaay back and I lose so much of my data if I have to use that.
I'm not so sure what to do now. My phone is not too useful if it cannot be restored.....
Any help on what I can do to recover would be much appreciated.
Mahalo! (Thanks!)
Running stock 4.2.2 - Rooted Running another restore again. I wiped all the stuff I dare do and re-running the recovery (it takes a while to do)
Will post results after this one succeeds or bombs. :<(
I had this problem once with my s3.. I couldn't figure out now to fix it but what I ended up doing was reflashing my ROM from a clean state and then just restored the data from the backups in recovery.. All your apps and data will be restored except your system apps or mods
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I was on ND8 and attempted to flash the CM 11 nightly after backing up. It failed with error 7. I wasn't thinking and just hit restore (even though I didn't need to). Whenever I restore it, the apps keeps crashing over and over again and I can't even open anything. I get messages saying this and this crashed. I need to restore because I have contacts on that nandroid that i'll never be able to restore. I have tried clearing the dalvik and it didn't seem to work. Advice?
Edit: By the way, I have an older backup and they both do the same thing. I've flashed many many ROMs and have never had an issue like this. UGH.
Hopefully somebody knows how I can make the restore work. I'm literally freaking out.
galaxyman635 said:
I was on ND8 and attempted to flash the CM 11 nightly after backing up. It failed with error 7. I wasn't thinking and just hit restore (even though I didn't need to). Whenever I restore it, the apps keeps crashing over and over again and I can't even open anything. I get messages saying this and this crashed. I need to restore because I have contacts on that nandroid that i'll never be able to restore. I have tried clearing the dalvik and it didn't seem to work. Advice?
Edit: By the way, I have an older backup and they both do the same thing. I've flashed many many ROMs and have never had an issue like this. UGH.
Hopefully somebody knows how I can make the restore work. I'm literally freaking out.
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Try doing a full wipe (Data,System,Cache,Dalvik) and then restore it. That should fix it. It sounds like you never wiped the system and the two roms are going at it. Best of luck!
Thanks for taking the time to read and hopefully help me out.
First off I was rooted stock and updated to NF9 and have TWRP installed. This morning I went to flash my first rom on this device, effortless ROM. It did jot flash, it said that the zip couldn't be opened. So I downloaded dompop on my PC and transfered to my SD card. Dompop installed fine, but after waiting 30+ minutes to boot up I pulled the battery and reflashed. Same result. So now I am trying to restore my back up I made last night and it seems to be stuck at restoring modem (64%). Its been stuck here for 30 minutes. Any help would be appreciated.
Going on 45 minutes now.....anyone think its safe to pull the battery and try to restore my back up again? How long should a restore normally take with this phone?
Also I don't have access to PC for a few hours.
So I read flashed each partition individually and it seemed to work. No after is starts up a bunch of black boxes appear one after another stating that "unfortunately the process (insert process name) has stopped. And it appears to be every app I have on the phone. I wiped cache and delvik cache. Going to try wiping data next.
After restoring my back up one partition at a time I had to wipe data and cache for it to work properly. Any ideas on why I wasn't able to install a custom ROM?
851 running TI 1.4 happily for several weeks (not the test version, the DD). Last week or so it started hot booting on a pretty regular basis if I tried to open too many apps. Lat night I could not even get it to stay on, would just boot every time I tried to open the swipe lock.
Ultimately got it into twrp 2.8.7 and I wiped cache/dalvik which seemed to help a couple of times.
I downloaded TI 1.5, matched md5 and flashed it (Clean, wiped system, internal, data and cache dalvik). Seemed ok but booted during set up screen. Ultimately got it going again but then started bootlooping during TIBU restore (App only).
So tried flashing once more and it bootlooped during TWRP flash of TI!!!
Do I have some kind of a hardware issue? I am currently stuck on the LG screen, and I am sure there is no ROM installed...
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I can get back into TWRP but it now bootloops every time I try to install a ROM TI, and old copy of cloudy 2.5...
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Been reading thepagels twrp method, should I try that?
Edit 3
tried thepagel twrp method and it booted again before install could happen. I can still battery pull and get into twrp 2.8.7 but seem to be stuck there...
Should I try KDZ or TOT? Was hoping to not have to learn that...
ed hit said:
851 running TI 1.4 happily for several weeks (not the test version, the DD). Last week or so it started hot booting on a pretty regular basis if I tried to open too many apps. Lat night I could not even get it to stay on, would just boot every time I tried to open the swipe lock.
Ultimately got it into twrp 2.8.7 and I wiped cache/dalvik which seemed to help a couple of times.
I downloaded TI 1.5, matched md5 and flashed it (Clean, wiped system, internal, data and cache dalvik). Seemed ok but booted during set up screen. Ultimately got it going again but then started bootlooping during TIBU restore (App only).
So tried flashing once more and it bootlooped during TWRP flash of TI!!!
Do I have some kind of a hardware issue? I am currently stuck on the LG screen, and I am sure there is no ROM installed...
EDIT
I can get back into TWRP but it now bootloops every time I try to install a ROM TI, and old copy of cloudy 2.5...
EDIT 2
Been reading thepagels twrp method, should I try that?
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tried thepagel twrp method and it booted again before install could happen. I can still battery pull and get into twrp 2.8.7 but seem to be stuck there...
Should I try KDZ or TOT? Was hoping to not have to learn that...
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this happened to me a couple of times and it turned out to be the battery ?