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my phone is stuck in bootloop. im able to get into CWM recovery, but cant restore nandroid or make a nandroid.
keeps looping in google screen
someone please help.
acatabian said:
my phone is stuck in bootloop. im able to get into CWM recovery, but cant restore nandroid or make a nandroid.
keeps looping in google screen
someone please help.
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Have you tried a wipe from cwm?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
i wiped data/cache/dalvik and still nothing.
:'(
anyone please, i dont know whats happening
Now that you've wiped it, you won't be able to make a nandroid anyway, you'd be backing up... nothing. When you say you can't restore a nandroid, what exactly is happening when you try? Do you try to restore an existing nandroid and an error stops the process? Does CWM not find any nandroids that should be there? Have you ever restored to a nadroid before that you know there *should* be one that works?
Based on what you've written here I'd suggest just restoring to factory installation and picking up the pieces from there. Before you do, you can try to backup what's on your phone using the command "adb pull /sdcard". If you have a nandroid that might be good but for some reason unusable by your phone right now, it will be copied and you can try to restore it after reverting to factory settings. Otherwise, it should pull off any personal stuff like your photos etc so it's not a total loss.
If you're on a GSM Nexus, follow instructions here.
If you're on a CDMA Nexus, follow instructions here.
It is really the exact same process for either, but you want to make sure you've got the right set of files. This will basically leave you where you were when you first unlocked the bootloader.
JoeSyr said:
Now that you've wiped it, you won't be able to make a nandroid anyway, you'd be backing up... nothing. When you say you can't restore a nandroid, what exactly is happening when you try? Do you try to restore an existing nandroid and an error stops the process? Does CWM not find any nandroids that should be there? Have you ever restored to a nadroid before that you know there *should* be one that works?
Based on what you've written here I'd suggest just restoring to factory installation and picking up the pieces from there. Before you do, you can try to backup what's on your phone using the command "adb pull /sdcard". If you have a nandroid that might be good but for some reason unusable by your phone right now, it will be copied and you can try to restore it after reverting to factory settings. Otherwise, it should pull off any personal stuff like your photos etc so it's not a total loss.
If you're on a GSM Nexus, follow instructions here.
If you're on a CDMA Nexus, follow instructions here.
It is really the exact same process for either, but you want to make sure you've got the right set of files. This will basically leave you where you were when you first unlocked the bootloader.
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yeah, i ended up unrooting and flashing factory image back. but i did however root and unlock bootloader again.
now, whenever i finish flashing my new rom. it gets stuck looping on the boot animation, not the google logo. is there any reason behind this? could it relate back to what happened before?
acatabian said:
yeah, i ended up unrooting and flashing factory image back. but i did however root and unlock bootloader again.
now, whenever i finish flashing my new rom. it gets stuck looping on the boot animation, not the google logo. is there any reason behind this? could it relate back to what happened before?
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When you say "it gets stuck", how long are we talking here? Sometimes, depending on what you just wiped/what you're flashing, the phone will just take a longer time to boot. If you assume something's wrong and pull the battery you might just mess it up when really you just needed to be patient and let it finish.
These are probably questions best addressed in threads for specific ROMs, though, where people might have had similar experiences, or the ROM dev might be able to use your feedback. It's especially hard to formulate an opinion that might be useful when you provide barely any specific information to what you're working with.
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?
Hi all, I recently soft bricked my VZW Gnex by trying to flash CNA 3.8.
A little background:
I was on CNA 3.6.6 for awhile but the phone started to reboot during certain actions. So I decided to flash CNA 3.8. I was having trouble wiping the phone. I would do a full wipe in CWM touch (format data/cache/system/dalvik cache) and I when I rebooted it was as if nothing happened. Everything was still there. I tried a couple of times, and the same thing would happen, the phone wouldn't wipe.
After posting a thread about not being able to wipe the phone, I was advised to switch to TWRP and try again, which I did. Tried flashing CNA 3.8 and got hung up on the boot animation. I couldn't find my nands with TWRP so I switched back to CWM to try to restore a nand. When I tried to restore, I got md5 mismatch so I couldn't restore. I tried to do a clean reflash of CNA 3.6 but phone always got hung up at the boot animation.
I've been doing battery pulls and numerous wipes/flashes trying to get the phone to boot, but to no avail. Only thing I can do is boot into CWM recovery and fastboot. No matter what I do, the phone will not get past boot animation.
I have the Gnex toolkit but haven't been able to do much with it.
I've been advised to go back to stock (which I tried to do with the toolkit) but still stuck.
Also installed Android SDK for ADB, but admittedly I'm a noob when it comes to trying to get ADB to work.
At this point, is there anyway I can pull userdata from the phone before I try a return to stock approach which erases userdata?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Please help me!
Tool kits are not the best way to mod your phone as when you have an issue your a bit lost.
Jubakuba has a panic section in her guide stickied to the Q&A page, Efrant also has a guide on the same Q&A page. Have a good read, the steps and fastboot/adb commands are all given.
you are not bricked
What happens if you hold down both volume buttons and power with your phone connected via USB?
EDIT: Just reread and saw you can get into fastboot
Connect your phone to your PC while in fastboot. Run GNEX toolkit as Admin.
Choose option 16
choose option 9
download, extract and wipe intnernal
you should be good to go
Thanks for the advice guys.
@Rudeguy: If I do this, I will lose all my personal data on the sdcard correct? Is it possible to pull stuff like pictures, music, etc. before I proceed with going back to stock and starting from scratch?
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Thanks for the advice guys.
@Rudeguy: If I do this, I will lose all my personal data on the sdcard correct? Is it possible to pull stuff like pictures, music, etc. before I proceed with going back to stock and starting from scratch?
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There is an option to keep your data. However sometimes you will have to sacrifice your data as it is causing the issue
danstah said:
However sometimes you will have to sacrifice your data as it is causing the issue
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This is what people don't understand.
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bk201doesntexist said:
This is what people don't understand.
Sent from my i9250
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Thisvis why at minimum, once a week, i pull all pics off phone and put on pc and external. Got kids and grandkids, probably take 1000 pics a month, dont want to lose pics.
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I was able to pull user data using adb. Learned how to do it from another thread. No worries now.
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Hi guys
Yesterday I was playing a game on my Galaxy Nexus when it overheated and turned off. It wouldn't turn back on so I took the battery out and left it a while. It kind of turned on then it said "SystemUI.apk has stopped working" and crashed again (it always does this when I turn it off with the softkeys hidden). I couldn't get it to turn back on properly after this. I reinstalled my ROM (without wiping so it kept all my apps), and it booted, said "android is upgrading", then turned back off. I can make it do this again in CWM recovery but nothing happens. If I turn it on the normal way it goes to the boot screen but turns off before anything else happens. Anyway, will a factory reset fix my issue? I don't want to lose all my stuff but if it's the only way...
I'm running Codename Android 3.8.0, which is based on CM10 (4.1.2). Stock kernel as far as I know
I think you should try to make a factory reset (maybe after a backup in recovery) just to ensure it's not an hardware fault... if everything works then you can restore your backup and try in some way to save your apps (i don't know how since you can't reach the home but maybe someone can help more) in order to restore them in a clean install... IMHO
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I think you should try to make a factory reset (maybe after a backup in recovery) just to ensure it's not an hardware fault... if everything works then you can restore your backup and try in some way to save your apps (i don't know how since you can't reach the home but maybe someone can help more) in order to restore them in a clean install... IMHO
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I've never done a backup in CWM before, how much free space do I need roughly?
Factory reset fixed it. I hadn't thought of a backup since I've never done one before. Thanks for your help!
i need help here. i made a backup of 4.3 on my note 2 using Clockworkmod recovery, flashed cyanogenmod rom, and now i wanna restore that backup. but when i choose restore in CWM, once the restore finishes and the phone restarts, the blue light on top comes on as the AT&T splash screen then the light turns off leaving just the screen, menu light and back button light on. very small vibration felt periodically. what am i doing wrong? I've wiped cache and the other(can't remember the name, devilch???) id like to restore without wiping data.
Airdwayne said:
i need help here. i made a backup of 4.3 on my note 2 using Clockworkmod recovery, flashed cyanogenmod rom, and now i wanna restore that backup. but when i choose restore in CWM, once the restore finishes and the phone restarts, the blue light on top comes on as the AT&T splash screen then the light turns off leaving just the screen, menu light and back button light on. very small vibration felt periodically. what am i doing wrong? I've wiped cache and the other(can't remember the name, devilch???) id like to restore without wiping data.
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Maybe you should try to do a FULL WIPE, flash the 4.3 rom and then restore.
I'm not a fan of backing/restoring my phone so I don't know if this will help.
Yeah I'm not one to restore. I always just restore it, full wipe, and set up as new. I've never gotten it to restore and boot to just how I backed it up. I'm ok with that. Problem is I need to do this for a neighbors s3. And wiping to start off clean is not an option. He wants everything back the way it was before installing cyanogenmod. Like irreplaceable text messages. I've tried restoring, wipe all, restore again. Restore, wipe cache and the other thing, once it boots, it optimizes the apps, then restarts. Every time leaves me stuck on the white AT&T globe/logo with the back and menu lights on. Repeated pulse vibration. I've looked it up and a few sites said install rom manager and restore the backup through that. No dice. YouTube videos only explain how but none that I've seen show restoring a stock backup from a custom rom.
The moment i was dreading has came and come. My neighbor came by for me to restore his s3. it restored perfectly fine. booted right up. maybe its only my note 2 that just refuses to restore.
Are you restoring OTA 4.3, Leaked 4.3, Zen's 4.3 ODEX or DEODEX ?
OTA 4.3.
Airdwayne said:
OTA 4.3.
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Which recovery you restoring from? TWRP or CWM ?
ClockworkMod. Latest according to RomManager. i have never been able to restore a backup and use with this phone. so far only that tmobile galaxy s3. i really dont care cause im trying to sell it. so untill then ill keep trying just to get get it and look into going unrooted. until i sell it ill just keep playing with it.