Wiped System and /data and lost nandroid backups - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey guys,
I was installing a ROM and I wiped my /system and /data and when I went to install the ROM I got an error and now my CWM backups are gone too. I have no idea what to do!??!?! Please help!!!

UnknownTroll1 said:
Hey guys,
I was installing a ROM and I wiped my /system and /data and when I went to install the ROM I got an error and now my CWM backups are gone too. I have no idea what to do!??!?! Please help!!!
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Bump Please help me!! I am in desperate need of help!

Copy a ROM to an SD card, put it in your phone, flash it in recovery.

audit13 said:
Copy a ROM to an SD card, put it in your phone, flash it in recovery.
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I do not have any MicroSD cards..

Using a microSD card would be the easiest method to load a ROM; otherwise, you would have to load a ROM onto the internal memory and flash from there.

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[Q] noob question before rooting...

Just about to root and install a custom rom but have a few questions:
I know how to root by using paul's r6 method, and also how to install a rom but my question is, I have tried searching and cant find an answer:
I want to use A2SD+, have an 8Gb micro sd card installed, which i have backedup on my PC but how to i prepare this for A2SD+?
I also have an old radio, how do i update to the newest radio 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20? i have downloaded the file but not sure what to do
can anyone help?
cheers and sorry if this has been covered but i couldnt find it
Easy way:
Once you root, install ROM Manager from the Market and tell it to partition your SDCard.
Hard(er) way:
Use ADB. When I tried this I just got errors about it not being able to find the partitioning thing so someone else will have to help with that.
how to use ADB way? isn't this sub-forum wrong to ask these?
should be only for development questions
Laridia said:
Easy way:
Once you root, install ROM Manager from the Market and tell it to partition your SDCard.
Hard(er) way:
Use ADB. When I tried this I just got errors about it not being able to find the partitioning thing so someone else will have to help with that.
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Great thanks, what about installing the new radio? do it first or root first, custom rom then new radio? what order?
»You go into recovery (start the phone with volume down and power held down)
Then do a nandroid backup, wipe the phone, and choose flash rom and radio. Your rom.zip should be on the root of the sd card. It's worth backing up the sd card too and repartition it into 0 swap; 512mb ext2 and the rest fat32 form recovery if you want to use apps2sd.
So back up sd and phone via windows and titanium backup
then boot into recovery
nandroid
partition
wipe / factory reset
install rom
install latest radio
reboot phone
restore sd card contents & restore via titanium«
ok thanks
so just by rooting it doesnt erase my data? e.g. contacts etc?
kmetek said:
»You go into recovery (start the phone with volume down and power held down)
Then do a nandroid backup, wipe the phone, and choose flash rom and radio. Your rom.zip should be on the root of the sd card. It's worth backing up the sd card too and repartition it into 0 swap; 512mb ext2 and the rest fat32 form recovery if you want to use apps2sd.
So back up sd and phone via windows and titanium backup
then boot into recovery
nandroid
partition
wipe / factory reset
install rom
install latest radio
reboot phone
restore sd card contents & restore via titanium«
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Nope if you do everything tip-top you shouldn't....in 99%...
kmetek said:
Nope if you do everything tip-top you shouldn't....in 99%...
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Great, thanks for the help, will try tomorrow as its late here!
Cheers for the quick replies!

[Q] Sd card problems

Hi guys, sorry for the newbie question but here I go. Just now I decided to flash a new ROM so I do what I normally did before I flash a new ROM (backup my sd card contents and do a nandroid backup). After I done those, I reformat my sd card using my laptop and place the ROM I wanted into the sd card. After I flash the ROM I get stuck in the HTC screen and my backup doesn't work but luckily I manage to revive my Desire. After that I notice that my previous partition that I made using gparted is gone and that's why the ROM didn't work at first. So, am I still able to recover my lost partition from my sd card or they are gone for good?
If you have a working nandroid backup, you can try to recreate your partitions first and restore then.
Windows laptop? The reformat using will have wiped your Ext partition. As said recreate fat32 and Ext using Gparted and restore nandroid (assuming under AmonRa or 4Ext recoveries you included sd-ext) or flash new Rom.
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yurimizu said:
Hi guys, sorry for the newbie question but here I go. Just now I decided to flash a new ROM so I do what I normally did before I flash a new ROM (backup my sd card contents and do a nandroid backup). After I done those, I reformat my sd card using my laptop and place the ROM I wanted into the sd card. After I flash the ROM I get stuck in the HTC screen and my backup doesn't work but luckily I manage to revive my Desire. After that I notice that my previous partition that I made using gparted is gone and that's why the ROM didn't work at first. So, am I still able to recover my lost partition from my sd card or they are gone for good?
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Looks like u didn't perform a full wipe... Via recovery...
Nd by full wipe I mean cleaning cache, dalvik cache, sd-ext, etc...
No need to format the sd card before flashing a new Rom....
help
hi having problems partion my sd card so that i can use runnymeade rom i have tried to partion it as 1.2 gb .3gb and .1gb but it does not fully boot the rom i dont know what i am doing wrong please help am a complete noob with the desire
thanks in advance
akhillad said:
Looks like u didn't perform a full wipe... Via recovery...
Nd by full wipe I mean cleaning cache, dalvik cache, sd-ext, etc...
No need to format the sd card before flashing a new Rom....
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I did the full wipe via recovery but I reformatted my sd card using my laptop and I think that's the problem since the process wipe out everything including the partitions I made before. And thanks for the answer, greatly appreciate
beachcomber said:
Windows laptop? The reformat using will have wiped your Ext partition. As said recreate fat32 and Ext using Gparted and restore nandroid (assuming under AmonRa or 4Ext recoveries you included sd-ext) or flash new Rom.
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Yes, a windows laptop and unfortunately it has wiped my previous partition. I did manage to partition it again but I found out that my sd card size is reduced. So does the reformat process wipe out my old partition for good or I still can somehow recover back my lost partition?
robbani123 said:
hi having problems partion my sd card so that i can use runnymeade rom i have tried to partion it as 1.2 gb .3gb and .1gb but it does not fully boot the rom i dont know what i am doing wrong please help am a complete noob with the desire
thanks in advance
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Although I'm not an expert in partitioning but I can provide some info about this. Firstly, how you partition your sd card (gparted, rom manager or other methods)? And which partition you made (EXT3/4)?
yurimizu said:
Yes, a windows laptop and unfortunately it has wiped my previous partition. I did manage to partition it again but I found out that my sd card size is reduced. So does the reformat process wipe out my old partition for good or I still can somehow recover back my lost partition?
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The ext partition itself is gone, but if you re-partition using Gparted, copy your sd card backup from laptop onto sd card, then providing your nandroid included sd ext backup a restore should get you back to where you were.
yurimizu said:
Although I'm not an expert in partitioning but I can provide some info about this. Firstly, how you partition your sd card (gparted, rom manager or other methods)? And which partition you made (EXT3/4)?
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hi i used 4ext to make the partion and i made all partion ext4 i think dont really know what i am doing please help

[Q] SD CARD being read but cant flash?

Hi guys okay so i have a problem. i have cwm recovery and i have slim bean on my s4 installed and the thing is i i tried flashing a rom from my external sd card 32gb and it automaticallly fails no matter how many times i try and its fat32 aswell thats what it says on its properties. But when i move the rom to my phone memory it flashes just fine so what is the matter here? If someone could help ASAP that would be awesome
zee24 said:
Hi guys okay so i have a problem. i have cwm recovery and i have slim bean on my s4 installed and the thing is i i tried flashing a rom from my external sd card 32gb and it automaticallly fails no matter how many times i try and its fat32 aswell thats what it says on its properties. But when i move the rom to my phone memory it flashes just fine so what is the matter here? If someone could help ASAP that would be awesome
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Backup your SD card data, reformat the SD card. And restore the data, should work. However, the issue i was having with flashing ROMs was not due to SD card issues, but my actual data partition was corrupt and using CWM i formatted my entire data partition and everything flashed properly then.
elesbb said:
Backup your SD card data, reformat the SD card. And restore the data, should work. However, the issue i was having with flashing ROMs was not due to SD card issues, but my actual data partition was corrupt and using CWM i formatted my entire data partition and everything flashed properly then.
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HEY i tried re formatting the card but still sometimes it works other times it doesnt flash it makes no sense to me, sometimes i flash an 19505 rom and it works other times the same rom says installation aborted so then i install an 1337m rom and it works and 19505 ddoesnt i honestly am so confused why the hell is cwm doing this? Sometimes it flashes a rom and other times the same rom doesnt flash??? Can you tell me what you formatted from cwm so i can try that too
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elesbb said:
Backup your SD card data, reformat the SD card. And restore the data, should work. However, the issue i was having with flashing ROMs was not due to SD card issues, but my actual data partition was corrupt and using CWM i formatted my entire data partition and everything flashed properly then.
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And now the roms wont even flash from my internal memory either wtf??? I think twrp might be a better recovery i might ue that insted of cwm im thinking cwm is the problem
zee24 said:
And now the roms wont even flash from my internal memory either wtf??? I think twrp might be a better recovery i might ue that insted of cwm im thinking cwm is the problem
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Back up your internal SD card and wipe the data partition completely. Youre having the exact same issues i was. its not the recovery, TWRP sucks imo
elesbb said:
Back up your internal SD card and wipe the data partition completely. Youre having the exact same issues i was. its not the recovery, TWRP sucks imo
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^ What he said. Never had a problem with Philz but more than a few with TWRP.
elesbb said:
TWRP sucks imo
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Amen brotha, amen. :highfive:
Unnessasary hate
Lol why you guys hating I got twrp and did what you said and all seems to be good I think twrp is better because in twrp there's a key important feature which is a file manager built in let's you move zips from sd card to internal or vice versa cwm doesn't have that
zee24 said:
Lol why you guys hating I got twrp and did what you said and all seems to be good I think twrp is better because in twrp there's a key important feature which is a file manager built in let's you move zips from sd card to internal or vice versa cwm doesn't have that
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It has some nice features but for me, the only real functions for recovery are:
1) Wipe data/cache/dalvik and some other mounts.
2) Nandroid backup and restore.
Don't have any other needs, and CWM hasn't given me any troubles in ages, TWRP on the other hand... But if CWM had the file manager, it would make it that much better for me.

NEED HELP

I tried to install a ROM and all my data were gone and my SD card files look pretty messed up so I decided to wipe the system and return to Stock later.After wiping the system, I realize the storage cant be mounted and the HORROR begins. My phone got no OS to boot. and i dont have recovery on phone :S pls someone help
dado323 said:
I tried to install a ROM and all my data were gone and my SD card files look pretty messed up so I decided to wipe the system and return to Stock later.After wiping the system, I realize the storage cant be mounted and the HORROR begins. My phone got no OS to boot. and i dont have recovery on phone :S pls someone help
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flash Philz 5.15.9 the SD card mount function work only on that recovery and you will be able to mount sd card to copy your rom to sd card and don't forget if you want to intsall kit kat after copy your rom to sd card after this you must to flash latest TWRP2.7.1 or latest CWM or latest PHILZ

BRICKED(or almost) my find7a ..some help?(adb format?)

Hi guys,
this morning i had to the brilliant idea to go from OMNI 4.4.4 LVM into ColorsOs (chinese version) 4.4.4(not lvm..)
i did a complete wipe and COLOROS worked
but since there were few things i didn't like i wanted to re install my Nadroid backup..
so i went in recovery wiped all and re installed nandroid backup but IT FAILED
Basically the things is UNABLE TO MOUNT INTERNAL SD
i can ADB mobile on windows but (if i remove external sd card) not partition is seen
there is a way i can solve? did i just brick my phone? or i can create this internal sd card?? I can go in recovery and use ADB
thanks for you help
simika said:
Hi guys,
this morning i had to the brilliant idea to go from OMNI 4.4.4 LVM into ColorsOs (chinese version) 4.4.4(not lvm..)
i did a complete wipe and COLOROS worked
but since there were few things i didn't like i wanted to re install my Nadroid backup..
so i went in recovery wiped all and re installed nandroid backup but IT FAILED
Basically the things is UNABLE TO MOUNT INTERNAL SD
i can ADB mobile on windows but (if i remove external sd card) not partition is seen
there is a way i can solve? did i just brick my phone? or i can create this internal sd card?? I can go in recovery and use ADB
thanks for you help
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LITTLE UPDATE
i USED my nandroid backup and from it i could install just the BIOS .. and i've got back my OMNI ROM but internal partition is only 2,9GB
so how can i get back all normal from this point? like REVERSE LVM or reinstall it ??
or jsut format partition..
thank you all !
Ok.. I solved it... Main problem seemed to be that I went from a lvm rom to a Not LVM... so I used 2 files to revert and recreate lvm.. In the end I've got my rom back to work
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