Hi,
I went to restore my note 2 back to stock settings after backing up using TWRP. However what I found was three different restores.
Two of them had just recovery and system in, whilst the third had all efs, recovery, system etc.
I went with the more complete restore, the third one, and just restored it. This made me have to start all over again like a factory reset that was just rooted. I am worried that I may be missing some key parts of the note?
Will my phone be okay? I dont mind I had to install everything again it's just whether I am missing any key components from the other two restore files.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
Bump! Someone please help as I am worried my phone isn't as functional as stock.
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Let me preface this by saying that I searched the N7 forums for something similar to this, but was unable to find an answer. Apologies if I overlooked it.
I ended up having to return my original N7, due to a hardware issue with the screen, but I made a Nandroid backup (using TWRP) before wiping everything back to stock. I was using stock ROM/kernel and had only unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device. The tablet that I made the backup on was build JSS15J but my new replacement N7 is on build JWR66N. Will the difference in build # have any negative impact on restoring the Nandroid? I also backed up all my apps via TiBu, so I suppose I could resort to that option if I'm unable to use TWRP, but I wanted to check with the experts here first before making any moves. Any help with this is sincerely appreciated. Thanks very much.
goodwidp said:
Let me preface this by saying that I searched the N7 forums for something similar to this, but was unable to find an answer. Apologies if I overlooked it.
I ended up having to return my original N7, due to a hardware issue with the screen, but I made a Nandroid backup (using TWRP) before wiping everything back to stock. I was using stock ROM/kernel and had only unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device. The tablet that I made the backup on was build JSS15J but my new replacement N7 is on build JWR66N. Will the difference in build # have any negative impact on restoring the Nandroid? I also backed up all my apps via TiBu, so I suppose I could resort to that option if I'm unable to use TWRP, but I wanted to check with the experts here first before making any moves. Any help with this is sincerely appreciated. Thanks very much.
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If you did a full backup and are now doing a full restore, you should get back exactly what you had regardless of what is currently on your device. So in your example, your new device will end up with JSS15J.
I had 2 N7s at one point. One was stock and the other on CM10.2. I ended up returning the one on CM10.2 (after reverting back to stock using the factory images) but did not want to have to redo CM10.2 and go through setup on the other device. So I just took the twrp2 backup and restored it onto the stock N7 and voila... I had CM10.2 installed and fully configured.
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If you did a full backup and are now doing a full restore, you should get back exactly what you had regardless of what is currently on your device. So in your example, your new device will end up with JSS15J.
I had 2 N7s at one point. One was stock and the other on CM10.2. I ended up returning the one on CM10.2 (after reverting back to stock using the factory images) but did not want to have to redo CM10.2 and go through setup on the other device. So I just took the twrp2 backup and restored it onto the stock N7 and voila... I had CM10.2 installed and fully configured.
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Thanks very much for the reply. You are absolutely right. I ended up flashing the backup, and it changed my build to JSS15J. Good news is that everything seems to be working fine after flashing. Thanks again. I appreciate it.
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.
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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.
I recently rooted my phone and unlocked the boot loader and all that was fine. My phone worked fine after that. I decided to try out a mod for the dotview case, and installed it and it wouldn't work properly so i decided to delete it. First off i removed the mod from the phone's internal storage but it still stayed on the phone. So i decided to do a factory reset. After i did the reset however, i went through all the start-up steps, but once the phone booted up all the software buttons were gone, and i couldn't access the pull down notification shade. Also my background was completely black and wouldn't change when i changed wallpapers. I'm not sure what to do to get the phone back to normal. I dont have any custom software installed besides a recovery.
If anyone could help me with my problem that would be great!
You must have deleted some system files. Factory reset will not restore these. You need to restore the system partition either from a stock nandroid backup or an ruu.
For future reference, never ever mod your phone unless you have a working backup.
Hey guys,
I really need help. I was about to update my brother op3 from 3.2.4 to 3.2.8. When I was done I wanted to continue to flash to 4.0 but when I use the advanced reboot to boot into recovery it suddenly said "factory reset"!!!! Everything is gone even from the storage! I cant even backup from the backup file from twrp because it is gone! Can anyone please help me out? There are software to recovery this but I have to pay for all of them and they are not cheap!
Thank you in advance!
After a factory reset, even paid recovery tools aren't able to fully restore your data to their original state. At best, you'll get back a majority of the individual files you had on your phone prior to the wipe. The more you use the phone after wiping it, the more the old data is overwritten. At this point, I would just make the best out of this unfortunate event and clean flash whatever OS you were trying to update to. At least the phone will be de-cluttered at this point. You may even notice that the phone feels a little faster afterwards, and may even improve your battery life slightly.
If you had something really important on your phone that wasn't backed up, data recovery tools may be able to restore it, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Additionally, TWRP backups do not backup media files such as music, photos, personal documents, etc. Even if you were able to find a nandroid backup, you would only get back your OS, apps, and app data. Most of this can be restored by just downloading everything again.
In the future, I would recommend saving nandroid backups directly to a USB flash drive through USB OTG. Music and photos can also be backed up to the cloud through various free or paid services (Google Photos for example).
shujin51 said:
Hey guys,
I really need help. I was about to update my brother op3 from 3.2.4 to 3.2.8. When I was done I wanted to continue to flash to 4.0 but when I use the advanced reboot to boot into recovery it suddenly said "factory reset"!!!! Everything is gone even from the storage! I cant even backup from the backup file from twrp because it is gone! Can anyone please help me out? There are software to recovery this but I have to pay for all of them and they are not cheap!
Thank you in advance!
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Chance to recover your files are verry slim. Use the TWRP provided by Bluspark, it's on his main thread, stock twrp seems to have many issues.
To cut to the chase…
My G5 (XT1671 32GB) has no IMEI. The one smart(?) thing I did before starting to screw around was make a backup with TWRP - 2 backups actually, one stock, the other AtomicOS. When I try to restore the backup I get an "unable to locate partition by backup name" message for these partitions: efs1, efs2, logo, oem. I gather the efs partitons are the ones that correspond to IMEI and other modem related things.
Is there any way to bring these partitions back? I've reinstalled the stock ROM (a few times now) and that doesn't seem to restore them (however when I try restoring I always get an error message on this line "fastboot flash partition gpt.bin"
Is restoring even going to fix the IMEI? From what I've read those backups are supposed to be an exact clone of the device - sort of like using Macrium to make an image of your PC (btw the backups include everything, whether it was needed or not ~6-7GB in size)
Cheers
Once you've flashed an oreo rom, imei will always be 0 when reverting to stock.
You could try this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmKg84IXEbo
Going back to stock isn't the issue with the IMEI, it's whether you can turn off auto-update fast enough no to let an OTA update through (at least that's what screwed me)
I did run through the video you linked before hand. Kinda worked. Got 3G back, but when I tried the steps to restore 4G I just lost my IMEI again.
Still doesn't answer why I kept getting the missing partition message in TWRP. I do have full backups so you'd think restoring my efs would be the answer.
Turns out that was the answer… I have no idea what exactly happened but after trying the steps in that video again I decided to restore my AtomicOS backup (prefer it to Pixel Experience) for WIFI usage if nothing else. I got the same missing partitions message and this time somewhere during the restore process TWRP crashed/rebooted (could only boot as far as the bootloader menu). When I booted back into recovery to try and restore again I finally had all the options to restore my efs/logo/etc.. So I restored everything available (minus "system image") and am back to a fully functional AtomicOS.
I'm thinking I could also restore my stock backup now without problem now since I made it way before I ever tried any 64bit/Oreo roms. But ATM I don't want to tempt fate. Besides probably better to wait until Moto/Lenovo officially launches their Oreo update before considering stock again