I haven't really flashed a rom to the phone, until now that i wanted to get things good, so i did a nandroid backup, and tried to restore it... now it just keeps booting to CWM5, i do see SGS2 boot, but not what follows after, just CWM5 :/ i was using EK02 stock rooted, and same nandroid is what im trying to restore. but no worky
I've tried wiping Dalvik Cache, doesn't work.
Also tried after Wipping Dalvik cache, Fix Permissions, nothing either.
...wtf, i've read that i got to format my /system ? where is this option?
Im giving this a shot at the moment http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678 , but im still keepign the backup just incase i can restore it, since it would be better.
Oding Got me up, but what am i doing wrong when flashing my backup?
Something probably messed up your android partition. Your data is probably still there just the ROM/Android /system partition is not quite right. Keep that nandroid backup around. You should be able to restore the user data portion separate from the rest of the backup.
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In your case I would probably try installing this first:
EK02 Kernel/ROM/no modem (full update) [CWM]
sfhub said:
Something probably messed up your android partition. Your data is probably still there just the ROM/Android /system partition is not quite right. Keep that nandroid backup around. You should be able to restore the user data portion separate from the rest of the backup.
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In your case I would probably try installing this first:
EK02 Kernel/ROM/no modem (full update) [CWM]
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OH... damn lol, thank you for providing the files/tutorial btw , i just went head and dia full restore, so i can just restore the data from my nandroid now that i used the EG30? i have the update.zip EK02, and its updating now, after this, going to Automate ChrisEk02 Kernel/CMM5 then root, and then flash Data from my nandroid?
Sorry if im making this all confusing.
That sounds right. I've used the advanced restore on other platforms but I don't remember if this one works with both internal and external SD card. It might only work with one or the other.
Hello, I am a very new user to android and I have done a lot of reading about rooting phone and flashing roms, but I am still confused and if someone can help shed some light for me then I will really appreciate it. Scott has replied to my question about not having multiview then flashing this rom(CleanROM ACE version 4.0.5) will give me multiview with being able to add/remove apps for multiview. I did not do anything yet because I am afraid to brick my phone or afraid I do not like what the rom will do to my phone, so I am asking questions ahead of time. I have a lot of questions. PLEASE guide this lost noob.
1. After I root my phone(CWM) then do I have to install TRWP? I am confused. Can I root my phone then flash CleanROM right away? Or do I have to root then change (CWM) to TRWP then flash CleanROM.
2. Does TRWP have the original samsung galaxy note 2 keyboard layout(have multi language support like the stock version and swype)? I am afraid I will lose the original samsung keyboard layout of note 2 and I hate the look of galaxy nexus or gingerbread keyboard.
3. Can I still download wallpapers from google playstore and install the apk file for the wallpaper after doing this mod with the CleanROM?
4.(Final question three questions) I should use titanium backup or nandroid backup after rooting? Can I revert back to the stockrom with titanium backup or nandroid backup? Will I still be able to receive updates from my carrier(Rogers)?
Please help me.
Just following the guide you should be fine.
1. You need to root the phone in order to have the TWRP install.
2. Download GooManager from the Play store.
3. in GooManager Once installed click the menu and select "Install OpenRecovery Script".
4. Download any custom rom and flash it in the TWRP "Following install instruction"
Use the ref here you be safe. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987541
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4.(Final question three questions) I should use titanium backup or nandroid backup after rooting? Can I revert back to the stockrom with titanium backup or nandroid backup? Will I still be able to receive updates from my carrier(Rogers)?
titanium backup is for mainly Apps not for system backup.
To have your orginal stockrom use the nandroid backup is best choice "TWRP is the one for nandroid backup"
Thanks for response, but what about keyboard?
Will the keyboard layout change? Will I still have stock keyboard layout? Thanks for the reply. :good:
Asianhood said:
1. You need to root the phone in order to have the TWRP install.
2. Download GooManager from the Play store.
3. in GooManager Once installed click the menu and select "Install OpenRecovery Script".
4. Download any custom rom and flash it in the TWRP "Following install instruction"
Use the ref here you be safe. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987541
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4.(Final question three questions) I should use titanium backup or nandroid backup after rooting? Can I revert back to the stockrom with titanium backup or nandroid backup? Will I still be able to receive updates from my carrier(Rogers)?
titanium backup is for mainly Apps not for system backup.
To have your orginal stockrom use the nandroid backup is best choice "TWRP is the one for nandroid backup"
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nope
Your keyboard still stock, nothing change in keyboard, but you have more feature like no bloat apps and free tethering.
I made a backup and flashed a custom ROM yesterday. I then restored to the backup. Today I tried a new ROM aosp 4.4, but I didn't backup before flashing the rom, thinking that I still had the backup from yesterday to fall back to, and I didn't really use my phone after restoring yesterday. Now in Rom Manager under "Manage and Restore Backups" It reads "No Backups Found." Am I hosed? Or is there any way to recover my old backup?
All I really want is my numbers I don't think I ever synced to my google account. I also still haven't figured out how to activate the phone in the new rom, but I'm sure I can find that in FAQ
Thanks in advance for your help.
Aosp roms do not have activation settings. Only stock ROMs do. And depending on your recovery, new ones can read your SD after using 4.2+ ROMs, but old ones can't. You still have the backup but since you flashed a 4.4 ROM you now have an 0 directory and the recovery reads that as your main storage. You need to flash a 4.1 ROM or move everything to the 0 folder. Either that or just update your recovery.
-Whiplashh
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Whiplashh said:
Aosp roms do not have activation settings. Only stock ROMs do. And depending on your recovery, new ones can read your SD after using 4.2+ ROMs, but old ones can't.
You still have the backup but since you flashed a 4.4 ROM you now have an 0 directory and the recovery reads that as your main storage. You need to flash a 4.1 ROM or move everything to the 0 folder. Either that or just update your recovery.
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Thanks Wiplashh
I am not quite clear on what all of the pieces are.
my Rom Manager shows:
Current Reovery: ClockworkMod 6.0.4.5
Latest Recoery: ClockworkMod 6.0.3.8
ClockworkMod Touch is available!
When I go to Update Recovery it asks if I have installed a ClockworkMod Recovery manually. Do I need to do this?
If I flash a 4.1 rom will my yesterday's backup be available in my rom manager? Is that what you are saying? This is my priority, over my activation.
Thanks,
Marshall
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Thanks Wiplashh
I am not quite clear on what all of the pieces are.
my Rom Manager shows:
Current Reovery: ClockworkMod 6.0.4.5
Latest Recoery: ClockworkMod 6.0.3.8
ClockworkMod Touch is available!
When I go to Update Recovery it asks if I have installed a ClockworkMod Recovery manually. Do I need to do this?
If I flash a 4.1 rom will my yesterday's backup be available in my rom manager? Is that what you are saying? This is my priority, over my activation.
Thanks,
Marshall
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I'm not very familiar with Rom Manager but from the current recovery/latest recovery you posted it seems that the latest recovery according to rom manager is 6.0.3.8, but you have a newer version than that currently installed. I think that's why it's asking if you did it manually. Your current backup should be located at /data/media/clockworkmod. You want to copy that to data/media/0/clockworkmod. Use a root file explorer of your choosing to navigate to where your old backup is, copy it and move it that location and it should pop up. Most file managers open to internal storage(which is currently your 0 folder) by default, just go to the root of your file system and you will see the /data/ folder Im talking about. Hope this helps!
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Thanks Wiplashh
I am not quite clear on what all of the pieces are.
my Rom Manager shows:
Current Reovery: ClockworkMod 6.0.4.5
Latest Recoery: ClockworkMod 6.0.3.8
ClockworkMod Touch is available!
When I go to Update Recovery it asks if I have installed a ClockworkMod Recovery manually. Do I need to do this?
If I flash a 4.1 rom will my yesterday's backup be available in my rom manager? Is that what you are saying? This is my priority, over my activation.
Thanks,
Marshall
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With that recovery, It should still read it unless you moved it / renamed it from data/media/clockworkmod.
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I'm not very familiar with Rom Manager but from the current recovery/latest recovery you posted it seems that the latest recovery according to rom manager is 6.0.3.8, but you have a newer version than that currently installed. I think that's why it's asking if you did it manually. Your current backup should be located at /data/media/clockworkmod. You want to copy that to data/media/0/clockworkmod. Use a root file explorer of your choosing to navigate to where your old backup is, copy it and move it that location and it should pop up. Most file managers open to internal storage(which is currently your 0 folder) by default, just go to the root of your file system and you will see the /data/ folder Im talking about. Hope this helps!
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This^
still stuck
Whiplashh said:
With that recovery, It should still read it unless you moved it / renamed it from data/media/clockworkmod.
This^
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Thanks for all the help.
When I install a root file manager from the web it doesn't show-up on my phone. This is the case for any apps I try to install. For this reason, I am using my PC to browse the files.
My internal storage has no "data" directory. It has a "clockworkmod" directory and a "0" directory, and also a "0/clockworkmod".
The images I found that I believe are my backup were located in my Freegee directory. When I copy them to 0/clockworkmod they don't show up when I try to restore from Rom Manager.
Any thoughts?
I'm experiencing a similar issue using the mako CWM from freegee. In addition to not seeing my backups, my storage is being devoured by an "emulated 0/ legacy folder". Is this safe to delete?
Also, it seems the recovery is reading from device/data/media/cwm and not from storage 0 or storage/emulated 0. I actually copied a backup to device/data/media in order to flash it.
I guess what I need is info on what I can safely do in file explorer to get back on track.
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Thanks for all the help.
When I install a root file manager from the web it doesn't show-up on my phone. This is the case for any apps I try to install. For this reason, I am using my PC to browse the files.
My internal storage has no "data" directory. It has a "clockworkmod" directory and a "0" directory, and also a "0/clockworkmod".
The images I found that I believe are my backup were located in my Freegee directory. When I copy them to 0/clockworkmod they don't show up when I try to restore from Rom Manager.
Any thoughts?
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Ok, I'm a bit confused here. Are you still using AOSP 4.4? Did you flash Gapps? Just wondering why you are installing from the web instead of the play store(maybe you just meant play store when you said web). Since you are browsing files from your pc Internal Storage IS /data/media. If you were using a file manager with root on your phone you would be able to see files that don't normally show up on your computer. Thats the system root directory. But the important part is that /data/media=internal storage, you simply can't see it that way from a pc(at least I can't). If you can see the clockwordmod directory, copy that to 0 so that it replaces 0/clockworkmod and then try to restore your backup. That is the way it should be but I advise checking to see which one of those folders has something in it, and copying it to the empty one. Essentially ONE of the clockworkmod folders should have files, and one shouldn't. If BOTH folders are empty, I don't think you have a cwm backup......
Freegee automatically makes a backup when you run it, but was that your only backup? Again I don't use Rom Manager, but my understanding is if you make a backup with it, it would be in your clockworkmod folder. I wouldn't think it would be in the FreeGee folder. New FreeGee may be different(I know it was recently completely overhauled) but the version I had made backups of very important things but did not automatically make a cwm or twrp backup. Custom recoveries backup your data and system, FreeGee backed up your boot, sbl's, recovery, etc.
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eye_p said:
I'm experiencing a similar issue using the mako CWM from freegee. In addition to not seeing my backups, my storage is being devoured by an "emulated 0/ legacy folder". Is this safe to delete?
Also, it seems the recovery is reading from device/data/media/cwm and not from storage 0 or storage/emulated 0. I actually copied a backup to device/data/media in order to flash it.
I guess what I need is info on what I can safely do in file explorer to get back on track.
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I'm not sure about the emulated 0/legacy folder. What's in it? I just need a bit more info! You said you copied a backup to flash it. I'm assuming it failed? Are you also running AOSP 4.4 or another rom? For me it works like this. If I'm on lg stock or stock based roms my backups are in /data/media/cwm or /data/media/twrp depending on what recovery I am using. If I'm on something like CM or Omni, Carbon, etc it creates a 0 folder located in /data/media and uses that as the sdcard/internal storage. Once that happens that is what the recovery reads from. But are you saying the opposite happened?
Exactly! With the CWM in
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Forgive me. I hit submit by mistake.
What's happening in my case using the CWM is the backups are being saved to the storage 0 folder however, the recovery is reading the device/data/media folder when flashing. I'm running 201211 cm 11 with Banks standard gapps. I came from completely stock/rooted/unlocked zvc. I attempted to use the TWRP mako in freegee but when flash failed I tried the CWM mako and was successful.
As far as the emulated O/legacy its identical to storage 0.
I hope that's enough background. And thanks for your response.
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To clarify further coming from stock I got a failed flash for cm 11 using twrp. I then DL cwm from freegee and wiped all partitions except internal storage, flashed cm 11 and gapps with cwm and was successful except I had no service. In looking for my efs backup I discovered the emulated 0 folder(( storage0/emulated0/freegee/backup)) I moved the efs backup to the root of storage0 but cwm didn't list it. I made a note of what I was able to see in cwm which led me to device/data/media/cwm. I copied the efs to said folder and was then able to view and flash successfully with cwm. I hope that's clearer.
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Exactly! With the CWM in
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Forgive me. I hit submit by mistake.
What's happening in my case using the CWM is the backups are being saved to the storage 0 folder however, the recovery is reading the device/data/media folder when flashing. I'm running 201211 cm 11 with Banks standard gapps. I came from completely stock/rooted/unlocked zvc. I attempted to use the TWRP mako in freegee but when flash failed I tried the CWM mako and was successful.
As far as the emulated O/legacy its identical to storage 0.
I hope that's enough background. And thanks for your response.
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Lol it's ok, for a second I was confused. When you say you wanna get back on track, what exactly do you want to do? Are you trying to restore your stock backup to clean up and do a clean install of something else? Or are you just trying to restore a backup? And when you say flash failed for TWRP, do you mean installing twrp or flashing cm11 with twrp? CWM is definitely what you needed for that, but if you had twrp first, and made backups with it, they obviously wouldnt work with CWM. If your backups were all made with CWM, just copy the backups to the directory its reading from and it should pop up.
My best advice would be to do a fresh start. Restore your stock backup(hopefully you made one) and then once you are booted back into it, delete the 0 folders. If you see your backups in recovery but restoring them gives you a failed error, I don't know what to tell you there.
And no problem, I ask a lot of questions because the clearer we are with one another, the better I can help!
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eye_p said:
Exactly! With the CWM in
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Forgive me. I hit submit by mistake.
What's happening in my case using the CWM is the backups are being saved to the storage 0 folder however, the recovery is reading the device/data/media folder when flashing. I'm running 201211 cm 11 with Banks standard gapps. I came from completely stock/rooted/unlocked zvc. I attempted to use the TWRP mako in freegee but when flash failed I tried the CWM mako and was successful.
As far as the emulated O/legacy its identical to storage 0.
I hope that's enough background. And thanks for your response.
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To clarify further coming from stock I got a failed flash for cm 11 using twrp. I then DL cwm from freegee and wiped all partitions except internal storage, flashed cm 11 and gapps with cwm and was successful except I had no service. In looking for my efs backup I discovered the emulated 0 folder(( storage0/emulated0/freegee/backup)) I moved the efs backup to the root of storage0 but cwm didn't list it. I made a note of what I was able to see in cwm which led me to device/data/media/cwm. I copied the efs to said folder and was then able to view and flash successfully with cwm. I hope that's clearer.
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Oh ok sorry I didnt see the last reply. Can you tell me what was in the freegee/backup folder? I think the new freegee is pretty different....my version of freegee backed up efs, but they were named differently if I backed them up with twrp.
But the fact remains that if your stock backup was twrp, you cant restore that with cwm. If you want to go back to stock to start over, you have to flash twrp again.
And are you also using rom manager or doing this manually?
Lol! I'm willing to answer all questions that lead to good answers.
I flashed TWRP with no problem. Using twrp i made a backup and flashed cm11 but failed. I then rebooted system opened freegee and got the cwm mako, did another backup, rewiped, and flashed cm 11 and gapps successfully. When I booted into system I had no service and went to flash the efs backup I made which is what sent me on my goose chase. Hahaha!
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Lol! I'm willing to answer all questions that lead to good answers.
I flashed TWRP with no problem. Using twrp i made a backup and flashed cm11 but failed. I then rebooted system opened freegee and got the cwm mako, did another backup, rewiped, and flashed cm 11 and gapps successfully. When I booted into system I had no service and went to flash the efs backup I made which is what sent me on my goose chase. Hahaha!
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Yeah a lot of people failed flashing cm11 with TWRP. What did you back up efs with, freegee? The only recovery Ive used that showed EFS as a backup option was TWRP 2.5.0.0. Newer TWRP didnt for me(but that may not have been the twrp from this version of FreeGee). I've only used CWM once on this phone to try cm11, but I flashed back to TWRP and my daily driver backup.
As far as the freegee/backup folder it contains the efs backups I made with twrp and cwm as well as the twrp and cwm mako zips and a bunch of boot image files.
My goal initially was to make sure I can flash back to my stock image which you have answered.
My next thing is that this emulated0 folder, which is identical to storage0 is taking up all of my storage space and I want to know if deleting it will muck things up.
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As far as the freegee/backup folder it contains the efs backups I made with twrp and cwm as well as the twrp and cwm mako zips and a bunch of boot image files.
My goal initially was to make sure I can flash back to my stock image which you have answered.
My next thing is that this emulated0 folder, which is identical to storage0 is taking up all of my storage space and I want to know if deleting it will muck things up.
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If you flash back to stock, the answer to that is no. Flash back to stock then just delete the whole 0 folder. Stock uses data/media/, AOSP/CM based uses /data/media/0. So storage 0 and emulated 0 can both go once you are back in stock.
That makes sense. I'll give it a whirl and post results. I'll flash back to twrp recovery, flash my stock backup and try to clean up my sd card. I'm using es file explorer btw.
Thank you for all of the quick fire responses, especially for a Saturday night.
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That makes sense. I'll give it a whirl and post results. I'll flash back to twrp recovery, flash my stock backup and try to clean up my sd card. I'm using es file explorer btw.
Thank you for all of the quick fire responses, especially for a Saturday night.
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Haha, no prob. Just happened to be around tonight! Good luck!
HPTesla said:
Ok, I'm a bit confused here. Are you still using AOSP 4.4? Did you flash Gapps? Just wondering why you are installing from the web instead of the play store(maybe you just meant play store when you said web). Since you are browsing files from your pc Internal Storage IS /data/media. If you were using a file manager with root on your phone you would be able to see files that don't normally show up on your computer. Thats the system root directory. But the important part is that /data/media=internal storage, you simply can't see it that way from a pc(at least I can't). If you can see the clockwordmod directory, copy that to 0 so that it replaces 0/clockworkmod and then try to restore your backup. That is the way it should be but I advise checking to see which one of those folders has something in it, and copying it to the empty one. Essentially ONE of the clockworkmod folders should have files, and one shouldn't. If BOTH folders are empty, I don't think you have a cwm backup......
Freegee automatically makes a backup when you run it, but was that your only backup? Again I don't use Rom Manager, but my understanding is if you make a backup with it, it would be in your clockworkmod folder. I wouldn't think it would be in the FreeGee folder. New FreeGee may be different(I know it was recently completely overhauled) but the version I had made backups of very important things but did not automatically make a cwm or twrp backup. Custom recoveries backup your data and system, FreeGee backed up your boot, sbl's, recovery, etc.
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I'm not sure about the emulated 0/legacy folder. What's in it? I just need a bit more info! You said you copied a backup to flash it. I'm assuming it failed? Are you also running AOSP 4.4 or another rom? For me it works like this. If I'm on lg stock or stock based roms my backups are in /data/media/cwm or /data/media/twrp depending on what recovery I am using. If I'm on something like CM or Omni, Carbon, etc it creates a 0 folder located in /data/media and uses that as the sdcard/internal storage. Once that happens that is what the recovery reads from. But are you saying the opposite happened?
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Still using AOSP 4.4.
I don't have play store so I tried to get apps off web. I don't know why I don't have play store, I would assume it would come with the custom rom, but one of my main problems now is I can't add any apps additional what came with the rom.
The data/media thing makes sense, but I still can't get a file viewer because I cant get apps to show up.
I have copied every image file I can find on my phone into the clockworkmod folder and still my rom manager doesn't see any back-ups. several of these images are actually called "backup." I am pretty sure though that none of them were in the clockworkmod folder origonally. How do I flash the Freegee backup?
I think my main bottleneck right now is getting any apps to install. any thoughts.
Thanks a lot.
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Still using AOSP 4.4.
I don't have play store so I tried to get apps off web. I don't know why I don't have play store, I would assume it would come with the custom rom, but one of my main problems now is I can't add any apps additional what came with the rom.
The data/media thing makes sense, but I still can't get a file viewer because I cant get apps to show up.
I have copied every image file I can find on my phone into the clockworkmod folder and still my rom manager doesn't see any back-ups. several of these images are actually called "backup." I am pretty sure though that none of them were in the clockworkmod folder origonally. How do I flash the Freegee backup?
I think my main bottleneck right now is getting any apps to install. any thoughts.
Thanks a lot.
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Install 4.4 Gapps Standard the same way you installed AOSP 4.4. Links/directions should be in the thread where you got the rom. EDIT: If you installed 4.4 via rom manager, dont install gapps that way. Actually reboot into recovery and install the gapps zip file. Just wipe cache and dalvik then install gapps. Im not sure why you cant install apps. If it's from the web, you may need to enable "Install from unknown sources" under security. But if you already have, Im not sure. May be a rom/bad flash issue.
I should have said this before, stop using rom manager. Apps like that seem like they make things easier, but then something like this happens. One size fits all apps of any kind can have issues depending on model of phone. It's not difficult to reboot into recovery and make/restore your backups that way. Its far less likely that something will go wrong or get lost. Just food for thought moving forward.
You've already restored the backup once so it should be there, but if neither of the clockworkmod folders had anything in them, that's not a good sign......
I believe you flash the freegee backup from freegee itself. There should be a "restore with backups option. But again, it's not the same kind of backup you get with twrp or cwm. Those recoveries make nandroid backups which is your major system components i.e, your system and data from whatever rom you're using/apps you have at the time. Depending on the recovery they may back up EFS, cache, boot, etc. FreeGee backs up boot, efs partitions and sbl partitions. I've never seen CWM or TWRP touch the sbl, but if you lose the sbl, you lose download mode(which is the ONLY way to fix your phone if something goes horribly wrong!). Maybe new FreeGee is different, but the older version of the app's backup was meant to get you back where you could flash something, a backup, new rom, etc - but didnt just make a nandroid of your current working rom.
Some of this post may help you as well. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2050582
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Install 4.4 Gapps Standard the same way you installed AOSP 4.4. [/url]
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Looking for this but can't seem to find it. If you could point me to this rom for ls970 I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
SmashFace said:
Looking for this but can't seem to find it. If you could point me to this rom for ls970 I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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It's in this 4.4 port for the ls970 thread. Scroll down to the directions. You'll see it say Install Rom, Flash Gapps with a link to Banks gapps. Gapps=Google Apps. You usually have to flash that separately with roms to get things like the play store app.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2515345
Hey everyone, I've recently backed up my stock rooted 4.4.2 TW rom (OTA) so I could flash a custom rom to check out some of the other KitKat development going on.
After fullfilling my curiosity, I wanted to restore my most recent TWRP backup, but after going through all the motions, TWRP says "restore successful in 536 seconds" which seems a little fast for a TW backup/restore. I restart the system, and my phone was stuck on the Galaxy S4 flash screen. Desperate, I then rebooted into TWRP to do a factory reset, but after trying to boot into the system after that, same results.
I have a feeling this is because I have the recent NB4 bootloader (Knox is tripped) and my backups are stored on my external SDcard.
If anyone knows any fixes for this issue, I would appreciate any input. I did search the web for any threads with anyone who is experiencing the same issue as me, but I don't think anyone was dumb enough to download the OTA, then root their phone.
I am also willing to reflash the stock firmware (4.4.2 OTA) from SamMobile website via mobile Odin. However, I'm not sure if this is a risky method to get back to stock 4.4.2.
Thanks in advance.
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I would also like to mention that I have two backups, one was April 1st, and the other one was April 3rd. They both are backups of the same stock ROM, and they both won't restore in TWRP.
In ES File explorer, I can see that both backups are taking up about 4 GBs of storage, so I know the data is there.
Thanks again...
Just had the same problem with mine
paulrileysullivan said:
I would also like to mention that I have two backups, one was April 1st, and the other one was April 3rd. They both are backups of the same stock ROM, and they both won't restore in TWRP.
In ES File explorer, I can see that both backups are taking up about 4 GBs of storage, so I know the data is there.
Thanks again...
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Just had the same problem with mine, There was something wrong with the TWRP 2.7.0.0 recovery. I could not flash any back-up I previously made, or get it to install any zip files either.
How I got around it...go to TWRP website and get the latest Odin flashable version 2.7.0.1 (Tar file) and flash it that way. From there I was able to get into recovery and my previous back-ups flashed properly.
Best of luck to you, TWRP recovery updates can be hit or miss at times (various versions). This is not the first time I have had issues from trying to update TWRP (especially when doing it VIA goo-manager... updating by Odin seems to be the better option from my experiences)
crockashat said:
Just had the same problem with mine, There was something wrong with the TWRP 2.7.0.0 recovery. I could not flash any back-up I previously made, or get it to install any zip files either.
How I got around it...go to TWRP website and get the latest Odin flashable version 2.7.0.1 (Tar file) and flash it that way. From there I was able to get into recovery and my previous back-ups flashed properly.
Best of luck to you, TWRP recovery updates can be hit or miss at times (various versions). This is not the first time I have had issues from trying to update TWRP (especially when doing it VIA goo-manager... updating by Odin seems to be the better option from my experiences)
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I tried 2.7.0.1 and 2.7.0.0 and they both aren't working. I used the latest version to do the backups, but it just won't restore! Its terrible. Do you think Knox has anything to do with this issue?
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paulrileysullivan said:
I tried 2.7.0.1 and 2.7.0.0 and they both aren't working. I used the latest version to do the backups, but it just won't restore! Its terrible. Do you think Knox has anything to do with this issue?
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Try TWRP 2.6.3.0 or try Philz Touch CWM. Id say one will work
pahick said:
Try TWRP 2.6.3.0 or try Philz Touch CWM. Id say one will work
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Will Philz Touch CWM be able to restore a TWRP backup? I just tried TWRP 2.6.3.0, and it still didn't work.
If I were you I would try 2.6.3.1, if that doesn't work, try 2.5.0.2. For future backups, (not sure if you do this or if others do this, but I do) restore the backup you just made, so you can be 100% sure it restores correctly.
I also had problems just like that and I would point you here to see the discussion and solution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2691336
Same issue here note 3 sprint tried every single twrp for 4.4.2 and neither one restores but when i back it up to internal it works ,im thinking it has something to do with sd card read on twrp side
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I just got my 64 gig sd card i doubt it can be card its brand new and also when i dload stuff it goes on my sd card and if i leave the file there for more than 10 min it goes bad . Like zip files wont open or flash and when i download it to internal it works fine.
Any reason to choose one method over the other?
I'm running rooted stock 4.3 (MK1) on SM-P600 and I've done a nandroid backup in TWRP (which I'm assuming I can restore if I don't like KK).
drdoombot said:
Any reason to choose one method over the other?
I'm running rooted stock 4.3 (MK1) on SM-P600 and I've done a nandroid backup in TWRP (which I'm assuming I can restore if I don't like KK).
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Odin is clean install (wipe everything flash a fresh O/S). OTA is upgrade or dirty flash, you still able to keep your setup and all your installed apps. If your phone is running smooth without any issue then OTA should be fine. If you have weird issues, then Odin is recommended. I see you already have TWRP and probably already rooted that means you can not use OTA method and if you use Odin you will wipe out everything including TWRP, root, your setup all the download apps, system/user data and so on. Your phone will be like a new one. This bring us to the point that you will NOT able to restore 4.3 (you will need to reflash TWRP and so on..) and we have mix reports about once you on Kitkat it's not possible to flash back 4.3 due to different bootloader.
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Odin is clean install (wipe everything flash a fresh O/S). OTA is upgrade or dirty flash, you still able to keep your setup and all your installed apps. If your phone is running smooth without any issue then OTA should be fine. If you have weird issues, then Odin is recommended. I see you already have TWRP and probably already rooted that means you can not use OTA method and if you use Odin you will wipe out everything including TWRP, root, your setup all the download apps, system/user data and so on. Your phone will be like a new one. This bring us to the point that you will NOT able to restore 4.3 (you will need to reflash TWRP and so on..) and we have mix reports about once you on Kitkat it's not possible to flash back 4.3 due to different bootloader.
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I updated via Odin and it was a dirty flash and everything works fine. I can still create a folder on the external sd and copy a file from the internal sd to the folder that I created on the external sd.
Regards
colin
colint3 said:
I updated via Odin and it was a dirty flash and everything works fine. I can still create a folder on the external sd and copy a file from the internal sd to the folder that I created on the external sd.
Regards
colin
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The same for me, but I had to root it again. The root was lost, but everything alse working fine. ( I have sm-p601)