Hi all
I would be grateful for some advise. This is my first phone with a dynamic partition for system and when I try to backup super in twrp it always fails with no error code at all.
I can't seem to find much support and would be grateful for some help to troubleshoot this please. Everything works apart from that- fully rooted etc no issues.
Also, on a side, would I need to restore system if I wanted to restore to a precious backup or would just data suffice? When my phone in the past has borked I have always restored data, boot, recovery and system to get back to a previous state.
Thanks everyone
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My phone was on the fritz this morning and, after trying multiple things, I finally decided to restore my phone using a back-up created just the other day. All was going smoothly until sd-ext.img was not found. It's trying to skip restoring it but has stayed stagnant for over 10 minutes. What should I do? Boot, system, data, and cache were all restored... Would any harm be done in taking out the battery and trying again? Please advise! Any help appreciated. I've used this same back-up before and this issue never arose; hoping my phone didn't just die. :crying:
Cellulah said:
My phone was on the fritz this morning and, after trying multiple things, I finally decided to restore my phone using a back-up created just the other day. All was going smoothly until sd-ext.img was not found. It's trying to skip restoring it but has stayed stagnant for over 10 minutes. What should I do? Boot, system, data, and cache were all restored... Would any harm be done in taking out the battery and trying again? Please advise! Any help appreciated. I've used this same back-up before and this issue never arose; hoping my phone didn't just die. :crying:
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It should be fine to pull the battery. All of the important stuff restored. Do you have an sd-ext? If not it will always say not found, but should proceed on without issue. Try to boot, if everything is fine great, if not do a full wipe and try to resore the backup again.
cmlusco said:
It should be fine to pull the battery. All of the important stuff restored. Do you have an sd-ext? If not it will always say not found, but should proceed on without issue. Try to boot, if everything is fine great, if not do a full wipe and try to resore the backup again.
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Ending up pulling the battery and it booted just fine. Thanks! :victory:
I am trying to create a master backup of my phone with all of my apps installed and set up the way I want them as a kind of master reference point that I can always go back to in case of problems. I had thought that the way to do this was to set everything up and then do a Nandroid backup from TWRP. However, when I restore it completely resets my system.
I have:
Oneplus 3
TWRP 3.1-0-0
lineage-14.1-20170413-nightly-oneplus3
I am also getting the annoying Dm-Verity message at boot. I have tried to kill it but for now, as it is only cosmetic, I will leave it.
I would appreciate any help.
I continue to research this and I have found this from the twrp.me web page.
"On most devices shipping with Android 6.0 or higher, the device maker has enabled dm-verity as a security measure. The device will signature check blocks of data on the system partition during boot at the block level. The usage of dm-verity prevents TWRP from being able to successfully restore a normal system backup. On most of these devices, you will see an option on the backup page for System Image. A system image backup takes up more space than a regular system backup, but the system image backup is a bit-perfect backup that, when restored, will not break dm-verity (assuming that you don't break dm-verity before making the backup). On a handful of devices, you may also find a Vendor and Vendor Image backup option. The same rules apply with regards to dm-verity. If you need a perfect "go back to completely stock" backup then you should be using System Image (and Vendor Image, when available) instead of just system."
So it sounds like if I make a more complete backup I should not have any issues. But my backups included everything possible to backup.
Still searching for answers.
OK. I just created a backup of a very basic (no apps installed) lineage install. Just creating (not restoring) the backup without flashing anything factory reset the phone.
Flash latest twrp (3.0.4-1). it'll solve your problem..
Thanks vinothkumarv for the reply. I will go get it off twrp.me now. But while I do that, wouldn't TWRP 3.1-0-0 (the one that I am using) be newer than 3.0.4-1?
twrp.me doesn't have 3.0.4-1 listed. A web search brings me to this page that indicates that it is a bug in recent versions of twrp. Another page has a couple of users saying that a modified "blue spark" twrp does not have this issue. I will do some experimenting and get back tomorrow.
Thank you vinothkumarv for the suggestion. I was barking up the wrong tree (thinking dm-verity was responsible) until your suggestion.
hi boxylisher, even i faced the same issue. if I enter twrp, it'll do reset my phone. after flashing this twrp, it resolved that issue.. you can also try this..
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twrp.me doesn't have 3.0.4-1 listed. A web search brings me to this page that indicates that it is a bug in recent versions of twrp. Another page has a couple of users saying that a modified "blue spark" twrp does not have this issue. I will do some experimenting and get back tomorrow.
Thank you vinothkumarv for the suggestion. I was barking up the wrong tree (thinking dm-verity was responsible) until your suggestion.
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TWRP 3.1.0-0 is compatible with OOS but not with other ROMs. So you will have to use either jcadduono's or eng.stk's versions of TWRP which are compatible with both OOS and other ROMs.
dammit....I just flashed the right twrp rebooted recovery. did another backup deleted my old one then rebooted and phone is wiped factory reset. Its because I forgot to turn of screen security?!! dam...oh man...im bummed....... EDIT. It wiped my existing ROM. Im trying to restore the backup that I made with the correct TWRP fingers crossed. I never had any of these problems on my OP2 this phones kicking my ass!! it didnt work its wiped again fdam
Hello Dollar, Yes I feel your pain. It's clearly a bug in TWRP. I am now using bluespark TWRP and everything is running the way it is supposed to.. I have Backed up and restored without this bug wiping my system. I have not set a password yet (and I won't until after I make another "master 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
short-story, i ****ed up while fiddling with my phone.
i wipe everything in twrp (dalvik, system, data, chache), then proceed to restore a backup.
the only backup that i have is a backup from when i was about to root the phone, https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/oneplus-3-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t3398733.
but silly me the only thing that i backup was the Boot and System only.
if i restore both it will require me to also flash supersu or else it wont boot,
if i restore system only it will boot.
now here's the problem, both do works but the wifi wont turned on. it practically brick my phone...
is there a way to fix this?
or do i have to flash stock rom or something? if i have to, how to actually do it properly... im afraid i'll f up again
edit:
i've tried flashing rom from oneplus official website, it said
E3004: This package is for "One Plus 3" devices; this is a ""
nvm guys, figured it out on my own
i use unbricking method, https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-3/how-to/unbrick-phone-msmdownloadtool-v3-0-6-t3575801 to practically rejuvenate my phone, it literally undid everything.
and the rest is updating and re-rooting my device again...
cheers,