I'll make it short and sweet:
I'm using the clockwork rom manager.
I chose to wipe, then backup existing ROM, before it installs the new one
It is NOT frozen, repeat: NOT frozen. I can press the call end button, and it will take away the text, and only show the background image (box with an arrow and an android with a progress bar), and if I press it again it dims the background and brings the text back.
This is what it says on my screen right now:
Waiting for SD Card to mount (20
s)
SD Card Mounted...
Preparing to install ROM...
SD Card space free: 1815MB
Backing up boot...
Backing up recovery...
Backing up system...
Backing up data...
dalvik-cache
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And it's been on this screen for really 20-30 minutes now, I would pull the battery, but... I am so freaking scared of bricking it I wanted to get some feedback before I do.
come on... 16 views and no "sure" or "NOOO!!!"
I'm not trying to bug people here, but I'm trying to save myself from bricking my phone!
Pulled it.
My phone was getting way too warm for my liking.
It turned on just fine.
Wow that crazy!
now that you remind me i need to make a nand backup and try out the new Clockwork Recovery, But yea the only way to brick the phone is if it was actually writing something to the phone which it looked like it wasn't, and you pulled the battery.
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I had Lidroid 2.4 before and that gave me CWM lidroid version
I reflashed to stock JFD, flashed stock 2.3 JVH from ODIN then flashed Tweaky on top of it
Someone all my 3rd party apps turned grey after I rebooted Tweaky. I installed them, I stayed in android, they are fine but as soon as I restarted the phone, all icons turned grey and say "app not installed" when I tried to launch.
The update.zip in my SD is a clockwork 2.0, if I chose to flash it in CWM lidroid, it does give me pure CWM 2.0 back but it doesn't stay permanent. As soon as I restarted, CWM lidroid is back.
Help! I really need some help.
[SOLVED]I had Lidroid original 2.4 flashed via ODIN.
I nandroid backed up from CWM 3 and update.zip for this lidroid 2.5
CWM could never generate an MD5 checksum file for me but before, it could generate the MD5 myself and it still worked.
This time, the flash didn't go well so I decided to restore before reflashing again later.
All apps are there but no app data, no sms, no contacts appeared. Even my home screens are changed to default arragements, with all default widget, nothing similar to what I had. Games are not executable anymore: some games forced close and some just flashed my screen before getting back to app drawer.
I tried unyaffs my nandroid data.img and I can tell that nandroid did not backup my data/com...telephony/mmssms.db
Why did this happen to me? It's very strange. my friend's captivate works flawlessly!
I'm really confused at the moment and I really need my contacts and sms. games can be re-played but those are not "replayable".
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Suggestion, make a back up also on the ext sd card and make a backup copy on your computer, this always prevents events like this. You can open your int sd card and copy the whole thing into a folder on the computer.
As far as why nandroid did not work, not sure never had a failure with it. My guess you did not verify that is worked or had all information you wanted backed up.
At least it is not bricked
good luck getting everything reloaded.
oka1 said:
Suggestion, make a back up also on the ext sd card and make a backup copy on your computer, this always prevents events like this. You can open your int sd card and copy the whole thing into a folder on the computer.
As far as why nandroid did not work, not sure never had a failure with it. My guess you did not verify that is worked or had all information you wanted backed up.
At least it is not bricked
good luck getting everything reloaded.
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there is no ext sd in fact. And normally I use SMS backup and restore, but I thought nandroid can be even better so ...
I know that this is not a normal nandroid behaviour. with my G1, Milestone before, I just nandroid backed up and then restored, everything would be back to normal, even saved game plays.
But this time is really frustrating.
It's not even my phone, that's the problem. If it's an unexpected error, I would just accept it but when it comes to girls ... you know ...
Such a nice start for sunday. Thanks anyway.
I just updated OP and title as the question is now changed.
I own a rooted Samsung Vibrant running cm7, overclocked to 1.3ghz, with cwm recovery. My external SD was full to a byte and my internal had about 100mb free, so I decided to move all my apps on SD to internal. I used an app called App2SD that, among other things, lets you batch move apps. I selected everything on the SD and started a batch move. Like normal, it had to bring up the settings page for each individual app -- annoying, but necessary for the app to work on nonrooted phones. After repeatedly hitting "move to phone" -- back -- "move to phone" -- back -- "move to phone" etc. After almost freezing, and a few metric tons of lag, I finally finished. However, the phone immediately started acting weird. Apps would crash, even after reinstall. This included built in apps like "messaging." It also had the "low memory" alert on, even though the only memory that had gone down was the internal, and it still had >1gb free. (The notification might have actually appeared before, not sure.) Today, after getting into a bit of a jam because I couldn't text, I rebooted the phone. It stopped at the boot animation. I happen to have Live Dmesg, by Chainfire, which replaces the animation with the BIOS output at startup, so I could see that it was getting stuck in a loop after the normal PHONE_ACTIVE=1 message that is the last one I can read (it stops for a few seconds after that, the rest moves way too fast, and the phone boots less than a second later). I have tried rebooting several times, booting to recovery, rebooting, removing battery, etc. Nothing worked. I could probably get it working, as I can access CWM without much trouble, but that would require losing all my data. Yes, I use Titanium, and USB debugging is on, but it would still be a lot of trouble, and I would lose a significant amount of app data.
Any help would be welcome, thanks!
I suppose, in CWM you could mount your internal SD, and backup all of your data and such. Maybe try to move things around manually, and get it to a working state again.
Toast6977 said:
I suppose, in CWM you could mount your internal SD, and backup all of your data and such. Maybe try to move things around manually, and get it to a working state again.
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When you say to back up the internal memory, do you mean for safety, or to then reset to stock cm7, or what? I don't see how simply backing it up could help.
I don't think I could just move things around, unless I can get a hint from the output from live dmesg. I don't even know where the problem is -- are there any app2sd-able apps that are necessary for system stability?
Well, I guess I assumed you may have an idea of some of the offending apps that may have caused the problem by moving them. If you mounted, could have manually tried to move or remove them and maybe your phone wouldnt be borked anymore.
Probably would be easier to Odin to stock and start over.. move things over a bit slower and possibly one at a time so you can catch any errors or problems with the transfer.
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Well, I guess I assumed you may have an idea of some of the offending apps that may have caused the problem by moving them. If you mounted, could have manually tried to move or remove them and maybe your phone wouldnt be borked anymore.
Probably would be easier to Odin to stock and start over.. move things over a bit slower and possibly one at a time so you can catch any errors or problems with the transfer.
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I don't think I would even have to Odin, I can easily access CWM and reflash cm7 from there, right?
Also, I don't think the problem would happen again, I have done the same several times and I think it was due to the extreme lag and freezes that something got mis-moved.
I will examine the bios output, and if that doesn't give me any new info, revert to stock cm7 with cwm. Or with Odin through AIO if that doesn't work.
EDIT:
CWM'd back to a May backup. Old, but better than stock CM. Boots fine. Will try transferring apps a bit more calmly.
Just preferential to me, I rarely do it, so when I need to start fresh I just go that route.
Glad you got sorted out.
What do you mean stock CM?
sent from the depths of helly bean
CyanogenMod as downloaded. Not "stock" exactly, but you know what I mean.
I recently flashed to Helly Bean. even better. However, the superuser is acting odd, denying access and asking repeatedly. ANy help would be welcome, though you guys have already helped me out, and thanks for that.
I am trying to upgrade from CM7 to CM10 using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35669871#post35669871
Got everything in place, get into recovery, start the backup, and that's as far as I can get because the backup hangs. If I use CWM, it gets to a point where it says "Baseline.par" and hangs, if I use TWRP it gets system backed up, gets to "Generating MD5 system.ext4.win" and hangs. I tried with an 2gb card & an 16gb card. Same results. I've let it sit for a good 45 minutes and nothing.
Not sure if this matters with it, but after I re-booted I forgot to swap out the cards & still had the one with all the files on it in the nook. The nook was not plugged in to USB. As it came back up, it gave a message that I had a "bad boot file (in memory)". Is this because I didn't have the USB cord attached? I've never gotten that message before.
I posted all this in the thread itself, so I apologize for a bit of a double post but I'm hoping someone might notice the problem if it's in it's own thread & I don't really think it has to do with loading CM10, anyway.
Suggestions? Thanks!
rsdown said:
I am trying to upgrade from CM7 to CM10 using this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35669871#post35669871
Got everything in place, get into recovery, start the backup, and that's as far as I can get because the backup hangs. If I use CWM, it gets to a point where it says "Baseline.par" and hangs, if I use TWRP it gets system backed up, gets to "Generating MD5 system.ext4.win" and hangs. I tried with an 2gb card & an 16gb card. Same results. I've let it sit for a good 45 minutes and nothing.
Not sure if this matters with it, but after I re-booted I forgot to swap out the cards & still had the one with all the files on it in the nook. The nook was not plugged in to USB. As it came back up, it gave a message that I had a "bad boot file (in memory)". Is this because I didn't have the USB cord attached? I've never gotten that message before.
I posted all this in the thread itself, so I apologize for a bit of a double post but I'm hoping someone might notice the problem if it's in it's own thread & I don't really think it has to do with loading CM10, anyway.
Suggestions? Thanks!
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Use Titanium Backup to backup all your files. Or manually save them all on your computer then put them in the right spots when you update.
Hi,
I decided to flash a new rom and was in CWM but someone came in. So I saw I pressed some button for internal memory, cluster I gues, as it has options 0,1024 and etc. On display stayed disabled back button. So I have no option to go back, but I didn't select anything so decided is good idea to unplug battery. But here is the most stupid thing somehow I pressed that button again trying to remove battery . So I just waited for process to finish. I thought it's for sd card, so no worries I can format it later. But on boot instead small unlock label now lot's of lines and select. Somehow it started and screen was not touching correctly. I managed to install new cwm as this didn't work I used fastboot metod, and now waiting for my last backup to restore.
Edit: My files were intact on internal or external memory!
Please tell me what I did and how to fix it?
Zvdo said:
Hi,
I decided to flash a new rom and was in CWM but someone came in. So I saw I pressed some button for internal memory, cluster I gues, as it has options 0,1024 and etc. On display stayed disabled back button. So I have no option to go back, but I didn't select anything so decided is good idea to unplug battery. But here is the most stupid thing somehow I pressed that button again trying to remove battery . So I just waited for process to finish. I thought it's for sd card, so no worries I can format it later. But on boot instead small unlock label now lot's of lines and select. Somehow it started and screen was not touching correctly. I managed to install new cwm as this didn't work I used fastboot metod, and now waiting for my last backup to restore.
Edit: My files were intact on internal or external memory!
Please tell me what I did and how to fix it?
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sounds like a repartitioning. try viewing it through partition wizard (i think that was the name of it) and see what partitions are available on your phone/ sd card
Sent from my DROIDX using xda app-developers app
palmbeach05 said:
sounds like a repartitioning. try viewing it through partition wizard (i think that was the name of it) and see what partitions are available on your phone/ sd card
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BIG THANKSSS MAN!!!!
Fast reply!
It look I didn't partition anything just format it. I tried to mount it in recovery but I only see my memory where apps staying.
I did some research and found that pds partition has calibration data for your phone. I didn't know what I formated, as I was in mount menu and there are lot of format options. And yes, it should have back button! So I had backup in recovery but restore did not work (same problem menu and start without logo). I still read more on that pds and found there is pdsfix made for people who lost their. But that's dangerous as there is your mac and such stuff. And looked at my backup and made pds file is there so I gave it a shot through recovery and did only that. Now I still have no logo but calibration is good and phone is back to normal. I think I could flash start logo with some rom. I'm confused if it's in pds and I restored it why it's not showing now, if it's not in pds why gone in first place. So recovery did not recover everything which is odd.
Here is Solution:
Find your old pdf and restore it in recovery, advanced restore. If you have no backup of pds use pdsfix (in thisforum)
I'll keep looking on logo and write result, as it's 3 in the morning I'll write tomorrow.
Edit: I just flashed new boot logo and it fixed all those letters at boot. I found that I can control recovery with touch buttons, I didn't know that and that's how I messed up. And in that menu whatever you select format partition every other menu has 6-7 safety and back, weird :? :S
I post my solution so if others have problems may be I can help.
Hello, my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Wifi tablet is stuck on a restart loop. While I've encountered restart loops in the past, and found that resetting to factory settings usually fixes it, this issue in particular has left me speechless.
Firstly, the tablet boots up to the lock screen. I can get through the lockscreen and either sit around on the homescreen or fiddle around with apps - but only for a minute or so, or longer (it's quite unpredictable) because after some arbitrary period of time, the tablet will automatically restart itself. Basically, it automatically restarts itself after booting up to the lock/homescreen.
What I've noticed, as a result of these restarts, is that the tablet doesn't save any settings I've modified prior to the automatic restart. Like, say if I were to remove a widget off my homescreen; after the restart, the widget is still there, having reverted itself back onto my screen. Additionally, things like Wifi and Bluetooth revert themselves back to their original on/off positions after every restart.
Secondly, I can enter recovery mode just fine. HOWEVER ... attempting to backup my device with CWM Recovery causes the tablet to restart itself, cancelling the backup and just flat out screwing me over. The tablet manages to do the following, telling me this: backing up boot image, back up recovery image, back up system, free space, done freeing space. Then after that, it starts backing up other things, but after that, it restarts unpredictably while it's doing so. I haven't tried 'backup to Micro SD ' yet (mostly because I don't have any empty Micro SD Cards) but I'll try that later today - though I doubt that'll work.
Lastly, I've tried just plugging in my tablet to my computer, and dragging and dropping my files onto my desktop, but the tablet doesn't seem to respond to anything. Attempting to copy and paste anything results in an 'Unspecified Error' message on my PC, and the copying process aborts itself.
So with all this said: how the hell do I backup my tablet? I think a factory reset can fix this, but I can't even BACK UP my files because Recovery Mode is seemingly susceptible to this omnipotent restart loop.
Are there any fixes to this, other than a factory reset? I'm on the verge of just saying 'f it' and wipe my tablet anyways, but if my files ... which includes my notes for my classes (-.-) can be saved, I'll try it.
Okay, so I managed to get CWM Recovery to backup my stuff on my external Micro SD Card ....
... but when I try to Wipe Data/Factory Reset it doesn't work ... it doesn't wipe anything. When I reboot, Cyanogenmod is still there, my lockscreen settings are still active, my homescreens are still there - the reset didn't do anything.
How do I wipe my device, now if CWM won't do it? Arrrghhh .... somebody help ;_;
Since I can't move my documents, pictures, music, etc from my internal memory to my PC, I would rather not wipe the device fully.
I think the only way would be to reflash using ODIN. But this will likely lose all data.
Also, I think you need to be in this forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-2/help