Hi all,
If you're intending to factory reset your phone but worried about loosing your Need For Speed Shift stats, take note. You can back up your stats very easily
When plugged into your PC, on the internal SD of your Atrix, you will find an Android directory. Go into the Data and in that the com.ea.nfsshift directory. There is a files directory. Inside that there are 2 files "gamedata" and "gamesett".
Back these up to your PC, and then reset your phone.
Once you've reset your phone, and before you run NFS Shift for the first time, simply copy the backed up files into the same directory ...\Android\data\com.ea.nfsshift\files\
Unplug your phone, and open NFS Shift.
Bam you're back in business
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In other words: how to delete my accounts with the least hassle (the new owner wants both OS on the tablet)? I know its easy in Android but WebOS...
There are 3 levels of erasing the device in WebOS: is there any chance that the first or second (not full erase) will delete the account and leaves Android untouched? If not, then I guess it will be full erase, but then how would I reinstall Android without re-registering WebOS first?
I think I have an idea - if you're willing to try it out.
Here in the forum, there's a thread on how to reset it back to complete stock partitions and everything. Follow that guide. Then, once you've done that, you boot into WebOS. Log in with your account (Follow me here for a sec), and create the cminstall folder on your /media folder. Then go and run WebOSDoctor again, which'll erase all of the main content, but not the SDCard / Media folder. After that's finished, do a hard reboot, put it into recovery, and run AcmeInstaller (or AcmeInstaller2 if you want CM9).
That SHOULD theoretically do what you're aiming for. Then you power the device off and hand it over.
ve6ay said:
I think I have an idea - if you're willing to try it out.
Here in the forum, there's a thread on how to reset it back to complete stock partitions and everything. Follow that guide. Then, once you've done that, you boot into WebOS. Log in with your account (Follow me here for a sec), and create the cminstall folder on your /media folder. Then go and run WebOSDoctor again, which'll erase all of the main content, but not the SDCard / Media folder. After that's finished, do a hard reboot, put it into recovery, and run AcmeInstaller (or AcmeInstaller2 if you want CM9).
That SHOULD theoretically do what you're aiming for. Then you power the device off and hand it over.
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why not just run webdoctor to erase the main content but not the sdcard / media folder? to reset android I would only need to erase Google account, isn't it so? I mean skipping first 3 rows in the citation.
Thanks for idea, anyway.
So I took a risk and chose the third option (full erase, not secured). Account was deleted and Android was still there. Moboot was not harmed either.
I hope that will help you sell yours should you decide its obsolete!
I have messed up my tablet, my tablet is rooted i went and replaced couple of the system apps by using root explorer and that completely made my system go crazy so i then did a system reset and now i keep getting unfortunately, setup wizard had stopped and i cant go anywhere from there. my boot loader is not unlocked. is there any way to reinstall the stock ROM like from adb or something. please any help is appreciated. I have also tried to reset the rom by holding down power and vol down and wipe data from there, and still the same thing. when i plug it in the computer i am still able to see the transformer so i can transfer files to and from the transformer i just cant get it passed the welcome screen.
spencerj2001 said:
I have messed up my tablet, my tablet is rooted i went and replaced couple of the system apps by using root explorer and that completely made my system go crazy so i then did a system reset and now i keep getting unfortunately, setup wizard had stopped and i cant go anywhere from there. my boot loader is not unlocked. is there any way to reinstall the stock ROM like from adb or something. please any help is appreciated. I have also tried to reset the rom by holding down power and vol down and wipe data from there, and still the same thing. when i plug it in the computer i am still able to see the transformer so i can transfer files to and from the transformer i just cant get it passed the welcome screen.
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Does adb on your computer see your device, since it's not fully booted?
Connect your tablet with USB cable.
On your PC, in the same folder as your adb files, open a command prompt in that location (shift+right click).
Type "adb devices" and see if yours come up as connected.
I doubt it will though, sounds like how I bricked my first prime, when I pushed a deodexed framework to it.
Might also want to try looking in the Dev section, under the how to unbrick your device thread, and see if you can attempt to revert to a different firmware via installing a blob file, but if you can't access your internal or external SD cards, to read/write the blob file (b/c your device won't fully boot) you may be SOL.
Next time unlock the boot loader first an make a nandroid backup, before messing w/ system files, that way you can easily restore. If your still in your 30 day window of purchase, you might consider a quick return/swap... would be the eaisest thing to do.
Sent from my CM7 Atrix 4G
no adb does not see my device but i can access the internal sd card
Swiftks said:
Does adb on your computer see your device, since it's not fully booted?
Connect your tablet with USB cable.
On your PC, in the same folder as your adb files, open a command prompt in that location (shift+right click).
Type "adb devices" and see if yours come up as connected.
I doubt it will though, sounds like how I bricked my first prime, when I pushed a deodexed framework to it.
Might also want to try looking in the Dev section, under the how to unbrick your device thread, and see if you can attempt to revert to a different firmware via installing a blob file, but if you can't access your internal or external SD cards, to read/write the blob file (b/c your device won't fully boot) you may be SOL.
Next time unlock the boot loader first an make a nandroid backup, before messing w/ system files, that way you can easily restore. If your still in your 30 day window of purchase, you might consider a quick return/swap... would be the eaisest thing to do.
Sent from my CM7 Atrix 4G
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spencerj2001 said:
no adb does not see my device but i can access the internal sd card
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If you can access the internal card, its weird that adb can't see your device... oh well... try reverting to a earlier/different firmware via a blob. See thread in dev section.
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i did exactly the same mistake: i uninstalled some system apps (the asus preinstalled apps, with titanium) without unlocking the bootloader, and after a wipe from the stock recovery i'm not able to go beyond setup configuration, it always stops. but i can see and use internal and external memory from my computer. did you find a solution?
I just had something a bit disturbing happen and I am hoping someone can help me out real quick. I just plugged my phone into the computer, pushed a file to the sdcard and then unplugged it. When I opened Root Explorer, it didn't default to my sdcard as usual so I opened the built in file manager and it found the card just fine. I checked the /mnt folder and sure enough the sdcard appears in there. /sdcard has always shown in my root directory and has done so up until now. Now, instead of a /sdcard folder, I see a file in the root directory named sdcard. I fear the location change could cause issues (the least of which is tweaking out my OCD). Can anyone tell me why this happened or what to do to fix it?
Further details:
I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. USB Debugging is enabled, I left the phone in charge only mode, I ran the command "adb push C:\directory\file /sdcard" and it appeared to be successful, I unplugged it without using the "eject" function on the computer. I've done this many many times before and this has never happened to me. I have a Droid X and am running Wizard0f0's MIUI build. Again, none of my steps vary from what I've done before. The computer is the same, the drivers are the same, the location of adb is the same, etc.
Disregard this... I shutdown my phone, pulled the card, started it up, shut back down, put the card back in and started it again: everything is fine now. Not sure whether pulling the card or simply rebooting was the fix.
i tried to copy some music but it blocked, i tried several times but same issue. then i unplugged the phone and replugged it. i could still see all files but not access anything. i just reboot the phone and there all files on the sdcard had disappeared !
i plugged again on the pc, i could see a few files that i don't see on the phone with a root browser. i unplugged and plugged back and there no files anymore even on the pc (of course on my options i can see hidden or system files).
Strange enough when i check partition size on the pc it says i have over 500Mo used and when i look on sdmaid (android app) it tells me that mnt/sdcard is 543Mo size. but me i can't see any files. Apps using the sdcard (like evernote) had to recreate a new folder on the sdcard and i lost my datas. if i check folder by folder it tells me only 2.6Mo used... (LOST folder being empty)
i guess it is possible to recover all as i can see the used space but i don't know how.
i tried recuva or testdisk but it does not detect this kind of partitions
i searched on xda/sonyforums/google but did not find anything relevant
does anyone know about this issue ?
(using ka10.2+ksskernel 4)
lagren said:
i tried to copy some music but it blocked, i tried several times but same issue. then i unplugged the phone and replugged it. i could still see all files but not access anything. i just reboot the phone and there all files on the sdcard had disappeared !
i plugged again on the pc, i could see a few files that i don't see on the phone with a root browser. i unplugged and plugged back and there no files anymore even on the pc (of course on my options i can see hidden or system files).
Strange enough when i check partition size on the pc it says i have over 500Mo used and when i look on sdmaid (android app) it tells me that mnt/sdcard is 543Mo size. but me i can't see any files. Apps using the sdcard (like evernote) had to recreate a new folder on the sdcard and i lost my datas. if i check folder by folder it tells me only 2.6Mo used... (LOST folder being empty)
i guess it is possible to recover all as i can see the used space but i don't know how.
i tried recuva or testdisk but it does not detect this kind of partitions
i searched on xda/sonyforums/google but did not find anything relevant
does anyone know about this issue ?
(using ka10.2+ksskernel 4)
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I had this problem and had to reflash a stock rom. That fixed it but I lost everything on the card. Not a big deal though since I had backed stuff up. Seems like it may get corrupted somehow.
i tired some recovery softwares, it did not really work (hexamobile found a lot a of things but not the ones i needed and undelete found almost nothing) but i noticed with "undelete" that it proposed me 2 "mnt/sdcard" path with different results, so i guess the problem is here ! Also when i plug to my computer i don't see the folders created today, only the ones created yesterday :/
thanks for the feedback Mr Satan, i chek a bit if i find a better solution but if not i will have to do like you did
Alright, so this is going to take a bit of explaining, please bear with me.
I got this phone a couple of weeks ago, subsequently rooted it, and shortly thereafter decided upon Viper for my ROM. After playing around for a bit, I took a look at Beastmode kernel yesterday. I backed up my phone, installed the new kernel, and everything went to hell shortly thereafter. Upon rebooting, my phone no longer detected a mounted SD card. Along with this, it also doesn't have working audio. I tried rolling back to my restoration point, but I cannot find it now. While digging through directories in recovery, I've found two things out.
1: There is now a storage/emulation/legacy folder with (almost) every folder that was in mnt/sdcard.
2: My restore point is gone, and I don't have the original kernel on my phone
I figured this wouldn't be THAT big of a problem, connect my phone to my PC, go into ADB and try to push the stock s-off kernel. Next set of problems.
1: /mnt/sdcard is showing as a non-directory, insists it doesn't exist.
2: storage/emulation/ shows as read only, and all lower subdirectories are coming up as not existing (I believe it to be an issue with folder naming, legacy is actually 0 on my file explorer on the phone, I think?).
Where I stand now::
At this moment, I have the HTC Droid DNA Toolkit running, the stock s-off Kernel, and a phone that doesn't cooperate with anything.
Also; I tried downloading the .zip directly on my phone, but because it doesn't think there's an SD card, it's refusing to let me download it. It lets me download apps from the market, though.
Any ideas?
PS! Forgot the biggest SNAFU in all of this. On my phone are about 200 pictures from my vacation which I hadn't put onto my computer yet because I am an imbecile. This is keeping me from wiping the phone down to brass tacks and starting all over. If someone can find a way for me to pull said pictures from my device, I can wipe it and see if that helps.
Killerkendolls said:
Alright, so this is going to take a bit of explaining, please bear with me.
I got this phone a couple of weeks ago, subsequently rooted it, and shortly thereafter decided upon Viper for my ROM. After playing around for a bit, I took a look at Beastmode kernel yesterday. I backed up my phone, installed the new kernel, and everything went to hell shortly thereafter. Upon rebooting, my phone no longer detected a mounted SD card. Along with this, it also doesn't have working audio. I tried rolling back to my restoration point, but I cannot find it now. While digging through directories in recovery, I've found two things out.
1: There is now a storage/emulation/legacy folder with (almost) every folder that was in mnt/sdcard.
2: My restore point is gone, and I don't have the original kernel on my phone
I figured this wouldn't be THAT big of a problem, connect my phone to my PC, go into ADB and try to push the stock s-off kernel. Next set of problems.
1: /mnt/sdcard is showing as a non-directory, insists it doesn't exist.
2: storage/emulation/ shows as read only, and all lower subdirectories are coming up as not existing (I believe it to be an issue with folder naming, legacy is actually 0 on my file explorer on the phone, I think?).
Where I stand now::
At this moment, I have the HTC Droid DNA Toolkit running, the stock s-off Kernel, and a phone that doesn't cooperate with anything.
Also; I tried downloading the .zip directly on my phone, but because it doesn't think there's an SD card, it's refusing to let me download it. It lets me download apps from the market, though.
Any ideas?
PS! Forgot the biggest SNAFU in all of this. On my phone are about 200 pictures from my vacation which I hadn't put onto my computer yet because I am an imbecile. This is keeping me from wiping the phone down to brass tacks and starting all over. If someone can find a way for me to pull said pictures from my device, I can wipe it and see if that helps.
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Have you tried using an OTG cable to mount a flash drive? That's what I do when I backup/flash anything, I keep all my roms, kernels, backups, basically anything flashable on a flash drive, and use an OTG cable in CWM.
For the pictures:
Step 1; adb reboot recovery
Step 2; adb devices (to make sure it's detected)
Step 2.1: If your phone isn't detected, open sideload in recovery, adb devices again, then close sideload
Step 3: adb pull /sdcard/ C:\<username>\Desktop\sdcardbackup\
To fix everything else you'll probably need to wipe everything and flash a new rom.
EDIT: For future "snafus" the sdcard is on /sdcard/ not /mnt/sdcard/ because it's on internal memory, not mounted memory.
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For the pictures:
Step 1; adb reboot recovery
Step 2; adb devices (to make sure it's detected)
Step 2.1: If your phone isn't detected, open sideload in recovery, adb devices again, then close sideload
Step 3: adb pull /sdcard/ C:\<username>\Desktop\sdcardbackup\
To fix everything else you'll probably need to wipe everything and flash a new rom.
EDIT: For future "snafus" the sdcard is on /sdcard/ not /mnt/sdcard/ because it's on internal memory, not mounted memory.
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Well, I feel silly for that confusion. I've pulled everything from the sdcard, which honestly mattered more to me than fixing the phone. I'll putter around with getting the ROM and kernel operating correctly in the next couple of hours.
UPDATE!
Once I had the adb pull command corrected for me, pushing the new ZIP on there was an instant success in recovery. SD card exists correctly once again, installed Viper ROM over, full functionality once more.
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Well, I feel silly for that confusion. I've pulled everything from the sdcard, which honestly mattered more to me than fixing the phone. I'll putter around with getting the ROM and kernel operating correctly in the next couple of hours.
UPDATE!
Once I had the adb pull command corrected for me, pushing the new ZIP on there was an instant success in recovery. SD card exists correctly once again, installed Viper ROM over, full functionality once more.
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you can always do this too as long as the device is recognized by adb
Code:
adb shell
this will get you into the actual device where you can navigate around by using the " cd /dir_name " command and to go back up a dir use " cd .. " (a space and 2 "."s are needed) or just " cd " to get back to the starting point... if you know how to navigate through a unix terminal then you will know what to do here...
some other useful commands
Code:
ls, ls -a, ls -l, cd, cp, mv
ls = list (lists files/folders) "-a" means all, "-l" just makes it look neat and laid out better.
cd = change directory aka "dir"
cp = copy /path/to/file.ext /path/to/where/you/want/to/save/it/file.ext
mv = move (same as ^ ) except it just moves it and doesn't copy
oh and to exit adb shell just type "exit"
Honestly, just grab a working kernel. And use fastboot. Especially since you're s-off
fastboot flash boot boot.img should get you back in working order.
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