Oh wat da hell... think i bricked mah phone. After doing nandroid backup, I started playing with the phone. formattin & stuff with the idea that I will recover from backup. Now phone cannot pass htc logo. Did a restore from backup but still the same.
Any solutions? Stock or modded backup? Links?
I doubt you did any permanent harm to your phone.
What ROM did you have installed (or were you still on the stock ROM)? What ROM are you trying to install?
You mentioned that you did a restore after you noticed it can't pass the logo to try and see if it works. This means that you are able to boot into recovery so this should easily be fixed. Have you tried putting a rom(s) on your sdcard then flashing one/some of them?
What do you mean by formatting? Did you format the boot partition or something?
But I agree, it sounds like you didn't do any damage to the phone.
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Hi, stupid question here from a relative noob....
I have a Cincinnati Bell Vibrant, that I recently flashed CM7 on (after using Rom Manager to backup up my stock rom). Liked it, but found it too battery-intensive, so I booted into clockworkmod recovery and attempted to restore the backup of my stock rom. It failed on flashing the boot image, and now my phone is stuck on the Vibrant screen, and won't boot. None of the hardware combinations to get into recovery mode are working, but I can get it into download mode. Before I screw things up further, what is the best way to go from here to get the backup restored, or is it even possible at this point?
Thanks
tabbott01 said:
Hi, stupid question here from a relative noob....
I have a Cincinnati Bell Vibrant, that I recently flashed CM7 on (after using Rom Manager to backup up my stock rom). Liked it, but found it too battery-intensive, so I booted into clockworkmod recovery and attempted to restore the backup of my stock rom. It failed on flashing the boot image, and now my phone is stuck on the Vibrant screen, and won't boot. None of the hardware combinations to get into recovery mode are working, but I can get it into download mode. Before I screw things up further, what is the best way to go from here to get the backup restored, or is it even possible at this point?
Thanks
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This doesn't sound too bad. Basically you want to Odin back to stock. Then reflash the rom you were on, then you can reboot back into recovery and restore your backup. If voodoo was enabled on your backup make sure voodoo is enabled again before restoring(it might work either way, but I'm not sure). When I've done this, I restore a prerooted 2.2 stock Rom without changing the bootloaders, but almost any official stock rom will also work. I'm on the go, so I don't have a link handy, but post back if needed and I will point you to the odin package I use. Good luck.
I also am having some issues with Clockworld recovery. The problem i am having is that when doing a nandriod backup this is the error i am recieving
"E:cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (or @)
Cant mount /mnt/sdcard
any suggestions on whats going on?
phone_noobie said:
I also am having some issues with Clockworld recovery. The problem i am having is that when doing a nandriod backup this is the error i am recieving
"E:cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 (or @)
Cant mount /mnt/sdcard
any suggestions on whats going on?
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Are you sure the sdcard is good? If so then I would follow the same steps listed above, that way you know your CWR is good.
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Are you sure the sdcard is good? If so then I would follow the same steps listed above, that way you know your CWR is good.
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yes it is good because i can see all the videos, pics i have saved in it. Also i put the new ROM on my internal sd card and its there so sd card is def good. What could be causing the problem?
To the op, I would use Odin, no real worries there.
To the other guy with sdcard issue, try moving all files to your PC, format your sdcard, reboot, move files back, flash cwr in ROM mgr, backup work? Move critical files back from PC.
mattb3 said:
This doesn't sound too bad. Basically you want to Odin back to stock. Then reflash the rom you were on, then you can reboot back into recovery and restore your backup. If voodoo was enabled on your backup make sure voodoo is enabled again before restoring(it might work either way, but I'm not sure). When I've done this, I restore a prerooted 2.2 stock Rom without changing the bootloaders, but almost any official stock rom will also work. I'm on the go, so I don't have a link handy, but post back if needed and I will point you to the odin package I use. Good luck.
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Thanks...that's exactly what I did, except the backup would never quite "take." It completely loaded and cycled through the boot process, but I ended up on a boot-restore loop. So now I've Odin-ed back to stock with the closest build I could find to my stock (which I don't think is out there yet - FROYO.UVJL6.ULTIMOBILE - do you know anywhere to find it?), rooted, and am searching for a good, stable, battery-friendly mod once again.
s15274n said:
try moving all files to your PC, format your sdcard, reboot, move files back, flash cwr in ROM mgr, backup work? Move critical files back from PC.
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i did try formatting, then moving all the stuff back and am still getting that same error message
^ what rom are you on, if one?
You could always ODIN, and use my option b cwr in the noob guide. I just tested making a backup using trigger 8/22 and know there are no issues. Not really sure whats up on your end. I will say though, I've emailed koush several times that there is an issue with cwr on the vibrant from rom manager, for some it won't even flash.
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i did try formatting, then moving all the stuff back and am still getting that same error message
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try different sd card..or reinstall CWM...
I have a rooted ATRIX. I am on Korea Telecom (In Korea) and there are no sbf backups available in the big thread.
However, I would like to try ROMing, but I'm afraid of toasting my Atrix with no way to get out. Therefore, I'd like to know a way to make a Complete backup of my phone so that I can recover when I inevitably screw up my phone with my endless tinkering.
Thanks for any help.
Do a backup in clockwork mod recovery or other custom recovery.
^ THAT.
boot into recovery>backup and restore>Backup>Choose where to backup>....done.
Wow. So easy. Thanks for the heads up guys. Just to make it clear, though. If I softbrick my phone, this backup will put me right back to where I was?
Yeah even if you somehow bork your recovery you can flash it back on with fastboot and restore that backup. It's stored on the sd so should be unaffected by anything you do really but keep a copy on a pc or w/e just in case.
Hello, I need some help with restoring via CWM on the Galaxy S3.
On the S2 I pretty much always used CM9 and jumped back and forth between versions and backing up/ restoring was never an issue.
Now however I am using the stock ROM and its rooted of course.
I made a back up of my stock rom 'cause I wanted to try and install some stuff.
I tried installing the jelly bean transition effects but the install failed, the device felt kinda sluggish (maybe my imagination) afterwards so I decided to restore my phone. The restoring went good but the last ting that happens is that CWM says that restoring /Data failed.
I reboot my phone and I come to the first start up screen where I get to choose language and so on. Everything but photos has been deleted. I try to install CM9, and I do that without any issues. Then I trie to backup my stock backup but I get the same error message and I get back to stock setup page.
My backup is a staggering 6GB, and I read somewhere that CWM can only restore 2GB?
I've deleted that backup and done another one but that is also 6GB.
Does anyone know how to restore from that first restore or how to make future restores work?
undegaard said:
Hello, I need some help with restoring via CWM on the Galaxy S3.
On the S2 I pretty much always used CM9 and jumped back and forth between versions and backing up/ restoring was never an issue.
Now however I am using the stock ROM and its rooted of course.
I made a back up of my stock rom 'cause I wanted to try and install some stuff.
I tried installing the jelly bean transition effects but the install failed, the device felt kinda sluggish (maybe my imagination) afterwards so I decided to restore my phone. The restoring went good but the last ting that happens is that CWM says that restoring /Data failed.
I reboot my phone and I come to the first start up screen where I get to choose language and so on. Everything but photos has been deleted. I try to install CM9, and I do that without any issues. Then I trie to backup my stock backup but I get the same error message and I get back to stock setup page.
My backup is a staggering 6GB, and I read somewhere that CWM can only restore 2GB?
I've deleted that backup and done another one but that is also 6GB.
Does anyone know how to restore from that first restore or how to make future restores work?
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I had this problem with my sisters Xperia X8,couldn't restore anything that i backed up.It goes for a while and stops.But she had bootloader locked.I was shore that i unlocked her bootloader but i didn't,so i unlocked bootloader,and tried to backup and restore and it worked fine.
I'm not 100% and i don't know is that the way CWM works,but i think in order to restore your data,that you backed up,you have to unlock your bootloader.But it's the best to wait someone who knows this for 100% sure.
If you haven't unlocked bootloader try that,or you don't won't to lose your warranty!?
Good luck!
I don't think that CWM has size limitation but i can be wrong.
Have you made sure that your CWM is up-to-date? if in doubt flash the latest CF-root.
was there ever a resolution to this problem? I did the same thing, rooted the galaxy s 3 and unlock the bootloader. Get a backup of my stock set up using clockwork recovery mod. Now when I try to restore, it does not restore the data. All of my apps look like they are there, but none of them are really installed. I think I can just reinstall all of the apps by hand, I would like to know how to get over this.
This is insane. I never had issues with my backups back in the clockwork mod days.
But with both my old note 2 and this moto z, TWRP backups always have issues when restored.
I just got through flashing to stock, letting it update all the way to 7.0 and latest patches.
Then fastboot boot twrp.img to get into twrp and made a complete backup. I even checked the system image option to have that just in case.
Now comes time to restore and it doesn't work. It goes through the motions of restoring and says it was successful, but it didn't actually restore everything. My rom is still rooted, still broken, and after several attempts it wont even boot.
Why do they even put in a backup option if it isn't even a bit-by-bit backup that works? There is no such thing as nandroid in twrp as it isn't making any kind of nand dump.
I guess we are just not to expect to have valid backups? So useless.
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This is insane. I never had issues with my backups back in the clockwork mod days.
But with both my old note 2 and this moto z, TWRP backups always have issues when restored.
I just got through flashing to stock, letting it update all the way to 7.0 and latest patches.
Then fastboot boot twrp.img to get into twrp and made a complete backup. I even checked the system image option to have that just in case.
Now comes time to restore and it doesn't work. It goes through the motions of restoring and says it was successful, but it didn't actually restore everything. My rom is still rooted, still broken, and after several attempts it wont even boot.
Why do they even put in a backup option if it isn't even a bit-by-bit backup that works? There is no such thing as nandroid in twrp as it isn't making any kind of nand dump.
I guess we are just not to expect to have valid backups? So useless.
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I believe that it has to do with the encryption. The stock room encrypts the /data partition.
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I believe that it has to do with the encryption. The stock room encrypts the /data partition.
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Reading up on system image it was my understanding that it backed up everything in one huge chunk to work with encryption. But apparently even that doesn't work.
So am I screwed now? Looks like the only roms I can use are custom roms. I have tried flashing a few different stock nougats but they all get errors about security downgrade from fastboot.
I don't understand why they make it so once you upgrade, it blocks downgrading. Sounds like something Apple would do.
xamindar said:
Reading up on system image it was my understanding that it backed up everything in one huge chunk to work with encryption. But apparently even that doesn't work.
So am I screwed now? Looks like the only roms I can use are custom roms. I have tried flashing a few different stock nougats but they all get errors about security downgrade from fastboot.
I don't understand why they make it so once you upgrade, it blocks downgrading. Sounds like something Apple would do.
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Try here for nougat stock ROM
https://mirrors.lolinet.com/firmware/moto/griffin/official/
I was stupid, and wiped the whole OS through twrp, thinking to install a custom rom, which didn't install... since I was an idiot and didn't do a nandroid backup beforehand, I had nothing to recover from, other than the stock one, which only has separate files and a bundled update.app... except when I went to fastboot to flash the files, all of them were suddenly "not a boot image" for some reason (including the boot image, which when patched with magisk, installed just fine)... I don't remember if it was before or after that, when I installed the stock recovery to use the stock update functions...forgetting that people even specifically warned not to do that...
so is the phone only good for spare parts now, or is there any possible way to resurrect it? I highly doubt that there's anyone who's such an expert, but y'know, asking just in case? (I don't mind if I have to do some surgery on it, and I do have a working phone, so it's just a minor bummer)