I just got my replacement X2. I rooted it, installed the recovery bootstrap, and tried to restore one of my last backups. It restored, I rebooted, but now it just sits at the Dual Core screen. No boot loops, just frozen.
I did have the V6 supercharger script, so I'm thinking maybe it doesn't like being re-applied through a nandroid backup? I can't think of any other reason it would do this.
I'm SBFing it already, but has anyone else run into this?
did it freeze at the dual core screen? or did it boot loop? did u install a custom rom?
It froze at the dual core screen, no boot loop. I didn't install a custom ROM, all I did was root it and try restoring the nandroid backup that I ran while I was SuperCharged.
It just finished SPFing so maybe I'll try to manually supercharge it before restoring this time.
It was also on the 2.3.4 OS, could that have something to do with it also? I'm not sure if it likes restoring to newer versions of Android or not.
Be sure your replacement is running the same sbf as the one your backup was based on. Ie. Your backup was on 2.3.4 and your new phone shipped with 2.3.3 you would need to sbf to 2.3.4 first..
Or if ya were still on 2.3.3 and that was your backup and your phone shipped with 2.3.4 you need to sbf back to 2.3.3.
Im sure this is your issue.
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Be sure your replacement is running the same sbf as the one your backup was based on. Ie. Your backup was on 2.3.4 and your new phone shipped with 2.3.3 you would need to sbf to 2.3.4 first..
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Ah ok, that's what I edited in my last reply... I figure it may not like that.
I already SBFed to 2.2, I assume I can just update to 2.3.4 normally and then root/bootstrap/restore again?
Yes. You only need to sbf once to your target version then root/install recovery and restore your backup.
Yep, that worked like a charm. Phone is back to the day it was before I sent it in. Only one app so far is broken.
Now I just need to figure out if it's Supercharged again or not.
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Okay, I just rooted my brother's HTC Hero (GSM Unlock) and updated it to 2.1 Villain, but there were some bugs, like in the messages app, the key board wouldn't show up in a conversation. FB Sync wouldn't sync pictures to his contacts. Is there any way I can downgrade back to the original 1.5? If so, can anyone give me a link to download that .zip? thanks!
*note* I tried flashing the official 2.1 update, it failed
And what is a Nandroid backup? Can I restore it with that?
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Okay, I just rooted my brother's HTC Hero (GSM Unlock) and updated it to 2.1 Villain, but there were some bugs, like in the messages app, the key board wouldn't show up in a conversation. FB Sync wouldn't sync pictures to his contacts. Is there any way I can downgrade back to the original 1.5? If so, can anyone give me a link to download that .zip? thanks!
*note* I tried flashing the official 2.1 update, it failed
And what is a Nandroid backup? Can I restore it with that?
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You really should have read up before just rooting and flashing. A nandroid backup is a backup of the phone so you can restore to how it was before you started to play with it.
You can download the rom you require here.
You should have done a Nandroid backup before trying to flash a new ROM, this is a MUST DO everytime you plan on messing around with the phone, it would simply let you restore the backup back to normal.
You need to do a full wipe of the phone and flash the new ROM posted above.
Jamie.
Can I just flash a stock rom of the HTC Hero generic? I flashed a rooted one, but I keep getting this notification about an OTA,I tried installing it, but it fails. If I flash a stock rom (if possible) can I install the OTA's?
I seem to be having somewhat the same problem.
Although I didnt flash my hero to that custom rom you're mentioning.
The problem is that I've been running the modaco 3.0 rom for quite a while and wanted to get the stock 2.1 rom.
I've tried to flash it using the HTC tool but couldn't be done. I accidently overrided my nandroid backup of the stock 1.5 rom so I found a stock 1.5 on modaco's forum and flashed it.
Now I'm running 1.5, build 2.73.405.5
Every time I wipe the phone and start from scratch (setting up the phone as if it was new) I get a notification about a new OTA update. When I try to update it, the phone resets (seems fine) and it ends up in Nandroid and doesn't get any further.
Then I chose to reboot the phone and the phone runs as normal but still no new firmware.
What am I doing wrong?
I've also tried the HTC tool for flashing the ROM but end up with a connection error (170).
I have of course wiped the phone but it doesn't help...
Pinnodyr said:
I seem to be having somewhat the same problem.
Although I didnt flash my hero to that custom rom you're mentioning.
The problem is that I've been running the modaco 3.0 rom for quite a while and wanted to get the stock 2.1 rom.
I've tried to flash it using the HTC tool but couldn't be done. I accidently overrided my nandroid backup of the stock 1.5 rom so I found a stock 1.5 on modaco's forum and flashed it.
Now I'm running 1.5, build 2.73.405.5
Every time I wipe the phone and start from scratch (setting up the phone as if it was new) I get a notification about a new OTA update. When I try to update it, the phone resets (seems fine) and it ends up in Nandroid and doesn't get any further.
Then I chose to reboot the phone and the phone runs as normal but still no new firmware.
What am I doing wrong?
I've also tried the HTC tool for flashing the ROM but end up with a connection error (170).
I have of course wiped the phone but it doesn't help...
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I have the same problem! And when I do flash 2.1, the keyboard never appears when I go to the messages app. I just flashed an official stock 2.73.405.66 build, what if I do the OTA? Will it fail too? 'Cause I think it fails because last time, my phone was rooted.
Anyone got help? :-/
Hi,
i just flashed CM7 pre beta 3 after flashing almost every rom in the forum available and not satisfied by the GB ROMs i want to go back to stock froyo.
I have already downloaded Bell Froyo 2.2.2 gobstopper file,
tried to flashed it over CM7 and unable to complete the process
"Process aborted" for some unknown reason.
Can any one guide me to how to go back to stock.
xateeq said:
Hi,
i just flashed CM7 pre beta 3 after flashing almost every rom in the forum available and not satisfied by the GB ROMs i want to go back to stock froyo.
I have already downloaded Bell Froyo 2.2.2 gobstopper file,
tried to flashed it over CM7 and unable to complete the process
"Process aborted" for some unknown reason.
Can any one guide me to how to go back to stock.
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Use tenfar's unlocked CWM.
Cheers!
Testing rit now, report with results as soon as i get the stock love
Flashed without any problem,
factory reset, wiped cashe
installed unlocked bell zip
after reboot red led shows up and phone reboots.
I think i am stuck in boot loop
Now what to do ?
I have managed to get back to Aura ROM
now will try to go back to stock.
Booting Aura rit now (y it is taking forever to boot )
Finally out of CM7
Now trying to go back to stock
Well, not sure what happened there, you can apply the ihop_bell again to see if that fixes it.
Cheers!
I managed to get back to Aura ROM and tried to flash bell 2.2.2 zip and process aborted i think that zip only works with tenfar's unlocked CWM only that managed to fully flash the rom but stucked with boot loop.
Now going to flash Alien rom (personally Aura removes blot and adds his own crap)
Nop bell stock 2.2.2 is giving error in all 3 recoveries
What to do ?
Have you tried fruitcaking?
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Have you tried fruitcaking?
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Nop not yet, i want to go back to stock Bell
is it any good ?
Hi,
If you backed up your pds partition, try restoring that. Probably some sbf you tried modified it, changing the signature maybe.
Cheers!
I didn't backed-up any thing (no need of backup)
if u have any then let me have it
Nop dont have any backup, didnt bothered to keep any backup. now i am thinking i was so wrong
Hi,
I just threw that out there, it's the only partition that I don't touch, but sbf files can modify it, since I got my replacement phone I have never used a French/Orange/ATT whatever sbf, so that's probably the difference. My backup is the 2.2.2 Gobstopper really, I also have a pds backup but it's useless for other phones.
Only other idea would be to change the radio first, there are radio only sbfs out there, go for the .15P one for Bell. Once on my previous phone when going from Telstra and French there were issues due to the radio if I recall correctly.
Cheers!
I'm thinking about SBFing my rooted x2 back to 2.3.3 from 2.3.4 because of the terrible battery indicator, and was just wondering if I would be able to update straight to 2.3.5 (or possibly ICS) when the update comes. I don't know why this wouldn't be possible, but I just wanted to make sure before I actually SBFed the phone.
I also was wondering if my phone would still be rooted after the SBF because of the maintain-root-through-any-update mod. Any thoughts?
On a different note, if I had the x2 bootstrap, the maintain-root-through-any-update mod, and MyBackup Root, could I just backup all my apps and the system (using MyBackup Root and the bootstrap, respectively), SBF, then restore the phone by downloading the bootstrap and MyBackup Root and restoring my apps/system? Would this get my back to where I was before, or would I have to manually download each one of my apps and lose all previous data that I had on them? I'm just wondering what's the easiest way to restore my phone back to the layout that I had before I SBFed.
Thanks for your answers to any of these 3 questions!!! I definitely appreciate it.
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I'm thinking about SBFing my rooted x2 back to 2.3.3 from 2.3.4 because of the terrible battery indicator, and was just wondering if I would be able to update straight to 2.3.5 (or possibly ICS) when the update comes. I don't know why this wouldn't be possible, but I just wanted to make sure before I actually SBFed the phone.
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Perhaps someone elses experience proves different however, I kept 2.2.2 on my DX2 for quite some time because of similar reasons. When I decided to take the plunge from 2.2.2 and upgraded to 2.3.4 OTA, my phone needed to first upgrade to 2.3.3 before it would upgrade to 2.3.4. Thus, I had to perform two separate OTA updates.
If you're going to SBF you can SBF directly from your current version to the desired version.
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I also was wondering if my phone would still be rooted after the SBF because of the maintain-root-through-any-update mod. Any thoughts?
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To be honest, I'm not sure. I personally prefer to SBF to a clean DX2, wiping all settings and cache. To me I treat it like formatting my computer with a clean install of it's OS.
Perhaps someone else will have more insight with the maintain root through updates mod.
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On a different note, if I had the x2 bootstrap, the maintain-root-through-any-update mod, and MyBackup Root, could I just backup all my apps and the system (using MyBackup Root and the bootstrap, respectively), SBF, then restore the phone by downloading the bootstrap and MyBackup Root and restoring my apps/system? Would this get my back to where I was before, or would I have to manually download each one of my apps and lose all previous data that I had on them? I'm just wondering what's the easiest way to restore my phone back to the layout that I had before I SBFed.
Thanks for your answers to any of these 3 questions!!! I definitely appreciate it.
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What I typically do is using the X2 Bootstrap, I make a Nandroid backup and restore directly from that. Performing an SBF is only going to be necessary if the backup was on a different kernel, otherwise if you may run into boot looping.
What exactly happened and what are you trying to do? Are you trying to restore your phone to an earlier point via SBF? As in you enjoyed the phone on 2.3.3, made a backup and now you're unhappy on 2.3.4 and wish to go back?
It sounds like if you were to SBF back to your desired version (the version you made the backups on) you would then be able to apply your backups and should be back to your desired phone state.
I'm slightly confused to the details due to the way it's worded. I know it's somewhat difficult to describe but that's the basic idea I'm getting. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or fill in the blanks.
Is 2.3.5 much better?
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Okay so what I did was SBF back to 2.3.3 (I did this two nights ago) and before I did that, I:
1. Renamed the bloatware back to .apk (I had the suffix's ".bak" as an alternate "freezing" method).
2. Used MyBackup Root to make a backup of all my apps+their data.
3. Made a backup of the phone using the bootstrap.
4. SBFed
5. Rooted
6. Downloaded MyBackup Root
7. Restored all my apps and data and it worked!!!
8. Celebrated! I had no faith in it working but all my apps are back! I was so impressed, I was expecting to have to redo all my games and everything. MyBackup Root is such a sweet app, or I'm just a loser.
I hoped this helped other people, I had no idea what was gonna happen, no one's ever told me how to specifically get my phone back to the layout that I wanted.
and related to reaktor's post, what I was doing was SBFing back to my desired state of 2.3.3, just because I hate the battery glitch on 2.3.4. It had nothing to do with any apps I had, sorry for the confusion.
Your last reply was a little off but that was my fault, I'm sorry for my wording haha. I just have never known how to NOT have to redownload all my apps and start over on my games' data once I restore/SBF a phone. Now I know.
BTW my phone didn't maintain its root, just for reference for others. I had to reroot.
Well... You might want to do that again. There's now a battery fix for 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 in the dev forum.
Pepperm1nt's battery fix thread @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350336
It works great
Greatttttt haha all that fer nuthin. I may update again, or I just might wait til I get bored with the phone again to install this. Thanks a bunch for the link though!
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The battery fix works great. Just flash it over stock or any custom rom. It works perfect!
Can you restore a backup made on android 2.3.4 /4.5.91 to an atrix with 2.3.6/4.5.141? My Atrix on 2.3.4 had the wifi/bluetooth card burn out and Bestbuy accepted it after I unrooted/pushed the 2.3.6 sbf (so scary on an unlocked bootloader) and they are sending me back a refurbished atrix with 2.3.6. Now I have a Clockworks Nandroid and a backup of my sdcard along with the external sdcard, so my entire phone is saved. Can I restore the backup made on 2.3.4 successfully to my new atrix? Will it return me to 2.3.4? If it is not safe, what is the best way to recover all my data?
Yes, it would be perfectly safe. I'm sure you could even restore a backup from 2.2 if you wanted to XD
Thanks! So will it put me back to 2.3.4? And I remember reading never to install a rom based on 2.3.4 ever again after upgrading. I know a nandroid isn't a ROM, but both contain many of the same files. has anyone done this before?
Edit: Also, I was on the Gingerbread beta ROM.....not official. Is that a problem?
Sorry for the double post, but my new Atrix is coming in any day now, and I don't want to brick it. I cannot find ANY info on this subject. Could somebody link me to some kind of direct confirmation that this works?
It seems like no matter what ROM I try to restore a nandroid of, my phone freezes during the process. For example; this morning I made a backup of Eclipse 2.2. I SBF'd to 2.3.4 to try out CM9, I decided to return to Eclipse. SBF'd again, rooted, backed up root, OTA'd to 2.3.5, restored root, flashed Eclipse 2.2, and now I'm trying to restore my nandroid and BSR is frozen at the 'lib' portion. This happened to me all the time when jumping between CM7 and BLUR while on 2.3.4. I have no idea why this always happens but my only option is to SBF and start from scratch anytime I want to try out a ROM or return to one. Why is this happening? Can I prevent it? It's extremely annoying and I never had this problem with any other device besides this one.
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It seems like no matter what ROM I try to restore a nandroid of, my phone freezes during the process. For example; this morning I made a backup of Eclipse 2.2. I SBF'd to 2.3.4 to try out CM9, I decided to return to Eclipse. SBF'd again, rooted, backed up root, OTA'd to 2.3.5, restored root, flashed Eclipse 2.2, and now I'm trying to restore my nandroid and BSR is frozen at the 'lib' portion. This happened to me all the time when jumping between CM7 and BLUR while on 2.3.4. I have no idea why this always happens but my only option is to SBF and start from scratch anytime I want to try out a ROM or return to one. Why is this happening? Can I prevent it? It's extremely annoying and I never had this problem with any other device besides this one.
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When you say OTA do you mean the latest OTA put out or the older 2.3.5 update zip? Eclipse 2.2 runs on the latest OTA.
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Maybe a bad memory card? That's the only thing I can think of. Try a different one and see if the problem persists. Or try making a nandroid but using internal storage and see if that works.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
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