The title says it all!! Each time I make a backup with CWM i get stuck in a bootloop after I reboot. The only way to get out of it is to restore with the backup I just made. That solves the problem.
Any fixes or reasons as to why this would be happening?
I would try a different recovery. Cwm is a little buggy atm
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I was thinking the same thing after looking around. Since I have CWM installed can I just install Amon Ra? Wasn't sure if I needed to uninstall CWM before to avoid any conflicts.
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Stuck on boot after wiping then restoring nandroid using clockwork recovery image.
Had to do a fresh zip install.
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Don't use clockwork recovery....I think thats what caused my brick on one of my old eris.
I wasn't able to flash boot.img or restore/flash any rom.
I was talking to devs and they told me that clockwork might have messed up my install.
I say stick with RA.
Don't use clockwork recovery....I think thats what caused my brick on one of my old eris.
I wasn't able to flash boot.img or restore/flash any rom.
I was talking to devs and they told me that clockwork might have messed up my install.
I say stick with RA.
I recently encountered several problems with both amon ra and clockworkmod recoveries.
First I can't seem to successfully flash either using rom manage. I can flash them with adb so it is not that big of a deal except for the other problem I am having with them.
I can't get a successful backup with clockworkmod recovery though it will restore them just fine, and I can't restore with amon ra even though it backs them up without a problem.
I have a G2 rooted with the Desire Z HBOOT and clockworkmod recovery 5.0.2.7 and everything was working perfectly when randomly out of nowhere my backups no longer restored properly. It would either say md5 sum mismatch or it would restore and get stuck at HTC bootscreen. This happens with any rom i flash. I've tried wiping/factory reset/formatting sdcard/flashing older cwm/ and even removing and creating new md5 images. NOTHING works. This is important to me because I ususally flash back and forth between different roms and I like being able to back them up.
this happens whether i use ROM manager (4.8.0.2) to do the backup and/or restore; or if i use cwm recovery console to do the backup and/or restore. sometimes with ROM manager i get an error that says either it can't process the request or it says can't find SD card marker or something like that.
I recommend using an older version of CWM, like 2.xxx
i have tried using all the versions of the recovery. none work.
okay, randomly some of the backups will be good and some will be broken. I don't know why.
i feel like nobody is going to respond to my problem just because i am a fairly new member. I really can't stand this problem because i test different roms so often and if i dislike them i like being able to go back to my old one with all of my data still there and not having to start over. its been driving me nuts for all this time. I have tried everything and nothing works.
i had this same problem on my droid incredible. my fix was a fresh wipe (factory reset, system, boot, and dalvik cache) and a fresh install of rom manager from which i reflashed my recovery. (the option that says Flash Clockworkmod Recovery) my install was messed up initally. maybe yours is similar.
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what do you mean when you say boot? how do you wipe that?
SnapplerX said:
what do you mean when you say boot?
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See here: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...plained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc/.
SnapplerX said:
what do you mean when you say boot? how do you wipe that?
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I also have the Vision and I would highly recommend you try 4EXT Recovery instead of ClockworkMod. It's based on CWM, but with more options and great support. See my signature for the thread link.
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in clickwork recovery select 'mounts/storage' then select 'format boot' same for system. you will only want to do this when youve already got your rom zip file on your phone. the inc might have a different option list, cause that was automatic on my og droid
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I had the same problem with clockwork, I just switched to Amon RA recovery! You will lose your clockwork backups, but Amon is so much nore "hassle free"
is Amon RA recovery supported in ROM Manager?
im going to try 4EXT and Amon Ra recovery ill see which works best for me
okay so apparently there is no amon ra for the g2/desire z. I tried ext4 recovery and i have the same problem. it is an md5 sum mismatch every time i create a back up the md5 sum is never a correct match no matter the recovery i use. I'm starting to think it might just be my sd card.
If anyone is still interested, I ended up buying a new sdcard and it works perfectly now. I am using 4EXT recovery and I recommend it to everyone.
I flashed twrp.img during unlock/root process. I have seen some mods/roms that say I should use CWR and not twrp to flash.
is it ok to install cwr even though I am running twrp already?
I fear conflicts like when I click reboot to recovery, wouldn't my device be confused which to use?
If you flash cwm it will replace twrp
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jasonpascoe said:
I flashed twrp.img during unlock/root process. I have seen some mods/roms that say I should use CWR and not twrp to flash.
is it ok to install cwr even though I am running twrp already?
I fear conflicts like when I click reboot to recovery, wouldn't my device be confused which to use?
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Go ahead and flash cwm youll be perfectly safe. the recovery.img's overwrite eachother so the phone will only boot to one or the other depending on what you have flashed most recently. TWRP has known errors, i've actually contacted the primary dev of twrp to resolve this but havent had time to follow up with him. Anyway CWM is much safer for now.
Don't forget that backups made with one recovery won't restore with a different recovery. So if you switch from TWRP to CWR, make a new backup
I would really like to see Amon Ra ported to the DNA. Anyone know how, or someone who could? It worked really nice on the Rezound.
Some background info: I got my phone used, so the rooting and stuff was done for me.
When I got the phone, the top of the recovery said Semaphore CWM 6.something, I don't know what I did to it but now the recovery says CWM based recovery. I also notice that fix permissions is not there anymore, there is probably more things missing that I never noticed. My question is, How do I get back to the original Clockworkmod?
Also, does anyone want to give me the basics on flashing stuff? I see people talking about Titanium Backup and ROM Manager. Every time I want to make a backup I just go into the recovery and make a backup there. What's ROM Manager? What's the best way to do this kind of stuff?
EDIT: I just booted back into recovery since a while (when I flashed my current rom) and noticed that it's back to normal. It says Semaphore CWM Recovery 6.0.3.8, when it used to say CWM-based recovery 6.0.3.6. Back then, it also gave me a warning called Warning: no file_contexts. That's gone now, should I have anything to worry about?
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Some background info: I got my phone used, so the rooting and stuff was done for me.
When I got the phone, the top of the recovery said Semaphore CWM 6.something, I don't know what I did to it but now the recovery says CWM based recovery. I also notice that fix permissions is not there anymore, there is probably more things missing that I never noticed. My question is, How do I get back to the original Clockworkmod?
Also, does anyone want to give me the basics on flashing stuff? I see people talking about Titanium Backup and ROM Manager. Every time I want to make a backup I just go into the recovery and make a backup there. What's ROM Manager? What's the best way to do this kind of stuff?
EDIT: I just booted back into recovery since a while (when I flashed my current rom) and noticed that it's back to normal. It says Semaphore CWM Recovery 6.0.3.8, when it used to say CWM-based recovery 6.0.3.6. Back then, it also gave me a warning called Warning: no file_contexts. That's gone now, should I have anything to worry about?
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Usually your ROM comes pre-packaged with a version of recovery.
ROMs that use the Semaphore kernel also generally come pre-packaged with a modified version of Clockworkmod recovery designed to compliment the kernel.
for reference:
if your recovery says: CWM recovery X.X.X.X then its usually the official version
Semaphore CWM Recovery 6.0.3.8 is a modified version for use with Semaphore kernel
CWM-based recovery 6.0.3.6 - is a modified version likely for use with another kernel (They dont always specify)
I would recommend just sticking with whatever version comes with your ROM.
there is rarely a need to change it.
ROM manager is an App that makes flashing clockworkmod recovery easy as well as downloading and flashing ROMs.
but for the most part if you know how to use recovery already your probably better off doing stuff manually in my opinion.
Titanium backup - is an app that lets you back up and restore all of your installed apps and data.
so for instance if you wanted to install a new ROM. you could back your apps and data up with Titanium backup and then install your new ROM and even wipe user data and still be able to get all of your apps back just as they were before you switched ROMs.
in comparison a nandroid backup (the backup done through recovery) backs up everything including your current ROM so restoring from that would also restore whatever ROM you were using when you made the backup.
as an example if you do both a Nandroid and Titanium backup while running android 2.3
then you decide to update to android 4.1
after the update if you restore from the nandroid backup you will be back at android 2.3 with all of your apps and everything back the way it was.
if you restore from a titanium backup you'll still be on android 4.1 but you'll have all your apps back as they were before.