Okay I finally got around to putting some new ROMs on my 3D. I tried Supra 2.2 then Olympus Trinity Titan HD then Wtsb 2.0. Well I decided I wanted to go back to supra. Now I did nandroid backups of the system before I did anything, I also did one after trying the supra. Nothing will restore. When I try, a couple lines of green text flash too quickly to read then the screen goes blank and never comes back. I have to pull the battery to reboot. I have tried complete wipe and re-installing supra, but the market keeps FC right away. So i can't even get titanium backup on there.
Please help.
Follow up, I have market running on supra now and will probably stick with it for a while, but I am afraid to do anymore messing around because I don't trust nandriod now.
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Okay I finally got around to putting some new ROMs on my 3D. I tried Supra 2.2 then Olympus Trinity Titan HD then Wtsb 2.0. Well I decided I wanted to go back to supra. Now I did nandroid backups of the system before I did anything, I also did one after trying the supra. Nothing will restore. When I try, a couple lines of green text flash too quickly to read then the screen goes blank and never comes back. I have to pull the battery to reboot. I have tried complete wipe and re-installing supra, but the market keeps FC right away. So i can't even get titanium backup on there.
Please help.
Follow up, I have market running on supra now and will probably stick with it for a while, but I am afraid to do anymore messing around because I don't trust nandriod now.
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sounds like a bad flash or bad d/l. I would re-d/l the recovery and try one of your previous backups. (ofcourse same recovery as previous) or might not work)
If that doesn't work, since a bad load/flash went through your nan could have been goofed up as well. I would try not really another rom, but make a back up of the one that you have now, then wait about 10 min and do somn diff, then restore the one from 10 min ago... Not sure what else to say unless we knew all..
what hboot, backup, etc... anything else that can help...
Just to clarify, nandriod does not copy the kernal. So if you restore an older backup after loading a rom with a different kernel, you might have to re-install the old kernal too. right?
By default I am pretty sure it backs up the boot partition which has the kernel in it
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By default I am pretty sure it backs up the boot partition which has the kernel in it
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even with hboot 1.5?
Maybe that is why my restores kept crashing... I was using recovery, but had not launched recovery from fastboot, whish as I understand is how you flash kernels if you are not using flash image.
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So i'm pretty noob with all this stuff but i finally decided to try flashing my phone and, in the end, ended up with a "bricked" (or the extent a vibrant can be bricked) phone. Thanks in advance for the advice.
what i did
I followed the flashing guide in the sticky post "** GUIDE - TIPS - TRICKS ** Last Update 12/03/10 ** READ BEFORE ASKING" and everything worked great. I downloaded Rom manager, made a nandroid backup of my stock rom, flashed it with bionix fusion and everything worked great. I didn't do the titanium backup and there was an app that i needed to use the next day so on the way to work, i decided to restore back to the stock thinking that i could go back for the day, use the apps that i needed and when i got home got home, back up my apps with titanium back up and restore again back to the bionix fusion. So i did that. I went to rom manager and I first backed up my bionix fusion rom and then tried to recover my stock rom. When the phone restarted, it didn't go past the vibrant/samsung screen.
The question...
what went wrong? based on some reading i think it has something to do with the kernel but i'm not really sure.
but the real question is, how do i avoid from this happening again? did i do the recovery wrong? what's the best way to unbrick my phone back to stock without losing any data on the phone. is it possible????
at this point, i can go into download mode. what should be my next move?
Thank you again if you can provide any insight.
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So looking at some posts, I looks like I need to flash the stock kernel. can anyone tell me how to flash just the kernel using odin? I've never used it and I can't seem to find anything on flashing just the kernel. Thank you.
Problem SOLVED!
ok. not completely solved T_T.
What i've done.
I've flashed back to stock vibrant firmware and that works fine. When i try to restore my nandroid backup, and it reboots, I get stuck back to the same place i was. I made two nandroid backups and tried them both but neither of them work. am i doing it wrong? I have even re-rooted my vibrant and downloaded rom manager again and tried it through there and still get the problem. have tried it about 4 times now with no luck.
Again, any help is appreciated.
Nandroid doesnt replace the kernal
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Exactly, nandroid doesn't replace the kernel. If you want to run a nandroid restore, you have to either flash the rom the nandroid was created on, then restore (safest imho), or flash a compatible kernel for the rom from which your nandroid was created, then run your nandroid restore.
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Pretty sure this was in the sticky too
So today I was trying out a Sense version of froyo on my hero, didn't like it as im way too used to launcherPro now anyway I made a Nandroid backup yesterday, did a restore using amonRa recovery, it said the restore was successful... but
At first it didn't want to boot, just completely froze on bootscreen, then after a batt pull i loaded up recov again, wipes everything and then restored...
This time I actually fell asleep while waiting for the phone to boot, in the middle of the day actually , after I woke up the phone looked like the one i used to have but, nothing worked none of the apps that i had worked, half of them were actually completely gone, keyboard didn't work (scandinavian), only the stock ADW launcher worked...
Also when the phone booted it ran the setup wizard, just as if I would have done a fresh ROM install??? I had no contacts, no SMS, no pics, nothing
ISN'T NANDROID SUPPOSED TO BACKUP EVERYTHING and not just the core ROM files?
also if I remove my SD card I find my phone rebooting in matter of seconds :S
I really need help with this, I absolutely dont want to download all my ~100 Apps from the market, setup all of my 5 homescreen and ask all of my friends for their number again that would take weeks!
Try a full wipe, then restore the previous Rom
but that means that i'll have to install all my apps again, reset all my setting, everything... Its my last resort but I'd like to atleast know why this got so ****ed up? isn't nandroid supposed to create an exact image of the phone, and even be transferable to other phones of the same model ?
I'm really pissed of atm, I have put so much into personalizing my phone and now I have to go trough this all again maybe just wait for another ROM I'd like to use and just start over
If you did a nandroid your apps should be restored too : )
A full wipe doesn't touch SD, the SD contains the nandroid so it all should be there. The nandroid you restored sounds like it corrupted the Rom on the phone you didn't wipe. Always wipe before : )
I did a complete wipe and after that a nandroid restore, still nothing
Title basically says it all i am running the stock 347, 00 ROM and i have it all configured how i like so how can i backup an img or script so i can flash it back to how i had it if streakmod doesnt work right or i dont like it???
thanks
Ok so im having issues doing a backup, i would like to flash streakmod or clockwork but i have ubuntu so i dont know how to do that in fastboot? Also i tried ROM manager from clockwork and did the flash clockwork mod and it said it worked but when i do a backup the device reboots but not into the backup just normally and no backup is made? i tried 2 times
NO ONE???? Surely people have been able to back up there stock 347 ROM??? I dont know why ROM manager isnt working when backing up??
I had some trouble backing mine up prior to flashing 1.90.
What i did was install Streakmod through fastboot like others have said.
After i got into Nandroid from Streakmod i kept having the issue of it hanging at the end of the backup process on i believe it was final boot ..
I tried numerous times over and over and it would always hang at the end in the same spot but on the last time i tried i had my machine unplugged from the PC and no cable in the streak and this is when it finally went through the full process.
I have been able to flash back and forth numerous times now from 1.90 to the stock backup without any issues at all .
I did not clear the Delvik cache or the system cache either because i was afraid of bricking after reading a post from someone said they bricked there Streak from clearing the cache ?.
I am not 100% on the whole cache thing since one guy suggested clearing the cache and also installing 3.2 of Streakmod to get a full backup from Nandroid but the only part i followed of his advice was the 3.2 part and not the cache suggestion..
I think in the end having it unplugged from the PC was what got mine to finally create a full backup but your YMMV .
Good luck
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NO ONE???? Surely people have been able to back up there stock 347 ROM??? I dont know why ROM manager isnt working when backing up??
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I think maybe people aren't responding to you because half the first page is taken up by your threads about backing up/flashing 347/1.9. One thread is enough to get all your questions answered.
This is so hit and miss. I just backed up one set after clearing caches, to bad it was the spare unsetup set, that i want mirrored from the next set. I tried the main set thats all setup and it stopped, froze on firstboot. trying yet again with cable unplugged.
Im doing this on 318. I cleared the cache on the main set last time, so this time i didnt. ugh, backup sux on these things. should be simple !!
Does the time of backing up firstboot change depending on the set? or how many things are installed? I think its stuck again. The other set that completed successfully did it pretty fast
Ya I have tried both versions of cwm recovery and it sticks at data, and I tried regular and beta streak mod and it hangs on firstboot..... Clearing cache and what not each time.i wanna try streakmod 1.9 but not til I have a stock backup so I might just do a reset and say screw it just to get a backup? I left it over night last night and It seemed to work, when I woke it was on the streakmod recovery screen but showed error: cache recovery.log.....so I discarded that backup.
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Yeah i tried again after doing a factory reset and it hung again on firstboot as well even unplugged like i had suggested .
It is totally hit or miss sadly enough but at this point i am glad i have one solid backup i guess .
We should be able to just flash an update.pkg of whatever firmware that came on our unit negating the need for a backup of our actual firmware that came pre installed correct ?.
I have not tried to run one of these packages i have seen floating around of the official releases but i cant imagine its going to be any different then installing DJ Steve's 1.90 etc..
Mine didn't come with an update .pkg...
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Yeah mine did not either but there are other firmwares floating around i do believe like 3.51 ? ..
Mine came with 3.47 which i made a backup of with only a couple changes on it like my google contacts etc so its pretty much a clean version.
I was trying to make a factory reset version so i could possibly share it with others that wanted 3.47 but when i tried to do it again after the factory reset it just hung.
I am not even sure if you can share Nandroid backups or not but i dont see why you cant honestly..
I have 347 as well, I'm sure u can just upload a update.pkg if you wana share a backup?
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In the last post i mentioned i did not get the Update.pkg either thats why i was trying to create a fresh 3.47 backup but had no luck and the only backup i currently have is one that already had some personal data already on it so that one can not be uploaded.
Im not sure i am going to factory reset and try again anytime soon but if i do and have some success i will be sure and try to upload it to share just not sure its going to be anytime soon if at all since i did not have luck trying the last time.
There is no rhyme or reason why it worked one time for me and not the rest sadly .
The creator of Streakmod mentioned he could not reproduce the hanging on firstboot so im not sure he even knows how to address the issue or is even looking into it .
I know you put the files from your one backup in a folder and name it update.pkg to re flash it, or something close to that
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Nandroid actually creates a folder with a bunch of different files which is very different then just a straight up Update.pkg.
I know I just read something though and tours what it said you can do, take those files and rename the folder so recovery can flash them
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To make a long story short my gtab broke so I got another one. Prior to shipping the bad one back I did an nandroid backup and copied to my computer.
I received my new one today, installed clockwork and trying to do a restore.
Error while flashing boot image!
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is what I receive. What gives? Any thoughts on why I'm seeing this?
I managed to get the "md5 sum mismatch" on my dx, but that was because I renamed the original file and used spaces in the name...
Never managed to get the error you got though
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I've tried so many things. I flashed Vegan ROM over again, performed reboot, went into the fresh clean ROM..then rebooted into recovery to restore. Same error.
I tried partitioning over again, wiping, etc then restoring..same thing. I even tried another nandroid that I took days prior....!! I'm at a loss... argh! I want this image back from my nandroid
Also to add confusion to the mix: I tried taking a backup of nothing basically, and then restoring that and it worked fine. However just none of my 3 nandroid backups takin off my old device restore on this device. Is there a coorelation?
There has to be a way to flash back my nandroid backup...right?
Maybe my bootloader is locked, thus stalling on the boot.img?
ok so now I really jacked it up...tried downloading rom manager from market, installing some recovery and restoring my image, which did nothing but freeze at the viewsonic screen. Now I can't get into recovery anymore
Now I tried nvflashing back to stock... windows 7 crashed at the 11_app_img but it copied scucessfully, and now the tablet won't turn on?wtf!
I Have restorted to being the noob that signs up to ask a question...The other day I was driving (pre-root) and I look down to notice my phone had power cycled on its own. I thought it would come back one, boy I was wrong....
It spiralled into endless boot cycle. It would at first reboot get to the 4g screen and then back to the htc...over and over. I was able to get into Hboot, and atempt to do a factory reset that didnt help because it became a endless reboot that way as well.
Now before any of you say "why dont you warranty replace the phone" Im a VZW agent, alas we dont have a warranty on our phones when it comes to our concessions lines...
Now, at that point I said enough is enough and I delved into the world of rooting. I self taught everything within a few hours. I had my phone unlocked and ready to go. I picked Ineffabile (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420513) to use as a rom, I followed the procedure to a T it installed correctly, but then when it came back on everything seemed to work fine...for about 5 minutes and then it happened agian a power cycle all over again. and again...and again. It now comes on works for about 5mins and then reboots.
Im at a complete loss at this point I have gone back into the SD card and deleted the ph98 file etc.... I just dont know what to do. I need this phone to work.
Any help is appreciated Thank you so much!
I know you said it's not the wcdma problem but will your phone stay booted with the back cover off?
Else I'd ruu back to stock. Could try the different radios and see if it helps.
If you want to try the older radios and are on the OTA you'll have to hexedit you mainver. There's a guide if you look.
older radios? Im still new to this so I applogize...
A couple weeks ago there was an OTA (over the air update) that updated the radios - what controls the calls part of your phone and can affect reception and other stuff, I don't know everything it does. So if you wanted to try the older ones there's a thread somewhere, I think by con247, that has the older ones.
Here's a couple guides to help you get familiar with rooting stuff:
http://androidforums.com/evo-3d-all-things-root/389787-beginners-guide-rooting-android-devices.html
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/129648-quick-intro-rooting-those-new-rooting.html
You can try flashing the kernel again. Sometimes bootlooping is a kernel issue, although it doesn't seem to be the cause of your situation.
How about insurance? Do you have that? Can you still get it?
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A couple weeks ago there was an OTA (over the air update) that updated the radios - what controls the calls part of your phone and can affect reception and other stuff, I don't know everything it does. So if you wanted to try the older ones there's a thread somewhere, I think by con247, that has the older ones.
You can try flashing the kernel again. Sometimes bootlooping is a kernel issue, although it doesn't seem to be the cause of your situation.
How about insurance? Do you have that? Can you still get it?
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I dont have insurance =/ and cant get it either. Im trying to find the radios, and what kernal should I be flashing? because I cannot find the one that should match the rom im using.
What I dont understand is why the phone powers on, works for a few moments like nothing is wrong what so ever. Then freezes and reboots.
Oh, there's a new way of packing a ROM with a script that then installs the kernel so I guess it's all together now on Ineffabilis. Here's a link to the MikMik forum where they still have the stock rooted kernel as a separate download:
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...-Beats-Tweaks-2-01-605-11&p=164906#post164906
Just take off the part of the name before PH98IMG.zip, put it on your external sd card. Do a battery pull, then reboot into bootloader by holding volume down + power. It will flash it and I think reboot. Then delete the PHzip file after that.
Don't know if it will help...
Oh... when you flashed Ineffabilis, did you restore any data from a backup? If yes, try flashing again and not restoring any data, just set up everything again manually. Also, if you restored any data from another phone's backup that could have caused problems. Basically you don't want to restore data from a different ROM.
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Oh, there's a new way of packing a ROM with a script that then installs the kernel so I guess it's all together now on Ineffabilis. Here's a link to the MikMik forum where they still have the stock rooted kernel as a separate download:
Just take off the part of the name before PH98IMG.zip, put it on your external sd card. Do a battery pull, then reboot into bootloader by holding volume down + power. It will flash it and I think reboot. Then delete the PHzip file after that.
Don't know if it will help...
Oh... when you flashed Ineffabilis, did you restore any data from a backup? If yes, try flashing again and not restoring any data, just set up everything again manually. Also, if you restored any data from another phone's backup that could have caused problems. Basically you don't want to restore data from a different ROM.
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This is a clean SD card, and I didnt create a backup because I couldnt get the phone past Hboot when it was doing boot cycles previous to the root. I re-ruu'd right now. And im starting from scratch. I used clockwork before, Im trying amon ra now.