Hey guys,
I had my old Evo, and had it rooted, not through HTC's bootloader, sadly that phone broke and I had to get a new one. well I had it backed up with Clockwork and I want to restore my old Rom. I did the process of unlocking and rooting the phone here being it was on Hboot 1.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
But now every time I try to restore the Backup in Clockwork I get sent to TWRP and can't seem to recover the back up there. Anyway to do this or to remove TWRP and put back the recovery process that my old Rooted Evo 3d had?
cheato3825 said:
Hey guys,
I had my old Evo, and had it rooted, not through HTC's bootloader, sadly that phone broke and I had to get a new one. well I had it backed up with Clockwork and I want to restore my old Rom. I did the process of unlocking and rooting the phone here being it was on Hboot 1.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
But now every time I try to restore the Backup in Clockwork I get sent to TWRP and can't seem to recover the back up there. Anyway to do this or to remove TWRP and put back the recovery process that my old Rooted Evo 3d had?
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CWM and TWRP use different naming conventions for their backups.
If you created a backup in CWM, would be easiest to restore using CWM.
When restoring a backup from a different devices, I would suggest ONLY restoring, data, system and boot partitions.
Keep in mind some devices can have hardware variations between versions and on occasion these can impact restoring an "older" ROM from a previous device to a newer device.
Hope that helps!
joeykrim said:
CWM and TWRP use different naming conventions for their backups.
If you created a backup in CWM, would be easiest to restore using CWM.
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How do I force it to use CWM. I open it up, try to restore it and it restarts my phone in TWRP.
You might need to use fastboot to make CWM work. I haven't had success using any other method with hboot 1.5. I've had the same experience as others with only CWM 4.0.1.4 and 5.8.0.1 working via fastboot. Instructions I used:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17660133&postcount=1877
Not trying to hijack this thread but I don't want to make a new thread for this noob question.... How do I know which hw version I have? On evo4g it says it right on the hboot screen, but I can't see it on the 3d. Thanks.
Edit...found it.
cheato3825 said:
Hey guys,
I had my old Evo, and had it rooted, not through HTC's bootloader, sadly that phone broke and I had to get a new one. well I had it backed up with Clockwork and I want to restore my old Rom. I did the process of unlocking and rooting the phone here being it was on Hboot 1.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239821
But now every time I try to restore the Backup in Clockwork I get sent to TWRP and can't seem to recover the back up there. Anyway to do this or to remove TWRP and put back the recovery process that my old Rooted Evo 3d had?
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Restoring a backup from CMW to a different phone is a bad idea. If you do, DO NOT RESTORE WIMAX PARTITIONS or you will lose 4g. I would just start over as it would be the safest.
tgruendler said:
Restoring a backup from CMW to a different phone is a bad idea. If you do, DO NOT RESTORE WIMAX PARTITIONS or you will lose 4g. I would just start over as it would be the safest.
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Agreed, what you should do when switching phones is to backup with titanium backup, I find it to work better because I backs up the apk and the data for it opposed to CWR or TWRP which actually grab a snapshot of the partitions and recover from it.
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cheato3825 said:
How do I force it to use CWM. I open it up, try to restore it and it restarts my phone in TWRP.
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I think, You have TWRP flashed to your phone, and you havent flashed CWM yet. You are just booting CWM using fastboot. So, when the recovery restarts you get to TWRP.
Instead of using "fastboot boot *.img" use "fastboot flash recovery *.img" then use "fasboot boot *.img". Then try once again and check if it works......
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I rooted my buddies phone for him pretty much so he could use wifi tether. Told him to make a nandroid before he does anything. He said he did. He called me this am and said he tried to flash an ics ROM from Scott's site and now his phone won't boot past the HTC screen. He said he tried to retire the backup but it didn't work nor did a factory reset.
Can I just get him to flash a GB based ROM and get him back to square one or must I get an ics ROM loaded up since he already tried to get that on there?
Can I just have him load the stock ruu for GB? Where can I locate that?
He might have forgot the pg98img?? I know it happened to me when i first had ics
What did you do to fix the problem? He has never flashed anything so he probably forgot something. Just trying to figure out what I need to do to fix his phone when I see him later tonight.
1967ls2 said:
What did you do to fix the problem? He has never flashed anything so he probably forgot something. Just trying to figure out what I need to do to fix his phone when I see him later tonight.
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Countless threads on this...even the rom threads tell you what to do...
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nosympathy said:
Countless threads on this...even the rom threads tell you what to do...
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Thanks for all the help, really appreciate it
Your "friend" (lol, j/k) should be able to do a battery pull, get back into recovery and then just start the process of flashing a new ROM again. Have him wipe the cache and dalvik cache first. I don't know why the nand won't restore, maybe he didn't make it properly?
Is he using Amon Ra? CWM was known to be buggy on this phone, don't know if that has been addressed. If he's using CWM then maybe he should switch to Amon Ra. iirc it can also restore a nand made in CWM.
feralicious said:
Your "friend" (lol, j/k) should be able to do a battery pull, get back into recovery and then just start the process of flashing a new ROM again. Have him wipe the cache and dalvik cache first. I don't know why the nand won't restore, maybe he didn't make it properly?
Is he using Amon Ra? CWM was known to be buggy on this phone, don't know if that has been addressed. If he's using CWM then maybe he should switch to Amon Ra. iirc it can also restore a nand made in CWM.
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Thanks for the reply. My rezound is running smoothly! My buddy should have hit me up before trying to flash anything but he didn't. I'm running Amom but when I tried to install it on his phone it wouldn't take so I installed cwm. He said he made a backup but it won't restore. I will try to install Amon again on his phone and see if I can get his back up to work. I have a nand on my phone off the stock ROM. Do you think I can use my sd card in his phone and try to restore that or is it phone specific? I wouldn't think it is though
I don't know about restoring someone else's nand.
Also, if he gets a mainver error check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459347
But if you flash in fastboot you don't have to worry about mainver, it will flash no problem.
You can find out what mainver the phone is on in fastboot using the following command:
fastboot getvar all
The 300 MB update started to install, but after the reboot, it's hung at the HTC splash screen. After about 40 minutes sitting there, I pulled the battery. I'm able to get back into the bootloader and recovery so I'm not hard bricked. I'm pretty sure my mistake was letting the update install with AmonRa recovery, not stock. The 7 MB update installed fine that way, though. I just clicked reboot after it was done patching.
Any ideas how to recover from this without completely bricking my phone?
It was completely stock GB other than being rooted and AmonRa.
hopefully you have your data backed up.
I would suggest running the FULL ruu linked here if a data wipe in amon ra doesn't work.
Fortunately between Titanium and a couple of nandroid backups, I do have backups of everything but the stock recovery. I'm debating whether to restore /system and try it again when I get home from work.
Anybody have a link to the full .12 RUU?
I'm pretty sure I read you need to be on stock recovery in order to take OTA.
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GoBlue13 said:
I'm pretty sure I read you need to be on stock recovery in order to take OTA.
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Yeah you do that's the problem
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's where I went wrong. Can anybody upload the stock recovery.img? I'm hoping I can restore my nandroid backup from last night, flash the recovery back to stock and try the update again.
I am the same way Antoine.WG needing the stock recovery for download....and need to know how to lock my phone back....
jwp1223 said:
I am the same way Antoine.WG needing the stock recovery for download....and need to know how to lock my phone back....
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Found the recovery image at the bottom of this thread. I restored /system and /boot (not sure if I needed /boot, but it seemed like a good idea) and I'm back to GB again. For some reason I can see the update with the status button but it won't give me the option to install it.
EDIT: Gave it some time and it finally prompted me to install. All updated with some delicious frozen goodness.
I made a backup of my HTC EVO LTE Stock ROM in TWRP, I flashed CMX, now I want to go back to Stock, so I went to TWRP>Install, I can see my backup folder under /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/name of backup.. but I when I select the folder it does not give me the option to Install it. It just opens as an empty folder. I did notice the folder is not in a .zip format. Is this the reason why? Did I miss something during the back up process? And if so, how can I fix it? Is it as easy as just converting the regular folder into a .zip folder then try to install it this way?.. Please tell me not everything is lost, lol.. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
onavarro said:
I made a backup of my HTC EVO LTE Stock ROM in TWRP, I flashed CMX, now I want to go back to Stock, so I went to TWRP>Install, I can see my backup folder under /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/name of backup.. but I when I select the folder it does not give me the option to Install it. It just opens as an empty folder. I did notice the folder is not in a .zip format. Is this the reason why? Did I miss something during the back up process? And if so, how can I fix it? Is it as easy as just converting the regular folder into a .zip folder then try to install it this way?.. Please tell me not everything is lost, lol.. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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There should be a restore option on the main screen in twrp recovery. If you hit that it will allow you to choose what file you want to restore
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Seconded. Choose "restore" to restore nandroid backups.
krobinso2295 said:
There should be a restore option on the main screen in twrp recovery. If you hit that it will allow you to choose what file you want to restore
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I see that now!. I can see what the difference is now. THANKS SO MUCH! :laugh:
Hello I'm coming from clockwork mod and now using Twrp. I renamed my backup and when I go to restore my backup I do not see it in tarp>backups? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
shane1diamond said:
Hello I'm coming from clockwork mod and now using Twrp. I renamed my backup and when I go to restore my backup I do not see it in tarp>backups? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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You can't restore back up made in clockwork mod using twrp recovery.
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Need to Restore But Getting Black Screen
Okay so my situation is similiar to the OP.
I was running CM10 then a custom sense Rom.
I made an original backup, but when I restore it I get a black screen at boot.
Typically when I flash a Rom I have to fastboot flash the boot.img which is no biggie, but there's no boot.img that I can find in the twrp backup.
Might be just as easy to flash a stock Rom, but not sure exactly where to find one. Everything I've found is rooted or custom in some way.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
tankerkevo said:
Okay so my situation is similiar to the OP.
I was running CM10 then a custom sense Rom.
I made an original backup, but when I restore it I get a black screen at boot.
Typically when I flash a Rom I have to fastboot flash the boot.img which is no biggie, but there's no boot.img that I can find in the twrp backup.
Might be just as easy to flash a stock Rom, but not sure exactly where to find one. Everything I've found is rooted or custom in some way.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
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Download the rom you are trying to restore, and fast boot that bootimg.
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thicklizard said:
Download the rom you are trying to restore, and fast boot that bootimg.
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The ROM I'm trying to restore is the original state of my phone. Would this be a stock ROM with a versioning date of October 28th(the day I got my phone and made the backup), current stock ROMs, or launch stock ROMs. Basically will any boot.img work from a stock ROM?
I do see the boot sector being written during the restore process. There is a boot.something.win file in the backup folder for the backup. Can this be fastbooted? I'm a bit timid to try that, but thinking it may be worth a shot...
tankerkevo said:
The ROM I'm trying to restore is the original state of my phone. Would this be a stock ROM with a versioning date of October 28th(the day I got my phone and made the backup), current stock ROMs, or launch stock ROMs. Basically will any boot.img work from a stock ROM?
I do see the boot sector being written during the restore process. There is a boot.something.win file in the backup folder for the backup. Can this be fastbooted? I'm a bit timid to try that, but thinking it may be worth a shot...
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I think this is what you would need
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...oted-Based-on-Latest-OTA-(Odexed-and-Deodexed)
Just download the kernel/bootimg and fast boot it and you should be good to go
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clockwork recovery f's up your misc partition on this phone.. DO NOT use clockwork mod recovery on this phone! it f ed up mine.. mines fixed now but it was a pain to fix
thicklizard said:
I think this is what you would need
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Just download the kernel/bootimg and fast boot it and you should be good to go
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Thanks for the quick reply, QuickWizard is very fitting. I actually got it after I finished going my own route though.
I grew a pair and went with my got and I went ahead and flashed the boot.emmc.win from the twrp backup in flashboot. It successfully got me booted and logged into the phone. That said the stock rom is so crappy...
But, I was having issues on CM10 with MHL, on a "stock rom with goodies" I was having radio issues with the latest firmawares, so now it's back to my rooted stock backup and I'm doing the HTC System OTA update... Should be interesting what happens next...
Again thank you all with the quick replies!
Hello, I have a major problem with something that should have been a minor project. I used System Recovery to do a backup of the phone. The only thing I can think of there that I might have done differently is save the backup to the external SD card, instead of internal. After the backup completed, I went to reboot the phone and it's stuck on the Motorola splash screen. I tried to pull the battery and go into that general Android Recovery in order to wipe data and try again, but I just get the Android with an exclamation point over his head. I've tried booting it without the SD card too. I was using CM7
Can anyone help please!
EDIT: A couple hours later, since it was my work phone, I had to do something. I reverted the SBF, re-rooted and tried to restore from the backup I made and the same thing happened. I'm going to try to revert to my previous backup. I have a full backup from Titanium Backup if it comes down to it. The phone was working fine, I just can't figure out why it blew up on me after I ran the backup. Grr..
iceolate said:
Hello, I have a major problem with something that should have been a minor project. I used System Recovery to do a backup of the phone. The only thing I can think of there that I might have done differently is save the backup to the external SD card, instead of internal. After the backup completed, I went to reboot the phone and it's stuck on the Motorola splash screen. I tried to pull the battery and go into that general Android Recovery in order to wipe data and try again, but I just get the Android with an exclamation point over his head. I've tried booting it without the SD card too. I was using CM7
Can anyone help please!
EDIT: A couple hours later, since it was my work phone, I had to do something. I reverted the SBF, re-rooted and tried to restore from the backup I made and the same thing happened. I'm going to try to revert to my previous backup. I have a full backup from Titanium Backup if it comes down to it. The phone was working fine, I just can't figure out why it blew up on me after I ran the backup. Grr..
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sounds like a bad backup. i always use external sd for nandroids and it has never had issues.i would just re-flash. as for stock recovery with andy with an exclamation , push both volume keys. should work regardless of what state the phone is in. i have had it completely unusable and it still worked.
Lorenzo VonMatterhorn said:
sounds like a bad backup. i always use external sd for nandroids and it has never had issues.i would just re-flash. as for stock recovery with andy with an exclamation , push both volume keys. should work regardless of what state the phone is in. i have had it completely unusable and it still worked.
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OK - You mean to flash cleanly with CM7 and then restore from Titanium backup instead of my previous nandroid backup?
I'm slightly confused about that System Recovery tool, because first I had ROM Manager and it says that CWM is installed, but it doesn't work. Do I have to manually install that System Recovery APK each time I do stuff like this, or does it stay installed? And if so, from a powered off state, how do you enter it? Or do you have to boot up to Android and enter recovery mode from the app? Thanks.
iceolate said:
OK - You mean to flash cleanly with CM7 and then restore from Titanium backup instead of my previous nandroid backup?
I'm slightly confused about that System Recovery tool, because first I had ROM Manager and it says that CWM is installed, but it doesn't work. Do I have to manually install that System Recovery APK each time I do stuff like this, or does it stay installed? And if so, from a powered off state, how do you enter it? Or do you have to boot up to Android and enter recovery mode from the app? Thanks.
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yes i would try that. second, dont use rom manager. dont delete it either. but it doesnt work on our phone. the bootstrap recovery that you install would only need to be reinstalled if you delete cache in recovery. otherwise it should always work. hope this helps. im not completely sure exactly what you are asking.
try just restoring system part of backup, see if phone will boot, then restore user data
or reinstall cm7 and restore just user data
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sd_shadow said:
try just restoring system part of backup, see if phone will boot, then restore user data
or reinstall cm7 and restore just user data
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I should be fine now, thanks for the advice. I don't know why that backup blew up the phone, but it was sure an inconvenience haha! I just reflashed CM completely, and now I'm gonna roll out my Titanium backup. I don't have a lot of stuff, just the essential stuff for work, so it shouldn't take too long.
Is it safe to assume that a backup done with TWRP will not work with CWM?
Also, on the developer page, it says to use one recovery vs another. Is this mandatory or it just the developer's personal preference?
The reason I ask is that when I first rooted my phone I flashed TWRP and did a back up. Then, to get this other ROM on my phone, it was said to use CWM, which I flashed in place of TWRP. If I wanted to go back to my original backup, would I need to reflash TWRP so that I could restore that back up?
Thanks in advance.
garment69 said:
Is it safe to assume that a backup done with TWRP will not work with CWM?
Also, on the developer page, it says to use one recovery vs another. Is this mandatory or it just the developer's personal preference?
The reason I ask is that when I first rooted my phone I flashed TWRP and did a back up. Then, to get this other ROM on my phone, it was said to use CWM, which I flashed in place of TWRP. If I wanted to go back to my original backup, would I need to reflash TWRP so that I could restore that back up?
Thanks in advance.
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Yes. You must use what you backed up with. Either one will flash any Rom.
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