Long story short, someone took my phone and launched it off the ground. Screen doesnt turn on, but the phone still works.
Can someone please tell me the button pressing order to make a nandroid backup and then do a full data wipe and cache wipe.
Thanks
I am using CM9 nightlies with the CWM that comes with that. 5.x I think
Edit: I would be willing to do it over ADB, I assume I can wipe data etc with that. I just need to be able to recover that onto the phone if it gets replaced or Samsung do a factory wipe
Press volume up + home + power button at the same time to reboot into recovery mode.
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Hey thanks for the reply.
I was actually looking for how many times I need to press up and down etc to navigate CWM to actually get to the backup and clear data menus.
Doesnt matter now though, I just ADB pulled my /system and file mounted and copied off an old nandroid backup I had.
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I completely bricked my phone. i was rolling on fr008 and it was working fine. i nandroid packuped, then tried cyanogenmods 6.1.1... it's now bricked and whenever i do a nandroid backup it stays on the loading screen... help anyone?
Can you get into clockwork mod? If so, do a data wipe/factory reset, then clear cache, then on advanced menu clear dalvik cache. Then reinstall latest FR008ddx
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I completely bricked my phone. i was rolling on fr008 and it was working fine. i nandroid packuped, then tried cyanogenmods 6.1.1... it's now bricked and whenever i do a nandroid backup it stays on the loading screen... help anyone?
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So I am assuming you are able to get into recovery? If so please try to get into the advanced menu and do a "wipe dalvik cache". Next, backup 1 menu and wipe your cache partition and user data, then try and boot your phone. When switching from the FR series to CM or vice versa you need to wipe dalvik and regular cache plus user data. Also when you try and flash roms make sure your phone is not plugged in, clockwork recovery does not work the same when your phone is plugged in. If you flashed CM while your phone was plugged in then you need to attempt to flash again with your phone unplugged.
Thanks guys, that really helped, ill try it know
Thanks for the help guys, but do you know how to get my nandroid backup to work? because its factory reset, and everytime i try to do a nandroid backup i have to repeat this process... help again?
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Thanks for the help guys, but do you know how to get my nandroid backup to work? because its factory reset, and everytime i try to do a nandroid backup i have to repeat this process... help again?
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Forget the nandroid backup its corrupt
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What do you mean it's factory reset? If you restored your phone back to stock I don't believe you can use nandroid. You should be in clockwork recovery to use nandroid. The factory reset/data wipe from recovery does not bother nandroid in any way that I am aware of. Are you trying to restore a nandroid backup?
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Eh, oh well, thanks for the help guys, ill start moving everything back....
Dont use clockwork recovery when plugged into your computer, thats the only conclusion i can come up with for why your nanodroid backup is corrupt...
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Yeah... make sure you're unplugged while you're doing this and be sure to wipe the cache as mentioned above. You can then put a rom on your SD and flash again, then go back and flash your favorite rom or go back to factory.
cant stress it enough, read the install instructions and ALWAYS wipe before flashing(or is that flushing? j/k)
anyway, you should be able to Nandroid Restore. and the previous posters were right, the only way to enter recovery properly is with the phone unplugged, then power on holding the volume down key, select recovery and Bingo!!
let us know how you made out
Thanks guys, got everything up and running again, and thanks for the instructions
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Basically, I installed YogenTouch 1.5 after been riding the nightly cyanogen wave and having the phone crash during idle time. I wanted to try something new. Problem is that I can't install anything else with Clockwork and my question is simple:
How can I return the phone to its most basic state, with a gingerbread rom and a clean slate?
I tried flashing other mods, windows 7 is now telling me it should repair the usb whenever I connect it to the computer, I'd love to format and start the rooting process all over again, but I'm afraid I'll brick it.
Thanks!
If you install a rom like blayo, do you wipe your phone before you install?
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i don't, i keep all my apps and everything, no cleaning of data or cache or dalvik.
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i don't, i keep all my apps and everything, no cleaning of data or cache or dalvik.
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Normaly if you change roms you have to wipe everything to have that fresh feel of the new rom
Try backing up your apps; I recommend titanium backup free, to be sure also backup true cwm, then wipe everything and then install a new rom
That should fix your problem
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that's the problem, flashing won't work.. i get stuck in the clockwork mod recovery thing with the triangle and the upside down ! sign
looks like you need fake flash
Dude, if you had rommanager installed. The cwm recovery should be installed properly. But just in case you faild to get in to cwm recovery. Than at the red triangle with ! Sign. Press vol + and the power button. Than use the update.zip to access cwm. Rommanager will copy it's cwm as update.zip to your sd card when you installed it.
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that's the problem, flashing won't work.. i get stuck in the clockwork mod recovery thing with the triangle and the upside down ! sign
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if you have that screen press volume + and then the power button and keep the volume + pressed while pressing the power button
then select flash update.zip and confirm with power
hi guys. i dont know much but maybe you guys can help. evo 3d is my first smart phone. got it on launch day. i followed the video instructions for root earlier today and it worked. my question is regarding flashing the actual roms. is it just as simple as dragging the zip onto the sd card? thanks for the help.
You need a custom recovery to flash roms,kernels, and any other flashable mods. Do you have one yet? If you do the first thing you must do is a full nandroid backup.
i used the clockwordmod that came with revolutionary and already did a nandroid backup. am i all set?
Ok sounds good. Make sure fastboot is unchecked under settings>power. Turn off your phone. Boot into your hboot by holding down vol down and power button. Use volume button to highlight recovery in your hboot and use power button to select it. Now I'm using teamwins recovery so I can't give you a step by step. But basically make sure you have done a full nandroid. Make sure you have a ROM to flash on your sdcard. Wipe data,cache and dalvik cache. Select choose zip to install from sdcard. Navigate to that zip and select. Don't mess with your phone til it says install complete. Reboot your phone using recovery menu. And I always wait about 5 minutes before using my phone when flashing anything.
Ps it would also be a good idea to buy titanium backup pro from the market and backup your apps, and data (call history,messages,bookmarks,etc.)
thanks alot for the help
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I have successfully rooted and installed CWM and TB. I've flashed the latest Android Recovery. I've rebooted while holding the volume down and that gets me into the initial recovery menu where I can keep pressing volume down until I get to Android Recovery. Then I press volume up and get the exclamation point guy.
Then I press both volume up and down and enter a blue menu of Android recovery menus but there are no options for BAckup / Restore. I can only flash a zip, wipe cache, wipe data, or reboot. No other options are available.
How do I backup my current ROM? Please - I've searched and am at a loss. . .
Thanks.
I'm not exactly sure which type of backup you want, but if you get ROM Manager from the market (free version will suffice) scroll down to backup inside the app and it will do a full system backup. Be aware it does shut down in the middle of backing up so don't freak out. Let it run its course should take around 10 minutes
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tried this and it prompts me to name the backup then restarts and opens up to the exclamation point guy and just sits there. . .
Not really sure what ive done wrong.
The prompt and restart is correct, but the backing up should being, hmm..... Are you running the most up to date version of your recovery? Which recovery is it exactly (romracers, ROM Managers, tenfars)?
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Hi,
I used Moonshine to successfully S-off my DNA. I planned to flash Viper DNA and as I couldn't find how to enter into custom recovery TWRP(installed through goo.im)I used option within goo.im to reboot into recovery.
Then I took a backup of stock ROM and went ahead to flash Viper 1.35 which I placed in the internal memory and booted into recovery.In the steps given, it was suggested to format Data before flashing. While I cleared System and cache partitions, I didnt clear data section as it had the VIper DNA zip and thought clearing data would delete entore internal memory.
No, my device is in a weird situation where Viper got installed over stock ROM and causing reboots immediately after booting up.Now, before I do anything the device is rebooting to Viper DNA boot animation screen. Not getting time to even shut down the device.
Can anyone please suggest me what to do. Once or twice I could get it to shutdown but dont know how to get into twrp. Please help me get into twrp and clear my confusion in erasing the data before flashing a ROM. Hope I'm clear. Soon, my DNA might be dead without battery. Desperately, waiting for help....
Update : I could finally switch off my mobile. Now, can anyone direct me to get into Twrp please?
You can always shut down by holding power for 10 seconds. This will cause another reboot UNLESS after it powers off you immediately let go of power then push power and volume down simultaneously. This will get you to bootloader and from there you can select recovery. Once you are in recovery I suggest a normal wipe which DOES include data. You can always select advanced wipe and choose which partitions you want to wipe.Your internal storage won't ever be erased but depending on the version of android, its contents may be available in a different root folder after flashing. This is only with 4.2.2 Roms apparently. Your stuff would be in root/data/media. If you are on an earlier version than it should keep everything intact.
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You can always shut down by holding power for 10 seconds. This will cause another reboot UNLESS after it powers off you immediately let go of power then push power and volume down simultaneously. This will get you to bootloader and from there you can select recovery. Once you are in recovery I suggest a normal wipe which DOES include data. You can always select advanced wipe and choose which partitions you want to wipe.Your internal storage won't ever be erased but depending on the version of android, its contents may be available in a different root folder after flashing. This is only with 4.2.2 Roms apparently. Your stuff would be in root/data/media. If you are on an earlier version than it should keep everything intact.
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Had failed in a few attempts in booting into bootloader in method you suggested. Will try again and get back.New to HTC, so taking time to adapt. Thanks a lot.
While your device is off, hold power and volume at the same time until you get onto hboot (white screen with multicoloured text). Use the volume buttons to scroll down to recovery, and power to select it. Your device will turn off, then come back the the splash screen (white screen with "HTC quietly brilliant" and "Beats Audio" ) with the purple text at the top, "entering recovery". From here TWRP will load. Do an advanced wipe and select "data", "cashe", and "davlik". This will clear /data, but not /data/media, which is where your internal SD storage is. It will leave your internal storage intact. After wiping, flash as normal and reboot. It's good to let the phone settle for about 10 minutes after flashing before proceeding with the setup wizard. Profit.
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Finally, I'm on viper DNA. Thanks a lot for detailed replies.
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