Searched, but found nothing specifically related to this. I was on CM10 and flashed back to stock until they get the bugs worked out. Flashed back to stock via Odin with Samsung toolkit v. 2.1. I had backups for TB so I decided to restore missing apps with data and system data, however whenever I did, the device would get stuck at the samsung logo. I suppose this is due to conflicting system files, so the device doesnt know what to boot from, but how can i avoid this in the future? I thought TB was the ultimate answer when switching roms to transfer data, this is the first time I've had trouble with boot issues with TB.
emoandy said:
Searched, but found nothing specifically related to this. I was on CM10 and flashed back to stock until they get the bugs worked out. Flashed back to stock via Odin with Samsung toolkit v. 2.1. I had backups for TB so I decided to restore missing apps with data and system data, however whenever I did, the device would get stuck at the samsung logo. I suppose this is due to conflicting system files, so the device doesnt know what to boot from, but how can i avoid this in the future? I thought TB was the ultimate answer when switching roms to transfer data, this is the first time I've had trouble with boot issues with TB.
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You're getting boot loops from restoring system data, thats a big no, no. Missing apps and data, I usually dont have any problems with that. The only "ultimate" is do a nandroid backup in CWM
True, but nandroid replaces system so it wouldn't be best when switching roms, correct?
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Apologies if this is the wrong forum.
The update notice came through on my phone yesterday afternoon. From reading on here I knew that a number of people were having problems with it. Like a meth addicted crackwhore I couldn't say no.
Before saying yes, I did make a backup.
Here's what I had on my phone beforehand:
Modified swype overlay
Modified battery icon
OCLF 2.1+
GPS fix update
I'd renamed the startup video so it wouldn't show
I'd replaced the startup sound with my own
I think that's all.
I did a nandroid backup before applying the update and even made a copy of the backup just in case.
I undid the lagfix but - perhaps stupidly - left all the other updates in place.
After applying the update my phone was stuck at the vibrant screen right after boot. No amount of waiting - 30 minutes the first time - did any good.
I've been through several rounds of flashing using the second round of steps in this thread but the best that happens is when the phone boots I see the stock home and the media,calendar,(+a few others I can't recall) FC continuously and the home shows a bunch of missing widget boxes.
If I do a nandroid restore I strangely end up with the hung vibrant screen again. It's like it's automatically applying the update or something other odd like that.
I can repartition and flash stock or the updated rom and things are working fine but I'd really rather not lose my data.
It occurred to me this morning that I might have done the backup before removing the lag fix. I'm guessing the backup won't recreate the ext2 partition and that's why things are FC'ing like mad?
I'm going to - probably pointlessly - try to re-flash, install the lag fix and do a restore to see if anything different happens.
If anyone else has a suggestion while I wait for my phone to charge enough to do the lag fix .... little tiny voice... <help?>
Well, re-installing oclf 2.1 didnt change the behavior. I've still got a brick after restoring my nandroid backup.
I've gone back to a clean ji6 install and I'm trying a titanium restore. I'll be a week out of date if this works but won't lose anything critical. If this works. I hope, I hope, I hope.
That happen to me too, had to odin back to stock then flash bionix 1.7. lost all my data
How about flashing JI6, applying OCLF, booting into clockwork recovery and selecting Nandroid-> Advanced-> (Your restore file)-> Data-> Yes.
This will reflash all your data on top of the new rom. The reason for reapplying the OCLF is because you backed up BEFORE undoing OCLF, so all your data is still in a .EXT2 file, so we have to have it expecting that before restoring.
Only thing left to do at this point is redo any themes you had installed, and your phone should be back to normal + the update.
I must have backed up after removing OCLF because I ended up flashing stock and restoring just the data. Unfortunately while the data was there, none of my apps were so the fact that the data was there was moot since I couldn't get at a lot of it.
I followed up by flashing just system and now I've got my full functionality back just without ji6.
I'll probably try again after rolling back a few more changes -such as removing the rom manager update.zip - and making another backup or three.
I wonder if the people who've rooted - like me - are having problems because of updated versions of busybox that clockworkmod installs.
Also, the titanium restore worked on stock. I haven't tried it on ji6. yet.
After all the forced learning by doing where flashing roms is concerned I decided to skip the tmo update since they can't be bothered to provide a full list of fixes. I've installed the latest bionix and couldn't be happier.
phillipxenxciel said:
That happen to me too, had to odin back to stock then flash bionix 1.7. lost all my data
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I've found that a Titanium backup is enough to use when flashing a new rom. Do a full backup. Flash the new rom. Restore apps+data. Selectively restore the green system items (so you get all your sms msgs and contacts). Enjoy. Worked for me on Sunday as I flashed various versions of bionix to try.
OK. So I made a backup of my debloat froyo state using Clockworkmod so that I can try out those gingerbread roms. I didn't like it, and tried to restore back to where I was.
So here's what I did. I wiped everything, flashed the debloat froyo rom, then performed a restore action.
Now, when I boot my phone, all the apps I used to have are missing, and all I get is the 'System UIDs inconsistent' message, with a button saying 'I'm feeling lucky'. Is there any way I can fix this?
Also, if there is a proper way to restore a backup in Clockworkmod, what is it?
Thank you.
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OK. So I made a backup of my debloat froyo state using Clockworkmod so that I can try out those gingerbread roms. I didn't like it, and tried to restore back to where I was.
So here's what I did. I wiped everything, flashed the debloat froyo rom, then performed a restore action.
Now, when I boot my phone, all the apps I used to have are missing, and all I get is the 'System UIDs inconsistent' message, with a button saying 'I'm feeling lucky'. Is there any way I can fix this?
Also, if there is a proper way to restore a backup in Clockworkmod, what is it?
Thank you.
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Generally that's bad news
You can try to google around or look on xda (in forums other than the thunderbolt) for people who have encountered that, but generally it means you have to start over with a fresh system.
Ok. So I am looking at the screen as it does the restore, and it seems to stop midway in the 'Restoring data...', step, where it looks like everything is running fine, and all of a sudden I see the clockworkmod menu. It seems to be an incomplete restore. Is there any way to fix this?
After I had that happen I had to flash a new rom so I just upgraded to Gingerbread.
I also had to do a fresh install (ie, deleting data & cache) after getting this error randomly this morning.
Still in the process of redoing everything on my phone, doh!
I decided to try out one of the ICS ROMs today, so I did a nandroid to take a snapshot of my normal ROM setup. Normal procedure, right?
Cut to a few hours later when I try to restore my phone to its normal state using CWM. nandroid verifies the MD5 and successfully restores my phone to its pre-ICS state, but when I boot up, all my apps are gone. I get the grey Android package icon with "SD" superimposed on it for almost all my apps (including Market). When I try to launch one, an error pops up telling me the app is not installed. This persisted even when I wiped everything and re-restored from my backup. The strange thing is I have no removable SD card installed, so the apps couldn't have been moved as far as I know.
So, does anyone know what's going on here? Is this just a faulty backup or should I just cut my losses and start fresh?
Do a FULL WIPE. And try again. Report back
Done. I did a factory reset, wiped cache, and system. Didn't workâshould I go the Odin route next?
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Do a FULL WIPE. And try again. Report back
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Install official Samsung stock firmware then root and CWM recovery your nandroid .
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Try Appextractor from market. It allows you to extract apps (and more) from a nandroid backup.
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Thanks for the suggestions, everybody. I managed to get things working again by Odin-ing back to stock and reflashing CWM recovery 4.0.1.4. Worked like a charm, apps included.
Hello, I need some help with restoring via CWM on the Galaxy S3.
On the S2 I pretty much always used CM9 and jumped back and forth between versions and backing up/ restoring was never an issue.
Now however I am using the stock ROM and its rooted of course.
I made a back up of my stock rom 'cause I wanted to try and install some stuff.
I tried installing the jelly bean transition effects but the install failed, the device felt kinda sluggish (maybe my imagination) afterwards so I decided to restore my phone. The restoring went good but the last ting that happens is that CWM says that restoring /Data failed.
I reboot my phone and I come to the first start up screen where I get to choose language and so on. Everything but photos has been deleted. I try to install CM9, and I do that without any issues. Then I trie to backup my stock backup but I get the same error message and I get back to stock setup page.
My backup is a staggering 6GB, and I read somewhere that CWM can only restore 2GB?
I've deleted that backup and done another one but that is also 6GB.
Does anyone know how to restore from that first restore or how to make future restores work?
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Hello, I need some help with restoring via CWM on the Galaxy S3.
On the S2 I pretty much always used CM9 and jumped back and forth between versions and backing up/ restoring was never an issue.
Now however I am using the stock ROM and its rooted of course.
I made a back up of my stock rom 'cause I wanted to try and install some stuff.
I tried installing the jelly bean transition effects but the install failed, the device felt kinda sluggish (maybe my imagination) afterwards so I decided to restore my phone. The restoring went good but the last ting that happens is that CWM says that restoring /Data failed.
I reboot my phone and I come to the first start up screen where I get to choose language and so on. Everything but photos has been deleted. I try to install CM9, and I do that without any issues. Then I trie to backup my stock backup but I get the same error message and I get back to stock setup page.
My backup is a staggering 6GB, and I read somewhere that CWM can only restore 2GB?
I've deleted that backup and done another one but that is also 6GB.
Does anyone know how to restore from that first restore or how to make future restores work?
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I had this problem with my sisters Xperia X8,couldn't restore anything that i backed up.It goes for a while and stops.But she had bootloader locked.I was shore that i unlocked her bootloader but i didn't,so i unlocked bootloader,and tried to backup and restore and it worked fine.
I'm not 100% and i don't know is that the way CWM works,but i think in order to restore your data,that you backed up,you have to unlock your bootloader.But it's the best to wait someone who knows this for 100% sure.
If you haven't unlocked bootloader try that,or you don't won't to lose your warranty!?
Good luck!
I don't think that CWM has size limitation but i can be wrong.
Have you made sure that your CWM is up-to-date? if in doubt flash the latest CF-root.
was there ever a resolution to this problem? I did the same thing, rooted the galaxy s 3 and unlock the bootloader. Get a backup of my stock set up using clockwork recovery mod. Now when I try to restore, it does not restore the data. All of my apps look like they are there, but none of them are really installed. I think I can just reinstall all of the apps by hand, I would like to know how to get over this.
Recently my phone has bricked, every time I connect it to a power supply unit, it boots, but the boot process stop right before the actual loading of the UI (stuck on the second part of bootanimation). Well, I think I could fix this by restoring the stock /system/fonts/ folder content (because I alterated it right before bricking). So, how could I push those files into the phone without being able to load the UI?
Stock S3 ROM JB 4.3 build MK6. Stock recovery. Can get to recovery and download mode. Tried with adb, but there's no way (installed drivers, java SE, kies, Android SDK, Google drivers, uninstalled all, reinstalled all, uninstalled kies and so on..). I would prefer not to lose my data, because I don't have a recent backup. Actually I thought to install a custom recovery and hence move the files I want to the location I want, but installing a custom recovery could make me lose my data.
Thank you.
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Recently my phone has bricked, every time I connect it to a power supply unit, it boots, but the boot process stop right before the actual loading of the UI (stuck on the second part of bootanimation). Well, I think I could fix this by restoring the stock /system/fonts/ folder content (because I alterated it right before bricking). So, how could I push those files into the phone without being able to load the UI?
Stock S3 ROM JB 4.3 build MK6. Stock recovery. Can get to recovery and download mode. Tried with adb, but there's no way (installed drivers, java SE, kies, Android SDK, Google drivers, uninstalled all, reinstalled all, uninstalled kies and so on..). I would prefer not to lose my data, because I don't have a recent backup. Actually I thought to install a custom recovery and hence move the files I want to the location I want, but installing a custom recovery could make me lose my data.
Thank you.
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I have been flashing roms for years and never lost any data by flashing a recovery just make sure you read the guides and you will be ok.Make sure if you do flash a recovery to backup your data before attempting anything else..But remember to backup just your data not the rom because you will be backing up a faulty rom (because you altered/deleted the system fonts)
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I have been flashing roms for years and never lost any data by flashing a recovery just make sure you read the guides and you will be ok.Make sure if you do flash a recovery to backup your data before attempting anything else..But remember to backup just your data not the rom because you will be backing up a faulty rom (because you altered/deleted the system fonts)
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I don't see the point of your answer. Anyway thank you.
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I don't see the point of your answer. Anyway thank you.
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My point is your are in a bootloop because you messed with system files! I was stating that your chances of losing data because of flashing a custom recovery are low and by doing so you can back up your data in recovery and get yourself out of a bootloop.
I suggest you do a lot more reading or you will mess up your phone even more this is a easy fix if you read the stickies and tutorials..
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My point is your are in a bootloop because you messed with system files! I was stating that your chances of losing data because of flashing a custom recovery are low and by doing so you can back up your data in recovery and get yourself out of a bootloop.
I suggest you do a lot more reading or you will mess up your phone even more this is a easy fix if you read the stickies and tutorials..
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Oh ok, now I got what you intended. However I really didn't any massive modifying to the file system, I just wanted to change the fonts, I didn't think I would have needed a guide to follow and warnings about that.