Hope someone can help me out...
I installed CM9 a while ago and wanted to go back to standard ROM by restore from my nandroid backup.
I ran the Samsung Galaxy Toolkit v3.0 and chose Backup and Restore your phone.
There I selected the nandroid backup I made. After copying the files back to my phone it rebooted in CWM (v5.5.0.4)
I wiped caches and chose restore from the menu. I selected the folder that was just created and saw that everything was being restored.
I've let my phone reboot, but I only saw the Samsing Galaxy SIII GT-I9300 screen for a while, it dissapeared, came back, and after that it opened CWM again..
Anybody got any idea what I did wrong? :-S and what I should do to return to standard ROM?
I've got the international S3 (Holland)
I was able to put the phone in download mode and restored a complete clean image trough odin...
Bad side is that all my settings are gone now, but well.. It's working!
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I have a rooted galaxy tab 10.1 (Wifi) p7510 from the US
I wanted to flash the pershoot kernel on my galaxy tab so that I could over-clock my processor and so I used ROM Manager to create a back-up and then used CWM to install the kernel. The install went fine and the device booted an was working flawlessly.
Then I decided to go back to my previous stock kernel and thus I booted into CWM, and clicked Backup/Restore and picked the back up I created. At the point where it is restoring data, it quits and says error restoring data and when I tried to boot the tab, I got stuck at the Samsung Boot Logo.
I tried wipe data,cache,Dalvik and nothing work.
I even tried advanced restore and managed to restore all components of the backup except the data.. Still no luck.
I'm downloading a custom ROM now (starburst) but how will I even be able to place it in the root partition if the galaxy tab can't boot into a usable state..
P.S. You may have noticed, I'm a noob so very detailed guides would be very good
Thank you
minamfm said:
I have a rooted galaxy tab 10.1 (Wifi) p7510 from the US
I wanted to flash the pershoot kernel on my galaxy tab so that I could over-clock my processor and so I used ROM Manager to create a back-up and then used CMW to install the kernel. The install went fine and the device booted an was working flawlessly.
Then I decided to go back to my previous stock kernel and thus I booted into CMW, and clicked Backup/Restore and picked the back up I created. At the point where it is restoring data, it quits and says error restoring data and when I tried to boot the tab, I got stuck at the Samsung Boot Logo.
I tried wipe data,cache,Dalvik and nothing work.
I even tried advanced restore and managed to restore all components of the backup except the data.. Still no luck.
I'm downloading a custom ROM now (starburst) but how will I even be able to place it in the root partition if the galaxy tab can't boot into a usable state..
P.S. You may have noticed, I'm a noob so very detailed guides would be very good
Thank you
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How long was it stuck on the samsung logo? If you didn't let it sit for at least 45 minutes, try that first.
So I left it for about 10-15 minutes and it worked.... Barely working though, almost everything crashes, very slow and choppy.. Looks like it's heavily corrupt.. At least now I can copy the custom ROM into the root folder. Is it safe to do so now??
And can you also post me a link to a .zip stock ROM for my tab??
Thanks a lot!
I had the exact same problem and I did following steps to get the tab working
1- find a stock from that flashable with Odin ( I used stock kl2 rom, can be found on tab 10.1 developer forum)
2 - flash the rom (.tar file) via Odin ( same as flashing cwm)
3 - after the flash I was still in boot loop no worries, go to recovery mod ( hold power + volume down then volume down and then volume up)
4 - wipe everything ( simply used very option that says wipe on it)
5 - restart and done! Everything is back to normal again
Only thing was I lost all my data pics etc but I got my tab working again
Btw not claiming these steps are essential, perhaps someone could come up with a more comprehensive method. This is just the way that I was able to restore my tab.
That's what I'm down to with my Tab. Flashing w/o CWM and/or unrooting to see if the /data error clears up. At least I'm not dead (I hope) to the point that I can't back up my SD card to external storage.
I can't restore any nandroid I have w/o the /data error and flashing custom ROMs gives the same result (everything FC's) except no /data error.
Wish I'd brought it to work today so I could tinker w/ it.
I have an AT&T Galaxy S3. I rooted it a while ago and have been using CM10 on it.
I wanted to unlock the phone so to get it back to factory I mistakenly restored from a backup I had of the factory phone (I'm guessing this was wrong now).
The restore finished and I rebooted the phone but now it sits at the Samsung Galaxy SIII boot screen. I tried booting back to Clockworkmod Recovery to restore from my newer backup but it just goes back to the splash screen and sits.
I was able to get it into Download mode and seemed to be recognized by Odin. I'm just not sure where to go from there. I would be fine with it being on CM10 or factory again.
Any help would be awesome!
Konman72 said:
I have an AT&T Galaxy S3. I rooted it a while ago and have been using CM10 on it.
I wanted to unlock the phone so to get it back to factory I mistakenly restored from a backup I had of the factory phone (I'm guessing this was wrong now).
The restore finished and I rebooted the phone but now it sits at the Samsung Galaxy SIII boot screen. I tried booting back to Clockworkmod Recovery to restore from my newer backup but it just goes back to the splash screen and sits. Any help would be awesome!
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You`re in the wrong forum buddy, go here for help http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1705. This forum is for the International GT-I9300 Quadcore S3.
Konman72 said:
I have an AT&T Galaxy S3. I rooted it a while ago and have been using CM10 on it.
I wanted to unlock the phone so to get it back to factory I mistakenly restored from a backup I had of the factory phone (I'm guessing this was wrong now).
The restore finished and I rebooted the phone but now it sits at the Samsung Galaxy SIII boot screen. I tried booting back to Clockworkmod Recovery to restore from my newer backup but it just goes back to the splash screen and sits.
I was able to get it into Download mode and seemed to be recognized by Odin. I'm just not sure where to go from there. I would be fine with it being on CM10 or factory again.
Any help would be awesome!
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Well after backup go to the official recovery and just wipe cache and data and restart it should work if not download official firmware flash it with odin and if again it gets stuck at samsung bootscreen go again to stock recovery and just wipe everything I think there were two rows starting With the word wipe...other and See if it works...
So I had my Epic 4g Touch running on ics 4.0.4 root and it was working totally fine, UNTIL....I decided to install the cyanogenmod 10.1 rom to see how jellybean 4.2.2 is all about. I followed the instructions exactly as they were depicted on a youtube video, and used clockworkmod recovery v5.0.2.7 to backup my current rom (ICS 4.0.4). The 4.2.2 ran totally fine, until I tried restoring my data from the old rom I had before (I hope Im not confusing anyone). After restoring the data, the jellybean rom would stay stuck in the boot up screen. Then I tried just restoring the entire rom from backup, my phone would just boot right back into custom recovery mode after completing the backup restore. I then tried restoring my phone to the old 4.0.4 root that I had before, but I would just run into the same problems whenever trying to do a full backup restore or just a data restore (phone just cycling back into custom recovery mode)
Is there anything I could do???? I can still look into my phone's eternal sd card and see that the recovery files are still there. I just need to restore my phone back because it would be a lot of trouble finding contacts, redownloading apps, as well I had some vital memo pad files that I really need to get back for my business. IS THERE ANY WAY I COULD RECOVER MY PHONE DATA???? PLEASE HELP!!!!!
Thanks guys. I found a solution. I just kept the new cyanogenmod 10.1 and used the nandroid manager app to restore all of my apps and the rest of my data individually. Worked great!!
I have been using JB I9100XWLSN_I9100OXXLS8_NEE for several months without problem. Rooted, with PhilZ-cwm6-XWLSN-OXX-4.92.3-signed.
3 days ago I updated to I9100XWMS1_I9100NEELS1_NEE with no problems. Today the phone stuck and when I booted into recovery I saw the default recovery not Philz. So I flashed it again (the newer version)
But I had a boot loop, so I tried to restore nandroid backup, it didn't work.
I tried to reinstall earlier ROM (LSN) but it gave errors.
Now I can only boot to Philz recovery without doing anything.
How can I restore the phone to anything which works, so that I can root it again.
Back to stock via Odin/download mode, re-root your phone, restore nandroid or reflash custom rom/kernel & start again from scratch.
I did as you said. Flashed the earlier ROM with ODIN but still cannot boot. I just read the Galaxy S II logo at the start and the phone will not start.
Boot into recovery - factory reset ?
Edit - Failing that, search for Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread. There's a link to a 3 part firmware in that thread, try flashing that via Odin if you can't factory reset or it doesn't work.
All right, trying.
Well I booted, thanks. If you don't mind, can you guide me further? I'll just write what I intend to do:
1- Boot into recovery and flash Philz again.
2-Using Philz, will try to restore Nandroid backup. I had copied the backup to my computer. As Philz had errors restoring the backup, I copied the one on the computer to SD card, but the MD5 had changed. So I had to disable MD5 check in Philz. Is it normal to change after copying?
Yep those steps make sense. Simply copying a nandroid from your PC back to your phone (I've done this in the past) shouldn't normally change the MD5. The only way the MD5 would change is if any of the files/directories are different in any way.
I guess you're only going to find out if this makes any difference when you try to restore the backup.
Unfortunately, the backup did not work. You need this once in a while and it fails... So dissappointing. I will have to install everything manually. Lots of backup to put into the trash!
Thanks a lot.
Maybe see what you can salvage from the nandroids you have with some of the various apps on GP that allow you to extract files from nandroids (Nandroid Browser, etc) ?
OK. I'll give a try. It would be quite an help if I rescued some.
I also have a Titanium Backup. I'll check if it does most of the job.
Yep, you should be able to get most of your apps/settings back easily with Ti given you'll be restoring them to the same rom/kernel setup. Just remember not to restore system apps or settings. Hopefully you'll be able to pull other stuff out of your nandroids (contacts/call logs/sms/calendar/etc) with those apps I mentioned if you don't have those backed up to Google/elsewhere.
Actually, I just need Call logs and SMS. Most of other stuff are already online, no problem with Contacts, etc.
I had an earlier backup of SMS but will see whether it works or not.
If Nandroid Browser saves these, all will be OK.
I restored almost everything. Just some hours spent.
Thanks again.
Good job, glad you got everything working as it should again. I know doing everything from scratch is a pain, I did a completely clean install on an I9505 on Friday night which took a few hours. You're welcome
Hey guys! I had recently installed an Android 4.5 rom on my Samsung Galaxy S i9000, but I didn't really like it, so I went back to clockwork mode and restored the backup (which I am pretty sure I had saved prior to installing the rom). What happened then was that I couldn't power on my device. It literally gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy I9000 startup screen. I can however access download mode and I can access clockword mode recovery. BUT, when I try to install another update with clockword mode recovery or trying anything on cwmr for that matter (factory reset, cache reset, anything...), I get the error message: Unknown path to /sdcard and I am stuck at this. Can anyone tell me how to fix this issue? Please, I need help quickly!
I would just restore with official firmware via Odin and restart the process. This will set everything back right so you can have a fresh start. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881