originally had a good flash of jellyblur, ran fine, never an issue. Decided i wanted to try AOSP 4.0.4 ICS. Flashed it, and it didnt run like i wanted it to. So I decided i wanted to go back to the backup i took using the latest TWRP of jellyblur, but when i go into the "restore" menu in TWRP no backup files show up. I have them copied to my PC and ive tried wiping and adding them again with no luck. Is there some simple step im missing? Ive restored backups with other recovery's but never with TWRP. maybe im just being an idiot, but please help? is there any way to restore a backup using ADB?
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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.
*edit*
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
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!
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.
I updated my SGS2 from Gingerbread to ICS today via Kies. Before I did so, I made a backup with CWM. I have since decided to downgrade back to GB, however when I try to do so with CWM, it does not work properly.
I have successfully reverted back to GB, but none of my apps or contacts have been restored. Strangely, all my messages have been successfully restored, and even my wallpaper.
I have tried flashing the stock GB ROM through Odin and then trying to restore with CWM again, but I am experiencing the same result.
I am confident that the CWM backup is not in any way corrupt, as I have tried to restore previous CWM backups also, which I know for certain have worked in the past, but to no avail.
I would really appreciate some help with this issue, as I would rather not have to go to the trouble of installing and tweaking everything again if I can help it, not to mention the fact that I have lost all my contacts.
EDIT: if it helps, I was able to update via kies because I used SpoofFW
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ok, here is the story.
the other day i successfully rooted my og droid with RSD lite 4.9, everything was wonderful and i was happy.
then, of course, i wanted to install a custom rom so i made a nandroid backup of my current rom and then i flashed the clockworkmod recovery 2.5.0.1 and then flashed the official cm7.2.0-sholes. everything was still working great.
then i found a cm10 here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852131:D) and of course i wanted to install it.
so i then made another nandroid backup and then i tried to flash it.
but it started to bootloop.
so i restored it to the nandroid backup i had made.
but when it booted up, the touch screen would not respond (the keyboard and buttons still work though)
quick side note: when i tried to install cm 10, i accedently flashing it with gapps for cm10.2 and it bootlooped,so i tried flashing it again with the correct gapps but it still bootlooped
so now I'm wondering if there is any way i can fix this?
Edit: I just checked the install instructions from the developer and he explained what to do to get the phone working. He actually said not to sbf back, sorry - should have looked at it first before the suggestion. But it's right in the first post that tells you what needs to be done...