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Ever since i rooted my phone. I have not been able to run any of the backup options in the recovery menu. Is there anything specific i should do? I have tried rerooting and a couple other hocus pocus fixes but nothing ever works and i do not want to run these backups from adb shell.
Seannoxious said:
Ever since i rooted my phone. I have not been able to run any of the backup options in the recovery menu. Is there anything specific i should do? I have tried rerooting and a couple other hocus pocus fixes but nothing ever works and i do not want to run these backups from adb shell.
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Why exactly can you not use the recovery menu (i.e., is it a trackball issue)?
If so, check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9124095&postcount=83
Cheers!
scary alien said:
Why exactly can you not use the recovery menu (i.e., is it a trackball issue)?
If so, check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9124095&postcount=83
Cheers!
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Sorry no it's not a trackball issue. It just says Error: run in adb. I have seen a lot of fixes but none of them seem to ever work. It wont ever allow me to bart or nand backup always errors out. I can external backup but that really isn't any sweat off my nuts.
Seannoxious said:
Sorry no it's not a trackball issue. It just says Error: run in adb. I have seen a lot of fixes but none of them seem to ever work. It wont ever allow me to bart or nand backup always errors out. I can external backup but that really isn't any sweat off my nuts.
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Argh, I really wish I could remember what the solution was for that. I'm afraid someone else is going to have to answer because I haven't had that happen in many months.
One workaround, download the free ROM Manager off the market. It won't replace Amon RA, if that's what you're using, but it'll allow you to load ClockworkMod Recovery from Amon RA, and then perform backups and restores from there. You can also use the ROM Manager app to tell it what to do and then it'll reboot and automatically do whatever you tell it and reboot after.
I don't know for sure that this will alleviate this problem, but it won't do anything permanent to your phone and it's cheap to try. Come to think of it, maybe one of the reasons I haven't had this problem in many months is I've been using ROM Manager for over four months.
Let me know if it helps if you try it.
Can you post your exact error message? I scanned Amon_RA's recovery source as well as the nandroid-mobile.sh script and found similar things, but the exact error message would help tremendously.
1. Make sure you have enough space on your /sdcard. The nandroid-mobile.sh script will check to make sure that you have at least 130MB or more of free space before allowing a backup to be performed.
2. Be sure to have enough battery charge (best bet is to always be topped-off and plugged-in...just to be sure). The nandroid-mobile.sh script will check to make sure that you have at least 30% or more battery charge before he'll allow a backup to take place.
A couple of months back, I examined the nandroid-mobile.sh script for circumstances under which it would return a non-zero return status. This post over on AF details that analysis: http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/142379-help-please-cant-nandroid-restore.html#post1604509
As you can see, there are several scenarios that could lead to the backup refusing to work (including a wonky /sdcard). So, if you have another card you could try, that might help.
Cheers!
Too late to run through this tomorrow but will observe all this new found data and report back. Thanks guys always appreciated.
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2. Be sure to have enough battery charge (best bet is to always be topped-off and plugged-in...just to be sure). The nandroid-mobile.sh script will check to make sure that you have at least 30% or more battery charge before he'll allow a backup to take place.
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Good point! Now that you reminded me, I think this was the main culprit when I was having a problem, and it just so happens that my phone is nearly always charged pretty full for the past several months since I USB tether for my computer internet.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Good point! Now that you reminded me, I think this was the main culprit when I was having a problem, and it just so happens that my phone is nearly always charged pretty full for the past several months since I USB tether for my computer internet.
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A low battery was the issue the couple of times I ever had it as well.
scary alien said:
Can you post your exact error message? I scanned Amon_RA's recovery source as well as the nandroid-mobile.sh script and found similar things, but the exact error message would help tremendously.
1. Make sure you have enough space on your /sdcard. The nandroid-mobile.sh script will check to make sure that you have at least 130MB or more of free space before allowing a backup to be performed.
2. Be sure to have enough battery charge (best bet is to always be topped-off and plugged-in...just to be sure). The nandroid-mobile.sh script will check to make sure that you have at least 30% or more battery charge before he'll allow a backup to take place.
A couple of months back, I examined the nandroid-mobile.sh script for circumstances under which it would return a non-zero return status. This post over on AF details that analysis: http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/142379-help-please-cant-nandroid-restore.html#post1604509
As you can see, there are several scenarios that could lead to the backup refusing to work (including a wonky /sdcard). So, if you have another card you could try, that might help.
Cheers!
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I got it to run just the NANdroid backup without error for the first time ever. Whenever i try to do NANdroid + ext or BART backup it says Error:Run X in adb shell. I have enough battery but will try charging to 100% and being plugged in in a second. Will try an alternate SD and report back. I have an 8gig micro sd hc. Transcend. Not sure if that matters.
Seannoxious said:
I got it to run just the NANdroid backup without error for the first time ever. Whenever i try to do NANdroid + ext or BART backup it says Error:Run X in adb shell. I have enough battery but will try charging to 100% and being plugged in in a second. Will try an alternate SD and report back. I have an 8gig micro sd hc. Transcend. Not sure if that matters.
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Yeah, I've never run anything other than a Nandroid backup and restore--never have done a BART backup or + ext...
Good luck!
Seannoxious said:
I got it to run just the NANdroid backup without error for the first time ever. Whenever i try to do NANdroid + ext or BART backup it says Error:Run X in adb shell. I have enough battery but will try charging to 100% and being plugged in in a second. Will try an alternate SD and report back. I have an 8gig micro sd hc. Transcend. Not sure if that matters.
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This is weird because I downloaded the rom manager which is quite awesome might i add. It looks at my SD notices it has enough space to backup the NAND but refuses to do the external backup because it says No sd-ext found. Going to try titanium backup + nand + ext backup (from my pc) see if that covers all bases
Seannoxious said:
This is weird because I downloaded the rom manager which is quite awesome might i add. It looks at my SD notices it has enough space to backup the NAND but refuses to do the external backup because it says No sd-ext found. Going to try titanium backup + nand + ext backup (from my pc) see if that covers all bases
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Did you ever partition your /sdcard (i.e., for apps2sd)? If not, you won't (or shouldn't have) any ext2 or ext3 partitions (I believe...).
Just wanted to make sure you weren't chasing your tail...
scary alien said:
Did you ever partition your /sdcard (i.e., for apps2sd)? If not, you won't (or shouldn't have) any ext2 or ext3 partitions (I believe...).
Just wanted to make sure you weren't chasing your tail...
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I never did but thought that nandroid+backup did the backup of the sd in general not necessarily the partitions.
Also just installed froshedyp 9 after a full wipe did the nandroid backup and it put xtr back on the phone? I thought nandroid backup was to backup your **** so when you installed a new rom you didn't have to reset everything up (apps and settings and the such)
First, SD-Ext is referring to a Ext2/3/4 partition on the SD card, which you would've had to put there for old style (before Froyo) Apps2SD function, as Scary Alien said. So a failure to backup SD-Ext doesn't mean the backup itself fails, it just skips the SD-Ext backup if it doesn't exist, which it sounds like it doesn't.
Also, no, a Nandroid is to backup your ROM exactly the way you have it configured including the ROM itself. That's why it has to be done outside of the ROM, in recovery. Titanium Backup and other backup apps are for doing what you're talking about, backup up your Apps and your Apps settings.
Note that it's a risky thing to use any backup program to backup the system settings. Not actually risky to back them up, but you should never restore them to a completely different ROM (even if they're both based on CM6.x or whatever, or both based on Stock), so it's really only applicable between minor version upgrades of the same ROM (CelbFroyo 3.9 to CelbFroyo 4.0). Even then this is risky and sometimes breaks things, so don't expect to be able to do it too often if you change ROMs again.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
First, SD-Ext is referring to a Ext2/3/4 partition on the SD card, which you would've had to put there for old style (before Froyo) Apps2SD function, as Scary Alien said. So a failure to backup SD-Ext doesn't mean the backup itself fails, it just skips the SD-Ext backup if it doesn't exist, which it sounds like it doesn't.
Also, no, a Nandroid is to backup your ROM exactly the way you have it configured including the ROM itself. That's why it has to be done outside of the ROM, in recovery. Titanium Backup and other backup apps are for doing what you're talking about, backup up your Apps and your Apps settings.
Note that it's a risky thing to use any backup program to backup the system settings. Not actually risky to back them up, but you should never restore them to a completely different ROM (even if they're both based on CM6.x or whatever, or both based on Stock), so it's really only applicable between minor version upgrades of the same ROM (CelbFroyo 3.9 to CelbFroyo 4.0). Even then this is risky and sometimes breaks things, so don't expect to be able to do it too often if you change ROMs again.
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Sweet thanks for clearing everything up man.
Sorry, it's actually just one question. I am currently running KaosGingerbread, but I need GPS during the week so I've decided to switch back and forth between KaosGingerbread and KaosFroyo. But I have a quick question. Should I do a dalvik wipe after I backup before I restore? I know I should do this before flashing a rom, but I was curious about doing it before a restore.
Thank you!
jaebond said:
Sorry, it's actually just one question. I am currently running KaosGingerbread, but I need GPS during the week so I've decided to switch back and forth between KaosGingerbread and KaosFroyo. But I have a quick question. Should I do a dalvik wipe after I backup before I restore? I know I should do this before flashing a rom, but I was curious about doing it before a restore.
Thank you!
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There was a point in time where I (and a lot of others) would have told you that its not necessary to wipe before restoring from a Nandroid backup. However, there's been a little chatter recently about some folks having issues when restoring a Nandroid backup without first wipe after having been using a Froyo ROM (possibly related to use of cache2cache).
The "standard" Amon_RA recovery for the HTC Droid Eris only backs-up the boot, data, and system filesystems/partitions (that's the "BDS" part of your Nandroid backup directory name). So, it does not backup the /cache filesystem and therefore leaves it intact from the prior ROM's usage when a restore it performed. [by the way, I said "standard" above because there is a tweaked version of Amon_RA's recovery I built for the Eris that uses the 1.7.1 version of the recovery.c source and it invokes the nandroid-mobile.sh script such that Nandroid backups are created with BCDS (i.e., the /cache directory is backed-up)].
If the restored ROM depends on the contents of the /cache partition for its proper operation, then it may have "issues" using the contents of the previous "owner's" contents.
Bottom line, it won't hurt to do the Wipe data/factory reset since it will clear-out the /cache filesystem too (and it should ensure that you won't have any boot issues after the restore).
Cheers!
References:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896254
http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/185924-dalvik-cache-question.html
http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/76110-what-dalvik-cache.html#post1778155
Awesome response. Thank you! I found the second thread you posted particularly helpful (not that it wasn't all extremely useful, it just helped a little more with my specific question).
jaebond said:
Awesome response. Thank you! I found the second thread you posted particularly helpful (not that it wasn't all extremely useful, it just helped a little more with my specific question).
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You are most welcome! Actually, as you can see, most of the key information that was provided was by erisuser1 (xda's bftb0) and xda's zach.xtr so they get the indirect props . [I just added my small part to it].
Cheers!
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for moving apps to my sd card. I'm currently rooted but on the stock 2.1. Have done some searching but haven't had much luck. I'm a newbie and haven't jumped in to the rom realm yet. Guess, I don't want to run the risk of screwing anything up. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
mattamous said:
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for moving apps to my sd card. I'm currently rooted but on the stock 2.1. Have done some searching but haven't had much luck. I'm a newbie and haven't jumped in to the rom realm yet. Guess, I don't want to run the risk of screwing anything up. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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It would probably be easiest to flash [ROM][GPL][3/15/2011] xtrSENSE5.0.1 [cache2cache,apps2sd,oc,jit]-HTC Sense. It is extremely close to stock but has all the advantages including having Apps2SD built in. You can read zach.xtr's instructions for using Apps2SD under AndroidOS 2.1 in that first post in a section that's titled "Apps2sd and Cache2sd:".
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
It would probably be easiest to flash [ROM][GPL][3/15/2011] xtrSENSE5.0.1 [cache2cache,apps2sd,oc,jit]-HTC Sense. It is extremely close to stock but has all the advantages including having Apps2SD built in. You can read zach.xtr's instructions for using Apps2SD under AndroidOS 2.1 in that first post in a section that's titled "Apps2sd and Cache2sd:".
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Are you currently running this rom? If so, have you come across an problems with it yet?
mattamous said:
Are you currently running this rom? If so, have you come across an problems with it yet?
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The last version of this I used was v4.6.5, just less than a couple months ago. Before that I had run many versions of it and xtrROM. At the moment I'm using GSB v2.7.
I don't recall any problems with xtrSENSE at all, it's the ROM I recommend the most to people who ask for a recommendation.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
The last version of this I used was v4.6.5, just less than a couple months ago. Before that I had run many versions of it and xtrROM. At the moment I'm using GSB v2.7.
I don't recall any problems with xtrSENSE at all, it's the ROM I recommend the most to people who ask for a recommendation.
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I appreciate that. I'll continue to research it and take your recommendation into consideration. Just a little hesitant to roms still but if I want to better my eris, looks like I need to jump the gun a little.
xtrSENSE is a fantastic ROM and I also recommend it to anybody new to rooting, unless they are specific in wanting to get away from Sense at all costs, or needs something like Google Voice Search/Actions (which requires Froyo or better).
I have one issue with xtrSENSE, but it seems to be unique to me: after running the ROM for a while, the phone becomes erratic about reminders for items in my calendar. For example, if I have a meeting at 4:30 pm and have a reminder set to 15 minutes, after running these ROMs (xtrSENSE, xtrROM and stock, actually) for a while, they may or may not sound the reminder at 4:15 pm, as desired. Sometimes they do, often they don't - often, they will fire off at some random time hours later, and even rarely never remind me at all until I restart the phone, and then they all start pouring in.
This was the major reason why I finally rooted a few weeks after 2.1 finally came to the Eris last year.
I have never seen anybody else report this issue with xtrSENSE, though, so I continue to recommend it to others. It's great advantage is that if you have been running stock, it will look and feel just the same, except faster, with better battery life, without the lag that happens with stock as your text message and call log grows.
doogald said:
xtrSENSE is a fantastic ROM and I also recommend it to anybody new to rooting, unless they are specific in wanting to get away from Sense at all costs, or needs something like Google Voice Search/Actions (which requires Froyo or better).
I have one issue with xtrSENSE, but it seems to be unique to me: after running the ROM for a while, the phone becomes erratic about reminders for items in my calendar. For example, if I have a meeting at 4:30 pm and have a reminder set to 15 minutes, after running these ROMs (xtrSENSE, xtrROM and stock, actually) for a while, they may or may not sound the reminder at 4:15 pm, as desired. Sometimes they do, often they don't - often, they will fire off at some random time hours later, and even rarely never remind me at all until I restart the phone, and then they all start pouring in.
This was the major reason why I finally rooted a few weeks after 2.1 finally came to the Eris last year.
I have never seen anybody else report this issue with xtrSENSE, though, so I continue to recommend it to others. It's great advantage is that if you have been running stock, it will look and feel just the same, except faster, with better battery life, without the lag that happens with stock as your text message and call log grows.
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That's because your Eris runs outside the normal space-time continuum.
So, after looking into both xtrROM and xtrSense, I'm not sure which would be the better idea. I don't have to have sense but both sound like they would be great roms. Also, should I stick with 2.1 or jump higher to 2.2 or even 2.3??
mattamous said:
So, after looking into both xtrROM and xtrSense, I'm not sure which would be the better idea. I don't have to have sense but both sound like they would be great roms. Also, should I stick with 2.1 or jump higher to 2.2 or even 2.3??
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It would probably be best if you just start flashing some of them to see for yourself. Keep in mind that without the Sense home, the phone will feel a little different, plus not be able to use the Sense widgets. Since you already have experience with Sense, flash xtrROM and see how you like it. Then I would personally just skip right over 2.2 and go to 2.3 since it's essentially fully developed now.
I'm personally using GSB (soon to flash v2.8) and Tazz's Gingerbread ROM get's rave reviews, too.
Try a few ROMs and find out what you like best.
What's the best back up app? Or, with Astro and a nandroid, would that be good enough?
mattamous said:
What's the best back up app? Or, with Astro and a nandroid, would that be good enough?
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As far as backing up your apps and/or their settings, I swore by My Backup Pro for quite a long time but since going to Gingerbread, I've taken advantage of Titanium Backup's ability to restore apps to where they were backed up from (not applicable to the stock ROM), which is handy for me because using Gingerbread's (or Froyo's) native Apps2SD, I have a total of 190 user and system apps.
I don't know if they've added any feature like that in My Backup. If they have, then it would have been very recently.
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What's the best back up app? Or, with Astro and a nandroid, would that be good enough?
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Personally, I use cyanogen as my rom and nandroid to backup the phone...you know in case the rom fubars the phone.
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I use titanium back up and copy my sdcard to my computer before doing a wipe also make a nandroid copy there as well.
I went with My Backup Pro and made a copy of my sd card to my laptop. I was trying this technique last night but it had an error at the end of the command prompt.
http://www.askstudent.com/how-to/resolve-phone-storage-space-is-getting-low-on-android-phones/
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I went with My Backup Pro and made a copy of my sd card to my laptop. I was trying this technique last night but it had an error at the end of the command prompt.
http://www.askstudent.com/how-to/resolve-phone-storage-space-is-getting-low-on-android-phones/
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I see this at that link:
However, Google listened and with Froyo or Android 2.2 release, they included the App2SD functionality.
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You said you're on rooted stock, and those instructions are for 2.2+ ROMs only so it won't help you unless you since flashed another ROM. Have you? If so, which one?
Also, those instructions are purely to help move apps which normally wouldn't allow you to move them, which as I might've said Titanium Backup (paid version) will allow you to do by the Batch, and the free "Install Manager" may allow you to do so in batch, too, I've just read.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I see this at that link:
You said you're on rooted stock, and those instructions are for 2.2+ ROMs only so it won't help you unless you since flashed another ROM. Have you? If so, which one?
Also, those instructions are purely to help move apps which normally wouldn't allow you to move them, which as I might've said Titanium Backup (paid version) will allow you to do by the Batch, and the free "Install Manager" may allow you to do so in batch, too, I've just read.
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Somehow, I must have missed that. I haven't flashed anything just yet; I was hoping that would do the trick before I went to flashing a rom. I downloaded the free version of titanium last night but it wouldn't backup, saying that I didn't have busybox. I downloaded busybox afterwards but it had a few warnings right at the beginning that I wasn't sure about so that's why I went with backup pro. I just checked into install manager but it isn't in the market.
With the help you have already given, is there a set of instructions for the nandroid backup process? I'm kinda interested in xtrROM but want to get all my ducks in a row before I flash it. Thanks for the help! Appreciate it!
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Somehow, I must have missed that. I haven't flashed anything just yet; I was hoping that would do the trick before I went to flashing a rom. I downloaded the free version of titanium last night but it wouldn't backup, saying that I didn't have busybox. I downloaded busybox afterwards but it had a few warnings right at the beginning that I wasn't sure about so that's why I went with backup pro. I just checked into install manager but it isn't in the market.
With the help you have already given, is there a set of instructions for the nandroid backup process? I'm kinda interested in xtrROM but want to get all my ducks in a row before I flash it. Thanks for the help! Appreciate it!
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BusyBox is included with any custom ROM, another reason it's just easier to flash a ROM like xtrSENSE or xtrROM as you mentioned, although with Apps2SD under Android 2.1, you need to backup the entire contents of your SD card, repartition it to include an Ext2 partition and 0 (zero) Swap, and the rest FAT32 as normal. All can be done from Recovery.
What method did you use to root? I'm assuming that whatever method you used installed a custom recovery. To make sure you do have a custom recovery, turn the phone off, press and HOLD the volume up button and press the End button long enough to turn the phone on. Keep holding the volume up button for a few seconds longer. When it goes into recovery if you have Amon RA recovery it should say something like amon-ra-eris-1.6.2 at the bottom.
In Amon RA recovery, reference http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648025 there are these menu options:
Use the trackball (up+down) to navigate through the menu, press the trackball to select items. Use the Volume-down key to go back to a previous menu.
Reboot system now :: reboot your phone
USB-MS Toggle :: enable/disable USB mass storage (use when the phone is connected to your PC)
Backup/Restore
Nand backup :: Make a Nand backup, the following partitions are NOT included :
Recovery (to avoid restoring old version)
Cache (no need to backup imo)
Misc (no need to backup imo + restore issues on some phones)
Splash1+2 (no need to backup imo + restore issues on some phones)
Nand + ext backup :: Make a Nand + ext backup
Nand restore :: Restore a Nand backup
BART backup :: Make a BART backup (Nand + ext)
BART restore :: Restore latest BART backup
Flash zip from sdcard :: Flash a zip update file from your sdcard
Wipe
Wipe data/factory reset :: Wipe /data and /cache
Wipe Dalvik-cache :: Wipe Dalvik-cache both on /data and ext
Wipe SD:ext partition : Wipe the ext partition on your sdcard
Wipe battery stats : Wipe the battery stats in /data
Wipe rotate settings : Wipe the sensor settings in /data
Partition sdcard
Partition SD :: Interactive SD partitioning
Repair SD:ext :: Repair the ext partition
SD:ext2 to ext3 :: Convert ext2 to ext3
SD:ext3 to ext4 :: Convert ext3 to ext4
Other
Fix apk uid mismatches :: Does extacly that
Move apps+dalv to SD :: Moves all apps and Dalvik-cache to sdcard (This will NOT enable apps2sd!)
Move recovery.log to SD :: Moves the recovery log file to your sdcard. (Use when you want more detailed recovery log information)
Power off :: Powers off your phone
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To make a nandroid, just choose the "Backup/Restore" menu with your trackball, then choose "Nand backup".
The Market search is quirky. Here's a link to Install Manager on the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.beidl.chooseloc.
Install Manager or anything else having to do with Apps2SD won't do you any good without either flashing the Apps2SD script from recovery, or flashing a custom ROM that includes Apps2SD.
You can find the most important information via links from the Eris Roll-up Thread.
Thank you very much! A huge help! I used the 1 click Eris root.
Flashed xtrROM based on your recommendation and so far its pretty rad. Really smooth and quick too.
im looking for some info working with a droid eris used 1click method to root ive got the 2.2 froshedyo 11 rom the kernel is 2.6.29 DECAFUCTCFS-dirty the person im doing this for really wants the HTC widgets back so im looking and getting a good feel about the xtrsense5.0.1 rom but the only thing im not sure of is wiping sd ext partition is that something i need to do or is that only if im planning on using the app2sd im alil lost about that part and the whole partition process id ask there but not enough posting yet to do so the recovery is the RA-eris-v1.6.2 so there i should b good to go thanks for any and all info out there
Hello all, greetings from your friendly neighborhood newb! In following the edicts set forth by the XDA PTB, I was attempting to solve on my own a minor problem with my gallery when I encountered a much more serious problem that seems to be getting progressively worse with every action I take. I don't dare try anything else on my own. I've tried Google searches with "xda i777..." in front to no avail. I apologize if the answer if it there and I just haven't found it. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me.
I'm on AOKP/N.E.A.K./UCPLC5
A few days ago, I noticed the gallery icon on my home screen wasn't working, but I was still able to access the gallery through appsorganizer, which is the primary way I access apps, so I wasn't concerned. Then I couldn't play downloaded videos, etc. Long story short, my phone won't play downloaded, streaming, or previously recorded videos in the gallery, browser, skyfire, YouTube, it third-party apps. So I
-switched launchers to test gallery (icon on desktop was there, but said "app not found.")
-reflashed gapps.zip
-factory reset/wipe cache then flash gapps.zip
-restore nandroid backup, soft bricked phone
-tried to restore more recent backups, found one that worked on the third try (got a couple "error while restoring /system")
-gallery opened, videos played, pics weren't there ("no external storage found")
-restored most recent nandroid to make sure pics weren't gone (in retrospect, plugging it into the computer or using a file manager would have been better method)
-tried to restore previous nandroid, and got
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot image before restore...
Restoring boot image...
System.img not found. Skipping restore of /system
Data.img not found. Skipping restore of /data.
Android_secure not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/android_secure.
Cache.img not found. Skipping restore of /cache
-restored latest nandroid, and started searching the heck out of Google until the worrywart part of my brain demanded that I post on xda RIGHT THIS SECOND!! (The same portion of my brain keeps whispering "super bug.")
It may or may not be worth noting that I was on UCKK7 before I flashed AOKP.
Thank you to anyone who helps me. I've grown rather fond of my i777 over the past few weeks and I really hope it isn't too badly damaged.
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Hello all, greetings from your friendly neighborhood newb! In following the edicts set forth by the XDA PTB, I was attempting to solve on my own a minor problem with my gallery when I encountered a much more serious problem that seems to be getting progressively worse with every action I take. I don't dare try anything else on my own. I've tried Google searches with "xda i777..." in front to no avail. I apologize if the answer if it there and I just haven't found it. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me.
I'm on AOKP/N.E.A.K./UCPLC5
A few days ago, I noticed the gallery icon on my home screen wasn't working, but I was still able to access the gallery through appsorganizer, which is the primary way I access apps, so I wasn't concerned. Then I couldn't play downloaded videos, etc. Long story short, my phone won't play downloaded, streaming, or previously recorded videos in the gallery, browser, skyfire, YouTube, it third-party apps. So I
-switched launchers to test gallery (icon on desktop was there, but said "app not found.")
-reflashed gapps.zip
-factory reset/wipe cache then flash gapps.zip
-restore nandroid backup, soft bricked phone
-tried to restore more recent backups, found one that worked on the third try (got a couple "error while restoring /system")
-gallery opened, videos played, pics weren't there ("no external storage found")
-restored most recent nandroid to make sure pics weren't gone (in retrospect, plugging it into the computer or using a file manager would have been better method)
-tried to restore previous nandroid, and got
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot image before restore...
Restoring boot image...
System.img not found. Skipping restore of /system
Data.img not found. Skipping restore of /data.
Android_secure not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/android_secure.
Cache.img not found. Skipping restore of /cache
-restored latest nandroid, and started searching the heck out of Google until the worrywart part of my brain demanded that I post on xda RIGHT THIS SECOND!! (The same portion of my brain keeps whispering "super bug.")
It may or may not be worth noting that I was on UCKK7 before I flashed AOKP.
Thank you to anyone who helps me. I've grown rather fond of my i777 over the past few weeks and I really hope it isn't too badly damaged.
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dont think you can restore a GB nandroid from ICS. flash back to GB, then try your nandroid.
Or possibly the file got messed up?
MotoMudder77 said:
dont think you can restore a GB nandroid from ICS. flash back to GB, then try your nandroid.
Or possibly the file got messed up?
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I'm pretty sure you can, but I also applaud this guy for the amount of detail he put in his post. Even though I don't have an answer for him he did everything he should have before posting.
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Nick281051 said:
I'm pretty sure you can, but I also applaud this guy for the amount of detail he put in his post. Even though I don't have an answer for him he did everything he should have before posting.
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yea I wasnt sure on that one. but would make sense as different kernals, different recovery.
Always best to use the same recovery/kernal to restore, as you did the backup with.
Nick you beat me to it. This guy wins the award for best "help me" thread ever!
Good luck bro! You came to the right place.
Clay
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MotoMudder77 said:
yea I wasnt sure on that one. but would make sense as different kernals, different recovery.
Always best to use the same recovery/kernal to restore, as you did the backup with.
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Hmm...I have tried several different kernels, all were ICS-based. I wouldn't even know which one to flash for which nandroid. I'll keep that in mind for future reference though.
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pendragonia said:
Hmm...I have tried several different kernels, all were ICS-based. I wouldn't even know which one to flash for which nandroid. I'll keep that in mind for future reference though.
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for future reference? you give up?
If your nandroid is from a GB kernel, then flash a GB kernel, just need the kernel, boot into recovery and attempt to restore.
Thats what I would do to narrow down the backup being messed up.
I believe this may be a problem with touch recovery nandroids versus non touch. I remember reading about that somewhere, anyone confirm?
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Hi all,
This is the first time I've tried installing a custom ROM on my VZW S4 (i545) (MDK firmware. Yes, I held out on the OTA since May). I've got a few thoughts and a couple of questions I was hoping could be addressed. I consider myself familiar with flashing ROM's and whatnot, so I won't need hand-holding steps in answer to my questions.
Some info:
VZW S4
MDK Firmware
Recovery: OUDhs CWM Touch Req0very v1.0.3.5
I haven't taken any OTA since I got the phone back in May. This leads me to believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that I'm on Android 4.2.2?
Current ROM: AOKP Nightly Build for 10/31/2013 (MR2)
Thoughts: Holy hell, this ROM is BLAZING fast. I am missing a few features, but none I use regularly (I don't use any of the TouchWiz "smart" features. Damn battery hogs). I was able to flash this over and install GAPPS without any problems. Loading time is incredible, and I love how clean the interface is.
Questions:
Can anyone help me figure out why I cannot install CM10.2? Not sure if that's because I downloaded the wrong version or something, but after flashing it, the screen stays stuck at the Galaxy S4 logo and doesn't move. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but it surely didn't move in any reasonably expected time (AOKP, by comparison, loaded probably <1 minute). Any thoughts on why this might be? I really want to try CM10.2, so perhaps I should try a different build?
Another question/concern: I downloaded a few different ROMs last night -- CM10.2, AOKP and st0ckdr0id. AOKP installed fine, CM10.2 froze up, but when I installed st0ckdr0id (after wiping out, of course), I got what I think is referred to as a kernel panic. The message was similar to "This phone has software installed on it that Verizon Wireless has determined to be unsafe. Please power off the phone and take to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help". In the top-left corner, it had in bold RED letters "Kernel secure: FAIL" (or similar wording). I fixed this by booting back into recovery, wiping out, and then installing AOKP again. Can anyone help me understand why this happened?
Why is only ~10GB of space still available when I -thought- I wiped out everything?
What I'm really searching for is an AOSP ROM that is very clean and light, but has SOME of the TouchWiz features. Any recommendations?
My phone only shows me as having a 3G connection, where normally I have 4G LTE. Anything I can do to fix this? Is this an issue with the ROM not detecting the right kind of radio? Bug report, perhaps?
I can't mount my external_sd in my CWM anymore. Yes, I used to be able to do it at one point, because I've done an external nandroid backup to it from within CWM in the past (as of October 29th, if the date on the backups is correct). I've read in other Google searches that it has something to do with the formatting of the SD card, but I haven't removed that SD card from my phone in a few months to have adjusted anything to do with formatting. I plugged the memory card into my Linux laptop this morning while diagnosing this and got an error about an unknown exfat partition. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Stupid question: Is there a way to -completely- wipe my internal SD card clean of all my current files? I know when I "wipe" /data I can still see all of my files from the previous installation, and I'm not ballsy enough to wipe /sdcard. I guess the question that then coincides with this is if I were able to completely wipe the phone, I assume that would wipe the recovery as well?
Sorry for some of the novice questions -- I have no problem messing with my old TF300T tablet (because NVFlash will save the day), but this is my only phone, only line of communication and SOLE way for me to answer calls for work (24/7 rotating on-call), so it is VERY important to me to ask questions and not go down for more than 1 hour.
Thanks for all help guys, its much appreciated. I hope to be able to test ROMs regularly and maybe start posting video reviews or something, who knows?
Thanks,
Opethfan89
opethfan89 said:
Hi all,
This is the first time I've tried installing a custom ROM on my VZW S4 (i545) (MDK firmware. Yes, I held out on the OTA since May). I've got a few thoughts and a couple of questions I was hoping could be addressed. I consider myself familiar with flashing ROM's and whatnot, so I won't need hand-holding steps in answer to my questions.
Some info:
VZW S4
MDK Firmware
Recovery: OUDhs CWM Touch Req0very v1.0.3.5
I haven't taken any OTA since I got the phone back in May. This leads me to believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that I'm on Android 4.2.2?
Current ROM: AOKP Nightly Build for 10/31/2013 (MR2)
Thoughts: Holy hell, this ROM is BLAZING fast. I am missing a few features, but none I use regularly (I don't use any of the TouchWiz "smart" features. Damn battery hogs). I was able to flash this over and install GAPPS without any problems. Loading time is incredible, and I love how clean the interface is.
Questions:
Can anyone help me figure out why I cannot install CM10.2? Not sure if that's because I downloaded the wrong version or something, but after flashing it, the screen stays stuck at the Galaxy S4 logo and doesn't move. Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but it surely didn't move in any reasonably expected time (AOKP, by comparison, loaded probably <1 minute). Any thoughts on why this might be? I really want to try CM10.2, so perhaps I should try a different build?
Another question/concern: I downloaded a few different ROMs last night -- CM10.2, AOKP and st0ckdr0id. AOKP installed fine, CM10.2 froze up, but when I installed st0ckdr0id (after wiping out, of course), I got what I think is referred to as a kernel panic. The message was similar to "This phone has software installed on it that Verizon Wireless has determined to be unsafe. Please power off the phone and take to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help". In the top-left corner, it had in bold RED letters "Kernel secure: FAIL" (or similar wording). I fixed this by booting back into recovery, wiping out, and then installing AOKP again. Can anyone help me understand why this happened?
Why is only ~10GB of space still available when I -thought- I wiped out everything?
What I'm really searching for is an AOSP ROM that is very clean and light, but has SOME of the TouchWiz features. Any recommendations?
My phone only shows me as having a 3G connection, where normally I have 4G LTE. Anything I can do to fix this? Is this an issue with the ROM not detecting the right kind of radio? Bug report, perhaps?
I can't mount my external_sd in my CWM anymore. Yes, I used to be able to do it at one point, because I've done an external nandroid backup to it from within CWM in the past (as of October 29th, if the date on the backups is correct). I've read in other Google searches that it has something to do with the formatting of the SD card, but I haven't removed that SD card from my phone in a few months to have adjusted anything to do with formatting. I plugged the memory card into my Linux laptop this morning while diagnosing this and got an error about an unknown exfat partition. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Stupid question: Is there a way to -completely- wipe my internal SD card clean of all my current files? I know when I "wipe" /data I can still see all of my files from the previous installation, and I'm not ballsy enough to wipe /sdcard. I guess the question that then coincides with this is if I were able to completely wipe the phone, I assume that would wipe the recovery as well?
Sorry for some of the novice questions -- I have no problem messing with my old TF300T tablet (because NVFlash will save the day), but this is my only phone, only line of communication and SOLE way for me to answer calls for work (24/7 rotating on-call), so it is VERY important to me to ask questions and not go down for more than 1 hour.
Thanks for all help guys, its much appreciated. I hope to be able to test ROMs regularly and maybe start posting video reviews or something, who knows?
Thanks,
Opethfan89
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Wow that's a lot. Let's see if we can get you answers.
1. Switch recoveries to twrp 2.5.0.2. I can't stress the importance of the particular version enough. There are others. This is absolutely the most stable. It's what the devs use. I think then your cm issue will be resolved.
Correct way to wipe with twrp.
1.wipe - >factory reset.
2. Advanced wipe - >check system, data, davlik, cache then wipe.
3. The go back to main screen and install rom.
2. Answered by answer one. Lots of people have lots of opinions about the various recoveries. All I can tell you is this is what all the devs use for their recovery. Can't argue with that.
3. Reserved space. It might say you have 16 gigs but a good size chunk is taking merely by formatting. Then the ROM and programs you have installed of course.
4. Honestly they are all freaking great. The aosp roms. You do the answer to number one and you can find out. DU is my fav @ this moment. Followed by beanstalk.
5. Go to mobile networks make sure your network mode is set to cdma +lte/evdo.
6. Answer 1.
7. You don't really want to wipe the entire internal SD card. Sounds good when you think it might screw you if you did it.
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Mightycaptain said:
Wow that's a lot. Let's see if we can get you answers.
1. Switch recoveries to twrp 2.5.0.2. I can't stress the importance of the particular version enough. There are others. This is absolutely the most stable. It's what the devs use. I think then your cm issue will be resolved.
Correct way to wipe with twrp.
1.wipe - >factory reset.
2. Advanced wipe - >check system, data, davlik, cache then wipe.
3. The go back to main screen and install rom.
2. Answered by answer one. Lots of people have lots of opinions about the various recoveries. All I can tell you is this is what all the devs use for their recovery. Can't argue with that.
3. Reserved space. It might say you have 16 gigs but a good size chunk is taking merely by formatting. Then the ROM and programs you have installed of course.
4. Honestly they are all freaking great. The aosp roms. You do the answer to number one and you can find out. DU is my fav @ this moment. Followed by beanstalk.
5. Go to mobile networks make sure your network mode is set to cdma +lte/evdo.
6. Answer 1.
7. You don't really want to wipe the entire internal SD card. Sounds good when you think it might screw you if you did it.
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Thanks for your response Mightycaptain! I used CWM as my first ever recovery and am kinda pressed on it, which is why I use it, but I have no issues going to TWRP if that means fixing my issues. Can you elaborate on how to install TWRP in place of my current CWM? I'll do some Googling in the meantime to try to find the answer myself. (I haven't done any flashing or rooting stuff since I got the phone in May!!)
Thanks for your answer in #5. Fixed the issue I was having.
My reason for wanting to wipe the entire internal SD card is there are still files, folders, logs and backups from when I had my previous ROM. I'm having issues restoring my nandroid backup from the night of the 7th so is it at all possible for me to salvage some of my settings, apps and file backups from those existing files? Once I fix my nandroid, I'm going to keep the nandroid backup in a safe place and I ideally want to have a completely clean phone to start from: That means getting rid of all those old files and other nonsense from before. Is this a possibility?
I'm going to spend my time today trying to extract data from my nandroid backups using ROM Toolbox Pro. If that doesn't work, I have a nandroid backup from the 31st that has 99% of the stuff I need so I'll try to restore that. If THAT doesn't work, then I'm going to cry myself to sleep while trying to remember all of my contacts
Wish me luck, and hopefully I can get some answers to my last few questions!
Thanks,
Opethfan89
opethfan89 said:
Thanks for your response Mightycaptain! I used CWM as my first ever recovery and am kinda pressed on it, which is why I use it, but I have no issues going to TWRP if that means fixing my issues. Can you elaborate on how to install TWRP in place of my current CWM? I'll do some Googling in the meantime to try to find the answer myself. (I haven't done any flashing or rooting stuff since I got the phone in May!!)
Thanks for your answer in #5. Fixed the issue I was having.
My reason for wanting to wipe the entire internal SD card is there are still files, folders, logs and backups from when I had my previous ROM. I'm having issues restoring my nandroid backup from the night of the 7th so is it at all possible for me to salvage some of my settings, apps and file backups from those existing files? Once I fix my nandroid, I'm going to keep the nandroid backup in a safe place and I ideally want to have a completely clean phone to start from: That means getting rid of all those old files and other nonsense from before. Is this a possibility?
I'm going to spend my time today trying to extract data from my nandroid backups using ROM Toolbox Pro. If that doesn't work, I have a nandroid backup from the 31st that has 99% of the stuff I need so I'll try to restore that. If THAT doesn't work, then I'm going to cry myself to sleep while trying to remember all of my contacts
Wish me luck, and hopefully I can get some answers to my last few questions!
Thanks,
Opethfan89
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Check my post here for twrp 2.5.0.2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47275165
You can flash it in your current recovery. It overwrites CWM. I would make sure you have a flashable for CWM just in case you need to go back for some reason. Also the backups between those 2 recoveries are not compatible. But I would nandroid with CWM before flashing twrp. I would also change were you recovery is pointing to for storage to the external SD if you haven't already. After you have cut your current backup and past it there. You can use rom toolbox pro to back up your contacts and restore it once you flash a new ROM.
Now as good advice going forward I would add your contacts to your Google account. That way when you flash new stuff or drop your phone in the toilet as soon as you add your Google account to the phone all those contacts will automatically download. But it is always a good idea to use tibu or rom toolbox pro to back up all your apps and seeing and use that after flashing roms to restore apps and settings.
But honestly I'd nandroid, move my contacts to Google, make app backups. Flash twrp. Then start flashing roms. You could be doing it in an hour. After you flash twrp make another nandroid so you have a twrp compatible backup. Then in a day or so of you are happy with everything delete the CWM backups for space.
Edit: as to extracting things from your current nandroid. Not sure if that is possible for one thing it is compressed not sure how that would work unless you are doing a full restore.
Also for future reference with TWRP. When restoring nandroid wipe like your flashing a new rom before restoring.
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Mightycaptain said:
Check my post here for twrp 2.5.0.2.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47275165
You can flash it in your current recovery. It overwrites CWM. I would make sure you have a flashable for CWM just in case you need to go back for some reason. Also the backups between those 2 recoveries are not compatible. But I would nandroid with CWM before flashing twrp. I would also change were you recovery is pointing to for storage to the external SD if you haven't already. After you have cut your current backup and past it there. You can use rom toolbox pro to back up your contacts and restore it once you flash a new ROM.
Now as good advice going forward I would add your contacts to your Google account. That way when you flash new stuff or drop your phone in the toilet as soon as you add your Google account to the phone all those contacts will automatically download. But it is always a good idea to use tibu or rom toolbox pro to back up all your apps and seeing and use that after flashing roms to restore apps and settings.
But honestly I'd nandroid, move my contacts to Google, make app backups. Flash twrp. Then start flashing roms. You could be doing it in an hour. After you flash twrp make another nandroid so you have a twrp compatible backup. Then in a day or so of you are happy with everything delete the CWM backups for space.
Edit: as to extracting things from your current nandroid. Not sure if that is possible for one thing it is compressed not sure how that would work unless you are doing a full restore.
Also for future reference with TWRP. When restoring nandroid wipe like your flashing a new rom before restoring.
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Hey thanks again for your quick response!! I'm glad I checked this first, because I'm in my ROM Toolbox app atm and it has an option to let me install TWRP 2.5.0.2 from within the app itself. Should I do it this way?
I will be adding all contacts to Google from now on. Unfortunately I saved all my stuff to my Verizon backup assistant so I just need one last shot at my phone to save all those contacts (manually, if I must) and be able to enter them onto the new ROM.
By "flash it in your current recovery" I assume you mean download the .zip, place it on my internal /sdcard, and then "flash" it just like I would flash a ROM, right?
I'm sure I have a "flashable" for CWM somewhere but like I said, I haven't done any of this stuff on this phone since I first bought it, and things have changed so much with everyone having OTA's and being locked out that I'm not sure what process is the same or what has changed. I can't afford to lose this phone so I'm hesitant to go balls to the wall to try things.
I will try the things you've listed here. Seems like a nandroid + TiBu + Google Contacts is my best bet to get up and running each time I decide to try a new ROM.
Thanks again!
opethfan89 said:
Hey thanks again for your quick response!! I'm glad I checked this first, because I'm in my ROM Toolbox app atm and it has an option to let me install TWRP 2.5.0.2 from within the app itself. Should I do it this way?
I will be adding all contacts to Google from now on. Unfortunately I saved all my stuff to my Verizon backup assistant so I just need one last shot at my phone to save all those contacts (manually, if I must) and be able to enter them onto the new ROM.
By "flash it in your current recovery" I assume you mean download the .zip, place it on my internal /sdcard, and then "flash" it just like I would flash a ROM, right?
I'm sure I have a "flashable" for CWM somewhere but like I said, I haven't done any of this stuff on this phone since I first bought it, and things have changed so much with everyone having OTA's and being locked out that I'm not sure what process is the same or what has changed. I can't afford to lose this phone so I'm hesitant to go balls to the wall to try things.
I will try the things you've listed here. Seems like a nandroid + TiBu + Google Contacts is my best bet to get up and running each time I decide to try a new ROM.
Thanks again!
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Understand the hesitancy completely. But with nodding comes risk. It is always about whether you can accept the worst possible outcome.
Rom toolbox pro flashing recovery? I don't know never tried it.
Yes I would download the recovery. Leave it on SD card reboot to recovery and flash like a rom.
Yes nandroid tibu and saving your contacts to Google is the quickest way to get up and running again.
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Understand the hesitancy completely. But with nodding comes risk. It is always about whether you can accept the worst possible outcome.
Rom toolbox pro flashing recovery? I don't know never tried it.
Yes I would download the recovery. Leave it on SD card reboot to recovery and flash like a rom.
Yes nandroid tibu and saving your contacts to Google is the quickest way to get up and running again.
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Mighty, just wanted to report that flashing TWRP 2.5.0.2 from within ROM Toolbox Pro worked like a charm. I'm on TWRP as we speak.
Thank you so much for your responses. If anyone else has anything to add, or a different response to my questions, please do so! In the meantime, I'm going to try to figure out how to get my nandroid backup working...
Cheers!
*EDIT* Made a backup with TWRP (whose interface is bloody phenomenal, btw), flashed CWM and its working like a charm!! Going to try the st0ckdr0id one as well. Still working on getting that nandroid working so I can recover my stuff and get to customizing!