rooting/rom noob here :silly:
i was on Stock ICS yesterday. i then rooted and backed up Apps & Data via Titanium Backup Pro. then i flashed Padawan JB.
then i realized i couldnt get my backed up Apps, amongst other things (like txt's or call history,) so i resest back to GB then realized that Kies wouldn't update via Kies because i was still rooted.
then i installed the Stock JB from a thread in this forum. works great! i planned on then restoring all those Apps from Tit Backup and then updating all of them now that i am in unrooted JB, but i can't use Tit Backup now that i am not rooted. so what can i do?
i am a flashing/rooting noob, this has been my 1st experience.
tx for any assistance!
Root your phone then.
Agoattamer said:
Root your phone then.
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rooted and put Padawan back on...Kies recognized it and allowed me to restore the txt's and call log :laugh:
didn't allow the S memo's though i reckon i will have to reinstall all of the app's manually.
tx for the reply Goat, i am out of Thanks for the day or i'd hit you!
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Hello all XDA users,
Many apologies for the noobish questions, I am new to this forum and this is my first time posting. Although a first time smartphone owner, I decided to be brave and attempt to root and flash my phone, which worked fine under Gingerbread until I wanted to upgrade to ICS. I have a International GT-I9100 SGS2 purchased in Singapore. I rooted it by installing a custom kernel and flashed a new Lite'ning Rom V3.2 with Gingerbread.
In order to upgrade to ICS, I tried through KIES and the "Software Update" function to no avail. I then tried to do so manually but Odin would not complete the process with the original I9100XWLP3 rom I downloaded on this site. I left it running on my computer for 2 hours only to come back home with the progress incomplete.
My questions are:
1) I live in Taiwan now. My other friends who purchased their SGS2 locally here all have gotten ICS through KIES. Am I unable to do this because I purchased it from Singapore and must wait for the Singapore rom to be uploaded? Is there no way for me to flash to the local Taiwanese I9100ZSLPE rom?
2) How long does an ODIN flash take to complete? Should I be more patient and waited longer than 2 hours for it to finish?
3) Does KIES no longer recognize my phone because I rooted it? It always fails to download the driver whenever I plug in my phone. Do I need to unroot to an official ROM such as I9100XWLP3, and then download through KIES to get ICS, or is I9100XWLP3 already packed with ICS?
Again, many apologies if these questions are elementary in nature, and thanks in advance for the help. Attached you will find a picture of my phone's current firmware state.
[1) you must be on a stock rom as your friends had, since you have rooted and installed a custem rom, keis will not recognize your phone. you can flash it from ODIN also, if you really need official update from Kies, you want to flash the same stock ROM your friends had in their mobile at your region...
2) Maximum 5 minit, something wrong with your connection, it is strange finally you got installed after 2 hours waiting...
3) same answer as #1, + you dont need to unroot, mere rooting will not effect Keis update, XWLP3 is an ICS rom
Should I perform a full wipe before upgrading my rom?
Thanks for your response, all the way from Kuwait. I backed up most of my files via Titanium backup. Should I now perform a factory reset before upgrading to ICS? Wouldn't the factory reset also wipe out my Titanium backup, or is this somehow protected? Do I need to transport my backup to my pc first? I tried to backup via kies, but the driver issue prevented my phone from being recognized.
zhieeep said:
Thanks for your response, all the way from Kuwait. I backed up most of my files via Titanium backup. Should I now perform a factory reset before upgrading to ICS? Wouldn't the factory reset also wipe out my Titanium backup, or is this somehow protected? Do I need to transport my backup to my pc first? I tried to backup via kies, but the driver issue prevented my phone from being recognized.
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on which firmware are you currently?
it is always good idea to transport to PC your back-up, even wiping and factory reset will not touch your own stuffs on SD card, also while you are flashing a ROM from ODIN and CWM.
also take care when you restore your backup from tintanium, uncheck all the system data, it will mess up your phone, if you had made the backup from a GB Rom, install only user applications.
Your backed up data will be on the SD card a folder named Titanium backup, you only need to download the application titanium backup from market, after rooting your phone.
Edit : sorry I did not notice your picture uploaded, that means your attempt on ODIN did not do anythig and luckly it did not hurt phone too, I think your PC connection or driver is not proper....google more about usage of ODIN....
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[1) you must be on a stock rom as your friends had, since you have rooted and installed a custem rom, keis will not recognize your phone. you can flash it from ODIN also, if you really need official update from Kies, you want to flash the same stock ROM your friends had in their mobile at your region...
2) Maximum 5 minit, something wrong with your connection, it is strange finally you got installed after 2 hours waiting...
3) same answer as #1, + you dont need to unroot, mere rooting will not effect Keis update, XWLP3 is an ICS rom
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Thanks, this post clarifies some things for me. Where can I get stock ICS ROM?
regards
saul_rodriguez said:
Thanks, this post clarifies some things for me. Where can I get stock ICS ROM?
regards
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487
if you are already rooted, and CWM installed you can find plenty of custom ICS roms on I9100 develeopment threads
trouble upgrading from gb to ics
i am experiencing the same lack of completion at the odin step. will the ics rom provided work with a virgin mobile phone in australia also?
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.
FIXED !!! thanks
ok, ill try to make it simple, ive been working on my tab since 1pm and its 11pm and am still f*cked up
So to make a long story a short one here is what happened
Since i updated to ICS, everything was fine except for flash player not playing my videos anymore, i found a thread explaining how to fix it BUT i didnt reinstall CWM when i update so i actually did (by mistake) a complete reset on my tab (losing all datas, picture, apps etc)
I was wise enough to make a backup on sept 30 b4 i update to ICS
so i found how to re root the tab on ICS, i did it with success, install CWM with odin
then i took rom manager and restore my apps and data and this is where it got complicated
the md5 mismatch popped out, founded how to fix it using terminal emulator, did it then restore
all my apps and settings where back up except for my pictures (its okay i had them saved on my pc)
so i thought i would simply re update to ICS and my life would be great......NOT !
now i keep getting an error: system UI has stopped
went back to recovery tried to wipe everything to factory reset and start all over again,
well my tab is now reset BUT that freaking system UI error keeps coming up and i cant do nothing
the tab is reset but cwm is still installed and i can still restore from my backup so actually i guess it mean the tab is not fully reset.
more, when i plug the usb cable, it doesnt show up on my pc so i cant explore the tab manually
now i dont know what to do, i've been googling for the past 2 hours, cant find a decent solution.
All i want is toget rid of that system ui error, reset the tab and then try again to restore my old backup so i can have my apps then re update to ICS
please, am really desparate, i need help
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i think i might have brick my tab
actually while i was waiting for a reply, i went back into Odin and flashed twrp recovery that i got from another website
then i went into recovery and tried again to wipe everythig (cache, devlak and factory reset) i was then back to honeycomb 3.1 but still getting that systemui error
then i've hit system wipe wich has wipe my rom so now my tab isnt rebooting
its stuck on the samsung galaxy tab screen
while i wait for your help, im looking around to find and set back the stock rom
i feel really dumb atm
Try re-install your rom again by using odin
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If it were me I would flash stock recovery and stock Honeycomb image and then manually update to ICS using OTA's if stock rooted ICS was the goal. I would not mess with ROM manager or restore apps and data using it as it is likely where you started to get into trouble.
I have seen the system ui error message before myself and it was when I had restored all apps and data blindly over a new install of ICS using titanium. I had to reflash the ROM again and opted instead to manually install the apps after which I restored data for them individually using titanium. Its a pain to do it but the best way to ensure a stable end result. From that point on the lesson learned was to not restore all apps but just the missing ones.
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If it were me I would flash stock recovery and stock Honeycomb image and then manually update to ICS using OTA's if stock rooted ICS was the goal. I would not mess with ROM manager or restore apps and data using it as it is likely where you started to get into trouble.
I have seen the system ui error message before myself and it was when I had restored all apps and data blindly over a new install of ICS using titanium. I had to reflash the ROM again and opted instead to manually install the apps after which I restored data for them individually using titanium. Its a pain to do it but the best way to ensure a stable end result. From that point on the lesson learned was to not restore all apps but just the missing ones.
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thanks, after i sent that post, i finaly found the stock ICS rom for my tab and installed it,
now am back to the point where i want to restore my apps/data/pictures from my backup that i did with nandroid
thats where i need help, i still get the md5 mismatch but i know how to fix it using terminal emulator but i think the system ui problem comes up because the backup is from a honycomb 3.1 or 3.2 and now the tab is running ICS.
if i reinstall all my apps manually, do you know how i could restore my data from the nandroid backup ?
am trying to find my original 3.1 honeycomb rom but it seem that it doesnt exist on sammobile
Just manually reinstall everything and set it back up without restoring data. Otherwise you're looking for trouble in my opinion.
Just return back to original stock.
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Just return back to original stock.
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thats what i did, i found one, then i restored my apps, then i updated to ICS
found a version of flash player working, installed it, and now am happy
all i have to do is to set back my home pages
guys i gotta say, i love this forum
thanks to all, actually, i did it alone but i couldnt do it without reading so many topics all around this forum
so THANK YOU:highfive:
and if someone need help to :
get the original rom for p7500R
get the ICS stock rom provided by samsung
need a working version of flash player on ICS
need help to root an ICS tab 10.1
I can help you ! just send me a pm :good:
Is this possible? The full details are I had my phone stolen, and got a new one with android 4.0.4 on it. I have on my computer a copy of my latest backup of my old cognition gingerbread rom. Can I just use CWM to recover to my old rom, or do i need to first downgrade to a gingerbread rom, and then recover?
Thankyou very much for assistance
Edit: Also, I don't actually want to use the old rom, I just need the contacts it saved, afterwards I'll wipe everything and install a clean ICS mod. In case there's any way of doing this without having to revert
You'll probably need to restore the backup with a version of CWM close to the one the backup was made with, you can often have problems restoring if you're using a CWM version a lot (say 12 mths or more) newer than the one you made the backup with.
So I'd probably go GB/with a rooted GB kernel first, restore the backup & go from there. I mean, it could work first try with an ICS kernel that's running a recent CWM build, but there's a fair chance it won't.
Edit - And be really careful with stock 4.0.4, don't do a wipe while you're running that.
Wow. I just... wow.
Ok, so I did the stupid thing and just tried to restore my old backup without doing proper downgrading first and it ended up soft bricking my machine, couldn't get recovery mode up, but I got into download mode. So I downloaded my country's stock gingerbread rom from samsung's site and flashed it with odin just to see what happens, and somehow my old rom was working again, and I have all my contacts and data. saved everything up to google, upgraded to ICS, import.
Everything went better than expected.
Thanks for the help
Told you Important thing is you managed to fix it yourself without asking silly questions in Q&A. Not many people seem to be able to do that these days.
Well done. I'm glad you got it sorted
Edit -You're welcome
i unrooted my ics official rom i777 using ODIN and then backed up with cwm n also titanium back up. I then flashes the latest shostock3 rom and tried to restore my apps but about 30 odds apparently couldnt be restored which if i recall the prompt correctly was due to them being incompatible with the rom.
After using the shostock3 rom i realized im getting really bad battery life so i wanted to unroot and try the official jelly bean update on kies. But i'm a little confused on how to restore the apps i backed up using titanium after unrooting if i it cant work without root access. I understand the process to be wipe, flash official rom but then wouldnt i then not be able to restore my apps and data after that?
After you flash back to stock, just use Framaroot to root it, then TiBu will work.