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Hi, I'm currently using the latest ClockworkMod as my recovery. I've never had any problem with it (had it on my og evo as well), but I'm hearing a lot of great things about twrp recovery, so I'd like to make the switch. I'm all clear on most of the process, but is it correct that I'll need to make new nandroid backups? If so, should I delete my cwm nands? How would I go about doing that? And am I correct that I'd need to revert to my stock (first) nandroid, flash the new recovery from there, make a new twrp nandroid, and then go back to cm7? Just want to be sure, as I know that nandroids are a lifeline and I don't want to screw anything up. Thanks in advance!
jsc15 said:
Hi, I'm currently using the latest ClockworkMod as my recovery. I've never had any problem with it (had it on my og evo as well), but I'm hearing a lot of great things about twrp recovery, so I'd like to make the switch. I'm all clear on most of the process, but is it correct that I'll need to make new nandroid backups?
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If so, should I delete my cwm nands? How would I go about doing that?
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yes, on your sdcard/clockworkmod/backups
And am I correct that I'd need to revert to my stock (first) nandroid, flash the new recovery from there, make a new twrp nandroid, and then go back to cm7?
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no, you can just make a nand with the new recovery of your current setup, no need to revert
Just want to be sure, as I know that nandroids are a lifeline and I don't want to screw anything up. Thanks in advance!
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Sounds good. What to do though if I need to ever go back to stock rom? (Unlikely anyhow). Will I be able to find a stock rooted rom in the dev forums?
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Update: flashed twrp, made a nandroid without a hitch. Thanks so much! Will hit thanks button when I get to a PC.
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jsc15 said:
Sounds good. What to do though if I need to ever go back to stock rom? (Unlikely anyhow). Will I be able to find a stock rooted rom in the dev forums?
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If u want to go back to cwm to restore an old nandroid just dl rom manager from market and reflash cwm it will flash over Twrp and then u can use your cwm nandroids.
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I've asked for help in the threads posted about the OTA update and I cannot get the help I need. I've seen people post similar questions that I have and they are largely ignored. I had to stay away from the forums because I was getting so damn angry.
I have root and I have S-Off. I have not flashed any ROMs on this phone. I want to apply the OTA update but I do not know how to do that.
There's mentions of flashing firmware, radios, PRIs, PRLs, ROMs, Deoxed, Oxeded, hboot, bootloader, recovery, TWRP, etc. All of that across multiple threads does not compute well in my head.
I've read a lot and I am not sure what to do. Can someone please help me out? I will be forever grateful. I could send you a case for your phone for helping me. I promise I am not being lazy. I'm just not getting it.
If you're rooted and you have S-Off, you should have TWRP. First verify that by booting into the bootloader (Power + Vol Down) and going to Recovery.
Once in TWRP, do a backup. Backup everything. This way if something goes wrong you can restore your previous ROM.
Next download this: http://d-h.st/d2a
It's the firmware zip, courtesy of Haus. Rename the file to remove all of the stuff after PJ85IMG. Then put it on the root of your SD card and boot into the bootloader. It will scan for a zip and find it, and ask you if you want to update. This step is optional; you can flash new 1.22 ROMs without the new firmware.
After flashing that through bootloader, you can choose a 1.22 ROM that looks good to you, and download it. Boot back into TWRP, do a factory reset and wipe System, and then install the ROM. If you download it to your external SD card (in other words, an SD card you put in yourself), you'll have to mount it by going to Mounts and choosing external SD. That way you'll be able to access files on it.
To install the ROM after wiping, just hit Install from the main menu of TWRP and navigate to the location of the ROM zip you downloaded. Install it and reboot, and there you have it, you're on the new firmware and using a ROM with the new fixes in it!
The firmware zip is optional, but recommended. If you aren't comfortable flashing it, don't bother.
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If you're rooted and you have S-Off, you should have TWRP. First verify that by booting into the bootloader (Power + Vol Down) and going to Recovery.
Once in TWRP, do a backup. Backup everything. This way if something goes wrong you can restore your previous ROM.
Next download this: http://d-h.st/d2a
It's the firmware zip, courtesy of Haus. Rename the file to remove all of the stuff after PJ85IMG. Then put it on the root of your SD card and boot into the bootloader. It will scan for a zip and find it, and ask you if you want to update. This step is optional; you can flash new 1.22 ROMs without the new firmware.
After flashing that through bootloader, you can choose a 1.22 ROM that looks good to you, and download it. Boot back into TWRP, do a factory reset and wipe System, and then install the ROM. If you download it to your external SD card (in other words, an SD card you put in yourself), you'll have to mount it by going to Mounts and choosing external SD. That way you'll be able to access files on it.
To install the ROM after wiping, just hit Install from the main menu of TWRP and navigate to the location of the ROM zip you downloaded. Install it and reboot, and there you have it, you're on the new firmware and using a ROM with the new fixes in it!
The firmware zip is optional, but recommended. If you aren't comfortable flashing it, don't bother.
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Thank you Sora! I am going to follow your advice this afternoon and will let you know how it goes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770501
This way will not cause you to lose any data, and installs the update on top of what you already have. Still recommend a backup in TWRP first, though
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770501
This way will not cause you to lose any data, and installs the update on top of what you already have. Still recommend a backup in TWRP first, though
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I would personally recommend staying away from that method. As a rooted user you should never accept an ota. Doing it that way might work this time, but in the future there's no guarantee you won't lose s-off and never be able to get it again
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Rxpert said:
I would personally recommend staying away from that method. As a rooted user you should never accept an ota. Doing it that way might work this time, but in the future there's no guarantee you won't lose s-off and never be able to get it again
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I know "never OTA" is your and some other people's mantra, but being able to do this is one of the benefits of S-off. I agree it is possible they could turn you back to S-ON in a future OTA (maybe...), but since it works for this current update, I don't think you should be dissuaded if you don't want to completely wipe your phone.
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I know "never OTA" is your and some other people's mantra, but being able to do this is one of the benefits of S-off. I agree it is possible they could turn you back to S-ON in a future OTA (maybe...), but since it works for this current update, I don't think you should be dissuaded if you don't want to completely wipe your phone.
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It's a bad habit to start, and all he has to do my way is flash a ROM..
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It's a bad habit to start, and all he has to do my way is flash a ROM..
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My man.
Exactly.
Just look at all of the people who show up on here going "Oh crap I took the OTA and now I can't get S-OFF"! The fact of the matter is, people don't check here before taking the OTA. If they look here and see that thread that says to just put on teh stock recovery and you're A-OK, thats what they'll do from then on.
When it happens, I'm just going to sit back and say "toldya so"... and let everyone else deal with the support. Until then, I'm going to keep preaching that you should never take an OTA if you are rooted or EVER thinking about rooting.
Sora, I looked at your instructions. I flashed ROMs before on my EVO 4G. That process I was comfortable with. Basically, the developer did all the work for me. I wanted to keep my phone stock for a while but I do want the updates.
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Sora, I looked at your instructions. I flashed ROMs before on my EVO 4G. That process I was comfortable with. Basically, the developer did all the work for me. I wanted to keep my phone stock for a while but I do want the updates.
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It really comes down to this, if you're still having problems:
If you have recovery, just flash a ROM with the new base. Just like you'd do on your old Evo.
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SoraX64 said:
It really comes down to this, if you're still having problems:
If you have recovery, just flash a ROM with the new base. Just like you'd do on your old Evo.
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Ok, so I will have to flash a ROM. Do you think I can flash the deodexed version of this [ROM][STOCK] --- Stock Rooted 1.22.651.3 Odexed & DeOdexed (7/14/12)--- over my stock-from-Sprint setup?
I flashed TWRP. I'm going to update the firmware next with the file you pointed me to. I'm trying to find the info on clearing Google wallet.
...then the ROM.
Clearing GW data should say something about resetting it. It'll be in the app settings.
Seems like you've got it down now, I'm glad to say. You'll be able to flash that ROM without any issues.
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Clearing GW data should say something about resetting it. It'll be in the app settings.
Seems like you've got it down now, I'm glad to say. You'll be able to flash that ROM without any issues.
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Sora, how do you flash your ROMs? Do you use TWRP? or something like Goo Manager? I haven't used Goo Manager before, but I see it flashes ROMs.
I made a backup of my HTC EVO LTE Stock ROM in TWRP, I flashed CMX, now I want to go back to Stock, so I went to TWRP>Install, I can see my backup folder under /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/name of backup.. but I when I select the folder it does not give me the option to Install it. It just opens as an empty folder. I did notice the folder is not in a .zip format. Is this the reason why? Did I miss something during the back up process? And if so, how can I fix it? Is it as easy as just converting the regular folder into a .zip folder then try to install it this way?.. Please tell me not everything is lost, lol.. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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I made a backup of my HTC EVO LTE Stock ROM in TWRP, I flashed CMX, now I want to go back to Stock, so I went to TWRP>Install, I can see my backup folder under /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/name of backup.. but I when I select the folder it does not give me the option to Install it. It just opens as an empty folder. I did notice the folder is not in a .zip format. Is this the reason why? Did I miss something during the back up process? And if so, how can I fix it? Is it as easy as just converting the regular folder into a .zip folder then try to install it this way?.. Please tell me not everything is lost, lol.. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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There should be a restore option on the main screen in twrp recovery. If you hit that it will allow you to choose what file you want to restore
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Seconded. Choose "restore" to restore nandroid backups.
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There should be a restore option on the main screen in twrp recovery. If you hit that it will allow you to choose what file you want to restore
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I see that now!. I can see what the difference is now. THANKS SO MUCH! :laugh:
Hello I'm coming from clockwork mod and now using Twrp. I renamed my backup and when I go to restore my backup I do not see it in tarp>backups? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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Hello I'm coming from clockwork mod and now using Twrp. I renamed my backup and when I go to restore my backup I do not see it in tarp>backups? Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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You can't restore back up made in clockwork mod using twrp recovery.
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Need to Restore But Getting Black Screen
Okay so my situation is similiar to the OP.
I was running CM10 then a custom sense Rom.
I made an original backup, but when I restore it I get a black screen at boot.
Typically when I flash a Rom I have to fastboot flash the boot.img which is no biggie, but there's no boot.img that I can find in the twrp backup.
Might be just as easy to flash a stock Rom, but not sure exactly where to find one. Everything I've found is rooted or custom in some way.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
tankerkevo said:
Okay so my situation is similiar to the OP.
I was running CM10 then a custom sense Rom.
I made an original backup, but when I restore it I get a black screen at boot.
Typically when I flash a Rom I have to fastboot flash the boot.img which is no biggie, but there's no boot.img that I can find in the twrp backup.
Might be just as easy to flash a stock Rom, but not sure exactly where to find one. Everything I've found is rooted or custom in some way.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
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Download the rom you are trying to restore, and fast boot that bootimg.
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thicklizard said:
Download the rom you are trying to restore, and fast boot that bootimg.
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The ROM I'm trying to restore is the original state of my phone. Would this be a stock ROM with a versioning date of October 28th(the day I got my phone and made the backup), current stock ROMs, or launch stock ROMs. Basically will any boot.img work from a stock ROM?
I do see the boot sector being written during the restore process. There is a boot.something.win file in the backup folder for the backup. Can this be fastbooted? I'm a bit timid to try that, but thinking it may be worth a shot...
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The ROM I'm trying to restore is the original state of my phone. Would this be a stock ROM with a versioning date of October 28th(the day I got my phone and made the backup), current stock ROMs, or launch stock ROMs. Basically will any boot.img work from a stock ROM?
I do see the boot sector being written during the restore process. There is a boot.something.win file in the backup folder for the backup. Can this be fastbooted? I'm a bit timid to try that, but thinking it may be worth a shot...
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I think this is what you would need
http://themikmik.com/showthread.php...oted-Based-on-Latest-OTA-(Odexed-and-Deodexed)
Just download the kernel/bootimg and fast boot it and you should be good to go
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clockwork recovery f's up your misc partition on this phone.. DO NOT use clockwork mod recovery on this phone! it f ed up mine.. mines fixed now but it was a pain to fix
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I think this is what you would need
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Just download the kernel/bootimg and fast boot it and you should be good to go
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Thanks for the quick reply, QuickWizard is very fitting. I actually got it after I finished going my own route though.
I grew a pair and went with my got and I went ahead and flashed the boot.emmc.win from the twrp backup in flashboot. It successfully got me booted and logged into the phone. That said the stock rom is so crappy...
But, I was having issues on CM10 with MHL, on a "stock rom with goodies" I was having radio issues with the latest firmawares, so now it's back to my rooted stock backup and I'm doing the HTC System OTA update... Should be interesting what happens next...
Again thank you all with the quick replies!
Hi
Since a few weeks my phone turnes itself off accidentally, during any operation or just lying lazy on the desk. I had ARHD 6.5 since 6 months or so and I replaced it with 6.7 like 3 days ago, hoping this will solve the problem but it didn't. So I wanna try the stock rom and see whether it helps or not, and if it won't I'll send it to rma. My question is how to recover original soft from nandroid backup, cause I tried and got stuck with bootloop. Do I have to recover the old firmware as well? I found some thread on how to remove clockwork and root, put the phone back S-ON and so on but I would have to recover stock rom first, right? I know I can also flash the stock rom, but the only one I found is not matching perfectly my original one, so I would rather get it back from backup. This phone is just so freaking annoying...
Thanks in advance
You have to boot into custom recovery, be it clockworkmod or another one, then go into "backups and recovery", and from there, restore from backup, then you have to choose your nandroid backup, provided that you have performed it, and select restore (all).
That's it, good luck.
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dagomez99 said:
You have to boot into custom recovery, be it clockworkmod or another one, then go into "backups and recovery", and from there, restore from backup, then you have to choose your nandroid backup, provided that you have performed it, and select restore (all).
That's it, good luck.
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I've done it already but as I wrote before I ended up in bootloop. I think it might be caused by firmware which I flashed in order to install ARHD (Firmware from 3.33.401.6 & 3.33.401.106 RUU). But I don't have any info about the version of previous FW and don't really know if this is the issue.
Anyone? Please have mercy, I'm getting killed by this phone. Help
I did a backup in TWRP before flashing the PA alpha ROM, realized I needed CWM, so flashed that over in TWRP. Fine. Installed PAalpha in CWM. Fine. Decided to go back to the ROM I'd backed up (Beans), so attempted to flash TWRP over in CWM. Rebooted recovery. Sent me straight to stock recovery. Still boots into PAalpha fine.
I've tried to install TWRP via goo manager, and it says it's successful, but I'm still on stock recovery. Did I f- something up? How can I get back to custom? Did I screw my unlock somehow (doesn't seem like it would...)?
I've been doing the flashing thing since the Eris, but have been out of the game for a cycle, and am wary of messing around with things now that I'm at a point I don't quite understand. Much thanks.
Unlocked and rooted.
vxkid said:
I did a backup in TWRP before flashing the PA alpha ROM, realized I needed CWM, so flashed that over in TWRP. Fine. Installed PAalpha in CWM. Fine. Decided to go back to the ROM I'd backed up (Beans), so attempted to flash TWRP over in CWM. Rebooted recovery. Sent me straight to stock recovery. Still boots into PAalpha fine.
I've tried to install TWRP via goo manager, and it says it's successful, but I'm still on stock recovery. Did I f- something up? How can I get back to custom? Did I screw my unlock somehow (doesn't seem like it would...)?
I've been doing the flashing thing since the Eris, but have been out of the game for a cycle, and am wary of messing around with things now that I'm at a point I don't quite understand. Much thanks.
Unlocked and rooted.
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If you used the website in the twrp thread it does not work. I did the same thing. I had to odin the suck it verizon zip again. After that all was good. Hope this helps.
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If you used the website in the twrp thread it does not work. I did the same thing. I had to odin the suck it verizon zip again. After that all was good. Hope this helps.
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EDIT: I held my breath and flashed it over. Everything's great now. Thanks.
That's exactly what I used. Thanks so much. To be clear, flashing suck it verizon through odin is all i need to do (no need to mess with the other unlock steps?)
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vxkid said:
That's exactly what I used. Thanks so much. To be clear, flashing suck it verizon through odin is all i need to do (no need to mess with the other unlock steps?)
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yes...you should never need to relock bootloader.