I successfully rooted my Starmobile Diamond S3 last month. It wasn't as easy as my other phones because it uses a Broadcom chip. If anyone is interested in how I did it, I can share that.
Unfortunately I got a little aggressive playing with the root this morning and I succeeded in messing up phone. Now my phone doesnt have a status bar or homekeys at bottom. I can not even install a wallpaper.
I have a Nandroid recovery however I can not install CWM because my device is not supported. Does anyone know how i can either install CWM so i can back up my device using my Nandroid backup, or maybe someone knows another way to restore using a nandroid CWM backup without actually having CWM installed.
If anyone has a Stock Rom that i can use so i can restore my phone please help.
Thanks a lot.
PS Please pardon my English. Its my second language.
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So I think I successfully rooted my phone I'm not sure, so my first question is, how do I tell if my phone is rooted? I downloaded an over clocking app that requires root and it installs and runs. But when I tried running recovery reset to do a nandroid backup my phone just gave me an error screen.
Second, if it is rooted, what do I do now about this nandroid issue?
Third, what's the best ROM out there?
Hi there,
I need some help with my phone hoping to finds some help here..
recently my cousin tried updating my Samsung SII GT-I9100G Phone and now my phone is stuck in this CWM Recovery windows..
Can anyone help me here, I've been searching crazy all day long and tried various cyanogenmod versions but none did the trick.
I know the phone is rooted right and all.. because he did an update once successfully and it bootet the Android but he told me it was the wrong version so he tried it with another version and then suddenly the phone wouldn't boot right anymore.. so now it boots the CWM Recovery whole the time.
So if anyone please can help me or if anyone knows how i can restore the phone to the original Androir OS please tell me, getting desperate here -_-
Thanks!
Try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
Sent from my Galaxy S2 GT i9100
Hi Boki thanks for the reply,
unfortunatly that won't work, because when I try to connect my phone on my PC it connects and disconnects repeatedly -_-
but maybe this might be of some information, after installing cm10 the CMW Recovery version is 6.0.1.1 but when I install cm9-RC1 it becomes version 5.5.0.4 and it changes from layout..
In the CMW Recovery menu you can make a Backup/Image of your phone.
Is it by any chance possible that I can download a Backup for the GT-I9100G from somewhere?? or is that only for recovering pictures and music and other unrelated things to the OS??
Go to mount and storage...format system and data...then try to flash the ROM made for your phone..
If unsuccessful...download stock ROM..flash using Odin..
Thnx guys I solved the problem
SO here is the deal... I am a complete an total rooting noob but i need some help. After unlocking the bootloader with the help of Hansoons2000 tool and then flashing the phone and then pushing SuperSu to the phone i installed super su and that is where my issues began. After installing SUperSu i got stuck on the Quietly Brilliant screen on my first boot i heard this could take a while so i waited about an hour. Thats when i realized I had a problem. Heres a list of all the steps i attempted so far but to no avail..
I went into recovery and did a factory reset and cleared the cache.. Didnt work
I also relocked the phone and unlocked assuming it would wipe it that did not work.
ANy help to save my phone would be greatly appreciated. I am a first time rooter and have been stressing about my phone all day thinking i threw 700 dollars down the Drain. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And i may ask some stuid question because i am a noob. Thanks in Advance!
By the way it is an Att One X+ that i got about 3 weeks ago if that helps
which recovery you have?
you need a custom recovery for rooting
Install the TWRP Recovery if you haven't already. Do it through terminal. Then, go install a custom Rom (I suggest Viper XL+). Make sure you wipe everything your supposed to. You can do this with the installation of. Venom, it is the AROMA Installer. Flash the boot.img through terminal to. Everything should be fine and it will be rooted.
»»»Correct me if I'm wrong.
Sent from my HTC One X+
This might mean that you would need to reinstall a new rom. Now what you can do to avoid the whole fast boot terminal stuff you can try locking the bootloader and running the ruu for the at&t hox+. What that does is it wipes everything and brings the phone back to stock (stock rom, stock recovery)
After the install goes through you can re unlock the bootloader and install a custom recovery (I have an at&t hox+ and use CWM) and flash a new rom (I use desensed stock look Elegancia ROM)
I like doing the ruu method because I like having a clean slate if something went wrong.
Sent from my HTC One X+ using xda premium
Thanks
I got my phone working again and all set up using th ATT ruu so now i wondering how to make a good backup for my phone and go at rooting it again! thanks
albert1854 said:
I got my phone working again and all set up using th ATT ruu so now i wondering how to make a good backup for my phone and go at rooting it again! thanks
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Gald you got it working again! I had to find out myself how to fix my phone when similar stuff happened to me too, now I am able to flash my phone properly with different roms. It's almost like an addiction .
now on topic, the one method i do use for backup is I use the CWM backup method, because it says your apps and your systems settings etc all in one folder and when you finish installing your new rom you can use the CWM recovery to restore the backup of your phone. CWM will restore your information and apps as well as the screens and where the icons were at in the home screens. Pretty cool I'd have to say
Now as a backup to the backup I keep my text messages call logs MMS alarms near and dear to me so I use My Backup Pro, keeps a backup online on their servers and can restore them without a prob (although I do find it annoying when it saves information when you sync facebook to the contacts. i have about 200 contacts on my phone and somehow it backs up 700 contact information?)
The tool I used to unlock my bootloader, root my phone, and install CWM (Clockworkmod Recovery) is here
pretty self explanatory and easy and has not failed me
Any questions feel free to ask
same
That the same program unused the first time that bricked my phone after installing super su so do I need to install supersu or are there any alternatives? Thanks for all your help.
OK I've got a tablet here Mach Speed Trio Stealth Pro. Not main stream I know. I want to flash a rom to it. I've got the rom cm9_nightly_20120721 a file called gapps-ics-20120429-signed and lyf1_compatability_1.2.0 From what I've read I'm to intstall the rom first then gapps then compatability. I'm just not sure how to deploy it. I can put this tablet in recovery mode but only from within the OS. I've tried the button combo that's suppose to do it but all I get is a blue light but nothing on the screen. So hopefully this can be done in one swoop.
So should I put everything on the SDcard and then tell it update from sdcard and then choose the rom? I've never flashed a custom rom before so please forgive my noobness and my lowly tablet. After the rom is installed I'll have to be able to do the other 2 files before I boot because without them nothing will work. If this goes right I'll have a lot more functions when it's finished. Most notably bluetooth support.
Also I'd like to backup the factory rom first. Not sure how to do that either. I have the full version titanium backup and backed up all of the system files but I'm not sure that will get me back to stock if this goes wrong. I believe CWM is device specific so unless there's a generic version I'm out of luck there.
Thanks to all who bless this noob with knowledge.
Hi,
I bought a Alcatel Onetouch T'POP 4010D Phone.
Because the internal Space is so small, I wanted to use Apps2ext, and the simplest way seemed to flash a rom.
So I rooted the phone, installed cwm and installed Xperia Z rom.
Sadly, I flashed a wrong rom, so my phone now only detects one SIM.
I made a Backup with CWM, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I can restore, but I still have the wrong ROM!
I have another Phone, totally unmodified! How can I read the Stock ROM of my second phone, restore it to the first and have it working.
I don't accidentally want to flash config settings that are phone specific (e.g. IMEIs).
I guess MTK Tool is the way to go?
Can you please tell me, what exactly I have to restore to get the Stock rom on my second phone but don't brick it?
Yes, its possible to restore from the a mtk_droid_tools backup of thre other
J0s3f said:
Hi,
I bought a Alcatel Onetouch T'POP 4010D Phone.
Because the internal Space is so small, I wanted to use Apps2ext, and the simplest way seemed to flash a rom.
So I rooted the phone, installed cwm and installed Xperia Z rom.
Sadly, I flashed a wrong rom, so my phone now only detects one SIM.
I made a Backup with CWM, but this doesn't seem to be enough. I can restore, but I still have the wrong ROM!
I have another Phone, totally unmodified! How can I read the Stock ROM of my second phone, restore it to the first and have it working.
I don't accidentally want to flash config settings that are phone specific (e.g. IMEIs).
I guess MTK Tool is the way to go?
Can you please tell me, what exactly I have to restore to get the Stock rom on my second phone but don't brick it?
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Its possible this way without any problems of bricking
Do a a backup with mtk_droid_tools of the second phone (unmodified or stock). Restore the backup with sp_flash_tool unto the first phone (with problems). Follow all procedures correctly and you will have a successful restore