Step-by-step what I did:
1. Flashed boot.img of cm11<Kitkat 4.4.4>/zip and did a backup of stock ICS(last updated by Sony)(BackUp1) using CWM, I see version 6.0.5.0.
a)While backing-up, It said, coundn't create sd.ext.img, and I ignored it. <not sure of exact message >
2) Flashed cm11-<Kitkat 4.4.4>.zip. After reboot it works pretty well ,
a) but drains battery faster compared to ICS, want to go back to ICS(BackUp1),
3) Took a backup again using CWM (BackUp2) and rebooted phone to CWM-Recovery and selected BackUp1 to restore.
a)While restoring it says ' sd-ext.img not found...' and 'Restore completed...' and rebooted. I didn't see any life apart from screen glowing greyish. No response with power or other buttons.
4) Removed battery and tried restoring BackUp2, It said the same thing that 'sd-ext.img not found.. Skipping restore of sd-ext.img.... Restore completed....'
After rebooting with BackUp2 it works fine.
I tried 2-3 times, clearing caches and formatting system,data,cache to get BackUp1... no luck...
Questions:
1. How can I get the BackUp1 working?
A: restored after flashing vengeance kernel.
2. Is it with kernel, do I need to flash ICS kernel and restore BackUp1?
A: yes
3. Did CWM was installed through boot.img, part of CM11<kitkat version 4.4.4>.zip, I flashed to phone ?
A:yes
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Hi Guys,
First post here.
I've started installing VillainRom 1.4 following the instructions contained in the official thread in the Dev Forum.
However, having selected to flash the zip file in CWM and watched the installation process start, my screen has now been displaying the blinking VillainRom logo for about 45 minutes. Is this normal or has something gone wrong?!
I plugged the phone into the mains right after the logo first showed up. Would this have made a difference?
Many thanks in advance.
If your coming from a stock ROM you need to perform a full wipe in CWM before flashing.
Look through the options in recovery, wipe your data then reflash the ROM for good measure.
All should be fine....
OK, great, thanks.
So should I just turn it off, boot in recovery and look for the wipe option, wipe the phone, then restart the installation process?
Yep, boot into recovery then select;
"Wipe Data/Factory Reset"
"Wipe Cache Partition"
"Advanced>Wipe Dalvik Cache"
Then flash the rom again.(This step may not be required, but it cant hurt).
Fantastic, thanks for your help. Very much appreciated!
One further question.
I've got VillainRom successfully installed now, but when I attempt to restore the apps and data that I backed up using Titanium Backup my phone reverts to it's pre-Villain state.
Is there anyway to restore my data but keep VillainRom? Am I being completely dense?!
Thanks
Sancho Panza said:
One further question.
I've got VillainRom successfully installed now, but when I attempt to restore the apps and data that I backed up using Titanium Backup my phone reverts to it's pre-Villain state.
Is there anyway to restore my data but keep VillainRom? Am I being completely dense?!
Thanks
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That sounds strange. Titanium backup in itself cannot "revert" you to the previous ROM. That's not possible
What do you mean by its pre-villain state by the way?
When I move between different editions of the ROM, I do a titanium backup via the app. I then reinstall the ROM, and select some apps to restore. I am still running the same ROM (confirm via Menu > settings > about, and scroll to the bottom. It should show as VillainROM 1.4.0.
Thanks for your reply.
By pre-villain state I mean the stock firmware that came with the phone. I looked at the settings and it put me back onto the original firmware.
This was also confirmed because after installing VillainRom, restoring and then installing VillainTweaks, VTweaks told me it couldn't function because VillainRom wasn't installed.
From your reply I think the mistake I might have made was to restore from CWM rather than re-downloading Titanium Backup and restoring through that. Would that be correct?
Yesterday, I installed Andyx ICS rom through CWM (followed proper procedure i.e. 4 wipes). Install was successful, however, I was having some force closes. I decided to revert back to gingerbread and did 4 wipes again and installed CheckROM v4 (all through CWM). It was successful as well. This was lastly followed by restoring my nandroid backup to get back to my rooted-stock ROM.
Two strange observations:
1- When ICS was installed, it had the same background (personal picture) as it was in my stock rom. Why is that? After doing 4 wipes, it shouldn't have anything except everything vanilla :S
2- When I reverted back to GB (CheckROM) from ICS, during first boot, it came up with passkey lock screen. I had to enter the same passkey as I used to enter in my orignal stock rom (pre-ICS). How can this setting be stored when I wiped everything and changed two different ROMS (with different kernels).
Any help would be much appreciated. I just want to know what exactly might have been the cause of this. Or is it normal? :S
Wrong section - this is a question.
My 2 cents, you didn't wipe data.
Usually this will happen if you select the backup and restore options during setup of your phone. Some application, security and system settings are backed up and then restored when you install the new ROM, even after a full wipe. When I upgraded to ICS, I deselected the restore option as I wanted a fresh install.
I did following wipes in CWM recovery (1 time each before installing ICS. And three times each before going from ICS to CheckROM v4)
* Wipe data /factory reset
* Wipe cache
* Wipe Dalvik cache
* Wipe battery stats
As for the right section, my apologies..Mods feel free to move this thread to the Q/A section.
Keith.Someone said:
Usually this will happen if you select the backup and restore options during setup of your phone. Some application, security and system settings are backed up and then restored when you install the new ROM, even after a full wipe. When I upgraded to ICS, I deselected the restore option as I wanted a fresh install.
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry, not sure if I understood you correctly. Where do we get that option? I made nandroid couple of weeks ago. And flashed ICS zip through CWM after wipe...didn't see any option to select or deselect.
I installed a wipe version of ICS and during the initial setup of the phone, I simply left all the options selected. This resulted in my wallpaper, settings and apps being restored, which I didn't want. I then reflashed the ROM and deselected the restore option and voila.... all ICS defaults
searing_heat said:
Thanks for the reply. Sorry, not sure if I understood you correctly. Where do we get that option? I made nandroid couple of weeks ago. And flashed ICS zip through CWM after wipe...didn't see any option to select or deselect.
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A nandroid backup is a full backup no matter how many wipes you do in the end you restored your nandroid backup this means that the phone is restored to the state it was when you made the backup.
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searing_heat said:
Yesterday, I installed Andyx ICS rom through CWM (followed proper procedure i.e. 4 wipes). Install was successful, however, I was having some force closes. I decided to revert back to gingerbread and did 4 wipes again and installed CheckROM v4 (all through CWM). It was successful as well. This was lastly followed by restoring my nandroid backup to get back to my rooted-stock ROM.
Two strange observations:
1- When ICS was installed, it had the same background (personal picture) as it was in my stock rom. Why is that? After doing 4 wipes, it shouldn't have anything except everything vanilla :S
2- When I reverted back to GB (CheckROM) from ICS, during first boot, it came up with passkey lock screen. I had to enter the same passkey as I used to enter in my orignal stock rom (pre-ICS). How can this setting be stored when I wiped everything and changed two different ROMS (with different kernels).
Any help would be much appreciated. I just want to know what exactly might have been the cause of this. Or is it normal? :S
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Its a called , Back up and Restore...Google allows automatic Backup and restore...This helps you restore Apps and Settings even if you do full wipe.
I recently reflashed Checkrom 4 to get rid of a theme, then flashed a kernel cleaning script, then the latest Speedmod, then JKay 13.4.1.
Now every time I reboot I get this error:
error reading data from the hardware interface
Can anyone tell me what is the problem here please?
Many thanks.
Remember if everything fails to fix your problem. You have 1 solution left.
Start over:
1. Backup your applications via Titanium Backup
2. Wipe everything in recovery.
3. Flash desired rom and kernel.
Have a good day.
Try flashing a clean ROM through ODIN first and then reflash it with the ROM you want.
Hi guys.
I got a problem.
Got tired of lags, so i decided to wipe (data + dalvik) and reinstall Omega 27.1.
Now i can't boot up the phone - it just starts up CWM (6.0.1.2) when i reboot. Have tried to pull battery and when i insert it recovery just comes up.
What have i missed?
I have tried to install again, with and without wipes but still the same.
Can't restore nandroid either. Getting error on restoring /data, and just comes back to CWM again.
I'm kinda stuck.. ideas?
EDIT:
Just did a nandroid restore, error on restoring /data as always, but i rebooted and got into Android. I had to type in my google account information again, and all apps crashes all the time.
So I rebooted to recovery, and installed 27.1 (did a full wipe again), and now i can't get past recovery again.
Wtf?
mrBira said:
Hi guys.
I got a problem.
Got tired of lags, so i decided to wipe (data + dalvik) and reinstall Omega 27.1.
Now i can't boot up the phone - it just starts up CWM (6.0.1.2) when i reboot. Have tried to pull battery and when i insert it recovery just comes up.
What have i missed?
I have tried to install again, with and without wipes but still the same.p
Can't restore nandroid either. Getting error on restoring /data, and just comes back to CWM again.
I'm kinda stuck.. ideas?
EDIT:
Just did a nandroid restore, error on restoring /data as always, but i rebooted and got into Android. I had to type in my google account information again, and all apps crashes all the time.
So I rebooted to recovery, and installed 27.1 (did a full wipe again), and now i can't get past recovery again.
Wtf?
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If you can get into download mode, flash a stock rom samsung www.sammobile.com with ODIN, then get root permissions and cwm with ]cf-root 6.4
devid801 said:
If you can get into download mode, flash a stock rom samsung www.sammobile.com with ODIN, then get root permissions and cwm with ]cf-root 6.4
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Yes, it seems to be the only thing to do..
But does anyone know what is causing this?
Can't be the boot.img, because restoring the boot (wipes+restores) doesn't work. And installing a new rom also adds a new boot.img.
I'm pretty new to the whole flashing business, so if whatever I asked does not make sense, please be patient. Thanks!
I am stuck in CWM recovery. No matter how many times i flash a ROM after wipe data/cache partition and dalvik i still boot only into recovery when the ROM asks to reboot the device.
Here's what happened
1. Had a nandroid backup of older version of CWM mostly 5.0.2.x
2. Based on Nottachtrix thread installed the romracer recovery(updated flashable zip)
3. Updated to Nottachtrix 1.3.1 and successfully booted
4. Figured out that contacts everything weren't synced. So wanted to go back to older CM7 rom using restore ROM
5. Something went wrong during restoration. Data and other wern't restored and i guess only boot had been restored
6. Only boots into recovery thereafter. . Installing nottachtrix again give error at end when it asks to reboot the device: error in sdcard xxxzip status 0 installation aborted
Trying out different things like flashing boot.img, recovery etc battery drained and couldn't flash.
Fasbtoot and other options triggered by using volume buttons and power button works fine. RDS also detects the device but bootloader unknown and other info all were unknown.
Since battery drained i was searching on methods to charge the battery. Had figured out that custom method for charging the phone needs to be implemented.
While playing around again with phone i powered it through directly through charger and opted for linux cold-booting which gave me the battery icon with the question mark on screen. Popped in the battery and it started to charge. So now i know i can charge the battery using this method.
I am yet to make progress on flashing ROM successfully again. Is my backup lost ? Did the error happen because i backed up using an older version of CWM or flashing to Nottachtrix changed something
Help appreciated.
EDIT: Even after applying the backup successfully it still gets stuck in recovery.
Anyone?
Managed to.resolve by deleting partition from recovery which gave me the no os detected starting RSD in 5 seconds scenario. Performed clean wipe etc using fastboot n flashed ROM using Tom racers recovery.
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