I recently rooted my phone and I would like to make a backup before I mess around with a few things. The phone I have is a Galaxy K Zoom. It's running 4.4.2 Kitkat.
My problem is that CWM and TWRP don't seem to work. CWM tells me that my phone is unsupported, and TWRP says it will backup, but when it reboots to create it, I get an error. Is there another recovery app that is available? Or am I stuck having to restore to stock if I soft brick it? I'm ok even using ADB and/or Odin to flash it back to the phone, but I just need to make a recovery to start with.
Also, I have a recovery file that I found in a rooting thread for my phone. Won't that recovery file restore to their phone's settings? How can I make my own? I'm sort of a noob at this, so sorry for asking.
Thanks in advance and I really hope I get get some direction here. I'm more than willing to read through threads, I just don't know if I'm searching for the right terms. I noticed that there have been some posts on this before and there were no replies. Hopefully I can get one!
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I wanted to root my Transformer Prime TF201 so I could use busybox. However, no exploits exist for the .21 firmware.
I unlocked the firmware, intending to use a rooted .21 rom. I wasn't able to backup using clockworkmod recovery, which I read was because I encrypted my device.
I couldn't find anyway to decrypt it, so I tried to reset to factory settings, which seems to have made something go horribly wrong, clockworkmod cannot mount /sdcard, and I can't seem to ADB into clockworkmod.
When I boot, it just goes straight to clockworkmod.
Is this recoverable, or am I left with an aesthetically pleasing brick running clockwork mod, only a week after getting the device?
q.q
Any help at all is appreciated, I'm in a sorry state, and being new to this, I am lost as to what to do.
Thanks in advance.
Okay, thanks to the excellent support of the guys on IRC, I've recovered using option 1a- the 'three thuds' sound was Windows' not so stable USB drivers choking.
I'm no expert at this but this might be the "recovery" brick i've seen some people have. Check this post and see if u find something helpfull. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514088 or head to the irc chat and ask for help there Alot easier to help "live". More info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367016
check out option 1a in the link McT posted
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Okay guys, I've been trying to do all of my research and think I've got it pretty well sorted out but just want to verify.
I'm new to android. The last android phone I messed around with was the gf's Droid Eris which I put Froyo on like 3 years ago.
I got my GS4 and was excited to find how easy you can flash custom recoveries with apps from the market. I installed ROM Manager and flashed CWM. I was surprised when it didn't really work and have since done my research to find that ME7 breaks all that. I'm rooted and everything is cool but I'm trying to take the OTA update to MI1.
I know I need to restore the stock recovery, the question is, how? I've found threads for other phones that says you can flash "recovery.img" from the OTA update in the cache folder. I don't see recovery.img. I see a recovery.sh but no recovery.img.
So I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357235&highlight=stock+recovery and downloaded the .zip in the first post. I found a recovery.img file in this tar file. Is this what I need to flash to my phone? If so how? My guess is with Odin? If so is it the PDA slot (everyone always asks which slot)?
I've seen a lot of people say "flash stock me7" but I'd rather not have to do that. I guess I could just flash stock MI1 but once again I'd rather not have to completely wipe the phone, nor do I see why you would have to wipe the whole phone if you can flash recoveries without wiping the phone.
Thank you all for your help. Sorry if there's already a thread for this, if there is please just point me in the right direction. I'm surprised ROM Manager doesn't have some kind of option to "restore recovery" or something like that.
I also see talks of RUU but that looks like an HTC thing? Thanks again.
videogmike said:
Okay guys, I've been trying to do all of my research and think I've got it pretty well sorted out but just want to verify.
I'm new to android. The last android phone I messed around with was the gf's Droid Eris which I put Froyo on like 3 years ago.
I got my GS4 and was excited to find how easy you can flash custom recoveries with apps from the market. I installed ROM Manager and flashed CWM. I was surprised when it didn't really work and have since done my research to find that ME7 breaks all that. I'm rooted and everything is cool but I'm trying to take the OTA update to MI1.
I know I need to restore the stock recovery, the question is, how? I've found threads for other phones that says you can flash "recovery.img" from the OTA update in the cache folder. I don't see recovery.img. I see a recovery.sh but no recovery.img.
So I found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357235&highlight=stock+recovery and downloaded the .zip in the first post. I found a recovery.img file in this tar file. Is this what I need to flash to my phone? If so how? My guess is with Odin? If so is it the PDA slot (everyone always asks which slot)?
I've seen a lot of people say "flash stock me7" but I'd rather not have to do that. I guess I could just flash stock MI1 but once again I'd rather not have to completely wipe the phone, nor do I see why you would have to wipe the whole phone if you can flash recoveries without wiping the phone.
Thank you all for your help. Sorry if there's already a thread for this, if there is please just point me in the right direction. I'm surprised ROM Manager doesn't have some kind of option to "restore recovery" or something like that.
I also see talks of RUU but that looks like an HTC thing? Thanks again.
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Maybe this thread can help. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301259
I suppose that would work, but my phone's not bricked and I'm not trying to restore any kind of factory settings. I just want to restore the stock recovery. A lot of people appear to have problems and have to wipe their phones anyway doing that it looks like.
Bump. No one? Really? I'm just looking for someone to confirm whether or not this is correct. At least I didn't just ask the question without doing the research.
videogmike said:
Bump. No one? Really? I'm just looking for someone to confirm whether or not this is correct. At least I didn't just ask the question without doing the research.
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I was rooted so I had to restore stock to get the OTA update. I used the thread that Riker attached below your original message and it worked fine for me. It doesn't matter that your phone is not bricked, this method will Odin flash a stock image onto your device.
Good luck.:good:
Just seems like overkill to flash the entire thing (no wipe or not). Okay, thanks all.
Sorry for the duplicated post. I just noticed the other one i posted is in the wrong section and this is the one for the AT&T phones so here it is again.
Hi Guys. Today i rooted my phone for the first time (LG Optimus G e970)
Everything went well, then i uninstalled the bloatware from AT&T and a few of the google apps that i do not use like books or music, and on the next reboot i got my phone bricked with the LG loop and "Security Error" message.
I found some great info on these forums on getting the phone in working condition with the help of this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2388440
However, before i go ahead and restore the phone's original firmware, i would like to know if there is anyway to recover some of the files. I have some important notes i wish to recover, everything else is on google and the external SD card so im not all lost.
I am able to put the phone in download mode by holding the up and down volume keys and then powering on the phone with the usb cable connected to the PC, but it is not showing as an external disk on the computer. I do have the LG drivers installed tho, the same ones i used to root the phone.
Any ideas?. thanks a lot.
What recovery do you have ? You may be able to mount internal and sd card in recovery and access them on your computer ?
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What recovery do you have ? You may be able to mount internal and sd card in recovery and access them on your computer ?
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Hi thank for the help.
I have no clue about what recovery i have. I never played with the phone before the rooting and removal of the apps, so i believe it should be the "stock" recovery if you wanna call it like that.
axopro said:
Hi thank for the help.
I have no clue about what recovery i have. I never played with the phone before the rooting and removal of the apps, so i believe it should be the "stock" recovery if you wanna call it like that.
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I don't know what guide you followed to get the root. If you followed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450258
You should have twrp. Stock recovery may not be able to mount storages for uses on PCs.
Also I haven't seen the post you included , maybe that's an older post. A lot of people use this to recover their "bricked" phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
I personally have followed this too.
As long as you have download mode you don't have to worry. However you need to read carefully before processing with teenybins because its something that can actually brick your phone if used wrong.
optimusv45 said:
I don't know what guide you followed to get the root. If you followed this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450258
You should have twrp. Stock recovery may not be able to mount storages for uses on PCs.
Also I haven't seen the post you included , maybe that's an older post. A lot of people use this to recover their "bricked" phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230994
I personally have followed this too.
As long as you have download mode you don't have to worry. However you need to read carefully before processing with teenybins because its something that can actually brick your phone if used wrong.
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Ok so when i did the rooting i followed that same guide you linked to, but i only did it to the root part. Not the "UNLOCK BOOTLOADER AND INSTALL CUSTOM RECOVERY-"
I just wanted the permissions to remove the apps.
So now with the TeenyBin guide.... will that erase the current settings and information on the phone or is it just an attempt to fix the firmware loop?
will the process attempt to restore the google apps missing?
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Ok so when i did the rooting i followed that same guide you linked to, but i only did it to the root part. Not the "UNLOCK BOOTLOADER AND INSTALL CUSTOM RECOVERY-"
I just wanted the permissions to remove the apps.
So now with the TeenyBin guide.... will that erase the current settings and information on the phone or is it just an attempt to fix the firmware loop?
will the process attempt to restore the google apps missing?
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There are different kind of teenybins. They do different things, one giving you a working recovery and updating RPM/TZ, one restoring your phone to complete factory state. You will have to read it to know what I'm saying here. The one that give you twrp and update your partitions may let your data alone but you will most likely still have the existing bootloop. The gapps missing ? The ones you deleted ? If you use the bin that recovers phones to factory state then you will have all the stock apps again.
Quick update.
I was able to recover the phone and the data in it. :good:
I installed the new boot loader with the teenybin instructions and was able to backup the data partition to an SD card.
Anyway, after that i went for a recovery using the stock firmware and LGNPST and now i lost the boot loader with all the neat options, but got the phone working again, and to my surprise, everything was back there including data and applications,. i dont get it but oh well... im back alive.
Ill backup all the important stuff from now on, and then i will keep messing with the phone again LOL. i learned quite a few things today... ill read more from now on before doing more things.
Thanks for all the help.!!
Good nite
Hey guys... So I'm REALLY new at this whole rooting thing, so please forgive me if I am not aware of any terms related to rooting and such.
So basically what happened was this:
I decided to root my Galaxy S4 (sgh-i337 --- AT&T) using the towelroot method. I had to use this method because my phone is currently running Android 4.4.4 KitKat (TouchWiz) and it worked fine. SuperSU was installed, Root Checker said my phone was rooted, it was good. I tried to install CWM using Odin, and I got the "RESET" or "PASS" from Odin, which I thought that it meant that it worked. However, when I tried to go into Recovery Mode, it went into Stock Recovery Mode. I started to look at other tutorials, and I came across another one that involved flashing your phone's respective CWM .img file from your phone itself (transfer the .img to your phone's SD, and then flash it from your phone using the app, Flashify). But when I tried to go into Recovery mode to see if it worked, it gave me the yellow triangle with an error message, "System software is unauthorized by AT&T" or something like that. I tried to look at other posts, and there was a general idea that I needed to flash the stock Kernel. Now, the way I rooted the phone in the first place, I already had two different ones downloaded. One was flashed, towelroot was used, and then the second kernel (which was the one that originally on my phone before rooting) was flashed. After that, it was rooted. So me, being the complete noob I am at rooting, decided to re-flash both, in order, to see if that cleared up the error message when trying to get into Recovery Mode. This did not solve the problem either.
Again, I would like to apologize for my lack of knowledge on rooting and such, so please forgive me for my incompetence. And yes, I know that there are other threads on topics like this, but I have tried several things and it has not worked. Any help on how to fix this problem (and how to install CWM properly on my phone - since it is updated to 4.4.4 TouchWiz - or if I should use TWRP instead, because I intend on downloading the Kangapop GPE ROM(and how to install that for my specific model/software version)) is greatly appreciated, thanks!
I have a Sprint LG G3 LS990 that I have been having major trouble with as far as getting a custom recovery. Reason being is the Auto Rec wouldnt work for me because of my version of SuperSU. Flashify wouldnt work, even if I could find the correct file becuae it says to be careful when you are using lollipop AND/OR MAKE SURE BOOTOADER IS UNLCKED BEFORE FLASHING. I thought I had found a solution, but that solution did this to my phone. I basically tried to use BUMP to get TWRP, and based on what I read, I am SOFTBRICKED to a certain extent? My phone still works and everything, still root access, but I do not have any type of recovery or download mode to use any of these solutions that I keep finding. When I try to go into Download mode, or Boot into Recovery, it just goes to FASTBOOT. I cannot find our exactly what to do from here. I am rather a NOOB, but can take and retain direction and information well. I have been looking for a FASTBOOT SOLUTION for literally like TWO DAYS now and cannot seem to find one. If anyone could please help and tell me where to go from here. Anything that would get me to where I can factory reset my phone and reroot it. That is really the goal. The ultimate goal is reroot, custom recovery and BLISSPOP ROM and then I will be fine. I need information on totally RESETTING PHONE/(RESTORING RECOVERY?) from fastboot mode, or justs doing the whole process. Resetting phone so everything is how it should be STOCK WISE, so I can proceed to re root it. Thank you in advance for even reading this.
Have you tried flashing a recovery from within android? Like flash the latest twrp.