When i was on stock rom, i hid some pictures in the safe vault of the stock rom... But then i rooted the phone and unlocked bootloader and installed a custom rom. I backed up everything but forgot to backup those pics... Is there anyway to recover them??
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once you unlocked the bootloader, everything erases uot, you cant get it back
you can try file recovery apps but doubt it
I doubt you're going to get them back, but try to get back to stock
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I was wondering if there was a way to extract the unlocked stock rom and make it into a flashable zip file like other roms. What I'm getting at is I have my unlocked stock rom set up the way I like it now, but want to try out custom roms. I don't want to have to go back thru the flashing of stock sbf, root, unlock, if I want to get back to where I'm at now, so was wondering if there was a way to somehow extract how my phone is now to a flashable zip, that way if I flash a custom rom, and don't like it, I can just flash my current set up back to the phone? Is this possible.
I know I can nandroid, but I'd have to go thru the whole process of putting the stock sbf back on which means relocking and all that process. Just hoping that there is a short cut hehe.
ski21 said:
I was wondering if there was a way to extract the unlocked stock rom and make it into a flashable zip file like other roms. What I'm getting at is I have my unlocked stock rom set up the way I like it now, but want to try out custom roms. I don't want to have to go back thru the flashing of stock sbf, root, unlock, if I want to get back to where I'm at now, so was wondering if there was a way to somehow extract how my phone is now to a flashable zip, that way if I flash a custom rom, and don't like it, I can just flash my current set up back to the phone? Is this possible.
I know I can nandroid, but I'd have to go thru the whole process of putting the stock sbf back on which means relocking and all that process. Just hoping that there is a short cut hehe.
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If you already have your unlocked stock ROM and have CWM, then just use nandroid back up to get back to where you were. You don't need to relock/flash sbfs. I have my stock ROM saved as a nandroid and can flash that to get back to it if I want.
Oh, I didn't realize that. I had a nandroid of my locked stock, but couldn't nandroid back to it once I unlocked and tried rocko rom, It kept giving me an error. Now that I have a nandroid of my unlocked stock, I should be able to nandroid back to it then since its unlocked correct? Also can I rename the backups to set "UnlockStock" without it hurting anything. I had an epic before and renamed a nandroid, and i couldn't restore it.
Don't rename.
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I cant guarantee it will work for you, but ive renamed several of my backups, all i did was add at the end of the normal default-time-name was _CM9 or _Stock and they work no issue, ive used them several times. As long as you have no spaces and use _ you *should* be able to still use it fine. If your going to rename make sure you test and insure that you can still use if before you get yourself stuck in a hard place and need it and it doesn't work for you.
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.
So my phone was only usable with "Vodafone" and I want to change from a company to another so, in order to free it up I got my code but now I cannot find the menu to put it. I've thought that maybe it has something to do with having my phone rooted and with a different kernel, and ROM.
Is there any problem with it? Do any of you know what do I have to do to find the menu to free the phone?
Thanks!
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So my phone was only usable with "Vodafone" and I want to change from a company to another so, in order to free it up I got my code but now I cannot find the menu to put it. I've thought that maybe it has something to do with having my phone rooted and with a different kernel, and ROM.
Is there any problem with it? Do any of you know what do I have to do to find the menu to free the phone?
Thanks!
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Not all ROMS seem to include that, quickest way to do it is to make a backup in cwm, flash back to stock, (you'll get the input-box when inserting a different sim-card), then flash back the kernel you're on now and restore your backup from cwm.
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Not all ROMS seem to include that, quickest way to do it is to make a backup in cwm, flash back to stock, (you'll get the input-box when inserting a different sim-card), then flash back the kernel you're on now and restore your backup from cwm.
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I'm using CM7 or CMini7, whatever it is :/
Thx anyway
So, I've been thinking, is there any app that can do the freeing thing? I don't feel really comfortable changing the rom twice because afaik I should also change the bootloader or something like that because I got a custom one :/
MrDucktape said:
So, I've been thinking, is there any app that can do the freeing thing? I don't feel really comfortable changing the rom twice because afaik I should also change the bootloader or something like that because I got a custom one :/
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Nope, once the bootloader is unlocked there is no need to mess with it again, it won't get relocked or anything like that.
Just make a backup of your current ROM in CWM.
Flash stock and put the code in
Flash back your custom kernel and restore the backup from CWM
Everything will be the same as it is now, apart from the fact that your phone is sim-unlocked.
Does anyone know if we need to back up our imei or if there is a way yet? Does the efs backup within twrp recovery back all this up? Being that an aosp rom just released I didn't know if we should have this backed up yet... Thanks for the help!!!
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Hello everybody. I recently flashed my phone with the latest Cyanogenmod rom for the HTC one, using the wHil recovery flasher. However after playing with the rom for a bit I decided I want to swap back to stock everything that came with my phone. What is the process to go about doing this?
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Did you make a nandroid before flashing the Rom, if yes then just flash it then flash stock tmobile recovery img then relock the bootloader..just do a quick search and you find out how to do it... But it will still say tampered on bootloader... But ota will work cause that only requires stock recovery and stock Rom
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I did not, however I downloaded someone else's stock nandriod dump.
So all I need to do is flash the stock rom, flash the stock recovery, relock the bootloader and I should be able to get OTA updates and all that good stuff again?
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I did not, however I downloaded someone else's stock nandriod dump.
So all I need to do is flash the stock rom, flash the stock recovery, relock the bootloader and I should be able to get OTA updates and all that good stuff again?
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Yes, that's what I did, and OTA updates work perfert
That's great to hear. So I shouldn't experience any issues when I return to the stock rom like loosing any kind of features and such?
I've been having issues trying to adb push this backup to my phone since 4.2 andriod has things locked down in regards to backups. Been getting the device not found issue, so I'm going to try and push it using a different PC soon hopefully. With where I work I can't live without WiFi calling/texting that Cyanogenmod lacks
So I have the stock backup through clockwork mod and I have it in the proper /clockworkmod/backup folder. Problem is, clockwork mod touch isn't detecting that I have any backups to restore. So I decided to make a fresh backup just to see where it was placed so I could put this other backup I downloaded in there.
Problem. I can't find it anywhere. I don't know where to put it. I don't know where clockworkmod touch wants it to go. Any ideas?
EDIT: Apparently there are two of these folders? *looking more*
EDIT 2: Clearly, If I try to restore from the saved backups, it shows the backup I made, but no amount of searching is finding it through any of my file managers. I'm finding the backup I downloaded, but not the one I made. wtf? Are there hidden folders or something? I have root access.
EDIT 3: There are apparently two clockwork mod folders on my phone. Clockwork mod is saying that it sees the test backup I made on 6-10, but when I check in my file manager for a backup, it shows me the folder with a 4-26 backup which is what I want to restore. The FILE MANAGER sees a folder with 4-26, whereas clockworkmod sees a folder with a backup of 6-10. Both folders are apparently clockworkmod/backup. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?
So I just flashed the stock rom, reinstalled the stock rescue image, and relocked my bootloader.
How long does it take for me to be able to get the 4.2 update?
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GeePM said:
So I just flashed the stock rom, reinstalled the stock rescue image, and relocked my bootloader.
How long does it take for me to be able to get the 4.2 update?
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Nevermind! Just went to the upgrade section and got it
GeePM said:
Nevermind! Just went to the upgrade section and got it
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4.2?????
blackangst said:
4.2?????
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Nevermind, I still don't have it. Was 4.2 pushed out yet?
GeePM said:
Nevermind, I still don't have it. Was 4.2 pushed out yet?
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No. Not on TMobile.