So I have the Moto E2 2015 XT1526 Boost Mobile and since its on Android 5 I want to try to put it on a newer version of Android. I have my fastboot unlock code ready but in the event that I want to restore it to stock where would I have to download the files to restore it back to stock? Would it just be best for me to made a backup once I have a custom recovery on the device? It has been a while since I have done any rooting and roming but I want to get this device on a newer ver of android. In the event that I want to put it back on stock for any reason what would be the proper procedure to do it?
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Hi guys,
I've been asked to look into the possibility of flashing some Android tablets so that they have some extra apps included.
We all know that you can build a rom from a stock one, add the apk files to /data/apps or /system/apps, sign, package it up and then flash. However I'm looking for a more complete solution.
I need to get these tablets to a point where once I'm done, when you turn in on you get the out of the box experience, all counters have been reset, device in NOT rooted, the recovery partition restored so that the device will pass a warranty inspection.
in my mind the to do list looks something like this;
root device
flash recovery
backup device (just in case...)
dump rom (as i might have a new model that a stock rom download doesn't exist for yet!)
edit rom to include the 2 extra apps i need to install
flash the new rom
revert recovery to stock
reset all counters
un-root device
anyone know of any reason why this wont work?
I'll be honest I have been playing for a day and I can root, flash recovery, (can't dump yet so used stock rom from dl), add apps to /data/apps but I keep failing on the flash.
I also know i can revert the recovery and unroot.
Anyone got any tips? or any nugget of information that proofs I can't do this so I'm wasting my time?
thanks in advance guys.
i am currently running cm 11and i wanna go back to stock
for some reason i had no success with the offline flash method although i used it in the first place to unlock my BL and now i can't use it again
i have all the drivers installed and i entered S/W upgrade mode and it says
_isconnectedphonecall (0)
which means phone is "not" connected.
so i need a nandroid backup please if someone can give me.
i found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136204
but multiupload links don't work for me.
it can also be a p760 nandroid! please help me. i want to return my phone back to stock rom
Anybody, Please??!
Use LG's service tool. It will unlike OTA not brick yer phone, download the latest official firmware, for me it was 20h a couple of weeks ago, replace the recovery and un-root, keeping apps and settings.
The reason was to update baseband firmware. Then I needed ADB for root & recovery, and couldn't get it to work under Win 8.1 x64. It instantly worked on my netbook with Win7 x64.
Hi y’all,
Firstly, I’m a newbie. I did some forum reading / reviewing before posting this and I hope I’m posting to correct section (take it easy on newbie ). So anyways, my question is as follows:
I have a N910CQ purchased from Turkey (currently running android 5.1.1). I want to root it but keep stock ROM for two reasons: 1) I am used to touchwiz based stock ROM and I am generally satisfied with it except the bloat ware, and 2) I want to run Cerberus on it... and actually 3) all roms I came by have certain features missing (i.e. camera / pen / fingerprint sensor does not work etc).
But after doing much research (and trial and error for the last 2 days), it seems it is not possible to root a N910CQ device running 5.1.1 android and keep stock rom on it. You can either: 1) root it and flash a 5.0.1 stock rom (and when you later try to upgrade to 5.1.1 you’ll get an error message basically telling you that unauthorized modification was made to OS and therefore you’re no longer entitled to OTA upgrade) OR 2) you’ll have to flash a 5.1.1 rom other than stock rom (such as Team Eos Rom – which has many flaws). But, so far, it seems impossible to root N910CQ and flash 5.1.1 rom.
Do any of you have any recommendations? Thank you.
anybody? any clue???
It looks like your best option would be to install TWRP recovery and use it to flash a custom kernel that auto roots your device such as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/development/n910c-kernel-5-1-1-stock-tw-permissive-t3206548 The important thing to note is your Build Number as there are many different builds of 5.1.1. You want to make sure the kernel supports the specific build you have installed otherwise you'll soft brick and need to recover either with a nandroid backup or via Odin and the full firmware/OS tar file. Use TWRP to make the nandroid backup before installing any mod so you can easily restore if you run into issues.
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It looks like your best option would be to install TWRP recovery and use it to flash a custom kernel that auto roots your device such as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/development/n910c-kernel-5-1-1-stock-tw-permissive-t3206548 The important thing to note is your Build Number as there are many different builds of 5.1.1. You want to make sure the kernel supports the specific build you have installed otherwise you'll soft brick and need to recover either with a nandroid backup or via Odin and the full firmware/OS tar file. Use TWRP to make the nandroid backup before installing any mod so you can easily restore if you run into issues.
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I did this (except I flashed using Odin) and it totally worked. Thank you!
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Just for the record though: this kernel triggered "Security Notice Unauthorized Actions Error" and so I had to change it. I'm using SpaceX now, no errors, works smoothly: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347823851
Cool. I prefer TWRP so I can make backups in case something goes wrong, but whatever works.
Hi guys,
this is my first thread in a forum ever, so please don't be too mad at me.
So now to my question:
Is it possible to make something like a backup point on android, I mean to extract ALL files (plus the state of the OS) like on Windows.
I haven't found anything on google yet and maybe I opened the thread in the wrong category please move it then (if that is possible, I already said it's my first thread and I'm not used to forums).
I know that you can backup your data on PC and so on and then make a factory reset and load all the data in. But now that Android 7 came out and my phone (Vernee Apollo Light) will get the update soon for safety reason I want to backup my almost new phone with the OS state so that if my phone dies at some point because of the new OS I want to restore it easily with some sort of what I call backup point.
Another question is is this even nessesary or will it also reset the OS, if I do a factory reset, to a further OS (in my case I update to Android 7, the phone crashes, I restore to factory mode and have my Android 6 again)or will it only reset to Android 7 through factory mode reset?
And if I need such restore point could one of you please give me an instruction how to do that.
Thank you for your patience to read and thank you for solving it in advance.
Best regards, n16h70wl aka Lukas Heuschneider
http://bbs.vernee.cc/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=981
You would need TWRP to do a nandroid backup.
n16h70wl said:
Hi guys,
this is my first thread in a forum ever, so please don't be too mad at me.
So now to my question:
Is it possible to make something like a backup point on android, I mean to extract ALL files (plus the state of the OS) like on Windows.
I haven't found anything on google yet and maybe I opened the thread in the wrong category please move it then (if that is possible, I already said it's my first thread and I'm not used to forums).
I know that you can backup your data on PC and so on and then make a factory reset and load all the data in. But now that Android 7 came out and my phone (Vernee Apollo Light) will get the update soon for safety reason I want to backup my almost new phone with the OS state so that if my phone dies at some point because of the new OS I want to restore it easily with some sort of what I call backup point.
Another question is is this even nessesary or will it also reset the OS, if I do a factory reset, to a further OS (in my case I update to Android 7, the phone crashes, I restore to factory mode and have my Android 6 again)or will it only reset to Android 7 through factory mode reset?
And if I need such restore point could one of you please give me an instruction how to do that.
Thank you for your patience to read and thank you for solving it in advance.
Best regards, n16h70wl aka Lukas Heuschneider
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You can use SP flash tool to dump your rom. I don't know it works for you. If your android is rooted then you can backup your whole system via adb to your pc. You can also use custom recovery to get nandroid backup(system backup) of your android to your SD card. You need to flash custom recovery for your android.
There after you need to unroot your android and flash stock recovery again. If OTA update found your android modified then OTA update abort.
It's better to download your stock rom. If android update ruins your android then you can flash your stock rom in fastboot mode
If you update your android to Nougat and factory reset then it's not reset to again marshmallow. Factory reset only reset system and user data. So it's only reset your Nougat to factory state.
Thanks for your reply.
So I probably have to root my Android don't I?
n16h70wl said:
Thanks for your reply.
So I probably have to root my Android don't I?
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Use SP flash tool to dump rom of your non rooted android in your pc.
You can root to get backup of your full system. But you want to unroot again because if OTA update found that your system is modified then OTA update abort. So don't root your android.
It's better to use SP flash tool to dump rom or download stock rom of your android and keep it in pc.
If update ruins your android then you can flash stock rom in fastboot mode to your non rooted android.
If it helped. Please thank me.
So I just unpacked my MOTO Z with great anticipation.
However, I immediately ran into the issue where I can't backup my old phone using TiBU and restore it on my new shining gadget. I was VERY unsuccessful rooting the device.
So I went all in and installed RR which I'm using on all other devices as well. Used this TWRP to do it.
While RR is working well, it doesn't have some of the nice things stock ROM had, like the keyboard adjustability, screen on on hand-over and some adjustments in the camera app. Doesn't really matter, but I'd like to give stock another try before I inevitably commit to RR which will no doubt improve in the mean time as well.
Now, for my problem:
Using the recovery mentioned above, I made a full backup of the phone before I messed with it. Now that same recovery doesn't properly restore that backup: the phone doesn't boot when I restore that backup. it never leaves the bootloader unlocked warning screen.
So I figured: bad backup, let's get a stock image. Eh, again no go: motorola doesn't even publish those. So I grabbed the XT1650-03_GRIFFIN_RETEU... from here.
That one again doesn't even fully flash: I tried partial flash (system partition + recovery partition) - which flashed but didn't boot; then tried full flash, starting with the gpt.bin - but this one didn't even flash. reported some errors and that was it.
So, while not bricked, I'm far from any degree of control over my new phone. I'd like to improve that!
Any advice?
@velis74 to flash firmware you must use adb/fastboot. Is that what you mean by "flashed"?
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@velis74 to flash firmware you must use adb/fastboot. Is that what you mean by "flashed"?
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Yes, "flashing" of the "stock image" I tried to do with fastboot - that series of commands flashing one partition after another with images in the archive. I just didn't want to list all those commands in the post because there's more than 20...
If you´ve already updated your Stock, untouched and locked ROM from Marshmallow to Nougat, then you won't be able to Flash back to Marshmallow Stock ROM, because your Bootloader was already updated to Nougat. That's why the whole process fails. Since there's no official RETEU Nougat Stock ROM yet, use the RETBR one. It's practically the same and works as it should: https://firmware.center/firmware/Mo...ubsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
But keep in mind that you won't be able to relock your bootloader, since Motorola/Lenovo haven't released signed Nougat Stock ROMs yet.
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If you´ve already updated your Stock, untouched and locked ROM from Marshmallow to Nougat, then you won't be able to Flash back to Marshmallow Stock ROM, because your Bootloader was already updated to Nougat. That's why the whole process fails. Since there's no official RETEU Nougat Stock ROM yet, use the RETBR one. It's practically the same and works as it should: https://firmware.center/firmware/Mo...ubsidy-DEFAULT_regulatory-DEFAULT_CFC.xml.zip
But keep in mind that you won't be able to relock your bootloader, since Motorola/Lenovo haven't released signed Nougat Stock ROMs yet.
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Yep, was just about to post how this thread helped. I'm back at stock and seriously contemplating not rooting. I pretty much only need it for one app where I forgot the password and they make it REALLY hard to reset it