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Hi all,
Sot of new to modding, think I screwed up and could use some help. Was doing this one click speed fix: forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7587405&postcount=417
It didn't appear to work the first time, as I received a message and exited the application, however the symbol was still in the notification bar. Re-ran it, and it seemed to have worked, mostly, as the phone was blazing fast. Went immediately to run quadrant and check the benchmark, but it force closed every time it hit the i/o section. tried to go to market, foreclose every time. Figured it may need a reboot, powered off, and that's was all she wrote.
I can get into the battery charging screen and have been able to get to recovery, but nothing else. I haven't used adb or ODIN at all yet, but any assistance is greatly appreciated.
The phone was already rooted, and i have titanium back up and nandroid backups, but don't really know how to get to them.
If you did a nandroid backup, just go in recovery screen and restore backup. If not, flash back to stock rom.
well maybe i dont know what im talking about then. I guess I thought i did a nandroid.
When i go into recovery i get four options: reboot system now, reinstall packages, clear all user data, clear cache data.
none of them work
Did you install clock work recovery via Rom manager?
well it has turned on now. removed sim and memory card and hit reinstall packages. ive got the standard twlauncher running but, it repeatedly gives me force close notifications that android.process.media has stopped and i cannot access the menu
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Did you install clock work recovery via Rom manager?
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yes, i did. i remember doing that precisely as shown in your tips and tricks thread
alright, so i got it into download mode, gonna reflash everything to stock and see where i went wrong as outlined here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Will update with results, but would be nice to figure out where i went wrong so as not to repeat the error.
If you can get into recovery just wipe and reflash eugenes vibrant4.zip.
Alright, back to stock. unrooted also? gonna mess some more and see if i can get my clockword recovery to restore everything.
okay, so my theory is that the lag fix i used installed an update.zip that overwrote the clockword mod one. Now im just trying to restore using titanium backup, but it is telling me that it doesnt have root access. i know im rooted, as i just did it and reinstalled rom manager and drocap. hmmmmm.....
Thats not all thats funny. i cant find the superuser app anywhere on here. also, i cannot install one from the market.
and im having issues with root explorer.
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okay, so my theory is that the lag fix i used installed an update.zip that overwrote the clockword mod one. Now im just trying to restore using titanium backup, but it is telling me that it doesnt have root access. i know im rooted, as i just did it and reinstalled rom manager and drocap. hmmmmm.....
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If you can get into recovery just wipe and reflash eugenes vibrant4.zip.
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I would re-root and then follow the flash the ROM mentioned above. There is a thread in the DEV forum.
Civil Disobedient said:
okay, so my theory is that the lag fix i used installed an update.zip that overwrote the clockword mod one. Now im just trying to restore using titanium backup, but it is telling me that it doesnt have root access. i know im rooted, as i just did it and reinstalled rom manager and drocap. hmmmmm.....
Thats not all thats funny. i cant find the superuser app anywhere on here. also, i cannot install one from the market.
and im having issues with root explorer.
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You need to root again to get the superuser on your phone. As for the one click lag fix, I used to original method and it went pretty well. No problems so far. I also flashed Vibrant4 by Eugene before doing the lag fix. Hope it helps
same thing happened to me. I'm stuck on the galaxy S boot screen. i can get into the samsung recovery screen but not the clockwork recovery. I backed up my nandroid and Rom but don't know how to get into the menu to restore. I only have the update.zip for the lag fix on the internal sd so can't restore that way. Any ideas? Much appreciated.
kwbdc said:
same thing happened to me. I'm stuck on the galaxy S boot screen. i can get into the samsung recovery screen but not the clockwork recovery. I backed up my nandroid and Rom but don't know how to get into the menu to restore. I only have the update.zip for the lag fix on the internal sd so can't restore that way. Any ideas? Much appreciated.
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There may be other ways around it, but I restored fully to stock, then re-rooted. I'm back up and running no problem now. Had some issues with titanium backup but got around that and its batch restoring as i type.
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There may be other ways around it, but I restored fully to stock, then re-rooted. I'm back up and running no problem now. Had some issues with titanium backup but got around that and its batch restoring as i type.
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Would you mind saying how you did that?
I tried wiping and flashing the stock via renaming it update.zip, and I'm still getting FC city. Mostly media, but, calendar, everything. I'm going to post a link to this in that thread, since many, it seems, were left hanging in a boot loop.
Janis said:
Would you mind saying how you did that?
I tried wiping and flashing the stock via renaming it update.zip, and I'm still getting FC city. Mostly media, but, calendar, everything. I'm going to post a link to this in that thread, since many, it seems, were left hanging in a boot loop.
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Just follow what I did through the thread.
I did this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475 to get back to complete stock, then i had to root it twice. Once did the one click, then the good root here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7150299&postcount=1
back up and running. had to research about titanium backup to get it up and running. I want to do the lag fix still, but im nervous from before.
Your nervous? I really would like to do this but i'm scared (cuss)less.
I've read what needs to be done and think that I've figured it out.
(pretty new to droid)... but, have also read the horror stories here
about bricking your phone...which nowadays can happen to any
phone you have....don't get me started on the apple pie!
But, really when it gets a simple as installing an .APK I'll be happy.
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Your nervous? I really would like to do this but i'm scared .......
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The galaxy s seems pretty hard to brick. I'd say just go for the lag fix. Worse thing that happens is you have to take like 15min to download and use odin to reflash to stock. The lag fix seems pretty safe as long as you stay rooted
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Vibrant Recovery Mode HowTo
THIS GUIDE WORKED ON USA T-MOBILE SAMSUNG VIBRANT BUT MAY VERY WELL WORK ON ALL SAMSUNG GALAXYS PHONES
After reading many XDA-Developers Forum Posts to try and figure out how to get into the Recovery Mode / Download Mode without any success, I gave T-Mobile Support a call.
After the usual noop run-down, "did you take the battery out" questions, I simply asked them how to get the Samsung Vibrant into recovery mode.
Unline the many tutorials that claim to require the Up or Down button pressed, along with the Home button then the Power, the true process is as follows:
1. Press the Up and the Down button at the same time (yes both). I too thought that button was a Toggle which only did either Up or Down, but found that in fact it does do both.
2. At the same time, press the power button.
3. As soon as the Samsung / Vibrant logo comes up on the screen, release the power button.
4. Release the Up and Down buttons.
5. PRESTO
Here's a quick rundown. Sunday I rooted, installed cwmrecovery, and installed jt's 1200 voodoo kernal. Through the process, I have downloaded ROM manager, Root explorer, SetCPU, and Titanium backup.
I've done all the basics such as renaming bloatware, installing enhanced google search, ran a full titanium backup, and used SetCPU to OC to 1.2. I'm happy to say everything is running at 100%. Haven't had a single problem since modding everything.
Since doing this, I've read that I should have ran a nandroid backup before flashing voodoo in case anything goes wrong...unfortunately the instructions I followed did not include this. Because everything's working so well for me, I really don't want to screw anything up. I'm pretty sure I know how to do this I just want to list my steps and make sure they're right before attempting.
1. disable lag fix
2. reboot
3. boot into recovery mode from ROM manager
4. create a backup? (not sure what the CWMrecovery command is)
5. reboot
6. undo disable lag fix (re-enable lag fix)
7. reboot and pray everything continues to run smoothly
Does this sound about right?
that sounds right
Let me know how this works for you and exactly how you did it. This is what I was trying to do and when I rebooted after doing the disable/lagfix, everything was gone and i had no Google sign in, no market, and no keyboard. Still trying to figure out where i went wrong......
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Your steps look fine.. Make sure #2 is a full reboot.. Don't just disable and then directly reboot into CWM, that won't work.
For some people it works easy as pie, for others, it blows stuff up. Not sure what to tell you.. You're taking your chances either way.. Either something will crash down the line and you'll have no backup, or you disable voodoo and take the risk of that blowing you up, and obviously you have no backup.
I think I would just go ahead and try the uninstall, you should always have at least a basic backup to work from. You might get lucky and just have it work the way it should.
Before you do anything though, I highly recommend installing and running Titanium Root, that will back up your applications, so even if things blow up on you, you can at least do a quick one-touch restore of the apps once your back to stock.
Glad to see I'm not the only one in this boat. I have rooted, cwm, and have OC kernal with 0.2 voodoo. I never backed anything up though...
I may try and follow in your path.
Ok, I felt confident and jumped head first into this because I really wanted to back my phone up with nandroid, so I went for it. After I disabled lagifx, my phone had an emotional breakdown. I attempted to backup with nandroid and I believe it failed, it said "Null" and did nothing. I pulled the battery after about 15 minutes and restarted my phone. Deleted the disable_lagfix file I had created and rebooted my phone. It did the voice and all that fun stuff and froze with the words "Samsung" on the screen. I think I may have made a super boo boo some where along the way.
If anyone knows what I should do now, please help. I'm in over my head for the most part.
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Ok, I felt confident and jumped head first into this because I really wanted to back my phone up with nandroid, so I went for it. After I disabled lagifx, my phone had an emotional breakdown. I attempted to backup with nandroid and I believe it failed, it said "Null" and did nothing. I pulled the battery after about 15 minutes and restarted my phone. Deleted the disable_lagfix file I had created and rebooted my phone. It did the voice and all that fun stuff and froze with the words "Samsung" on the screen. I think I may have made a super boo boo some where along the way.
If anyone knows what I should do now, please help. I'm in over my head for the most part.
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Can you get into CWM?
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Yep, sounds like a pretty standard voodoo uninstall explosion. Happened to me as well.
See the thread "How to completely remove Voodoo". I'd recommend reading it all the way first, then trying it. There's some useful stuff later on.
If you can't get into CWM recovery at all, use odin and re-flash the CWM.tar file in the general CWM recovery thread here. Make sure when using odin you always, always use the "pda" box. Never use the "phone" box or else it's brick city.
Did you boot into recovery as soon as you disabled_lagfix or create the file, reboot, and let the phone completley boot up and then reboot into recovery?
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OK, after my phone got stuck on the Samsung start up screen I pulled the battery and restarted. This time it actually restarted wit my the voice and I had my boot animation from the 1200 oc kernal/voodoo lagfix I had installed. It worked fine but I had to go through the set up for my phone and resign into my Google account. All my apps were gone and I've lost root. I tried to re-root but when I open adb I get the # sign instead of $... I tried to use the one click root but it didn't recognized my phone. Adb does recognize my phone though.
I can get into cwm... I just can't re-root my phone. It appears everything is fine beyond that.
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EDIT: After a while of trying I finally figured out that I was able to use Adb, I just don't know what I'm doing most of the time. ADB and now I have my root back. The one click root did not work, but manually everything went ok. I still have voodoo and OC kernal, but eh, better than nothing at this point. I wanted to be able to created a nandroid back up... I still have yet to accomplish this, LOL, I may give it another try further down the road.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help me!
Wow...not sure if I want to try this or not now.
Has anyone done this SUCCESSFULLY?
So let's say I decide not to create a nandroid and leave my phone the way it is now...what's the worst that could happen? I have all my apps backed up through titanium backup.
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Wow...not sure if I want to try this or not now.
Has anyone done this SUCCESSFULLY?
So let's say I decide not to create a nandroid and leave my phone the way it is now...what's the worst that could happen? I have all my apps backed up through titanium backup.
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It may work for you. Voodoo is weird from what I've read, for some it's fine and others not so much. I had a flurry of problems after disabling the lagfix and I almost felt like it wasn't worth it. Also, after finally getting my root back my accelerometer stopped working and I had to completely remove Voodoo and then re-flash back to voodoo to get it to work agian. I forgot to backup with nandroid again.... :? If you are going to try it, I would say completely remove voodoo via the uninstaller and then backup, because its hell if voodoo decides to go bipolar on your phone. You may lose all your data and root like I did. Who knows when it comes to voodoo?
I'm leaving mine as is and may backup with nandroid later. If you go for it, good luck.
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what's the worst that could happen? I have all my apps backed up through titanium backup.
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Between Titanium Backup and My Backup Pro (seems to handle things like the call log and sms/mms messages a little better, at least for me), I haven't used a Nandroid in a couple of weeks.
It's actually a pretty nice, streamlined process:
-Run the backups
-Do whatever hacky thing I'm doing
-Wipe data
-Sign in to Google and download Titanium from the market
-Restore apps with Titanium, then data with MB Pro.
-Fix any funny widgets
-Enjoy!
Smitty9803 said:
Wow...not sure if I want to try this or not now.
Has anyone done this SUCCESSFULLY?
So let's say I decide not to create a nandroid and leave my phone the way it is now...what's the worst that could happen? I have all my apps backed up through titanium backup.
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I just created my nandroid backup! I chose to uninstall Voodoo then re-root my phone instead of just disabling voodoo. I haven't put voodoo back on yet, but I probably will. Not with the OC kernal because none of them are stable enough IMO. When I used the OC lagfix my phone would always freeze up when I did anything extensive. Google Earth for example, would cause it freeze up. Oh well, hopefully someone will come up with a good OC, and I'll be happy to donate to them for their hard work.
Seriously, I think you should just uninstall and create a backup. Then reinstall voodoo for that sweet Quadrant score. LOL
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I just created my nandroid backup! I chose to uninstall Voodoo then re-root my phone instead of just disabling voodoo. I haven't put voodoo back on yet, but I probably will. Not with the OC kernal because none of them are stable enough IMO. When I used the OC lagfix my phone would always freeze up when I did anything extensive. Google Earth for example, would cause it freeze up. Oh well, hopefully someone will come up with a good OC, and I'll be happy to donate to them for their hard work.
Seriously, I think you should just uninstall and create a backup. Then reinstall voodoo for that sweet Quadrant score. LOL
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Respectfully, the kernels are fine. Different processors handle the same kernels differently. Most kernel threads have several different versions partly because of this. For instance, My GFs phone will run Dirks UC/OC well, without issue, but mine occasionally borked when I tried it, so I use JT's. You will see this effect more pronounced on boards for devices with many different kernels available.
Always a good idea to try each version of each kernel for a bit to see how you do.
Wow, I forgot about removing voodoo before doing nandroid backup / restore. I've done 2 backups and 1 restore without issue. Did I just get lucky? Man there's a lot of stuff to keep track of here!
Zennmaster said:
Between Titanium Backup and My Backup Pro (seems to handle things like the call log and sms/mms messages a little better, at least for me), I haven't used a Nandroid in a couple of weeks.
It's actually a pretty nice, streamlined process:
-Run the backups
-Do whatever hacky thing I'm doing
-Wipe data
-Sign in to Google and download Titanium from the market
-Restore apps with Titanium, then data with MB Pro.
-Fix any funny widgets
-Enjoy!
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I like the sound of this! But I have a question...I looked into the MBPro and supposedly it backs up all of your apps along with your data/personal settings. If that's the case, why use titanium backup?
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I installed Cognition 2.2 beta 9(with voodoo) and got my phone all set up and did a nandroid backup without disabling voodoo. I never thought to disable it and the backup worked fine. Now today I restored the backup and forgot about disabling voodoo and it worked but I didn't have any of my apps or the market, and I realized it was probably because I never disabled voodoo. So I disabled voodoo and restored the backup again and it worked perfectly.
So I don't think you need to disable voodoo to do a nandroid backup; just to restore one.
I haven't re-enabled voodoo yet. Battery needs to charge a bit.
I've done backup and restore without disabling voodoo, because I forgot. It worked fine though. Now that I have read about issues with disabling voodoo I am kinda nervous to to even try it.
What do you think I should do in the future?
Thanx, you guys rock for making our phones faster and better...
For some reason my phone got totally hosed up this evening. Everything was fine and I turned the screen off, I then immediately tried to turn it back on and nothing happened. So I hard rebooted (hold down power) and the phone never went past the boot screen. Tried wiping cache, which got it past the boot screen, then it went through the upgrading apps process, then when that was done it got stuck at "starting apps". It seemed like the System UI would not start. I left it for 5-10 mins and it never booted into my launcher.
So at that point, I decided to do a nandroid backup, then wipe my phone completely, and reinstall AOKP. That got me back into the phone, but my plan was to use the "Extract from Nandroid" feature built into Titanium Backup Pro to restore my apps and data from my nandroid backup. When I tried this, TB saw my nandroid backup, but selecting it brought up an empty apps list. I have successfully used this feature in the past without any issue - though I am not sure if I have used it since Android 4.2 was released.
So, I decided, let me see if I can browse my nandroid manually via Root Explorer. I navigated to the clockworkmod directory on my sdcard, where nandroid backups have usually been kept and it was also empty! So, I launched ROM Manager and sure enough it sees my nandroid there as well. Then I noticed the fine print:
In Android 4.2, backups are placed in secure directory, inaccessible to other apps. Backups can be pulled with ADB or by using ROM Manager Backup Download Server
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So, I am currently in the process of using the Download Server to download my backup to my PC. My question is, is there a way to get Titanium to read this zip file I am downloading and extract apps/data out of it like I used to do? Do I just copy the zip back to the /sdcard/clockworkmod directory?
If anyone has already been through this on 4.2 I would appreciate the advice. Thanks! :good:
Hi,
I had a similar problem on my N7 tb wasn't displaying anything from my twrp backups, try appextractor 2 beta from the play store. Worked for me took a few mins to process my back up but then displayed everything perfectly.
Hope this helps
SD.
Same problem... appextractor cannot find anything
This is because nandroids are now saved in a secure file. I'm pretty sure it's /mount/shell/clockworkmod. There's some apps on the play store like cwm backup manager that allow you to make copies to your pc.
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mustangtim49 said:
This is because nandroids are now saved in a secure file. I'm pretty sure it's /mount/shell/clockworkmod. There's some apps on the play store like cwm backup manager that allow you to make copies to your pc.
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I am dealing with the same problem right now...
The reason for your problem is probably that you made your backup with CMW 6 and not 5. Neither Appextractor nor Titanium Backup can currently work with the new backups it seems.
I would greatly appreciate any ideas/solutions!
So basically Titanium is useless with 4.2.2?
texaslittleangel said:
So basically Titanium is useless with 4.2.2?
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Never had a problem with Titanium and 4.2.2 ever.
Hi everyone! I recently decided to install the 4.4.2 rom on my Galaxy Note 3 N9005 and I didn't like it because it obviously was buggy as ,entioned in the thread. So I wanted to go back to my nandroid backup which I had made before installing the rom. It all went right in CWM and no errors, so I rebooted my phone and got stuck at the glowing samsung logo, so after many fixes and things I tried which didn't work I flashed a pre-rooted stock rom for it and it all went well. I managed to restore to my nandroid finally and then I unlock my phone to find a "com.google.process.gapps has been stopped" message which wont go away when I tap "OK". It just comes back and gives me one second untill it comes back again. I really need help since I need my phone for work, I have tried reinstalling all the gapps, wont work, I have tried reflashing the stock rom and restoring my nandroid again, I have tried deactivating "Downloads" in the app manager but that wont fix it either and finally I have tried clearing the "app data" for all my apps but again, no luck. If anyone would be able to help me I would appriciate it very much. Thanks in advance!
You're probably gonna have to go back to complete stock. Grab your stock image and flash via odin, boot it up and see if it gives you the error without installing custom recovery and your backup. That way you'll know where the error lays.
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You're probably gonna have to go back to complete stock. Grab your stock image and flash via odin, boot it up and see if it gives you the error without installing custom recovery and your backup. That way you'll know where the error lays.
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Forgot to mention but when I return to complete stock there isn't such a message, only when I restore to my nandroid. I also tried restoring from an older backup which I had made like 2 months ago and the same problem remains, "com.google" message is still there. Any suggestions or should I just start over?
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Forgot to mention but when I return to complete stock there isn't such a message, only when I restore to my nandroid. I also tried restoring from an older backup which I had made like 2 months ago and the same problem remains, "com.google" message is still there. Any suggestions or should I just start over?
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Sounds like a dodgy backup or it somehow got corrupted, I'd start over to save any headaches for future reference -- It's a headache I know, but safer I think. You could hang five, see if anyone else chimes in with any other ideas though
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Sounds like a dodgy backup or it somehow got corrupted, I'd start over to save any headaches for future reference -- It's a headache I know, but safer I think. You could hang five, see if anyone else chimes in with any other ideas though
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Yeah i'm probably gonna have to start over from scratch, thank you so much for te super fast reply, I appriciate your answer and help. As you suggested I will keep staying on this thread to see if anyone has the fix. If not i'm just gonna reflash this thing again.
And again, thank you so much for the fast reply I appriciate it alot.
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Hi everyone! I recently decided to install the 4.4.2 rom on my Galaxy Note 3 N9005 and I didn't like it because it obviously was buggy as ,entioned in the thread. So I wanted to go back to my nandroid backup which I had made before installing the rom. ...
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A nandroid backup is simple but monolithic. Most people also use Titanium Backup for the ability to restore selective stuff, or to restore to a completely different model of phone.
I had same issue
Bith titanium and nandroid restore.
Well only way to save your self. Completing wizard of first startup with feeling google..
And just restore user apps and data with titanium except google stuff..
This is the only healthy restore method so far i know that gapss.com keeps kool
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So I somehow managed to go to settings and disable Play Services with the one second time line that I had before the message appears again, and the message stopped. So it must be something with Play Services. Since i'm new to android (and the Note 3 is my first android phone) I want to ask if there is a way to maybe reinstall Plaay Services?
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Hi everyone! I recently decided to install the 4.4.2 rom on my Galaxy Note 3 N9005 and I didn't like it because it obviously was buggy as ,entioned in the thread. So I wanted to go back to my nandroid backup which I had made before installing the rom. It all went right in CWM and no errors, so I rebooted my phone and got stuck at the glowing samsung logo, so after many fixes and things I tried which didn't work I flashed a pre-rooted stock rom for it and it all went well. I managed to restore to my nandroid finally and then I unlock my phone to find a "com.google.process.gapps has been stopped" message which wont go away when I tap "OK". It just comes back and gives me one second untill it comes back again. I really need help since I need my phone for work, I have tried reinstalling all the gapps, wont work, I have tried reflashing the stock rom and restoring my nandroid again, I have tried deactivating "Downloads" in the app manager but that wont fix it either and finally I have tried clearing the "app data" for all my apps but again, no luck. If anyone would be able to help me I would appriciate it very much. Thanks in advance!
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Hi, there! I just got almost the same issue like you. Once update to custom 4.4.2, any nandroid backups which worked right before getting GAPPS' FC constantly. :crying: Try double wipes, flash 4.3 gapps full package, stop&restart android download, uninstall google play store update, etc. nothing can fix it. Only way stop the popup error, is flash stock rom. But, consequently, lose root access, even with the same method that rooted the stock rom before. I'll heard some guy said the 4.4.2 has different partition from 4.3 or older android rom. But don't mention how to restore the old partition way. So, hope anyone can help us out, thanks a lot.
I have system-less root on my Huawei Ascend XT and also system-less Xposed installed and working. See https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70512435&postcount=3 for Xposed installation instructions I used.
Let's discuss anything regarding Xposed and modules in this thread .
Thanks, divineBliss
EDIT: WARNING: NOTE: CAUTION:
Please be aware that if you install Xposed framework on your XT, at times the phone won't boot correctly as evidenced by the fact that if you try to go to bring up the phone settings window/app, the screen will just flicker and the settings screen won't open. The simple solution is to just reboot the phone. Sometimes it takes multiple reboots before the phone successfully reboots/settings app can be successfully opened. This issue has been experienced by me and several others who installed Xposed framework on the XT.
For me personally, the advantages of using Xposed modules far outweigh this minor inconvenience which only happens after a phone reboot.
Not running xposed yet but have there been any issues or maybe a list of what works and doesn't? I'd like to know what others are getting from xposed.
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I got Xposed modules that let me listen to YouTube with app YouTube app minimized and even screen off.
And another module to adjust YouTube volume/scroll video by swiping on video screen.
See
http://www.howtogeek.com/263663/how...k-for-frustration-free-android-customization/
I used Magisk to install Xposed framework.
Also see: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70472229&postcount=488
Some how Xposed didn't install right, It wasn't working so I uninstalled it. My phone started to boot to recovery mode. Couldn't get passed it. I went into TWPR and recovered the Boot backup that TWRP installs to your internal. It "worked" but whenever it booted back to the home screen I got a black screen with nothing but for my notification bar and soft keys.
I tried to use my Backup from whenever I rooted but they are not showing up. I backed them up onto my computer so I put them onto my SD card and they are still not showing up in TWRP
1. After you installed Xposed with Magisk and rebooted the phone, what happened?
2. Did you wait about 30 minutes if the screen was dark or on the boot logo?
3. Go into TWRP and make sure you selected external SD for source. Use the TWRP file manager to make sure you it can access external SD - specifically the folder where you put the TWRP backup.
dabadguycr said:
Some how Xposed didn't install right, It wasn't working so I uninstalled it. My phone started to boot to recovery mode. Couldn't get passed it. I went into TWPR and recovered the Boot backup that TWRP installs to your internal. It "worked" but whenever it booted back to the home screen I got a black screen with nothing but for my notification bar and soft keys.
I tried to use my Backup from whenever I rooted but they are not showing up. I backed them up onto my computer so I put them onto my SD card and they are still not showing up in TWRP
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1. After you installed Xposed with Magisk and rebooted the phone, what happened?
2. Did you wait about 30 minutes if the screen was dark or on the boot logo?
3. Go into TWRP and make sure you selected external SD for source. Use the TWRP file manager to make sure you it can access external SD - specifically the folder where you put the TWRP backup.
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1. It was working great for about 20mins than everything started to freeze up and crash. Everything before was working great.
2. Yes, it only took around 10mins to boot back up.
3. I did that and my SD card is showing up. What file should the backups be in? I'm thinking I should make another backup than place the ones I have into that file.
I'm wondering if it is something with my launcher. I get Notification bar with everything and Soft key but nothing else.
1. After it booted up fine for 20 minutes, what did you do during that 20 minutes before it crapped out?
2 . So after you installed Xposed Framework with Magisk, the phone booted up fine within 10 minutes?
3. Yes, go back into TWRP and backup just the recovery so you see what directory it creates, then put your original TWRP backup into a similar parallel directory and see what happens.
What launcher are you using?
dabadguycr said:
1. It was working great for about 20mins than everything started to freeze up and crash. Everything before was working great.
2. Yes, it only took around 10mins to boot back up.
3. I did that and my SD card is showing up. What file should the backups be in? I'm thinking I should make another backup than place the ones I have into that file.
I'm wondering if it is something with my launcher. I get Notification bar with everything and Soft key but nothing else.
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1. After it booted up fine for 20 minutes, what did you do during that 20 minutes before it crapped out?
2 . So after you installed Xposed Framework with Magisk, the phone booted up fine within 10 minutes?
3. Yes, go back into TWRP and backup just the recovery so you see what directory it creates, then put your original TWRP backup into a similar parallel directory and see what happens.
What launcher are you using?
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I did 3. Took about 5mins to reboot. No launcher but luckily I had a pop up for updates so I was able to get into store to download a launcher.
imma try to download one.
It just says Download Pending nothing else.
Did you just restore a TWRP backup? Rooted backup or before root backup? Why was there no launcher in this backup?
dabadguycr said:
I did 3. Took about 5mins to reboot. No launcher but luckily I had a pop up for updates so I was able to get into store to download a launcher.
imma try to download one.
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Did you just restore a TWRP backup? Rooted backup or before root backup? Why was there no launcher in this backup?
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I thought I froze the stock launcher I think I may have deleted it. The stock launcher is found in the System files since it's read only I can not restore the system.
I thought I placed the stock recovery on my phone but I guess not. I still have super user and root.
I just checked my root with rootchecker and its working perfectly.
You can check or uncheck the box when TWRP starts to make System writable and you need to do that now to restore your System backup from TWRP. If you made a backup after rooting, you could try to restore that.
dabadguycr said:
I thought I froze the stock launcher I think I may have deleted it. The stock launcher is found in the System files since it's read only I can not restore the system.
I thought I was using a stock back up but I still have root.
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Is your phone working now? What was the lesson learned out of all this? Got some notes/bullets to share for others?
dabadguycr said:
I thought I froze the stock launcher I think I may have deleted it. The stock launcher is found in the System files since it's read only I can not restore the system.
I thought I placed the stock recovery on my phone but I guess not. I still have super user and root.
I just checked my root with rootchecker and its working perfectly.
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Is your phone working now? What was the lesson learned out of all this? Got some notes/bullets to share for others?
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Yes, it's working again!!
I learned be very very careful removing Xposed and do not remove or freeze the stock launcher.
If you are restoring from a older backup and it doesn't show up. Make a new backup (I did cache only back up so I could tell the difference easier) on your SD Card. It should create a folders called
TWRP/BACKUP/(folder with 8 different letters and numbers) / (Then your new backup file)
Place your old backup folder under the new one. It will now show up in TWRP.
It's safe to restore a backup with root and super user. Takes around 10mins first boot.
Now that you have mastered restoring in 10 minutes, try Xposed again. I got it installed first try with Magisk. .
Every time I boot, I click the settings icon to make sure it works. Sometimes the screen just flashes and no settings screen comes up, so I just reboot. I'm not sure if that's caused by Xposed or what at this point, but it's not worth uninstalling Xposed for me to find out at this point.
dabadguycr said:
Yes, it's working again!!
I learned be very very careful removing Xposed and do not remove or freeze the stock launcher.
If you are restoring from a older backup and it doesn't show up. Make a new backup (I did cache only back up so I could tell the difference easier) on your SD Card. It should create a folders called
TWRP/BACKUP/(folder with 8 different letters and numbers) / (Then your new backup file)
Place your old backup folder under the new one. It will now show up in TWRP.
It's safe to restore a backup with root and super user. Takes around 10mins first boot.
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Now that you have mastered restoring in 10 minutes, try Xposed again. I got it installed first try with Magisk. .
Every time I boot, I click the settings icon to make sure it works. Sometimes the screen just flashes and no settings screen comes up, so I just reboot. I'm not sure if that's caused by Xposed or what at this point, but it's not worth uninstalling Xposed for me to find out at this point.
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I honestly think Magisk uninstall was what crashed my phone. I think I may have uninstalled it wrong. From the guide I read it said download the uninstall go into custom recovery and open the zip. I just thought it was Xposed because that's when my system started freezing.
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Thanks, these details are important. So make a backup of Boot, System, and Data (and be sure you already have a good backup of Cust somewhere) if you want to try installing Xposed again. Depending on what else you do, you should only need to restore System if things get messed up trying to install Xposed again. And again, I have it installed with Xposed modules working, so it's possible.
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Does installing Xposed even touch the system? It looked like it modifies the boot but doesn't touch the system.
The Xposed install is supposed to be system-less, and you get did things working by only restoring Boot, that's why I said probably just Boot needs to be restored. If things didn't work after that, I'd restore System, and then if still not working, restore Data after that.
If you do try and reinstall Xposed, can you take notes on where it takes a long wait before something happens ........ I forgot to do that and don't remember now. It's not fun when the screen goes dark and you don't expect it ....... actually I seem to remember that happening for like 30 minutes ??? when I install Magisk/Xposed ........ the screen wasn't even on.
dabadguycr said:
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Does installing Xposed even touch the system? It looked like it modifies the boot but doesn't touch the system.
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The Xposed install is supposed to be system-less, and you did things working by only restoring Boot, that's why I said probably just Boot needs to be restored. If things didn't work after that, I'd restore System, and then if still not working, restore Data after that.
If you do try and reinstall Xposed, can you take notes on where it takes a long wait before something happens ........ I forgot to do that and don't remember now. It's not fun when the screen goes dark and you don't expect it ....... actually I seem to remember that happening for like 30 minutes ??? when I install Magisk/Xposed ........ the screen wasn't even on.
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I'm going to install it manually. I think Magisk was what missed up my phone last time so I rather go that path then taking the chance at missing something up again.
I'm going to install sdk23 should I install arm arm64 or x86.
I don't believe our phone is a 32bit system so x86 is out. I think arm64? Correct?
Yes, arm64. Take notes and good luck . Do you have a link on how to install it manually?
dabadguycr said:
I'm going to install it manually. I think Magisk was what missed up my phone last time so I rather go that path then taking the chance at missing something up again.
I'm going to install sdk23 should I install arm arm64 or x86.
I don't believe our phone is a 32bit system so x86 is out. I think arm64? Correct?
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Yes, arm64. Take notes and good luck . Do you have a link on how to install it manually?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
I'm using this link.
Believe I just download the zip to SD card
Go into TWRP
Click install
Find the zip
Swipe to install
Click Wipe
Wipe cache and dalvik