I just switched over to Cyanogenmod 6.1.2 RC2 and before doing so I backed up my stock ROM using Clockwork. I really like Cyanogen however I wanted to boot back into my stock mod to save some of the original apps and data on my SD card to be able to transfer them over to Cyanogen.
I booted into clockwork recovery, cleared data and cache, and went about restoring my stock ROM. Everything installed fine but when I reboot the phone into the Stock ROM the phone gets stuck on the splash(?) screen, the one that just says T-Mobile MyTouch 4G. I proceeded to take out the battery, and reboot into clockwork recovery and reinstall Cyanogen 6.1.2 to hopefully get the PD15IMG file onto the SD card to do a complete stock restore from hboot.
Problem is that when I boot into Cyanogen, my phone no longer shows up as a "removable disc drive" when connected to Windows so that I can't transfer anything to the SD card.
I can get to hboot, s=off, and boot into clockwork recovery but for some reason as I said before, my stock ROM backup won't boot.
Appreciate any insight,
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I just switched over to Cyanogenmod 6.1.2 RC2 and before doing so I backed up my stock ROM using Clockwork. I really like Cyanogen however I wanted to boot back into my stock mod to save some of the original apps and data on my SD card to be able to transfer them over to Cyanogen.
I booted into clockwork recovery, cleared data and cache, and went about restoring my stock ROM. Everything installed fine but when I reboot the phone into the Stock ROM the phone gets stuck on the splash(?) screen, the one that just says T-Mobile MyTouch 4G. I proceeded to take out the battery, and reboot into clockwork recovery and reinstall Cyanogen 6.1.2 to hopefully get the PD15IMG file onto the SD card to do a complete stock restore from hboot.
Problem is that when I boot into Cyanogen, my phone no longer shows up as a "removable disc drive" when connected to Windows so that I can't transfer anything to the SD card.
I can get to hboot, s=off, and boot into clockwork recovery but for some reason as I said before, my stock ROM backup won't boot.
Appreciate any insight,
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Not 100% sure but it could just be a corrupt backup or an error occurred with the backup. I've had issues with this before, you can probably reformat the sd card and if you can get any info needed off it keep it. I typically transfer "important" files onto my computer such as nandroid backups, some data, downloads, roms etc... for cases like this. What clockwork recovery image were you using?
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Unsure of what happened. I attempted (Using ROM Manager) to try a different ROM (Virt), rebooted, and I am now stuck in a constant reboot loop at the "HTC" logo. I am still able to get into recovery, but somehow my backups are gone, SD card shows almost 4gigs open. I did backup my SD card (with recovery) on my PC. S-off, hboot: .79, radio at 2.15.00.07.28.
I've attempted factory reset, clearing cache / davlik, but I am still unable to clear this.
Any help greatly appreciated.
If you can get into recovery then flash a new ROM from within there.
The problem is getting it on the SD card.. I don't have a SD card reader. Is that what is needed? I have Skyraider 3.3.3 on my desktop, that would probably be the easiest way. Is there any way to transfer it to the phone without one while in recovery?
Update: was able to get SD recognized by PC, copied Skyraider_333 over to SD. Installing via recovery as we speak. (Fingers crossed)
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The problem is getting it on the SD card.. I don't have a SD card reader. Is that what is needed? I have Skyraider 3.3.3 on my desktop, that would probably be the easiest way. Is there any way to transfer it to the phone without one while in recovery?
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Of course just go to mounts and storage in clockwork mod recovery, you can mount your USB storage from there and then put ROMs onto the card.
Working... Installed OTA without difficulties. Only issue is that it took twice to install, but so far so good.
Once again, thank you!
I rooted my phone today. And everything was great.
I installed Clockwork. And applied CM 7.
I of course backed up my previous rom and everything was going smoothly until everything was completed.
My phone boot up as normal and then it got stuck in the CM logo.(now when I see a blue android skating I might puke)
So I tried to restore my previous rom but clockwork is defective. I selected 'backup and restore' and then nothing shows up in the screen..
Is there anything I can do to fix my phone?
I love this phone so much I really wanna fix it.
Any ideas?
since you are rooted, download the CM7 rom again (zip file) and put it on your SD card, then flash it from the recovery
Do all your flashing and backups from recovery, not from rom manager. You can confirm your backup exists by going to sdcard/clockworkmod/backups. If you did your original backup through rom manager, there's a good chance it's corrupted. Reflash cm7 from recovery if you can't restore your backup.
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I'm having basically the same problem. I just downloaded the cyanogenmod rom and put it on my sd card but I'm not sure how to flash it. Do i keep it as a zip and install it using the install update.zip thing? cause that gave me an error. Or do i extract it and put it in my backup folder and try to flash it using the restore option? Or is there some other option Im missing?
Thanks in advance
Ah ok I figured it out, I was trying to use the .zip for the a different model phone. I got it all working, thanks for the help guys!
So I followed the guide to root with s=off and it seemed to work fine and I installed clockworkmod v3.0.0.5 through ROM Manager and had made 2 nandroid backups and everything seemed to be working great.
Then I tried to install CM7 RC1 through ROM Manager, thinking if anything went wrong I'd be able to restore the nandroid backups.
Something went wrong and I ended up stuck with the CM7 skateboarder animation infinitely repeating. So after pulling the battery I was able to boot into recovery. It looked like the stock recovery, but after selecting factory reset it went into Clockworkmod. From there I restored my backup, and everything seemed to work fine.
But when I reboot it just gets stuck forever at the MyTouch4G logo (the first one that comes up immediately on power up, not the second, round logo.
I've tried to restore both backups but always get stuck at the same screen.
Right now I need to get the phone working as fast as possible, hopefully to one of my backups (but if I can get it working I've also got MyBackup Pro and Titanium backups of my data and apps).
Can someone tell me what's the best way to get this working again and hopefully if it's possible to successfully restore my nandroid backup?
Thanks!!
Current:
Rom Manger (v3.0.1.0)
Recovery (v3.0.0.5)
When you go in Recovery from bootloader what color is the text green (2.x) or orange (3.x)? Keep in mind if your using 3.0.0.5 which has Recovery 2.5.1.2 then you can't flash CM7 as you need to use 2.5.1.4(Recovery) or 3.0.0.5(Recovery).
If you meet the basic requirement as you still have the rom on your SDCard. I want you to go in Recovery via bootloader. Then go in format and wipe /system, /data. Then go back in advance wipe dalvik and from main screen wipe cache, then do full factory wipe it will remount all. Once this is done select Install zip files> Choose zip files> Find and run the rom> select yes.
When you load for the first time give it some time as it will take few min but if it takes more than 5min than ya its in bootloop. If you get to the part here then it should be working but if you get stuck in mytouch 4g logo then it won't load. Now if you have green(2.x) text then what you need to do is install the Recovery 3.0.0.6.zip though Recovery as you won't be able to access Rom Manager and then try to flash CM7RC1. Let me know if you have any problem or its hard to understand. I know people always get Rom Manager and Recovery version number confused and the whole problem get started.
It says "ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.0.5" at the top and bottom and has orange text on a black background (highlight line is white text on orange background).
This morning I managed to get it to boot by flashing PD15IMG.zip from HBOOT (took me a while to figure out I have to keep holding both down and power to get to HBOOT, just holding down and releasing power took me to ClockworkMod which wouldn't install the file).
Then I set up my account and downloaded MyBackup Pro which I used to restore visionary+ and rom manager to re-root and re-install clockworkmod then I rebooted into recovery and tried to restore my nandroid backup.
Same problem, stuck in the boot logo. So seems like these nandroid backups are useless.
Is there any way I can recover the backups? At this point I don't have much time to play with CM7 so I'd rather just get my phone back to where it was and play with CM7 a bit later when I have more time. If necessary I'll just go back to PD15IMG and manually restore using MyBackup Pro, but that backup isn't quite as fresh and it's a pain to restore the widgets, etc.
I'll try doing the wipes you suggested and see if that will bring back my backup...
Thanks!
To be clear:
ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.0.5 -- the orange text version -- CANNOT be used with Stock ROMs, or any other Froyo-based ROM. Not backup, not restore, and not install. It is only for Gingerbread-based ROMs, like CM7.
Froyo and Gingerbread versions of Android use different filesystem structures. CWMR 3.0.0.5 is for EXT4 filesystems, which the Froyo kernel cannot mount.
At boot up, the Froyo kernel tries to mount /system, and fails, because /system is in EXT4 format that it doesn't understand. So the Froyo kernel crashes, reboots .... and fails again. And again.
That explains it. Thanks.
So I installed ClockWorkMod 3.0.0.6 and used that to restore my last nandroid backup (even though it was made in 3.0.0.5) and that seems to have worked!
CM7 does look quite nice. I look forward to playing with it when I have more time.
Thanks for your help!
I don't know if this could be really repetetive, since it's only happened twice, but it's 2 times in a week and a half, with a RUU and reroot, etc in between.
Reboot the phone and it white screens/freezes for no reason.
Clearing caches or doing a full wipe doesn't fix that issue.
Go to recovery and try to do a nandroid restore and get an "oops... something went wrong error"
Also notice my latest nandroid doesn't show up in the restore list.
I have to pull the sdcard, put it in my spare phone, connect to my pc and move Amon Ra back to the SD Card/Root, then put it back in the Evo, and reboot to Hboot so I can reflash recovery, and then everything seems to work again.
Including my latest nandroid showing the restore list again.
Anyhone encounter this, or know why it's happening?
BTW, using v2.3
Flash it through Rom manager, flash clockwork and after you flash clockwork, then you flash alternate recover aka amon ra
HipKat said:
I don't know if this could be really repetetive, since it's only happened twice, but it's 2 times in a week and a half, with a RUU and reroot, etc in between.
Reboot the phone and it white screens/freezes for no reason.
Clearing caches or doing a full wipe doesn't fix that issue.
Go to recovery and try to do a nandroid restore and get an "oops... something went wrong error"
Also notice my latest nandroid doesn't show up in the restore list.
I have to pull the sdcard, put it in my spare phone, connect to my pc and move Amon Ra back to the SD Card/Root, then put it back in the Evo, and reboot to Hboot so I can reflash recovery, and then everything seems to work again.
Including my latest nandroid showing the restore list again.
Anyhone encounter this, or know why it's happening?
BTW, using v2.3
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im pretty sure the ruu deletes the recovery because stock does not have a recovery.
drtdiver83 said:
im pretty sure the ruu deletes the recovery because stock does not have a recovery.
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Well, of course it does. That's not the issue.
Obviously, I had to reflash recovery after running the RUU.
The point is, it happened a few days before and a few days after I ran RUU.
I'm wondering if it's a recovery issue or an SD Card issue.
Treated, I root with UnrEVOked, which flashes clockwork, then I flash A.R. after that, but if it happens again, and I can boot up, I'll try flashing CW from Rom Manager and then A.R. afterwards.
Ok. I have a strange problem. I am rooted, running CWM 4.0.0.4. I should have check if CMW could see the Xoom's SD card, but I fogot.
I blew away /Data and /Cache. I tried to find the SD and it cannot see the SD so I formatted a 2GB SD and put the ICS ROM on it to flash. Rebooted into CWM and it still cannot see the SD.
When I look at the Xoom's storage, it seems that Titanium Backup and ROM Manager created backup in the Xoom's default storage NOT on the SD.
Unfortunately, now when I boot into 3.1, I don't even have the Market. What are my options here? Wipe Data/Factory Reset? Re-root?
When I boot into CWM, it says ODM Fuse 1 (if that means anything). I did recover from a CWM but lost SU but still rooted. Paused for now.
Thanks for any help!
Clockwork 3.0.2.5 can see external not newer version. So get the old version back on there maybe through rom manager then wipe everything and instal kang ics nightly version. Everything works in it. If that doesn't work do it through adb. I was still rooted flashing to it. Sounds like your better off moving forward then trying to fix whatever you've got going on. Titanium stored my stuff on SD card. Your apps are primly still there. Go to preferences, folder, scan whole device. Then set filter to backed up. If you have an old nandroid you can do the whole ics instal first then click restore, advanced, data after words. Then your apps will still be there at least. Basically got to get old clockwork either through rom manager or adb flash recovery then instal ics, then try data restore.
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Clockwork 3.0.2.5 can see external not newer version. So get the old version back on there maybe through rom manager then wipe everything and instal kang ics nightly version. Everything works in it. If that doesn't work do it through adb. I was still rooted flashing to it. Sounds like your better off moving forward then trying to fix whatever you've got going on. Titanium stored my stuff on SD card. Your apps are primly still there. Go to preferences, folder, scan whole device. Then set filter to backed up. If you have an old nandroid you can do the whole ics instal first then click restore, advanced, data after words. Then your apps will still be there at least. Basically got to get old clockwork either through rom manager or adb flash recovery then instal ics, then try data restore.
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Not true that you need to go back to that old version to get external sd support. Flash solarnz' v3.2.0.0...it supports ICS now. Just stay away from Rom Manager updates (4.0.0.4) as they don't support external sd.
UBER thanks! That worked. Now flashing ICS! Ran into Wi-fi authentication problem but a reboot should help.