I'm having some issues with Fresh ROM 3.5.0.1 and doing Nandroid backups. Simply put, they NEVER WORK.
I have RA recovery and no matter what I do, no matter how many times I backup (Nandroid), no matter what version of RA Recovery I use, nothing works.
Basically what happens is that I do the Nandroid restore and then my phone just boot loops until I pull the battery. The only fix I've found is to wipe the phone and re-install completely fresh, all new. I've tried downloading Fresh ROM a few times too.
I've done this at least a dozen times, Nandroid backups NEVER work.
What exactly am I missing here?
On a side note, if I go to an older version of Fresh Rom, Nandroid backups work.
what version RA?
do clockwork backups work?
I don't like Clockworks, I've always used RA's Recovery.
That said, any version of RA. 1.80, 2.1, 2.2, the new 2.3, all of them. I thought the issue was something to do with 2.2 or 2.3 so I downgraded back to 1.80 and I still have this issue.
Finally I figured out that Fresh Rom 3.5.0.1 was the common factor so I re-downloaded that and checked the hash, it's right so its not corrupted, reflashed, made a Nandroid, restored and poof I'm still boot looping.
The reason this is an issue is that Fresh is my daily Rom and I like to try other roms out then Nandroid back to Fresh but since 3.5.0.1, I can't.
On a side note, completely unrelated, CM7 Nightly with the google apps installed boot loops for me too right out of the box so to speak. Soon as I install the Google Apps zip, it boot loops too! Man, I'm having no luck over here!
have you tried a different sd card?
I'm not personally good enough at this to help you, but perhaps state your hardware version and your root method and see if this might lead to some answers? For the record, I have hardware 0003, I used unrevoked, and I was running the same version of Fresh that you were.
Also, I *think* I did my first Nandroid, but I've only ever backed up/restored from Clockwork. I use Clockwork now because it ties in with Rom Manager. I can confirm that clockwork + fresh 3.5.0.1 had a successful nandroid backup and restore on my phone. Maybe try installing Clockwork recovery, make a nandroid, see if it works, and narrow down your problem to maybe just RA not working with your setup somehow? Granted it'd be nice if you could use the recovery that you want to, but at least you'd have some semblance of a backup procedure.
[also]..... I *think* that RA makes a recovery folder called "nandroid" on the SD card, whereas Clockwork makes one called "clockwork/backups".... I remember this confusing me for a second, and I'm not sure if that information can help you in any way. Good luck man!
Not the only victim, happens to me too that's why I don't use nandroid on amon ra recovery, I like using clockworks back up
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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!
So, I'm a bit new around here and to rooting and flashing roms. I recently have been flashing rooms directly from rom manager. Everything was fine for weeks until I recentely tried flashing a rom by RVU. Now I'm stuck in the stock evo 4 g load screen and it keeps loading over and over. Any suggestions ? Is there away back into the boot loader ?
Turrubiates said:
So, I'm a bit new around here and to rooting and flashing roms. I recently have been flashing rooms directly from rom manager. Everything was fine for weeks until I recentely tried flashing a rom by RVU. Now I'm stuck in the stock evo 4 g load screen and it keeps loading over and over. Any suggestions ? Is there away back into the boot loader ?
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To get back to the bootloader, you'd need to pull the battery (won't hurt anything) and put it back in. Then hold the power button and volume down. That will get you to the bootloader
What do you mean you tried flashing a rom by RVU? I'm confused. RUU is rom utility update, or rom update utility, or something ike that. But if you ran an RUU it would put you back to completely stock.
If I were you, and in your situation, I'd pull the battery, boot to bootloader, and see if you can still get to your recovery. If you can, I'd try wiping everything then either restoring a nandroid backup if you have one, or a fresh install of a ROM. If you don't have recovery, post back and we'll see what needs to happen to get you back up again.
Well, the rom I flashed was created by team RVU....at least that's what it said. So, I made it as far as recovery. But by wipe you mean a wipe back to stock? I'm in as far as my clockwork mod recovery screen. Kinda lost now !!
Turrubiates said:
Well, the rom I flashed was created by team RVU....at least that's what it said. So, I made it as far as recovery. But by wipe you mean a wipe back to stock? I'm in as far as my clockwork mod recovery screen. Kinda lost now !!
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Okay I gotchya now, although I don't think I've been informed of RVU before, I'll have to check it out. Anyways, thats good that you can still get to recovery. So you have never used it before? Just did everything from ROM manager before huh? I'm not familiar with clockwork recovery, as I use Amon, I'm trying to remember the little differences. First, you don't have any nandroid backups do you? Prob not if you're not familiar with clockwork and had never created a nandroid backup before! I'm not sure if backups made with ROM manager can be restored using CWM, doubtful though. So by wipe, I mean wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe davlik cache. You will need to have a ROM on your sd card, so that you can install it from recovery. In order to wipe the dalvik cache using clockwork, i believe it is under the advanced section. Not sure though. Once you have everything wiped, and the ROM of your choice on the main directory of your sd card, choose 'flash zip from sd card' or 'install zip from sd card" or something to that nature, then find the ROM and flash it. If all goes well, you should be able to boot up after that. If you do indeed happen to have a nandroid backup, choose to restore that.
Yup, everything I've done has been through rom manager. Anywho, I peeked around inside some files. Inside my install zip from sd. I found a file labeled nandroid. Could that be the backup that your referring too ? If so, would i still have to wipe my phone ?
Turrubiates said:
Yup, everything I've done has been through rom manager. Anywho, I peeked around inside some files. Inside my install zip from sd. I found a file labeled nandroid. Could that be the backup that your referring too ? If so, would i still have to wipe my phone ?
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Nandroid folder is for amon RA backups. Clockwork backups are in the clockwork/backup folder.
Have you backed up your previous install? If so wipe all factory reset then restore a backup. Otherwise wipe all and flash a new rom.
This is why you do research and learn how to properly use your phone and any custom recovery before you reach this step. This is why manufacturers have crappy warranty policies because people ruin their phones by being stupid.
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Rem3Dy said:
Nandroid folder is for amon RA backups. Clockwork backups are in the clockwork/backup folder.
Have you backed up your previous install? If so wipe all factory reset then restore a backup. Otherwise wipe all and flash a new rom.
This is why you do research and learn how to properly use your phone and any custom recovery before you reach this step. This is why manufacturers have crappy warranty policies because people ruin their phones by being stupid.
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Thank for lending a hand. Instead of trial and error, I simply started a thread. Oh, and thanks for reminding me I'm stupid!!!
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
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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.
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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.
I've been trying to use clockwork mod backup so that I can try out roms and easily get back to my stable leedroid 2.2.3 setup.
So when trying out the sense v2.3 and cm7 roms, I did a clockwork mod v3 backup just before (after updating to it from rom manager so I can flash the gingerbread roms)
I haven't found a gingerbread rom yet that I like over my 2.2 setup, so I'm now trying to restore the backup. Even when using the full-wipe.zip and then the full restore with clockwork mod, I have a few issues:
1. The boot animation is not restored - Just have the stock android text.
2. Lots of issues when the rom boots - force closes of sense etc.
I thought the clockwork mod backup was supposed to do a bit-by-bit backup of all the partitions, so when restoring you should be back to exactly the same state. Yet clearly this is not true. Any ideas on how I can restore the backup, or do I need to start from scratch and restore my titanium backup?
I've had quite a few other issues with clockworkmod as well - like needing to use the full-wipe when clockworkmod claims it's already wiped those partitions. Seems to be quite buggy - is there an alternative recovery for the DHD? I know that CM is the standard but it seems to be not working very well at all.
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... To be flashed with CWM 2.xx.xx...
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The problem might be there...
I've had these same problems moving between froyo roms with CWM 2.xx.xx . Also I didn't flash leedroid - I tried to restore a CWM backup, made with 3.x , using 3.x.
Yes but there has been some reports in the leedroid thread that backup and restore doesn't work with CWM 3.x.x.x, that's why 2.x.x.x is recommended in the OP.
Edit: Wrong forum. 6+ windows of XDA can confuse anyone. Sorry
Hey Guys
I'm rooted and running RA recovery,
I was using Mik3D ROM for a while and
had it set to my liking, of course because
I have flashers OCD I decided to try different Roms
But I made a nand backup, after trying a few Roms that I did not like
I was able flash my nand backup back to my phone and all was good.
This last time I tried a Synergy RLS1, ( not the god mode )
and now I get errors when I do a data wipe, and dalvik cache wipe.
and when I try and do a nand backup of my Mik3d rom, I get an error and it stops, at about 75%
any ideas
these are some of the errors going by memory
error dev/block/mmcblkop2 and mmcblko
error mounting sd-ext/dalvik-cache
I tried to take my nand backup and copy it to a new sd card
in case my sd card became corrupt, it does flash all the way,
but when the phone starts I have just a blank wallpaper screen
with out the lock ring, and no way to use anything
Thanks guys
I've been having trouble with recoveries too. For some reason I can restore with clockwork but not amon-ra, and flash with amon-ra and not clockwork(clockwork doesn't seem to wipe as well as amon-ra). I tried teamwins recovery and couldn't do a restore on that either. I'm not sure what's going on.
We're comin from a pure power source.
Yea the weird thing is I was able to do about 3 nand restores with RA recovery, but after installing Synergy, I was no longer able 2, all I get is errors.
I just installed clockwork recovery to see if I can restore my nand.
mmm....
I never had that issue and I flashed a several roms, but thanks for addressing it, that gives me alot to consider.
Try reinstalling latest anon ra recovery.
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OK guys
I got the old nandroid backups to finally work.
I used VR superwipe, and then did a sd-ext repair via recovery
and its all good.
hope this helps others, I think the sd-ext is getting corrupt.
if this helps hit the thanks button, I don't seem to have any, feeling left out lol!