Hello,
I recently installed CyanogenMod to check it out. Decided it wasn't for me, so I tried to restore my backup that I did via Rom Manager.
It restores everything with no errors, however when the phone loads, none of my applications show up on the Home screen. I can see them in my applications list as "com.poynt.andoid" for example, but I can't open them. Even the Market doesn't show up on the home screen.
When the phone first loads, it has the wallpaper that I originally set, but it says please wait while loading... then it switches everything over to factory settings.
I tried searching for a solution online but could not find one, so I'm sorry if this is an easy fix that I could have found somewhere else.
The first time I restored the backup, I did it via Rom Manager when I still had CyanogenMod. Then I tried doing it directly through ClockworkMod Recovery when I booted to recovery.
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Just so we have an idea of what you did:
1. What ROM were you on before?
2. Did you wipe data/cache/etc. before restoring your backup?
3. Were you using A2SD at all?
I was on the stock HTC ROM.
I did wipe data/cache/etc from ClockworkMod Recovery before restoring.
Was not using A2SD.
Btw I'll donate to anyone that helps me fix the problem...don't expect charity support! Lol.
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Hello all,
I recently switched to the Fascinate from the HTC Incredible. So far I have rooted and installed cwm. I got the Super Clean ROM and one of jt's voodoo kernels installed. The kernel was the 12/14 version from Rom Manager. Everything was going fine and I had finally gotten everything how I wanted it. Then I though oh how bout a theme now.
Apparently that wasn't the right thing to do. I download the zip and boot into red recovery to install. I make a nandroid backup and continue to install the zip. Upon installing the theme I reboot the device. Then it just boots into stock recovery. So I think oh no that's not good. I apply update.zip to get into cwm, but then green cwm pops up intead of red. Also an error also pops up saying E: can't open /cache/recover/log. At first I didn't really think anything of it so I continue to try to restore my backup I just made. No luck. So I try to reinstall the kernel and ROM I had downloaded. No luck. All I get is errors and I dont really know how to get back into red cwm.
Now I am stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been searching for solutions all day and I can't really find anything with my particular problem.
Which theme did you flash?
It was through rom manager. Something from blackhole. I don't remember exactly to be honest.
Ok I'm not sure if I made it better or worse. I took the sd card out and put it into my moto droid. I then created the disable_lagfix folder in the voodoo files. Then I put the card back in my phone. I tried flashing the stock DL09.tar through odin and now it is stuck in a loop. Samsung screen pops up then immediately runs a factory reset and does it all over again.
I'm new in this whole smart phones so pls be patient with me
So I have MT4G and i had before the cyanogenmod 7 system but I will shot itself down and i would get the boot loop. so I restored to manufacture settings worked ok i thing but then i tried to restore all the info with ROM Manager and it stuck again. played with it more and somehow got to my older system "Synergy Rom" and restored all the info with Titanium app (that i had as well)now its ok but it shot itself once in a wile. when i try to restart it i have 0% battery when the battery was 75% before. can someone tell me if there is any better system that i can download and what are the steps without erasing any info?
Thank you
Lital Lev said:
I'm new in this whole smart phones so pls be patient with me
So I have MT4G and i had before the cyanogenmod 7 system but I will shot itself down and i would get the boot loop. so I restored to manufacture settings worked ok i thing but then i tried to restore all the info with ROM Manager and it stuck again. played with it more and somehow got to my older system "Synergy Rom" and restored all the info with Titanium app (that i had as well)now its ok but it shot itself once in a wile. when i try to restart it i have 0% battery when the battery was 75% before. can someone tell me if there is any better system that i can download and what are the steps without erasing any info?
Thank you
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erase/wipe everything.. EVERYTHING
install the virtuous unity ROM
and thats it. start from scratch.. its your best bet
DO NOT restore system data with Titanium. It might easily cause the problems you're describing. And of course, DO NOT restore /data partition from nandroid backup (the one you made using ROM Manager or directly in recovery), when it isn't a part of the ROM you've backed up and restored too.
You can selectively back up and restore SMS/MMS/Call log, and also WiFi/Bluetooth/bookmarks and some more useful settings. But it's hard in Titanium, you need to know which system app contains the info you need. You can search the internet and you'll see (these apps are marked in green in app list). The rest of system settings you should set up from scratch for any system, if you expect it to function trouble-free.
Wipe your phone clean, reinstall a ROM and restore user apps only, to begin with, and see if it stops the issues you're having (which will most likely happen). And if you like Sense, you'll be better off installing Virtuous Unity, as Grimey pointed above me. One ROM with virtually 0 bugs.
If u like Sense 3.0, LeeDroid has 0 bugs as well. Been usin it for weeks...
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Thank you, but could you tell me what are the steps to install me OS?
I cleaned the phone got back to the manufacturer setup but i can't find even the Market app (or google play app) to download the "Virtuous Unity ROM"
Lital Lev said:
I cleaned the phone got back to the manufacturer setup but i can't find even the Market app (or google play app) to download the "Virtuous Unity ROM"
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you need to get s-off
you need to get root
you need to install a recovery
then you download the virtuous unity ROM from the development section or the virituousrom.com website. put it in your sd card. load recovery and wipe your system and cache and dalvik, then install the ROM..
So my phone is s-off and root i just don't know how to the install recovery if i can't find the market app and i don't know how to download it.
Lital Lev said:
So my phone is s-off and root i just don't know how to the install recovery if i can't find the market app and i don't know how to download it.
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absolutely nothing to do with the market.
download the recovery image (clockworkmod or 4ext). rename it to recovery.img for easier access. place it in the same folder as adb/fastboot for easier access.
get into your bootloader, then get to fastboot mode, it should say something like "fastboot USB"
connect it to your PC
now in the adb/fastboot folder on your PC, hold shift and right-click then click on "open command window here"
finally, type "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img"
now when its done, you can reboot into the bootloader and get into the recovery, from there you just install the ROM
Thank you again, now could you tell me how i get the "adb/fastboot folder " i googled it and found an link to download(not sure if it was the right thing to do)
another thing i have the clockworkmod already on my phone but just in case downloaded the 4ext to my PC and saved it as "recovery.img" now what should i do?
thank you for ur petience
Lital Lev said:
Thank you again, now could you tell me how i get the "adb/fastboot folder " i googled it and found an link to download(not sure if it was the right thing to do)
another thing i have the clockworkmod already on my phone but just in case downloaded the 4ext to my PC and saved it as "recovery.img" now what should i do?
thank you for ur petience
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if you already have clockwork mod, all you have to do is make sure you phone is off (pull the battery, or turn off hibernate mode)
hold down power + volume down
you will enter the bootloader, give it a few seconds to load
use the volume keys to scroll to recovery and hit power to select
then simply wipe everything and flash the rom
ps. youll need android SDK to get the latest adb and fastboot files
Lital Lev said:
Thank you again, now could you tell me how i get the "adb/fastboot folder " i googled it and found an link to download(not sure if it was the right thing to do)
another thing i have the clockworkmod already on my phone but just in case downloaded the 4ext to my PC and saved it as "recovery.img" now what should i do?
thank you for ur petience
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Honestly, if I were you, I would go ahead & flash 4ext recovery. It is more stable & from the looks of things, you don't need any more problems than you already have. After you get recovery flashed, or if you choose to use cwm anyway, do this:
1- hold volume down + power you should enter the bootloader.
2- scroll down with the volume button until recovery is hilighted, & press power button to select.
3- You should be in recovery, and if so, choose "wipe data / factory reset" then "wipe cache" then "wipe dalvik"
4- Next, " format system, format data, format boot"
5 Next, choose install from sdcard.. choose zip from sdcard & find the Rom you have on your sdcard. Wait until it installs completely. Then reboot.
6. At this point be very patient and let it load. It could take several minutes...up to 5 or 6
And in a nutshell that is it..
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If I were the op I would leave my phone completely stock and do some more research before proceeding any further. If you break your phone you won't know how to fix it with your current android knowledge.
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If I were the op I would leave my phone completely stock and do some more research before proceeding any further. If you break your phone you won't know how to fix it with your current android knowledge.
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I agree...I made that mistake & Jack_R1 helped me til he got pissed off,(rightfully so), & I realized it only takes a couple of days to read people's situations and you really learn more that way. I started off with an HTCDEV unlocked device, and it took me 2 days to figure out that I bootlooped it by flashing a 2.21 boot.IMG on a 2.34 Rom. I ended up figuring it out w/ jack_r1 helping me. Finally I relocked it and rooted it properly. Now, I can do it from start to finish in about 5 minutes or so...downgrading and all. But its best to read til u understand.
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Thank you all!!!
Would you believe me if i told you that it was a problem with the battery? I changed it to a new one and its all good (so far) i really hope that was the problem. If anything I'll do the steps that you adviced me ))
BUT I still have the problem to log in to the internet except google page and apps. I had it for a long time before but i don't know what causing it, i could log in with firefox thouh, what could be the problem?
thank you all again.
I would. A new battery fixed my co-worker's Desire S, that started crashing all around.
Hey guys I'm new to Android in general so sorry if these seem like dumb questions. I've searched online for a while now and I can't really seem to get a concrete answer. Anyways so I got CWM 5.5.0.4 running on my 7510 just fine last night. I then did a backup of everything from within CWM 5.5.0.4. Then I went and flashed CM10 Jellybean to see if it worked fine. Went back to CWM and tried restoring back to ICS, to check that too and it worked fine. I want to mention at this point I couldn't get Titanium Backup or ROM Manager working from withint ICS at this point because it kept saying that it couldn't get root access (I rooted my 7510 through the method listed as a guide in the Developers section of this forum), but since I could restore back without a problem to ICS with all my settings intact, I thought I'd give it a try anyways.
I then flashed back to CM10, and upgraded to the newest CWM Touch version 5.8.x.x from within ROM Manager once in CM10. I then decided I wanted to go back to ICS so I tried to restore back to ICS through CWM Touch, and it didn't work. I’ve tried doing an entire normal backup, and then strictly the apps, nothing works. Keeps telling me there’s an error.
What’s the best thing to do? Switch back to 5.5.0.4? Can I do that without turning on USB debug mode? Because I didn’t check this beforehand but I can’t click on Storage in settings and even access USB period, whether it’s to transfer stuff or to turn on USB Debug mode.
Any help would be appreciated! I mainly want to go back because all my apps are setup the way I like in ICS. Unless someone knows away to restore apps properly back without going through CWM, maybe through some app that can read the backup data if that makes any sense?
HeyYoWL said:
Hey guys I'm new to Android in general so sorry if these seem like dumb questions. I've searched online for a while now and I can't really seem to get a concrete answer. Anyways so I got CWM 5.5.0.4 running on my 7510 just fine last night. I then did a backup of everything from within CWM 5.5.0.4. Then I went and flashed CM10 Jellybean to see if it worked fine. Went back to CWM and tried restoring back to ICS, to check that too and it worked fine. I want to mention at this point I couldn't get Titanium Backup or ROM Manager working from withint ICS at this point because it kept saying that it couldn't get root access (I rooted my 7510 through the method listed as a guide in the Developers section of this forum), but since I could restore back without a problem to ICS with all my settings intact, I thought I'd give it a try anyways.
I then flashed back to CM10, and upgraded to the newest CWM Touch version 5.8.x.x from within ROM Manager once in CM10. I then decided I wanted to go back to ICS so I tried to restore back to ICS through CWM Touch, and it didn't work. I’ve tried doing an entire normal backup, and then strictly the apps, nothing works. Keeps telling me there’s an error.
What’s the best thing to do? Switch back to 5.5.0.4? Can I do that without turning on USB debug mode? Because I didn’t check this beforehand but I can’t click on Storage in settings and even access USB period, whether it’s to transfer stuff or to turn on USB Debug mode.
Any help would be appreciated! I mainly want to go back because all my apps are setup the way I like in ICS. Unless someone knows away to restore apps properly back without going through CWM, maybe through some app that can read the backup data if that makes any sense?
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Easiest way is to go back to the old cwm. The touch ver is a bit uggly according to me. (Personly i run Twrp tocuh recovery. Its nice and sleek. Gives option to compress backupps to. Includes a filemanager to. )
Otherwise if you install clock work mod from gogle play there is an option to restore apps from the backup.
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How exactly do I go back to the old CWM? Do I have to enable USB Debugging mode? As I mentioned I can't even do that because it's greyed out for me in CM10.
I dont know why usb debug is incheckable, i'm not a dev. But don't think it's important if you flash cwm via odin.
Use the same method you got cwm the first time.
Easiest is flashing it through odin. I guess you can follow that root guide you used initialy.
Rom manager can restore apps from backupfile. Just go deeper in menus.
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Updated my rooted Honeycomb AT100 with Dale's Rooted Stock ICS ROM ... downloaded some new apps and reloaded some old ones extracted from a prior nandroid backup and got the thing running just the way I want it (almost, sometimes the screen locks up during sleep and won't come back without a poweroff and reboot.)
Anyway, I had it to the point where doing a backup is mandatory and discovered it just won't allow it.
It WON'T soft boot into recovery mode using apps like ROM Manager or Titanium (and it won't flash a new version of CWM because the AT100 is unsupported.)
It WILL hard boot into recovery mode using the volume/off button but when it does it returns can't find E:SD Card when I try to do a backup. I tried to work around this by backing up to a USB stick, but CWM resolutely refuses to recognize and mount the USB device.
Here's another weird thing, ROM manager reports I have CWM 5 installed but sometimes when I hard boot into recovery mode I get the old "push button" version of CWM, other times I get the "touch" version ... it seems to be random selection .
I thought, perhaps, the best solution would be to uninstall and reinstall CWM but now matter how I (pardon the pun) I root around I can't find anyway to do that. Your help would be very, very appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Give my twrp a try, its been far less touchy then cwm has been.
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First time flashing CM, and I may have messed up.
I rooted, installed TWRP, everything went perfect. I made a backup, and then tried to do a factory wipe. The wipe ended with the messages "unable to mount /system", "... /cache" and another one. I still tried to flash, and it just immediately got stuck, nothing happened. I rebooted, and everything worked fine. It was the Samsung stock image and all my apps were still there. I'm assuming it just didn't wipe at all.
I then went full retard mode, and tried to do a restore. I wanted to be sure my phone wouldn't fail on me in the recent future because some random stuff may have been partially wiped or something. Feel free to tell me I have the IQ of a chimp.
This completely messed things up, as it just got stuck at "Restoring System...". Eventually I restarted it with the power button. Now it can't boot normally, it can't boot into recovery mode, which just leaves download mode.
Any way I can fix this and subsequently install CM properly? I'm using TWRP 2.6.3.0. I've been told it's recommended to use 2.5, as the other version may have some issues (including not being able to recognize partitions). Only download mode still seems to work, so maybe there's a way to flash my phone back into the living world?
Versions:
Team Win Recovery Project 2.6.3.0
CyanogenMod 10.1.3 (RC2 jfltexx)
Thanks!
No idea really but maybe try to flash default rom/recovery etc with odin?
I've had this problem. Seeing as you only have download mode you have to flash a stock Rom and start again. Recoveries for our phone are still I development. Use official CMW to install CM, using links in Op.
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HANDSY said:
I've had this problem. Seeing as you only have download mode you have to flash a stock Rom and start again. Recoveries for our phone are still I development. Use official CMW to install CM, using links in Op.
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I got the Samsung stock ROM of july, flashed it using download mode, and everything was back! I then rooted it again, and installed CMW (see versions below). I went into recovery, and tried to do a backup. It told me it failed: "Error while making a backup image of /data!". I then wondered if it may have been due to a lack of storage (which could very well be, as that was the issue before and the old backup by Teamwin was probably still on it somewhere), so I rebooted my phone. That's when it just failed and kept showing the Samsung logo at boot. I tried flashing my ROM again, again the logo. Then I did a factory reset using the regular recovery (cache and data reset), which fixed it. Now all my apps and data are gone, but that's no problem.
I'm back at the unrooted Samsung stock image now. Any ideas what I did wrong? These were the versions I used:
CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505
i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2(0611)
Odin3 v3.07
I did nothing more than root, install CMW, try a backup and then it all went to ****. I'm surprised a backup can even do that.
Mmm I'm not too familiar with the internal workings of backups. Perhaps something was corrupted during flashing? Glad to hear that you have got your phone working again. There is an updated version of CMW somewhere in the original development thread.
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i've had the exact same issue.
I did go back to stock firmware and recovery, rerooted(chainfire) and installed the latest CWM 6.0.3.6.
Then, i did download Jamals Google play 4.3 rom, placed it on my SDcard and did follow the instructions. Works like a charm, and i've got noe clue what happened to my phone. however, it works now.
Chillzone said:
i've had the exact same issue.
I did go back to stock firmware and recovery, rerooted(chainfire) and installed the latest CWM 6.0.3.6.
Then, i did download Jamals Google play 4.3 rom, placed it on my SDcard and did follow the instructions. Works like a charm, and i've got noe clue what happened to my phone. however, it works now.
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I tried CMW 6.0.3.6 and the Google Play 4.3 ROM as you said, and it works perfectly! I didn't try a backup this time, as it didn't exactly have anything to back up anymore.
Finally my precious vanilla Android again, I missed it since I switched from my Galaxy Nexus to my S4. Thanks a lot guys!
Edit: I do seem to be having one issue. Quite frequently after it's booted, and I enter the SIM pin, the message "Unlocking SIM card..." stays there indefinitely. I can use the phone but the message covers everything up. This doesn't always happen, but quite often. I've read some ROMs can't handle SIM lock, like CM. This is a Google Play edition, however. Is it normal that this doesn't work?
I can seem to fix it by holding the power button, and choosing "Unlock SIM" from the menu. I guess it's not that bad as I don't often reboot my phone.