Hi,
I recently tried to install the new Gingerbread keyboard (provided by droid life) on my rooted 2.2 Legend. Now when I boot up my phone it stays stuck on the initial HTC loading screen.
I did do a nandroid backup before installing the replacement keyboard. How exactly do I recover that backup? I am able to go into recovery mode, but I'm not sure what to do from there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
EDIT: So I remembered I have to use recovery-windows.bat to get to the recovery menu. So I did that but when I try to do a Nand restore I get the following error:
"E:Couldn't open directory /sdcard/nandroid/backup"
Any idea what the problem may be?
Do you have clockworkmod installed on your sdcard ?
Mr.Pigeon said:
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Install ROM Manager, it should be able to restore your ROM! If not check you have all the files here: /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/xxxx-xx-xx.xx.xx.xx - date of backup:
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boot.img
cache.img
data.img
recovery.img
system.img
nandroid.md5
Thank guys, I figured it out
Some weeks ago a tried a nandroid restore on my Legend using MDJ ROM with ext sd partition (around 500mb) but I had no success. I did a simple restore from the recover menu.
My doubt was that nandroid does not back up the ext partition but in effect I see that the back up file contain a file "sd-ext.img" which should be problably my external back up. Then when I have restored Legend has stucked with boot logo e didn't completed the power on sequence. I had to reinstall and configure (partially as I use Mybackup).
Please, do you know the correct procedure how to completely restore such type of ROMS using ext sd memory?
Thank you
I wanted to flash a custom ROM and decided to do a nandroid backup first. Every time i did one it did not contain the system.img file which means that the stock ROM wasn't backed up. It only backed up recovery and boot. I have the official CWM from clockwordmod.com.
Please help.
BTW. I know that i can use the stock system image from google, but it's much easier to just recover a nandroid backup.
painfactory said:
I wanted to flash a custom ROM and decided to do a nandroid backup first. Every time i did one it did not contain the system.img file which means that the stock ROM wasn't backed up. It only backed up recovery and boot. I have the official CWM from clockwordmod.com.
Please help.
BTW. I know that i can use the stock system image from google, but it's much easier to just recover a nandroid backup.
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What version of CWM are you running?
Need help restoring a old version of nandroid backup. I cant restore it with CWM 5.0.2.7
Files that are inside the backup folder:
.android_secure.img
cache.img
cust.img
data.img
nandroid.md5
system.img
When i try to restore it with CWM 5.0.2.7 it just says that boot is missing.
What version of CWM i need to take that i can restore it.
Exactly that wich one you maked a backup. If you want to restore 2.2 backup from gb... you will discover interesting tbings maybe some kind of brick 2.2 and 2.3 file systems is diferent.
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Is it possible to create nandroid backup of the NAND in img format using CWM 5.x? Some time ago it was possible, but now it seems both Backup all and Advanced backup options produce only tar backups...
How to create nandroid backup of the NAND in img format?
This all started when I downgraded CM 11 to CM 10.2.1. I got a bootloop, I reflashed CM 11, backed up my important data and then wiped, cleared caches and installed CM 10.2.1 (w/out GApps) Then I attempted to restore a nandroid backup I had made a night before.
1. I got a md5 mismatch (I had the backup in an external HD and moved it to the phone) so I edited the md5 file on the PC (erased contents) and put it back in data/media/clockworkmod/backup/ and that worked
2. I attempted the restore again, this time it went past restoring the boot image but gave me an error upon attempting to restore /system.
3. I tried advanced restore, restore data and cache but none of my apps appear
I have no clue what to do, I really want to restore system, how can this be done?
I have a months old nandroid backup as well. Can I restore system from that and then data, cache etc from the latest backup?
I would try to flash the factory image with fastboot. Then get a custom recovery back on and try your nandroid again.
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jd1639 said:
I would try to flash the factory image with fastboot. Then get a custom recovery back on and try your nandroid again.
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OK I'm downloading that as we speak - occam 4.3
How do I install it though? Its in tgz format.
I'm worried that the /system is corrupt?
boeder9 said:
OK I'm downloading that as we speak - occam 4.3
How do I install it though? Its in tgz format.
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Use 7-zip to extract it. There'll be a flash-all.bat file in there
Edit, while it's downloading read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34552123
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jd1639 said:
Use 7-zip to extract it. There'll be a flash-all.bat file in there
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EDIT: NM re fastboot
Could it be that /system from the backup is corrupt?
Also, do I do the "fastboot flash userdata userdata.img", step 10 which is optional?
So after I'm done doing this, I should install CWM via fastboot, then restore the nandroid, correct? No need to flash CM first?
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and phone should be connected via fastboot? Could it be that /system from the backup is corrupt?
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If you run the flash-all.bat file your phone needs to be in fastboot mode.
Moving the nandroid from you hd to the phone could have corrupted it or it may have gotten corrupted putting it on the hd. I'd give it another try, but don't try to edit the md5
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boeder9 said:
EDIT: NM re fastboot
Could it be that /system from the backup is corrupt?
Also, do I do the "fastboot flash userdata userdata.img", step 10 which is optional?
So after I'm done doing this, I should install CWM via fastboot, then restore the nandroid, correct? No need to flash CM first?
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Skip step 10, maybe you'll get lucky. Doing step 10 will wipe all your data.
Afterwards you'll have to flash cwm in fastboot, fastboot flash recovery cwm.img
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jd1639 said:
If you run the flash-all.bat file your phone needs to be in fastboot mode.
Moving the nandroid from you hd to the phone could have corrupted it or it may have gotten corrupted putting it on the hd. I'd give it another try, but don't try to edit the md5
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What if there is a md5 mismatch due to the foldername changing/creation time diff?
The thing is, I do a checksum check and both: "system.ext4" and "system.ext4.a" have the correct checksum in the md5 file.
Will try this tomorrow morning. Does the flash-all.bat do step 10? Erasing the /sdcard?
Thanks a lot man!
boeder9 said:
What if there is a md5 mismatch due to the foldername changing/creation time diff?
The thing is, I do a checksum check and both: "system.ext4" and "system.ext4.a" have the correct checksum in the md5 file.
Will try this tomorrow morning. Does the flash-all.bat do step 10? Erasing the /sdcard?
Thanks a lot man!
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Flash-all.bat will flash the userdata, i.e. step 10
Edit, and good catch, backup what you can because it will wipe your sdcard
Another edit, I'd adb pull your /sdcard to your pc just to be safe. Boot into recovery, cwm and then from a command prompt on your pc, adb pull /sdcard c:\sdcard
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Ouch man, this sounds awful. I always go ape **** when i brick my device.
Good luck!
Mashed_Potatoes said:
Ouch man, this sounds awful. I always go ape **** when i brick my device.
Good luck!
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It's a pain, 99% of my stuff is backed up, some via helium and titanium, adbs and also old nandroids. I really shouldn't have upgraded to CM 11 and should have done my research before downgrading or updating with the intention of downgrading if i don't like the ROM..sigh
boeder9 said:
It's a pain, 99% of my stuff is backed up, some via helium and titanium, adbs and also old nandroids. I really shouldn't have upgraded to CM 11 and should have done my research before downgrading or updating with the intention of downgrading if i don't like the ROM..sigh
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I got bricked while downgrading from PA 4.4 to 4.3...thank god the recovery backup worked
jd1639 said:
Flash-all.bat will flash the userdata, i.e. step 10
Edit, and good catch, backup what you can because it will wipe your sdcard
Another edit, I'd adb pull your /sdcard to your pc just to be safe. Boot into recovery, cwm and then from a command prompt on your pc, adb pull /sdcard c:\sdcard
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OK I reflashed factory, got stuck at the booting "X" so I installed CWM anyway via fastboot, attempted to restore the nandroid and it gave the same error at /system.
Now, I reflashed factory again, got stuck at X but this time I used stock recovery to erase the data. I will try the nandroid backup later tonight - though I do feel transferring them from /data/media/cwm/backups to sd then to the PC has corrupted them somehow but then where and how do I transfer/keep the enormous backups?
Meanwhile, is there anyway to extract data from the nandroid - individual stuff for example, app data etc.??
Thank god I have adb backups, for apps and full (without system apps). I also have older nandroids and backups of the SD..
After reverting to factory, none of my nandroid backups (3 from Feb) are restored completely.
For all 3, I get: "Error while restoring /data" as system is restored fine. Same problem with all 3 nandroids.
I would appreciate some help here. And again, is there a way to extract data from these nandroids?
Please help!