So I ran this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915617
and it said that I had no rsa keys, so I went to my first nandroid before I switched to a custom rom nandroid backups, and a wimax.(my phones host ID I think).img existed in the folder. So I restored it.
After it was done I ran the app again, and it said that my keys were still not there. Afterwards, I went back to recovery and went to backup/restore and choose advance restore and checked the things I could restore, wimax wasn't among them, even though the file was there.
So my question: Is there anything I can do to restore them? I do have a backup.
Thanks in advance.
Have you tried using 4G? Maybe it just isn't reporting back correctly. Was your first nandroid done with the recovery the OP posted in the perm root thread where you had to manually backup the wimax keys or did you download rom manager from the market and install your recovery that way which backs them up automatically?
I have tried using 4G, but it doesn't work, I've tried other backups as well to no avail.
And it was with clockworkmod I made my backup, not manually
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You could try the 2.2 ruu then reroot,maybe that would fix things don't know if the keys are individual device specific.
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Nope... -_-
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You could try the 2.2 ruu then reroot,maybe that would fix things don't know if the keys are individual device specific.
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Tried it, but my rsa keys are still missing. Anything else to do, I have them backed up with clockwork, it just won't recognize them or restore them.
I wonder if you could push them with adb?
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I think I would pm bcnice or someone from the perm root thread who seem knowledgable about such things. I only mention bcnice because in his original root instructions he had us manually back them up so I assume he probably knows how to restore the backups. I have a feeling many people would be willing to help but they probably don't frequent this board too often.
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Before I flash my At&t tab I am looking for a good backup of firmware.
I am new to android/samsung
For backup i found
ROM manager app
Is that all i need for backup? Before I try messing my tab.
I guess i need do backup of efs folder as well. (rooting, copy)
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Go to the development section and look for clockwork recovery for the tab.
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Lookink into thread clockwork I have chosen not to use. Too unstable.
I Will try rotohamers approach I found thanks the clokcwork thread.
That means using dd looks to me clean solution. Now I Will do some dumps and then I am going to do some research how to do it Without z4root. I need to learn to use all the tools/modes like what is adb, recovery mode,odin, kies drivers.
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monoko said:
Lookink into thread clockwork I have chosen not to use. Too unstable.
I Will try rotohamers approach I found thanks the clokcwork thread.
That means using dd looks to me clean solution. Now I Will do some dumps and then I am going to do some research how to do it Without z4root. I need to learn to use all the tools/modes like what is adb, recovery mode,odin, kies drivers.
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Finally someone who gets it! Doing research will give you the best results. Now that there is a reconstructed at&t firmware, you just need to do the backups for your own safety. You will need to root somehow, z4root happens to be the easiest way, and its easily uninstalled.
I have not been able to flash back my dumps and get my system back to the exact state it was at dump time, but i can restore it such that after restoring my Titanium backup, everything works perfect as it was. Thats good enough for me at the moment.
Ok bought an evo on eBay, after getting rid of my evo for a blackberry and realizing I made a huge mistake. It's used but like new.
I go to the boot screen and it says s-off. Then I select recovery but it goes to an evo with a red triangle.
What can I do?
Thanks
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If you can acess the bootloader, I would recommend searching in the rooting wiki and look for a PCIMG file place that in the root of the sd card(hopefully your comp has a media reader) and insert the sd card with that file and the bootloader should detect when you select recovery.
What that file does is resets everything on the phone to stock. if you could find a RUU that might work but if your comp cant see the phone its useless i hope this helps
oh hey just stole this from a post from mattykins(thanks for the link) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
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Ok bought an evo on eBay, after getting rid of my evo for a blackberry and realizing I made a huge mistake. It's used but like new.
I go to the boot screen and it says s-off. Then I select recovery but it goes to an evo with a red triangle.
What can I do?
Thanks
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If you're s off, your rooted. The triangle means you have no recovery. All you need to do is flash a PC36IMG of recovery, using the bootloader. Once you do that, you'll have recovery, and can flash a rom of your choice. That's it. No need to re root or ruu or anything like that. Just recovery, that's it.
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If you're s off, your rooted. The triangle means you have no recovery. All you need to do is flash a PC36IMG of recovery, using the bootloader. Once you do that, you'll have recovery, and can flash a rom of your choice. That's it. No need to re root or ruu or anything like that. Just recovery, that's it.
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or you could install clockwork mod and make it even easier on yourself by installing recovery through there
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If you're s off, your rooted. The triangle means you have no recovery. All you need to do is flash a PC36IMG of recovery, using the bootloader. Once you do that, you'll have recovery, and can flash a rom of your choice. That's it. No need to re root or ruu or anything like that. Just recovery, that's it.
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Could you do a huuuuge favor for a newbie and link me to the file I need to flash?
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or you could install clockwork mod and make it even easier on yourself by installing recovery through there
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This would probably be the easiest thing. DL clockwork from the market and install the recovery I prefer amon_ra it will be at the bottom under alternate recoveries. Also do a nand backup as soon as you have a recovery.
I agree with above, just get rom manager from the market and flash a recovery...simple
We're comin from a pure power source.
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Could you do a huuuuge favor for a newbie and link me to the file I need to flash?
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SUre, give me one sec to upload a file for you. And as the other guys suggested, flashing a recovery using ROM manager would be your easiest bet. HOWEVER, if you dont have the SUPER USER app, (which i bet you do not), rom manager wont work. t herefore you cant flash anything with it.
So give me one sec, and i'll upload what you need to flash, with instructions for ya
EDIT: I attatched a recovery for you. It's Amon Ra V2.3. Download the PC36IMG, and leave it named exactly as it is. Place the file on the main directory (root) of your sd card. Power your phone off completely. Then boot to the bootloader by holding the power and volume down buttons simultaneously. When it gets to the bootloader, after a sec it will scan for files, and find the PC36IMG. It will then ask you if you want to update, so select yes (volume UP). Once it's done flashing, it'll ask you to reboot. Select no. Then choose the 'recovery' option from the bootloader menu. You should now successfully boot into Amon Ra V2.3 recovery. From that point, you can create a backup of your current setup. Then you can perform a full wipe, and then flash the rom of your choice.
And what ever you do DON'T restore a nandroid from your old phone. You will wipe out your 4g if the wimax partition is included in the nandroid.
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SUre, give me one sec to ........
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Thanks man, a lot!
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Thanks man, a lot!
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You're welcome. Never a problem at all. Let us know if you need any more assistance getting things up and running.
Ok that worked. I now have Amon ra recovery
But, lol, one more question. Amon ra has changed since I've had an evo.. now when I select backup, it has a list of things I want to back up with "[x]" next to them. Which items should I select? It didn't have that feature in the past so I'm a little lost.
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Ok that worked. I now have Amon ra recovery
But, lol, one more question. Amon ra has changed since I've had an evo.. now when I select backup, it has a list of things I want to back up with "[x]" next to them. Which items should I select? It didn't have that feature in the past so I'm a little lost.
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Right, that feature was added after version 1.8.0 (which I still use). I believe you want to check all of the boxes, for your first backup. (I'm not sure if you need to have everything checked after that, but I'm sure it couldn't hurt). I've seen people say that you only need to back up your wimax one time, then keep the file in a safe place (it's your RSA keys), however I just can't see what the problem is with backing it up each time. I kind of like the simplicity of 1.8.0, just hit backup and let it do it's thing. Whatever the heck 1.8.0 automatically backs up on its own, works perfectly fine for me, lol.
So I would just check everything off, and then let it perform the backup.
EDIT: and sorry I don't have more info on that for ya. I'm sure someone else who regulrarly uses ar 2.3 will chime in, and give you a more solid answer. I just simply don't use that recovery, as I never saw a need to 'upgrade' from 1.8.0, because it has always worked flawlessly for me. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'd say you could use 1.8.0 if you wanted to, but I believe it won't work on the 004 hardware phones with the 0040000 size erase block.
Ok cool.
Thanks again
And yes i remember the simple way, things are supposed to get easier as time goes on, not more complicated, haha!
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ive been rooted for quite some time, and never have had trouble with pulling backups form clockwork recovery. last night i made a backup of my CM7.0.3 that i was using for a while to try out virtuous unity. today on my lunch break at work i attempted to load the backup and i was getting that error message.
i did a "superwipe for g2" right before i tried to recover.
then i attempted to recover my stock rom i have had for months an i got the same error message. any ideas? the only thing i could think of is a few days ago i cleared out a HUGE cache in my clockwork from my SD to clear up my card. could that be it? any help would be appreciated.
bump.
someone please give me some help! i would really appreciate it.
i attempted this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11768066&postcount=2965
but go no response and still had a md5 mismatch.
Had that issue before... The back up process didn't go right unfortunately. I would recommend you to download another Rom and transfer it to your SD card.
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what do you mean by that?
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what do you mean by that?
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Well it rarely happens. I remember when I got the same error and told somebody in XDA they told me that during the back up process clockwork didn't back it up correctly which leads you not being able to restore your back up. Had virtuous 2.2 back then, good thing was I had 2 back ups just in case so I was able to restore a later version of my back up.
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Did you by any chance change the name of the folder of the backup? I once 'annotated' the default date-time format that Clockworkmod uses with something more meaningful to me, but found that it breaks the MD5 check.
I'm just asking on the off-chance because changing the folder name back to what it was when the backup was made will fix it, if that's the case.
Good luck.
Yeah I did, but I hadn't had any problems with renaming it with it before. I attempted to change it back to a default name and that didn't work. Is there anyway to try and recover my backup, or just my data?
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I also had this problem before when switching between cyanogen and a Sense ROM. The way I fixed it was I downloaded, wiped and installed a fresh new cyanogen ROM. After it was installed I was able to restore my old backup from CWM.
ill have to give that a try. thankyou sir.
Hi i have a question. Is there a way to perform complete system backup BEFORE rooting my phone. ...that i can have total system backup like the mobile came with? tnx for answers...
I can't remember for sure, as I've only ever seen it a couple of times, but I think you can backup and restore from the original recovery mode, just like in CWM recovery.
Turn the phone off and then press and hold volume up, home and power. Keep them held till the menu appears. If you can backup and restore from that menu then that's what you're looking for. If you can't then you're probably not gonna get anywhere until you get firmware with CWM flashed. Despite what other people will no doubt say, Titanium Backup will not backup and restore your whole ROM the way it currently is. It's perfect for apps and associated data, but not whole system backups.
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I can't remember for sure, as I've only ever seen it a couple of times, but I think you can backup and restore from the original recovery mode, just like in CWM recovery.
Turn the phone off and then press and hold volume up, home and power. Keep them held till the menu appears. If you can backup and restore from that menu then that's what you're looking for. If you can't then you're probably not gonna get anywhere until you get firmware with CWM flashed. Despite what other people will no doubt say, Titanium Backup will not backup and restore your whole ROM the way it currently is. It's perfect for apps and associated data, but not whole system backups.
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yeah im not sure...i will try. But to have CWM you must have root...so again is rooted and not original...
you can't, all you can do is note the exact rom you are presently using and download it in case you need to go back.
When the phone is rooted and a custom recovery is installed, then you would have the ability to back-up your phone
Just root, install cwm and make a backup although the backup will have root you can just remove it if you ever need to restore the back up
Ricey
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ricey1986 said:
Just root, install cwm and make a backup although the backup will have root you can just remove it if you ever need to restore the back up
Ricey
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i am asking all this because i buy mobile on provider network. so i dont know if they put some settings inside,that canot be undone when root/flash...
Aslong as you backup straight after root i cant see you having problems its only the kernel and recovery that changes that i can gather.
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Aslong as you backup straight after root i cant see you having problems its only the kernel and recovery that changes that i can gather.
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ok many thanks...i didnt know that only the kernel changes...but on other hand im not sure which vodafone original kernel put back when i need it...or deosent mather.???
My phone suddenly went bonkers this afternoon, didn't have any signal and the IMEI was blank. Using stock rom KI8 with speedmod. It was running fine for days but I don't know why it did what it did for no reason at all.
Good thing I backed up my /efs folder with an app. I had a problem with restoring my efs backup using the .img but for some reason with the .tar it works (thank God I backed up using both ways).
I'm wondering why it just suddenly did this on its own? Wasn't doing anything extraordinary with it. Odd.
The reason why a backup is so important. I don't even want to see a service center. I take my precautions accordingly.
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Good to hear that you managed to resolve everything
But maybe just keep it to one post, yeah?
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Good to hear that you managed to resolve everything
But maybe just keep it to one post, yeah?
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Haven't resolved everything yet actually. Why is it that using the img file to restore doesn't work. It just gets stuck. Though the .tar backup works.
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My bad, I was under the impression you did.
So you say that your .tar backup works, yeah? What exactly do you mean by that? Or are you saying that you've managed to restore your IMEI (using the .tar), but still want to know why it happened?
If so, there honestly could be a plethora of reasons, including rouge apps, a ROM dev. who didn't check their work, etc. etc.
If you still need to fix it / want someone to share some of the more technical information, try contacting Odia, I know he is able to restore IMEI's without backups, so he'd probably be your best bet.
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My bad, I was under the impression you did.
So you say that your .tar backup works, yeah? What exactly do you mean by that? Or are you saying that you've managed to restore your IMEI (using the .tar), but still want to know why it happened?
If so, there honestly could be a plethora of reasons, including rouge apps, a ROM dev. who didn't check their work, etc. etc.
If you still need to fix it / want someone to share some of the more technical information, try contacting Odia, I know he is able to restore IMEI's without backups, so he'd probably be your best bet.
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Thanks for pointing me to the right direction.
Let me set the facts straight. I was able to restore it using a tar backup. Initially I used an img to try to restore but that failed. Good thing that during the time I backed up my efs I was amused with the app and made both img and tar backups just for kicks.
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Thanks for pointing me to the right direction.
Let me set the facts straight. I was able to restore it using a tar backup. Initially I used an img to try to restore but that failed. Good thing that during the time I backed up my efs I was amused with the app and made both img and tar backups just for kicks.
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Could I ask which app precisely? Just wanting to know!
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Could I ask which app precisely? Just wanting to know!
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It's called EFS Pro 1.2.6. Can be found in xda.
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