[Q] Restoring backup after flashing ROM - Omnia 7 General

Hey guys I flashed my Omnia 7 to the latest 7.8 ROM that just came out, but had some stability issues and decided to go back to Tango, so I flashed it back to a factory Optus (my carrier) ROM and updated accordingly back to Tango.
I made a backup using WP7 easy backup before I did all of this and was wondering if there's a way to restore the phone to it. I've tried doing it via Zune but it just fails giving me error 801812E0.
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[Q] factory rom

iam new to this i was wondering where do i get the factory rom for my hd2 i didnt back my contacts up so now i got to reinstall factory rom to get mobile back up so i can back it up with pim
What are you asking? If you didn't back up your contacts, re-installing the stock ROM isn't going to bring them back.
would someone still link to the stock rom, i want it back
tmobile.com support hd2, or similar.

[Q] ROM Upgrade Weirdness Help

Hi
I recently got an OTA update notification on my Defy+ but it does not work. It is an upgrade from 2.3.4 to 2.3.5.
I am currently on this Stock ROM
4.5.1-134_DFP-74
It is rooted, 2ndInit and the only MOD is the 720p Video upgrade.
As the OTA didn't work I decided to flash a whole new SBF and chose this one
4.5.1-134-DFP-125 - CEE
I flashed it and it all went more or less okay (some slight issues with boot loops but sorted now). I also took a Nandroid backup of my 2.3.4 set up (on first flash I re flashed the Nandroid just to make sure it worked and it did).
I initially flashed the 2.3.5 SBF and then ran a Titanium Backup of all my apps and data. However, I found when I checked the ROM it was showing the 2.3.4. I realised that TB must have been flashing over all the 2.3.5 files like flashing the Nandroid back up does.
This morning I re flashed the 2.3.5 SBF and set my phone up without the TB initially and it showed as the 2.3.5 ROM in settings. After installing all my Apps from Market I used TB to install data only on some apps where I wanted to save time setting them. All were download apps (Handcent, eBay etc). The only system app I did this on was Blur Accounts.
I then checked my ROM version and it is showing it as my original Stock ROM!! I can't understand how restoring some data on some apps would do this.
Before I re flash the 2.3.5 SBF and manually install the phone can someone explain what is actually going on here please? I am assuming that by restoring some of the Titanium Backups I have set it back to the 2.3.4 ROM.
I should add the phone runs fine (if anything it is much smoother than before but that is probably due to me running script manager).
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Regards
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[Q]help with "Mobile Network not available" on stock ROM

Problem I am trying to solve: As soon as the device boots I get the notification "preparing network" and when I try to dial a number on the stock ROM and get "Mobile Network not available"
A Nandroid restore CM11 appears to connect to the mobile network (I can dial a number but get "your account could not be validated" because the device has not been successfully activated on the network yet)
Here is how I arrived at such a dilemma.
okay, I am gonna try to format this in a way where you can skip some sections that might be a little "ranty" while still making it informational while still requesting some assistance.
A little background (feel free to skip this part) I have been rooting and ROMing phones for a few years to support my Cyanogenmod fix. I buy my phones on eBay or Craigslist, and verify I can setup a recovery, then backup the rooted Stock ROM (to activate the device and update PRL, etc.) then install the CM version of my desire and transfer over all my settings and backup files and restore them so I have had the same look and feel for the operating system of my phone for the last few years. I am on TIng (a Sprint MVNO) and have had zero problems performing these hardware upgrades from my droid, to my galaxy nexus to my second galaxy nexus, to my galaxy S3 to my second Galaxy S3 on a regular basis using their website.
Last Friday, I picked up a Galaxy S4 (running NAE) at the local Sprint store and once verified by the Sprint employee as being a clean ESN, I was set to start my process of rooting, installing recovery (I chose TWRP), then Nandroid backup of the stock ROM, then install CM 11 M6 and copy over my backup files (Titanium Backup) from my S3 and restore them, then Nandroid backup of the CM 11 install, then restore of Stock NAE ROM to activate the phone. Here is where things get a little fishy.
For awhile now, I had been always used Clockwork in the past but several comparisons score TWRP a little higher for features and functionality so I decided to use that for my recovery. It installed CM just fine and it seemed to perform Nandroid backups without any problems (or so I thought). I attempted to restore my Nandroid Stock ROM to activate the device and upon boot I saw the familiar Cyanogenmod screen. I tried it again, but same thing. No big deal, I'll find a stock rooted NAE ROM, copy it to the SD card, install using TWRP, activate, Nandroid backup, then restore my CM Nandroid backup and be up and running. I installed the Stock Rooted NAE ROM using Odin and lose my TWRP recovery so I reinstall TWRP and make a Nandroid backup of the Stock Rooted NAE ROM using TWRP. I make sure my TWRP restore can restore my CM11 Nandroid backup and it does. Okay, I should be all set. I have a nandroid backup of stock and CM11. All I need to do is restore stock, activate and I am up. I attempted to restore my Nandroid Stock ROM backup to activate the device and upon boot I saw the familiar Cyanogenmod screen for the second time. At this point, I am a little frazzled as logically this has never happened in the history of all the devices I have worked with.
I start checking the forums to see if anyone has experienced this and see nothing. I see many "how-to" guides that cover all kinds of things for the Spring GS4 that include wiping the data and cache multiple times over and over using a recovery called PHILZ.
I abandon TWRP, restore Stock Rooted NAE ROM and as far as I can tell, I am ready to begin from scratch using PHILZ. Install PHILZ recovery, install CM 11 M6 and copy over my backup files (Titanium Backup) from my S3 and restore them, then Nandroid backup of the CM 11 install, then restore of Stock NAE ROM to activate the phone. This time I am able to successfully restore a Nandroid backup of Stock rooted ROM but I am seeing a little red x and zero bars for the mobile network connectivity.
I start checking the forums to see if anyone has experienced this and see a few people that have lost mobile network connectivity and claim loading a modem using Odin is the fix. I try NAE-Modem-Only.tar using Odin and that does not improve anything. I also try loading TriForceROM5.4 having read that any TW ROM can be used to access the menu to activate a device
Now I am stuck.
There is nothing I can do to get mobile network to work on a stock ROM. As soon as the device boots I get the notification "preparing network" and when I try to dial a number on the stock ROM and get "Mobile Network not available"
A Nandroid restore CM11 appears to connect to the mobile network (I can dial a number but get "your account could not be validated" because the device has not been successfully activated on the network yet).
this issue is resolved.
I followed the steps to "unroot / unbrick" my phone using multiple stock ROMS and finally, the stock ROM L720VPUFNAE_L720SPTFNAE_SPR performed a full reset on my device (all partitions). I wish I remembered the page that linked me to the download of that ROM but googling that name should provide you a few places to get it.
not sure if that helps anyone else but my appreciation to QBKING77 for his multiple "How-To" videos.

[Q] Runing Triforce 5.4 issues

First off I've rooted and unlocked international and domestic on the stock firmware.
I've performed a nandroid backup and have flashed back to it twice now.
So, where I am at: I've flashed Triforce 5.4 and had it working just fine. I went in and did a custom restore to restore the data onto my phone everything passed just fine and then I got stuck on the triforce boot screen just after the Galaxy S 4 screen.
I'm thinking there there might be something wrong with my backup? Perhaps the modem firmware or something of that nature but I'm not really sure. Just need a little advice to get rolling again because I'd really rather not have to manually get all the data and contacts back.

Help please! S8 bricked after downgrade attempt following OTA update

I have a Samsung s8 snapdragon 950U, T-mobile, running android 7.0, baseband - G950USQU2BQK5, build - nrd90m.G950USQS2BQL1. A couple weeks ago the mic stopped working so that I could not use speech-to-text which I rely on heavily. Nothing fixed it until I reflashed the phone with the same firmware. Before that I performed a ROM backup using clockworkmod and moved the backup files to my computer. I also used Titanium to backup system data like sms messages. After that, just as I was going to restore data, I get TMobile message that I’ve never seen before about a firmware update. I figured if it’s Oreo the update would fail because I have a custom ROM. Stupidly I chose to update and the next thing I know I have Android 8 – NOT rooted. That prevented me from using Titanium to restore settings.
Stupidly again, I decided to go back to the android 7 firmware and proceeded to root and flash the phone as I did before. This time it failed. I tried the SAMPWN and SAMFAIL methods repeatedly without success. Now I have bricked phone that just loops through a screen that says “Installing system update” followed immediately by another blue screen with a defunct android that says “no command.” I can get to download mode which Odin sees, but not to recovery, or anything that Smart Switch(which isn’t so smart) sees.
I have been downloading the Oreo firmware G950USQU4CRE9_G950UOYN4CRE9 for the past 4 hours hoping that I can maybe flash that. HELP! Can I somehow restore the nandroid backup using my computer? What should I do. I just need a working phone or I’m in big trouble.
frankygoes said:
I have a Samsung s8 snapdragon 950U, T-mobile, running android 7.0, baseband - G950USQU2BQK5, build - nrd90m.G950USQS2BQL1. A couple weeks ago the mic stopped working so that I could not use speech-to-text which I rely on heavily. Nothing fixed it until I reflashed the phone with the same firmware. Before that I performed a ROM backup using clockworkmod and moved the backup files to my computer. I also used Titanium to backup system data like sms messages. After that, just as I was going to restore data, I get TMobile message that I’ve never seen before about a firmware update. I figured if it’s Oreo the update would fail because I have a custom ROM. Stupidly I chose to update and the next thing I know I have Android 8 – NOT rooted. That prevented me from using Titanium to restore settings.
Stupidly again, I decided to go back to the android 7 firmware and proceeded to root and flash the phone as I did before. This time it failed. I tried the SAMPWN and SAMFAIL methods repeatedly without success. Now I have bricked phone that just loops through a screen that says “Installing system update” followed immediately by another blue screen with a defunct android that says “no command.” I can get to download mode which Odin sees, but not to recovery, or anything that Smart Switch(which isn’t so smart) sees.
I have been downloading the Oreo firmware G950USQU4CRE9_G950UOYN4CRE9 for the past 4 hours hoping that I can maybe flash that. HELP! Can I somehow restore the nandroid backup using my computer? What should I do. I just need a working phone or I’m in big trouble.
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update: i was able to flash the oreo firmware basically puts me back at step 2. becasue i backed up when rooted my backups now cannot be restored, or can they, at least in part? Is there any way i can restore some of the data in either the nandroid or titanium backups to my nonrooted oreo s8?

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