While giving Android 4.2 a try. I decided to switch recoveries from CM to TWRP and lost my backup. Problem is now I can go into recovery, but have no backup or roms to load. Yes I made the noob mistake of clearing everything to install backup and now there is nothing to install rom or backup wise. There is no "0" folder or anything. All I can do is boot into recovery mode. Also, tried to do a factory image restore and just ran into a bunch of problems. Just really confused and have been at this for hours. Now I'm just lost. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!
Please excuse my moment of insanity, got it all figured out! Sorry to have wasted space in this forum with such a lop sided cry for help.
What did you do, I ended up doing the same thing.
Tonight.... You
From fastboot :
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Reboot into recovery and flash rom of choice
Fastboot is bar far my favorite tool in the sdk as it has been a lifesaver dating back to the good ol g1 days. I suggest reading a few tutorials on it. Can't remeber but I think one I made is linked in my signature, if not its under my posts
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figured it out thanks to everyone. None of the guides specifically told me that you needed to root your phone to do a nandroid. I swear the first step and second steps in all guides is NANDROID!!!!! NANDROID!!!!!! Thanks to these guys i got it figured out a couple weeks ago. now i got s=off running cw7 rc4 w/ faux123's kernel. also got custom boot anime and splash screen. once i got that nandroid thing figured out it was easy from there. Thanks again!
tjlawson09 said:
I can't figure out how to do a nandroid backup. I'm getting set up to root my phone and got all the apps and what not. I boot into recovery mode on MT4G and goto recovery and than i get a splash screen followed by a picture of the phoner with a red exclamation point on top of it. I can't do anything from that screen. My understanding is that i goto recovery mode and than i have options of restoring a nandroid or making a nandroid. Anything would help very frustrating. thanks.
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You have to flash cwm 3.0.0.6 it sounds like u have stock recovery.
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Like said above, you can't make a Nandroid backup without a custom recovery installed. That means you can't make a backup until after you're rooted.
Follow one of the many guides to root your phone. After you get it rooted... boot into clockwork recovery and go down to backup/restore. Select backup and let it do its thing.
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So Today i just installed v8 ics bootloader on my acer a500 and i was very happy because after one month of trying auto way and failing i tried manual way and it worked :laugh:
so i installed cwm then i wanted to install a rom
at the wipes i choose
Dalvik Cache
then i asked it to backup my first rom
so it went into the bootloader mode and after like 20 mins said that backup failed because of a reason i can't remember .
then it restarted and it just freezes at the bootloader screen .
and whenever i restart or anything just freezes at bootloader screen. :crying:
is there anything i could do to fix it ? even if it includes wiping all of my data?
I am new to android I know I probably just did something very stupid but we all do mistake and learn.
I suggest installing whatever rom you were planing on installing after your backup, that might fix your boot problem. I also suggest flashing and using TWRP recovery, Cwm would never backup my flexrom partition but TWRP always backs it up and i never have issues making a backup or restoring from a backup since using twrp. Use TWRP 1.7.- as some problems arise when using the 2.2- versions..
I used the afterota to install twrp over the cwm recovery but you might not need to.
Good luck and if i can help you i will if issues arise.
Please I am a noob can u tell me how to do that in very boring details ?
now after a little button pressing thanks to ur idea it gpt fixed.
thanks alot
sasori962008 said:
now after a little button pressing thanks to ur idea it gpt fixed.
thanks alot
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Happy that it worked for you.
Here is the newbie situation.
1)i just root my N4 JWR66Y successfully then
2)Flash a custom rom and reboot successfully
3)was playing around the new roms n reboot THEN this happen
4)it bootloop and i power off the phone then it comes to TWRP 2.6.0
5)try to reboot and there is no OS install
6)i still able to boot into recovery and bootloader but cant BOOT
Please help me guys:crying:
Just flash the ROM again.
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If you can get to the bootloader/recovery you're not bricked.
The moment you can't do anything with your phone except throw it at somebody is the moment its bricked. You are ok my friend as posted above just flash another rom but I am confused if your phone would only go into recovery why would you not try and restore backup or just flash another rom?
Edit: Hopefully you made a backup of your original rom? Also what recovery are you using
playya said:
The moment you can't do anything with your phone except throw it at somebody is the moment its bricked. You are ok my friend as posted above just flash another rom but I am confused if your phone would only go into recovery why would you not try and restore backup or just flash another rom?
Edit: Hopefully you made a backup of your original rom? Also what recovery are you using
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:good:so its not bricked. nothing is inside the storage so do my backup file.it seems the internal memory is EMPTY.
SOLVED heres the guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2376681
Thanks guys for replying
Someone please help me! I was trying to install Philz recovery by flashing it from twrp recovery but Philz recovery didn't show up when I tried going to recovery mode. Instead the screen just went black. So I restarted the phone and tried to use the android terminal to flash it manually by typing..
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dd if /sdcard/recoveryfilename.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm sdcc.1/by-name/recovery. (I don't remember the message the terminal gave after that)
Now, judging from the fact that 1)the internal storage is now empty. 2) browser crashes when trying to download files and 3)superuser won't work for any app (apps that I'm trying to use to somehow flash back the twrp recovery so I can restore a backup ex. Flashify)... I'm assuming I made a mistake when typing in android terminal. Is there any hope for me or do I have an expensive paper weight?
Extra info: I can boot into the rom (aokp 4.4) just fine... No more data or cell connection... wifi still works. LG G2 803. Bell Canada.
Please if anyone has any tips help me out. Thank you in advance. I'll continue searching for forums for answers.
Edit: a potential solution i found is to flash a stock rom with the "r&d tool" but will that bring back the files in the internal storage?
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Youngbloodx said:
Someone please help me! I was trying to install Philz recovery by flashing it from twrp recovery but Philz recovery didn't show up when I tried going to recovery mode. Instead the screen just went black. So I restarted the phone and tried to use the android terminal to flash it manually by typing..
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dd if /sdcard/recoveryfilename.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm sdcc.1/by-name/recovery. (I don't remember the message the terminal gave after that)
Now, judging from the fact that 1)the internal storage is now empty. 2) browser crashes when trying to download files and 3)superuser won't work for any app (apps that I'm trying to use to somehow flash back the twrp recovery so I can restore a backup ex. Flashify)... I'm assuming I made a mistake when typing in android terminal. Is there any hope for me or do I have an expensive paper weight?
Extra info: I can boot into the rom (aokp 4.4) just fine... No more data or cell connection... wifi still works. LG G2 803. Bell Canada.
Please if anyone has any tips help me out. Thank you in advance. I'll continue searching for forums for answers.
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freegee from the market will install a recovery.
as a last resort you can flash back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
problem solved. Used the last resort, but immediately after flashing kdz the LG logo kept bootlooping. So I did factory restore by holding down up button and power button. Thank you.
Hi guys, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505, which is rooted of course. I am tired of the interface and want something fresh, but before that I need to get through that damn nandroid backup. When I launch my phone into recovery, I have no option to take that backup, which I knew I wouldn't have. I also tried download CWM, and launch that into the custom recovery mod, but that didn't work either, it just sent me into the default recovery. Then I looked around, and found this TWRP or TRWP or something, and tried that, but the same thing happened. I looked a little more and someone had said that you could flash into an .img file through adb emulator, which I of course tried. When I did that, this happened: dropbox.com/s/5e1ae2npir9n8v3/2014-09-14%2022.50.03.png. (Couldn't post as link, since I don't have many posts, and please don't remove it So, obviously, my question is as following; Do you know anything else I could try? I really want to take a backup of my phone before flashing any roms, and I believe I even need a custom recovery mod to do so anyway . Help is appreciated, thanks
iPixels said:
Hi guys, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505, which is rooted of course. I am tired of the interface and want something fresh, but before that I need to get through that damn nandroid backup. When I launch my phone into recovery, I have no option to take that backup, which I knew I wouldn't have. I also tried download CWM, and launch that into the custom recovery mod, but that didn't work either, it just sent me into the default recovery. Then I looked around, and found this TWRP or TRWP or something, and tried that, but the same thing happened. I looked a little more and someone had said that you could flash into an .img file through adb emulator, which I of course tried. When I did that, this happened: dropbox.com/s/5e1ae2npir9n8v3/2014-09-14%2022.50.03.png. (Couldn't post as link, since I don't have many posts, and please don't remove it So, obviously, my question is as following; Do you know anything else I could try? I really want to take a backup of my phone before flashing any roms, and I believe I even need a custom recovery mod to do so anyway . Help is appreciated, thanks
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Hi mate ,
Try flashing a custom recovery with odin....
I like philz touch
download here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281367
instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
with philz you just choose backup restore options ( these is for the nandroid backup) from there you select internal sd or external sd.... after a few minutes ....you just made a nandroid
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Thank you for your answer. I tried PhilZ touch, but that did not work either for some reason. I tried the zip first, flashing it from my recovery, but when it finished, I was sent directly to the desktop screen, and nothing happened. Same when I flashed through Odin. Or am I just stupid and that was the point, and there's something out there I was missing?
EDIT: It worked afterall, just restarted the phone and launched into recovery. Dumb me. Thank you man, I appreciate it!
thx
iPixels said:
Thank you for your answer. I tried PhilZ touch, but that did not work either for some reason. I tried the zip first, flashing it from my recovery, but when it finished, I was sent directly to the desktop screen, and nothing happened. Same when I flashed through Odin. Or am I just stupid and that was the point, and there's something out there I was missing?
EDIT: It worked afterall, just restarted the phone and launched into recovery. Dumb me. Thank you man, I appreciate it!
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great mate!! :good: