Hello!
1) Is it necessary to ensure that the NST has setting restored (from the Nooks setting menu) before rooting?
2) Does restoring settings from NST Nook menu deregister the device with B&N? I ask because I've read it's important to register the device before rooting or else face reduced battery life - If restoring deregisters the device then I'm concerned about restoring settings before rooting.
3) Once rooted, is it still 'safe' to restore settings from the Nook menu? I only wonder as I'll be giving the device to a less tech savvy person and I'm concerned that in the future they may attempt to use this menu and encounter difficulties.
4) The 'Restore to factory settings' option in NookManager - Does this reset settings but keep root? Or does it restore the Nook to a factory clean image? If the former, I'm wondering if it might be an idea to 'Restore to factory settings' after rooting to ensure everything is in a known good state.
Thanks.
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I've done too much crap to my phone since I bought it and I want to just kind of start over now that I know what I'm doing (somewhat).
Does "wiping" the phone prior to installing a ROM actually reformat everything? Just curious. I want to go back to factory and kind of set up my system again. (Preferably without unrooting? That might be impossible)
Thanks for any advice.
Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset
I rooted my nook, tried to change the screensaver and turn off images but it messed up with my ADW.Launcher settings. Unfortunately I didn't made a backup file from framework.jar.
Now I'm stuck with the B&N Home and I can't launch the ADW, nor the Button Savior nor nothing outside the stock B&N app.
I've tried to restore everything with n2T-Recovery (the both methods) but didn't work. At all!...
I'm needing some help here
I think if you used n2t you need to reroot since that triggers the 8 failed boots which causes a rewrite of the system date.
I rerooted, but that didn't seemed to help...
nunocasteleira said:
I've tried to restore everything with n2T-Recovery (the both methods) but didn't work. At all!...
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Did you expect triggering Factory Restore would help you fix your broken root?
Trigger Factory Reset by going to Settings -> Device Info -> Erase and Deregister
This will clear all your settings, including broken ones, then reroot your NST.
ros87 said:
Did you expect triggering Factory Restore would help you fix your broken root?
Trigger Factory Reset by going to Settings -> Device Info -> Erase and Deregister
This will clear all your settings, including broken ones, then reroot your NST.
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thank you very much! that solved the problem
or if you have a backup file you can format the nook and write the backup img, your nook will be new as fresh
My tpt has been acting a little flaky. So, I am thinking a factory reset is in order. But, I don't want to have to set everything up again from scratch. So, I was wondering what would be the best way to backup apps and homescreen config data?
I've done a Titanium Backup of all user apps and system data. But, I'm worried that restoring system data might bring back whatever is causing my current flakiness.
Also, if the factory reset destroys all data on the TPT, how do I save the Titanium data for restoration? Can I copy the Titanium Backup folder to an SD or PC, and restore from there after reset?
Should I temporarily unroot using RK before reset?
I assume I will have to download and re-install RK, TB, and SU after reset. I'm just worried that if my current issue of the Play Store not being able to DL apps isn't fixed by the reset, I'll be screwed.
TIA
Hey guys, new owner of the Verizon Note 3.
Love the phone and everything is fast and great.
I'm on 4.3 MJE and rooted. Safestrap installed with no slots, just the stock. Wanted to be able to make backups and have the recovery option.
Just this morning my Note 3 stopped letting open the settings from any angle. From notification panel or anywhere else.
It immediately closes and shows the message "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped"
I tried rebooting to safestrap and wiping cache and dalvik cache.
no fix.
I have some system apps frozen with Titanium backup, but have defrosted the ones I very recently froze to see if that helped. And still not able to get into settings.
Any advice? I'm sure you all appreciate how much of a pain in the butt it is to factory reset or flash and start over! I hate reconfiguring my apps and settings! So if that can be avoided in any way I'd be soooo happy!
Thanks!
tw3ak.
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Hey guys, new owner of the Verizon Note 3.
Love the phone and everything is fast and great.
I'm on 4.3 MJE and rooted. Safestrap installed with no slots, just the stock. Wanted to be able to make backups and have the recovery option.
Just this morning my Note 3 stopped letting open the settings from any angle. From notification panel or anywhere else.
It immediately closes and shows the message "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped"
I tried rebooting to safestrap and wiping cache and dalvik cache.
no fix.
I have some system apps frozen with Titanium backup, but have defrosted the ones I very recently froze to see if that helped. And still not able to get into settings.
Any advice? I'm sure you all appreciate how much of a pain in the butt it is to factory reset or flash and start over! I hate reconfiguring my apps and settings! So if that can be avoided in any way I'd be soooo happy!
Thanks!
tw3ak.
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I'm pretty sure you need to reboot after unfreezing; you didn't mention if you did that.
The best way to avoid this kind of situation is to make Nandroid backups before you start tw3aking. Sure they are huge, but look at your situation now. You can always delete them after some time after it is clear they are not needed, but you can't create them out of thin air when it is too late.
So, before you make things even worse with further experimentation, make a Nandroid right now of your semi-broken setup. If you break things even further trying to fix this current problem, at least you can go back to where you are right now. You might want to make an TiBu market app/data backup as well and get the TiBu backups onto external media in case you need to go all the way back to Odin.
Dump your logcat after the "Settings" crash. There will be further clues there (possibly undecipherable, but hey.) Post that up to pastebin.com for others to look at if you don't grok it. (but scrub any personal data in there first). If you don't already have USB debugging turned on, you can use a terminal emulator or a Logcat capture app.
# logcat -c (to clear the log)
( force the settings crash)
# logcat -v threadtime > /sdcard/my_logcat_after_settings_crash.txt
There is a chance that it is something simple, e.g. one of the sqlite databases in /data/data/com.android.settings is corrupted, but the various Activities that are launched from underneath "Settings" touch stuff all over the /data partition (e.g. /data/misc and elsewhere). From where you are right now, there is no way to know whether your problem is due to:
(1) a problem in /system
(2) a problem in /data
(1+2) both
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Thanks for all the tips!
With some reluctance I managed to move to a much older backup i forgot I made and the settings works fine again!
those backups are a life saver.
Thanks again.
tw3ak.
Glad you got it fixed.
I had something similar happen last night - I accidentally fat-fingered a language change, and every time I went back in to fix it (Settings -> Language & Input), Settings would crash. (This is on MJ7)
Took a while to manually figure out how to fix it (Doh, /data/property/persist.sys.language) without restoring a backup. I didn't mention it here right away because your symptoms sounded different - Settings was crashing for me only when I went in to the Language & Input sub-menu)
Try using SS 3.65 and not the newest version and see if that fixes the problem.
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Glad you got it fixed.
I had something similar happen last night - I accidentally fat-fingered a language change, and every time I went back in to fix it (Settings -> Language & Input), Settings would crash. (This is on MJ7)
Took a while to manually figure out how to fix it (Doh, /data/property/persist.sys.language) without restoring a backup. I didn't mention it here right away because your symptoms sounded different - Settings was crashing for me only when I went in to the Language & Input sub-menu)
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i have the same problem. setting was crashing everytime i went to language & input. can u help me to ix it?
I installed the February Security Patch on my Nexus 6P, I then proceeded to perform a factory reset on my phone.
Before I did that though, I turned off the "Back up my data" option on my phone. Doing so turns it off and deletes any backed up data I may have. The problem is, while going through the device setup, I was presented with an option to restore from a backup (let's call this Backup 1). Something that has never happened to me since I've always done the same steps as before. I then opted to set up my phone as a new device. Since I was bothered by that "backup", I checked Google Drive if there were any backups. There were none. What I did then was did another factory reset on the phone (still turning off the "Back up my data" option). Still the same issue during setup.
I then tried to test something. I opted to set my phone again as a new device, installed a couple of apps then performed a factory reset. This time though, I kept the back up option on assuming it would back the current state of the device (let's call this Backup 2). During setup, I was surprised though that the restore option is still for Backup 1.
So, got a little lost by your phrasing > but it seems to me, that when you INITIALLY setup your phone, you had the 'keep app data / settings/ etc' backup as a checked option, and this is what you keep seeing up a new setup?
Yes. I've always had the automatically backup settings checked during setup. And I've always done factory resets before wherein I uncheck backups first. Doing that deletes the backup on the cloud and during setup I won't be asked if I want to restore.
However, after the Security Patch, even unchecking that before a factory reset would still have me presented with a "restore" option during setup.