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[Q] Noob question about unlocking bootloader. Seeking Clarification

Hey guys,
Decided i want to flash the franco kernel on my N4 which is currently completely unrooted and stock. So i need to unlock the bootloader, root and install a custom recovery before i can do anything. Just a couple quick questions first.
- When i unlock the bootloader, will i lose absolutely everything? Including photos, videos etc?
If so, does this also mean that my titanium backup file will be deleted too? - Im guessing ill have to move this file onto my PC first to avoid losing my backup.
I did have another question too... hmm maybe ill remember in a bit. But yeah, any clarification with the above would be awesome.
Cheers guys! Im not new to this, ive rooted my N1 and SGS2 in the past but they both had SD's!
Cheers, Jim.

jimbob_me said:
Hey guys,
Decided i want to flash the franco kernel on my N4 which is currently completely unrooted and stock. So i need to unlock the bootloader, root and install a custom recovery before i can do anything. Just a couple quick questions first.
- When i unlock the bootloader, will i lose absolutely everything? Including photos, videos etc?
If so, does this also mean that my titanium backup file will be deleted too? - Im guessing ill have to move this file onto my PC first to avoid losing my backup.
I did have another question too... hmm maybe ill remember in a bit. But yeah, any clarification with the above would be awesome.
Cheers guys! Im not new to this, ive rooted my N1 and SGS2 in the past but they both had SD's!
Cheers, Jim.
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i believe franco kernel is only flashable via fastboot or adb

When you unlock your boot loader it will wipe everything including pictures and videos.As for titanium backup it should restore with your Google account when you set your phone back up again.
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simms22 said:
i believe franco kernel is only flashable via fastboot or adb
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He also provides a zip file to flash in recovery.

heat361 said:
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He also provides a zip file to flash in recovery.
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sweet

Ill worry about flashing franco kernel when i get to it. For now i just want to unlock the bootloader and get root.
When it comes to flashing the franco kernel ill probably just download the franco app from the app store. You can flash using that i believe?

jimbob_me said:
Ill worry about flashing franco kernel when i get to it. For now i just want to unlock the bootloader and get root.
When it comes to flashing the franco kernel ill probably just download the franco app from the app store. You can flash using that i believe?
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Yes you can flash using the Franco app providing you have a custom recovery

everything in your storage will be deleted. just move everything to your computer before unlocking the bootloader, then move it back after.

Yes everything is wiped.. but you can also back up all your important things anyway onto your pc and just copy them back onto your phone when you have finished.

Awesome. Cheers guys.
Plan on using clockworkmod recovery as ive used this before on all my other devices.
If i have any more problems ill let you know on here.

jimbob_me said:
Hey guys,
Decided i want to flash the franco kernel on my N4 which is currently completely unrooted and stock. So i need to unlock the bootloader, root and install a custom recovery before i can do anything. Just a couple quick questions first.
- When i unlock the bootloader, will i lose absolutely everything? Including photos, videos etc?
If so, does this also mean that my titanium backup file will be deleted too? - Im guessing ill have to move this file onto my PC first to avoid losing my backup.
I did have another question too... hmm maybe ill remember in a bit. But yeah, any clarification with the above would be awesome.
Cheers guys! Im not new to this, ive rooted my N1 and SGS2 in the past but they both had SD's!
Cheers, Jim.
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Yes, everything will be wiped from the device. Including the internal SD Card. And I also recommend using TWRP, installable via Goo Manager app.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium

All done. No problems at all. Just restoring everything now.
Now to resist the urge to flash a custom ROM. What do people tend to run these days? I want something that looks as close to stock as possible but improves speed and performance? Cyanogenmod still a good shout?
Cheers!

jimbob_me said:
All done. No problems at all. Just restoring everything now.
Now to resist the urge to flash a custom ROM. What do people tend to run these days? I want something that looks as close to stock as possible but improves speed and performance? Cyanogenmod still a good shout?
Cheers!
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All of the Roms are pretty good and plenty fast. All of the Roms are fast , but if you like to change your app DPI and also get full screen mode with PIE controls then I suggest paranoid android.
Edit:You don't have to use a custom ROM if you don't want the those features, your kernel will decide how fast your device is. If you want you can stay on stock with Franco kernel and get great battery life and speed.

Hmm ill stick with stock on franco kernel for a while and see how it goes. No doubt ill give in eventually and try something new.
Currently having issues using Clockworkmod Carbon backup/restore app. I used this to backup all my apps/data before iunlocked my bootloader (I would normally use Titanium but that required root).
So i backed everything up. Took the backup file called 'Carbon' from my phone and placed it onto my PC desktop.
Unlocked bootloader, rooted, flashed CWM recovery, rebooted. All good!
Redownloaded the carbon app. Placed the backup folder from my PC onto the phone into the new 'Carbon' folder created when the app launches for the first time. I go to restore my apps and it says 'No backups were found on your internal storage'. Even though i just put them there! Its like the app is no longer looking in the same place to find the backup folder.
Its not my apps im annoyed about so much, but mostly my user data and sms messages and stuff.
Anyone have a fix for this?
Cheers

jimbob_me said:
Hmm ill stick with stock on franco kernel for a while and see how it goes. No doubt ill give in eventually and try something new.
Currently having issues using Clockworkmod Carbon backup/restore app. I used this to backup all my apps/data before iunlocked my bootloader (I would normally use Titanium but that required root).
So i backed everything up. Took the backup file called 'Carbon' from my phone and placed it onto my PC desktop.
Unlocked bootloader, rooted, flashed CWM recovery, rebooted. All good!
Redownloaded the carbon app. Placed the backup folder from my PC onto the phone into the new 'Carbon' folder created when the app launches for the first time. I go to restore my apps and it says 'No backups were found on your internal storage'. Even though i just put them there! Its like the app is no longer looking in the same place to find the backup folder.
Its not my apps im annoyed about so much, but mostly my user data and sms messages and stuff.
Anyone have a fix for this?
Cheers
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Don't you have to sign in to your carbon account to see anything? Sorry I can't help you because I'm not familiar with carbon. You could always contact support [email protected]

Hmm still no luck.
Yeah ive sent them an email. Guess ill just wait to hear back from them.
Cheers for the help guys

Any luck with the backups, I'm having the fame problem.

On my N4, this went OK with Carbon!
On my N7, it was not OK, I got the same message. Just emailed that address. Did you not get any reply?
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Konstigt said:
On my N4, this went OK with Carbon!
On my N7, it was not OK, I got the same message. Just emailed that address. Did you not get any reply?
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I have one idea of my own.. the device id has probably changed. TitaniumBackup usually fixes this on my N4 if I reinstall but i didn't have this on my N7 as it was not rooted.
Could that be it? If so, how can it be changed .. (and how do you know what it was)?

[Q] Restoring S5 back to original rom

Before I played around with the CM 12 nightly I took 2 backups of the stock rom, one from online nandroid and one from clockwork. I tried to restore on of them from clockwork today and the restore goes fine but when the stock room boots everything crashes.. i.e every app. Any ideas?
Note that my backups are on my external sd card.

zunicf said:
Before I played around with the CM 12 nightly I took 2 backups of the stock rom, one from online nandroid and one from clockwork. I tried to restore on of them from clockwork today and the restore goes fine but when the stock room boots everything crashes.. i.e every app. Any ideas?
Note that my backups are on my external sd card.
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wipe your data and dalvik cache it should work

zunicf said:
Before I played around with the CM 12 nightly I took 2 backups of the stock rom, one from online nandroid and one from clockwork. I tried to restore on of them from clockwork today and the restore goes fine but when the stock room boots everything crashes.. i.e every app. Any ideas?
Note that my backups are on my external sd card.
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I had the same issue, although I am using twrp, move the backup to the internal sd card then restore from there, it should work fine then, always flash and restore off the internal sd card. You can store on the SD but move them to internal when u want to use them. Learned this after some frustrating moments dealing with the same issue. For whatever reason flashing off the external card is wonky for me.

I have encountered the same issues, I use TWRP recovery. I've found that if you do a repair from the wipe menu on data, system, etc - that it will solve restoration issues. Especially if you run into the internal storage invisibility bug or images misbehaving.

m2geek said:
I have encountered the same issues, I use TWRP recovery. I've found that if you do a repair from the wipe menu on data, system, etc - that it will solve restoration issues. Especially if you run into the internal storage invisibility bug or images misbehaving.
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I may look into that, does it wipe everything except the recovery though?

fantasy2c said:
I may look into that, does it wipe everything except the recovery though?
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I don't think doing the "Repair" wipes anything, but back up just to be sure
Its in the advanced wipe menu, click on 1 partition at a time, e.g. Data then click repair.

m2geek said:
I don't think doing the "Repair" wipes anything, but back up just to be sure
Its in the advanced wipe menu, click on 1 partition at a time, e.g. Data then click repair.
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Thanks for the tip, I don't have issues with my internal just my external but if I do I'll give that a shot

Also, you can flash a CM11 ROM, allow it to boot, skip set up, then go back into recovery and restore your nandroid. This always works for me. I don't know why, but I can't go from CM12 to stock TW without a full system crash. But if I leapfrog to CM11, then to the nandroid, everything is okay. Who knows. This is with TWRP, using the external SD.

i have the same problem and the only way is flashing your rom stock via odin and then you can install your nandroid again without problem doing the respetive wipes.
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zunicf said:
Before I played around with the CM 12 nightly I took 2 backups of the stock rom, one from online nandroid and one from clockwork. I tried to restore on of them from clockwork today and the restore goes fine but when the stock room boots everything crashes.. i.e every app. Any ideas?
Note that my backups are on my external sd card.
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SM-T350 Internal Storage Problem *Please Help*

Hello, it seems as if my internal storage has unmounted/is missing the last thing I think I was doing before I encountered this problem was either installing a custom boot animation, or spoofing my devices model & Mac address. I tried restoring default Mac and other device information, and even running some commands in terminal emulator and nothing worked. Any help would be much appreciated.

OfficialPyroh said:
Hello, it seems as if my internal storage has unmounted/is missing the last thing I think I was doing before I encountered this problem was either installing a custom boot animation, or spoofing my devices model & Mac address. I tried restoring default Mac and other device information, and even running some commands in terminal emulator and nothing worked. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Just another piece of evidence that changing boot animation is a bad idea ?

SpookehAndroid said:
Just another piece of evidence that changing boot animation is a bad idea ?
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It trulely is! I fixed this problem by flashing stock rom

OfficialPyroh said:
It trulely is! I fixed this problem by flashing stock rom
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Great to hear man! I didn't mean to seem rude. I was just cracking a joke haha
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OfficialPyroh said:
It trulely is! I fixed this problem by flashing stock rom
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You can solve most problems by simply flashing stock rom. You should probably get twrp installed on your sm-t350 to get nandroid backups.

SpookehAndroid said:
Great to hear man! I didn't mean to seem rude. I was just cracking a joke haha
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You can solve most problems by simply flashing stock rom. You should probably get twrp installed on your sm-t350 to get nandroid backups.
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I never have a device without twrp. Im running evervolv rom for this tablet now, whats a nandroid? (Sorry for noob question)

OfficialPyroh said:
I never have a device without twrp. Im running evervolv rom for this tablet now, whats a nandroid? (Sorry for noob question)
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Back up of your device. When in doubt you flash in twrp. You can back all data. You can Google for more info. It's pretty simple too

SpookehAndroid said:
Back up of your device. When in doubt you flash in twrp. You can back all data. You can Google for more info. It's pretty simple too
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Ohh lol, i should have guessed that, will definetly do that soon just incase i become curious and break something again.

OfficialPyroh said:
Ohh lol, i should have guessed that, will definetly do that soon just incase i become curious and break something again.
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Haha, good plan!

SpookehAndroid said:
Haha, good plan!
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So I made my nandroid backup, and after the backup was complete I tried to reboot to my device and it went straight back to recovery. I tried restoring the backup i just made but then upon trying to reboot, it said "No OS installed, are you sure you want to reboot?", I clicked yes, and instead of it going into a boot loop or booting to my device it went straight back into recovery. I used the TWRP file manager and all my files and my SD card is still present so no operating system clearly isnt true. got any suggestions?
Also i dont have access to my computer for the next couple of hours

OfficialPyroh said:
So I made my nandroid backup, and after the backup was complete I tried to reboot to my device and it went straight back to recovery. I tried restoring the backup i just made but then upon trying to reboot, it said "No OS installed, are you sure you want to reboot?", I clicked yes, and instead of it going into a boot loop or booting to my device it went straight back into recovery. I used the TWRP file manager and all my files and my SD card is still present so no operating system clearly isnt true. got any suggestions?
Also i dont have access to my computer for the next couple of hours
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Your files are not on the same partition as the OS. If twrp says you don't have an OS then you've wiped it. It will boot to recovery if you have no OS.
Install the stock firmware with odin.

Mounting issues

I have rooted and unlocked bootloader. I was running a rom just fine i flashed a kernel and getting boot loop. when i mount the phone to reload rom. windows 10 is having a hard time accessing the hard drive. I mean i see the htc 10 from windows explorer i open the hard drive of phone but won't open... is there a secret to mounting this phone?
how do i mount this phone and access the internal storage without issue on windows 10?

belovedson said:
I have rooted and unlocked bootloader. I was running a rom just fine i flashed a kernel and getting boot loop. when i mount the phone to reload rom. windows 10 is having a hard time accessing the hard drive. I mean i see the htc 10 from windows explorer i open the hard drive of phone but won't open... is there a secret to mounting this phone?
how do i mount this phone and access the internal storage without issue on windows 10?
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You try and sideload rom using twrp?
You may also be able to access internal/external storage while in twrp

andybones said:
You try and sideload rom using twrp?
You may also be able to access internal/external storage while in twrp
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tried it doesnt work

Almost sounds like you flashed an incorrect or corrupt kernel .. I had this happen once before and fixed it by re-flashing a stock, rooted RRU back to the phone and starting over
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Take a look at this link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/soft-bricked-im-dumb-t3378838
I've bricked my phone more than once.. You can also try booting into TWRP, erasing EVERYTHING, and reinstalling everything through your SD card (You must copy the ROM to your SD card after formatting the data and reboot your phone back to TWRP again) which has also worked for me. Honestly your best bet is to search around on here and do your homework before taking a swing at trying to fix the problem. You don't want to brick it to the point of no return which is possible, but honestly I've been modifying and flashing phones before Androids even hit the market and I've never had a permanent brick. There's always a way

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Almost sounds like you flashed an incorrect or corrupt kernel .. I had this happen once before and fixed it by re-flashing a stock, rooted RRU back to the phone and starting over
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Take a look at this link: https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/soft-bricked-im-dumb-t3378838
I've bricked my phone more than once.. You can also try booting into TWRP, erasing EVERYTHING, and reinstalling everything through your SD card (You must copy the ROM to your SD card after formatting the data and reboot your phone back to TWRP again) which has also worked for me. Honestly your best bet is to search around on here and do your homework before taking a swing at trying to fix the problem. You don't want to brick it to the point of no return which is possible, but honestly I've been modifying and flashing phones before Androids even hit the market and I've never had a permanent brick. There's always a way
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ugh i will try that next. if this damn phone continues to have issues i will only stick to nexus and pixel devices.

Can I restore my phone or am I screwed?

I used the Moto G5 toolkit I found on here to root my phone (it's been forever since I last rooted, and it seemed like a simple, fast method), and I backed up my phone via the android backup option. It saved as a .ab file, is it possible to restore my phone to what it was before restoring/rooting last night (pre-root)? Skimming around, it's looking unlikely. Is there any way to get my phone somewhat back to what it was before? Unfortunately my grandma was signed into my account on an old tablet I gave her, and her stuff backed up via google, so I'm out of luck in that department.. Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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never take the easy way out unless have n idea what it does, adb restore backup.ab
i assume that backup is only apps n data doh so if don"t work would need flash a stock rom from here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbU72RH_Rk&feature=youtu.be

krison01 said:
never take the easy way out unless have n idea what it does, adb restore backup.ab
i assume that backup is only apps n data doh so if don"t work would need flash a stock rom from here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbU72RH_Rk&feature=youtu.be
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is it possible to flash over my current rom without messing it up? i have a feeling the answer is no lol. at this point i've kind of started over, but if i can get at least my texts, photos, etc. back, it would be awesome. just not sure, the backup file is only 83mb. i didn't have a lot of pictures, but something tells me that's not what it has on it.

Braxton343 said:
is it possible to flash over my current rom without messing it up? i have a feeling the answer is no lol. at this point i've kind of started over, but if i can get at least my texts, photos, etc. back, it would be awesome. just not sure, the backup file is only 83mb. i didn't have a lot of pictures, but something tells me that's not what it has on it.
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hmm u have twrp installed? if so can boot into it mount internal to usb n copy files if not then pray backup u made has it

krison01 said:
hmm u have twrp installed? if so can boot into it mount internal to usb n copy files if not then pray backup u made has it
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boot into it with my phone?

Braxton343 said:
boot into it with my phone?
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by that answer i can assume u don't have twrp install, so just follow the youtube video