Hello!
I rooted my phone and flashed Philz Touch recovery [Knox 0x1] and I have made a complete backup of my stock rom and a batch titanium back up as well.
After the above I have done, I would like to try every kernel and custom rom and decide what works best for me I would like to avoid at all costs to reset to factory defaults because I do not have enough time to restore every app I use and see how it behaves on the custom rom / kernel I will be trying.
So is there any way to try the custom roms or kernels without resetting to factory defaults?
MariosFFX said:
Hello!
I rooted my phone and flashed Philz Touch recovery [Knox 0x1] and I have made a complete backup of my stock rom and a batch titanium back up as well.
After the above I have done, I would like to try every kernel and custom rom and decide what works best for me I would like to avoid at all costs to reset to factory defaults because I do not have enough time to restore every app I use and see how it behaves on the custom rom / kernel I will be trying.
So is there any way to try the custom roms or kernels without resetting to factory defaults?
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you can flash all kernels with out factory reset
roms you can try flashing over the top of a other rom sometimes it works fine i went from onega to crash to xnote without reset and its fine
if you use mybackup pro it will put everything back app data home screen and call log and so on takes about 30 mins to put it all back on
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Not sure how this one happened but stuck in a reboot cycle. I get the samsung galaxy logo, black screen and then it just hangs. I have 1 nandroid since I just started playing, and I can get into recovery, but when I try to restore I am getting an MD5 issue so won't restore.
This was a pretty much a stock galaxy 4, rooted with the hotspot mod flashed, so I won't be losing that much. I do see an option in recovery to wipe data / factory reset, but not sure if that will even work.
I don't have my windows machine with me, but my other thought from my old evo day's would be to mount the SD and flash from the SD, but have 3 hours to sit around and the wipe/factory reset could be done and re-setup by then.
Thanks for all read/replies.
try the factory reset and if that doesn't work, you can disable the md5 check in twrp and force the nandroid restore. If that doesn't work you are no worse off. If none of that works you will probably have to wait until you can use Odin to flash the MDL stock rom and start over.
cruise350 said:
try the factory reset and if that doesn't work, you can disable the md5 check in twrp and force the nandroid restore. If that doesn't work you are no worse off. If none of that works you will probably have to wait until you can use Odin to flash the MDL stock rom and start over.
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Yep, option 2 worked as expected ....
tnx
Hello, I rooted my handset yesterday following the tutorial on Android Forums, my Vodafone (UK) branded build is JDQ39.I9505XXUBMEA
I also installed CWM PhilZ Touch 5 (v6.0.3.7)
It works fine inside the OS but occasionally, when I restart the phone, it just hangs on the Samsung Mobile logo?
When that happens, I have to hold the power button then hold Up+Home and boot into PhilZ and then go to Reboot System Now and that restarts the phone mostly back into Android as normal.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
Good question. Haven't come accross something like that. I suggest flashing whatever ROM you want. It should get rid of your problem. If you still want a stable rom with all Samsung features, download Wanamlite 2.0 rom. It's a very good replacement for your stock rom. Or you can try Omege rom. It includes all samsung bloatware incl. S HEALTH etc.
Good luck and let us know! :thumbup:
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have used CWM to do a full data back up onto my SD card. As I'm new to rooting, is there a way I can restore that data onto a new rom so I don't have to keep setting up my phone completely? Even like, settings and shortcuts on the home screen etc?
Not really. What you can do is backup all your apps etsc with Titaniumbackup. With this you can restore all apps+data.
Setting up your phone isn't that bad considering its only settings.
Tha initial backup youve made through CWM is only a backup of your system. I dont think this includes all apps. I never revert to a previous rom. I prever a clean install to have the best rom exlerience without bugs etc.
If you try a new rom. And you dont like it at all(not likely) or for whatever reason you want to revert to you stock rom. You can restore it via CWM. Thats about the only reason why youve made that backup.
Good luck.
Oh yes, one more thing. Remember to press the Thanks button :thumbup:
Will that (Titanium) back up my apps exact settings as well? Say like my login details or custom settings I have changed within an app?
So the back up I made using CWM (which was complete data and apps and cache I think?) can restore my phone to exactly the instance when I pressed back up including the ROM?
To be honest, I'd be interested in the same Vodafone rom that's rooted so I can just use Titanium to freeze the bloatware, I've had a look at the recommended ROMs which have options to disable loads of Samsung bloatware but I use a lot of them...
So a while back I flashed a pre-rooted firmware from this thread. Everything was working flawlessly until I had to go back to a stock rom for some time. Then I flashed the pre-rooted one again only to find out that whenever I update or uninstall apps my phone just restarts. I haven't done any factory resets in between flashing the roms (I probably should have), so that might be the problem but I just want to make sure. One thing to add is that I can normally update/uninstall apps on the stock rom.
I can provide additional info if needed. Thanks for any kind of help.
Format it will be fixed
Factory reset your phone and the problem will be fixed
I am looking for a method that works for all.
My story is that I tried Nemesis ROM, with SpaceLemon kernel. Would like to return to stock due to various problems.
No problem... right?
Well, the thing is, I cannot factory reset.
1) I issued Stock restore from the Samsung interface. Both on Nemesis, and after installing the stock OS.
2) I have used TWRP to clean / wipe data.
The problem however remains. After installing apps, I see my previous settings, they load the previous state and so on.
But this thread is not just about my case, but in general.
I want to wipe clean my phone. How do I do that?
I do know ODIN has many options, but what is a fail-safe way that people can use with the latest version that will do a full clean?
https://twrp.me/faq/whattowipe.html
As the title says, do I need to unlock-oem if I want to reflash the current ROM.
I'm out of the warrenty and my S8 might had a not so smooth update, it fails to boot in 1 go, it reboots twice before it boots and when the screen is too long off it kills the current applications (reddit, Pokémon GO, some more).
Edit: the rom is currently STOCK rom and recovery is also still STOCK
DeStilleGast said:
As the title says, do I need to unlock-oem if I want to reflash the current ROM.
I'm out of the warrenty and my S8 might had a not so smooth update, it fails to boot in 1 go, it reboots twice before it boots and when the screen is too long off it kills the current applications (reddit, Pokémon GO, some more).
Edit: the rom is currently STOCK rom and recovery is also still STOCK
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For stock firmware no you don't need to unlock the bootloader ( OEM ).
You could also try first in recovery mode wiping cache/dalvik if that doesn't work try a factory reset ( will lose data/3 party apps ) restores phone to original state.