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.
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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.
Hi I need desperate help
two days ago I went from CM11 to S4I9505 Google Play Edition ROM 5.0.1 and everything was running perfectly. Today I used an app known as "ROM Installer" to flash TWRP easily which it did but I couldnt go back to normal menus and it kept on booting back to Recovery. So I wiped everything and installed the same ROM as it is in my External SD. It was successful but it still would boot to recovery and nothing would work. So I thought my option was to unroot the phone. I used the XDA Unroot/Unbrick guide and used an Android 5.0. Lollipop firmware to flash the stock firmware (second time every using Odin, the first was disastrous and I hated it). I flashed the official stock and it is running but cannot activate WiFi what so ever. It just refuses to toggle. So I reflashed the stock firmware again and it still doesn't work. I was thinking of somehow downgrading to KitKat, use CM Installer which is how I initially rooted the phone and revert to a CWM backup that I made before I flashed the S4 GPE ROM and start over. However I tried using that CM Installer and since im on Lollipop it would refuse to work and I really wanna get back to how everything was before :'( I really dont know what to do (No warranty or anything on this S4) All I can do is make calls and texts. Please help!
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I've fixed it! Its all back on stock with the all that bloatware and useless features only problem now is whether there is a way to deleted this thread
Help! I'm trying to upgrade my wife's 9505 and I'm stuck.
She was running Stock (rooted) kit-kat, and I went to upgrade her to CM12.1
First, being a good boy, I took both a TiBu backup and a nandroid backup.
I did then manage to upgrade to CM12.1, but found a few issues (some missing phone numbers, etc that weren't sync'd with google), so I took a nandroid of CM12.1, wiped, and then restored the stock kit-kat nandroid.
That kinda worked, but some things are playing up - Waze doesn't work, SwiftKey comes up with an error trying to save the language file, the Daily Mail app and Gallary don't show any pictures, etc. Basically, not very usable.
So, I copied off the missing phone numbers, etc. and then thought that I'd wipe and restore the CM12.1 nandroid to get back to where I wanted to be - but it's just stuck at the CM12.1 animated boot logo and has been for ages.
So, I can't go back to kit kat, and I can't get back to CM12.1
Any suggestions/ideas?
It smells like some kind of file-system protection issue type thingy, but I tried the usual Fix Permissions, etc - all to no avail.
Someone please help (I'm really in the dog-house at the moment!!)
Thanks
Sorted! I had to basically wipe everything! Data, Media/photos, the works. Something really got screwed up, but I think I've got it going again now...
Hey everyone, let me start off that I love XDA and I have been using this site for years! So let me give you a little history. I am still on 4.4.4. Recently I finally updated it to 5.0 and retained root, sweet! I also had a custom lollipop recovery that allowed me to go back to 4.4.x. However, I needed the wireless tether function and I could not find a way to get it unlocked without flashing some mod (which would brick my phone) so I used ODIN to flash back to a rootable tar image that I have always used. It was 4.4.2 on NI2 Kernal. Now normally, no matter how many times I ODIN'ed it, flashed it, restore a backup, everything would be up and running in no time. However, lately my phone has not been able to connect to the network completely for some reason. I can make/receive calls and texts. Anything using data though would not work. I called Verizon to see if they could reset something from the back end and they saw me and connected and running. Needless to say, their help ended almost immediately. I am currently running Ricks ROM v19.2 G900VVRU1ANI2 and was only able to connect to data one time a couple of days ago. I had to restart though and when it booted back up, it lost the data again. It does show that I am connected to 4G LTE, strong signal. I have tried the stock ROM 4.4.2, fresh install of Ricks ROM, restore my backup of Ricks Rom (maybe two weeks old), tried Eclipse ROM, nothing seems to be working. I've never submitted anything on here asking for help so this is a first for me cause normally I can fix any problems I create, however, I cannot figure this out for the life of me. Does anyone have any suggestions that I can try? Thanks in advance!
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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?