[SOLVED] Hello,
This is the first time for me posting in a forum asking for help about an android device so go easy. I have rooted my Nexus 4 running Android 4.3 and installed TWRP 2.6.0.0 on it. That was the first time I rooted an android. I used Titanium Backup (Pro) to backup all of my user apps + system data. Then I transferred the backup to my PC. Then I created a nandroid backup using TWRP. Then I cleared the cache, dalvik cache, and factory reset the phone using TWRP. Then I installed Cyanogenmod 10.1.2 mako, which is marked as stable, along with the Gapps found on Goo.im. It worked successfully and I set up my brand new ROM. Then when I restore using TiBU, it restores successfully until it gets to about 70% where it begins telling me that "There was a problem parsing the package" or "x App not Installed". TiBu then instructed me to reboot in order for system data to take effect after the restore, and I follow that order. Finally, my phone gets stuck in the boot animation of Cyanogenmod. I've gone in to recovery and did the entire process of flashing the CM ROM again and the same thing happened to me again. So I just restored my nandroid backup and now am on the stock ROM again. I've tried to look online but could not find any solution or reason. Remember that this was my first rooted Android device and I am not a pro at this stuff. I'm not asking for how to get out of the boot animation (I already know that), just why this problem is occuring and some possible solutions. Thank you.
I think the reason might be that you are not supposed to restore apps when changing from one ROM to another. I read that somewhere online. Is that true and do you think that that could possibly be the case? I went from stock ROM to CM.
[SOLVED] i have found the solution. it was that i tried to restore system data which caused the problem. everything is great now!
Here is what happened.... I had stock 4.2.2 on my rooted nexus 4. This is when i made the twrp backup of my system and data and recovery I flashed cyanogen Mod. I flashed back to stock. Then while still rooted i upgraded to 4.3 from the device... then i rerooted. When i rerooted i flashed the newest version of twrp recovery 2.6. and i cant restore from my backup for some reason.... I tried to flash old versions of twrp and restore with no luck ... please help because i need the files for titanium backup to work. How do i get the data from that backup?
Try Nandroid Manager on the Play Store.
OneChaos said:
Try ]Nandroid Manager on the Play Store.
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I am trying it now but it just keeps decompressing over and over and when i check to see if there is any user apps or data it says none but i know the backup has it
What it says on the tin. I backed up using ROM Manager to launch the backup. I was upgrading to the CM11m6 from CM10.2 but that led to a failed boot followed by boot into recovery so I decided to restore. Restoring has left just CM`s built-in apps, a few gapps and one paid app. I thought nandroid backups were like imaging a computer and you got everything back? I stupidly didn't make backups with TitaniumBackup thinking it was unnecessary.
So, any ways for me to get all my apps back?
Update for googlers: I used Nandroid Manager to restore the missing apps from the backup. Hope that helps someone else with this situation!
I discovered a new issue while I continued to use CM 10.2.1--some apps updated and then it went into a bootloop again. Luckily I had am so I restored it and restored the missing apps again. I suspect it's either Gmail, Google Text-to-Speech, Google+ or Android Terminal Emulator. Google didn't reveal anybody else having this problem yet with the latest updates, so I must have some very unique issue.
As for updating to CM11, I'm gonna try creating another image (which'll hopefully restore all apps!) after it gets stable and trying updating to CM M5 instead of M6 which seems to have caused a bootloop for at least one person, too. I can't post outside links yet, so that person's report can be found by googling this phrase including quotation marks: "Update From 10.2.1 Stable To 11 M6 Causes Boot Loop".
Another update for googlers: The problem of apps-not-restoring seems to have been caused by version 2.6.0.0 of TWRP. I tried updating to 2.6.3.1 using both GooManager and TWRP Manager but it didn't stick. Used Nexus Root Toolkit to upgrade TWRP to 2.7.0.0, though. Restoring the image with that restored all the apps as far as I can figure out. Yay! Now I don't have to wait 3-4 hours for the app restore process to finish on top of the nandroid restore.
i tried to move back from custom rom to stock rom but after restoring the backup and rebooting the phone , a dialog box appeared saying "unfortunately the process.google.gapps is not working" and pops every second and does not let me even turn of the phone.PLEASE help!!!
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this is what my phone looks like when i turn it on. SOLUTIONS PLEASE
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this is what my phone looks like when i turn it on. SOLUTIONS PLEASE
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Hi ,
I do not know what rom you have... try to flash rom again no wipe and gapps
I've recently done the same thing and have had a whole host of issues. Is the system really sluggish and every few minutes different processes keep crashing?
If it is, I had the exact same issue. What I did was boot back into your recovery and then wipe delvik and wipe user data. This got rid of all the apps and stuff but meant that device was behaving as normal. So I could just re download from the play store.
The only issue I've since had is some apps like snap chat or whatsapp won't allow me to view videos or download images (in whatsapp case). It's almost like there's no where for it to save the media, even though the phone has plenty of free space. Swiftkey as well can't download the language pack either.
Seem to be having some real issues since restoring my back up. But don't want to hijack this thread.
Rezaei12 said:
I've recently done the same thing and have had a whole host of issues. Is the system really sluggish and every few minutes different processes keep crashing?
If it is, I had the exact same issue. What I did was boot back into your recovery and then wipe delvik and wipe user data. This got rid of all the apps and stuff but meant that device was behaving as normal. So I could just re download from the play store.
The only issue I've since had is some apps like snap chat or whatsapp won't allow me to view videos or download images (in whatsapp case). It's almost like there's no where for it to save the media, even though the phone has plenty of free space. Swiftkey as well can't download the language pack either.
Seem to be having some real issues since restoring my back up. But don't want to hijack this thread.
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Hi ,
with what rom was that , did you checked in the roms thread , you have to make sure you have the right gapps for the android version of the rom plus you could use a ligther version gapp
MAX 404 said:
Hi ,
with what rom was that , did you checked in the roms thread , you have to make sure you have the right gapps for the android version of the rom plus you could use a ligther version gapp
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I think you've misunderstood. It's not a rom I flashed on to the phone. It's a nandroid back up that I made of the original stock rom that came with the phone with all my apps on. I made that back up before flashing any custom rom.
I since then restored that backup. But when I restored it, all the processes kept stopping. By the sounds of it that's what the original poster has done as well.
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I think you've misunderstood. It's not a rom I flashed on to the phone. It's a nandroid back up that I made of the original stock rom that came with the phone with all my apps on. I made that back up before flashing any custom rom.
I since then restored that backup. But when I restored it, all the processes kept stopping. By the sounds of it that's what the original poster has done as well.
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Hi ,
Yes i understood what you meant , still applies somthing went wrong during re installation of backup , if the rom is stock then you need to do a factory reset clear dalvick and cache and re install manually all you apps, if rom is custom , clear dalvick , cache , flash no wipe and re install manually
For all: CWM/TWRP recoveries don't backup /preload partition, Philz does. It's needed on stock ROM since there are some system apps inside, without them you'll have a lot of errors. In this case, if you haven't used Philz recovery (in custom backup mode including /preload) the only way to restore stock ROM is to reflash through Odin
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AntaresOne said:
For all: CWM/TWRP recoveries don't backup /preload partition, Philz does. It's needed on stock ROM since there are some system apps inside, without them you'll have a lot of errors. In this case, if you haven't used Philz recovery (in custom backup mode including /preload) the only way to restore stock ROM is to reflash through Odin
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Is that the reason some apps don't work for me? They think they don't have access to the sd card. But I don't have an sd card? Seems like a partitioning issue?
Rezaei12 said:
Is that the reason some apps don't work for me? They think they don't have access to the sd card. But I don't have an sd card? Seems like a partitioning issue?
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It's because you restored stock ROM from a nandroid backup not made with Philz recovery, reflash with Odin and they'll work
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AntaresOne said:
For all: CWM/TWRP recoveries don't backup /preload partition, Philz does. It's needed on stock ROM since there are some system apps inside, without them you'll have a lot of errors. In this case, if you haven't used Philz recovery (in custom backup mode including /preload) the only way to restore stock ROM is to reflash through Odin
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i have seen so many videos on the internet for so many different phones where the person shooting the video backs up and restores the stock ROM via CWM and TWRP recoveries and after restoring everything works fine without any crashes in the system apps? what is the reason for that?
$hawn sharma said:
i have seen so many videos on the internet for so many different phones where the person shooting the video backs up and restores the stock ROM via CWM and TWRP recoveries and after restoring everything works fine without any crashes in the system apps? what is the reason for that?
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Samsung devices are slighty different, and depends from device to device too. TouchWiz UX devices (Ace 2, Ace 3, S Advance, S2, S3, S3 mini, S4, S4 mini, S5, S5 mini, Note, Note 2, Note 3 etc) have this /preload partition for some system apps, and only Philz can backup and restore
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AntaresOne said:
It's because you restored stock ROM from a nandroid backup not made with Philz recovery, reflash with Odin and they'll work
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Massive thanks for explaining this, will reflash stock rom in Odin.
http://imgur.com/a/uuLkD
Running ResurrectionRemix on Axon 7, encrypted which I believe is standard for the custom ROM. TWRP is latest version (twrp-3.1.1-0).
Everything working fine but can't do a backup. I also tried just the backup of system image, and it failed - I can get the error if it's any help.
Thanks!
Try updating you TWRP.
https://dl.twrp.me/ailsa_ii
mario972 said:
Try updating you TWRP.
https://dl.twrp.me/ailsa_ii
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Thanks. I was already on the latest version I believe.
Anyway, I uninstalled Magisk and re-installed it and after that it seems to detect size fine and backup with no issues. Not 100% sure that was the reason it fixed itself but that was the only major change I made.