Hello,
I have a Galaxy s4 i9505 jfltexx. I'm under CWM recovery but I'd rather prefer to have PhilZ Recovery.
I saw that jflexx versions have been stopped and that they recommended to use jflte version... for this OK. But are there some versions that I musn't flash ? Or do I need the last version available ?
Thanks for your help
TWRP is the recommended recovery for us, once you get used to it, it is actually better...
Philz is based on cwm. Since cwm hasn't been updated for a while, neither has Philz.
I also recommend TWRP as many ROMs recommend TWRP.
Ok except that I had a problem with CWM this morning : the Nandroid backups doesn't save the "preload". It was impossible for me to restore it (bootloop). As I understood recently, only PhilZ Recovery has an option to include the preload in the Nandroid backup.
Last but not least, where can I get TWRP on its last version for my phone ? Can you send me a link ?
Here.
TWRP also has a preload backup option if I remember correctly.
Why would you backup preload? As far as I know the partition is empty, for me at least.
Here is a TWRP recovery from autor's website for GT-I9505 (JFLTEXX): https://dl.twrp.me/jfltexx/
GDReaper said:
Here.
TWRP also has a preload backup option if I remember correctly.
Why would you backup preload? As far as I know the partition is empty, for me at least.
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Because, even if it's not a galaxy S2, I had exactly this problem yesterday with my Nandroid backup : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/bootloop-nandroid-restore-t2337856
Thanks KonowaL !
oldbear3 said:
Because, even if it's not a galaxy S2, I had exactly this problem yesterday with my Nandroid backup : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/bootloop-nandroid-restore-t2337856
Thanks KonowaL !
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Well, maybe it's a CWM problem.
I never backed up the preload partition, yet I have successfully restored my nandroid backups in the past.
GDReaper said:
Well, maybe it's a CWM problem.
I never backed up the preload partition, yet I have successfully restored my nandroid backups in the past.
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I just flashed TWRP as you advised. It seems really great (not as the old version I tested by the past)... but there is no preload partition backup option. Or I don't see it. Where do you see it ?
I flashed the 3.0.0 version.
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I just flashed TWRP as you advised. It seems really great (not as the old version I tested by the past)... but there is no preload partition backup option. Or I don't see it. Where do you see it ?
I flashed the 3.0.0 version.
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Hmm..
I think only JDCTeam's TWRP has that option. I know their 2.8.7.2 TWRP had several backup options, including efs and others.
Also note that TWRP backups don't work with CWM backups, so you will have to redo them.
Also, as I mentioned earlier, I never backed up preload (unless TWRP does that on its own) and restored those backups successfully, and without bootlooping.
You might wanna try it yourself in order to believe it.
OK thanks a lot for your help
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Hi everybody,
First of all I want to say thanks to this community because I found a lot of informations here and solved many problems I had.
I searched all the day and I don't know what to do with the issue I get now...
I decided to install JellyBlast V3 on my Galaxy Y GT-S5360. Before that I made a backup of my stock ROM with ClockWorkMod (v5.0.2.6) and then I installed JBV3.
All was allright and I wanted to restore my datas only from the backup with the CWM advanced restore. That didn't work (Maybe because I can't restore datas from a different ROM?)
So, I wanted to make a complete restore from the same backup to get all my datas back, but I get the following message :
"data.img not found. Skipping restore of /data
.android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /scard/.android_secure.
Restore complete!"
The phone can boot up but my datas are not restored at all.
I explored the backup folder and there is no "data.img"... but in some resolved threads I read people didn't have it neither... and I am a big optimist so I kept searching...
I tried to restore again but with another zip file of CWM (who resolve some bugs) I found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27475895
But It failed again with the same issue.
I read that if the kernel changed the restoring is not possible anymore so a previous kernel have to be installed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27475895 )
To be sure, I installed a stock ROM with Odin by following this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1465800
I picked the S5360_XXKL3_OXXKL1_XXKL3 bundle.
Since I installed the fresh ROM I tried to restore datas again, but I got the same issue again...
So, I want to understand why I get this error ?
Maybe flashing with a stock ROM is not enought to replace the present kernel by the original one ?
Thanks for enlighted me (and sorry for my english)
By any chance is your CWM called gt-s5360CWM or something
You have to backup with a clean CWM and restore with the same clean CWM
Sent from my
you'll never know
darkshadow246 said:
By any chance is your CWM called gt-s5360CWM or something
You have to backup with a clean CWM and restore with the same clean CWM
Sent from my
you'll never know
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Indeed, the first CWM I used to create the backup was "GT-S5360_CWM.zip" but the restore doesn't work.
The second CWM I tried is called "CWM_bla_bla.zip" and the restore failed with this one too.
I think the backup I made is not proper
Thank you for your help.
PS : if my backup is corrupted, is there a way to recover at least my contacts with a backup explorer or something ?
EDIT : I think my backup is definitely not good, I made another one with the "unbugged" CWM and It makes more files including a "data.rfs.tar" file...
hi !
i ran into a problem and i couldn´t find a working fix(if any) by myself, hope the community can help.
i had an issue with corrupted efs. i was able to restore efs from an older backup i made with twrp - phone is working again.
i then restored my latest backup which is made with the online nandroid backup app.
it restores but all my apps, settings - everything beside custom boot animation is gone.
when i open the backup in the nandroid backup manager manager, i am able to restore apps manually, so they are present in this backup.
in twrp, normally it says "backup completed". this does not happen, at the end of the process the ui resets(teamwin splashscreen showing) but no error is shown.
already wiped, flashed stock rom and twrp again with odin.
thanks for helping
A.N.Droid said:
hi !
i ran into a problem and i couldn´t find a working fix(if any) by myself, hope the community can help.
i had an issue with corrupted efs. i was able to restore efs from an older backup i made with twrp - phone is working again.
i then restored my latest backup which is made with the online nandroid backup app.
it restores but all my apps, settings - everything beside custom boot animation is gone.
when i open the backup in the nandroid backup manager manager, i am able to restore apps manually, so they are present in this backup.
in twrp, normally it says "backup completed". this does not happen, at the end of the process the ui resets(teamwin splashscreen showing) but no error is shown.
already wiped, flashed stock rom and twrp again with odin.
thanks for helping
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Which variant do you have?
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Which variant do you have?
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it´s the international 9005, snapdragon.
i use x-note 6.0 rom.
problem solved.
it didn´t have anything to do with the efs corruption.
all online nandroid backups i made were faulty.
tried several things to make it work.
seems like reinstalling busybox finally fixed it.
I just want to make sure im doing this right.I deleted some bloatware using titanium and now i want to restore all of it back. To do this i will have to flash stock rom using odin right?If so are the firmwares on this site safe?http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-N900
Also my Baseband ends in ucmk1 while my build ends in ucmk2 so which version of the firmware do i download?
The site is OK. Flash with Odin the mk2. Next time freeze the apps you don't want with TB, don't delete them.
Sent from my N9005
What region for the firmware do i choose?
demon09 said:
What region for the firmware do i choose?
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Your region. Or use samsung info from playstore to check csc
Ok everything went great. Managed to download twrp too. I have question about the backup files for twrp and titanium backup. Where do these 2 store there backup files?When flashing roms, dont you do a wipe, which wipes everything including the backup files for twrp and tb? I'm confused about this. And also one last question. How do i download cyangenmod? I went to the site and i cant seem to find it for my n900(international)
demon09 said:
Ok everything went great. Managed to download twrp too. I have question about the backup files for twrp and titanium backup. Where do these 2 store there backup files?When flashing roms, dont you do a wipe, which wipes everything including the backup files for twrp and tb? I'm confused about this. And also one last question. How do i download cyangenmod? I went to the site and i cant seem to find it for my n900(international)
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If you choose advance wipe, you could wipe everything except internal and sd card..
So your backups of twrp shoud be in twrp folder, so does TB(depends where you choose to save them either internal or sd).
Afaik there is no cm11 build for n900.
Oh lol i went through all that searching and research just to install cm only to find out they havent released it yet Ty for answering all my questions.I have learned a lot in the past 2 days since getting my phone
Device: Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337M)
Android:5.0.1
Rooted
cwm custom recovery touch version.
When I do a Nandroid backup it seems to do successfully but I see errors in the log file.
And when I restore using the same backup after it finishes restore process, all the services stop working (example: google.app ....)
I attach screenshots and log file for backup process.
Please explain why this is happening and how to fix it.
Thanks
Sam
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As lennyz & Reaper suggested I switched to twrp, both backup and restore are working smoothly.
Thanks for help.
CWM isn't updated anymore. So you should either swith to TWRP or Philz (thought Philz isn't updated anymore either but it still works).
Maybe that could fix it. Also make sure you have plenty of space left when you make a nandroid. Something like 5gb when you are on TW rom.
Use PhilZ, as it is based on CMW, so it should work with your backups. If you don't care about the backups anymore then go with TWRP. Haven't had any problems with TWRP so far.
Hi experts,
I would very much appreciate some help regarding the following:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F with factory installed stock rom G900FXXU1BPA2 (Android 5.0). I used the SkipSoft Unified Android Toolkit 1.4.5 to root the phone and install TWRP recovery (2.7.1.0-klte as recommended by Unified Android Toolkit). I made a first Nandroid Backup and was able to successfully restore this backup (I restored boot, system and data to verify that Nandroid restore works). I then used Titanium Backup to restore my apps from another phone, and all was well.
A week or so later I wanted to modify something I wasn't sure I wanted to keep (using apktool). I therefore made a second Nandroid backup and then proceeded to make modifications to the phone. After I saw the result, I didn't like it, and therefore restored the second Nandroid backup. After rebooting, the phone gave a flurry of forced stops ("Unfortunately XXX has stopped"). It is not a bootloop but I can't do anything meaningful with the phone other than restart it.
To try and resolve this, I used TWRP to wipe cache and dalvik cache and rebooted. The phone went through the lengthy "Android is upgrading" process but the result was the same: all my apps force stop.
I then decided to try and restore the original first Nandroid backup (which I had been able to restore successfully earlier), and this resulted in the same issue. Since I have several backups of this first backup I was able to verify that the files were good. Also did MD5 checksum verification in TWRP and it all checked out.
Using Odin, I was able to restore a stock ROM from SamMobile (G900FXXU1BOL1_G900FOJK1BOL1_ILO) and after restart, the phone works as usual, but of course all my apps and data were gone.
I was then able to use TWRP to restore only boot and system from the second backup, so I would be back on the exact same ROM that my phone came with, and this worked just fine; the phone started as if factory restored.
I then used TWRP to restore only data, and this resulted again in the same problem: all apps force close. Note that this is a restore of data only to the same phone running the exact same ROM that the Nandroid backup was made on, and it still did not work.
I have been thinking about this issue and searching through the various forums but I did not find anyone having this same exact issue. Here are some questions I came up with:
1. Is TWRP 2.7.1.0 completely compatible with this phone and with Android 5.0? Would it help if I installed a newer version of TWRP? Would I be able to restore Nandroid backups made with TWRP 2.7.1.0 with TWRP 3.X?
2. Assuming my second Nandroid backup is not corrupt, is there a better (less intrusive) restore I can do of the apps? Can Titanium Backup read TWRP 2.7.1.0 backups and restore them, including SMS?
3. What could be the reason for TWRP 2.7.1.0 restore not to be working properly? I did activate the fingerprint reader after the first Nandroid Backup, but if that is the issue I would have expected that first backup (in which fingerprints were not yet enabled) to restore properly and it doesn't.
Would appreciate any help!
Thanks,
AH
That version of TWRP is pretty old, possible it doesn't fully support 5.0
Grab 3.0.0.0 from here (newer versions are not fully bug free yet)
https://dl.twrp.me/klte/
Flash .tar version with ODIN 3.10.7
TiBu can read Nandroid backups and restore apps yes
Not sure about SMS
The method you used to root and flash TWRP is not a usual method used here, most of us use ODIN to flash TWRP and then flash SuperSU from recovery
or use CF Auto Root to root, and then flash TWRP with ODIN
I'd flash stock again, factory reset, and then flash TWRP and SuperSU, then try restoring your apps with TiBu
*Detection* said:
That version of TWRP is pretty old, possible it doesn't fully support 5.0
Grab 3.0.0.0 from here (newer versions are not fully bug free yet)
dl.twrp.me/klte
Flash .tar version with ODIN 3.10.7
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Thanks *Detection*! I installed TWRP 3.0.0.0 as per your instructions and restored just data. Same result as before.
Then I used TWRP 3.0.0.0 to restore the entire backup including system, boot, recovery, and data. Same result (of course I lost TWRP 3.0.0.0 and was back on TWRP 2.7.1.0).
This exercise was useful for one reason: I now know that TWRP 3.0.0.0 is able to read Nandroid backups from TWRP 2.7.1.0.
This is quite crazy but I seem to be unable to restore a full Nandroid backup and get a working system.
Am going to try Titanium Backup.
Thanks again!
AH