Hey everybody, I know the struggle of trying to get a new ROM to bring new life into your old M7 but all the Roms the gps doesn't work.
This never bothered me until Pokemon go came out lol, well there's an easy fix. Takes a little bit to make happen so have your phone charged and/or be by your charger.
Ok here it is..
You will need a copy of the HTC stock ROM and a copy of the new ROM you are looking to use.
Download the new ROM of your choosing and flash it via twrp.
Setup your ROM and get it how you like it. Once all that's done, go into twrp and make a backup of your new ROM.
Now it's time to wipe the ROM and factory reset via twrp.
Once that is complete, flash the stock ROM.
Now boot the stock ROM and grab some food and don't do this if you need your phone in the next half hour. After 10-20 minutes of the ROM setting itself up, turn on GPS and load Google maps.
Now some more waiting..
You need to let the app run and search for GPS with WI-FI off until it locks on to your location, which might take another 10 or so minutes.
Once you've locked onto your location, close the app. Wait a minute, open it back up and make sure it's got your location just to be safe.
OK! We're about 75% done!
Now reboot back into Twrp. All you do now is go into the restore option and restore the backup you originally made. Do not wipe/reset before you do this just go right to restore and restore the backup we made at the beginning of this post.
Voilà!!
Now reboot your phone, and the gps will work on the custom Rom your using.
I've tested this on the GPE M7 Rom as well as Cyanogen Mod.
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I finally decided to attempt to load a custom ROM on my Samsung Fascinate after a couple of months of owning it. Before I started anything, I backed up my current ROM twice using ROM Manager, then used ROM Manager to do the new ROM download and install.
Things didn't go well. At all.
Once the new ROM was installed, my phone restarted, got back to the puzzle screen (thinking I was in business!) and as soon as I unlocked the screen the force closes just kept on coming. One right after another. Pretty much anything and everything force closes, so much so that it is the only thing you can do on the phone now. I have tried force closing things for as much as 5 minutes thinking I might get to the end of it, but no luck.
So now I have 2 backups on my SD card. I went into my Android System Recovery (+, - volume and power button), selected apply sdcard:update.zip which gets me to ClockworkMod Recovery v. 2.5.1.0. From there I go into Backup and Restore, select Restore and then my restore file. After some time the restore process is complete and the phone asks to reboot. I do the reboot and low and behold nothing seems to have changed in the phone. I still have the custom ROM with all of the force closes.
Am I missing something with this CWM restore process? I have read what seems like dozens of forum entries and nobody else seems to have problems with the restoration.It seems like it is pretty straight forward but I am not having any luck with it at all.
Any help is appreciated!
Try This and see if it helps:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/fascinate-roms-hacks/38029-how-escape-force-close-loop-hell.html
Perfect! I am back in business thanks to you. Sure appreciate your help!
Did you wipe first?
To start off, I apologize for the lengthy post, but I figure if you have all the info, you could help me begin to troubleshoot. If there is a forum and I've missed it, please let me know where it is.
I have rooted using Unrevoked 3 and flashed CyanogenMod 7 a little while ago. Over the weekend, I was low on space and battery life, trying to use my Evo as a hotspot and taking pictures, etc. Well, it froze and I pulled the battery. When I went to reboot, it only showed the CyanogenMod splash screen. I didn't have internet access at the time, but really needed my phone. I had a PC36IMG.zip on my sdcard and flashed that. I was able to get back up and running, but I lost the ability to receive text messages. I could send texts and IMs, call, use data, etc. but not receive texts.
When I got internet access, I saw that I could download a Sense ROM, flash it up, update the PRL and should be okay. I flashed Fresh Sense ROM, updated, used the MSL code reader and did the ##????# thing, reset it, but still nothing.
Today, I tried re-flashing CyangogenMod and then lost the Market, Dialer and Contacts along with the ability to edit the CyanogenMod settings along with a bunch of other little things that I haven't fully explored.
I've tried unrooting it using the unrevoked forever s-on.zip, but it stuck and the system info message (and I downloaded it 3 times). I tried just flashing the PC36IMG.zip from xda and it wouldn't flash, either.
I'm at my wits end and need some direction because I know I've missed steps and made missteps. I have to have my phone for work and if I need to take it back to Sprint that's fine, I just need to unroot it! Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
Are you flashing the new ROM's right over the top?
I've never had the problems you've mentioned but anytime i've read the forums and seen others with these problems i've often seen people recommend doing a factory/data wipe from recovery. Have you tried that before flashing the new ROM.
What I would do...
1. DL CM7/Google apps and save it to the SD Card.
2. Boot to recovery
3. Factory/Data wipe
4. Flash CM7
5. flash Google Apps
6. Boot to CM7
Give it a go.
Hope this may have helped.
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...
Hi guys
I'm using samsung galaxy S5 (4.4.2) and recently upgraded to 5.0 using custom rom which I found here. It was working just great. I created 2 Nandroid using TWRP. One after a fresh installation another one after restoring my file contents from Helium and Titanium backup..
However something went wrong and i decided to restore my nandroid backup to revert back my changes. To my surprise both nandroid backup failed. I got a success message (using recovery mode) however when i reboot my phone im getting tons of messages like "System failed to start" "process failed to start" wait or press ok.
When I reflash the custom rom, it works fine, however i couldnt recover my system from nandroid backup.
I repeated several times but both nandroid gave me this same error. I even tried fixing permissions but no use. Then I used odin to flash a stock rom (BOA3) and rooted that using TWRP and most recent SU binaries. Its working great now, however I just wanted to know what is the best method to take a nandroid backup now? I'm afraid TWRP will bail out on me once again.
All the while I used CWM and it was great however 5.0 requires latest binaries and only can be rooted via TRWP recovery. Any suggestion? I just want to take a complete nandroid backup and save it in case if something goes wrong.
Thanks
sam20e said:
when i reboot my phone im getting tons of messages like "System failed to start" "process failed to start" wait or press ok.
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I'm being plagued by this problem since I updated, flashing stock Lollipop using odin.
The problem first appeared after trying to restore my app+data using Titanium.
I went back to the beginning and flashed again but my phone is still unstable and I still occasionally get the '"System failed to start" "process failed to start" wait or press ok' issue that you have. A reboot generally sorts it out but the update has made my phone very unstable.
I also have big problems entering recovery and download modes using the buttons.
Cleaning my cache/davlik hasn't solved it either.
Hopefully someone can help us.
Anyone?
Got "Reactivation Lock" disabled?
Settings > General > Security
*Detection* said:
Got "Reactivation Lock" disabled?
Settings > General > Security
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Yes. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Trouble in Galaxy town
Hi, I'll try make myself short.
1) Back when I had an Galaxy S2 i modded it a little bit but I haven't done it at all since then.
2) Now a few years later I got bored/sick of the stock ROM that comes with the S5 so I wanted to install something I knew had a good reputation, Cyanogenmod.
3) Getting a new recovery was an nightmare itself but eventually I got it working and made an backup so I could roll back if needed to.
4) Now, 24 hours of using CM12 I can only say one sentence: "What kind of crap is this?!" It's so unstable it's almost ridiculous. Bluetooth hangs up all the time thus requiring a reboot which leads to most-annoying-thing-ever-#2. The clock resets itself upon EVERY boot which makes WhatsApp go bananas. Doesn't matter if I previously set the time/date manually or let the phone do it automatically. Then there are the random hang ups that occur all the time and one third thing. Hardware acceleration in BS Player doesn't work AT ALL!
5) Said and done I reversed to the back up but oh man the phone wasn't happy about this (yes I made a wipe before recovering the backup). Nearly every basic service malfunctioned and were forcibly shut down. A factory reset made no difference...
6) For some reason I opened KIES and found out that an update with android lollipop was available so I (in a moment of despair) installed that hoping for salvation.
7) The phone boots properly and everything seems to be going wonderful until I realize that my network connection is high on something. Loses connectivity to my provider all the time thus the phone is totally useless.
8) I HAD to have a working phone for work and since no support is given on Sundays from Samsung I again installed CM12 just for the day.
Now to the good part!
9) When trying to recover the backup once again it's gone corrupt! Can't recover so now I'm stuck with buggy-as-h*ll-cyanogemmod12 with no means of reverting.
What-the-actual-****-do-I-do? Been trying to make some sense from the thread "Galaxy S 5 Original Android Development" but I feel so lost. So if someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful!
EDIT: What I want is to reverse back to original stock ROM. Screw the bloatware. I just need the phone stable and working!
EDIT2: After some more googeling I've figured out I need a stock ROM with the right CSC. I use a swedish carrier other than 'tre'. Shall I look for ROMs with CSC 'HTS' anyway? Can't find any info about other carriers in sweden.
EDIT3: Now I've found what I think is right on sammobile.com/firmwares/database/ (search query: 'g900f', first hit 'Sweden' CSC 'VDS'). Worried thou as it's Android Lollipop which made my phone go nuts. Can't find the KitKat version on that site...
EDIT4: Found the KitKat version on samsung-updates.com. The download speed is sooooooo slow (~6 hours)! Download limits should be illegal...
Thanks! //R
Hello people of all ages, races, and denominations. I have a problem with my Nexus 6P. I just recently upgraded from the Nexus 6 so I'm still learning how the new phone works in TWRP etc. For some reason everytime I make a backup then install a new ROM, I can't get that backup to work again. For example, I tried to restore an old Backup and it booted fine but I couldn't get in it because it kept saying incorrect password. It's happened 3 times now. I know my password wasn't changed whatsoever so that's not the problem. I then realized I also had no WiFi by pulling down the bar from the lock screen and even after fresh installation, still no WiFi. It seems no matter what each time I want to install a new ROM or restore an old one I have to reflash the bootloader, radio, and vendor image, EVERY SINGLE TIME. Even if the ROM I'm on already uses the same vendor, radio, and bootloader I still have to reflash them all the time.
With the Nexus 6 I can just flash them once and all rims who use the same will work across it seamlessly but with the 6p I have to have a laptop and go through all the fast boot stuff just to test a new ROM and I sometimes do it on the go and don't carry my laptop with me everywhere so is there anyway for me to just flash new ROM without going through all of that all the time?
Thanks.
TransportedMan said:
Hello people of all ages, races, and denominations. I have a problem with my Nexus 6P. I just recently upgraded from the Nexus 6 so I'm still learning how the new phone works in TWRP etc. For some reason everytime I make a backup then install a new ROM, I can't get that backup to work again. For example, I tried to restore an old Backup and it booted fine but I couldn't get in it because it kept saying incorrect password. It's happened 3 times now. I know my password wasn't changed whatsoever so that's not the problem. I then realized I also had no WiFi by pulling down the bar from the lock screen and even after fresh installation, still no WiFi. It seems no matter what each time I want to install a new ROM or restore an old one I have to reflash the bootloader, radio, and vendor image, EVERY SINGLE TIME. Even if the ROM I'm on already uses the same vendor, radio, and bootloader I still have to reflash them all the time.
With the Nexus 6 I can just flash them once and all rims who use the same will work across it seamlessly but with the 6p I have to have a laptop and go through all the fast boot stuff just to test a new ROM and I sometimes do it on the go and don't carry my laptop with me everywhere so is there anyway for me to just flash new ROM without going through all of that all the time?
Thanks.
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It works.
Search is your friend.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/psa-twrp-backups-lockscreen-security-t3245070
Seems like shutting off security first would be easier
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Always remove all security before making backups. Makes restores painless!
I made a post about the solution. Search, my friend, and you will find the answer.
TransportedMan said:
Hello people of all ages, races, and denominations. I have a problem with my Nexus 6P. I just recently upgraded from the Nexus 6 so I'm still learning how the new phone works in TWRP etc. For some reason everytime I make a backup then install a new ROM, I can't get that backup to work again. For example, I tried to restore an old Backup and it booted fine but I couldn't get in it because it kept saying incorrect password. It's happened 3 times now. I know my password wasn't changed whatsoever so that's not the problem. I then realized I also had no WiFi by pulling down the bar from the lock screen and even after fresh installation, still no WiFi. It seems no matter what each time I want to install a new ROM or restore an old one I have to reflash the bootloader, radio, and vendor image, EVERY SINGLE TIME. Even if the ROM I'm on already uses the same vendor, radio, and bootloader I still have to reflash them all the time.
With the Nexus 6 I can just flash them once and all rims who use the same will work across it seamlessly but with the 6p I have to have a laptop and go through all the fast boot stuff just to test a new ROM and I sometimes do it on the go and don't carry my laptop with me everywhere so is there anyway for me to just flash new ROM without going through all of that all the time?
Thanks.
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Make sure you have the latest TWRP 3.0.2-0 link here . With the latest TWRP you should be able to back up and restore everything, including pin and fingerprint (I use pin so that's what I tested), not sure about pattern and password just because I don't use those.
Make a backup without the security settings , turn off the fingerprint and lock screen then back up , you'll never have an issue that way
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I have never successfully restored a backup with the 6P regardless of the version of TWRP used. I always turn off security settings. Makes no difference. I have given up even trying. And I never had that problem with any other phone that I have ever owned.
I had the same problem maybe i backup and restore wrong partition. Can someone post the correct steps which partitions backup and what wipe before restore.
Maybe read the post by Heisenberg , I've never had an issue backups on the 6p or any other device
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