so, i did the sensible thing and made a backup before toying around.
however when i try to restore it says "cannot restore system -- mounted read only. "
Anyone that might know a solution?
well, i have some progress but now it freezes at "restoring system image" and reboots the phone
Same happened to me...I lose all my data
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Seems pretty obvious, but are you guys all BL unlocked? Or just running it via boot command? Also, have any of you decrypted/formatted data?
benjmiester said:
Seems pretty obvious, but are you guys all BL unlocked? Or just running it via boot command? Also, have any of you decrypted/formatted data?
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I am bootloader unlocked (running the lex720) I have not encrypted my data, it all seems weird to me. Not an issue I've had before.
I gave up and installed a new 18s on it, thankfully I had nothing really important on that backup.
Citroon said:
well, i have some progress but now it freezes at "restoring system image" and reboots the phone
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The only partitions you should back up are Boot, Cache, System, Data and EFS. In my experience, trying to restore backed up System Image, Recovery and Firmware doesn't work.
Try restoring only Boot, Cache, System, Data and EFS and see if the restore completes.
hondajohn88 said:
The only partitions you should back up are Boot, Cache, System, Data and EFS. In my experience, trying to restore backed up System Image, Recovery and Firmware doesn't work.
Try restoring only Boot, Cache, System, Data and EFS and see if the restore completes.
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I thought you shouldnt restore efs EVER. Just make a backup first time and keep it safe somewhere, and never use it unless efs partition ****s up. You dont **** with efs partition lol
Veidas said:
I thought you shouldnt restore efs EVER. Just make a backup first time and keep it safe somewhere, and never use it unless efs partition ****s up. You dont **** with efs partition lol
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Hmmm, I've never run into problems with that
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Hmmm, I've never run into problems with that
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Its just storing your imei adress ant stuff. Why restore it, if you cant even delete it? Do full wipe, efs is still there. And like every other memory type, with each re-write its wearing, and it can eventually **** up(ofcourse very little chance) and leave you with only media device(no sim service). So i dont really see a point in restoring efs. Just having a backup is fine
Veidas said:
Its just storing your imei adress ant stuff. Why restore it, if you cant even delete it? Do full wipe, efs is still there. And like every other memory type, with each re-write its wearing, and it can eventually **** up(ofcourse very little chance) and leave you with only media device(no sim service). So i dont really see a point in restoring efs. Just having a backup is fine
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Fair enough, thanks :good:
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As long as I leave repartition and all that other stuff unchecked, right?
(I checked through the board, couldn't find the answer)
No it does not, but just in case you should backup your stuff, if you encounter a problem, you should be good tho, i updated the modem no problem, no data loss..
I flashed just the modem with no problems but like david said a nandroid backup is always ideal before flashing anything.
Akagami said:
I flashed just the modem with no problems but like david said a nandroid backup is always ideal before flashing anything.
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Actually ive been fed up with clockwork backups, i started just put titanium back up on schedule at 3 am to back up all apps and app data and account stuff, nothing at all for the system as i can just wipe data reflash the rom fresh then use titanium backup, just to restore apps and important app save and account and thats it..
Clockwork has given me to much trouble and also annoying to back up all the time where as it takes forever, where as its backing up in titatanium back up frquently every day, and never have to worry about losing anything if i need to odin, wipe or what ever.
Clockwork has failed to restore properly and still gives me fcs that i occured before and after the nandroid restore.
i just got sick of it so i switched my back up method
I'm using: NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA V2.4
Something went wrong on my phone so I decided to restore a backup. I had one from 2 weeks ago. After the restore completed, I rebooted my phone. It was stuck on the ROM splash screen and never got past that. I left it running for 20 minutes. I tried clearing /cache and dalvik-cache, with no luck. If I format /data then it works, but then of course all my data is gone.
Luckily I had a previous backup which did work.
I'm nervous about nandroid backup/restore. Can I trust it? It only happened for this particular backup, but why would it happen at all? There were no MD5 sum errors at all.
Any advice would be useful.
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I'm using: NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA V2.4
Something went wrong on my phone so I decided to restore a backup. I had one from 2 weeks ago. After the restore completed, I rebooted my phone. It was stuck on the ROM splash screen and never got past that. I left it running for 20 minutes. I tried clearing /cache and dalvik-cache, with no luck. If I format /data then it works, but then of course all my data is gone.
Luckily I had a previous backup which did work.
I'm nervous about nandroid backup/restore. Can I trust it? It only happened for this particular backup, but why would it happen at all? There were no MD5 sum errors at all.
Any advice would be useful.
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I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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I did not change the partition size at all. The backup before this one worked fine, so it can't be that. I also just did a new backup of today, and restored it. It worked at the first boot and didn't take extra time. I then tried restoring the broken backup again but ONLY data, and again I got a splash screen loop. I doubt multiple reboots will help, but I did try that.
I have an urge to mount the data backup and slowly take out folders until I find out the cause. If not for anything else, just out of my own curiosity.
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I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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I am facing exactly the same problems...
In same cases i got bootloops when restoring a Backup, in other cases i can boot after restoring but then my data is gone and i am asked to configurate my phone again with the wizard...
I never tried to boot several times if the data comes after some tries...
Btw I also didn't change the partitions...is it possible that it has something 2 do with link2sd?
In that case (@OP) I'm guessing its just a broken backup. This is why I always use Titanium as well. It takes up less space and you can restore it on almost any ROM.
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Are you using an A2SD script? or do you have an ext partition?
You may have resized it, you can also try formatting it.
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I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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Are you using an A2SD script? or do you have an ext partition?
You may have resized it, you can also try formatting it.
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I use Link2SD, i have ext4....i didn't change anything in the SD Card Layout since first install of the Rom and updated several times without any problem...
I was doing a nandroid backup and I saw that there were 3 partitions. Does anyone know if that's correct? Or do I need to clear something here. I've attached a picture so you can see.
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I was doing a nandroid backup and I saw that there were 3 partitions. Does anyone know if that's correct? Or do I need to clear something here. I've attached a picture so you can see.
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Probably system, data, and boot. That's a pretty standard backup.
TWRP can do efs too. You should keep an efs backup too, but it's not really something you want to restore unless you have to. The other three are part of a standard restore.
Hey guys,
So this is the first device I have had where the TWRP Restore does not seem to work.
I recently had a full backup of a stock ROM all partitions etc. When I tried to restore this backup it seemingly went fine, no error displayed. However when booting back into the restored ROM it was all messed up as in it was asking me to resetup the device as if factory reset, which you could not complete as the process would loop and the interface was all funky.
This kind of renders TWRP half pointless at the moment, anyone else had this issue and resolved it ?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-plus/development/twrp-recovery-huawei-p10-plus-vky-t3605063
Did you actually read the OP when you were downloading/installing TWRP?
Bugs
1. /data does not work at the moment. Finding the right decryption method takes some time
because we have no device in front of us -please exlude it from any backup for now
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colthekid said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/p10-plus/development/twrp-recovery-huawei-p10-plus-vky-t3605063
Did you actually read the OP when you were downloading/installing TWRP?
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Yes I did but the system partition works just fine as per the OP. Surely if that works then the system itself should function such as the interface etc ?
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Yes I did but the system partition works just fine as per the OP. Surely if that works then the system itself should function such as the interface etc ?
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No, as your "restore" of the data partition messed up the encryption, so the phone will not work now until you factory reset, which will re-encrypt the data partition.
colthekid said:
No, as your "restore" of the data partition messed up the encryption, so the phone will not work now until you factory reset, which will re-encrypt the data partition.
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I get the premise of what you are saying but If I didnt backup the DATA partition then it would not get restored. I get however that basically restore functionality is a no go currently on this device. Hopefully at some point.
Hi guys, im in a very deep trouble since yesterday, i was testing trying to flash Renovate Rom on my S8 Plus SM-955F, unbranded exynos version, Ive test before almost 5 o 6 roms without any trouble, but suddenly I got a bootloop, so i decide to restore the backup I made before i was start to flashing any rom, along tow days ago. The backup apparently restores well, but it last only about 15 or 20 seconds, I rebooted and doesnt get pass from galaxy s8 logo at startup; so Ive restarted again , got to thw twrp and tried to flash again another rom, BatStock in this case, phones starts without a problema, but now network doesnt work, and Ive lost my IMEI , baseband, and i guess all EFS folder.
Apparently the backup on the sd is corrupt , and I tought when i tried to restore the backup, It get all erased and messed up.
Does anybody have some idea to solve the problem, Ive tried to restore the efs backup from the backup alone, apparently it restores, but i continue without imei.
Please someone help me, Im getting crazy aboyt that, ive buy the phone trough and Internet page, so I dont have warranty in my country Argentina.
Thanks in advance.
Any idea?
Please Help me folks
Try this way via Smart Switch
Hi, search in S7 edge forum, you have a guide to recover the IMEI. Are you using an external SD for nand backup?
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Try this way via Smart Switch
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I will try it as soon i came from working,do you think it will restore the efs missing folder?
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Hi, search in S7 edge forum, you have a guide to recover the IMEI. Are you using an external SD for nand backup?
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Ive tried the guide,but i dont have binary combination.
Yea ive used a external sd for backup,but i suspect the card is damaged or corrupt. When i restore im getting this message.
Twrp restoring
Twrp when restoring the backup:
check this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/how-to/guide-how-to-fix-check-drk-imei-issues-t3379516
sekelink said:
check this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/how-to/guide-how-to-fix-check-drk-imei-issues-t3379516
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Ive tried,but the problem is i cant find any factory binary firmware for my smg955f
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If you are sure that your backup was properly created, you can omit the md5 check.
There's an option in the TWRP settings.
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Paradoxxx said:
If you are sure that your backup was properly created, you can omit the md5 check.
There's an option in the TWRP settings.
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I think that was the beggining of the problem ,when i tried to restore without md5 check,twrp restores thebackup,but im sure its corrupt ,because it only takes 15 seconds,but phone get stuck at startup galaxy s8 screen.
Im getting this screen when restoring with twrp.
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I think that was the beggining of the problem ,when i tried to restore without md5 check,twrp restores thebackup,but im sure its corrupt ,because it only takes 15 seconds,but phone get stuck at startup galaxy s8 screen.
Im getting this screen when restoring with twrp.
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From the screenshot it looks like you are trying to restore the cache.
Can you try without it, and restore /efs ?
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From the screenshot it looks like you are trying to restore the cache.
Can you try without it, and restore /efs ?
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Ive tried right now Paradoxxx, and im still having this succesfull restore message , but nothing happen, right now when i was downloading Phone info from playstore, I ve noticed another weird thing : I CANT INSTALL ANY APP trough play store.
I upload the images Ive said before, about twrp restoring.
Phone info
Right now I'm checking phone info and I've that stats
Just wipe the cache part. Then it should boot
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Just wipe the cache part. Then it should boot
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Restore the backup and then wipe the cache?
Always whenevr we restore, we should wipe cache/dalvik cache then reboot.
Or try smart switch after putting phone into download mode and it does it's job well.
Some files have gone corrupt but majority Looks fine. Wipe cache n reboot n let us know
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Always whenevr we restore, we should wipe cache/dalvik cache then reboot.
Or try smart switch after putting phone into download mode and it does it's job well.
Some files have gone corrupt but majority Looks fine. Wipe cache n reboot n let us know
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I've tested wiping cache / dalvik previously and right now. Same result
Guys, do you know If it's possible to extract the efs partition or efs folder from the twrp backup, it's maybe posible?
And how I can check if the backup is allright or if it's damaged.?
Extract twrp backup via 7zip