I've been trying to find a version that still has the bar from the bottom to swipe up. I've been trying 004, 005, and 016 but for some reason I always get that the SIM isn't being detected. But when I restore back to the Nougat backup the sim card works just fine. Are there any suggestions and instructions I should follow? (Other than the normal clean flash and gapps)
Edit: Never mind can't even restore back to old nandroid backups
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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.
Hello! I have a note 4 sm n910f build number n910fxxuanj4.
Recently, I have rooted it, installed twrp and flashed the infamous rom. It does not recognize my Italian sim card, so I decided to restore the phone with twrp from the backup I had previously done ( with twrp) . Then, I tried flashing cm12 with twrp, but it gave me an error, saying that my device was different from the one that should've been used, so it stopped before even trying. I went back to touch wiz after that, and now, I have the following issues: I can't download images / videos or audios from whatsapp , telegram , dropbox or facebook ( they are the only ones I have tried) I can't even send any of those in fact. Also, I can't save any python script with the app
"Qpython" as it either sais that the place where I want to save it is unwritable, or that he can't save it in the temp file ( no idea what the second means...). I though that there was some problem with my sd card...I fact there is: I went to do an sd card data a wipe with twrp, but it would always fail. I then tried to format the sd card from the phone's settings, and that worked, but I still have the same problems I had before. I tried restoring again with my twrp backup, but I every time, the problems remain. I am starting to get a little worried and scared...I don't mind losing all the data, or having to format the entire phone or things like that....I just want to get it working like before... will flashing the stock firmware with odin do any good? Or would that risk bricking the phone ( maybe it tries to wipe the sd and it fails...I don't know)? Is there any other way? Someone please help me! Thanks a lot!
This is my wifes phone, who has always refused to have her phone altered in any way. Today, it started getting hung on the yellow sprint screen. A couple of times, another reboot would get past it. But now it's stuck for good.
She has some pics and thousands of contacts and SMS messages on it that she doesn't want to loose, so kind of afraid to do a factory reset or odin a fresh ROM. I don't know if she allowed it to take the latest firmware updates, so I don't know for sure what version is on it.
Can I odin CWM or TWRP only so that I can do a nandroid backup?
Once I know all the data is backed up, I can try the factory reset and/or odin rooted stock rom and use titanium backup to restore data.
Thanks
I don't know the answer but in my head I'd think you would have to have a working rom to back up in the first place. Maybe she ran out of memory? Flashing the stock Rom won't delete anything. Just did that a few days ago.
I went ahead and flashed CWM and did a nandroid backup. I used my other phone to look at the backup with Titanium Backup.
It looks like I will be able restore contacts and other apps/data. Not sure which item in the backup is for SMS history. In TB, I see a line that says "Messaging" and "Messaging+" and i don't see "com.adroid.providers.telephone".
I know the SMS's are in the backup, I extracted the tars in linux and see the folder /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/
Used odin to flash the pre-rooted OD2 lollipop. It stayed on the yellow screen for several minutes, but I did notice that it played the full boot tune, which it hadn't been before. After a few minutes, it finished booting and started the setup wizard!
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?
Hi all
So i installed AICP 14, all worked fine, wanted Dt2W so put Fk r77 kernel on and within an hour i got a reboot while talking on the phone, then a strange error with my keyboard not working (not sure if both problems were kernel related but never had them before).
I had done a twrp backup before installing the kernel so i thought i can live without Dt2W i restored from the backup, BUT this i when i realised i had fkd up because i hadn't taken off my pattern lock before doing the backup.....so the restore didnt work(got an error at end of running the restore and phone hung on google screen)
So luckily i still had my Oreo back up, restored that and that works fine.
But now when i try a fresh install of any Pie rom (Tried AICP and RR) the sim card isnt detected? Did i quick google yesterday and ran some #*#*4636*#*# service code which reported there was no IEMI number?
So is it a EFS partition problem?
Tia.
r3k0 said:
Hi all
So i installed AICP 14, all worked fine, wanted Dt2W so put Fk r77 kernel on and within an hour i got a reboot while talking on the phone, then a strange error with my keyboard not working (not sure if both problems were kernel related but never had them before).
I had done a twrp backup before installing the kernel so i thought i can live without Dt2W i restored from the backup, BUT this i when i realised i had fkd up because i hadn't taken off my pattern lock before doing the backup.....so the restore didnt work(got an error at end of running the restore and phone hung on google screen)
So luckily i still had my Oreo back up, restored that and that works fine.
But now when i try a fresh install of any Pie rom (Tried AICP and RR) the sim card isnt detected? Did i quick google yesterday and ran some #*#*4636*#*# service code which reported there was no IEMI number?
So is it a EFS partition problem?
Tia.
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Very likely corrupt radio. Try reflash stock rom before trying top flash a pie rom
ok, downloaded the last stock from google, twrp gave an error when trying to install it? wrong kind of zip ?
r3k0 said:
ok, downloaded the last stock from google, twrp gave an error when trying to install it? wrong kind of zip ?
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Late Reply...Just Read it today
Stock factory files can be flashed through fastboot don't you know that?
And your problem got solved or not?