I used the Moto G5 toolkit I found on here to root my phone (it's been forever since I last rooted, and it seemed like a simple, fast method), and I backed up my phone via the android backup option. It saved as a .ab file, is it possible to restore my phone to what it was before restoring/rooting last night (pre-root)? Skimming around, it's looking unlikely. Is there any way to get my phone somewhat back to what it was before? Unfortunately my grandma was signed into my account on an old tablet I gave her, and her stuff backed up via google, so I'm out of luck in that department.. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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never take the easy way out unless have n idea what it does, adb restore backup.ab
i assume that backup is only apps n data doh so if don"t work would need flash a stock rom from here
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krison01 said:
never take the easy way out unless have n idea what it does, adb restore backup.ab
i assume that backup is only apps n data doh so if don"t work would need flash a stock rom from here
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is it possible to flash over my current rom without messing it up? i have a feeling the answer is no lol. at this point i've kind of started over, but if i can get at least my texts, photos, etc. back, it would be awesome. just not sure, the backup file is only 83mb. i didn't have a lot of pictures, but something tells me that's not what it has on it.
Braxton343 said:
is it possible to flash over my current rom without messing it up? i have a feeling the answer is no lol. at this point i've kind of started over, but if i can get at least my texts, photos, etc. back, it would be awesome. just not sure, the backup file is only 83mb. i didn't have a lot of pictures, but something tells me that's not what it has on it.
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hmm u have twrp installed? if so can boot into it mount internal to usb n copy files if not then pray backup u made has it
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hmm u have twrp installed? if so can boot into it mount internal to usb n copy files if not then pray backup u made has it
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boot into it with my phone?
Braxton343 said:
boot into it with my phone?
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by that answer i can assume u don't have twrp install, so just follow the youtube video
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Ive downloaded this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1278214 but It still keeps the old Big DX Red theme I had aswell as the old wallpapers. basically I want to go to complete stock but still have CWM and Root. Anyone have any suggestions?
Tell us which steps have u follow.
renton82 said:
Tell us which steps have u follow.
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wipe cache, flash rom, reboot. lol.
http://developer.motorola.com/products/software/
Here is a link where you can get instructions and all of the .img files you will need to return your xoom to stock. A little heads up, you will have to create a username (email) and password, but what you need is there.
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Just saw this thread, this could be of use as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049485
Next time make sure you make a CWM backup of a fresh stock 3.2 rom for you dont have to bother flashing the .img files on your sd card.
Ok, I did something really really stupid....
I had CM loaded and used the latest TWRP. I was checking out Clockwork mod, and without even thinking I tried to clear the cache. Well, this locked up my phone and cleared out all my phone data. Odly enough, all my apps are still installed and settings but looks like the SDCARD data is gone and sound doesnt work.
I cannot copy anything to the phone and I need to somehow clear this up and get my phone rooted and functioning again. Ideas???
Thanks!
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Ok, I did something really really stupid....
I had CM loaded and used the latest TWRP. I was checking out Clockwork mod, and without even thinking I tried to clear the cache. Well, this locked up my phone and cleared out all my phone data. Odly enough, all my apps are still installed and settings but looks like the SDCARD data is gone and sound doesnt work.
I cannot copy anything to the phone and I need to somehow clear this up and get my phone rooted and functioning again. Ideas???
Thanks!
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get a free sdcard recovery program...If im hearing you correctly that you accidently erased your sd card content
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antawnm26 said:
get a free sdcard recovery program...If im hearing you correctly that you accidently erased your sd card content
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also, you can use adb to load another rom onto it as well....Just look up how to side load a rom with adb
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get a free sdcard recovery program...If im hearing you correctly that you accidently erased your sd card content
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also, you can use adb to load another rom onto it as well....Just look up how to side load a rom with adb
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I have a backup of every cept for say a few pictures. So not worried about that. Just want to get my phone going and if that means reverting back to stock first, so be it. I just need things to be working soon.
Would clearing the cache with Clockwork while the ROM Was flashed with TWRP mess things up like this?
No you cleared more than that on accident..lol..well I would revert back to stock and go from there
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antawnm26 said:
No you cleared more than that on accident..lol..well I would revert back to stock and go from there
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Well, was able to boot to stock recovery, reset, boot to Clockwork and then push a Clockwork ROM to the device. I then was able to get in to my phone. All data appears to be there as well so that is cool. Odd and weird.
Odd. Clearing cache wont erase your data right?
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Odd. Clearing cache wont erase your data right?
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Nope. He must have accidentally wiped something else.
Hi, it's my first time posting so I do apologize if I posted this in the wrong thread.
So I recently flashed the latest CM12 Nightly Rom for my S4 I9505. But I realised I needed to restore my backup (which I did with Nandroid before I flashed the ROM). So I went to CWM Recovery, tried to restore with the backup I did.
Everything was fine until I got this : "Error while restoring /system". I thought maybe the one in the phone was corrupted so i copied the one from my PC and still i get this error.
I'm hoping someone can help me on this.
Thanks!
just follow the following steps
1. full wipe data+dalvik cache
2. copy your backup to pc
3. open nandroid.md5 in notepad
4. delete everything and save it
5. now copy the backup to sdcard and restore it.
Enjoy
Hit thanks if I helped you.
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Hi, it's my first time posting so I do apologize if I posted this in the wrong thread.
So I recently flashed the latest CM12 Nightly Rom for my S4 I9505. But I realised I needed to restore my backup (which I did with Nandroid before I flashed the ROM). So I went to CWM Recovery, tried to restore with the backup I did.
Everything was fine until I got this : "Error while restoring /system". I thought maybe the one in the phone was corrupted so i copied the one from my PC and still i get this error.
I'm hoping someone can help me on this.
Thanks!
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I hope the nandroid backup (you did before flash the custom ROM) wasn't of one STOCK Rom :fingers-crossed:.
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I hope the nandroid backup (you did before flash the custom ROM) wasn't of one STOCK Rom :fingers-crossed:.
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Oh it was.. does that mean I'm kinda screwed?
there is no issue in restoring nandroid backup of stock roms.
but recovery may be an issue.
yourshubhamkansal said:
there is no issue in restoring nandroid backup of stock roms.
but recovery may be an issue.
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Well, i don't agree with you sorry.
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Oh it was.. does that mean I'm kinda screwed?
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Don't be.
1. Reflash stock Rom via ODIN, root and custom recovery.
2. Flash Custom ROM then again. But don't restore the backup you did before.
3. Done.
I may be wrong , but I have restore nandroid backup of stock roms many times.
I didn't even faced a single issue.
yourshubhamkansal said:
I may be wrong , but I have restore nandroid backup of stock roms many times.
I didn't even faced a single issue.
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Hi, I tried what you suggested, deleting everything in nandroid.md5. And I manage to restore it.
But now there is another problem. this message "unfortunately the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped" pops up almost every 5 seconds. Any idea how to fix this?
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I may be wrong , but I have restore nandroid backup of stock roms many times.
I didn't even faced a single issue.
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Sure? Restoring nandroid backups of stock roms to CUSTOM ROMS?? I don't think so bro . Anyway you can help @chaos03 better than me . Good luck :highfive:
First, remove your Google account (no big deal, you can sign back in in a few minutes). Then, go to Settings>Apps>All> Scroll down to the G's until you get the first thing that has Google in it's name. The first one on my phone (galaxy nexus, CM) is called "Google Account Manager". Click on it and hit "Clear Data". Repeat this process for everything Google in the list. Now sign back into your Google account. You should never see that message again!
Hit thanks if I helped you!
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clear cache and data of all google apps
as well as signout and signin your google account again!
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First, remove your Google account (no big deal, you can sign back in in a few minutes). Then, go to Settings>Apps>All> Scroll down to the G's until you get the first thing that has Google in it's name. The first one on my phone (galaxy nexus, CM) is called "Google Account Manager". Click on it and hit "Clear Data". Repeat this process for everything Google in the list. Now sign back into your Google account. You should never see that message again!
Hit thanks if I helped you!
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clear cache and data of all google apps
as well as signout and signin your google account again!
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I'm trying to do as you said, but the problem is the message pops up again the moment i dismiss it, and i cant even do anything else (only able to switch the phone on and off). And I also notice that some apps are starting to crash too.. is it possible to first flash an official Stock Rom and then do a restore?
maybe or maybe not
but I will suggest u to restore it once again and then do a factory reset , maybe it will work.
restoring it after installing stock will be always an option, but can't guarantee that you will not face the com.gapps.... has stopped working error.
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r u recieving this single error or there are more apps crashing
?
This error and also error messages for some of the apps that say the apps stopped working.
I'm just worried that the backup is corrupted (Praying hard that it isnt the case)
Oh btw I'm using a CWM from ROM Manager version 6.0.4.7, I did some reading and they say there's a chance that it doesnt work well with Samsung phones. Do you think I should use another?
there is one more option also, which I think may work
just download gapps package from the given link and flash it using recovery
make sure you choose the right package as per your android version
http://www.android.gs/download-install-and-flash-google-apps-for-android/
Hello, it seems as if my internal storage has unmounted/is missing the last thing I think I was doing before I encountered this problem was either installing a custom boot animation, or spoofing my devices model & Mac address. I tried restoring default Mac and other device information, and even running some commands in terminal emulator and nothing worked. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Hello, it seems as if my internal storage has unmounted/is missing the last thing I think I was doing before I encountered this problem was either installing a custom boot animation, or spoofing my devices model & Mac address. I tried restoring default Mac and other device information, and even running some commands in terminal emulator and nothing worked. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Just another piece of evidence that changing boot animation is a bad idea ?
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Just another piece of evidence that changing boot animation is a bad idea ?
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It trulely is! I fixed this problem by flashing stock rom
OfficialPyroh said:
It trulely is! I fixed this problem by flashing stock rom
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Great to hear man! I didn't mean to seem rude. I was just cracking a joke haha
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It trulely is! I fixed this problem by flashing stock rom
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You can solve most problems by simply flashing stock rom. You should probably get twrp installed on your sm-t350 to get nandroid backups.
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Great to hear man! I didn't mean to seem rude. I was just cracking a joke haha
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You can solve most problems by simply flashing stock rom. You should probably get twrp installed on your sm-t350 to get nandroid backups.
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I never have a device without twrp. Im running evervolv rom for this tablet now, whats a nandroid? (Sorry for noob question)
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I never have a device without twrp. Im running evervolv rom for this tablet now, whats a nandroid? (Sorry for noob question)
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Back up of your device. When in doubt you flash in twrp. You can back all data. You can Google for more info. It's pretty simple too
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Back up of your device. When in doubt you flash in twrp. You can back all data. You can Google for more info. It's pretty simple too
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Ohh lol, i should have guessed that, will definetly do that soon just incase i become curious and break something again.
OfficialPyroh said:
Ohh lol, i should have guessed that, will definetly do that soon just incase i become curious and break something again.
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Haha, good plan!
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Haha, good plan!
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So I made my nandroid backup, and after the backup was complete I tried to reboot to my device and it went straight back to recovery. I tried restoring the backup i just made but then upon trying to reboot, it said "No OS installed, are you sure you want to reboot?", I clicked yes, and instead of it going into a boot loop or booting to my device it went straight back into recovery. I used the TWRP file manager and all my files and my SD card is still present so no operating system clearly isnt true. got any suggestions?
Also i dont have access to my computer for the next couple of hours
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So I made my nandroid backup, and after the backup was complete I tried to reboot to my device and it went straight back to recovery. I tried restoring the backup i just made but then upon trying to reboot, it said "No OS installed, are you sure you want to reboot?", I clicked yes, and instead of it going into a boot loop or booting to my device it went straight back into recovery. I used the TWRP file manager and all my files and my SD card is still present so no operating system clearly isnt true. got any suggestions?
Also i dont have access to my computer for the next couple of hours
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Your files are not on the same partition as the OS. If twrp says you don't have an OS then you've wiped it. It will boot to recovery if you have no OS.
Install the stock firmware with odin.
Hello,
i seem to have badluck this time with custom rom and development for this device. Last i was struggling with encryption problem (when the great @DarthJabba9 showed me the right path) and now a strange thing happened.
So when i successfully booted into xiaomi.eu (latest) first time without encrypting my recovery function, everything was working fine and good, until i installed whatsapp provided all the permissions then suddenly it didnt look for my backup and acted like there was no backup (i nearly got a heart attack) and after setting up the name and so, i got to know it cant create backup, nor do anything which involve the use of internal storage because it is not writing nor reading internal storage, then i backoff and flashed back 11.6.0 stable, whatsapp start working normally, tried again with other xiaomi.eu and miglobe versions - failed same result, whatsapp only working in stable 11.6.0 and not working in other roms. Also, search function didnt work for me this time (so i found out i am the only one with this problem). does any body has a fix other than telling me to unsinstall, reinstall, clearing data etc.
- except whatsapp everything is working fine (TILL NOW)
Oh....please.....nobody has a clue???
The best was is to backup, then flash the right fastboot rom, OrangeFox the last build and then u rom with the right steps! Step by step... Good luck
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Maybe to copy all to a computer before u flash the fastboot rom. Look on the options from mi flashtool...
joke19 said:
The best was is to backup, then flash the right fastboot rom, OrangeFox the last build and then u rom with the right steps! Step by step... Good luck
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Maybe to copy all to a computer before u flash the fastboot rom. Look on the options from mi flashtool...
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Well thanks for the advice, but i am looking for a fix, and what you said is same as wiping internal/formatting data/clean flash, ah.....so already tried. Does anybody have a fix?? Oh.....please....i am waiting...
You can try a modded whatsapp like Fouad whatsapp. It might solve the issue + extra goodies. Search it on web.
Make sure you backup your chats before uninstalling the app.
Walden0 said:
You can try a modded whatsapp like Fouad whatsapp. It might solve the issue + extra goodies. Search it on web.
Make sure you backup your chats before uninstalling the app.
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Well, already tried......no luck.
mr.badman said:
Well, already tried......no luck.
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Strange. Really hard to blind guess what might be the issue. Guess you should try using an aosp based rom.
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Strange. Really hard to blind guess what might be the issue. Guess you should try using an aosp based rom.
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Yeah, thats what i was thinking. But whatsapp is not going to send otp again and again, might block me. Need to use another number. (Can i have yours...??, Ha.......just kidding)
Will try and update.
mr.badman said:
Yeah, thats what i was thinking. But whatsapp is not going to send otp again and again, might block me. Need to use another number. (Can i have yours...??, Ha.......just kidding)
Will try and update.
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Whatsapp does not block you if you ask for otp multiple times in a day. It will restrict the sms for some hours after three attempts i guess, after that you can get it via call. Four times is enough for a day.
And having my number would not help as I wont be giving you the otp.
probably you use deep clean and erase the WP data.