Hello... So i'm no expert on this but i normally do my things searching on google. But this time i'm in a real fix in here. My phone entered an infinite boot state and won't complete it. I've tried many things and so far nothing has worked. I decided to format my device but first i wanted to back up my data. I was able to recover all my data folders, pictures, everything. But i need my contacts, since i have many important contacts that i can't lose i went searching for a way to recover them. I've read on the internet that there was a way to do a TWRP backup and then unzip the data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win001 and search for the contacts.db2 inside the com.android.providers.contacts. I did everything right but inside my com.android.providers.contacts there is nothing. I'm wondering if maybe its diferent for the ZENFONE 3, and maybe the contacts.db2 is stores somewhere else but i just can't find. I'm sure all the data on the phone is completely untouched. I also have access to TWRP Recovery (device rooted). Can any good soul out there point me out a way around cause after researching and failing for 2 whole days i'm starting to lose hope.
Many thanks in advance!!
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Hi All,
Before anybody asks if i have checked in previous threads (i spent 4 and half hours). My problem is I have been rooting for a couple of years now, I have numerous Roms on my sd card (32Mg) but now when i put them on to my phone i noticed that i get errors on my TWRP but still allows me to get the Rom. When it starts up i get about 3 vibrates and it proceeds. When i try to download from playstore i get the minus 24 error code so i cant put anything on it from there, i have tried deleting previous from my internal memory but still no luck. What i want to know is can i in anyway put it back to the beginning ie restore. i have backed up my phone before but it cannot find it. Can i restore it from Odin (if so where do i get the source from?) also i have read that it can brick your phone if not followed right. Hope someone can help?
Hi guys...
I wanted to install Cynaogenmod on my Galaxy S4. I followed this instructions and had Clockworkmod on my phone. I made a backup but found that it took not enough time for the quantity of stuff on the phone so I made another backup to sd card...this time it took a lot of time and so I presumed everything was fine. I then copy pasted the folders from the phone to my computer.
I installed Cynaogenmod without any problems but had lost all my contacts...well all data so I wanted to go back to my clockwork backup...get my info and go back to CM...When I tried...no restore!! No restore or restore from sdcard...it says the directory is empty. I'm looking for a way to retrieve my info...can you guys help? I even tried the internet programs to recover data but it can't recognize the phone...help would be really appreciated!
Hello,
I have a MB525 that I purchased retail in the United States so it was never locked to any carrier. Currently I'm a T-Mobile customer and have no interest in changing that. I have to say I love this phone, mainly because it seems indestructible. Even years later the battery life is still good, but the stock 2.2.2 Froyo has become something of a problem because many of the Apps I would like to use have started requiring newer versions of Android.
I can't stay in the past forever, but I'm not quite ready to give up on this device so I started looking around at my options, and would you believe I found lots of other people who have this device and have worked very hard to produce updated Android OSes for it, and who have reported reasonably good success updating the device. I figured, Its already out of warranty, so I can't void a warranty I don't have. I also figured I'm a reasonably intelligent individual and have enough experience with Unix like operating systems that even if I get in trouble, I'll be able to ask the right questions to get out of trouble. Guess what point I have gotten to?
I started following the guide wikiDOTcyanogenmodDOTorg/w/Install_CM_for_jordan The Framaroot Gimli exploit worked great. I installed bootmenu 6.1 and Clockwork Mod Recovery. Fantastic. At this point, I was able to enter CMR and backup my mostly still factory ROM. If I understand correctly this is a nandroid backup. I copied that backup off of my SD Card to my PC. From this point I felt reasonably confident I could try things and in a worst case scenario restore to this backup.
Now I happen to have a stock ROM that seems to be a bit rare online, Blur_Version.34.4.806.MB525.Latam.en.01, so I figured at this point I'd do a service and create a backup using CWM after having done a factory reset. So I booted into the stock recovery, did a factory reset, restarted, and the OS was in a like new state. Perfect. Rebooted into CWM, and made a second backup of the factory reset state. I copied this off the SD Card to the PC. Now I figured I was ready for real fun.
I figured, I might as well put the most recent Android version I could find that people were reporting success with. This appeared to be @quarkx Kitkat build. The thread is almost a year old and has 500+ replies and so I guessed that most of the major kinks would have been worked out by now. I followed the directions on quarx2kDOTru and installed cm-11-20141015-NIGHTLY-mb52x.zip from Quarx2k.ru, and low and behold it worked. CM11 booted and everything looked great. WiFi worked. Gapps worked. Play store started installing my apps.
There was one small problem. The phone refused to connect to T-Mobile at all. So I did the reasonable thing. I searched and learned about base band switching, and consulted T-Mobile on what would be the correct APN settings. Occasionally it would connect to AT&T for emergency calling, but it never connected to T-Mobile no matter what I did. From my home I was normally getting excellent signal on the stock ROM, so I am reasonably certain that the actual signal in the area was not the problem, and that this had to be some kind of configuration or software issue. A wiser person probably would have gotten on the forum and asked for help, but wisdom be damned, I wanted to do it for myself.
So more research and at some point I thought, Well, I'll go back to the Stock ROM so the phone will be usable again, and I'll take another crack at CM11 again later. It was at this point that I realized that CMR had been replaced with Team Win Recovery Project. This recovery looked to be more feature rich and easier to use, so I accepted that. I backed up my CM11 install. then went to restore my original backup. Well you might have guessed by now that TWRP and CMR don't use exactly the same backup formats. I saw no obvious way to get back to my backup and couldn't find information that would allow reinstalling CMR. This was the first warning signal I foolishly ignored.
At this point I started looking around for slightly earlier builds of CM11 that might not have had the the problem connecting to T-Mobile. Here is where things get fuzzy about how things got into this state, since the work was spread over two days at this point. Somehow between all the flashing backing up and restoring, the device got to a state where the OS never actually finished could do here is yank the battery and reboot into TFRP.
At this point, attempting to restore would just result in the messages 'E: Unable to mount '/cache' and 'E: Unable to mount '/data' in the terminal. So After searching around I learned that I probably needed to format /cache and /data because somehow they were broken. Terminal commands, I can handle this. I start reading up and find the correct command and parameters for the format, and I type into the terminal inside TWRP and low any behold format can't be found. I start looking around the directories in my file system from inside TWRP and I've got a complete directoty structure, but no files in any directories other than on /sdcard. Well fuuuu.
Not sure what made me even try, but copying any file from my sdcard into /data somehow put /data into a state where a TWRP restore would work. So at this point I was able to restore the CM11 backup, and my phone now boots into CM11, 11-20141007-NIGHTLY-mb526. But.... the cellular network still doesn't work.
But now I am wiser and I am back to the point where a wiser person would have asked for help. So... Help?
Is 11-20141007-Nightly-mb526 the best rom an appropriate rom for my device? I'm guessing I missed something because other discussions on this forum mention newer builds, and also, my device is definitely a 525 not a 526.
Is my baseband version EPU93_U_00.60.03 right? The baseband selector allows me to pick from three T-Mobile settings: 3.4.2.-107-4, 3.4.2.-107-9, and 6.xx.0, none of which seems to allow me to connect to the cell network.
Thanks in advance for any assistance offered.
Sorry for the long potato.
Here is what I did to fix my problem.
I started with the original backup of my stock rom, and I used the unyaffs.exe from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1199416 to convert my CMR backup into individual files. I then went into those files, and found \system\etc\motorola\bp_nvm_default\ and pulled out the original radio firmware from my device. From there I used advice from several pages to create my own update.zip, copied it to my SD card and I booted into TWRP and installed the zip there. Reboot and Voila, It connected right at startup to T-Mobile with the normal speeds I get from my home.
Bonus, I attached my zip in case anyone else comes across this and needs it.
My Device has an FCC ID of IHDP56LC1 if that helps anyone match their hardware.
So a couple of weeks ago, after the unfortunate loss of data on my previous phone, I decided that im going to either use TWRP or CWM to regularly backup data, in case of any mishap, I then decided to go with TWRP because of the user friendly interface it has, since then all has been fine, or it seemed like it had been fine, from about 5-10 days ago, I had been getting "FACTORY MODE IS ON" in red and alert-y colours, but I didn't really care, since it did nothing to really affect anything, it says wifi has been turned off, can always turn it back on, 2 days from now, it started getting severe, I cannot communicate with anyone, no one, even VoiceMail immediately switches off. I then browsed around the internet, and since I had swapped out about 3 SIM cards by now, i was pretty sure it was the phone, after browsing around a lot more, i found Factory Mode is related to a file in the /efs folder, so i said to myself, "hey this isn't bad after all, just change some words and it should be okay" i opened up some root explorer, there existed an /efs folder, there was hope, but there was nothing inside it, nothing, I set all permissions, rwxrwxrwx, and still, nothing came up, so now i'm SURE it's an /efs folder problem, and since i had flashed TWRP... I can't really do anything about it. I've heard about "flashing stock ROM" but I don't know how I would go about doing that, especially if i can't flash a recovery without biting my nails.. I'm just trapped. I can't use Knox to go back to official firmware. I verified that the efs folder was the problem by using the echo command to set it from OFF to ON, but it just returned with "No such file or directory"... I have no idea what to do.. Any help is appreciated at this stage. I have used many applications to back up my efs folder, getting 1000kb of files, but when unpacked it turned into 0kb, where did the 1000kb came from, i think my efs folder is hidden beyond permission editing...Help?
P.S: If it is interesting or helps with diagnosis: Samsung GT-I9505 International (jflte)
Hey there folks so I have a Note 4 that has been giving me lots of difficulty. I was hoping to upgrade but it looks like that is still a long ways off. I'm only willing to give up my S View and battery for the Note 10+ lol.
About a week ago it just shut off and when it came back on it was in setup mode. I lost everything, or did I?
Now it only has 421MB of the 32GB actually being used but it always says it's full. So apparently the old data is still there I just can't access it. I know nothing about rooting and I don't want to root and install a different operating system I just want to do a root to keep everything as is just give me access to the internal storage entirely.
It looks like when it reset it created another partition maybe?
I have thought about doing a factory reset but I don't want to lose the chance to possibly recover this data.
So is there a way to root so I don't have to get rid of everything and flash a whole new OS/UI?
I would research more but I have autism and this is all just getting very overwhelming.
I can't seem to figure out how to post screenshots.
Thanks for your help