Updated my rooted Honeycomb AT100 with Dale's Rooted Stock ICS ROM ... downloaded some new apps and reloaded some old ones extracted from a prior nandroid backup and got the thing running just the way I want it (almost, sometimes the screen locks up during sleep and won't come back without a poweroff and reboot.)
Anyway, I had it to the point where doing a backup is mandatory and discovered it just won't allow it.
It WON'T soft boot into recovery mode using apps like ROM Manager or Titanium (and it won't flash a new version of CWM because the AT100 is unsupported.)
It WILL hard boot into recovery mode using the volume/off button but when it does it returns can't find E:SD Card when I try to do a backup. I tried to work around this by backing up to a USB stick, but CWM resolutely refuses to recognize and mount the USB device.
Here's another weird thing, ROM manager reports I have CWM 5 installed but sometimes when I hard boot into recovery mode I get the old "push button" version of CWM, other times I get the "touch" version ... it seems to be random selection .
I thought, perhaps, the best solution would be to uninstall and reinstall CWM but now matter how I (pardon the pun) I root around I can't find anyway to do that. Your help would be very, very appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Give my twrp a try, its been far less touchy then cwm has been.
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Hello,
I recently installed CyanogenMod to check it out. Decided it wasn't for me, so I tried to restore my backup that I did via Rom Manager.
It restores everything with no errors, however when the phone loads, none of my applications show up on the Home screen. I can see them in my applications list as "com.poynt.andoid" for example, but I can't open them. Even the Market doesn't show up on the home screen.
When the phone first loads, it has the wallpaper that I originally set, but it says please wait while loading... then it switches everything over to factory settings.
I tried searching for a solution online but could not find one, so I'm sorry if this is an easy fix that I could have found somewhere else.
The first time I restored the backup, I did it via Rom Manager when I still had CyanogenMod. Then I tried doing it directly through ClockworkMod Recovery when I booted to recovery.
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Just so we have an idea of what you did:
1. What ROM were you on before?
2. Did you wipe data/cache/etc. before restoring your backup?
3. Were you using A2SD at all?
I was on the stock HTC ROM.
I did wipe data/cache/etc from ClockworkMod Recovery before restoring.
Was not using A2SD.
Btw I'll donate to anyone that helps me fix the problem...don't expect charity support! Lol.
K so I have searched the net for days about this, with no success. what I want to know is it possible to transfer a backup of a stock rom, from one tablet to another of the same kind for recovery? if so can you post instructions or a tut, I've lost my original due to currupt data. and I want my Dolby digital sound back.
acer iconia minimalist rom
edit: I do have access to another tablet running stock.
thundercub88 said:
K so I have searched the net for days about this, with no success. what I want to know is it possible to transfer a backup of a stock rom, from one tablet to another of the same kind for recovery? if so can you post instructions or a tut, I've lost my original due to currupt data. and I want my Dolby digital sound back.
acer iconia minimalist rom
edit: I do have access to another tablet running stock.
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Using cwm do a full nandroid backup, transfer the backup to microsd, put the microsd into the other Iconia and use cwm to do a nandroid restore.
At least, that's my guess.
well that's a start, I was about to start ripping my hair out over this simple sound issue lol but thanks.
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well that's a start, I was about to start ripping my hair out over this simple sound issue lol but thanks.
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Hmmmmm. Can't you use use a full update.zip and flash a copy of the stock rom? Never tried using a nandroid backup on a system it was not created on - it might work, but it might not, I really am not sure.
But just flashing a full update.zip or installing Acer recovery tool to flash a stock rom sounds easier and more likely to work to me - am I missing something and is this not an option?
I tried flashing two or three times before, sent it into a bootloop, I even tried the Acer update decrypter but my laptop is 32 bit, and until today when I finally decided to post the question is when it occurred to me about possibly transferring it. btw, is there a set destination for the nandroid back up?
thundercub88 said:
I tried flashing two or three times before, sent it into a bootloop, I even tried the Acer update decrypter but my laptop is 32 bit, and until today when I finally decided to post the question is when it occurred to me about possibly transferring it. btw, is there a set destination for the nandroid back up?
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Nandroid backups go to the external SD by default (I think) - have you tried using Acer Recovery Installer on the tab with the issue? Assuming you can still boot it and have root you may be able to go back to stock using it.
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Tonto the market. Download the new version of Acer recovery installer.install third recovery. Go back into Acer recovery got last box .choose a rom for your location.let it download then install.point and click simple and will fix your issue.if you have failed attempts. You might want to try a different SD card.good luck
This did work for me
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Erica Renee
Urban geeky blonde like me can do it surely a strong man like yourself willnfigure it out. Giggles
I have tried Acer recovery installer as well, I have 2.3 in fact I tried just a moment ago, and I get boot screen with android the triangle and the exlimation point.
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OK Acer recovery installer is not the recovery just a means to install and work within it and run pre defined scripts.as in there backup and so on
If you are getting that.you need to
1.open Acer recovery installer
2.Install Recovery.the first black box acroos screen.it will askbifnyoubwant to back up stock recoverybdo so.(this is the recovery program only not the system) .
3.boot into recovery and backup your whole tablet.or use the far right black button to d/load and install a new rom from his list.fallow the instructions there clickishly simple
Good luck
So what Acer recovery installer does is replace the stock recovery. To allow you to install non stock decryptedand other. Zip files of course it will install stock recoveries as well.read the Acer recovery install thread under Dev section it's al in there
Again Google luck
OK so here is what I did and it worked like a charm, installed cwm did a custom restore (everything but data) mounted the SD card on other tablet restored and voila I have Dolby mobile back! thank you guys for all the help and info, now I can truly mess with roms and be safe knowing I have a non currupt back up
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OK so here is what I did and it worked like a charm, installed cwm did a custom restore (everything but data) mounted the SD card on other tablet restored and voila I have Dolby mobile back! thank you guys for all the help and info, now I can truly mess with roms and be safe knowing I have a non currupt back up
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SWEET! Glad you got it figured out!
Hey guys I'm new to Android in general so sorry if these seem like dumb questions. I've searched online for a while now and I can't really seem to get a concrete answer. Anyways so I got CWM 5.5.0.4 running on my 7510 just fine last night. I then did a backup of everything from within CWM 5.5.0.4. Then I went and flashed CM10 Jellybean to see if it worked fine. Went back to CWM and tried restoring back to ICS, to check that too and it worked fine. I want to mention at this point I couldn't get Titanium Backup or ROM Manager working from withint ICS at this point because it kept saying that it couldn't get root access (I rooted my 7510 through the method listed as a guide in the Developers section of this forum), but since I could restore back without a problem to ICS with all my settings intact, I thought I'd give it a try anyways.
I then flashed back to CM10, and upgraded to the newest CWM Touch version 5.8.x.x from within ROM Manager once in CM10. I then decided I wanted to go back to ICS so I tried to restore back to ICS through CWM Touch, and it didn't work. I’ve tried doing an entire normal backup, and then strictly the apps, nothing works. Keeps telling me there’s an error.
What’s the best thing to do? Switch back to 5.5.0.4? Can I do that without turning on USB debug mode? Because I didn’t check this beforehand but I can’t click on Storage in settings and even access USB period, whether it’s to transfer stuff or to turn on USB Debug mode.
Any help would be appreciated! I mainly want to go back because all my apps are setup the way I like in ICS. Unless someone knows away to restore apps properly back without going through CWM, maybe through some app that can read the backup data if that makes any sense?
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Hey guys I'm new to Android in general so sorry if these seem like dumb questions. I've searched online for a while now and I can't really seem to get a concrete answer. Anyways so I got CWM 5.5.0.4 running on my 7510 just fine last night. I then did a backup of everything from within CWM 5.5.0.4. Then I went and flashed CM10 Jellybean to see if it worked fine. Went back to CWM and tried restoring back to ICS, to check that too and it worked fine. I want to mention at this point I couldn't get Titanium Backup or ROM Manager working from withint ICS at this point because it kept saying that it couldn't get root access (I rooted my 7510 through the method listed as a guide in the Developers section of this forum), but since I could restore back without a problem to ICS with all my settings intact, I thought I'd give it a try anyways.
I then flashed back to CM10, and upgraded to the newest CWM Touch version 5.8.x.x from within ROM Manager once in CM10. I then decided I wanted to go back to ICS so I tried to restore back to ICS through CWM Touch, and it didn't work. I’ve tried doing an entire normal backup, and then strictly the apps, nothing works. Keeps telling me there’s an error.
What’s the best thing to do? Switch back to 5.5.0.4? Can I do that without turning on USB debug mode? Because I didn’t check this beforehand but I can’t click on Storage in settings and even access USB period, whether it’s to transfer stuff or to turn on USB Debug mode.
Any help would be appreciated! I mainly want to go back because all my apps are setup the way I like in ICS. Unless someone knows away to restore apps properly back without going through CWM, maybe through some app that can read the backup data if that makes any sense?
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Easiest way is to go back to the old cwm. The touch ver is a bit uggly according to me. (Personly i run Twrp tocuh recovery. Its nice and sleek. Gives option to compress backupps to. Includes a filemanager to. )
Otherwise if you install clock work mod from gogle play there is an option to restore apps from the backup.
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How exactly do I go back to the old CWM? Do I have to enable USB Debugging mode? As I mentioned I can't even do that because it's greyed out for me in CM10.
I dont know why usb debug is incheckable, i'm not a dev. But don't think it's important if you flash cwm via odin.
Use the same method you got cwm the first time.
Easiest is flashing it through odin. I guess you can follow that root guide you used initialy.
Rom manager can restore apps from backupfile. Just go deeper in menus.
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Hi folks,
Typical newbie here.. i had my nexus 7 unlocked/rooted and flashed custom trinity kernel. All working great until i decided to apply the 720p video camera mod by going into the system/etc folder and editing the /system/etc/media_profiles.xml file directly. I thought I did it correctly and set the correct permissions but when i rebooted the nexus , i get the trinity boot screen for about 30 seconds, then a screen flash and then nothing.
I can reboot in clockwork recovery - but unfortunately I cant seem to be able to connect the nexus to a laptop we have her at work. I downloaded the nexus 7 toolkit and tried installing the windows 7 drivers but it failed. I'm not hoping when i get home and connect it to my own PC which already has the drivers it will recognise it and allow me to copy a zip file to the sd card so i can flash it.
I was also wondering if there is a way to completely reset the Nexus 7 without connecting it to a computer inside clockwork recovery?
Cheers,
Mick
Restore a backup in CWM? You do have a backup right? Or... assuming you have a ROM zip on there, you could wipe and reflash.
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Hi folks,
Typical newbie here.. i had my nexus 7 unlocked/rooted and flashed custom trinity kernel. All working great until i decided to apply the 720p video camera mod by going into the system/etc folder and editing the /system/etc/media_profiles.xml file directly. I thought I did it correctly and set the correct permissions but when i rebooted the nexus , i get the trinity boot screen for about 30 seconds, then a screen flash and then nothing.
I can reboot in clockwork recovery - but unfortunately I cant seem to be able to connect the nexus to a laptop we have her at work. I downloaded the nexus 7 toolkit and tried installing the windows 7 drivers but it failed. I'm not hoping when i get home and connect it to my own PC which already has the drivers it will recognise it and allow me to copy a zip file to the sd card so i can flash it.
I was also wondering if there is a way to completely reset the Nexus 7 without connecting it to a computer inside clockwork recovery?
Cheers,
Mick
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did you mak a NANDroid of stock? or any nandroid for that matter? just restore one of those from cwm. if that doesnt work, just flash any rom you have on your tablety
afraid have neither a rom or nandroid backup... all good lessons learned.. will try from home and see how i get on..
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did you mak a NANDroid of stock? or any nandroid for that matter? just restore one of those from cwm. if that doesnt work, just flash any rom you have on your tablety
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got sorted, was able to use one of the tookits to 'push' an update.zip file to my nexus 7 and flash using clockwork recovery.. needless to say once back up and running i've since done a nandroid and rom backup and backed up all my apps with titanium backup... also flashed CM10 last night..
can i ask what's the most efficient way to use Titanium backup when flashing roms? If i take an apps/data backup.. is there any point taking a system data backup if i'm flashing a new rom?
Last night i flashed CM 10, then flashed gapps to get back into the play store.. then downloaded titanium backup, ran my apps + data restore and eveything was back as i wanted.. stuff from the homescreen had gone etc.. but i guess no way around that?
also how does backing up/restoring to google drive work with titanium backup?
cheers,
mick
Mine nt booting too
Well i also got ma nexus 7 today nd when I firstly tried to boot it up it didn't boot up instead rondom coloured line started to show up. I tried to boot into recovery but I wasnt able to do that.
First time flashing CM, and I may have messed up.
I rooted, installed TWRP, everything went perfect. I made a backup, and then tried to do a factory wipe. The wipe ended with the messages "unable to mount /system", "... /cache" and another one. I still tried to flash, and it just immediately got stuck, nothing happened. I rebooted, and everything worked fine. It was the Samsung stock image and all my apps were still there. I'm assuming it just didn't wipe at all.
I then went full retard mode, and tried to do a restore. I wanted to be sure my phone wouldn't fail on me in the recent future because some random stuff may have been partially wiped or something. Feel free to tell me I have the IQ of a chimp.
This completely messed things up, as it just got stuck at "Restoring System...". Eventually I restarted it with the power button. Now it can't boot normally, it can't boot into recovery mode, which just leaves download mode.
Any way I can fix this and subsequently install CM properly? I'm using TWRP 2.6.3.0. I've been told it's recommended to use 2.5, as the other version may have some issues (including not being able to recognize partitions). Only download mode still seems to work, so maybe there's a way to flash my phone back into the living world?
Versions:
Team Win Recovery Project 2.6.3.0
CyanogenMod 10.1.3 (RC2 jfltexx)
Thanks!
No idea really but maybe try to flash default rom/recovery etc with odin?
I've had this problem. Seeing as you only have download mode you have to flash a stock Rom and start again. Recoveries for our phone are still I development. Use official CMW to install CM, using links in Op.
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HANDSY said:
I've had this problem. Seeing as you only have download mode you have to flash a stock Rom and start again. Recoveries for our phone are still I development. Use official CMW to install CM, using links in Op.
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I got the Samsung stock ROM of july, flashed it using download mode, and everything was back! I then rooted it again, and installed CMW (see versions below). I went into recovery, and tried to do a backup. It told me it failed: "Error while making a backup image of /data!". I then wondered if it may have been due to a lack of storage (which could very well be, as that was the issue before and the old backup by Teamwin was probably still on it somewhere), so I rebooted my phone. That's when it just failed and kept showing the Samsung logo at boot. I tried flashing my ROM again, again the logo. Then I did a factory reset using the regular recovery (cache and data reset), which fixed it. Now all my apps and data are gone, but that's no problem.
I'm back at the unrooted Samsung stock image now. Any ideas what I did wrong? These were the versions I used:
CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505
i9505-cwm-recovery-6.0.3.2(0611)
Odin3 v3.07
I did nothing more than root, install CMW, try a backup and then it all went to ****. I'm surprised a backup can even do that.
Mmm I'm not too familiar with the internal workings of backups. Perhaps something was corrupted during flashing? Glad to hear that you have got your phone working again. There is an updated version of CMW somewhere in the original development thread.
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i've had the exact same issue.
I did go back to stock firmware and recovery, rerooted(chainfire) and installed the latest CWM 6.0.3.6.
Then, i did download Jamals Google play 4.3 rom, placed it on my SDcard and did follow the instructions. Works like a charm, and i've got noe clue what happened to my phone. however, it works now.
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i've had the exact same issue.
I did go back to stock firmware and recovery, rerooted(chainfire) and installed the latest CWM 6.0.3.6.
Then, i did download Jamals Google play 4.3 rom, placed it on my SDcard and did follow the instructions. Works like a charm, and i've got noe clue what happened to my phone. however, it works now.
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I tried CMW 6.0.3.6 and the Google Play 4.3 ROM as you said, and it works perfectly! I didn't try a backup this time, as it didn't exactly have anything to back up anymore.
Finally my precious vanilla Android again, I missed it since I switched from my Galaxy Nexus to my S4. Thanks a lot guys!
Edit: I do seem to be having one issue. Quite frequently after it's booted, and I enter the SIM pin, the message "Unlocking SIM card..." stays there indefinitely. I can use the phone but the message covers everything up. This doesn't always happen, but quite often. I've read some ROMs can't handle SIM lock, like CM. This is a Google Play edition, however. Is it normal that this doesn't work?
I can seem to fix it by holding the power button, and choosing "Unlock SIM" from the menu. I guess it's not that bad as I don't often reboot my phone.