Ok, My phone had some issues with powering down so i got it replaced, i have the new phone, it runs fine, but for some reason, whenever flashing a nandroid backup, it fails at restoring boot image. Then the phone boots straight into the boot loader. I installed a stock update.zip with root and am running fine now but why can i not use my nandroid backups? cant i use them on other phones?
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Last Sunday I rooted my phone, changed the boot animation, removed City ID and Tweet/Peep, and installed wireless tethering.
Today I decided to apply s-off and put back the original boot/recovery loader so I can get the OTA update.
I downloaded what was supposed to be the boot loader. It was a pb311mg.zip file. It put in the boot loader but it also wiped my phone. I wasn't expecting that
I have Nandroid and Titanium backups. Which do I restore to get all my apps and settings back?
So I think I should have just had a zipupdate file. I guess I need to reflash unrevoked3, run a full Nandroid restore, and then a full Titanium restore. Just need verification.
They are all called "pb311mg.zip" so that doesn't help. That's the filename the phone looks for in HBOOT to force an automatic flash of its contents.
It sounds like you meant to flash a zip with just the stock recovery, but may have flashed one which was stock rom.
Regardless, if you can still get into ClockWorkMod, then restore your nandroid. Can you still get into ClockWorkMod?
No. It did put back the original boot loader. I can install clockwork again though. So I'm guessing I reflash with unrevoked3 and then run a Nandroid restore and then a Titanium restore?
I reflashed unrevoked3 and ran my Nandroid restore. It looks like everything is as it was! So don't need a Titanium restore? I thought I would for apps and app settings.
The thing is that the .zip can have multiple IMG files, what you wanted was one with just recovery.img
Yes. I found a img file with just the boot loader. That a Nandroid restore and I'm back. Thanks
So I switched to armon recovery from clockwork in order to install Warm's beta, and after playing around I wanted to try a new kernel. I then accidentally did a data clear/factory reset on accident. So i went to restore nandroid and none of my nandroid backups were there. I had to select my device then some weird number. Now when i boot up it sends me directly to the bootloader sreen. What's going on?/how can i get to my nandroid backups?
This isn't like some of the other nandroid fail threads i've encountered.
I had a full nandroid backup of my tmobile g2 (eng hboot) and I lost that device. I got an exact replacement, rooted it (no eng hboot), installed rom manager only and flashed clockwork. I then copied my nandroid backup to the clockwork/backups directory and did a restore.
The phone booted successfully with cyanogen 7 nightly 22 flashed but the only problem is that it seems to have done a fresh install...as in there are no apps, no data, just cyanogen 7 nightly 22. It appears it didn't restore anything except the rom itself. Any ideas? thanks in advance.
ps. ive done multiple data wipes, and tried 2 different nandroid backup files on the new phone.
Did you have darktremors a2sd installed on the old ROM? CWM3 seems to have an issue for some with seeing the sd-ext partition and won't back it up. So when you select 'restore' in CWM it *successfully* completes the nandroid restore correct, no errors? It would be odd for it to give you a 'restore complete' message if it ran into any errors.
pretty sure I don't have a2sd installed on the old rom. first time i'm hearing of it. I don't recall getting any errors after restoring the backup but I will try again and double check. I also have much older backups that I can try to restore and see if those go through
Well I think this needs more attention if it's really not restoring the nandroids fully. Seems like it's restoring the system.img and whatnot just not the data.img. Maybe try it with ADB and see if it works. I've never had to do it that way but I know it can be done, you may have to run it in a shell.
I tried restoring a nandroid backup from February, which I believe was backed up with an older version of clockwork, and it was completely successful. This tells me that either the new clockwork is not backing up correctly or it's getting corrupted.
I then tried restoring 3 different backups and they did not give me any errors but failed to restore my data. hmmm
So i tried to flash muiu rom thru rom manager and got caught in a reset loop at the boot screen. I then flashed a old cm7 zip from the recovery screen just to get the phone to boot. When i tried to restore my backup from rom manager it takes me to the recovery screen and does not restore ( just stays at the recovery screen). i really would like to restore that backup. any suggestions?????
Well, this won't help your back up problem, but trying wiping everything you can, except the SD Card and the flash MIUI in Recovery.
ROM Manager is really not a dependable way to flash a ROM.
Also, you try to reflash your recovery before you do anything and try the back up again.
Oh, and if you're not on it now, use Amon Ra for Recovery. Plenty of threads that tell you how to get it.
Thanks but is there any way to restore the backup I made with rom manager in recovery?
Hello. I wanted to try out some custom ROMs for this phone few weeks ago but before flashing anything I did a backup of stock ROM in TWRP on external SD card. I used this backup once back then and it was working but now, after few weeks on custom ROM, I can't restore it properly anymore. Restoring process in TWRP goes as expected, without any errors, but when I want to boot system it goes into bootloop.
Anything can be done to fix it assuming the backup itself isn't corrupted? I don't know what else details might be relevant here.