can someone direct me to a way that i can extract my google information from a data.img so that i can put that in my newer rom that gives me a "cant establish connection with server" because i cant seem to get things working when i flash new...and when i do an advance restore and choose the data.img from my old account, my google works perfectly with great connection but my youtube or anything with videos dont work....
or someone atleast kno a more active community? i have asked so many questions here and there isnt really anyone active or they probably dont care..
First of all, that question isn't entirely clear. You've tried only restoring data through recovery and it works, but videos don't? Do you have flash installed?
Try backing up your accounts with Titanium Backup then restoring. The problem is most likely with your rom or with Google.
Also, less than two hours without a response doesn't make this an unhelpful community. You're welcome to find a new one, but with that attitude people won't want to help you.
Next time, give more information so people can help you. What rom is giving you issues, which rom are you coming from? There's a thread somewhere about extracting data from nandroid backups. I'm not sure what you'll find there or if it'll answer your question, but you can try reading that.
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i understand what your saying , and if its abbrasive the way it sounded i assure you it was not. reason i said that comment is this...i been a member since 2007 and lately i asked the same question in different forms on other threads. as far as what your saying, i flashed mainly all roms and nothing..omj, cynogen, but will try the titanium backup thanks.
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So I just got my Evo yesterday and have been reading up on it on these forums ever since. I have a few questions that I wasn't able to find very easily by searching, so I apologize if I ask a question thats been answered several times and feel free to tell me to search if its something I should be able to find. I am coming from a palm pre and while it was confusing at first I am starting to get the hang of it.
So rooting. lets you uninstall sprint apps, get an app that lets you wifi teacher, among other things right? that seems like the majority of what I would like to do.
The whole custom rom thing kinda scares me. Can you only do a Nandroid backup once you have root? I assume that will make a backup with the phone rooted? Does that backup all the other things like radio drivers,ect? is there another bootloader or app that I need to make all those back ups?
I feel like I have a good grasp on rooting but are there any good threads on backing stuff up and a comparison of the different features of each custom rom? (I.e one has sense, the other doesn't have 4g, etc)
Thanks for any help and I apologize once again if I am asking obvious and frequently answered questions. (Which I'm sure I am)
--Shadd
wow man. i am impressed. you just got your evo yesterday, and you are already using the term bootloader. the last time i helped a noob, he was asking what a rom was. i will be glad to help you. and i am always open for a pm or an email ([email protected]) if any more help is needed.
ok, so you can only nandroid backup once rooted because you need a custom recovery, which is only achievable by root. there are two main ones out there. clockworkmod and amon ra recovery. clockworkmod is simple, user friendly, informative, and fast. it is also controllable by an app while the phone is booted up (rom mananger). clockworkmod has a few shortcomings, like it doesnt wipe dalvik cache properly and it doesnt fix a common 4g-bricking problem called rsa key loss. then we have amon, which isn't controllable by an app, but is all around better. it is just more reliable, safer, works better, has no bugs, and BACKS UP WIMAX.IMG (WHICH YOU CAN RESTORE TO REVERSE RSA KEY LOSS). this is the smarter choice of recovery.
these are very un-annoying and un-repetitive questions for a new-b to be asking. if you need any help rooting, which has been made difficult by the recent ota, pm or email me.
do not use the one click rooting method unrevoked until they come out with a fix for the newest ota, or you will be sorry.
So every custom ROM I've tried (TrulyEpic, Syndicate, Nebula) after a while it just stops working correctly. I end up with constant need of reboots and then Google Services Framework always FC's on me. Apps start to FC and it all goes downhill. I have yet to have a ROM last longer than a month without doing this. I don't download a lot of apps and the ones I do use are very mainstream.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it my handset? All is well as long as I stick to stock. I hate stock though, because I do rely on tethering and I'm not paying double for data. That and Syndicate is so fast and smooth.
Thanks for listening to my venting. Sorry for taking up forum space.
You really need to search...
The FCs are due to data corruption, you can't improperly shut off a no-journaling ROM or that's what happens. Reflash your rom, make a NAND backup then install the backup and journaling will be on and it will stop happening.
Sorry, I did and I couldn't find what I thought was the issue. I did give you a thanks though because I didn't know that.
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Sorry, I did and I couldn't find what I thought was the issue. I did give you a thanks though because I didn't know that.
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It's fine, I was just saying you should search because there are a dozen threads where people are complaining about tons of FCs.
As for a NAND backup, would I need NANDROID or would the Backup/Restore in CWM work for that? If I need NANDROID then I'll probably just keep a copy of the ROM on my SD card an reflash whenever I get corruption.
EDIT: Nevermind, I think I got it.
I need to unroot my phone. Since I've rooted, the vibration motor only works sproadically. I have had hardware repair people check it out and it isn't the part itself, so they suggested I take it back to the provider to see what the problem is. Obviously, the provider won't touch it if it's rooted.
There's all kinds of directions online about how to restore to factory. My problem is that this is a phone I also use for work and so contacts, app data, calendar, etc. etc. will all need to be restored. However, the conundrum is that there aren't any backup apps that can backup the app and the app data and/or restore same without root. So even though I have used Titanium Backup to backup my apps/data, I wont be able to restore after unrooting.
FYI my phone is AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II SGH-I317, rooted but no custom rom (still stock).
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Some have suggested I learn to live without the vibration, but there are many times I need my phone in silent mode but need to have the vibration on so I am alerted to incoming calls/appointments/texts/alerts.
Thanks,
Why do you say TiBu won't do the job? You can restore user apps and their data 100%; you can also restore phone and sms logs. Just don't restore system data.
Move your personal data to the external sd card.
Besides unrooting you have to restore the binary count to zero using triangle away app.
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Why do you say TiBu won't do the job? You can restore user apps and their data 100%; you can also restore phone and sms logs. Just don't restore system data.
Move your personal data to the external sd card.
Besides unrooting you have to restore the binary count to zero using triangle away app.
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My understanding is that TiBU cannot restore apps/data unless the phone is rooted. If there's a way to do it without the phone being rooted, please let me know.
How do I "move my personal data to the external sd card?' and do I do that before or after restoring the factory firmware?
I've restored the binary count using triangle away. Will I need to do this again after restoring the factory firmware?
Obviously I'm a less sophisticated user. TBH I only rooted to get rid of the bloatware, I never had any intention of making any other changes (nor do I really have the skill/knowledge to do so). If there's a way to get this accomplished, I'd really appreciate some instructions. All the threads I've read have a bunch of technical language that I really don't understand.
Thanks for your help...
You make a zip file of your apps and data, then you use the stock recovery to flash. You name it update.zip.
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You make a zip file of your apps and data, then you use the stock recovery to flash. You name it update.zip.
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Is there a thread I could read which would give me step by step directions to do this. Thank you so much for your help.
Question: can you make a nandroid backup, unroot, factory reset, triangle away, send phone for repair, when phone returns, root, restore the nandroid?
Im sure you dont want to send your phone with personal stuff on it.
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Question: can you make a nandroid backup, unroot, factory reset, triangle away, send phone for repair, when phone returns, root, restore the nandroid?
Im sure you dont want to send your phone with personal stuff on it.
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I'm sure that this would be an acceptable method. Is nandroid backup something that can be done via TiBu? If not, could you point me to a thread that would have instructions on how to do this.
As always, thank you for your help!
A nandroid backup is an image of your system. You mske it using recovery. So, did you install a custom recovery?
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I guess this is what I get for going on a developers' forum, and not being a developer myself. After trying to do nandroid backups and restores, I have successfully bricked my phone. Even the person who developed the toolkit won't answer my posts to his website. So I guess my best solution is to get a new phone and never come back to these forums, because I'm clearly in over my head, and no one here can answer the questions of a simpleton like me. Sorry I ever tried to do anything on my phone. Clearly the only thing I've accomplished is to waste my time, ruin my device, and bug people on this forum with my inane inability to comprehend the concepts you guys understand here. Arriva dirce!
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I guess this is what I get for going on a developers' forum, and not being a developer myself. After trying to do nandroid backups and restores, I have successfully bricked my phone. Even the person who developed the toolkit won't answer my posts to his website. So I guess my best solution is to get a new phone and never come back to these forums, because I'm clearly in over my head, and no one here can answer the questions of a simpleton like me. Sorry I ever tried to do anything on my phone. Clearly the only thing I've accomplished is to waste my time, ruin my device, and bug people on this forum with my inane inability to comprehend the concepts you guys understand here. Arriva dirce!
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Not sure what the heck I typed here. ..
Try sending a PM to myself or rangercaptain if you want to still try fixing your phone
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I wasn't bothered by your questions. I like helping other xda'ers solve their problems. Sorry someone somewhere else offended you.
If there is any activity at all when you press the power button you have a great chance of restoring your phone.
Hello XDA forum patrons, if I am out of terms for stating that I will pay for help, I apologize as I am just that desperate for concrete help and or affirmation of being screwed. I am not a new person to this forum but I made this account specifically for this problem. If I have offended anyone to this point I apologize. So if I am allowed to offer monetized reward for real results then please allow me to continue and hear my plight.
I have an AT&T Galaxy Note 2 Model - SGH-i317, while I have successfully and easily rooted and flashed custom roms for over 10 different phones, this one has ultimately made me a fool either in personal error or erroneous rom damage. So in that allow me to explain what I have done and maybe, hopefully, someone reading this can help me get my phone in a usable state as the stress of my girlfriend ( it's her phone ) is slowly killing me and this is consuming every waking hour trying to fix. #firstworldproblems
I digress.. lets jump in.
5 Days ago after realizing that the new rolled out 4.4.2 update disabled tethering and hotspot creation from 3rd party apps such as Foxfi, ( i live in an area where the only options for internet is cellular, dial-up, satellite) I became enraged and decided to root and install a rom for it so I could bypass and circumvent what I felt was crap, and or my impatience to wait for FoxFi to be updated to bypass these changes. So I backed up my rom, installed CWM and supersu 2.1 with no problems, I then installed LiquidSmooth Rom 4.4.4. with no problems everything worked fine, well almost. Silly me I had forgotten to take in account that LiquidSmooth was a very fast, clean android experience without any hint of touchwiz and pen usage.. well I hadn't really cared nor wanted those features but my girlfriend damn sure did. "How am I to take quick pen notes now?
etc... so I decided to switch to DN3 V5.2, well CWM wouldn't allow me to install so I tried Philz to no avail, so I installed TWRP and sure enough it flashed and installed fine. Well there was the problem (at least I am guessing) as DN3 V5.2 is based on 4.4.2, so as much I know with roms is you can go up but never go back... if I am wrong please correct me, So after booting up, my sim card was not being read, so I was like WTF? Turns out I installed the rom for n7100, instead of for n7105/sgh-i317... doh, so I thought well that's no big deal, I will just go ahead and flash the correct one, well I did same problem... so then I got panicked and plugged my phone up to my computer, my internal storage was cleaned out, my titanium backup folder with all my progs and other useful things was removed.. so yah, I think my .efs got wiped. I have never up till this point had this type of problem so never have backed up an efs exclusively, I have always made rom backups but never efs. I guess that is my folly as well, so here is my question am I borked or does someone know what to do here?
Things I have tried:
1.wipe/format/dalvik try to reinstall Liquid smooth to no avail TWRP says failed.
2. Restore rom, TWRP doesn't find the file, I guess it doesn't recognize backups from CWM? that are not made in TWRP? so tried Philz, Philz says "Error while restoring /system!", so I reinstalled CWM and CWM installed it, however after getting to the AT&T splash logo the phone stays there in bootloop.
3. tried different things utilizing steps 1 and 2 with liquid smooth
3. From there reinstalled DN3 5.2 successfully, still no service or data.. and that is the last step I have taken.
My questions are as follows:
1. Does a back up typically save .efs data or is that gone for good?
2. Is there a recovery or a prog that can allow the phone's internal memory to be read like a flash drive or a standard drive on a pc so that I can possibly try to use data recovery software to try to find useful files?
3. Can I get a set of efs backup files from this phone from someone else and perhaps edit the file and enter my IMEI information through notepad or another program?
4. Can a stock rom recovery install what I need?
5. If no to the previous 4 is there any online services or companies that could possibly fix this?
6. or am I completely f***ed?
Please if you have no constructive criticism, thoughts, things to try, or have had any experience in dealing with this issue please move on, I have kicked the **** out of myself enough to bypass trolling.. for all those who want to genuinely help and have some understanding of what I am asking/have done, please help and I will do what I can to reward you in turn. THank you so much to any and all! -j
I'm going off the top of my head so bear with me...
In the case of the Note 2, you cannot downgrade bootloaders. The rest works, aside from some Wi-Fi issues with the early bootloader recent ROM combo.
1. I think TWRP does; but if your internal SD has been corrupted and you don't have anything to restore from... Corrupt internal SD might warrant flashing with the appropriate .pit file and the (usually strongly advised against) "repartition" box checked.
2. I don't think so, but there's no harm in copying the entire 16GBs of the phone's memory to an image in order to try said recovery. There's a few threads out there with step-by-step instructions. It involves using netcat to forward your dd or cat command's output to the computer, since you (obviously) don't have enough space on the phone.
3. There's NV items backups with the IMEI removed that have been posted, notably for the AWS mod, these are probably your best shot. Take a look at EFS Professional which has a very educative thread as well.
4. I doubt it.
5. Some guys with "boxes" that do SIM unlocks, JTAG repairs and the like might be able to help. Maybe.
There should be other threads about people inadvertently flashing their T889 or N7105s with the wrong ROM, maybe they've got some interesting findings.
For your and your couple's sake, general rule is that you shouldn't tinker with your SO's device. The same holds true for friends and family. Otherwise you'll risk blame for every "tech" problem, from the printer running low on ink to the latest spyware they unconciously install.
Good luck,
Darkshado
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I'm going off the top of my head so bear with me...
In the case of the Note 2, you cannot downgrade bootloaders. The rest works, aside from some Wi-Fi issues with the early bootloader recent ROM combo.
1. I think TWRP does; but if your internal SD has been corrupted and you don't have anything to restore from... Corrupt internal SD might warrant flashing with the appropriate .pit file and the (usually strongly advised against) "repartition" box checked. What is a pit file? My internal SD is not corrupted it's just wiped.. there are files and folders present, but my originals folders and files that included my Titanium backup files and such are gone.. how do I know if my .efs files are present at all?
2. I don't think so, but there's no harm in copying the entire 16GBs of the phone's memory to an image in order to try said recovery. There's a few threads out there with step-by-step instructions. It involves using netcat to forward your dd or cat command's output to the computer, since you (obviously) don't have enough space on the phone.why do I not have enough space on my phone? i have 30 gigs free between internal and external storage? But copying files to attempt a recovery is not the same thing, data recovery software has to be able to access the device to read the nand in order to recover any files correct?
3. There's NV items backups with the IMEI removed that have been posted, notably for the AWS mod, these are probably your best shot. Take a look at EFS Professional which has a very educative thread as well. WHere can i find these NV items? do you have any links? I have efs professional installed but i am still pretty clueless and I keep getting errors trying to access my device.
4. I doubt it.
5. Some guys with "boxes" that do SIM unlocks, JTAG repairs and the like might be able to help. Maybe.
Do you know of any websites or links? i have been unable to find anything to help.
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There should be other threads about people inadvertently flashing their T889 or N7105s with the wrong ROM, maybe they've got some interesting findings.
For your and your couple's sake, general rule is that you shouldn't tinker with your SO's device. The same holds true for friends and family. Otherwise you'll risk blame for every "tech" problem, from the printer running low on ink to the latest spyware they unconciously install.
Trust me I know, but she said it was okay plus I have never ran into any problems like this before ever, I do all those little pc repair tasks for all my family because I did just that.
Good luck,
Darkshado
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THanks for your help, I will paypal for any positive results I swear it!
Generally a wrong rom means a trip to the JTAG guy at www.mobiletechvideos.com and you pay $50 and wait a week.
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Generally a wrong rom means a trip to the JTAG guy at www.mobiletechvideos.com and you pay $50 and wait a week.
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This...^^^^^...
And data recovery is also possible...along with EFS RESTORE services...
I used them for a bootloader downgrade service last month...
Josh can fix you up....g
We gave you your solution --- pay up!
No longer desperate for help.
Well, unfortunately for you all, and I should make a thread that states this very thing, that I resolved the issue on my own w/o 3rd party help. Where I had thought it was my efs, it wasn't, it just happened to be my modem was deleted. So from a wi-fi connection and from the DN3 7100 rom I downloaded the appropriate rom for 7105 and a stock recovery to try first, flashed a new version of CWM touch, deleted and wiped everything except int. storage. I then tried the stock rom to successful boot, just still no baseband, no service, no sim recognized, so after thinking and trying a few other things, I thought maybe it was just my modem, sure enough, after flashing the modem UCAMH3, my baseband, connection, and everything came back, after that I rewiped and installed DN3 for 7105 and boom, everything is right with the world. Many thanks for your previous suggestions, but as I did not use them.. you have my gratitude.
Er, you can't actually delete the modem - it's a binary file that flashes a chip. You can replace the firmware with other firmware. Possibly you flashed a corrupted file.
Regardless of which ROM freshly installed I get "process com.google. etc..." errors
Before I provide more details if needed I just wanted to check the first thing that I should which I'm clueless of. But so far its been a few ROM's. The latest were a couple stock ones and before that, the last time I was regularly using this phone a few years ago I believe it was an ASOP(did I get that right?) ROM. Are there a few common sources I can check for problems that might solve this? The messages seem to just pop up whenever and they are all different but usually start with process com.google then something else. Just need a point in the right direction as when I google these the only general solutions I found were to clean a variety of caches, apps and I've tried clearing dalvik and regular cache from TWRP but that never helped. So any ideas would be appreciated. Also for some reason can't install apk's. Play store works tho. I get that 'error parsing' error. Not sure if related.Trying to set this phone up as a backup phone.
Though I do not know the answer to your problems I would like to suggest you move your thread to Q&A or General because you will not get any answers in the section you posted in...A mod Might move it but if not you definitely should...Just word of advice that's all
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Though I do not know the answer to your problems I would like to suggest you move your thread to Q&A or General because you will not get any answers in the section you posted in...A mod Might move it but if not you definitely should...Just word of advice that's all
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Thanks. Actually its been solved. For the moment at least. I think for my latest reinstallation actually. Don't know why it ever gets these issues. I guess I'm afraid to accept that it could be hardware somehow which would be more difficult to solve than software. Well anyway, hopefully it stays this way