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Root Can't restore backup

Dimension7

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Hi, yestrday I did my first flash: I rooted the phone, installed superuser, but the phone is S-ON. I tried a ROM but GPS don't work in it, so I tried to restore a nand backup. The backup is in the microSD card, I made it before flashing.
So I wiped all data, in 4ext touch recovery I made the wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache+dalvik, format all partitions except sd card. Then I went to restore->restore and I selected my restore file. During the restore process it seems that all goes ok but when I reboot the phone it goes into recovery. I tried to boot in the bootloader too and I can't see an option for booting "normally".

What can I do?
 
Probably the easiest way to fix this problem would be flashing another rom of your choice. I tried to find a complete stock rom of that's what you wanted but couldn't find one that isn't an ruu (kills root).

By the way, when you restore a nandroid, wiping before isn't necessary. Your recovery automatically wipes everything as soon as the restore begins.
 
I reinstalled the old rom, since I don't know how to move files to the sd card without a proper ROM. My card reader doesn't seems to work too :/
Anyway, I think I need to get my phone S-OFF. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if anything goes wrong with S-OFF I can do any restore or flash just with the phone, with S-ON instead I need a pc with me, am I right?
 
I reinstalled the old rom, since I don't know how to move files to the sd card without a proper ROM. My card reader doesn't seems to work too :/
Anyway, I think I need to get my phone S-OFF. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if anything goes wrong with S-OFF I can do any restore or flash just with the phone, with S-ON instead I need a pc with me, am I right?

basically,yes. s-off lets recovery install the kernel,while an s on device requires the kernel to be installed manually with a PC. if you changed y our kernel to run the new rom,you must do this same process after restoring the nandroid to manually install your old boot image.

if you didnt restore the boot image from your nandroid,that is why your rom wouldnt boot(sounds like you installed an AOSP rom)

being s off definately makes rom flashing/restoring easier :)
 
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