Root Nandroid Issue

[Huge Noob]

I'm at work, pardon the brevity.

Was happily running MikG 3.11 forever.

Made Nandroid.

Flashed CM7. Flashed Gapps. Tinkered a bit.

Didn't like, restored Nandroid.

Phone not at all restored, multiple apps missing, gapps missing, weirdness abounds.

Ideas? Thanks!
-HN

 

[Mikestony]

I'm at work, pardon the brevity.

Was happily running MikG 3.11 forever.

Made Nandroid.

Flashed CM7. Flashed Gapps. Tinkered a bit.

Didn't like, restored Nandroid.

Phone not at all restored, multiple apps missing, gapps missing, weirdness abounds.

Ideas? Thanks!
-HN

I assume you backup up everything?
are you partitioned and backed up sd-ext?
Using DT a2sd?

 

[JEast]

Did you wipe everything except your SD card before restoring your MikG? If not, there will be some CM7 files that will stick around that will mess with your restored nandroid.

 

[Huge Noob]

I assume you backup up everything?
are you partitioned and backed up sd-ext?
Using DT a2sd?

I used TB to back up all user apps. When I created the nan, I'm about 95% sure I clicked the 3 main ones, plus sd ext and wimax....almost certain I did.

Yes part. and yes I'm using a2sd.

Did you wipe everything except your SD card before restoring your MikG? If not, there will be some CM7 files that will stick around that will mess with your restored nandroid.

I didn't the first time...then realized 'oh, wait' went back and did a full wipe then re-restored the nandroid.

Right now trying to restore apps w/ TB, but it keeps hanging up 2-3 apps in.

Thanks for the help!
-HN

 

[Huge Noob]

**UPDATE**

Did a FULL wipe, everything except the sd card....did everything 2x, even the factory reset. Attempting nand restore now.

 

[ocnbrze]

Did you wipe everything except your SD card before restoring your MikG? If not, there will be some CM7 files that will stick around that will mess with your restored nandroid.

Not really. A nandroid restore wipes everything before it restores. There is a thread that talks about it by the great akazabam. I'm on the phone so do not have a link for it, but I well post as soon as I'm on my computer.

 

[Mikestony]

Not really. A nandroid restore wipes everything before it restores. There is a thread that talks about it by the great akazabam. I'm on the phone so do not have a link for it, but I well post as soon as I'm on my computer.

Gotcher back ocn
Ta-da!

http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/311128-nandroid-restore.html#post2529929

 

[Huge Noob]

Didn't work, still same issues.

Anyone got a new idea out there? I'm all out.

Thanks!
-HN

 

[Mikestony]

Didn't work, still same issues.

Anyone got a new idea out there? I'm all out.

Thanks!
-HN

I'm thinkin your nandroid backup is corrupt somehow. I may have missed it, but curious as to what recovery you have?
Do you either have another nand backup , or, flash a fresh rom.

 

[Huge Noob]

I'm thinkin your nandroid backup is corrupt somehow. I may have missed it, but curious as to what recovery you have?
Do you either have another nand backup , or, flash a fresh rom.

Yeah, it seems like the nand is corrupt. I'm using AmonRa 2.3, always have.

Tell me if this is crazy talk -

Seems the ROM is fine, but all my apps are screwy. I have all the apps backed up in TB.

SO, what if I went in recovery, wiped the caches, and wiped the SdExt. Then rebooted, went back and ran the batch restore in TB? Sorta a clean house for the apps.

After that, I guess I'm recovering all the data I can, wiping clean and re-flashing MikG 3.11.....

 

[Mikestony]

Yeah, it seems like the nand is corrupt. I'm using AmonRa 2.3, always have.

Tell me if this is crazy talk -

Seems the ROM is fine, but all my apps are screwy. I have all the apps backed up in TB.

SO, what if I went in recovery, wiped the caches, and wiped the SdExt. Then rebooted, went back and ran the batch restore in TB? Sorta a clean house for the apps.

After that, I guess I'm recovering all the data I can, wiping clean and re-flashing MikG 3.11.....

Well, try this,
go into recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions and do a repair sd-ext.
Or go into terminal emulator and type
su
a2sd repair
a2sd reinstall

 

[Huge Noob]

Well, try this,
go into recovery, wipe cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions and do a repair sd-ext.
Or go into terminal emulator and type
su
a2sd repair
a2sd reinstall

That just might have worked.....I did those, then remembered under the old setup I had the davlik on the sd, so re-ran cachesd command.

Right now TB is restoring apps and seems to be running ok!!

 

[Mikestony]

That just might have worked.....I did those, then remembered under the old setup I had the davlik on the sd, so re-ran cachesd command.

Right now TB is restoring apps and seems to be running ok!!

NICE

 

[Huge Noob]

Yep.. All back to normal... Well, that was enough of a PITA to say screw it, sticking with this ROM!

On a side note, I manually installed a2sd in CM7 and got some weird error messages and a lot of FC's.. is running dark tremors and CM7 a no-no?

 

[Mikestony]

Yep.. All back to normal... Well, that was enough of a PITA to say screw it, sticking with this ROM!

On a side note, I manually installed a2sd in CM7 and got some weird error messages and a lot of FC's.. is running dark tremors and CM7 a no-no?

mmm...dont know alot about cm7 to tell you anything, but I surmise cm7 either has a2sd baked into it or support for it....really cant truly answer that my friend.

 

[andygu3]

Yep.. All back to normal... Well, that was enough of a PITA to say screw it, sticking with this ROM!

On a side note, I manually installed a2sd in CM7 and got some weird error messages and a lot of FC's.. is running dark tremors and CM7 a no-no?

Using DT's a2sd is just fine, no worries there.. What build of CM7 was it, possibility that it was a bad flash or a borked build

 

[Huge Noob]

Using DT's a2sd is just fine, no worries there.. What build of CM7 was it, possibility that it was a bad flash or a borked build

Got it off CM's site direct, listed as the current, stable build. I didn't flash a kernel or anything. I was getting lots of force closes...mostly Google Play crashing over and over. My contacts were all jacked up too.....

I only did it because I thought I could milk some more time out of my battery on a more bare-bones system like CM7.

Mostly I wasn't impressed, I'm sticking with Mik for now. I hear good things about that Strike ICS Rom, I might give that a go if I get bored again.

 

[andygu3]

Got it off CM's site direct, listed as the current, stable build. I didn't flash a kernel or anything. I was getting lots of force closes...mostly Google Play crashing over and over. My contacts were all jacked up too.....

I only did it because I thought I could milk some more time out of my battery on a more bare-bones system like CM7.

Mostly I wasn't impressed, I'm sticking with Mik for now. I hear good things about that Strike ICS Rom, I might give that a go if I get bored again.

CM7 is very particular, I assume you flashed the stable build? Since flashing CM roms, imo, the stable builds were always the most buggy, nightly builds always worked better for me By this time in the builds, there shouldn't be any sort of FC's going on, just fyi. Not a proper wipe before flash would be my guess why you had issues, what recovery are you using?

 

[MizzouBrent]

I just flashed the most recent nightly for cm7 and its more snappy than cm7.2 stable.

 

[Huge Noob]

CM7 is very particular, I assume you flashed the stable build? Since flashing CM roms, imo, the stable builds were always the most buggy, nightly builds always worked better for me By this time in the builds, there shouldn't be any sort of FC's going on, just fyi. Not a proper wipe before flash would be my guess why you had issues, what recovery are you using?

That's not it. I use AmonRa, and I wipe everything except sd card, twice. Every time. Have never had an issue.