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Root Stock JB Nandroid Backup/Rooted and Unlocked with S-OFF

wetbiker7 said:
I think just using your phone settings/storage to format will be fine instead of CWM. You can also use a pc. Your call.
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It finally worked. Not sure why though lol. I did a format and it was still giving no data. Then, just out of laziness, did a fastboot load of cwm instead of flashing it again. That time it worked properly. Weird. Anyway now I am making a backup through twrp so I can, hopefully, avoid using cwm again. At least for awhile lol. Thanks for your help. :)
 
Kreatur3 said:
It finally worked. Not sure why though lol. I did a format and it was still giving no data. Then, just out of laziness, did a fastboot load of cwm instead of flashing it again. That time it worked properly. Weird. Anyway now I am making a backup through twrp so I can, hopefully, avoid using cwm again. At least for awhile lol. Thanks for your help. :)
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You're welcome bro. I'm glad you got it working and can now flash it. It's nice having everything working.

Fortunately our phone runs great with the stock ROM but I'm still looking forward to a ROM from Simon and Shinru. :D
 
wetbiker7 said:
You're welcome bro. I'm glad you got it working and can now flash it. It's nice having everything working.

Fortunately our phone runs great with the stock ROM but I'm still looking forward to a ROM from Simon and Shinru. :D
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I'm looking forward to either cm10 or miui. I miss miui lol.

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This seems to work great for me too - Voicemail is now working and I should get to try bluetooth tomorrow. Thanks for the great work! :)
 
Kreatur3 said:
Miui is probably my all time favorite. I've run it on all my phones going back to when virgin started with android.

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I like MIUI but CM ROMs are my thing. Ever since running CM7 on my Prevail, I've been hooked. :D

I'm running CM10 on my Transformer, CM7 on my Prevail and waiting on CM10 to be released for the Marquee hopefully. Paranoid Android is another one of my favorites.
 
Thank you tremendously, and it works fine except for two things that I have noticed..
1. Ever since flashing this backup my 3G speed has dropped severely.

2. I cannot access my voice mail at all, I get an instant busy signal which is strange.
 
Moolah85 said:
Thank you tremendously, and it works fine except for two things that I have noticed..
1. Ever since flashing this backup my 3G speed has dropped severely.

2. I cannot access my voice mail at all, I get an instant busy signal which is strange.
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Sounds like network problems.

If it's not, doing a factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik, then fix permissions. That should take care of it if it's not network related. You could even re-download the backup file and flash it again. There's always a chance you got a bad copy.
 
Hi,

Bought this phone almost 2 months ago and it's awesome. Upgraded to JB 4.1.2 OTA from boost. Now I'm looking to root this phone to remove some crapware but...when I downloaded heloguy's zip file, I unzipped it and it said the data.tar.a file has a crc failure, not only that the size of that file is some 635mb?! I found another data.tar.a file from another post and it was 22.8mb. What accounts for the huge difference between the 2, and could this be why some people are having problems with heloguy's nandroid backup file? I'm kind of nervous about rooting this phone with so much conflicting info being out there. I don't mind sticking with the stock rom, as long as some system apps can be removed, that and switching the internal 1GB memory (for swap, data, or dalvik cache) with the 4GB internal memory (for apps).

Note: I'm not a developer, but I'm sure I can switch the internal memory spaces via linking.
 
titetanium said:
Hi,

Bought this phone almost 2 months ago and it's awesome. Upgraded to JB 4.1.2 OTA from boost. Now I'm looking to root this phone to remove some crapware but...when I downloaded heloguy's zip file, I unzipped it and it said the data.tar.a file has a crc failure, not only that the size of that file is some 635mb?! I found another data.tar.a file from another post and it was 22.8mb. What accounts for the huge difference between the 2, and could this be why some people are having problems with heloguy's nandroid backup file? I'm kind of nervous about rooting this phone with so much conflicting info being out there. I don't mind sticking with the stock rom, as long as some system apps can be removed, that and switching the internal 1GB memory (for swap, data, or dalvik cache) with the 4GB internal memory (for apps).

Note: I'm not a developer, but I'm sure I can switch the internal memory spaces via linking.
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Make a backup of your current ROM and try to restore the nandroid backup. You may already know this but if anything is wrong with the files the md5 shouldn't match and won't proceed with the restore.

If you don't want to try the restore maybe you can download a desktop program to check the md5 against the files. Not sure.
 
Ok, thing is I haven't rooted this phone yet, so there is no cwm, s-off, or unlocked/unbranding done to it, so making a backup is kind of useless without those tools at this point, don't you think? I'm looking to root this phone, and I haven't done it yet because of the conflicting information out there. I was going to to do it the easy way using the sticky guide but heloguy's nandroid back is either corrupted or broken. As of today, the link is broken so I cannot redownload a good working copy, I'm downloading wetbiker's version now as his link is working.

As for swapping the internal memory, I'll do that after I successfully root the phone and remove certain apps that I don't need. Once that's done and the phone is in good working order, I'll make a nandroid backup before swapping the internal memory space.
 
titetanium said:
Ok, thing is I haven't rooted this phone yet, so there is no cwm, s-off, or unlocked/unbranding done to it, so making a backup is kind of useless without those tools at this point, don't you think? I'm looking to root this phone, and I haven't done it yet because of the conflicting information out there. I was going to to do it the easy way using the sticky guide but heloguy's nandroid back is either corrupted or broken. As of today, the link is broken so I cannot redownload a good working copy, I'm downloading wetbiker's version now as his link is working.
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Download this if you're on Windows:
MD5 Checker - Free download and software reviews - CNET Download.com

Open the md5 file and check the md5 code on each file if you want to make sure.
wetbiker's worked fine for me but I did have some corrupt files from the others.
 
New link is up in the op. I'm sorry for all the confusion guys. Thankfully, wetbiker has a link posted a little further down than mine.
 
Does anyone know how to make this into a regular zip? I'd like to use it to as a base to make a rom.
 
This works but it's asking me for a pin code to get into the system after I restored the nandroid.
 
Mikessv said:
Twice I did a factory reset and twice it keeps asking for a passcode...
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I completely wiped my phone today, and restored it to stock. It should not be asking you for a passcode. Did you download the new version I uploaded this afternoon? If all else fails, you can download wetbiker's nandroid. It's a couple of posts down from the op.
 
Heloguy said:
I completely wiped my phone today, and restored it to stock. It should not be asking you for a passcode. Did you download the new version I uploaded this afternoon? If all else fails, you can download wetbiker's nandroid. It's a couple of posts down from the op.
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About an hour ago I downloaded yours..I have no idea why its asking for a passcode, I don't even use them and all I did was go into cwm wiped data, wiped cached partition and devlik cache
 
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