Yeah, he pretty much got beyond me at Actually, I'm just a guy who has learned quickly and gotten good at flashing, rooting, and problem solving to help other people. I am completely lost when it comes to the technical side. I am trying to learn as much as I can though so I'm not so lost. If we can eventually get this info to the right people I would be happy with that. If those right people are the devs, I am more than happy putting this issue on the shelf until they are completely done with their current projects. But anything I can do in the meantime to help I will certainly do or try.
The good news is I just successfully restored a themed nandroid!
The bad news is that I'm not exactly sure what I did to fix it.
Nandroid backed-up a themed install.
Nandroid restored same themed install.
Rebooted.
Eternal bootloop ensued.
Rebooted to CWM.
While in CWM, I plugged in the usb and connected via ADB shell. I then typed the following (replace the red part with whichever nandroid backup folder you want to restore)
Rebooted and was greeted with a successfully working phone!
Now, I did some other things too, so I'm not sure if this was the only thing it needed. If this is all it was, then it should be an easy CWM fix. Someone want to try that and let me know?
If that's not it, I'll tell you the other things I did. It's got to be one of them
Things to remember: nandroid doesn't back up your kernel or modem at this time. If you try to restore an nandroid backup with an incompatible kernel or modem, you will have problems. Flash these first.
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The good news is I just successfully restored a themed nandroid!
The bad news is that I'm not exactly sure what did it.
Here's what I think I did:
While in CWM, I plugged in the usb and connected via ADB shell. I then typed the following (replace the red part with whichever nandroid backup folder you want to restore)
If this is what did it, then it should be an easy CWM fix. Someone want to try that and let me know? If that's not it, I'll tell you the other things I did. It's got to be one of them
Nope, that one wasn't it. Nothing happened in adb or on the phone. Next?
Nothing happened... at all? Like it just went back to the prompt without saying anything?
If that's the case, we have bigger fish to fry, because it should have at the very least complained or showed some text.
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Not being facetious here, but I need to know exactly what I did different than you.
Can you tell me all the steps you did, in as much detail as you have patience for?
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Not being facetious here, but I need to know exactly what I did different than you.
Can you tell me all the steps you did, in as much detail as you have patience for?
Well I'm going to start over. After I went through the procedures I scrolled back up and noticed you tried to restore your nandroid through cwm first. I flashed to just plain sc 2.9.2v through cwm, booted to recovery, ran the commands through adb, rebooted when adb said restore complete. I will now follow your exact steps and try restoring the nandroid through cwm first.
And since I've been flashing so much stuff today I'm going to wipe data, cache, and dalvik before trying to restore the nandroid if you think I should start from a clean slate.
Actually, hold off a second. I just redid the steps myself, and that wasn't all of the commands needed, apparently.
Before you jump through a bunch of hopes again, let me try some stuff.
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Originally Posted by landshark68
Well I'm going to start over. After I went through the procedures I scrolled back up and noticed you tried to restore your nandroid through cwm first. I flashed to just plain sc 2.9.2v through cwm, booted to recovery, ran the commands through adb, rebooted when adb said restore complete. I will now follow your exact steps and try restoring the nandroid through cwm first.
And since I've been flashing so much stuff today I'm going to wipe data, cache, and dalvik before trying to restore the nandroid if you think I should start from a clean slate.
Ya, best bet would be to start clean, flash ROM and theme, nandroid backup, nandroid restore, then do the manual nandroid restore from adb. Try to eliminate all the variables.
If that's not it, then it had to be some funky mounting stuff I was doing. But I'd rather not get into that if I don't have to, because I tried a bunch of stuff all at once.
I have an extra fascinate with a shattered screen. If you have a dead phone I can Frankenstein the screen from, let me know. Thanks!
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Standing by. I just made a build of sc 2.9.2v and ultimate honeycomb 3.1.1. I'll make a nandroid backup of that while waiting.
ETA - And don't worry about the appearance of being facetious or hurting my feelings or insulting me. I'm a grown person with thick skin. And I've read a bunch of your posts and have the same mind set. Don't insult, but tell it exactly like it is.
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I'm just a guy who has learned quickly and gotten good at flashing, rooting, and problem solving to help other people. I am completely lost when it comes to the technical side. I am trying to learn as much as I can though so I'm not so lost. 
If we can eventually get this info to the right people I would be happy with that. If those right people are the devs, I am more than happy putting this issue on the shelf until they are completely done with their current projects. But anything I can do in the meantime to help I will certainly do or try.
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