[Q] My phone wont boot up / cant restore backup

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Hey, so yesterday I flashed AOKP on my Droid 4 (my first time flashing..)
I created a backup and everything. Well my phone dosent connect to data while on AOKP (bug?)
So when I to toggle the safe system it didnt work. So I decided to quick toggle and reboot my phone. It just keeps on giving me "droid" the eye then restarts. So I got it to reboot again back into recovery to restore the nandroid. But there was a MD5 mismatch.

Im at school so I dont access to anything. (I cant toggle back to safe system either now, it gives me a error while restoring /data.)

So what can I do?? -panic mode-

Luckily this site wasen't blocked..

Originally Posted by TechTinker

Hey, so yesterday I flashed AOKP on my Droid 4 (my first time flashing..)
I created a backup and everything. Well my phone dosent connect to data while on AOKP (bug?)
So when I to toggle the safe system it didnt work. So I decided to quick toggle and reboot my phone. It just keeps on giving me "droid" the eye then restarts. So I got it to reboot again back into recovery to restore the nandroid. But there was a MD5 mismatch.

Im at school so I dont access to anything. (I cant toggle back to safe system either now, it gives me a error while restoring /data.)

So what can I do?? -panic mode-

Luckily this site wasen't blocked..

I had a similar issue a couple of weeks ago and got an error when trying to restore my nandroid backup to my non-safe system. I went in to advance restore and restored the system, data, and cache separately and that worked for some reason when the regular restore did not.

If you can't get to safestrap menu the best you will be able todo is fastboot to .219 or .215.

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I tried doing the advanced restore, but when I tried restore system (I havent tried the other two yet) it gives me a MD5 mismatch error. (tried before and after I posted this thread)

and I don't know how to fastboot...kinda what my phone to be fixed before I go home. My mom will kill me.

First of all, when you say toggling didn't work, what exactly do you mean (what error message did you get)

Second of all, do not quick toggle.

Third, what mode is the phone in now? Try toggling to Safe Mode and rebooting.

Also, what mode were you in when you made the backup? You cannot restore safe-mode backups to the non-safe partition and vice-versa.


Also, you can get AOKP to connect to data by cycling between GSM/CDMA. Yes it is bug.

I was in the Safe System and when I tried to toggle into the Non-safe system it gave me an error when it was trying to restore. I think it was the same "Error while restoring /data" as I got after but I can't be sure.

yeah I know..I just wanted to get back. But good to know Ill be able to conenct to data if I get back to it.

Im in the Non-Safe system right now but I can't toggle back due to the "Error while restoring /data" error.

I did the backup in the non-safe and tried restoring in the non-safe.

I really hope that quick toggle didnt mess me up completly.

Originally Posted by TechTinker

I was in the Safe System and when I tried to toggle into the Non-safe system it gave me an error when it was trying to restore. I think it was the same "Error while restoring /data" as I got after but I can't be sure.

yeah I know..I just wanted to get back. But good to know Ill be able to conenct to data if I get back to it.

Im in the Non-Safe system right now but I can't toggle back due to the "Error while restoring /data" error.

I did the backup in the non-safe and tried restoring in the non-safe.

I really hope that quick toggle didnt mess me up completly.

You could try doing a factory reset of your non-safe system. Not sure if that would work or not but might be worth a shot. Your could also try booting into stock recovery and doing a factory reset. If you go that route and it works you will have to re-root your phone and you may lose some things.

Ok, so I didn't know there was a factory reset option on the safeboot..lol. I didn't select it but when I turned on my phone a black screen with white text popped up, so i shut it down and on again and it booted up to the set up process. Then a while after I tried toggling the safe system again but it gave me the error again. I also tried doing a nandroid but it gave me a error about the /systemrig?

Then I decided to just boot it up normally and it gave me the set up process again. :/

Originally Posted by TechTinker

Ok, so I didn't know there was a factory reset option on the safeboot..lol. I didn't select it but when I turned on my phone a black screen with white text popped up, so i shut it down and on again and it booted up to the set up process. Then a while after I tried toggling the safe system again but it gave me the error again. I also tried doing a nandroid but it gave me a error about the /systemrig?

Then I decided to just boot it up normally and it gave me the set up process again. :/

Glad to hear you at least have a working system again. When my safestrap pooped out on me I had to boot into stock, uninstall safestrap recovery, manually delete the safestrap folder on the sd card, then reinstall safestrap recovery. That finally fixed it for me. I have a suspicion it might have been a low amount of storage space that caused my initial problem with safestrap not wanting to toggle between safe and non-safe but I haven't confirmed that.

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Yeah so am I.

Ok so from what I understand I should set up my phone again and unistall safestrap, go into the file manager, delete the safestrap folder and reinstall safestrap and I should be good to good to go with toggling and have it not boot up to set up everytime I turn it on? Then to get back to AOKP I just redo the data wiping and flashing. Sweet.

Yeah that might be it, I've been getting a "Low volume space on SD" error for a while. I didn't know what was causing it to be so full.