Restore problems on cwm 5.0.2.7 mtd

[flastnoles11]

None of my mtd backups will restore on cwm... the md5 check goes through, well actually everything goes through and then it tries to boot and goes through the boot ani and then goes to a black screen... it is happening on every mtd rom I try to back up... clean gb mtd marcusant v2 mtd and legendary that I have converted to mtd... any ideas?

Edit- just realized I put cem and not cwm as the subject... my bad... don't know how to change it... any help with that to?

Edit2- ok now the same thing is happening when I flash a theme... very confusing... this has never happened to me before... I am wiping properly and mounting /system and then unmounting... reboot.. gets about halfway through the boot animation and then black screen and won't boot... any ideas?

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[ac16313]

None of my mtd backups will restore on cwm... the md5 check goes through, well actually everything goes through and then it tries to boot and goes through the boot ani and then goes to a black screen... it is happening on every mtd rom I try to back up... clean gb mtd marcusant v2 mtd and legendary that I have converted to mtd... any ideas?

Edit- just realized I put cem and not cwm as the subject... my bad... don't know how to change it... any help with that to?

Edit2- ok now the same thing is happening when I flash a theme... very confusing... this has never happened to me before... I am wiping properly and mounting /system and then unmounting... reboot.. gets about halfway through the boot animation and then black screen and won't boot... any ideas?

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Modify your post and go to the very top, have you tried not mounting system?

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[Danny1st]

From Toadlife CleanGB MTD

"To restore data from a nandroid backup:1.Mount your sdcard as USB storage
2.Navigate to clockworkmod/backups/<LAST BACKUP>/
3.Rename system.rfs.tar to system.yaffs2.tar, data.rfs.tar to data.yaffs2.tar
4.Open the nandroid.md5 file, replace all rfs in the filenames with yaffs2
5.Save/close, unmount USB, and reboot into recovery
6.Advanced restore data (And system if you really want). Only advanced restore, or else it will give you a BML kernel and recovery, which wont boot
7.Reboot!

(If you were on ext4, just replace rfs with ext4)
If you want your previous Rom, advanced restore system too."

Hope this helps, for any other help with MTD roms, follow some guides on his ROM thread in the development section

 

[flastnoles11]

Modify your post and go to the very top, have you tried not mounting system?

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Tried mounting and not mounting... still nothing... did finally get my nandroid to restore.. but still a no go on themes installing...

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[flastnoles11]

From Toadlife CleanGB MTD

"To restore data from a nandroid backup:1.Mount your sdcard as USB storage
2.Navigate to clockworkmod/backups/<LAST BACKUP>/
3.Rename system.rfs.tar to system.yaffs2.tar, data.rfs.tar to data.yaffs2.tar
4.Open the nandroid.md5 file, replace all rfs in the filenames with yaffs2
5.Save/close, unmount USB, and reboot into recovery
6.Advanced restore data (And system if you really want). Only advanced restore, or else it will give you a BML kernel and recovery, which wont boot
7.Reboot!

(If you were on ext4, just replace rfs with ext4)
If you want your previous Rom, advanced restore system too."

Hope this helps, for any other help with MTD roms, follow some guides on his ROM thread in the development section

That is to restore a bml rom to an mtd rom... that is not what I'm asking... thanks for the reply anyways...

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[DCRocks]

I was able to do a NAND backup restore on MTD via CWM 5.0.2.7 but I had to go into advanced options and mount both system and data before the restore would take

Also, did you do the backup AFTER your recovery was converted to MTD or BEFORE?

If before, that may be your issue, and you can just follow the steps for the BML to MTD rom backup conversion to fix it

If after, it may be worth it to double check that the nand does not say ext4 or rfs in it

 

[flastnoles11]

I was able to do a NAND backup restore on MTD via CWM 5.0.2.7 but I had to go into advanced options and mount both system and data before the restore would take

Also, did you do the backup AFTER your recovery was converted to MTD or BEFORE?

If before, that may be your issue, and you can just follow the steps for the BML to MTD rom backup conversion to fix it

If after, it may be worth it to double check that the nand does not say ext4 or rfs in it

Yes I did it after the conversion to mtd... I am on the clean gb mtd rom... so the rom converted me to mtd and I then got everything set up and did a backup and the went to restore it a couple hours later and it wouldn't restore... the thing is it restoores all the way but it won't boot all the way. Gets to the boot animation and then goes black... I tried mount system and data but still nothing... I have already odined back and reflashed the rom... immediately did a backup and then it restored fine... so it may have been a bad flash or something idk... but themes will still not boot... I mount system, flash, then un mount... it boots and the boot animation was changed from the clean gb boot ani to the themes boot animation but then it goes black and won't boot all the way up. Good thing my backup restores now ;-)... any ideas?

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[KennyG123]

To install a theme you have to mount system.

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[flastnoles11]

To install a theme you have to mount system.

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If you read my original post you would see that I said that I mounted system... it took because it changed the boot animation but after the animation it goes to a black screen and stays there and never finishes booting...

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[KennyG123]

If you read my original post you would see that I said that I mounted system... it took because it changed the boot animation but after the animation it goes to a black screen and stays there and never finishes booting...

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I did read and saw you got the backups working again. Just thought there was a new theme issue. Did you try a different theme?

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[flastnoles11]

I did read and saw you got the backups working again. Just thought there was a new theme issue. Did you try a different theme?

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Yep tried 2 seperate themes... no matter though... cm7 got 4g... woohoo!


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[DCRocks]

Did you also mount data?

I had to mount both system and data to do a restore

Also, did you do an advanced restore and just restore system and data, or did you do a standard restore?

Also, once I have done a restore, I always reflash my kernel of choice before rebooting.

 

[flastnoles11]

Did you also mount data?

I had to mount both system and data to do a restore

Also, did you do an advanced restore and just restore system and data, or did you do a standard restore?

Also, once I have done a restore, I always reflash my kernel of choice before rebooting.

I did the regular restore... didn't try an advanced (guess I probably should have though) and I also tried mounting system (think I did data but I really don't remember)

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[Zeinzu]

If your doing a full restore I would assume you'd have to mount everything that's being restored since mtd doesn't auto mount right?

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[KennyG123]

If your doing a full restore I would assume you'd have to mount everything that's being restored since mtd doesn't auto mount right?

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I did a full restore without mounting anything. CWM must handle the mounts in that case.

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[KennyG123]

Flast, have you tried Odining back to stock EC05, root, flash CleanGB MTD, then try to restore your original converted nandroid? Maybe your recovery got corrupted.

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[flastnoles11]

Flast, have you tried Odining back to stock EC05, root, flash CleanGB MTD, then try to restore your original converted nandroid? Maybe your recovery got corrupted.

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Yeah I think that's what it was... I couldn't odin yesterday cuz my laptop crapped out! But I have fixed it and odined and now restores are going fine... on cm7 right now so I cant test if themes are taking right...

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[KennyG123]

The Legendary had the same problem and also his was fixed after Odin. Something in all those ROMs you guys tried to convert messed up your recovery or partition.

 

[flastnoles11]

The Legendary had the same problem and also his was fixed after Odin. Something in all those ROMs you guys tried to convert messed up your recovery or partition.

Yeah that's what conclusion I came to also.. all has been good now after an odin... themes installing and backups restoring...

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[KennyG123]

Yeah that's what conclusion I came to also.. all has been good now after an odin... themes installing and backups restoring...

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I guess for the ROM hoppers, they would need to Odin back before the first install, then they can make a backup of the ROM and do that for all the ROMs they like to switch between. Then can just reestore them.