I need an android fix
Hey guys, so I recently wanted to root my phone to put in a Jelly bean rom (T989 [T-Mobile Samsung galaxy s2]) also known as the hercules, and the rom didn't quite work out for me. I'm not sure what to do because when I try to restore my old backup that I thought I backed up, (not sure if it saved or what...?) it didn't work for me. Now it's really making me worry; I need to use my phone tomorrow and I've been looking for a fix everywhere. If anyone knows anything about this kind of thing, whether or not I need to flash a new rom on there or find some thing to revert my whole phone back to it's original OS (I have tried).
It isn't bricked, cause I can still use it. My problem is that my phone didn't run the rom I had put on it correctly, so I tried to wipe it out and run my backup, who knows, it says it's "unmounted" or whatever and when I rebooted the device it just ran cyanogenmod. And the problem I have with that is that it's not loading. Just keeps at that splash screen. I'm so sorry if this is hard to read, but I just made a huge mistake cause I need my phone to get around tomorrow, and if I don't my mom's gonna kill me.
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[quote=ClickHere]How did you back it up? CWM?
I recently tried to do a fresh boot of Jelly Bean on my Nexus S, wiped everything using CWM.
Then wiped /sdcard using my Mac resulting in "Can't mount /sdcard" which I'm not sure is the same thing as what you're experiencing but I couldn't access the /sdcard partition to install a new ROM.
The way I worked around reinstalling the ROM was the flash it manually using Command Prompt (or in my case, using Terminal since I have a Mac) - you'll need the image file of your phone's ROM, there should be four files (boot.img, recovery.img, system.img and userdata.img) once extracted.
Then following [url=http://wiki.geeksphone.com/en/index.php?title=Flash_firmware_with_fastboot]these[/url] steps, it should get your phone back to stock.[/quote]
Yeah. I used CWM to back it up, cause that's what the guide told me to do.
I'm not sure if I can obtain that file, where did you extract those four from?
@Miksu I did a backup from CWM before I fully wiped my device. I'm not sure where that backup went to, but I know I did it before I attempted to put in the rom.
I installed a new rom so I could use it, but it isn't a fully functional one.
@TheSinsher and @Suryoyo I just wanted stock android instead of touchwiz/t-mobile crap all piling up in my phone.
why didn't you wait till december with 4.1
[quote=Strombolov]https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en
All the help that you'll ever need.[/quote]
I already went to google for that I just can't mount my SD card with the backup...
give up and buy an iphone
sigh, no, I just wanted Jelly bean T_T I just looked up backing up.. And it looks like I didn't properly back up my device. Is there any way I can get it back...?