Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4 fail

[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

I would like the OTA to install directly from VZW so that I can assess how the OTA update works for my phone. After I do that, I will flash a custom ROM.

 

[dmmarck]

I would like the OTA to install directly from VZW so that I can assess how the OTA update works for my phone. After I do that, I will flash a custom ROM.

Install wugs and unroot.

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

Install wugs and unroot.

I just did and my pictures are gone. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen?

 

[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

No, you won't lose your pictures if you unroot.

FYI to anyone planning on doing this - Wug's toolkit wipes your phone and doesn't make a backup automatically when you unroot. I lost everything on my phone.:'(

Also, you are not given a warning that your phone will be wiped.

I had made a backup using CWM but Wug's toolkit wiped my phone.

 

[2defmouze]

You only had to fastboot flash the stock recovery, which you can grab out of the factory images available from Google.
Root is irrelevant.

This is another reason I've advised against toolkits and 1-clicks a thousand times.

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

You only had to fastboot flash the stock recovery, which you can grab out of the factory images available from Google.

Thanks, I asked on several threads and no one suggested that I do that and I wouldn't know how to do that without someone telling me how anyhow. Everyone suggested that I use Wugs and told me that I wouldn't lose my pictures.

Thanks for the warning, just trying to warn others.

 

[dmmarck]

Thanks, I asked on several threads and no one suggested that I do that and I wouldn't know how to do that without someone telling me how anyhow. Everyone suggested that I use Wugs and told me that I wouldn't lose my pictures.

Thanks for the warning, just trying to warn others.

One of the first things I said was to flash the recovery image via Wugs.

Check my post from 1027.

I'm sorry you lost your info. Chalk it up to needing to backup everything when you mess with your device.

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

One of the first things I said was to flash the recovery image via Wugs.

Check my post from 1027.

I opened up Wugs toolkit and clicked on flash stock and unroot. There was no option to just flash the stock without unrooting.

I think the toolkit should warn you that your phone is going to be wiped before it wipes your phone.

 

[dmmarck]

I opened up Wugs toolkit and clicked on flash stock and unroot. There was no option to just flash the stock without unrooting.

I think the toolkit should warn you that your phone is going to be wiped before it wipes your phone.

I agree. I've only used it twice, but that was to take a phone all the way back to stock.

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

I'm sorry you lost your info. Chalk it up to needing to backup everything when you mess with your device.

I hear you but the toolkit should warn people that the phone will be wiped.

Is there any way to try to recover the images if they haven't been overwritten yet?

 

[dmmarck]

I hear you but the toolkit should warn people that the phone will be wiped.

Is there any way to try to recover the images if they haven't been overwritten yet?

Check to see if they aren't synced with your Google account

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

Check to see if they aren't synced with your Google account

I turned on backup just now. How would I know if I had turned it on before?

 

[dmmarck]

I turned on backup just now. How would I know if I had turned it on before?

Check Picasa and Google account on the Web. All of my pictures sync there and to dropbox.

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

Check Picasa and Google account on the Web. All of my pictures sync there and to dropbox.

Thanks, if that is something I had to set up then I didn't do it.

 

[2defmouze]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

One of the first things I said was to flash the recovery image via Wugs.

Check my post from 1027.

I'm sorry you lost your info. Chalk it up to needing to backup everything when you mess with your device.

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I opened up Wugs toolkit and clicked on flash stock and unroot. There was no option to just flash the stock without unrooting.

I think the toolkit should warn you that your phone is going to be wiped before it wipes your phone.

See bolded parts.... The recovery image was all you needed to flash. Flashing back to stock, as you did, is completely different and not what dmmarck said to do at all.

I understand it can be confusing and mistakes can be made if you aren't paying attention. Shame if you didn't have backups of your pics.

 

[Paul627g]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

There are some programs available for recovering information from hard drives after being deleted but I really have no knowledge or person experience using them.

As for the toolkit not clarifying it will wipe or erase something, I look at it as common rule of thumb whenever your going to attempt anything that is going to unlock/root/modify system contents on your device I ALWAYS make a backup of my sdcard content before hand along with anything else like (exporting contacts to file, etc).

My opinion its your device, and you should be taking your own precautions to protect your data before attempting anything with Rooting & Hacking.

 

[dmmarck]

I will say that I did advise to unroot as well, but that was after the recovery advice. The op wanted to unroot and that's one of the methods mentioned along with the other guides.

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[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

See bolded parts.... The recovery image was all you needed to flash. Flashing back to stock, as you did, is completely different and not what dmmarck said to do at all.

Can you please explain how to flash the recovery image only? Thanks.

 

[2defmouze]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

Can you please explain how to flash the recovery image only? Thanks.

1. Download factory image from Google (Google "nexus factory images" or go here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images and grab the one on the bottom for TORO)

2. Extract the file "mysid-icl53f-factory-65895fa8.tgz" using winrar or 7zip or anything that unzips it.

3. Go in the directory and you'll find the zip "image-mysid-icl53f.zip"... open that up. You will see a couple images, one of which is "recovery.img".

4. Now I believe that wugs thing will flash files in fastboot for you (I don't know, never used it).. so if it does then just boot into the bootloader and have wugs do it.
.... Alternatively, place the recovery.img in your SDK toolkit folder that contains the adb and fastboot files, which you should have set up when you were first unlocking (unless you used wugs or some crap).

5. Hold shift and right click inside the folder, select Open Command Window here. Boot your phone into the bootloader and plug it into computer.
Type:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Hit enter.
Done.

 

[GNex Girl]

Re: Unlocked and Rooted Using Cyber Warrior's Method - OTA 4.0.4

My opinion its your device, and you should be taking your own precautions to protect your data before attempting anything with Rooting & Hacking.

Do you think it is unreasonable to expect Wug's toolkit to give you a warning that your device will be wiped before it wipes you device?