Restoring NANDroid recovery, something is wrong

[Salty]

So pretty much I was an idiot and I didn't back up my phone when I flashed a new ROM to it.

 

While the new ROM worked fine, it was barely functional and I couldn't take calls or take pictures because it was an experimental version of CyanogenMod tailored to my shitty ass phone.

So I had to find the recovery files for my Telstra HTC Desire 510 that someone had uploaded to a forum (HTC only provides stock ROMs for the US version of the phone, IDK why), which I did, but I don't think it's in the right format because when I tried formatting it with both TWRP recovery and ClockworkMod recovery it would fail the flashing process a second in.

 

This is what the raw NANDroid recovery folder looks like on my PC. Does it look corrupted, possibly? Or not in the right format?

 

Keep in mind when I do a NANDroid backup of the barely functional CyanogenMod ROM from my own phone, it flashes perfectly when I try to restore it.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

[asapansh]

So pretty much I was an idiot and I didn't back up my phone when I flashed a new ROM to it.

 

While the new ROM worked fine, it was barely functional and I couldn't take calls or take pictures because it was an experimental version of CyanogenMod tailored to my shitty ass phone.

So I had to find the recovery files for my Telstra HTC Desire 510 that someone had uploaded to a forum (HTC only provides stock ROMs for the US version of the phone, IDK why), which I did, but I don't think it's in the right format because when I tried formatting it with both TWRP recovery and ClockworkMod recovery it would fail the flashing process a second in.

 

This is what the raw NANDroid recovery folder looks like on my PC. Does it look corrupted, possibly? Or not in the right format?

 

Keep in mind when I do a NANDroid backup of the barely functional CyanogenMod ROM from my own phone, it flashes perfectly when I try to restore it.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Buddy nandroid packages are zips. try this out

first make this all into a zip

go into twrp and try to use it as a backup

if not use HTC's flash back software(hint: I will give you a link to it in a sec)

[asapansh]

So pretty much I was an idiot and I didn't back up my phone when I flashed a new ROM to it.

 

While the new ROM worked fine, it was barely functional and I couldn't take calls or take pictures because it was an experimental version of CyanogenMod tailored to my shitty ass phone.

So I had to find the recovery files for my Telstra HTC Desire 510 that someone had uploaded to a forum (HTC only provides stock ROMs for the US version of the phone, IDK why), which I did, but I don't think it's in the right format because when I tried formatting it with both TWRP recovery and ClockworkMod recovery it would fail the flashing process a second in.

 

This is what the raw NANDroid recovery folder looks like on my PC. Does it look corrupted, possibly? Or not in the right format?

 

Keep in mind when I do a NANDroid backup of the barely functional CyanogenMod ROM from my own phone, it flashes perfectly when I try to restore it.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

CM 11,12,12.1, or 13

[Salty]

CM 11,12,12.1, or 13

CM 12.1 but it was an experimental version that someone on the XDA forums compiled

[asapansh]

CM 12.1 but it was an experimental version that someone on the XDA forums compiled

Unless you are a dev be very very careful with experimental because as a dev myself sometimes (a lot of dev have to do this in order to host a large amount of devices) the ROM or Kernel might hard brick the device so wait for around 5 people to use it if you care at all about your device if you decide to flash it on a daily driver

[Salty]

Unless you are a dev be very very careful with experimental because as a dev myself sometimes (a lot of dev have to do this in order to host a large amount of devices) the ROM or Kernel might hard brick the device so wait for around 5 people to use it if you care at all about your device if you decide to flash it on a daily driver

Ah okay, I don't believe I bricked it though, I just don't have an OS running on it at the moment.

[asapansh]

Ah okay, I don't believe I bricked it though, I just don't have an OS running on it at the moment.

Ok good to hear hope all goes well on your end

[Salty]

Ok good to hear hope all goes well on your end

okay well I zipped it and the same thing as before happened

[asapansh]

okay well I zipped it and the same thing as before happened

Uh oh OK let me get you another rom to flash for now

[Salty]

Uh oh OK let me get you another rom to flash for now

I ended up solving the issue, the NANDroid recovery was intact and non-corrupted, I just had to place the recovery within one folder then put that folder within another folder so I could ADB push the recovery over to my phone without it putting a random mess of recovery files into my CWM recoveries folder.

 

I recovered it using Philz Touch Recovery as that was the recovery image that supported the format in the recovery files I downloaded. All solved.

 

Thanks.