Wiped phone, now process com.android.setupwizard - Force Quit

[Daemonite]

I have been trying to make my own theme, so I pulled Launcher.apk, unpacked, it edited some images, used apkbuilder to pack it, then pushed back onto the phone. Rebooted, no launcher starts at all.

So I figured ok, I can just use the "Factory Reset" function on the Boot System Recovery menu. Everything seemed fine.

When going through the steps to setup (or sign in) for a google account I get, process com.android.setupwizard has stopped unexpectedly... etc. Force Close. Then it restarts the google accounts process again.

I have restarted, cleared the cache, done another wipe, nothing seems to change this behavior.

Apparently I have completely misunderstood what exactly a Factory Reset/Wipe is because I thought it would just wipe out the standard partition and restore/overwrite Launcher.apk (and evertyhing else) for me...

Suggestions?

 

[natediddy1120]

Nope. A factory reset only wipes the /data partition. Launcher.apk is located in the /system partition....

Do you have a nandroid backup?

 

[thatguychuck]

Hopefully you made a backup of the launcher before you edited it! If so you might try pushing the launcher back to the phone. If not, restore from a previous nandroid backup? If you haven't made a nandroid backup, you might have to load the "virgin OEM" backup file that is floating around the forum.

 

[natediddy1120]

Yeah if you have a nandroid backup (which you should've made before editing, and made another one every time edited files are pushed back successfully) then in this situation, you wouldn't have to wipe /data at ALL. You're not even touching the data partition.

All you would have to do is get in adb shell, and type

format SYSTEM:
exit

And then restore your backup

 

[Daemonite]

Ah. Good to know this... wish I'd done a little more research first.

I don't have Nandroid.

I do have a backup copy of Launcher.apk but I can't use adb to push it back because I can't get into settings (no launcher) to enable USB debugging. Is there some other way to enable usb debugging?

 

[natediddy1120]

Did you flash SPRecovery when you rooted? Or did you use the DroidMod Updater or something?

 

[natediddy1120]

Man you might wanna consider this if you DIDN'T make a backup with SPRecovery...

 

[Daemonite]

Pretty sure it was the Droidmod updater. Just an update.zip from the flash.

 

[natediddy1120]

If you used the DroidMod app, then take the battery and put it back in. Hold x on the physical keyboard and power button at the same time.

When the menu comes up, select "Backup/restore", then select "Advanced nandroid restore" and then choose "Choose Backup"

Pick one called "preinstall-blahblahblah"

then select "Perform backup"

 

[Daemonite]

Ok, I know I didn't do anything with the Recovery part. So its just the yellow stock menu options. No Backup/Restore options.

I will consider that scary Verizon tool in an above post but want to see if there is any other option first.

 

[Daemonite]

So I have gone through the steps to restore the entire rom (sbf file) and even though the tool reported failure after 100%, I now have a fully booting phone. I will thoroughly research backup options before doing any more modifying etc.

Thanks for the help in this nerve-racking time. :icon_ banana: