Hello all,
I just installed my first ROM (TnT lite 2.2) using clockworkmod. Prior to that I made a back up image. The gtab is clearly faster, flash working! And Market fix applied. I'd like to try restoring the clockwork back I had made. Is it as easy as booting up CWM and restoring? I also made a copy of the CWM backup folder on my external SD CARD.
Thanks!
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got it
Please disregard question. I found the answer. Clockworkmod restored the back up no prob.
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OK so I know we don't have superoneclick to root any more so I need to download CM7, install it on my sd card and flash CWM via NV flash. I also know that I need to backup before clearing data and installing cm7.
My question is after to flashing CWM via NV flash can I boot up the phone and copy my backup to my pc before clearing data and installing CM7?
I am kind of a nonrisk taker and would like to have a copy of the backup on my pc in case I screw this process up and screw up my sd card at the same time.
If you have clockwork recovery installed, do a backup. Then on your sdcard you'll have a directory called clockworkmod, and backup under there. You can copy that to your pc if you're super paranoid about messing something up. Just keep in mind when you do a restore it checks the md5 sums, so do not rename anything, and when you put it back on your sdcard, make sure the pathname is the exact same as before. (Example clockworkmod/backup/12.31.2121blahblah.
Thanks, I think I got the copying part, but what I am asking is whether its ok to power up the phone after flashing CWM via NV flash and creating a backup but before installing CM7? Please tell me if this is a dumb question. I'm a lawyer, I'm used to being told I ask dumb questions.
Of course. CWM sits on a partition that's normally used for the reset to stock recovery. After you install it, and do a backup, your rom is still there. You can boot to it like normal, copy stuff to the computer, and then reboot again into recovery to install cm7.
Thank you kind sir.
Okay so I have read a bunch about rom manager and have tried working with it. I have 2 questions about it:
1) I am not able to do a proper restore with it. I want to flash different roms but I would like to keep completely seperate folders on my sd card for each rom.
So I am wondering, after doing a "backup current rom" and then putting the entire sd card directory on my pc (which has the clockworkmod folder with the backup in it), then going and screwing up my phone , and finally wanting to restore with cwm recovery, do I have to put all the original folders (that were on the sd when I did the backup) back on the sd card and then hit restore, or can I just put the clockworkmod folder back on the sd and hit restore?
Also, I have another question: if I have cwm recovery already in the kernel I am using (Cog5 Beta 2), do I really need tibu and rom manager, or can I pretty much flash, completely restore, and completely backup roms (and all other settings) through the cwm recovery?
Could someone who is familar with cwm and has actually restored successfully using it help me out, please?? (yes I have read other stuff-but can't find anything about this!)
Cog5b1-3 do NOT work restoring from cwm at all so rom manager wont restore either. It MAY not even backup the rom correctly. As much as I liked Cog5b3 I HAD to switch back to Apex so I can ACTUALLY BACKUP AND RESTORE from cwm if necessary. I KEPT the i897 bootloaders and flashed Apex Full with wipe.
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Aww... yea i guess im gonna have to switch then.
So ur saying u use Apex - how is that compared to cog5?
Also, I'm thinking it will be unnecessary for me to keep tibu and rom manager as long as I have a kernel with cwm (b/c i will bakup, flash, and restore with it) - so what kernel are u running?
Finally, would u be able to help me with the whole "do i need to backup the entire sd directory or can i just backup the cwmod folder" thing??
Don't use ROM Manager. That is all.
I have a problem with restoring my apps from a CWM backup from SD-Ext on my HTC Sensation. I've used ROM Toolbox Pro to restore the apps from my CWM Backup, but the ones on the SD-Ext won't be restored. It says it's successful, but none of the apps are there. It's about 70 apps. I've also tried to restore them with Titanium Backup, but then, the whole app freezes. I've also tried to restore it via a recovery. I'm currently using 4ext 1.0.0.5 recovery, but CWM wouldnæt either restore them. Any suggestions to how I can restore them?
Sorry for the thread title... Hit the enter instead of backspace...
Is it trying to restore them to the SD-Ext partition?
If you can, try moving the backup to the main partition of the SD Card and see if it works from there.
Okay wow, I'm very confused and have been Googling/reading the forums for hours now. I'm a complete noob and here's exactly what I did.
Currently have CWM touch v6 and Cyanogenmod 11
1. I have been running everything for a month with no problems at all.
2. I made a backup of my stock rom before I switched to Cyanogenmod 11, and I've also tested going into it and back to 11 in the past.. I know it works!
3. Today I decided I wanted to go into the the stock rom again and view some old text from my gf.
4. Before going back to my old stock backup, I decided to make a current backup of my Cyanogenmod 11
5. I also decided to make sure that one worked, so I made another backup of my current 11
6. Upon trying to access the backup I ran into a md5 hash error and noticed it wasn't creating a nandroid file for the cyanogenmod backups like it did for the old stock rom backup.
7. I went in and created a new file blank file "nandroid.md5" for both the Cyanogen backups I created.
8. Upon trying to restore again, I now received, "error while restoring /data!"
9. I was able to access the rom, however it only seemed to have loaded a partial amount of my /data ...I even I had to go back through the cyanogenmod prompts as if I freshly installed the rom, but my text messages/apps were all there.
10. I then attempted to wipe everything (using the wipe settings cache/dal/etc in CWM) and install the stock rom (since I know it works). Again I received the, "error while restoring /data!". But, again the same story, it loaded the stock rom, but with partial data and as if I freshly installed it.
11. I found online the problem could be due to the partition size not being able to handle the backup size (and my backups are over 600mb)..I deleted the stock rom (taking up 1gb) and again tried to install my Cyanogenmod 11 backup, to again be greeted with, "error while restoring /data!"
QUESTION 1:. I've read that using the Titanium app or nandroid manager can help alleviate the issue by restoring items, but how can I solve this annoying "error while restoring /data!" error?
QUESTION 2: I have the entire backup folder pulled from adb on my desktop, would it be advisable to use the format /Data and /Data/Media option on CWM and then push the Cyanogenmod 11 backup back into my phone and then try restoring? I've also read someone was able to factory restore their phone from settings, then try restoring the rom.. is this advisable?
Thanks in advance for the help, I have a headache
Hi i need help ASAP,
I backed up my phone with CWM it made a folder as a backup.
When I tried to restore the backup I navigated to the folder and it showed me inside that folder (like there are no files) instaed of starting the backup procces.
one more problem is that now i flashed another ROM with TWR and I didn't know it will be with TWR so I am not sure I can backup CWM with it.
please refer to my 2 questions as it combined.
Can you clarify if CWM is able to restore the Backup ? If its not, then the backup was not made successfully.
To your Question, are you saying you flashed TWRP Recovery and then flashed the new Rom ? If that's the case then the CWM backup can't be restored by TWRP.
EDIT - I should caution you that it is not a good idea to restore the backup made by one Recovery with another.