I get to the part where it would restore the .android_secure part and it gives me this error this is with 3.0.2.4 and I can properly wipe and such...
"error while making a yaffs2 image of /sdcard/.android_secure"
and this prevents it from making a md5 sum so I basically hve no backups at all, is anyone else having issues with this? I'm going to try and toubleshoot back to 3.0.2.2 and see if i can get that to back up but if anyone can help it would be appreciated
I can make nandroid backups no problem. Do you use Clockwork recovery?
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I can make nandroid backups no problem. Do you use Clockwork recovery?
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uh... your intelligence exceeds you
as for OP, I would try, if you haven't, in rom manager, hitting menu, delete cache, then menu again, settings, delete recovery, then reflash 2.4 and see if you can backup then.
nosympathy said:
uh... your intelligence exceeds you
as for OP, I would try, if you haven't, in rom manager, hitting menu, delete cache, then menu again, settings, delete recovery, then reflash 2.4 and see if you can backup then.
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I have uninstalled 2.4 installed 2.2... same thing.. all while delete recovery every flash... still nothing... not being able to nandroid means having to start from scratch if I get a loop... I dont know when this started to happen but my past weeks nandorids are all screwed up... and I deleted the 1 nandroid I had that worked cause I thought the newer one was good
ok to anyone having this issue it seems to be a problem with my sd card... I plugged my sd card into my computer via a card reader and the "there may be errors on this storage device" came up... I did a nandroid with my 2g sd card just fine so it not an error with CWM atleast...
scanning for errors on my computer brought up a bunch of errors within .android_secure and corrected them and now I can backup... it said the errors are from removing the sdcard while its being written... how can we do that when its under the battery? and I only did a battery pull when I got a ten minute hang on bamf 1.2...
hope this will help someone if they get the same error
Thanks for posting this! This helped, thank you!
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Hi, im having some issues with CWM. When i attempt to make a nandroid backup in recovery it says error making boot image of /data. Previously after restoring a backup the rom was running ok but some of the apks were not restored correctly, i believe the ones that had been moved to sd before making backup. I used nullifier to wipe phone before flashing that backup. You can probably tell i dont know what im talking about.
I have done the following things to try to solve problem:
Formatted sd using computer
Transferred saved cwm files to sd
Redownloaded oneclickrecovery to make sure files intact
Reinstalled cwm to phone
Booted into recovery to make backup
Error persists. I have not attempted to flash any of my previous backups because i dont understand the problem well enough and dont want to make it worse.
I would be grateful for suggestions on where the problem likely lies
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Hi, im having some issues with CWM. When i attempt to make a nandroid backup in recovery it says error making boot image of /data. Previously after restoring a backup the rom was running ok but some of the apks were not restored correctly, i believe the ones that had been moved to sd before making backup. I used nullifier to wipe phone before flashing that backup. You can probably tell i dont know what im talking about.
I have done the following things to try to solve problem:
Formatted sd using computer
Transferred saved cwm files to sd
Redownloaded oneclickrecovery to make sure files intact
Reinstalled cwm to phone
Booted into recovery to make backup
Error persists. I have not attempted to flash any of my previous backups because i dont understand the problem well enough and dont want to make it worse.
I would be grateful for suggestions on where the problem likely lies
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So your problem is you came make a backup? If so make sure you have enough free space first in you sdcard for more than 1 backup then try again...already 1GB I'd say, maybe a little less.
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Yes, cant make backup. The sd card has 30 free gigs.
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Just a last ditch, wondering if anyone has gotten this error in any cwm versions before and if they figured out the problem?
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Try the new touch cwm
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For benefit of anyone experiencing similar problem, was solved by performing factory reset and formatting emmc. Did both at once so do not know if either was solution indepently or if both necessary.
Obvious from this question i dont know how partitions work and will research myself but since it is a related topic, would anyone care to comment on if after using computer to format sd its necessary to use cwm to format internal?
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irukandjiandme said:
For benefit of anyone experiencing similar problem, was solved by performing factory reset and formatting emmc. Did both at once so do not know if either was solution indepently or if both necessary.
Obvious from this question i dont know how partitions work and will research myself but since it is a related topic, would anyone care to comment on if after using computer to format sd its necessary to use cwm to format internal?
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As long as you chose FAT32 on your computer you're good with your actual SD. Formatting emmc is up to you, you can format it from settings or if you want more formatting options, do it in CWM.
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I have made multiple backups, but none of them will seem to restore properly. It always fails while restoring system! Any ideas? This is kind of a problem, as when I bootlooped yesterday, I had to wipe data and reinstall my rom.
Did you try clearing data, cache and dalvik cache before restoring?
What rom were u coming from?
eL_MeXiCaNo said:
Did you try clearing data, cache and dalvik cache before restoring?
What rom were u coming from?
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I have cleared everything, did this from supercharged and Sonya, and possibly stock, but I don't remember
Maybe you have a corrupt SD card and it's not backing up correctly? Did you change the names of the folders?
Because if you came from stock and tried to restore and it didn't work then there must be a physical problem because it sounds you have tried every software method.
You can always send the backed up data to me and ll try to restore it. If it restores for me then theres a software problem on your end, if it doesnt that means your backup got corrupted somehow
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Maybe you have a corrupt SD card and it's not backing up correctly? Did you change the names of the folders?
Because if you came from stock and tried to restore and it didn't work then there must be a physical problem because it sounds you have tried every software method.
You can always send the backed up data to me and ll try to restore it. If it restores for me then theres a software problem on your end, if it doesnt that means your backup got corrupted somehow
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can I just send you /system? I don't want you to have my data
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haha yea, thats what I meant, I don't need the data, the system is what counts
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haha yea, thats what I meant, I don't need the data, the system is what counts
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Thanks, i'll PM you with a link to download it.
Are there any settings in CWM that could effect this? just an idea as this is drivng me insane and seems to be a problem that only I have. should I wipe the system partition before restoring? or is that a bad idea.
Still having problem
Just want to get this back up top since I'm still having this problem. since others were able to restore it I think it is something on my end. I am working on my reviews project so I want this working, so I am kind of desperate for help. I get this feeling that it is going to be something really simple, but someone please help me.
It might be your SD card. Try backing up your files, and then formatting the card. Then boot into CWM, make a backup, and try to recover it.
I've been putting off formatting since I have 25 GB of music that takes a while to transfer but maybe I'll try
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lkrasner said:
I've been putting off formatting since I have 25 GB of music that takes a while to transfer but maybe I'll try
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Just curious, exactly what erros do you encounter?
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Just curious, exactly what erros do you encounter?
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Failed to restore /system
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Failed to restore /system
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interesting... Never had that happen to me before.
formatting my sdcard now, it's going to take a few hours to transfer all my stuff back (30+ GB), but i'll kep you updated, hopefully this works so I can try out all the roms for my review thread, then come back to where I am now.
EDIT: just realized I never even formatted the card when I got it as it is now named "MOT" so maybe the phone just didn't like that. transferring back now at 2.8 MB/s does that seem slow? or is it normal. anyways, do the math, this may take a while.
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formatting my sdcard now, it's going to take a few hours to transfer all my stuff back (30+ GB), but i'll kep you updated, hopefully this works so I can try out all the roms for my review thread, then come back to where I am now.
EDIT: just realized I never even formatted the card when I got it as it is now named "MOT" so maybe the phone just didn't like that. transferring back now at 2.8 MB/s does that seem slow? or is it normal. anyways, do the math, this may take a while.
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:\ One of the corrupt files might have been transfered off your sd card, so right now you may be re-adding corrupt files to it. Are you moving or copy+pasting?
If you allow the phone to format the phone (which is what I do) it will name the SD card "MOT".
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:\ One of the corrupt files might have been transfered off your sd card, so right now you may be re-adding corrupt files to it. Are you moving or copy+pasting?
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Cut+ paste. I will try before adding the music to make sure. the rest only took 10 minutes. If it fails I will transfer less and see if I can figure it out.
Still having problem
this time it got most of the way through restoring system then failed. any ideas. could it be a corrupt system file.
If you're using Sonya with the built in CWM, you can install Rom Manager and flash the Bionic recovery. Plus that gives you one click back up and restore through Rom Manager.
So I spent my weekend playing with some roms, and somewhere in the process something got hosed.
CWM shows my backups.. starts restoring my backups.. then gives me an error about E:..
Trying to recall for sure.. I think it said sd-ext is an unrecognizable format, and wouldn't restore anything.
It would take a new Rom ZIP from the external SD card and install it just fine, just not the backups I had made. I can access the data just fine..
Any suggestions on exactly what the problem is and how to fix it?
Current CWM (5.0.2.0)
Rom Mngr 5.0.0.7
Running Weapon 3.0 ROM
Thanx!
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Hmm.. A difficult question to answer, perhaps?
Chaosmstr said:
So I spent my weekend playing with some roms, and somewhere in the process something got hosed.
CWM shows my backups.. starts restoring my backups.. then gives me an error about E:..
Trying to recall for sure.. I think it said sd-ext is an unrecognizable format, and wouldn't restore anything.
It would take a new Rom ZIP from the external SD card and install it just fine, just not the backups I had made. I can access the data just fine..
Any suggestions on exactly what the problem is and how to fix it?
Current CWM (5.0.2.0)
Rom Mngr 5.0.0.7
Running Weapon 3.0 ROM
Thanx!
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Check your SD card, you should have folder called "clockworkmod" inside find folder "backup". Inside this folder are all rom backups that you made. I think your backups got corrupted. Once you are in the folder try renaming your backups(change the name of the folder) like 2012-02-original or 2012-04-22.MIUI, 2012-04-29.CM7(just samples you can use your own labeling but try to keep same format.) Hope this helps, if not format SD card and start all over again. In the future make sure when you have everything set on your SD card to make a backup to your PC.
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Check your SD card, you should have folder called "clockworkmod" inside find folder "backup". Inside this folder are all rom backups that you made. I think your backups got corrupted. Once you are in the folder try renaming your backups(change the name of the folder) like 2012-02-original or 2012-04-22.MIUI, 2012-04-29.CM7(just samples you can use your own labeling but try to keep same format.) Hope this helps, if not format SD card and start all over again. In the future make sure when you have everything set on your SD card to make a backup to your PC.
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that's pretty much all you can do, other then that report exactly what the error said, i assume that these were all on the same recovery, how much space is on your sdcard. Was there an error when the backup finished? What are the files on your Clockwork Mod Folder list the files with on one of your backups...
mine has these folders.
boot img
cache.ext3.tar
data.ext3.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar
any of those in there? my backup is something like 520mb...
Chaosmstr said:
So I spent my weekend playing with some roms, and somewhere in the process something got hosed.
CWM shows my backups.. starts restoring my backups.. then gives me an error about E:..
Trying to recall for sure.. I think it said sd-ext is an unrecognizable format, and wouldn't restore anything.
It would take a new Rom ZIP from the external SD card and install it just fine, just not the backups I had made. I can access the data just fine..
Any suggestions on exactly what the problem is and how to fix it?
Current CWM (5.0.2.0)
Rom Mngr 5.0.0.7
Running Weapon 3.0 ROM
Thanx!
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Well happened to me before all i did was wipe all data, cache, and dalvik before i restored and it worked for me
hypemanisus said:
Well happened to me before all i did was wipe all data, cache, and dalvik before i restored and it worked for me
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Ahh, I just assumed that he would've done this prior to trying to restore, That is probably the issue. I've seen it before, I think on my MyTouch 3G.
Hello everyone, for starters im a complete newb at rooting phones and have never before tonight so please excuse my ignorance. I just rooted my phone which went fine, downloaded titanium backup and backed up everything, and then moved a zip of m1 cm10 and gapps onto my ext sd card. then i followed a video on how to install these. i was running clockwork recovery and did a factory reset/clear. in the video, the next screen had an option for "choose zip from sd", all mine had was something like update from external so i clicked that and it brought up my sd card files, including the cm10 and gapps files. i clicked on them (i tried each more than once) and they both stgarted to install then said failed. Im literally here freaking out because none of the apps i downloaded to restore my stuff are on my phone anymore, and when i downloaded them from the play store they said i had not backed anything up. somebody please help me, im legitimately having a nervous breakdown because i lost everything and dont know what to do.
Ok first things first. What was the fail error that CWM produced? I dont understand what you mean by none of the apps you downloaded to restore your stuff are on the phone anymore. Where did they go? If you didnt delete them they should still be there. Did you boot up after the failed attempt, and are now at a factory state OS? Perhaps titanium isnt pointed to the correct location of the backups you made. Please provide more info.
Edit: Ok I misunderstood a point. The apps I take it are gone from the factory reset, but I still dont understand why the backup data cant be restored.
Sounds like CWM didn't flash. That sounds like stock recovery. Flash factory image via Odin, reroot, and reinstall CWM. Download an app called EZ Recovery from the market and follow the instructions. You will be fine.
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Just a side note as far as using CWM goes:
I've noticed that with CWM, the backup file sizes are way too small. Hence a possible corrupted backup folder. TWRP seems to work better with our device as far as backups go.
It's always a good idea to check the size of a backup afterwards before proceeding with any risky procedures like low level flashing. Luckily there is always ODIN.
With my device backup sizes range between 2.0GB and 2.34GB.
tekrhino said:
Just a side note as far as using CWM goes:
I've noticed that with CWM, the backup file sizes are way too small. Hence a possible corrupted backup folder. TWRP seems to work better with our device as far as backups go.
It's always a good idea to check the size of a backup afterwards before proceeding with any risky procedures like low level flashing. Luckily there is always ODIN.
With my device backup sizes range between 2.0GB and 2.34GB.
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You've got to remember that CWM backs up differently now. It backs up data separately in blobs in a different folder. So your backups in clockwork are naturally smaller. Also, I've heard nothing but bad things with TWRP on this device. I'd stay away from it and stick with non touch CWM.
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You've got to remember that CWM backs up differently now. It backs up data separately in blobs in a different folder. So your backups in clockwork are naturally smaller. Also, I've heard nothing but bad things with TWRP on this device. I'd stay away from it and stick with non touch CWM.
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This!
apacseven said:
Ok first things first. What was the fail error that CWM produced? I dont understand what you mean by none of the apps you downloaded to restore your stuff are on the phone anymore. Where did they go? If you didnt delete them they should still be there. Did you boot up after the failed attempt, and are now at a factory state OS? Perhaps titanium isnt pointed to the correct location of the backups you made. Please provide more info.
Edit: Ok I misunderstood a point. The apps I take it are gone from the factory reset, but I still dont understand why the backup data cant be restored.
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When I open titanium backup and try to restore, it tells me no backups have been performed. Before trying to flash cm10, I moved the backup to my external sdcard and it is still there, yet I still can't restore it and when I try to do something with the files on my card it says no application can perform this task. Ive gotten my contacts back through tha app I backed them up on so I'm at a loss for why tb Isnt working.
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When I open titanium backup and try to restore, it tells me no backups have been performed. Before trying to flash cm10, I moved the backup to my external sdcard and it is still there, yet I still can't restore it and when I try to do something with the files on my card it says no application can perform this task. Ive gotten my contacts back through tha app I backed them up on so I'm at a loss for why tb Isnt working.
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Launch titanium and hit menu/preferences. From there you can change the backup location to wherever you moved it to and it should see them.
Also for your contacts... If you are planning on flashing roms do yourself a favor a migrate your contacts off your phone and on to Google. That way you just log back in to your Google account after a re flash and they are all resynced. Plus you can access them from anywhere at contacts.Google.com
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Launch titanium and hit menu/preferences. From there you can change the backup location to wherever you moved it to and it should see them.
Also for your contacts... If you are planning on flashing roms do yourself a favor a migrate your contacts off your phone and on to Google. That way you just log back in to your Google account after a re flash and they are all resynced. Plus you can access them from anywhere at contacts.Google.com
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Did this ^ in titanium and the files show up, but it still says there is nothing to restore.
Also, could someone tell me/point me to a good method of flashing M1 cm10 onto a us cellular gs3?
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You've got to remember that CWM backs up differently now. It backs up data separately in blobs in a different folder. So your backups in clockwork are naturally smaller. Also, I've heard nothing but bad things with TWRP on this device. I'd stay away from it and stick with non touch CWM.
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I agree 100%, the non-touch version of CWM works perfectly. I could care less about touch/non-touch/color of the app etc. ALL I care about is the capability to do a sucessful restore & CWM has never failed me for that.
I did a restore from it last night & it worked perfectly. The ONLY thing I have ever had to do after a CWM restore is clear data in GMAIL to get it to send.
it seems like i have a 30% chance of creating a proper nandroid backup (as in, maybe 3 out of 10 i have made in the past month seem to work, and the rest either give me errors when trying to restore, or they'll just sit on the splash screen upon rebooting, or they'll just "restore" me back to out of the box new.
am i doing something wrong when i'm creating my backups? i'm using TWRP 2.4.3.0. it seems to mess up on both restoring to the SD card and restoring to internal storage.
either way, i tried restoring a nandroid today and it is "completing" but it's really just failing. TWRP says "restoring data...data done 0 seconds...restoring cache...cache done 2 seconds, restoring boot...boot done 1 second" and the whole thing is "completed" in 60 seconds. when i reboot, it just sits on the jelly beans splash screen and i have to pull the battery.
i'm now dreading the thought of having to re-flash the ROM and set everything up again. any help would be most appreciated. thanks!
Whats the size of the back up? Did you format the system partition before restoring the back up? Also this might be a good time to update twrp to 2.5.0.0.
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The only time I have seen this occur is when my SD card was going bad or already dying. I just had another SD card fail so I don't think its all that uncommon. I believe that TWRP will create md5 files during the backup process, if you took the time you could probably use those to verify.
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Whats the size of the back up? Did you format the system partition before restoring the back up? Also this might be a good time to update twrp to 2.5.0.0.
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sometimes the backup is 1.2 GB, sometimes 1.5 GB, sometimes 1.6 GB, sometimes 2.1 GB.
could it be that sometimes i'm creating a backup with only ~3 GB free (either internal or external SD card)?
i'm back and running because i found a nandroid from two weeks ago that works, and it was right after a fresh flash of Jelly Beans B14. i cleared off a lot of space and now i'm creating nandroids with 8+ GB free, so we'll see if that helps.
CrustyMcLovin said:
The only time I have seen this occur is when my SD card was going bad or already dying. I just had another SD card fail so I don't think its all that uncommon. I believe that TWRP will create md5 files during the backup process, if you took the time you could probably use those to verify.
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the card isn't going bad, and sometimes a nandroid to internal storage still goes funky.
if i try to verify the md5 before restoring, i get an error every time. what could that be a symptom of?
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the card isn't going bad, and sometimes a nandroid to internal storage still goes funky.
if i try to verify the md5 before restoring, i get an error every time. what could that be a symptom of?
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What are you using to verify the md5 and what error are you getting?