I've definitely researched through the forums and haven't seen this problem/resolution, so I'm hoping someone can help me.
I installed Cyanogen 7 on my dad's HTC Hero (CDMA) and I think I may have botched it. I used Clockwork Mod's Rom Manager to do a backup of the HTC Sense 2.1, and then began updating to CM7. The update went brilliantly, but my dad realized he hadn't put all his contacts into his google account, some of which would be extremely nice for him to get back.
Un-worried, I pulled up clockwork mod and went to the manage backup and recovery but found no backup. Puzzled, I used file manager to dig through the directory and found the backup it said it made, but I can't seem to point the mod at it. I copied the recovery file into a variety of different basic folders, as some basic google fu suggested it might simply need to be in the right folder.
None of that worked and I couldn't find a similar problem in the folder, so I turn to you all. To create the recovery, I simply clicked Backup Current Rom, it rebooted, created a backup and reloaded, giving me the recovery file: recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.... Can't read the rest, but that should give you an idea. It's only 2.29 megs, which feels small, but who knows what you need for a recovery file.
I feel like I missed something important, but I can't figure it out. Anyone? Ideas? Help? Suggestions? Thanks so much.
If it's only 2.2 mbs, something went wrong. It should be approximately the size of the phone's used internal memory.
If you want to attempt to restore the backup, you can reboot into recovery, then restore manually instead of through Rom Manager.
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Hey Guys, I'm a little bit of a noob here. I have had my captivate for about 6 months now and I started to get a little frustrated with the way the Captivate was set up compared to my old HTC Hero. I didn't have to root the Hero and could do anything with it I wanted. With the captivate it was another story. I rooted the new Captivate and it has been a wild ride. I follow the forums to see what is available after having Super User installed. I have to say I went a little crazy into the exploration of what i can and cant do. I learned what I cant do the hard way and spent almost 3 day's having problems with odin3 one touch flasher. Once i got everything back running to factory settings I decided to just set up the phone the way I like it and updated the config. for example I added the root access and updated the settings.db file to allow 3rd party apk installs. I than also deleted the wealth of useless crap At&T Preloaded onto the OS such as the apps and the 20 AT&T contacts. Fortunately now my phone and layout is exactly to where I want it. Unfortunately now I am afraid to perform other root mods on the phone and have to re flash the original factory settings on it and have to set it up all over again. I am not much of a programmer but do know end user support very well and was hoping that there would be a way to create a backup of the root directory so that in case I brick my phone (happend twice when I tried to replace the launcher program) I can just flash my backup so that I don't have to install apps, configure settings, and adjust the layout all over again? I was thinking of creating an update.zip would do it that i could keep on my sd card and flash it from recovery.
Can Somebody please Help!!!
Thanks,
Jay
Generally speaking, unless you use the same ROM, it is a bad idea to restore system settings.
Check out Titanium Backup from the Market. It works really well at backing up apps, data, and system data. Be sure to get the donate version so you don't have to manually install every single app (huge time/effort saver). It won't give you an update.zip file, but if you reinstall it and point it at it's backup folder, it can restore all of your data with minimal effort.
If you are prone to bricking your phone, back it up to an external SD card by entering "/<external sd>/Titanium Backup" as the backup path, replacing <external sd> with the real path (it's different on 2.1 and 2.2 ROMs).
Good luck.
Thanks, I actually already have Titanium Backup lite and i backed it up using the batch Backup all user apps + System Data but have no idea how to restore these backups if my phone bricks. I dont necessarily want to flash the phone to try it out. Any chance you know of where i can find out a little bit more information on how to restore backups with this app?
I also have the ClockworkMod Recovery where i have backed up my phone to an SD card. It says during the process Backing up system, data, datadata and than generates an md5sum. After this the phone boots back up and I was wondering if recovering using ClockworkMod is the same as flashing an update.zip rom but instead of using the stock version? Also this app seems a lot easier to use at there is an option to reboot into recovery and select roms
I just setup my Droid Incredible with the MIUI ROM and adjusted all of the settings the way I like it (wifi, ringtones, layout, etc.). Is there a way to somehow spin that into a flashable rom?
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I want to do the same thing! I have FireFly3.0 installed and want to try out a 2.3.3 rom, but don't want to have to endure all the pain of having to set everything back up if I find it unstable. A "known good" rom, if you will.
Can't you just use rom manager to create a backup, and pull it off the phone and keep it safe? I seem to recall using restores when I tried roms that I didn't like the feel of.
Yeah, it's called a nandroid backup. Boot into recovery, do your backup, then wipe and flash the other rom. If you decide you want to go back to your old setup, restore from the nandroid backup and everything will be just as it was. Like nothing ever happened...
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For work I made a pre-configured phone with our own software
wich is used for consumer research.
I want to make a rom from this phone so I can distribute this on
the hundrets of phone's we are having.
(There's no *.apk or setup package from our own written software,
we use 2 *.bat files to reset the phone and install our software)
What's the most easyest / effecient wat to do this?
Phone: Samsung Galaxy Ace
Running: Gingerbread 2.3.6
Thank you in advance
First post... let me itroduce myself first.
I'm Stu....I've been lurking here for years and finally unlocked my first phone!
I'm currently using the SideKick4g, and this foru was a HUGE help in the unlocking process. Thanks!!!
I think I may have gotten a little crazy with the deleting, however. Everything is running fine at this point other than when I try to change ring/notification settings. Trying to access things gives me a force close every time.
I'm guessing I deleted something crucial. Anybody know what it may have been and how I can go about fixing this and/or getting around the situation? Will a simple program such as ringdroid replace whatever I got rid of? Shold I just flash a custom ROM?
Thanks in advance guys!
Stu
Let me add that I rooted with SuperOneClick, and used RootExplorer for ditching my bloatware. Hope that helps a little!
Stu
What did you remove? Ringtones are stored in /system/media/, do they just not show up when trying to set it, or does something else happens? Are you missing your stock ringtones, or just your custom ones?
When I go to settings>sound...selecting eithr phone ringtone or notification ringtone causes my force close.
I think maybe I deleted my system/media thinking it was the stock media player
Not that I'm too bummed about it. The stock rings are all just crappy versions of the "T-jingle".
I'd just like to be able to change stuff up
Well, looks like you took a risk and it came back to bite you. Reflash your ROM and try again.
Well...there's where the problem lies. I've never flashed a ROM. I'm sure I can handle it....just never done it.
And if I do need to flash a new ROM anyways, I feel like I should just flash a custom ROM. The gingerclone looks pretty nice. Does this delete my original ROM all together in the process? Are custom ROMs free of bloat?
That will wipe everything, so you should make a backup beforehand. yes, custom roms are almost always free of bloat, GingerClonev2 is only 124MB, where the stock rom is over 200MB. There are a few issues we're still working out, but it's pretty steady. otherwise, Teddy is releasing an update to an older ROM sometime soon as well, so I'd be on the lookout for that.
Okay cool. I'm gonna do some quick research and figure out how to do this.
What's the best way to save my original ROM to my desktop on my computer?
I'm just worried about killing my phone completely at this point.....
If you have CWM, use the backup menu, which uses Nandroid to backup everything by dumping everything on your phone into images. This all dumps onto your SDcard in the clockworkmod folder.
You can't brick your phone using CWM, you can only do that using ODIN, and only if you're not following directions/being intentionally stupid
Okay cool....downloading ROM Manager right now. I'm sure I'll post back with a few questions shortly!
Once the CWM/ROM manager has backed everything up....i should be able to copy the backup to my desktop? same thing with installing a new ROM
? Desktop to SD card?
BAhhhhhh.
I clicked on backup current rom and sent it into recovery mode.
Sorry about my lack of knowhow. Hopefully this all helps some others as well.....
I guess my biggest questions right now.... how do I get my original rom to a folder on my desktop, and once I download gingerclone, how do i move that from my desktop to sd to running it?
Yeah, copy the clockworkmod folder from your sdcard to your desktop, that'll copy everything off. I wouldn't suggest Rom Manager, many people have problems with that CWM. Look in the Dev forum for the CWM thread, and use that one.
In recovery mode, there should be a backup and restore menu. use the backup option, and then copy the clockworkmod folder from your sdcard to your desktop. that's your backup.
Okay. I plugged in my phone to the computer, and dragged a copy of the entire clockworkmod folder to my desktop.
Gingerclone is downloaded. Drag it to my SD? anywhere specific? or just on it?
On my desktop now is: folder/download, .recoverychecpoint(1KB), .salted_hash(1KB), .settings(1KB), and .settings2(1KB)
This is my backup correct?
I lost rom manager/root explorer.
After clearing stuff out and rebooting...it rebooted to the original rom with none of my added apps.
Can't download anything either at this point.
HELP!
Download manager keeps stopping and forces closed.
I reboot into recovery...and my options are:
reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
If I try to reinstall packages, I get" E: failed to open /mnt/internal_sd/update.zip(no such file or directory)
E: signature verification failed.
I'm in over my head now. Anyone out there maybe wanna help walk me thorough this on AIM or google chat or anything?
Which rom did you flash?
I tried flashing yours....but nothing. It's on my SD card right now
It just boots up to the original sidekick home/os.
You probably need to reroot or another update. Zip
Edit: actually what it sounds like you did was something similiar to what i did with a samsung galaxy s i deleted a bunch of apps and the i did a data wipe and factory restore without flashing my custom firmware through cwm and when it factory resetted it was real buggy from all the missing apps so u will have to odin
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I can get into download mode....but ODIN won't recognize my phone. ID:COM stays blank
Try installing the Galaxy S drivers?
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See real solution posted May 24 and don't be a moron like me.
Hello,
I really tried to find the right forum to post this in. Its not development, and its not device specific. So here it is! I'll try to make it as short as possible. I scoured the forums first, but did not find a similar problem or solution.
HTC Sensation 4G Bell Canada
Android RevolutionHD v6.x.x
Titanium Backup
- I backup all my apps, not system apps
- I do full wipe except SD card, I do superwipe (I know I dont have to, just a preference
- I flash newer version of AndroidRevolutionHD
- I install Titanium backup, and it does not see my backups, it sees just 12 backups, when there are actually 60. It's basically seeing the apps Mike has in the ARHD install, of which I had backed up with the last batch backup. So I know it sees the folder proper, but it fails to see the rest.
This happened last time I did an upgrade to ARHD as well.
- I can use ES File Explorer, browse to the backup folder, and they are all there still. I can even pick one app and install it individually this way
- I go into Titanium backup and confirm the backup directory is correct, I evenn go to options and re-browse to the directory, the list even shows me "60 apps" and pops up "found 1 backup locations, please select one. /mnt/sdcard/titaniumbackup - 60 backups"
- I select it, it even shows me a whole list of all the files in there, I select "use current folder"
Problem:
- I go into backup/restore, and it shows 12 apps, batch, and I only get "verify backups, 12" or under "delete backups" there is also only 12 available
Just today I tried this again, this time deleting all Titanium backups, then doing a new batch backup, and confirmed there was 60. Then I did superwipe, flashed the new version of ARHD, and got into Titanium and only 12 backups visible, but they actually are in the folder.
Any ideas how to fix this? It happened to me last time and it is very annoying and time consuming to do them all 1 by 1. It makes me not look forward to new versions, because of the headache it will cause me.
I did go to the app help, and on Q#15, I followed their advice as to apps not appearing in the list, I hit the "problems?" button, and found no help, ha.
Thanks a bunch!
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Busybox
I would install Busybox and update.....also, when you save to Titanium Backup maybe your installing to a partitioned drive on your card? or maybe your encrypting your backups?...check that too
I use Titanium Backup all the time and flash constantly. I have a HTV EVO 4G (Wife) and HTC EVO 3D (me). I have never used encryption myself but just guessing
alldayer said:
I would install Busybox and update.....also, when you save to Titanium Backup maybe your installing to a partitioned drive on your card? or maybe your encrypting your backups?...check that too
I use Titanium Backup all the time and flash constantly. I have a HTV EVO 4G (Wife) and HTC EVO 3D (me). I have never used encryption myself but just guessing
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Thanks a bunch, got it fixed. Not sure what the fix was. But I installed latest busybox, then went into troubleshoot settings and enabled the force system busybox, and the gingerbread zip bug and symbolic links settings, and voila all my 60 backups showed up and I was able to restore them. Gingerbread setting had nothing to do with it I assume, was just pressing buttons
Unfortunately I didn't check after each tweak, so I don't know what fixed it, ill do that next time I wipe and see what the fix is.
I did not have encryption on thouh, so that wasn't it.
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New for May 24, 2012
In case any other retard like myself runs into this problem, like I did today, AGAIN like last week, and it really pissed me off this time too because I wasted an hour figuring it out.
Titanium Backup lists all apps in its folder as "uninstalled" when you do stuff like SuperWipe and flash a new ROM. But the default "filter" is "user", with "uninstalled" NOT checked.
Well yeah, you'd want to check that off to see the apps in the folder after a wipe and not be a retard like me
I mean, really, to me its a user app, so I didnt even notice the "uninstalled" button. I knew it was there, but just never associated it with my issue. GRRR!
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New for May 24, 2012
In case any other retard like myself runs into this problem, like I did today, AGAIN like last week, and it really pissed me off this time too because I wasted an hour figuring it out.
Titanium Backup lists all apps in its folder as "uninstalled" when you do stuff like SuperWipe and flash a new ROM. But the default "filter" is "user", with "uninstalled" NOT checked.
Well yeah, you'd want to check that off to see the apps in the folder after a wipe and not be a retard like me
I mean, really, to me its a user app, so I didnt even notice the "uninstalled" button. I knew it was there, but just never associated it with my issue. GRRR!
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Thanks for this. I couldn't figure out why it was saying that there were no apps to restore. Not sure which version you were using, but in my current version under filters, I had to uncheck user and system, and check uninstalled only before I could see my old backups.
hello, thankyou in advance for your help. im running synergy rom on my verizon s3. First custom Rom, and first time unlocking my phone so im really new to this. anyway i made a backup using clockwork mod of my stock rom and all its settings using cwm recovery and saved it to my computer. i also made a backup of this synergy rom. i was trying to put the backup of synergy onto my computer however it always gets stuck at "calculating time to complete" or something similar. i noticed (while comparing my synergy backup to my stock) that my old stock backup only has clockworkmod>backup>stockrom but no blobs. my new backup gets stuck at copying the blobs(i tried everyfolder individually to see what the problem was), i can copy the backup folder fine. is this my computer or is there something else i should of done to make a complete copy of cwm backup Rom(programs needed, ect.?). i read on some forum that you needed some shell script but i didnt find that on here which i trust more than the other site. my other question is what would happen if i did do a recovery in cwm of my original stock rom without my blobs?
thankyou and any help is appreciated.
If I am not mistaken the blob saves all the information needed for the backup....then each individual backup saves any changes that have been made so in short it would not work without the blob its needed
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If I am not mistaken the blob saves all the information needed for the backup....then each individual backup saves any changes that have been made so in short it would not work without the blob its needed
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Thankyou, i just needed to wait and the estimate time thing went away. its weird i dont know why the blobs didn't save the first time. this time they did after lk 10 mins of letting it run and another 20 to copy but thankyou for your help im not gunna risk bricking now the phone to half a rom. just one thing i did do a titanium backup of every original thing as well as a lookout security backup(good thing)..the only thing i really need from the original was my calendar and my to do list(bunch of doctors appointments and birthdays and anniversaries lol). is there anyway to restore those from titanium or lookout even?. im afraid to do a complete restore from titanium, (i didn't do it in the beggining i just set everything up manually), as im worried data from the same app of this rom and the last will interfere with each other.
If you're using the Google calander it should sync