[Q] Backup - Samsung Mesmerize

I wanna flash CM7 to try it out, but if i decide i don't like it can i restore a backup of H57?

Yes, as long as u first flash a tw kernal u should be fine
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wired-turtle said:
Yes, as long as u first flash a tw kernal u should be fine
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If you use CWM3 it backs up your kernel and you shouldn't need to flash it separately.

Not to change the topic of the thread, but I've always had problems with flashing a different ROM and then trying to Nandroid restore back to the previous one... It always says my checksum is bad. Is this just something I'm doing wrong, or...?

ChromWolf said:
Not to change the topic of the thread, but I've always had problems with flashing a different ROM and then trying to Nandroid restore back to the previous one... It always says my checksum is bad. Is this just something I'm doing wrong, or...?
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Depends on what CWM you're using, I've had issues like that with 2.5.x but not with CWM3.0

ChromWolf said:
Not to change the topic of the thread, but I've always had problems with flashing a different ROM and then trying to Nandroid restore back to the previous one... It always says my checksum is bad. Is this just something I'm doing wrong, or...?
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I believe that occurs when you create a backup with lagfix enabled then try to restore it with lagfix disabled, or vise versa. I could be wrong however.

Has anyone used times_infinitys flashable CWM3? Would that work to do a backup?
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breastmilk69 said:
I believe that occurs when you create a backup with lagfix enabled then try to restore it with lagfix disabled, or vise versa. I could be wrong however.
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Actually, since (A) I've been running with MIUI (more to the point, an AOSP ROM), and (B) I've been flashing my phone lots lately, I haven't had lagfix enabled in a month or so. I *have* changed recoveries once or twice though.... I'll try running with a 3.0 recovery as bde suggests and see if that makes the difference. It'd really make Romdev a lot easier a process.

Wyman881 said:
Has anyone used times_infinitys flashable CWM3? Would that work to do a backup?
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Yes and yes.

I flashed it and tried making a backup, and it said error backing up boot image. What does this mean and what's wrong?
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Wyman881 said:
I flashed it and tried making a backup, and it said error backing up boot image. What does this mean and what's wrong?
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The one packaged with H57 is fixed, there seems to be issues with other versions of CWM3, i don't think dfgas has packaged it up separately yet however...

Uhh dang it. What version is the recovery in? I'm on 5/7
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Wyman881 said:
Uhh dang it. What version is the recovery in? I'm on 5/7
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On the main screen it should say 2.5.x or 3.0 - if you are using H57 you're on 3.0 (it hasn't changed any...) but it sounded to me like you went and flashed a different CWM (the one from times infinity is a little diff than the one dfgas built and put in the H57 rom)?

Yeah I flashed times_infinitys. When i flashed H57 it didn't flash CWM3.
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I meant what version of the ROM is CWM3 in? Cause i flashed the 5/7 and it didn't have it.

Heinz 57 has its own version of cwm in it so when you flash heinz you will flash cwm too I believe. If you want to have times's cwm installed flash heinze in either cwm 2.5 or 3 then after you reboot. Go back in and flash times's version of cwm.
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I just flashed Heinz recovery.
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Just a question, what does an advanced restore do?
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It lets you restore specific parts. Example. Your apps are stored in the data folder. In advanced restore you can select restore data and it will just restore that folder and sub folders
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Ohh ok thanks. Another question, I just made a backup and it said it couldn't mount sd_ext? What does that mean
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Kaoscinate on mesmerize

I don't know if anyone has tried this but I've been running kasoinate on my mesmerize since his v0 release. If you want to try it make sure you were already on a voodoo kernal. Download kaos's kernal and Tom from the fascinate forum. Boot into cwm and wipe,than run the rom zip first than the kernal zip. Make sure you install gapps also. Reboot and you should be in froyo heaven.
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This works but do it at your own risk. Im working on a mesmerize build so if you can wait a few hours I may have something up for you all that is a little safer.
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Awesome I can't wait to try it. Its not that dangerous if your comfortable with cwm and you can always revert back to your mesmerize voodoo kernal and nandroid backup. And of course we have Odin. But I can't wait to try your rom..keep up the great work!!
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Are you referring to the [ALPHA] rom located in the Fascinate forum?
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Awesome I can't wait to try it. Its not that dangerous if your comfortable with cwm and you can always revert back to your mesmerize voodoo kernal and nandroid backup. And of course we have Odin. But I can't wait to try your rom..keep up the great work!!
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There have been issues even with people on the fascinate getting boot-loops after messing with that ROM. It's only a soft brick, but, you must remember, there are a lot of people who would piss their pants at the sight of a frozen Samsung logo.. We don't really want to encourage flashing things labeled for another device onto a different device. If the other ROM say had a Verizon radio in it.. well, it wouldn't turn out well. In this case, that is not a problem, but that's not always the case.
If Koasinate works, what about jt's stableish froyo build he released a couple of weeks ago?
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Any aosp rom for the fascinate should work, they just need to be compiled using files pulled from a mesmerize.
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where can i find TOM and what is it? lol
Lol I don't think you'll find Tom, he's extremely elusive!
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now how do I go back lol?
I have a nandroid backup but it didn't work
Boot into CWM, wipe your device, install the vodoo kernal for your mesmerize than install your nandroid back up by goint to backup and restore and hitting restore and picking the most recent nandroid backup. In my case if I wasnt able to wipe or install I would have to do a battery pull and boot into CWM once or twice. Hope that helps.
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Boot into CWM, wipe your device, install the vodoo kernal for your mesmerize than install your nandroid back up by goint to backup and restore and hitting restore and picking the most recent nandroid backup. In my case if I wasnt able to wipe or install I would have to do a battery pull and boot into CWM once or twice. Hope that helps.
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go through the whole voodoo install process again or just go into cwm and install voodoo again?
go into cwm and install vodoo again than do a nandroid restore, if you try to stay on kasocinates kernal youll get an md5 mismatch when trying to do a nandroid restore
palisoulja1 said:
go into cwm and install vodoo again than do a nandroid backup, if you try to stay on kasocinates kernal youll get an md5 mismatch when trying to do a nandroid restore
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it just freezes at samsung now
after you do the vodoo kernal install the nandroid backup in cwm, this should go through the whole process of restoring your nandroid backup and than reboot through CWM and it should get you past the samsung screen.
palisoulja1 said:
after you do the vodoo kernal install the nandroid backup in cwm, this should go through the whole process of restoring your nandroid backup and than reboot through CWM and it should get you past the samsung screen.
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I did a complete wipe then install zip from sdcard select 1221 test voodoo then blue letters come up then samsung comes up and phone freezes.
Ok now do the nandroid restore.
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Ok now do the nandroid restore.
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i have to pull the battery again to get back into recovery. is that right? thanks for your help im freakin
says mismatch
also it says cant mount no such file or directory, when I try to wipe
try pulling the battery and redoing the wipe again....if this is not working for you I suggest just resetting your phone back to stock with odin, the instructions are in this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881064 dont freak out too much, your phone is still recoverable. just read everything in the link and you should be back to stock in a matter of 10 minutes. hope this helps

Is there ap that backs up just your kernel like on the

Sgs? There was a app called kernel flasher I believe that allowed you to backup kernels and flash others..... I know I can backup rom, flash kernel and if I don't like it I can just restore my backup, but the restoring takes forever. I'd rather just flash the stock kernel... Or is there a stock kernel zip floating around I missed?
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Stock kernel zip would be great. That's what preventing me from flashing a kernel right now.
bighulk666 said:
Stock kernel zip would be great. That's what preventing me from flashing a kernel right now.
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Just flash current rom without wiping... gets kernal back keeping everything
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smashpunks said:
Sgs? There was a app called kernel flasher I believe that allowed you to backup kernels and flash others..... I know I can backup rom, flash kernel and if I don't like it I can just restore my backup, but the restoring takes forever. I'd rather just flash the stock kernel... Or is there a stock kernel zip floating around I missed?
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Yeah I miss that program. Funny thing is I'm still stock.
On my vibrant I'd flash almost daily.
This phone seems where the vibrant peaked out of the box.
So I just have not needed to.
But you just took me back.
Give it time.
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CWM Recovery

OK so we know the bionics bootstrap recovery doesn't work. I was messing around with Rom manager and flashed the bionics recovery and was successful. Recovery version 5.0.2.5. Then I booted into recovery from Rom manager and performed a successful backup! Gonna hold out on flashing the backup right now but I'm hoping someone that knows a lot more then me will look into this also and see what they think about it and can we possibly use everything without fearing a bricked device .
i successfully created a backup using the bionic bootstrap recovery, but im leery of trying to do a restore without having an sbf handy
Well I got brave and clicked the restore button using the bionic bootstrap recovery. I have 20+ days left to return the phone if anything went wrong. I backed up using the recovery, then clicked restore. Everything restored perfectly. I did not choose wipe data though, as I didn't think it would matter. Just thought I would add that bit of information. Hope this helps guys.
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I just used CWM 5.0.2.5 to restore the system backup I made before updating, and indeed it worked fine. I'm back down to 55.11.16 android 2.3.5 (from 55.13.16 - 2.3.6) with seemingly no ill effects. IIRC, I made this system image with the bionic bootstrap recovery app.
Im still on 55.11.16 android 2.3.5 also, I know using Rom manager to make a backup took a lot longer then what I was used to on my OG. Just went through a restore with no seemingly ill effects. Has anyone tried flashing a zip yet? Just glad we seemingly have a recovery that is working.
my vivid will be here in the next day or 2. once i have that, i will risk the Atrix2 and start working on a rom.
Oh no Pirate your switching over to the HTC Vivid? I have been looking at the reviews on that device and it looks as thick as my A2 with the defender otterbox. I'm going to kick my cat if people start abandoning ship on the A2, bummer!
Awesome work on getting CWM to backup and restore. I would love to see some custom roms being dumped onto this device.
Nice! Recovery loads up smoothly on rom manager. This could get interesting...
If your bootloader is not unlocked be very careful as to what you flash!
Try a theme or something that does not affect kernals,
Just my thoughts
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Pirateghost said:
my vivid will be here in the next day or 2. once i have that, i will risk the Atrix2 and start working on a rom.
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I still have 20 days to be a guinea pig LoL
If you really feel like being a ginuea pig you should try flashing the zip from this thread. It's a few posts down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331644
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marko! said:
If you really feel like being a ginuea pig you should try flashing the zip from this thread. It's a few posts down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1331644
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i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
I dont see any zip in that thread? Are you referring to the system.img.zip pirateghost posted? That was in the recovery thread?
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i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
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Thanks for the heads up!!
I'm unable to reapply the patch up to 55.13.15
Code:
contents of partition "boot" didn't match MTD:boot:8388608:9651a551679347926bb7589bb4b57d8dea357cb4:8388608:b56beaeb976b10b86cdbd38e87024ab16fe1197f
I've supposedly restored the boot partition with cwm, oh well.
This is probably to be expected. I'm guessing I can only get the stock boot partition back with a proper fxz flash to stock...
edit: I don't think cwm is even saving a boot image. I don't see one in any of my backups.
Makes me wonder what it's doing when I restore boot
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I dont see any zip in that thread? Are you referring to the system.img.zip pirateghost posted? That was in the recovery thread?
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he was talking about this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19033826&postcount=7
Just because I'm willing to try things doesn't mean I'm willing to knowingly brick my phone.
Thanks PG!!
Oddly enough it was the Bionic recovery installed from Mod Manager is what I had installed when I bricked my phone.
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i wouldnt. i havent even modified the updater-script to be right yet....
hell, i made it, and even i wouldnt flash it in that state
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well thhats good to know !
does any flashing work with cwm? ie flash files to system? i can see nandroid not working, but simple flashing should.
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does any flashing work with cwm? ie flash files to system? i can see nandroid not working, but simple flashing should.
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No. I built several zip files to flash and cwm nor the bionic bootstrap worked.
I think we may have to wait for the official cwm release, with our device in it.
Jim
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Issues with md5 mismatch when restoring data through CWM

alright, so I have tried to restore full backups and advanced restoring /data through CWM both through bhundven's kernel and drhonk's kernel and for some reason i've gotten the md5 mismatch error everytime...i have no idea what is causing it, anyone have any ideas?
I believe, not 100% sure, that only on bhunds kernel can you successfully do backups n restore through cwm so that might be why it isn't working with Dr.honks kernel
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I'd be weary with the backup/restore function though. I wasn't able to do it on CWM 5.x.x.x. It sent my phone into a ridiculous bootloop, with no recovery, period. Had to reflash everything through odin. I've done backups before, so I know I didn't do anything wrong.
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I believe, not 100% sure, that only on bhunds kernel can you successfully do backups n restore through cwm so that might be why it isn't working with Dr.honks kernel
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I used to be able to advance restore through honks kernel so i dont know why i cant get it to work
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I used to be able to advance restore through honks kernel so i dont know why i cant get it to work
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Bhundven's kernel is a cwm5 and it won't restore any backups made with drhonk's cwm3 kernel. He stated that in his OP somewhere. So any backups you make with cwm5, you can to a full image restore through cwm5. Hope this answers your question.
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xolanir said:
Bhundven's kernel is a cwm5 and it won't restore any backups made with drhonk's cwm3 kernel. He stated that in his OP somewhere. So any backups you make with cwm5, you can to a full image restore through cwm5. Hope this answers your question.
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Right, the only limitation I know of with backup/restore on my new kernel is you have to backup with >= 5.0.2.7 and restore with >= 5.0.2.7. I'm still looking through bootable recovery changes to figure out what exactly changed so maybe we could make a version that supports both. But I'm not sure what the limitations of that would be.
You cannot restore a backup made with 3.0.2.8x.
If there is anything different you see, please report it.

Anyone else notice clockwork now sucks! Any good options now?

simply put, for as long as i can remember all i had to do is make a full backup, it was stored on my sd, then if i made an error somewhere or flashed a rom i did not like, all i had to do was open up old faithful clockwork and do a restore and everything was fine. well the last few revisions of clockwork have screwed me!
if i do a backup, flash a new rom, make any changes etc, when i want to do a restore in clockwork, guess what? NO RESTORE FILES!
the restore data always gets marked and sent to the LOST directory.
what the hell?
anyone know of any GOOD backup and/or recovery software? i have had it with clockwork!
this is the second time i am having to raw dump an sd card then manually convert the binary back to usable files just to recover important files!
cheers,
disco
You can try CW-Enhanced [v1.1b] by Dread 7 , or TWRP 2.3.1.0 touch Recovery .
Can't go wrong with Dread7us' enhanced recovery (the first link in prboy's post above)
bilgerryan said:
Can't go wrong with Dread7us' enhanced recovery (the first link in prboy's post above)
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i used this for a long time, dread did great on it. now i use twrp and i actually like it, i hated it for a long time but theyve finally got all the details ironed out imo.
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i used this for a long time, dread did great on it. now i use twrp and i actually like it, i hated it for a long time but theyve finally got all the details ironed out imo.
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I've never used it. What do you like about it thats better than the other 2 recoveries available?
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I've never used it. What do you like about it thats better than the other 2 recoveries available?
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I like the touch interface, the way the menus are laid out. Being able to select what to back up and restore (idk if you can do that on clockwork because I haven't used it in ages lol) and queuing multiple zips to flash right after another.
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jesuscash said:
I like the touch interface, the way the menus are laid out. Being able to select what to back up and restore (idk if you can do that on clockwork because I haven't used it in ages lol) and queuing multiple zips to flash right after another.
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With CWM you can select what to restore. But you cannot choose multiple zips to flash.
jesuscash said:
I like the touch interface, the way the menus are laid out. Being able to select what to back up and restore (idk if you can do that on clockwork because I haven't used it in ages lol) and queuing multiple zips to flash right after another.
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Did they fix the Sense flashing problem? I used v2 and the only way you could flash a Sense ROM was if it was under 215 MB... And believe me there isn't much Sense left @215 MB I only ever got the one to boot one on TWRP and then Dread came out with his and I have never used anything else.
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I've never used it. What do you like about it thats better than the other 2 recoveries available?
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he cleaned up the code and added in the superwipe feature from another recovery, i wanna say the amon-ra recovery but i cant remember. the superwipe goes up to a x5 wipe of all partitions and makes it easier to wipe before flashing new roms.
or were you asking me about twrp 2.3.1.0?
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bilgerryan said:
Did they fix the Sense flashing problem? I used v2 and the only way you could flash a Sense ROM was if it was under 215 MB... And believe me there isn't much Sense left @215 MB I only ever got the one to boot one on TWRP and then Dread came out with his and I have never used anything else.
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yes it works with sense now
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he cleaned up the code and added in the superwipe feature from another recovery, i wanna say the amon-ra recovery but i cant remember. the superwipe goes up to a x5 wipe of all partitions and makes it easier to wipe before flashing new roms.
or were you asking me about twrp 2.3.1.0?
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yes it works with sense now
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I was asking about twrp. I'll give it a try. Thanks.
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I was asking about twrp. I'll give it a try. Thanks.
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before the touchscreen felt too sensitive and it also wouldnt flash sense roms correctly. they seemed to have ironed all of that out and i think it works good now. not to mention the ability to theme it if you choose to.
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before the touchscreen felt too sensitive and it also wouldnt flash sense roms correctly. they seemed to have ironed all of that out and i think it works good now. not to mention the ability to theme it if you choose to.
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I did like the theming, but wasame only able to find like three when I was using it.
Definitely would recommend Enhanced Clockwork Mod. Best recovery by far...
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I read that CM doesn't officially support any recovery besides CWM. Why is this?
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disco_y2k said:
simply put, for as long as i can remember all i had to do is make a full backup, it was stored on my sd, then if i made an error somewhere or flashed a rom i did not like, all i had to do was open up old faithful clockwork and do a restore and everything was fine. well the last few revisions of clockwork have screwed me!
if i do a backup, flash a new rom, make any changes etc, when i want to do a restore in clockwork, guess what? NO RESTORE FILES!
the restore data always gets marked and sent to the LOST directory.
what the hell?
anyone know of any GOOD backup and/or recovery software? i have had it with clockwork!
this is the second time i am having to raw dump an sd card then manually convert the binary back to usable files just to recover important files!
cheers,
disco
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There's also one more recovery that you can try out if you have the chance, its called AmonRA. I can't say anything about it myself because I've never tried it, but you could give it a shot. I can also say that my favorite so far (haven't tried TWRP though, will soon) is dread's CWM enhanced recovery. Its very useful if your phone won't boot up but you can get into recovery as it let's you run terminal commands straight from there, it also has a very useful Superwipe feature which I think all recoveries should try to adopt/include.
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There's also one more recovery that you can try out if you have the chance, its called AmonRA. I can't say anything about it myself because I've never tried it, but you could give it a shot. I can also say that my favorite so far (haven't tried TWRP though, will soon) is dread's CWM enhanced recovery. Its very useful if your phone won't boot up but you can get into recovery as it let's you run terminal commands straight from there, it also has a very useful Superwipe feature which I think all recoveries should try to adopt/include.
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Recovery is device specific and shifters don't have amon-Ra.
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CNexus said:
There's also one more recovery that you can try out if you have the chance, its called AmonRA. I can't say anything about it myself because I've never tried it, but you could give it a shot. I can also say that my favorite so far (haven't tried TWRP though, will soon) is dread's CWM enhanced recovery. Its very useful if your phone won't boot up but you can get into recovery as it let's you run terminal commands straight from there, it also has a very useful Superwipe feature which I think all recoveries should try to adopt/include.
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Recovery is device specific and shifters don't have amon-Ra.
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like strapped said we dont have amon-ra, thats where dread grabbed the code for superwipe from for his modified cwm recovery
thronnos said:
I read that CM doesn't officially support any recovery besides CWM. Why is this?
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Not sure but I don't really like the cm team. They lock you out of a lot of things
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he cleaned up the code and added in the superwipe feature from another recovery, i wanna say the amon-ra recovery but i cant remember. the superwipe goes up to a x5 wipe of all partitions and makes it easier to wipe before flashing new roms.
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like strapped said we dont have amon-ra, thats where dread grabbed the code for superwipe from for his modified cwm recovery
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Just to be clear, I wanted to point out the superwipe wasn't added from another recovery, I wrote all that code myself.
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Dread 7us said:
Just to be clear, I wanted to point out the superwipe wasn't added from another recovery, I wrote all that code myself.
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