Hi guys, I haved flash CWM to the external SD card using NV Flasher the external version and flash a ROM through the external version.
What shoul happen if the external sd card fails? Do I just take sd card out and the original firmware runs by the internal or what?
BTW, thanks in advance
I don't believe you flashed to the external, but you flashed the version that supports external cards. if your external craps out, then any backups are gone. It is wise to double up on your backups.. one on your card, and another on a service like Dropbox.. a free 2gb backup service: http://db.tt/ooY4qYA
Basically, connect your usb.. find the clockwork folder and your backup is in there. Drag/drop into your dropbox folder on your desktop.. good to go. Or you can get dropbox for the android and do it from your phone.. whatever flips your bippy.
Yes, external sd ext 4 support, thanks. So to restore the system to be full functional again can be 1) flash the CWM for the internal sd, put the backup inside and flash it. 2) buy another card flash the CWM external version put the backup inside and flash.
My apologies for my english, thanks.
josepr07 said:
Yes, external sd ext 4 support, thanks. So to restore the system to be full functional again can be 1) flash the CWM for the internal sd, put the backup inside and flash it. 2) buy another card flash the CWM external version put the backup inside and flash.
My apologies for my english, thanks.
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Hmm, with the difference in english, I can't tell if you completely understand it correctly or if you are mistaken, haha.
First and foremost after you have flashed CWM... You shut off your phone. Then hold down volume down + power.. until the green android logo loads, then let go. Then you will be in CWM. While in there, go through the menus and do a backup first and foremost. It will place the backup on your external card.
Once you do the backup, it will be on your external card. Take a copy of it off of your external card and drop it into dropbox, put it on your computer, etc. Basically.. make a backup of the backup.
Then, if your external craps out... then you can either get a new one and put the backup back on the external card.. Or, you can reflash CWM for internal support... and move the backup from your dropbox, your computer, etc. onto the internal. Then you can restore it.
Edit: after re-reading what you said, i'm pretty sure you understand it correctly. As long as you have your backup...and you have duplicated the backup somewhere else.. Then you will be 100% ok. Well, 99%.
Everything is clear to me now, thanks.
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It seems that Rom Manager wants to use internal storage but recovery wants to use my external SD card. When I back up my phone from Rom Manager it reboots into CWM and backs it up on the SD card. When I go back into Rom Manager to manage backups it doesn't see it because its looking in the internal storage. If I download a rom from Rom Manager it downloads it to internal storage and when it reboots to CWM it can't find the rom because its not on the SD card.
What am I doing wrong? How do I get this to work properly?
I am experiencing the same exact problem. I can not download roms to the external SD. It a freaking hassle to download and flash a rom on this phone. Any help is appreciated.
I am not even sure I can flash a rom with it. The couple times I tried it failed because I chose the rom through the /externalSD directory and thats linked from within the internal storage.
How is everyone else using it?
I copy the files from the internal and put them in the same directory on the SD card. For example the folder internally is /sdcard/clockworkmod.. i just move that directory to /sdcard/_externalsd/clockworkmod
that way when you reboot everything is already work CM is naturally looking for it. Yes.. it's a pain.
Alternatively.. when I had my G2 i got into the habit of just moving the roms to the root of the sdcard so it was easier to flash right from cwm (I rarely flash via rom manager). Nandroid backups HAVE to stay in the backup folder in the clockwork directory tho.
I found out with boat browser mini I set the download dir to /mnt /sdcard/_ExternalSD and my roms actually download to the root of my SD without errors. That's a start its a lot easier than hooking up to a computer and moving stuff around
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It seems that this would be a normal feature to come with such a product. It makes more sense to have access to the ext. sd card than not.
Maybe there is a very good reason for it? I.e. It can't be done?
ikarma said:
It seems that Rom Manager wants to use internal storage but recovery wants to use my external SD card. When I back up my phone from Rom Manager it reboots into CWM and backs it up on the SD card. When I go back into Rom Manager to manage backups it doesn't see it because its looking in the internal storage. If I download a rom from Rom Manager it downloads it to internal storage and when it reboots to CWM it can't find the rom because its not on the SD card.
What am I doing wrong? How do I get this to work properly?
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Same here.
This is a bit of a pain.
Instead of moving backup files across, I restore directly from the recovery screen.
As for ROMs I have to download them directly from my laptop and copy them the external SD card.
Not good.
I'm freshly rooted, and will soon work out the SD card issue. On my X2, I love using Astro to back up all my apps. This way, if I need to, etc. I can restore them en masse, without visiting all the markets, etc.
With CWM, I can make nandroids too.
BOTH these would go to the SD card on my X2. Neither go to the SD card on the Xoom (for now). So, if I just say, "who cares" and let them drop to the internal storage, is that safe? Meaning, if I have to do resets, etc. wipes and such, does the internal storage act like an SD card? Or does it get wiped too?
newskate9 said:
I'm freshly rooted, and will soon work out the SD card issue. On my X2, I love using Astro to back up all my apps. This way, if I need to, etc. I can restore them en masse, without visiting all the markets, etc.
With CWM, I can make nandroids too.
BOTH these would go to the SD card on my X2. Neither go to the SD card on the Xoom (for now). So, if I just say, "who cares" and let them drop to the internal storage, is that safe? Meaning, if I have to do resets, etc. wipes and such, does the internal storage act like an SD card? Or does it get wiped too?
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Your nandroid backup through CWM should be saved on your external sdcard ...if it isn't you must have updated to the recovery version 4.0.0.x which doesn't recognize your external sdcard and only uses your internal storage. You won't be able to flash anything from your sdcard either.
I suggest you go into Rom manager to all clockwork recoveries and choose an earlier Xoom recovery...preferably 3.2.0.0 if it's available, or get it from solarnz's thread in development. That way you'll get your nandroid back on your sdcard for safekeeping.
I looked, I do have the 3 version, and am backing up as I type! Thank you!
OK, I got everything set up and it boots within 30 sec with my Gingerbread based MROM. But, I do not know why it can not show how much space my SD card (not the external one) has in the setting and it says that the SD card is unmounted. And for the camera, when I open it, it says that I have to put a SD card in order to use it (I assume that it refers to the external one), but my external SD card is already in my phone. Also, in the music app, when I open it, it says that my SD card is busy, which one it refers to? However, in the file manager, I still can able to see everything inside my external SD card while it says the SD card (not the external one) is empty. Really confusing... Can you guys explain all these?
Custom Recovery: TWRP
Rom: MRom
Device: Moto MB860
Dan Law 001 said:
OK, I got everything set up and it boots within 30 sec with my Gingerbread based MROM. But, I do not know why it can not show how much space my SD card (not the external one) has in the setting and it says that the SD card is unmounted. And for the camera, when I open it, it says that I have to put a SD card in order to use it (I assume that it refers to the external one), but my external SD card is already in my phone. Also, in the music app, when I open it, it says that my SD card is busy, which one it refers to? However, in the file manager, I still can able to see everything inside my external SD card while it says the SD card (not the external one) is empty. Really confusing... Can you guys explain all these?
Custom Recovery: TWRP
Rom: MRom
Device: Moto MB860
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if everything was working fine before you flashed the rom your on id start there..try restoring your backup and make sure you wipe caches and factory reset before the restore then see if everything is working..if so then reflash the rom and dont forget the caches wipe and factory before the flash.if its still not right maybe you have a bad download of the rom..try redownloading it or flash a different rom see how that works...also to be on the safe side wipe everything twice ..that way nothing gets left over that can cause glitches like that
I'm having the worst time trying to find out how to friggin' backup my phone to my external sd card. For some reason, I can do it to my internal storage, but have no way of getting it backed up to my external SD card. I can see the option to select it, but I can't actually select it. I think I have to create a folder on my external SD card for the root but I just can't figure it out. Does the whole entire SafeStrap file need to be copied over to my SD cars as well with a repeat process of installing it the same way in which I did for the internal storage too?
Have you tried backing it up then manually copy pasting it to your sd card?
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I have not, as I assumed that while that might be an option, that if I cannot select the external storage option then something is wrong with SafeStrap. If all I have to do is manually copy it over to my external SD card, and with that done Safestrap can still function OK, then that is what I can do. I thought there was something smaller I might have been missing, so I wanted to make sure it was done accurately. Thanks for the input!
EDIT: My real worry with this, is that if I cannot select external SD storage, then how will I select the files I need to install when flashing ROM? I don't have enough space on my internal storage for the files, and would have to put them onto my external SD card, but if I can't select it then I have no clue how I'll be able to flash the ROM.
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no way of getting it backed up to my external SD card. I can see the option to select it, but I can't actually select it.
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I thought I had the same issue and mashed the radio button a bunch of times out of frustration and it eventually worked. It's like the touch isn't as responsive in that area of the screen when in SS.
Well, I got the ROM to work. Since my internal storage is only 5 GB, I couldn't leave both the backup file and the ROM zip files on the same storage device, so I moved the backup manually to my external SD and left the ROM.zip on my internal. I flashed them, got the ROM to work but when I opened it up and booted, as I expected, the phone is like new (nothing installed like I originally had it). Well, I can't restore the backup since it is on my external SD card and since I can't still select that option under SafeStrap, I'm kind of in a pickle here. As well, I my computer couldn't recognize my phone either when on the new CM10 ROM. I'm just going ROM this weekend. If any of you have any clue how to get my computer to recognize my phone when booted on the CM10 ROM, or know how to get SafeStrap to allow me to select my external SD card for storage etc I would much appreciate it!!
Hi,
I had a HTC explorer which i had rooted . I was using a 8GB class 10 card on it . I have got a new phone in which i want to use that 8GB card.
Is there a way i can copy the rom installation from the 8GB card to a 2GB card i had got with explorer ??
Thanks
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Hi,
I had a HTC explorer which i had rooted . I was using a 8GB class 10 card on it . I have got a new phone in which i want to use that 8GB card.
Is there a way i can copy the rom installation from the 8GB card to a 2GB card i had got with explorer ??
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If you aren't using any memory increasing scripts, you can just swap memory cards, move the "Android", and ".android_secure" folder from the old card to new. I'd recommend that you do a complete copy, not to miss out any other data from other apps.
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Hi,
I had a HTC explorer which i had rooted . I was using a 8GB class 10 card on it . I have got a new phone in which i want to use that 8GB card.
Is there a way i can copy the rom installation from the 8GB card to a 2GB card i had got with explorer ??
Thanks
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Take a nandroid backup.. Using the recovery..
In the card you will see a folder named clockworkmod or something... Copy the folder in the new card..
If you had a partition in the previous card then make a partition in the new one..
Place that folder in your new card..
Go to recovery.. Make sure you install the recovery through which you had done the backup..
Go to backup and restore.. select the backup.. done..
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Go to recovery.. Make sure you install the recovery through which you had done the backup.[/QUOTE said:
Couldn't understand this step !!
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shubhojit89 said:
Take a nandroid backup.. Using the recovery..
In the card you will see a folder named clockworkmod or something... Copy the folder in the new card..
If you had a partition in the previous card then make a partition in the new one..
Place that folder in your new card..
Go to recovery.. Make sure you install the recovery through which you had done the backup..
Go to backup and restore.. select the backup.. done..
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I partially disagree with this. Some of the apps use some custom folder, (hidden with "." prefix) in the SDcard, and so, an exact copy of the SD Card's what I recommend.
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Couldn't understand this step !!
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If you don't jump about installing recoveries, then, you don't have anything to worry about.
Insider details: TWRP's and Clockworkmod's backup/restore mechanisms work in different ways, and they're two "different" recoveries. Hence, they use different folders, "clockworkmod" (or "clockwork") and "TWRP" respectively. The backups are stored in those folders. If you don't flash a new recovery, and use the old recovery itself, you've got nothing to worry about.
p.s. ROMs are installed in internal memory. The SDCard, only some data is stored.
thewisenerd said:
I partially disagree with this. Some of the apps use some custom folder, (hidden with "." prefix) in the SDcard, and so, an exact copy of the SD Card's what I recommend.
If you don't jump about installing recoveries, then, you don't have anything to worry about.
Insider details: TWRP's and Clockworkmod's backup/restore mechanisms work in different ways, and they're two "different" recoveries. Hence, they use different folders, "clockworkmod" (or "clockwork") and "TWRP" respectively. The backups are stored in those folders. If you don't flash a new recovery, and use the old recovery itself, you've got nothing to worry about.
p.s. ROMs are installed in internal memory. The SDCard, only some data is stored.
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Basically if i make a image of a memory card and restore that image on another card ..it should work .. right ?
AlbusDumbelodr said:
Basically if i make a image of a memory card and restore that image on another card ..it should work .. right ?
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simply to say mate backup your apps and all through titanium backup.. paste in your PC then partition the card.. go to recovery partition the card then flash the ROM.. setup everything after boot. install titanium go to preferences -> batch actions-> restore user apps..
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Basically if i make a image of a memory card and restore that image on another card ..it should work .. right ?
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Yes, the simplest way. :good: