hi
wanted to know how to change recovery from my current clockwork to 4ext??? also would backups taken with clockwork work with 4ext????
Yes backups will be taken.
Download 4ext control app (paid) or free 4ext updater
Choose online install. Select the recovery version you want (touch,classic)
Select install.
Done. Your backups will still work too.
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Okay I have the Samsung Captivate rooted running 2.2 and everytime I try to make a nandroid backup on Rom manager I always get the same error. I flash it first then try to backup my current rom and when it takes me to recovery mode I have to manually go down to reinstall packages where it then tells me that I don't have a file named update.zip in my directory can anyone help me with this?
Are you trying to flash a backup as a zip? That doesn't work. You need to go under "nandroid" and then "restore" and look for the date. That's how it works on my hero anyway.
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I'm using rom manager. I don't think it has that option.
A nandroid backup has nothing to do with flashing an update.zip. Once you have flashed clockworkmod from within Rom Manager you can use the option 'backup current rom' from within Rom Manager. That's it.
You can use the option 'manage backups' from Rom Manager to rename/reinstall/delete backups.
DirkGently1 said:
A nandroid backup has nothing to do with flashing an update.zip. Once you have flashed clockworkmod from within Rom Manager you can use the option 'backup current rom' from within Rom Manager. That's it.
You can use the option 'manage backups' from Rom Manager to rename/reinstall/delete backups.
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Yeah but everytime I try to back it up it takes me to the samsung 3e bootloader instead of the clockwork mod one
Getting Started Modding Your T-Mobile G2x
This is a Tutorial to assist new users on how to get up and going on a new ROM.
This tutorial is all based on you having a PC and an x64 or x86 based OS.
Please do not ask questions as I will not be supporting this tutorial. Post questions in G2x Q&A or the following linked XDA threads (Read instructions first please in the below linked threads).
Please follow the below steps in order.
Step 1
Root your Phone (for Froyo 2.2.2 only, or you can just skip this step and go to Step 2 if you intend on flashing a ROM straight off):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039985
Step 2
Flash ClockworkMod Recovery via NvFlash (You can use ROM Manager to install ROMS but CWM is not persistant unless you NvFlash it.):
1. Use the One-Click NvFlasher to flash the Clockwork Mod Recovery of your choosing (external or internal supported SD card)(Which will be persistent at bootup).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
2. In your O/S install ROM Manager and once again choose to flash Clockwork Mod Recovery (which will NOT be persistent at bootup, but you can get to it through the O/S only using ROM Manager).
(You can use ROM Manager to flash ROMS / Download ROMS and Flash. And Flash Clockwork Mod Recovery using NvFlash
so you will also have the security that if your phone freezes or gets in a boot loop you can get to recovery through using the key press method.
Flashing CWM from ROM Manager will not allow you to get to recovery using the boot up button press method. It's a Tegra 2 chipset thing!)
Note: Mounting SD to your PC and ext4 support only works by booting to the NvFlashed CWN recovery and not going through ROM Managers CWM recovery. Are you confused? Hope not!
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So Basically, I use ROM Manager to update my CM7 nightly build and I use the recovery that gets fake flashed by ROM Manager.
I have the NvFlashed Recovery standing by when i want to do a Nandroid Backup/Restore or want to flash roms that are not in ROM Manager or Mount my SD Card from recovery, recover from a bad flashed ROM, etc...
Step3
Perform a Titanium Backup or My Backup Pro of your Phone (you can skip this step if you prefer, and go to Step 4.):
1. Install Titanium Backup or My Backup Pro from Android Market.
2. Backup all of your apps.
3. Copy the "Titanium Backup" Directory from your internal SDCard to your External SDCard.
Step4
Perform a Nandroid Backup of your Phone (Optional but suggested before you flash any ROM or make any O/S changes):
1. Bootup to NvFlashed Clockwork Recovery using the button method.
2. Choose backup/restore and run a backup.
3. This will save the backup to your internal or external SD Card depending on which version of CWM you selected in the One-Click App.
Step 5
Download a ROM and place it on the SDCard that you have ClockworkMod Recovery support for (see step2 link) and flash the ROM by booting into ClockworkMod Recovery using the button press method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1048274 = NANDROID Restore Stock LG-P999-V10f Froyo 2.22 (Stable)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080045 = Bionix 2 / Gingerbread 2.3.3 (Stable)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054335 = Eagles Blood / Gingerbread 2.3.3 or Froyo 2.2.2 (Stable)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1096461 = Dark and Sinister Froyo 2.2.2 (Stable)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066261 = Gingerbread Leak LG-P999-V20c Gingerbread 2.3.3 (Stable)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058131 = CyanogenMod7 Nightly / Gingerbread 2.3.4 (Stable / Work In Progress) (My Daily Driver)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068367 = Faux AOSP / Gingerbread 2.3.4 (Stable / Work In Progress)
Plus Many More......
Check the Development thread for all the available ROMS.
Hopefully this clears out most of the repeated flashing questions from the other threads.
That may just be wishful thinking though.
the guide master is here! lol
Before backing up via Titanium, you can also just change your "backup folder name" to "_ExternalSD/TitaniumBackup" in the preferences. That should store everything on your SD card and save you a copy
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When I do a Nandroid back up, should I sync google account to bring back all the apps first or can i just do a nandroid backup with having to sign in.
The reason I ask is because I just got my SD card and would like to do a Nandroid before flashing CM7.
How ever you want your phone to look when you restore nandroid is what you should do.
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TGA_Gunnman said:
How ever you want your phone to look when you restore nandroid is what you should do.
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Question answered,
Thanks Gunnman
Under CWM recovery, which wipe functions do you need to use when installing an ROM?
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Under CWM recovery, which wipe functions do you need to use when installing an ROM?
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First one down.
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Nice guide gunnman.. Hopefully this will help those with questions that can be answered with this thread..
Is ROOT needed before the Clockwork nvflash? Reason I ask is the steps I took were:
1) Boot Stock Recovery to bring device back to stock.
2) nvFlash Clockwork
3) Nandroid backup
My feeling is if I need to get back to stock / exchange my device I restore that backup and then nvFlash stock recovery.
Opinions?
look at step 1 which is root
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how do i do it this way? it doesn't let me type in a new name. no keyboard pops up. i can delete the name but it won't let me select a new name.
dnichols4 said:
Before backing up via Titanium, you can also just change your "backup folder name" to "_ExternalSD/TitaniumBackup" in the preferences. That should store everything on your SD card and save you a copy
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and for the original way by the op
3. Copy the "Titanium Backup" Directory from your internal SDCard to your External SDCard.
are there steps to doing this? i can't figure it out.
dn3g3l said:
how do i do it this way? it doesn't let me type in a new name. no keyboard pops up. i can delete the name but it won't let me select a new name.
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When you're at that screen press the return arrow button on the phone and it should take you to the sd card directory. I was confused when I got to that part too.
Am I allowed to do step 3 first instead of step 2? because I rooted and backed up and everything with Titanium Backup but I havn't NvFlashed yet. thanks.
milesxd said:
Am I allowed to do step 3 first instead of step 2? because I rooted and backed up and everything with Titanium Backup but I havn't NvFlashed yet. thanks.
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These are just guidelines. you can just:
Root
NVFlash
ROM
If ya want.
TGA_Gunnman said:
These are just guidelines. you can just:
Root
NVFlash
ROM
If ya want.
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so can I
Root
Titanium Backup
NVFlash
and then Rom?
sorry if i'm asking stupid questions, new to rooting, being paranoid and all that.
milesxd said:
so can I
Root
Titanium Backup
NVFlash
and then Rom?
sorry if i'm asking stupid questions, new to rooting, being paranoid and all that.
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yes go for it
can i put all backup stuff on one microsd and take it out and only use it when needed? i'm guessing i can, but just want to make sure that if something happens to the phone and needed a restore, i can just put the microsd with the backups into the phone and do a restore from there.
edit: thanks amac89 for the tip with the external sd step.
Question/suggestion removed.
First off. I havent rooted my phone before. I really dont know much about it but I have been reading what I could and am running into a problem. I downloaded this ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227075
and have been following this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1220484
I have the ROM saved on my sd card but when I get the phone into the recovery mode it stops at a picture of a phone with a triangle and ! in the middle of it.
After some reading I read that I can hit the up arrow and power and it brings up another menu. So here I cleared out the cache and even wiped the phone through here.
the error message I get is
E:Can't open /cache/recover/command.
I have rebooted the phone multiple times and nothing has changed. what am I doing?
So did you do the adb method or via the revolution method?
It sounds like clockwork didn't get flashed.
Boot the phone normally and check to see if root is successful.
After its verified you have root, download rom manager and choose flash clockworkmod recovery.
Then reboot to recovery via rom manager or the power + volume down (make sure the PG05IMG.zip is renamed or removed from your sdcard with the power + volume down method) .
Once in clockwork recovery, choose backup and restore, choose backup.
once finished wipe data/factory reset.
Then choose install from zip
Find your zip file.
Install
reboot.
Rename your backup to remind you its the stock backup.
This can be found /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
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ibsk8 said:
So did you do the adb method or via the revolution method?I dont know, the instructions I saw basically said to download the root and then go into recovery.
It sounds like clockwork didn't get flashed. does it normally come with the rom?
Boot the phone normally and check to see if root is successful.I dont think the root was successful, it just sits on the sd card
After its verified you have root, download rom manager and choose flash clockworkmod recovery.
Then reboot to recovery via rom manager or the power + volume down (make sure the PG05IMG.zip is renamed or removed from your sdcard with the power + volume down method) .
Once in clockwork recovery, choose backup and restore, choose backup.
once finished wipe data/factory reset.
Then choose install from zip
Find your zip file.
Install
reboot.
Rename your backup to remind you its the stock backup.
This can be found /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup.
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I dont know anything about this stuff. I am reading what I can and there doesnt seem to be a simple instruction guide..(I am a car guy, not an electronic guy, but I am trying to learn this stuff).
i can almost guarantee you don't have clockwork recovery installed. pm me I'll see what I can do for I
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As showen in the topic
Btw i have 4ext recovery
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If you have 4EXT recovery, use the power menu to restart into recovery and then select backup option.
If you have 4 EXT recovery control then you should be able to start a backup from a running phone, by selecting recovery, then manage backups and then create
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ben_pyett said:
If you have 4EXT recovery, use the power menu to restart into recovery and then select backup option.
If you have 4 EXT recovery control then you should be able to start a backup from a running phone, by selecting recovery, then manage backups and then create
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Yes, but this is normal backup. Is it?
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thats full backup (nandroid)..your rom,partitions apps everything...
is a 4ext backup with a size of ~5,49mb regular?! i don't think so :/
(phone/rom @ my sig)
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is a 4ext backup with a size of ~5,49mb regular?! i don't think so :/
(phone/rom @ my sig)
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When you say backup....you should have a series of files? within a directory?
please list all files and sizes
ah ok, i found it - it was written by 4ext at clockworkmod/backup/date-vers-rom/ with a lot of files (.img, md5 sum etc).
but what is the 2011-11-15-18.11_recovery.img file (5mb small) @ sd-root?! - mmh
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ah ok, i found it - it was written by 4ext at clockworkmod/backup/date-vers-rom/ with a lot of files (.img, md5 sum etc).
but what is the 2011-11-15-18.11_recovery.img file (5mb small) @ sd-root?! - mmh
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That is a self made backup (by the 4ext control app) made previously to the last time you upgraded your actual recovery, its a backup of the last recovery made in case new one has issues.
You could restore that using "fastboot flash <filename.img> recovery" if you wanted.
Hello guys, I have two questions about clockwork mod.
I have lg gt540 and cwm 5.0.2.3.
1. Does CWM backup everything? I ask, because I'm thinking about installing android 4.0.x and I want to know if simply backing up my current system will enable me to switch back to it later.
2. I downloaded ROM Manager app from market, but it doesn't have my device on it's list. I can choose an option to manually flash recovery (since I already have it installed) and to choose which device and version I have. Which should I choose, to make app work with my recovery?
marmelada said:
Hello guys, I have two questions about clockwork mod.
I have lg gt540 and cwm 5.0.2.3.
1. Does CWM backup everything? I ask, because I'm thinking about installing android 4.0.x and I want to know if simply backing up my current system will enable me to switch back to it later.
2. I downloaded ROM Manager app from market, but it doesn't have my device on it's list. I can choose an option to manually flash recovery (since I already have it installed) and to choose which device and version I have. Which should I choose, to make app work with my recovery?
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1. Yes, clockwork mod will back up EVERYTHING. If you make a backup right now, when you resore it, your phone will be in the exact same state it is in right now...down to call and text logs, apps installed...everything.
2. I don't have a definite answer on which one to choose. I honestly wouldn't even use ROM Manager. You already have CWM installed so why mess with it? You don't need ROM manager to flash.
Thanks for such a quick answer.