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cant nandroid backup... any reason why?

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?

ERIFNOMI said:
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!

Please help!!

I tried to flash 2.3.5 to my galaxy s 4g and it was a bad rom so I tried to put it back the stock+root ROM using ODIN. Now whenever I turn my phone on it just keeps rebootiing I have been trying to get it fixed but whatever I do it just seems to keep rebooting. Sorry if there is a fix and I didnt see it but its late and im very stressed now that my phone isnt working.....

What do you mean you flashed a bad ROM? Can you be more specific?
Try doing a battery pull and reflashing it in Odin.

yea, just follow the NOOBS GUIDE TO ODIN in the BIBLE. from there, you should be fine. instead of using KB5, i would recommend using Raver's KC1 (search for it). that will give you a fresh start.

Sorry I was really tired and stressed out last night but I got it to work finally. I just put 2.3.4 on it and it worked right away. I do have another question though. This is the first time I have ever actually flashed a ROM on my phone. Is there a way to get all the apps back that were on my SD card or do I have to re-download all of them? Also if I have to re-download all the apps is there a way I can get my saves back for the game?

onlyonthursday said:
Sorry I was really tired and stressed out last night but I got it to work finally. I just put 2.3.4 on it and it worked right away. I do have another question though. This is the first time I have ever actually flashed a ROM on my phone. Is there a way to get all the apps back that were on my SD card or do I have to re-download all of them? Also if I have to re-download all the apps is there a way I can get my saves back for the game?
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I maybe be wrong. But your apps are saved on your phone. some off the data from these apps might be saved on your sd card, and some may not. In the future, prior to flashing a rom, in stall a program called titanium backup from the market. It will backup all your apps and data in one click to your sd card. then once u flash a new rom install TB first and restore those apps. they will all have there log ins, games will be where u left them, ect.
But for now, yes u have to use the market to restore the apps one by one.

Mizun0h said:
I maybe be wrong. But your apps are saved on your phone. some off the data from these apps might be saved on your sd card, and some may not. In the future, prior to flashing a rom, in stall a program called titanium backup from the market. It will backup all your apps and data in one click to your sd card. then once u flash a new rom install TB first and restore those apps. they will all have there log ins, games will be where u left them, ect.
But for now, yes u have to use the market to restore the apps one by one.
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I figured I would. I will see if I can look through the files and get any save files. Is it ok to re-format my SD card after saving every thing i need? Just so I can start off fresh?

you can back everything up by making a nandroid backup.
go into cwm, backup and restore and select backup. then when you want to restore after flashing a rom, go to backup and restore, then go to advanced and then restore data. that should do it

jager555 said:
you can back everything up by making a nandroid backup.
go into cwm, backup and restore and select backup. then when you want to restore after flashing a rom, go to backup and restore, then go to advanced and then restore data. that should do it
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This is only to help me before I flash right? I'm kinda screwed as of right now and have to start from scratch. No big deal to me really just means I lost all my saved games. Is it ok to re-format my SD card right now?

if you reformat, you will lose everything on the sd...so its up to you. after you've flashed the rom, you can take it out and reformat and the rom will run fine, if that is what you mean.

jager555 said:
if you reformat, you will lose everything on the sd...so its up to you. after you've flashed the rom, you can take it out and reformat and the rom will run fine, if that is what you mean.
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Ya i know I will lose everything. I already backed up everything. But I have one problem. My phone won't let me click on re-format for the SD card. Should I use my comp to re-format it?

make sure you unmount it first. or you can boot into cwm and format the sd

First Go into Download Mode
this is how you do it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069032
Then You Already know How To odin So just do your normal Procedure and you should be okay heres the Bible incase you need Anything else its all here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117554&highlight=bible
if anything just msg me but ill keep reading your thread to see if u fixed it... =)

Problem in CWM 5.0.2.0

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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irukandjiandme said:
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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Can't Install Any Apps

So I've encountered this problem on another ROM where I wasn't able to install any APK files or any other applications in google play. I did some research when it kept telling me I don't have enough space to install the application because of low memory, which I obviously knew all my memory was good enough to install something, and I came across a thread somewhere that said to delete some type of file in the sd card or the system files but I can't remember what and where it is located nor I can't find the thread again. That resolved my issue on my old ROM.
I'm having this same problem with another ROM I'm currently running. Anyone know any solutions?

Anyone....

BoostedEK said:
Anyone....
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i can promise you no one will help you with such a vague question. if you were able to search out your answer before, surely you can again. if not please specify what rom you are using, or more accurately post said question in that roms forum so you can get a group of people that are currently using the same rom.
not to come off mean, but you pretty much gave me enough information it compares to a person taking a car to a mechanic and saying 'my car is broke'
after looking at your post history, it seems you are having all kinds of problems with your phone.
My suggestion would be redownload your rom, put it on the sd card, then in 4ext or cwm set it to format all partitions except sd card. and then install your rom, reboot and ill bet your problems go away.

Darunion said:
i can promise you no one will help you with such a vague question. if you were able to search out your answer before, surely you can again. if not please specify what rom you are using, or more accurately post said question in that roms forum so you can get a group of people that are currently using the same rom.
not to come off mean, but you pretty much gave me enough information it compares to a person taking a car to a mechanic and saying 'my car is broke'
after looking at your post history, it seems you are having all kinds of problems with your phone.
My suggestion would be redownload your rom, put it on the sd card, then in 4ext or cwm set it to format all partitions except sd card. and then install your rom, reboot and ill bet your problems go away.
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Well, I actually did search this problem I'm having when I first had it a couple weeks ago and I found a solution which was to delete a file in the system or SD card but I can no longer find it, hence the reason why I am asking for help on this.
I was able to install apps or APK files fine before I restored all my SMS and MMS messages but now I can't. I doubt it has anything to do with the ROM because it was working perfectly fine. And even after I restored all the messages, I know I have enough internal storage to install an application.
Now, what your saying is it too backup my ROM then format all partitions except the SD card. Whenever I try to back up a ROM, I don't understand why it takes up so much memory which causes it to have an error when it's in the process of backing up because of no more memory. The android secure folder that's on my SD card gets backed up with the ROM which is a big file and that's what causes it to have an error. That is when I have about 1.2gb free to backup. And people say when you backup ROMs it shouldn't be over a gig.
My ROM is Android Revolution HD 7.0.4

BoostedEK said:
Well, I actually did search this problem I'm having when I first had it a couple weeks ago and I found a solution which was to delete a file in the system or SD card but I can no longer find it, hence the reason why I am asking for help on this.
I was able to install apps or APK files fine before I restored all my SMS and MMS messages but now I can't. I doubt it has anything to do with the ROM because it was working perfectly fine. And even after I restored all the messages, I know I have enough internal storage to install an application.
Now, what your saying is it too backup my ROM then format all partitions except the SD card. Whenever I try to back up a ROM, I don't understand why it takes up so much memory which causes it to have an error when it's in the process of backing up because of no more memory. The android secure folder that's on my SD card gets backed up with the ROM which is a big file and that's what causes it to have an error. That is when I have about 1.2gb free to backup. And people say when you backup ROMs it shouldn't be over a gig.
My ROM is Android Revolution HD 7.0.4
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Problem will occur if u are restoring sms messages from a rom that isnt based on sense (like cm7, redemption, etc etc) unless you are using an app to do that like sms restore or gosms, for some reason ive had issues when i had TiBu do that for me.
I personally never backup and restore anything, sucks losing stuff but it is honestly the only way to create a clean environment. Backing up a rom takes up so much because (i could be mistaken) when you do a imaged backup from cwm or 4ext it takes even your cache folders into the backup.

Darunion said:
Backing up a rom takes up so much because (i could be mistaken) when you do a imaged backup from cwm or 4ext it takes even your cache folders into the backup.
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Even when I clear cache?
I used My Backup Pro to backup and restore my messages. Hmm.. maybe I'll just backup my ROM, partition everything except my SD, and flash it again without restoring my messages and see if that helps. Thanks.

BoostedEK said:
Even when I clear cache?
I used My Backup Pro to backup and restore my messages. Hmm.. maybe I'll just backup my ROM, partition everything except my SD, and flash it again without restoring my messages and see if that helps. Thanks.
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dont backup the rom, redownload it

IMEI=0 ..what are my options?

looks like i had some bad luck today. my IMEI reads 0. from what i'm reading if i can restore a nandroid from before this happened it is possible to fix this. as luck would have it just before i realized there was a problem i deleted a whole bunch of nandroids i had because when i made the backups i hadn't cleared the cache and their size was massive. i never even heard of this IMEI problem before so i never made a backup of my efs folder. so i have some questions about what to do next.
1) i have an incomplete nandroid on my external sd card that wasnt able to complete the backup process before running out of room. i know for a fact that the system was backed up. the backup failed only after it tried backing up the data folder. is there any way of only restoring the system part of the backup? i tried an advanced restore to only restore /system and it said md5 checksum failed.
2) is there a way of undeleting the nandroids i deleted? they're on my internal sd card. so far the undelete programs ive found for both windows and android only restore from the external sd card
3) is there any other ways of restoring an IMEI?
help is much appreciated.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
Go there, and that will help you to fix the problem
As for #1 and #2 im not completely sure

Neverendingxsin said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1802024
Go there, and that will help you to fix the problem
As for #1 and #2 im not completely sure
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WOW. that looks easy. maybe too easy. is there a catch? i had read somewhere that using this method forces the phone to constantly roam but i could be wrong.

n3k said:
WOW. that looks easy. maybe too easy. is there a catch? i had read somewhere that using this method forces the phone to constantly roam but i could be wrong.
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It may or may not be "roaming" but as far as ive read the roaming part is cosmetic and isn't really happening. But because you didn't backup thats your only known method to get it restored

so i have good news and bad news.
good news: got the IMEI back
bad news: the mobile network state is disconnected, service state is out of service and mobile network type is unknown
in other words, that didn't fix my problem like i had hoped it would have. i can get 4g service. but nothing else.

n3k said:
so i have good news and bad news.
good news: got the IMEI back
bad news: the mobile network state is disconnected, service state is out of service and mobile network type is unknown
in other words, that didn't fix my problem like i had hoped it would have. i can get 4g service. but nothing else.
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Same thing happened to my dad.

Did you reprovision your device after restoring?

You may be able to extract the nv info from your partial backup. How to do this is beyond my pay grade.
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honestly now that the imei is fixed you may need to perform a reprovision. to do this, go to a touchwiz rom (any should work) and dial this in the phone:
*2767*3855#
it should fix your data services now that imei is intact but beware it will also perform a factory reset (like the ones performed in clockwork mod before flashing roms) as in it will dlete your apps but it is worth it. it will wipe then reboot (dont worry it will take a while so dont panic if bootanim takes a while) when it is done your data services should be back let me know if it works

Stryker1297 said:
honestly now that the imei is fixed you may need to perform a reprovision. to do this, go to a touchwiz rom (any should work) and dial this in the phone:
*2767*3855#
it should fix your data services now that imei is intact but beware it will also perform a factory reset (like the ones performed in clockwork mod before flashing roms) as in it will dlete your apps but it is worth it. it will wipe then reboot (dont worry it will take a while so dont panic if bootanim takes a while) when it is done your data services should be back let me know if it works
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i think i heard about this trick somewhere before. doesn't it wipe the entire internal sd card?

n3k said:
i think i heard about this trick somewhere before. doesn't it wipe the entire internal sd card?
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I had to do this to get my data services back after injecting my IMEI. Total pain but it was worth it to get service restored. Only problem now is that it shows the phone as roaming but that's no big deal since it's only cosmetic.

crshinn said:
I had to do this to get my data services back after injecting my IMEI. Total pain but it was worth it to get service restored. Only problem now is that it shows the phone as roaming but that's no big deal since it's only cosmetic.
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so to confirm, it does wipe the internal sd card right? im at work and i would love to reprovision this right now but if it wipes all content on the internal sd card i want to wait until i get home so i can back it all up first. im not worried about a simple hard factory wipe since i have everything backed up with titanium pro.

n3k said:
so to confirm, it does wipe the internal sd card right? im at work and i would love to reprovision this right now but if it wipes all content on the internal sd card i want to wait until i get home so i can back it all up first. im not worried about a simple hard factory wipe since i have everything backed up with titanium pro.
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I have everything on my external SD card so I don't know what reprovisioning does to the internal sd card. I wouldn't try it until you backup.

crshinn said:
I have everything on my external SD card so I don't know what reprovisioning does to the internal sd card. I wouldn't try it until you backup.
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looks like i was right. it does wipe the internal sd clean. i thought i had read this earlier and i finally found the post i had read: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30357448&postcount=2

well i reprovisioned it and... it worked! it has that annoying roaming notification going on but i could care less at this point.
i'm not saying that backing up my internal sd card was a waste of time... but it was a waste of time. as far as i can tell it didn't touch any files on the internal sd. i downloaded titanium backup from the play store and it restored all my apps just like before.
thanks for your help guys! :victory:

n3k said:
well i reprovisioned it and... it worked! it has that annoying roaming notification going on but i could care less at this point.
i'm not saying that backing up my internal sd card was a waste of time... but it was a waste of time. as far as i can tell it didn't touch any files on the internal sd. i downloaded titanium backup from the play store and it restored all my apps just like before.
thanks for your help guys! :victory:
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Another victory for root!