Unable to make backup of current ROM in CWM - T-Mobile LG G2x

Hello everyone,
Recently I tried to use CWM 5.0.2.0 (not through ROM manager) to make a backup of my current ROM (Hellfire Sandwich 1.7 clean with Harsh kernel build 1904.) I keep getting an error stating that it could not make a backup image of /data. Checking CWM log, here is the exact error I'm getting:
Error while making a backup image of /data! result was NULL, message is: assert failed: backup_rom("/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-05-12-16.57.26")
It shows 5/12 as the date, although I have tried several times since then with the same result. I tried this in two different microSD cards as well, both with more than enough space (one with 12 gigs free, one with 27 gigs free.) No matter what I try, I keep getting the error that it cannot make a backup of /data. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Demodokos said:
Hello everyone,
Recently I tried to use CWM 5.0.2.0 (not through ROM manager) to make a backup of my current ROM (Hellfire Sandwich 1.7 clean with Harsh kernel build 1904.) I keep getting an error stating that it could not make a backup image of /data. Checking CWM log, here is the exact error I'm getting:
Error while making a backup image of /data! result was NULL, message is: assert failed: backup_rom("/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2012-05-12-16.57.26")
It shows 5/12 as the date, although I have tried several times since then with the same result. I tried this in two different microSD cards as well, both with more than enough space (one with 12 gigs free, one with 27 gigs free.) No matter what I try, I keep getting the error that it cannot make a backup of /data. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
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Maybe you have a corrupted recovery? Did you try reverting to stock recovery and backing up? You still have the backup/restore in the stock recovery so I would try that then flashing back to 5.0.2.0
Pin it to Win it.

Do you have enough space on your SD card?

Are you stuck in recovery?
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I had this before as well, turned out to be the kernel I was using. Also check how much space is left on your SD

In regards to space, yes, there is plenty - 12 gigs on my regular card, and tried to backup to a 32 gig card that is mostly empty and also got the error.
I updated to the latest Harsh kernel - still getting the error. Everything else in CWM works fine, it's just the backup function that's messed up. Going to try to revert it to stock utility and see how it goes.

Update Harsh kernel...
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SD card marker not found?

I was just doing a regular CWM backup on my phone when I saw this message. It's the first time I've ever seen it. It managed to continue to backup though. Finished all the way through to generating MD5 sums. Booted alright into my launcher. I'm just concerned because this is the first time I've ever seen it. Can anyone clear this 'error' message up for me? Thanks.
offgrey said:
I was just doing a regular CWM backup on my phone when I saw this message. It's the first time I've ever seen it. It managed to continue to backup though. Finished all the way through to generating MD5 sums. Booted alright into my launcher. I'm just concerned because this is the first time I've ever seen it. Can anyone clear this 'error' message up for me? Thanks.
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just verify if ur backup is getting installed to internal sd or external..
are u using CWM or rom manager for backups???
that created an error for me... while i was using rom manager to get backups..
if yess try nad format ur card as fat 32 using windows.. might help..worked for me though..
I use CWM directly to manage my backups. My backups are stored to my external sd card. Like I said, no problems with the backup though. It's just that the error message mad me raise my eyebrows. Will attempt another backup sometime today to see if the message persists.
I too am having this same issue.
Backup of ROM from within ROM Manager app ends up in SD card marker not found error.
And, as the OP experiences, no problem when manually backing up from the recovery menu. I am running a Sammy G-Nexus, so I have no external SD.
I think it is a problem with CWM app itself as within the error text it states........
Verifying SD card marker.....
SD card marker not found........
Error processing ROM manager script. Please verify that you are performing the backup, restore, or ROM installation from ROM Manager v.4.0.0 or higher
/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sd card/clockworkmod/recovery.log. Please open ROM Manager to report the issue.
I have tried uninstalling ROM Manager, and re-installing.
Reflashing v.5.8.0.2 recovery
Clearing Dalvik then booting back in, and reflashing recovery.
Tried clearing all ROM Manager data and cache, uninstalling, re-installing then reflashing.
It keeps insisting I am not running a current enough version of recovery, but I am running what appears to be the lastest ROM Manager version and CWM recovery version.
Not a huge deal as manual backup and restore are working fine but I thought I might post and see if anyone else is seeing this. Next, I am off to try to get thru to the CWM support via email.
Thanks for any tips or suggestions ahead of time.
EDIT: I am wondering if maybe my ROM / kernel combination is the cause of all this. CWM backup and restore are working fine from within the ROM Manager app on my Acer Iconia a500 tablet running FlexReaper Extreem
I might flash back to my Apex Nandroid, and see if ROM Manager is OK running on it. Will update if I see something worth noting.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777513
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MD5 Mismatch

Hey for some reason whenever I backup my system I get a message that says "Unable to find mounted volume: /sdcard error finding an appropriate backup handler" I tried this on both the internal storage and the external SD card.
Then when I try to recover it, it says that there isa Md5 mismatch.
I am on stock rooted with unlocked bootloader. I was on the the official CM10 build last night but restored back to stock and now it doesn't work.
Any ideas?
llama555 said:
Hey for some reason whenever I backup my system I get a message that says "Unable to find mounted volume: /sdcard error finding an appropriate backup handler" I tried this on both the internal storage and the external SD card.
Then when I try to recover it, it says that there isa Md5 mismatch.
I am on stock rooted with unlocked bootloader. I was on the the official CM10 build last night but restored back to stock and now it doesn't work.
Any ideas?
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Also I made an old backup of my system and it wont let me restore that either and it says it also has a mismatch.
llama555 said:
Also I made an old backup of my system and it wont let me restore that either and it says it also has a mismatch.
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Delete the folder /sdcard/.android-secure and see if that allows you to make a new backup.
I had this on my captivate. The solution was the change to a different cwm
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CWM 6.0.1.0 cant backup to local SD?

Hi,
I tried to run a nandroid backup & I am getting this error message:
Unable to find mounted volume: /sdcard
error finding an appropriate backup handler
I then tried to mount the SD card using CWM, that didnt not work but I can mount my external card & perform a backup - but it takes much much longer.
Any ideas why this would be?
I am running the stock ICS rom that is rooted. I did try to upgrade to a JB rom & updated the modem and rpm to a JB one. I dont know if that is the issue.
Any advice would be great.
Thanks,
Rich
Are you using an SDXC card? If so, try formatting it to FAT32 using this guide (I used the GUIFORMAT.EXE program to do it): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735. I have a 64GB SDXC card in mine and couldn't see it in recovery (or in AOSP ROMs) until I did that.
I am not using a SD card at all anymore. I am sort of stuck. I want to try another rom but I want a nandroid backup before I start messing around so I have somewhere to get back to.
I tried deleting .android secure but that did not help.
Any ideas on what I could try?
When I backup it says:
no /sdcard/.android_secure found skipping backup of applications on external storage.
no /sd-ext found,skipping.
Complete
My backup (which by the way says its in 1970) is only about 30 megs which seems way to small to be a real backup.
Thanks,
Rich
That's the backup. They use blobs that store common info so backups seem small. My stock backup is only 20.82 mb
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[Q] P5113 Backups Failing

I have the SGT-2 10.1 and I'm running stock 4.0.4. rooted with 3.0.8. blamesamsung kernel running CWM v5.5.0.4. . I've been running into a problem when backing up /data in CWM. It looks like it's progressing, then it stops and fails. "unable to complete backup of /data" Verbatim. I have searched similar topics and they all said that you might not have enough space on the external SD, yet my device memory is full (11.87GB total), and when backing it up to a (20.79GB free) external Micro SD, it fails. I tried using orange backup to see if I could circumvent CWM to backup, but it skips /boot among many other partitions. I'm extremely paranoid because I bricked my GS3 twice before and I lost my backup, and if Orange Backup isn't doing it's job, I could be screwed because lack of unbricking utilities in case something happens. I want to backup my Tab before I get off of Samsung's horrible OS. I think you guys might need a logcat, but I don't know how to do that through recovery.Any ideas on what might be going wrong? Thanks in advance! -YK

[Q] Re-Partitioning the SGH-I727(R)

Hi All,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 LTE (SGH-I727R, but the same as the SGH-I727) and was wondering how a guy would go about re-partitioning the internal storage on the phone.
The phone has 16gb of internal memory. This has been partitioned, from what I can see, into 2gb and 12gb. The 2gb 'system' partition where your OS and apps, etc are installed and the 12gb storage partition for things like photos, music, movies, etc.
I don't store anything on my phone, mostly just photos. So i have approximately 9gb of the 12gb of the 'storage' partition available. However, the 'system' partition is pretty much maxed out. I'm running Vincom's Superlite CM10.2 rom with minimal apps installed, but it says that i only have around 160mb available and I've begun to received the 'low storage space' error/notification.
I understand that I can use Odin to re-partition the device but that I require .pit files in order to do so. Furthermore, the stock .pit files wouldn't change the size of the partitions. Ideally I'd like to increase the size of my 'system' partition and reduce the size of my 'storage' partition.
Can anyone out there help me? Please let me know if you need more info from my device.
That's not gonna happen
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how come?
messing around with the partitions will most likely hardbrick the device so no one would ever try doing it, the only way your system partition is filling up is if you are manually installing apps into that partition or the partition is messed up, odin back to stock, then wipe everything including preload then do a fresh install of a custom rom
Will do, I'll update later with results. It's weird though, i haven't manually changed the default installation locations for apps, they just automatically install there. I'll wipe and format everything, odin back to stock, flash the latest version of TWRP and then flash SL CM10.2 and let you know.
Thanks for the help Vincom.
PS - Great roms, thank you for the contributions to the community!
Odin'd back to stock, wiped everything (cache, dalvik, system, data, android secure), formatted USB storage, Odin'd TWRP 2.6.3.0 - everything went fine in that respect.
Booted into recovery, went to flash SL CM10.2 (i dropped these in 'external_sd' after formatting usb storage) and got the following error during the 'making sure you really do have the skyrocket and jb radio' sequence:
'assert failed: run_program (" /tmp/test_radio_vers
E:error executing updated binary in zip '/sdcard
Error flashing zip '/sdcard/external_sd/CM-10.2_
Updating partition deatils...'
Seeing as how I'm attempting to flash from stock rom (which was a GB rom) does it matter that the test sequence is looking for a JB radio?
Thoughts?
also noticed that it won't let me wipe 'data' in TWRP... says failed, with the error 'unable to wipe /data'
rebooted into recovery and now it will let me wipe 'data'....wtf is going on with my phone?
you need todo more reading as u need jb radio or else it will not install cm10.2+ and post an error and sometimes after the error twrp should be rebooted to properly unmount/mount partitions, i think the phone is fine, but the user is another matter..........
i guess i didn't really flash a custom rom until after i upgraded to the Rogers release of JB...? Can't remember... anyhoo, could I simply flash your SL Rogers JB 4.1.2 to obtain the JB radio and then flash SL CM10.2?
Or is there a flashable zip for the radios? I could have sword I saw those some place, but i can't find them now...
banghead
|Read This b4 posting | THE MOST Common Questions Answered HERE | its a sticky right above ur post
thanks for acknowledging/tolerating my stupidity/ignorance, both the 'read this before you post' and '1 stop' threads were helpful.
i did have one more perhaps stupid question that wasn't answer in either of those threads (or at least that I could find), I got SL CM10.2 up and running...bare bones. When checking storage in the settings app, it told me that my total space was 1.97gb and that i had 1.92gb free.... cool. I then rebooted into recovery and flashed gapps lite (12mb) and email/exchange. Rebooted my phone, checked my storage and now i have 432mb free...? This is exactly where i started... i have no apps other than what came with SL CM10.2, gapps lite and email/exchange and only have 432mb available.... any ideas as to what's going on here?
comparatively, i checked my 'apps' in settings, the 'downloaded' tab has nothing, the 'on sd card' tab has nothing, and the 'all' tab indicates that i've used 1.5gb of my internal storage, but when i tally up all the apps in the 'all' tab it totals approximately 40mb... I'm really stuck and it's really starting to frustrate me....
You're frustrating everyone. Do some reading bro.
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went back and factory reset my phone and even though the apps are all still there, it now says i have 1.92gb available... any idea what might be going on?
nobody is forcing you to read the thread dude...
Jrock_Xtreme said:
went back and factory reset my phone and even though the apps are all still there, it now says i have 1.92gb available... any idea what might be going on?
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Sounds like you may have been installing the ROM incorrectly. Also one of the first steps of troubleshooting odd issues is a factory reset (Which MUST be done when installing roms of different types) Coming from TW and going to CM like you did requires FULL wipe!!
Jrock_Xtreme said:
nobody is forcing you to read the thread dude...
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A response like that is not going to help you get too much help around here. @xcrazydx is correct. It sounds like you need to do some more ready.. especially if you are thinking of messing with partitions.
OK wow thread didn't load before I tried to answer lol. Anyway dude is a brick in the making.
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i did factory wipe before and after flashing each of the roms. As i stated above, the storage glitch occurred after installing gapps and email/exchange... i only wiped cache/dalvik after installing those two. I suppose i should have factory wiped to be safe...
The reason i came asking about repartitioning and .pit files was because i had already searched and found a dev that had created custom partition tables (pit files) but they were for a different phone. I just wondered if anyone in this forum had seen and/or created them.
If not, that's cool, but i figured I'd ask. The only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask!

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