There are times that I want to use either TWRP, CWM, or Rogue recoveries. Has anyone ever come up with a method of choosing from more than one recovery when booting? I have a bunch of nandroids saved on CWM and don't want to risk losing them. I have one or two from when I was using TWRP as well. I don't know if they will still be there if I return to using TWRP.
I am a relative noob when it comes to all this moving stuff on and off my Xoom, so I apologize if these questions sound like, "I have a cow and can't figure which udder to squeeze to get cheese, and which is for chocolate milk"
The backups will be there until you delete them. And no you can only have one recovery at a time.
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You can have flashable zip versions of these recoveries stored in your internal CD card that you can flash any of which thru any of which to switch between recoveries, but I am not sure if the restore would work after you switch from one to another, try and see.
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Even if you flash different recoveries you can always come back to the original one and restore.
Hit the thanks button and wam it disappears ! Try it.
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Is there a way to verify a backup worked? This morning I was trying to restore a backup and it said the md5sum didn't match. I hadn't done anything different than I ever do. I Just ran the backup in recovery yesterday and tried to restore it today. Thankfully I had an additional backup from the day before that did work but it kind of made me nervous since it really seems you cannot be sure they worked.
I am hoping maybe there is a way I can check the md5sum of a backup somehow but I am really not sure how to go about doing that.
You can try THIS to verify your md5sum. Not sure if it will work, never had the cause to check the md5sum of a backup. Another option would be to switch Recovery to TWRP. Much more stable on the Shift than CWM. Also a lot more options overall .
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For a more detailed explanation of CWM you can check out THIS GUIDE
I had the md5 thing happen about a week ago. Since then I've been making 2 backups. Still room for error, but I little less likely. Also started making them in recovery instead of rom manager then rename later.
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jsp254 said:
I had the md5 thing happen about a week ago. Since then I've been making 2 backups. Still room for error, but I little less likely. Also started making them in recovery instead of rom manager then rename later.
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Your posts jogged my memory. I THINK when my problem happened I may have actually chosen to do a backup through rom manager but didn't really think anything of it since it boots the phone into recovery anyway. Usually I boot myself into recovery and do the backups myself but I think that time I may not have. I probably will not do that again.
Stopped using RomManager a while back. Used it only for renaming Backups when I used CWM. But have sinced switched to TWRP. Like it much better, and more options. If you want to rename a Backup. Just connect the device as a Disk Drive to your PC. Explore to the TWRP Backup folder, and rename that way.
Running clean lite Rom. Went into recovery to flash the dim button mod and my sd card is wiped... Wasn't when I put it on the sd card two seconds before... I'm pissed. Backups and everything gone... Wtf???
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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Yes I'm using cwm... Is it the culprit??? I'm so mad... Everything is gone
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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So... CWM was a turd on the OG, and still is? I only gave it one chance to screw me, which it did, then I moved to Amon Ra, and was forever happy afterwards...
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Yup, a lot of people have been having that with cwm. It has been recommended by scott and some others that you use TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677447
It still has bugs but no where near as bad as the data loss that seems to be happening on CWM
WOW!!!! i had no idea!!! well twrp is what i will be using from now on, thank you very much for letting me know, i had a couple beers and when this happend... well i was a little dumb founded.... lol gonna flash twrp. thanks a million guys!!
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So... CWM was a turd on the OG, and still is? I only gave it one chance to screw me, which it did, then I moved to Amon Ra, and was forever happy afterwards...
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Amon RA FTW. I loved that recovery. Now I'm in love with TWRP
too bad our twrp have issue with adb
the cwm have.that.fixed
so ifyou use twrp makesure you put.the.rom.onyour.sd.before wipe.system
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Funny I flashed cwm about six times today on six different phones without losing anything , hmmmm... Wow that's amazing
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Funny I flashed cwm about six times today on six different phones without losing anything , hmmmm... Wow that's amazing
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After re-reading your snark, it occurred to me that flashing the recovery wasn't the issue. Flashing the mod was. Weird that it took a few beers to make it clear...
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niceppl said:
too bad our twrp have issue with adb
the cwm have.that.fixed
so ifyou use twrp makesure you put.the.rom.onyour.sd.before wipe.system
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TWRP has adb now, the official is right from team win.
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Ive flashed a rom every day for the last week or so and havnt lost any sd card data. Guess Ill switch over to TWRP just in case until CWM is either fixed or confirmed thats its something else.
I had the same problem with TWRP, it was quite the shock :-(
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I had the same problem with TWRP, it was quite the shock :-(
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Same here.
I keep everything in the Android folder I found when it wipes this folder is untouched might want to give it a try..
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I've had this happen on cwm not the entire sdcard but random items or folders. But what I have noticed is that it's not happening after the flash its actually happening after I mount as disc drive then unmount went back and checked before flashing and things were missing.
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Anyway to get back the lost data?? I mounted as usb in recovery, put the file dim button mod. On my isb, unmount and my sd card was wiped, only two folders left on it...
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I doubt this is a CWM problem IMO, I am using TWRP and I have this problem too, for me this has happened 3 times so far, and always after mounting in ubuntu (I always umount and eject). 1st time it deleted few tibu files, later a major part of pics, zips and tibu. Latest yesterday. Lucky I use unison and sync my files...
Wondering what it is?
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Flashed maybe 5 times or so using CWM, various builds of CleanROM, and also rooted deodexed 1.85. Every time was fine, except the latest time where I lost a bunch of random folders and files. All my music was gone, but folder still there. CleanROM mods folder not there. Titanium Backup folder gone. Couple photos and videos were corrupted, but files still there. Lots of stuff ended up in the LOST.DIR folder (randomly renamed).
At some point had mounted to a Windows PC to sync music. Not sure if the corruption/missing files happened before or after that.
Luckily, I had backed up most stuff fairly recently to my PC. Mostly due to the fact that one user on the CleanROM thread had posted that his whole SD card wiped somehow while flashing. I only lost a couple photos, and not anything I was interested in trying to recover.
As the cause is not yet known (and seems to be on TWRP and CWM), I'd recommend backing up anything you don't want to lose, before flashing anything. Especially the Titanium folder, and anything not replaceable and of sentimental value (like photos).
I had this happen, and I too think it is more of an issue with transferring files over USB and then not properly unmounting the device before unplugging or something like that. At any rate, I used Piriform's Recuva software to recover my files. Found everything, all my pics and videos, and zip files, etc... And it is free.
Run the scan ASAP as transferring files over to the device could start to overwrite the "deleted" stuff.
I have been using CWM..... I think 5.1,and I used it pretty exclusively for a long time. Though I can and am willing to manually do my flashing and backups and such, but with the JB file changes I don't get to be lazy anymore. I was wondering if you guys would be willing to give opinions on your choices for recovery images.
CWM is easy to use and has everything in logical places.
Rogue touch is on my xoom now and I was introduced to it in the great eos radio upgrade of 95 ICS.
There is one now that goomanager wants to put on that I am not sure I am using correctly because I can't seem to... Well, let's just say I got tired of playing with it. I am thinking rogue and this new one I can't remember the name of might be the wave of the future being touch and all.
Anyway, give your 2 cents if you don't mind.
Check dev forum, TWRP recovery by runandhide05.. you will be impressed....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28988754
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wesamothman said:
Check dev forum, TWRP recovery by runandhide05.. you will be impressed....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28988754
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That's the one that Goomanager wants to install, just couldnt' remember the name at the time. I'm not sure I am using it correctly because I can't seem to browse where ever I want throughout both the SD cards (int/ext). I'm thinking that I might just save my targets for downloads and copy stuff to where I can get to on that recover version and I may give it another try.
I have always used CWM but am wondering if there is an updated version of it that creates a nandroid backup with the proper date name? If not does anyone know if twrp also has this issue?
thanks in advance
You can change the names in rom manager.
Cwm all the way. 6.0.1.2 touch is fast, stable, has not let me down
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If you change the names though, don't you have to change them exactly back if you ever go to restore a nandroid? i read that somewhere, something about changing the mdsum when you rename it?
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Not that I am aware of, just did a restore last week on a custom name. But don't hold me to that, as I do not fully know. Alot of my apps had to be reinstalled due to force closures. Is that a result of renaming?....... Not sure
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Twrp has the same issue. It's odd. And from my experience, changing the name in Twrp makes it unable to restore.
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If you change the names though, don't you have to change them exactly back if you ever go to restore a nandroid? i read that somewhere, something about changing the mdsum when you rename it?
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No.
I just leave what they have for the name and add what I want afterwards.
Hasn't failed me in 2+ years....
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If you change the names though, don't you have to change them exactly back if you ever go to restore a nandroid? i read that somewhere, something about changing the mdsum when you rename it?
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I always rename my cwm backups. Never had any problem with dozens of restores.
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I always rename my cwm backups. Never had any problem with dozens of restores.
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Same here
That's what I'll do from now on, keep cwm's default name and tag a little custom name behind it.
My question earlier about having to uninstall and reinstall my apps after a restore, any input on that?
A good chunk of them would keep popping up a screen saying: xxxx has stopped suddenly had to force close. Or something on those lines. Why? Restore should return all data/permissions...
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Download cwm from market, have it flash the latest official release, and profit. I don't know why people suddenly have an obsession with random cwm and twrp versions flashed through whatever.
No ez recovery here my friend.
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It's mostly just a matter of preference. I like CWM Touch more than TWRP just based on feel. However, AFAIK there isn't a version of CWM for our phone with working ADB. Which means, if your flash goes awry you have to jump through hoops to fix it (pulling your SD card to put files on it, or restoring a nandroid). TWRP doesn't have ADB either, and USB mounting appears to be broken, but at least it has a built in file manager and (more importantly) terminal. For this reason, I'm currently using TWRP, but as soon as I can find a version of CWM Touch with working ADB I'm switching back to that.
On a side note, you can definitely rename backups in CWM and TWRP, as long as you avoid certain characters. For example, changing the name of a backup in CWM to something with a space in it will cause the MD5 check to fail when trying to restore. I'm not sure which other characters cause problems, but I always rename mine with letters, underscores, and numbers and can restore without issue.
I prefer twrp because it looks a lot nicer than cwm... it more or less personal preference
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Hey guys,
Just experienced what I think is a soft brick. I know that this has been talked about a dozen times, and I have searched. I just want a more experienced yes or no to be sure.
Basically, last night I tried flashing PAndroid on my skyrocket and I went through the format system, format data, factory reset, and wipe cache. Then when I went into flash a zip it said something to the effect of "E: Can't access SD Card". So then I tried to use my band road but that also gave me the error. I then tried to mount the SD card, but it gave me another error. So, guessing that it would just factory reset me, I rebooted.
Now, my phone will vibrate and flash the Samsung logo before going to a black screen (but the screen is on). It also had the symptom of sticky power button for a while with the few second interval buzzing, but I jammed the power button and it seemed to stop doing that and is now doing the aforementioned thing instead.
Should I go use Vincom's soft Brick guide? Also, does anyone have a link to a 7zip extractor that isn't riddled with viruses? (had a hell of a time getting rid of them the first time I rooted haha)
Again, I know this is probably a fairly obvious answer, but yall have just been so helpful in the past that it makes me want to come here before just winging it. And I'm really nervous with this being my first time haha.
Thanks a lot guys, yall are the best!
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Use vincoms guide and Odin back to stock. I just googled for 7-zip and didn't get any viruses. Don't have the original file or I'd put it up on dev host for you
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You wiped system. That's why nothing is happening. You should still be able to enter recovery. Now why your recovery was giving you that error is a different story. Go to recovery and copy the version down here.
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You wiped system. That's why nothing is happening. You should still be able to enter recovery. Now why your recovery was giving you that error is a different story. Go to recovery and copy the version down here.
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Okay, I managed to get into recovery, but I'm still getting the error about the SD card not being mounted. I was looking on Google and I found two different solutions. One was to re flash CWM with Odin, but would that mess up my phone because it already has CWM on it? The other was to reformat my SD card on the computer, but I have no honest idea how to do that haha.
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Okay, I managed to get into recovery, but I'm still getting the error about the SD card not being mounted. I was looking on Google and I found two different solutions. One was to re flash CWM with Odin, but would that mess up my phone because it already has CWM on it? The other was to reformat my SD card on the computer, but I have no honest idea how to do that haha.
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Re-Flashing cwm won't mess anything up. Formatting the sd card will remove everything on it including the rom you're trying to flash.
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Fixed it! Luckily I saved a backup I made yesterday, so I'm back up and running. Thanks for all the help everybody!
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Nice :thumbup: