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A problem after installing CM7......

So I installed Cm7 7.0.3 and I had all the things backed up that I wanted to install on Cm7, using TB. When I opened TB on cm7, I noticed none of the things I backed up on Vegan GB rom were there. Things I backed up, were like the amazon store, my swiftkey beta app, and a few others. What would cause my backups not to show???

did you save the TB backup file to your PC, then recopy it back after you flashed CM7?
Basically, you must have wiped the data, deleting the backup file. about once a week, I backup my backup by copying the file to my PC. If anything happens that causes a full wipe (like installing a new Rom could) then I'll just need to reinstall TB, copy the file from my PC back to the TB folder on the tab, and it will have the necessary information to restore.

TJEvans said:
did you save the TB backup file to your PC, then recopy it back after you flashed CM7?
Basically, you must have wiped the data, deleting the backup file. about once a week, I backup my backup by copying the file to my PC. If anything happens that causes a full wipe (like installing a new Rom could) then I'll just need to reinstall TB, copy the file from my PC back to the TB folder on the tab, and it will have the necessary information to restore.
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No I didn't. But what I just noticed is, that it didn't seem to be reading my sd card, because every thing I had on my sd that showed up on my vegan gb rom, didn't show up on the cm7 rom.

Note that CM7 maps your internal/external SD differently than Vegan.
In VEGAN ROMs, internal is /sdcard and external is /sdcard2. In CM7, internal is /emmc and external is /sdcard.
If you backed up in VEGAN, TB backed up to your internal SD. With CM7, TB is looking for your stuff on /sdcard, which now points to your external. Hence why you may not be seeing your stuff.
Try flashing the file referenced here -- it switches the mount points in CM7.

It's strange, it's like it's not reading what I have on my sd card. When I restore to vegen gb, it's all there.

grivad said:
Note that CM7 maps your internal/external SD differently than Vegan.
In VEGAN ROMs, internal is /sdcard and external is /sdcard2. In CM7, internal is /emmc and external is /sdcard.
If you backed up in VEGAN, TB backed up to your internal SD. With CM7, TB is looking for your stuff on /sdcard, which now points to your external. Hence why you may not be seeing your stuff.
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Yikes! How can I fix that ? Or work around it?

Mrdroid921 said:
It's strange, it's like it's not reading what I have on my sd card. When I restore to vegen gb, it's all there.
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Yup. Re-read my previous post. Based on this, I'd bet money that is the reason why.

Is there anyway I can fix this?.

Mrdroid921 said:
Is there anyway I can fix this?.
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search on this forum for vold.fstab which is your answer and fix.

Mrdroid921 said:
Is there anyway I can fix this?.
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Read!
I answered this a few posts above. And I saw you started another thread about the same subject.
Here.

Lost all of my backup roms!!

Okay so I just installed CM7 which worked fined and i was reading that i should partition my sd card. So I made a copy of my sd card on my computer and continued to partition my sd card 256/64. After the partition I just moved the file back to my sd card in recovery mode. I then rebooted which worked fine and syncd my google account. I installed simple2ext so i could move my cache to my sd card because i was unable to update rom manager and su or able to install any apps bigger than simple2ext. I installed titanium backup and noticed i had nothing to restore so I was going to go back to my original rom to back everything up again. I backed up cm7 then went to restore my original rom and all my previous roms I had backed up were gone.
Is there something I did worng? and am i able to get them back.
I did some searching and looked in my sd card from my computer and looked in clockwork folder and found my backup folder. I tired to move all of them back but said insufficient space and was only able to move one.
So now my question is did all my data from sd card not transfer over?

o noo that sucks man

if you made a rom backup, it would indeed be in the clockwork folder, as the progam that makes the backup is nandroid which is intergrated in the clockwork mod. Titanium backup is only for backing up loose apps and had nothing to do with rom backups.
If you still have the clockwork folder with the backups in them on your computer you should be fine. just transfer the one you want to use (they are named with dates and times) to the SD and go back into the recovery mode and use the restore option.
if you don't have enough space on your SD card, maybe you should make some available for the rom.

bl0m5t3r said:
if you made a rom backup, it would indeed be in the clockwork folder, as the progam that makes the backup is nandroid which is intergrated in the clockwork mod. Titanium backup is only for backing up loose apps and had nothing to do with rom backups.
If you still have the clockwork folder with the backups in them on your computer you should be fine. just transfer the one you want to use (they are named with dates and times) to the SD and go back into the recovery mode and use the restore option.
if you don't have enough space on your SD card, maybe you should make some available for the rom.
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Yup found them on the sd card on computer. But how come they did not transfer after I recopied the SD card?

Had the same thing happen to me when I was on my GNEX. I now enabled dropbox to keep backup copies as well.

Something similar happened to me when I tried a ROM with 4ex recovery in lieu of clockwork. when i tried to access my backup it told me something about invalid md5 sum and backup failed. like it didn't exist. If all is still on your PC perhaps you should reformat the card then re-partition using a different source, and re-try.
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[Q] Why does changing roms deletes everything

When ever I change roms it deletes all backups, and even deletes clockwork mod recovery. I have no idea what is going on. This didn't happen on my gnex. I have a 2 gig memory card in it. How can I put all backups and recovery on the card? It deletes the rom folder I create to put all the roms in. I have to create the folder every time I change roms. This is anoying as hell. Please help. Thanks

wily5150 said:
When ever I change roms it deletes all backups, and even deletes clockwork mod recovery. I have no idea what is going on. This didn't happen on my gnex. I have a 2 gig memory card in it. How can I put all backups and recovery on the card? It deletes the rom folder I create to put all the roms in. I have to create the folder every time I change roms. This is anoying as hell. Please help. Thanks
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I think your doing something wrong because it shouldn't do that, what ROM hase it done that in? And what at our steps to flashing? As to backups on your sd car when you go to backup there an option to back up to external so card.
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I was running jellywiz, and I flashed the executioner. I had to reinstall cwm. And I had to create the roms folder again, the folder where I keep my downloaded roms. As for flashing roms, I do a factory reset, wipe davlik, and cache. It's kind of annoying having to recreate everything. Thanks

wily5150 said:
When ever I change roms it deletes all backups, and even deletes clockwork mod recovery. I have no idea what is going on. This didn't happen on my gnex. I have a 2 gig memory card in it. How can I put all backups and recovery on the card? It deletes the rom folder I create to put all the roms in. I have to create the folder every time I change roms. This is anoying as hell. Please help. Thanks
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Did you flash a 4.2 ROM??? It does that if you don't use an updated recovery.

You are definitely doing something wrong because that is not expected behavior.
A 2GB SD card is ridiculously undersized for backups. A single nandroid or TiBu would likely take all of that space if it even fit. Perhaps it's failing to backup to the external card and defaulting back to internal memory?

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bobloblaw1 said:
You are definitely doing something wrong because that is not expected behavior.
A 2GB SD card is ridiculously undersized for backups. A single nandroid or TiBu would likely take all of that space if it even fit. Perhaps it's failing to backup to the external card and defaulting back to internal memory?
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I would recommend at least a 16G sdcard. You need that much to stores backups, stock boot rom, custom rom, and you data files to restore. Things like contacts, calendar, etc should always be backed up before you install custom ROM.
CWM is a good boot loader to use as it provides many options and also use something like Titanium backup as your backup manager.

If you do a data reset from the updated recovery will it delete the directory on the internal SDCard where the backup of the stock ROM is?

EFighter said:
If you do a data reset from the updated recovery will it delete the directory on the internal SDCard where the backup of the stock ROM is?
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yes it does

EFighter said:
If you do a data reset from the updated recovery will it delete the directory on the internal SDCard where the backup of the stock ROM is?
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What recovery are you talking about? If it's cwm touch no it doesn't! I factory reset every time I flash a new ROM (and I'll flash a couple a day sometimes) the only way you'll delete those in recovery is if you manually delete a backup or if you go under the mounts and storage menu and format internal SD card.
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kintwofan said:
What recovery are you talking about? If it's cwm touch no it doesn't! I factory reset every time I flash a new ROM (and I'll flash a couple a day sometimes) the only way you'll delete those in recovery is if you manually delete a backup or if you go under the mounts and storage menu and format internal SD card.
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So I am talking about the clockworkmod stock rom backup. When I backup it puts the backup in the following location which I will call LocA:
/mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
This is not my SD card tho. My external SDCard is located at which I will call LocB:
/mnt/extSdCard/
But I also have which I will call LocC:
/sdcard/
I when I go to look at the ‘Phone’ while connected to USB I can see LocA and see the backups, when I use the app SDCard Manager I can go to LocC and I can see that they mirror each other. Why is my stuff duplicated? It is wasting space?
Also when I boot into CWM recovery the menu that says load from SD card actually points to LocA. My fear is that since LocA is really internal memory that a factory reset will delete this and since CWM recovery cant see LocB that I will be locked out. In other words cant load the backup of the mod or the new downloaded CM10.

EFighter said:
So I am talking about the clockworkmod stock rom backup. When I backup it puts the backup in the following location which I will call LocA:
/mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
This is not my SD card tho. My external SDCard is located at which I will call LocB:
/mnt/extSdCard/
But I also have which I will call LocC:
/sdcard/
I when I go to look at the ‘Phone’ while connected to USB I can see LocA and see the backups, when I use the app SDCard Manager I can go to LocC and I can see that they mirror each other. Why is my stuff duplicated? It is wasting space?
Also when I boot into CWM recovery the menu that says load from SD card actually points to LocA. My fear is that since LocA is really internal memory that a factory reset will delete this and since CWM recovery cant see LocB that I will be locked out. In other words cant load the backup of the mod or the new downloaded CM10.
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Okay gotcha, a factory reset does not delete your internal memory. What it deletes is your user apps, settings, etc. That is the same place mine is backed up to and like I said I factory reset every flash. However, if you're really worried about under the backup option in cwm select backup to external SD card.
As for the sd card 0 and SD card. I don't believe there are really two files of everything. I believe it's more just naming for the android system, but maybe someone else can confirm this for me
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kintwofan said:
Okay gotcha, a factory reset does not delete your internal memory. What it deletes is your user apps, settings, etc. That is the same place mine is backed up to and like I said I factory reset every flash. However, if you're really worried about under the backup option in cwm select backup to external SD card.
As for the sd card 0 and SD card. I don't believe there are really two files of everything. I believe it's more just naming for the android system, but maybe someone else can confirm this for me
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Thank you, Thank you, and Thank you for taking the time to answer that.
With that info im confident i wont get stuck in some limbo. During my lunch break ill try to flash CM10 again this time with a factory reset and see if i get further than the spinning logo.

I don't do the cwm touch. For some reason I can't find any roms that I've backed up, So I use the typical cwm. I don't know, maybe it's just me, I'm screwing up somewhere. But everytime I have to reinstall cwm. Thanks for the help

wily5150 said:
I don't do the cwm touch. For some reason I can't find any roms that I've backed up, So I use the typical cwm. I don't know, maybe it's just me, I'm screwing up somewhere. But everytime I have to reinstall cwm. Thanks for the help
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I am FAR from being an expert, but i had to reflash cwm everytime i restarted the phone until i flashed it and from the menu selected prevent stock recovery.

What do I NEED to keep on my SD card?

I'm trying to clean up my SD card and free up some space. I have some files on there that I am wondering if I need to leave them, or if I can store them on my computer instead.
I always have 2 roms on there.
Synergy_backup_HWkeys_signed.zip (I think that has something to do with my IEMI backup)
MB1 modem
MF1 modem
SuperSU_bootloader_fixed.zip
triangleAway-v2.37.zip
The tibu backup folder......is there only one (the most recent back up in there)
Anything else I can delete that you can think of?
Thanks so much!

Sdcard as in internal or external sd? If external, I doubt there are many apps that see it besides music/vids/pics apps. If internal then if that's all you cherish, everything else can be deleted. I'd save pics/vids but to each his own. Some folders will be rebuilt if you're flashing a rom as well.

You can delete the modems and the SU zip, you won't need those anymore. And I don't know about you but I have 1 TiBu folder which only holds my most recent backups. And if you are referring to an Ext SD Card then you can be liberal with what you delete, no important system data should be going there
If you're responding to me, make sure to quote me so I get an immediate email

You should be able to delete everything (if you don't want pics, etc). However, I remember there was some sort of bin file or something like that on the top most layer of files. I tried deleting it (after opening it and not finding any data), and it messed everything up to the point where I had to reflash the ROM. To this day, I don't know where it came from. But now whenever I reflash a ROM I completely wipe my internal card to get rid of any weird files that may still be around.
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[Q] Does NANDROID backup your kernel, and if not...

Hi,
I've been Googling this question for the past 30 minutes and I keep seeing conflicting answers. I own an I9300 but this is a general question - does a NANDROID backup your kernel as well and can CWM restore the kernel from the NANDROID backup?
If not, is there any method to backup your kernel separately? (I do not want to count on online files for my stock backups regardless of reliability, so please keep your answers to the point, I know you can download stock kernels)
Thanks in advance,

idowolf said:
Hi,
I've been Googling this question for the past 30 minutes and I keep seeing conflicting answers. I own an I9300 but this is a general question - does a NANDROID backup your kernel as well and can CWM restore the kernel from the NANDROID backup?
If not, is there any method to backup your kernel separately? (I do not want to count on online files for my stock backups regardless of reliability, so please keep your answers to the point, I know you can download stock kernels)
Thanks in advance,
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Yes, the nandroid backs up the kernel, and the kernel gets restored along with the ROM when you do a restore.
As for backing up just the kernel, that's as simple as storing it somewhere in your phone's internal storage or on an SD card. For example, on my devices I create a folder called "Flash", in which I include kernels, modems, SuperSU, flashable app back-ups, and any ROMs and Gapps packages I might be trying out. It doesn't matter where you put them, as long as it's in the internal storage (emulated SD) or on an SD card. As long as you don't wipe internal storage when wiping between ROMs, those folders and files will remain (just like your pictures or stored music).

Planterz said:
Yes, the nandroid backs up the kernel, and the kernel gets restored along with the ROM when you do a restore.
As for backing up just the kernel, that's as simple as storing it somewhere in your phone's internal storage or on an SD card. For example, on my devices I create a folder called "Flash", in which I include kernels, modems, SuperSU, flashable app back-ups, and any ROMs and Gapps packages I might be trying out. It doesn't matter where you put them, as long as it's in the internal storage (emulated SD) or on an SD card. As long as you don't wipe internal storage when wiping between ROMs, those folders and files will remain (just like your pictures or stored music).
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Thank you, the second question was about how to actually perform a backup of kernel-only, I know you can then proceed to store it wherever you want Is there any way to perform a backup of the kernel (without the ROM itself)?

idowolf said:
Thank you, the second question was about how to actually perform a backup of kernel-only, I know you can then proceed to store it wherever you want Is there any way to perform a backup of the kernel (without the ROM itself)?
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Oh, you want to extract just the kernel from the ROM...I get it. Synapse has this function, and works on my Nexus 4, but I can't speak for your phone.