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Hi.
I want to flash anew.
I want to backup my apps.
I do not have an external SD card (i mean - i do, i just don't use it, it's in my drawer collecting dust).
I see that I can backup apps with Titanium.
But - once I will flash, these backups will all be wiped, will they not?
THANK YOU !
Why not just copy the titanium backup folder to your computer first? Flash your rom then once you get your phone running copy the folder back to your phone. Reinstall titanium backup and restore as needed. Titanium also comes with dropbox built in which can be pretty useful.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Why not just copy the titanium backup folder to your computer first? Flash your rom then once you get your phone running copy the folder back to your phone. Reinstall titanium backup and restore as needed. Titanium also comes with dropbox built in which can be pretty useful.
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Great! Will do that! Thanks!
benyben123 said:
Hi.
I want to flash anew.
I want to backup my apps.
I do not have an external SD card (i mean - i do, i just don't use it, it's in my drawer collecting dust).
I see that I can backup apps with Titanium.
But - once I will flash, these backups will all be wiped, will they not?
THANK YOU !
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Yea I guess you are right....
Just didn't think of it since I thought I am suppose to format the SD card every time I flash. I also didn't know that TB saves its files to the SD card.
Thanks
ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Dude what is your problem. Sometimes people don't know as much as you. This is why they come here and ask questions. They don't need to be ridiculed for not knowing how to do something. I wouldn't ridicule you for losing for instance some chess games against me. I would instead assume you haven't spent thousands of hours studying it and be fine with that instead of throwing it in your face. You have a problem. I've been coming to these forums for maybe 2 weeks and I've seen some negative or condescending thing from you over and over. Read the rules and adhere to them or kindly leave. That is all.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Dude what is your problem. Sometimes people don't know as much as you. This is why they come here and ask questions. They don't need to be ridiculed for not knowing how to do something. I wouldn't ridicule you for losing for instance some chess games against me. I would instead assume you haven't spent thousands of hours studying it and be fine with that instead of throwing it in your face. You have a problem. I've been coming to these forums for maybe 2 weeks and I've seen some negative or condescending thing from you over and over. Read the rules and adhere to them or kindly leave. That is all.
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I'll school you in a game of chess!
If you got chesspresso installed lets play a game sometime.
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Not going to waste my time bud.
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Not to be rude but if you could beat me I would know who you are. I sort of make part of my living giving private lessons.
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Why are you always a ****? Get a clue and lose the damn attitude.
I swear you sound just like a guy that was banned with a very similar name.
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Not going to waste my time bud.
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The Ruy Lopez hah!
I keeeeeel you!
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ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Firstly, Your Rude, Secondly you don't have a clue because you are completely wrong and clearly cannot read.
The OP had clearly stated he did not have an SD Card (but COULD), so if you did a full backup to internal memory (because of no SD Card).
Then yes, if you flash (as most require format/wipe, cache, and dalvik) you would also wipe your backup. Those with devices with no SD Card support should take care to copy the backup files manually to another device for later use.
I was searching for the question of "How to use Titanium Backup before flashing to a new ROM?"
However my question remains unanswered...
I have a custom ROM already installed, with all my apps and configuration etc, I want to try a new ROM to test something, then revert back to the ROM I am using now,
Does Titanium Backup create a restore point image, that I can restore later, and as such carry on using my device where I had it at the point of backup?
If not an image, then is the functionality I am looking for available?
Many Thanks,
Robert Readman
I don't believe titanium offers the feature you are looking for. It does have a feature that creates a flashable zip to to flash all your apps backcto the phone...however this feature has never worked for me lol. I always have to restore my apps the old fashioned way with the batch options restore. Like you,I did not have a SD card when I first flashed my phone. To get around this issue I created a backup with cwm and moved it to my PC for safe keeping. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID and transfer the backup to PC via USB cable....if you do this the md5 sum will become corrupt. I don't know why but nandroids are sensitive in the way they handled/moved across platforms. Download the free app from the market called Airdroid. It connects your phone to your PC through a wireless LAN connection. It takes a little longer to transfer the boot image since its a large file but its MUCH safer. When you do transfer the nandroid to your PC its very important to not change ANYTHING in the file, especially the name. Change nothing! Otherwise you will mess up the md5. If you do get aa corrupt md5 like I did there is a tutorial on this site somewhere that walks you through the process of fixing it but it was a pain in the a** so use airdroid lol. Hope this helped.
Ps- having a SD card makes like much easier in the world of flashing/android Modding. Even a small one is worth it. Best of luck
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DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID and transfer the backup to PC via USB cable....if you do this the md5 sum will become corrupt. I don't know why but nandroids are sensitive in the way they handled/moved across platforms.
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Thanks for this Pain-N-Panic, I am not sure, but it maybe something to do with transferring in binary / ASCII modes, similar to an issue you come across with FTP, so it is very plausible as an issue but someone with more knowledge of this would need to comment.
My solution which should help, is to go into Terminal Emulator, and use tar to create an archive.
Example...
type 'pwd' (for present working directory), it should be root by default '/'
in my case, i have /sdcard/ as a symlink to /storage/primary/legacy/
so then type 'cd' (for change directory) to the location of your sd card storage.
then typing 'tar -cvf file.tar ./folder/' c for create, v for verbose, f for file, then the file to create, and the folder.
Search for use of tar online, if you require more information.
Code:
cd /sdcard/
tar -cvf TitaniumBackup.tar /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/
You can then transfer your TitaniumBackup.tar with all file ownership, permissions and even file / folder timestamps are stored, for restoring the folder later.
for some reason when i flash cyanowiz and get it all setup when i try to use titanium backup to restore all my apps the backups dont show up i have used titanium backup on all other roms and it works fine is this normal for this rom?
mbucks911 said:
for some reason when i flash cyanowiz and get it all setup when i try to use titanium backup to restore all my apps the backups dont show up i have used titanium backup on all other roms and it works fine is this normal for this rom?
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Its something with cyanogenmod roms. I forget why it does that but I think its something with the sd cards and internal memory. Im not too sure on that
BaconStep said:
Its something with cyanogenmod roms. I forget why it does that but I think its something with the sd cards and internal memory. Im not too sure on that
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is there any way to do some kind of restore?
I believe it s because it mounts the sd card and internal memory backwards or slightly different Go to titanium backup and hit settings and locate the other location. Ones emmc and other is internal sdcard.
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You use file browser and swap titanium file from internal to exrernal cm roms integrate a2sd i believe that's the reasoning
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I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
I had cwm originally and randomly lost files off my sd card or were corrupted after mounting as usb so switched to twrp and have had the same problems with losing random files and corruption of files. So I don't think it's specific to the recovery its something else that's causing it. Wish I new what it was because it's quite annoying. I've resorted to only transfering files via dropbox or lan with es file explorer but it's definitely a pain when transferring a Rom.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
gunnyman said:
enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
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QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
I also started syncing my photos to dropbox every day or so i can't lose those either.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andrios app I have ever bought, period.
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I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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regP said:
QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
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Well I don't have to pull it from the cloud since it syncs to my desktop automatically but man it saves you from having to remember to do it.
E.Cadro said:
I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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I've wondered the same thing... It might not be recovery related since it happens with both.
That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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Lol your trying to wipe your sd card can't and ours are being wiped inadvertently
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gunnyman said:
I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
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Go to cnet.com and download Recuva. Then do a deep scan and it will recover the stuff you lost... worked for me
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I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
Ahh, I hate this bug!! I've lost several things and have had tons of pics become corrupted.
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I just lost a few photo's today. First time I've encountered this bug. Guess its time to get dropbox and have it sync my photo's and tibu stuff.
I'm pretty damn paranoid, so I've started doing an SD Card dump right before flashing a ROM using ADB.
$ adb pull /sdcard/
Probably overkill, since I have almost everything important backed up somewhere, but I'd rather take the extra thirty minutes and make sure I don't lose anything permanently.
Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
gunnyman said:
Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
Pumpiron579 said:
I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
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This is also my theory.
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gunnyman said:
indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
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Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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I just drag them from my phone to my dropbox folder on the computer and it syncs
the downer is there's no way to move a whole folder from dropbox to the phone, from the phone
Just trying to save space cause I'm a crack flasher. Wasn't sure if this was an option vs doing it manually.
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I don't see that option but it would be nice to be able to do that.
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It's...already included in CWM. When you boot into recovery manually, there's two options to backup: internal and external. How are you booting into recovery?
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mpetruzz said:
Just trying to save space cause I'm a crack flasher. Wasn't sure if this was an option vs doing it manually.
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Choose backup to external sd. I always do because if something goes wrong with my phone I want the backups accessible on my sd
Tap'n
if your external sd kicks the bucket you're screwed (which happened already to me)/
I use foldersync to mirror it on the external sd//
mpetruzz said:
Just trying to save space cause I'm a crack flasher. Wasn't sure if this was an option vs doing it manually.
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Also make sure your sd is formatted to fat32
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if your external sd kicks the bucket you're screwed (which happened already to me)/
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You are correct. Im gonna have to look to into foldersync
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SlimSnoopOS said:
It's...already included in CWM. When you boot into recovery manually, there's two options to backup: internal and external. How are you booting into recovery?
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I've been booting into recovery by pressing the power button and then selecting reboot-recovery.
I'm using cwm touch and will look for the setting there to save to external. Right now its using like 4 GB on my internal.
I've already saved the file to my laptop in case some thing should happen.
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mpetruzz said:
I've been booting into recovery by pressing the power button and then selecting reboot-recovery.
I'm using cwm touch and will look for the setting there to save to external. Right now its using like 4 GB on my internal.
I've already saved the file to my laptop in case some thing should happen.
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Hmm, well I'm using CWM 6 (non touch) and I can choose where to backup once I select "Backup." I don't know why that would be missing from the touch version if it is. That's an odd omission unless it's a paid feature with rom manager but you're not using that.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Hmm, well I'm using CWM 6 (non touch) and I can choose where to backup once I select "Backup." I don't know why that would be missing from the touch version if it is. That's an odd omission unless it's a paid feature with rom manager but you're not using that.
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I'm not saying its not there, I just never t
knew it was an option.
Once I move the backup to my external can I just delete the cwm folder to free up space on my internal??
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mpetruzz said:
I'm not saying its not there, I just never t
knew it was an option.
Once I move the backup to my external can I just delete the cwm folder to free up space on my internal??
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You have to make sure you copy the blobs folder too because you'll lose your backup if you don't
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I'm not saying its not there, I just never t
knew it was an option.
Once I move the backup to my external can I just delete the cwm folder to free up space on my internal??
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Yea, I only delete backups using CWM though if I'm still considering using the space for a backup in the future.
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I made a backup of my current setup on my external card just now. Can I copy other backups from my internal to my SD, along with my blobs folder??
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mpetruzz said:
I made a backup of my current setup on my external card just now. Can I copy other backups from my internal to my SD, along with my blobs folder??
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I dont think it will let you becaue the blob folder has folder like 001 and 002 so I think it'll overwrite of you try to merge them together therefore making them not able to restore correctly. This is the reason I started using TWRP because you can just move backups with ease because their in their own folder.
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mpetruzz said:
I made a backup of my current setup on my external card just now. Can I copy other backups from my internal to my SD, along with my blobs folder??
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I'm going to say NO unless you:
1) delete the backup and blob folders you just created on your external sd card
2) copy your internal sd card backup/blob folder and move them to your external sd
3) make another backup to your external sd card
The blob folder contains data pertinent to the CWM backup you made and since you have backup/blob folders on both internal and external, you can't just copy it over your have to delete one pair (CWM backup and entire blob folder) or the other before moving both folders over. Don't mix and match folders.
I've haven't done this so if you have issues restoring a backup in the future, you know why they are messed up if you do this. If anyone thinks my logic above is flawed or correct please feel free to sound off. I'm not 100% sure in my answer.
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edit* slimsnoop is correct, the nandroid will come up system error when trying to restore with a different blobs folder!
Thanks for that info!! I made a backup to my external. I checked the folder and there is the backup along with a blobs folder.
I backed up the same ROM that's on the internal. I can just delete that now and use the backup on my external without any issues correct??
I'm gonna copy the cwm folder info to my laptop before deleting just in case.
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mpetruzz said:
Thanks for that info!! I made a backup to my external. I checked the folder and there is the backup along with a blobs folder.
I backed up the same ROM that's on the internal. I can just delete that now and use the backup on my external without any issues correct??
I'm gonna copy the cwm folder info to my laptop before deleting just in case.
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Correct. As long as you made a new backup and CWM points to external just delete internal folder.
Cool. I think I'll do that. I didn't realize it took up so much memory. When I looked at the properties folder and saw that CWM was almost 4 GB o almost crapped my pants!!!
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mpetruzz said:
Cool. I think I'll do that. I didn't realize it took up so much memory. When I looked at the properties folder and saw that CWM was almost 4 GB o almost crapped my pants!!!
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Yea each backup is about a gig
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Since I'm a crackflasher I had quite a few!! I deleted all my old ones so its not as bad anymore.
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Hello! I need help!
I flashed a rom yesterday and I backed up my rom before flashing. Today I was trying to restore my backup and the system did not find it. I can see it using Astro file manager under clockworkmod and backups. But on recovery it won't show. And the recovery shows three backups that I don't remember doing but two out of the three are not accesible. Please, if you can tell me how to make clockworkmod see my backup. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
Did you backup to the internal drive or external sd card. Try going to your backup and restore then click the restore from external sd card to see if it is possibly there.
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Did you backup to the internal drive or external sd card. Try going to your backup and restore then click the restore from external sd card to see if it is possibly there.
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I don't have an SD card. It was saved on my internal drive. I tried to but it says I can't because there is no Sd card.
Did you format your internal drive before you tried restoring the backup. Usually my cwm just populates the ones I have done or if I want to pull one of the ones on my sd card I can. I will try moving my backup and see if I can replicate the problem.
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Did you format your internal drive before you tried restoring the backup. Usually my cwm just populates the ones I have done or if I want to pull one of the ones on my sd card I can. I will try moving my backup and see if I can replicate the problem.
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no I didn't I'll try to move it to an sd card and see what happens
I moved my backup to another folder and cwm did not find it. I'm not sure if you possibly moved it from the clockwork folder or not. I hope you figure it out.
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If you are still having problems try going into rom manager app. Should have a manage and restore option. From there it should have a list of your backups and will let you restore from one of those.
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sergioosvaldo1 said:
Hello! I need help!
I flashed a rom yesterday and I backed up my rom before flashing. Today I was trying to restore my backup and the system did not find it. I can see it using Astro file manager under clockworkmod and backups. But on recovery it won't show. And the recovery shows three backups that I don't remember doing but two out of the three are not accesible. Please, if you can tell me how to make clockworkmod see my backup. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
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Another thing to try is to make sure your recovery is current and up to date. That same thing happened to me (with TWRP) and it turned out it was due to me flashing a 4.2 rom (which changes the file structure of your sd) and having an older recovery that didn't support it.
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