I'm sure this has been asked, but since the search function is down right now, I'll just ask in a new thread. How long should a NAND backup take? I am using CWM 6.0.1.0, and it's been churning for about an hour now. It's not stuck, and it's making progress, it's just really slow. I am backing up a ROM based on stock.
Admittedly, I am not using an ultra-fast SD card, but this still seems long to me. For those of you that flash a lot, do you typically backup to the internal or external storage? Is the internal storage perhaps faster than an SD card that is a few years old?
Thanks!
How many apps do you have on there? I know that that can make a difference. An hour seems long to me. It takes my DX about 8 or so minutes
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Mine typically just a couple of minutes for both backup and restore. My Thunderbolt took an eternity.
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i have made many back ups on my S3. I personly make 2 backups. 1 on the Internal SD and one on the External SD. i do them both at the same time. I do that just incase maybe my 32gig ultra card goes bad.
Takes me around 10 mins or so to do both. I have a lot of apps but they are not big in size. Have fun
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takes around 2-3 minutes
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So it happened to me, removed wifi calling apk (requires reboot to stop constant force close) and rebooted only to realize that my internal storage was completely wiped. Not upset about it lost some music and a couple of images I can live without, backed up most of the important ones a while ago.
Just curious if it has happened to anyone else with the g2x?
It happened to me once on cm7. I uninstalled swift key and everything froze for about 2 minutes. Then the screen went black.
Battery pulled reboot and it went to lg screen then black. Battery pulled again reboot into recovery nothing would mount or work in recovery. Reboot again and it would only go to recovery.
It wiped my entire internal and fried my 16gb external. I had to nvflash back to stock to get it to work again. External SD card is still useless.
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guess I got lucky then, my external is still good. Now I'm backing that one up just in case, I got stuck in the weird recovery issue though as well. either way all is alright I ended up flashing your mod to weapon while I was stuck in recovery lol. Very nice, just in case you come back and see this thread, any chance we can get ICS transitions lol.
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guess I got lucky then, my external is still good. Now I'm backing that one up just in case, I got stuck in the weird recovery issue though as well. either way all is alright I ended up flashing your mod to weapon while I was stuck in recovery lol. Very nice, just in case you come back and see this thread, any chance we can get ICS transitions lol.
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Yeah I meant to add them. But got caught up with trying to add lock screens. I will add them in the next update. Not sure when it will be though.
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Sweetness and no worries this thing is faster then ever!
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My g2x did the same thing two weeks ago. My friend tried to convince me it was from badmouthing lg on their Facebook Page.
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My g2x did the same thing two weeks ago. My friend tried to convince me it was from badmouthing lg on their Facebook Page.
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Lol, it would serve you right. I mean, is it LG that's to blame? It is Nvidia? Is it Google, they're the ones who wrote Android, or is it T-Mobile for commissioning the software for the phone to be written as crap? Hardware-wise this phone is pretty good, and the fact that it's nearly impossible to truly brick this think is awesome. And is it even Nvidia or LG that ultimately writes the OS? There is a thread bouncing around about that.
A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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me too...
Thought it might be allshare?
Got no clue. I am not sharing anything. Made me think maybe kiss air responsible
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Are you referring to media hub? If so, you can freeze or uninstall it.
Wow, this just jumped up for me as well. For the last day and a half my battery life has been brutal. This morning I'm down 16% in 45 min. despite not using my phone.
Looks like two apps are the culprits: Media and Media Server. Can anyone tell me how I can determine what is forcing these to run?
I thought I could correlate it to installing a free Amazon talking book, 'cause after installing it this weekend my media server never seemed to shut off and I had to reboot to kill it. But I uninstalled the app last night with no improvement.
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A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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That is so curious, I have nothing like that even on my radar. Are you guys using debloated roms?
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FWIW, this isn't a new issue, just new to me. Quite a few theories as to the cause.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=980575
http://androidforums.com/eris-support-troubleshooting/217747-mediaserver-using-battery.html
Looks like some have had success removing all media files from their SD cards. Doing this piecemeal sounds pretty daunting to me - seems like every app folder and subfolder has at least images in it. Think I'll wait til next time I flash to start fresh. If this battery drain keeps up it will probably be in the next couple hours
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A new thing killing my battery is media server. Whats that
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Are apps that use the media scanner working properly? Apps such as music, camera, gallery, etc?
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Everything else seems to work fine for me. This is driving me crazy. I formatted my SD card, but no improvement. Media Server continues to run. I then wiped once, but still it's running. Been running Silver's ICS for a week with no issues at all, then this started two days ago.
Next up I'm gonna wipe 3x, then dalvik wipe, then reflash. ARRRRGH!
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Everything else seems to work fine for me. This is driving me crazy. I formatted my SD card, but no improvement. Media Server continues to run. I then wiped once, but still it's running. Been running Silver's ICS for a week with no issues at all, then this started two days ago.
Next up I'm gonna wipe 3x, then dalvik wipe, then reflash. ARRRRGH!
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Have you tried moving everything off of your emmc (internal sd) to your computer? Then reboot. I had a problem with media scanner doing that. I take it you never used the Odin one click?
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Have you tried moving everything off of your emmc (internal sd) to your computer? Then reboot. I had a problem with media scanner doing that. I take it you never used the Odin one click?
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Haven't used Odin on this SR (it's a two-week old replacement). I've only used Odin in the past to remove root. I'm at a loss here. I've formatted my ext. SD, wiped my phone numerous times, flashed 3 different ROMs today, and restored every app one-by-one so that I don't restore the data. Still media server runs like a top.
Is there a way to use Odin that's faster than removing root and starting over? I gotta fix this - I can't last 4 hours on a battery.
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Haven't used Odin on this SR (it's a two-week old replacement). I've only used Odin in the past to remove root. I'm at a loss here. I've formatted my ext. SD, wiped my phone numerous times, flashed 3 different ROMs today, and restored every app one-by-one so that I don't restore the data. Still media server runs like a top.
Is there a way to use Odin that's faster than removing root and starting over? I gotta fix this - I can't last 4 hours on a battery.
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I know what you mean. Have you tried running fix permissions in rom manager? You have to install busybox from the market first, though.
Edit: Here's a link to a busybox installer:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox
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Just finished fixing permissions and rebooted. I'm only 7 minutes into the battery monitor, but media server is still running over 50% of drain. Sigh, guess a trip to Odin is in order.
Huh. I was having a similar problem, and moving all the files from the internal sd card to my computer fixed it. And then I read somewhere that fix permissions would work too. Sorry I couldn't be more of a help. Good luck!
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So I performed a Nandroid Backup on my Galaxy S3 today and it took about 45 minutes. I looked at the file size and it was 2.5 GB. Is this normal? Should it take this long?
I am using CWM Recovery 6.01.0.
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So I performed a Nandroid Backup on my Galaxy S3 today and it took about 45 minutes. I looked at the file size and it was 2.5 GB. Is this normal? Should it take this long?
I am using CWM Recovery 6.01.0.
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Sounds about right to me, if I'm not mistaken the /system partition on a stock install is something like 1.2GB, and then you have all of your data and apps and such.
Do you have a lot of apps, or maybe a game with a lot of data? That could explain the huge dump
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I use the touch recovery and mines at 1.84 GB from yesterday. The 45 minutes is too long though, mine takes roughly 5 - 15 minutes. It will take more space if your coming from a smaller storage capable phone like I did. Droid X2 was roughly 1.20 GBs and thats with a ton of stuff installed.
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So I performed a Nandroid Backup on my Galaxy S3 today and it took about 45 minutes. I looked at the file size and it was 2.5 GB. Is this normal? Should it take this long?
I am using CWM Recovery 6.01.0.
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bloatware.
you just backed up EVERYTHING. remember that.
My backups for my Incredible 2 were 1.5 gigs. That was CM7. Cannot imagine what a stock firmware would have been.
Storage sounds like it could be right but 45 minutes is way too long. The again I haven't gotten that far with my sgs3 lol Just in my past, backups take 15 minutes or less.
Whoa, 45 mimutes? That seems like a very long time to make a nandroid. Have you tried changing recoveries? Or even reflashing the one you have already?
As for the size, it's about right. Unless you want to not backup something, the size is what it is.
Alright guys thanks a lot for all the help.Flashed CWM Recovery touch and the backup ran in around 10 minutes at 2.6 GB. All is well can't wait for the official CM10 to come out!!!
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I agree, 45 minutes seems too long. My backup was pretty big at 2.1gb but only took about 20 minutes.
I'm having an issue with media draining my battery at 55 percent usage. I was moving over a nandroid backup from my internal sd to external sd card when this issue occurred. After formatting my external sd card the media is still at high percentage. Even after removing my sd card from the phone the usage is still high. Anyone know how to fix this?
I get that every time my phone boots up too. It just started doing that on Saturday for me. I found out that if you go into your battery usage stats and select it (after the phone has been running for a few minutes), select it, and then force close it, that I'm good-to-go until I reboot my phone again. I'm not sure why it started doing that, but at least I found an easy "fix" for it.
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What the media drain is is its scanning and organizing databases for your info on your sdcards. give it a few hours to do its thing and it'll go away. If not then just keep it on the plug for a couple hours and it should be good when you unplug it
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There's an app called, rescan media root. Maybe try that.
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As stated give it s couple days new roms have to settle down.
stripped apart rebuilt with Clean Rom&XdaTechnology!!!
What does this mean? how long does a rom take to "settle" and what does it do after and before it settles?
On a new install it will index all your files, you have a lot of files on a sdcard like music/pics/ect it will take a while. Also the kernel does a lot of things too with data blocks and such.
I would say it varies by how many files and such but about 1 day or so, maybe a tad longer to settle. Your phone will get more smooth over time as filling cache and such.
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