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I've definitely researched through the forums and haven't seen this problem/resolution, so I'm hoping someone can help me.
I installed Cyanogen 7 on my dad's HTC Hero (CDMA) and I think I may have botched it. I used Clockwork Mod's Rom Manager to do a backup of the HTC Sense 2.1, and then began updating to CM7. The update went brilliantly, but my dad realized he hadn't put all his contacts into his google account, some of which would be extremely nice for him to get back.
Un-worried, I pulled up clockwork mod and went to the manage backup and recovery but found no backup. Puzzled, I used file manager to dig through the directory and found the backup it said it made, but I can't seem to point the mod at it. I copied the recovery file into a variety of different basic folders, as some basic google fu suggested it might simply need to be in the right folder.
None of that worked and I couldn't find a similar problem in the folder, so I turn to you all. To create the recovery, I simply clicked Backup Current Rom, it rebooted, created a backup and reloaded, giving me the recovery file: recovery-clockwork-2.5.0.7-heroc.... Can't read the rest, but that should give you an idea. It's only 2.29 megs, which feels small, but who knows what you need for a recovery file.
I feel like I missed something important, but I can't figure it out. Anyone? Ideas? Help? Suggestions? Thanks so much.
If it's only 2.2 mbs, something went wrong. It should be approximately the size of the phone's used internal memory.
If you want to attempt to restore the backup, you can reboot into recovery, then restore manually instead of through Rom Manager.
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I put the latest touch recovery from clockworkmod into a flashable zip.
It works with ICS. It is the same recovery as the one you would have to pay for to install with ROM manager.
TO INSTALL CWM TOUCH RECOVERY........
Flash this in recovery as you would any ROM or mod.
Here is the link:
http://db.tt/Ud9qVq7V
I found the recovery http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager
**** This is different than sk8tr's version btw. His has a custom ui and this is CWM official. ****
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If anyone is wondering this doesn't look like its a disaster just as 5.8.4.3 was. I flashed miui and it booted up fine but if anyone has any issues please share.
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Working good on my Hercules just flashed aokp jb and aint need any superwipe scripts either
thank you, works great!
Updated op to avoid confusion.
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Thanks for the info!
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Okay, so I ran a backup and restore test on cm9 and cm10. I thought it was sk8t's version causing me problems restoring backups but the issue is similar on this build.
The backup file that gets created doesn't contain all the data for a full restore -- much of it gets stored in the "blobs" folder in cwm (someone more knowledgeable than me can probably explain better). Also, it takes a REALLY long time to create a backup.
Using the standard restore doesn't work on (on this or on sk8t's version). I keep getting "error restoring system" message and it won't restore. I tried to do an advanced restore doing each part individually but that didn't work either.
Restoring an old rom from before they changed the backup method works fine though. I haven't tried restoring using ROM Manager yet but I may try that next--I'm thinking that's what the new system is designed for...
EDIT: Rom manager fails too. Same error restoring system message.
Please post here if you can successfuly backup and restore cm9 or cm10 (or any other roms) so we can figure out if its just me
skrambled said:
Okay, so I ran a backup and restore test on cm9 and cm10. I thought it was sk8t's version causing me problems restoring backups but the issue is similar on this build.
The backup file that gets created doesn't contain all the data for a full restore -- much of it gets stored in the "blobs" folder in cwm (someone more knowledgeable than me can probably explain better). Also, it takes a REALLY long time to create a backup.
Using the standard restore doesn't work on (on this or on sk8t's version). I keep getting "error restoring system" message and it won't restore. I tried to do an advanced restore doing each part individually but that didn't work either.
Restoring an old rom from before they changed the backup method works fine though. I haven't tried restoring using ROM Manager yet but I may try that next--I'm thinking that's what the new system is designed for...
EDIT: Rom manager fails too. Same error restoring system message.
Please post here if you can successfuly backup and restore cm9 or cm10 (or any other roms) so we can figure out if its just me
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Did a backup on CM10 Alpha 1. It took awhile but didn't seem to take any longer than a CM 5.x backup. Modified a few things, updated a couple apps, and then did another backup - went a bit quicker. Doing a restore now but it's past the restoring system portion so I'm assuming it'll all be good. I'll edit this if it craps out at some point.
As for the blobs, this is new to CM6.x and from what I understand is supposed to make backups a little quicker and use less space as it will only backup what's been changed since a previous backup instead of the entire thing like CM5.x. Not sure at all on all the technical details but I'd suspect the blobs contain what's been changed at the point of backup and each backup "container" file indicate which blobs to restore...
EDIT: Restore completed just fine.
so you're saying that if I have a backup stored and create a new back up it only backs up the changes since the last one? If so, that sucks. I always like to keep a solid backup and then after numerous changes back up again and delete the old one. Looks like it's back to old faithful 5.8.1.3 for me.
(UPDATE) confirmed. My new backup was 20MB.
Honestly i prefer twrp recovery.. just wanted to provide this for those that needed it.
But, since TWRP does an UNCOMPRESSED backup i can have a nandroid backup done in a little over 2 minutes. Same for restore.. very fast.
TWRP can be set to compress the backup.. but i prefer speed over less space.
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copene said:
so you're saying that if I have a backup stored and create a new back up it only backs up the changes since the last one? If so, that sucks. I always like to keep a solid backup and then after numerous changes back up again and delete the old one. Looks like it's back to old faithful 5.8.1.3 for me.
(UPDATE) confirmed. My new backup was 20MB.
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Here's the explanation of how it works:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
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Here's the explanation of how it works:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
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Thanks. There should be a "FULL backup" and "BLOB backup" option. I'm rolling with 5.8.1.3 cause it's never fu**ed me over (yet).
copene said:
Thanks. There should be a "FULL backup" and "BLOB backup" option. I'm rolling with 5.8.1.3 cause it's never fu**ed me over (yet).
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I'm not sure if I follow what the point would be? I thought the same, but after reading that and doing a few tests, I'm confident this will do just as well - if not better.
Might be worth mentioning/requesting from Koushik Dutta depending on your reasoning or need.
I think I figured out what the problem was for me in not getting backups to restore (but someone please post if you disagree). I was getting an "Error while restoring /system!" message every time.
Every time I make a backup I go into Root Explorer and change the backup name so that I know which rom it is. Today I did a backup and didn't change the backup name and I was able to restore it successfully.
Changing the name of yesterday's backup to it's original name, however, did not fix the problem. Those backups still won't restore.
skrambled said:
I think I figured out what the problem was for me in not getting backups to restore (but someone please post if you disagree). I was getting an "Error while restoring /system!" message every time.
Every time I make a backup I go into Root Explorer and change the backup name so that I know which rom it is. Today I did a backup and didn't change the backup name and I was able to restore it successfully.
Changing the name of yesterday's backup to it's original name, however, did not fix the problem. Those backups still won't restore.
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I've always changed the name of my backup folder to make it more descriptive. One thing I read along time ago was that it only works if you don't include any spaces in the changed folder name. And I've never had any problems with restoring any of them. However, if you indeed did not include any spaces, then maybe it's been changed in CWM 6.
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I've always changed the name of my backup folder to make it more descriptive. One thing I read along time ago was that it only works if you don't include any spaces in the changed folder name. And I've never had any problems with restoring any of them. However, if you indeed did not include any spaces, then maybe it's been changed in CWM 6.
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Didn't add any spaces. I only added cm9 or cm10 to the end of the file name (that's how I know I changed it back to the original names when I tried to restore yesterday's backups).
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Didn't add any spaces. I only added cm9 or cm10 to the end of the file name (that's how I know I changed it back to the original names when I tried to restore yesterday's backups).
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Gotcha. That's interesting then; don't know what it could be.
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Hey majic I got a suggestion to cut down on confusion. Put official in the title. At first I thought sk8 had to threads. I thank you kind sir for zipping and uploading this official version. You da man....
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skrambled said:
Didn't add any spaces. I only added cm9 or cm10 to the end of the file name (that's how I know I changed it back to the original names when I tried to restore yesterday's backups).
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never had issues changing names of back up folders, what did you use to change the folder name , you could have a space at the end of the file name and dont even know it, use backspace to delete it, if u know dos try its naming conventions
sorry but how is this recovery different from sk8's recovery? That one's also CWM Touch 6.0.1.0 and also flashable zip ... ?
Thanks!
I got a replacement GS3 from Verizon because my current one had a charge port issue. I rooted and am using CWM 6.0.2.3 and get "error while restoring /system" when I try tp restore the nandroid of my old phone to the new one. How do I fix this?
Did you change the name of the nandroid at all? It's also possible that the backup you made contained individual phone information specific to your old phone...I seem to remember a thread before that mentioned it wasn't a good idea to move a nandroid to a new Samsung phone.
Edit: I found the thread shortly after hitting submit - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1795031
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Did you change the name of the nandroid at all? It's also possible that the backup you made contained individual phone information specific to your old phone...I seem to remember a thread before that mentioned it wasn't a good idea to move a nandroid to a new Samsung phone.
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No I didnt't change anything. Anyway I can fix this?
laurasaurisrex said:
Did you change the name of the nandroid at all? It's also possible that the backup you made contained individual phone information specific to your old phone...I seem to remember a thread before that mentioned it wasn't a good idea to move a nandroid to a new Samsung phone.
Edit: I found the thread shortly after hitting submit - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1795031
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If anyone has a way I can workaround that, please help! I don't want to setup my phone all over again!
droxide said:
If anyone has a way I can workaround that, please help! I don't want to setup my phone all over again!
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there are a couple of apps where you can just extract the nandroid apps on the play store, but if you want the full restore, the file is probably corrupted.
dragon1357 said:
there are a couple of apps where you can just extract the nandroid apps on the play store, but if you want the full restore, the file is probably corrupted.
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Yeah I used to use titanium backup but my phone is very customized, CM10, diff kernel, and a very highly customized home screen so I'd rather restore the nandroid if there is some kind of workaround. I also want all my data, texts, etc. without using titanium backup. When I used ti backup in the past, I had a bunch of different issues restoring apps and data, force closes, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949020
I followed the directions in the last post of that thread.. I made a backup of the new phone, moved the old nandroid from old phone to the twrp back up folder in my new phone. I copied the new backup name and deleted the new backup. i pasted the name into the old back up, I tried to restore and i get an error "no partitions selected for restore. Is it because Im using twrp and I made the old backup with CWM?
Someone help!
droxide said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949020
I followed the directions in the last post of that thread.. I made a backup of the new phone, moved the old nandroid from old phone to the twrp back up folder in my new phone. I copied the new backup name and deleted the new backup. i pasted the name into the old back up, I tried to restore and i get an error "no partitions selected for restore. Is it because Im using twrp and I made the old backup with CWM?
Someone help!
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That could be it. They back up with different formats. Cwm uses the blob folder twrp does not.
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kintwofan said:
That could be it. They back up with different formats. Cwm uses the blob folder twrp does not.
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Ok so how can I switch from TWRP to CWM without resetting everything?
droxide said:
Ok so how can I switch from TWRP to CWM without resetting everything?
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Ya, you should be able to flash it through odin no problem
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droxide said:
Ok so how can I switch from TWRP to CWM without resetting everything?
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You can just use ez recovery from the play store
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I've been using RobbieL811 Uber rom for quite a while but now development seems to have come to a halt. A couple of posters say move to a new ROM so I tried Resurrection Remix. I don't have time to move my data (Inc save games that don't cloud save) individually, so I Googled the best way to do this. I got a load of 2013 posts about restoring the data partition from the nandroid backup. After installing RR and restoring the backup of the data I just get boot freeze. Is there something I'm missing?
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I've been using RobbieL811 Uber rom for quite a while but now development seems to have come to a halt. A couple of posters say move to a new ROM so I tried Resurrection Remix. I don't have time to move my data (Inc save games that don't cloud save) individually, so I Googled the best way to do this. I got a load of 2013 posts about restoring the data partition from the nandroid backup. After installing RR and restoring the backup of the data I just get boot freeze. Is there something I'm missing?
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I don't know who said to restore a data backup from a nandroid, that's wrong, it's a huge no-no. The data backup includes all data from the ROM, not just apps, so it's attempting to restore incompatible system settings and stuff like that. You can just use Titanium Backup to make backups of your apps and then restore them after you've flashed your new ROM.
Yep titanium is what u need
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Thanks for your assist guys, tried what you suggested and it worked! Until I rebooted. Now it just boots for ages. And nothing else. I've unselected any system apps.
Gingepie49 said:
Thanks for your assist guys, tried what you suggested and it worked! Until I rebooted. Now it just boots for ages. And nothing else. I've unselected any system apps.
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Exactly what did you do? You need to provide a detailed account of everything that lead to this point. What did you restore with Titanium?
I did two over the course of the night, the first I restored everything, including system apps like dialler, Gmail etc. But this broke it. So I wiped, installed, and restored only missing apps and data. Still broken on reboot.
Gingepie49 said:
I did two over the course of the night, the first I restored everything, including system apps like dialler, Gmail etc. But this broke it. So I wiped, installed, and restored only missing apps and data. Still broken on reboot.
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You can't restore system apps/data, that's why it was borked the first time. It's also possible that you restored system/app data the second time too. Only ever restore user apps.
Heisenberg said:
You can't restore system apps/data, that's why it was borked the first time. It's also possible that you restored system/app data the second time too. Only ever restore user apps.
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After using titanium to restore user apps and data, some apps just force closed on opening unless I removed the data then it worked. Decided to restore from backup and give it up until 6.0 rom appears.
Make sure you start with a clean slate. Factory reset and flash new Rom before restoring any backup. Are you good up to that point?
I don't know what you're doing wrong man, I change ROMS every now and then, and I just backup my games and apps with Titanium Backup, install new ROM, and restore my apps, always works unless you mess up real bad
titanium backup pro (worth it for flashaholics) or zipme
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After using titanium to restore user apps and data, some apps just force closed on opening unless I removed the data then it worked. Decided to restore from backup and give it up until 6.0 rom appears.
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i have never had that issues on 5 different phones and multiple different roms... try rom toolbox or zipme
Finally gave it one last ditch attempt (well two, actually).
Tried flashing Sultan Cm12 rom, but it unroots the device so bailed on it.
Put latest Resurrection Remix on, restored user apps but was more careful about when I restored. Mostly Google apps and some xposed apps, some Robbie rom stuff that wasn't needed and voila! Posting this from a working rom! Had to reinstall xposed framework and Waze from scratch but that's fine.
Thanks for the support guys!
Like the title says, I'm trying to figure out how to make a flashable zip of my phone with all my installed apps, app data and settings included.
I already have a nandroid backup and I already use titanium to back up my apps and app data, but I want to have a flashable zip as another backup incase all else fails.
I also want to be able to flash the zip on my wife's N5.
Can someone kindly walk me through the process or point me in the direction of a good walk through?
Thanks in advance.
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tamelion1117 said:
Like the title says, I'm trying to figure out how to make a flashable zip of my phone with all my installed apps, app data and settings included.
I already have a nandroid backup and I already use titanium to back up my apps and app data, but I want to have a flashable zip as another backup incase all else fails.
I also want to be able to flash the zip on my wife's N5.
Can someone kindly walk me through the process or point me in the direction of a good walk through?
Thanks in advance.
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Don't you think that if it was something feasible and worthwhile to do many of the developers would have
created something like that already after all these years?
The developers have already developed an excellent way of backing up and restoring android phones using
TWRP and CWM nandroid backup and restore functions in their custom recovery mode which everyone uses.
If you don't trust nandroid backups why not do a simple test and make some nandroid backups and restore each
of them one at a time to see if you can find any kind of issues, problems or difficulties with your phone after you
have restored each of the backups one at a time.
Have you ever created a nandroid backup which did not restore properly or know of anyone who did?
Also why not do a bit of research here in these xda forums and threads to see if you can find any posts here by
people who are having any problems, issues or difficulties using or restoring their nandroid backups.
Good luck,
Have a great day!
Misterjunky said:
Don't you think that if it was something feasible and worthwhile to do many of the developers would have
created something like that already after all these years?
The developers have already developed an excellent way of backing up and restoring android phones using
TWRP and CWM nandroid backup and restore functions in their custom recovery mode.
If you don't trust nandroid backups why not make two of them as a test and restore each of them one at a time
and see if you can find any kind of issues or problems with your phone after restoring each of the backups.
Have you ever created a nandroid backup which did not restore properly or know of anyone who did?
Also why not do a bit of reading here in these xda forums and threads to see if you can find any people here
who are having any problems or issues with their nandroid backups after they have restored them.
Good luck,
Have a great day!
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I trust in my nandroid backups. The main reason I want to create a flashable zip with everything backed up in it is to have the ability to create a duplicate image of my phone and flash it on my wife's.
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tamelion1117 said:
Like the title says, I'm trying to figure out how to make a flashable zip of my phone with all my installed apps, app data and settings included.
I already have a nandroid backup and I already use titanium to back up my apps and app data, but I want to have a flashable zip as another backup incase all else fails.
I also want to be able to flash the zip on my wife's N5.
Can someone kindly walk me through the process or point me in the direction of a good walk through?
Thanks in advance.
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well if you really want to learn
here's a simple example of how you can build yourself a rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5x/development/custom-rom-starter-template-honor-5x-t3328809
keep in mind you can't use his updater-script and you need to adjust some of the commands to match the note 5
but for the most part all roms are the same
you need:
META-INF <Folder>
boot.img
system.apps.tar.gz
system.therest.tar.gz
and optionally > data.tar.gz
once you have these you essentially have a rom
There's also an app called "zip me" in the play store that will do exactly what I wanted.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zip.me
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tamelion1117 said:
I trust in my nandroid backups. The main reason I want to create a flashable zip with everything backed up in it is to have the ability to create a duplicate image of my phone and flash it on my wife's.
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If you want a duplicate image why not create two nandroids and copy one
to your pc then to your wife's phone since you say the phone is identical
which they would have to be in order to use the same backup.
Once the nandroid is on your pc you can simply copy it to your wife's
internal memory then restore using twrp.
I have about 5-6 nandroid backups of different roms for my phone.
Goodluck,
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If you want a duplicate image why not create two nandroids and copy one
to your pc then to your wife's phone since you say the phone is identical
which they would have to be in order to use the same backup.
Once the nandroid is on your pc you can simply copy it to your wife's
internal memory then restore using twrp.
I have about 5-6 nandroid backups of different roms for my phone.
Goodluck,
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I don't think I was clear in the op. I know how to create nandroids, and yes, I could easily do it that way, but what I really want to do is compile my rom, settings apps and app settings into a flashable zip instead. To further my knowledge so to speak.
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