Everytime I make a backup in CWM it disappears. I back up and then try new rom and when I got Quickboot loaded again, I go look and restore says no files found. Not even when I look with root explorer they are gone...please help!! TIA!!
moonsbabe said:
Everytime I make a backup in CWM it disappears. I back up and then try new rom and when I got Quickboot loaded again, I go look and restore says no files found. Not even when I look with root explorer they are gone...please help!! TIA!!
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Check in /mnt/sdcard/0 for your CWM folder.
mentose457 said:
Check in /mnt/sdcard/0 for your CWM folder.
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And how do I find them in CWM? When I go into recovery it says no files found. Would I be better off flashing TWRP? And by the way they are there!!!
moonsbabe said:
And how do I find them in CWM? When I go into recovery it says no files found. Would I be better off flashing TWRP? And by the way they are there!!!
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In Root Explorer (or whatever root explorer you use) you can simply copy the CWM folder from /mnt/sdcard/0 to mnt/sdcard. After moving all the data you wish to keep from the 0 folder to the sdcard folder you could delete the 0 folder.
what is /0? I found the files but don't know what this means? I am still such a noob after all these years!
moonsbabe said:
what is /0? I found the files but don't know what this means? I am still such a noob after all these years!
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That is the 0 folder in your sdcard folder. It is created when you flash a 4.2 ROM.
mentose457 said:
That is the 0 folder in your sdcard folder. It is created when you flash a 4.2 ROM.
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Sorry I go to bed early and go to work early. I still don't find a folder with /0. I can go into mnt/sdcard and clockwork is in there. But doesn't show at all in recovery. Am about to give up! Driving me crazy~~
Still not showing restore files in recovery. I can do a backup and can see it as a restore but after a while (less than a day) it is gone. So tired of this. Still wondering if TWRP would be better?????????
moonsbabe said:
Still not showing restore files in recovery. I can do a backup and can see it as a restore but after a while (less than a day) it is gone. So tired of this. Still wondering if TWRP would be better?????????
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Have you tried the "restore from SD card option in CWM to see if your backups are there?
Harley_Rider said:
Have you tried the "restore from SD card option in CWM to see if your backups are there?
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Nothing there. Tells me 'no files found'. I would love to restore to the last one cuz my battery sucks right now. What about CWM from the market? Could downloading that help???? Thinking out loud here!!!
Ok I did a backup to the external sd card and found it. Then went into root manager and copied one of the backups that I couldn't access and moved it into the new backup folder on the external sd card. Renamed it to just the date like the new one....in other words took the word 'copy' out of the name. And I got to restore to my previous back up!!!!!! Yes Yes Yes!!!! Thanks for ya'll's help!! I guess I had to get mad to figure it out with help!!! Thanks again!!!!
Now flash twrp and see if you have the same problems.
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I think I will leave it the way it is for right now. And I found the /0 when I had phone connected to puter. I was getting rid of roms on the sd that I didn't like and was searching around on the internal sd and found it. Thank you so very much for your help! I will probably flash twrp next weekend. I really need my phone for work! So I only try to brick it on the weekends!
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Long story short I accidentally deleted my sd cards contents by partitioning it. I luckily have a CWM backup saved to my computer. So I just dragged the file to my sd card via my Mac. When I go into CWM and try to do an advanced restore I get "Couldn't open directory no files found". Simple fix if someone could tell me the proper name of the folder and where it needs to be. As always any help will get you a great big THANKS.
/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
Thanks for that. In my desire to get organized I renamed the folder CWM Recovery. I'll put it back to normal and let you no how it goes.
ok np bro let me know how it goes
Worked like a charm. All my apps are back. Thanks for the quick reply. Must of been some pretty advanced artillery!
lol...nope just the good smell of that wolf pus**. (if your wondering, its an artillery thang)
jdubb1106 said:
/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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i am using Samsung Galaxy nexus. But i cannot go into the folder. The backup file which i inserted into sdcard is not showing. i did back again from CWM and went back to restore it just showed only one backup which we done from CWM mode.!!! pl help.!
deeprocks31 said:
i am using Samsung Galaxy nexus. But i cannot go into the folder. The backup file which i inserted into sdcard is not showing. i did back again from CWM and went back to restore it just showed only one backup which we done from CWM mode.!!! pl help.!
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WOW. My very first thread has come back from the dead. Sweet.
deeprocks,
Not really sure what your trying to do or what version of recovery your using. But for CWM it will always be under clockworkmod/backup. I am not familiar with your device but if you have internal and external storage the newer versions of CWM let you select where to backup too/restore from. Look into that. Also try asking this question in your phones sub-forum. Good luck.
Hi everyone, I recently installed cyanogen 10.1 for my note 10.1 N8010. It wouldn't install through CWM so I tried to install twrp through goo manager. It couldn't find a custom recover for my device so I flashed it through Odin. I was running android freedom at the time and had a nandroid of it. I wiped data in twrp, it said it would wipe data and cache only so I went ahead. After cyanogen flashed successfully I tried it out and downloaded titanium backup to restore my apps, they weren't there!!! Every restore option had a zero beside it, I checked the titanium backup folder to no avail. I decided to restore to android revolution as I had a backup. When I went to restore there were no files. No backup. I checked the clockworkmod folder and found the file but when I click properties it says - where size should be. Please help me as this is not my fault and I have a lot of important data in the backup. :crying:
TechMitchell said:
Hi everyone, I recently installed cyanogen 10.1 for my note 10.1 N8010. It wouldn't install through CWM so I tried to install twrp through goo manager. It couldn't find a custom recover for my device so I flashed it through Odin. I was running android freedom at the time and had a nandroid of it. I wiped data in twrp, it said it would wipe data and cache only so I went ahead. After cyanogen flashed successfully I tried it out and downloaded titanium backup to restore my apps, they weren't there!!! Every restore option had a zero beside it, I checked the titanium backup folder to no avail. I decided to restore to android revolution as I had a backup. When I went to restore there were no files. No backup. I checked the clockworkmod folder and found the file but when I click properties it says - where size should be. Please help me as this is not my fault and I have a lot of important data in the backup. :crying:
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Just check on your internal memory , there should be a folder named "0" , if you have this you will find all your titanium backup & CWM folder inside.
lsherif said:
Just check on your internal memory , there should be a folder named "0" , if you have this you will find all your titanium backup & CWM folder inside.
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There's no "0" folder, would it be insidea folder itself or just on the SD card because I checked the SD card and is not there. :'(
TechMitchell said:
There's no "0" folder, would it be insidea folder itself or just on the SD card because I checked the SD card and is not there. :'(
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It`s inside the internal not the SD card.
ok
lsherif said:
It`s inside the internal not the SD card.
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I don't mean the external SD card I mean the internal, it shows all the folders like titanium backup and clockwordmod but there isn't any file in titanium backup and there are backups and blobs in CWM but the backup have a size of like 10mb and I don't know if blobs help. Please help.
TechMitchell said:
I don't mean the external SD card I mean the internal, it shows all the folders like titanium backup and clockwordmod but there isn't any file in titanium backup and there are backups and blobs in CWM but the backup have a size of like 10mb and I don't know if blobs help. Please help.
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Just move this to the root of the internal memory, get into CWM & you can restore your rom from there.
ok
lsherif said:
Just move this to the root of the internal memory, get into CWM & you can restore your rom from there.
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OK, I'll try but I don't think it's going to work.
nope
I tried to restore in twrp and when it said to select files to restore nothing appeared, if the backup was made in CWM do I have to flash CWM recovery to restore it?
TechMitchell said:
I tried to restore in twrp and when it said to select files to restore nothing appeared, if the backup was made in CWM do I have to flash CWM recovery to restore it?
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Yes as long as you backed up with cwm you should restore with cwm
ok
lsherif said:
Yes as long as you backed up with cwm you should restore with cwm
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OK, going to try that, if it works you'll get a cyber hug, if not I'll transfer the titanium backup from my phone as I had all the same applications except some games like nova 3, but they just took up space anyway.
nope
Nope, didn't work, I'll just move my phone apps to the tablet and down load the rest. Thanks anyway
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Wait, in my storage it says clockworkmod is taking up 3.01GB, that cant be empty space, It might all be blobs, ca someone explain this to me?
TechMitchell said:
Wait, in my storage it says clockworkmod is taking up 3.01GB, that cant be empty space, It might all be blobs, ca someone explain this to me?
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I just answered thi in another thread a few minutes ago.. I had a problem like this awhile back..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37278902&postcount=14
nope
txtmikhail said:
I just answered thi in another thread a few minutes ago.. I had a problem like this awhile back..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=37278902&postcount=14
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No go, in es file manager when I go to root is an empty folder?
Then its empty start over flash stock rom and download the apps again .
This two posts on the same subject is stupid and confusing .
jje
not a chance
JJEgan said:
Then its empty start over flash stock rom and download the apps again .
This two posts on the same subject is stupid and confusing .
jje
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Not a chance, stock? Are you serious? Thank the lord I had most of the data synced and I can transfer the apps from my phone and they actually work except chrome, thanks born the advice anyway, Lol stock.
TechMitchell said:
No go, in es file manager when I go to root is an empty folder?
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Use a different file manager .. i forgot which one i used.. but if its empty in more than 2 different managers than its empty..
try hd file manager..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5yaG1zb2Z0LmZtLmhkIl0.
I'm so confused...
So I was on Liquid Smooth Rom and then I did a nandroid with TWR.
Flashed Eclipse but forgot something on the other rom so I backed up Eclipse.
When I went to restore to Liquid Smooth it wasn't an option to restore to..
The paths are.. \SCH-I535\Internal storage\0(maybe this is why?)\TWRP\BACKUPS\0417aa1c which shows two of my back ups
Liquidsmooth and Miui. both of which do not show up in twr.
Then under SCH-I535\Internal storage\TWRP\BACKUPS\0417aa1c
There is nothing.
But... When I go into twr it only shows my back up of eclipse..I can't find the files for ecliipse in the file manager otherwise I would just move everything over...
I very confused...
Thanks
Maybe one was set to internal storage and the other to external?
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mikeman45 said:
Maybe one was set to internal storage and the other to external?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda premium
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Nah. I thought that as well. I looked and nothing on the SD card
derik123derik123 said:
Nah. I thought that as well. I looked and nothing on the SD card
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Now I did just run a nandroid and it said in terminal that it was backing up to data/media/twrp/backups/0417a
I can't find that and every TWRP folder doesn't have any files in it..
derik123derik123 said:
I'm so confused...
So I was on Liquid Smooth Rom and then I did a nandroid with TWR.
Flashed Eclipse but forgot something on the other rom so I backed up Eclipse.
When I went to restore to Liquid Smooth it wasn't an option to restore to..
The paths are.. \SCH-I535\Internal storage\0(maybe this is why?)\TWRP\BACKUPS\0417aa1c which shows two of my back ups
Liquidsmooth and Miui. both of which do not show up in twr.
Then under SCH-I535\Internal storage\TWRP\BACKUPS\0417aa1c
There is nothing.
But... When I go into twr it only shows my back up of eclipse..I can't find the files for ecliipse in the file manager otherwise I would just move everything over...
I very confused...
Thanks
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I could be wrong, but if LiquidSmooth is based on 4.2, your data is moved to 0 to support multi-users. In TWRP or CWM, whenever I tried to restore a nandroid that was saved in the 0 folder, the custom recovery did not look in the 0 folder and could not pull up this nandroid as an option to restore
Thus, if you want to restore something that is in your 0 folder, I believe that you'd have to move your backup from the 0\TWRP (or CWM) folder to the TWRP (or CWM) folder. Let me know if I am wrong.
JOLiu said:
I could be wrong, but if LiquidSmooth is based on 4.2, your data is moved to 0 to support multi-users. In TWRP or CWM, whenever I tried to restore a nandroid that was saved in the 0 folder, the custom recovery did not look in the 0 folder and could not pull up this nandroid as an option to restore
Thus, if you want to restore something that is in your 0 folder, I believe that you'd have to move your backup from the 0\TWRP (or CWM) folder to the TWRP (or CWM) folder. Let me know if I am wrong.
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I think I might have just figured out what you meant. haha I'll confirm then post back.
Thanks for your speedy replies.
A couple of days ago, I installed android 4.2.2 liquidsmooth on my galaxy s3 i9300. Before installing this custom ROM, I took a backup into external SD card. I see the folder to which I had taken a backup and files like boot.img, recovery.img are there in this folder. Now I want to restore to my old state but when I go to recovery mode and select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files directory found. It is unable to recognize the backed up files. How do I go about restoring?
regex_vid said:
A couple of days ago, I installed android 4.2.2 liquidsmooth on my galaxy s3 i9300. Before installing this custom ROM, I took a backup into external SD card. I see the folder to which I had taken a backup and files like boot.img, recovery.img are there in this folder. Now I want to restore to my old state but when I go to recovery mode and select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files directory found. It is unable to recognize the backed up files. How do I go about restoring?
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verify that its in the same folder where the backup was kept and u didn't changed anything.if u did undo it!
prantoroy said:
verify that its in the same folder where the backup was kept and u didn't changed anything.if u did undo it!
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When I took a backup, it was stored in internal storage under /clockworkmod directory. I copied that folder to external SD. I'm unable to restore from external SD card and also from internal storage. If I select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files found. Am I missing something?
regex_vid said:
When I took a backup, it was stored in internal storage under /clockworkmod directory. I copied that folder to external SD. I'm unable to restore from external SD card and also from internal storage. If I select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files found. Am I missing something?
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puted it in under /clockworkmod/backup
???
prantoroy said:
puted it in under /clockworkmod/backup
???
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Yes. By default it was copied to that location.
regex_vid said:
Yes. By default it was copied to that location.
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last question
are u using cwm?
anythinh hentypd
prantoroy said:
last question
are u using cwm?
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Yes
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Yes
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hopeless!
prantoroy said:
hopeless!
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Why? what happened?
regex_vid said:
Why? what happened?
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it mostly happens if the file is missing or renamed or even hidden.
but here all is ok.
so I can't assist you further!
SORRY.
i'm not able to find my cwm backup file to transfer it to my pc.please some one tell me where is the location for cwm backup.tnx
ali.sbi said:
i'm not able to find my cwm backup file to transfer it to my pc.please some one tell me where is the location for cwm backup.tnx
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/data/media/clockworkmod
Learn to use the search.
There is a folder straight away in your SD card Named clockworkmod
ali.sbi said:
i'm not able to find my cwm backup file to transfer it to my pc.please some one tell me where is the location for cwm backup.tnx
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There is a folder straight away in your SD card Named clockworkmod
deej_roamer said:
There is a folder straight away in your SD card Named clockworkmod
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yeah i know but there is not any back up file in that.only 28 byts.
Then you are screwed
ali.sbi said:
yeah i know but there is not any back up file in that.only 28 byts.
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Try installing disk analyzer and try to locate a folder which can be in scales of a rom size, if you can find it great, otherwise something went wrong during backup
If you can take another backup then great otherwise its something you can't do anything about.
deej_roamer said:
Try installing disk analyzer and try to locate a folder which can be in scales of a rom size, if you can find it great, otherwise something went wrong during backup
If you can take another backup then great otherwise its something you can't do anything about.
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i can access my backup in cmw i can even delete it or take a new back up and restore it. the thing is when i connect the phone i can't find the back up in internal memory. and surf it with ES file manager too but nothing really found.
Does Access mean restore as well?
ali.sbi said:
i can access my backup in cmw i can even delete it or take a new back up and restore it. the thing is when i connect the phone i can't find the back up in internal memory. and surf it with ES file manager too but nothing really found.
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Can you restore the backup as well?
And what you are saying is that there is content in clockworkmod folder but of negligible size? Can you post a screenshots of clockworkmod folder?
Trust me use disk analyzer it can find some unknown things
check #2
there i found my backup
(be careful: i tried to flash a custom (so also formatted system+data) and when i wanted to return to my backup i discovered it was erased )
dreezz said:
check #2
there i found my backup
(be careful: i tried to flash a custom (so also formatted system+data) and when i wanted to return to my backup i discovered it was erased )
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yeah that right i have same issue too. that's why now i want to find my back up to transfer it into my pc.
deej_roamer said:
Can you restore the backup as well?
And what you are saying is that there is content in clockworkmod folder but of negligible size? Can you post a screenshots of clockworkmod folder?
Trust me use disk analyzer it can find some unknown things
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yeah sure i can restore it and it's fine.ok i will try this dist analyzer thing ASAP and get u back.
Device/data/media/clockworkmod
Edit: you can also make nandroid backups directly to your pen drive via a otg cable and avoid this confusion in future...
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ali.sbi said:
yeah sure i can restore it and it's fine.ok i will try this dist analyzer thing ASAP and get u back.
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Use adb to pull it to PC.
adb pull /data/media/clockworkmod