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
pixelens said:
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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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!
This has happened to me a few times now and haven't figured it out. I have titanium backup set to keep multiple backups of my apps. When I flash a new rom and get titanium back up and running, and set it to detect the correct backup directory, I'm always left with just 1 backup of each app (the latest one). Multiple backups is a paid feature I think, but even after I restore the titanium backup registration key and change the setting back to where it will keep multiple backups, it still only finds 1 of the previous backups I made before the new rom. Is it possible to keep multiple backups after flashing a new rom?
After you flash, make sure it detected the pro key. Then make sure your settings are set to however many # of backups you want. Then restart app from the menu at the bottom. After that, try changing your directory for your backups.
It may trim them down to one because that's the default setting...
I will try this next time. Thanks!
I recently got my TF300T back from RMA, and want to restore a backup file from the Asus App Backup utility, only problem is that I do not remember the password. (In fact, I don't even remember setting a password when I initially used the app.)
Does anyone know if there is a way to recover the password to the back-up file? I tried every possible password combination that I have EVER used or continue to use but no luck. Funny thing is, I don't remember ever using this app to begin with, but my tablet shows 4 backup files from back in February.
Anywho... Is there a way to recover the password, or am I simply SOL??
Thanks
Is there anyway to force an entire phone backup to occur immediately? I looked through the following website:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/bmgr.html
All I found there was how to force individual apps to backup... I'm wanting to force a backup of everything Google backs up (Market, Settings etc...)
Powell730 said:
Is there anyway to force an entire phone backup to occur immediately? I looked through the following website:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/bmgr.html
All I found there was how to force individual apps to backup... I'm wanting to force a backup of everything Google backs up (Market, Settings etc...)
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That's what a Recovery exists for, so you can do a full phone backup.
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That's what a Recovery exists for, so you can do a full phone backup.
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Yeah I do this too... The reason I'm relying on the Android backup this time is because it also backs up WiFi passwords. I use two phones, and a job that's stingey about giving out the WiFi password. So on my main phone I have the WiFi entered (by an employee that won't give out the password to anyone else) and I'm wanting to do a factory reset on my backup phone and restore the main phone's settings, thus putting the WiFi password on the backup phone.
I've tried to manually check the WiFi password in my system with root explorer but it just gives me a series of numbers, which is not the password. Idk how else to transfer the WiFi password to the other phone.
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Titanium Backup has the option to backup WiFi settings, or check in wpa_supplicant.conf
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Titanium Backup has the option to backup WiFi settings, or check in wpa_supplicant.conf
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The wpa file is what I manually checked and it just showed a coded password, not the actual password. I will look at TB again but for some reason I felt like that didn't work in the past.
Thanks for your suggestions!
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Is there anyway to force an entire phone backup to occur immediately? I looked through the following website:
http://developer.android.com/tools/help/bmgr.html
All I found there was how to force individual apps to backup... I'm wanting to force a backup of everything Google backs up (Market, Settings etc...)
Have you check also a full backup via recovery mode? It can be scheduled by script or any automation app (like Tasker for instance).
Your backup is each time consistent because your device is in recovery mode.
The drawback of this is to get a custom recovery for your device (TWRP or Clockworkmod)
For years now, i'm doing weekly backups of my apps via Titanium Backup and once a month an automatic backup via Recovery. I never never had any kind of issue for the restore.
baudbox said:
Have you check also a full backup via recovery mode? It can be scheduled by script or any automation app (like Tasker for instance).
Your backup is each time consistent because your device is in recovery mode.
The drawback of this is to get a custom recovery for your device (TWRP or Clockworkmod)
For years now, i'm doing weekly backups of my apps via Titanium Backup and once a month an automatic backup via Recovery. I never never had any kind of issue for the restore.
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Yeah I do this too... The reason I'm relying on the Android backup this time is because it also backs up WiFi passwords. I use two phones, and a job that's stingey about giving out the WiFi password. So on my main phone I have the WiFi entered (by an employee that won't give out the password to anyone else) and I'm wanting to do a factory reset on my backup phone and restore the main phone's settings, thus putting the WiFi password on the backup phone.
I've tried to manually check the WiFi password in my system with root explorer but it just gives me a series of numbers, which is not the password. Idk how else to transfer the WiFi password to the other phone.
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Normaly if you choose to save phone settings to google servers, by using the same google account on your backup phone, you should get back wifi crendentials.
Note that if you're root, Titanium Backup can also do wifi credentials backup.
baudbox said:
Normaly if you choose to save phone settings to google servers, by using the same google account on your backup phone, you should get back wifi crendentials.
Note that if you're root, Titanium Backup can also do wifi credentials backup.
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Right.. That's what I'm wanting to do. But for whatever reason my main phone is not backing up settings, just Android market. So that's why I'm wanting to know the code, if it exists, to force a full Android backup on Google servers.
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Just read a news. You can check the file wpa-supplicant.conf in folder /data/misc/wifi with a root explorer app.
All wpa key are readable. Enjoy