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Can't back up rom

I'm wanting to test out another rom, but for some reason I cannot back up my existing rom in cwm. I'm currently on CM7.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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I choose backup existing rom, then shows the little android guy but there's the huge exclamation mark next to it. No clue what's going on. Never had this problem before.
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The back button is disabled....3 button and reboot back into recovery and try again
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Thank you for your help dman, but I'm not sure what you mean by 3button thing?
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chuckles_prs said:
Thank you for your help dman, but I'm not sure what you mean by 3button thing?
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Hold power and both buttons on the volume rocker until the phone reboots. When you see the Samsung logo, let go of power, but keep holding the rocker down. This boots you into recovery.
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Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Well still no luck. After the back up says complete, this is the log info.
No/sdcard/.android_secure found.
Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd - ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete.
so I reboot the phone after that, went into cwm and there's no backup from the back up list. :/
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chuckles_prs said:
Just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Well still no luck. After the back up says complete, this is the log info.
No/sdcard/.android_secure found.
Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd - ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete.
so I reboot the phone after that, went into cwm and there's no backup from the back up list. :/
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Do you have an external sd card?

Yes I do. Its a 2gb
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chuckles_prs said:
Yes I do. Its a 2gb
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didnt mean to click thanks. do you have any room on it?

Total space: 1.86
Available space: 1.85
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Even the internal storage is pretty much open. I have no music/videos/anything. Maybe a couple apps and that's about it.
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Have you recently tried to move any files between your SD card and PC? Sometimes cards can become corrupted, or certain files at least can also become bad and not read. The more you mount and unmount the more degraded it gets. If you tried to delete any files, did you accidentally delete something from your internal SD?

Not that I'm aware of. When I get home ill try transferring a small file over. As far as the internal SD card its fine.
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What is mouted under the mounts and storage menu of CWM?

I'm not sure how I check that?
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@statik.
Mount/system
Unmount/cache
Mount/datadata
Mount/sdcard
Mount/data
Mount/emmc
Mount/usbstorage
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Nothing at all? Sigh. I really wish I could find a solution to this.
I guess ill try out Odin to put it back to stock and then root and unlock it. I just hate the fact I can't back up anything.
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cwm help

I've tried several diff jb ROMs now currently on beta 6. I've tried several diff cwm recoveries now currently on the latest 6.0.1.0. I can install zips wipe but I cannot backup my ROMs or restore any backups. I'm not allowed to post in the specific thread but trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Cwm boots in recovery then stalls and mentions something about my sdcard...

Sounds like your sd card got unmounted. Not sure how to fix that though...
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I take it you have sufficient disk space for the backup file...which can be anywhere from 200mb up to 1.5 Gb or so?

Just do it "manually" after getting the error
In other words from cwm not ROM manager
I had the same error
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AsesinoQc said:
Just do it "manually" after getting the error
In other words from cwm not ROM manager
I had the same error
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go to cwm (manually)/ mount and storage/ mount sd card

AsesinoQc said:
Just do it "manually" after getting the error
In other words from cwm not ROM manager
I had the same error
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Worked perfectly thanks.

[Q] How Is the internal memory partitioned/set up

So. I repartitioned my internal memory so i could use it to boot up my mac(long story short). I changed it to GUID partition table and formatted it to Mac OSX. Now iforgot how it was originally set up and CMW will not mount/reformat it. Im assuming i need to change it to Master Boot Record and partition it to MS-DOS (FAT). is this correct? will someone please give me some advice?

Look in the dev section for the Batch Cleanup Tool. It rewrites the partitions using NV flash
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rtotheichie said:
Look in the dev section for the Batch Cleanup Tool. It rewrites the partitions using NV flash
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I tried that but it cannot mount my /emmc therefore it cannot re write the partitions

ʞloʌ uıʇsnɾ said:
I tried that but it cannot mount my /emmc therefore it cannot re write the partitions
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Can you load cwm? You can format emmc from there and then run the cleanup batch.
Are you able to download the bootloader?
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ʞloʌ uıʇsnɾ said:
I tried that but it cannot mount my /emmc therefore it cannot re write the partitions
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Btw, I am very interested in this case as I have never come across something that could not be fixed with nvflash and this case seems as the first.
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TWRP Recovery Galaxy Blaze Unofficial BETA

Here is my beta build of Team Win Recovery Project V2.3.1.1 For The Galaxy S Blaze 4G
I have been testing this out and so far everything is working fine.
I have noticed that in recovery the reboot buttons work but do not light when touched. I am working on a fix for this.
With that said:
Links: http://sourceforge.net/projects/paranoidblaze/files/TWRP-Recovery-Blaze.zip/download
Download and put on external sdcard
reboot recovery
Flash Zip in recovery...
reboot and enjoy...
Thanks...
TWRP opensource project
FIXED USB MOUNT ISSUE... NEW LINK UP

Awesome

Just flashed, rebooted back to recovery, checked it out a little but when I went to go reboot to system it just went to a black screen I had to pull the battery.
EDIT
Re-downloaded and Re-flashed and it reboots fine now not sure what happend.
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Don't think it has done that with me. I know paranoid does take a while to boot with black screen.
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Is this an actual ROM or just an add on
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forgetaboutit said:
Is this an actual ROM or just an add on
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This would be a recovery.
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Is there source for this? Set up a repo and I'd be happy to help Already was thinking of doing it as a nice addition to my kernel, but you've done the hard part already.

merwin said:
Is there source for this? Set up a repo and I'd be happy to help Already was thinking of doing it as a nice addition to my kernel, but you've done the hard part already.
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Yes TWRP is open source. you can find them on github:
https://github.com/TeamWin/Team-Win-Recovery-Project
it's pretty easy to incorporate into a system build if you follow their compilation guide at the bottom of their page

On screen touch buttons! Woo hoo! Thank you too cool
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Any reason we can't access the internal SD card?
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Acerbus91 said:
Any reason we can't access the internal SD card?
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Just about to ask the same thing...I kept wondering where my download folder was.

BrownLarry said:
Just about to ask the same thing...I kept wondering where my download folder was.
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If you are trying to mount the internal storage you go under advanced / File Manager

Really appreciate this, I'm sure everyone else does too. Use twrp on both my tablets, hate cwm. Is there any known issues of why this couldn't be permanent recovery?. Just about to flash will report bugs if any occur. Thanks button hit

Racing19969 said:
If you are trying to mount the internal storage you go under advanced / File Manager
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I did that however, it still showed the external SD card, but not the internal
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Acerbus91 said:
Any reason we can't access the internal SD card?
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Racing19969 said:
If you are trying to mount the internal storage you go under advanced / File Manager
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Acerbus91 said:
I did that however, it still showed the external SD card, but not the internal
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There doesn't seem to be an easy-to-use interface to mount the internal sdcard (emmc) - but you can still do it. Go into Advanced, then Terminal Command, select / as your starting folder (working directory - just hit select it'll likely be there as default), then type in the following:
/sbin/mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 /emmc
Then when you back out of there and get to the Install area, you can switch between the internal and external. Hope that helps!

dwitherell said:
There doesn't seem to be an easy-to-use interface to mount the internal sdcard (emmc) - but you can still do it. Go into Advanced, then Terminal Command, select / as your starting folder (working directory - just hit select it'll likely be there as default), then type in the following:
/sbin/mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p28 /emmc
Then when you back out of there and get to the Install area, you can switch between the internal and external. Hope that helps!
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Going to try a new build and hopefully fix this issue... will let you know soon..

Racing19969 said:
Going to try a new build and hopefully fix this issue... will let you know soon..
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One other thing I noticed - not sure it matters if it was made this way by design, but if you happen to be usb connected while in recovery and then reboot system, instead of rebooting the phone just powers down. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
As an aside, this is my first experience with this recovery - me likey

OK how so I go back to cmw cause this is confusing as hell
paranoidandroidpoweredBLAZE!!

forgetaboutit said:
OK how so I go back to cmw cause this is confusing as hell
paranoidandroidpoweredBLAZE!!
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Wait what? this is like the EASIEST thing ever. I mean you could not get any easier/smoother than TWRP.
Search in the Dev section. Plenty of threads showing you how to get back to cwm

I couldn't even find the files I needed to flash
paranoidandroidpoweredBLAZE!!

Clear cache recovery mode won't work?

Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Drew
Link for Phandroid forums:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-gravity-smart/668108-q-cache-clear-in-recovery-mode-wont-work.html

drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.

Link?
karimkahale said:
You can use cwn recovery and try to clear cache.
Hopefully this will work.
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link?

nvm
drew1ind said:
link?
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nvm

others?
drew1ind said:
Hi
When I to wipe my cache in recovery mode (in the Samsung Galaxy-Q (same as the Samsung Gravity Smart))
And it took like half a second, so I figure that there that there's something wrong with it.
There's a picture attached to this page.
If you couldn't read the text, (I was using like a 2 megapixel camera), here's what the important part is:
-- Appling Multi-CSC --
-- Wiping cache...
Formatting CACHE:...
unmount(/cache) attempt 1 (Unknown error: 0) rc=0
Cache wipe complete
Is it because my phone is rooted? No, because I've tried unrooting my phone and trying. It didn't work.
But I think it's because my micro SD card is in it. If that's the problem, will after clearing cache delete my shortcuts?
Thanks for reading,
Ddrew
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any others?

Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Try a different sd card.... And try to do the cache wipe... And report
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And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!

Didn't work
drew1ind said:
And thank god my parents got me a 32 gb micro SD card for Christmas :3
Will respond once done!
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Ok... I tried it and...
It didn't work :/
It said the same thing; I think I need to partition it.

Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Then,it's your phone's recovery mode that has the issue not the sd card!
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But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?

Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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drew1ind said:
But other people do it with my same phone and succeed -_-
Maybe I have to put out my SD card?
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Also, here is my system cache directory (w/ subbfolders)
/cache/
/cache/lost+found/(nothing in folder)
/cache/log/
/cache/log/recovery.log/
recovery.log is a file

Ghostfreak NB said:
Do a fresh install of stock Rom through Odin or such program and then install a cwm and try later on!
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First of all, my phone will get bricked if I install cwm recovery
Second of all, I have not installed ANY roms.
Third of all, I am not being mad.

I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Ghostfreak NB said:
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Here's who told me:
Phandroid forums
Youtube
XDA Developer forums
Basically the whole internet
There

Ghostfreak NB said:
I told to do a clean install of the same Rom you use and installing cwm bricks?? Who told?
.... Do you get me...or not?
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Also,
Can you atleast ****ing tell me if I need the SD card out?????????
Jesus I'm tierd...

T589R Recovery Problem
Hi
That's exactly my problem, is there a way to fix?
Please help