Does the backup through CWM recovery backups only the internal memory contents or does it back both the partitions of sd card?
I am asking because yesterday when I was taking back up, one of the process message was something like couldnt find ext-sd and ext-sd did not backup.
Biker Biker said:
Does the backup through CWM recovery backups only the internal memory contents or does it back both the partitions of sd card?
I am asking because yesterday when I was taking back up, one of the process message was something like couldnt find ext-sd and ext-sd did not backup.
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Did you set up sd-ext? If you havent formated your sd card to 1.partition Fat and 2. partition ext2/3/4 there is no such partition
I have partitioned sd card such that I am able to use 1 gb as internal and link apps through link2sd app. I think I formatted sd card during this process. I hope this is what u were asking.
Biker Biker said:
I have partitioned sd card such that I am able to use 1 gb as internal and link apps through link2sd app. I think I formatted sd card during this process. I hope this is what u were asking.
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In that case the recovery should recognize the ext partition. Have you tried using another recovery?
LS.xD said:
In that case the recovery should recognize the ext partition. Have you tried using another recovery?
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Nope.
Is there any way to check in my backup files to see whether sd card partitions were backed up?
Biker Biker said:
Nope.
Is there any way to check in my backup files to see whether sd card partitions were backed up?
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sure the backup folder containts files named by the native partitions
LS.xD said:
sure the backup folder containts files named by the native partitions
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The backed up files are boot.img, cache.yaff2.img, data.yaffs2.img, nandroid.md5, recovery.img, system.yaff2.img
Looks like there is no sd card back up
Biker Biker said:
The backed up files are boot.img, cache.yaff2.img, data.yaffs2.img, nandroid.md5, recovery.img, system.yaff2.img
Looks like there is no sd card back up
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If you use an old CWM (e.g. 5.0.x.x) and your ext partition is "ext4" the recovery can't handle it. What device are you using? I can check for another recovery version
LS.xD said:
If you use an old CWM (e.g. 5.0.x.x) and your ext partition is "ext4" the recovery can't handle it. What device are you using? I can check for another recovery version
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Karbonn A5.
I think when i partitioned it was something like ext3.
Aint there any other way to backup the whole system (internal, external, apps, data, everything) without doing something very technical??
Biker Biker said:
Karbonn A5.
I think when i partitioned it was something like ext3.
Aint there any other way to backup the whole system (internal, external, apps, data, everything) without doing something very technical??
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ONLY possible with root access + custom recovery (basics and not very technical...)
Here is TWRP 2.4 recovery. Just copy the zip to your storage and flash it via recovery It will solve your issues (99%)
LS.xD said:
ONLY possible with root access + custom recovery (basics and not very technical...)
Here is TWRP 2.4 recovery. Just copy the zip to your storage and flash it via recovery It will solve your issues (99%)
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My mobile is rooted (obviously).
If i flash TWRP recovery then CWM recovery will be removed from my phone?
Also wht abt titanium back up? is it good?
Sorry if i ask too many questions.. :silly:
Biker Biker said:
My mobile is rooted (obviously).
If i flash TWRP recovery then CWM recovery will be removed from my phone?
Also wht abt titanium back up? is it good?
Sorry if i ask too many questions.. :silly:
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TWRP will overwrite CWM.
Titanium backup (pro) is awesome, but you will still need a working custom recovery
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Hey guys I wanted to reformat my memory card to have a completely new install of a new rom what would be the best way too do it? Thanks
backup your complete sdcard contents
then format it to fat32 file system (using pc or you can do it in recovery too )
then copy back the contents ...
and use it ..
ganeshp said:
backup your complete sdcard contents
then format it to fat32 file system (using pc or you can do it in recovery too )
then copy back the contents ...
and use it ..
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This is the correct answer.
But, I'd also point out that you don't have to format the SD card to switch ROM's. You can keep all your data on the SD card, flash a new ROM, and all your data will be there waiting for you. There's usually no advantage to formatting the SD card unless you are having problems with it.
ganeshp said:
backup your complete sdcard contents
then format it to fat32 file system (using pc or you can do it in recovery too )
then copy back the contents ...
and use it ..
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Is there anything i need to back up? I'm only backing up pictures and music is that okay?
lilpaul340 said:
Is there anything i need to back up? I'm only backing up pictures and music is that okay?
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Its always good to back up, but when flashing a ROM the sdcard doesn't get formatted by deafault and doesn't need to be.
Sent from my pyramid...
lilpaul340 said:
Is there anything i need to back up? I'm only backing up pictures and music is that okay?
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Better do a Complete backup.. And copy back only essential stuff.. Who knows if something important is still there like a Nandroid backup as it will be in sdcard only
Sent from my pyramid.. Through blazing fast sonic waves
Clockworkmod Touch 4 Recovery 6.0.2.8 port for GT-I9305.
Simply i port the official Clockworkmod Touch 4 Recovery 6.0.2.8 version to our devices.
I use the latest kernel from XXBMA6.
Download:----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CWM:
CWM-clockwork-touch-6.0.2.8-i9305.zip
Odin:
CWM-clockwork-touch-6.0.2.8-i9305.tar.md5
Odin download: Odin307
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Credit's goes to Koush and Clockworkmod Team
Clockworkmod Site
Thank's
Nice one, thanks!
By the way, did you start with the Note 2 build and replace the kernel?
This is the nicest !!
Cannot use the backup function....
Got this:
Error while making a backup image /data!
smallerstone said:
Cannot use the backup function....
Got this:
Error while making a backup image /data!
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Oh, I know what happen...
The default "Backup" function change from ext-sdcard to int-sdcard,
so no space for it to create a backup file...
Therefore backup need choose the function of Backup to external sdcard.
Tested, backup & restore function are fine! Thanks!!! :good:
Thanks, about time we got some recovery love
Any bugs we should be aware of in this build?
seems to working perfect, thanks a lot
I cant backup to my sd card or flash zips from it. It says my external sd isnt mounted, and i get an error when i try to mount it in the recovery. Other than that everything works.
I get this Error,too, but a not completeBackup is on my external SD Card.
I have a folder clockworkmod/backup, in this Folder is another Folder with boot.img, cacheext4, dataext4, nandroid,recoverx,system but no Apps.
Ive mounted bevor Backup the external Card in the Recovery Menue
Mjau1337 said:
I cant backup to my sd card or flash zips from it. It says my external sd isnt mounted, and i get an error when i try to mount it in the recovery. Other than that everything works.
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encounter1 said:
I get this Error,too, but a not completeBackup is on my external SD Card.
I have a folder clockworkmod/backup, in this Folder is another Folder with boot.img, cacheext4, dataext4, nandroid,recoverx,system but no Apps.
Ive mounted bevor Backup the external Card in the Recovery Menue
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I can backup and restore without any problem's on my ExternalSd.
Please check if your sd card is formated as exFAT.
Official Clockworkmod doesn't support exFAT formated sdcard's.
what does silence mean here? does it mean it is so stable and all working good? does it flash themes and wiping properly?
as long as wiping, backup and restore works great on this I think it this is good news. Trying this out.
ignatios123 said:
what does silence mean here? does it mean it is so stable and all working good? does it flash themes and wiping properly?
as long as wiping, backup and restore works great on this I think it this is good news. Trying this out.
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I'd say so! If there's something wrong with it, you'd hear about it by now.
ausdim said:
I can backup and restore without any problem's on my ExternalSd.
Please check if your sd card is formated as exFAT.
Official Clockworkmod doesn't support exFAT formated sdcard's.
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Its formated from the Smartphone itself, so I think its a usefull format?
Also all other things are backuped , only apps not, so I dont think its a formaterror
I am getting the mount issue also.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk 2
CWM is not recognizing my SD card when I'm trying to install a rom. =( Can anyone shed a light on this?
bleepsake said:
CWM is not recognizing my SD card when I'm trying to install a rom. =( Can anyone shed a light on this?
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As I said in the other thread, you're using exFAT which isn't supported.
Also, there is an official CWM 6.0.2.8 now, look here. (his tar has the wrong version number in its filename, it actually is 6.0.2.8)
Rekoil said:
As I said in the other thread, you're using exFAT which isn't supported.
Also, there is an official CWM 6.0.2.8 now, look here. (his tar has the wrong version number in its filename, it actually is 6.0.2.8)
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Sorry, I don't want to come across as annoying but I really am not using exFAT, as I have explained on the other thread. FAT32 was used with a cluster size of 32kb.
Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk 2
encounter1 said:
Its formated from the Smartphone itself, so I think its a usefull format?
Also all other things are backuped , only apps not, so I dont think its a formaterror
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my phone GT I9100. I formatted by my phone under ics on my 64gb cl10 card was fat32 about year ago. Recently I upgraded to jb due to boot loop peoblem, I wipe my phone including formatting msd card. This time it formatted to exfat and many problems I had encountered cwm and mobile odin no recognised it. So I should said for 64gb msd, under ics format by phone was fat32. Under jb it will be exfat.
Send via i9100 using XDA premium,
ROM: Stock XWLSD
Kernel: Phil XWLSD V4.35
superSU 1.04
Can you re-upload recovery Odin version (link is broken on the fist page) ?
Or how change cwr version to odin version ?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks for port. The recovery won't mount sdcard though so cannot sideload anything. Why is that?
Hi
How can i swap sdcard and extsdcard for i9105p.
I alrady tried tuterials for other phones on i9105p but it breaks the phone and it needs to flash stock 4.2.2 rom again (and root again).
Thanks in advance.
(Actually one friend of mine is working on issue and i'm just asking for him. But if someone put tuterial here i'll root and give it a try later )
vahid8910 said:
Hi
How can i swap sdcard and extsdcard for i9105p.
I alrady tried tuterials for other phones on i9105p but it breaks the phone and it needs to flash stock 4.2.2 rom again (and root again).
Thanks in advance.
(Actually one friend of mine is working on issue and i'm just asking for him. But if someone put tuterial here i'll root and give it a try later )
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of course you break your phone with other phone's instructions
go to setting. storage. format sd card. then this format your external sd card.
go to setting. backup and reset. choose factory data reset and then your phone will be fresh with internal wiped. but also every setting on your phone wiped off
hit thanks if i helped u
Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
of course you break your phone with other phone's instructions
go to setting. storage. format sd card. then this format your external sd card.
go to setting. backup and reset. choose factory data reset and then your phone will be fresh with internal wiped. but also every setting on your phone wiped off
hit thanks if i helped u
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Of course you didn't help because he didn't ask how to wipe. He asked how to swap internal memory and sdcard. I'm also looking for script or any-thing else that can do this.
I don't think you understood what I tried to say my freind.
By swap I meant replace extsdcard by sdcard so you can have more storage to install APS for example use a 32 gig micro SD as phone's SDcard partition.
It has to do something with vold.fstab file.
Like this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583
And when I change it the phone won't boot and wiping partitions doesn't work cuz change was made by root access.
Does anyone have an idea how to restore original vold.fstab file without flashing ROM?cuz phone needs to be booted to restore it, but unfortunately it doesn't.
vahid8910 said:
Does anyone have an idea how to restore original vold.fstab file without flashing ROM?cuz phone needs to be booted to restore it, but unfortunately it doesn't.
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I you have backup of original file, download aroma filemanager http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 go to cwm and install it. It will open file manager in recovery where you can restore original vold.fstab.
maelfilk said:
I you have backup of original file, download aroma filemanager http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 go to cwm and install it. It will open file manager in recovery where you can restore original vold.fstab.
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Thank you
does it need root access?
For example Can I paste moded vold.fstab through this file manager on a nonrooted device then if it doesn't work try another one or just restore original vold.fstab and forget about it?
Cuz I do like mod my phone but I believe root is not an answer cuz I read somewhere it have some procceses before android boots which is not cool.
vahid8910 said:
Thank you
does it need root access?
For example Can I paste moded vold.fstab through this file manager on a nonrooted device then if it doesn't work try another one or just restore original vold.fstab and forget about it?
Cuz I do like mod my phone but I believe root is not an answer cuz I read somewhere it have some procceses before android boots which is not cool.
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I think it should work without root, all you need is cwm recovery.
I would say it needs root access and it doesn't, how?
although you can make changes on a non-rooted device but ROM itself undoes your changes so it have no use for modifying system files like vold.fstab.
maelfilk said:
I think it should work without root, all you need is cwm recovery.
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that file manager doesn't show etc folder containing as well as lots of other files.
Is it same on your phone?
vahid8910 said:
that file manager doesn't show etc folder containing as well as lots of other files.
Is it same on your phone?
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Currently i don't have cwm recovery, but on my previous phone i succesfully used it (it was rooted).
maelfilk said:
Of course you didn't help because he didn't ask how to wipe. He asked how to swap internal memory and sdcard. I'm also looking for script or any-thing else that can do this.
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dude i was just trying to help you don't really needa be so mean
i actually call that partition from extsdcard and make the system to detect that partition as one part of the internal storage
i once found a script like that but i lost the link
I installed ROM Manager 5.5.x and CWM 6.0.4.8 (touch version). When I enabled the backup to external SD card and started the ROM backup, I got error in CWM: it couldn't find the external SD card. Backup then failed CWM menu appeared on screen.
If I select backup to internal memory, it backup fine.
Is there a way to fix this issue ?
Thanks,
Ching-Ho Cheng
lcc014 said:
I installed ROM Manager 5.5.x and CWM 6.0.4.8 (touch version). When I enabled the backup to external SD card and started the ROM backup, I got error in CWM: it couldn't find the external SD card. Backup then failed CWM menu appeared on screen.
If I select backup to internal memory, it backup fine.
Is there a way to fix this issue ?
Thanks,
Ching-Ho Cheng
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How old is your external SD card? If you've been writing to it a lot, it might be going bad. SD cards have a limited life span. The more you write to it (and in bigger chunks), the more it "wears down" the SD card.
You might want to try and reformat it and do a chkdsk on it to see if it finds any bad areas on it.
iBolski said:
How old is your external SD card? If you've been writing to it a lot, it might be going bad. SD cards have a limited life span. The more you write to it (and in bigger chunks), the more it "wears down" the SD card.
You might want to try and reformat it and do a chkdsk on it to see if it finds any bad areas on it.
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Thank you. I will give it a try.
lcc014 said:
I installed ROM Manager 5.5.x and CWM 6.0.4.8 (touch version). When I enabled the backup to external SD card and started the ROM backup, I got error in CWM: it couldn't find the external SD card. Backup then failed CWM menu appeared on screen.
If I select backup to internal memory, it backup fine.
Is there a way to fix this issue ?
Thanks,
Ching-Ho Cheng
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I found that backing up from rom manager from within android usually fails for me. If you boot into recovery and do a backup that way it is usually successful. Just make sure you chose the sdcard1 option when starting the backup.
bill0405 said:
I found that backing up from rom manager from within android usually fails for me. If you boot into recovery and do a backup that way it is usually successful. Just make sure you chose the sdcard1 option when starting the backup.
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That is true in my case. I had no problem to backup rom from recovery.
lcc014 said:
That is true in my case. I had no problem to backup rom from recovery.
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Good to hear!
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bill0405 said:
I found that backing up from rom manager from within android usually fails for me. If you boot into recovery and do a backup that way it is usually successful. Just make sure you chose the sdcard1 option when starting the backup.
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lcc014 said:
That is true in my case. I had no problem to backup rom from recovery.
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Never thought of that! I myself have never used ROM Manager to backup my ROM image. Sorry about steering you in the wrong direction. I had assumed ROM Manager worked regardless.
I have rooted my htc explorer and installed CWM successfully and moved my apps to SD card second partition. later my SD got corrupted and lost all my apps including playstore! as i am not even able to boot into CWM recovery i have installed TWRP and added new SD card successfully! but strangely even after having no apps at all in my phone i am only left with some 30 mb of internal storage! i am not sure whats occupying the internal storage! can some one suggest how to check whats eating my internal storage? thanks.
eeswar said:
I have rooted my htc explorer and installed CWM successfully and moved my apps to SD card second partition. later my SD got corrupted and lost all my apps including playstore! as i am not even able to boot into CWM recovery i have installed TWRP and added new SD card successfully! but strangely even after having no apps at all in my phone i am only left with some 30 mb of internal storage! i am not sure whats occupying the internal storage! can some one suggest how to check whats eating my internal storage? thanks.
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@eeswar which ROM you are using??? If it is RC4 then it is normal because RC4 will have only 30mb internal storage free
If you want to increase the internal storage then partition your SD card to (ext4)
and follow these steps LINK
aashking said:
@eeswar which ROM you are using??? If it is RC4 then it is normal because RC4 will have only 30mb internal storage free
If you want to increase the internal storage then partition your SD card to (ext4)
and follow these steps LINK
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I am using stock rom only! I previously installed CWM recovery but its got vanished after SD corrupt. so now i have installed TWRP recovery and added a new SD. i didn't install any apps but available space is only 36mb which is suppose to be some 90mb! do you think this space occupied by previous and current recovery files?? if yes can you guide me how to remove old CWM recovery?
Thnaks,
eeswar said:
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
I am using stock rom only! I previously installed CWM recovery but its got vanished after SD corrupt. so now i have installed TWRP recovery and added a new SD. i didn't install any apps but available space is only 36mb which is suppose to be some 90mb! do you think this space occupied by previous and current recovery files?? if yes can you guide me how to remove old CWM recovery?
Thnaks,
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Your internel memory is filled from bad blocks. U need to flash superwipe. Before flashing a rom if you want memory to be regained..
Use this zip file : Superwipe. Place it your sd card.. Then flash it.. Original creator is thewisenerd for this script..
First take a backup of your current rom using twrp.. Then flash superwipe.. Then again reboot to recovery.. Then restore your backup..
shubhojit89 said:
Your internel memory is filled from bad blocks. U need to flash superwipe. Before flashing a rom if you want memory to be regained..
Use this zip file : Superwipe. Place it your sd card.. Then flash it.. Original creator is thewisenerd for this script..
First take a backup of your current rom using twrp.. Then flash superwipe.. Then again reboot to recovery.. Then restore your backup..
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Thanks for the reply!
wiping data and reinstalling backup didn't help! i flashed a new custom rom and now i have more than 100mb.
Thanks,