Hi all, this is the situation.
I have a Samsung galaxy s3 i9300. I installed CWM and the recovery, bboted into recovery and took an entire system backup.
also i took a backup in Titanium backup root.
Now i wanted to install cutom ROM. i downloaded the ROM from PC and copied the zip files into my sd card which has 29gb of space free.
I should have read properly, but i dont know why i missed it, i didnt copy the zip in the legacy or obb file folder. i deleted all system data, and now i dont know how to go back to normal. and the Phone doesnt seem to charge!
Please help me!! i know i sound paranoid and i am. its my first time to this (obvious from my stupidty) and i dont want to brick my phone
Also the phone doesnt seem to be charging. it has just 70% battery.
How do i recover the system data and files??
Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
Try posting your question in the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help
The experts there may can help. Good luck.
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I have a HTC HERO with a 2.1 update and i would like to take the stock UI off of my phone and save it on my computer for safe keeping.. How would i get the rom off of my phone.
Root your phone and do a nandroid right after rooting it. Then take the nandroid folder from your sdcard and save it to your computer. There are other ways but they all require rooting your phone
still nothing on nandroid
no /sdcard/.android_secure found. skipping backup of application on external storage. backing up cache..... no sd-ext found. skipping backup of sd-ext........
thats what it says and i have my computer with a sd card in it and it is rooted but still nothing on nandroid.. ( in recovery )
Do you have an sdcard in your phone? You can't do a back up to your PC. What you can do is pull your system folder to your PC and create an update zip and sign it so you can flash it later.
ok?
yes i have a sd card in my phone. i don't know how to do anything else that you was talking about like signing it and the folder.. bc their is no folder in my sdcard with nandroid label on it.
Not to be mean but you have been on the forums since NOV 2008. You should know the rules by now. This belongs in the Q&A section not here.
I would say and this sounds very stupid tho...format your memory card(of course save everything) then do the Nandroid..sometimes they are picky.
And if you give me a lil bit i will post a link on how to sign and such..i need to get it off my laptop at home. what the guy is talking about is getting a root explorer(like android mate) then going and copying the /system/ onto your Sd card...thats essentially your rom right there anyways. Like i said tho gimme a bit and i will get ya in the direction.
This link should get you in the started direction you need in order to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566235&highlight=Running+ROM+emulator
Do just a plain nandroid backup. Not the one with -ext.
I have a permanent rooted Mytouch 4g running Virtuous Fusion, and I was wondering If I completely wipe my SD Card clean will my phone still be rooted and have the rom, backups from clockwork, and certain information on the phone like my Wifi password? Right now my SD Card is a complete mess, and I was looking too add music from my computer. Sure I could go in and delete stuff, but I have no idea what I might be doing. Thanks.
No, if you do a complete wipe of the sd, everything will go, a better idea is to connect it to a computer via the phone itself or by a card reader, and then delete stuff which you don't needed anymore
Thanks for replying, I've thought about doing that and I've gone through my SD Card only to be confused by all the random files that lead to thing's I've never even heard about.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
Moving to Q&A
i had the same problem, i just deleted all the related application folder that i dont use anymore and just left the android folder, Music, DCIM (picture folder).
I just decided to completely wipe everything, and I do mean everything, and re-root and add a custom rom.
Ok so actually that was a really dumb idea, because now my phone doesn't work. x[
Every time I turn it on it just show's the boot loader over and over again, and when I try to restore or factory reset it takes me to clockwork where when ever I click on an option nothing pops up. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this and just make my phone normal? As in normal I mean making my phone as new as when I bought it, well at least the software.
You can try the app "SD Maid" in my signature to clean up the phone.
You can delete the content of /mnt/sdcard/
You will loose some downloaded apps of course, but the rom will still work and system settings like wifi will still be there. Root will also be still there.
Depending where the clockwork backups are saved you will loose them too.
Hello everyone,
because of some reason (I am not sure why, maybe I was doing an update by pushing "ok" somewhere) my GT2 doesn't boot anymore. There comes the Boot Screen with the Melody and then it writes "SAMSUNG" and then...REBOOT. This loops again and again.
The most important thing for me is now, to recover my Pictures I have saved on the device. They are on the internal flash (not SD Card) so I cannot take it out and plug it into my PC. So I have no idea how the get my data.
Because of the importance of the pictures (I really don't care about warranty now, there are so many Pictures of my son on it) I just installed ClockWorkMod Recovery (6.0.1.2) with hope to get data. However, I have no idea what to do now. There is a backup menu when I open it, but is this what I am looking for? Is there any way to access my images???
Thanks!!!
Regards
Fresh
If its just your images just do a backup and flash a new rom using recovery. Internal sd card will not be erased by doing that. Just do not format internal and all is well. And when you get the new rom up you can use titanium backup pro to restore your apps from nandroid.
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In CWM mount usb storage and plug into a computer.
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Hi,
first: Thank you very very much for your help!!
I will try this when I am back at home. I have CWM on my Device but it is not rooted. Is this enough to install a new Samsung Firmware (e.g. from SamMobile) or do I need to root the device?
@shakatu: Can I access the internal flash storage this way? That would be fantastic. I will try this immediately when I can!
Thanks!
Regards
Fresh
I posted a question days ago but no replies , so can you help me with some questions please.
I am total newbie ; and I just rooted my Indian moto g dual Sim phone successfully with flagging cwm recovery.
But then I saw in storage->miscellaneous > 1.8 GB taken by cwm. CAN I DELETE IT ?
ALSO I took nandroid backup on SD card , is it necessary to keep that backup always on SD card in case device fails ?
Can you suggest me some method by which I can keep my game data and heavy files on USB storage (OTG).
Also should I take any other backups ?
pratmodi said:
I posted a question days ago but no replies , so can you help me with some questions please.
I am total newbie ; and I just rooted my Indian moto g dual Sim phone successfully with flagging cwm recovery.
But then I saw in storage->miscellaneous > 1.8 GB taken by cwm. CAN I DELETE IT ?
ALSO I took nandroid backup on SD card , is it necessary to keep that backup always on SD card in case device fails ?
Can you suggest me some method by which I can keep my game data and heavy files on USB storage (OTG).
Also should I take any other backups ?
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Not sure about storage>miscellaneous but what i did is copied backup i took with CWM into PC and also kept on SDcard, only coz i do tests on mobile now days, so most of time i need to restore it. To save space on SDcard copy that backup to pc, you can delete the backup you took with CWM from SDcard and can copy it back when needed. i'm not sure about game backup but i believe there must be in device built-in/default backup app, with that you can take backup of individual app or phone too. but again not sure, it take backup of save game too.
i shared what i think could help you little & I hope, it will at-least give you little idea about what to do/search. wait for more replies or search.
I know this question has been answered in previous threads, but the solution doesn't work for my device...
I made a backup using CWM recovery in my Galaxy S5, but it is stored within the internal memory (don't remember if I placed it there myself or just agreed to it), which sucks because it takes 5 out of 16 GB of space and now I can't delete it...
I've tried connecting it to the PC but the folder is protected and I can't install CWM ROM manager to delete it either because my device is not supported yet. ROM manager asks me to install CWM Recovery, even though it is already installed, and there is no Galaxy S5 within the list of supported devices
What should I do? Do I have to wait till the S5 is supported by ROM manager in order to delete this backup?
Thank you
PD. This is my first thread, so be gentle
Try deleting the folder using a file manager app such as ES file manager.
You can also delete backups directly with CWM.
If you can't perform any of the above you can always backup you're important data and format the internal storage.
Good luck!
jamesokbo said:
I know this question has been answered in previous threads, but the solution doesn't work for my device...
I made a backup using CWM recovery in my Galaxy S5, but it is stored within the internal memory (don't remember if I placed it there myself or just agreed to it), which sucks because it takes 5 out of 16 GB of space and now I can't delete it...
I've tried connecting it to the PC but the folder is protected and I can't install CWM ROM manager to delete it either because my device is not supported yet. ROM manager asks me to install CWM Recovery, even though it is already installed, and there is no Galaxy S5 within the list of supported devices
What should I do? Do I have to wait till the S5 is supported by ROM manager in order to delete this backup?
Thank you
PD. This is my first thread, so be gentle
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As mentioned by @ido100, you should use ES File Explorer. However, you're going to need Root Explorer turned on, as well as Show Hidden Files turned on. See my posts here and here for instructions on how to do that.
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Well, the file manager didn't work either... I turned Root Explorer on and show hidden files as well, but everytime I deleted the clockworkmod folder and refreshed it was there again... I got pretty sick and wiped my internal sd card, now I'm affraid that I didn't back up my Link to the Past progress
But the stupid 5GB folder is finally gone...
cant delete cwm backup
jamesokbo said:
Well, the file manager didn't work either... I turned Root Explorer on and show hidden files as well, but everytime I deleted the clockworkmod folder and refreshed it was there again... I got pretty sick and wiped my internal sd card, now I'm affraid that I didn't back up my Link to the Past progress
But the stupid 5GB folder is finally gone...
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how did you ''wipe your internal storage''? i need help, i have the same problem as you! :crying: