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Lost phone storage???

So this morning I made a Nandroid backup (everything was acting normal) and I flashed the LeeDroid ROM then his insecure boot image since my phone wouldn't boot without that. Since then, my phone just will not recognize the internal SD card from Android (although, it is fine in Recovery). I posted about this in the LeeDroid thread because I thought it was ROM specific, but I just restored my Nandroid and the issue persisted. I have no clue what happened here. Any ideas?

Not sure if it is related but since I flashed the new ROM (even after restoring) I get that Android is Upgrading (runs through all apps optimizing) screen on each boot. Is this related to the boot img? Would the boot img have restored when I ran the Nandroid?

hah2110 said:
Not sure if it is related but since I flashed the new ROM (even after restoring) I get that Android is Upgrading (runs through all apps optimizing) screen on each boot. Is this related to the boot img? Would the boot img have restored when I ran the Nandroid?
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Hi I saw your issue in the LeoDroid thread also. I think if I were you I would flash the stock HTC recovery and do a factory reset with that. Or flash a RUU file.
To answer your question though, if you restore a nandroid it does include your old boot.img

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Hi I saw your issue in the LeoDroid thread also. I think if I were you I would flash the stock HTC recovery and do a factory reset with that. Or flash a RUU file.
To answer your question though, if you restore a nandroid it does include your old boot.img
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Why would the recovery be involved though? I don't get what caused this. The Recovery console sees my memory card just fine.

Ok so in ROM Toolbox - Root Browser, the sdcard shows up as a file, not a folder. When I click on it, it has empty contents. Does this help? I have full permissions on the file. The sdcard is pointed to /mnt/sdcard but when I specifically go there, it is empty. When I check permissions on sdcard under mnt, they are all unchecked and when I check them off, it is unsuccessful... ARGH

Could someone post their fstab file for me so I can mimic it and push to the phone, I think it is related.
Thanks

Ok so I do have an fstab file and here are the contents
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard emmc /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host
Is that correct? Why does the mount command in the shell day fstab not found or corrupt?
Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2

May be a stupid question, but in settings it doesn't show anything under Phone Storage? What do you see there? Can you try to format it? Can you put a screen shot of your Storage settings? Here is what mine looks like.
You say you can access SDCard from Recovery, did you try to go to Mount and Storage and format SDCard?
FYI I'm on leedroid.
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It says phone storage and total space and available space are "unavailable".

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It says phone storage and total space and available space are "unavailable".
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Do you have important files on the sdcard your trying to recover? If not have you gone back to a stock recovery and tried to clear storage yet?

TWRP extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255

Hello people
Today I flashed the Xiaomi EU android 11 to check it out and saw some bugs and wanted to downgrade to android 10.
I flashed the stock rom as I was downgrading and installed TWRP, Fully wiped the phone and wanted to restore my backup, but it says " extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255 " when restoring the data. Needless to say, I had to type my password when I booted to recovery and I had Fingerprint and Pincode enabled when I was backing up. now I checked the recovery log and the error is
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==> extracting: //data/misc/recovery/ (mode 40770, directory)
tar_extract_file(): failed to extract //data/misc/recovery/ !!!
When I browse that Directory there is some files named Fingerprint so looks like this is making some issues.
Could someone please help me out how I am able to delete this directory and try restoring my Data ?
I have tried any way of wiping and installing stock rom but still I get this error.

Looks a recovery error. Is the back up made with different recovery? Looks like it cannot find or extract it from the back up. Can you get back to where you were when you made the back up and restore from there?
If not, looks like a format and start again.

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Looks a recovery error. Is the back up made with different recovery? Looks like it cannot find or extract it from the back up. Can you get back to where you were when you made the back up and restore from there?
If not, looks like a format and start again.
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Yeah it is from the same recovery.
It is a common error when you google it. but the fix they have mentioned does not work for me. It is like I should somehow delete that folder or files causing the issue from the backup and restore it.
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You'll need to mount it on a pc, extract the folder and compress it again or delete it from the archive and save. I would make a copy first though.

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You'll need to mount it on a pc, extract the folder and compress it again or delete it from the archive and save. I would make a copy first though.
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ok I am able to extract it with WinRar. but how should I compress so the TWRP will not face issues? on Winrar I have RAR,RAR4 and ZIP that I think will not work.

Use 7 zip.
To create a tar file, you can highlight the files you'd like to archive, right-click, and go to 7-Zip > Add to archive. In the 'Add to Archive' menu, just select 'tar' as your archive format and click OK.

Did you get it fixed?

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Did you get it fixed?
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No, it didnt work. When i extracted the file using 7zip I got errors for everyfile. I think the issue is with the pincode and the data being encrypted. So next time I should remove the lockscreen and backup my data.
Goos thing I had backed up on Google Account.

Thanks for letting us know but good luck my friend

im having the same error in my realme xt... I have a twrp backup of system image vendor image data boot recovery persist but im unable to recover because it shows an error extract tar fork process ended up with error 255{i too have locked the phone with pincode during backup} ....i also have a backup of my internal storage in twrp but im not able to restore because of this error.... kindly help me

Some of the TWRP we use on Mi 10 ultra, dont able to decrypt data using Fingerprint or pin, you need to use pattern, this is a TWRP bug.

What a bull**** bug. There should be warnings about this at least when people go to create a backup.

Help restoring TWRP data backup

I created a TWRP compressed data backup of my MIUI 12.5.2.0 install before updating to MIUI 12.5.4.0 (RJGEUXM), so I have files data.f2f2.win000 through to win019, totalling 16.7GB.
When I try to restore from the backup, it gets to about 256MB before failing with an error "extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255"
I made another compressed data backup after updating to MIUI 12.5.4.0 which is 1.42GB (2.7GB uncompressed) and I get the same error when I try and restore from that.
If I adb shell in and try "tar -tvf data.f2f2.win000" on either backup, it lists the files but says "tar: invalid data format" at the end and if I try -xvf it gives the same error and doesn't extract anything.
I just tried creating an uncompressed backup, which still creates data.f2f2.win000 files (larger than the compressed version of course) and that backup restores OK. Even so tar -tvf still returns "tar: invalid tar format" after listing the files.
I note that the two backups (compressed and uncompressed) that I've made after updating to 12.5.4.0 include a data.info file, whereas the 12.5.2.0 backup doesn't, but that's obviously not why it is failing to restore, as the same error happens with the compressed 12.5.4.0 backup and I should be able to extract the files manually anyway.

Using Cygwin and manually extracting each winXXX file with "tar -xvf data.f2f2.winXXX /data/" I was able to extract the files.
There were a lot of "tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'TWRP.security.fscrypt'" messages but I don't think they're critical.
The only files I had trouble with were win006 which did extract a bunch of files but at the end it said:
"gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
and win017-win019 all returned:
"tar: /data: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors"
I can't open those three files with 7zip either, which opens all the others to show a single file, data.f2fs, inside.
This is the folder structure I have after extracting all the files.
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In the app folder, there's a few "normal" named folders like "com.ebay.carrier-72Ce4Q1jyCAZ9I8KRjGzyA==" but most of them are like this:
and then under those folders there are "normal" named ones like "com.google.android.apps.youtube.music-ZodmP_UIgBUs8QSLxYe2sw==". Presumably this is something to do with the encryption but I guess I'll install some of the apps and see what folders it creates and maybe I can just copy the ordinary named subfolder into the app folder.
I guess I'll still need to do what it says here to find the userid for each app and then chown and restorecon each one, so it's still going to take much longer than if I could just restore the TWRP data backup normally. https://www.semipol.de/posts/2016/07/android-manually-restoring-apps-from-a-twrp-backup/

Try to restore with orange fox recovery instead/use orange fox instead moving forward, I don't get the tar fork error.
[RECOVERY][UNOFFICIAL] OrangeFox for Xiaomi Mi11X / Redmi K40 / POCO F3 [R11.1][alioth]
OrangeFox Recovery * I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this Recovery...
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Sorry, I just realised I posted this in the wrong sub. I'm using a Poco X3 NFC, not a Poco F3. Perhaps a mod can move it for me?
I was using Orangefox before and then I lost root by allowing the phone to update to 12.5.3 and after that Ofox couldn't decrypt the data partition, so I couldn't back it up and without root I couldn't backup my data with Titanium either.
I couldn't find a way to restore root or get Ofox to decrypt data (at least not without risking the data being deleted), but after being stuck for a while, I saw there was a new vversion of TWRP which was able to decrypt data, so I used that to make a backup of it, after which I updated to 12.5.4 and installed Magisk to root it. So it's usable again, I just can't restore the backup that TWRP made using TWRP.
I've had mixed success restoring some apps by extracting the TWRP backup with tar on my PC and then FTPing the files across to data/data/ (after installing the app normally from Play Store) and then using the commands here to chown and restorecon but that doesn't work with all apps.
Android: manually restoring apps from a TWRP backup :: semipol.de
Since an issue with the keyboard freezing for Android disk encryption was fixed in the Omnirom code base, I was able to upgrade my system again. Unfortunately, the system didn’t boot anymore without a factory reset. Therefore, I finally found out to manually restore individual apps from a system...
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What seems to work more often is taking an existing Titanium backup tar.gz for an app and deleting the files and replacing them with the ones from my TWRP backup and then restoring the data with that in Titanium. That doesn't work with everything though ((e.g. Revolut and Barclays), even if I do the chown and restorecon commands after.
I've taken this as an opportunity to reduce the number of apps I have installed, as I didn't really use a lot of them anyway, so I'm just restoring the apps I really use. The only one I haven't been able to restore the data for is FTX. It does actually work initially and shows my profile but then it says there's an error and wipes it and tells me to create a new profile, so I'm just going to dump it and use something else, like Coingecko.
It's extremely slow copying the extracted files from the PC to the phone, whether I use SMB or FTP, so using an app like this to extract them on the phone if possible might be a better option,, although the extracted files and the Titanium tar.gz really need to be on the PC to use that approach, as it would be much harder/slower to try doing that with the files on the phone.
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the problem got solved with latest twrp 3.6.0.
it perfectly decrypts android 11 and above and all backups are possible.

Swift Backup - best app to backup apps, sms, call logs on android.

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Swift Backup can backup your important data in minutes! Its quick, efficient and boasts an elegant design for a refreshing backup experience.
- Google Play.

I tried for Call backups and it works great....... Now thinking to make my apps backup too.

I am using this backup app since long time and it is really a very good reliable app.

Hi... can anyone tell me how to restore if i have backup from Poco F3 and want to restore on K30 Pro Zoom ?
and the devices already rooted.
Because last time, i cant restore even already copy the backup folder to new device.,.. Swift backup app cannot found my backup. (offcourse with same google account)

On LineageOS 18.1 with Magisk I'm not able to backup and restore any App data
The Backup process says "Complete", but when I look at the SwiftLogger I see the following error
ApkReader: Output for file /storage/emulated/0/SwiftbBackup/... [ERROR: dump failed because assets could not be loaded]
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That is probably the reason why it won't restore.
Any idea what to do or where to look?
Ps: I'm just using the local version for now.

Hi everybody,
I switched to Swift Backup from Titanium Backup, and I got lost in the labyrinth of Swift's interface. I took a backup of all my apps, then a nandroid backup with TWRP and then I switched to a different rom.
In this operation, I forgot to back up Swift's password (I wish it could be disabled), so now I'm wondering: is there a way to recover the password for Swift from the nandroid backup? Can it be found in /data/data for example?

How do I change the backup location on this Swift app ?
How do I pick a specific folder ?

LucasBS1 said:
How do I change the backup location on this Swift app ?
How do I pick a specific folder ?
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Anyone ?

LucasBS1 said:
Anyone ?
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If you don't know the answer, read the FAQ.
Can I use a custom folder location for my backups on the device or in cloud?

kubalav said:
If you don't know the answer, read the FAQ.
Can I use a custom folder location for my backups on the device or in cloud?
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Oh... There is a FAQ
Wasn't even finding an official forum
Thanks
A terrible directive for an advanced app. They certainly won't see my money

I'm on the Pixel 7 Pro and finally had the occasion of needing to restore my wallpaper; and it confirmed what I had feared when initially looking at it from the app -- while it was the correct picture/image, it ended up being off-center and zoomed without being able to correct it.
Anyone else having this issue? Know of a workaround or explanation?

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while it was the correct picture/image, it ended up being off-center and zoomed without being able to correct it.
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The explanation is simple: backup apps are unreliable. They only have different limitations. Swift is no exception, as I'm finding many.
This is how you may investigate:
[Root]/data/system/users/0/wallpaper_info.xml
This file carries the wallpaper settings.
I would compare this file before and after customizing the wallpaper to memorize the differences.
Then I would back it up and immediately restore it using Swift
If there is a difference between before and after the backup, you found the cause.
Since I grew tired of relying on these backup apps, I make manual copies of these files you will see around these folders, the folders beying /data/system/, and /data/system/users/0

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A terrible directive for an advanced app. They certainly won't see my money
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Besides the inability to specify the backup dir, I found another problem: Swift encrypts everything.
On titanium, one can extract the app and the data from the ZIPs. Here, I can't.
Moreover, by using apps like Solid Explorer I can make a copy of other apps, with it's clear name, icon, and ready to install (and on a more organized manner).
The only advantage over Titanium is the backup of permissions, but being that the only one, I'd remove the "best app to backup" from the title of this thread.

General recovery fails to back up /data/fonts ( createTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255 )

im using LineageOS 19.1, latest firmware.
TWRP and OrangeFox recovery fails to back up /data/fonts when i try to backup /data.
this is not related to famous issue unable to backup multiple users since i dont have any users other than 0, and recovery log shows it is unable to backup /data/fonts.
log is here.
Code:
I:addFile '/data/fonts' including root: 1
==> set selinux context: u:object_r:system_data_file:s0
found fscrypt policy '/data/fonts' - '2DK' - 'a5d07c2ef6055e1a49be20f97f42b720'
I:addFile '/data/fonts/files' including root: 1
==> set selinux context: u:object_r:font_data_file:s0
found fscrypt policy '/data/fonts/files' - '2DK' - 'a5d07c2ef6055e1a49be20f97f42b720'
I:addFile '/data/fonts/files/~~x-1jwUFOuluBD0m14FCS7g==' including root: 1
==> set selinux context: u:object_r:font_data_file:s0
found fscrypt policy '/data/fonts/files/~~x-1jwUFOuluBD0m14FCS7g==' - '2DK' - 'a5d07c2ef6055e1a49be20f97f42b720'
I:addFile '/data/fonts/files/~~x-1jwUFOuluBD0m14FCS7g==/GoogleSans-Regular.ttf' including root: 1
==> set selinux context: u:object_r:font_data_file:s0
I:Error adding file '/data/fonts/files/~~x-1jwUFOuluBD0m14FCS7g==/GoogleSans-Regular.ttf' to '/data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/4d6d7506/2022-10-25--13-42-57_lineage_vayu-userdebug_12_SQ3A220705004_0fb/data.f2fs.win006'
Error creating backup.
I:ERROR tarList for thread ID 0
Error creating backup.
I:InfoManager saving '/data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/4d6d7506/2022-10-25--13-42-57_lineage_vayu-userdebug_12_SQ3A220705004_0fb/data.info'
createTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
Backup Failed. Cleaning Backup Folder.
either orangefox and twrp fails to backup, so im assuming it is generic issue.

In TWRP, go in "Advanced" menu => "Terminal" => Type: rm /data/extm -Rf
If that dosen't work,
Make sure to disable second space or 'dual apps', as that feature also creates two users.
P.S OrangeFox and TWRP are the same thing, though OrangeFox is based off TWRP with some added features which are useful in my opinion.

Kenora_I said:
In TWRP, go in "Advanced" menu => "Terminal" => Type: rm /data/extm -Rf
If that dosen't work,
Make sure to disable second space or 'dual apps', as that feature also creates two users.
P.S OrangeFox and TWRP are the same thing, though OrangeFox is based off TWRP with some added features which are useful in my opinion.
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the folder doesnt even exist. since i have using LineageOS, multiple users cant be a problem and log showing it is failed to backup fonts folder.

If i remember right, i had the same error. i took a look in this fonts-Folder and saw that it was empty. so i deleted the folder "fonts" and the backup ended without probs... If youre folder isnt empty, backup it to your pc hdd and try

Borisku, that worked. Well, before I managed to move somewhere all the fonts (my fonts/files folder was not empty), they disappeared themselves and then backup worked fine.

borisku said:
If i remember right, i had the same error. i took a look in this fonts-Folder and saw that it was empty. so i deleted the folder "fonts" and the backup ended without probs... If youre folder isnt empty, backup it to your pc hdd and try
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many thank's bro you saved my day (and my backup ability )

Where find this folder?
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Where find this folder? View attachment 5909175View attachment 5909177
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Update your OrangeFox and you won't have to bother about this folder.