Ok. Im getting a new Droid Eris today, before my old phone broke i did a nandroid back up through recovery. I am wondering if that nandroid back up will work with the new phone or if i have to flash a new rom and redo everything. Thanks in advanced
I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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I remember a thread on AF a few months ago about this. I think you might have to change a filename or something. I'd try searching in the all things root section and see what you can find.
I think the folder name inside of the nandroid folder needs to be named according to your eris serial number or hardware number, something like that..the backup might also be proprietary to your device though.
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The only reason i am asking is because i want to just restore if anything goes wrong with kaosgingerbread i have something to fall back on. As it stands im thinking of multi-booting just to have stability and speed, i dont know about the speed thing though.
New question does multi booting produce lag and speed issues?
When you do a nandroid backup for the first time on any phone, it creates a folder at
/sdcard/nandroid/H????????
where the last bit ( "H????????" ) is the device serial number. Let's suppose that your old phone has a serial number of "HXXXXXXXX", and (for instance) that you made a Nandroid backup of the old phone December 3rd, 2010 at 1517 GMT. There would be a backup folder inside that folder named
/sdcard/nandroid/HXXXXXXXX/BDS-20101203-1517
(This folder will contain four files: boot.img, system.img, data.img, and nandroid.md5)
There is nothing in that backup that is specific to the serial number of your phone, so, the easiest thing to do is to make a dummy Nandroid backup on the new phone after you have rooted it. Let's suppose that the device serial number of the new phone is HZZZZZZZZ; performing that (dummy) backup will create a new backup at
/sdcard/nandroid/HZZZZZZZZ/BDS-date_and_time_stamp
So, the only thing you need to do is move all the BDS-* folders inside
/sdcard/nandroid/HXXXXXXXX
to the new folder
/sdcard/nandroid/HZZZZZZZZ
and you are good to go.
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BTW, the you should have posted this in the Q&A section.
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BTW, the you should have posted this in the Q&A section.
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I am not the best at looking before i post, but in my defense i needed reply fast because all that droid is doing when it gets here is it is getting its sd card and a quick call to verizon then it is on it way to be rooted. Thnak you everyone who posted and thanks to bftb0 for pointing out the fact that nothing is hooked to the serial number
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Ive been spending way to much time researching my problem and my wife is really mad at me. Basically at this point i would be happy to just manually extract data for about 10 apps from a nandroid that wont restore. Can someone point me in the right direction please?
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Ok, now that I am at computer, heres my story. Prior to flashing the gingerbread leak, I backed up using Titanium Backup and made a Nandroid backup. Somehow, all the files backed up in my PREVIOUS 2 backups on titanium backup where all 0kb-10kb, so they were completely borked for some reason. Some old backups of apps that I have since uninstalled still remained and those seem ok.
Prior to reading about the SD card failures with the gingerbread leak, I backed up my SD card to my computer. Only 1 error came up during the backup about a file with a name that was too long. I clicked on ignore and finished the backup. About 1 hour later my SD card fried.
I used a spare sd card, and transfered my clockwork mod folder and a few other folders to it. I then ODIN a DL09 stock image, flashed the newest Clockword mod 3.xx via odin, flashed UKB 2.0, then flashed PBJ -50 recovery/kernel (which was what I had when I made the backup) and tried to restore it. When I try to restore it hangs somewhere in the data restore portion saying CACHE. I saw it flash cache a few times during the restore, so I am not sure why it hangs on that one in particular. I know that the cache image file is only 16.5kb so I dont know if that has something to do with it.
I then installed the newest IMNUTS recovery since I heard there were problems restoring the the PBJ recovery, and it seems to hang in the same spot.
At this point, I have a few of my old programs back, but most force close.
My main goal here is to just extract some gamesave progress and a few other pieces of data (I can redownload basically all the apps I need), run clean until a better gingerbread leak comes along, then use titanium backup to backup what I have (and verify the backups and make backups of the backups )and install a better gingerbread rom.
So anyway, If i can figure out how to go into the datadata.img files, I guess I can extract the data I need and push it through ADB or ROOT EXPLORER? Should that work?
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There are computer applications that can read and explore image files, or .img files, and the file systems within image files. Your best bet would be software like that, that could open, edit, and explore image files. I dont know the names of any software like that, even though I have come across some before, but im sure you could turn up some results with the query "image file editor," or ".img file editor." From there you're just have to feel your way through.. Try similar queries if those don't turn up what you need, etc. If you got an app that could explore image files, then you could get your .apk files from /data/app folder, and any other data you might need from /data/data, if its just user apps you're wanting to restore.
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ssmaster said:
Ive been spending way to much time researching my problem and my wife is really mad at me. Basically at this point i would be happy to just manually extract data for about 10 apps from a nandroid that wont restore. Can someone point me in the right direction please?
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Ok, now that I am at computer, heres my story. Prior to flashing the gingerbread leak, I backed up using Titanium Backup and made a Nandroid backup. Somehow, all the files backed up in my PREVIOUS 2 backups on titanium backup where all 0kb-10kb, so they were completely borked for some reason. Some old backups of apps that I have since uninstalled still remained and those seem ok.
Prior to reading about the SD card failures with the gingerbread leak, I backed up my SD card to my computer. Only 1 error came up during the backup about a file with a name that was too long. I clicked on ignore and finished the backup. About 1 hour later my SD card fried.
I used a spare sd card, and transfered my clockwork mod folder and a few other folders to it. I then ODIN a DL09 stock image, flashed the newest Clockword mod 3.xx via odin, flashed UKB 2.0, then flashed PBJ -50 recovery/kernel (which was what I had when I made the backup) and tried to restore it. When I try to restore it hangs somewhere in the data restore portion saying CACHE. I saw it flash cache a few times during the restore, so I am not sure why it hangs on that one in particular. I know that the cache image file is only 16.5kb so I dont know if that has something to do with it.
I then installed the newest IMNUTS recovery since I heard there were problems restoring the the PBJ recovery, and it seems to hang in the same spot.
At this point, I have a few of my old programs back, but most force close.
My main goal here is to just extract some gamesave progress and a few other pieces of data (I can redownload basically all the apps I need), run clean until a better gingerbread leak comes along, then use titanium backup to backup what I have (and verify the backups and make backups of the backups )and install a better gingerbread rom.
So anyway, If i can figure out how to go into the datadata.img files, I guess I can extract the data I need and push it through ADB or ROOT EXPLORER? Should that work?
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unfortunately, you won't likely receive much sympathy posting a question in the development section. Please post your question in the Q & A section and you'll get some help. Just a friendly heads up.
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Well I'll go ahead and point you to the right direction, or what I'd imagine should work for your needs. You'll need unyaffs, I'm assuming you're on windows so this here would be the right one for you http://www.box.net/shared/1eighqsh4s. Now take the data.img from your clockwork backup on your sdcard, drag and drop it onto the unyaffs.exe, it should unpack right there into a crapload of files. Navigate to the /data folder and find the ones you want to keep (they should be listed by the package name for the apps, "com.blah.asfkje.etc" rather than the name of the app so keep that in mind when looking for what you want), then adb push (root explorer would be fine too) the folders into your phone where they should be.
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unfortunately, you won't likely receive much sympathy posting a question in the development section. Please post your question in the Q & A section and you'll get some help. Just a friendly heads up.
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum, I was waiting for the train when I posted and wasn't thinking too straight. How can I move it?
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum, I was waiting for the train when I posted and wasn't thinking too straight. How can I move it?
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The mods will move it once they notice.
Another Fascinating post by my XDA app...
Just curious because of my personal interest...
Did you happen to try the nandroid Advanced Restore option, and select Data only? If not, it might be worth a shot. If it gets far enough, you might try wiping after the restore, and before booting up.
I always wipe my cache/Dalvik before I backup, to try to avoid conflicts with possible future ROMs. Something to think about, anyway.
Sorry about the trouble.
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Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum, I was waiting for the train when I posted and wasn't thinking too straight. How can I move it?
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Report your post stating that it should be moved, and the mods will notice right away.
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Just curious because of my personal interest...
Did you happen to try the nandroid Advanced Restore option, and select Data only? If not, it might be worth a shot. If it gets far enough, you might try wiping after the restore, and before booting up.
I always wipe my cache/Dalvik before I backup, to try to avoid conflicts with possible future ROMs. Something to think about, anyway.
Sorry about the trouble.
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i did try the nandroid advanced data only option and it hung at what seemed to be the exact same point.
Me and My girlfriend both have the SGS2, mine black, hers white.
Instead of all the settings/installations I thought maybe to backup my phone with CWM and restore it on her phone.
Is it possible?
Will it work...?
Won't it ruin anything important with the phone, such as imei issues or anything?
The reason for thinking about it is that she has some unsolved issues and I dont have too much time to spend doing all the checking and installing things..I just know mine works well and it seems the easiest way
It will work as long as the back up does not have EFS in it.
EFS contains information about imei.
The backup is consisted of a several .img files.
How can I tell if it contains EFS or not, and if it does, how can I 'tell' CWM not to backup this information?
list the files in back up and we will tell which ones are safe to transfer.
Sorry, The following are the backup files:
.android_secure, boot, cache,data, nandroid.md5,system.
As far as i am aware backup does not contain EFS but i am not 100% sure .
jje
I'm also interested in this as I would like to port my existing phone backup to another SGS2, but I have doubts re MAC address and also IMEI.
EFS info stated previously does not give much insight, but what I have as a regular CWM backup is: nandroid.md5 *giving proper checksum for other 4 files), boot.img, cache.ext4.tar, system.ext4.tar and data.ext4.tar files, totaling ~ 1.20GB. No EFS dedi files. I fear my second SGS2 might receive wrong info through backup flash, thus resulting conflicting one with another. As both phones will be used in the same household (my son would receive my old SGS2), and also IMEI is worrying me as I wouldn't want ending with both of them having the same one and resulting illegitimate while both SGS2 are legit!
I searched with google, but haven't found SGS2 related topics.
Anyone with more insight or willing to help?
TIA.
Cheers!
Edit: if none replies, I might give it a try as I already have CWM backup on both phones mounting the very same ROM.
Yeah it can be done. CWM doesn't back up efs so won't need to worry about that. It will put an exact duplicate on her phone though. All settings, contacts, messages, accounts etc will be copied across.
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Fevves said:
I'm also interested in this as I would like to port my existing phone backup to another SGS2, but I have doubts re MAC address and also IMEI.
EFS info stated previously does not give much insight, but what I have as a regular CWM backup is: nandroid.md5 *giving proper checksum for other 4 files), boot.img, cache.ext4.tar, system.ext4.tar and data.ext4.tar files, totaling ~ 1.20GB. No EFS dedi files. I fear my second SGS2 might receive wrong info through backup flash, thus resulting conflicting one with another. As both phones will be used in the same household (my son would receive my old SGS2), and also IMEI is worrying me as I wouldn't want ending with both of them having the same one and resulting illegitimate while both SGS2 are legit!
I searched with google, but haven't found SGS2 related topics.
Anyone with more insight or willing to help?
TIA.
Cheers!
Edit: if none replies, I might give it a try as I already have CWM backup on both phones mounting the very same ROM.
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dude at any point of time u cant change the IMEI no its no ware related to ur rom hence dont worry
but ensure that u put the bkp file under cwm/backup folder other wise u cannot install the bkp from recovery
Thanks for the info guys. That is all I wanted to "hear" (read) and it seems not so complicated after all (thank god, not like on some other Android devices and nandroid backup). Will clone my phone to other one as soon as I have some spare time and will report back.
Edit: Just cloned my older SGS2 to a newer one, did complete restore of internal memory on newer SGS2 and everything works as a charm, just enabled it on my home wifi network and that's it. Older SGS2 just got dalvik etc wipe so it can be clean for my kid
So it is really a piece of cake and is doable.
Thanks for advices and hints whoever posted here.
Cheers.
Okay, I was going to post this in the Dev forum under the TWRP thread, but I have less than 10 posts...? So it didn't let me.
I created a backup of my LTE via TWRP (not sure what version it was, definitely 2.X, but not sure exactly which) and switch phones out with Sprint and am trying to restore the backup, but it won't show in the Recovery section. I played with the settings a bit...pretty much selecting every option possible, even made a copy of it on the internal SD card, still nothing.
Any suggestions? I really don't feel like spending another week and a half getting my phone to the point of where it was before, and titanium backup isn't an exact copy even after I threw the ROM on there and restored everything.
Thanks!
maybe its the folder, it saves them in some weird name. i would suggest making a back up of say... /cache or /system. something small. so you can see where the folder is made. Delete that folder and put your back up in it.
Good call! Thanks man!
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Good call! Thanks man!
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I would definitely do a backup of your existing rom before trying to restore that backup from a different phone. I think it may work, but I don't think it's recommended. I would just use titanium backup when switching phones.
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Okay, I was going to post this in the Dev forum under the TWRP thread, but I have less than 10 posts...? So it didn't let me.
I created a backup of my LTE via TWRP (not sure what version it was, definitely 2.X, but not sure exactly which) and switch phones out with Sprint and am trying to restore the backup, but it won't show in the Recovery section. I played with the settings a bit...pretty much selecting every option possible, even made a copy of it on the internal SD card, still nothing.
Any suggestions? I really don't feel like spending another week and a half getting my phone to the point of where it was before, and titanium backup isn't an exact copy even after I threw the ROM on there and restored everything.
Thanks!
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im a little confused as well when I browse my sd card using an app i see /mnt/sdcard and i see twrp in there but thats not my actual sd card there is another folder called /mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/ and that holds the contents of the sd card which is where twrp should be saving the backups im confused why and how there are 2 directories.
can someone explain how the storage works on this phone because it seems different from my OG evo and the 3d
edit I found a bit of an explanation over here for my question.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1714824
Hey everyone. So I wanted to try out the vanilla root box ROM today and after a while of checking it out I decided to swap back to the back up I made before doing the ROM install. Problem is, when I boot into recovery, and press restore...non of my backups are there. Can anyone help? Where did my back ups go?
ok, sorry guys, i was on my phone at a friends place when i posted this thread so i wasnt able to search to much on google. so the deal is my TWRP isnt seeing the backups i did after i rooted my note 2 and the backup i did before i flashed my vanilla rootbox rom. kinda weird. anyways, i looked thru my phone files with file manager and the backups are indeed there...
does anyone know where i need to move these files to have them show up under restore in TWRP? i tried one method of making another backup and then moving the backups to where the new backup was stored. but when i go to look, the new backup doesnt show in file manager in the location where TWRP said the backup was stored...i even searched for it and still no dice. lmk if you have a fix for this. thanks!
i also went into TWRP, went to advanced, file manager, data, media, twrp, backups, the back i was looking for was there.
i tried moving it to the media/0 location like mentioned in this youtube vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ziillAA-I
it doesnt let me copy the folder over like shown in the vid. waited like 3 mins, then says it failed. then wont even try after each attempt afterwards, just goes straight to fail....
WHAT THE DEUCE!?
Ima connect the phone to my laptop and see if I can locate the newest backup I made and see about moving the older ones to that location. Seen if they show up. If anyone knows the actual location or fix for this do let me know. Seems that the newest version of twrp was suppose to fix this but I guess not.
ok so i figured it out.
somehow the first couple stock backups i made ended up in the TWRP backup folder on the internal drive of the phone.
the new backup was stored in the TWRP backup folder on my SD Card.
so after finding both locations, i cut the two stock backups i made and pasted them into the SD Card TWRPs Backup folder and BAM! they show up now in my restore option on TWRP.
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reasno fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reasno fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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Glad you found them and are you're good to go!
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flip06 said:
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reason fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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Sorry I am late to the party... But in twrp at the top of the screen you can change where to get the backup from its a bar that says data(xxxx) however much space you have left.. Tap it and you can. Go from internal to external memory and search any folder. Doesn't have to be in the twrp backup folder either... Just for future references... Again sorry probably could have saved you time and effort if I saw this earlier.
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Sorry I am late to the party... But in twrp at the top of the screen you can change where to get the backup from its a bar that says data(xxxx) however much space you have left.. Tap it and you can. Go from internal to external memory and search any folder. Doesn't have to be in the twrp backup folder either... Just for future references... Again sorry probably could have saved you time and effort if I saw this earlier.
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hey man, thanks for the info. yea i didnt realize you could change the location, i dont even remember tapping that part of the screen before initializing the backup process...maybe i hit it and didnt think about it. *FACEPALM!*
anyways, ill keep that in mind for next time.
flip06 said:
hey man, thanks for the info. yea i didnt realize you could change the location, i dont even remember tapping that part of the screen before initializing the backup process...maybe i hit it and didnt think about it. *FACEPALM!*
anyways, ill keep that in mind for next time.
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Sorry, but what part of the screen are you tapping? I can select between different drives, but I don't see any directory in there (and neither the classic two dots to go one directory back). I am using 2.7
Thanks
actually i can see my backups they are unpacked i got same issue twrp not seeing them. i really would like to go back to stock
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actually i can see my backups they are unpacked i got same issue twrp not seeing them. i really would like to go back to stock
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Follow instructions in post 8.
For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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Thank You. You saved my buns.
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For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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In fact, the correct path where all your disk image files (data.ext4.win etc.) have to be stored, is /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serial number>/<name of folder with disk image files>, so BACKUPS in capital letters.
TWRP does not "find" your backup otherwise (tested with 2.8).
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In fact, the correct path where all your disk image files (data.ext4.win etc.) have to be stored, is /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serial number>/<name of folder with disk image files>, so BACKUPS in capital letters.
TWRP does not "find" your backup otherwise (tested with 2.8).
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That was very helpful. Thanks
Thanks for the complete directory info!
Can anyone give me backup file of note 2 to restore from custom rom plz help ... i dnt hv backup when i flash .. if i create backup file from other note 2 can it works .. is it in dead risk ?
flip06 said:
ok so i figured it out.
somehow the first couple stock backups i made ended up in the TWRP backup folder on the internal drive of the phone.
the new backup was stored in the TWRP backup folder on my SD Card.
so after finding both locations, i cut the two stock backups i made and pasted them into the SD Card TWRPs Backup folder and BAM! they show up now in my restore option on TWRP.
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Thanks dude, I've done the same and it worked!
restorimg data error when I performe a restore for your rom. Why?
Ok so I had an old Note II and had a sweet insurance plan that got me a new one once i crack the screen, no questions asked, on this old phone i had already backed up my old rom and everything and was ready for my new phone. Now that I have it I thought "Okay all i need to do now is root it and unlock the bootloader." so i did with the "noyouverizon" program. When it was done doing its thing I tried to restore my phone to its previous state with the backup, or so i thought, I was in TWRP and I hit restore and navigated to the folder where the backup was saved and i got to the backup and I was able to just navigate into the folder and there was nothing in it. so I cant select the folder to use as a restore point and I'm not sure why. Any help would be appreciated. If you need me to elaborate on any details let me know.
Could be a different version of twrp. Just throwing that out there, good luck
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Could be a different version of twrp. Just throwing that out there, good luck
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yea thats what im thinking but now I ****ed up and am in a boot lock. plz help private mesage me your skype if you can
A_Sneaky_Kat said:
Ok so I had an old Note II and had a sweet insurance plan that got me a new one once i crack the screen, no questions asked, on this old phone i had already backed up my old rom and everything and was ready for my new phone. Now that I have it I thought "Okay all i need to do now is root it and unlock the bootloader." so i did with the "noyouverizon" program. When it was done doing its thing I tried to restore my phone to its previous state with the backup, or so i thought, I was in TWRP and I hit restore and navigated to the folder where the backup was saved and i got to the backup and I was able to just navigate into the folder and there was nothing in it. so I cant select the folder to use as a restore point and I'm not sure why. Any help would be appreciated. If you need me to elaborate on any details let me know.
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Make a backup of one of the smaller partitions on the SD card. Go to the SD card and it should be TWRP>something something>date-Nand backup. Place your NAND backup from the other phone in the same folder where you just made the new nand backup. I had this same issue, and the simple fix was this. TWRP doesn't recognize if you make a folder or direct it to the backup, at least the version I was on. It only recognized my backup after TWRP had created the folder from a previous backup on that phone. Try it out.