Custom Recovery Backup - Optimus One, P500, V General

Hi All,
I recently purchased Lg O1. I have successfully installed Custom Recovery. I am confused about backup types. I have also installed touchscreen kernel. But is their is a axes inversion problem . As we you all know there are 3 types of backup ..
Backup/Restore:
Nand Backup : runs a nandroid backup of data, cache, boot, system
Nand Backup + .android secure : backs up above plus .android_secure on sdcard (froyo native apps on sd)
//Native app which notify "application can be moved into SD card" if you can move some app. It's good to use, if you used it.
Nand + ext backup : data, cache, system, boot, plus apps2sd on ext partition (old style apps2sd)
//old style apps2sd is used on some custom ROM because can move every application into SD card instead of Froyo's apps2sd
Which 1 should i do, mine is the stock firmware 2.2 10b..
Seeking your advice ..
Regards
Creedy

Nand Backup + .android secure.

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[Q] Reformatted sd and now NO apps

[Rooted with xtrSense 5.0.1 ROM]
Well the first issue I was having was my phone wouldn't boot past the white android screen. I popped the sd out and then it booted up fine. Turned off/on and again same issue. So I decided to copy everything on my sd to my computer, format, then converted it to ext2 to ext3. Copied everything back to the sd from my computer. It booted up fine this time but now none of my apps will work. (I had apps2sd as you probably figured) - I also re-flashed it and still no apps working.
Anybody have any ideas?
thetornado said:
[Rooted with xtrSense 5.0.1 ROM]
Well the first issue I was having was my phone wouldn't boot past the white android screen. I popped the sd out and then it booted up fine. Turned off/on and again same issue. So I decided to copy everything on my sd to my computer, format, then converted it to ext2 to ext3. Copied everything back to the sd from my computer. It booted up fine this time but now none of my apps will work. (I had apps2sd as you probably figured) - I also re-flashed it and still no apps working.
Anybody have any ideas?
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Yes. The ext2 or ext3 partition was probably not visible from your PC - I am guessing it is Windows. You probably only copied the files from your FAT32 partition, but the files in your ext3 partition - where your apps are stored on apps2sd - were not copied, and when you re-partitioned, you basically formatted the disk and erased them if they were there.
If you look at the backup/restore menu in Amon_RA recovery, there is an item called Nandroid+ext backup - this would backup (and allow Nandroid restore to restore) the apps on your ext3 partition. If you have a Nandroid backup that you made with the Nandroid+ext item, you should be able to restore your apps. If not, you'll have to reinstall them. (If you installed and backed up with Titanium Backup, you could restore them from there as well, with data.)
I did a nandroid and a nandroid+ext backup before formatting my sd, so I will go ahead and restore the nd+ext now.
So what actually backups for the nandroid? ..and for the +ext?
thetornado said:
I did a nandroid and a nandroid+ext backup before formatting my sd, so I will go ahead and restore the nd+ext now.
So what actually backups for the nandroid? ..and for the +ext?
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Nandroid (on Amon_RA) backs up /system, /data and the boot partition. (If you installed the trackball optional version of Amon_RA created by Scary Alien, it also backs up the /cache partition.) Nandroid+ext does all of these and adds the SD ext partition. Nandroids from Amon_RA are named automatically with names that start with something like BDS, BCDS, BDES, followed by yyyymmdd-hhmm - these letters let you know what was backed up with that backup - (B)oot, (D)ata, (C)ache, (E)xtended partition, and (S)ystem, plus the GMT date and time of the backup.
So, any of your backups with BDES should have your apps.

[Q] Restoring Apps installed on SD following a NAND backup [GingerTazz]

Hi,
I had Gin-Tazz 27 S.R.E. installed on my eris for a few months. During that time, I moved some apps to the SD card (by going to 'application settings' > 'manage applications' under the rom's settings). Yesterday, I did a NAND backup (not of the EXT partition), just a NAND backup) of my gin-tazz 27 and flashed Ginger Tazz THE END pt 2-rom (and doing a
Data/Factory Reset wipe, then the davlik wipe right before flashing). After the flash, I did a batch restore of my apps from titanium backup pro, I realized that I forgot to backup a couple newer apps from my Gin-Tazz S.R.E. setup (because my TB app backups were a couple months old).
I then rebooted, did the Data/Factory Reset and davlik wipes again and restored my NAND backup from gin-tazz27. However, the applications in my gin-tazz27 that were moved to my SD card now say that they are no longer installed...
Is there a way I can restore these apps ?
I just started using Mybackup root to back up my apps and just reinstall them when done.
For what it's worth, what I ended up doing was downloading unyaffs
(see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15397304&postcount=264 for more info) to open my nand backup, copied the app folders that contained the data that I was looking for (located in /data in my extracted nand backup), and then copied them to my SD card's /data/
(don't copy over the symbol link file in each of the app's folder that is 40 bytes large), and then reinstalled each of the missing apps.
Upon opening each of those apps, my data was still there. (actually you may need to move those apps to the SD card before opening).
thanks to mongooseHelix in #droid-eris for his help

Problem with creating backup on CWM recovery

Hi all
I have rooted my phone using the SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 TOOLKIT V2.0 by mskip. I have been trying to create a backup of the stock rom on my phone, but when I try to in CWM recovery I get error message "error while making a backup image of / data". Can anyone help me with this or tell me how to make a backup of the stock rom.
Cheers in advance
eze
When you do a backup, the .android_secure folder form the external sd is backed up as .android_secure.img (It's hidden in the backup set and not included in the md5 checksum). This always gets backed up, even in an advanced backup where data is excluded.
Then when you try to do a full_restore from this backup, after it restores /data it attemps to restore .android_secure.img and fails formatting the device, which kicks CWM out of the restore function and back to the main menu.
I've not tried it with the sdcard removed. I didn't know it would fall back to the internal sdcard. Easiest way around the issue (for now) is to erase .android_secure.img from your backup folders.the backup folder will be pushed to thr cwm folder in /data/media internal storage and your phone will reeboot into cwm to restore the nandroid backup...If you use samsung toolkit ; the point n5 is the backup and restore entry ,then passes to the point n10 and performs restore \data\media (internal virtual sd card) if the backup is done correctly you will have no problems ...
Cheers for the advice but I used the complete tool kit and made a back up that way.

[Q] Does TWRP not backup apps on ext sd?

I just restored a nandroid I had and all the apps I had moved to the sd were missing. Is there a way to correct this or do they have to be in the phone storage to be included in the backup? Of course I had everything in TiB, but that's not the same. When I do a nandroid I expect it be exactly the way I left it.
a nandroid backup usually includes the system, data, and boot images. user apps are usually installed on the data partition, but if you chose to move apps to your sd card via application settings then it would not be backed up.

Restoring data backed up from a different ROM?

Hi,
I had got a CWM back up of my stock ROM with some modifications of some system files, Xposed, BBS, Greenify & Amplify installed previously. Now I had flashed a an Miui custom ROM. With this ROM, there is no option to install apps to SD Card(external). I had flashed a zip that converts external SD to internal and vice versa. Now my question is: If I restore 'data' from the previously taken CWM back up, then will I face any problem? As my default internal memory is the external SD, then when apps are restored will it get stuck up midway as the external memory size now is reduced from 26 GB to 4 GB? I had used Link2SD after creating a 2nd partition. Now, how can I get those appa stored in the 2nd partition? One thing I observed is, Xposed V80 is not working with this Miui custom ROM.(getting boot loop)

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