[Q] N00b question regarding the Nandroid Backup - Optimus One, P500, V General

I've got few doubts regarding the Nandroid backup. I boot into the recovery and under Backup/restore there are several options which include
- Nand backup
- Nand backup + .android_secure
- Nand + ext backup
- Nand + ext backup + .android_
Which option do I select?
Sorry am a n00b. I am running on stock 2.2.2 and I've installed the recovery and would like to flash the franco kernel, my question is when the official Gingerbread is available will I be able to upgrade without any issues since I would change the kernel?
Thanks!

bindaasathar said:
I've got few doubts regarding the Nandroid backup. I boot into the recovery and under Backup/restore there are several options which include
- Nand backup
- Nand backup + .android_secure
- Nand + ext backup
- Nand + ext backup + .android_
Which option do I select?
Thanks!
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For stock without any Apps2SD/Link2SD stuff Nand backup + .android_secure is enough. (i.e., the system, data and apps installed on phone and apps installed on SD via the Froyo built-in mechanism.)
For the rest, we do not know, ask LG, they will not tell you the date either, no point in asking.

I've got this application App2Sd installed on the phone. So which backup do I go for? also I get this error "Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb !" while creating a backup of anything other than Nand backup.

bindaasathar said:
I've got this application App2Sd installed on the phone. So which backup do I go for? also I get this error "Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb !" while creating a backup of anything other than Nand backup.
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If you partitioned your card, you need to backup the ext as well. If you are unsure about whether you have anything installed on SD card via Froyo, just back up everything.
As for the error, would guess to be corrupt filesystem on the ext partition, or SD card compatibility issue or whatnot.
What recovery are you using (incl. version) and how did you partition the card, and what filesystem?

AmonRa/modified by Drellisdee version 1.2. I haven't partitioned the card. I just installed the recovery and gives me error whenever i try to create any backup. I tired only the Nand backup and it was successful. Yes. I've installed many applications on the sd card.

bindaasathar said:
AmonRa/modified by Drellisdee version 1.2. I haven't partitioned the card. I just installed the recovery and gives me error whenever i try to create any backup. I tired only the Nand backup and it was successful. Yes. I've installed many applications on the sd card.
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Clear as a mud. What is that App2SD "application" you are talking about, exactly? Where did you get it from, how did you install?

Clear as mud what? Obviously from android market. App2Sd... To move the installed applications onto the SD card.

bindaasathar said:
Clear as mud what? Obviously from android market. App2Sd... To move the installed applications onto the SD card.
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"Obviously" - there is nothing obvious about this, most people here are using flashed custom apps that use ext2/3/4 partition for moving applications, cache and data to a partitioned SD card.
Well whatever, I need a market link, since searching for App2Sd will definitely not answer my question, there are loads of utilities there.

doktornotor said:
"Obviously" - there is nothing obvious about this, most people here are using flashed custom apps that use ext2/3/4 partition for moving applications, cache and data to a partitioned SD card.
Well whatever, I need a market link, since searching for App2Sd will definitely not answer my question, there are loads of utilities there.
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I clearly mentioned that am new to these stuff and "flashed custom apps" No chance since I've just installed the custom recovery. You are confusing me further. Thanks for the confusion.

bindaasathar said:
I clearly mentioned that am new to these stuff and "flashed custom apps" No chance since I've just installed the custom recovery. You are confusing me further. Thanks for the confusion.
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You are welcome. Until you tell me exactly which application you installed, I really cannot help. Searching for app2sd results in tons of results and there are also applications that partition the SD card themselves, so it is not even clear whether you have the card partitioned or not. Apps2SD itself is a meaningless description, sorry.
Otherwise, stick with nand backup only, use Titanium for the rest and move on.

I don't think you got my point.
1. Which type of backup do I use to back my stuff up though the Recovery's Backup / restore option.
2. Whenever I try to back up things, I get this error "Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb !"
I hope you understood.

bindaasathar said:
I don't think you got my point.
1. Which type of backup do I use to back my stuff up though the Recovery's Backup / restore option.
2. Whenever I try to back up things, I get this error "Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb !"
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I cannot tell you what to backup when I do not know where you have stuff installed/stored, uh! I already answered your question in a generic way and no more detailed info can be provided since I know nothing about your particular setup.
Ditto for the second question, as said - if you cannot be bothered to get the info required to diagnose your weird error message, simply use plain nand backup for system and data and Titanium for applications backup. All I can say to this.

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[Q] Nandroid Backup

M a N00b i admit , well i jst want to know how to make a nandroid backup...with simple step, even i heard after making back up the phone goose back to factory default .?
Make a custom recovery first.Then nandroid backup it.Basically a nandroid backup is like saving your 'gameplay'. Its just for backup purpose before you flash another ROM.
Custom ROM instructions:
http://androidforums.com/getitnowma...ry-optimus-one-p500-thunderg.html#post1896517
so to make a backup i hav to download all those file & than go in recovery mood & than make a backup?
install custom recovery
load custom recovery
run a nandroid backup.
the backup will be stored on your sd card
titch.ryan said:
install custom recovery
load custom recovery
run a nandroid backup.
the backup will be stored on your sd card
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Well i have run nandroid back up and they are in my sd card. and if i want to flash my phone, i will have to wipe my sd card. won't that delete nandroid folder from the card?
Guys I also want to ask following:
1. I am on void delta. Before installing void, I had rooted my phone and installed custom recovery and thereafter I made a simple nandroid backup(without android secure or ext. Now, if i restore that nandroid backup, will I still have the custom recovery?
2. I have void with 784 mb partition on sd for apps. And I have about 298 apps installed (almost used 90% of ext partition).
Can I make a complete nandroid backup of system, data and ext? And will it be restorable? Kindly answer both the questions.
Thanks to all you great people.
sovikhaque said:
Well i have run nandroid back up and they are in my sd card. and if i want to flash my phone, i will have to wipe my sd card. won't that delete nandroid folder from the card?
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Sure it will. That's why you should backup everything from the SD to your computer before partitioning it.
lekhwani said:
Guys I also want to ask following:
1. I am on void delta. Before installing void, I had rooted my phone and installed custom recovery and thereafter I made a simple nandroid backup(without android secure or ext. Now, if i restore that nandroid backup, will I still have the custom recovery?
2. I have void with 784 mb partition on sd for apps. And I have about 298 apps installed (almost used 90% of ext partition).
Can I make a complete nandroid backup of system, data and ext? And will it be restorable? Kindly answer both the questions.
Thanks to all you great people.
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1. Yes.
2. If you have enough free space on the FAT partition of the SD I don't see why it shouldn't be possible. Although some people reported problems when trying to restore a NAND backup. Haven't tried it myself yet, so this is just hearsay.
To use copy flash_image and recovery-RA-GNM-thunderg-1.1.0.img to the root of your sdcard.
i dint got the point by root of SD card, where should i place in sd card?
iamrajeev said:
To use copy flash_image and recovery-RA-GNM-thunderg-1.1.0.img to the root of your sdcard.
i dint got the point by root of SD card, where should i place in sd card?
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Just on the sd card. not in any folder of sd.

Nandroid backup doesn't seeem to work. Am I doing this wrong?

I should probably post this in the dev forum but I don't have enough posts. And I should probably search first but I'm in this panic mode of being cut off from having a phone so I'm terribly sorry if this has been covered elsewhere.
I was running CM7.0.0.RC4 and decided to upgrade to CM7.0.3 and since all the other updates have gone so extremely well I decide to do this while in my car on a drive.
So first thing I did was Nandroid backup.
Then I wiped the cache and the davlik cache because that's been my recipe for success. Not thinking I also wiped the data/system stuff. Then I installed the CM7 update from a zip file.
I didn't realize what I did until I booted the thing and came up on a screen with none of my icons on it.
So I went into the reboot recovery screen and tried to do a Nandroid recovery but when I did that I just get the HTC screen staring back at me they pops up before anything else and it never seems to go anywhere else. I had to pull the battery to reboot it.
Am I doing the backup wrong? Does the Nandroid ISO have all my settings, programs, etc on it? If it doesn't I might as well do a fresh start.
When you do a Nandroid restore it should restore your data and system partitions as well (including your apps and settings).
When you do the restore, does it give you an error?
First off thank you for the reply.
I didn't see an error so I just did another restore to check.
1 error message pops up and it says
"sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restor of /sd-ext"
When I reboot I get the same thing, it hangs on HTC screen and never goes beyond that.
It's ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.1
mrozowjj said:
First off thank you for the reply.
I didn't see an error so I just did another restore to check.
1 error message pops up and it says
"sd-ext.img not found. Skipping restor of /sd-ext"
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This is normal if you don't have an ext partition on your SD card (for apps2sd or simple2ext support).
When I reboot I get the same thing, it hangs on HTC screen and never goes beyond that.
It's ClockworkMod Recovery 2.5.0.1
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It's certainly strange. My suggestion is this:
1) Boot into Clockworkmod
2) Wipe data/factory reset
3) Wipe cache partition
4) Advanced > Wipe dalvik cache
5) Partitions menu > format system
6) Install Cyanogenmod zip from sdcard
7) Install Google Apps zip from sdcard
8) Nandroid > Advanced restore > Restore data (don't restore the other things)
9) Reboot
Good luck.
Oh that's brilliant. I'll try that.
I've done a install of the CM7 and teh google tools and it started downloading all the apps that I had stored on the SD card so the only think I think I lost was some settings and my text messages but I'll try that anyway just to see if it will work. I have all my settings just the way I want them.
So I tried that and it didn't seem to do any better. None of my text messages were saved. I had to redownload all my apps again.
Now my SD card is almost full which doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless somehow the old versions of the programs are still on the SD card in which case if they are how to I clear that space up?
The other thing is while reinstalling some of the apps failed and I cleared the notification list because it was too long to sort through them all but now I can't figure out which apps weren't installed correctly. Can I bring up that error list again?
mrozowjj said:
So I tried that and it didn't seem to do any better. None of my text messages were saved. I had to redownload all my apps again.
Now my SD card is almost full which doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless somehow the old versions of the programs are still on the SD card in which case if they are how to I clear that space up?
The other thing is while reinstalling some of the apps failed and I cleared the notification list because it was too long to sort through them all but now I can't figure out which apps weren't installed correctly. Can I bring up that error list again?
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When you make Nandroid backups, it saves everything on your SD card under the clockworkmod folder. Each backup is saved by the date (GMT) when you did the backup. On a smaller SD card (like the one the phone comes with) even a few of those backups can eat up your SD card space quickly, so you should just go in and delete the ones you don't need from that folder.
When you did the Nandroid backup and Nandroid restore, did you go into ROM Manager to get to Clockworkmod? If so, you should try doing it the proper way -- turn the phone off completely, then use volume down + power to get to Clockworkmod. In general I would avoid using ROM Manager on an S-ON device like the Aria.
Also make sure the USB cable is not plugged in. it makes clockwork act crazy.
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drumist said:
When you make Nandroid backups, it saves everything on your SD card under the clockworkmod folder. Each backup is saved by the date (GMT) when you did the backup. On a smaller SD card (like the one the phone comes with) even a few of those backups can eat up your SD card space quickly, so you should just go in and delete the ones you don't need from that folder.
When you did the Nandroid backup and Nandroid restore, did you go into ROM Manager to get to Clockworkmod? If so, you should try doing it the proper way -- turn the phone off completely, then use volume down + power to get to Clockworkmod. In general I would avoid using ROM Manager on an S-ON device like the Aria.
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I've been doing the restore from the Clockwordmod bootloader menu. Turns out I made a backup of ADW settings and the desktop settings so I'm right back to where I was before the install just in a more round about way.
I am using the SD card that came with it but I'm thinking I might go get a larger one now. Is there any easy way to get all my apps onto the new card? Will just coping the content work?
mrozowjj said:
I've been doing the restore from the Clockwordmod bootloader menu. Turns out I made a backup of ADW settings and the desktop settings so I'm right back to where I was before the install just in a more round about way.
I am using the SD card that came with it but I'm thinking I might go get a larger one now. Is there any easy way to get all my apps onto the new card? Will just coping the content work?
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If your current SD card doesn't have an ext partition on it (i.e., you didn't repartition it), then you can simply copy the entire contents over from the old card to the new card. It's as simple as that.

Unable to restore Nandroid backup

my s3 is unable to restore nandroid backup until restoring data proses.
it will give error restoring data thus stop the proses.
already tried backup in internal & external memory but still fails.
my cwm version is 5.5.0.4 cf-v1.5
need advice & help.
i dont have problem with my s2.
thanks.
What a coincidence. I was going to send similar post . Yesterday I experienced the same problem. I wanted to go back to ICS from JB but CWM failed to restore data. Fortunately I had titanium backup as well, so I could restore all my applications.
The error message was "Error while restoring /data!". I have recovery.log if someone wants to look at it.
Use the same CF Root version and CWM to restore that was used to backup sometimes helps .
jje
I used the same version for backup and restore.
Maybe you should try touch recover 6.0.1.2
It work fine for me
Can I restore my old backups with touch recover?
Try using advanced restore and reinstall the components separately
marklar666 said:
Can I restore my old backups with touch recover?
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Yes backward compatibility.
Ok. Will try it in future. Already recovered all my data from titanium backup.
never had this problem myself, have you checked the size of the backups, if they are less than 700 meg the backup process may not have worked, was there enough space on your're SD card to do the backup in the first place?.
Try copying the backup to the other SD card, does it copy ok, if so try to restore from there. Seems to be there has to be a reason for this that you should try to get the bottom of.
My backup was around 3.5GB. There was over 9GB free space on sdcard and 5GB free on extsdcard. Don't think there was not enough space.
i have backup & restored in internal & external memory yet the restoration of data still failed.
in addition i have tried restoring nandroid by "advance restore from internal sdcard" step by step & still failed when restoring data.
noted that i have used the same version on cwm with my nandroid.
hope someone able to give me a solution for my problem.
i never have this problem with my S2.
Problem solved!
I have manage to successfully restored my nandroid backup by flashing cwm touch recovery 6.0.1.2 from this thread click here.
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Same problem as kakiboyer, except a bit funkier.
got the 64GB microSD card off amazon popped it in and it just just went. no formatting no nothing.
backed up my original stock image using cwm5.5 and saved it onto the external SD card.
then flashed supernexus build 5 which gave a problem with my external 64GB SD card when i turned it on,it said it was damaged and needed a reformat (not fat32 im guessing) either way the flash was fine, i just need to reclaim the stuff on my 64GB SD card.
I then tried restoring to my original image and then removing the data that way, but instead i got the /data error (hence why i'm here).
Same set up as kakiboyer by the way.
using cwm version 5.5.0.4 cf-v1.5
so when i updated to cmw touch 6.0 it now can't see the external sd card (only the internal one).
BUT when i flash back to 5.5 it can see the external SD as well as the original backups, all my music/movie files etc. on the external SD.
So since the OS can't see the card, touch 6.0 can't see it and i can't revert back to the original image; how can i get my stuff off this SD card?
Fixed it!
Slapped the sd card into my windows machine and ran "chkdsk F: /r" with F: been whatever the sd card is!
got everything back, it was extFAT so copied everything off, reformatted to fat32 and put everything back on.
Happy days!

[Q] TWRP 2.6.0 E: Error tarring split files.

This is my first thread after a years here without any problems to flash on my i9300.
My condition:
1. Previously use CM 10.1
2. Update to CM 10.2 --> It's OK without problems.
4. Restore all my apps from Titanium Backup --> Still OK
5. Uninstall Xposed framework for Reverse Tethering 3.7 --> Reboot --> Install same Xposed framework --> Reboot --> TADAAA!! problem occured :crying:
6. Stuck at bootloader
7. Have done many things but failed untill reinstall stock recovery and stock rom through ODIN --> Myphone start to breath
8. Done MegaWipe before reinstall TWRP recovery, CM 10.2, Gapps and restore some apps through TB --> No problems.
9. Try to nandroid backup via TWRP and get error log as below :
Backing up Data...
Breaking backup file into multiple archives...
E: Error tarring split files!
abusuffian said:
This is my first thread after a years here without any problems to flash on my i9300.
My condition:
1. Previously use CM 10.1
2. Update to CM 10.2 --> It's OK without problems.
4. Restore all my apps from Titanium Backup --> Still OK
5. Uninstall Xposed framework for Reverse Tethering 3.7 --> Reboot --> Install same Xposed framework --> Reboot --> TADAAA!! problem occured :crying:
6. Stuck at bootloader
7. Have done many things but failed untill reinstall stock recovery and stock rom through ODIN --> Myphone start to breath
8. Done MegaWipe before reinstall TWRP recovery, CM 10.2, Gapps and restore some apps through TB --> No problems.
9. Try to nandroid backup via TWRP and get error log as below :
Backing up Data...
Breaking backup file into multiple archives...
E: Error tarring split files!
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Maybe sectors in eMMC going bad. My advice would be to have at least 4GB free on internal SD at all times. Backup weekly but only to external SD. Avoid writing to internal SD as much as possible. (also be 100% certain that you have multiple EFS backups). If you are using a dual-boot kernel - try to do most of your extensive work in a ROM that you install as second (and keep 1st as emergency backup).
xclub_101 said:
Maybe sectors in eMMC going bad. My advice would be to have at least 4GB free on internal SD at all times. Backup weekly but only to external SD. Avoid writing to internal SD as much as possible. (also be 100% certain that you have multiple EFS backups). If you are using a dual-boot kernel - try to do most of your extensive work in a ROM that you install as second (and keep 1st as emergency backup).
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Thank you for your advice..
Is the problems under samsung warranty? how to prove to them?
Is there any way to do nandroid backup?
abusuffian said:
Thank you for your advice..
Is the problems under samsung warranty? how to prove to them?
Is there any way to do nandroid backup?
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I don't think it is covered - or at least not as long as the phone is non-stock and it still starts
The backups can be done from a custom recovery - for instance with Philz there is a menu called "Backup to external SD". By using external SD you are minimizing the chance that something goes bad on the internal SD.
xclub_101 said:
I don't think it is covered - or at least not as long as the phone is non-stock and it still starts
The backups can be done from a custom recovery - for instance with Philz there is a menu called "Backup to external SD". By using external SD you are minimizing the chance that something goes bad on the internal SD.
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TWRP also can backup to external drive. Have been tried and failed...
As your suggestion I installed Philz recovery and "Backup to external SD" and it completed nicely without any problem :laugh:
what is the different? i think it should be same backup target. it is external SD card but failed with TWRP.
Thank you
abusuffian said:
TWRP also can backup to external drive. Have been tried and failed...
As your suggestion I installed Philz recovery and "Backup to external SD" and it completed nicely without any problem :laugh:
what is the different? i think it should be same backup target. it is external SD card but failed with TWRP.
Thank you
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I think it might be a small difference on where the intermediary files are stored but I can't say anything more without studying the source code (and asking Phil what the differences are in the dedicated Philz thread might be simpler).

External SD backup invisible

Hi to y'all. I have a little big issue. When I do a nandroid backup with TWRP, (2.8.7.0 and r9 by eng) it does. All process go well. After that, when I try to do a restore immediately it show me the backup just done but if I reboot the phone and I search the backup file on extsd it is not present. So I reboot in recovery, tap on restore and magically the backup there isn't. Anyone has got this kind of issue before?
In the flash zip option on top is an option to change between internal and external storage, just make sure external is selected and do a backup again then check if you can see the backup,
sgroimax said:
Hi to y'all. I have a little big issue. When I do a nandroid backup with TWRP, (2.8.7.0 and r9 by eng) it does. All process go well. After that, when I try to do a restore immediately it show me the backup just done but if I reboot the phone and I search the backup file on extsd it is not present. So I reboot in recovery, tap on restore and magically the backup there isn't. Anyone has got this kind of issue before?
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In the flash zip option on top is an option to change between internal and external storage, just make sure external is selected and do a backup again then check if you can see the backup,
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Thanks for your answer mate but I'm not a noobie. I mod android since HTC touch with windows in 2008. I did the backup into external SD. Immediately without exit from recovery it shows me the backup made in bit when o reboot into recovery and on android booted it is not more present
Maybe you have one of those cheap no brand sd cards, get a better one and try again (check the one you have with H2testw first)
sgroimax said:
Thanks for your answer mate but I'm not a noobie. I mod android since HTC touch with windows in 2008. I did the backup into external SD. Immediately without exit from recovery it shows me the backup made in bit when o reboot into recovery and on android booted it is not more present
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You probably have got the issue mate. I think like you. And......thanks for tip
Sorry but what about H2testw?

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