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Ok I'm building this out some more. I added to the bottom of this post with future changes and am asking for requests of what the community wants in a this. Please read entire op. It's not that long yet..... Yet. Lol. It will be I forgot to nab a couple for changelog. I will get on Ubuntu and format this for the site but I'm on tapatalk til that happens.
So..
How many times have you flashed a new ROM or an update and had to go through the hassle of reinstalling or restoring all your must have apps? I usually have about 60 to 80 apps that I was installing/restoring with titanium backup. It's a pain. You gotta sign into Google and go DL titanium backup or whatever app you use. Wait while it installs all your apps. That, I guess, is if you have TiBu pro, if not its one by one. A painstaking process to say the least.
Well I was sick of it so I did something about it. I made a flashable zip you can add your apps to and flash from recovery to bulk install as many apps as you like all at once.
Here is a simple but endlessly useful tool I whiped up. What this allows the user to do is take any amount of apk files that you want (granted you have enough room) and restore them in a painless onetime flash from recovery.
Simple to use. Just follow this quick guide to get started.
Step 1. Download the file at the bottom of this post. Save it to your SD card wherever you can remember where it is.
Step 2. Using root explorer extract the zip folder to wherever you want to, I recomend makeing a temp folder to work in.
Step 3. Using root explorer or astro file manager navigate to your data/app folder.
Step 4. Start a multiple selection and choose all apps that you would like from your data/app folder to be automatically flashed back to your device next time you need to do so.
Step 5 COPY don't MOVE your selections to the data/app folder of the bulk-installerV1 that you extracted earlier.
Step 5.5 At this time if you have other apks you want to use that are not in there already now is your chance to get them in there as well.
Step 6. Rezip with root explorer or astro. And if you so choose rename the zip to update.zip and place on the root of your sd card. Or leave the original name if you prefer.
That's all, now next time you flash a new ROM or wipe your data and want your base apps back all you need to do is flash it from recovery. Or if you renamed it to update.zip and put in sdcard root you can choose apply sdcard update.zip and it will do it thing.
I have tested this on my evo3d and it works great, I wrote it on my phone with root explorers file editor so I made sure to test it with both twrp and cwm5.
***Disclaimer***
As always if it makes your phone do crazy things or kicks your dog. Or steals your wallet. Well that sucks. Sorry.
***Disclaimer***
If you find it useful remember to hit the thanks button.
Hope you all enjoy it, and I hope it makes life a bit easier for you all.
Download link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nwodh0grer1rdhf/bulk-installerV1.zip
FAQ..
alammori said:
Does that restore your apps and data or just the apps?
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No it will not save data of any sort. Next version I will see about writing some more to the updater to be able to add data to. That's more reading. This is my first albiet simple script, and ill add to it for sure. However you can put TiBu in the update folder and when you boot up it'll be a few seconds extra to restore just data for certain apps instead of the whole app.
Update...
I'm working on building my "superzip". I will update the op when I get there.
But expected additions are..
Incorporate init.d path for custom scripts.
system/app option.
Cleanup after flash (cache and dalvik)
Path for themes, add what you want.
Two versions also, one with system tweaks from our awesome devs. I'm currently building it and asking permissions to bake in stuff from certain developers and various mods and tweaks from various developers on xda. I want to add the stuff. But further, I would ask everyone what tweaks they might want written in. Please throw stuff out and ill get to putting this together.
Till then.
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nice bro ill have to give this a shot......
i was just thinking about this. this is really the only reason i'm not more flash happy. going through the hassle of restoring my apps has been the main reason i havent been trying out all the evo 3d roms lately. i will definitely give this a try. thank you.
Awesome!
Now if you could create something similar that would place all of my non-Sense Widgets back on my homescreens in their proper places I would be your friend forever
Thanks man I have been using it LOL I just rewrite the update script to show what it was and who made it. Decided to share it. I hope people find it useful
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mitchellvii said:
Awesome!
Now if you could create something similar that would place all of my non-Sense Widgets back on my homescreens in their proper places I would be your friend forever
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I wish I new where to even start on that LOL. Sorry
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Thanks. Downloading now and will give it a try my next flash : )
Does that restore your apps and data or just the apps?
alammori said:
Does that restore your apps and data or just the apps?
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Added a FAQ section to OP the answer is there.
Once you use this respond with your thoughts guys. Much appreciated.
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Awesome, thanks for this. Seems to be the simplest way of restoring apps. My girlfriend on the other hand does not appreciate it bc your feeding my flashing addiction lol
I think i will create two of them, one for Sense roms and the other for AOSP. =)
I use the same setup for both but all my apps are pretty much compatible with both sense and aosp. Remember no data goes just fresh apps on a fresh ROM. Simple and as custom as you make it.
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mikedavis120 said:
I use the same setup for both but all my apps are pretty much compatible with both sense and aosp. Remember no data goes just fresh apps on a fresh ROM. Simple and as custom as you make it.
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I tend to use a lot more apks on aosp because of theme builder themes, go launcher and go sms themes, and certain apps to replace sense widgets.
It worked beautifully. Thanks. That temp file is still in the extracted section of root explorer. So in the future as I am adding more apps can I just put them in there and rezip? also I renamed the temp file to update and I had to flash it. Thats not a problem but it sounded like changing the name to update would give an easier way to install. How does that work? Either way I'll be using this from now on. It kind of reminds me of the sashimi days( I think that is what it was called) from windows mobile
mjcole2003 said:
It worked beautifully. Thanks. That temp file is still in the extracted section of root explorer. So in the future as I am adding more apps can I just put them in there and rezip? also I renamed the temp file to update and I had to flash it. Thats not a problem but it sounded like changing the name to update would give an easier way to install. How does that work? Either way I'll be using this from now on. It kind of reminds me of the sashimi days( I think that is what it was called) from windows mobile
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That's what I usually do. Just keep a working directory going. Glad it worked for you.
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DL link not working... thx !
vizionforever said:
DL link not working... thx !
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Second thing I've tried to download from dropbox and it said 404. May be dropbox.
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vizionforever said:
DL link not working... thx !
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speedracerbubba said:
Second thing I've tried to download from dropbox and it said 404. May be dropbox.
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here you go:
I actually did this with a gapps flashable... Remived all google apps and added root explorer and TiBu...
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MFD00M said:
Awesome, thanks for this. Seems to be the simplest way of restoring apps. My girlfriend on the other hand does not appreciate it bc your feeding my flashing addiction lol
I think i will create two of them, one for Sense roms and the other for AOSP. =)
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The simplest way is just restoring the data partition from recovery. It restores both the apps and the associated data, so you don't lose anything.
btw, nice work, just not for me, too much work for such little return.
mikedavis120 said:
Ok I'm building this out some more. I added to the bottom of this post with future changes and am asking for requests of what the community wants in a this. Please read entire op. It's not that long yet..... Yet. Lol. It will be I forgot to nab a couple for changelog. I will get on Ubuntu and format this for the site but I'm on tapatalk til that happens.
So..
How many times have you flashed a new ROM or an update and had to go through the hassle of reinstalling or restoring all your must have apps? I usually have about 60 to 80 apps that I was installing/restoring with titanium backup. It's a pain. You gotta sign into Google and go DL titanium backup or whatever app you use. Wait while it installs all your apps. That, I guess, is if you have TiBu pro, if not its one by one. A painstaking process to say the least.
Well I was sick of it so I did something about it. I made a flashable zip you can add your apps to and flash from recovery to bulk install as many apps as you like all at once.
Here is a simple but endlessly useful tool I whiped up. What this allows the user to do is take any amount of apk files that you want (granted you have enough room) and restore them in a painless onetime flash from recovery.
Simple to use. Just follow this quick guide to get started.
Step 1. Download the file at the bottom of this post. Save it to your SD card wherever you can remember where it is.
Step 2. Using root explorer extract the zip folder to wherever you want to, I recomend makeing a temp folder to work in.
Step 3. Using root explorer or astro file manager navigate to your data/app folder.
Step 4. Start a multiple selection and choose all apps that you would like from your data/app folder to be automatically flashed back to your device next time you need to do so.
Step 5 COPY don't MOVE your selections to the data/app folder of the bulk-installerV1 that you extracted earlier.
Step 5.5 At this time if you have other apks you want to use that are not in there already now is your chance to get them in there as well.
Step 6. Rezip with root explorer or astro. And if you so choose rename the zip to update.zip and place on the root of your sd card. Or leave the original name if you prefer.
That's all, now next time you flash a new ROM or wipe your data and want your base apps back all you need to do is flash it from recovery. Or if you renamed it to update.zip and put in sdcard root you can choose apply sdcard update.zip and it will do it thing.
I have tested this on my evo3d and it works great, I wrote it on my phone with root explorers file editor so I made sure to test it with both twrp and cwm5.
***Disclaimer***
As always if it makes your phone do crazy things or kicks your dog. Or steals your wallet. Well that sucks. Sorry.
***Disclaimer***
If you find it useful remember to hit the thanks button.
Hope you all enjoy it, and I hope it makes life a bit easier for you all.
Download link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nwodh0grer1rdhf/bulk-installerV1.zip
FAQ..
No it will not save data of any sort. Next version I will see about writing some more to the updater to be able to add data to. That's more reading. This is my first albiet simple script, and ill add to it for sure. However you can put TiBu in the update folder and when you boot up it'll be a few seconds extra to restore just data for certain apps instead of the whole app.
Update...
I'm working on building my "superzip". I will update the op when I get there.
But expected additions are..
Incorporate init.d path for custom scripts.
system/app option.
Cleanup after flash (cache and dalvik)
Path for themes, add what you want.
Two versions also, one with system tweaks from our awesome devs. I'm currently building it and asking permissions to bake in stuff from certain developers and various mods and tweaks from various developers on xda. I want to add the stuff. But further, I would ask everyone what tweaks they might want written in. Please throw stuff out and ill get to putting this together.
Till then.
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the link down bro
Hello. I'm coming from a SGSII and now feel like a total noob with my new Xperia S. I´m already updated to ICS, unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone. Then while i was rooting the phone, use the CWM to make a nandroid backup. However when i go to the clockworkmod folder there is a total new type of archive that i not used to know. Normally in my SGSII there is a lot of files, with the Xperia S i just have one file "system.ext4.tar", wich is 549 mb in size. Is that it? Is that my backup?
Thanks in advance! :good:
Deletes
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That is the system partition backup. You should have a data, a cache, and some others. If your CWM is 6%, there will be also a blobs folder.
"I got my values. So you can keep yours, OK?"
noim said:
The new recovery can do two types of backup..... One the. .tar (which is new) and another the old process..
I think you selected the.tar format.
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I use the CWM-SuperSU-v0.92, then I proceed like others CWM, just enter in backup/restore option, then backup, and then is just a lot of NO's and one YES. It never asked me for a selection.
Felimenta97 said:
That is the system partition backup. You should have a data, a cache, and some others. If your CWM is 6%, there will be also a blobs folder.
"I got my values. So you can keep yours, OK?"
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I have this folder \clockworkmod\backup\1970-04-23.01.20.31 (weird date by the way) and inside the folder is just one file: system.ext4.tar
I can open that file with WinRar, but inside the archive there aren't any of the folders you mentioned
Not inside it, but together with it. Flash the advanced stock kernel. It has a stock kernel with recovery (date bug fixed) and some other things.
"I got my values. So you can keep yours, OK?"
Felimenta97 said:
Not inside it, but together with it. Flash the advanced stock kernel. It has a stock kernel with recovery (date bug fixed) and some other things.
"I got my values. So you can keep yours, OK?"
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I was just reading about that:
Advanced Stock Kernel
I'll give it a try!
Thanks mate!
Well... I try the Advanced Stock Kernel.
All fine with the instalation, my phone boot fine and the CWM looks fine too. However i still have my doubts with the backup. This time the backup is more like i used to know with my SGSII but the files are realy tiny. There are 6 files in total and the file boot.img is the bigger one, it has just 20 Mb. So in total my backup has 6 files with a total amount of 20,4 MB... it's that normal???
By the way, the wierd date is still there.
Edit: I almost forgot something, there is a new folder inside the \clockworkmod, the new one is \blobs, wich has a lots of folders inside. Should i kept safe this new folder?
Yeah. Also, download ROM manager to manage the backups.
"I got my values. So you can keep yours, OK?"
yeah the backup is somewhat small but no worries, all your files are in there. dont you like it less mb on backup, but when you restore it comes back to a big file .
What about the \blobs folder. Anyone know what it is that folder?
domseg said:
What about the \blobs folder. Anyone know what it is that folder?
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The rest of the backup.
@ALL: Someone knows an app that can explore this new backup format? Neither App Extractor and Nandroid Explorer works.
Felimenta97 said:
The rest of the backup.
@ALL: Someone knows an app that can explore this new backup format? Neither App Extractor and Nandroid Explorer works.
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i would like to know that to!
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Dear Members, is there a way to make a nandroid backup into a single zip or tar file?
SonicMZ said:
Dear Members, is there a way to make a nandroid backup into a single zip or tar file?
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Use an older version of clockwork recovery (5.5.x or touch 6.1) and they create a single zip, latest clockwork did offer an option to change the way it backups last time I checked also.
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I tried to use zip from CWM but it doesn't seem to do the full nandroid backup. Any ideas?
ghostofcain said:
Use an older version of clockwork recovery (5.5.x or touch 6.1) and they create a single zip.
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Go into recovery..change the backup format to tar ..press create image.zip..it will create a cwm flashable zip file..
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zoot1 said:
Go into recovery..change the backup format to tar ..press create image.zip..it will create a cwm flashable zip file..
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It created the zip file and some other files in the folder, however the size is too small to be the recovery image. I doesn't create the full image. Still doesnt work. Is there a way to create a full nandroid backup into a single file with all the settings as it is done in normal cwr backup? Any help appreciated.
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It created the zip file and some other files in the folder, however the size is too small to be the recovery image. I doesn't create the full image. Still doesnt work. Is there a way to create a full nandroid backup into a single file with all the settings as it is done in normal cwr backup? Any help appreciated.
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Just change default backup to tar then backup as normal that should work.
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ghostofcain said:
Just change default backup to tar then backup as normal that should work.
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Creating tar recovery results in multiple files in recovery folder not a single zip file. My question was is there a way to create a single zip file that can be flashed in recovery as a custom rom.
I use the older version of cwm which creates full nandroid into 5 or so files. I then zip it into one but you have to unzip it to restore it. I don't think there is a clean way to create one full flashable nandroid with all your data and settings etc... I would also like to know if there is a way.
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btemtd said:
I use the older version of cwm which creates full nandroid into 5 or so files. I then zip it into one but you have to unzip it to restore it. I don't think there is a clean way to create one full flashable nandroid with all your data and settings etc... I would also like to know if there is a way.
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The same thing for me, searched for forums and no success. Thank you for your answer. Perhaps you could also know if there is any possible way to install stock samsung bootanimation on CM10 rom?
SonicMZ said:
The same thing for me, searched for forums and no success. Thank you for your answer. Perhaps you could also know if there is any possible way to install stock samsung bootanimation on CM10 rom?
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Not on CM10 they might have different locations for there boot image not sure.
In regards to the Nandroid I was just thinking about it actually and I find it quite strange as to why after ALL this time there isnt a way to create a FULL nandroid with apps,settings,themes,data.contacts, EVERYTHING all in the one file so its flashable. I mean it wouldnt be that hrd for the dev to do it as there is an option for the update zip. I really dont get it. Wouldnt everyone prefer it that way?
btemtd said:
Not on CM10 they might have different locations for there boot image not sure.
In regards to the Nandroid I was just thinking about it actually and I find it quite strange as to why after ALL this time there isnt a way to create a FULL nandroid with apps,settings,themes,data.contacts, EVERYTHING all in the one file so its flashable. I mean it wouldnt be that hrd for the dev to do it as there is an option for the update zip. I really dont get it. Wouldnt everyone prefer it that way?
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I fully agree, it would have been much easier for testers to get back to the rom they tuned and customized. Any ideas are always welcome.
Yes. It will be very easy to keep the backups if we could make a signal zip file. so we can name it with date and keep.
Is there any way to delete a mod without having to restore a backup or having to flash the whole rom again ?
this is the mod i wish to uninstall btw: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997919
PD: OP has not provided any cwm flashable zip file to uninstall, is there any workaround to delete all rom-related files ?
The only way I could think of is to open the mods zip and see what files it replaces, then just replace all of them in your phone with stock ones.
Just make sure to backup and wipe caches incase of problems.
shadowofdarkness said:
The only way I could think of is to open the mods zip and see what files it replaces, then just replace all of them in your phone with stock ones.
Just make sure to backup and wipe caches incase of problems.
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Wanted something more fast and easy, but guess that will do, thanks anyway !
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Hello All,
I have a Rooted VZW GN2 running Scott's CleanROM with the Perseus kernel with TWRP as the recovery tool. I screwed up royally a few days ago and bricked my phone (dicking around with the Google Wallet mod, which failed I might add) but was able to fix it and get all my settings back the right way. Well given that it took nearly 3 days, I'd like to save a backup of everything how it is.
How do I accomplish this task? I read on xda that a lot of people use "nandroid" so I downloaded it, did the backup using the "online version" that lets you do a nandroid backup while the phone is running (not in Recovery mode) and it saved the copy to a "clockworkmod" folder. Now I know that clockwork recovery is an option besides TWRP, but since I have TWRP does it make this backup useless? Or can I do a full TWRP backup (everything selected) and will it serve the exact same purpose?
Thanks for the help everyone!!!
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
Hello All,
I have a Rooted VZW GN2 running Scott's CleanROM with the Perseus kernel with TWRP as the recovery tool. I screwed up royally a few days ago and bricked my phone (dicking around with the Google Wallet mod, which failed I might add) but was able to fix it and get all my settings back the right way. Well given that it took nearly 3 days, I'd like to save a backup of everything how it is.
How do I accomplish this task? I read on xda that a lot of people use "nandroid" so I downloaded it, did the backup using the "online version" that lets you do a nandroid backup while the phone is running (not in Recovery mode) and it saved the copy to a "clockworkmod" folder. Now I know that clockwork recovery is an option besides TWRP, but since I have TWRP does it make this backup useless? Or can I do a full TWRP backup (everything selected) and will it serve the exact same purpose?
Thanks for the help everyone!!!
-Taxmaster
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OK. First i would ALWAYS backup via recovery. So go in TWRP and back it up. However you could try to restore it and if it didn't work it would say MD5 mismatch.
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weeo said:
OK. First i would ALWAYS backup via recovery. So go in TWRP and back it up. However you could try to restore it and if it didn't work it would say MD5 mismatch.
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1. Okay so are you saying that a full TWRP backup (all options selected) = nandroid backup?
2. Does this mean that restoring the back-up TWRP file would restore everything as it is now (down to the last detail) or what could I expect of a restore?
Taxmaster said:
1. Okay so are you saying that a full TWRP backup (all options selected) = nandroid backup?
2. Does this mean that restoring the back-up TWRP file would restore everything as it is now (down to the last detail) or what could I expect of a restore?
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Yes. Every last detail would he saved. All save games and even draft messaging... The whole lot. I believe it is correct as they both output the same back up. However i prefer CWM
Good luck
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weeo said:
Yes. Every last detail would he saved. All save games and even draft messaging... The whole lot. I believe it is correct as they both output the same back up. However i prefer CWM
Good luck
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Thank you! Well now I'm trying to save my files to my Dropbox but Dropbox doesn't let me upload the entire folder for the Backup. If I use RootExplorer and convert it to a zip, would that be okay? Will TWRP allow a zip for restoring or would I have to do an extraction first?
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Thank you! Well now I'm trying to save my files to my Dropbox but Dropbox doesn't let me upload the entire folder for the Backup. If I use RootExplorer and convert it to a zip, would that be okay? Will TWRP allow a zip for restoring or would I have to do an extraction first?
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TWRP will make its own back up and save it in a selected folder. Are you talking about uploading the backup already made from TWRP
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Also look at Orange back up. Just came in the portal. It puts Nandroids on the cloud. Talk about timing
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I'd just like to be efficient with what memory I do have at the moment. I know that TWRP saves the file in its own folder, but it's actually a large collection of files. My plan was to zip them and upload the zip file to Dropbox and delete the "on-phone" copies. Then if worst came to worst, I would just download the zip back on there via my USB cable (I could extract if it necessary) and then I'd restore it. I just want to know if that would work and whether or not TWRP would be able to use a .ZIP file or if it would need all of the files individually.
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I'd just like to be efficient with what memory I do have at the moment. I know that TWRP saves the file in its own folder, but it's actually a large collection of files. My plan was to zip them and upload the zip file to Dropbox and delete the "on-phone" copies. Then if worst came to worst, I would just download the zip back on there via my USB cable (I could extract if it necessary) and then I'd restore it. I just want to know if that would work and whether or not TWRP would be able to use a .ZIP file or if it would need all of the files individually.
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No. It would need to be in the folder format... Have you looked at Orange Back Up?
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weeo said:
No. It would need to be in the folder format... Have you looked at Orange Back Up?
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Link ==> http://www.xda-developers.com/android/orange-backup-sends-a-nandroid-to-the-cloud-with-one-click/
Okay, I just did some light reading on Orange Back Up but I'm unsure how it works. Does it replace TWRP / Clockwork? Does it require one or the other for reflashing it's nandroid backup? I really like TWRP's setup and would be reluctant to change from it (although I would do it if the advantages stack up).
Taxmaster said:
Link ==> http://www.xda-developers.com/android/orange-backup-sends-a-nandroid-to-the-cloud-with-one-click/
Okay, I just did some light reading on Orange Back Up but I'm unsure how it works. Does it replace TWRP / Clockwork? Does it require one or the other for reflashing it's nandroid backup? I really like TWRP's setup and would be reluctant to change from it (although I would do it if the advantages stack up).
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Hmmm. If you want it simple just zip the backup and dropbox it... Then unzip when you need it
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weeo said:
Hmmm. If you want it simple just zip the backup and dropbox it... Then unzip when you need it
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I'm confused, isn't that what I've been saying the last several posts? What I plan on doing is zipping up my TWRP files, DropBoxing them, and if I need them I'll just hardload them onto my SD card (extracted into the folder or as a zip file depending on what TWRP needs) and then I'd restore that way.
Taxmaster said:
I'm confused, isn't that what I've been saying the last several posts? What I plan on doing is zipping up my TWRP files, DropBoxing them, and if I need them I'll just hardload them onto my SD card (extracted into the folder or as a zip file depending on what TWRP needs) and then I'd restore that way.
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Yes. I though the Orange back up would be easier. So just do it your way. It will work
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Just make sure to not compress the zip. Not sure that TWRP will be able to restore a compressed backup (probably won't).
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I understand you're concerned about saving as much memory as you can. This is something the rest of us face as well, but quit trying to cut corners and simply do a backup the way you're supposed to and move on with your life instead of trying to invent a shortcut. The tried and true methods used within these forums have worked for years the way they're supposed to.
Either use CWM or TWRP to make your backup. I always keep one active backup and delete older ones. It's easy and almost impossible to screw up.
After I soft bricked my device, I found myself making several types of backups after reading on the forums many different ways of backing up. It appears that my efforts are superfluous and that only one backup is necessary. For this reason, I was trying to figure out the best way to store the backup files. I was zipping the file not to save space as much as I was to have only one file to export to Dropbox, as Dropbox only allows files to be imported instead of entire backup folders.
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