I originally posted this just a few minutes ago in the i9100 forum but i had to make sure i showed my fellow i777 friends. Anyways here is copy paste of my post.
When i realized that Rom Manager was not fully functional on our phones I was pissed. One of the reasons is that at first i couldn't get my phone to do a quick backup and restore with cwm or cwm Manager so it seemed to take twice as long when the progress bars were showing during backups and restores. Anyways you dont need to keep rom manager installed to do this but you have to do it at first in order to get the files to enable the quick back up and restore feature.
1. Install Rom manager and enable "quick backup and restore" - this will create a folder and within the folder a number of files one of which is called "hidden progress". Rom manager most likely installed it on your internal sd card and if you do backups to your internal sd card and not your external then you dont need to do this next step of you dont want to, although it wouldn't hurt to do it anyways.
For quick backup and restores to external_sd
2. Copy the clockworkmod folder and its contents (if you already have backups and you dont want them on you internal than just create a new folder on your external_sd and name it clockworkmod. After that copy the hidden progress file over to the clockworkmod folder and thats it. whether you use CWM Manager or just boot into recovery and do it that way, you should always have the quick backup and restore feature back)
*There are a few other files in the clockworkmod folder than rom manager creates. I went ahead and just copied the whole folder including everything inside the folder and thats how i was able to finally get it working, but I think it is most likely just that one file that doe the fix.
Backup and Restores now take me 2-3 minutes as opposed to 5 mins and longer
If this has already been figured out and posted i apologize, i stumbled upon it while trying q b&r on my phone again. I searched and never found a solution.
If you like or find it useful please hit thanks.
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So, I was playing around with Titanium Backup the other day and noticed the function under menu where it will create an unsigned update.zip file to flash Titanium into either the user or system apps in recovery. I got the bright idea of opening it up and adding in other apps to see if it would work for that as well, and lo and behold it does! So, with this in mind, you could create the update.zip using Titanium and then unzip it, add in whatever apks you want to install and then zip the file back up, sign it (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580&highlight=signing+made+easy) and then put it back on your sd card and flash! I'm sure there can be other uses for this info, which is why I am throwing it out there. Hope this helps someone else.
I am a newb here but learn fast so... Situation is, I have moved to Cyanogenmod9 and love it. I have done a lot of tweaking and arranging to my liking and am tired of all that. Problem is I need the info written on Snote files in the original ObjectionICS backup. Can I get inside that backup and extract those files or do I have to revert back to that backup, write down the Snote info I need, and then go back to the future..lol...and reinstall the backup I am making now, of C9? Also, will my "recovery mode" back up to internal sd card...return EVERYTHING to how it is now? I mean like disc image identical? Or will I have to reimport contacts, assign wallpapers, lockscreen widgets etc etc etc? Also, am I correct in making it back up "to internal sd card"? or should I have just hit yes to the first menu item "backup"??? Sorry if I'm being confusing or stoopid....
here this might help:
If you go to: wiki.cynogenmod.com/wiki/Howto:_Using_theRecovery (sorry but cannot post external links yet... )
Now if you used NANDroid backup then:
[NANDroid]A utility, accessible through Recovery Mode, that allows you to backup the device and restore to the exact condition at backup.
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If you used CWM Recovery to backup before you went to CM9 then I believe you can backup as it would only backup applications and settings of said applications also backing up system data like sms mms emails contacts etc..
I would really suggest checking out TitaniumBackup Root Pro
I would also suggest that you also get these apps as to help facilitate better tools for backing up stuff, managing roms, and just all around must need applications for your android phone.
ClockworkMod Recovery Pro as it allows you to switch ROMs and works good with TitaniumBackup.
root explorer file manager the best file manager i know of for android allows you to easily move files around the file system and change file permissions also checkout link2sd for linking installing apps to external sd and easy switching of applications to and from internal and external storage.
This is the deal: I made a restore point, CWM f**ked it up, I can't use it from some reason but I can still open the data.ext4.tar file in windows with winrar.
what I eventually want is to fully restore everything that is stored in that restore point.
if I would to extract that archive manually, where would I put it?
that corrupted restore point (CWM says so whenever I try to use that restore point "data is corrupt" or something)
is from today, I am using a working restore point from 2 months ago.
I saw that regardless of which restore point I am using, the contents of the path;
/mnt/sdcard
do not change - meaning - all my apps' data is still saved and unharmed
the only thing missing is my new apps themselves.
I need to extract the names of all the apps that I had in that restore point,
then the names of the apps that I currently have from the working restore point made 2 months ago.
then I need to compare between them and find the orphan records - these would be the missing apps that I need to reinstall
this is where you come in - I need help in extracting this information from that .tar file,
I don't know what to make if it's folders structure - please help me fix everything that CWM destroyed for me.
Your help would be super appreciated I promise you that!
I've been testing some custom ROMs for my Sero 7 Pro but have to go back to stock for various reasons. That's not a problem but I want to avoid having to manually install all the apps for the umpteenth time.
I tried a custom restore from Recovery of just the data partition but then the tablet couldn't boot, so that backup must have been made with the custom ROM installed and something is therefore incompatible with stock.
Nandroid Manager doesn't work for me, as it force closes whichever option I select under Restore Apps+Data, whichever backup I choose from the largest 1.46GB down to the 252MB one.
Yaffs Explorer won't work for me either, as it says my CWM tars are in the wrong format.
I've got a Titanium Backup of the apps but using the Batch Action "Restore missing apps with data" requires me to answer the install prompts for each app as if I was installing it normally and that's obviously a pain when there's a lot of apps to reinstall, as it can't be left unattended to get on with it.
So I was wondering if I could just open the data.ext4.tar in 7zip on my PC, extract the app, app-lib and data folders and then copy them to the tablet via USB and then move them into / with ES File Explorer (/ isn't visible from my PC so I can't copy them directly there)? I'm not sure if any of the other numerous folders might need to be copied also but app-asec and app-private are both empty in the tar and everything else doesn't seem to be app related, more like system files. I'm also confused as I thought a lot of app data went in /sdcard/Android but that folder is nowhere to be seen in the tar.
Hi guys,
I've got 60 phones to setup, and that's just the biginning. I looked for some solutions to mass deploy them, the fastest way possible. I of course already know titanium backup and applications like that, but i would prefer not to root phone...
I was pretty confident about a nandroid backup : flashing the recovery of the phone is really quick, and i would just have to backup on card or on usb on the go on the master phone, and to restore the backup on all the phone remaining. But it didn't worked as expected, it happens that on each phone, twrp is generating backup in a folder named something like "420khg66g6cca200" and which is different on each phone, and when you put the card in another phone, this one doesn't see the main backup.
I of course tried to sneak arround and generate a backup on the second phone, which i replaced with the content of the first one, but the phone doesn't even boot anymore.
I used twrp because i dind't find another recovery avaiable for the phone, which is by the way a samsung Xcover 3 also known as SM-G388F.
I tried to backup only system, system image, and data and to restore it and the phones is stuck on boot screens.
I tried to backup again with boot partition, same thing happen'd. There's something i don't understand tho, there's some warning about /system partition which can't be mounted when i look around on the recovery of the slave phone.
I'm on stock rom, no root. I looked for similar post (really), but there's mostly guys which make backup / restore on the same phone, and i didn't find my answer.
My questions are : is there someone's who did this before ? Why the phone doesn't boot anymore ? Is there something that's making the backup unrecoverable on another phone ?
In this case, is there anyway to bypass that ?
Thank you by advance.
So...
We've done more tests, and when we only select the data partition, it does what we want.
So what I've done to deploy 50 phone :
- Prepared my "master" phone with all my apps and parameters
- Gone in TWRP to backup, saved the folder inside TWRP/BACKUPS/cde0654364576****/ (the generated folder), so saved the folder inside UNTOUCHED on my computer (for unknow reason, if i use it once to restore a phone, i can't use it again on another phone, so keep a copy somewhere)
- Boot to twrp on the slave phone, generate a backup to also generate the name folder
- Boot on system phone, delete what's inside the folder, and copy / past the previously generated backup from the master phone
- Boot again in twrp end restore. Reboot and that's done, you're slave phone should be the same as the master.
If someone find this thread, don't hesitate to ask more details.