I have been running Cleanrom 1.7 for a while and decided to make the leap to Nils ICS Rom. When on GB I could always do an SMS Backup and after the new rom pull it back into my texts as if nothing was wiped. I did a Nandroid Backup of my 1.7 and then did a full SMS Backup as well before going to the new leaked RUU and ICS Rom. I can not get SMS to find any files or backups and I need to get these texts back as some have important info linked in them. Is there a reason why it wouldn't be able to recognize or find the any SMS backups.
I saw there is a way to get into the Nandroid backup and pull the correct files from the data area but have no idea how to put it to use once located.
Custom recovery is AmonRa 3.15
Any help is appreciated
fox_forma said:
I have been running Cleanrom 1.7 for a while and decided to make the leap to Nils ICS Rom. When on GB I could always do an SMS Backup and after the new rom pull it back into my texts as if nothing was wiped. I did a Nandroid Backup of my 1.7 and then did a full SMS Backup as well before going to the new leaked RUU and ICS Rom. I can not get SMS to find any files or backups and I need to get these texts back as some have important info linked in them. Is there a reason why it wouldn't be able to recognize or find the any SMS backups.
I saw there is a way to get into the Nandroid backup and pull the correct files from the data area but have no idea how to put it to use once located.
Custom recovery is AmonRa 3.15
Any help is appreciated
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The RUU wiped internal sd card so that is what wiped out the backup. You could try the band backup and move the backup to sd card. Then rrestore ICS and then and will find backup on external card
I had always saved to my ext sdcard but for some reason it didn't do it this time. I ended up dropping the old PH98IMG back into bootloader and nandroid restored my previous set up so I could save it again. I did an ext sd save and copied everything to my comp as well. This time around it took when the ICS Rom was dropped back on and everything is up and running. Just wish I planned for it from the beginning as it took a lot of time out of my day to redo it all.
I will def remember this for the future
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I rooted my phone a while ago and has been running a rom happily. I have two sd cards so I decided to flash my phone with a new rom on my secondary sd card. I did a nandroid backup + ext first on my old sd card. Installing rom on new sd card went fine. But I lost all my contacts so I wanted to boot the old rom to sync wavesync. I did a restore but now the old rom doesn't boot anymore? Isn't that how nandroid is supposed to work.
Anyway back to the new rom again.
Secondly where are all the data for programs stored? I found andnav and another data folder for a program on the fat32 partition but when I copied them to my new sd card they are simply not recognized after I reinstalled the programs. It's the same version of the programs. And this is only two programs. Like does anyone know where abduction stores it's data?
Thanks in advance.
Have you added the ext partition to your new sd card?
Yes I have
Nandroid takes like a picture of your system at a certain time and then restores that exact picture when you run the restore.
What exactly is happening, did the restore say "successful"?
Yes it finished with no problem. How does everyone else upgrade to a new rom? I'm guessing that the application data is stored in /data/data somewhere?
arj03 said:
Yes it finished with no problem. How does everyone else upgrade to a new rom? I'm guessing that the application data is stored in /data/data somewhere?
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that is correct. i don't really get what you want to do, if you want to upgrade just install the new rom. if you don't then don't. if you have a bootloop you can find the problem in logcat.
I want all my progress/high scores made to abduction to be there on my new rom
Also contacts would be nice, but I can dump/restore that now.
arj03 said:
I want all my progress/high scores made to abduction to be there on my new rom
Also contacts would be nice, but I can dump/restore that now.
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use titanium backup. you can aswell try to find the according files in /data/data, but titanium does the job for you and it works.
try flashing the boot.img for the backup your doing.I dont mean the nand backup boot.img i mean the original boot.img from the update.zip
Everytime I flash a different rom more of phone storage space is taken away.
I am down to 677MB available out of 12.78GB total. Before I flashed the last rom I had almost 3GB available. I notice this everytime I flash a rom.
What do I do to reclaim the space? Is it Nandroid Backups that are taking all the space?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
If you're making nandroid backup before every rom update and not removing old nandroid backups then i would say that's what taking up space.
I have one backup that i fall back on to go back to mostly all stock and maybe 2nd one that ill fall back on for the more recent configuration. i dont keep more than 2 back ups at a time.
You can use a file manage and locate clockwork in your internal SD card and in the backup folder remove old back ups just keep what you need
having backup-ed everything with Titanium, do you need to move the Titanium backup to your computer so it wont be wiped?
Could you move it to your it to your External SD?
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Always make a copy for your computer just in case it wipes. You could also put a copy in external but some roms are having an issue seeing external.
I've been keeping copies of the TB folder on my computer. I have a version I took after rooting the stock ROM, and one from every ROM I've put on since. I probably don't need that, but I usually do a full back of all system apps as well and that changes from ROM to ROM, so I hate seeing all the old backups for stuff I no longer can apply to the current ROM.
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its ALWAYS a good idea to backup your sd cards to PC just in case of an accidental wipe....when i flashed the new Onyx 4.2 ROM it wiped my internal sd....pics...ringtones....apps....nandroids......GONE because i didnt read the small print that said the kernal may wipe...so back up everything....better safe than sorry
I am running Nameless 4.1 and had an issue with my sd card needing to be reformatted, but I wanted to get my nandroid back ups off the card first. Where would I find the backup I made on the SD card? I'd like to find the backup I made so i can go back to EF 3.6 with all my data. Thanks!
EDIT: Figured it out
Hi,
I backed my sd card contents to my pc, my rooted incredible was a mess it was running CM7. I wiped the card flashed PB31IMG, a stock+ ROM then flashed MIUI now how do I get my backup onto the phone? So my apps + all the information and upgrades are like they were. Ie. all the money and levels I have got to in a app such as drag racing, my Handcent settings messages etc.
I am not sure how to copy the just the names of all the folders so you can see them if that would be more helpful to you please let me know how. If I could get my backed up removeable disk on here without the files I dont need I would be so grateful. Thanks
If you made a backup before you flashed you will have to restore to the backup and backup the apps using titanium backup. If not, sorry, all is lost...