So after trying out some roms ending up at latest Auxura, I noticed that my internal partition is only showing 2.4 gb total, while I have 3gb files (not sure how). So I want to do a complete wipe, most of my apps have titanium backup that I copied over to my computer.
I want to be able to complete wipe and repartition to see if I can recover the lost space, any tip on where to start?
Thanks,
Paul
unnount and format both internal and external
ODIN to stock
wouldnt that take care of it for you?
Tried format, seems like the sd size thing is only on my linux, reads fine on android.
My s3 is a 16GB one and I have 3GB free. If I do a nandroid backup will I need over a 13gb sd card?
generally they are 2GB or there abouts. It varies depending on what you have installed and the rom etc.
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So what does nandroid actually backup?
If I've used 13gb, how is the backup only 2gb or so?
uf21 said:
So what does nandroid actually backup?
If I've used 13gb, how is the backup only 2gb or so?
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All bar modem and EFS folder .
jje
uf21 said:
So what does nandroid actually backup?
If I've used 13gb, how is the backup only 2gb or so?
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it doesn't back up your internal or external sd cards, but it does backup all your system data and apps, user apps and data
Ok so if I do a nandroid backup and I flash a new ROM and something is ot working thwn reflash from the nandroid backup, will everything like apps and their data, photos, settings be the way it was before I flashed a new ROM?
uf21 said:
Ok so if I do a nandroid backup and I flash a new ROM and something is ot working thwn reflash from the nandroid backup, will everything like apps and their data, photos, settings be the way it was before I flashed a new ROM?
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Yes... flashing shouldnt touch your media files like photos or music (internal/external sdcard)
uf21 said:
Ok so if I do a nandroid backup and I flash a new ROM and something is ot working thwn reflash from the nandroid backup, will everything like apps and their data, photos, settings be the way it was before I flashed a new ROM?
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I'm not so sure about that. When you restore, I thought you definitely want to be on the same Kernel as you were on when you created the Nandroid and to be safet it's also good to be on the same Rom as you were when you created the Nandroid backup. Otherwise... bootloop and ugly stuff. At least that's what I get from poking around the Infuse forums (my phone)... mileage may vary with S3.
I'd be interested to hear if others have opinion on this. I stumbled onto this thread while searching about Nandroid procedures.
Hi guys,
I own a S3 and for one year I just dealed with the stock ROM, just root access. Saturday I decided to enter the modding world but I knew it would bring a lot of troubles...
I did a nandroid backup of 4.1.2 stock FW just before the flashing, but no way it restores, after an hour of processing it shows - Error restoring data! - it boots but it's a total mess. I even restored the original stock FW with triangle away, wipe all and double ODIN flash and then reflashing the clockworkmod recovery to restore the backup again but nope, won't work.
Luckily I did a full backup with Titanium backup prior, the real trouble is with ES file explorer: I did copy/paste of the entire internal storage to the external microsd but for some reasons it stopped at "D", "Downloads" folder... I lost everything else and I realized this only AFTER wiping and flashing, of course...
I'm trying to recover the files with Hexamob, hope this will work....
I have this two questions:
Does Nandroid work only with backup < 2.5 Gb? Mine is 4.5 Gb...
Does Nandroid backup the internal storage, too??
Thank you all guys
Joker87 said:
I have this two questions:
Does Nandroid work only with backup < 2.5 Gb? Mine is 4.5 Gb...
Does Nandroid backup the internal storage, too??
Thank you all guys
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If I am not wrong, Nandroid does a backup of your phone (system, data etc) so that when you restore it, you got anything like it was. It does not backup the SD card though. In addition backups of over 2.5gb should work.
/data is the internal memory? Or is it /sdcard?
Joker87 said:
/data is the internal memory? Or is it /sdcard?
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its all the internal memory.
/system
/data
/cache
...are all on the emmc memory and are backed up in a nandroid backup.
/sdcard is actually a mount of /data/media, however this is ignored by nandroid backups for obvious reasons
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rootSU said:
its all the internal memory.
/system
/data
/cache
...are all on the emmc memory and are backed up in a nandroid backup.
/sdcard is actually a mount of /data/media, however this is ignored by nandroid backups for obvious reasons
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So /sdcard is the external microsd? And /data is the internal memory (I mean what you see when connecting phone to PC, Internal memory and external sd)?
If nandroid backed up internal memory would be great, may be there's some way to recover datas from backup files (unyaffs won't work, Titanium Backup just shows apps and their datas).
I'll do some further research.
no. sdcard is the internal SD, which is just a link to /data/media. to backup it, use copy and paste. no, it's not possible to recover internal SD data from a nandroid backup
Be aware that Nandroid does not backup your EFS .
jje
it can. depends on the recovery
Yep i know problem is that some think any recovery backs up EFS .
Wrong recovery no EFS backup .
We desperately need some stickied faqs and guides on this forum .
jje
Joker87 said:
So /sdcard is the external microsd? And /data is the internal memory (I mean what you see when connecting phone to PC, Internal memory and external sd)?
If nandroid backed up internal memory would be great, may be there's some way to recover datas from backup files (unyaffs won't work, Titanium Backup just shows apps and their datas).
I'll do some further research.
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/sdcard is the "internal sd"
/extSdCard is the "external sd"
/data is something different that just so happens to be the home of /sdcard
As I feared, no internal storage backup in Nandroid. But what makes me more angry is that s****y ES file explorer so crappy it can't even perform a simple task like copy-paste. If that worked I wouldn't have lost anything. :crying:
Not to mention the useless nandroid... doesn't work either.
However I did manually backed up the EFS folder, but I don't really think it matters in this case.
If your /sdcard was 90% full, where would the nandroid go? External obviously? But recovery devs cannot assume that everyone has an external sd card with enough free space to store a 15 GB backup.
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Joker87 said:
As I feared, no internal storage backup in Nandroid. But what makes me more angry is that s****y ES file explorer so crappy it can't even perform a simple task like copy-paste. If that worked I wouldn't have lost anything. :crying:
Not to mention the useless nandroid... doesn't work either.
However I did manually backed up the EFS folder, but I don't really think it matters in this case.
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FX file explorer
better .
jje
Just clarifying
Hey guys, this is my first ever post on xda!
Just to clarify, a nandroid backup will only backup device root files, and not the (internal) sdcard, nor the extsdcard files, from my understanding of this thread. So to do a complete backup of ALL phone data, I should perform the nandroid backup to extsdcard, and then simply copy (internal)sdcard and extsdcard to my computer for safe keeping?
Thank you!
toomfly7 said:
Hey guys, this is my first ever post on xda!
Just to clarify, a nandroid backup will only backup device root files, and not the (internal) sdcard, nor the extsdcard files, from my understanding of this thread. So to do a complete backup of ALL phone data, I should perform the nandroid backup to extsdcard, and then simply copy (internal)sdcard and extsdcard to my computer for safe keeping?
Thank you!
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Yep! I discovered it losing data xD
Joker87 said:
Hi guys,
I own a S3 and for one year I just dealed with the stock ROM, just root access. Saturday I decided to enter the modding world but I knew it would bring a lot of troubles...
I did a nandroid backup of 4.1.2 stock FW just before the flashing, but no way it restores, after an hour of processing it shows - Error restoring data! - it boots but it's a total mess. I even restored the original stock FW with triangle away, wipe all and double ODIN flash and then reflashing the clockworkmod recovery to restore the backup again but nope, won't work.
Luckily I did a full backup with Titanium backup prior, the real trouble is with ES file explorer: I did copy/paste of the entire internal storage to the external microsd but for some reasons it stopped at "D", "Downloads" folder... I lost everything else and I realized this only AFTER wiping and flashing, of course...
I'm trying to recover the files with Hexamob, hope this will work....
I have this two questions:
Does Nandroid work only with backup < 2.5 Gb? Mine is 4.5 Gb...
Does Nandroid backup the internal storage, too??
Thank you all guys
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Ya possible......
TUTORIAL for internal storage backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...age-backup-t3389172/post67103552#post67103552
Ok, so I made a nandroid backup before trying out a new rom.
Had some problems (bootloop etc.) so decided to restore everything.
Now here's my problem: The backup I made is fully fuctioning.
However, everything that was on my internal storage is gone... Pictures, music, videos; everything.
The internal storage was pretty much filled with those.
Now, there's only 2gb used, and it's just for apps.
Any help?
KevinPrins said:
Ok, so I made a nandroid backup before trying out a new rom.
Had some problems (bootloop etc.) so decided to restore everything.
Now here's my problem: The backup I made is fully fuctioning.
However, everything that was on my internal storage is gone... Pictures, music, videos; everything.
The internal storage was pretty much filled with those.
Now, there's only 2gb used, and it's just for apps.
Any help?
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At some point you preformed a factory reset, which wipes the internal storage. Nandroid can backup everything, but only if you tell it to -default only includes system and data partitions.
boomboomer said:
At some point you preformed a factory reset, which wipes the internal storage. Nandroid can backup everything, but only if you tell it to -default only includes system and data partitions.
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Aaaahh, I thought it'd be something like that.
Thanks for answering:good:
Hi guys... I have a quick question..
I want to make a nandroid backup before I try a custom rom, so i can simply restore my backup if i dont like the rom.
I only have about 1.8GB left on my internal storage... I dont have an external sd card right now.
The backup size is about 2.8GB... so I am 1GB short...
My question is, if I backup System and Boot as first batch, then transfer the file to my PC to free up my phone again, then backup Data as 2nd batch and transfer that to my PC again..... now once I want to restore my backup, will those 2 batches of restore process work or not? Im not sure if a nandroid backup needs to be a single file only.... Im out of storage capacity that's why splitting the backup is my only option
thanks in advance!
mbolinao said:
Hi guys... I have a quick question..
I want to make a nandroid backup before I try a custom rom, so i can simply restore my backup if i dont like the rom.
I only have about 1.8GB left on my internal storage... I dont have an external sd card right now.
The backup size is about 2.8GB... so I am 1GB short...
My question is, if I backup System and Boot as first batch, then transfer the file to my PC to free up my phone again, then backup Data as 2nd batch and transfer that to my PC again..... now once I want to restore my backup, will those 2 batches of restore process work or not? Im not sure if a nandroid backup needs to be a single file only.... Im out of storage capacity that's why splitting the backup is my only option
thanks in advance!
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I know the answer already... I just tried it... Yes it will work as they are in different partitions.