is there a way to rename a nandroid back up?
if you are using CWM u can do with a file explorer, navigate to clockworkmod/backup/name folder of what u want, no spaces, u can use . though. or with TWRP u can do it before you do the backup on the right where it says rename backup.
robwscott83 said:
is there a way to rename a nandroid back up?
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I have ended up with MD5 mismatch far too many times renaming CWM backups, I tend these days to place the backup itself into another folder and title that, tends to save the risk of a very irritating error.
TWRP is pretty badass in that it allows you to title your own backups before you even start the backup process. Much more organized of a way to do it if ya ask me.
When naming a backup avoid special characters, period's etc. -_ are OK. Absolutely no spaces. Follow those rules and your fine. To answer op, grab your favorite file explorer (I prefer Root explorer) and rename it under clockwork/backup.
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thanks for all of the replies guys... I got it... should have known this I guess... just wasn't something I ever really needed to do but now with all the great roms out there for the note... its hard to settle on one.. so organizing my Nbackups is important... thanks guys really appreciate it and love this community! cheers
celkin said:
I have ended up with MD5 mismatch far too many times renaming CWM backups, I tend these days to place the backup itself into another folder and title that, tends to save the risk of a very irritating error.
TWRP is pretty badass in that it allows you to title your own backups before you even start the backup process. Much more organized of a way to do it if ya ask me.
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this is the correct method...IMHO.:good:
I've renamed mine countless times with no spaces... no problems at all.
you could just make a folder with the name you like, and move the backup to that folder, avoiding the chance of a mismatched checksum.
Twrp is really easy to use
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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
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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.
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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..
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
So i restored back to stock blur rom cuz i was feeling all nostalgic and to get a few TB backups. Well when i attempted to restore back to CM9 i kept getting "MD5 Mismatch!" errors. Well it turns out I had left spaces in that and a few other renamed backup folders which apparently is a no-no. Luckily i was able to restore back to another backup, rename the folders without spaces via USB and was able to restore CM9 backups. Just thought this may help others. You might want to check your backup file folder names and get rid of the spaces.
Well I've never thought of renaming then but either way this is good to know for future reference
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Thats why I use _ in place of spaces when dealing with CWM backups, makes it easy to read and usable
w0lf215 said:
Thats why I use _ in place of spaces when dealing with CWM backups, makes it easy to read and usable
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exactly how i renamed the backups
jbb2388 said:
exactly how i renamed the backups
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Hm that's weird.. I kept name same and just added at end _cm9 or whatever ROM for most but a few I completely changed file name using underscores with no issues and trust me my nandroids get used more than they should lol
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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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Why isn't twrp recognizing my backup? The folder is there with the correct name and everything. But when i click on it, it just acts like its another parent folder with nothing inside. I've used this backup once before. I tried to moved it around to the internal sd and root of both and what not.. The only thing I can think of is the the page for the Perseus kernel said something about formatting the extsd to exfat or something like that. Will twrp only recognize certain formats?
Very frustrated at the moment . help is appreciated. Thanks.
Also I looked in the folder on a file manager and the files for the backup are in the folder.
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Please delete mods...or leave it up so I can get ridiculed. I deserve it. Matter of fact after a stunt like that I probably need to go back to a jitter bug or comparable flip phone.
I was trying to install a backup instead of restoring a backup.
Gah I feel sooo stupid. So yeah go ahead and flame me. I deserve it. Lol
Hey everyone. So I wanted to try out the vanilla root box ROM today and after a while of checking it out I decided to swap back to the back up I made before doing the ROM install. Problem is, when I boot into recovery, and press restore...non of my backups are there. Can anyone help? Where did my back ups go?
ok, sorry guys, i was on my phone at a friends place when i posted this thread so i wasnt able to search to much on google. so the deal is my TWRP isnt seeing the backups i did after i rooted my note 2 and the backup i did before i flashed my vanilla rootbox rom. kinda weird. anyways, i looked thru my phone files with file manager and the backups are indeed there...
does anyone know where i need to move these files to have them show up under restore in TWRP? i tried one method of making another backup and then moving the backups to where the new backup was stored. but when i go to look, the new backup doesnt show in file manager in the location where TWRP said the backup was stored...i even searched for it and still no dice. lmk if you have a fix for this. thanks!
i also went into TWRP, went to advanced, file manager, data, media, twrp, backups, the back i was looking for was there.
i tried moving it to the media/0 location like mentioned in this youtube vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ziillAA-I
it doesnt let me copy the folder over like shown in the vid. waited like 3 mins, then says it failed. then wont even try after each attempt afterwards, just goes straight to fail....
WHAT THE DEUCE!?
Ima connect the phone to my laptop and see if I can locate the newest backup I made and see about moving the older ones to that location. Seen if they show up. If anyone knows the actual location or fix for this do let me know. Seems that the newest version of twrp was suppose to fix this but I guess not.
ok so i figured it out.
somehow the first couple stock backups i made ended up in the TWRP backup folder on the internal drive of the phone.
the new backup was stored in the TWRP backup folder on my SD Card.
so after finding both locations, i cut the two stock backups i made and pasted them into the SD Card TWRPs Backup folder and BAM! they show up now in my restore option on TWRP.
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reasno fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reasno fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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Glad you found them and are you're good to go!
double post..oops!
flip06 said:
ok just to confirm, my first nandroid backup flashes correctly. but the backup i made before i flashed the vanilla rootbox rom some reason fails...i dunno. im just happy i got my backups to show up now. and at least one works. ima try and get the one backup to work again but well see. hope this thread helps someone out if they are having this same problem.
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Sorry I am late to the party... But in twrp at the top of the screen you can change where to get the backup from its a bar that says data(xxxx) however much space you have left.. Tap it and you can. Go from internal to external memory and search any folder. Doesn't have to be in the twrp backup folder either... Just for future references... Again sorry probably could have saved you time and effort if I saw this earlier.
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craigbailey1986 said:
Sorry I am late to the party... But in twrp at the top of the screen you can change where to get the backup from its a bar that says data(xxxx) however much space you have left.. Tap it and you can. Go from internal to external memory and search any folder. Doesn't have to be in the twrp backup folder either... Just for future references... Again sorry probably could have saved you time and effort if I saw this earlier.
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hey man, thanks for the info. yea i didnt realize you could change the location, i dont even remember tapping that part of the screen before initializing the backup process...maybe i hit it and didnt think about it. *FACEPALM!*
anyways, ill keep that in mind for next time.
flip06 said:
hey man, thanks for the info. yea i didnt realize you could change the location, i dont even remember tapping that part of the screen before initializing the backup process...maybe i hit it and didnt think about it. *FACEPALM!*
anyways, ill keep that in mind for next time.
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Sorry, but what part of the screen are you tapping? I can select between different drives, but I don't see any directory in there (and neither the classic two dots to go one directory back). I am using 2.7
Thanks
actually i can see my backups they are unpacked i got same issue twrp not seeing them. i really would like to go back to stock
E_n_T said:
actually i can see my backups they are unpacked i got same issue twrp not seeing them. i really would like to go back to stock
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Follow instructions in post 8.
For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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Thank You. You saved my buns.
Zezombye said:
For fellow googlers out there: if, like me, TWRP shows only the "internal storage" and the "SD card" options but you can't see any folder, even though your backup is there, check if it's the serial number of the phone! Your backup should be in TWRP/Backups/<serial number>/Name of the backup. If you saved your backup in another phone, you need to check the serial number and rename the folder with the serial number.
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In fact, the correct path where all your disk image files (data.ext4.win etc.) have to be stored, is /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serial number>/<name of folder with disk image files>, so BACKUPS in capital letters.
TWRP does not "find" your backup otherwise (tested with 2.8).
sugarcake said:
In fact, the correct path where all your disk image files (data.ext4.win etc.) have to be stored, is /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/<serial number>/<name of folder with disk image files>, so BACKUPS in capital letters.
TWRP does not "find" your backup otherwise (tested with 2.8).
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That was very helpful. Thanks
Thanks for the complete directory info!
Can anyone give me backup file of note 2 to restore from custom rom plz help ... i dnt hv backup when i flash .. if i create backup file from other note 2 can it works .. is it in dead risk ?
flip06 said:
ok so i figured it out.
somehow the first couple stock backups i made ended up in the TWRP backup folder on the internal drive of the phone.
the new backup was stored in the TWRP backup folder on my SD Card.
so after finding both locations, i cut the two stock backups i made and pasted them into the SD Card TWRPs Backup folder and BAM! they show up now in my restore option on TWRP.
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Thanks dude, I've done the same and it worked!
restorimg data error when I performe a restore for your rom. Why?