Hello All!
I purchased a new Nook Tablet 16 a few weeks ago and I want to restore it to factory settings.
Currently my NT16 has CM7 installed. I used the "boot from SD card" method to install CM7 and everything worked great so that's what I have running on my NT16.
Prior to installing CM7 I made a full backup of my NT16. When I made this backup I got the following files:
boot.img
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar
The thing that I am confused about is when I boot into recovery to flash a new rom it always asks for a .ZIP file and, as you can see from my file list above, I don't have any .ZIP.
So my question is, how to I recover my NT16 to factory settings given the files I have above? Do I just zip them up and use that?
Thanks!! :victory:
Use the "backup and restore" menu item, then navigate to folder with the date that you created the backup.
Solar.Plexus said:
Use the "backup and restore" menu item, then navigate to folder with the date that you created the backup.
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I am currently using the Win32DiskImager.exe to make a boot disk and I am going to boot using this disk. When I boot and get the menu will it have an option to "backup and restore?"
Thanks!
Yes, I believe that's the same option you chose to create the backup.
Solar.Plexus said:
Use the "backup and restore" menu item, then navigate to folder with the date that you created the backup.
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Solar.Plexus said:
Yes, I believe that's the same option you chose to create the backup.
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Ok I created the bootable SD card and I got the CWM Recovery menu. I put the SD card with all my backup files in the NT and when I hit Restore it says: "Couldn't open directory. No files found.".
The other question I have is this....
When I create the boot disk using Win32DiskImager do I also put my backup stuff on that same disk? Or do I bootup using the SD card with CMR on it then take out that SD card and put another SD card in, the one that has my backup files?
Thanks!
Is the SD card mounted?
EDIT: You could switch cards if you wanted, but why not do it the easy way? Transfer your Nandroid backup to the /mnt/media partition, then choose "restore from internal SD".
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Is the SD card mounted?
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I bootup using the SD card with the CMR on it and do a "hot" switch of the SD card with the one that has my recover stuff. When I put the SD card in it doesn't automatically mount it?
By the way, does anyone else HATE how B&N made their SD card slot? You have to open that little flap on the corner and it's such a pain in the butt to put the SD card in!
Yeah, the SD slot is a pain, especially if you have a case on the NT.
And if you're not sure if the card is mounted, just go to the "mounts and storage" menu option and see what it says about /sdcard.
Solar.Plexus said:
Yeah, the SD slot is a pain, especially if you have a case on the NT.
And if you're not sure if the card is mounted, just go to the "mounts and storage" menu option and see what it says about /sdcard.
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In the Mounts and Storage menu it lists /sdcard and /sd-ext. Which one is the SD card?
I tried both and when I choose mount /sdcard it works but when I choose mount /sd-ext it doesn't (it says "error mounting /sd-ext")
That's because you don't have a /sd-ext to mount. /sdcard is your microSD card.
Can I put all my recovery files on the same SD card that is made using Win32DiskImager or is it standard procedure to hot swap to another SD card that has your recovery files?
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That's because you don't have a /sd-ext to mount. /sdcard is your microSD card.
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Well, the I guess my SD card is mounted because when I choose the option to mount /sdcard I don't get any failure notices. However, when I go back to recovery I still get the error that it can't find any files. :crying:
Well, I don't really think there's any standard procedure, just whatever you think is easier. Have you touched the original "clockworkmod" folder since you made the backup?
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Well, I don't really think there's any standard procedure, just whatever you think is easier. Have you touched the original "clockworkmod" folder since you made the backup?
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Touched? What do you mean (sorry)?
Touched, changed, modified? Sorry, probably not a good word to use.
Just to clarify I am going to list the exact procedure I am doing and you guys let me know if everything seems okay:
1. Using Win32DiskImager.exe create the bootable disk with the image cwm_sd_flashing_boot.img using SD Card A
2. Format another SD Card (lets call it SD Card B) using Windows using quick format
3. Copy my backup files to SD Card B
- boot.img
- cache.ext4.tar
- data.ext4.tar
- nandroid.md5
- recovery.img
- system.ext4.tar
4. Boot the NT16 by holding down the power button and the N button until the unit powers on and then off
5. Put SD Card A in the NT16 and boot
6. Wait until CWM Recovery menu appears
7. Take out SD Card A and put in SD Card B (without rebooting or anything)
8. In the CWM Recovery menu choose Restore
9. Should be success at this point but I get the file not found error
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Touched, changed, modified? Sorry, probably not a good word to use.
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Actually, I am a UNIX guru and I know what touched means because touch is a command that, among other things, creates a file. I just didn't know if that's where you were coming from too.
You need to keep those recovery files inside the folder in which they were created.
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You need to keep those recovery files inside the folder in which they were created.
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When I created the recovery files it made a folder called 2012-07-31.03.48.54 is this what you mean?
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I am having problems with the recovery on my phone, it is currently Amon 1.6.2.
In recovery I cannot create nand backups or flash new roms. When trying to create a backup I get this error:
Error: run ‘nandroid-mobile.sh’ via adb!
When trying to flash new roms from SD card i get this:
E: Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
Invalid argument
E: Can’t mount SDCARD:
Any help would be extremely appreciated.
thanks very much.
Make sure your battery is charged past 25% I believe. Its a saftey feature so you won't brick your phone...
battery is fully charged.
first thing i'd try is backing up all data on SDCard... then, boot into whatever ROM you are currently using. go to Menu > Settings > SD Card & Phone Storage.
Unmount SDCard and then format card. then copy a rom.zip to your SD and boot into recovery and try again. if that doesn't work, try formatting the card in recovery, then see if it will mount as USB, copy rom.zip again and try again.
you weren't by any chance trying to resize the partitions on your phone, were you?
tenzomonk said:
first thing i'd try is backing up all data on SDCard... then, boot into whatever ROM you are currently using. go to Menu > Settings > SD Card & Phone Storage.
Unmount SDCard and then format card. then copy a rom.zip to your SD and boot into recovery and try again. if that doesn't work, try formatting the card in recovery, then see if it will mount as USB, copy rom.zip again and try again.
you weren't by any chance trying to resize the partitions on your phone, were you?
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i was not trying to resize the partitions, thanks for help i will try this. 1 question though is that i have a lot of apps on my sd card, how do i back those up before reformatting.
Put the card in your computer and drag and drop
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carbon111 said:
i was not trying to resize the partitions, thanks for help i will try this. 1 question though is that i have a lot of apps on my sd card, how do i back those up before reformatting.
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Titanium Backup, My Backup Pro or Sprite Backup (pay, on market).
Or search for QtADB here on XDA (not Eris specific) for telling it to backup apps and/or app settings from a Windows GUI, and it's free. Good luck.
Does this work on the Nook Tablet? Mine doesn't appear to function when I try to do a backup.
ROM Manager
I am using ROM manager on CM7 alpha12 without problems. I use it to boot to CWM recovery and back. I use TB and CWM for backup so I can't verify backup with ROM manager.
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I am using ROM manager on CM7 alpha12 without problems. I use it to boot to CWM recovery and back. I use TB and CWM for backup so I can't verify backup with ROM manager.
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So you are saying that you did the newest CM7 upgrade and your CWM works without using a SDcard? When I try to do a backup in ROM Manager my tablet will reboot and then it comes up with a screen saying to power cycle again and if this don't fix it call B&N support
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Correct - if I want to use CWM I just start THE RM app and select to reboot to recovery. The tablet reboots into cwm and I do what I need,for example,backup and repartition data and media then select to reboot to regular CM7 ROM w/o changing SD card.
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Correct - if I want to use CWM I just start THE RM app and select to reboot to recovery. The tablet reboots into cwm and I do what I need,for example,backup and repartition data and media then select to reboot to regular CM7 ROM w/o changing SD card.
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Bummer Mine doesn't work and I have no idea how to fix it
I cant do a backup directly from ROM manager either.
BUT if you follow his directions and boot into CWM first, you can do a backup from there without a hitch.
If you want to name it yourself you need to go to the file in your file manager of choice, and change it there.
Can someone tell me where backups to internal storage are stored?
Thanks.
sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
I do believe you need a sd card for your backups.
It sounds like you do not have one, thats why you are not able to do a backup?
I have one and it creates a backup via internal. But when I try to backup to sd card, it tells me it failed to mount. So I backup via "internal storage." I can then go to restore and I see my backup from the internal there.
Dont have my tablet in front of me but it somehwere like: /mnt/emmc/clockworkmod/backup
You should find a clockwordmod in that general area if its like CM7 for other devices
You can manually mount and unmount your SDcard through clockwordmod as well. Have you tried to mount it manually before backing up
I just decided to try it again, booted into CWM and clicked "backup" and now its backing up to sd (free space showing as 30017MB, 32gb card so that makes sense).
Earlier when I tried manually mounting the sd card it was giving me an error (failed to mount). I have no idea what fixed it but its working now and I'm sure I'll be able to find the sdcard backup at the very least.
Thanks for your help.
The SD card doesnt always mount on its own in these devices. I HAVE noticed that..
Hell,it doent even want to mount with guidance, as you have just shown, and I have experienced as well..
Glad it worked this time..
sd mount
As has been noted in other threads, sometimes you have to take the card out and reinsert to get it to mount. I have had times when using the CWM menu option to mount sdcard failed. Turn the tablet over,click the card out and back in and it will mount
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As has been noted in other threads, sometimes you have to take the card out and reinsert to get it to mount. I have had times when using the CWM menu option to mount sdcard failed. Turn the tablet over,click the card out and back in and it will mount
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Definitely the case, but when in CWM it doesnt always mount even by ejecting and re-inserting the card.
At least from my experiences.
I tried using hiemdall suite to flash my kernel entered the command hiemdall suite flash --kernel zImage everything worked as far as installing the CWM and I can boot to the CWM recovery screen and download mode but not directly to a ROM i get stuck at the yellow triangle screen. I put cyogenmod 9 on my sd card and named it update.zip then went to recovery mode and mounted my sd card. I selected to option apply update from /sdcard/update.zip and it didnt work any ideas to get me back on track?
mvmoti01 said:
I tried using hiemdall suite to flash my kernel entered the command hiemdall suite flash --kernel zImage everything worked as far as installing the CWM and I can boot to the CWM recovery screen and download mode but not directly to a ROM i get stuck at the yellow triangle screen. I put cyogenmod 9 on my sd card and named it update.zip then went to recovery mode and mounted my sd card. I selected to option apply update from /sdcard/update.zip and it didnt work any ideas to get me back on track?
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If you can get into CWm just flash the zip but not as an update.zip
122ninjas said:
If you can get into CWm just flash the zip but not as an update.zip
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Thanks for the quick reply...I am still confused can you elaborate on how to flash the zip?
mvmoti01 said:
Thanks for the quick reply...I am still confused can you elaborate on how to flash the zip?
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Get into CWM, hit install zip from SDcard and then if you put it in internal storage go to choose zip from internal sdcard and if you put it on your regular sd card choose zip from sdcard. Then just find the .zip file and select it. After its flashed wipe data.
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Get into CWM, hit install zip from SDcard and then if you put it in internal storage go to choose zip from internal sdcard and if you put it on your regular sd card choose zip from sdcard. Then just find the .zip file and select it. After its flashed wipe data.
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Okay I put on an external sd card popped it in my phone but i cannot find it..why directory is it usually under if i just dragged it on the sd card
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Okay I put on an external sd card popped it in my phone but i cannot find it..why directory is it usually under if i just dragged it on the sd card
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...It's wherever you dragged it to. Check internal and external SDCard in Recovery sometimes they get mixed up
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...It's wherever you dragged it to. Check internal and external SDCard in Recovery sometimes they get mixed up
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I just dragged it into the sd card no folders just sitting there...in recovery i select install zip from sdcard then choose zip from sdcard then i get a whole list of things like music/ media/ external_SD/ and ive selected them all and nowhere can i find the .zip file...is there something i am missing or should i just try to restore my device back to factory settings?
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I just dragged it into the sd card no folders just sitting there...in recovery i select install zip from sdcard then choose zip from sdcard then i get a whole list of things like music/ media/ external_SD/ and ive selected them all and nowhere can i find the .zip file...is there something i am missing or should i just try to restore my device back to factory settings?
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First try what ninja said...in CWM try both "install zip from sd card" and "install zip from internal sd card".
If you still cannot find it, it sounds like you just misplaced the zip file. Try downloading it again, make sure you place it in the root of the external sd card, and then from CWM select install zip from sd card.
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First try what ninja said...in CWM try both "install zip from sd card" and "install zip from internal sd card".
If you still cannot find it, it sounds like you just misplaced the zip file. Try downloading it again, make sure you place it in the root of the external sd card, and then from CWM select install zip from sd card.
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thanks, when i go to internal SD it gives me the error cannot mount /emmc/
mvmoti01 said:
thanks, when i go to internal SD it gives me the error cannot mount /emmc/
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guys im still stuck here any help would be great nothing has changed since my previous posts
mvmoti01 said:
guys im still stuck here any help would be great nothing has changed since my previous posts
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From a quick google search it seems you are going to have to restart the process all over again! (YAY!!)
Can't mount Sdcard or emmc
Hi there, i have the same problem. I'm trying to root my phone, and stuck with "Can't mount/sdcard/ or /emmc/", i've try to do the process all over again, but still no luck. Pls help.
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From a quick google search it seems you are going to have to restart the process all over again! (YAY!!)
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How do I do this? Is it possible? I've done quite a few backups because I've been swtiching between ROM's and my Internal is running low on memory. I'm using ROM Manager Premium v5.0.2.0
Edit: I know I can do this if I manually go into CWM
3bs11 said:
How do I do this? Is it possible? I've done quite a few backups because I've been swtiching between ROM's and my Internal is running low on memory. I'm using ROM Manager Premium v5.0.2.0
Edit: I know I can do this if I manually go into CWM
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On the latest version of CWM, there is the option to save to internal or external SD card once you have created, or accepted, the name of the file names backup.
Tip: Always save your backups to your external SD card in case of problems you may encounter with flashing.
You can choose in cwm backup/restore menu : backup internal sd.
or make a backup in external, then copy paste the clockworkmod dir in internal sd
Can you please mount external sdcard instead of internal one.
/etc/fstab:
Code:
PHP:
#/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /sdcard vfat rw
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /sdcard vfat rw
Ive noticed some cwm-r versions are kind of "reversed" too when it comes to backup/restore and install from locations... when you chose internal the cwm-r uses the external and the other way around. so if you have chosen to backup to internal but it put it on external anyways then try to do the backup to external to have it on the internal sd don't know if that's the case with version you use though.....
A quick question: I have 3 nandroid backups made by CWM in INTERNAL sd card. I know that the amound of free space IS reduced (ES Explorer. Android storage and Windows tell me so). Still, the /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder contains only a nandroid I have done of the stock ROM before I started flashing... the other nandroids are invisible. I 've even connected the phone in windows and tried to search for .md5 files.... only got the one concerning my old stock ROM backup. Where does the CWM save its' backup files? Should I format the internal card?
clockworkmod/blobs
Ok this is becoming weirder and weirder by the second. So, I had a nice backup of stock ROM (which yielded the amazing: "Your device is modified, no software updates available" har har har). So I fire up "My Files". And lo and behold, in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backups, the three backups I have done are visible. This sounds.... fishy. To say the least. And of course, now they are visible in Windows Explorer too. Ok, now I am kinda scared ****less.
Hi guys,
My SD card got corrupted before flashing a rom, so I'm a bit stuck (I can access the CWM menu, the kernel is fine).
So I formatted the card to FAT32 (tried other formats) but when I try and flash an update.zip from it I get
E:Can't mount /sdcard/
So I'm thinking, are there some files missing from the SD card that CWM/android need to interact with it? I can imagine these files were wiped when I did a format. Like superuser files or something? You know also, those hidden files beginning with '.'
I've tried all the usual methods like formatting using SDFormatter and stuff - still, CWM can't see it (my computer can if USB is mounted). Am I right in thinking I need some kind of system files on the SD card?
Any help?
Thanks in advance
the best would be paid copy a rom sd card and flash, or flash a rom stock also either ics or gb and see if there cel recognize SD can not think of anything else. :highfive:
Ok, I guess I'll try that if there's nothing else. If I flash an official .ftf with Flashtool will I need to do anything to my bootloader (currently unlocked)?
Edit: I've been reading around and it seems almost certain that my sd card just needs some vital files on it for CWM and android...
Try by simply reflashing any kernel with cwm if your sd card is readable from pc it is not corrupted, it's more likely somethign wrong with cwm, you should be able to fix reflashing kernel which shouldn't be much of a prob since you have unlocked bl
Rudjgaard said:
Try by simply reflashing any kernel with cwm if your sd card is readable from pc it is not corrupted, it's more likely somethign wrong with cwm, you should be able to fix reflashing kernel which shouldn't be much of a prob since you have unlocked bl
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Hey nice idea, but I tried that earlier and multiple kernels give the same error - it can't be CWM, it must be the SD card (or what's not on the SD card).
Edit: I've tried chkdsk and formatting to a variety of systems using a variety of partition managers, nothings works, my phone just can't mount the SD.
notoxa said:
Hi guys,
My SD card got corrupted before flashing a rom, so I'm a bit stuck (I can access the CWM menu, the kernel is fine).
So I formatted the card to FAT32 (tried other formats) but when I try and flash an update.zip from it I get
E:Can't mount /sdcard/
So I'm thinking, are there some files missing from the SD card that CWM/android need to interact with it? I can imagine these files were wiped when I did a format. Like superuser files or something? You know also, those hidden files beginning with '.'
I've tried all the usual methods like formatting using SDFormatter and stuff - still, CWM can't see it (my computer can if USB is mounted). Am I right in thinking I need some kind of system files on the SD card?
Any help?
Thanks in advance
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First backup your nandroid backup (if you have one) in a secure place (not the sdcard)
Put your sd card on some other android phone with cwm and format it from the cwm mount/storage option.
if you don't have a nandroid backup skip the next two steps.
mount the sdcard in your computer and create two folders in the sdcard (a folder inside a folder) name the parent folder as "clockworkmod" and child as "backup" .
Put your nandroid backup in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
Now put the Rom zip file you want to flash in the root of the sd card
Power down your phone.
Put the memory card in your phone
Boot into cwm and try to flash the rom.
If the second step fails with "error mounting sd card" try with another memory card or with another phone.
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