Does a Nandroid backup always include everything thats on the internal sdcard or only selected data? I have a nandroid back from a couple of weeks ago and lost pictures from a camera folder that was on the internal sdcard because I didnt backup the card when I installed a rom yesterday. Would those pictures be on the nandroid backup?
mentallo said:
Does a Nandroid backup always include everything thats on the internal sdcard or only selected data? I have a nandroid back from a couple of weeks ago and lost pictures from a camera folder that was on the internal sdcard because I didnt backup the card when I installed a rom yesterday. Would those pictures be on the nandroid backup?
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No, nandroids don't backup the internal sd card I'm afraid
Ashton! How dare you Ninja me!
No. They are gone.
Nandroids back up everything that makes the ROM run. So system, data, cache, junk like that. Any other stuff, pictures, videos, music that is on the internal or external sd is ignored. It functions much like the system restore feature of windows.
mentallo said:
Does a Nandroid backup always include everything thats on the internal sdcard or only selected data? I have a nandroid back from a couple of weeks ago and lost pictures from a camera folder that was on the internal sdcard because I didnt backup the card when I installed a rom yesterday. Would those pictures be on the nandroid backup?
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it doesn't backup you're internal or external storage. system related backups only.
GrayTheWolf said:
Ashton! How dare you Ninja me!
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You can backkup external SD Card from the Backup/Restore menu in Amon Ra, but internal SD isn't an option.
I always whip data factory reset, wipe cache, davlic blah blah before restoring Android. Is this necessary? Also when do you need clean wipe script,?
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Ohschit said:
I always whip data factory reset, wipe cache, davlic blah blah before restoring Android. Is this necessary? Also when do you need clean wipe script,?
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Yes wiping before a nandroid restore is important, and its a good habit to have.
In my opinion you don't need a clean wipe script. Just manually wipe cache, dalvic cache, data and system before installing a new Rom or restoring a nandroid backup.
I use amon ra because it works so well and it real fast.
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.... is there an option to wipe or leave the internal SD card? Is it advisable to wipe it or leave it?
Coming from the original Incredible, the concept of internal SD is new... should I view this as just another SD storage that happens to be non-removable?
doing a factory wipe through amon ra should not touch the internal sd (per their thread in the dev section).
You can always wipe things separate: wipe data, wipe cache, davlik cache.
What is it wiping then? I assume the external card is always safe when talking about wiping in any rooting/flashing/recovery situation...?
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Yes, when you wipe data/factory reset, everything is erased except for your external sdcard. The internal sdcard will be wiped of all data.
And if you're flashing a new ROM, you should wipe everything. Your ext sd card, the one you can actually take out, will not be touched unless you tell it to erase it or partition it.
WasabiWa83 said:
Yes, when you wipe data/factory reset, everything is erased except for your external sdcard. The internal sdcard will be wiped of all data.
And if you're flashing a new ROM, you should wipe everything. Your ext sd card, the one you can actually take out, will not be touched unless you tell it to erase it or partition it.
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Can I assume then that a Nand backup with defaults WILL backup the internal SD card as well? I notice that's where apps are moved to when I choose to move them to sd.
Here is info on backing up using Amon Ra. Sorry I don't have a link to the post, I copied this from my notes that I have compiled by copying and pasting from threads. It's in the Amon Ra thread in the dev section. Not sure it answers your question but hopefully it helps.
drellisdee:
Sd-ext (if apps2sd mod is used) backs up the mmcblk0p2 apps2sd partition
Android secure backs up the android_secure folder on the external sd
Android secure internal backs up the android_secure folder on the internal sd
I have yet to see any implementation of sd-ext on rezound so leave that one out. The android secure internal is there as some htc oem roms like on the droid incredible 1 have the android native app on sd on the internal memory. I'm not sure how its placed on the rezound but that option is there if needed.
So to answer the question for most people the most common needed items to backup would be:
Boot, data, system, android_secure.
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feralicious said:
Here is info on backing up using Amon Ra. Sorry I don't have a link to the post, I copied this from my notes that I have compiled by copying and pasting from threads. It's in the Amon Ra thread in the dev section. Not sure it answers your question but hopefully it helps.
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Thanks.... (heading on over to Amon Ra thread in Dev forum)
DIncLover said:
Can I assume then that a Nand backup with defaults WILL backup the internal SD card as well? I notice that's where apps are moved to when I choose to move them to sd.
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Yes, if you do a Nand backup in AmonRa with the defaults that are selected, you will get your phone back as it was at that moment. All apps and data will come back as they were when you backed them up.
WasabiWa83 said:
Yes, when you wipe data/factory reset, everything is erased except for your external sdcard. The internal sdcard will be wiped of all data.
And if you're flashing a new ROM, you should wipe everything. Your ext sd card, the one you can actually take out, will not be touched unless you tell it to erase it or partition it.
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I asked that exact question in the amon ra thread and they said unless you tell amon ra to wipe the internal sd, a factory wipe only wipes data, cache, davlik cache.
I don't know why some people are having problems, but using htc dev unlock and amon ra, neither touched my internal sd memory.
straight from the dev's keyboard:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20194037&postcount=23
I am using Amon Ra 3.12b , and have flashed back and forth about 3-4 roms and it never wipes my internal Sd card if I choose wipe data/factory reset. I have watched what it wipes and it wipes Data, Cache, android-secure but I saw a post where it might not be wiping android-secure.
There is a separate wipe you can choose to wipe for internal SD card , but it is not by default.
HI,
I've recently rooted my phone, installed new ROMs/Kernels. Prior to installing the ROM, I wiped my storage, my cache, my dalvik cache, etc. However, when I was looking around my folders, I noticed files from pre-wipe - in other words, it didnt really wipe my phone out. Now obviously I dont want dead applications taking up space - how can I properly wipe the phone before installing a new ROM?
Thanks !
Try to do a factory wiped from the phone. I think that does the trick.
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you can use SUPER WIPE script from Android Revolution HD. This will wipe everything on your phone internal SD-card. Don't forget to backup. You can find it here >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797334
you can also use this tool. I guess it is the same as revolutionHD from above member posted whereas you have different options/stages of wiping the phone.
You can either use super or mega wipe (leaves you without anything on the phone!! so be careful)
Thanks guys - I used superwipe (from Android HD). Now running a clean system, without all the residual crap from applications (that took up 4GB of space!).
Will this super wipe android HD also wipe the efs folder and nandroid backup or are these in a separate partitions and remain untouched?
Thanks
luger77 said:
Will this super wipe android HD also wipe the efs folder and nandroid backup or are these in a separate partitions and remain untouched?
Thanks
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As what I have read, it wipes whatever a full wipe will and should not wipe nandroid backups.. However I have not used it before and it's better to wait for confirmation from someone who used it.
luger77 said:
Will this super wipe android HD also wipe the efs folder and nandroid backup or are these in a separate partitions and remain untouched?
Thanks
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I can confirm it doesn't wipe the efs partition - as that could well and truly screw up your phone, especially if you didn't have a backup stores somewhere.
Superwipe wipes your data, cache, preloaded and system partitions - pretty much your entire internal sd card, if I'm not mistaken. I really like the megawipe tool that's been mentioned here too. You should give that a try when next updating.
As to the backups - I've no idea. It all depends on where the backups are created. I think CWM backups are created in data partition which would mean that if you did super wipe they'd also be deleted.
I never back up though so I can't be 100% sure as I've never needed it.
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Hi there. Yesterday, before flashing leaked 4.2.1 ROM, I did a nandroid backup to my external microSD card using Philz Touch Recovery v. 4.63. The process of backing up was successful.
The problem came when I restored the backup. (Before restoration, I had to reinstall the PhilZ Touch recovery and, from it, I did format cache, format system and format data). I recovered my XXEMA2 ROM with all the apps and configurations I had before, BUT there is no trace of the pictures I had in the internal memory or the files I downloaded.
I tried to repeat the process, but I got the same result.
Does anybody know a solution for this?
Thanks in advance.
portamento said:
Hi there. Yesterday, before flashing leaked 4.2.1 ROM, I did a nandroid backup to my external microSD card using Philz Touch Recovery v. 4.63. The process of backing up was successful.
The problem came when I restored the backup. (Before restoration, I had to reinstall the PhilZ Touch recovery and, from it, I did format cache, format system and format data). I recovered my XXEMA2 ROM with all the apps and configurations I had before, BUT there is no trace of the pictures I had in the internal memory or the files I downloaded.
I tried to repeat the process, but I got the same result.
Does anybody know a solution for this?
Thanks in advance.
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Nandroid only backs up your ROM, recovery, apps, app data, etc. and not the data stored in your internal storage.
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Oomahey said:
Nandroid only backs up your ROM, recovery, apps, app data, etc. and not the data stored in your internal storage.
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Ooopppps, I thought it makes a complete image of the phone! (for example, on many websites it's compared with Norton Ghost for PC). Good to know for the next time...
Thank you for the information, Oomahey!
portamento said:
Ooopppps, I thought it makes a complete image of the phone! (for example, on many websites it's compared with Norton Ghost for PC). Good to know for the next time...
Thank you for the information, Oomahey!
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hit "thanks" below his post
portamento said:
Hi there. Yesterday, before flashing leaked 4.2.1 ROM, I did a nandroid backup to my external microSD card using Philz Touch Recovery v. 4.63. The process of backing up was successful.
The problem came when I restored the backup. (Before restoration, I had to reinstall the PhilZ Touch recovery and, from it, I did format cache, format system and format data). I recovered my XXEMA2 ROM with all the apps and configurations I had before, BUT there is no trace of the pictures I had in the internal memory or the files I downloaded.
I tried to repeat the process, but I got the same result.
Does anybody know a solution for this?
Thanks in advance.
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After going back from 4.2.1 to 4.1.2 you'll have your whole Internal Memory in a folder "0". Find it on your Internal Memory. All your data and files should be there. Just transfer them from folder 0 to root of Internal Memory and all will be like before flashing 4.2.1
Glebun said:
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I seem to be blind! I was looking for the "thanks" button, but I didn't found it (I thought that maybe it didn't appear since I was surfing from my mobile). That's why I said "thanks" texting.
EDIT: I was not blind. In the default version of the forum (the classic one) that appears on my Opera Mobile there is not "thanks" button. You need to change manually the versión to 2010 one or higher.
Ninolina said:
After going back from 4.2.1 to 4.1.2 you'll have your whole Internal Memory in a folder "0". Find it on your Internal Memory. All your data and files should be there. Just transfer them from folder 0 to root of Internal Memory and all will be like before flashing 4.2.1
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I do have the "0" folder with the old (sub)folders, but all of them are empty :crying:
Maybe it was not a good idea to do format cache/system/data before restoring the nandroid backup... As I thought all data were preserved in the backup, I prefered to delete any trace of 4.2.1 ROM .
portamento said:
I do have the "0" folder with the old (sub)folders, but all of them are empty :crying:
Maybe it was not a good idea to do format cache/system/data before restoring the nandroid backup... As I thought all data were preserved in the backup, I prefered to delete any trace of 4.2.1 ROM .
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Well, that might be the problem. I had also restoring 4.1.2 backup after trying 4.2.1 FW but I didn't do wiping or formating - I just restored backup and there was that 0 folder and all files from Internal were there.
Hi,
I have CM7.2.0-RC1 installed on my Droid X2 (latest right now). The phone has gotten kind of laggy and I want to reformat the phone. And by reformatting, I want to my phone to be like I JUST installed CM7. Is there a simple way to do this since I'm already on CM7?
Thanks!
If you want to make it like a fresh install of CM7, boot into recovery and do a factory reset. This will wipe all your apps though.
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If you want to make it like a fresh install of CM7, boot into recovery and do a factory reset. This will wipe all your apps though.
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Wiping my apps is fine. Will it also remove all my pictures?
longphant said:
Wiping my apps is fine. Will it also remove all my pictures?
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i keep all of my pictures and such on the root of my external sd card. if you do the same, wiping data will not erase your pictures.
Lorenzo VonMatterhorn said:
i keep all of my pictures and such on the root of my external sd card. if you do the same, wiping data will not erase your pictures.
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Great, thanks so much to both of you!
Go in to settings do factory reset . yes it will wipe all the data in your internal memory including pictures and videos. If you don't want to lose your data so synchronized phone and backup data.
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maddyrokieasta said:
Go in to settings do factory reset . yes it will wipe all the data in your internal memory including pictures and videos. If you don't want to lose your data so synchronized phone and backup data.
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again, any pictures you want to make sure you keep, put them on the root of your external sd card somewhere safe, and wipe through recovery.
sorry this post made no sense to me and i wanted to avoid confusion. any images saved in camera apps folders may or may not be erased. move them to somewhere safe.
I have wiped data/factory reset many times from cwm bsr and have never lost any of my pictures. Fyi, wiping or resetting doesn't touch DCIM folder on your internal storage, which is where your phone saves them to by default if you select internal storage. I have some on both my external and internal storage and have never lost any of them. Again, wiping doesn't touch the folders where your pictures are stored. Unless of course you format your sd card in bsr.
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It seems that factory resetting using a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP won't remove pictures.
Hi,
I installed Greenify and hibernated some apps and thereafter the phone restarted on its own and is stuck in the RevoltJB logo screen.
I've tried almost everything, from taking the battery out, clearing dalvick cache and flashing the RevoltJB rom again but it's not booting.
I've made a nandroid copy to the Sd Card, system / app, data files say complete but then when it's backing up the music/videos/pics it fails. Not enough memory.
Does that mean that the nandroid backup of system apps (sms/call logs) and my sisters apps/data (whatsapp message history) haven't been backed up?
I also made a internal copy and that seemed to backup everything. Hardly any pics or music on internal memory, plus it had 8gb free.
Does that mean that both the internal and sd card backup the same things?? And can I factory reset and reinstall the RevoltJB rom and then using titanium backup get back her whatsapp messages, her sms and call logs not to mention her stupid level 50 candycrush data?
Please can someone tell me if I've been able to make a successful nandroid backup on either the sd (even if it only backed up system/apps) or internal memory and whether I have any chance of a recovery of her sms, whatsapp and candycrush data.
PS if i reinstall jb rom it won't delete my nandroid backup will it...?
Thank you for your replies in advance. I'm going crazy because she's in tears, so please can someone help me.
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You don't need to worry much after making the nandroid backup you can safely wipe data/cache/dalvik cache and reflash the ROM, also along with TB try using the app nandroid manager to restore the apps,call logs, contact's etc. from the previous nandroid backup, and be careful to not format /sdcard partition its where all your data like your music,videos, nandroid backup, and other data is kept.
Hmmm seems you don't use your internal SD card much, and making a backup anywhere is not problem it will be the same thing done twice whether it be in the internal or the external SD card, just try to make a successful backup by freeing up some space, also if you have the patience to read a lot try using Aroma file manager to manually handle the required files like the contact database and stuff, though I would advice a noob to hold off until he's more experienced.
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Stop being melodramatic. Bricked phones don't boot. At all
I think you froze a system app....look at @MistahBungle 's signature and read what it says.
Do a factory reset and a ROM reflash.This is the only thing you can do.And yes,all her messages and game data will be gone (you can maybe extract them manually from the Nandroid backup)