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:
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#/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.
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I know i need to extract them with unyaffs.exe
But i can't find where my camera photos stored ..
Please navigate me to the path ...
Motorola Atrix 2.3.4 device.
Thanks.
Nowhere, they're on the SD card (/DCIM/)
So they are gone ?
I stored them at the internal sd, not in the external sd.
Internal SD... ah, sorry: the Atrix has built-in memory... I wasn't aware of that. That depends on how it is accessed... I still wouldn't expect it to show up in Nandroid backups, but if your lucky it doesn't get formatted and you can still retrieve it. The question is, what device is this internal storage and what filesystem does it use.
Can you still mount the storage on the PC? You should be able to retrieve most of your images even if the drive was formatted using a standard photo recovery tool
I just full wiped everything .. all the storage places too and intsalled new ROM.
OK, i can do that , which revocery tool should i use ?
It's been a while ... I think I used this one:
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm
The free version is enough for image recovery.
Thanks
Just recover some of my images ...
But i can't get the full library from the nandroid backup? what information do you need?
I know i can just restore the nandroid backup ... but it will do trouble ... diffrent kernel from my preset rom..
Any ideas?
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Sorry for the late response, But I just stumbled upon the thread. I had the G2x. The internal memory is just like another SD card. Just that it's not removable. What's backed up in a Nandroid is things like the /data, /cache /boot /system and android.secure partitions. The internal memory is /emmc. It doesnt get formatted in a wipe (unless you say so) and it doesnt get backed up in the Nandroid. Otherwise, your Nandroid backups would be EXTREMELY large.
I've got a weird problem. I successfully rooted my new HTC Flyer and installed CWM. When I rooted my new device I only had a very small sd card at hand which I replaced a few days later by a fast 32 GB sd card.
After the replacement I reinstalled CWM 4.0.1.4 but every time I try to do a nandroid backup nothing seems to happen. A progress bar is displayed but there doesn't seem to be any progress.
This is what CWM tells me:
Revolutionary CWM v4.0.1.4
SD Card space free: 25496MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up recovery image...
Backing up system...
Backing up data...
No /sdcard/.android_secure found. Skipping backup of applications on external storage.
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum...
Backup complete! (obviously not!)
Using file expert I can see .android_secure in /sdcard (probably internal "sd card") but not in sdcard2 (probably my 32 Gb sd card). In /sdcard and /sdcard2 there's adirectory clockworkmod. The first one only contains a directory called download and a file .settings. The latter one contains a directory backup and under it directories for each backup attempt.
The question is: Can I trust these backups in case something is going wrong and I need to do a restore? Given the above error message I doubt that. So my next question is: What can I do to fix the problem?
Thanks in advance.
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Yes you can trust the backup.
And what about the above error messages?
they just mean that you have no apps on the sd card. They always throw that error at me. It's fine.
I get the same thing when I do it on my thunderbolt. Go to your SD card under cwm/backup and you will find the backups. They should be named with the date you did it.
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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.
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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.
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Use the "backup and restore" menu item, then navigate to folder with the date that you created the backup.
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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.
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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?
My internal SD card is mostly full (11GB) after a year of using my i9300, and I'm not sure where all that space has gone (some pictures and video but I think a lot of apps I used throughout the last year but ended up deleting). So I figure the next time I try a new ROM I will delete the whole thing and start from scratch, backing up my data of course. I will back up the entire internal SD card to my computer and take a nandroid backup before doing anything.
Should I format the internal SD card or just delete all its contents?
I've noticed that when I try a new ROM the internal SD card isn't touched, so where does the ROM actually get stored?
What does the wipe data / factory reset option in ClockworkMod Recovery actually wipe?
Does a nandroid backup back up the internal SD card? I have a feeling the answer is no, but then what does it actually back up?
If I use TitaniumBackup to back up all my app data and move that backup to my computer, then I delete the internal SD card, wipe the system, tehen replace my old ROM with a new ROM, then use TitaniumBackup to restore my apps and their data, am I missing anything? For example, I don't think certain data gets backed up by TitaniumBackup, for example photos (even though that might be considered 'data' of the camera app), so what could I be unwittingly missing when I do my restore from TitaniumBackup? How will I know what things I need from what's currently on my internal SD card?
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Should I format the internal SD card or just delete all its contents?
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No need to format it.
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I've noticed that when I try a new ROM the internal SD card isn't touched, so where does the ROM actually get stored?
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Lets distinguish between these things.
The "internal SDcard" is NOT an sdcard. It is a partition on the internal memory referred to as /sdcard (on other phones /sdcard mounts to removable media but not here). However, as it happens, the internal memory itself is an eMMC (embedded MultiMedia Card) which is where the confusion arises, so let us refer to eMMC as "Internal Memory" from here on.
The internal memory has many partitions (It's 14.9 GiB in total). It has a /system partition (ROM goes here) a /boot partition (bootloader), /recovery partition (guess) and /cache partition and a /data partition (A few others that aren't of interest here).
Usually /data is where all your data and apps go (in /data/app and /data/data) however, we use the FUSE file system to cleverly put /sdcard (usually removable media) into /data/media. This way /data is fully used as user data space.
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What does the wipe data / factory reset option in ClockworkMod Recovery actually wipe?
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Custom Recoveries wipe /data/app and /data/data. Stock recovery wipes /data which includes /data/media AKA /sdcard
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Does a nandroid backup back up the internal SD card? I have a feeling the answer is no, but then what does it actually back up?
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No. It backs up /system, /data (ignoring data/media) and /cache. It often backs up to /sdcard so it cant backup where it is saving the files to
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If I use TitaniumBackup to back up all my app data and move that backup to my computer, then I delete the internal SD card, wipe the system, tehen replace my old ROM with a new ROM, then use TitaniumBackup to restore my apps and their data, am I missing anything? For example, I don't think certain data gets backed up by TitaniumBackup, for example photos (even though that might be considered 'data' of the camera app), so what could I be unwittingly missing when I do my restore from TitaniumBackup? How will I know what things I need from what's currently on my internal SD card?
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Backup titanium to /sdcard then copy EVERYTHING from /sdcard to computer, will catch everything. Titanium doesn't back up stuff on /sdcard unless it is explicitly part of an application and you select that option in preferences
Your best option would be to format Internal SD card. And as you install a new rom, as you can see you only have 11GB of free space. Thats what is left from your total 16GB. Android OS reserves some space for bootloader, rom and cache.
The factory reset in recovery will delete all your system settings, apps, messages, call log and such. But if I'm correct it shouldn't touch the pictures. Nandroid backup doesnt hold your whole Internal SD card in itself.
And titanium backup backups apps and their settings, but it will not backup messages or pictures.. You can for example manually copy pictures to your computer and then back to your device. And for messages there is a good app called 'SMS Backup & Restore'.
Hope this helps
Edit: Me and my slow typing
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Edit: Me and my slow typing
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I was on a mission
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I was on a mission
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Guess so But you explained it a lot better than I did. So probably better that way
help me please formated sd with stock nanaroid on it..please help!!!!
i formatted my sd like a clown...i recoverd the files how ever i am unable to find my twrp back up ...i really need some help
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i formatted my sd like a clown...i recoverd the files how ever i am unable to find my twrp back up ...i really need some help
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You formatted that means you have lost what was on the sd card .
If you put your Nandroid backup on that card then its lost .
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You formatted that means you have lost what was on the sd card .
If you put your Nandroid backup on that card then its lost .
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know any ware i can download the rogers stock 4.1.2 firmware...and does it mess with my unlocked bootloader if i flash back?
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know any ware i can download the rogers stock 4.1.2 firmware...and does it mess with my unlocked bootloader if i flash back?
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Do you have I9300 or I9305 phone ???
If not this is I9300 you are in the wrong forum . Firmware/ mods from here may brick your phone .
Back up
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No need to format it.
Lets distinguish between these things.
The "internal SDcard" is NOT an sdcard. It is a partition on the internal memory referred to as /sdcard (on other phones /sdcard mounts to removable media but not here). However, as it happens, the internal memory itself is an eMMC (embedded MultiMedia Card) which is where the confusion arises, so let us refer to eMMC as "Internal Memory" from here on.
The internal memory has many partitions (It's 14.9 GiB in total). It has a /system partition (ROM goes here) a /boot partition (bootloader), /recovery partition (guess) and /cache partition and a /data partition (A few others that aren't of interest here).
Usually /data is where all your data and apps go (in /data/app and /data/data) however, we use the FUSE file system to cleverly put /sdcard (usually removable media) into /data/media. This way /data is fully used as user data space.
Custom Recoveries wipe /data/app and /data/data. Stock recovery wipes /data which includes /data/media AKA /sdcard
No. It backs up /system, /data (ignoring data/media) and /cache. It often backs up to /sdcard so it cant backup where it is saving the files to
Backup titanium to /sdcard then copy EVERYTHING from /sdcard to computer, will catch everything. Titanium doesn't back up stuff on /sdcard unless it is explicitly part of an application and you select that option in preferences
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I backup via philz_touch_6.00.8 but when i tried to restore philz_touch_6.00.8 could not find the backup folder or file. Also when i check the my data using file explorer also i could not find backup file or folder. Interesting that capasity of internal sd card is less then befor about 3 GB. Could you explain why i could not find and restore or remove ?
heya, i just installed the new fxp on my ultra, and i thought i had backed up my litecoin wallet on my sd card, but then when i went to go look for the file, i couldnt find it, so it must of been still on the internal storage, does anyone know of a good free program that might be able to recover files,
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Have a look with root explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer and look through the internal and external storage.
If you do not find anything, try unmount the sdcard and mount the card in a computer and view hidden files, what do you find?
If you running a rom you can start:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.baloota.dumpster
This will collect anything removed and you can either remove it forever or restore the file accidently removed. This is only for when running a rom, not if you wipe data etc when flashing a rom
And always do a nandroid backup from CWM if you not sure if the rom you flashing is working or not. It might not backup personal files but rather the whole rom and apps with its stored data
Your nandroids is stored in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/