Hey guys,
I have a little problem I can't find a solution to by searching.
I have a GS3 i9300 rooted with CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.
When rooting, a version of CWM was installed (5.something).
Later, when installing af custom rom, I followed instructions and updated to a newer CWM (6.0.1.2):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1719744
Later, I was thinking about restoring my original system backup, which I had made with the older CWM version right after rooting.
The new CWM can't restore my older backup. It can't recognize the file, not even when I copy it manually to the new CWM folder.
How can I solve this problem?
Do I need to install an older CWM again?
If yes, then one more question: As I said, my original CWM was installed when rooting. Can someone give me a download just for the CWM tar file included in the mentioned CF-Root?
Thanks a lot in advanced,
Agoston
Replace with older CWM root .
From Original Development section .
jje
still not recognizing + weird directory tree
After trying out three custom ROMs and after updating CWM, my system directory is rather weird. Besides the usual system folders, there is a "0" folder, that contains another set of system folders, and another "0" folder, containing the same. Also, my free internal storage as good as disappeared, from 8 GB to 1 GB. So, it looks like I have several systems on each other?!
How can I reduce this weird directory tree to just one? Do I need to wipe the SD-card?!
And by the way, I rooted the device again through Odin, and the old CWM is now installed again. Still though, it can't recognize the old backup.
As you probably imagine, I am hesitating to format SD-card, especially if CWM can't restore my factory ROM.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
szaboagoston said:
Still though, it can't recognize the old backup.
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I copied the backup directory manually to the "most superficial" CWM folder, and now trying system restore. I'ts not easy with four (!) different CWM directories.
Unfortunately I got an "error restoring data" message, and the phone is stuck in Samsung logo when booting.
Also, when trying to do a factory reset, I get the message: "error mounting /sd-card/.android_secure!"
Could this be because there is not enough space or something?!
If someone could help me with how to proceed, I would appreciate it!
Thanks.
Okay, the issue is solved. I admit, I might have been a little inpatient. Despite the "error restoring data" message, the stock factory system booted after a few tries - I might not have waited long enough. It seems that these "Folder 0"s were all just security copies of the old systems, and of course consumed a lot of hard disc space, so I just deleted them. Haven't met any negative consequences so far. I just got scared because of the error message and the too long boot time. Also this phenomenon with "Folder 0"s is not something I met before on other devices.
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OK, im gonna explain this simple.
Im using Lg p350 and i have a problem restoring my backuped rom. When i select restore in custom recovery it immediately says: opps something went wrong. Its hard for me to find a sollution because the error log is stupid and not giving any info.
Thank you.
May I ask what the custom recovery and version is? CWM, TWRP, amonRA, etc?
Have you upgraded to a new version of your recovery since you made the backup?
If you've changed recovery, then I would suggest flashing back on the version you made the backup with and try restoring your backup from there.
If you renamed the backup folder, and it now contains spaces or any characters other than underscores or dashes, remove all of those characters and try again.
1. its: recovery-RA-pecan-2.2.1-GNM-drap
2. no, because, there are no updates
3. didnt rename, but what exactly do you mean by changing recovery?
Rudoslav said:
1. its: recovery-RA-pecan-2.2.1-GNM-drap
2. no, because, there are no updates
3. didnt rename, but what exactly do you mean by changing recovery?
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Hello,
Sorry for being vague. All meant by changing the recovery was, flashing a different version of the Recovery, or switching to something like Clockworkmod Recovery. If, for instance, you made the backup with version 2.0.1 (example version number), and are trying to restore with 2.2.1, something may have changed in the way the new version handles backups.
Sometimes SD cards can cause strange issues to occur, if you have another, copy backup folder from the SD card in your phone to another, place that other card into your phone and try restoring from that card instead.
Good luck.
Here's my sad story. New to Android. I have a US YP-G1, which had been rooted using SuperOneClick. I installed Steve's Kernel (US version) to get the Voodoo sound. I used Odin3 v1.85. That worked fine. I installed Voodoo control, rebooted; everything still works, sounds great.
Then I decide to explore Clockworkmod recovery. I booted into recovery, ran the the CWM backup option (which I guess is Nandroid backup). It backs up boot/cache/data/datadata/system to what I think is /sdcard. I then reboot out of CWM.
That's it. I'm stuck in a infinite boot loop where I see the swirling pattern and the glowing Samsung logo for a few seconds before it reboots and repeats it again.
I tried CWM USB "mount USB storage". PC can see the sdcard. But the only thing there is the CWM backup directory with all the backup contents and two other folders: .android_secure and external_sd, both of which are empty. That seems kind of unexpected since I thought I should see the internal SD card contents and expected more directories when mounted to PC. Also expected external_sd directory to show the contents of my 32GB SD card, but nothing shows when mounted like that. PC showed about 5.5GB free on the mount.
I also tried CWM recovery restore from the backup I made. This seemingly restored all files from the backup, but after reboot I'm still in the boot loop.
After searching on the web and finding some guides, I've also tried cleaning out the Dalvik cache, and the "wipe data/factory reset" CWM options. Still have the boot loop.
Does anyone have another suggestion for how to get out of the boot loop?
TIA.
logo20heli said:
Here's my sad story. New to Android. I have a US YP-G1, which had been rooted using SuperOneClick. I installed Steve's Kernel (US version) to get the Voodoo sound. I used Odin3 v1.85. That worked fine. I installed Voodoo control, rebooted; everything still works, sounds great.
Then I decide to explore Clockworkmod recovery. I booted into recovery, ran the the CWM backup option (which I guess is Nandroid backup). It backs up boot/cache/data/datadata/system to what I think is /sdcard. I then reboot out of CWM.
That's it. I'm stuck in a infinite boot loop where I see the swirling pattern and the glowing Samsung logo for a few seconds before it reboots and repeats it again.
I tried CWM USB "mount USB storage". PC can see the sdcard. But the only thing there is the CWM backup directory with all the backup contents and two other folders: .android_secure and external_sd, both of which are empty. That seems kind of unexpected since I thought I should see the internal SD card contents and expected more directories when mounted to PC. Also expected external_sd directory to show the contents of my 32GB SD card, but nothing shows when mounted like that. PC showed about 5.5GB free on the mount.
I also tried CWM recovery restore from the backup I made. This seemingly restored all files from the backup, but after reboot I'm still in the boot loop.
After searching on the web and finding some guides, I've also tried cleaning out the Dalvik cache, and the "wipe data/factory reset" CWM options. Still have the boot loop.
Does anyone have another suggestion for how to get out of the boot loop?
TIA.
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I had a similar problem of getting stuck in a boot loop, but I thought it was because I had cleared the dalvik cache. Nandroid backups work flawlessly for me, btw. Anyway, I got my device fixed by reflashing with this stock ROM with ODIN: http://www.filefactory.com/file/c0dd...s2.3.5.tar.md5
After you flash it, it will still be boot loop so go into stock recovery (with 3 button combo) and choose "wipe data/factory reset" and then "wipe cache". Then I rebooted, and I was no longer in boot loop!
You can reflash SteveS kernel after if you want.
Hope this works for you!
Hi Klin,
Thanks for the help. I'm having trouble D/L the ROM from the link you provided. FileFactory says its a bad requst. Can you check that please?
I also tried the sequence you suggested but using the ROM I found from another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412875
I also did the steps you provided using the standard recovery and this got me out of the boot loop. Thanks a bunch for your help!!!
I'll now load SteveS kernel again and see if the backup I made is of any use. If not, then at least I know how to get back to a complete factory reset as you've shown.
logo20heli said:
Hi Klin,
Thanks for the help. I'm having trouble D/L the ROM from the link you provided. FileFactory says its a bad requst. Can you check that please?
I also tried the sequence you suggested but using the ROM I found from another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412875
I also did the steps you provided using the standard recovery and this got me out of the boot loop. Thanks a bunch for your help!!!
I'll now load SteveS kernel again and see if the backup I made is of any use. If not, then at least I know how to get back to a complete factory reset as you've shown.
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No problem. Glad you got it working again.
And of course, no need to click the thanks button, I really don't care much about my thanks meter...
Thanks button clicked!
I tried restoring from the CWM Nandroid restore. After restore, it booted fine, but my apps are missing, including Google Market. Actually, the icons are there, but clicking on them tells me that the "application is not installed on the system". Also, other settings are missing as well like my email accounts and wifi connections/passwords. But app icon layout is correct, and clearly it remembered some of my settings. I got the impression this was supposed to do a "full restore".
I tried "reset permissions", but this didn't fix it. Any clues?
logo20heli said:
Thanks button clicked!
I tried restoring from the CWM Nandroid restore. After restore, it booted fine, but my apps are missing, including Google Market. Actually, the icons are there, but clicking on them tells me that the "application is not installed on the system". Also, other settings are missing as well like my email accounts and wifi connections/passwords. But app icon layout is correct, and clearly it remembered some of my settings. I got the impression this was supposed to do a "full restore".
I tried "reset permissions", but this didn't fix it. Any clues?
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Maybe your nandroid backup wasn't created correctly? Because for me my nandroid backup restored all my settings and apps. Did you have any apps installed on the SD card instead of device? Maybe that might be the problem, but I'm not sure.
I've had exactly the same experience, but with UK version. I had Steves rom and kernel flashed, all looking nice so did a nandroid backup with cwm. No bootloops but everything was gone. Icons were on screen but applications not installed. In the end I did factory reset and reflashed Steves rom. All good but am avoiding cwm!
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logo20heli said:
Thanks button clicked!
I tried restoring from the CWM Nandroid restore. After restore, it booted fine, but my apps are missing, including Google Market. Actually, the icons are there, but clicking on them tells me that the "application is not installed on the system". Also, other settings are missing as well like my email accounts and wifi connections/passwords. But app icon layout is correct, and clearly it remembered some of my settings. I got the impression this was supposed to do a "full restore".
I tried "reset permissions", but this didn't fix it. Any clues?
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My guess: Steve's CWM implementation is broken and is not backing up/restoring /dbdata (Looking at his recovery.fstab, this SHOULD be working, but maybe his fstab is broken.)
I've seen the same sort of behavior when trying to get CWM working on the 5.0 - I fixed it on mine by fixing /dbdata backup/restore (which is treated as /datadata by CWM)
Can you post a list of files in your backup including sizes?
Hi Entropy,
Thanks for your help. Here is the list of files from my backup:
Code:
01/12/2012 12:00 AM 48,375,360 .android_secure.img
01/11/2012 11:57 PM 7,864,320 boot.img
01/12/2012 12:00 AM 6,633,792 cache.img
01/11/2012 11:59 PM 2,112 data.img
01/11/2012 11:59 PM 13,742,784 datadata.img
01/12/2012 12:00 AM 222 nandroid.md5
01/11/2012 11:59 PM 294,997,824 system.img
Perhaps dbdata is missing as you suspect. But there is a datadata.
CWM treats dbdata as datadata (just a different naming convention) - so it is getting backed up.
Maybe it didn't get restored properly? dunno...
Wait... data.img is only 2112 bytes? Something is WRONG there... That should be the largest image after /system
I just checked my nandroid backup files and data.img was 386.80MB...
Try making another backup and see if it has the same problem...maybe it didn't create correctly.
I've just got done restoring the stock kernel and ROM and loading up all my apps manually again. It took a while to do this. So at the moment I don't have SteveS kernel loaded and hence no CWM recovery. I think I'll wait a while to see how things go before trying the kernel again, at least for the CWM recovery part of it. And I also loaded Titanium backup to help me restore from this kind of problem in the future.
Since keithabi also reported something similar, I guess this isn't an isolated issue. It sounded like he too just made a backup and ran into problems; in other words he wasn't trying to restore from a backup, just create the backup. Creating a backup shouldn't kill your machine.
To confirm, yes I just made a backup and everything was gone....
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keithabi said:
To confirm, yes I just made a backup and everything was gone....
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That is WEIRD. Just making a backup shouldn't do something like that...
I agree. I've done loads of backups with SGS II and HTC Desire, never seen anything like that happen before. I'm sure it'll get sorted. Other than that I'm finding Steves rom great with voodoo. Many thanks.....
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sooo...... please help me out here. i have the same problem as OP. except i have stressed my device trying to find a stock rom for galaxy player 4.0 us version so much, that is has now fully bricked. it wont power on. i am not an entire noob to flashing custom roms. however i dont understand alot of it either. some one who is kind please point me in the right direction at least.
I've encountered weird problem: The phone doesn't boot (got stuck on bootanimation) after nandroid recovery from CWM. I've tried recoverying it over fresh install of same ROM or over formated partitions, but neither of it works. I'm using CWM v5.0.2.0 and trying to recover hephappys PRE4.
Is this caused by some incompatibility of CWM and ICS?
No, cwm 5.0.2.0 is working with ICS, using it currently (haven't tried using backup/restore, but it shouldn't cause any problems imo).
So, what exactly are you doing? Trying to restore an earlier cm9 backup? Try wiping all, including system and boot, before restoring.
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Yes, I've made backup before messing with my ROM and it just fails to recover. I've already tried to wipe everything.
Is there any tool for viewing backup files on Windows? I guess that the file is somehow broken.
Is there any way how to get calls and sms from this raw data?
Here is boot logcat: https://gist.github.com/2603614
Jirrick said:
I've encountered weird problem: The phone doesn't boot (got stuck on bootanimation) after nandroid recovery from CWM. I've tried recoverying it over fresh install of same ROM or over formated partitions, but neither of it works. I'm using CWM v5.0.2.0 and trying to recover hephappys PRE4.
Is this caused by some incompatibility of CWM and ICS?
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have the same issue with cwm...
recommand u to use amonra...gwtting best with it
When I was on cm9 and restored my cm7 backup=same thing(yes, I wiped everything)
Well, that backup image is somehow corrupted as it cant be correctly deployed. At least I've managed to extract SMS, the rest is not so important for me.
CWM is pretty much useless when it creates backups which can't be used for recovery...
I don't think that there is a specific problem with CWM and ICS- I have been making backups and recovering quite often ICS builds (including hephappy's pre4) in the last weeks, no problems so far (knock on wood ).
Do you have other/older backups that you can try to recover and see if you get stuck at bootloop?
What about reinstalling the build from scratch- just to see that everything boots? You can later try either restoring your original backup (the one causing you problems), or using TiB or similar applications that can extract applications+data from nand backups.
Could the backup file got corrupted somehow? I don't remember CWM having some inherent checking of md5 before restoring backups (I could be mistaken, as I have never had a bad nandbackup with the P500 phone so never noticed anything weird). For example, I used to have an HTC MT4G with 4ext touch recovery which would always check md5sum and let the user know if backup was corrupted, and I did got a corrupted backup file once.
Back to topic- If anything else fails and you can't recover, maybe try to copy the backup to a different sdcard? Perhaps it's a shot in the dark but worth trying, just in case the problem is in sdcard?
Older backups are only CM7 and they are working flawlessly. I don't know what happened, but it wasn't byte-level error as MD5 check passed on that image. It's more likely the recovery "forgot"/wasn't able to recover some files in /data partition.
Later I've tried to install some fresh ICS, did some changes (configuration + apps), backuped, wiped partitions, then restored and everything worked , so it's definitely not a general CWM problem. It's probably a bad luck, when you really need the backup, it just corrupt itself to annoy you...
As I wrote, I've managed to retrive my SMS and that's enough for me. I don't trust that image so I will install fresh apps via Appbrain and do the new setting by myself (I wanted to make some chcnges to phone configuration, this is just the right moment) .
I have never had much luck with the CWM recovery system. It's really buggy and sometimes only restores select partitions. Or if it couldn't mount the drive at the time of backing up, sometimes it just refuses to tell you or tells you but you have to start the backup over..
Like said above, I would try Amonra. It's a far better recovery and it has almost no bugs to speak of
Cheers mate.
hi all, hoping someone can help point me in the right direction, new to samsung devices
had my i9300 a couple of months now - rooted using SGS3 toolkit
I finally plucked up the courage to flash a custom rom and went a bit crazy!!!
Flashed the following roms:
Android Revolution
Revolution Resurrection
3 minit
and finally
Hellybean
Before flashing each new rom I did the following:
Backed up my apps and data with TB pro
a full nandroid back up of my existing rom
followed by a factory data reset and wipes of cache and dalvik
I thought I had covered my butt pretty well but apparently not!!
i really liked hellybean and decided to restore my apps with TB but I got an error "unable to access external sd card" I tried changing the backup location folder which seemed to work, but once back in the main program I get the unable to access error....
So I thought ok i'll restore my nandroid backup!!! but that gives me an error "error restoring /data"
then I tried flashing the 3 minit rom again and then back into cwm and trying to restore that backup and I got an error restoring system this time!!!!
I'm not sure what to do now....have I lost my data for ever???
Is there a way to try and restore using odin??
and any hints for backing up and restoring in the future??
many thanks if anyone who can help
rgds
dibb
sdcard/0/0/0/0/0
Update 1.
Well on further reading it seems 4.2 has a 'unique' feature!!!
I'm using my own words here to help me comprehend whats going on, so forgive me if i'm not using "android-speak"
When upgrading to 4.2 it creates a new "partition" on your /sdcard called /emulated and all your new 4.2 data etc goes in here....all your pre 4.2 stuff goes into /sdcard/0...
I believe this happens also whenever you flash a new rom
so if you get a flash happy as I did then all of a sudden you get /sdcard/0/0/0/0/0/0...???? can this be correct????
The issue is I have different files in each of these "0" folders. My titanium Backup folder is in /sdcard/0/0/0/0 - which TB cannot access...I checked the /data/media folder which I believe is where my files are actually residing and sure enough in /data/media/0/0/0/0 theres my TB b/u folder
what i'd like to know now is if I can copy that folder to say, data/media without causing havoc?
Of course my next question is can I also move my cwm backup folder from sdcard/0/0/0/0/0/0 to data/media even tho I already have a cwm folder in there but which does not have the same files in it???
The other question is how to figure out which of the sdcard "0" folders hold which rom???
Anyone out there thats been thru the same thing???
Update 2
ok I just booted to cwm and did a backup just to see where it gets stored to...
Took ext sdcard out to force to int storage
backup saved by cwm to /sdcard
boot to android and fire up Total Commander
the only file in my cwm folder on /sdcard is an older one which cwm will not restore from
navigate to /data/media and sure enought theres my backup
boot back to cwm to restore my backup and cwm says No file found....wtf...
cwm cannot restore the backup it just made??
so back to android and check all my '0' folders and zip nothing?
my backup is in internal storage but NOT /sdcard??
So it would seem, that once you install a 4.2 rom - no apps can find their backups cos theyre
stored in a different location which they are unable to access??
thoughts people??
sdcard0/0/0/0/0/0
Hi dibb_nz,
As a new participant to installing custom ROMs I can confirm I'm having exactly the same issue that you're experiencing, my file system adding an extra /0 every time I flash an update to my Carbon ROM. It's causing major issues restoring backups from various apps and I'd also love to know if it's possible to fix this issue.
Any help from the more experienced would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
rpm-speed said:
Hi dibb_nz,
As a new participant to installing custom ROMs I can confirm I'm having exactly the same issue that you're experiencing, my file system adding an extra /0 every time I flash an update to my Carbon ROM. It's causing major issues restoring backups from various apps and I'd also love to know if it's possible to fix this issue.
Any help from the more experienced would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
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Just make sure you use the latest version of clockworkmod or twrp recovery...that should fix your issue
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odin13 said:
Just make sure you use the latest version of clockworkmod or twrp recovery...that should fix your issue
Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
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Hi odin13,
Flashed the latest CWM and will flash my ROM once again, thank you for your swift reply, I'll post the results shortly.
Kind regards
rpm-speed
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rpm-speed said:
Hi odin13,
Flashed the latest CWM and will flash my ROM once again, thank you for your swift reply, I'll post the results shortly.
Kind regards
rpm-speed
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Well sadly that didn't work...
Re-flashed the ROM and now have /storage/sdcard0/0/0/0/0/0/0
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
rpm-speed said:
Hi dibb_nz,
As a new participant to installing. ustom ROMs I can confirm I'm having exactly the same issue that you're experiencing, my file system adding an extra /0 every time I flash an update to my Carbon ROM. It's causing major issues restoring backups from various apps and I'd also love to know if it's possible to fix this issue.
Any help from the more experienced would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
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odin13 said:
Just make sure you use the latest version of clockworkmod or twrp recovery...that should fix your issue
Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
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EDIT: sorry for the format of my post its difficult to read...not sure why it ended up like that
Using latest recovery only allows cwm to find yr backups, it will not
'fix' the 0 folder issue IF you already have more than one.
I found it best to totally reformat the internal storage and starting fresh.
I manually deleted the 0 folders with a file explorer. Then formatted the
internal SD in cwm.
I also made sure my backups saved to .tar rather than the .DUP format,
as I had also ended up with 1000's of .blob files which totally
confused the situation even more....they would not restore after taking
hours and hours to copy....
As previous poster said....using the latest cwm will prevent the creation
of multiple 0 folders.
Save what data you need to your external SD or PC. I had a couple
older SD cards laying around so I used those.
After that, delete all 0 folders, remember to enable read/write access
to the data partition so they stay deleted!!!
Using the latest cwm or twrp - format data/media,...
If u don't want to use the new .dup/blob incremental backup, change
the option "default backup format" to .tar...this could already be enabled
in the latest cwm, I'm not sure on that!
If you're 'experimenting' with 4.2 ROMs - you will always have a
0 folder, its just how things are done so don't go deleting that one
in future! And you might wanna look at dual booting if you're a wee bit
'flash-happy' like me, lol....I'm using siyahmod app and have 3 ROMs
installed, although I really only use 2. If your apps have a save to
external SD option, use it!!! Likewise with your nandroid backups
And titanium backups, I've had lottsa trouble with TB not being able
to find or access backups even after it finds the backup folder??
Also remember, 4.2 apps are different to 4.1apps, its not good practice
to restore 4.1 apps to a 4.2 ROM or vice versa....things get screwy!!!
If you want to go dual boot, 4.2 ROMs MUST Only be installed as
the secondary rom, it cannot be installed as your primary ROM.
If you only want to run 2 ROMs then use siyah kernel and the stweaks app.
If you want to have 3 ROMs then use siyah kernel and siyahmod multi boot app.
There can be issues with the sjiyahmod app...i find it best to use either whether?
but not both.
That's been my experience anyway....hope it helps and good luck
rgds dibb
PS I've had no issues at all running the siyah kernel with any other ROM,
even works we'll with my stock ROM...
This error is still not answered on the forums so im starting a new thread.
i get the error as the title.
sd card space is not the problem.
i tried formatting the sd card.
i have less than 50 apps installed.
wiped dalvik cache, and all other sorts people say on other posts.
(my phone is LG P936 so "fix permission" screws up the phone. all text disappears)
have latest cwm recovery.
and still get the error.
any answers please?
and please dont reply if you are going to write an opinion.
only answers please.
sorry for my rude behaviour but I'm sick and tired of reading posts full of opinions and "maybe"s.
Not sure if you ever got this fixed but I 'm suffering from the same error. I tried pretty much everything you tried (even fix permissions) and I have about 20GB free on my SD card so space shouldn't be an issue. I have not yet tried formatting the SD card since it has always worked and CWM is able to write to it because the following files are created:
- boot.img
- data.ext3.tar
- recovery.img
- system.ext3.tar
The files that are missing are (based on older backups):
- .android_secure.vfat.tar
- cache.ext3.tar (probably because I wiped it first?)
- nandroid.md5
I have attached the log from CWM in the hopes that someone can tell me what is wrong. The error occurs at the end of the progress bar of 'backing up /data'.
hey just use TWRP Recovery. It's way better than CWM. normal backup on cwm took me like an hour but twrp was never longer than 10minutes.
Today I have formatted the SD card and tried again, but as expected it did not change anything.
ceoleaders said:
hey just use TWRP Recovery. It's way better than CWM. normal backup on cwm took me like an hour but twrp was never longer than 10minutes.
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I guess I will give this a try. Can I just install it over CWM or can they run side by side?
different reciveries cannot be run side by side as they are installed on a different partition. so it will always be installed over your current one.
ceoleaders said:
different reciveries cannot be run side by side as they are installed on a different partition. so it will always be installed over your current one.
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Well, I tried TWRP and it also fails at backing up my data partition. The log is a bit more clear though and it seems to get stuck on "/data/data/com.android.vending/cache/images" which is the last line before it gives an error. I checked the "images" folder and it seems empty but I cannot delete it. Tried ES File Explorer and Terminal Emulator but no way to get rid of it. The folder appears to be related to Google Play, so I cleared all data and cache from Google Play, even uninstalled the updates but there 's simply no way to get rid of it. I 'm not sure if this is the reason why the backup fails, but I CAN copy the folder and even rename it.
Pff looks like I 'm going to have to do a clean install after all .
Hello, I too have this problem and unfortunately TWRP is not available for my phone.
I used to be able to do CWM backups fine on my old phone, and they work great on my tablet. But they consistently fail at "/data" on my Galaxy Ace II x. Might it be because I'm using Link2SD? I don't see why that would cause a problem, but maybe it's having trouble with the symlinks?
Hmm. Seems the issue was that, despite having only 1.28 GB total available storage space on stock, the backups wanted more than 4 GB. Cleared some room on my microSD card and suddenly backups worked fine! Of course, shortly after I installed CyanogenMod, which has much smaller backups...
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I forgot to report back here but the only way I found to fix the problem was by doing a clean install. After that, I was able to backup my data partition again. I then restored my apps ' data with TB and was unable to backup the data partition again. I 'm guessing one of my apps had corrupt data, but never got to find out which one it was.
maybe your partition not match with recovery, like something wrong vold.fstab
Just in case anyone still wants to know how to fix this, I managed to solve it by running these commands:
1. run adb shell in recovery.
2. unmount data partition (umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p26). -> this one failed so I skipped it
3. run e2fsck /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48659092&postcount=868 for original post.
I got a few HTREE errors and a bunch of duplicate names which I renamed when prompted. Booted the phone and rebooted into TWRP and now I am able to backup my data partition again. :good:
EDIT: Problem reappeared so I tried the above commands again but it said that the filesystem was clean. Ran 'e2fsck -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p26' instead and had to fix a bunch of HTREE errors from Facebook again and duplicate names from Xprivacy but now I 'm able to backup my data partition again.
Dude just selest the backup format as both zip and tar filea