CWM 6.0.2.7 internal and when I try a backup it hangs creating the mds sum. Left it up to a half hour and it is repeatable. Still 7 GB on the SD card. Using ROM CM10 Pure AOSP 4.1.2 JB-Final.
I have an SD card recovery that is in the 5 series and was wondering if that would work. Will 6.0.2.7 restore a backup from a different recovery?
Thanks, for your help.
The CWM recovery backup just creates a backup folder on the SD card. In theory you can use any recovery program to restore your device if it be CWM, TWRP, or Titanium Backup.
miniblue said:
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I have an SD card recovery that is in the 5 series and was wondering if that would work. Will 6.0.2.7 restore a backup from a different recovery?
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CWM switched its backup archiving format from tar to blob somewhere between its 5.x and 6.x versions, but I do not know if the 6.x versions supports the legacy tar format for backward compatibility purpose. TWRP uses yet a different archiving format.
To be prudent, you should keep a copy of the recovery program version together with its associated backup data sets.
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I have used CWM 5.8.4.5 and 5.8.4.7 in both touch and regular variants, and I have not been able to once restore my nandroid backups successfully. It ALWAYS errors our with "Error while restoring /data!" I don't touch any of the backup files or folders. I have tried this on both ext and int sd cards.
latest touch CWM official is 5.8.1.8. use that one. i have never seen the ones you mention.
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I have used CWM 5.8.4.5 and 5.8.4.7 in both touch and regular variants, and I have not been able to once restore my nandroid backups successfully. It ALWAYS errors our with "Error while restoring /data!" I don't touch any of the backup files or folders. I have tried this on both ext and int sd cards.
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I used to have the exact same issue. I ended up buying Titanium Backup because of that. What did fix it for me was switching CWM for TWRP. TWRP backups work flawlessly every time. Although I don't think you can restore CWM backups through that. If you're going to try TWRP, try 2.1.1 before 2.2.1. The latter has some issues with mounting external and internal storages.
My backup is located in mnt/media. My sd card was formatted and now only shows 42MB and won't let me copy it to it from my PC where I have another copy. how can I point CWM to see it so I can restore?
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My backup is located in mnt/media. My sd card was formatted and now only shows 42MB and won't let me copy it to it from my PC where I have another copy. how can I point CWM to see it so I can restore?
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using cwm do the following to access internal storage:
enter cwm
install zip from sdcard
choose zip from internal sdcard
this is for cwm v 5.5.0.4
not sure if earlier versions of cwm have this option. if you don't have the above version just flash the recovery image that is included in the cm9 alphas in the development section or in one of the threads by lavero burgos regarding flashing recoveries which is also in the development section.
hope this helps.
This is my first thread after a years here without any problems to flash on my i9300.
My condition:
1. Previously use CM 10.1
2. Update to CM 10.2 --> It's OK without problems.
4. Restore all my apps from Titanium Backup --> Still OK
5. Uninstall Xposed framework for Reverse Tethering 3.7 --> Reboot --> Install same Xposed framework --> Reboot --> TADAAA!! problem occured :crying:
6. Stuck at bootloader
7. Have done many things but failed untill reinstall stock recovery and stock rom through ODIN --> Myphone start to breath
8. Done MegaWipe before reinstall TWRP recovery, CM 10.2, Gapps and restore some apps through TB --> No problems.
9. Try to nandroid backup via TWRP and get error log as below :
Backing up Data...
Breaking backup file into multiple archives...
E: Error tarring split files!
abusuffian said:
This is my first thread after a years here without any problems to flash on my i9300.
My condition:
1. Previously use CM 10.1
2. Update to CM 10.2 --> It's OK without problems.
4. Restore all my apps from Titanium Backup --> Still OK
5. Uninstall Xposed framework for Reverse Tethering 3.7 --> Reboot --> Install same Xposed framework --> Reboot --> TADAAA!! problem occured :crying:
6. Stuck at bootloader
7. Have done many things but failed untill reinstall stock recovery and stock rom through ODIN --> Myphone start to breath
8. Done MegaWipe before reinstall TWRP recovery, CM 10.2, Gapps and restore some apps through TB --> No problems.
9. Try to nandroid backup via TWRP and get error log as below :
Backing up Data...
Breaking backup file into multiple archives...
E: Error tarring split files!
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Maybe sectors in eMMC going bad. My advice would be to have at least 4GB free on internal SD at all times. Backup weekly but only to external SD. Avoid writing to internal SD as much as possible. (also be 100% certain that you have multiple EFS backups). If you are using a dual-boot kernel - try to do most of your extensive work in a ROM that you install as second (and keep 1st as emergency backup).
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Maybe sectors in eMMC going bad. My advice would be to have at least 4GB free on internal SD at all times. Backup weekly but only to external SD. Avoid writing to internal SD as much as possible. (also be 100% certain that you have multiple EFS backups). If you are using a dual-boot kernel - try to do most of your extensive work in a ROM that you install as second (and keep 1st as emergency backup).
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Thank you for your advice..
Is the problems under samsung warranty? how to prove to them?
Is there any way to do nandroid backup?
abusuffian said:
Thank you for your advice..
Is the problems under samsung warranty? how to prove to them?
Is there any way to do nandroid backup?
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I don't think it is covered - or at least not as long as the phone is non-stock and it still starts
The backups can be done from a custom recovery - for instance with Philz there is a menu called "Backup to external SD". By using external SD you are minimizing the chance that something goes bad on the internal SD.
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I don't think it is covered - or at least not as long as the phone is non-stock and it still starts
The backups can be done from a custom recovery - for instance with Philz there is a menu called "Backup to external SD". By using external SD you are minimizing the chance that something goes bad on the internal SD.
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TWRP also can backup to external drive. Have been tried and failed...
As your suggestion I installed Philz recovery and "Backup to external SD" and it completed nicely without any problem :laugh:
what is the different? i think it should be same backup target. it is external SD card but failed with TWRP.
Thank you
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TWRP also can backup to external drive. Have been tried and failed...
As your suggestion I installed Philz recovery and "Backup to external SD" and it completed nicely without any problem :laugh:
what is the different? i think it should be same backup target. it is external SD card but failed with TWRP.
Thank you
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I think it might be a small difference on where the intermediary files are stored but I can't say anything more without studying the source code (and asking Phil what the differences are in the dedicated Philz thread might be simpler).
so I wanted to try cm12. I did a nandroid of my current rom with twrp. I used flashify to install philz recovery. Here's where I went wrong, I should have done a backup using philz recovery first, instead I wiped system and data and realized philz recovery would not read my sdcard. (I do not have security encryption enabled) my nandroid backups were to my external sd card not my internal. I tried getting adb to connect from within philz recovery but that's a no go. might have a usb driver issue Philz file manager is not working also. any ideas for now. I do not want to flash back to stock as i havefiles on the internal sdcard I don't want to delete. i wasn't expecting this.
Can't you just flash cm12 and backup your internal files. You don't need adb with removable memory. Also, twrp will flash cm12
Edit: I mean format new SD card with recovery, place cm12 on it, flash. Than backup all your stuff and start over
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Can't you just flash cm12 and backup your internal files. You don't need adb with removable memory. Also, twrp will flash cm12
Edit: I mean format new SD card with recovery, place cm12 on it, flash. Than backup all your stuff and start over
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@rp201
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This guy has the right idea. Just save what you can from your SD to your computer, then format your SD using Philz so it can read it. Then pop your SD back in the computer and copy your files over and just flash CM12 that way or restore your old ROM using Philz "TWRP" restore method (it actually does backups to and restores from the TWRP folder on either internal or external SD).
I just tried to upgrade from Alliance build 26 to build 30. I also loaded TWRP and used that to load update to build 30 since trying to load build 30 with CWM kept resulting in an abort with error 7. Now I am stuck at either simply booting into TWRP or to Droid logo to use Odin. I have have no useable file to recover to since all my backup files are CWM and I find out now they are useless in TWRP. Can I bypass TWRP and get back into CWM or am I screwed and need to start all over with Adam's thread to use Odin and stock files?Will I lose my saved CWM files entirely now on the phone itself? I need help please!
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I just tried to upgrade from Alliance build 26 to build 30. I also loaded TWRP and used that to load update to build 30 since trying to load build 30 with CWM kept resulting in an abort with error 7. Now I am stuck at either simply booting into TWRP or to Droid logo to use Odin. I have have no useable file to recover to since all my backup files are CWM and I find out now they are useless in TWRP. Can I bypass TWRP and get back into CWM or am I screwed and need to start all over with Adam's thread to use Odin and stock files?Will I lose my saved CWM files entirely now on the phone itself? I need help please!
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Here's a few options off the top of my head to get you up and running again.....
1. You can use Odin to flash CWM recovery back to your phone, then (if you saved the CWM backup to your external sd card prior to flashing TWRP)... you could just restore that backup from the external sd card. If you saved your CWM backups to internal memory, they are probably deleted because I'm assuming you wiped when trying to install Alliance 30.
2. You can mount TWRP in USB mode, then transfer a recovery flashable CWM zip over to your external sd from the computer, and then flash CWM back to your phone and restore your CWM backup.
3. If you have an external sd card adapter for the computer... then you can remove the external sd card from the phone and mount it in the computer to transfer over a CWM recovery flashable zip and your backup files (assuming that you saved a backup in the computer). Put the sd card back into the phone.... then use TWRP to reinstall CWM.... then use CWM you restore one of your backups.
4. If you keep encountering booting problems and none of those ideas work... it would probably be best to just use ODIN to restore back to stock 4.1.2... then start from scratch by re-rooting the with Casual.
Good luck.
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Here's a few options off the top of my head to get you up and running again.....
1. You can use Odin to flash CWM recovery back to your phone, then (if you saved the CWM backup to your external sd card prior to flashing TWRP)... you could just restore that backup from the external sd card. If you saved your CWM backups to internal memory, they are probably deleted because I'm assuming you wiped when trying to install Alliance 30.
2. You can mount TWRP in USB mode, then transfer a recovery flashable CWM zip over to your external sd from the computer, and then flash CWM back to your phone and restore your CWM backup.
3. If you have an external sd card adapter for the computer... then you can remove the external sd card from the phone and mount it in the computer to transfer over a CWM recovery flashable zip and your backup files (assuming that you saved a backup in the computer). Put the sd card back into the phone.... then use TWRP to reinstall CWM.... then use CWM you restore one of your backups.
4. If you keep encountering booting problems and none of those ideas work... it would probably be best to just use ODIN to restore back to stock 4.1.2... then start from scratch by re-rooting the with Casual.
Good luck.
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Thank you for responding with such detail. It finally started to boot into Alliance logo but never completed. Now it says with yellow triangle phone needs to be returned to Verizon. It does not even work in Odin. I do have an external reader for the card but I guess I am screwed now anyway.I wonder if Verizon will even help me at all back to stock.