I have really screwed my phone. It is a Samsung Fascinate 4G from Telus. I have tried to flash my phone that didn't work. So I tried to go back to stock with files I downloaded from here. I would get the phone to work but there was no sdcard, I could not mount or format an extrenal sd card and the sim card was not recognized. I did make a backup of my extrenal sdcard and found this folder on it. "sgs-kernal-flasher" there is two sub floder titled "backup and tmp". Does this mean I made a backup of my rom before I started to screw the phone up or did I download it from someplace? If this is a backup how do i restore if the phone will not mount the sdcard?
OK well let's see first of all you have a completely different fascinate than us you need to use this thread to find ROMs and stock files
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1540809
Now then just find the stock files in that thread and flash back to stock and no if it was a backup it would be under "clockworkmod"
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Hey guy I was wondering how to properly backup using CWM instead of having to SBF flash. When i pressed backup i saw internal and external sd card and I'm curious of which one to backup incase I mess something up and need to restore to the point where I am now
Internal SDCARD....
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Internal SDCARD....
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Okay and how do you go about creating a new backup? just do it right over it?
because i heard that it takes up a lot ofspace
Shouldn't the real question be: why is this in the development section?...
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think it creates another folder for the new backup... .What I do is, do the backup and move it to my external sdcard or copy it to dropbox or pc until need. The backup should be around 1.5GB...
nevermind..i got it
Does anyone know where the backups are saved to? I did a quick search but couldn't find it
Clockworkmod in the internal sdcard
Mine are saved in Clockworkmod folder on my external micro sd card
Moved to proper forum.
can anybody tell me how to enable sideloading so i can install CWM
i'm rooted with the OTA update
I installed Wuiu the other night and now when I try to restore a back up that I had previously had saved on my phone it just says "no files found" What did I do?! Did the ROM update my CWM and now the files are not compatible or what? If this is the case how can I find out which version of CWM i had and how can I get that back?
If I guess correctly, what happened is the sd cards are now mounted differently. You just need to find the backup directory with astro or some other root able file manager and move it to the correct sd card. I can't remember if the external is emmc or the internal one is. But whichever is which you just need to move the backup folder to the correct sd card. Sorry I can't give more detailed instructions, as I don't use wiui but if I remember right its based on cm7 file structuring.
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In cwm, there should be two option to restore from. Go to backup and restore and then the third or fourth option down should be restore from internal.
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I installed Wuiu the other night and now when I try to restore a back up that I had previously had saved on my phone it just says "no files found" What did I do?! Did the ROM update my CWM and now the files are not compatible or what? If this is the case how can I find out which version of CWM i had and how can I get that back?
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While in CWM try both locations, cause Entropy and Siyah have it named differently.
I am new to this and i want to swap my 8gb sd card to a 16 or 32....can anyone tell me the steps on how to go as far as formatting or doing a partition on the card....not sure how and don't want to mess up....thanks
Insert new SD. Go to settings/storage and data/ Press erase on the SD u wish to erase.
Cyanogenmod
OR, you can back up your current sdcard contents into a folder on a computer,turn off phone, insert new sdcard into phone,turn on phone, reconnect to computer. Copy and paste the contents of your sdcard backup folder,minus the main folder name you filed it under, then reboot.
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be careful which one you choose to format if doing it from your phones settings
remember
the sdcards are flip flipped if running eclipse
if running cm7 I don't think they are flipped
just backup all files to be safe to your computer
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Then i am assuming that i dont have to partition the card or format....just stick it in and boot the phone...I backed up my card to the computer already...
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Then i am assuming that i dont have to partition the card or format....just stick it in and boot the phone...I backed up my card to the computer already...
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are you running a ROM??
and no need to partition anything
don't even TRY to partition BSR if that's what you are talking about
I'm pretty sure it will mess up something
I had started playing around with the Syhah Kernel and set up two different Roms (Omega and Darky) works very well however i ran out of internal memory.
with some investigation Clockworkmod was sucking up almost 5Gb so i deleted all my backups to find it still sitting around the 5GB mark deleted Rom Manager and Clockwork fully and got my memory back
Then re-installed Rom Manager and Clockwork, it still sits around the 2GB with one backup so was thinking
I love CWM because if I stuffup I can just reflash the phone back to a backup I guess similar to System Restore on a Laptop?
Why so hungry on Memory and whats a better solution?
Have you looked into 4ext?
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Have you looked into 4ext?
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Yes just did
Not compatable with the Galaxy S3
I like Clockwork but it would be far better installed and running off the external SD card?
i'm in the same case as you, siyah kernel and 2 different roms installed. Keep getting low storage messages etc with clockworkmod occupying 5.04GB in my system!.. anyone else has any idea?
Bit of common sense is in need here.. You have two roms of course a nandroid backup will take a lot of memory depending on what you have installed. It could be up to 3gb. if you want to make a back up make it no one is stopping you.
After you've backed up connect your phone to your pc and go into your internal or external memory card, depending on where you've backed up to.. Then find the folder Clockwork folder and click to go inside then backup and inside that backup folder there should be a folder with the date. Back that up to your pc..
Once done you know it is on your pc and if you want to restore just put that folder back into clockwork/backup and just restore simples..
The other option is to backup to your external card..
However if you have the new V6 cwm installed you want to backup the whole clockwork folder..
Yes correct you can move that backup file and I have tried that where the memory is used is with clockwork mod
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Yes correct you can move that backup file and I have tried that where the memory is used is with clockwork mod
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I don't understand how clockwork recovery uses any space after i backup my folder on my pc i delete the whole clockwork folder. And it never comes back to waste any space. Unless i back up again..
hi
iam trying. to flash a rom. for the 1st te and i want to backup the current. rom so i can restore it if i didn't. like the new one.
so everytime when i do a backup i find it on the internel sd not the ext
so i went to setting. but use ext sd is uncheckable 1/
so i manually. copied the cmw folder to the ext sd. iam i save yet ? or i won't be able to restore
2| how can i tell that i completed the back up successfully ? i mean the stock rom back up for lg l3 e400 took like 290mb is this right
shady2137 said:
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iam trying. to flash a rom. for the 1st te and i want to backup the current. rom so i can restore it if i didn't. like the new one.
so everytime when i do a backup i find it on the internel sd not the ext
so i went to setting. but use ext sd is uncheckable 1/
so i manually. copied the cmw folder to the ext sd. iam i save yet ? or i won't be able to restore
2| how can i tell that i completed the back up successfully ? i mean the stock rom back up for lg l3 e400 took like 290mb is this right
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1. Copying the cwm folder to your sd is fine. Just make sure that when/if you want to restore it, you put it back into the same directory that its supposed to be in. (/clockwordmod/backups/). Also dont rename the folder name of the backup.
2. If your backup didnt complete successfully, cwm wouldve given you an alert saying so.
thx man
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1. Copying the cwm folder to your sd is fine. Just make sure that when/if you want to restore it, you put it back into the same directory that its supposed to be in. (/clockwordmod/backups/). Also dont rename the folder name of the backup.
2. If your backup didnt complete successfully, cwm wouldve given you an alert saying so.
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Thx man ur awesome. and very helpful
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Thx man ur awesome. and very helpful
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Also if your phone's system memory is around 250 mb then the backup size is fine. It is more because it also backups data partition with all your apps.
For more questions you can follow link to help thread from my signature, its a sticky thread in this very section.