Hi. I have a really odd problem, and hope you guys can help me out. recently i rooted my phone (sgs4) and used TWRP (and later CWM) to make a backup of my system via recovery. However, at one point the backup failed due to insufficient space on my internal card, and now the phone keeps warning me that the phone is full. However - and here's my stupid problem - I don't remember which of the two backup programs I used when this happened, and however I search the card (using Root explorer) I'm unable to find ANY folder named backup, twrp, clockworkmod or anything comparable. Now, the files MUST be on the card somewhere, considering used storage jumped with about 4,5gb. before and after this incident. Anyone know where such files might be hidden?
did you search if the file is hidden ?
you can try to arrange all files by size and check directory with large size
or else
try searching keywords like *.md5,*.zip
part , sd-ext etc
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I've looked at filesizes, yes... But not for hidden folders. Will try that.
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Hmmm... Thx for the tip, but no luck. No hidden folders. I do suspect some kind of temp folder or location (I have a bunch of files in a 'emulated/0' folder, but no idea whether this is it.....
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maybe they go in .Trash1000 ? is there any such directory ?
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Hi. Thank you for the tip. I searched through thr phone without luck. Again, this is very strange...
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Hi. Thank you for the tip. I searched through thr phone without luck. Again, this is very strange...
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maybe too late for an answer to this but...
I believe the "temp" folder while the backup is being created with cwm recovery is:
/data/clockworkmod/backup
at least so is on my S4 mini with cwm 6.0.3.3 cwm recovery
Same problem on a S4 Mini, please help me!
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Alright... well I flashed aokp from Roman today. And I lost my imei. I have never had this problem before. I did a nandroid restore and nothing works. I have a back up from titanium back up and installed all my system data but still nothing...
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also I can't get anything but edge. If I'm lucky...
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Ouch, you might be out of luck man, might need to get a new phone as theres no real known "way" of restoring the backups of /efs folders or nvdata.bin etc on this phone yet , give this thread a read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753833 its a known issue that can occur after flashing a rom on this phone... good luck.
edit, usually to save this kind of stuff you need to backup your efs folder, meaning that a nandroid backup nor a tibu backup can't help you with this; it needs to be done separately.
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Alright... well I flashed aokp from Roman today. And I lost my imei. I have never had this problem before. I did a nandroid restore and nothing works. I have a back up from titanium back up and installed all my system data but still nothing...
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If you lived here in California I would help you restore your imei
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Ouch, you might be out of luck man, might need to get a new phone as theres no real known "way" of restoring the backups of /efs folders or nvdata.bin etc on this phone yet , give this thread a read http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753833 its a known issue that can occur after flashing a rom on this phone... good luck.
edit, usually to save this kind of stuff you need to backup your efs folder, meaning that a nandroid backup nor a tibu backup can't help you with this; it needs to be done separately.
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Out of curiosity, how do you backup those files separately?
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Out of curiosity, how do you backup those files separately?
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If your rooted use a root enabled file explorer (I use Root Explorer) and open it up to /. There should be a folder called “efs". Simply copy that folder and place it on your internal or external sd, then for safe keeping place it on your laptop/computer
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fergie716 said:
If your rooted use a root enabled file explorer (I use Root Explorer) and open it up to /. There should be a folder called “efs". Simply copy that folder and place it on your internal or external sd, then for safe keeping place it on your laptop/computer
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I've been nervous about flashing anything else since I've read about 4 cases like this. I'm so freakin happy I found this thread! I've found the efs folder your referring to, but I don't know if I should copy the efs folder to my external storage or open it & just copy the IMEI folder to my external storage? Your help would be so very much appreciated.
Maybe someone should put this in general and try to get it stickied, as it seems like a necessary preventive maintenance?
Edit: I just backed up the whole folder to be safe, and I'm going to make a general post referring to this problem.
-=Mission=- Create a Backup rom of everything Apps/Settings/tweaks/background/widgets.
I have the latest Clock work MOD recovery, And I rebooted into recovery and clicked backup then I pressed backup again which created a folder in clockwork folder named Todays Date. But this folder is only 16mb I have a feeling that the info is in the blobs folder what is the point of that the blobs folder literally has over 2000 folders its not neccerally big in size but because there are so many files it takes ages to copy. My aim is to copy my backup to my computer and copying the blobs folder is just a massive ammount of time.
SO Instead of pressing backup this time I pressed create Image.zip
this time it created one zip file which is perfect but its only 569mb.
My original Rom that I flashed was 830mb and I also added apps so in reality this zip should be bigger then the original flash zip
My 2 questions:
1.Whats the simplest way of creating a a backup which i can transfer back and forth from my computer when I want to test roms?
Because when I flash a new rom I always wipe data and all cache so its a fresh install which means if I leave my backup on the phone it will dissappear which is why i want a nice backup which i can transfer back and forth
2. What is that image.zip consist of and I was told its flashable, Is it?
Please read carefully before you answer thank you so much for your help
Nandroid backup not using blobs method .
Backup to ext sd card .
Also if you read the instructions where you got root and CWM from i recall a non blobs instructions .
Nandroid does not backup EFS folder nor modem .
Please read carefully before you answer >>> Please post in correct forum .
jje
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Yeah use an older cwm. Search for chainfires cwm in Android development something like v1.5 I think it should be cwm version 5.5.8.0 or something like that. The new backup way with blobs folder is since cwm v6
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Yeah use an older cwm. Search for chainfires cwm in Android development something like v1.5 I think it should be cwm version 5.5.8.0 or something like that. The new backup way with blobs folder is since cwm v6
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Ok thanks So I have to flash the old CWM and then ..... Could someone please tell me in detail what to do? I dont want to do a mistake
http://download.chainfire.eu/195/CF-Root/SGS3/CF-SGS3-CWM-v5.5-v1.5.zip
Download that
Extract it one time
Use the file inside it is a. .tar file and flash that with Odin or mobile odin
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http://download.chainfire.eu/195/CF-Root/SGS3/CF-SGS3-CWM-v5.5-v1.5.zip
Download that
Extract it one time
Use the file inside it is a. .tar file and flash that with Odin or mobile odin
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Ok I have flashed that old CWM. And I rebooted into recovery and clicked Backup, then pressed Backup and it created a backup but now where i this backup gone too?
Um yeh apparently its supposed to be in backup folder.
The only thing that I can see that there is a folder called "Image" and that has multiple files in there and the size makes sense. It just doesnt co_inside with what I have read around the place.. Cant someone just tell me the whole process goddd LOOL theres been 3 replies and I mean couldnt I have had the whole answer in one reply I have been searching around and I mean I have been getting mixed articles I would of thought this would be the best place to ask
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Cant someone just tell me the whole process goddd LOOL theres been 3 replies and I couldnt have had the whole answer in one reply
grrrrr
This is not a paid for fix my phone site .
I refuse point blank to answer such an ungrateful f*****
jje
Hmm I think I worked it out on my own loool I went to the external sd card and for some reason there is a clockmod backup folder in there and the folder is 1.45gb that makes sense and it has todays date, funny thing is i did not choose to have it on the external
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Cant someone just tell me the whole process goddd LOOL theres been 3 replies and I couldnt have had the whole answer in one reply
grrrrr
This is not a paid for fix my phone site .
I refuse point blank to answer such an ungrateful f*****
jje
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I said it in a joking manner u idiot dont even comment F**** off then, who said i want someone like you to answer anyway i refuse to even listen to such a F***
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Ok I have flashed that old CWM. And I rebooted into recovery and clicked Backup, then pressed Backup and it created a backup but now where i this backup gone too?
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CWM write yours backups in folder called clockworkmod\backup\ inside SD Card
Each backup made in CWM is writed in a diferente folder inside backup folder with a date of backup.
Don´t write your backup inside phone storaga, because every time that you do a factory reset the system clean this partition and your backup is gone.
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CWM write yours backups in folder called clockworkmod\backup\ inside SD Card
Each backup made in CWM is writed in a diferente folder inside backup folder with a date of backup.
Don´t write your backup inside phone storaga, because every time that you do a factory reset the system clean this partition and your backup is gone.
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Thanks buddy but for some reason it backed up automatically on my extsd card is that normal?
did you try Titanium backup
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did you try Titanium backup
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Yeh thanks but I am actually trying to create a backup of my entire Rom including the Stweaks/wallpaper/widget setups/Apps <<<< All in one backup package so that when i flash another rom and I dont like it I can go back to how it was with one flash
By default it backups to external storage unless you press backup to internal storage(this is how cwm 5 works) and all your apps and wallpaper etc are in there.
However just a correction pressing wipe/factory data does not remove your internal storage it only removes the apps and settings not ur actual data ie pictures or songa etc..
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Titanium does it all.
I change every week my Rom and Titanium works perfect. everything restored successfully
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By default it backups to external storage unless you press backup to internal storage(this is how cwm 5 works) and all your apps and wallpaper etc are in there.
However just a correction pressing wipe/factory data does not remove your internal storage it only removes the apps and settings not ur actual data ie pictures or songa etc..
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Thank you my lebo Brother ahlann shuu haha.. ok I think I worked it all out thanks to all your comments...I am going to try to flash something and then flash back again
No problem mate and if you need anything teb2a pm me directly I'll be glad to assist.
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apollo35 said:
Titanium does it all.
I change every week my Rom and Titanium works perfect. everything restored successfully
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Titanium backups apps not roms .. so if you flash an aosp/aokp rom and try to restore sammy system apps lots can go wrong.. cwm restores the rom as a whole including your kernel csc modem etc .. which fairs far better if you want to try custom roms and wants a stable build to come back to.
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The file manager for TWRP isn't reading my files. I moved all my roms to a different folder and deleted the old one they were in. However TWRP isn't recognizing any changes that have been made to any files or folders and it still shows the old folder but it is empty. How do I make it refresh or recognize any of the new files and folders in my phone? I have used the file manager i got when rooting my phone and es file explorer and the both are reading everything correctly. So how do I make TWRP start working correctly as well?
Where did you move the files from and to?
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Still on my sd card. Where they were before. I just cant figure out why ny recovery looks just like it did before I moved anything. I can't find any of the roms I have downloaded
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EvolutionXJ said:
Still on my sd card. Where they were before. I just cant figure out why ny recovery looks just like it did before I moved anything. I can't find any of the roms I have downloaded
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Roms are In the downloads, move them to the 0 folder and they will show up.. Use root explorer to move them when booted and flash them from the twrp
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Well yea I had moved them from downloads to a folder where I had been putting all my roms and stuff. But even if I put them back in downloads twrp won't pick them up.
Alright so it isn't like updating anything. By that I mean it is showing stuff I deleted from my phone and isn't showing anything new I install
Edit: just read the 0 folder thing you said. Problem solved! Thanks a lot
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Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I should only be using 5.5gbs rather than 11.
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Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I should only be using 5.5gbs rather than 11.
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Did you just come from a 4.1.2 rom? If so use grab a file manager from the market and look under /data/media/.
If you switched to a 4.2 and up rom, you will see /data/media/0(this is your NEW home directory and all your data is hiding in /data/media/.
Simply move everything to /0 and your space will be correct again.
I did a full wipe into 4.3. Will your solution rectify the issue still?
Edit: I deleted the folder because i had no need for anything there. Do i have to Do this everytime i install a 4.2+ rom?
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jesusishere said:
I did a full wipe into 4.3. Will your solution rectify the issue still?
Edit: I deleted the folder because i had no need for anything there. Do i have to Do this everytime i install a 4.2+ rom?
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Only if you go back to a 4.1 rom, its a google thing I am not versed enough in, but hopefully it helped you out. You can do some reading up if you so choose. Because 4.2 introduced users, they had to make a change to file structure to support it if I am not mistaken.
Did it fix the issue?
Edit: Which folder did you delete?
Yeah I've noticed it messed where I had to point rom toolbox for backups.
I deleted media folder in data. Rebooted. Reloaded some apps that were affected by it. It seemed to get rid of the files in my 0/Legacy/SD and one more folder, finally freeing up my phone. Thanks for the help!
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Yeah I've noticed it messed where I had to point rom toolbox for backups.
I deleted media folder in data. Rebooted. Reloaded some apps that were affected by it. It seemed to get rid of the files in my 0/Legacy/SD and one more folder, finally freeing up my phone. Thanks for the help!
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Hello Sir I'm in the same situation. So all I need to do to get straight is go to data media and delete the media file. Then reboot and I'll be straight.
I'm aware all my pictures and stuff will be gone but that's OK. Will I still have my recovery. If so it would probably be wise to make a nandroid now. Correct. Thank you for any help.
Where are the CWM Recovery backups stored? I think I've looked everywhere but can't find them. They restore ok from the recovery view but can't find them in any file explorer. Most of them I have on internal sdcard but the clockworkmod folder is empty
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Where are the CWM Recovery backups stored? I think I've looked everywhere but can't find them. They restore ok from the recovery view but can't find them in any file explorer. Most of them I have on internal sdcard but the clockworkmod folder is empty
EDIT: autocorrect mistake in thread title
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ckeck in / mnt / shell / emulated / ClockworkMod / backup
The path you're looking for is /data/media/ClockworkMod/backup I believe, haven't seen the other but of course it could also be right.
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The path you're looking for is /data/media/ClockworkMod/backup I believe, haven't seen the other but of course it could also be right.
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Tat is the old format which is in 4.1.2
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Tat is the old format which is in 4.1.2
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I'm almost positive that's where I found mine a couple weeks ago, and I'm running 4.4...[EDIT: both paths take you to the same thing, just checked] It shouldn't matter what version, as per below.
An explanation as to why it's not where you think it is.
After 4.1 (correct version?) introduced multi user, internal storage is separated into numbered folders for each user, starting with 0 - the first user (ie usually only user on phones). Since CWM uses the root of the SD card instead of following this new format, most apps cannot find the backup since they access the 0 folder of int storage.
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4.1 didnt introduce multi user. It is 4.3. Also. I tried the directory u said. Nth. Its wat the first directory was given is correct.
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It depends on if you backed it up to sdcard or sdcard1
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It depends on if you backed it up to sdcard or sdcard1
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There is only sdcard and extsdcard.
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Depends on your settings - bit you'll find them in the "Clockword" folder - extsd or internal depends on what you chose St time of backup
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Both mnt/shell and data folders are empty. This is wierd because I've checked so many paths and still can't find it... Am I doing something wrong?
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I'm dumb didn't turn on root explorer. The first directory is correct. Thank you all for help.