I'm rooted, cwm recovery from the all in one tool, tying to do a nandroid. When I go into Rom manager it says no recovery available, told it to use existing recovery, it makes its backups up a secure location it says...don't remember the file path...but when I try to restore it gives me md5 mismatch (should note still on just stock rooted) backups through cwm work but the second I open file manager it moves the directory from extsd back to the secure one and no longer works. I took the sd card from my s3 which was rooted and just put it in the s4 without formatting it so I still have my old nandroids on the card from that and I don't know if that's what's causing the problem or if Rom manager just doesn't work for this phone yet...anyone else come across this? I think the multiple cwm directories might be messing with it but what to be sure before I format the card n reload everything I want in it being Rom manager doesn't seem to have this phone in its database yet
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Romance manager has never worked completely on most devices. Even people in the S3 threads will tell you not to use it. Do everything from the recovery menus
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I always used it on my s3 n never had any problems, only reason I even use it is to rename the backups cuz I end up with so many diff rooms and can't remember which one is which...guess I'm better off just doing it in root explorer to rename n know they're going to work...I can't even find the directory that Rom manager is trying to save them to, doesn't seem to exist anywhere but in the app itself
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I use goomanager and the backup goes to my ext sdcard,twrp,backups,10cc6657,i like goomanager because lets you choose where do you want the backup in the sdcard0 or ext sdcard.
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If you put spaces in the name of your backup file in ROM Manager you will get a Md5sum error when restoring your backup.
To fix, boot back into your current ROM and using Root Explorer or an equivalent file manager, remove the spaces and try again under recovery. Should work now, unless you truly have a corrupted file....
Also I do not recommend Rom Manager on the SGS2. A lot of people complain about bad backups and problems with flashing or restoring!
There have been problems with some roms and Rom Manager because the CWM recovery that Rom Monager "flashes" is not a real recovery. It is only an update.zip file placed on the internal SD card of the phone. The real CWM is the one that is combined with your kernal.
However, for those flashing CM7 nightlies, it is still a useful tool as it makes downloading and flashing new updates almost a one click and fool proof exercise. Importantly, Rom Manager makes sure that the files (including restoring your backups) are not corrupted or incomplete through the MD5sum check. Not sure if real CWM kernals do the same so I like to use Rom Manager to make sure nothing goes wrong.
For those having difficulty booting into proper recovery from Rom Manager, there is a free app called Quick Reboot which works well.
ROM Manager asks to install a different version of CWM than team epic provides here forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28113755
Anyone know what the difference is? The only reason I prefer to use ROM Manager is that its easy to name backup files so I can keep them organized when I go between different roms.
Speaking of ROM Manager, anyone having success using it on their GS3 for backups and such?
Restola said:
ROM Manager asks to install a different version of CWM than team epic provides here forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28113755
Anyone know what the difference is? The only reason I prefer to use ROM Manager is that its easy to name backup files so I can keep them organized when I go between different roms.
Speaking of ROM Manager, anyone having success using it on their GS3 for backups and such?
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I had team epics Cwm & it was working fine & writing backups to my external storage as well as allowing me to install zips etc from external storage. I flashed the cwm from rom Manager & it says it can't find my external sd card, so I'm going back to team epics version myself. Some have said that Rom managers version worked for them, but a lot of ppl I've talked to said it hasn't. If you've got a working version, I'd stick with it for now. I hope I've helped you out some...
I just gave it another try.
My update: The CWM flashed from ROM manager seems to work fine on its own (identically to the team epic version, including ext sd backups), but the ROM manager app doesn't seem to function well. It wont initiate a backup from the app UI without an error message in CWM, and the app ui can't see backups on the external SD card.
So the CWM version is fine, but the ROM manager app is still non-working.
(this is on sprint gs3)
This might have been answered somwhere in this forum, but I was unable to find it. Rooted my phone yesterday and installed CWM. all is well except when I went to do a backup, I was not given an option of the back up location, it only backed up to the internal SD, not my external. Is there some setting I have to do or what. Any help would be appreciated
My phone is on AT&T SGH-I747
in CWM when you pick ..back up and restore...you should get 6 options. The first one Backup...backs my stuff up to my external...
You can move the BU file with an app like Root Explorer. Not what you were asking, I guess. Just suggesting.
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in CWM when you pick ..back up and restore...you should get 6 options. The first one Backup...backs my stuff up to my external...
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I only get 4 options. Updated to latest CWM via ROM manager. Still same issue. In addition, I can not install any ZIPs from external as CWM does not see it.
Also, all the backups have a date of January 1970
I recently decided to try MROM (I currently have CM7) so I backed up my current ROM and installed MROM. When I tried to check if I could restore my previous ROM, ROM Manager did not list my latest backups, but instead, listed some really old backups. I checked the clockworkmod folder to see if the latest backups were there and they were. Now, for some reason, ROM Manager was looking in the emmc folder, and not the sdcard (where the latest backups were) and I don't know if there's a way to change where it looks for the backups. I changed the settings to use an external sdcard (I don't know if that would help but I tried) and it didn't help. I then booted into recovery and tried the restore option there and I was able to see my latest backups.
I'm not sure why ROM Manager was unable to see them but booting in recovery worked fine. I want to try MROM (and I know I can restore from the recovery console if I really have to) but I just want to understand why this was happening and if there was another way to restore my backups (ROM Manager saves backups in ext3.tar format and I don't know how to use that with adb).
Don't bother with rom manager. I always get rid of it on every cm rom I try. Its pointless. Your recovery works and its a better option IMO.
Thanks! I would still like to know what's going wrong though, if possible, and also if there's a way to restore a backup saved in ext3.tar format using adb.
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Thanks! I would still like to know what's going wrong though, if possible
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Hard to tell. You may never find out. ROM Manager can indeed be weird like that, and is in my opinion unreliable.
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and also if there's a way to restore a backup saved in ext3.tar format using adb.
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The backup is a regular TAR archive (as the name suggests). Most recoveries contain the tar tool which you can use to restore the backup.
Hello, I have AT&T HTC One rooted bulletproof kernel lastest baseband I think it's .24 and the thether hack and TWRP.
I flash CM 10.1 then I want to go back to my recently done backup and it wasn't there, none of my backups but the data ware on my phone. I don't know why TWRP don't see it. I downloaded some apps to try to restore until it suddenly appeared. I restore it but some applications don't have the data. Just like if it was recently downloaded from the playstore. Even the backups from titanium. It's there but I can't do anything with it because titanium don't see it. Can any one tell me what's happening???
I look on the files on my sd card I notice that for some reason maybe I did something wrong but all my new data its being save on a file call sdcard0 and it's not on my main directory. I have to go to data/sdcard0 and there are my new information. I don't understand why that is happening it should be sdcard no sdcard0.
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