[Q] Cannot restore stock backup - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello!
I have recently unlocked and rooted my international Atrix it in order to try some other custom ROM's.As advised, i did make a backup of the original ROM (with Romracer’s Recovery 5.0.2.7-atrix5) before installing a new one(the backup files resulted are using this file extension ext3.tar).
After a while i decided to go back on 2.3.4 GB because of the better battery life.I encountered an error while restoring the system "Not enough space on device"(by using advanced restore i could restore data,cache and other partitions except system).
After searching on the internet about this problem, i realized that i couldn't restore the backup because my system partition has 320 MB of space while the system backup archive has 310 MB.It looks like the system need a bit more space in order do be able to extract/install and do it's thing.
My question is: 1) Do you guys know any method that i can use in order to restore that system partition?
1a) Is it possible to somehow alter the backup to make it smaller?
1b) Is making the system partition bigger an solution(i heard you can brick your phone by doing this)?
2) And last, if there is no way of restoring my backup, does anyone know where i could find an International 2.3.4 GB Fruitcake?I searched the whole forum but i couldn't find any working links.

Tracu said:
Hello!
I have recently unlocked and rooted my international Atrix it in order to try some other custom ROM's.As advised, i did make a backup of the original ROM (with Romracer’s Recovery 5.0.2.7-atrix5) before installing a new one(the backup files resulted are using this file extension ext3.tar).
After a while i decided to go back on 2.3.4 GB because of the better battery life.I encountered an error while restoring the system "Not enough space on device"(by using advanced restore i could restore data,cache and other partitions except system).
After searching on the internet about this problem, i realized that i couldn't restore the backup because my system partition has 320 MB of space while the system backup archive has 310 MB.It looks like the system need a bit more space in order do be able to extract/install and do it's thing.
My question is: 1) Do you guys know any method that i can use in order to restore that system partition?
1a) Is it possible to somehow alter the backup to make it smaller?
1b) Is making the system partition bigger an solution(i heard you can brick your phone by doing this)?
2) And last, if there is no way of restoring my backup, does anyone know where i could find an International 2.3.4 GB Fruitcake?I searched the whole forum but i couldn't find any working links.
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did you try wiping system, then restoring? did you try searching for das8nt's webpage via yahoo/google/etc?
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palmbeach05 said:
did you try wiping system, then restoring? did you try searching for das8nt's webpage via yahoo/google/etc?
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Wiping system does not solve the issue and yes, i did search on the das8nt website.

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[Q] HowTo : flash roms ?

sorry in advance if this is the wrong place for this....
i can't find out what i need to by doing forum searches and maybe this could help someone else too..
...and feel free to redirect me to another thread for some specifics.
any way i have my phone rooted and running kaos froyo v24
what do i need to do to best try other roms, or just update to v30?
how do i flash ? - and how do i know when to do a full wipe? - and what does that entail(should i do a backup , and does the back up need to be on my computer,not my phone?)
could flashing other roms make my current one unstable?
and lastly .....will i lose all my apps and contacts and stuff with each flash or full wipe?
any clarification on these matters would be awesome.
and thanks so much everyone..... you have given me a better phone
brendan
This would be better placed in Q&A, but I will be happy to help you. All you need to do to flash another rom is what you did for the first one. To move up from one version of a rom to another, you don't need to wipe unless the instructions specify you to do so. But when in doubt, wipe. That is if you dont mind losing all of your saved data. But when going to a new rom, then wiping is a must. Yes, you will lose all apps and contacts for each wipe. No, your phone will not be unstable because of the flash, though if the rom has bugs then it could be. Hope this helps
I suggest installing titanium backup from the market. It allows you to save your current apps and data to be reinstalled on your new rom.
Before flashing a new rom, create a nandroid of your current rom by holding vol up + power. Scroll to backup/restore and create the nand. If for any reason you dont like the new rom, you can wipe data, dalvik, and ext (if your sd card is partitioned) and restore the nand. Your phone will be exactly like before.
To flash a new rom, save the file to the root of your sd card (not in any folder), do a wipe if your going to a new rom or if you have problems updating the old one, and flash the file you downloaded. If your updating the same rom the developer will tell you if you need to wipe or not.
FYI- Nands are saved on your sd card in the nandroid folder. You dont need to mess with them. When you restore, amon ra will look in that folder for you. Don't rename your recoveries like I did and render them useless.
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And your contacts should be resynced when you flash a new rom as long as you're using Gmail and allowing it to backup.
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awesome !!!
thanks so much guys!

System Recovery Problem

Recently I have been having this problem. I go into system recovery and make a nandroid backup. then tell recovery to reboot phone. when the phone loads. I check the backup directory and there is no new backup. I do however get a rather large file in my lost.dir (I am thinking this is my backup?) I am using the system recovery that comes loaded with eclipse v0.6.1 and have it installed and set to recovery. also using the supplied charger from VZW.
So when you go into nandroid restore there is no backups there?
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right. I load BSR make a Nandroid backup, reboot the phone and it is not there. I do however have a large file in my lost.dir folder. This does not happen every time, but recently started happening, seems to happen more than not. I have been able to get a backup but it took 2 or 3 attemps for it to "stick"
Had a similar problem recently. I did a nandroid backup, but got some weird message about it not being able to backup sd-ext (which was my target). When I checked, there was no backup created, but in addition my entire Titanium Backup directory wound up in LOST.DIR. Dunno what happened, could be related to some other TB problems I'd had recently, but it was annoying as hell.
Deleted the contents of LOST.DIR, recreated Titanium Backup, and tried to do a nandroid backup again. Still got that weird "could not backup sd-ext" message, but it seemed to take this time. Might have been an error on the SD card?
I have ALWAYS gotten the line about not able to backup sd-ext no partition found.
I don't need to backup my external card anyway. It never gets deleted unless I specific format the card.
I have never had a problem when making my nandroid. I ALWAYS backup to external and it shows up in a folder named clockworkmod>backup>then date and time backup was created.
Are u trying to backup to internal or external? I have noticed that even tho sd flip is installed with eclipse that system recovery does not see this flip so if u backup to external and look for it in root explore it will be in the sd card folder(which is really ur external due to sd flip) sorry if that's confusing how I wrote it.
iCurmudgeon said:
Had a similar problem recently. I did a nandroid backup, but got some weird message about it not being able to backup sd-ext (which was my target). When I checked, there was no backup created, but in addition my entire Titanium Backup directory wound up in LOST.DIR. Dunno what happened, could be related to some other TB problems I'd had recently, but it was annoying as hell.
Deleted the contents of LOST.DIR, recreated Titanium Backup, and tried to do a nandroid backup again. Still got that weird "could not backup sd-ext" message, but it seemed to take this time. Might have been an error on the SD card?
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I believe the message you're getting is normal. I've seen that message with every nandroid backup that I've created. Not sure if it is related to the problem, maybe? Thank you for the reply.
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This is a very strange problem indeed.
I have created and restored backups consistently over the past few days due to all the activity here with roms but I haven't had the issue of it not "sticking" when making the backup.
I wonder if a reinstall of system recovery could help with this
Um could you possibly reflash your device? This might be a bug buried deep inside the rom, if you use ti backup it restores your data almost 100 percent.
Make sure to clean data, cache, and dalvik cache.
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First id like to point out some roms delete worthless directories. If it keeps being put into a lost.dir maybe it actually was a needed directory that was deleted. In which case you can just make the dir "clockworkmod>backup>" maybe that's all it needs. Im not 100% sure
I have read a few posts across forums saying to ignore that error of not being able to backup sd-ext ... although I've also never had an issue with using the backups I've created.
However I hit install system recovery and it does. I go into recovery mode and it does. The strange part is every rom I install takes out my recovery. On my DROIDX I never had this problem. And it makes having a backup a little worthless because if the phone boot loops I only have the option of rsdlite then reinstalling recovery and then using the backup. Yes that keeps it worth it but it loses the usefulness. Does anyone know how to make it permanent? Or at least survive a data wipe... my last rom was ATRIX which did a data wipe without asking in past roms I do a cache wipe and leave data on to make sure it is usable. Then I wipe data and reinstall recovery...
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I think that rom makers might be able to male it permanent by having isbn debugging already on and have the hijack charge only mode script system recovery uses already installed. I don't know if that is possible tho.
ashclepdia said:
I wonder if a reinstall of system recovery could help with this
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First thing I tried, but still had two out of three backups disappear.
m125 said:
Um could you possibly reflash your device? This might be a bug buried deep inside the rom, if you use ti backup it restores your data almost 100 percent.
Make sure to clean data, cache, and dalvik cache.
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Happen to me on both the eclipse v0.6 remix5 and the eclipse v0.6.1, all wiped every time, (not saying it has anything to do with the rom, love eclipse, would have hated this phone if not for him)
SubVirus said:
First id like to point out some roms delete worthless directories. If it keeps being put into a lost.dir maybe it actually was a needed directory that was deleted. In which case you can just make the dir "clockworkmod>backup>" maybe that's all it needs. Im not 100% sure...
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My directory is there. my previous nandroids are there, the new ones just don't always seem to be saved there? somehow getting corrupted?
SubVirus said:
However I hit install system recovery and it does. I go into recovery mode and it does. The strange part is every rom I install takes out my recovery. On my DROIDX I never had this problem. And it makes having a backup a little worthless because if the phone boot loops I only have the option of rsdlite then reinstalling recovery and then using the backup. Yes that keeps it worth it but it loses the usefulness. Does anyone know how to make it permanent? Or at least survive a data wipe... my last rom was ATRIX which did a data wipe without asking in past roms I do a cache wipe and leave data on to make sure it is usable. Then I wipe data and reinstall recovery...
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After flashing a new rom, I have always had to go back into system recovery and set superuser privileges and "install" again.

Flashing stock ROM and the going back to Cyanogen

Hello, I always find the people on this corner of xda very helpful. As usual, I think I know what I'm doing, but I'd like to check that I am proceeding in the right direction.
I've been using Mik's Cyanogen ROMs on my Optimus One. That's going well. But I need to SIM unlock my phone and I need to go back to a stock ROM to input the codes (please let me know if this is incorrect).
Before installing Mik's ROM, I performed a Nand backup. I have boot, cache, data, recovery and system img files. I think I can flash these through recovery and I should be back to stock.
Do I lose my apps and settings by doing this? Do I need to clear any caches?
What about returning to Cyanogen after I unlock my phone... Do I have to root my phone again or will I still be able to flash using recovery?
Using Clockwork, I just backed up my current ROM. I assume I will be able to restore from this later.
Is there anything else I should be aware of?
Thanks for answering my questions / clearing up my confusion.
Hello, I always find the people on this corner of xda very helpful. As usual, I think I know what I'm doing, but I'd like to check that I am proceeding in the right direction.
I've been using Mik's Cyanogen ROMs on my Optimus One. That's going well. But I need to SIM unlock my phone and I need to go back to a stock ROM to input the codes (please let me know if this is incorrect).
this is correct
Before installing Mik's ROM, I performed a Nand backup. I have boot, cache, data, recovery and system img files. I think I can flash these through recovery and I should be back to stock.
Do I lose my apps and settings by doing this? Do I need to clear any caches?
to revert back to stock, you must wipe data/factory reset, cache, and dalvik cache. you will lose your settings. as for your apps, you can back them up with titanium backup and restore them after you have restored your backup.
What about returning to Cyanogen after I unlock my phone... Do I have to root my phone again or will I still be able to flash using recovery?
when you restore your backup of the stock rom, you will still have root. i dont think unlocking your phone will cause you to lose root. your root access and custom recovery will still be intact
Using Clockwork, I just backed up my current ROM. I assume I will be able to restore from this later.
yes this is true
Is there anything else I should be aware of?
just to be on the safe side, please list the steps you are going to follow
Thanks for answering my questions / clearing up my confusion.
Thanks for the quick answer...
I on my sd card, I have a /clockwork directory with two subdirs. One is my original backup that I made before first installing Cyanogen. The other is the one I just made. Both contain boot, cache, data, recovery and system img files. The difference is that with my new backup the image files have an extra yaffs2 suffix: cache.img (stock) but cache.yaffs2.img (Cyanogen). Any problem here?
1. boot into recovery
2. restore stock from my sdcard using nandroid and wipe caches as you indicated
3. reboot, enter unlock code
4. reboot into recovery
5. restore current ROM from my sdcard using nandroid and again wipe the same caches
6. reinstall / restore apps (I'm not using Titanium, instead I backed up the list of installed apps)
Will I need to find and reinstall the GoogleApps (Market, etc) or will they come with the backup of my current ROM?
Pretty simple really. This make sense?
Thanks for the quick answer...
I on my sd card, I have a /clockwork directory with two subdirs. One is my original backup that I made before first installing Cyanogen. The other is the one I just made. Both contain boot, cache, data, recovery and system img files. The difference is that with my new backup the image files have an extra yaffs2 suffix: cache.img (stock) but cache.yaffs2.img (Cyanogen). Any problem here?
there might be a problem. what clockworkmod version did you use to make the backup of the stock rom? if i remember correctly, using cwm 3.x.x.x backs up a certain way (and also does not have the yaffs2 suffix) and using cwm 5.x.x.x backs up a different way (with the yaffs2 suffix) so backups may not be "inter"compatible (more info on that here). however, you can just flash back cwm 3.x.x.x right now (you can do it using rom manager), restore your stock rom backup, do the following steps, flash back cwm 5.x.x.x, then restore your backup
1. boot into recovery
2. restore stock from my sdcard using nandroid and wipe caches as you indicated (i recommend wipe first then restore)
3. reboot, enter unlock code
4. reboot into recovery
5. restore current ROM from my sdcard using nandroid and again wipe the same caches
(same here again, wipe first then restore)
6. reinstall / restore apps (I'm not using Titanium, instead I backed up the list of installed apps)
Will I need to find and reinstall the GoogleApps (Market, etc) or will they come with the backup of my current ROM?
i think you will have to flash gapps again
Pretty simple really. This make sense?
looks good (how sure am i? id say 80-90%. it definitely makes sense, but i have never done this before)
Good good. It's getting late so I'll tackle this tomorrow. Thanks for the detailed help... I'm glad I asked before going at it.
sweetnsour said:
looks good (how sure am i? id say 80-90%. it definitely makes sense, but i have never done this before)
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I followed your instructions (I downgraded Clockwork before starting) and the 10-20% chance of you being wrong came true... but in a good way
Restoring from the backup brings everything back: apps, settings, contacts, SMSs etc. So it was actually even easier than you suggested since I didn't have to use my backups at all.
Thanks again for the tips!
bosth said:
I followed your instructions (I downgraded Clockwork before starting) and the 10-20% chance of you being wrong came true... but in a good way
Restoring from the backup brings everything back: apps, settings, contacts, SMSs etc. So it was actually even easier than you suggested since I didn't have to use my backups at all.
Thanks again for the tips!
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glad it worked out for you i am assuming your phone is now unlocked right?
sweetnsour said:
glad it worked out for you i am assuming your phone is now unlocked right?
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Yes... when I was back in stock I could access the unlock menu by entering 2945*#500# on my keypad. The SIM unlock code that I have worked fine. I haven't actually tested with another SIM card but the phone claimed to have been unlocked, so I should be good to go.

[Q] Question Regarding CWM?

Hey.
My Galaxy S2 is acting up again with bootloop, and I can't access what's on the device. I can get into CWM and I've successfully backed up my current ROM. Now my question is: does CWM back up everything? Like app data and everything? I've got an app that has tons of notes on it that I really need and I'll be distraught if they're gone as it'll take me a good 12 hours of work to get them all back. So if I flash back to stock, then flash the backup will it be exactly like it was left with the notes intact? Thanks for any replies. They're much appreciated.
Thought it was backed up. Apparently not. It's saying something about not finding SD-ext and then something about MD5sum or something? Any help please?
Skellyyy said:
Thought it was backed up. Apparently not. It's saying something about not finding SD-ext and then something about MD5sum or something? Any help please?
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CWM backups everything. literally everything. Try going into Restore from Internal SD card instead of external SD card. It might show up there. No need to reflash anything, just restore the backup and everything should be back to normal. Only the data you backed up will come back btw.
Even after flashing a new rom you can still restore the data.There is an app called nandroid browser which will allow you to browse cwm backup files just like normal files, you can use that app to restore specific data of any app you want.
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Thanks a lot guys. Getting worried about this though, CWM doesn't seem to want to backup for me. It keeps failing on all-sorts of things, just a moment ago I tried and said
"Error while backing up boot image!SD Card Space free: 13200MB"
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But just before that it says:
SD Card Space Free: 0MB
There may not be enough space to complete backup... continuing...
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I can't quite understand it though. Why is it even saying no sd-ext? I've got a 16GB SD card for music and videos inside the phone.
After that it let me attempt the backup and once complete (sort of) it says:
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum.,,
Error while generating md5 sum!
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Is there anything I can do?
Not expert enough but for note app, use programs like 'Evernote' which store all of your notes in the cloud. You can get'em back anytime you want.
pHraiL^ said:
Not expert enough but for note app, use programs like 'Evernote' which store all of your notes in the cloud. You can get'em back anytime you want.
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Not very useful now is it?
I've got them up-to date to about 2 weeks ago via dropbox but there's still a lot I need from then-on.
Skellyyy said:
Thought it was backed up. Apparently not. It's saying something about not finding SD-ext and then something about MD5sum or something? Any help please?
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if you did back up of the ROM from CWM to resolve you bootloop issue then it is wrong...you have first resolve bootloop issue and make back up..
1) the ext-sd which you are talking about is not your external SD card...it is an additional partittion which is made for system data on your external SD. when a rom is backed up from CWM this partition also is backed up. if you are not made such partition on your external SD, the process simply skip saying no ext-sd available, this is not an error, it is not really meant that you have no External SD, this action is the second last one before creating the MD5 during back up process.
2) after the completion of the backing up of all the data it automaticaly create a MD5 checksum file of your back-up files. this is the final action during the backing up. if you get an error while creating MD5 cheksum file your back will be there in your SD card, but you cant use that for restoring from CWM. since MD5 is not created properly, it will show the error MD5 checksum mismatching or something like that.
just flash any other kernel like latest siyah kernel and try CWM back-up is working properly till the end.
Try wiping Cache and Dalvik cache for getting rid of the bootlloop.
if you are not at all able to solve boot loop isntall a new rom, you can install your applications from CWM backup using some applications, like Titaniim back up if you have donated. no matter it is not created the MD5 properly.
zaheedahmed said:
if you did back up of the ROM from CWM to resolve you bootloop issue then it is wrong...you have first resolve bootloop issue and make back up..
1) the ext-sd which you are talking about is not your external SD card...it is an additional partittion which is made for system data on your external SD. when a rom is backed up from CWM this partition also is backed up. if you are not made such partition on your external SD, the process simply skip saying no ext-sd available, this is not an error, it is not really meant that you have no External SD, this action is the second last one before creating the MD5 during back up process.
2) after the completion of the backing up of all the data it automaticaly create a MD5 checksum file of your back-up files. this is the final action during the backing up. if you get an error while creating MD5 cheksum file your back will be there in your SD card, but you cant use that for restoring from CWM. since MD5 is not created properly, it will show the error MD5 checksum mismatching or something like that.
just flash any other kernel like latest siyah kernel and try CWM back-up is working properly till the end.
Try wiping Cache and Dalvik cache for getting rid of the bootlloop.
if you are not at all able to solve boot loop isntall a new rom, you can install your applications from CWM backup using some applications, like Titaniim back up if you have donated. no matter it is not created the MD5 properly.
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Thanks for that. But won't installing a new ROM erase app data? Which is the whole point of the thread really, I can't extract the data which is needed.
Trying to charge it here, and the phone is getting ridiculously hot, so much so that I can't actually hold it for more then a few seconds. Do you think this could all just be a battery issue? I had one previously like this, bootlooping also, but previously without a power source, the phone would not turn on at all. This time it will. I'm just very confused.
Skellyyy said:
Thanks for that. But won't installing a new ROM erase app data? Which is the whole point of the thread really, I can't extract the data which is needed.
Trying to charge it here, and the phone is getting ridiculously hot, so much so that I can't actually hold it for more then a few seconds. Do you think this could all just be a battery issue? I had one previously like this, bootlooping also, but previously without a power source, the phone would not turn on at all. This time it will. I'm just very confused.
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Installing a new rom doesn't erase data app since all your data is in /data. It will only erase data if you wipe data/factory reset. I suggest you wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, format /system and flash your rom and flash gapps (if gapps not included in rom). This way, your internal apps data is always safe
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Skellyyy said:
Thanks for that. But won't installing a new ROM erase app data? Which is the whole point of the thread really, I can't extract the data which is needed.
Trying to charge it here, and the phone is getting ridiculously hot, so much so that I can't actually hold it for more then a few seconds. Do you think this could all just be a battery issue? I had one previously like this, bootlooping also, but previously without a power source, the phone would not turn on at all. This time it will. I'm just very confused.
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Yes it will erase your apps and data...if you are flashing a wipe ROM, but if you have a non wipe rom of your current ROM flashing of that wont erase...
you have made a back up which the process reached till MD5 check sum....that means that back should be there in your SD card from which you can restore your applications..
you go to recovery again and go to mout and storage and mout USB storage after connecting to the PC...check are you able to access the SD card and check clockworkmode folder and the backup file....if it is there then copy paste to PC.
if you are able to access SD Card then you can download another kernel or rom and paste on the SD card for flashing from CWM.
before flashing another ROM you can try changing your Kernel,
on which firmware are you currently?
Hey guys - I'm back. I've had to use my girlfriends old Samsung Genio for a few days. Worst days of my life to say the least.
I need my SII back. A few days ago it wouldn't charge at all (hence not being able to get to CWM). But it seems to be doing just fine now. Although I've still got the same boot-loop. I've mounted the SD card, and found the backups - they contain these files:
boot.img
data.ext4.tar
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar
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Are these all the necessary files to restore? I'm very wary.
Also, if I do flash a different ROM, how will that have the data from my previous ROM if the new ROM doesn't have the apps?
If I do end up restoring, will that restore everything? I mean settings, SMS, app preferences, widgets, app data (Twitter drafts especially) and stuff like that?
Just want to be safe before I go and ruin things.
Btw could all this be due to the lack of free space on the phone? Seems like there is no space whatsoever. Finder is claiming there is 'Zero bytes' available. Surely that can't be good.
Bump. I really don't know what I should be doing.
Skellyyy said:
Hey guys - I'm back. I've had to use my girlfriends old Samsung Genio for a few days. Worst days of my life to say the least.
I need my SII back. A few days ago it wouldn't charge at all (hence not being able to get to CWM). But it seems to be doing just fine now. Although I've still got the same boot-loop. I've mounted the SD card, and found the backups - they contain these files:
Are these all the necessary files to restore? I'm very wary.
Also, if I do flash a different ROM, how will that have the data from my previous ROM if the new ROM doesn't have the apps?
If I do end up restoring, will that restore everything? I mean settings, SMS, app preferences, widgets, app data (Twitter drafts especially) and stuff like that?
Just want to be safe before I go and ruin things.
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A full cwm backup contains of:
- .android_secure.vfat.tar
- boot.img
- cache.ext4.tar
- data.ext4.tar
- nandroid.md5
- system.ext4.tar
If you do a full cwm backup, all youre data (Apps, Contacts, Sms, Settings and so on) will be safed
After restoring a cwm backup you will get exactly that system, which you had before flashing, bricking or whatever.
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Dr.MacHack said:
A full cwm backup contains of:
- .android_secure.vfat.tar
- boot.img
- cache.ext4.tar
- data.ext4.tar
- nandroid.md5
- system.ext4.tar
If you do a full cwm backup, all youre data (Apps, Contacts, Sms, Settings and so on) will be safed
After restoring a cwm backup you will get exactly that system, which you had before flashing, bricking or whatever.
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Thanks for that! But do you know if I'd be able to fully restore even if I don't have all of the files? It seems that there is two missing from the CWM folder for me.
Skellyyy said:
Thanks for that! But do you know if I'd be able to fully restore even if I don't have all of the files? It seems that there is two missing from the CWM folder for me.
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Yes I think it should work for you
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Can't restore to my stock backup

Hello guys,
When i try restore backup in CWM it says error while restoring system files.
My backup's system folder has a lot apps and its more than 400 mb.
phone's System folder has space like 290 mb or less i dont remember it now.
Question is how can i increase size of my system folder?
I know the what problem is but i dont know its solution.
Any ideas ??
And i have another question, my webtop was corrupted on my stock. Where can i find stock rom for atrix bell 2.3.6
check this posts for the pictures and log of ROM Manager please.
eyups said:
And check this pictures please , there is info about storages that taken by "adb shell df"
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eyups said:
here is my log file of Rom Manager . Please check it . BTW I was wrong system folder of backup's is 304 MB , BTW it says write error: No space left on device on the log file
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How exactly did you manage to make a 400+ MB backup of /system if /system is nowhere nearly as large?!
Are you sure you're looking at the right part of the backup?
BTW, the /system partition on the Atrix is about 320 MB in size. There are probably some certain (at least theoretical) ways to change the partition layout, but I haven't actually heard of any.
here is my log file of Rom Manager . Please check it . BTW I was wrong system folder of backup's is 304 MB , BTW it says write error: No space left on device on the log file
And check this pictures please , there is info about storages that taken by "adb shell df"
You seem to be right, the backup is a little too big to fit on the /system partition. No idea how this could've happened, the data must've fit on it at least once before, that's how you made the backup I assume...
Not sure what to recommend here tbh. What ROM was that? Some ROMs are known to be on the larger side and fill up /system almost completely.
it was stock ROM, i want to get back to stock.
I found somewhere this .sbf file https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3ys81GaPChcUnJjTlozWTM4NWM/edit?pli=1
Some guys says its Stock ROM , but im not sure to flash it , will i be able to use CWM after i flash this .sbf file ?
No, you will not. And you should stay away from SBFs and not google (or trust) random sources.
If you want to go back to stock, just flash a fruitcake. Go over to the Atrix Reboot Project to select one.
What will i do after i flash fruitcake it is an old version
http://www.das8nt.com/sbffiles.html
Use this site for fruitcakes and sbf files. If you're trying to get to a pure stock, flash fruitcake first, then use sbf. But as already stated, stay away from sbf's unless absolutely needed.
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i need pure stock or i just need good ROM that we can use HDMI mirroring , and Webtop in Turkish language , all of them are in English

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