[Q] TWRP Backup all of a sudden 23gb - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hello,
i've done a nandroid backup of my phone, copied it to my pc and did a factory reset and installed a new rom.
went all fine ..
the backup was like 4gb big, but now its like 23gb big and i dont know how the hell that happened ?!?
i can't copy it back to my phone .. what happened?
i mean, the logfile is 2gb big .. what the hell .. seems my backup is like gone.. ohman
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damn it seems i've lost my backup.
i even did a adb backup .. which is only 1gb. didnt know it wasnt a full backup allthough it was stated in that guide.
(i can't remember if i've used the full command line (adb backup -f FullBackup.ab -apk -all) or not. i hope i've copied/pasted it completly)
the data files of that twrp backup is still intact, the system files aren't. seems ive lost all that.
great.. and i dont know how it happened .. just copied it to my pc .. great
update1: i do have alot of important files like contacts, sms/mms, whatsapp, and all that. how do i migrate it from the old twrp backup "data" file to my phone?

kuraigu said:
copied it to my pc
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Is where it all went wrong, if it's that important then verify the md5 after copying.
Try titanium backup, which can extract data from nandroid -don't know about corrupt files though.

i've managed to restore some stuff from the .ab file ..
i can't get whatsapp to run again. it won't load the old db/pref files.
besides that, copying the db files f rom mms/sms and contacts crashes the phone.
anyone knows why?

ok, i've managed to get my contacts and mms and stuff back..
i can't get whatsapp running again. probably due to a different android_id ?? ..
i've got my old id back, the one i had for ages. but i dont know if whatsapp also registers the imei and mac stuff
to/with a phone.
my problem is that the cellphone number is gone. whatsapp did still work cuz it was registered to the phone.
i can't register it anymore to the old number. does anyone know a workaround or something, or does anyone
know what whatsapp is binded to?

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Change Titanium Backups to the Ext card

I saw this comment by another user in another thread this morning and guess that many people don't do this automatically.
jmichaels1982 said:
The update destroys your internal sd memory, this is where titanium likes to back up . Enjoy going through the pain of re-installing all your apps from scratch. ( for the love of god change where titanium backsup AND sync it to your drop box) Every thing in your download folder is also going to be vaporized.
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When I setup Titanium Backup, I always make sure that it is using the real external SDcard instead of the internal card it uses by default. I'm surprised the app doesn't ask when it is run the first time, but it doesn't.
It is easy to change, especially if you don't have any backups yet. Even if you do, it will move them to the new folder you setup in the process.
The mount point for the external SDCard can be one of two though I normally use the system default one which is
Code:
/mnt/sdcard/ext_sd
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I use BOX to sync 1 copy of my backups (I have 3 histories) rather than using my dropbox because I have a 50gb box account.
If you think about it, having TB store on the Internal card doesn't do you much good if the unit dies. At least by syncing it to the external card you can take it out of the phone, but if you lose the phone altogether, you lose all your backups if you don't make a habit of copying them to another source which if you do manually won't work because you will forget to do it.
I made the mistake of flashing the RUU and expecting titanium backup to restore all my old apps. When I loaded it I was pissed! I think this thread will help some people restore their apps.
Yeah I saw that comment as well. It always takes me longer to setup my phone up because of things like this. One of the first things I do after flashing!
I didn't realize people didn't know about that function.

Low Internal Memory? Says Evernote

Not sure whats up, running Shostock3 2.1, gym today Evernote kept giving errors but I can't see the full message, says something about "insufficient device...." but it's cut off and can't see what it says and clicking it just goes right to Evernote settings. Checked the phone and it says available space 69mb (however all the other items it just says calculating and never gives a numer), which doesn't make sense to me as I know before I had waaaay more and that was with having like 5 or 6 Rom zips on the internal, when I flashed 2.1 I deleted all those extra zips which were an easy couple hundred mb each, so where the heck did all that mem go? I haven't downloaded any new apps or anything, went through folders in ES File Explorer and don't see anything out of wack.
edit- now just tried opening gallery and says not enough space please delete unnecessary items. I don't have a lot of pics, and somehow before I would have much more pics and vids along with the 5 or 6 Rom zips and no memory issues ever.
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Have you cleared your clock work mod folder and deleted all your old blobs?
Phalanx7621 said:
Have you cleared your clock work mod folder and deleted all your old blobs?
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Hmm no never even thought of that, was also thinking of checking TiBu and clearing all backups done then starting a fresh backup.
surf1 said:
Hmm no never even thought of that, was also thinking of checking TiBu and clearing all backups done then starting a fresh backup.
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Maybe you should do a completely new backup as you indicated, then do a full wipe and re-install the rom. The only time I saw this message was when my old GS2 started having crazy issues; turns out the motherboard had started to fail. Right now, my three year old son has it, he just plays games and other junk on it and it still gives the same error. So do a full wipe and see what happens; sometimes it's better to start fresh and maybe if you can afford to, try installing the apps fresh from the play store instead of restoring them from TiBu. Just my two cents.

Cant take full backup from TWRP

Hi, I have mate 10 lite: RNE-L21C185B142 with Nougat
I have flashed various TWRP files to get a full backup, but all fail at data, check the following screenshot
createTarkFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
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I have used an external hard drive as the OTG storage when I tried backup, and also tried another time
with a 32 GB SD card but both show same error at same point. There is no addon.d in my system folder
and also I have tried with enabling/disabling compression when taking backup. And I did unchecked data partition
from Mount in TWRP.
When I go to reboot it shows another error at the end of above screenshot in red color:
E:Error making /data/app/me.twrp.twrpapp-1 directory: permission denied
I have attached both recovery logs. Please suggest what shall I do
It's because of encrypted data, you have to untick data
It also happened to me. It was the twin app's fault. I deactivated it and now it does not give me this error.
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It's because of encrypted data, you have to untick data
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Tried with it already, didnt work
ernia66 said:
It also happened to me. It was the twin app's fault. I deactivated it and now it does not give me this error.
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I dont have any twin app turned on (all apps showing in Twin App are off)
plz help guys
Answer already given... It's because of encrypted data...
For details you can look at this post...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75052881&postcount=340
Remember... Make always a backup of your important datas from internal storage to an external SD Card or to your PC
balthasar said:
Answer already given... It's because of encrypted data...
For details you can look at this post...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75052881&postcount=340
Remember... Make always a backup of your important datas from internal storage to an external SD Card or to your PC
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The link you posted, I went to full post and got good answers there, thanks bro

Lenovo A806 (Golden Warrior) NVRAM Error problem

Heya, first time posting and I got this weird NVRAM problem.
Before all, here's the info of my phone:
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(Also have installed TWRP MDS recovery 2.8.0.0)
So, some time ago I kinda ruined my NVRAM/IMEI (sorry, I'm really bad at this so please no hate if I don't call it correctly) while flashing my phone. But til now I was able to fix it by just taking the NVRAM folder back-up on my pc and replacing the one on my phone with it. That worked fine for a few times. But recently, I got another, kinda weird problem. I suddenly found myself not being able to use a few apps anymore as when I opened them, they froze after a few seconds and closed, without any "[APP] unfortunately stopped working.". First I tried figuring out why it might be after which apps it were which froze, but I couldn't find a clear pattern because apps like Steam or Chrome froze, while Firefox, Reddit and WhatsApp were just fine. Following I tried first removing my SD card to see if that would fix it, rebooting my phone, clearing the app cache, reinstalling them and nothing worked. So as a last resort, I factory reset my phone. After it rebooted, I had the NVRAM problem again, to no suprise and I did the same as always. Drag root explorer and the NVRAM folder on my device and replace the current NVRAM folder with the back-up. But after rebooting it, I kinda met something unused for me: The IMEI was there, but so was the NVRAM error in the Wi-Fi tab.
That pretty much confused me. The phone works perfectly fine, I can receive calls and messages, the provider is there.
So at first I didn't bother about it because the error only was showing in the Wi-Fi tab while everything seemed to be fine. But then trying to install and open the same apps as mentioned above, nothing has changed.
So, with me being a total noob in this and not being able to connect the lines I got 2 questions:
1. Are those 2 problems linked to each other?
I know that it is very unlikely, but hey, slowly getting desperate so I would believe anything.
2. Specifically, how can I fix the apps freezing?
The first problem didn't bother me too much, but I kinda need to use some of those apps like steam for the mobile authenticator so I really would be glad if I could fix this.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Device Backup advice

HI all, does anyone know of an app that works in the same way as the built in google backup works, except it saves to a local pc over wifi on a schedule?
The 15Gb cloud space is nowhere near enough for me but I have a server with plenty of space, so makes sense to use that.
I have seen a few apps that backup media, but I really want everything backed up (sms, app data, wifi passwords etc)
Is this even possible with a 3rd party app? My phone is a Honor View, The official huawei app (hicare) does most of them but needs the device to be plugged in via USB and I don't think it will let me restore to a non huaewi phone in the future.
Edit: forgot to mention, locked bootloader so not rootable
flamery said:
HI all, does anyone know of an app that works in the same way as the built in google backup works, except it saves to a local pc over wifi on a schedule?
Is this even possible with a 3rd party app? My phone is a Honor View, The official huawei app (hicare) does most of them but needs the device to be plugged in via USB and I don't think it will let me restore to a non huaewi phone in the future.
Edit: forgot to mention, locked bootloader so not rootable
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Yeah I'm afraid the backup solution you were searching for is one who needs root. But I can suggest something else. You can transfer the data you have on your drive (files other than backups) on your server, it will leave room for backups.
Otherwise you may wanna consider rooting, if it is possible with this Huawei model (that's why I hate Huawei, but don't get me started on that lol)
Have a good day
@flamery
1. No root mode is required to create a backup
2. Hint: Backup to an external SD-card. Use Super Backup app. It's a free-of-charge app.
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BTW: To root device's Android its bootloader must not be unlocked. Has nothing to do with each other.
Thanks both I will check it out!
Although I just discovered something interesting, if you change the setting in Google photos from original quality to high quality they don't count toward the 15Gb quota so I just freed up a lot of space.

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