Hi all, I have been using TWRP 2.8.0.0 on my MT2-L03 since late 2014 and it's been great, no problems at all. Last night I went to do my monthly backup on TWRP and when it got to the Data portion, it stopped and said:
Backup Complete
Failed
I have plenty of space on my SD card, any ideas as to what the problem is suddenly? Any help would be appreciated!
Hmmm....
Well, for whatever reason tonight the backup on TWRP worked again. I've tried at least 8 times since the first failure with no luck, but tonight was successful. The only weird thing was earlier today when a warning came up on the phone saying something like: "unneeded file still present. Delete y/n File name: (string of Chinese characters)". I deleted it and then the backup worked. Not sure if I should be worried or not.
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I've encountered weird problem: The phone doesn't boot (got stuck on bootanimation) after nandroid recovery from CWM. I've tried recoverying it over fresh install of same ROM or over formated partitions, but neither of it works. I'm using CWM v5.0.2.0 and trying to recover hephappys PRE4.
Is this caused by some incompatibility of CWM and ICS?
No, cwm 5.0.2.0 is working with ICS, using it currently (haven't tried using backup/restore, but it shouldn't cause any problems imo).
So, what exactly are you doing? Trying to restore an earlier cm9 backup? Try wiping all, including system and boot, before restoring.
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Yes, I've made backup before messing with my ROM and it just fails to recover. I've already tried to wipe everything.
Is there any tool for viewing backup files on Windows? I guess that the file is somehow broken.
Is there any way how to get calls and sms from this raw data?
Here is boot logcat: https://gist.github.com/2603614
Jirrick said:
I've encountered weird problem: The phone doesn't boot (got stuck on bootanimation) after nandroid recovery from CWM. I've tried recoverying it over fresh install of same ROM or over formated partitions, but neither of it works. I'm using CWM v5.0.2.0 and trying to recover hephappys PRE4.
Is this caused by some incompatibility of CWM and ICS?
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have the same issue with cwm...
recommand u to use amonra...gwtting best with it
When I was on cm9 and restored my cm7 backup=same thing(yes, I wiped everything)
Well, that backup image is somehow corrupted as it cant be correctly deployed. At least I've managed to extract SMS, the rest is not so important for me.
CWM is pretty much useless when it creates backups which can't be used for recovery...
I don't think that there is a specific problem with CWM and ICS- I have been making backups and recovering quite often ICS builds (including hephappy's pre4) in the last weeks, no problems so far (knock on wood ).
Do you have other/older backups that you can try to recover and see if you get stuck at bootloop?
What about reinstalling the build from scratch- just to see that everything boots? You can later try either restoring your original backup (the one causing you problems), or using TiB or similar applications that can extract applications+data from nand backups.
Could the backup file got corrupted somehow? I don't remember CWM having some inherent checking of md5 before restoring backups (I could be mistaken, as I have never had a bad nandbackup with the P500 phone so never noticed anything weird). For example, I used to have an HTC MT4G with 4ext touch recovery which would always check md5sum and let the user know if backup was corrupted, and I did got a corrupted backup file once.
Back to topic- If anything else fails and you can't recover, maybe try to copy the backup to a different sdcard? Perhaps it's a shot in the dark but worth trying, just in case the problem is in sdcard?
Older backups are only CM7 and they are working flawlessly. I don't know what happened, but it wasn't byte-level error as MD5 check passed on that image. It's more likely the recovery "forgot"/wasn't able to recover some files in /data partition.
Later I've tried to install some fresh ICS, did some changes (configuration + apps), backuped, wiped partitions, then restored and everything worked , so it's definitely not a general CWM problem. It's probably a bad luck, when you really need the backup, it just corrupt itself to annoy you...
As I wrote, I've managed to retrive my SMS and that's enough for me. I don't trust that image so I will install fresh apps via Appbrain and do the new setting by myself (I wanted to make some chcnges to phone configuration, this is just the right moment) .
I have never had much luck with the CWM recovery system. It's really buggy and sometimes only restores select partitions. Or if it couldn't mount the drive at the time of backing up, sometimes it just refuses to tell you or tells you but you have to start the backup over..
Like said above, I would try Amonra. It's a far better recovery and it has almost no bugs to speak of
Cheers mate.
I've used this backup before, at least 5 times so I know it's good. But this last time it failed due to the above error, after trying to install Jaime's JB rom (I don't know if that is relevant). I found several ways to fix the error here and elsewhere, but no need as I had a backup from yesterday that still worked. Right now I'm just looking for someone to explain to me what the error means and why it happened to this particular backup given that I didn't rename or change anything? This way I don't repeat the error. Thanks in advance.
Essentially what you need to do is redownload the rom. But this time make sure you have a very strong internet connection. If your downloading on your phone get right next to the router. When your MD5 sums don't match it is because there is an error in the download process and some of the rom files have been corrupted. If you have a strong internet connection it helps ensure all the files are downloaded properly. Hope this helps....
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I didn't get this error whilst installing a rom though, it was trying to restore a backup. But I guess the principle holds true, somehow my backup got corrupted.
I'll download the rom again (this will be try number 6) and see if getting closer to the router will helpe, thanks.
I get that error when I have too much on the internal sd card. I think the limit is 4gigs. So anything you have in /system/media like movies and music move to external sd card before you make a backup.
So my current state of the internal sd card can affect a known good backup?
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Probably not. Dumb suggestion. But that's one reason that error happens, but that keeps the backup from completing. Sorry.
Are you using Rom Manager or CWM?
I make most of my backups in CWM and copy to my computer. I'm trying to think of what I did between the last time I used that backup successfully... Only thing I can think of is the 6 failed attempts to install the JB rom. Now I'm kindof worried about making attempt #7 because I only have the 1 working backup... If that gets corrupted I'll be soft-bricked with no way to install a rom.
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I make most of my backups in CWM and copy to my computer. I'm trying to think of what I did between the last time I used that backup successfully... Only thing I can think of is the 6 failed attempts to install the JB rom. Now I'm kindof worried about making attempt #7 because I only have the 1 working backup... If that gets corrupted I'll be soft-bricked with no way to install a rom.
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I have noticed that if I copy a backup to my computer (64-bit, Win 7) and then copy back to my Note, I will get an MD5 mismatch message if I then try to restore from the backup. It may be due to the way that Win 7 file explorer indexes the file - or some other arcane windows thing. In any case I no longer transfer nandroid backps.
Ok I'm gonna stop obsessing over this and chalk it up to bad luck. Actually, since I rooted my first device this is the first time I've had anything go wrong, so I guess it was my turn. Thanks for all the help!
This error is still not answered on the forums so im starting a new thread.
i get the error as the title.
sd card space is not the problem.
i tried formatting the sd card.
i have less than 50 apps installed.
wiped dalvik cache, and all other sorts people say on other posts.
(my phone is LG P936 so "fix permission" screws up the phone. all text disappears)
have latest cwm recovery.
and still get the error.
any answers please?
and please dont reply if you are going to write an opinion.
only answers please.
sorry for my rude behaviour but I'm sick and tired of reading posts full of opinions and "maybe"s.
Not sure if you ever got this fixed but I 'm suffering from the same error. I tried pretty much everything you tried (even fix permissions) and I have about 20GB free on my SD card so space shouldn't be an issue. I have not yet tried formatting the SD card since it has always worked and CWM is able to write to it because the following files are created:
- boot.img
- data.ext3.tar
- recovery.img
- system.ext3.tar
The files that are missing are (based on older backups):
- .android_secure.vfat.tar
- cache.ext3.tar (probably because I wiped it first?)
- nandroid.md5
I have attached the log from CWM in the hopes that someone can tell me what is wrong. The error occurs at the end of the progress bar of 'backing up /data'.
hey just use TWRP Recovery. It's way better than CWM. normal backup on cwm took me like an hour but twrp was never longer than 10minutes.
Today I have formatted the SD card and tried again, but as expected it did not change anything.
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hey just use TWRP Recovery. It's way better than CWM. normal backup on cwm took me like an hour but twrp was never longer than 10minutes.
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I guess I will give this a try. Can I just install it over CWM or can they run side by side?
different reciveries cannot be run side by side as they are installed on a different partition. so it will always be installed over your current one.
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different reciveries cannot be run side by side as they are installed on a different partition. so it will always be installed over your current one.
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Well, I tried TWRP and it also fails at backing up my data partition. The log is a bit more clear though and it seems to get stuck on "/data/data/com.android.vending/cache/images" which is the last line before it gives an error. I checked the "images" folder and it seems empty but I cannot delete it. Tried ES File Explorer and Terminal Emulator but no way to get rid of it. The folder appears to be related to Google Play, so I cleared all data and cache from Google Play, even uninstalled the updates but there 's simply no way to get rid of it. I 'm not sure if this is the reason why the backup fails, but I CAN copy the folder and even rename it.
Pff looks like I 'm going to have to do a clean install after all .
Hello, I too have this problem and unfortunately TWRP is not available for my phone.
I used to be able to do CWM backups fine on my old phone, and they work great on my tablet. But they consistently fail at "/data" on my Galaxy Ace II x. Might it be because I'm using Link2SD? I don't see why that would cause a problem, but maybe it's having trouble with the symlinks?
Hmm. Seems the issue was that, despite having only 1.28 GB total available storage space on stock, the backups wanted more than 4 GB. Cleared some room on my microSD card and suddenly backups worked fine! Of course, shortly after I installed CyanogenMod, which has much smaller backups...
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I forgot to report back here but the only way I found to fix the problem was by doing a clean install. After that, I was able to backup my data partition again. I then restored my apps ' data with TB and was unable to backup the data partition again. I 'm guessing one of my apps had corrupt data, but never got to find out which one it was.
maybe your partition not match with recovery, like something wrong vold.fstab
Just in case anyone still wants to know how to fix this, I managed to solve it by running these commands:
1. run adb shell in recovery.
2. unmount data partition (umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p26). -> this one failed so I skipped it
3. run e2fsck /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48659092&postcount=868 for original post.
I got a few HTREE errors and a bunch of duplicate names which I renamed when prompted. Booted the phone and rebooted into TWRP and now I am able to backup my data partition again. :good:
EDIT: Problem reappeared so I tried the above commands again but it said that the filesystem was clean. Ran 'e2fsck -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p26' instead and had to fix a bunch of HTREE errors from Facebook again and duplicate names from Xprivacy but now I 'm able to backup my data partition again.
Dude just selest the backup format as both zip and tar filea
After upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6 twrp i seemed to have lost my backups from my sd card.
after install 2.6 through Goo (which seemed to go fine) and wanted to restore a backup which worked fine in 2.5....twrp sees nothing anymore.
I had to unbrick, it seemed after the bootloop i got after the install of 2.6...recovered from that but now no backup seen by twrp.
Rom manager sees the backup files but won't restore them cuz it's missing the MD5....
Is there a way to go back to 2.5 twrp?
I seriously searched for this problem for almost a full day now and gave up....
Any suggestions will be soooo welcome!
Thank you, but keep in mind please that i'm not a developer...just a (somewhat ignorant maybe?) user..
ps: all this cuz i saw update to 4.3 from verizon and it wouldn't let me update. Then i saw the advice on here to never uta and flash a rom which i really would like to do but i have not tried to flash any rom yet, which, if possible solves all my problems...heh.
in twrp i tried all within my brainpower, like MD5 verify uncheck, mount...you name it...lost now..
solved!
Taa Daaaa..solved.
Copied backup file with explorer to root of Twrp/backup folder and it took now.....
Quite strange but i'm not complaining..
I'll leave this question up for now so others who may have experienced same problem can try this.
Restore works again so now i can start fiddling with Roms...lol...almost seems like looking for trouble, doesn't it?
Hello everyone,
I need your help. Sorry for the long post.
I have a OnePlus One. It was running on CM 13.0 (Android 6.0.1). I had TWRP and MultiROM installed.
I have had an issue where whenever I flash a zip file in TWRP, the phone will show an error after installing the zip: "Unable to mount storage". This appeared in red color on the screen right after showing the progress of the zip installation. The phone worked fine and all the flashed zips worked great as well. However, the error that appeared every single time when I flash a zip file bothered me. So I tried to fix it. (I know, if it's not broken don't fix it, but sadly I tired).
I followed this video to get rid of the error => (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yDPszoQ5s). However, instead of getting rid of the error, I ended up with a huge problem. My phone couldn't recognize the data in the internal storage. It showed that the internal storage was empty. When I tired to reboot in TWRP, It said: "No OS installed are you sure you wish to reboot". I realized that the video I followed was for a different problem and that I ended up with the same issue the video was trying to fix! I tried every single option the video suggested to fix the problem and nothing helped.
I connected my phone to my laptop and downloaded the latest CyanogenMod zip for my phone and I flashed it. when I rebooted my phone I got a screen that asked for my password. I typed a random password (I discovered later that the phone will accept any password and say it's correct). I got the following error: "Decryption Unsuccessful... The password you entered is correct, but unfortunately your data is corrupt... To resume using your phone, you need to perform a factory reset. When you set up your phone after the reset, you'll have an opportunity to restore any data that was backed up to your google account...Then the only thing I can select is "reset phone." ". I pressed the reset button on the screen, the phone rebooted and showed the same error. Then I tired flashing PAC ROM and I got the same error again. Then I flashed OmniROM and the phone worked! It didn't show the error.
I have a Titanium backup for all my apps and I also have a nandroid backup for my previous ROM (in my memory stick using an OTG cable). However, I don't have any backups for my internal storage (photos, videos, documents... etc). I am guessing that these files are still in my internal storage. I didn't copy any new files to my phone because I think if I do, then the phone will keep replacing my old files (that I can't see) with the new ones.
My question is: Is there a way to get back these old photos and videos from the internal storage? Note that I didn't delete these files, but the phone can't read them. Also, I checked the nandroid backup that I have and the file system type of the previous ROM was EXT4. My current file system type is the same, EXT4.
Thank you for the help!