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This Is For Every One Who Messed Around With Their deice and now cant log in and you have important data in the emulated internal storage which you need. If Yes the follow this simple tut
THIS METHOD IS ONLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A NANDROID BACKUP OR CAN MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP USING RECOVERY (i used cwm) IT CANT BE USED TO RESTORE ROM IN PREVIOUS WORKING STATE !! JUST DATA BACKUP
Lets Start..
1). Make A Nandroid Backup (usually created in the external sd) and copy it on the desktop of your computer
2). Download 7-Zip
3). Install
4). now open your backup folder there will be files with different file extensions (named like system data)
5). there will be many files we are only interested in files with extension .tar.ext4.a usually the biggest files
6). now those files are the image files of your internal sd and system
7). open 7-zip and navigate to your file (data.tar.ext4.a) and open it.
8). the fun part now.. now thats your root folder so navigate to /mnt/sdcard/
9). Viola! Its Your Internal SD now just select the file/folder you want
10). Select extract and extract to your required location.
11) And Its Done
This method is usually useful if you use audio manager and you havent changed the default data location from /sdcard0/Program Data/Languages/.fr
Enjoyy
I am using Android SDK Manager Revision 22.2.1 with my Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 International which is running a leaked copy of the Official Samsung 4.2.2 Stock Jellybean ROM dated 24th June 2013. It is rooted.
I wish to copy my entire TWRP backup folder to my PC and in preparation I read several threads which purport to explain how to do it but I only succeed in copying 16Mb worth of .md5 and .win files out of a backup folder which is 2.56Gb in size.
All folders in the TWRP folder are readable, writable and not hidden.
I have used the commands adb pull/sdcard/TWRP/ D:\111. I also tried adb pull/sdcard/TWRP D:\111.
The best I have got so far is to copy BACKUPS/4df1bd936aae7f4b/Leaked_Samsung_4.2.2_stock-15.10.13 which contains the following files:
boot.emmc.win
boot.emmc.win.md5
cache.ext4.win.md5
data.ext4.win000.md5
data.ext4.win001.md5
recovery.log
recovery.emmc.win
recovery.emmc.win.md5
system.ext4.win.md5
There are four missing files including the following large files.
data.ext4.win000
data.ext4.win001
system.ext4.win
Admittedly I am not a developer and am new to ADB so I am presumably doing something wrong.
Can anyone assist please.
If you are wondering why I wish to do this I have twice tried to flash Cyanogenmod 10.1.3 Stable version to my phone but get errors both times. I thought it may help to format my phone but before doing that I want to copy the backup of my ROM so that I can recver back to stock if CM still causes problems.
Simple method would be to make backup to ext sd card or even int sd card .
Then via USB windows explorer copy and paste .
Although I have selected the "Use External Storage" option in ROM manager, it still does not allow me to choose the backup location and gives only the option to save the backup to the sdcard.
I also have TWRP recovery so I will boot into Recovery and see if that gives me the option to backup to my external sdcard which is my preferred option anyway.
matrixmainframe said:
Although I have selected the "Use External Storage" option in ROM manager, it still does not allow me to choose the backup location and gives only the option to save the backup to the sdcard.
I also have TWRP recovery so I will boot into Recovery and see if that gives me the option to backup to my external sdcard which is my preferred option anyway.
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Thank you JJEgan! I have found an option in TWRP Recovery to save my ROM backup to my external MicroSDCard which is what I needed.
thanks again.
My phone is GT-N7105 (Samsung Note 2)
I had a nandroid backup before, then I copied the backup to PC, still have it. Then I flashed lineage 13. I deleted the nandroid backup on the phone storage. Now I want to restore the backup so I copied the backup files from the PC.
Now when I go to TWRP Restore mode, no backups are found.
I already searched through the internet and found the renaming method but there's a problem:
this is my original backup:
TWRP/backups/42f7491d7b409fc7/2017-03-01--05-28-34_JZO54K.N7105XXDMB
I tried to make a new backup of my current lineage (just to see if the folder name changed based on the new folder the backup process will create), here is what the resulting folder was:
TWRP/backups/42f7491d7b409fc7/2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
As you can see, only the innermost folder name changed. So from what I found through searching, it said to rename the old backup folder to the new backup folder's name, meaning :
I changed
2017-03-01--05-28-34_JZO54K.N7105XXDMB
to
2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
TWRP still can't see the original backup.
So what should I rename the original backup folder for TWRP to recognize it and make it appear?
Not sure, but i know you must use internal storage, not external sdcard in order to restore . Does it help?
Sent from this galaxy
pr1jker said:
Not sure, but i know you must use internal storage, not external sdcard in order to restore . Does it help?
Sent from this galaxy
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From the TWRP screen, there's a bar you can tap for 3 choices: internal, external or USB OTG, but I surely put the original backup in internal storage.
The experimental backup I made was in external storage. TWRP can recognize it.
Anyone can help me? I already tried renaming the 6 character code from the original backup folder's name to the 6 char code from new backup. still won't work.
Any helpful ideas please?
Hello,
when i do a nandroid backup, before i backup anything in twrp i copy the entire internal storage folder to my pc (since twrp doesnt backup that).
I noticed a huge amount of data inside the TWRP folder called Backups (about 9gb) and in there are tons files (.win and so) with some classic /boot /data /system ones.
Now i wonder why is there such a folder and why is it so huge? i never backup to sdcard or internal storage only OTG flash drive.
Is this folder neccesary or can i savely delete it? will it be autogenerated?
Seitekful said:
Hello,
when i do a nandroid backup, before i backup anything in twrp i copy the entire internal storage folder to my pc (since twrp doesnt backup that).
I noticed a huge amount of data inside the TWRP folder called Backups (about 9gb) and in there are tons files (.win and so) with some classic /boot /data /system ones.
Now i wonder why is there such a folder and why is it so huge? i never backup to sdcard or internal storage only OTG flash drive.
Is this folder neccesary or can i savely delete it? will it be autogenerated?
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If you backup to otg using twrp, you simply can delete that folder inside twrp folder of your internal storage.
But files ending with .win are part of the twrp backup you've made, so be sure you did it to the correct path.
Hi,
I have a Wiko Lenny 3 phone and need to recover the pictures. The unlock code is lost, the touchscreen doesn't work anymore. My ideas so far:
1. I used the "Backup user data" feature of the stock recovery to a SD card.
Since I cannot upload an image until I have 10 posts, the recovery is like
"
Android Recovery
alps/full_v3702/v3702
6.0/MRA58K/1453981211
user/release-keys
Volume down to move highlight;
enter Volume up key to select.
----------------------------------------
Reboot system now
Reboot to bootloader
Apply update from ADB
Apply update from SD card
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Backup user data ---> this is what I used
Restore user data
Root integrity check
Mount /system
View recovery logs
Power off
----------------------------------------
SD card free space: 29564MB
User data allocated: 11893MB
backup file: userdata_20190929_172118.backup
Backup user data complete.
"
But how to access the data? Tutorials which I found didn't help (merging the files in Linux, remove 512 Bytes and rename to zip to be able to extract "some" data: it isn't recognized as zip file). Is it possible to restore this user data to a virtual device somehow to access the data?
2. Removing the code: Following a German instruction (I'm not allowed to link it, sorry).
ADB doesn't recognize the device. Probably because USB debugging is turned off and I cannot turn it on without unlocking the device.
I don't do this very often, so my knowledge about ADB and Android is limited.
Does someone have a helping hint? Thank you in advance!
Regards
Martin
Martin_2 said:
Hi,
I have a Wiko Lenny 3 phone and need to recover the pictures. The unlock code is lost, the touchscreen doesn't work anymore. My ideas so far:
1. I used the "Backup user data" feature of the stock recovery to a SD card.
Since I cannot upload an image until I have 10 posts, the recovery is like
"
Android Recovery
alps/full_v3702/v3702
6.0/MRA58K/1453981211
user/release-keys
Volume down to move highlight;
enter Volume up key to select.
----------------------------------------
Reboot system now
Reboot to bootloader
Apply update from ADB
Apply update from SD card
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
Backup user data ---> this is what I used
Restore user data
Root integrity check
Mount /system
View recovery logs
Power off
----------------------------------------
SD card free space: 29564MB
User data allocated: 11893MB
backup file: userdata_20190929_172118.backup
Backup user data complete.
"
But how to access the data? Tutorials which I found didn't help (merging the files in Linux, remove 512 Bytes and rename to zip to be able to extract "some" data: it isn't recognized as zip file). Is it possible to restore this user data to a virtual device somehow to access the data?
2. Removing the code: Following a German instruction (I'm not allowed to link it, sorry).
ADB doesn't recognize the device. Probably because USB debugging is turned off and I cannot turn it on without unlocking the device.
I don't do this very often, so my knowledge about ADB and Android is limited.
Does someone have a helping hint? Thank you in advance!
Regards
Martin
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MartÃn only way you could access them pictures is if you had twrp
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Thanks. Is it possible to flash TWRP without losing data and without access via ADB?
Martin_2 said:
Thanks. Is it possible to flash TWRP without losing data and without access via ADB?
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If your phone has twrp available and it's a Samsung you can flash it and you won't be able to do a twrp backup without formatting data to have data partition mountable in twrp to flash decrypt zip to do a backup however you don't need to format to be able to mount system partition once system is mounted you can use the twrp file explorer to delete files to delete your screen lock so you can enter the phone
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PoochyX said:
If your phone has twrp available and it's a Samsung you can flash it and you won't be able to do a twrp backup without formatting data to have data partition mountable in twrp to flash decrypt zip to do a backup however you don't need to format to be able to mount system partition once system is mounted you can use the twrp file explorer to delete files to delete your screen lock so you can enter the phone
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It's a Wiko Lenny 3, no Samsung. Sorry, I don't get it without punctuation.
Do I get it right, that
- If TWRP is available for my phone I can flash it, but I need to format all my data (no option)
- I can flash a "decrypt zip" to do a backup (what is it, where do I get it?)
- I can mount the system partition and can use the TWRP file explorer to delete files (how can I mount it?)
Thanks.
Problem solved, I could access all the data in the backup from the stock recovery!
This is how it worked:
In short: Make a backup of all user files in the stock recovery to a MicroSD card, put it to a Linux desktop, merge the backup files by skipping the first 512 bytes of each file, copy the merged file to Windows, extract it with 7zip.
In long:
1. I put an empty 32GB FAT32 formatted MicroSD card in the MicroSD slot of the Wiko Lenny 3
2. I used "Backup user data" from the Stock Recovery (see my first post). It took a few minutes until ~12GB of user data were written to the card. The stock recovery told me when it was done.
3. I copied all files (6 files, userdata_20190929_172118.backup to userdata_20190929_172118.backup5) to a Linux environment (Linux Mint 19.2)
4. The rest is explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY4cKKimEFU. If it is offline, I will explain here.
Do not use something like "cat userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup* > userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup" to merge all files into one because it will add the unnessesary 512 bytes header of all .backup files to the merged file. Instead copy all content except the first 512 bytes to another file and append the content from the other files to it, also by skipping the first 512 bytes.
5. This command will copy the content of the first file "userdata_20190929_172118.backup" to a new file "img.ext4":
Code:
dd if=userdata_20190929_172118.backup skip=512 bs=128k iflag=nocache,skip_bytes oflag=nocache,append conv=notrunc of=img.ext4
6. Repeat using the same command to append the content of all other files to the file "img.ext4" by skipping the first 512 bytes. Be sure to increase the number of the source file extention in the command. Next one therefore is:
Code:
dd if=userdata_20190929_172118.backup1 skip=512 bs=128k iflag=nocache,skip_bytes oflag=nocache,append conv=notrunc of=img.ext4
7. Repeat with all files
8. Copy the file "img.ext4" to a NTFS formatted USB stick or an external hard drive and go on with a Windows environment. The reason is that Linux will prevent opening some important folders
9. Install 7zip
10. Extract the file "img.ext4" with 7zip. If you are searching for pictures, you will find them in the subfolder "\media\0\DCIM\Camera"
Martin_2 said:
Problem solved, I could access all the data in the backup from the stock recovery!
This is how it worked:
In short: Make a backup of all user files in the stock recovery to a MicroSD card, put it to a Linux desktop, merge the backup files by skipping the first 512 bytes of each file, copy the merged file to Windows, extract it with 7zip.
In long:
1. I put an empty 32GB FAT32 formatted MicroSD card in the MicroSD slot of the Wiko Lenny 3
2. I used "Backup user data" from the Stock Recovery (see my first post). It took a few minutes until ~12GB of user data were written to the card. The stock recovery told me when it was done.
3. I copied all files (6 files, userdata_20190929_172118.backup to userdata_20190929_172118.backup5) to a Linux environment (Linux Mint 19.2)
4. The rest is explained in this video:
. If it is offline, I will explain here.
Do not use something like "cat userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup* > userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup" to merge all files into one because it will add the unnessesary 512 bytes header of all .backup files to the merged file. Instead copy all content except the first 512 bytes to another file and append the content from the other files to it, also by skipping the first 512 bytes.
5. This command will copy the content of the first file "userdata_20190929_172118.backup" to a new file "img.ext4":
Code:
dd if=userdata_20190929_172118.backup skip=512 bs=128k iflag=nocache,skip_bytes oflag=nocache,append conv=notrunc of=img.ext4
6. Repeat using the same command to append the content of all other files to the file "img.ext4" by skipping the first 512 bytes. Be sure to increase the number of the source file extention in the command. Next one therefore is:
Code:
dd if=userdata_20190929_172118.backup1 skip=512 bs=128k iflag=nocache,skip_bytes oflag=nocache,append conv=notrunc of=img.ext4
7. Repeat with all files
8. Copy the file "img.ext4" to a NTFS formatted USB stick or an external hard drive and go on with a Windows environment. The reason is that Linux will prevent opening some important folders
9. Install 7zip
10. Extract the file "img.ext4" with 7zip. If you are searching for pictures, you will find them in the subfolder "\media\0\DCIM\Camera"
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I have the exact same problem with an older 2017 ALCATEL Pixi Unite A466BG. The code is lost and there's some photos we need off of it. I followed these instructions but when I got the img.ext4 file on Windows and tried extracting it with 7zip, I got an error that "ext4" is not an archive file.
I was hoping to see if anyone else had ideas of possibly why 7zip wasn't recognizing it? I had 3 backup files to merge (backup, backup1, backup2).