Hello
I made a Nandroid Backup with 4Extrecovery. Then I flashed Sabsa Prime, but I forgot to make a backup of the bluetooth, wifi, and other data. Then, I was thinking maybe I could recover with an emulator, but I dont know if it is possible to do it.
How could I recover that info?
Thanks in advance
kalandrak said:
Hello
I made a Nandroid Backup with 4Extrecovery. Then I flashed Sabsa Prime, but I forgot to make a backup of the bluetooth, wifi, and other data. Then, I was thinking maybe I could recover with an emulator, but I dont know if it is possible to do it.
How could I recover that info?
Thanks in advance
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Easiest thing to do would probably be to make a nandroid of Sabsa Prime, restore the original nandroid, back up the data, restore Sabsa Prime, and restore the data.
I've also heard that Titanium Backup Pro can extract data from a nandroid. Never tried it myself.
I'm not sure what you mean by doing it from an emulator. Like, through ADB? I don't know of a way to do that.
The thing is that now, Sabsa goes perfect, battery wifi and all perfect, and I dont know if changing to the previus and then putting it again will work as fine as now.
With an emulator, I was thinkiing of a program for PC that can emulates the phone. Then I could install one app and recover the info, but in the PC. Then I would copy that info to the mobile again.
kalandrak said:
The thing is that now, Sabsa goes perfect, battery wifi and all perfect, and I dont know if changing to the previus and then putting it again will work as fine as now.
With an emulator, I was thinkiing of a program for PC that can emulates the phone. Then I could install one app and recover the info, but in the PC. Then I would copy that info to the mobile again.
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A nandroid backs up everything. It's basically an image of the hard drive partition, like a snapshot. So as long as the backup finishes correctly Sabsa will be exactly the same as what you have now.
I don't know anything about how you would use an emulator or which "one app" you would install.
bananagranola said:
A nandroid backs up everything. It's basically an image of the hard drive partition, like a snapshot. So as long as the backup finishes correctly Sabsa will be exactly the same as what you have now.
I don't know anything about how you would use an emulator or which "one app" you would install.
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Thanks, so I think the safest and easiest way will be what you have said, backup, restore previus backup, and restore backup. Thanks
wifi storea login info in /data/misc/wifi/wpa-supplocant.conf
you could restore that feom your nand backup, but not the whole file, because each rom has different config. i restore my wifi saved hotspots by manually copyong body of that file from new to old in text editor. you can try it, jist make sure to make a backip of current file and turn off wifi while you do it. much faster then the other option. im guessing you should be able to pull something similar with bluetooth...
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wifi storea login info in /data/misc/wifi/wpa-supplocant.conf
you could restore that feom your nand backup, but not the whole file, because each rom has different config. i restore my wifi saved hotspots by manually copyong body of that file from new to old in text editor. you can try it, jist make sure to make a backip of current file and turn off wifi while you do it. much faster then the other option. im guessing you should be able to pull something similar with bluetooth...
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Thanks, I gonna try it.
I have one problem. I restore the previus backup but I cannot power on. I mean, everytime I start it, it goes automatically to 4EXT recovery touch?
Any idea?
try clearing cache from recovery
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try clearing cache from recovery
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Thanks. I did it, but the same. I also did dalvik wipe.
Any other idea please?
full wipe, and restore again? im guessing tbh. i know there is some command you can run that boots in recovery on next startup. it writes a flag somewhere but thats all i can remember, sorry. try searching xda
Thanks mate, doesnt work. I've read something about flashing the previus kernel, how could I do that? Because I can only enter into the recovery.
I have installed boot.img of the backup via fastboot, but doesnt work. Im stuck.
Any idea???
kalandrak said:
Thanks mate, doesnt work. I've read something about flashing the previus kernel, how could I do that? Because I can only enter into the recovery.
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When you navigate to "reboot" in recovery (instead of reboot recovery) what happens? And try full wiping and re-restoring.
I reboot, then it switchs on until HTC screen appears, for 2 seconds approximately. Then, it switches off and then switchs on again but it enters directly to the 4EXT recovery.
What I made was:
Wipes
Format all except sd card
Restore
kalandrak said:
I reboot, then it switchs on until HTC screen appears, for 2 seconds approximately. Then, it switches off and then switchs on again but it enters directly to the 4EXT recovery.
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Did you root with AAHK or with HTCDEV? As in, are you S-OFF?
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Did you root with AAHK or with HTCDEV? As in, are you S-OFF?
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I dont rememeber which method I used, but im ship s-off
kalandrak said:
I dont rememeber which method I used, but im ship s-off
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Yeah, you don't need to flash the boot.img. Just try wiping and restoring. What version of 4ext do you have?
EDIT: oh, and make sure your volume buttons aren't stuck or pressed or anything like that.
EDIT 2: and make sure to wipe dalvik and cache.
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Yeah, you don't need to flash the boot.img. Just try wiping and restoring. What version of 4ext do you have?
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I did all wipes, formatted all except sd card and restore, but same problem 3 times. I have RC8
kalandrak said:
I did all wipes, formatted all except sd card and restore, but same problem 3 times. I have RC8
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I just tried flashing the new wimax update and it went through and succeeded, but now my phone reboots after a minute or 2 once it's fully booted. If I'm in recovery mode it doesn't have that problem at all. I'm using baked 1.5.
michaelm718 said:
I just tried flashing the new wimax update and it went through and succeeded, but now my phone reboots after a minute or 2 once it's fully booted. If I'm in recovery mode it doesn't have that problem at all. I'm using baked 1.5.
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Have you tried the standard "wipe cache and data, then reflash your ROM"?
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Have you tried the standard "wipe cache and data, then reflash your ROM"?
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I have re-flashed the wimax radio and wiped the dalvik/regular chache and did a factory reset.
did you wipe? that will solve most of your problems with out the need of a thread being made.
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did you wipe? that will solve most of your problems with out the need of a thread being made.
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First of all, mods please move my topic to Q&A. I did not mean to post this in this forum. Also yes I've wiped everything about a million times.
michaelm718 said:
First of all, mods please move my topic to Q&A. I did not mean to post this in this forum. Also yes I've wiped everything about a million times.
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Did you try flashing an older version or a nandroid? If you are using clockwork make sure signature checking is turned on too, you could have a corrupted file.
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Did you try flashing an older version or a nandroid? If you are using clockwork make sure signature checking is turned on too, you could have a corrupted file.
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I tried flashing an older version and that didn't work either. What is this thing about nandroid? How do I go about that?
Edit: I fixed it by restoring google proprietary stuff(forgot the name) and restored nand. Which one fixed it? I have no idea, but it basically restored me to factory 2.1, but with root access. Mods please lock/ delete this. It's in the wrong forum and I apologize. Thank you
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I tried flashing an older version and that didn't work either. What is this thing about nandroid? How do I go about that?
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A nandroid is a backup of your system you can make from the recovery, it's always a good idea to make one before you flash anything. I'm not sure if that covers your radios though.
Do you use titanium backup or anything? Without knowing how your phone is set up (what recovery you are using, etc) the only thing I can think of would be to flash the engineering bootloader. That should fix it but you would have to reinstall your ROM afterwards.
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A nandroid is a backup of your system you can make from the recovery, it's always a good idea to make one before you flash anything. I'm not sure if that covers your radios though.
Do you use titanium backup or anything? Without knowing how your phone is set up (what recovery you are using, etc) the only thing I can think of would be to flash the engineering bootloader. That should fix it but you would have to reinstall your ROM afterwards.
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The nandroid restore worked because I had a backup I made while following the guide. I fixed it doing that, but while trying to update the radio to the current one again figuring if it messed up I can restore it and again the same problem came up, but this time nandroid restore wont work and it's telling me to use adb restore, but adb says your device is not found.
BTW all of my phones stuff come directly from the idiot proof guide(recovery etc)
bump... I'm sorry I'm sitting here with a semi broken phone. Is it possible to download someone else's nandroid back up and install it on mine? I know it will fix my problem as it already did, but for some reason now it's telling me to do it with adb, but my usb seems to not be working either.
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Phone reboots every time I turn on mobile data. Had this issue after using 3gturbocharger but got 2g working after that. Then I chose the network from settings and now it's rebooting every time I turn mobile data on. I think I'm on 3g atm and I'm on nightly 236. Will try a fresh install and see if it helps!
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Ok so did that and it's still rebooting every time i try to turn it on -.-
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I don't think it was about the script cause I "unsuperduperturbo charged it" the problem started when I chose network again. I took the same carrier that I was on atm (don't remember the reason why I did that).
Also when trying to restore a backup I get "error while restoring sdcard/android/.secure" or something like that.
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When I try to restore back up I get this "error while restoring sdcard/android/.secure" or something like that. I'm on cwm 5.0.2.0 and you can see the reason why I need to restore from the quotes.
Happened to me a few times, even on some backups I know previously worked. I just put it down to unpredictable software and start again. If there's things you need from the backup try advanced restore in clockwork recovery or app extractor from the market, a free app which lets you pull apps and data from nandroid .imgs.
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Ok so figured the backup problem but the mobile network still isn't working
Do a fresh install (Remember to format /system in mounts and storage, just doing wipe data / factory reset is not sufficient). Then, reflash the radio and try again.
3xeno said:
Do a fresh install (Remember to format /system in mounts and storage, just doing wipe data / factory reset is not sufficient). Then, reflash the radio and try again.
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That should disable all the scripts? Cause I tried that and then restored nandroid but I'm not sure If I was running the script when I made the nandroid. And how can I reflash the radio because when you start cm7 for the first time It has data on so it just reboots before you can turn it off and I can't flash cm7 and radio with same cwm so should I do a fresh install of cm7 and then fastboot flash cwm 2.5 and flash the radio?
Keep this zip file on your sdcard, its the same as ROM Manager (ie Temp 2.5.0.7). Flash in your existing Clockworkmod 3/4/5 after fresh installing CM7 to get temporary 2.5.0.7 and then flash the radio. You need not boot into the ROM to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=662193&d=1311319218
I don't know whether it will solve all your issues or not, but I think its worth to try it. (Again, remember to format everything under the Mounts and Storage Menu, especially /system)
Actually the 3g is now working on senseonfire I guess the reboot was just a coincidence. I'm gona go back to cm7 now and I'll fast the new radio just to be sure.
Edit: Seems to be working fine
Error restoring .secure
HI
As opposed to other items, "android_secure" is stored on the SD card instead of internal flash. So, your "error while restoring sdcard/android/.secure" is likely to happen if your sd card is full. (it happened to me for that reason !!)
I would suggest to mount the sdcard from usb - you can do it from the recovery menu - then try to free enough space for this restoration. Or maybe also try repairing the sdcard filesystem.
jjacinto said:
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As opposed to other items, "android_secure" is stored on the SD card instead of internal flash. So, your "error while restoring sdcard/android/.secure" is likely to happen if your sd card is full. (it happened to me for that reason !!)
I would suggest to mount the sdcard from usb - you can do it from the recovery menu - then try to free enough space for this restoration. Or maybe also try repairing the sdcard filesystem.
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Wow......... Talk about waking the dead lol.
Sent from my Nexus 4
Well I had this issue and couldn't find any solution on the forums... But I ended up on this similar thread and had to resolve it by myself, so I thought this little contribution might help someone else in the future.
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Wow......... Talk about waking the dead lol.
Sent from my Nexus 4
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Hey guys,
I have kind of a serious issue right now. I used Touch Recovery 5.8.0.2 and made a full backup today of my whole ROM (2.5GB) before trying out some mods which eventually didn't work. So I decided to wipe and restore the backup I made. No matter what I do I cannot get it to restore my data partition properly. I keep getting "Error while restoring /data!" message, however it does the boot image and system fine but doesn't continue to cache and sd-ext because of the failed data. Whenever I boot it up, some of my apps are missing from the home screen and practically all of them are not working when I launch them (force close). I also get boot up error of Google+ force close, among a bunch of other issues. This is happening even when I try to restore an older backup as well. My device is not working state right now and although I can just restore the stock images to get it working again, it is urgent that I restore my data ASAP! I tried wiping several times and even using the non-touch 5.5.0.4 recovery to restore and same thing keeps happening.
Any help would be highly appreciated!
Please don't tell me my backup is corrupt
Update 1: Eventually I gave up and started from scratch but I have confirmed already this happened on a fresh backup as well, at this time we are trying to figure out what is causing this so I can go back to safely backing up and restoring backups.
Update 2: We have test builds of TWRP Recovery that may have resolved this issue! We need testers!
Please see this post: Link Here
Update 3: We have test builds of ClockworkMod Recovery 6 that may have resolved this issue as well! We need testers!
Please see this post: Link Here
***Always see last few posts on the thread for updates on what we discovered just in case I don't update the OP***
Unfortunately I also have the same error today!
Please help us out.
JayantSparda said:
Unfortunately I also have the same error today!
Please help us out.
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is your phone encrypted?
are you running stock recovery?
are you running a stock Rom?
have you done a factory reset yet?
Hi Spectre85,
My phone did fine yesterday, I was running AOPK Milestone 3 with FAUX123 kernel.
But when I woke up, my phone looked like it's battery was emtpy.
- When I plugged the phone with the charger, I started the phone again.
- Unfortunately my phone keep looping at the Google screen over and over.
So I pulled the battery and put the battery back again in the phone.
- I went to the bootloader and went to CWM recovery.
Deleted Data, Cache and Dalvike cache.
- Tried to retrieve my backup rom, but keep getting this "Error while restoring /data!" message.
I've tried to install other roms as well, but I still keep getting the bootloop at the Google screen.
Have you guys have any advice for me?
spectre85 said:
is your phone encrypted?
are you running stock recovery?
are you running a stock Rom?
have you done a factory reset yet?
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For me, no, no (CWM Touch 5.8.0.2), yes (stock rooted 4.0.4), no but my goal is to restore my data not erase it.
I had this happen to me before, what I did was flash a factory image through fast boot and it was fine after.
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Thanks guys..I flashed the factory image through Fastboot mode and the phone works perfectly again! Too bad I lost all my data, but I'm happier that I have my phone fully functional again
You can't access your backup right? There's no way you can copy the file to your desktop?
mohitrocks said:
You can't access your backup right? There's no way you can copy the file to your desktop?
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I did copy it. I have full access to the file. Also, just fyi my goal here is not just to get to working state (I'm aware of the stock images) but to actually recover my data. My phone is currently on stock images completely blank and working now.
Fast boot flash the nand images just like u did the stock ones.
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bwcorvus said:
Fast boot flash the nand images just like u did the stock ones.
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Nanadroid files can be flashed in fastboot? Are you sure? First time I'm hearing this. Doesn't fastboot need .img files? These are .tar files.
Open it up and see if its image...sorry all my recoveries use images.
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bwcorvus said:
Open it up and see if its image...sorry all my recoveries use images.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
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I guess it depends on the recovery version you use. I remember older versions actually had .img files. However 5.5.0.4 and Touch 5.8.0.2 both have ext4.tar files.
Which version of recovery do you use?
If you have root, you can restore your data partition using Titanium Backup. Use "Export from Nandroid Backup" within TB, select the nandroid backup and then select all apps that you want to restore
Immix said:
If you have root, you can restore your data partition using Titanium Backup. Use "Export from Nandroid Backup" within TB, select the nandroid backup and then select all apps that you want to restore
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Interesting...will this include settings as well like my home screen icon/widget layout, wallpaper, etc?
open1your1eyes0 said:
Interesting...will this include settings as well like my home screen icon/widget layout, wallpaper, etc?
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Yes. Titanium Backup can restore all your system apps as well as downloaded apps from a nandroid backup. Not as clean as a nandroid restore from CWM but essentially the same thing. But try to see if Titanium Backup can extract your nandroid backup. It all depends on what exactly went wrong with your nandroid backup to begin with. I don't think it restores cache. So not sure about wallpaper.
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Yes. Titanium Backup can restore all your system apps as well as downloaded apps from a nandroid backup. Not as clean as a nandroid restore from CWM but essentially the same thing. But try to see if Titanium Backup can extract your nandroid backup. It all depends on what exactly went wrong with your nandroid backup to begin with. I don't think it restores cache. So not sure about wallpaper.
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You're right. This works great for restore data to select apps (got my notes and game saves back). I think the icon layout is held in the launcher settings, I'm about to try and restore the data to the launcher app and see what happens. I'm making a CWM backup of first of my current state (that's assuming this backup will actually work).
EDIT: Yes! That did it! Widgets position weren't saved but it's ok I only had a few so I manually put them back. Thank you! I never knew TB had the ability to work with nandroid backups.
I guess this now just leaves me figuring out what went wrong with the CWM backup. It happened twice (I have two backups from the same day that won't restore). Does anyone else use CWM Touch 5.8.0.2 and have successful backups? I would experiment to see if it works now but I don't want to end up with a corrupt backup and redo everything again.
Yes with me its the same thing my data its corrupt is even worse every time I do a nanobackup and restarted my phone the phone freezes on the boot logo and I have to go back to recovery trying to use my backups but I can't so I have to flash a new from again and start from the beginning again!!!! Anybody here has the same experience with that ???
So AGAIN, I'm having the same issue. This time on a recovery 5.5.0.4 that used to work for me when I originally got my phone. I think either my data partition might be too big or something but this really needs to fixed pronto. Anyone know how to contact Koush directly in regards to this matter?
Hi,
I'm trying to restore a nandroid backup I did with TWRP 2.3.3.0 but I'm not being successful and it's bothering me because now I have an unstable system and didn't really wanted to reinstall everything from scratch...
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong but after restoring the backup and rebooting the phone, I can boot but MOST of my apps are not "installed". Shortcuts I had on the home screen are there with their respective icons, I click on them and I get "Applications is not installed". I also get a notification saying that phone storage is running low, and it is hitting the 2GB limit, but it never was like this before, I had lots of of free space for apps. Looking at the nandroid backup, it seems I have data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win001 both with around 1.5GB, which goes above the 2GB limit. Not sure if this means anything...
Why isn't this backup working and what can I do to attempt to solve it?
Any other info I can give you so you can better try and help me, just let me know what you need to know...
Wrong section..
Hmm full wipe before restore??
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basti2909 said:
Hmm full wipe before restore??
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Already tried that...
I updated to TWRP 2.5.0.0 and now I get "restore failed"... :'(
There's no way to get around this is there?
not sure if your recovery is corrupt, maybe worth making a titanium backup of apps and system data, flashing a new rom and then restoring via titanium?
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not sure if your recovery is corrupt, maybe worth making a titanium backup of apps and system data, flashing a new rom and then restoring via titanium?
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Can I make a titanium backup out of the nandroid backup? Cause that's all I have right now, my current ROM is not even working properly... I'll have completely reinstall a new ROM.
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Can I make a titanium backup out of the nandroid backup? Cause that's all I have right now, my current ROM is not even working properly... I'll have completely reinstall a new ROM.
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what do you mean titanium backup out of the nandroid? normally the data backup should be there too...to be sure i always make tit backup's for my apps...
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what do you mean titanium backup out of the nandroid? normally the data backup should be there too...to be sure i always make tit backup's for my apps...
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The only backup I have is a Nandroid backup and nothing else. I don't even have a running/working ROM at the moment.
Nazgulled said:
The only backup I have is a Nandroid backup and nothing else. I don't even have a running/working ROM at the moment.
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Normally the nandroid backup should also save the data which means the apps and their data, hm.....due that it isn't working you have to install from beginning
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Nazgulled said:
Hi,
I'm trying to restore a nandroid backup I did with TWRP 2.3.3.0 but I'm not being successful and it's bothering me because now I have an unstable system and didn't really wanted to reinstall everything from scratch...
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong but after restoring the backup and rebooting the phone, I can boot but MOST of my apps are not "installed". Shortcuts I had on the home screen are there with their respective icons, I click on them and I get "Applications is not installed". I also get a notification saying that phone storage is running low, and it is hitting the 2GB limit, but it never was like this before, I had lots of of free space for apps. Looking at the nandroid backup, it seems I have data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win001 both with around 1.5GB, which goes above the 2GB limit. Not sure if this means anything...
Why isn't this backup working and what can I do to attempt to solve it?
Any other info I can give you so you can better try and help me, just let me know what you need to know...
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Nazgulled said:
I updated to TWRP 2.5.0.0 and now I get "restore failed"... :'(
There's no way to get around this is there?
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It's your fault cuz the app data is not being restored , 1stly when you made the backup with TWPR you should've selected to backup the CACHE , you skipped that step since by default TWPR skips that step = no apps data anymore, tho there are shortcuts and in manage all apps you can see those apps installed but with grey collor like when being removed from lets say rom cleaner , theres still the APP IMAGE but not the app it'self , you could try this:
1. Flash old recovery ( the one you used to make the back up 2.3 or which ever you used ) . full wipe , restore nand backup ( don't forget to flash the boot.img in the bootloader if you used different kernel in that time or flash the modules via recovery for the kernel you use atm )
after you boot up re-download those apps that are there with shortcuts but not apps itself and hope for the saves from those apps to be there.
Next time if you don't wanna risk it you titanium back up and save the apps that matter to you , when restoring them back : download the app , go to titanium and restore only the DATA.
or simply check in TWPR when making nand backup to save the CACHE as well in the backup.
Yeah, I know it was my fault... I was at work doing other stuff at the same time and didn't focus on what I was actually doing with my phone and I messed up. I was used to an old recovery on my old phone where a nandroid backup would backup everything needed and didn't really look at the partition options.
I'm doing exactly what you mentioned and so far seems to be working. All the data seems to be there, I just have to reinstall all the apps...
One thing though, since the nandroid restore process didn't work correctly, I was left with a full /data partition and my phone started reporting "low storage" and didn't allow me to do install anything. I looked into the /data partition and found out that the folder lost+found was filling up the partition, I erased everything in it and restored 1.2Gb of free space. I can now install all my apps.
Thank you all.
Nazgulled said:
Hi,
I'm trying to restore a nandroid backup I did with TWRP 2.3.3.0 but I'm not being successful and it's bothering me because now I have an unstable system and didn't really wanted to reinstall everything from scratch...
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong but after restoring the backup and rebooting the phone, I can boot but MOST of my apps are not "installed". Shortcuts I had on the home screen are there with their respective icons, I click on them and I get "Applications is not installed". I also get a notification saying that phone storage is running low, and it is hitting the 2GB limit, but it never was like this before, I had lots of of free space for apps. Looking at the nandroid backup, it seems I have data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win001 both with around 1.5GB, which goes above the 2GB limit. Not sure if this means anything...
Why isn't this backup working and what can I do to attempt to solve it?
Any other info I can give you so you can better try and help me, just let me know what you need to know...
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Your rom is ok but i think your sdcard were you install your app has been modified. Just do a factory reset and install apps again it happened to me too).
Nazgulled said:
I updated to TWRP 2.5.0.0 and now I get "restore failed"... :'(
There's no way to get around this is there?
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Flash the recovery from the backup and then try to restore nandroid and if you have empty spce in the name change with _
I have different problem about nandroid back up, everytime i transfer my back up to pc and back again to my phone, the custom recovery cannot detect my back up. What should i do?
harrymason37 said:
I have different problem about nandroid back up, everytime i transfer my back up to pc and back again to my phone, the custom recovery cannot detect my back up. What should i do?
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Make sure you make no changes in the folder structure and folder naming. It has to be exact the same as it was.......and when you want to restore a nandroid you always flash the boot.img and recovery.img from the nandroid and then do the rest of the procedure
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Make sure you make no changes in the folder structure and folder naming. It has to be exact the same as it was.......and when you want to restore a nandroid you always flash the boot.img and recovery.img from the nandroid and then do the rest of the procedure
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thanks! Thats what i'm doing wrong, i just transfer the folder were the files is locate, i ignore the twrp folder. Thanks again.
Hi,
I rooted my phone today using Chainfire's Autoroot. After doing this, I installed CWM on my phone, specifically, CWM Touch 6.0.4.3. After this, I created an image.zip backup of the phone and its data. I then, in order to test it, loaded the image.zip. It said that it was successful, but when it rebooted, it got stuck at the samsung logo. I have tried using to boot into recovery to mess around with CWM, but it does not allow me to boot into recovery. I can boot into download mode however, and reinstalled CWM in the hopes that I would be able to access it, to no avail. I also tried rerooting the phone using CF Autoroot in the hopes that it might do something, however little a chance that may have been. I know that I can flash a stock rom, but I am trying to preserve as much information and data on my phone as possible. Should I attempt to flash a stock rom, reinstall CWM and try to reload the image.zip? Or is there some other route I should take?
Thank you for your time,
Dan
MLS_Dumpster said:
Hi,
I rooted my phone today using Chainfire's Autoroot. After doing this, I installed CWM on my phone, specifically, CWM Touch 6.0.4.3. After this, I created an image.zip backup of the phone and its data. I then, in order to test it, loaded the image.zip. It said that it was successful, but when it rebooted, it got stuck at the samsung logo. I have tried using to boot into recovery to mess around with CWM, but it does not allow me to boot into recovery. I can boot into download mode however, and reinstalled CWM in the hopes that I would be able to access it, to no avail. I also tried rerooting the phone using CF Autoroot in the hopes that it might do something, however little a chance that may have been. I know that I can flash a stock rom, but I am trying to preserve as much information and data on my phone as possible. Should I attempt to flash a stock rom, reinstall CWM and try to reload the image.zip? Or is there some other route I should take?
Thank you for your time,
Dan
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Try wiping cache and dalvik and reboot
How would I go about doing this? I do not have access to recovery mode. Is there a program I can install to do this? Or can I accomplish this through ODIN? I know how to flash stuff using ODIN but not much else.
MLS_Dumpster said:
How would I go about doing this? I do not have access to recovery mode. Is there a program I can install to do this? Or can I accomplish this through ODIN? I know how to flash stuff using ODIN but not much else.
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With your phone off, press and hold power home and volume up until you see the little blue text at the top then release, will put you in recovery to wipe cache and dalvik
mattzeller said:
With your phone off, press and hold power home and volume up until you see the little blue text at the top then release, will put you in recovery to wipe cache and dalvik
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I accessed the recovery menu using your instructions, and wiped the cache partition. I tried to reboot and I have the same issue. What should I try next? I now have access to that menu if that opens up any possibilities. I am by no means an expert, but it appears as though this is a booting issue. I checked, through the recovery menu, and found all my data still on my phone, which is a good sign, but also leads me to believe that the main issue seems to pertain to the booting process.
Thanks again for your time.
MLS_Dumpster said:
I accessed the recovery menu using your instructions, and wiped the cache partition. I tried to reboot and I have the same issue. What should I try next? I now have access to that menu if that opens up any possibilities. I am by no means an expert, but it appears as though this is a booting issue. I checked, through the recovery menu, and found all my data still on my phone, which is a good sign, but also leads me to believe that the main issue seems to pertain to the booting process.
Thanks again for your time.
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I would suggest hooking it to your computer, backing up any data you want to keep, do a factory reset
mattzeller said:
I would suggest hooking it to your computer, backing up any data you want to keep, do a factory reset
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Whenever I try to hook up my phone to the computer, it doesn't show up on my computer unless the phone is fully booted. How would I go about hooking it up?
MLS_Dumpster said:
Whenever I try to hook up my phone to the computer, it doesn't show up on my computer unless the phone is fully booted. How would I go about hooking it up?
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I use Philz, but somewhere you should see something about mounting USB, once you do that you can back up pictures and files and whatnot
mattzeller said:
I use Philz, but somewhere you should see something about mounting USB, once you do that you can back up pictures and files and whatnot
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We just had a breakthrough; we were able to flash PhilZ touch onto the phone. We mounted the USB, and we were able to access the external sd card, but we still do not have access to the internal sd or boot. Theoretically, because we were able to flash PhilZ, this means the phone still has root access, and therefore, the data is still there. Now we have PhilZ working, would it be possible to make a backup of the data from the internal SD? I am looking in the menu and it gives me the option to backup to sdcard or sdcard1. How should I proceed? Is this the best option?
Thanks!
MLS_Dumpster said:
We just had a breakthrough; we were able to flash PhilZ touch onto the phone. We mounted the USB, and we were able to access the external sd card, but we still do not have access to the internal sd or boot. Theoretically, because we were able to flash PhilZ, this means the phone still has root access, and therefore, the data is still there. Now we have PhilZ working, would it be possible to make a backup of the data from the internal SD? I am looking in the menu and it gives me the option to backup to sdcard or sdcard1. How should I proceed? Is this the best option?
Thanks!
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Yes, you can make a nandroid from there, so a backup to sdcard1. What exactly are you trying to save?
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Yes, you can make a nandroid from there, so a backup to sdcard1. What exactly are you trying to save?
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As much as possible, most importantly my contacts, and messages. We are backing up to sd card 1 now. Correct me if I am wrong, but our course of action now would be to take the backup and either a. restore it, or b. factory reset, root phone, install philZ again, and restore then, correct? I just want to be very clear with my options before proceeding with either.
Thanks again dude!
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As much as possible, most importantly my contacts, and messages. We are backing up to sd card 1 now. Correct me if I am wrong, but our course of action now would be to take the backup and either a. restore it, or b. factory reset, root phone, install philZ again, and restore then, correct? I just want to be very clear with my options before proceeding with either.
Thanks again dude!
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Contacts are backed up by Google, if you are having a booting problem, backing up and restoring will not fix it. Philz does not need to be re-flashed. If you are currently on stock, reflash a stock ROM without wiping internal storage, go in backup your messages with something like Titanium Backup.
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Contacts are backed up by Google, if you are having a booting problem, backing up and restoring will not fix it. Philz does not need to be re-flashed. If you are currently on stock, reflash a stock ROM without wiping internal storage, go in backup your messages with something like Titanium Backup.
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I understand now what it is we need to do. In the search of a usable stock ROM, we hear it is impossible to flash 4.4.2 without losing all the data on internal storage. Is this true? Is there a way around this? If there isn't a way around it, I understand, but it would just be very inconvenient. How should we approach this?
Thanks again!