I wanted to tryout cm10 nightly build for my s3. I backed it up and installed the rom. After playing with it, I went to restore and now it says no files found?????
Any clue how to find it?
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Created another backup, so I was able to put my original backup in the new backup folder and restored it from cwm recovery. Worked.
Your post contains no information anyone could use to help you. Please explain with great detail what steps you took and what happened.
Aerowinder said:
Your post contains no information anyone could use to help you. Please explain with great detail what steps you took and what happened.
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Sorry, was a bit shocked when it happened.
Well i found the back up, but when I go to CWM to restore it says no files here. But I can access them when I connect my s3 to my computer. Whats an alternate of way restoring this backup?
Where is the backup supposed to be? I have a feeling this is an emulation issue.
Aerowinder said:
Where is the backup supposed to be? I have a feeling this is an emulation issue.
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Its supposed to be in Internal Storage/S3/Clockwork Mod/Backup
When i try to boot into recovery and restore from there it says
"Couldnt open directory"
No files found
What version of CWM are you using? Check /storage/emulated/0 and /storage/legacy/0.
Hey guys;
Essentially; if I do a nandroid backup before I flash a new rom, can I go back to stock by doing a nandroid restore?
Did a search but wanted to get a proper answer.
I have a n7105 with Vodafone software from Australia. There is no stock rom to download for this, and my main concern is keeping some sort of backup so that I can flash back to 'stock' if anything goes wrong and I need to do a warranty repair.
I have flashed many phones in the past but this is the first time I haven't been able to download the stock software.
If I root the phone, flash CWM, do a Nandroid, then flash a different rom, can I get back to my original software by loading my nandroid backup? Is that how nandroid works?
Thanks people; I really appreciate it.
Vincent
VincentRC said:
Hey guys;
Essentially; if I do a nandroid backup before I flash a new rom, can I go back to stock by doing a nandroid restore?
Did a search but wanted to get a proper answer.
I have a n7105 with Vodafone software from Australia. There is no stock rom to download for this, and my main concern is keeping some sort of backup so that I can flash back to 'stock' if anything goes wrong and I need to do a warranty repair.
I have flashed many phones in the past but this is the first time I haven't been able to download the stock software.
If I root the phone, flash CWM, do a Nandroid, then flash a different rom, can I get back to my original software by loading my nandroid backup? Is that how nandroid works?
Thanks people; I really appreciate it.
Vincent
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yes.. you can go back with the restore option. Cheers
rajit said:
yes.. you can go back with the restore option. Cheers
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Awesome! So, again to clarify, I can move from say, cm back to Vodafones 4.1.2 or whatever it is?
Also, I would probably want to move the actual backup image off my phone once its made, is that possible?
VincentRC said:
Awesome! So, again to clarify, I can move from say, cm back to Vodafones 4.1.2 or whatever it is?
Also, I would probably want to move the actual backup image off my phone once its made, is that possible?
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When you will restore your backup you will come back to your ROM (included settings) you had when you proceeded to this Nandroid.
You can move the backup but be careful: you will have to put back the folder in the same directory and name.
Memphis_ said:
When you will restore your backup you will come back to your ROM (included settings) you had when you proceeded to this Nandroid.
You can move the backup but be careful: you will have to put back the folder in the same directory and name.
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Excellent! Thanks guys, I really appreciate your help!
VincentRC said:
Awesome! So, again to clarify, I can move from say, cm back to Vodafones 4.1.2 or whatever it is?
Also, I would probably want to move the actual backup image off my phone once its made, is that possible?
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Yes look at you sdcard/clockworkmod folder after backup. You should not cut it. Copy it in anywhere and dont touch any of this file or you will get md5 error..
Any time you want to back just press the restore button ...
Now flash any rom..
Cheers
Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.
The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.
Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.
Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.
Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.
I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.
Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
ColeTrain! said:
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
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Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
alexandnen said:
Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
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That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.
If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.
Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.
Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.
I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.
Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.
**Not Responsible For Your Phone Spontaneously Combusting, Taking Over The World,
Or Your Girlfriend Finding Those Photos You Forgot To Delete**
Not really a "ROM", but I'm currently uploading a stock twrp backup, untouched or rooted, in
case anyone needs an easy way to restore, and went flash happy and forgot a backup.
EDIT :Just Uncompress, Put The Twrp Folder On The Root Of Either Your SD Card, Or Internal
Storage, And Restore As You Normally Would A Twrp Backup.
DUMP OF KIW-L24 : RE-UPLOADED WITHOUT EFS BACKUP INCLUDED. RESTORE SYSTEM & BOOT.
Learn something new every day. Thanks everyone. . Please check out post #7 and Post #6 For in depth instructions.
(Have to re upload) switching google drive accounts. Hang tight.
New Link
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5g1fK3nTnRRZzlLLWVGVWZzaTg
Cool. Thanks for posting. I didn't realize you could restore another devices backup on your phone.
eruji said:
Cool. Thanks for posting. I didn't realize you could restore another devices backup on your phone.
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Long as it's the same phone, and model number, i've never seen an issue . Just Make Sure
Not To Restore The EFS Portion Of The Previously Uploaded File, Or Just Download The Newly
Uploaded One Without EFS Included. Forgot To Remove It Before Uploading Last Time. lol
paoloroeseke said:
**Not Responsible For Your Phone Spontaneously Combusting, Taking Over The World,
Or Your Girlfriend Finding Those Photos You Forgot To Delete**
Not really a "ROM", but I'm currently uploading a stock twrp backup, untouched or rooted, in
case anyone needs an easy way to restore, and went flash happy and forgot a backup.
EDIT :Just Uncompress, Put The Twrp Folder On The Root Of Either Your SD Card, Or Internal
Storage, And Restore As You Normally Would A Twrp Backup.
RE-UPLOADED WITHOUT EFS BACKUP INCLUDED. RESTORE SYSTEM & BOOT.
(Have to re upload) switching google drive accounts. Hang tight.
New Link
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5g1fK3nTnRRZzlLLWVGVWZzaTg
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Dump created from which model of honor 5x.. mine is KIW-L22
raj7749 said:
Dump created from which model of honor 5x.. mine is KIW-L22
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Sorry. L24 US Version
paoloroeseke said:
Sorry. L24 US Version
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Good, These are nice to have.
One note, TWRP creates a directory structure from the serial number of the phone, so you can't just zip up the entire twrp folder
the backup would not be visible on another device with a different serial number. ( I downloaded the file and it's last folder in the path below)
So the path to my TWRP backup is
sdcard1/TWRP/Backups/my serial number/date of backup
So the best way to pack your file is just zip/rar the /date of backup folder
and instruct others where to extract it too
I.E -> sdcard1/TWRP/Backups/your serial number/put backup here
hope this helps.
I'll be starting my own collection of goodies for this phone on my AFH account soon and I'll share the links for all to use
I mirrored your file here >> https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24407100847292996
Stock recovery is here >> KIW-L24 b130
Also worth noting the full factory restore from Honor is here >> Honor%205X_Firmware_KIW-L24_Android%205.1_EMUI%203.1_C567B130_United%20States_Channel-Others
Instructions are in the zip
eruji said:
Cool. Thanks for posting. I didn't realize you could restore another devices backup on your phone.
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paoloroeseke said:
Long as it's the same phone, and model number, i've never seen an issue . Just Make Sure
Not To Restore The EFS Portion Of The Previously Uploaded File, Or Just Download The Newly
Uploaded One Without EFS Included. Forgot To Remove It Before Uploading Last Time. lol
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I'd like to add to that - when doing that, you should take care to change the device ID on the TWRP folder to match your own.
*swoops back to own forum*
Can you post a "working " not working " section into the OP? How well does this work? Are there features not working like fingerprint or camera?
Edit - my mistake...I thought this was a AOSP backup.
I created a backup, then deleted the the contents and moved the contents of this backup in its place so that it would recognize it, however when I try to restore it, I get an error stating there were no partitions?
paoloroeseke said:
**Not Responsible For Your Phone Spontaneously Combusting, Taking Over The World,
Or Your Girlfriend Finding Those Photos You Forgot To Delete**
Not really a "ROM", but I'm currently uploading a stock twrp backup, untouched or rooted, in
case anyone needs an easy way to restore, and went flash happy and forgot a backup.
EDIT :Just Uncompress, Put The Twrp Folder On The Root Of Either Your SD Card, Or Internal
Storage, And Restore As You Normally Would A Twrp Backup.
DUMP OF KIW-L24 : RE-UPLOADED WITHOUT EFS BACKUP INCLUDED. RESTORE SYSTEM & BOOT.
Learn something new every day. Thanks everyone. . Please check out post #7 and Post #6 For in depth instructions.
(Have to re upload) switching google drive accounts. Hang tight.
New Link
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5g1fK3nTnRRZzlLLWVGVWZzaTg
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TNScrambler said:
I created a backup, then deleted the the contents and moved the contents of this backup in its place so that it would recognize it, however when I try to restore it, I get an error stating there were no partitions?
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Ok, I was able to get it all sorted out, I just had to calm down, think, and teach myself some new comand line skills hahaha
I downloaded the stock Firmware, however I wasn't able to install it since I had TWRP and it was blocking it.... so I found this tool, Huawei Update Extractor that can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 Then used this Extractor to expand the firmware and extract the stock Recovery.img out of it. Then flashed that to the phone via fastboot. Now, I was able to run the stock firmware update via the factory EMUI update app. Once that was done I was able too boot the phone back up and I was suprised to find that it didn't wipe the phone, I guess it ran it as a true "upgrade" instead of a nuke and pave.... BONUS!
Anyhow, then I was able to flash the new TWRP recovery back in place and now I'm currently creating a backup.... which if I had taken the time to do in the first place none of this would have happend. Oh, well... who needs more than 3 hours of sleep..... its not like I work full time and have 5 kids under 5 :silly:
Hope this helps someone who gets flash happy and forgets to make a back up like I did!
Justin
TNScrambler said:
Ok, I was able to get it all sorted out, I just had to calm down, think, and teach myself some new comand line skills hahaha
I downloaded the stock Firmware, however I wasn't able to install it since I had TWRP and it was blocking it.... so I found this tool, Huawei Update Extractor that can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 Then used this Extractor to expand the firmware and extract the stock Recovery.img out of it. Then flashed that to the phone via fastboot. Now, I was able to run the stock firmware update via the factory EMUI update app. Once that was done I was able too boot the phone back up and I was suprised to find that it didn't wipe the phone, I guess it ran it as a true "upgrade" instead of a nuke and pave.... BONUS!
Anyhow, then I was able to flash the new TWRP recovery back in place and now I'm currently creating a backup.... which if I had taken the time to do in the first place none of this would have happend. Oh, well... who needs more than 3 hours of sleep..... its not like I work full time and have 5 kids under 5 :silly:
Hope this helps someone who gets flash happy and forgets to make a back up like I did!
Justin
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Where can you download the stock firmware ? and can you please the stock recovery.img for the L24
Thank you
D3VI0US said:
Where can you download the stock firmware ? and can you please the stock recovery.img for the L24
Thank you
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See post #6
paoloroeseke said:
See post #6
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Yes just found the link
Thank you
D3VI0US said:
Where can you download the stock firmware ? and can you please the stock recovery.img for the L24
Thank you
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As stated above on the link to the stock firmware.... I can post the stock recovery image tonight, its at home on my computer, but it'll probably be faster for you to download that extractor tool and pull it out yourself.... I posted the link to the tool earlier.
Restored Succesfully
Just FYI, this backup worked for me to restore on a KIW-L21 (European Honor 5X). What I did was to first make a backup, which created the proper folder structure and I then copied these backup files into that folder, replacing what was in there. Restore took about a minute and then phone booted in about 3. Thanks alot for this!
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I can confirm that it works with KIW-L21 too.
edit: after that my twrp didn't work correctly. Apparently there are some twrps that don't work with some devices.
I reinstalled twrp with this file http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-5x/development/root-kiw-l24-usa-kiwi-t3305190
After everything was fine.
Arobase40 said:
What difference is there between KIW-L24 and KIW-L21 firmware ?
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Boot.img - the kernel is different
I know because the OTG fix for the L21 will not work on the L24 because of missing libraries
Thanks for the Rom
Really Helpfull, Thanks
Yes I believe that is the case
I'm not sure on all the radio bands though
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Hi,
I am having problems with airplane mode being stuck so I´m trying to go back to stock as a last resort before laying the phone to rest in a drawer lol.
So I downloaded a Nandroid backup from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975140 because I think RUU is no longer an option? First question, does the file I downloaded have to be flashed as a zip in recovery or do I need to put it into a backup folder and flash it as a restore? I have tried both, the zip flash method gives an error and the restore method gives a md5 mismatch.
Also I should mention, I don't know which recovery was used to make these Nandroids so I tried TWRP and CWM both didn't work.
I was going to try this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114 but I thought I better ask before bricking the phone. Although after two weeks of frustration bricking the phone seems like a good option lol.
Any help would be much appreciated, Thanks.