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[RECOVERY] ClockworkMod Recovery for Vibrant (FINAL! SAFE!)

First things first, if you flashed a previous version of Clockwork Recovery using Odin, FLASH BACK TO A STOCK KERNEL using this Odin package:
http://koush.tandtgaming.com//test/kernel-vibrant-stock.tar.md5
This recovery is *very* safe to use. It does NOT flash your kernel; it is a completely uninvasive recovery method.
How it works: The recovery is packaged as an update.zip that you run from STOCK recovery. The update.zip unpacks Clockwork Recovery onto the ramdisk and restarts recovery. When you reboot, it reverts back to the original, unmodified, stock recovery. So, you will need to keep the recovery on the root of your SD card as an update.zip, and apply the zip every time you want to start Clockwork.
HOWEVER, if you use ROM Manager, all of the recovery installation and management instructions are done for you!
Installation instructions:
Download ROM Manager from the Market.
Flash Recovery.
Choose Vibrant as your phone.
Accept the Superuser prompt.
On the very FIRST boot of Clockwork, you may need to manually select "reinstall packages" if Clockwork does not start. You should only ever have to do this once. It will be automatic from then on.
Watch the backup go!
That's it! This is completely painless and safe! There is no need for Odin anymore to replace the recovery or flash updates!
If you appreciate my work, please buy the Premium version of ROM Manager!

Failed the first time. Left me in the stock recovery menu and gave a recovery error when clockwork first started. Flashed again and tried to backup a second time. Looks like it worked perfect! Now we need some froyo!
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youneek said:
Failed the first time. Left me in the stock recovery menu and gave a recovery error when clockwork first started. Flashed again and tried to backup a second time. Looks like it worked perfect! Now we need some froyo!
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Yes! That is expected! The very first boot WILL FAIL, the recovery needs a kick start to complete installation.

little tip
after I downloaded Rom Manager and had it download the recovery for my Vibrant.
After the success message I waited nothing happened so you may have to select to manually reboot into the recovery, then select "reinstall packages" to finish the installation.

I don't see Vibrant in ROM manager. Do I need to buy premium or am I doin somethin wrong

metalfan78 said:
I don't see Vibrant in ROM manager. Do I need to buy premium or am I doin somethin wrong
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he either took it down and is gonna release it later or something... just wait..

I don't even see "Vibrant" in that list
Nevermind....see above

lp894 said:
I don't even see "Vibrant" in that list
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Vibrant is listed. "Galaxy S Vibrant". Make sure you are on wifi. Some carriers cache web pages.

Sweet I can't wait to have a real recovery

Koush said:
Vibrant is listed. "Galaxy S Vibrant". Make sure you are on wifi. Some carriers cache web pages.
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I can confirm I used Wifi and have already completed my first backup using Clockwork
thanks Koush.. buying the prem version to show my support!

Bummer I guess ill have to wait until I can find a hotspot

I downloaded the clockwork Rom Manager premium and I press the pFlash Recovery button. But I don't see Vibrant in the list either.

Please make sure you guys are on wifi. T-Mobile is caching your webpages and serving you older versions.

when i flash the recovery.. and reboot it goes to the stock recovery i hit reinstall packages then it goes to clockwork.. but after that if i reboot it goes back to stock... hmm thats odd..

ElChibo said:
when i flash the recovery.. and reboot it goes to the stock recovery i hit reinstall packages then it goes to clockwork.. but after that if i reboot it goes back to stock... hmm thats odd..
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That's how it is supposed to work. Recovery is not replaced permanently. It's safer that way. Just reinstall packages to get into clockwork. Or use ROM Manager to have it handle everything automatically.

metalfan78 said:
Bummer I guess ill have to wait until I can find a hotspot
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No, you don't have to. Just go into your browser, go to menu-->more-->settings-->clear chache and that will get you going

Koush said:
That's how it is supposed to work. Recovery is not replaced permanently. It's safer that way. Just reinstall packages to get into clockwork. Or use ROM Manager to have it handle everything automatically.
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ok i get it now... ive been used to always having Amon-RA recovery on my phone when ever i boot to it.. so what your saying is everytime your gonna flash a custom rom this is gonna have to take place?

ElChibo said:
ok i get it now... ive been used to always having Amon-RA recovery on my phone when ever i boot to it.. so what your saying is everytime your gonna flash a custom rom this is gonna have to take place?
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If flashing manually, yes. Just flash using ROM Manager though, and it will handle that all for you automatically.
I can't permanently replace the recovery until the kernel source and whatnot is released for the Vibrant.

Hells yeah!!! Will someone PLEASE put a shipped firmware out now? Like the T959UVJFD. I appreciate the life saving effort from MS_Guru, but t959uvje8 is not jiving with me and my 3g and/or wifi...

Amazing work! Excellent idea for a 100% safe recovery! Kudos!!
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stuck on htc screen after rom manager

so i have had my htc hero rooted for a while now with unevoked and it has been fine well i decide that i wanted to put a custom rom on it because i could stand that my phone was so slow. so i download and installed rom manager and it went well till i rebooted after installing the zip. yes i wiped data and cache. i even took my sd card out while booting no luck. i tried different roms and yet again no luck. i hang on the boot screen even when i try to restore my nandroid what can i do to but custom roms on?

Did you flash your recovery image first?
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andygu3 said:
Did you flash your recovery image first?
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what do you mean?
when i opened rom manager and choose the rom i wanted to install it asked if i wanted to wipe and backup or something but i know i check both. then i install the zip in the recovery boot menu and rebooted and no luck. then i tried another rom and wiped before installing and still no luck.

At the very top of rom manager, you must flash 2.5.0.1 recovery. Did you do this first?
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andygu3 said:
At the very top of rom manager, you must flash 2.5.0.1 recovery. Did you do this first?
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so im just going to run the ruu and reinstall the phone back to factory setting. then im going to root it then when i open rom manager tell me what to do exactly so i don't hang again at the htc boot screen.

cbwhat said:
so im just going to run the ruu and reinstall the phone back to factory setting. then im going to root it then when i open rom manager tell me what to do exactly so i don't hang again at the htc boot screen.
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Sounds good, let us know.

andygu3 said:
Sounds good, let us know.
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still get hang on the boot screen even when i try to restore my nandroid

cbwhat said:
still get hang on the boot screen even when i try to restore my nandroid
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So you flashed the clockworkmod recovery, booted into recovery and made a nandroid of your stock rom. Then, what rom were trying to flash?

andygu3 said:
So you flashed the clockworkmod recovery, booted into recovery and made a nandroid of your stock rom. Then, what rom were trying to flash?
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This exact same thing happened to me. What I did to fix it was pull the battery, then wipe everything (dalvik, data, cache), and then rebooted. My phone was able to boot then.

I'm having the same problem with rom manager. I just rooted my desire using the unrevoked method, then ran rom manager. I did install the recovery mode first, then backed up the rom. How my desire is just rebooting to the htc screen. How do I get out of this?
Many thanks,
Joe

dumb question, but how did you wipe everything?
Joe

Joefried said:
I'm having the same problem with rom manager. I just rooted my desire using the unrevoked method, then ran rom manager. I did install the recovery mode first, then backed up the rom. How my desire is just rebooting to the htc screen. How do I get out of this?
Many thanks,
Joe
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Hey, that's exactly the same issuing I'm experiencing now. Did you solve it? And if yes, how?
Well, a few hours later I solved it by restoring a backup and then booting went well. Also described in a thread on androidforums dot com (I can't enter the link here due to not having posted enough messages) .

cbwhat said:
so i have had my htc hero rooted for a while now with unevoked and it has been fine well i decide that i wanted to put a custom rom on it because i could stand that my phone was so slow. so i download and installed rom manager and it went well till i rebooted after installing the zip. yes i wiped data and cache. i even took my sd card out while booting no luck. i tried different roms and yet again no luck. i hang on the boot screen even when i try to restore my nandroid what can i do to but custom roms on?
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I don't know if this helps, but I'm pretty sure nandroids are specific to which recovery they were created with, I read that somewhere a few days ago. If you did not have clockwork before, I would try getting the recovery you used to make the nand, install that recovery and then restore the nand. Then try the whole wipe everything and get clockwork and go to town. If you haven't tried RA/Darch 1.7 recovery, I would recommend it, I personally like it better than clockwork, it seems faster, and simpler to use.

Exactly What "Il Duce" Said Will Fix Your Problem, Same Exact Thing Happened To Me, What I Did Was Go Back To Previous Version Of Rom Manager Then Flash Alternate Recovery, AND Regular Clockwork Recovery, Should Be Good After That!
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Help Bootloop !

I'm pretty sure there is nothing that can be done until I get home. But I wanted to see if any one had any ideas.
First off I hate clock work recovery always have probably always will until they fix it.
I was on CM6.1 everything is backed up through Amon Ra and in theory Clockworkmod Recovery v2.5.1.0
I went to flash a rom it gives me error E:can't make /tmp/update_binary but it started the install process so now I'm in a bootloop. When I go into restore it gives me a MD5 mismatch E: cant open /tmp/recovery.log
Now in a normal situation I just push amon ra back into the phone through windows but I'm at work is there anything I can do at all?

You can boot into recovery by using the 3 finger salute--wipe all--and restore a bu
Good idea, if you don't, is to regualry do sdcard bu's also
Ken

rugmankc said:
You can boot into recovery by using the 3 finger salute--wipe all--and restore a bu
Good idea, if you don't, is to regualry do sdcard bu's also
Ken
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I think he backed up in amon but now has clockwork loaded? which may be part of the issue.
I'm pretty sure you can flash amon from terminal on your phone but you need the recovery image on your sd card although you're probably home by now...

behelit said:
I think he backed up in amon but now has clockwork loaded? which may be part of the issue.
I'm pretty sure you can flash amon from terminal on your phone but you need the recovery image on your sd card although you're probably home by now...
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Not quite sure how you would run terminal from the phone when you're stuck in a bootloop, anyway?
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Yea,
I think I missed that and he is up and running by now. Never had any luck restoring a Amon bu with CW or vice versa.

rugmankc said:
Never had any luck restoring a Amon bu with CW or vice versa.
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I've only once had a problem, and it turned out to be because I was running a crap version of busybox...
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You have all the luck danger-rat
I even moved them to the right folders on the sdcard
Never looked at busybox. I have it in TB, but in a different folder than the regular BB would go. I have on occasion had BB try to update and said I had a version installed (referring to TB) and asked if I wanted to install it to a different place. I think I said no, not sure how it all worked at that time. Not sure of the exact wording either, and it has been awhile.
Will see if I have two BB's in two different locations. The dev of TB, explained how it worked once, but forgot what he said.
But, I would think if I don't have BB installed right, independent of TB's one, somethings wouldn't work.
Ken

I discovered my problem by seeing a few glitches with Root Explorer, and the dev told me to switch out busybox - then suddenly my broken backup worked...
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RE runs fine for me as all else
Guess I just can't restore between CW and Amon for some other reason
Don't really need to to as I have duplicate bu's under each and on my laptop
Thanks,
Ken

Thanks for all the help I was back up in running with in tens mins I just had to push amon ra back on the phone and restored it wooo!. The only reason I use clockwork is to push themes that require it. Oh well thank you again for the attempts to help me in my need. I ended having to go to walmart and buy a 14 phone to fire my sim in.

glad you got it coolguy

[Q] Need help with ROM Manager

Ok so I'm new to flashing a ROM, and Im having a little problem with ROM Manager. Ive been trying to make a backup of my current ROM prior to flashing to a new ROM. However when I choose the option to backup current ROM it shows me the name of the backup and then reboots my device (Samsung Captivate) into recovery mode. Not really sure what it wants me to do there so I choose to reboot the device, I then check to see if it made the backup and nothing??? Im not sure what it is that Im doing wrong but Im sure I must be missing a step. The phone is rooted, running 2.2 other than that nothing else has been moded. If any of you can help me I would appreciate it, I just dont want to move forward with flashing a ROM before Ive backed up the current ROM. I have made a backup of all apps and data using Titanium.

Xanaki said:
Ok so I'm new to flashing a ROM, and Im having a little problem with ROM Manager. Ive been trying to make a backup of my current ROM prior to flashing to a new ROM. However when I choose the option to backup current ROM it shows me the name of the backup and then reboots my device (Samsung Captivate) into recovery mode. Not really sure what it wants me to do there so I choose to reboot the device, I then check to see if it made the backup and nothing??? Im not sure what it is that Im doing wrong but Im sure I must be missing a step. The phone is rooted, running 2.2 other than that nothing else has been moded. If any of you can help me I would appreciate it, I just dont want to move forward with flashing a ROM before Ive backed up the current ROM. I have made a backup of all apps and data using Titanium.
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When it goes into recovery, is it the ClockWorkMod recovery menu? Green text? If it isn't getting there you need to install it from ROM manager first or just install it off an update.zip file that is floating around XDA and other sites. Once that is setup, you can run the backup through ROM Manager. It should boot into a recovery mode and then start doing a lot of writing of files to your new backup directory.
Post back if you are still having problems.

I did select the option for flashing ClockWorkMod recovery and chose the Captivate as my device. It did say that it sucessfully downloaded the file and Im assuming that it meant it installed it. And to answer your question I think I can safely say that no its not clockwork recovery when it reboots as it does say at the top of the screen "Android Recovery" so Im pretty sure that ClockWork is not installed. But I will look for that update.zip file and try to install it that way...

Xanaki said:
I did select the option for flashing ClockWorkMod recovery and chose the Captivate as my device. It did say that it sucessfully downloaded the file and Im assuming that it meant it installed it. And to answer your question I think I can safely say that no its not clockwork recovery when it reboots as it does say at the top of the screen "Android Recovery" so Im pretty sure that ClockWork is not installed. But I will look for that update.zip file and try to install it that way...
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I'm sorry, you are looking for recovery-update.zip. I would try to run the ROM Manager install again and see what happens. I haven't had to play with the Android Recovery in quite some time but if the recovery-update.zip file is in the root of your sd card, you should be able to install it through the Android recovery. I'll keep looking. If I can find the file on my phone, i'll post it. Good luck.

If this is your first time booting into CWM recovery it will go to the base recovery first. Then you need to "reinstall packages". That will replace the recovery file with the CWM recovery file and return to the main menu. Then choose reintall packages one more time and it should bring you to CWM recovery instead of the base one. From then on it should bring you directly to the CWM recovery.
As for the backup it's done from CWM recovery. So once you get thru the steps above you will see backup and restore options on the recovery menu and you can go thru that process.

There may be some help in here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734163
First try to flash it again through ROM Manager.

mxracer101 said:
If this is your first time booting into CWM recovery it will go to the base recovery first. Then you need to "reinstall packages". That will replace the recovery file with the CWM recovery file and return to the main menu. Then choose reintall packages one more time and it should bring you to CWM recovery instead of the base one. From then on it should bring you directly to the CWM recovery.
As for the backup it's done from CWM recovery. So once you get thru the steps above you will see backup and restore options on the recovery menu and you can go thru that process.
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DUH...I thought there was another step. Thanks mxracer. Give that a go and see if you get what you are looking for.

Thanks!! Trying that now

Ok still having a problem, I followed the instructions just as posted but this is what I get:
-- Install from sdcard --
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
Ok so what do I do? Im thinking I need to find that recovery-update.zip you were talking about?

Xanaki said:
Ok still having a problem, I followed the instructions just as posted but this is what I get:
-- Install from sdcard --
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package
E:failed to verify whole-file signature
E:signature verification failed
Installation aborted.
Ok so what do I do? Im thinking I need to find that recovery-update.zip you were talking about?
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That update.zip should have been placed there by ROM Manager. Possibly try uninstalling & reinstalling ROM manager. Else, that update.zip should be somewhere. I'd grab the one off my phone but I'm not entirely sure which one it is. My ROM already had CWM with it. I'll try to look for a correct update.zip but I'm at work so I'm not going through XDA all day.

trekie86 said:
That update.zip should have been placed there by ROM Manager. Possibly try uninstalling & reinstalling ROM manager. Else, that update.zip should be somewhere. I'd grab the one off my phone but I'm not entirely sure which one it is. My ROM already had CWM with it. I'll try to look for a correct update.zip but I'm at work so I'm not going through XDA all day.
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you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery

trekie86 said:
DUH...I thought there was another step. Thanks mxracer. Give that a go and see if you get what you are looking for.
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Pirateghost said:
you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery
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Not sure what it is that you're saying I need to do, what is 3e recovery?

Xanaki said:
Not sure what it is that you're saying I need to do, what is 3e recovery?
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this will explain and provide a fix for you....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213

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you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery
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You're right, I did miss that. Haven't had to do anything with 3e recovery before. Xanaki, are you on Rogers with their official 2.2 or the leaked AT&T 2.2?

Pirateghost said:
you missed the part where he said he was running 2.2?
2 words:
3e recovery
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I missed it too. The above post regarding 3e recovery is what you need to do, one of the phones I have I need to do the same process after flashing back to stock. Sorry for the confusion.

Been having a similar issue when it takes you to stock recovery, I hold down both volume buttons and power until I see AT&T let go of power it usually takes me to clockwork recovery menu, I then select whatever I want to do backup, recover, or install from sd.
I don't know why it started doing that but that's what I found works. Hope it helps.

trekie86 said:
You're right, I did miss that. Haven't had to do anything with 3e recovery before. Xanaki, are you on Rogers with their official 2.2 or the leaked AT&T 2.2?
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Im on the leaked AT&T version of 2.2 not Rogers. I haven't had the chance yet to try the recovery method mentioned but I plan on doing so today, I will update as to if this works or not. Also I did read somewhere that flashing a new Kernal might resolve this issue, I do have SGS Kernal Flasher but I dont have another Kernal to flash to...

Stuck in boot screen after CM update through Rom Manager

Got notification to update to the latest CM, clicked ok on everything, phone rebooted, now stuck on boot screen.
Can enter CWM but nothing functions, cannot choose update from SD or anything.
Please help..
(Did search, probably not good enough, but nothing came up. Am also new to the Rom Manager thing. Please don't flame if this is answered somewhere already..)

Did you make a nandroid backup? I always make one 'just in case' before I update.

firtvid20 said:
Did you make a nandroid backup? I always make one 'just in case' before I update.
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Thanks for the quick reply!
Am not sure I did; I think it asked me if I wanted to back up the current rom and I think I clicked not to. Either way, I cannot do anything in CWM, what ever I choose gets stuck at the little hat with the arrow and I have to pull the battery.
It's not a big deal (I hope at least) to revert back to an original image, as it's my back-up phone so I don't use it daily. Hope it's easier than that though..

I would say reverting back to an original image via the passimg trick would be your best option right now (unless your bootloader is unlocked?)

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I would say reverting back to an original image via the passimg trick would be your best option right now (unless your bootloader is unlocked?)
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It is unlocked. Any magic trick..?!
EDIT: I can enter the options in CWM. Being used of the Atrix I was pressing the on/off button instead of the trackball to choose. Ffs.. Anyway, I tried wiping the data, no go; still stuck on bootscreen

I would try restoring a backup if you have one. If not, just do a wipe and clean install...
Unlocked bootloader could've been used to install a new recovery, though that now looks it was operator error... xD

danger-rat said:
I would try restoring a backup if you have one. If not, just do a wipe and clean install...
Unlocked bootloader could've been used to install a new recovery, though that now looks it was operator error... xD
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After a bit of trial & error..fixed!! Dude, it's the 2nd time you've helped me, you should have a donation button. Now I can't buy you a beer..
THANKS!!!!

You're welcome!
I have all the beer I need, but thanks for the offer!! xD

I have kind of the same issue but I am still stuck..
I have an unlocked bootloader and rooted atrix, everything was fine until I installed gingerblur through the cwm ( I chose to install from the sd card ), once I did that it finished what it was doing then I used the reboot feature through cwm. My phone is now not moving past the motorola dual core screen. It still says unlocked at the top left and I can still enter cwm and fastboot. I have read alot about trying to flash through fastboot, but I am sorry I am a newb and do not know how to flash through fastboot. I am desperate for help... any help would greatly be appreciated.

If you can still access recovery, I would try a full wipe and instal again...

Thank you for your response... I did as you said and wiped everything... found a .zip file for android 2.3.4 gingerbread and installed that through cwm. I now have a new question... what is the best way to create a nandroid backup?? I went in android recovery mode on the boot screen and proceeded to backup through the menus and saved it to my external sd card... the only problem is that when I tried to restore back to the backup I made before it kept giving errors while trying to install the backup file. Any ideas how I can successfully create a android backup on this ATRIX 4g??
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You can start by going to the atrix forum and not the nexus one.

Sorry... just downloaded xda app and new to it.
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