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Lately i have been having many problems with my captivate from just normal function use and problems with trying to back it up and use roms. ive looked through countless threads followed directions, videos, but those came with no such luck.
First ill mention the recent problems i seem to have which most likely are due to me attempting to back it up, use rom manager, installing roms etc. First is the response of the unlock button which just started happening today. ill have to push the unlock button multiple times before i even get the unlock screen. when i finally do get it its usually covered in the menu you get when you hold down the lock button. while in a voicemail today i tried unlocking to click the number pad and instead my phone just randomly turned off.
Another recent problem is horrriiibbbllleee battery life. ill take my phone off the charger at 100% get ready for work eat breakfast and in that time maybe text my gf once or twice and ill be down like 10% it is impossible for me to get my phone to last a whole day without charging it in my car during my lunch break and i still go home in the red zone of battery.
Now to the problems ive been having that most likely caused this.
a few weeks ago i wanted to try to put on cog5 and cm7 to try them out. before i did anything i wanted to back up my phone so first i plugged it in and simply copied every folder from the phone and sd card to my computer just in case. then i looked up ways to do backups and rom installs and many things led me to using rom manager. (i was already rooted and have the froyo leak from last year) first i tried the backup option in rom manager, after running it it did absolutely nothing, there were no options when i would go back to it and to the restore option. i figured aww whatever ill try this anyways. i downloaded the zip files for the roms placed them in the sd folder as update.zip or w.e. would open up into the download mode or whatever only to see no option to download the file.
i also tried installing cog 4.5 which was an option through rom manager and that did nothing as well. i eventually somehow messed my phone up where when i turned it on if i would press the app drawer it would pop up the menu, only like 5 apps would display, it would bounce up and down and i couldnt back out of it or click anything. when i could get it to the main screen i also couldnt do anything. i was able to go into task killer through the dropdown menu and navigate to stuff through there. again tried to do the restore in manager but nothing. so i just wiped every file on the phone and sd card and replaced it with the files i had saved earlier and have just been using it as that.
recently i found an article saying i need to flash back to the original then flash to gingerbread before i can do anything else. well before i wanted to mess with this i wanted to try to backup. read articles on nandroid backups and watched a how to vid. the article said to boot into clockwork recovery then click back up and yada yada. if the option was not there then to click reinstall packages. however everytime i click reinstall packages my phone fails and will not do it.
all in all i just need help backing up my phone as i have some apps and games and stuff i dont feel like starting over on (tho if i have to i guess i will ha)
after the backup i would then like to install cm7 or cog5 and if anyone feels those arent stable enough for normal use then whatever anyone suggests. im really horrible at messing around with these phones, probably shouldnt have been even trying but i get bored sometimes. main problem is just none of the options any video or guide states ever work when i actually do it with my phone or those options arent even available.
thanks in advance to everyone and try to make your responses as stupid as possible
if you would read around the captivate forums, rom manager isnt of much use to us here. just boot into recovery and use CWM, then select BACKUP AND RESTORE, to make your backup.....
Delldorado said:
Lately i have been having many problems with my captivate from just normal function use and problems with trying to back it up and use roms. ive looked through countless threads followed directions, videos, but those came with no such luck.
First ill mention the recent problems i seem to have which most likely are due to me attempting to back it up, use rom manager, installing roms etc. First is the response of the unlock button which just started happening today. ill have to push the unlock button multiple times before i even get the unlock screen. when i finally do get it its usually covered in the menu you get when you hold down the lock button. while in a voicemail today i tried unlocking to click the number pad and instead my phone just randomly turned off.
Another recent problem is horrriiibbbllleee battery life. ill take my phone off the charger at 100% get ready for work eat breakfast and in that time maybe text my gf once or twice and ill be down like 10% it is impossible for me to get my phone to last a whole day without charging it in my car during my lunch break and i still go home in the red zone of battery.
Now to the problems ive been having that most likely caused this.
a few weeks ago i wanted to try to put on cog5 and cm7 to try them out. before i did anything i wanted to back up my phone so first i plugged it in and simply copied every folder from the phone and sd card to my computer just in case. then i looked up ways to do backups and rom installs and many things led me to using rom manager. (i was already rooted and have the froyo leak from last year) first i tried the backup option in rom manager, after running it it did absolutely nothing, there were no options when i would go back to it and to the restore option. i figured aww whatever ill try this anyways. i downloaded the zip files for the roms placed them in the sd folder as update.zip or w.e. would open up into the download mode or whatever only to see no option to download the file.
i also tried installing cog 4.5 which was an option through rom manager and that did nothing as well. i eventually somehow messed my phone up where when i turned it on if i would press the app drawer it would pop up the menu, only like 5 apps would display, it would bounce up and down and i couldnt back out of it or click anything. when i could get it to the main screen i also couldnt do anything. i was able to go into task killer through the dropdown menu and navigate to stuff through there. again tried to do the restore in manager but nothing. so i just wiped every file on the phone and sd card and replaced it with the files i had saved earlier and have just been using it as that.
recently i found an article saying i need to flash back to the original then flash to gingerbread before i can do anything else. well before i wanted to mess with this i wanted to try to backup. read articles on nandroid backups and watched a how to vid. the article said to boot into clockwork recovery then click back up and yada yada. if the option was not there then to click reinstall packages. however everytime i click reinstall packages my phone fails and will not do it.
all in all i just need help backing up my phone as i have some apps and games and stuff i dont feel like starting over on (tho if i have to i guess i will ha)
after the backup i would then like to install cm7 or cog5 and if anyone feels those arent stable enough for normal use then whatever anyone suggests. im really horrible at messing around with these phones, probably shouldnt have been even trying but i get bored sometimes. main problem is just none of the options any video or guide states ever work when i actually do it with my phone or those options arent even available.
thanks in advance to everyone and try to make your responses as stupid as possible
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Ok. I don't even know if you can get there from where you are now, but the first step I'd recommend if you need to keep your app data is to get Titanium Backup (it's in the market). If you can get that running, do a backup (there's directions on how to do it in the stickies if you need it), and move that to a safe place (like your pc).
If you can connect via USB, you can always pull the clockworkrecovery.zip out of the AIO Captivate Toolbox, move it to your internal SD card, rename it update.zip, and then try to do the reinstall packages with that.
If you can't get there, and you don't have a good nandroid backup, you may (unfortunately) be out of luck with getting your saved data back. If you can't make a good backup, and you're still in froyo/eclair land (I'm guessing you are, since I believe that cog 4.5 is not gingerbread), you would probably be best off to use the Odin One-Click to Stock to put your phone at a nice clean place to start over.
After that, do a little reading and research, and find a ROM that you think looks like it will suit you well - it's going to be a matter of personal choice, so just read up. Once you find one that looks good, just read its directions on how you can install it.
Assuming all goes well, you'll be back up and running in no time. If you're luck, and Titanium Backup worked, you'll even be able to get your apps back.
If you have more questions, just post.
alright didnt know that
although i did say that i cant do that. when i go into recovery there is no option for backup and i cant get into clockwork recovery. the thread i read said if i cant then click reinstall packages and i should be able to however reinstall packages fails. the only options i get or to boot up, reinstall, clear cache, clear "something" and then another option though i dont quite remember both nothing is displayed that your telling me to click. thanks for the prompt response
Delldorado said:
alright didnt know that
although i did say that i cant do that. when i go into recovery there is no option for backup and i cant get into clockwork recovery. the thread i read said if i cant then click reinstall packages and i should be able to however reinstall packages fails. the only options i get or to boot up, reinstall, clear cache, clear "something" and then another option though i dont quite remember both nothing is displayed that your telling me to click. thanks for the prompt response
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What does your recovery screen look like? Does it have a little gear icon as the background, or is it the Android guy with an exclamation point in a triangle?
jmtheiss said:
Ok. I don't even know if you can get there from where you are now, but the first step I'd recommend if you need to keep your app data is to get Titanium Backup (it's in the market). If you can get that running, do a backup (there's directions on how to do it in the stickies if you need it), and move that to a safe place (like your pc).
If you can connect via USB, you can always pull the clockworkrecovery.zip out of the AIO Captivate Toolbox, move it to your internal SD card, rename it update.zip, and then try to do the reinstall packages with that.
If you can't get there, and you don't have a good nandroid backup, you may (unfortunately) be out of luck with getting your saved data back. If you can't make a good backup, and you're still in froyo/eclair land (I'm guessing you are, since I believe that cog 4.5 is not gingerbread), you would probably be best off to use the Odin One-Click to Stock to put your phone at a nice clean place to start over.
After that, do a little reading and research, and find a ROM that you think looks like it will suit you well - it's going to be a matter of personal choice, so just read up. Once you find one that looks good, just read its directions on how you can install it.
Assuming all goes well, you'll be back up and running in no time. If you're luck, and Titanium Backup worked, you'll even be able to get your apps back.
If you have more questions, just post.
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i actually already have titanium. perhaps should have mentioned that lol. i just dont know too much about how it quite works. a while back i backed up apps and such and i can still do so now. so that program then saves everything on the sd card? once flashing to stock would i reinstall titanium and then it would be able to pull from these files on the sd card. also what would one have to back up in order to save games in emulators, do those saved games store on the emulator, in game file on the sd card or elsewhere? thanks for the post and the link for stock. assumed thats what id be doing just wanted to check on backing things up
jmtheiss said:
What does your recovery screen look like? Does it have a little gear icon as the background, or is it the Android guy with an exclamation point in a triangle?
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android guy with an exclamation point in a triangle
options are reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
format internal sd card
Delldorado said:
i actually already have titanium. perhaps should have mentioned that lol. i just dont know too much about how it quite works. a while back i backed up apps and such and i can still do so now. so that program then saves everything on the sd card? once flashing to stock would i reinstall titanium and then it would be able to pull from these files on the sd card. also what would one have to back up in order to save games in emulators, do those saved games store on the emulator, in game file on the sd card or elsewhere? thanks for the post and the link for stock. assumed thats what id be doing just wanted to check on backing things up
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That's good to hear. When you run a "backup all user apps" operation, it creates a folder called "Titaniumbackup" on your internal SD card. If you did a backup with TiBu before all of this happened (with your apps they way they were), and you've only added a little bit since then, just do a new "backup all user apps" batch operation, then move it to a safe place.
As far as everything else, you may have to do a little digging and move those files manually (if you have emulator saves and roms, you'll probably have to find where those are saved by yourself).
The recovery screen you're seeing is the stock Android recovery screen, meaning you don't have ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) installed. Look in the dev section for the AIO Captivate Toolbox, download it, and then follow my directions above to get CWM installed. You can make a Nandroid backup from there.
At that point, you can clean your phone up (with the one-click to stock), and start over again with flashing.
jmtheiss said:
That's good to hear. When you run a "backup all user apps" operation, it creates a folder called "Titaniumbackup" on your internal SD card. If you did a backup with TiBu before all of this happened (with your apps they way they were), and you've only added a little bit since then, just do a new "backup all user apps" batch operation, then move it to a safe place.
As far as everything else, you may have to do a little digging and move those files manually (if you have emulator saves and roms, you'll probably have to find where those are saved by yourself).
The recovery screen you're seeing is the stock Android recovery screen, meaning you don't have ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM) installed. Look in the dev section for the AIO Captivate Toolbox, download it, and then follow my directions above to get CWM installed. You can make a Nandroid backup from there.
At that point, you can clean your phone up (with the one-click to stock), and start over again with flashing.
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well its been like half a year since ive backed anything up. would i still be able to do the backup all user apps when things are going wrong with it. that only backs up those apps not any of the rom or anythin so those wouldnt corrupt the fresh phone right?
as to the second part alright sounds good ill try that out and let you know how i fail some more thanks a lot
i see no backup all app data option titanium backup. lol told you im an idiot
Delldorado said:
well its been like half a year since ive backed anything up. would i still be able to do the backup all user apps when things are going wrong with it. that only backs up those apps not any of the rom or anythin so those wouldnt corrupt the fresh phone right?
as to the second part alright sounds good ill try that out and let you know how i fail some more thanks a lot
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In my experience, when Tibu does a backup, it will add any new applications/data to your existing backup, and overwrite existing backed up data to your backup. To be safe, just keep the backup you made a year and a half ago somewhere safe, and then run the batch operation on a separate copy on your phone. That way, at least one of the backups will be able to get you to where you want to be.
It only backs up applications and their associated data (e.g. Angry Birds + its scores) as long as you do the "backup all user apps" option. If you choose the "Backup all user apps + system data", you can get into some unsafe territory when it comes time to restore them.
Ultimately, if your applications right now are at a place where you are happy with them, just run the "backup all user apps" option, then move the titaniumbackup folder to a safe place.
Delldorado said:
i see no backup all app data option titanium backup. lol told you im an idiot
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No problem. Just go into Tibu, click the "backup/restore" button at the top, then click the menu key and select the "batch" option. The next screen that comes up should have an option that said "backup all user apps" - just click the Run button next to it and let it do its thing.
Ok you're on Froyo, right? That means you have the stock 3e recovery and need to use the search button and look for modded 3e recovery in the Captivate android development section, follow those steps. Then once you have that, go to Rom manager and flash CWM at the very top. Reboot to recovery backup!
Sent from my plain KF1 Gingerbread Captivate using the XDA Premium App.
b-eock said:
Ok you're on Froyo, right? That means you have the stock 3e recovery and need to use the search button and look for modded 3e recovery in the Captivate android development section, follow those steps. Then once you have that, go to Rom manager and flash CWM at the very top. Reboot to recovery backup!
Sent from my plain KF1 Gingerbread Captivate using the XDA Premium App.
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Thanks for catching that - I haven't been on stock Froyo, so I keep forgetting about that.
Here's the link
jmtheiss said:
No problem. Just go into Tibu, click the "backup/restore" button at the top, then click the menu key and select the "batch" option. The next screen that comes up should have an option that said "backup all user apps" - just click the Run button next to it and let it do its thing.
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backing up now. will move the folder over elsewhere, move pictures/vids over (im assuming this doesnt back those up) and then ill restore.
ill let you know how it goes if at all interested cuz im sure ill mess up somewhere again
Delldorado said:
backing up now. will move the folder over elsewhere, move pictures/vids over (im assuming this doesnt back those up) and then ill restore.
ill let you know how it goes if at all interested cuz im sure ill mess up somewhere again
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You are correct in assuming it doesn't back those up.
Just so you know, doing all this won't erase the files on your internal sd card unless you do a master clear somewhere along the way. That being said, backing up all your important information before doing any major phone changes is always a good idea.
umm little help in flashing odin. ive downloaded it, its open, i put my phone in download mode its connected by usb, clicked start and it seems to be stuck here:
<ID:0/009> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/009> Odin v.3 engine (ID:9)..
<ID:0/009> File analysis..
<ID:0/009> SetupConnection..
is it done? i recall a long time ago when i flashed froyo i believe it said finish. do i still wait, is it not working, do i just do reboot system?
i was trying to flash this then was goin to do the whole thign with clockwork after. tho i also saw like cog has clockwork in the rom so i was going to root then put this on afterwards, reinstall titanium then reinstall by backup.
haha now i messed up. k got it stock. then got gingerbread. then started the root. did the first part but i didnt know i needed to put the 3 button fix on. so now my phone is stuck in a boot lupe with some dumb fugu fish or w.e. and i cant access download mode. computer wont recognize my phone to do anything like add in the fix or flash back. is there anything i can do without having to make a jig or whatever?
if you flashed the gingerbread bootloaders then you need to hold volume down and power to get into download mode.
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if you flashed the gingerbread bootloaders then you need to hold volume down and power to get into download mode.
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yeah i know that however it just does the att screen then it switches to the fugu fish then reboots to the att screen then fugu fish etc and so on. down and power doesnt work. down up and power doesnt work. nothing works lol
After doing a lo of searching and what not I finally was able to do a backup on my phone with clockworkmod revcovery.I tried to install cyanogenmod7 and pretty much bricked my phone...I am very new to flashing and all this stuff so I freaked out and panicked but I was finally able to restore the phone back to the way it was using the backup. So then I read a couple more threads and did some searching around on the internet and tried to install cyanogenmod7 again and the same thing happened...the phone would boot up to the lg logo screen then go blank and nothing would happen it would just stay like that. So i figured I'd give it up and just redo the backup again and restore the phone back to where I had it..BUT this time it wouldn't do it! it just kept saying the file wasn't found...I kept trying and nothing so then I really freaked out and after fooling around with clearing the caches and data and all that stuff some how I don't know how I did it but it finally installed cyanogenmod7 On my phone and that's what its running now...So to make a long story short...where did my backup go? can I get it back? or was I suppose to make a new backup every time I flash my phone? Any help would be great! Thank you!
I'm currently running ViperROM v1.1.0
I decided to try the CyanogenMod 10.13RC2 to check it out and see if I wanted to switch.
In TWRP (v2.5), did a nandroid backup, wiped, then flashed new CM. Upon rebooting, ASOP something kept crashing, but error message went away to fast for me to see it. Regardless, decided didn't want to keep it, until a Stable version is released.
Went back to TWRP, wiped System/Data/Boot/Cache, then went to restore, and none of my backups were listed. At first I thought I screwed up, or forgot to backup, did a little research, found that if installing a 4.3 ROM where a 4.2 ROM used to be, a /sdcard/0/ directory is created, and everything gets moved there.
Moved my TWRP backup files into /data/media/0/TWRP/Backups/ and was able to sucessfully restore my nandroid backup, so I think I'm back to normal now.
My question is, what is my default directory now, and where should my files be located?
/sdcard/ ? or /sdcard/0/ ?
As a follow up, if it is /sdcard/0/ now, is there any way to restore it so it's not longer looking in the /0 subdirectory?
Zxurian said:
Went back to TWRP, wiped System/Data/Boot/Cache, then went to restore, and none of my backups were listed. At first I thought I screwed up, or forgot to backup, did a little research, found that if installing a 4.3 ROM where a 4.2 ROM used to be, a /sdcard/0/ directory is created, and everything gets moved there.
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I think you mean going from 4.1 to 4.2. 4.3 isn't officially out yet.
Zxurian said:
I'm currently running ViperROM v1.1.0
I decided to try the CyanogenMod 10.13RC2 to check it out and see if I wanted to switch.
In TWRP (v2.5), did a nandroid backup, wiped, then flashed new CM. Upon rebooting, ASOP something kept crashing, but error message went away to fast for me to see it. Regardless, decided didn't want to keep it, until a Stable version is released.
Went back to TWRP, wiped System/Data/Boot/Cache, then went to restore, and none of my backups were listed. At first I thought I screwed up, or forgot to backup, did a little research, found that if installing a 4.3 ROM where a 4.2 ROM used to be, a /sdcard/0/ directory is created, and everything gets moved there.
Moved my TWRP backup files into /data/media/0/TWRP/Backups/ and was able to sucessfully restore my nandroid backup, so I think I'm back to normal now.
My question is, what is my default directory now, and where should my files be located?
/sdcard/ ? or /sdcard/0/ ?
As a follow up, if it is /sdcard/0/ now, is there any way to restore it so it's not longer looking in the /0 subdirectory?
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This post explains it all
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2304138
jdjohn said:
I think you mean going from 4.1 to 4.2. 4.3 isn't officially out yet.
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correct, my mistake
budeone said:
This post explains it all
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2304138
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Thank you for the link. Tried searching ahead of time and knew the cause, but didn't find this post that explains how to get around it / restore it to pre 4.2.
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correct, my mistake
Thank you for the link. Tried searching ahead of time and knew the cause, but didn't find this post that explains how to get around it / restore it to pre 4.2.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42512892
So I decided today to make a CWM backup, because I do that from time to time. I deleted my old backup from within ROM Manager, then clicked the option in the Manager to create new backup. I've never done that before (I usually just go directly to recovery from power off and then select backup in there).
I left it to do the backup, left, and checked again in about ten minutes, the amount of time it usually takes. It was not finished. I left it and forgot about it for at least an hour. It was still on "data" when I checked again.
In the end, it probably took about an hour and a half at least. What is going on? (At first I thought it was because I deleted the backup before making a new one, so it had to make lots of new files, but I just made a second backup to test, and it's taking the same time. This has never happened before.)
EDIT: So now I'm fairly sure what's happening is that it's backing up my SD card as well. So now I'm just wondering what in the world caused it to start doing that and how should I turn it off?
Which version are you on? I read complaints from other people about the time it took to backup/restore, and improvements in a later version. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to specifics but I held off upgrading until I confirm it's OK again.
Did you figure this out? It's been backing up my One for an hour already and normally takes 10 mins or so too! Still spinning through text as it's backing up data, but it's been going for a long time. Scared to interrupt it
Edit. So new ROM beta had bad dialer and had to restore looong backup. It took just as looong to restore. Thought I'd restore to a 4.3 backup and it was 3 mins. So maybe it has to do with Kitkat backups. I was running CM Kitkat beta 5....now back on Slim 4.3.1
iarejohnsmith said:
So I decided today to make a CWM backup, because I do that from time to time. I deleted my old backup from within ROM Manager, then clicked the option in the Manager to create new backup. I've never done that before (I usually just go directly to recovery from power off and then select backup in there).
I left it to do the backup, left, and checked again in about ten minutes, the amount of time it usually takes. It was not finished. I left it and forgot about it for at least an hour. It was still on "data" when I checked again.
In the end, it probably took about an hour and a half at least. What is going on? (At first I thought it was because I deleted the backup before making a new one, so it had to make lots of new files, but I just made a second backup to test, and it's taking the same time. This has never happened before.)
EDIT: So now I'm fairly sure what's happening is that it's backing up my SD card as well. So now I'm just wondering what in the world caused it to start doing that and how should I turn it off?
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deeevan said:
Which version are you on? I read complaints from other people about the time it took to backup/restore, and improvements in a later version. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to specifics but I held off upgrading until I confirm it's OK again.
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Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking this thread lol. I am on ARHD 22.0 so 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.0, latest ROM Manager and latest recovery (flashed it manually).
In the end, I didn't really get a solution. The one thing that I noticed that was different was that it looked like it was mounting the internal SD before backup, so it could be possibly backing up my 17GB storage. It doesn't seem to be any corruption issue.
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Did you figure this out? It's been backing up my One for an hour already and normally takes 10 mins or so too! Still spinning through text as it's backing up data, but it's been going for a long time. Scared to interrupt it
Edit. So new ROM beta had bad dialer and had to restore looong backup. It took just as looong to restore. Thought I'd restore to a 4.3 backup and it was 3 mins. So maybe it has to do with Kitkat backups. I was running CM Kitkat beta 5....now back on Slim 4.3.1
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I never really got an answer, sorry. I am on ARHD 22.0, 4.3 with Sense 5.0. I think it may just be the fact that it's backing up my 17GB virtual SD data haha. But I don't know for sure since I haven't had to do a full restore yet, thankfully.
If that's the case, I wonder why they don't have a selection for what you want to include in the backup, although I think you can probably try backing up each individual thing in "advanced". Maybe I'll try that and see if the total time is less, next time I make a backup.
Had the same issues with backups taking 30/45mins on my One, i now switched to TWRP, and i can get it backed up in less than 5 minuites with the same amount of data..
iarejohnsmith said:
Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking this thread lol. I am on ARHD 22.0 so 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.0, latest ROM Manager and latest recovery (flashed it manually).
In the end, I didn't really get a solution. The one thing that I noticed that was different was that it looked like it was mounting the internal SD before backup, so it could be possibly backing up my 17GB storage. It doesn't seem to be any corruption issue.
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I meant which version of CWM Since you said latest version, I'll assume you mean 6.0.4.x.
I still have 6.0.3.6 on my phone but 6.0.4.3 on my tablet. The tablet backup takes excruciatingly long but it's only 1.36gb so I don't think it's including sdcard data. My backup folder is on sdcard with CWM pointing to a symlink so I expect the sdcard to be mounted.
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I meant which version of CWM Since you said latest version, I'll assume you mean 6.0.4.x.
I still have 6.0.3.6 on my phone but 6.0.4.3 on my tablet. The tablet backup takes excruciatingly long but it's only 1.36gb so I don't think it's including sdcard data. My backup folder is on sdcard with CWM pointing to a symlink so I expect the sdcard to be mounted.
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Yeah I have 6.0.4.x. I think the last digit is a 4. Weird. Mine's 2.42 GB, not sure if the size changed from before (even if it did, it definitely didn't change more than 2x, so why would it take 10x longer? lol).
IINexusII said:
Had the same issues with backups taking 30/45mins on my One, i now switched to TWRP, and i can get it backed up in less than 5 minuites with the same amount of data..
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Haha you know it's CWM 4 lyf tho. I personally just can't deal with the TWRP interface. I never even bothered to find out if they could flash the same backups.
Did the backups have the same size?
iarejohnsmith said:
Haha you know it's CWM 4 lyf tho. I personally just can't deal with the TWRP interface. I never even bothered to find out if they could flash the same backups.
Did the backups have the same size?
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The backups are compressed in TWRP so the file sizes are slightly smaller.
I was a CWM for life guy too until i saw the backup speed on twrp, havent looked back since. Just change the theme if you dont like the stock interface
Just to deliver a sense of finality to this thread...
I have finally switched over to TWRP, and it's great.
After reading through numerous comparisons of CWM Recovery and TWRP, I caved and flashed 2.6.3.3, and the backups are made in about 5 minutes max.
So for anyone else having backup troubles on CWM, just try out TWRP. Take it from a hardcore CWM user from the start. :good:
I needed to switch to TWRP to flash ARHD 40.2. The issue I have is what to do with all the CWM backups I have. Particularly the stock ones. I might convert them over, but it's not going to be fun.
ok, so i was trying to root my sprint htc one, and everything was going, ok. i unlocked the bootloader simple enough. then i wanted to back up the data, before i tried putting roms on it. well twrp kept saying i only had about 34 mb of space which made no sense since i had formatted it, and only brought back things like contacts and texts. when i checked my phone it said that i had 24gbs. so i couldnt find an answer to this anywhere so while looking through twrp i saw the wipe function. not having seen anything about it, i said, maybe if i reformat it again, itl clear up. so i hit wipe all. well after it was done it only said i had 1.2 gbs, so still confused i went to load my normal os, well i cant. because wiping everything meant the system data the os is on. i spend hours trying to find a fix, as im only able to go between the bootloader and twrp, and i see a sideload option, and after following the steps, i attempt to sideload. everything is going well. Viper looks like its about to install, until at the last second it says install fail. but now i cant even access the recovery menu. literally stuck in the boot loader option. all my contacts and pictures and stuff are backed up, so i have no problem formatting my phone to scratch if it means fixing this, but can anyone point me in the right direction???? i cant find anything on this, ive been searching through this site, and some people with similar issues solve it by sheer luck, but i have no rom back up(since i was trying to do that when i got into this problem) please please help!!!
**edit** i was able to get into twrp by using the recovery steps, though im just back to square 1. is there a guarenteed reliable sideloader that can work?
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Try the latest RUU first if it does not work follow the guide from the beginning it will get you fixed up.
raynefr said:
ok, so i was trying to root my sprint htc one, and everything was going, ok. i unlocked the bootloader simple enough. then i wanted to back up the data, before i tried putting roms on it. well twrp kept saying i only had about 34 mb of space which made no sense since i had formatted it, and only brought back things like contacts and texts. when i checked my phone it said that i had 24gbs. so i couldnt find an answer to this anywhere so while looking through twrp i saw the wipe function. not having seen anything about it, i said, maybe if i reformat it again, itl clear up. so i hit wipe all. well after it was done it only said i had 1.2 gbs, so still confused i went to load my normal os, well i cant. because wiping everything meant the system data the os is on. i spend hours trying to find a fix, as im only able to go between the bootloader and twrp, and i see a sideload option, and after following the steps, i attempt to sideload. everything is going well. Viper looks like its about to install, until at the last second it says install fail. but now i cant even access the recovery menu. literally stuck in the boot loader option. all my contacts and pictures and stuff are backed up, so i have no problem formatting my phone to scratch if it means fixing this, but can anyone point me in the right direction???? i cant find anything on this, ive been searching through this site, and some people with similar issues solve it by sheer luck, but i have no rom back up(since i was trying to do that when i got into this problem) please please help!!!
**edit** i was able to get into twrp by using the recovery steps, though im just back to square 1. is there a guarenteed reliable sideloader that can work?
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Do you still have the memory issue? If so, try running a RUU, and see if that fixes your problem.
If not, just use adb sideload to sideload a ROM. Then wipe everything except internal storage and install the ROM normally.
EDIT: Looks like @BD619 ninja'd me XD
BTW sideload very rarely works when you wipe your sdcard.
BD619 said:
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Try the latest RUU first if it does not work follow the guide from the beginning it will get you fixed up.
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hey thanks for the reply. i followed the guide and after some effort, everything seemed good, but when i was trying to load 5.03 sense 6 rom, i got to the htc start up, then it defaulted back to the bootloader..i went with the deodex version of the download, should i try the odex? or a different version all together?
and now it doesnt want to boot into recovery mode either! going to try redoing the steps, but i just cant figure out what the problem is
**edit* i cant fix twrp. the title loads, but thats it. endless loop
ok i got it to seemingly work. restoring content now. sat in fron of my pc for 15 hours...not even sure where imat or if i got any closer to rooting..smh..thank you everyone who helped. if anyone comes across this
to get out of the endless cycle of recover/loading screen.. delete your twrp, or whatevs your using. even if you have the latest, just redownload it. worked for me. i guess there is a huge difference between the odex and the deodex.i had figured deodex was a more refined version, but maybe it had more complicated software. in any case, if you are at a point where you dont have a base os, and you make it this far, go with odex, it worked for me. htc is big on back up, so i was more worried about having to scrap my phone then i was regaining data, especially with most of my stuff backed up to google drive. hopefully you guys are careful.
now...about this backup issue i had in the first place. how can i fix the storage issue? i have a 32 gb phone minus partition leaves me with over 24gb..why is it going based off the separate phonememory slot? why cant i change it?