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[Q] [i9000] CWM restore issue for Data

I was trying some new roms on SGS i9000 and before doing so I made a nandroid backup with CWM. Now after flashing the new rom I find out I forgot to backup some contacts from the phone and I try to restore the old backup from CWM, it is able to restore system, cache but data (which is around 900 Mbytes in itself) it proceeds till a certain part and hangs there, the most I left it was 45 minutes without further progress then I remove the battery and reboot.
My question(s):
- has anyone else seen similar issue, I have searched around and it seems there is a similar issue for other devices due to limitation in yaffs maximum number of objects = 10000, while for some backups that number is exceeded, and some guys overcome this limitation in CWM by modifying the CWM package and changing the Max objects parameters and reflashing, has anyone done similar work for SGS I9000
- is there a way to open the backup images files and extract the contact information?
Appreciate your support
Gam

Have you tried to format data, datadata, system and wipe cache, i had a similar problem once and that worked for me for some reason
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Hi pzayx,
yes I tried wiping everything before restoring but I get the same behavior.
restore works with previous "smaller" backup images but not the one that i need
Thanks anyway,
gam

have you tried to flash the same rom that you were on when you took the backup, ive read some threads about people trying to restore a backup for 2.3.3 on a 2.3.5 system and got problems with restoring data.
might be a long shot, but you could try to flash the same rom you took a backup of, and then try to restore?

Yes, I already tried that as well but same response, the data restore freezes at the same point and if I remove battery and power on only part of the data and apps are restored.
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[Q] Droid 4 CM10.1 Stuck at Boot

My phone will currently not boot bast the CyanogenMod boot screen.
I flashed my phone several months ago to CM10.1 It was the update that patched the "masterkey" bug. I have been using it daily since then with no problems.
Today, I turn my phone on, and it just hangs at the boot animation.
There were no significant changes since the last time it was powered on. I think I installed McPixel from the humblebundle, and uninstalled a game from the playstore called Krog. No setting changes of any significance.
I've tried booting into safestrape and deleting both the cache and the dalvik cache, neither has helped. My stock rom still loads just fine, but i had factory reset it quite a while ago. I do have a backup of the rom from about 40 days ago i can try restoring, but i would love a more nondestructive way to fix this.

Try booting into safestrap, wiping system, cache, and dalvik, then reinstall the ROM and gapps.
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kwyrt said:
Try booting into safestrap, wiping system, cache, and dalvik, then reinstall the ROM and gapps.
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0.o wouldn't that be a LOT more destructive than just restoring the old backup?

pyro42 said:
0.o wouldn't that be a LOT more destructive than just restoring the old backup?
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Nope. You are not wiping data so all your apps, setting, etc will still be there.

the data itself will remain if you just wipe the system, cache and dalvik cache but be sure to reinstall the latest stable build of CM and gapps for it
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Nope. You are not wiping data so all your apps, setting, etc will still be there.
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ah gotcha gotcha...
unfortunately it didn't work.
for troubleshooting's sake, i went ahead and made a backup of the rom in it's non-working state.
i restored my old backup, it boots just fine.
restored borked backup (tested it, still won't boot), wiped cache/dcache, wiped system, installed cm-10.2-20130821-NIGHTLY-maserati.zip and gapps 20130812, wiped cache/dcache again for good measure, then reboot and waited 10 minutes, still won't pass boot logo.
so i figure someting's wrong with Data right? so i rebooted to safestrap and did a factory restore, then wiped cache/dcache, and still won't boot.
so now i'm going at it the opposite direction. restoring the working backup, restoring just the data from the nonworking backup, then upgrading CM/Gapps
rebooting.. and....
blank screen with full backlight. not so much as a CM logo.
i guess for now i am going to restore back to the old backup, update the rom, and go about reconfiguring, unless anyone has any more suggestions?

pyro42 said:
ah gotcha gotcha...
unfortunately it didn't work.
for troubleshooting's sake, i went ahead and made a backup of the rom in it's non-working state.
i restored my old backup, it boots just fine.
restored borked backup (tested it, still won't boot), wiped cache/dcache, wiped system, installed cm-10.2-20130821-NIGHTLY-maserati.zip and gapps 20130812, wiped cache/dcache again for good measure, then reboot and waited 10 minutes, still won't pass boot logo.
so i figure someting's wrong with Data right? so i rebooted to safestrap and did a factory restore, then wiped cache/dcache, and still won't boot.
so now i'm going at it the opposite direction. restoring the working backup, restoring just the data from the nonworking backup, then upgrading CM/Gapps
rebooting.. and....
blank screen with full backlight. not so much as a CM logo.
i guess for now i am going to restore back to the old backup, update the rom, and go about reconfiguring, unless anyone has any more suggestions?
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Yeah, definitely sounds like something in /Data. Only other possible option I can think of would be to use Titanium Backup. It has an option to "Extract from Nandroid backup". It's under the "SPECIAL BACKUP/RESTORE" options. I've never used that option before so I have no idea how or if it would work but might be worth a shot.

kwyrt said:
Yeah, definitely sounds like something in /Data. Only other possible option I can think of would be to use Titanium Backup. It has an option to "Extract from Nandroid backup". It's under the "SPECIAL BACKUP/RESTORE" options. I've never used that option before so I have no idea how or if it would work but might be worth a shot.
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wonderful idea, unfortunately TB crashes when i point it at either backup.
buuut i did find Nandroid Manager * ROOT which looks like it might be working.

if you really wanna see if it is the data or not have you tried to
flash 10.2 or whatever you started out with... then restore -just-
the data to the freshly flash system and then do a wipe of all
said caches... I do that sometimes to get a fresh start on my
os itself.. works pretty well. Just do not restore the cache just
the data part. Or restore with MD5 checking... if it doesn't check
out then you know for a fact that the data partition in that specific
nandroid isn't any good :/

[Q] Fixing the boot loop without losing all the apps/data/settings (HD+)

I'm currently running the latest emmc nightly with trim kernel. While it's quite stable, I do get random reboots from time to time and the wifi is not very stable. So last night I tried downgrading it back to the 07/10 build, which is supposed to be the most stable, but it got stuck in the boot loop. I've made sure to flash the right Gapps and wiped the dalvik/cache, uncheck the launcher wallpaper checkbox, but it still won't boot. I then flashed the latest emmc nightly and it boots just fine. Has anyone managed to successfully downgrade to 07/10 and fix the dreaded boot loop problem without losing all the apps/data? I considered trying doing the Titanium app/data backup + flash 07/10 + factory reset + restore backup, but I'm not sure if that would actually work? Open to any suggestions, thanks in advance!

Anyone? Pretty please!

DSent said:
Anyone? Pretty please!
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Titanium Backup Pro can extract apps+data from CWM & TWRP backups. Maybe you can make a nandroid backup of your /data partition, clean flash, and then try restoring through TiBa?
Also, I think restoring all of /data should be almost safe, as most of it is user-installed apps anyway. The only conflict would come from any system settings you've changed, which might conflict with an older builds.

[Q] Help Needed With Restore

I hope someone can help me.
I just got my GT-N7000 back from Samsung after a repair to the audio socket. The phone was rooted but Samsung returned the phone to the stock JB 4.1.2 ROM. All was working as it should when I got it back.
Now, I wish to re-root the phone and restore my choice of custom ROM - Ultimate _N7000_XXLT4_JB_4.1.2. v6.0 with all my apps and data. This is the ROM I've been using ever since it was published without issue.
I have managed to re-root the phone with the PhilZ Touch 5 recovery + safe kernel and CWM Base Version v6.0.3.7 which I think is the version I was using before. This part of the procedure appears to have worked correctly and I can now boot into the PhilZ Touch 5 recovery without any issue.
However, after restoring the backup I made prior to the audio jack problem and rebooting, he phone hangs after a few initial swipes through the screens ie I can no longer swipe screens or start apps and the phone is non-responsive. All I can do then is remove the battery. No errors are being reported during the Restore and I've taken care to Wipe data/Factory reset, Wipe Cache Partition and then Advanced >Wipe Dalvik Partion.
I tried the Restore several times but the result is the same. One thing that may be related is that my lockscreen image is not the one I was using when I did the backup. Nor is it the stock image of the book and quill pen that the stock ROM uses (it's a picture of a kid leaping into the air with a big bunch of balloons which I've never seen before). This could mean that something isn't being wiped properly.
Any advice from the experts would be most welcome as I'm out of my depth.
Trevor

Did you check in Philz recovery if the restore of Preload partition is enabled..?

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Did you check in Philz recovery if the restore of Preload partition is enabled..?
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Thanks for the reply. No, I didn't know to check that but will do so in future. I have never encountered that setting before. Is it usually enabled by default?
I think the trouble was that at least one of my backup files was corrupt. I tried an earlier one and this one seemed to have fewer problems so concluded that this was the source of trouble.
In the end, I downloaded a fresh copy of the Ultimate ROM I was using which got the phone fully working again and then let Google download all my apps automatically. So I'm out of trouble now.
Thanks again.
Trevor

[Q] Resurrecting my Captivate, ONLY boots to CWM

I'm trying to resurrect my I897 Captivate. I put it in the drawer a couple of years ago with Glitch kernel and AOKP ICS on it. My wife destroyed her Skyrocket (S2) and she needs a phone to use as a stand-in for a couple of months.
I wiped it, no nandroid backup since I had no plans to use any of the data on it, and began trying to install Cyanogenmod. I was planning to use the recent M5 snapshot of CM11 but am ok with going to 10.2.1 stable if 11M5 doesn't work.
However, I just can't get it to boot. It will go into recovery mode fine (in fact, it boots to recovery even when no buttons are pressed).
I went back, wiped everything, formatted all partitions, and started with CM7, then CM9, then CM10.2.1 to get the partition scheme updated and just to be sure it wasn't CM11M5. However none of those change the issue. It just refuses to boot anything but recovery.
I've repeatedly done wipes and factory resets, including going back and formatting the partitions. I've tried the "install CM twice" trick. The phone just does not want to boot the images.
The install processes seem to go fine. No errors reported during .zip install.
I went through many different pages that are meant to break a recovery loop, most of which just have you do the basic reset and reboot, but so far have found no way to break the cycle.
Any ideas?

jahfry said:
I'm trying to resurrect my I897 Captivate. I put it in the drawer a couple of years ago with Glitch kernel and AOKP ICS on it. My wife destroyed her Skyrocket (S2) and she needs a phone to use as a stand-in for a couple of months.
I wiped it, no nandroid backup since I had no plans to use any of the data on it, and began trying to install Cyanogenmod. I was planning to use the recent M5 snapshot of CM11 but am ok with going to 10.2.1 stable if 11M5 doesn't work.
However, I just can't get it to boot. It will go into recovery mode fine (in fact, it boots to recovery even when no buttons are pressed).
I went back, wiped everything, formatted all partitions, and started with CM7, then CM9, then CM10.2.1 to get the partition scheme updated and just to be sure it wasn't CM11M5. However none of those change the issue. It just refuses to boot anything but recovery.
I've repeatedly done wipes and factory resets, including going back and formatting the partitions. I've tried the "install CM twice" trick. The phone just does not want to boot the images.
The install processes seem to go fine. No errors reported during .zip install.
I went through many different pages that are meant to break a recovery loop, most of which just have you do the basic reset and reboot, but so far have found no way to break the cycle.
Any ideas?
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my advice is, go to stock GB, then flash ICS, flash a KitKat kernel, reboot recovery and then flash CM 11..
hope this works for you!

Yeah that was my next plan, already have the stock ROM downloaded. Will report back. Was just hoping there was a known issue that I could fix without reverting. Not a big deal Thanks.

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jahfry said:
Yeah that was my next plan, already have the stock ROM downloaded. Will report back. Was just hoping there was a known issue that I could fix without reverting. Not a big deal Thanks.
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Hello jahfry! Glad to hear you got the stock ROM. Would you mind telling me where you got it from? All the links I've found here are dead… I am in a similar situation as you - managed to get a custom rom going but have lost all trace of EFS folder/ nv_data.bin file…. Need to go back to stock to start again… Any help appreciated!

asianlight said:
Hello jahfry! Glad to hear you got the stock ROM. Would you mind telling me where you got it from? All the links I've found here are dead… I am in a similar situation as you - managed to get a custom rom going but have lost all trace of EFS folder/ nv_data.bin file…. Need to go back to stock to start again… Any help appreciated!
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