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Can some one please help me my phone will create a nandroid but wen I go to restore it I get an error no matter wat I do
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Two things usually cause this, either the folder is renamed and has a space in the name, or you are low on battery and need to charge your phone (greater than 50% is best)
Also have a close to full SDCard will cause it.
damn forgot that one. lol Don't think about it, never an issue for me
danaff37 said:
damn forgot that one. lol Don't think about it, never an issue for me
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Those of us with <4GB cards have to deal with it on occasion
Thank you I'm gonna check the name n get back to you
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Nope no spaces in the names of the folder or the folder in it and my battery is full n it won't restore ill send the exact error message
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ok heres what i get when i try to restore my nandroid
Restore BCDMRS-20100712-1825 ?
Press HOME to confirm.
any other key to abort.
Restoring : .................
Error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh
restore' via adb!
bycoo222 said:
ok heres what i get when i try to restore my nandroid
Restore BCDMRS-20100712-1825 ?
Press HOME to confirm.
any other key to abort.
Restoring : .................
Error : run 'nandroid-mobile.sh
restore' via adb!
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How full is your SDCard?
abcdfv said:
How full is your SDCard?
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i have over half of it free
try another nandroid to restore? that one may be corrupt
danaff37 said:
try another nandroid to restore? that one may be corrupt
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Will do right now get back with the results in a minute
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well it restored this time but after 3 hours on the htc screen i pulled the battery
I have this same issue.
I just created a new backup (97% battery, over 1/2 of SD card mem free). Here's a list of the files that it created:
boot.img
misc.img
recovery.img
system.img
When I look at one of the 2 backups that will actually restore, it shows these files:
boot.img
cache.img
data.img
misc.img
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
system.img
Any idea why this is happening?
No one has any thoughts on this?
What recovery are you running?
I'm running 1.5.2
You might want to try and use a newer version of recovery. There is 1.6.2 and also darch has one that he OC'd.
I had this problem before when I copied my sdcard to my computer and reformatted my card to fat32 only. When I tried to restore a backup it was trying to write files to the sdcard but there was not an ext file system on it so it would abandon the process.
unCoRrUpTeD said:
You might want to try and use a newer version of recovery. There is 1.6.2 and also darch has one that he OC'd.
I had this problem before when I copied my sdcard to my computer and reformatted my card to fat32 only. When I tried to restore a backup it was trying to write files to the sdcard but there was not an ext file system on it so it would abandon the process.
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did you repartition your sd and it worked?
I flashed 1.6.2, and I still can't get a good backup.
The upside is I still have one that works, the downside is that it's from 6/1.
I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on other things to try.
Hey guys,
got a Galaxy S International edition with 8 gigs offen space. I often flash new ROMs (about twice a week ) and got sometimes about 5 NANDroid backups on my SD card. The problem is that they take much space so I decide to upload most of the backups to dropbox and keep only the most important one on the SD. I compressed it with dual file manager (gzip) because Dropbox only supports files under 300 MB if you upload it with android. gzip was around 250 mb. Now I'm uploading these files. But I'm not sure if the backup would still works after I download it because of the md5 checksum.
Does anybody know if it would work?
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I don't see why it wouldn't. After you extract the ROM, I don't think the md5 would change.
Thanks, will try restore soon.
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Hi I would like to know if it's okay to delete everything on my SD Card and then flash a new ROM. I want to do this because there are a lotttttt of useless folders that belonged to some apps which I deleted. So is there any problem if I wipe everything on my SD Card? I will of course leave my ROM zip file in it to flash it. But is it okay tho? Thanks in advance!
If you had backedup your apps with titanium backup you lose it all. And when you format your sd-card you lose that Rom you're gonna flash.
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Yeah dude its ok. When you flash the new rom it'll create a new android folder for all your system junk.
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NicOsol said:
If you had backedup your apps with titanium backup you lose it all. And when you format your sd-card you lose that Rom you're gonna flash.
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Does Titanium keep the backups in it's own folder, or in each apps' folder?
So could you wipe everything but the titanium folder, then restore apps that way?
ChewyVision said:
Does Titanium keep the backups in it's own folder, or in each apps' folder?
So could you wipe everything but the titanium folder, then restore apps that way?
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In its own folder, just like cwm keeps your backups in one folder.
markj338 said:
In its own folder, just like cwm keeps your backups in one folder.
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Cheers!
I need to clear up my SD card, so I'll delete everything bar that folder.
So since sdcard is now part of /data, when I make a NAND backup the size is almost 4GB, since I have a bunch of music stored locally from Google Music. Is there anyway to get TWRP to ignore the sdcard directory when backing up (since it doesn't get wiped anyway) so that each backup I make isn't ginormous? I'm already down to only 15GB left on this phone. I know I could have it just not backup the data partition, but then restoring from a backup would only restore the OS and not the apps and configuration I previously had (which is kinda the whole point of a backup, since otherwise I could just fresh install a new ROM).
cant you just copy them over to your computer? and keep one on the phone for safety?
Just created a nandroid backup with CWM touch, mine came out as 2.1GB, not sure why your backup is so large
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Mine are usually around 1.5GB. But I don't keep music and videos on mine.
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Since the /sdcard data is sharing with the same partition as the /data doing a nandroid backup would depend on how much space is consumed by your sdcard.
So I guess nothing I can do, then? Thanks anyway.
Does this mean a Nandroid backup of the One would backup photos and media too?
dnydny said:
Does this mean a Nandroid backup of the One would backup photos and media too?
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Yes!
Problem is that Google Music cache is in /data/data folder, so Twrp backs it up. Solution is to create a folder on /sdcard and symlink the Google Music cache folder to it. Twrp won't back it up because it doesn't follow symlinks nor does it backup /sdcard. There are several posts on the subject, just search.
Riyal said:
Yes!
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I don't believe it does, I don't think Nandroid would perform backup functions differently on different devices but coming from the SGN I - I can tell you that all Nandroid backups are basically settings and OS files as well as Apps / App Data. For the most part, when you do a Wipe / Format on your phone, it is only removing the OS files and installed Apps. It does not backup your photos / videos as it never really removes that data to begin with and so you should see your stuff there even after installing a fresh copy of the ROM. If you go into advanced functions in CWM and format your card, then you will wipe the entire device off.
IIRC CWM started taking nandroid backups very differently from a few versions ago, there's now a "blobs" folder in the backup folder and that is the one that grows exponentially in size. I believe that was done to only make incremental backups easy but the downsize is grows massive.
I cannot give you a guaranteed answer if deleting the blobs folder is safe or not but I have deleted it in the past and eventually resorted to just keeping the most recent backup by deleting all backups / blobs and then doing a fresh backup.
click compression and mines 1 gig
A nandroid backup also backs up the data directories and your downloaded Goggle Music songs are in that data directory. Therefore whenever your do a nandroid backup, the songs will be backed up as well, increasing your final size...
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encrypshun said:
I don't believe it does, I don't think Nandroid would perform backup functions differently on different devices
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The recovery may very well perform nandroids differently on "data/media" services such as the htc one. Check out http://teamw.in/DataMedia
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I'll try the symlink trick, thanks.
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is there an app that lets you browse nandroid contents so you can confirm what has been backed up?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2044414
Ok just to answer my own question.
I just took a nandroid backup of One of my phones and restored it to my other one.
Music and Gallary did not come across.
If anyone else wants me to verify anything I'm more than happy to as I have both phones in front of me and all my settings and profiles are there, just no media.
I have a rooted HTC One and when I rooted it I used to have CWM Recovery as my custom recovery. When I updated my ROM to 4.4 KitKat, CWM at the time didnt support KitKat so I switched to TWRP 2.6.3.3 which did. Thing is after doing a disk analysis of my phone, I found that the CWM backups are still on my phone and seeing as they're not compatible with TWRP plus their taking over 2GB in storage capacity, how do I get rid of them ?! I frequently make a nandroid backup of my phone in case of a worst case scenario but I would like back the storage capacity these CWM backups are taking !
P.S Using the app I used it said the CWM folder was in excess of 2.6GB so I clicked on delete but it said the folder doesnt exist ?! I'm assuming when I flashed TWRP that while CWM was uninstalled or whatnot, its backups still remained. Were are the backups located so I can manually via a PC delete them ?!
Can anyone please provide some assistance, Thanks
Go with ES File Explorer to "/" = device/mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backups and delete from there.
To see those backups on your computer when the One is connected, you need to move the CWM backups from above path to "/" device/data/media/0
You might want to keep them!
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I use CWM ROM Manager from the Play store to manage my backups.
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or you can just plug your phone into your PC and from there you can access the storage and delete from there....easier with a mouse i think.
hardstuffmuc said:
Go with ES File Explorer to "/" = device/mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backups and delete from there.
To see those backups on your computer when the One is connected, you need to move the CWM backups from above path to "/" device/data/media/0
You might want to keep them!
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Thing is I downloaded it and CWM folder was empty, I then downloaded a root file explorer, I located it in the root section of the phone (i.e not the SD card) and it was over 2GB in size, I deleted it but the extra storage capacity was added to the phone stats
FaisalH1991 said:
Thing is I downloaded it and CWM folder was empty, I then downloaded a root file explorer, I located it in the root section of the phone (i.e not the SD card) and it was over 2GB in size, I deleted it but the extra storage capacity was added to the phone stats
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Was or was not? Sentence sounds like you meant was not because of the use of the word 'but'. Clarify please.
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bbinder said:
Was or was not? Sentence sounds like you meant was not because of the use of the word 'but'. Clarify please.
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My apologies ! Before deleting the folder my phone had 17.01 GB (32GB Model) of free storage, after deleting the folder it was still the same. I even rebooted the phone so the phone stats could be refreshed but it was still the same
Weird. I did the same thing as you when installing ARHD 51.0 and I don't have that folder with anything in it. Prolly cuz I wasn't making backups of that in specific though. I never found something I couldn't delete...
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bbinder said:
Weird. I did the same thing as you when installing ARHD 51.0 and I don't have that folder with anything in it. Prolly cuz I wasn't making backups of that in specific though. I never found something I couldn't delete...
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Im also quite confused, I know I made CWM backups time to time but I was surprised the folder was empty when I checked in it
FaisalH1991 said:
Im also quite confused, I know I made CWM backups time to time but I was surprised the folder was empty when I checked in it
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use a root-enabled file explorer (if you want ES, but root enabled), and go to /data/media/clockworkmod
not /data/media/0 or /sdcard, etc. just /data/media/