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My O2X had some problems recently and I decided to use "fix permissions" in the CWM recovery to try to solve it. Before this, I did a Nandroid backup using the latest ROM Manager (with CWM recovery 3.0.2.8).
After the backup, I did "fix permissions", then reboot. But most of the texts on the screens and menus are missing!! that's very strange. Luckily I had my backup.
So, I reboot into recovery and then did a complete restore. But the worse thing happened... the phone hanged at the boot screen with the LG logo (before the animation). It just stopped there... I tried to restore some earlier backup as well, it's the same!
I'm totally lost, because CWM recovery had been so reliable before... I had used Paul's version many times before and it worked without problem... is the newer version buggy?
Anyone know what's wrong? and how to recover??
Dunno whats wrong but if you want ur phone to work again use smartflash.
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It happens when restoring CM from backup as well, the solution then is to reflash after restoring.
Rusty! said:
It happens when restoring CM from backup as well, the solution then is to reflash after restoring.
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you mean reflashing the baseband?
No, the cm zip file. Obviously not what you want if you're on a stock ROM though.
But even if you're on a stock ROM, you can download and reflash a stock ROM over the top .
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No, the cm zip file. Obviously not what you want if you're on a stock ROM though.
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Thanks all for your kind advice. I have flashed the whole firmware and restored an older backup.
And i have reverted to use v10a rom as the v10d and the new baseband seems causing a lot of issues.
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Changing the ROM doesn't touch the baseband. You need to flash that separately.
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?)
danger-rat said:
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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Guys, I hope that you can help me with my problem.
I tried to make a ordinary backup, usin CWM. It went fine this time. Sometimes it has occured problems with doing a backup also.
The problems come when I try to restore that backup. When I it starts, and then closes. The log says "MD5 error", I don't remember if it is exaktly that, but it is something similar.
Does anyone of you have any solution on this problem?
Thank you!
Best Regards
Jimmy
I'm having the same problem.
Can't create a backup. Error while backing up system or sometimes error while backing up data?
I'm running darky rom, note core kernel and cwm touch 5.0.0.4.
I want to try out Paranoid android but don't have a backup to fall back on!
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MinnesotaVikings1961 said:
Guys, I hope that you can help me with my problem.
I tried to make a ordinary backup, usin CWM. It went fine this time. Sometimes it has occured problems with doing a backup also.
The problems come when I try to restore that backup. When I it starts, and then closes. The log says "MD5 error", I don't remember if it is exaktly that, but it is something similar.
Does anyone of you have any solution on this problem?
Thank you!
Best Regards
Jimmy
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I sure hope you arent thinking of doing a nandroid of an ICS rom?
Belfia said:
I sure hope you arent thinking of doing a nandroid of an ICS rom?
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I'm not trying to do a nandroid. I'm just trying to do a backup using Clockworkmod Recovery.
MinnesotaVikings1961 said:
I'm not trying to do a nandroid. I'm just trying to do a backup using Clockworkmod Recovery.
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That sounds like a nandroid backup to me. Do NOT restore any nandroid backups in CWM on stock ICS roms/kernels.
Use Abyss kernel. Flash it. Reboot Recovery. Restore nandroid.
The actual backup should work in CWM though.
Please if you dont mind, would you explain why its not a good idea to recover the nandroid backup with an ICS kernel and so on....will this produce a bad emmc?
Currently I'm on PA Rom, I also couldn't make a nandroid backup , it says error while backing up image of /sdcard/.android_secure/
Any suggestion would be appreciated , thanks.
slide200sx said:
Please if you dont mind, would you explain why its not a good idea to recover the nandroid backup with an ICS kernel and so on....will this produce a bad emmc?
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There is a chance of triggering the EMMC_CAP_EREASE command when under heavy I/O load
hi everyone, i have recently got a HTC one, its rooted and also has custom recovery(TWRP) installed. its currently running stock android 4.2.2 firmware and today i have download the android 4.3 ota update. when i try to install the update it boots the TWRP recovery and i m unable to update. is there any way to update without losing my data, i know i have to flash the stock recover and again try to install the update but will this erase all my data(everything). i was using samsung galaxy s3, and its case there used to be chances to loose the data.. does same happens in HTC too. i don't wan't to lose my data, its about 23GB's..
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hi everyone, i have recently got a HTC one, its rooted and also has custom recovery(TWRP) installed. its currently running stock android 4.2.2 firmware and today i have download the android 4.3 ota update. when i try to install the update it boots the TWRP recovery and i m unable to update. is there any way to update without losing my data, i know i have to flash the stock recover and again try to install the update but will this erase all my data(everything). i was using samsung galaxy s3, and its case there used to be chances to loose the data.. does same happens in HTC too. i don't wan't to lose my data, its about 23GB's..
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Your data shouldn't get wiped. No harm in making a backup though, just in case anything goes wrong. You'll just have to reflash twrp once you're done. Just out of curiosity, what's the software number of the update you got?
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n1234d said:
Your data shouldn't get wiped. No harm in making a backup though, just in case anything goes wrong. You'll just have to reflash twrp once you're done. Just out of curiosity, what's the software number of the update you got?
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maybe the updates are older, because it was not updated from so long so, i thought to update. anyways the software no of update is 3.62.401.1.
do i need to lock bootloader too, to perform the update. and should i make backup from recovery? which backup method would u prefer... i don't want to lose anything..
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maybe the updates are older, because it was not updated from so long so, i thought to update. anyways the software no of update is 3.62.401.1.
do i need to lock bootloader too, to perform the update. and should i make backup from recovery? which backup method would u prefer... i don't want to lose anything..
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just a quick word of caution, last time I flashed back a stock recovery (and accessed it, but didnt do anything in it), I was unpleasantly surprised that it wiped my entire internal storage
be safe, and backup your stuff to your PC
and no, you do not need to lock your bootloader.
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just a quick word of caution, last time I flashed back a stock recovery (and accessed it, but didnt do anything in it), I was unpleasantly surprised that it wiped my entire internal storage
be safe, and backup your stuff to your PC
and no, you do not need to lock your bootloader.
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well thanks a lot.. can i backup apps data too?
suyash1629 said:
maybe the updates are older, because it was not updated from so long so, i thought to update. anyways the software no of update is 3.62.401.1.
do i need to lock bootloader too, to perform the update. and should i make backup from recovery? which backup method would u prefer... i don't want to lose anything..
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All the info needed to update is here http://www.htc1guru.com/2013/10/ota/
First flash the guru reset mentioned, then the OTA•
You could use titanium backup for all your apps and manually copy all the stuff from the internal sdcard to your pc. Making a nandroid won't really help, coz then you'll be restoring an older nandroid to a phone with a newer firmware, which doesn't work well. If you're completely stock right now, you could make a nandroid, and then after updating, if you want stuff to be like before, you could restore only your data partition. Works on Viper, not sure about stock.
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All the info needed to update is here http://www.htc1guru.com/2013/10/ota/
First flash the guru reset mentioned, then the OTA•
You could use titanium backup for all your apps and manually copy all the stuff from the internal sdcard to your pc. Making a nandroid won't really help, coz then you'll be restoring an older nandroid to a phone with a newer firmware, which doesn't work well. If you're completely stock right now, you could make a nandroid, and then after updating, if you want stuff to be like before, you could restore only your data partition. Works on Viper, not sure about stock.
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*Stuff*= all your apps, settings etc from the old rom will be transferred to the new rom
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well thanks a lot.. can i backup apps data too?
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I would
I use Titanium Backup Pro for that (there's also a free version), both require root though. if you need a solution without root, check out Helium; i've never tried it but it should also work.
for SMS and call logs, I use "SMS Backup & Restore" and "Call Logs Backup & Restore" by Ritesh Sahu, which work better than Titanium IMHO.
Then I put everything on my PC, and I'm good to go
Okay, maybe I confused you a bit here, lets do this step by step
1. Make a nandroid of your current rom(data partition) with twrp (make sure you copy this to your pc), backup all apps with titanium backup, copy all data from internal storage
2. Flash guru reset.
3. Flash OTA.
4. Flash twrp, get root
5. Make a nandroid of the new rom (just in case), and then restore only the "Data" partition from the nandroid backup. If it works, amazing. If not, restore all apps from titanium backup. Good luck
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nkk71 said:
just a quick word of caution, last time I flashed back a stock recovery (and accessed it, but didnt do anything in it), I was unpleasantly surprised that it wiped my entire internal storage
be safe, and backup your stuff to your PC
and no, you do not need to lock your bootloader.
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Never happened to me..
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n1234d said:
Okay, maybe I confused you a bit here, lets do this step by step
1. Make a nandroid of your current rom(data partition) with twrp (make sure you copy this to your pc), backup all apps with titanium backup, copy all data from internal storage
2. Flash guru reset.
3. Flash OTA.
4. Flash twrp, get root
5. Make a nandroid of the new rom (just in case), and then restore only the "Data" partition from the nandroid backup. If it works, amazing. If not, restore all apps from titanium backup. Good luck
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Never happened to me..
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well can i just flash stock recovery instead of flash guru reset and than flash ota update.. if i can do so why i need to download that huge(1gb) file to just ota update.. also can u give me a download link to stock recovery.
Edit: i have got the link to stock recovery: http://d-h.st/rZj
Do i have to worry about anything else.. Things i will do now:
1. make a backup of all sd-card data
2. make a titanium backup of all apps
3. use Super Backup : SMS & Contacts to backup call logs, sms and contacts
4. make a nandroid backup of system
5. Flash the stock recovery
6. do an OTA update
I thing this much will do the update right? or is there anything to worry about?
suyash1629 said:
Do i have to worry about anything else.. Things i will do now:
1. make a backup of all sd-card data
2. make a titanium backup of all apps
3. use Super Backup : SMS & Contacts to backup call logs, sms and contacts
4. make a nandroid backup of system
5. Flash the stock recovery
6. do an OTA update
I thing this much will do the update right? or is there anything to worry about?
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Why I'm suggesting that you download the guru reset is that it'll ensure that you're completely stock before the OTA. having a rooted rom with all of those tweaks that anyone will generally install can cause many complications, so just to keep the process straightforward, rather do it. Leave it to download overnight By "nandroid backup of system", do you mean a complete backup or only of the system partition? Because, you need to make a backup of your data partition, not system. A complete backup will also do.
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n1234d said:
Why I'm suggesting that you download the guru reset is that it'll ensure that you're completely stock before the OTA. having a rooted rom with all of those tweaks that anyone will generally install can cause many complications, so just to keep the process straightforward, rather do it. Leave it to download overnight By "nandroid backup of system", do you mean a complete backup or only of the system partition? Because, you need to make a backup of your data partition, not system. A complete backup will also do.
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this HTC one is only rooted and also has a custom recovery, others suggested only flashing stock recovery will do everything, without having a mess. and yes i have made a complete nandroid backup..
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suyash1629 said:
this HTC one is only rooted and also has a custom recovery, others suggested only flashing stock recovery will do everything, without having a mess. and yes i have made a complete nandroid backup..
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Cool then, that's all you need, go ahead
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n1234d said:
Cool then, that's all you need, go ahead
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im trying to copy the nandroid backup to pc but while i try to copy whole twrp folder it copies in seconds and when i checked the backup folder, i find only two files copied. if i try to manually copy those files than large files no not get copied, no error notification pops up but also the files do not get copied.. any ideas??
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suyash1629 said:
im trying to copy the nandroid backup to pc but while i try to copy whole twrp folder it copies in seconds and when i checked the backup folder, i find only two files copied. if i try to manually copy those files than large files no not get copied, no error notification pops up but also the files do not get copied.. any ideas??
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Try with version 2.6.3.0 or 2.6.3.3, some of the older ones don't allow copying of backups because of some form of encryption
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n1234d said:
Try with version 2.6.3.0 or 2.6.3.3, some of the older ones don't allow copying of backups because of some form of encryption
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can i flash newer version directly from recovery mode or i should use pc
sorry for asking lots of questions... i just wanted to verify everything so that nothing goes wrong
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suyash1629 said:
can i flash newer version directly from recovery mode or i should use pc
sorry for asking lots of questions... i just wanted to verify everything so that nothing goes wrong
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Flash it via fastboot just like you flashed this one.
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n1234d said:
Flash it via fastboot just like you flashed this one.
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hey thanks for your help, everything worked perfect for me.. no loss of data after update, now i need to root it again. but everything worked perfect
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Never happened to me..
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I know that's what I thought too, here's exactly what I did and where I was:
1- I just wanted to take a screenshot of stock recovery, and was on ARHD 13.3 with CWM
2- flashed stock recovery (the usual way)
3- took pictures (attached)
4- flashed back the same CWM
5- rebooted, and it hit me with the setup wizard, skipped it, and boom, NOTHING on the phone except the ROM
6- i didnt wipe anything except the "fastboot erase cache"
wonder why it happened
suyash1629 said:
hey thanks for your help, everything worked perfect for me.. no loss of data after update, now i need to root it again. but everything worked perfect
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:good::good:
nkk71 said:
I know that's what I thought too, here's exactly what I did and where I was:
1- I just wanted to take a screenshot of stock recovery, and was on ARHD 13.3 with CWM
2- flashed stock recovery (the usual way)
3- took pictures (attached)
4- flashed back the same CWM
5- rebooted, and it hit me with the setup wizard, skipped it, and boom, NOTHING on the phone except the ROM
6- i didnt wipe anything except the "fastboot erase cache"
wonder why it happened
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thanks for ur help guys, everything is working fine, i think volume is decreased a bit, getting less sound than previous. Do u guys know how to claim the 25GB free google drive space, i even tried to lock the boot loader but ins not working.. is there any way??
Doing a wipe data / factory reset in cwm i have:
Formatting /data ...
Formatting /cache ...
and nothing more, seems to be freezed.
Known bug ?? any trick ?
thanks
after a long wait (3 minutes ?): Data wipe complete
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strange no ?
same long wait (perhaps more, 5 minutes?) after a /data restore ...
wtf ...
Yup, you need to wait above 5 minutes..
it's normal if you dont want to wait more try TWRP recovery
normal ?
what cwm is doing during all this time (and without notifying anything) ???
sambastrakan said:
normal ?
what cwm is doing during all this time (and without notifying anything) ???
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CWM is really slow. Try TWRP it's fast.
well, thanks!
But just to be clear: the data restore itself seems to be as quick as twrp, but when it finishes backup (last action displayed) it's "hanging" for a while.
sambastrakan said:
well, thanks!
But just to be clear: the data restore itself seems to be as quick as twrp, but when it finishes backup (last action displayed) it's "hanging" for a while.
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Happens with me too dude..!
CWM actually has a bug with 4.3 and 4.4
I face two issues one is wrong date backup creattion another is very slow backup but the best and most reliable backup is of CWM.
Well I have some good news for you
Flash all the three recoveries at once into your Xperia SP!
Isn't it great
Here follow this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649923http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649923
Enjoy!
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I already installed these 3 recoveries with this tuto.
But with twrp, i faced something like corrupted backup files (.win). When trying to open them as .tar on PC it was impossible.
With cwm it's ok but slow ...
Well, i don't know if it's not a problem on my xperia system files ...
sambastrakan said:
I already installed these 3 recoveries with this tuto.
But with twrp, i faced something like corrupted backup files (.win). When trying to open them as .tar on PC it was impossible.
With cwm it's ok but slow ...
Well, i don't know if it's not a problem on my xperia system files ...
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you cant open these on pc they are fine
they are backed uo that way so no one can ness with ur backupps so they are safe to restore
twrp can restore them and arent corrupter
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SpaceCaker said:
you cant open these on pc they are fine
they are backed uo that way so no one can ness with ur backupps so they are safe to restore
twrp can restore them and arent corrupter
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I used twrp on my mortorola Atrix and it was possible to extract backup content on my pc with 7zip (.win files).
So perhaps it's a newer twrp version used here and backup files are criated in a different way ?
I also faced this strange thing when restoring with twrp: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-sp/help/issue-restore-twrp-t2836727
So I'm now using cwm ... but it is slower.
sambastrakan said:
I used twrp on my mortorola Atrix and it was possible to extract backup content on my pc with 7zip (.win files).
So perhaps it's a newer twrp version used here and backup files are criated in a different way ?
I also faced this strange thing when restoring with twrp: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-sp/help/issue-restore-twrp-t2836727
So I'm now using cwm ... but it is slower.
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new backup method i think,
even if you cant extract with pc it doesnt mean that it doesnt work in recovery
i personally use twrp as i dont trust cwm and this is due to me using cwm on my first android phone till now cwm always failed with something and twrp worked fine always
SpaceCaker said:
you cant open these on pc they are fine
they are backed uo that way so no one can ness with ur backupps so they are safe to restore
twrp can restore them and arent corrupter
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I found a way to manage twrp backup files on PC: with TotalComander and renaming files as .tar
This wasn't necessary with twrp on Motorola Atrix (can be open with 7zip), but the version with Xperia is different.