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[Q] Uanble to Nandroid Backup

Hey guys...noob question here. Yesterday I rooted my wife's Hero and it was successful as far as I could tell. I proceeded to do a Nandroid backup via ROM Manager, but at the end of the backup it said something to the effect of "no sd-ext" or something like that.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!

You may need to format your SD card....be sure to back up your files on your computer, so you can put them back on there after....
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Find out how to put ur phone into recovery via Google then nandroid backup from there. ROM manager is kinda funny acting so try that.
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Vandelay007 said:
You may need to format your SD card....be sure to back up your files on your computer, so you can put them back on there after....
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Well, not sure if it matters, but her card already has stuff on it so I'm assuming it's working correctly. Am I supposed to do something to the card prior to backing it up? Do I need to be in some sort of "mode" or check some box in an application? Sorry...still new to this phone.

r0cky0790 said:
Find out how to put ur phone into recovery via Google then nandroid backup from there. ROM manager is kinda funny acting so try that.
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Thanks for the reply! I've already tried that method as well and I get the same result.

am not sure. but i'd the same msg and when i googled some one answered that "because you do not have any app on the sd card to back up". well makes sense as before root all the apps were installed on the phone memory and not the sd card. Also after back up and restart when i go to the rom manager -> under back up and restore i am able to see the back that i created even with no sd-ext msg...
am not 100% sure but i think it did back up.. still enlighten me..

Nandroid back up?

Is this stuff possible yet?
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Not until we have recovery, which we don't yet.

Does the Nook Color even have a normal hardware config where we would be able to flash a new ROM/Recovery into it?

jackjumper85 said:
Does the Nook Color even have a normal hardware config where we would be able to flash a new ROM/Recovery into it?
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Not yet, but it is in the works. Check out this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175

My NC has sound issues which I believe will require a replacement. I would like to backup a ROM image and restore it on the new NC. How can I make this happen?

30secs said:
My NC has sound issues which I believe will require a replacement. I would like to backup a ROM image and restore it on the new NC. How can I make this happen?
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You can't back up a ROM yet (even if you could, restoring a nandroid backup on a different device probably isn't going to work).
Your best better is probably backing up your data onto your SD card with Titanium Backup then restoring that on your new one.

wvcachi said:
You can't back up a ROM yet (even if you could, restoring a nandroid backup on a different device probably isn't going too work).
Your best better is probably backing up your data onto your SD card with Titanium Backup then restoring that on your new one.
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Do you mean do a backup of all the apps? when i root the new NC, what will i need to manually install/config?

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Do you mean do a backup of all the apps? when i root the new NC, what will i need to manually install/config?
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Just install Titanium again, and as long as the same SD card is in, you can restore all your apps with it

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Just install Titanium again, and as long as the same SD card is in, you can restore all your apps with it
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do i need to back up all the apps? including ones i haven't installed? what about system configurations i've done?

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do i need to back up all the apps? including ones i haven't installed? what about system configurations i've done?
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How would you back up apps you haven't installed?

Koush is currently working on a port of Clockwork Recovery, IIRC.

Power/sleep button wont sleep after rooting.

Hey I was just wondering if anyone else had this issue and if there was a fix already available for this. After rooting the device everything is great except I cant force the sleep mode anymore. When I press the power button nothing happens. Now if I hold it down it will turn off and on and it will also go to sleep on its own just fine. I just can initiate the sleep myself. Ive been using it like this for weeks doesnt really bother me much just wanted to know if I was the only person to have this problem and if there was a fix.
(Sorry if this is posted somewhere else. I searched and searched)

dhoshman said:
Hey I was just wondering if anyone else had this issue and if there was a fix already available for this. After rooting the device everything is great except I cant force the sleep mode anymore. When I press the power button nothing happens. Now if I hold it down it will turn off and on and it will also go to sleep on its own just fine. I just can initiate the sleep myself. Ive been using it like this for weeks doesnt really bother me much just wanted to know if I was the only person to have this problem and if there was a fix.
(Sorry if this is posted somewhere else. I searched and searched)
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That definitely isn't normal. I'd restore to factory and re-root . . . or just leave it un-rooted and run nookie froyo from an SD.

If u used auto-nooter, did u try to reformat your SD card after it was done?
I noticed some issues with the sleep button before I reformatted mine.
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methfan said:
If u used auto-nooter, did u try to reformat your SD card after it was done?
I noticed some issues with the sleep button before I reformatted mine.
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It actually ran great until I reformatted the card and the first reboot and thats when it started.

wvcachi said:
That definitely isn't normal. I'd restore to factory and re-root . . . or just leave it un-rooted and run nookie froyo from an SD.
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If I run nookie froyo will I lose all my system settings and apps?

dhoshman said:
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If I run nookie froyo will I lose all my system settings and apps?
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Yeah, you'll have to backup/ restore. A relatively easy way would be to back it up via Titanium, transfer Titanium's backup files to the SD partition on nookie froyo, and then restore via Titanium. It'd be best to only restore apps + data, not system data.

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Yeah, you'll have to backup/ restore. A relatively easy way would be to back it up via Titanium, transfer Titanium's backup files to the SD partition on nookie froyo, and then restore via Titanium. It'd be best to only restore apps + data, not system data.
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Ok I think Im gonna go ahead and take the plunge lol. Thanks for the help man.

i have the same problem, but it might not be due to the rooting, since mine was working fine also after couple of reboots but sudennly stop later.
please advice, i dont want to re-root everything again

solution
droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/21625-sleep-button-problem.html

Saving a ROM's backup to my computer

I want to clear my phone completely back to bare-bones 2.1. I do want to save my last good set up with froyo, so;
1) Is it a good idea to do a complete restore.
2) Is it better to leave the phone as is (leaving b/u in tact) or can I save the last b/u to my computer? If so how (Tibu, ROM Man???). How would I return this file back to the phone if necessary?

I never do any more backing up than Titanium Backup of apps. I know clockwork recovery can make a nandroid backup. It saves it to a folder on the internal sd card (Clockworkmod I think) and you could copy that to your computer. Then copy it back if you want to restore. The feature is there, I assume it works, but I have never personally done it. You could do all this through clockwork recovery, make the back up, and restore later if you want. You can leave the backup on your phone after you go back to stock, odin will not clear it off unless you do a "Master Clear". Then you would just have to reflash clockwork recovery, and you could restore.

I've transferred both tibu and nandroid (rom manager) backups to my pc and then restored from them after a master clear by copying them back to the phone from the pc. With the nandroid backup, you have to reinstall the rom first, and it must be the same rom you backed up.
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Good advice thanks:
quarlow said:
I never do any more backing up than Titanium Backup of apps. I know clockwork recovery can make a nandroid backup. It saves it to a folder on the internal sd card (Clockworkmod I think) and you could copy that to your computer. Then copy it back if you want to restore. The feature is there, I assume it works, but I have never personally done it. You could do all this through clockwork recovery, make the back up, and restore later if you want. You can leave the backup on your phone after you go back to stock, odin will not clear it off unless you do a "Master Clear". Then you would just have to reflash clockwork recovery, and you could restore.
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creepyncrawly said:
I've transferred both tibu and nandroid (rom manager) backups to my pc and then restored from them after a master clear by copying them back to the phone from the pc. With the nandroid backup, you have to reinstall the rom first, and it must be the same rom you backed up
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I was thinking this was the case. My only concern is on the re-install, would I be correct in my asumption, that not only would I need the rom installed but the theme as well?

tomween1 said:
Good advice thanks:...would I be correct in the thought that not only would I need the rom installed but the theme as well?
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Disclaimer: I've not tried it. A nandroid backup restores everything in the rom plus apps, but not the kernel, so it should restore your theme and your apps. In that case you may not even need the tibu.
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creepyncrawly said:
Disclaimer: I've not tried it. A nandroid backup restores everything in the rom plus apps, but not the kernel, so it should restore your theme and your apps. In that case you may not even need the tibu.
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Well it's done, we'll see how it goes when I need it

I think the trick is having a working base rom and it being the same as the backup. Id be curious to try restoring a previous version of the same rom. How bad could it get?
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Want to know about backing up roms and restoring them
I want to know wheter we can backup a rom of one mobile and restore it in other mobile. please answer asap.

Abhishek1008 said:
I want to know wheter we can backup a rom of one mobile and restore it in other mobile. please answer asap.
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That may not be a simple question to answer with any certainty. I would not even consider attempting it unless both phone models are exactly the same, you didn't say for sure that this is what you were meaning. If the models are the same: insure they have the same bootloader and modem installed. Then I still would not do it unless the ROM on the second phone is comparable to the ROM you are moving to it. The reason for this caution is that partitioning schemes are not the same on all ROMs, it can even change in a newer version of the same ROM.

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That may not be a simple question to answer with any certainty. I would not even consider attempting it unless both phone models are exactly the same, you didn't say for sure that this is what you were meaning. If the models are the same: insure they have the same bootloader and modem installed. Then I still would not do it unless the ROM on the second phone is comparable to the ROM you are moving to it. The reason for this caution is that partitioning schemes are not the same on all ROMs, it can even change in a newer version of the same ROM.
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This :good:

SD Card Issues - HTC Velocity

Hi all,
First time poster; be nice please
I've recently upgraded my HTC Velocity with the CM10 and AOKP mods and both have been working great.
Prior to this, I had the ICS ROM installed which was posted by Leigh Kennedy (if memory serves).
Anyway, the issue I'm having is with both of the JB ROMs above, the SD Card is not detectable at all. When the phone boots, sometimes it will mount, sometimes it won't. When it doesn't mount, I do so manually via Settings > Storage > Mount SD Card.
It will mount successfully, and I can browse through the card via File Explorer (with Root Access), so it's definitely accessible.
However I find that any apps that require SD Card access (ie. Camera, Recording Software, Music even) say that there is no SD Card detected/inserted.
I've tried 3 different MicroSD cards (2GB, 8GB and 32GB (32GB is my main card), and completely wiped them and reformatted to FAT32), no change to the detection issue.
I've also tried to format via CWM in Recovery Mode, which shows to be successful on the format, but no change to the issue.
I initially thought it was the 32GB MicroSD card having the problem, but the same issue replicating on 2 other cards tells me otherwise.
I've completely wiped my phone clean each time (Data, System, Cache and Dalvik Cache), no change to the problem (which funnily enough doesn't make a lot of sense as I can access the SD Card in Recovery Mode perfectly fine?)
Any help with this one is greatly appreciated, as I'm at a loss
NB: My SD Card was working fine on ICS, the issue only started after upgrading to the JB ROMs above.

evakq8r said:
Hi all,
First time poster; be nice please
I've recently upgraded my HTC Velocity with the CM10 and AOKP mods and both have been working great.
Prior to this, I had the ICS ROM installed which was posted by Leigh Kennedy (if memory serves).
Anyway, the issue I'm having is with both of the JB ROMs above, the SD Card is not detectable at all. When the phone boots, sometimes it will mount, sometimes it won't. When it doesn't mount, I do so manually via Settings > Storage > Mount SD Card.
It will mount successfully, and I can browse through the card via File Explorer (with Root Access), so it's definitely accessible.
However I find that any apps that require SD Card access (ie. Camera, Recording Software, Music even) say that there is no SD Card detected/inserted.
I've tried 3 different MicroSD cards (2GB, 8GB and 32GB (32GB is my main card), and completely wiped them and reformatted to FAT32), no change to the detection issue.
I've also tried to format via CWM in Recovery Mode, which shows to be successful on the format, but no change to the issue.
I initially thought it was the 32GB MicroSD card having the problem, but the same issue replicating on 2 other cards tells me otherwise.
I've completely wiped my phone clean each time (Data, System, Cache and Dalvik Cache), no change to the problem (which funnily enough doesn't make a lot of sense as I can access the SD Card in Recovery Mode perfectly fine?)
Any help with this one is greatly appreciated, as I'm at a loss
NB: My SD Card was working fine on ICS, the issue only started after upgrading to the JB ROMs above.
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while the sd not being accessible on your computer is known, you should still be able to access via file browsers and other apps that need access. my camera stores to internal, and Apollo seems to find music on my external without a hitch. Unfortunately it sounds like you've done everything I would suggest, short of trying a Factory Reset

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while the sd not being accessible on your computer is known, you should still be able to access via file browsers and other apps that need access. my camera stores to internal, and Apollo seems to find music on my external without a hitch. Unfortunately it sounds like you've done everything I would suggest, short of trying a Factory Reset
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Thanks for the reply homeslice.
I just tried a Factory Reset then, and unfortunately to no avail
I'm surprised that I'm the only person with this particular issue on this phone (I've seen other posts on different handsets with a similar issue, which was deemed to be the SD Card, but in my case all 3 of the ones I've tested have fallen short of fixing the problem).
Got any other ideas? Because I love both ROMs, but the issue with the SD card is more annoying than anything.
EDIT: Ok, just reformatted everything once more, and installed the PAC-Man ROM, still broken.
Whether it's relevant or not, I even partitioned the SD Card to see whether the phone could pick it up via different apps, no chance.

Where did you partition the card and with what software...
I would recommend either using the phone or recovery...
Windows sometimes makes cards unusuable
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I partitioned the SD card via CWM recovery, twice.
Still don't know what is causing it
Anyone else?
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Switch recoveries...
I recommend twrp...
Others like wcxrecovery...
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Really? The recovery could be causing this? Hmm.. not something I considered but happy to try it.
Won't he able to do so till late tonight, early tomorrow morning but I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks for the advice!
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rignfool said:
Switch recoveries...
I recommend twrp...
Others like wcxrecovery...
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OK, so I managed to flash TWRP Recovery successfully (couldn't do it via the Goo Manager, had to flash it manually via adb which was fine).
Sadly, the SD card issue still exists.
One thing I did notice however, with TWRP every time I tried to clear anything (Data/System/Cache/Dalvik Cache/Factory Reset), it came up 'Unable to mount emmc'.
Now I'm not entirely sure what this is, but the only time I have seen it is when loading Bootloader (as eMMC-boot).
Does this have any relevance to my current problem? CWM never used to error out like that.
NB: Having a hard time trying to find a link for download of WCX Recovery (could just be tired from work, who knows), but I'll keep trying.

I am not sure...
Can you make phone calls if your phone boots...
It sounds like you might have lost your efs partition... where your imei lives...
I am not sure how to fix...
I think there is a thread talking about it
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rignfool said:
I am not sure...
Can you make phone calls if your phone boots...
It sounds like you might have lost your efs partition... where your imei lives...
I am not sure how to fix...
I think there is a thread talking about it
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Hmm, well the IMEI is still available via About Phone, so not sure if that's the same as what you're referring to.
However, I think I've had a development (not a good one though).
After reflashing CWM I tried mounting and/or reformatting emmc, it's unable to do anything with emmc at all.
When the recovery was TWRP, it didn't like emmc either, so something tells me emmc plus my storage issue are related.
I've done as much as I can think of, short of relocking bootloader and reflashing the RUU for the Velocity (which is currently being downloaded).
Can anyone think of anything else? Or is an RUU flash my absolute last resort?
Thanks for help so far guys, much appreciated.
EDIT: Helps if I actually answer your question rignfool.. lol. Yeah I can do absolutely anything I would normally on this phone with the custom ROM, short of apps accessing storage.

Well.. things have now taken a turn for the worst.
5% into my RUU reflash, ROM Utility crashes and now phone is stuck on an RUU bootloop....
Still trying to work it out, but I get the feeling it's not gonna go well..

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Well.. things have now taken a turn for the worst.
5% into my RUU reflash, ROM Utility crashes and now phone is stuck on an RUU bootloop....
Still trying to work it out, but I get the feeling it's not gonna go well..
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Did you relock the bootloader before running the RUU? This is necessary. Also, were you last running an ICS ROM? If you were, you have an ICS boot loader and you need to run an ICS RUU. Lastly, make sure you are in Fastboot USB mode when running the RUU

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Did you relock the bootloader before running the RUU? This is necessary. Also, were you last running an ICS ROM? If you were, you have an ICS boot loader and you need to run an ICS RUU. Lastly, make sure you are in Fastboot USB mode when running the RUU
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Yeah, definitely made sure that bootloader was locked/relocked, as I found the RUU kept crashing when it was unlocked (couldn't read any information off the phone, and the phone auto-booted into Fastboot after relocking the bootloader in any case, as it couldn't load the OS).
And no I wasn't running an ICS ROM at the time (per my initial post of running 2 JB ROMs at different times (CM10 and AOKP)).
After a bit of perseverance I got the RUU to go through successfully, and lo and behold the SD Card issue has miraculously disappeared (which isn't overly surprising considering it's gone right back to Factory Defaults and some).
It seems the PC required the Utility to run in Realtime Priority as opposed to Normal.. lol.
I'll now look into reflashing the relevant JB ROMs and post back shortly with results.

WOOHOO! ..... I mean, yeah, it works now. lol
It seems that during the course of flashing the ROMs previously, my phone lost touch with itself; by that I mean it was unable to access it's own Internal Storage and part of it's External Storage (which seems to be part and parcel of the 'emmc' error I was receiving earlier).
Camera loads, Music loads, it all works! :victory:
Thanks for your help homeslice and rignfool, much appreciated.
Now to enjoy those ROMs to their full potential!
On a side note though, have you ever had an issue reported like this on any other handset homeslice? or rignfool for that matter?

The only time I heard of people not being able to access storage like that... was when their imei got wiped...
From what I understand its a clockwork issue
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The only time I heard of people not being able to access storage like that... was when their imei got wiped...
From what I understand its a clockwork issue
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Yup. Our version of cwm likes to corrupt partitions. Glad you got it sorted
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Thanks a bunch guys, much appreciated.
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NB: Having a hard time trying to find a link for download of WCX Recovery (could just be tired from work, who knows), but I'll keep trying.[/QUOTE]
When you said NB, i thought of grand theft auto IV. lol. damn you Rockstar for corrupting meeee

that is why i've never tried cwm recovery. only tried twrp and wcx and i've always stuck with wcx recovery i like using the capacitive buttons to scroll instead of the volume buttons

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When you said NB, i thought of grand theft auto IV. lol. damn you Rockstar for corrupting meeee
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Haha, I thought of that too when I posted these issues.
ZeRo2o9 said:
that is why i've never tried cwm recovery. only tried twrp and wcx and i've always stuck with wcx recovery i like using the capacitive buttons to scroll instead of the volume buttons
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Yeah I did manage to find a working recovery image for wcxrecovery eventually, but I find TWRP a lot better to be honest (CWM and WCX are also good though).
I guess it's just personal preference.