New CWM and backup - LG Optimus Black

Anyone knows how the new CWM backup works? With previous versions when i backup a ROM evertyhing was in it. They used to be 200-500 MB according to the rom and programs. But when i tried to backup a ROM with new version the backup is 13 MB...? But another folder is created named "blobs". And it is around 940 MB. I don't understand how this works.
With previous versions when i backup a ROM i could just move it to PC because it was only one file. Now i don't know what to do? Is the 13 MB file enough? What happens to "blobs" folder? Should make a copy of it too? Shortly wth is that??
I use ROM Manager

The blobs folder contains all your apps. Copy the entire clockworkmod Folder to your computer.

Pondera said:
Anyone knows how the new CWM backup works? With previous versions when i backup a ROM evertyhing was in it.
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You can change the backup method from blob to the older tar method in the settings of CWM (not the ROM Manager). You have to boot into the recovery system to change this.

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[Q] nandroid converted to update.zip?

Could i rename my nandroid back up folder the ending tree folder that holds the .android_secure.img, cache.img, data.img, nandroid.md5 and system.img ... like clockworkmod/backup/2010-11-25.05.05.13 could i just pop all those files into a .zip named whatever and direct him to clockwork recovery and flash zip from sd card?
Titanium backup igives you the option to create a update.zip, then it gives you two radio buttons one says titanium backup will be installed as user application and then System application.
I know that the whole create update.zip thing is for flashing it to the rom from recovery. But what is the diffrence bewteen those two options. What is best and what is the diffrence..
swirlin_1 said:
Could i rename my nandroid back up folder the ending tree folder that holds the .android_secure.img, cache.img, data.img, nandroid.md5 and system.img ... like clockworkmod/backup/2010-11-25.05.05.13 could i just pop all those files into a .zip named whatever and direct him to clockwork recovery and flash zip from sd card?
Titanium backup igives you the option to create a update.zip, then it gives you two radio buttons one says titanium backup will be installed as user application and then System application.
I know that the whole create update.zip thing is for flashing it to the rom from recovery. But what is the diffrence bewteen those two options. What is best and what is the diffrence..
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By not renaming to update.zip, u can keep multiple versions of backups on ur phone. I tend to take a backup more or less everytime I try to make any changes, like applying themes I do not know, or am not confident of.

Clockworkmod Backup

Is there any way to change clockworkmod backup to flashable zip. The backup use a lot of space when I move it to my pc and decide to restore back, the md5 checksum doesnt match,
Haven't heard such a feature of flashable zip for CWM backup files. Besides, it's already compressed, so if it's quite large then maybe you do have a lot of files and data in your device.
Regarding checksum not matched; please do not rename or delete any folder / files from CWM backup folder contents when you do backup to PC.
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I faced the same problem few days ago, and this solution worked for me.
geekdevs.com/2011/10/solved-md5-mismatch-error-on-clockworkmod/

[Q] How to make a rom backup (from rom manager) to become a flashable version of CWM?

I've just flash a rom (download from xda, which is in *.zip format JB4.12) by CWM to my note 1, successfully.
Now I've just backup the rom, with some apps and data, by rom manager. However, the backup come with several files include a *.img instead of a zip file.
Anybody know, how can I make these files to become one *zip file, which I can flash it to the system and make it become factory default??
Please help...
garytako said:
I've just flash a rom (download from xda, which is in *.zip format JB4.12) by CWM to my note 1, successfully.
Now I've just backup the rom, with some apps and data, by rom manager. However, the backup come with several files include a *.img instead of a zip file.
Anybody know, how can I make these files to become one *zip file, which I can flash it to the system and make it become factory default??
Please help...
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I would suggest you taking a nandroid using CWM recovery..its easy to backup & restore..about your question regarding rom manager, may be you can put all the .img files into 1 .zip file, but i really don't know if it will make a flashable rom..
simply say, how to backup thwart whole roman with data which is flashable to cwm?
Nandroid backup backs up the entire rom and is restorable via cwm.
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nokiamodeln91 said:
Nandroid backup backs up the entire rom and is restorable via cwm.
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Thanks for prompt reply.
Will it create *.zip files that can be used to flash to factory default rom?
Not .zip AFAIK..it does on .tar format & another format (forgot the name)..anyways, u should be able to flash .tar using mobile odin..
It doesnot make a zip file. it makes a folder with the date and time when you made the backup. in it has ext4 files of you system,data cache, modem kernel etc.. all you need to do is boot into recovery and go to backup & restore and choose the folder you want to restore and it will do the job.. it doesnot require a zip file this way.

[Q] Trying to restore stock firmware, aborted each time

Hey All, have google and googled for the past week but nothing specific to this issue I'm having.
I want to restore my stock firmware so I can get OTA updates! I didn't make any sort of backup when I began playing with different roms. I have htc_039 unbranded aus htc one. Bootloader has been unlocked with S-on and TWRP installed.
Downloaded Deevans/bugsys nandroid backup that matched my phone details (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41368105&postcount=375&nocache=1&z=2030115523399023) but there isn't any sort of instructions on installing these.
When i have tried to flash the rom I get "installation aborted" and when playing with fastboot it has given me messages that it cannot find certain .txt files (something like android.txt and a few other ones.
Could someone please tell me what im doing wrong or list the instructions to install this? I don't know if I have to lock the phone again, restore the recovery file first, no idea!!! Or is there anyway to turn the Android Revolution 12 image to get OTA (i dont think so)?
If you need any further phone info I will post.
Can anyone help with this?
When I try to flash the file in TWRP it starts and stops at "Updating partition Details".
What have i not setup right? Have been using these resources:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/0...nandroid-backup-and-clockworkmod-rom-manager/
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-perform-and-restore-a-nandroid-backup/
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-ba...android-using-clockworkmod-recovery-tutorial/
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-in...recovery-on-your-android-smartphone-tutorial/
http://androidteen.com/how-to-restore-htc-one-to-stock-firmware/#Nandroid
???
Hi,
I'm new to the htc one so not sure here but from what I understand and anyone please correct me if wrong - but if it's Deevans nandroid 1.29.980.2 (Australia unbranded) it's a CWM backup and I don't think they work in TWRP.
So think you would have to flash CWM, then flash "restore" nandroid from CWM or find a TWRP nandroid.
Also think you need s-off before you do ota as no way to gain s-off with revone on updated hboot 1.54 yet.
Hope this helps.
pjc21 said:
Hi,
I'm new to the htc one so not sure here but from what I understand and anyone please correct me if wrong - but if it's Deevans nandroid 1.29.980.2 (Australia unbranded) it's a CWM backup and I don't think they work in TWRP.
So think you would have to flash CWM, then flash nandroid from CWM or find a TWRP nandroid.
Also think you need s-off before you do ota as no way to gain s-off with revone on updated hboot 1.54 yet.
Hope this helps.
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Thank for the reply
I have tried to install this with CWM which gave me those first missing ".txt" files. I will give it another go with CMW and post the results.
I will also S-OFF before doing the above.
Phone is now S-off and put CWM as the loader. Tried the zip file again and says:
Finding update package
Opening update package
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
I have also downloaded the file twice to confirm its not corrupted and it opens through winrar with no problems.
Any other suggestions?
jgt777 said:
Phone is now S-off and put CWM as the loader. Tried the zip file again and says:
Finding update package
Opening update package
Installing update...
Installation aborted.
I have also downloaded the file twice to confirm its not corrupted and it opens through winrar with no problems.
Any other suggestions?
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I would try restore it like a backup, so unzip and put files in your CWM backup folder.
Not sure how CWM backup folder looks but in TWRP it's like /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/... or /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/...
So I would try unzipping and copy files (boot, data, recovery, system) to /sdcard/CWM/BACKUPS/folder/put files in here - then boot to recovery and try "restore" option and browse to backup folder. You could probably copy the files to any folder on the sdcard and restore from recovery not sure.
pjc21 said:
I would try restore it like a backup, so unzip and put files in your CWM backup folder.
Not sure how CWM backup folder looks but in TWRP it's like /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/... or /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/...
So I would try unzipping and copy files (boot, data, recovery, system) to /sdcard/CWM/BACKUPS/folder/put files in here - then boot to recovery and try "restore" option and browse to backup folder. You could probably copy the files to any folder on the sdcard and restore from recovery not sure.
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Thanks for your suggestion and that was going to be my next question. The file I mentioned in the first post is x.xxx.xxx.zip (x as the numbers) and inside that zip is a folder with the same name x.xxx.xxx and inside that folder are all the files.
I tried putting the folder only in CMW but wont detect it, tried it with the .zip file and fails. Have now just put all the files into the folder and tried again with same failure.
There is a very long error in the recovery.txt file it made, don't know if its any use but the first line that pops out is:
Starting TWRP 2.6.0.1 on Fri Aug 2 06:23:49 2013
BOARD_HAS_NO_REAL_SDCARD
I put the file into this link if you know of anything, makes little sense to me. http://pastebin.com/Tvp2Qp2X
jgt777 said:
Thanks for your suggestion and that was going to be my next question. The file I mentioned in the first post is x.xxx.xxx.zip (x as the numbers) and inside that zip is a folder with the same name x.xxx.xxx and inside that folder are all the files.
I tried putting the folder only in CMW but wont detect it, tried it with the .zip file and fails. Have now just put all the files into the folder and tried again with same failure.
There is a very long error in the recovery.txt file it made, don't know if its any use but the first line that pops out is:
Starting TWRP 2.6.0.1 on Fri Aug 2 06:23:49 2013
BOARD_HAS_NO_REAL_SDCARD
I put the file into this link if you know of anything, makes little sense to me. http://pastebin.com/Tvp2Qp2X
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Are you using TWRP recovery? or CWM recovery?
pjc21 said:
Are you using TWRP recovery? or CWM recovery?
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I have now tried both TWRP and CWM and fails, also have installed ROM manager and another one I cant recall from play store. Also booted into recovery and went to the 'restore' option from the menu but cant find any directories..
I dont know if this has anything to do with it but noticed in the contents of the file:
ARCHIVE: cache.ext4.tar
ARCHIVE: data.ext4.tar
ARCHIVE: system.ext4.tar
boot.img
cache.ext4.tar.a
data.ext4.tar.a
nandroid.md5
recovery.img
recovery.log
system.ext4.tar.a
system..ext4.tar.b
Not to get ahead of myself but HTC ONE is ext2or 3 by default, its not something simple as having to change it to ext4? Its just something that stood out.
Just done google search on CWM backup location and seems to be /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup - so you could try copy the zip and/or files there and try restore from CWM recovery and see if that works.
pjc21 said:
Just done google search on CWM backup location and seems to be /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup - so you could try copy the zip and/or files there and try restore from CWM recovery and see if that works.
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Interesting that there was no 'backup' folder inside that folder. Have created it and putting the files and zip in there now.
Was also googl'n and found this article:
http://miuiandroid.com/community/th...d-restore-error-while-restoring-sd-ext.15611/
Someone mentioned to now open the zip file when it downloads. I'll try your suggestions and this and let you know what happens tomorrow.
Thanks again
Morning,
Have downloaded the .zip file again twice and put it onto the SD and clockwork Mod backup folder and it has aborted again.
Any ideas on what to try from here?

TWRP 3.1 uncompatible with TWRP 3.0.2-1

Hi Guys, why if I do a backup using TWRP 3.0.2-1 can´t use it after update TWRP 3.1? And if I do a backup using TWRP 3.1 the name of this backup begins with Life_Max? Can someone explain it to me?
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Hi Guys, why if I do a backup using TWRP 3.0.2-1 can´t use it after update TWRP 3.1? And if I do a backup using TWRP 3.1 the name of this backup begins with Life_Max? Can someone explain it to me?
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The 3.1 twrp is a dirty port from life-max recovery, so that's why the name.
Backups usually don't go between recovery versions, without renaming or manually moving to proper folder structure for new version
mrmazak said:
The 3.1 twrp is a dirty port from life-max recovery, so that's why the name.
Backups usually don't go between recovery versions, without renaming or manually moving to proper folder structure for new version
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@mrmazak Then if I need to restore a backup made with 3.0.2-1 but now I got 3.1, what do I need todo? Can you explain it to me please? What are the steps to convert it?
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@mrmazak Then if I need to restore a backup made with 3.0.2-1 but now I got 3.1, what do I need todo? Can you explain it to me please? What are the steps to convert it?
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this is mostly speculation, I have not done it. But these are the common steps.
1 make a backup with the new recover, so you have the right folder structure that the new recovery uses, (most of the time it is folder with device serial number in the name)
2. take your saved backup folder and add it to the folder made in step above.
example
/sdcard/TWRP/mxvrxxx******/backup-made-date-xx-xx-xxx
put old backup folder into the 3rd folder (from example mxvrxxx******)
EDIT:
OK I just did it.
The new 3.1 recovery makes it pretty easy.
the recovery directory is
/sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/Life_Max
put your saved backup folder( the folder that has: boot.emmc.win, system.emmc.win etc) into the Life_Max folder, you can now restore your backup.

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