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[Q] Nandroid/CWM backup efs included?

When you do a backup via ClockworkMod recovery, are the efs files included?
e.g. Theoretically would restoring a nandroid backup fix a broken IMEI?
I've searched and found conflicting reports.
Many thanks

push it really would love to know if it would restore it!
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it really depends on how you made your nadroid back-up.
there are a couple of options when doing a nandroid back up.
if you select the "ALL" method then it will back up your system files as well as your EFS folder.
go try making a back up to see it for yourself via cwm.

android.francis said:
it really depends on how you made your nadroid back-up.
there are a couple of options when doing a nandroid back up.
if you select the "ALL" method then it will back up your system files as well as your EFS folder.
go try making a back up to see it for yourself via cwm.
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thank u for ur answer of course i made an nandroid backup before but on my cwmrecovery i don't see an option to make an partial or full back up just all
my backup directory looks like that :
nandroid.md5
cache.img
datadata.img
data.img
system.img
450mb
any more help?
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android.francis said:
it really depends on how you made your nadroid back-up.
there are a couple of options when doing a nandroid back up.
if you select the "ALL" method then it will back up your system files as well as your EFS folder.
go try making a back up to see it for yourself via cwm.
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Thanks for your reply. I tried to create a backup, but it seems my recovery is 3e rather than 2e so I can't. From what I've read I need a modified kernel with 2e. Does that mean I need to risk a flash before I can even backup?

Kpkpkpkp said:
Thanks for your reply. I tried to create a backup, but it seems my recovery is 3e rather than 2e so I can't. From what I've read I need a modified kernel with 2e. Does that mean I need to risk a flash before I can even backup?
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i made it that way rooted backed up efs folder flashed hardcore kernel made nandroid backup factory reset flashed darky's 7.0 than 7.5,7.6,7.7.....
perhaps u could make an nandroid backup via sdk remembered smth like that with the n1 i will search for some infos later(just on my phone sorry)
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push it real good
haven't found anything so far about nandroid without cwm on sgs ....
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Kpkpkpkp said:
Thanks for your reply. I tried to create a backup, but it seems my recovery is 3e rather than 2e so I can't. From what I've read I need a modified kernel with 2e. Does that mean I need to risk a flash before I can even backup?
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wait.. back up a bit.. you said your were using clockworkmod recovery.. but now you're stating that you are using 3e recovery.
i was giving you instructions on how to do a nandroid back up in cwm recovery. i haven't touched 2e and 3e in ages.
go get cwm recovery and do the back up there.

android.francis said:
wait.. back up a bit.. you said your were using clockworkmod recovery.. but now you're stating that you are using 3e recovery.
i was giving you instructions on how to do a nandroid back up in cwm recovery. i haven't touched 2e and 3e in ages.
go get cwm recovery and do the back up there.
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like what i was doing he just needs to back up some stuff(efs,perhaps titanium backup) and i would „risk'' it any day again
speeking of cwm i just can choose backup not what i want to backup
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push it good back to top
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No one?
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If you look at the list on the 1. page, there's no efs.img, meaning you don't have a backup of /efs.
I think in order for cwm to take backup of efs, you have to use the newest custom kernels, as they include cwm customised for I9000. If you use the backup option on Rom Manager you'll have problems later.

I see i just scripted it to my pc and external sd perhaps thinking about putting it in a swizerland vault ;-)
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TheNikkoMan said:
If you look at the list on the 1. page, there's no efs.img, meaning you don't have a backup of /efs.
I think in order for cwm to take backup of efs, you have to use the newest custom kernels, as they include cwm customised for I9000. If you use the backup option on Rom Manager you'll have problems later.
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Why would Rom Manager give me problems?

No idea i never used it cwm is easy to use and i allways backup there ...
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ClockWorkMod Recovery does not support backing up of /efs partition yet. You should do it manually.

Is it possible to extract only /efs from the nandroid backup and more important to me, will an "old" backup do the job to restore an imei.

Re efs backup
Use online nandroid manager it backs up efs and whatever else you want. You can choose or let it do it's thing. :cyclops:

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FearTheBeard said:
quite a bit of time past this post, so does CWM supports /efc backup when I do nandroid now?
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If you backup whole build, yes it does.
It is nevertheless a good idea to backup your efs folder separately, by using ADB or with terminal emulator.

[Q] Is it possible to restore backups made by xrecovery using CWM..

...and vice versa?
I am asking because up until now I always took backups using xrecovery, and the current ROM I am using only has CWM.
The only difference between the backups these two utilities create, is that CWM backups have an extra file in the folder.
If it's not possible, is it at least possible to have both utilities and somehow select which one to use on boot?
Thanks.

If you go to restore, there is an option that says "restore from xRecovery" but you can't restore CWM backups with xrecovery.
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That was quick
Thanks mate, να'σαι καλά

EDIT:
Actually, I just checked, I can't find any option like the one you described.
The CWM used is v4.0.1.5, the only options I get in Backup and Restore, are indeed, "backup", "restore" and "advanced restore" which only shows a backup I made with CWM earlier.

I checked too and I don't have it either. It's strange, I actually remember performing a restore from xrecovery backup. Sorry for disappointing you
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Advanced restore>restore from xRecovery
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Gingerdx v022 have it..
Use that room..
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hi
i just wanna ask if you already found a solution to this problem?

Guys upgrade to CWM 5.0.(something)
Maybe it has that option (I didn't checked)
Press thanks if this worked!
EDIT:no option the too
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antot107 said:
i just wanna ask if you already found a solution to this problem?
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i dunno,maybe try to install xrecovery instaid of the cmw that your rom have, and then restore your back up from xrecovery...
i dont know if it will work but you can try

i tried something that helped. i created a folder on my sdcard named 'clockworkmod' and inside that folder i made another one and named it 'backup'. i read it on a forum somewhere that the location of the backups for CWM is in sdcard\clockworkmod\backup\. so i transferred the backup i made from xrecovery to the folder i made in CWM. did a reboot and restore from CWM and it worked! hope this will help others too.

[Q] How to switch between TRWP and CWM recovery

Hello,
Need help regarding how switch recovery from TWRP to CWM. I have CWM backup which cant be used on TWRP and i have to switch back to CWM to restore that backup file. Secondly, tell me how to create least size backup file (steps?)
Thank you.

Flash cwm
Restore a backup
Flash twrp
Make backup and go to step one again, then you can flash twerp and only use that.
In twerp you can compress recovery, just enable it when making the backup in twrp
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furqanghori said:
Hello,
Need help regarding how switch recovery from TWRP to CWM. I have CWM backup which cant be used on TWRP and i have to switch back to CWM to restore that backup file. Secondly, tell me how to create least size backup file (steps?)
Thank you.
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download roam manager app that flashes cwm and let you chose witch recovery you want.

[Q] Can I create full nandroid + stock recovery from stock phone? ROGERS

Hi Guys,
I currently have two HTC ONE's on Rogers. One is totally stock, and the other is unlocked with ARHD. What I'm looking to do is return the unlocked phone to totally stock without an RUU since it doesn't exist for Rogers yet... I want to do this not only for myself, but a good handfull of other users on here who want a stock Rogers nandroid + recovery to return to stock.
My logic says that on the stock phone, i should
1. Unlock the boot loader
2. Soft boot to CWM recovery
3. Take a full nandroid
4. use ADB to backup the stock recovery
5. restore it all on the unlocked device
Problem is, I really don't know how to do steps 4-5 technically. I can unlock and softboot into cwm, but how do i backup the stock recovery from there? and then how do i flash it to my ARHD phone etc? I've searched and searched and searched and really can't find all of the answers and i don't want to piece too many things together and screw it up.
Need some help, Thanks!

In the stock phone, after flash of CWM, do a nandroid backup, this is saved on sd.
You can mount the sd with CWM copy the backup to pc and after restore it in the phone with ARHD

I would suggest you read mike1986 guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41076144
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paul_59 said:
I would suggest you read mike1986 guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41076144
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I've read Mike's guide, its good - but doesn't touch on backing up a stock recovery from a stock phone. Doing a nandroid backup doesn't backup factory recovery either, as far as I know.

Guich said:
In the stock phone, after flash of CWM, do a nandroid backup, this is saved on sd.
You can mount the sd with CWM copy the backup to pc and after restore it in the phone with ARHD
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I thought CWM didn't backup stock recovery partition? The whole goal of this is to have a copy of the original Rogers recovery that is unavailable to us at the moment.

[Q] HTC One (M7) Telus ROM

Hey guys
Question
so im an idiot and didnt make a backup of my TELUS stock firmware on the one, so i am stuck on custom roms instead of sense, which i like oddly.
does anyone have a CMW backup of the TELUS stock rom?
i would kiss you.
hell if you get it i will give you some money for a beer or 2.
cheers!
curtis
:good:

I haven't been able to find a stock ROM from Telus, as I've been looking myself. However, I did find a HTC One Telus stock nandroid backup which will work too; that's what I used.
Let me find the link for you....okay well I haven't made 10 posts yet so I can't post links....Hopefully I wont get in trouble for this.
bugsylawson[DOT]com/files/file/1824-m7-twrp-nandroid-backup-cid-telus001-1296615/
Its a TWRP nandroid backup so if you use CWM you'll have to install TWRP.
Hope this helps!

Elprede said:
I haven't been able to find a stock ROM from Telus, as I've been looking myself. However, I did find a HTC One Telus stock nandroid backup which will work too; that's what I used.
Let me find the link for you....okay well I haven't made 10 posts yet so I can't post links....Hopefully I wont get in trouble for this.
bugsylawson[DOT]com/files/file/1824-m7-twrp-nandroid-backup-cid-telus001-1296615/
Its a TWRP nandroid backup so if you use CWM you'll have to install TWRP.
Hope this helps!
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thanks man! but i have cmw and twrp installed as per my rom manager. however i can only boot into cwm?

OMGITSWIEST said:
thanks man! but i have cmw and twrp installed as per my rom manager. however i can only boot into cwm?
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You can boot into fastboot and then boot into recovery from there.
Even if you don't have cwm installed you can always
Fastboot boot cwm.img
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gusto5 said:
You can boot into fastboot and then boot into recovery from there.
Even if you don't have cwm installed you can always
Fastboot boot cwm.img
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ok so i am into twrp on my one. however the file downloaded is a rar. im trying to load the file via twrp, as i have no os on my phone.
how?
im new to this stuff and my phone does get picked up by htc all in one tool kit as i loaded into bootloader then flashed twrp on my phone
you can gmail chat me wiest1987 AT gmail(dot)com

OMGITSWIEST said:
ok so i am into twrp on my one. however the file downloaded is a rar. im trying to load the file via twrp, as i have no os on my phone.
how?
im new to this stuff and my phone does get picked up by htc all in one tool kit as i loaded into bootloader then flashed twrp on my phone
you can gmail chat me wiest1987 AT gmail(dot)com
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You probably have to extract the .rar to the twrp folder. On the computer you need to extract the rar file and adb push the contents to your twrp backup location.
Next time think before you wipe system. Then you won't run into problems like these.
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