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Backup Question

I have a couple of questions I am hoping to get help with. First if I have a custom ROM on my phone like MoDaCo and I wipe back to factory will it also add back the apps I removed like Nascar, footprints, ect. I am asking because after I wiped it through the recovery screen it did not add these back. The second question is when trying to do a Nandroid restore from when I first rooted the phone after I updated it, I get an error telling me it has to be done from the shell. Can I do this and if so how? Thanks

can anyone help with this?

Are you using RA-1.2.3??
My Nandroid backups have never asked me to restore through terminal.
Your back up maybe corrupt?? If so, I am not sure if people have had success loading a Nandroid from another phone, but you are welcome to one of my factory backups if it works. Can someone confirm a Nandroid from another phone will restore? I will Send if it does.
Also, the factory reset in RA1.2.3 should put back all apps. It is a "Factory reset" though I have never done one without immediately loading a rom. Who knows how its actually supposed to work.

Kcarpenter said:
Are you using RA-1.2.3??
My Nandroid backups have never asked me to restore through terminal.
Your back up maybe corrupt?? If so, I am not sure if people have had success loading a Nandroid from another phone, but you are welcome to one of my factory backups if it works. Can someone confirm a Nandroid from another phone will restore? I will Send if it does.
Also, the factory reset in RA1.2.3 should put back all apps. It is a "Factory reset" though I have never done one without immediately loading a rom. Who knows how its actually supposed to work.
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I am using RA-1.2.3. I guess it is possible the backup got corrupt when I moved it to my PC and then back to the phone. What is strange is none of the backups I had saved would take. I was able to do a backup and then right after that restore it so I know it works. I did about three factory resets and it would not add back the system apps I removed, but I think before the Sprint update when I first rooted the phone it did add back all the apps when I reset the phone. I could be wrong or it may be they came back when I put MoDaCo 1.1 on the phone since his ROM has everything with it. Thanks for responding.

last MoDaCo Rom I loaded (1.2c) all the stock apps came back, but I also loaded the Optimzation.zip so i wasn't sure who put them back.
Good to know it was the MoDaCo. It seems that even loading Rom's most things are fairly persistent and don't get wiped or over writen which is nice.
WinMoBo phones usually wipe everything out when you do this stuff.

redram38 said:
I have a couple of questions I am hoping to get help with. First if I have a custom ROM on my phone like MoDaCo and I wipe back to factory will it also add back the apps I removed like Nascar, footprints, ect. I am asking because after I wiped it through the recovery screen it did not add these back. The second question is when trying to do a Nandroid restore from when I first rooted the phone after I updated it, I get an error telling me it has to be done from the shell. Can I do this and if so how? Thanks
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doing a "factory reset" will not replace stock programs you deleted, it will just delete all your settings and apps you installed.
It's a misnomer in fact.... but when HTC made the option, they assumed that you hadn't rooted your phone. That's why all they really delete is the stuff in /data. Nothing in /system is added or modified.
If you really want to do a true factory reset, get the RUU from HTC and run it to reset your phone to exactly what it was when you got it.
As far as Nandroid not working, I've never had that problem either, but if your backup is corrupt then RUU will be your only option.

[Q] HELP! error message in recovery

So, kinda a long story, sorry. So to start off I obviously have a nexus one, I was running CM6.1 RC1 with some themes and blah blah. But the other day I decided to try out Rodriguez's MIUI rom, so I dl that, put it on my phone, booted into recovery made a nandroid backup of the CM6.1 I was running, and then wiped and installed the MIUI. I booted up and everything was running fine and when I remembered I forgot to backup my apps and data I figured I would just make a backup of the MIUI, wipe, restore the CM, backup what I needed and go back to the MIUI. But when I went to make a backup of the MIUI I got this message "error: run nandroid-mobile.sh recovery via adb." So when I got that message I just decided to forget the MIUI and just recover the CM. But when I tried doing that, I got the same message. Luckily I still had the MIUI.zip in my phone so I just re-installed that for my current rom while I try to figure this out. I researched a little online and thought it might have been that my battery was too low, so I charged it and no luck. Then I thought my sd card was too full so I cleaned it up and tried again, this time the backup of the MIUI worked, but when I wiped and tried to restore my original CM, I got the same message. So FINALLY, I thought that I would just re-install CM6.1 and take the MIUI off my phone completely and then try. But yet again, same message. So Im pretty stumped and would be very grateful for some help. Sorry for the novel, but I figured I would write all my steps so I didnt have to answer as many questions in future replies.

OnEnExUsOnE said:
..."error: run nandroid-mobile.sh recovery via adb."...
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Charge your battery.

or revert your nandroid folder/file renames (if any) such that there are no spaces.

djmcnz said:
Charge your battery.
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What he said. It happened to me too. Prob low on battery. Once charged you should be good to go.

[Q] HTC M7 Dev Edition *Factory Rom Lost*

Hey everyone new poster to the forums here . Have a question about loosing the stock ROM for my HTC M7 Dev edition. I made the backup but I think when I formatted I formatted more then I should have because when I pull up TWRP recovery mode to restore a backup nothing is listed in the window. However when I go into the internal storage in windows on my computer with the phone connected and look inside HTC One\Internal storage\TWRP\BACKUPS I found a folder called HT34GW9xxxxx and a sub directory with a date on it and it looks like the date that I did the flash in the first place. That folder also has 13 files in it equaling out to 4.25GB in size. So basically what I'm getting at is how come I can see this folder here but not in recovery and even if I could see it in recovery this seems like it's not large enough to be HTC Sense 5.0 according to this thread and the downloads attached to it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248997&highlight=nandroid
Also speaking of that thread considering the original M7 Dev rom is gone can I use that thread to restore my phone even though I am using TWRP and not clockwork. I'm not the greatest at these type of things, I don't want to brick my phone, and I never have enough time invest in this stuff. If I knew this was going to happy I probably wouldn't have done it in the first place lol.
Thank you in advance and sorry if this has already been talked about, I did a search but I must have skipped over it if it was already out there :\.

dont worry if u have htc one 64gb dev edition go to htcdev..com and download ruu file lock the bootloader and run ruu thats all

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ccpzcp said:
dont worry if u have htc one 64gb dev edition go to htcdev..com and download ruu file lock the bootloader and run ruu thats all
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Thank you for the help. A follow up question would be is there a place to get someone's previous backup and download it like the link I put up in the previous posts user did. I really don't want to lock the boot loader and I would love to just be able to easily get Cyanogenmod back on the phone easily. Reason being is that right now the Cm camera just isn't up to pay with the Sense camera software and if I go to an event like I am tonight I would like to be able to swap back and fourth.

TWRP and CWM backups aren't compatible with each other. You'd have to flash the relevant recovery to use a corresponding backup.
You still have your backup though. You said as much in your OP. You just need to go into TWRP settings and specify the default location for your backups.
As mentioned above however, you can just flash the official RUU to return to stock

Thanks a ton!
Just wanna say thanks to the both of you for your help. I went with option 2 for now because I want to switch back to CM after the Cardinals MLB game tonight. I never lost the backup and you were right I just had to find the folder. It was weird I didn't see any button to search for a folder kinda odd how TWRP is layer out in that interface. Yet I found the backed up file and took about 10 minutes from start to finish. The device is still unlocked to so I can reflash CM when I'm ready.
A little off topic but does anyone know what the difference between the GSM Cyanogenmod ROMs and the AT&T ROMs are? I have the Dev version but flashed the AT&T version and it ran fine made calls and had no data transfer issues at all.

Ok so I actually started having issues after that last post. What was happening was I kept getting this HTC system update my guess the Camera software update but whatever. So I clicked on the update now and it downloaded like normal then reboot. After it reboot it booted into TWRP recovery well at that point I didn't know what to do so I just went a head and rebooted into System. Well here is where the issue started it said again system update avalible ok great install, same deal it just booted back into TWRP after the download. Back into system I went and again same thing.
At this point I desided to go into TWRP and do a system restore and I thought that worked cause it wasn't notifying me immediately after the launcher loaded to install the update. So I checked for it manually and of course there was one. Tapped on Install it downloaded and asked to reboot so I did...
SAME ISSUE AHHHHGGG! Lol
This will be the end of me haha.
Is there something I'm missing here? Can I not have root access or a a third party boot loader like TWRP or both modifying the system. What am I missing?
Ok thanks again, sorry for the multiple posts I'm just so frustrated at this point.
Sent from my HTC One using xda premium

This my very wild guess. Try flashing stock recovery first and then install the OTA update again. That's just my wild guess I'm not saying it will 100% work.

No luck
shadowboy23 said:
This my very wild guess. Try flashing stock recovery first and then install the OTA update again. That's just my wild guess I'm not saying it will 100% work.
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Nope no luck

Hopefully this helps..
What I did find was this link here...http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc...ml#post2827047 that's where someone else is having the same issue but on Sprint I'm guessing. So that doesn't really apply to me. However a poster further down the thread gave another link to all these "nandroid?" files. I'm not really sure what a nandroid is haha I'm such a noob at this. Basically what they are saying is that unrooting it then i guess somehow putting this "nandroid" file on it somehow. Anyone have any idea on this. I'm terribly sorry for my noobishness but I'm trying to learn all this and it's really frustrating at first..
Here's the link to the nandroid files. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2207874 funny thing is that I actually found that link on Android Central website so that I could come back here and repost about it again heh. Anyways does that look like something that might fix the issue that I'm having?
Even if this file does help I have no idea what to do with it but that first link seemed to have some video's attached to it although I worry about following them because it's for Sprint and I really don't want to brick my phone. (another reason I am being so careful) You pay over 600 dollars for a device you tend to be super careful with anything you do with it.

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Sorry about that.

All fixed!!
Ok so I got it. I ended up finding this http://qbking77.com/development/how-to-unrootunbrick-the-htc-one-to-stock-2/
Worked great fixed everything. Linked to the RUU on HTC Dev website also so its official.:good:
So basically if Anyone need to restore to factory from a mess they have made follow this guide it works perfectly and he does an execelent job of describing how to do it in a video he posted step by step.

[Q] CWM Backup taking more than an hour?

So I decided today to make a CWM backup, because I do that from time to time. I deleted my old backup from within ROM Manager, then clicked the option in the Manager to create new backup. I've never done that before (I usually just go directly to recovery from power off and then select backup in there).
I left it to do the backup, left, and checked again in about ten minutes, the amount of time it usually takes. It was not finished. I left it and forgot about it for at least an hour. It was still on "data" when I checked again.
In the end, it probably took about an hour and a half at least. What is going on? (At first I thought it was because I deleted the backup before making a new one, so it had to make lots of new files, but I just made a second backup to test, and it's taking the same time. This has never happened before.)
EDIT: So now I'm fairly sure what's happening is that it's backing up my SD card as well. So now I'm just wondering what in the world caused it to start doing that and how should I turn it off?

Which version are you on? I read complaints from other people about the time it took to backup/restore, and improvements in a later version. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to specifics but I held off upgrading until I confirm it's OK again.

Did you figure this out? It's been backing up my One for an hour already and normally takes 10 mins or so too! Still spinning through text as it's backing up data, but it's been going for a long time. Scared to interrupt it
Edit. So new ROM beta had bad dialer and had to restore looong backup. It took just as looong to restore. Thought I'd restore to a 4.3 backup and it was 3 mins. So maybe it has to do with Kitkat backups. I was running CM Kitkat beta 5....now back on Slim 4.3.1
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So I decided today to make a CWM backup, because I do that from time to time. I deleted my old backup from within ROM Manager, then clicked the option in the Manager to create new backup. I've never done that before (I usually just go directly to recovery from power off and then select backup in there).
I left it to do the backup, left, and checked again in about ten minutes, the amount of time it usually takes. It was not finished. I left it and forgot about it for at least an hour. It was still on "data" when I checked again.
In the end, it probably took about an hour and a half at least. What is going on? (At first I thought it was because I deleted the backup before making a new one, so it had to make lots of new files, but I just made a second backup to test, and it's taking the same time. This has never happened before.)
EDIT: So now I'm fairly sure what's happening is that it's backing up my SD card as well. So now I'm just wondering what in the world caused it to start doing that and how should I turn it off?
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deeevan said:
Which version are you on? I read complaints from other people about the time it took to backup/restore, and improvements in a later version. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to specifics but I held off upgrading until I confirm it's OK again.
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Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking this thread lol. I am on ARHD 22.0 so 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.0, latest ROM Manager and latest recovery (flashed it manually).
In the end, I didn't really get a solution. The one thing that I noticed that was different was that it looked like it was mounting the internal SD before backup, so it could be possibly backing up my 17GB storage. It doesn't seem to be any corruption issue.
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Did you figure this out? It's been backing up my One for an hour already and normally takes 10 mins or so too! Still spinning through text as it's backing up data, but it's been going for a long time. Scared to interrupt it
Edit. So new ROM beta had bad dialer and had to restore looong backup. It took just as looong to restore. Thought I'd restore to a 4.3 backup and it was 3 mins. So maybe it has to do with Kitkat backups. I was running CM Kitkat beta 5....now back on Slim 4.3.1
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I never really got an answer, sorry. I am on ARHD 22.0, 4.3 with Sense 5.0. I think it may just be the fact that it's backing up my 17GB virtual SD data haha. But I don't know for sure since I haven't had to do a full restore yet, thankfully.
If that's the case, I wonder why they don't have a selection for what you want to include in the backup, although I think you can probably try backing up each individual thing in "advanced". Maybe I'll try that and see if the total time is less, next time I make a backup.

Had the same issues with backups taking 30/45mins on my One, i now switched to TWRP, and i can get it backed up in less than 5 minuites with the same amount of data..

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Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking this thread lol. I am on ARHD 22.0 so 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sense 5.0, latest ROM Manager and latest recovery (flashed it manually).
In the end, I didn't really get a solution. The one thing that I noticed that was different was that it looked like it was mounting the internal SD before backup, so it could be possibly backing up my 17GB storage. It doesn't seem to be any corruption issue.
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I meant which version of CWM Since you said latest version, I'll assume you mean 6.0.4.x.
I still have 6.0.3.6 on my phone but 6.0.4.3 on my tablet. The tablet backup takes excruciatingly long but it's only 1.36gb so I don't think it's including sdcard data. My backup folder is on sdcard with CWM pointing to a symlink so I expect the sdcard to be mounted.

deeevan said:
I meant which version of CWM Since you said latest version, I'll assume you mean 6.0.4.x.
I still have 6.0.3.6 on my phone but 6.0.4.3 on my tablet. The tablet backup takes excruciatingly long but it's only 1.36gb so I don't think it's including sdcard data. My backup folder is on sdcard with CWM pointing to a symlink so I expect the sdcard to be mounted.
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Yeah I have 6.0.4.x. I think the last digit is a 4. Weird. Mine's 2.42 GB, not sure if the size changed from before (even if it did, it definitely didn't change more than 2x, so why would it take 10x longer? lol).

IINexusII said:
Had the same issues with backups taking 30/45mins on my One, i now switched to TWRP, and i can get it backed up in less than 5 minuites with the same amount of data..
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Haha you know it's CWM 4 lyf tho. I personally just can't deal with the TWRP interface. I never even bothered to find out if they could flash the same backups.
Did the backups have the same size?

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Haha you know it's CWM 4 lyf tho. I personally just can't deal with the TWRP interface. I never even bothered to find out if they could flash the same backups.
Did the backups have the same size?
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The backups are compressed in TWRP so the file sizes are slightly smaller.
I was a CWM for life guy too until i saw the backup speed on twrp, havent looked back since. Just change the theme if you dont like the stock interface

Just to deliver a sense of finality to this thread...
I have finally switched over to TWRP, and it's great.
After reading through numerous comparisons of CWM Recovery and TWRP, I caved and flashed 2.6.3.3, and the backups are made in about 5 minutes max.
So for anyone else having backup troubles on CWM, just try out TWRP. Take it from a hardcore CWM user from the start. :good:

I needed to switch to TWRP to flash ARHD 40.2. The issue I have is what to do with all the CWM backups I have. Particularly the stock ones. I might convert them over, but it's not going to be fun.

Twrp Backups not showing in recovery

before anyone says anything about using a search function let me say that i have searched every page on this site/google/youtube/ etc for an answer or fix
but anyway, so i screwed up and installed an old firmware update (mistakingly thinking it was new) and ran into a ton of issues, that after an extremely long night, i was able to fix.
i managed to load up the stock rom 4.4.2 that i had when i initially unlocked my device, and was hoping to copy over my twrp back up that i made earlier that day. when i make a twrp back up, i usually copy it to my pc to save phone space, and i tried to copy it back, and i put it in the backup folder, and although i can find it in file manager, i cant recover it. looking at the folder it looks like every other backup ive ever made, i have no idea why it wont show. i got a flasher app "Rashr" and it doesnt recognize it as a recovery folder either. does something need to be different? when i tried the twrp app, it selected all the typical boot img etc things but then says that it has to restart and when it does the twrp recovery still doesnt recognize it.
help ideas?
im still actively working it and if anyone finds anything that'll be wonderful thanks

I was helping you yesterday no?
I think what happened when you flashed a 4.1.2 you changed the file structure.
4.2.x and above handle things differently.
If you look in data/media/0/twrp you should find your backup.
I would still suggest running the latest RUU and starting fresh and it will give you the correct file structure.

BD619 said:
I was helping you yesterday no?
I think what happened when you flashed a 4.1.2 you changed the file structure.
4.2.x and above handle things differently.
If you look in data/media/0/twrp you should find your backup.
I would still suggest running the latest RUU and starting fresh and it will give you the correct file structure.
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this might help too, don't know

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this might help too, don't know
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Maybe you can elaborate on what this does I've never seen it.

BD619 said:
Maybe you can elaborate on what this does I've never seen it.
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back when 4.1.2 was live, guys flashed to 4.2, and it messed up the file structure, if they went back to 4.1.2, (if I remember correctly)this would fix the file structure.
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back when 4.1.2 was live, guys flashed to 4.2, and it messed up the file structure, if they went back to 4.1.2, (if I remember correctly)this would fix the file structure.
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I thought maybe he could flash back to 4.1.2 then flash this, then back up his sdcard to computer then go on to 4.2. or above delete his sdcard on 4.2 or above then restore it from computer, just my thoughts on it.

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back when 4.1.2 was live, guys flashed to 4.2, and it messed up the file structure, if they went back to 4.1.2, (if I remember correctly)this would fix the file structure.
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I thought maybe he could flash back to 4.1.2 then flash this, then back up his sdcard to computer then go on to 4.2. or above delete his sdcard on 4.2 or above then restore it from computer, just my thoughts on it.
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He flashed a really old rom and lost his ability to use the touch screen.
Not sure if he will be staying on the older rom.

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He flashed a really old rom and lost his ability to use the touch screen.
Not sure if he will be staying on the older rom.
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yeah, your probably right, just thought I'd throw it out there.

i managed to use the files i used to root my phone to restore my phone back to a usable state. im not exactly sure if its RUU but my phone is basically back to where it was almost 5 months ago, luckily i had did an htc backup about 3 weeks ago, so i didnt quite lose every thing. its back to 4.4.2. im not exactly sure if my issue is making sense.
i have a back up i made on twrp, i cut and paste it to my desktop. when i put it in my twrp backup folder, its treated as if its not there. i can physically search for it and find it within the folder. is there a certain way that backups are made? i just made a backup of my device today, and it created a seperate FAxxxxxxxxx folder, im gonna try and put it in there to see if it helps any, but at this point im thinking i should give up and admit a lost cause.
my devce works, and thanks BD for all the help you gave!! seriously wouldve gone crazy without it.lol

Enishi44 said:
i managed to use the files i used to root my phone to restore my phone back to a usable state. im not exactly sure if its RUU but my phone is basically back to where it was almost 5 months ago, luckily i had did an htc backup about 3 weeks ago, so i didnt quite lose every thing. its back to 4.4.2. im not exactly sure if my issue is making sense.
i have a back up i made on twrp, i cut and paste it to my desktop. when i put it in my twrp backup folder, its treated as if its not there. i can physically search for it and find it within the folder. is there a certain way that backups are made? i just made a backup of my device today, and it created a seperate FAxxxxxxxxx folder, im gonna try and put it in there to see if it helps any, but at this point im thinking i should give up and admit a lost cause.
my devce works, and thanks BD for all the help you gave!! seriously wouldve gone crazy without it.lol
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You must have ran the RUU file. Once you run the RUU file and you have to unlock everything using the HTC DEV method then yes, you will loose everything because the RUU file will bring your phone as it was coming out of the store.