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Adding a custom Rom with CWM

Ok so i know how to add and install Roms with CWm and Rom Manager
My question is though is it best to put to internal or external sdcard and on the internal card what files to delete before going into recovery and installing rom etc
THANKS

EwOkie said:
Ok so i know how to add and install Roms with CWm and Rom Manager
My question is though is it best to put to internal or external sdcard and on the internal card what files to delete before going into recovery and installing rom etc
THANKS
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From what I understand it's better to put it on the internal and take the external out so as not to confuse them when you do go into recovery. As for which files to delete, do a wipe cache dalvik, partition and factory reset for seamless ROM integration

[Q] Broken rom after clockwork backup restore

I have installed custom rom from zip and used it for several weeks.
Today I have decided to try new rom and I have made a backup trough CWM (6.0.2.5) in format .tar
I have tried to restore the backup. but the phone gives me a really strange error.
Encryption Failed. The system .. bla bla bla ... you need to reset your phone ..
I have tried to factory reset trough CWM, but the problem is the same.
I have tried to restore older backup ... the same error ...
Any ideas what is the problem and now to fix it (restore the rom)

I have tried the following ..
1. format /system /cache / data
2. install custom rom (CivZ v3.0)
3. take the setup wizard
4. reboot into recovery (CWM 6.0.2.5)
5. backup (.tar format)
6. restore from the backup
and .. the same error and no working rom ..
Can this be an internal SD memory problem ?
Any ideas ???

Anyone

Try backing up to external SD card. If that works, or you dont have an external SD card, backup and repartition your internal SD using AIO toolkit (choice 4 in the toolkit, then select the new unlocked ICS bootloader, and 512 MB system partition, or whatever your preferred size is, then run the internal SD fixer which follows that step) and try again.

The backup is on external SD
I have already repartitioned the internal SD with the default ICS layout (1.5G system)

hack_man said:
The backup is on external SD
I have already repartitioned the internal SD with the default ICS layout (1.5G system)
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Then try backing up to the internal SD and also try changing recovery to TWRP.

I have already tried TWRP but it cannot restore CWM backup
Currently I have stock rom , but I cannot rollback to the previous rom backup.
a few days ago I have used some app (found here in XDA) for optimizing internal SD .. is it possible this app to broke something in the internal SD ?

hack_man said:
I have already tried TWRP but it cannot restore CWM backup
Currently I have stock rom , but I cannot rollback to the previous rom backup.
a few days ago I have used some app (found here in XDA) for optimizing internal SD .. is it possible this app to broke something in the internal SD ?
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Hi! I assume that you were using the stock ics rom. Right? Stock ics use system partition as ext4 but data and cache are used as ext3. Since TWRP and CWM format data and cache as ext4 you cannot use your old backup of stock ics rom, unless you format both (data and cache) to ext3.
I created a zip which converts data and cache to ext3. Download from my attachment.
Flash the zip file then restore your backup.

Thanks :victory:
I will try

Custom recovery lost?

Hey guys so i backed up my v20b stock software via cwm and thought that it was going to be stored in some kind of internal storage forever (like cwm itself), but now i realised that after i done factory reset it is probably gone ) Is there a way to create a recovery file for cwm to restore to v20b?Or could i use some elses file?

Your backup is in the internal memory, unless you format or wipe it specifically factory reset will not erase it.
In development section there are a few roms based on official v20b ou can flash thhose if you can't find your backup

Rudjgaard said:
Your backup is in the internal memory, unless you format or wipe it specifically factory reset will not erase it.
In development section there are a few roms based on official v20b ou can flash thhose if you can't find your backup
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i had 2 backups on stock and i didn't delete any of them, just did the factory reset once. When i go to recovery mode CWM doesn't find any backups on internal storage...So where did they go?

Mount usb storage from recovery and check the cwm folder they should be in there unless you did "wipe data"

did you install any 4.2.2+ rom? if you did, your cwm is reading the "wrong" folder for backups. it's reading under data/media/0/whatevercwmbackupfolderis, instead of data/media/whatevercwmbackupfolderis

Go into custom recovery and select "Restore Back-up". It will work. I had the same problem .

Yeah, i also did wipe data/cache/dalvik/(as you do) before installing 4.4.2 , no backups in data/media/cwm, so i guess my backups are gone?

No, wipe data doesn't wipe internal storage, if formats everything except data/media which is where backups are
You must specifically select "format internal storage" to loose your backups
Is other stuff you had on internal sd still present?

they have to be there, unless you formatted internal sd. try searching around more with file browsers, sorry i cant be of more help

Rudjgaard said:
No, wipe data doesn't wipe internal storage, if formats everything except data/media which is where backups are
You must specifically select "format internal storage" to loose your backups
Is other stuff you had on internal sd still present?
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no, but i do factory reset every time. Rom manager doesn't find anything, as well as cwm in recovery mode. Searched every CWM,DATA,BACKUP folder, nothing there.
i searched with ES file explorer with root access (i even created a new backup to be 100% sure root access is on, the new backup appeared in data/media). Btw, how much internal storage is there after factory reset? Because with Beanstalk i get 11,8 of 12,2, i was sure those 400mb where my software backups....

[Q] Repartition internal storage (back to stock)?

I used Quarx's CM11 for a couple of days. While making a nandroid backup through CWM recovery (the .img found in Quarx's thread) I tried backing up to the internal storage. CWM reported /data backup error. After rebooting system reported it is low on storage. Somehow it only sees 3.8 GB of internal storage now.
Since then I tried formating and /data and restoring previous backups. Nothing helped. Flashed KDZ file, rooted again and now I'm using stock, locked bootloader. Still the system only sees 3.8 GB of internal storage.
Any pointers or ideas? My assumption is that CWM somehow partitioned internal SD while making the backup and now one of those partitions is not visible to the system. Is there any way to delete all internal storage partitions?

stari_alca said:
I used Quarx's CM11 for a couple of days. While making a nandroid backup through CWM recovery (the .img found in Quarx's thread) I tried backing up to the internal storage. CWM reported /data backup error. After rebooting system reported it is low on storage. Somehow it only sees 3.8 GB of internal storage now.
Since then I tried formating and /data and restoring previous backups. Nothing helped. Flashed KDZ file, rooted again and now I'm using stock, locked bootloader. Still the system only sees 3.8 GB of internal storage.
Any pointers or ideas? My assumption is that CWM somehow partitioned internal SD while making the backup and now one of those partitions is not visible to the system. Is there any way to delete all internal storage partitions?
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Internal storage is only 3.8 GB. CWM or any other recovery will NOT partition your internal storage.

But simple zip package can do it
2GB system partition is massive waste of space

judas1977 said:
But simple zip package can do it
2GB system partition is massive waste of space
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Can you link to the page with this zip?

I don't have it. I just wanted to say that it's easy to do. But as lg software don't repartition memory during flash of kdz, it could be risky

Flash customer ROM

I first time using the phone have no SD card. When I flash the custom ROM need to wipe the DATA, where I put the customer ROM for install.
Thanks

Hi
Just put your rom.zip in the root of your internal storage, wipe data is only wiping data partition not your fully internal storage, except you choice to formatting it..this will erase your internal storage.

z1022 said:
I first time using the phone have no SD card. When I flash the custom ROM need to wipe the DATA, where I put the customer ROM for install.
Thanks
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Its also called external-sd, go into the menu then files and search for that folder. BTW what rom do you want to flash?