Hello
Here is my story
I was trying to upgrade to ICS by flashing the latest stock ROM XXLPS that I got from Samfirmware.
1- on the first try I did not perform a full wipe, the ROM was a no wipe ROM so It upgraded and all my apps are kept there,. after a while I start facing errors and restarts so I fall back
2- on the second try I flashed the ROM then I did a full wipe/factory reset. It was working well until I rooted it using CF-root and started to restore my apps using TB. I noticed that the problems are coming from Apps installed on external SD, sometimes it was unmounted automatically
Anyway I did a fall back using a CWM restore, I noticed after restore that CSC and baseband are still the ICS ones ? I thought that CWM backup and restore everything??!!
I have also had the same experience once....
when we select advance restore we can find these:
1) Restore Boot (which include boot image and Kernel)
2) Restore System (complete system files)
3) Restore Data (user data like apps and user data etc..)
4) Restore Cache
5) Restore Sd-ext (if we set a partition for applications in the externel SD card)
Unless the CSC is already integreted in system (2nd item) I believe these 2 items, especially baseband, are not backed up normally from CWM, otherwise there should be a restoring option too .....
Especially if you go from one generation to another (Gingerbread to Icecream e.g.) its more complicated to go back a step. You should flash a base Gingerbread ROM from samfirmware e.g. with ODIN (not a CWM version) and then try to restore your Gingerbread backup.
After you flashed the base you may change CSC before you restore your backup. This is the cleanest way to get back.
CWM nandroid is not what we know as a real image backup of a PC.
Thanks guys for the clarifications
BTW regarding the upgrade to ICS what is the best option to do it and restore back the apps or keep them ?
the_desperado said:
Thanks guys for the clarifications
BTW regarding the upgrade to ICS what is the best option to do it and restore back the apps or keep them ?
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This you have to do with Titanium back up not with CWM back-up...with Titanium Backup pro you can restore applications from nandroid (CWM) backup.
there should not be any problem while you restore only apps on the ICS, some may not work, just unsinstall such...better you select it individually and install... but dont attempt for any system data restore....
This is exactly what I have done, i tried to restore using TB but from backup taken by TB and not from Nandroid.
It was working fine but later start to hang and restart. I noticed that the issue is coming from applications installed on external SD? Is there any issue with ICS or CF-root kernel and external SD card?
the_desperado said:
This is exactly what I have done, i tried to restore using TB but from backup taken by TB and not from Nandroid.
It was working fine but later start to hang and restart. I noticed that the issue is coming from applications installed on external SD? Is there any issue with ICS or CF-root kernel and external SD card?
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try moving all apps from ext sdcard to phone for a while and check for any issues like hang or restart
I found an open issue related to crash and reboots when a large number of apps are installed on sd card.
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Hey guys ive installed VillainRom 5.5.0 a little while ago and was looking to change to the new 6.1.0 However im not quite sure which steps i need to follow.
I used this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253
Do i just start from the second section? or do i need to load the recover rom etc.
Another thing i wanted to ask was ive done a full titanium backup (apps and settings one aswell as just apps one). If i download titanium again and go to restore it on a different Rom i shouldnt have any problems right? And i assume i should only restore the apps not the apps and settings?
Also i have apps2sd installed. Before restoring should i make sure the sd card has the ext2 partition before restoring from Titanium?
Final question is that ive done a nandroid backup with ext, but this is only useful if i want to revert to 5.5.0 right?
In summation:
1) From the guide where do i start to install a new Rom seeing as ive already rooted
2) Which Titanium backup do i restore? apps and settings? or just apps?
3) make sure after doing a full wipe and installing the new Rom that i have the right ext2 partition on my sd card before restoring from Titanium to make sure everything goes back to the sd card because of apps2sd?
4) Nandroid backup is only needed if i want to revert back to 5.5.0 and keep all my settings?
Thanks guys
Indy_Hero said:
Hey guys ive installed VillainRom 5.5.0 a little while ago and was looking to change to the new 6.1.0 However im not quite sure which steps i need to follow.
I used this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=645253
Do i just start from the second section? or do i need to load the recover rom etc.
Another thing i wanted to ask was ive done a full titanium backup (apps and settings one aswell as just apps one). If i download titanium again and go to restore it on a different Rom i shouldnt have any problems right? And i assume i should only restore the apps not the apps and settings?
Also i have apps2sd installed. Before restoring should i make sure the sd card has the ext2 partition before restoring from Titanium?
Final question is that ive done a nandroid backup with ext, but this is only useful if i want to revert to 5.5.0 right?
In summation:
1) From the guide where do i start to install a new Rom seeing as ive already rooted
2) Which Titanium backup do i restore? apps and settings? or just apps?
3) make sure after doing a full wipe and installing the new Rom that i have the right ext2 partition on my sd card before restoring from Titanium to make sure everything goes back to the sd card because of apps2sd?
4) Nandroid backup is only needed if i want to revert back to 5.5.0 and keep all my settings?
Thanks guys
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No need to Do recovery stuffagain. Just put the ROM file onto the sdcard main folder and boot to recovery to flash it (remember your wipes)
You can restore the titanium backup with settings fine afaik
If you have ext partition already, it won't disappear or change, so you are fine
Always nandroid before flashing, but you are correct about what it does
OK thanks. 6.1.0 here i come i hope
recently i have been having issues with my games and apps that are installed in my phone.........all of them say ether "application not installed" or the force close messege while the day before all was ok... so what can cause this issue
Have you made any changes to you phone recently, tweaked, anything...? Or did it just happen suddenly?
ivanrcks95 said:
recently i have been having issues with my games and apps that are installed in my phone.........all of them say ether "application not installed" or the force close messege while the day before all was ok... so what can cause this issue
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Hi @ivanrcks95...
After reading your post I sat & scratched my head for a while...
1. do you have any apps etc moved-out to sd...? If so, are there many & what app did you use to move them...?
2. Are you running any ram tweaks or partition managment tweaks...?
The reason I ask these questions is because I have seen this behaviour often when an "Ace" is switching back from USB data transfer mode to Internal & SD memory...
The status of your ram at this point can cause a severe lag with the mounting of the necessary partitions often returning the error messages that you describe... on occasion you will also get "Problem loading widgets" etc. If a particularly bad lag occurs then the data & partitions can become corrupted...
An easy cure to get things running again would be a complete wipe & restore from Nandroid backup (assuming that you have done one...?)... A selective nandroid restore would let you just repair the system partition, which I feel would be adequate.
Have you tried re-installing 1 or 2 apps...? if they install successfully then that tells us that the partition is now functioning but some of the data contained has become corrupt. If the apps fail to install then I think we can safely assume that the partition is corrupt...
Again the simple solution would be a nandroid restore... If you do not have this option then I would suggest the following... :
1. backup all data from your sd card where possible & reformat & partition using CWM 4 or 5 (if ya runnin CM7.2 then you "MUST" use CWM5)...(sd card partitions may be cause of issue)
2. complete a full wipe (system, cache, Dalvik), Wipe battery stats (Always do when installing a new rom so battery can correctly callibrate to new power requirments)...
3. Re-flash rom, modded kernel etc. (always check if system, data partitions need to be mounted before flash from CWM to prevent boot errors & wrong permission assignment)...
4. Re-boot phone after flash to check all is well... Then copy back to sd the backup that you made at the beginning...
You should now have a fully working phone again... Downside is that you may have to re-install ya apps etc...
Nandroid backup recovery...
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1. Follow step 1 of my guide above...
2. If doing a "selective" nandroid restore then wipe just the Dalvik cache then just select the needed files and restore them... If doing a "Complete" nandroid restore then do a complete wipe before restore...
3. Re-boot phone after restore to check all is well... Then copy back to sd the backup that you made at the beginning...
You should now have a fully working phone again...
!!! IMPORTANT !!!
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If after formatting & partitioning the sd card, CWM has trouble locating the Nandroid backup after you place it in root of sd card then do the following :
1. Open into "Root" of sd card
2. Create a folder called "clockworkmod" all lowercase letters...
3.Create within the above folder another folder called "backup" again all lowercase...
4. now place within this folder your nandroid backup...
5. unmount usb (assuming your phone is connected to pc for folder creation)...
6. now complete the nandroid recovery...(should go without a hitch unless the backup has been altered in any way (MD5 hash file check will fail if file is altered after creation)...
Hope this info is of help to you given that you did;nt really provide many details of your problem...
Stay Breezy n Be Lucky...
Pe"ACE"...
ok i am running my own ROM that i havent published but its a mix with cyanogen and ice cream sunday put into one( so some bits from each rom to make my own) well when i re-install apps they work but ive noticed as soon as i reboot my phone they force close again i can try to reinstall my rom and do a full wipe to solve this but all my apps are in my sd card so it could be that my sd card is a bit mest up or maybe ive mest something up with my rom
I just flashed cm7 2.2.1 and im wondering how to restore my apps back to my phone? or isnt it possible? my sd card has alot of space like 1.4gb before i flashed the rom, and now i almost have full space and im thinking of deleting them and start to a new one if restoring isnt possible, if i delete those things on my SD card, will there be a problem on my phone?
if you have a previous CWM backup from your early version of miniCM7 2.2.0 , you can restore your data, just reboot into recovery, select backup and restore, select advance restore, select your backup, and then select data.img, but make a backup of your miniCM 2.2.1 first
Titanium Backup could be a great tool aside from the one option mention earlier. you can even select what apps to do back up and restore.
Helped a friend to root and install custom rom.
Basically the step i used
1) Root it with odin and cf-root
2) Root working, so i get titanium backup and run the backup
3) Factory reset and install Omega rom v37
4) failed to install, seem like i get the older version of cf-root. So i re install the cf-root
5) Install omega rom v37 and it worked
6) Install titanium backup. However, when i want to restore, seem all file missing. I scanned through whole device, cant find it too. The sdcard/titaniumbackup is an empty folder
Question
1) Could the backup file in sdcard0/titaniumbackup?
2) Why the backup will disappear by itself?
3) Factory reset/wipe cache/wipe ...cache will delete the backup, right?
4) Watapps backup disappear too?
5) Instagram pictures folder disappear too?
5) Any idea to get the backup back? Feel really sorry as lost my friend's data, please help me if there is a way to get the data back.
Thank you.
how did you do the factory reset? from the settings menu?
Yes, from the cwm menu.
And i did it just like what i did for the last 50 times
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check sdcard0/ and extSdCard/
you didn't wipe the internal sd, did you?
No /sdcard0, only /sdcard
Dint wipe that one.
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So any cluel?
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Yes, you factory reset, which wiped your internal sd, and you really should set titanium to save to external sd if you have one to avoid this happening again, and backup to pc before you start messing around
I never understand making backup on internal sd - think it would be good to advise user of TB after installing to change the folder at first. (If ext SD is present)
Do anybody backup PC on c:\ ??? Must be more complicated on a phone...
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Yes, you factory reset, which wiped your internal sd, and you really should set titanium to save to external sd if you have one to avoid this happening again, and backup to pc before you start messing around
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So no chances to get the lost data back?
One day i decided i had enough of cyanogenmod and decided stock samsung was the way to go. I did a full backup with the latest version of clockworkmod, the full backup weights 2.99gb. When i try to restore it using any version of clockwork it gets up to restoring data then says Error while restoring /data!
i can boot back to cyanogenmod however apps are "installed" but they all say that they are not
Please help because i really need this phone
Either the file is corrupt or your sd card card could be damaged. It would be easier to flash stock with Odin and start again.
and if you have to /will go further without old backups, switch to TWRP after having rooted
Strange because i copied it without any errors... oh well. :crying: