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First up high fives to the XDA developer community, to villainrom and to unlocker.com....im a noob but have mangaed to root my Oranage branded hero and am running the Aman RA 1.5.2 recovery image and villainrom v12....which both work great!!
What I want to know is what is the 'default' name for the backup image (recovery-backup?) when performing a nandroid backup through the root menu? Basically I did an initial backup from the stock rom prior to loading the villain rom, I've now got a stable version of 2.1 running and was wondering if i take another backup will it replace my previous back up ? or can i save multiples ? (i want one back up per rom?)
Is this possible ?
Cheers in advance
rtorbs said:
First up high fives to the XDA developer community, to villainrom and to unlocker.com....im a noob but have mangaed to root my Oranage branded hero and am running the Aman RA 1.5.2 recovery image and villainrom v12....which both work great!!
What I want to know is what is the 'default' name for the backup image (recovery-backup?) when performing a nandroid backup through the root menu? Basically I did an initial backup from the stock rom prior to loading the villain rom, I've now got a stable version of 2.1 running and was wondering if i take another backup will it replace my previous back up ? or can i save multiples ? (i want one back up per rom?)
Is this possible ?
Cheers in advance
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You can use a file manager like Astro to rename the back-up or just save the back-up to your pc...
ok cheers for that.....but what im trying to find out is what the recovery image defaults to...i.e its name so i know the image im looking at relates to the 'last' backup i took......Ive done another backup but cant see any files time/date stamped at the time of the backup except for 'DiskcacheIndex35089'....could this be it? or am i totally barking up the wrong tree? lol
Cheers
edit - Maybe i should have said....when using root menu to perform a nandroid backup what are the defaults for 'save location' and 'file name' of the recovery image? theres a nandroid file on my sd card...is it in there? Basically I have made two backup files using the root menu one on the stock rom and one on the villain v12 but i cant find two similar files so am struggling to work out what belongs where?
Any expansion/further explanation would be much appriciated
Cheers
Sorted it....just wasnt looking hard enough lol
I know on the thunderbolt it names it by the date/time at which you do it. It doesn't overwrite the previous one because it is a different name
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ok cheers for that.....but what im trying to find out is what the recovery image defaults to...i.e its name so i know the image im looking at relates to the 'last' backup i took......Ive done another backup but cant see any files time/date stamped at the time of the backup except for 'DiskcacheIndex35089'....could this be it? or am i totally barking up the wrong tree? lol
Cheers
edit - Maybe i should have said....when using root menu to perform a nandroid backup what are the defaults for 'save location' and 'file name' of the recovery image? theres a nandroid file on my sd card...is it in there? Basically I have made two backup files using the root menu one on the stock rom and one on the villain v12 but i cant find two similar files so am struggling to work out what belongs where?
Any expansion/further explanation would be much appriciated
Cheers
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hi all, hoping someone can help point me in the right direction, new to samsung devices
had my i9300 a couple of months now - rooted using SGS3 toolkit
I finally plucked up the courage to flash a custom rom and went a bit crazy!!!
Flashed the following roms:
Android Revolution
Revolution Resurrection
3 minit
and finally
Hellybean
Before flashing each new rom I did the following:
Backed up my apps and data with TB pro
a full nandroid back up of my existing rom
followed by a factory data reset and wipes of cache and dalvik
I thought I had covered my butt pretty well but apparently not!!
i really liked hellybean and decided to restore my apps with TB but I got an error "unable to access external sd card" I tried changing the backup location folder which seemed to work, but once back in the main program I get the unable to access error....
So I thought ok i'll restore my nandroid backup!!! but that gives me an error "error restoring /data"
then I tried flashing the 3 minit rom again and then back into cwm and trying to restore that backup and I got an error restoring system this time!!!!
I'm not sure what to do now....have I lost my data for ever???
Is there a way to try and restore using odin??
and any hints for backing up and restoring in the future??
many thanks if anyone who can help
rgds
dibb
sdcard/0/0/0/0/0
Update 1.
Well on further reading it seems 4.2 has a 'unique' feature!!!
I'm using my own words here to help me comprehend whats going on, so forgive me if i'm not using "android-speak"
When upgrading to 4.2 it creates a new "partition" on your /sdcard called /emulated and all your new 4.2 data etc goes in here....all your pre 4.2 stuff goes into /sdcard/0...
I believe this happens also whenever you flash a new rom
so if you get a flash happy as I did then all of a sudden you get /sdcard/0/0/0/0/0/0...???? can this be correct????
The issue is I have different files in each of these "0" folders. My titanium Backup folder is in /sdcard/0/0/0/0 - which TB cannot access...I checked the /data/media folder which I believe is where my files are actually residing and sure enough in /data/media/0/0/0/0 theres my TB b/u folder
what i'd like to know now is if I can copy that folder to say, data/media without causing havoc?
Of course my next question is can I also move my cwm backup folder from sdcard/0/0/0/0/0/0 to data/media even tho I already have a cwm folder in there but which does not have the same files in it???
The other question is how to figure out which of the sdcard "0" folders hold which rom???
Anyone out there thats been thru the same thing???
Update 2
ok I just booted to cwm and did a backup just to see where it gets stored to...
Took ext sdcard out to force to int storage
backup saved by cwm to /sdcard
boot to android and fire up Total Commander
the only file in my cwm folder on /sdcard is an older one which cwm will not restore from
navigate to /data/media and sure enought theres my backup
boot back to cwm to restore my backup and cwm says No file found....wtf...
cwm cannot restore the backup it just made??
so back to android and check all my '0' folders and zip nothing?
my backup is in internal storage but NOT /sdcard??
So it would seem, that once you install a 4.2 rom - no apps can find their backups cos theyre
stored in a different location which they are unable to access??
thoughts people??
sdcard0/0/0/0/0/0
Hi dibb_nz,
As a new participant to installing custom ROMs I can confirm I'm having exactly the same issue that you're experiencing, my file system adding an extra /0 every time I flash an update to my Carbon ROM. It's causing major issues restoring backups from various apps and I'd also love to know if it's possible to fix this issue.
Any help from the more experienced would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
rpm-speed said:
Hi dibb_nz,
As a new participant to installing custom ROMs I can confirm I'm having exactly the same issue that you're experiencing, my file system adding an extra /0 every time I flash an update to my Carbon ROM. It's causing major issues restoring backups from various apps and I'd also love to know if it's possible to fix this issue.
Any help from the more experienced would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
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Just make sure you use the latest version of clockworkmod or twrp recovery...that should fix your issue
Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
odin13 said:
Just make sure you use the latest version of clockworkmod or twrp recovery...that should fix your issue
Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
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Hi odin13,
Flashed the latest CWM and will flash my ROM once again, thank you for your swift reply, I'll post the results shortly.
Kind regards
rpm-speed
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rpm-speed said:
Hi odin13,
Flashed the latest CWM and will flash my ROM once again, thank you for your swift reply, I'll post the results shortly.
Kind regards
rpm-speed
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Well sadly that didn't work...
Re-flashed the ROM and now have /storage/sdcard0/0/0/0/0/0/0
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
rpm-speed said:
Hi dibb_nz,
As a new participant to installing. ustom ROMs I can confirm I'm having exactly the same issue that you're experiencing, my file system adding an extra /0 every time I flash an update to my Carbon ROM. It's causing major issues restoring backups from various apps and I'd also love to know if it's possible to fix this issue.
Any help from the more experienced would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards.
rpm-speed
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odin13 said:
Just make sure you use the latest version of clockworkmod or twrp recovery...that should fix your issue
Verstuurd van mijn Galaxy Nexus met Tapatalk
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EDIT: sorry for the format of my post its difficult to read...not sure why it ended up like that
Using latest recovery only allows cwm to find yr backups, it will not
'fix' the 0 folder issue IF you already have more than one.
I found it best to totally reformat the internal storage and starting fresh.
I manually deleted the 0 folders with a file explorer. Then formatted the
internal SD in cwm.
I also made sure my backups saved to .tar rather than the .DUP format,
as I had also ended up with 1000's of .blob files which totally
confused the situation even more....they would not restore after taking
hours and hours to copy....
As previous poster said....using the latest cwm will prevent the creation
of multiple 0 folders.
Save what data you need to your external SD or PC. I had a couple
older SD cards laying around so I used those.
After that, delete all 0 folders, remember to enable read/write access
to the data partition so they stay deleted!!!
Using the latest cwm or twrp - format data/media,...
If u don't want to use the new .dup/blob incremental backup, change
the option "default backup format" to .tar...this could already be enabled
in the latest cwm, I'm not sure on that!
If you're 'experimenting' with 4.2 ROMs - you will always have a
0 folder, its just how things are done so don't go deleting that one
in future! And you might wanna look at dual booting if you're a wee bit
'flash-happy' like me, lol....I'm using siyahmod app and have 3 ROMs
installed, although I really only use 2. If your apps have a save to
external SD option, use it!!! Likewise with your nandroid backups
And titanium backups, I've had lottsa trouble with TB not being able
to find or access backups even after it finds the backup folder??
Also remember, 4.2 apps are different to 4.1apps, its not good practice
to restore 4.1 apps to a 4.2 ROM or vice versa....things get screwy!!!
If you want to go dual boot, 4.2 ROMs MUST Only be installed as
the secondary rom, it cannot be installed as your primary ROM.
If you only want to run 2 ROMs then use siyah kernel and the stweaks app.
If you want to have 3 ROMs then use siyah kernel and siyahmod multi boot app.
There can be issues with the sjiyahmod app...i find it best to use either whether?
but not both.
That's been my experience anyway....hope it helps and good luck
rgds dibb
PS I've had no issues at all running the siyah kernel with any other ROM,
even works we'll with my stock ROM...
Hi Everyone!! I just installed Omega 44.3 V. Previously i used 4.1.2. But now i cant find my titanium back up folder along with all the folders in 4.1.2. Kindly suggest a solution to restore my files those in previuos rom.
phaniblaze said:
Hi Everyone!! I just installed Omega 44.3 V. Previously i used 4.1.2. But now i cant find my titanium back up folder along with all the folders in 4.1.2. Kindly suggest a solution to restore my files those in previuos rom.
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Where did you put the backup ?????
Ext SD card should still have it .
SD Card you probably wiped it installing rom .
Use file explorer to locate your folder .
jje
phaniblaze said:
Hi Everyone!! I just installed Omega 44.3 V. Previously i used 4.1.2. But now i cant find my titanium back up folder along with all the folders in 4.1.2. Kindly suggest a solution to restore my files those in previuos rom.
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Go into preferences and there will be an option backup location. This will automatically scan and locate the folder.
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phaniblaze said:
Hi Everyone!! I just installed Omega 44.3 V. Previously i used 4.1.2. But now i cant find my titanium back up folder along with all the folders in 4.1.2. Kindly suggest a solution to restore my files those in previuos rom.
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With Android 4.2 a new directory structure got introduced to support multiple users.
Your old files should be under /data/media. Move (or copy them if you plan to go back to 4.1) them all to /data/media/0
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Hey guys i just recently rooted my phone
Before doing so i made a back up on ClockWorkMod 5.5.0.4 however when i try to restore it, it says no files found?
I haven't changed any of the file names/moved the files and i can see the files still on my internal SD card e.g. Sdcard/0/Clockworkmod/backup
I have even updated my CWM to version 6.0.3.1 yet still does not find the files
Anyone can help?
Thank you
I'm not familiar with original cwm. When you flash 4.2 roms, /sdcard becomes /sdcard/0
I know in philz recovery based on cwm, you can change this location but cwm no idea
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Copy the backup files to /data/media/Clockworkmod/backup and see if they can be found then
mikep99 said:
Copy the backup files to /data/media/Clockworkmod/backup and see if they can be found then
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Thanks bro i appreciate it - your advice worked!
It found the backup file straight away but i havent launched it yet.
Just wondering what does the restore feature do exactly...does it reset my rom to stock and recovery to the stock android recovery?
xmatharux said:
Thanks bro i appreciate it - your advice worked!
It found the backup file straight away but i havent launched it yet.
Just wondering what does the restore feature do exactly...does it reset my rom to stock and recovery to the stock android recovery?
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No problem
Your phone will go back to how it was when you made the backup.
The recovery / modem wont be touched so you'll still have CWM.
Sorry i forgot to mention that then is when i made the backup file..while i had the stock rom
Also im guessing if you use the recovery..it does NOT un-root your phone?
If the stock ROM was rooted when you backed it up, you phone will remain rooted if you restore that backup.
Thanks guys for all your help really do appreciate it
I just have one last question to do with baseband and roms. My baseband version is i9300XXELLA however i want to try the Android Revolution HD rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797334 . This would still work on my phone right?
xmatharux said:
Thanks guys for all your help really do appreciate it
I just have one last question to do with baseband and roms. My baseband version is i9300XXELLA however i want to try the Android Revolution HD rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797334 . This would still work on my phone right?
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Yes. All basebands will work. Some better than others, but that is not possible to know which work best for someone without trying them all.
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Yes. All basebands will work. Some better than others, but that is not possible to know which work best for someone without trying them all.
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Thanks i tried it and worked fine. However now im trying to delete the original CWM back up file (the one in the wrong place) using File Explorer but it does not let me delete it, why is this?
mikep99 said:
Copy the backup files to /data/media/Clockworkmod/backup and see if they can be found then
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Thanks, mate! Having the same problem and you saved my day!
and yet you didn't click thanks
Still need help
I may be an idiot but i still need help placing the backup files on my card so cwm sees it.
General > sticky roll-up thread > "flashed 4.2? Can't find /sdcard data?"
Have a read there.
Consider replacing cwm recovery with philz where you can change locations
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rootSU said:
General > sticky roll-up thread > "flashed 4.2? Can't find /sdcard data?"
Have a read there.
Consider replacing cwm recovery with philz where you can change locations
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I just did a downgrade to stock 4.1.1 using Odin (which flashed it back to stock recovery), but before I downgraded (I was on 4.2), I did a nandroid backup in CWM.
After the downgrade to 4.1.1, I reflashed recovery with the newest version of CWM using the unified toolkit and tried to recover the nandroid backup, but it said no file found. The backup was already on my external sdcard, so then I tried moving it to another folder as mentioned in this thread, but that didn't work either. I didn't have that exact directory as it was posted, but I didn't think that would matter, so long as it was copied over from external to internal or vice versa.
Fascinationg
mikep99 said:
Copy the backup files to /data/media/Clockworkmod/backup and see if they can be found then
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Saved my day :good:
Same Problem
i coulnt find the clockwork folder as told above, yet i have clockwork 6.0.4.7 installed. help plz Using Ressurection remix 6.0 on my Note 3 SM-N900L. Root folder just shows data/media and no clockwork folder is there.
Hello! 2 weeks ago, i flashed CM 10.1.3 on my Galaxy S3(international) and now i am thinking of going back to the stock ROM.I have made a backup which stays in my clockworkmod folder in my file manager, and i was wondering how to return to my stock rom. As far as i know, i need to wipe the data from the phone before restoring my old backup(and the cache too, i think), but i am not sure if that would delete the backup files from my phone.And another thing i have been thinking about is,from what i remember from when i flashed my CM 10.1, the file was ZIP,but now the backup files in the folder and not in a ZIP file but seperate files, so will that be a problem?
Any help would be highly appreciated
Oh god i am so sorry for the unnamed topic, i forgot and i can't edit it for some reason >.<
[Q]Restoring the original ROM
Seventhghost said:
Hello! 2 weeks ago, i flashed CM 10.1.3 on my Galaxy S3(international) and now i am thinking of going back to the stock ROM.I have made a backup which stays in my clockworkmod folder in my file manager, and i was wondering how to return to my stock rom. As far as i know, i need to wipe the data from the phone before restoring my old backup(and the cache too, i think), but i am not sure if that would delete the backup files from my phone.And another thing i have been thinking about is,from what i remember from when i flashed my CM 10.1, the file was ZIP,but now the backup files in the folder and not in a ZIP file but seperate files, so will that be a problem?
Any help would be highly appreciated
Edit: Another problem has come up . I am absolutely sure i have the backup of the original ROM in my phone memory, when i click "restore from sdcard" in my CWM, it says there are no backups available or something of this sort. Please help me out with this
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easiest way to return to stock afaik is to use odin or kies. read stickies in general section . about returning to stock
General > sticky roll-up thread > understanding the basics before rooting
This will fill up the gaps in your knowledge
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