Okay, here's the back story, it's short. My SD card fried on me yesterday. I had a nand backup of my stock setup on that card. That backup contained a couple of voicemails from my 2 year old daughter (not saved/forwarded, just downloaded into the voicemail app) which i hadn't gotten around to saving in the forever style yet. (was going to restore the backup and save them, then jump back to current ROM)
Anyway, i got a utility that will scan the card and found a whole ton of files on there. What's more it looks like it actually pulled a lot of it from within the backup files (no kidding, i'm seeing icons and temporary internet files and that sort of stuff) in addition to stuff stored on the root.
Was hoping someone could tell me what format these files would be in (3gp, mp4, etc.) so i know what to tell it to pull out. it's a trial software and will only let me restore 10 files before it chokes (could probably just run again on another pc though) but can anyone help me? it's doesn't give me a folder structure at all, just files, and they're even named genericly. So if i know what file type i'm looking for i can just grab those and maybe one of them will be it.
thanks!!
I looked before, and believe its something proprietary. Try using ES file explorer or something similar, store a vm and check which folders updated the time and date..start there..only thing I can think of currently.
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dangle79 said:
Okay, here's the back story, it's short. My SD card fried on me yesterday. I had a nand backup of my stock setup on that card. That backup contained a couple of voicemails from my 2 year old daughter (not saved/forwarded, just downloaded into the voicemail app) which i hadn't gotten around to saving in the forever style yet. (was going to restore the backup and save them, then jump back to current ROM)
Anyway, i got a utility that will scan the card and found a whole ton of files on there. What's more it looks like it actually pulled a lot of it from within the backup files (no kidding, i'm seeing icons and temporary internet files and that sort of stuff) in addition to stuff stored on the root.
Was hoping someone could tell me what format these files would be in (3gp, mp4, etc.) so i know what to tell it to pull out. it's a trial software and will only let me restore 10 files before it chokes (could probably just run again on another pc though) but can anyone help me? it's doesn't give me a folder structure at all, just files, and they're even named genericly. So if i know what file type i'm looking for i can just grab those and maybe one of them will be it.
thanks!!
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Mine are located on sdcard/smvvm
They are AMR files
I use ES Flie Explorer to find them
Hope this helps
stealthl said:
Mine are located on sdcard/smvvm
They are AMR files
I use ES Flie Explorer to find them
Hope this helps
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sorry, just circling back to see this. i ended up giving up on it. wasn't able to find any reliable way to recover the card, so i guess it's just lost
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Is there a way to edit the name of the backup files in amons recovery. and is there a way to delete the backups. any help appreciated thanks
The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm
if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
When i rename the back up it will never let me back up so i wouldnt do that.... i lost my backup because of this :/
that sucks
He is right.. i went into the sd card went to nandroid and tried changing the names of the backups to keep them organized and it wouldnt restore.. then i renamed them to what they were before i changed them and they restored succesfully.. so can anyone shed some light if it is even possible to rename these nandroid backups?
Im sure it is an issue with Amon-ra's program.
Go find the guy and ask him.
There is a way to edit the name and still have the backups work.
The original name is BSD-20100330-0745. You apparently need the last part for the date and such. I changed the name to EvilEris1.1 and it failed, but if it is changed to EvilEris1.1-20100330-0745 it works. You just need the "-20100330-0745". So "(name)-20100330-0745" will work.
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Renaming works fine, just don't use spaces or special characters.
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i didnt link the thread he posted that in because i told him about this thread and dont want posts in two places. though you could find it easily im sure....
Excellent, that is better than what I had to do.
Problem solved!!!!!!!
I was just messing around with it for an hour or so and I resolved my own question.... You can name the backups what ever you want.. you dont have to have the dates or anything just no spaces in the name... so if you wanted to name it "Evil Eris 1.1" it would have to be something like this... "Evil-Eris-1.1" No Spaces...
You could also (from a computer with your phone in recovery) do:
adb shell
nandroid-mobile.sh -b
It will ask you what to name it, and then it will automatically add the suffix.
you get the "run mobile.sh" error if you rename the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder on your sd card directory. you will also get this error if your battery is low or you have no storage left. the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder it is your serial number. if you're having issues, just go to the "other" menu and select "send recovery.log to SD card." then go in and search the recovery.log file on your sdcard for "serialno=" right after that there will be a 12 character string of capital letters and numbers directly followed by lower case letters that are useless for this purpose. Create a folder with the same name as that string (capital letters and numbers only, no lower case) and place your previously renamed backups into that folder and voila! you'll be able to restore them.
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The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm
if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
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thank you, it worked for me
I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this info or my question, but I believe it is at least relevant to the topic at hand. If not, I apologize profusely.
I have numerous backups created with CWM (v6.0.1.0) that are eating up an enormous amount of space on my Galaxy Nexus SD card. I've been flashing numerous ROMs and Kernels and I want to get rid of most, if not all of those backups and then create a fresh one from my current working/bootable ROM (JB 4.1.1), just so I have a good backup to roll back to if/when I hose up my phone.
For poking around on the the SD card, I'm using a Windows-based program called 'Android Commander' (Google it), which I find to be exceptionally handy. It is very much like Total Commander, which I've been using for MANY years (since version 1.0 of the original Windows Commander) on Windows boxes, as well as a variant under numerous Linux distros.
At any rate, what I've discovered is as follows;
1. the contents of the /clockworkmod/ directory on the SD card contains three directories and a couple of files (in its root). The directories are;
/clockworkmod/backup/
/clockworkmod/blobs/
/clockworkmod/download/
2. the /clockworkmod/backup/ folder contains folders that are dated and time stamped (date and time the backups were created).
3. within each of the /clockworkmod/backup/date-time folders, there are six (6) files, the largest being the 'recovery.img' file. There is also a 'boot.img' file and four (4) other files that are quite small. Each 'recovery.img' file sizes are in gigabytes (yeah, I have a lot of crap on my phone), so it's pretty obvious that deleting these directories will give me a great deal more storage space, which is my main goal in life right now (recoup all that space).
4. my main point here, however, revolves around the /clockworkmod/blobs/ director. There are over 3000 sub directories within that directory, and I have no idea how many files are within those sub directories or how much space on the SD card they occupy, although my guess is around 8-10 gigabytes. Being an astute user of Google, here's what I found out about all this;
"Starting with version 6, duplication support has been built into clockworkmod recovery. The blobs directory folder contains a hashed directory structure that holds the duplicated files across all backups."
// This info was derived from a post on Android Enthusiasts (author unknown).
"Don't delete anything in your blobs folder. Those are your nandroid backups. Starting with CWM6, it makes incremental backups and your backup files point to the files in the blobs folder. To free up space, delete unwanted backups and the next time you run nandroid, it will delete the unneeded files in the blobs folder."
// This info was derived from a post by 'NotJustAPhone', a very senior member of the Android Central forum.
And for my next trick ... what I'm wondering is if it REALLY matters whether or not I blow away the contents of the 'blobs' directory, and I guess that's my question. What if I do delete everything in 'blobs'? Since I'm going to flash another ROM and Kernel anyway, does it matter? That directory obviously started out life as being empty, right? What will CWM do, or more importantly, NOT do, should I blow away the contents of the 'blobs' directory (assuming the file system will let me)? Won't CWM just create a new/fresh/relevant set of directories/files within 'blobs' the next time I do a backup? Has anyone actually tried doing that?
And just in case anyone is wondering, the only thing in the /clockworkmod/download/ directory is the clockwordmod img file.
Thanks in advance for any response this might elicit.
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I'm not sure this is the correct place to post this info or my question, but I believe it is at least relevant to the topic at hand. If not, I apologize profusely.
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Hi! You're in the HTC Droid Eris section of the forum, and the latest version of CWM for the Eris is much older (v2.x).
Without direct experience with the newer versions, all I can wonder is that doesn't CWM have any way built-in to delete old backups?
On the Eris, the easiest and most reliable way of using CWM is through installing the "ROM Manager" app, in which you can then manage your backups from the Android interface. In the future, you might want to consider trying that for your device as well as it may make it easier for you to manage your own backups.
I have no idea if under your configuration if installing ROM Manager now would help you delete your old backups, and I realize that even then you would probably only be able to delete them one by one, which is how it works for me in ROM Manager, and that being able to delete them en mass via Windows might be tempting. I keep four backups of my currently running ROM, and number them. I keep the very first one which is usually after I configure the ROM to my liking without really installing or restoring any apps.
Maybe you should ask wherever CWM-specific support is, but definitely at least in the section for your phone might attract better answers.
Good luck.
I received my new gTablet Tuesday and had lots of fun with it for a few days, adding apps, getting frustrated because some places sent them to my phone and not letting me download to the gTab, loading media files, etc. Life was good. Then I added an external 32GB mSD and, just as many other people found out, files started disappearing. For me, though, they didn't just disappear from the media players but from the file system. Not only that but the folders began to disappear, too, and now I'm missing several folders from my file system: Video, Pictures, Music, Downloads, and many more that don't come to mind, plus all of their contents.
I was hoping that a reflash (using Roebeet's excellent sticky thread) would help but everything is still missing. Is there a way to recover or reflash the contents of the /sdcard? Even reloading the stock image would be acceptable as I would at least have a base to work from.
And, since my readings hint that this is all a result of the .nomedia issue, just where should that particular file be stored so that the media scanner doesn't delete thing or is my problem greater than that? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I am not sure, but I wonder if anundelete utility on your pc might recover files on the sd card?
As for the no media file, I have mine on the root directory as well as the media directories. This is bad though, because Very few programs will find files on the sd card. You have to use a file manager program.
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Does anyone know, is it possible to pull the file TB creates of an app and install the app without TB?
I checked on my OG Droid and the file TB creates ends in .apk.gz. Can I just remove the .gz and install the .apk?
Anyone try this?
My Prime doesn't have Wifi (because I broke it) and I'm trying to find a way to install my apps without a data connection (I don't have TB installed on the Prime since I also do not have root access).
Any help would be appreciated.
have you tried restoring your Wifi by reinstalling .21 update via the SD card....or installing the apps you want via SD card?
I have tried re-installing .21 from the SD card. It fails because my wpa_supplicant files are bad (the ones I changed accidentally).
I'm not sure how else to install the apps from the SD card except from what I have from TB. That's why I'm wondering if its possible to do. I'm not sure what TB does with the .gz ending of the file though.
The .gz file is gzip compressed...there are a number of applications that can uncompress and extract the .apk, then you can just load the .apk onto your prime
In windows I use 7-Zip to handle gzip files.
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Does anyone know, is it possible to pull the file TB creates of an app and install the app without TB?
I checked on my OG Droid and the file TB creates ends in .apk.gz. Can I just remove the .gz and install the .apk?
Anyone try this?
My Prime doesn't have Wifi (because I broke it) and I'm trying to find a way to install my apps without a data connection (I don't have TB installed on the Prime since I also do not have root access).
Any help would be appreciated.
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First of all...how did you break your WiFi??!!
Anywho. Just as someone else said, use 7-zip. It easily supports gzip. It's one of my favorite open source software releases available natively for Windows. No reason (imo) to use anything else.
I'm surprised TB is actually gzipping your apk files. apk format derived from jar. JAR files are compressed (and are actually derived from zip). gzip and zip both use the Deflate algorithm, so unless I'm mistaken on the apk incorporating data compression, using gzip seems like a stupid idea.
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I have tried re-installing .21 from the SD card. It fails because my wpa_supplicant files are bad (the ones I changed accidentally).
I'm not sure how else to install the apps from the SD card except from what I have from TB. That's why I'm wondering if its possible to do. I'm not sure what TB does with the .gz ending of the file though.
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iF YOU ARE JUST ROOTED, not unlocked, then load a clean.15 via sd card....that should clear the wpa files....THEN apply .21 via sd card.....there is a thread somewhere here that talks about that particular issue
Bob
Titanium Backup lets you select the format to use - no compression, LZO, gzip, or bzip2. It uses whichever you select. If you select no compression, then none of the files are compressed - not the .apk, not the data, or any of the rest of the backups. You may still get some compression of the .apk, and using gzip doesn't take enough extra time to notice. Gzip is a Linux compression format, commonly used for backups, as is bzip. That's why it's in Android - Android is just Linux modified for small touchscreens.
Thanks everyone! I'll be sure to unzip them and try it out.
Bob, unfortunately, I'm already on .21. You can't downgrade firmware versions without being unlocked. ICS wont even recognize the .15 file as being install-able.
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First of all...how did you break your WiFi??!!
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heh, well, i had used a method to restore ad-hoc connections that required a new wpa_supplicant2 file. The .21 firmware was supposed to allow ad-hoc, but I couldn't get it to work. So I attempted the method again. Unfortunately, I accidentally over-wrote the wpa_supplicant file. I didn't have a replacement file, so I thought that wiping and reflashing the .21 update would work. The update failed because those system files were modified.
So I have a prime with no wifi and no root, and thus no way to fix my wifi.
Someone here can grab you the files you need, transfer them to the sd card, put that in the prime, put them where they need to go and be done with it...
**** never mind, you do not have root now to put the files where the need to go. Crap, I'm stupid, sorry.
I fixed it!
I was able to pull a backup of OTA Voodoo Rootkeep from my TB .apk files. I installed, and it restored root for me! Not sure how that is possible...maybe I really was already rooted, but since I couldn't load any apps because of wifi being broke I couldn't check. Anyway, its all back to good!
Congrats!
Good idea on the method, perhaps it can be used in other situations. Sharing of a VodooOTA root Keeper backup allowing those on 2.1 to root themselves. Interesting idea.
Does anyone know of an app that will let me mount a .img file from a recovery backup on my phone (if that is even possible)? I recently received a warranty replacement and I'd like to recover some files from my most recent backup (pictures/videos/etc.). I'd rather not have to restore the whole backup just to get to a few files.
I know it can be done in linux, but if there is an app out there that will mount it on my phone I'd rather do that.
Thanks
Edit: Yaffs Explorer looks promising https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.wdscript.yaffsexplorer
Another one is AppExtractor.
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Another one is AppExtractor.
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Ahh that is a cool app! Still I guess things that were on my sdcard are just gone. I can't find them (ie: pictures in the default dcim location). Maybe they are stored somewhere else in the .img files... compressed or something?
Let me start by saying that I've had experience with Android phones and rooting/flashing ROMs, but this is my first Android tablet and first device with ICS.
Now onto the issue : Almost NOTHING works with the file system when hooked up to my computer through USB, mainly copy/paste. I can't add movies, pictures, or MP3s unless I create a seperate folder i.e. Movies1. The default folders let me do absolutely nothing, including delete the **** Asus throws in there. But that's not that big of an issue to me. The big problem I'm having is I can't transfer my TitaniumBackup folder onto my computer. I always keep a backup of my apps on my computer, but nothing can get them off this damn tablet. I guess I have to go through Dropbox but that's kind of a pain. If anyone knows a way around this, help would be appreciated!
For the record, I've tried ES Fileexplorer, Root Explorer, AntTek Explorer, and Astro to delete the files in Movies and Music. Nothing works, and nothing even gives me the option of changing permissions.
EDIT- Apparently I can copy my CWM backups just fine, but nothing happening with TiBu. Edited title for less rage as well
I'm not sure why you are having file transfer issues via usb but I have had good success with Airdroid for transferring files to and from my PC to the tablet.