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How can I delete past backups that are stored in the Nandroid Restore utility? I have like 6 and I dont wanna waste that space!
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Diamond777 said:
How can I delete past backups that are stored in the Nandroid Restore utility? I have like 6 and I dont wanna waste that space!
Thanks for the feedback!
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They are on your SD card in the Nandroid folder, view the details of the folder and delete the oldest one, I tend to copy them over to my PC to stop space clogging up on the phone.
When I try different ROM's I get them set up how I want them and then do a Nandroid backup, saves having to keep starting from fresh, especially if there is only a small update to be done.
Does renaming the folders messing this up.
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123belly said:
Does renaming the folders messing this up.
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It doesnt mess it up as long as you do the following:
Example:
CBDMRS12-20100128-1509 Original Hero ROM
(just add an explanation of the back up on the end of the ID number, when you want to restore just remove the bit you added and stick it on your SD card.
I have done this a few times, I now have backups of most of the ROMS on here but the difference being that they are all set up with account details etc, i just got sick of inputting the same stuff every time I tried a ROM.
123belly said:
Does renaming the folders messing this up.
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I can say I changed the name completely and it would not restore. Luckily I had backed it up on my computer. I changed the name back to the original name and it restored no problem.
ljmeli said:
I can say I changed the name completely and it would not restore. Luckily I had backed it up on my computer. I changed the name back to the original name and it restored no problem.
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When unsure, dont use spaces.
claudefrog said:
They are on your SD card in the Nandroid folder, view the details of the folder and delete the oldest one, I tend to copy them over to my PC to stop space clogging up on the phone.
When I try different ROM's I get them set up how I want them and then do a Nandroid backup, saves having to keep starting from fresh, especially if there is only a small update to be done.
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I have root explorer on my samsung epic, I do not see Nandroid backup folder - where is it?
Thanks
It's depending on what recovery-rom you have been using..
AmonRA usually saves them at /sdcard/nandroid/ while clockworkmod saves them in /sdcard/clockworkmod/nandroid I think..
mljjlm said:
It's depending on what recovery-rom you have been using..
AmonRA usually saves them at /sdcard/nandroid/ while clockworkmod saves them in /sdcard/clockworkmod/nandroid I think..
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Found it - it is under my Clockworkmod directory I was looking for nandroid directory
OH YEAH
This has nothing to do with what you guys are talking about but i found this nifty app that is good for looking around in your nandroid back ups..not just too look around but go inside them as you would in a .zip folder (if you get what i mean)
click here >>>>>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.goddchen.android.nandroidbrowser&hl=en
I've made two backups on ClockworkMod, yet EVERY time I try to reinstall data, it restarts midway, and when I start my phone up the bootanimation becomes an flashing android logo, what am I doing wrong? Please help!
kamranh3 said:
I've made two backups on ClockworkMod, yet EVERY time I try to reinstall data, it restarts midway, and when I start my phone up the bootanimation becomes an flashing android logo, what am I doing wrong? Please help!
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Hmm..that's a strange problem.
Did you try to reinstall the CWM??
Edit: I pushed the Thanks Button unfortunately -.-
Every little helps
And I've tried, no such luck, so I'll try an older version and see what happens
EDIT: There's a thanks back!
Okay I've tried a different recovery, no luck
What have I done wrong? I seem unable to make any recovery.
I think the problem may have originated when I installed CWM 3.0.0.5, everything was fine before that
This is just a long shot, but have you tried checking your SD card for errors from your PC? The backup file could be corrupted, and that might fix it.
It would probably be a good idea to copy the /clockworkmod/backup folder from your SD card to your PC before you run the check. If it doesn't help or makes matters worse, you can copy it back.
Also, which version of CWM did you use to make the backup?
preacher65 said:
This is just a long shot, but have you tried checking your SD card for errors from your PC? The backup file could be corrupted, and that might fix it.
It would probably be a good idea to copy the /clockworkmod/backup folder from your SD card to your PC before you run the check. If it doesn't help or makes matters worse, you can copy it back.
Also, which version of CWM did you use to make the backup?
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I used 2.5.1.3 in both cases, went down to 2.5.1.2 to see if it was linked to the recovery itself, it wasn't
kamranh3 said:
I used 2.5.1.3 in both cases, went down to 2.5.1.2 to see if it was linked to the recovery itself, it wasn't
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If you look in the /clockworkmod/backups folder on your card, in the folder for the relevant backups, what size is the data.img file? Have you got any earlier working backups you can compare it to? I'm wondering if the backup failed part way through.
I take it you're trying to restore data only using Advanced Restore?
I can't think what else could cause it apart from a damaged sd card or corrupt file, but I'm not a CWM expert.
preacher65 said:
If you look in the /clockworkmod/backups folder on your card, in the folder for the relevant backups, what size is the data.img file? Have you got any earlier working backups you can compare it to? I'm wondering if the backup failed part way through.
I take it you're trying to restore data only using Advanced Restore?
I can't think what else could cause it apart from a damaged sd card or corrupt file, but I'm not a CWM expert.
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I have looked at the backup is around 1.11GB which is the expected file size, the data.img being around 730mb, it's done this twice, and I've always checked that I've had plenty of space before attempting nandroid, and nothing's ever happened to the sd, i've never moved it or anything
kamranh3 said:
I have looked at the backup is around 1.11GB which is the expected file size, the data.img being around 730mb, it's done this twice, and I've always checked that I've had plenty of space before attempting nandroid, and nothing's ever happened to the sd, i've never moved it or anything
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I'm not sure what else to suggest besides checking the sd card for errors. There have been some bugs with the HTC 1.72 stock ROM, which affect all custom ROMs based on it, that occasionally cause sd card errors. This is most likely to happen if you connect to your PC with a USB cable, mount the SD card as a drive in your PC, and disconnect the cable without using "eject" in Windows. It might happen at other times as well, I'm not certain.
This is usually fixed by checking the card for errors through your PC. Some people recommend defrag'ing the card, but I think a check for errors should be all that's needed. I'd copy all contents of the card to a folder on your PC first, just so you have a backup.
Otherwise I've run out of ideas, sorry. Hope you get it working.
What I'll do is transfer my backup to my brother's SD card, and then attempting a nandroid then, if that doesn't work then I don't know what will, but I'm 99% sure it's probably due to a problem on my SD card.
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Hope it works, let us know how you get on.
preacher65 said:
Hope it works, let us know how you get on.
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Well it doesn't seem like option, brother's too stubborn, so I guess I'll have to stick with what I got for now until I can fix this problem, it's really bugging me
kamranh3 said:
Well it doesn't seem like option, brother's too stubborn, so I guess I'll have to stick with what I got for now until I can fix this problem, it's really bugging me
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You didn't say whether you tried checking the card for errors from your PC, did you try that yet?
CWM created an MD5 checksum for the backup, so it's not very probable r/w errors are the cause of the problem. If the data was corrupted CWM would notice before attempting to restore the data.
But if in doubt you can verify the checksums manually. In the backup directory there's a file called nandroid.md5 it's a text file that contains the hashes for each backup file. Compare those values to the actual checksums. If you need a tool use Hash My Files.
CWM 3 backups aren't backward compatible with CWM 2? Then you could try restoring with CWM 2 and see if that works. Then you'd at least know if it's you phone or a software problem.
This may sound silly but did you upgrade clockwork to 3.0.0.6?
equlizer said:
This may sound silly but did you upgrade clockwork to 3.0.0.6?
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I tried upgrading to see if it would solve the issue, it didn't.
And as for md5 checksums, it all checks out fine, everything starts to restore fine, and on two of the latest occasions it will not fully restore data, but will restart CWM between restoring. I really don't know what the cause is :/
Well, I have made a few NAND backups here and there whilst using different ROMs for my Evo. I only have one issue: how do I tell which setup was which ROM? Is there a way I can tell, without NAND restoring each individual one, which NAND backup is which ROM? Like maybe previewing it?
Also, I once read that you can take them off of your Evo and put them on a desktop so it doesn't take up space. Well I was wondering can I rename the folders and files to the setup they are or even to anything? Will it mess up if I try to restore to it after changing the name?
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DRatJr said:
Well, I have made a few NAND backups here and there whilst using different ROMs for my Evo. I only have one issue: how do I tell which setup was which ROM? Is there a way I can tell, without NAND restoring each individual one, which NAND backup is which ROM? Like maybe previewing it?
Also, I once read that you can take them off of your Evo and put them on a desktop so it doesn't take up space. Well I was wondering can I rename the folders and files to the setup they are or even to anything? Will it mess up if I try to restore to it after changing the name?
Thanks you
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You can remove them to your desktop to free up some space on your SD card and YES you can rename your Nandroid folders not the files.
So for example if your Nandroid folder is setup like this...../Nandroid/HT0CMHL08312/BCDEARS-20110622-0404......THEN you can rename the BCDEARS-20110622-0404 into whatever you want as long as you don't have any spaces and if you do have spaces then replace them with either _ or - to avoid any errors during restore
Oh and this is all assuming you're running amon ra recovery not clockworkmod which the folders will be setup differently which in that case you would just rename the last folder before you see all the files such as recovery.img and things like that.......
Okay thanks. Do you know how I could identify them without restoring to each individual one?
DRatJr said:
Okay thanks. Do you know how I could identify them without restoring to each individual one?
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The only way I know aside from restoring them and to be honest, this way is kind of long but not longer then restoring the files one by one IS......
download an app from the market called unyaffs2
Make a folder on the SD card "whatever you want to call it"
once you download that app, copy over the system.img to that folder you just created from whatever restore folder you're trying to ID
Run unyaffs2
Hit Browse for input (find the system.img)
Hit Start Unyaffs
Once is finish doing it's thing, navigate to the folder you created and you should find a file called build.prop, go ahead and open it up with a text editor.....if you're using Root Explorer then is one of the options in that app
Once you're inside that app, navigate to the very bottom until you see "ro.modversion" and that should tell you what the ROM is whether is Cyanogenmod 7 or Sprint Lovers or whatever......
Kinda lengthy haha. I wish they would just have an emulator for PC or something to where you could just have it "virtually restore" from the NAND and see what it was.
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Kinda lengthy haha. I wish they would just have an emulator for PC or something to where you could just have it "virtually restore" from the NAND and see what it was.
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Yeah is long but not as long as rebooting into recovery, wiping caches and factory settings, restoring......getting an ID on the rom and doing it all over again time after time after time...hahahaha
ever since I updated to 4.2.1 I cannot locate my nandroid backups in the folder where it's supposed to be.. I heard that 4.2 puts the old nandroids to a folder named 0, but theres nothing in there. I have old backups made to internal storage and i want to delete these to clear space. only backing up on my sd card will work. However, when in recovery mode, I can see the old file if i press restore. can anyone help me find those folders to delete?
x10user2011 said:
ever since I updated to 4.2.1 I cannot locate my nandroid backups in the folder where it's supposed to be.. I heard that 4.2 puts the old nandroids to a folder named 0, but theres nothing in there. I have old backups made to internal storage and i want to delete these to clear space. only backing up on my sd card will work. However, when in recovery mode, I can see the old file if i press restore. can anyone help me find those folders to delete?
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When looking at your nandroid, does it give you the path?
BWolf56 said:
When looking at your nandroid, does it give you the path?
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Noo, but do you know where those files may be? what folder directory? cause isn't it supposed to be the cwm folder
x10user2011 said:
Noo, but do you know where those files may be? what folder directory? cause isn't it supposed to be the cwm folder
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depends on your recovery version. I'd suggest to go make sure you have the latest one.
BWolf56 said:
depends on your recovery version. I'd suggest to go make sure you have the latest one.
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I just realized that I deleted all the stuff within my 0 folder before realizing that my backups were there... This was a long time ago but what can I do now that I dont have those files in the 0 folder? I really need to delete the backups because they are taking up my space on the internal storage
x10user2011 said:
I just realized that I deleted all the stuff within my 0 folder before realizing that my backups were there... This was a long time ago but what can I do now that I dont have those files in the 0 folder? I really need to delete the backups because they are taking up my space on the internal storage
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Update your cwm recovery (on clockwordmod website).
PS.: Can't you delete old nandroids in recovery?
BWolf56 said:
Update your cwm recovery (on clockwordmod website).
PS.: Can't you delete old nandroids in recovery?
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can you please link it? I dont know where to find it on the site sorry :\
x10user2011 said:
can you please link it? I dont know where to find it on the site sorry :\
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Or use ROM Manager to update to the latest CWR. That's the easiest way instead of flashing the .img file.
Or if you've even bothered to use the search you'd know that rom manager just causes issues and download goo manger from play store and use twrp recovery. Problem solved
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I know there is a ton on sdcard/0 problems or questions, but I can't find anything on my problem. When i try to delete anything on sdcard/0/whatever it says delete failed. I will try to delete a mp3 and it won't delete . Also not sure if this is normal,but my twrp and superuser are in the /0 folder too. I know it's for multiusers, but I should be able to delete certain files out of it. I can out of twrp but not anything else. Any ideas?
dabink said:
I know there is a ton on sdcard/0 problems or questions, but I can't find anything on my problem. When i try to delete anything on sdcard/0/whatever it says delete failed. I will try to delete a mp3 and it won't delete . Also not sure if this is normal,but my twrp and superuser are in the /0 folder too. I know it's for multiusers, but I should be able to delete certain files out of it. I can out of twrp but not anything else. Any ideas?
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same thing happened to me, and i couldnt get it to work until i formatted my sd card/internal mem and started fresh :-\
hapticxchaos said:
same thing happened to me, and i couldnt get it to work until i formatted my sd card/internal mem and started fresh :-\
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Damn, when you did that did you go back to stock ? Then have to re root? My recovery and super user would then get deleted
Well, if you have a nandroid of a tw Rom, you can restore that, then wipe your internal sd. And, if you restore a nandroid instead of flashing stock it shouldn't bork your gps. Just make sure to pull everything off your internal sd that you want to keep.
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Well, if you have a nandroid of a tw Rom, you can restore that, then wipe your internal sd. And, if you restore a nandroid instead of flashing stock it shouldn't bork your gps. Just make sure to pull everything off your internal sd that you want to keep.
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K thanks, I don't have a nandroid of stock. So I might have to flash one of the stock PDAs . Or maybe I'll live with it and just go buy a 32 gb ext sd lol