I've been having this problem for a while now--first with my Nexus one, and now with my Evo. The problem is simply that I cannot restore from a nandroid backup. I always get the error telling me to "nandroid-mobile.sh restore via adb". When I try from adb, it tells me it can't mount /sdcard.
Has anyone else run into that issue? I've all but given up on the idea of nandroid backups and restores. Not once has it ever worked for me.... It's causing a lot of headaches when I switch back-and-forth between ROMs.
Any help is appreciated!
rizzoads said:
I've been having this problem for a while now--first with my Nexus one, and now with my Evo. The problem is simply that I cannot restore from a nandroid backup. I always get the error telling me to "nandroid-mobile.sh restore via adb". When I try from adb, it tells me it can't mount /sdcard.
Has anyone else run into that issue? I've all but given up on the idea of nandroid backups and restores. Not once has it ever worked for me.... It's causing a lot of headaches when I switch back-and-forth between ROMs.
Any help is appreciated!
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make sure your battery is above 30%, it wont do a restore if the battery is below 30%
I've actually searched everywhere I know to search, and I was already aware of that. I've got 4 batteries, and I've tried all of them, each at 90-100% charge....
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I've actually searched everywhere I know to search, and I was already aware of that. I've got 4 batteries, and I've tried all of them, each at 90-100% charge....
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Have you renamed the backups? If you use a space when naming it, it will give that error also
No. I've never renamed anything. No spaces at all.
rizzoads said:
No. I've never renamed anything. No spaces at all.
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I'm not sure what else could be causing it then =/ The only two times I have ever gotten that message was for one of those two reasons.
Are there any special requirements for the sdcard? I've been using this card for a while, and it works for everything else--flashing roms, music, titanium backups, etc. Does it have to be formatted by the phone?
There has to be something I'm missing... Thanks again.
rizzoads said:
Are there any special requirements for the sdcard? I've been using this card for a while, and it works for everything else--flashing roms, music, titanium backups, etc. Does it have to be formatted by the phone?
There has to be something I'm missing... Thanks again.
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It could be the sdcard if you're using an older one from an old phone. Try using the one that came with the evo and see if it works, if it does then you know it's the card. You should also have a folder that was made named nandroid and the backup should be inside of another folder in there. something like /sdcard/nandroid/HT0serialnumber/whatever_backup
I do have the folder and the backup files. I'll try a different SD card in the morning. I have to be up in 6 hours, so I'll have to pick up where I left off tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll post my findings back here when I'm done.
I don't know if this helps, but I have received that error when I tried to backup with the option "nand + ext." when I did not have a partitioned SD card.
I suspect that it is looking for "nandroid-mobile.sh" in the partition that did not exist on my card.
So... It sounds like it is a card problem, but if you have had trouble with other phones/cards you may be asking it to do something requiring a partitioned card when you have not partitioned it.
Edit: There might be something here forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621940 (You'll have to add the beginning part of the link)
Thanks for the help, everyone. The problem is apparently my (Sandisk 16GB) SD card. Just for kicks, I backed it up, formatted, and tried again with nothing on the card but the backups. Still didn't work.
I did the same thing with the (Samsung 8GB) card that came with the phone, put the backups on it, and it worked like a charm!
The bad news is that I ordered a 32GB Sandisk card that will be arriving today. I'm going to be VERY disappointed if that one doesn't work for me....
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I rooted my EVO running Froyo last night using unrEVOked 3.2. Everything went fine, installed titanium backup and backed everything up.
This morning I tried to do a nandroid, and it kept hanging at various points and never completed. I would wait a good 5-10 minutes (with nothing happening), then do a battery pull. Tried this six or seven times, each time hanging at diffent points on different files.
I have s-off, and succusfully installed titanium backup and wireless tether.
I checked the sd card, there is no recovery folder after trying the nandroid. I can mount the sd card to my Win7 pc and navigate through all folders without a problem. The sd card is a class 10, 16 gb kingston card. Have had the card running just fine for two weeks prior to root.
Don't want to do anything else until I get this resolved.
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
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10/04/2010 Update
It was the sd card. I formatted a spare 8 gig card, and AMON_RA created a nandroid without a hitch.
I then ran error checking on the 16 gid sd card whick fixed a number of errors; but no dice on the nandroid. I formatted the 16 gig card and everything worked fine. Great way to test TitaniumBackup (which worked as advertised).
...hmmmm guess I'm the only one with this problem.
Using ROM Manager I flashed Amon_RA and did make a backup. Since that one succussfull backup I have the same problem. Amon will image boot and wimax, then hang on system.
anyone??
Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
bluebeast213 said:
Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using a new 16gb class 10 kingston card with 11gb free. Will definitely keep the free space issue in mind going forward.
CTH-EVO said:
Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
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Thanks Chris,
You may be onto something. My titanium backups have been hanging too, so there could be something preventing writes to the card. It's strange that Amon_RA does write the wimax and boot images; and my one succussful backup indicates that the system image is the next one backed up.
I have a spare 8 gb card that I will format and test with.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Steve
I got a new Sd Card. Searched and folled instructions.
1. Turn off phone, copy sd card to temp folder on computer.
2. Copy temp folder contents to new sd card.
3. put sd card back into phone
4. turn on
Did all this, now my launcher is gone, and all my apps are gone. I check phones memory and the memory shows that a ton of stuff is installed, but i cant see it in the app drawer.
Any idea whats up?
Fresh Evo 4.1.1.
Well for the launcher especially, have you tried moving it to internal memory, or restoring with titanium backup?
teh roxxorz said:
Well for the launcher especially, have you tried moving it to internal memory, or restoring with titanium backup?
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All of my apps WERE internal memory...
If i go to internal storage, i can see all of the apps listed there. but they are greyed out.
I didnt do a titanium backup, just because i didnt think swaping an sd card was an issue. Even putting my old card in doesnt fix the issue
I am going to advise looking at this...BAM > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Have you tried rebooting?
The sd card is recognized. That isnt the issue. The issue is that all of my apps, settings, and such in the Internal memory are no longer recognized. they are there. i can see them in the sd card and storage section of settings, but they will not run.
I tried running Amon_ra UID mismatch, and Ext fix.
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The sd card is recognized. That isnt the issue. The issue is that all of my apps, settings, and such in the Internal memory are no longer recognized. they are there. i can see them in the sd card and storage section of settings, but they will not run.
I tried running Amon_ra UID mismatch, and Ext fix.
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Hmm, I gona recommend re-flashing your rom, maybe you has a bad flash.
teh roxxorz said:
Hmm, I gona recommend re-flashing your rom, maybe you has a bad flash.
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would switching to a new sd card mess up the rom? ill give it a try, worth a shot.
Hamspiced said:
would switching to a new sd card mess up the rom? ill give it a try, worth a shot.
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It shouldn't, could just be a small slight random bug.
no dice... any other suggestions?
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no dice... any other suggestions?
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Are you able to move the apps to the sd card? Use titanium backup to do so, but only move user apps, and see if that works or does anything.
weird issue arises... When i try to re-download and install an app that i once had, launcher Pro, i get an error stating incompatable software version...
Also, titanium backup lists all of the apps that are missing, but they have a strikeout line through them.
That's awkward, let me think, and for titanium backup, have you tried running 'problems'?
yep... even in hopes of fixing this i bought the titanium full key.... still no luck
Hamspiced said:
yep... even in hopes of fixing this i bought the titanium full key.... still no luck
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anyone have any solutions????
I am having an issue with my epic 4g touch. The phone is confusing the internal memory and the external sd card. So when I download something it ends up going into the internal from music to apps. In the settings/storage it says I have things on my sd card but if I go to it in root explorer, it shows nothing. My problem is that when I flash a new rom and do a nandroid backup, the backup disappears on me. I will put the backup on the sd card but when I go back to it, it's gone. It doesn't show up on the internal either. The last time I flashed a rom I got stuck with no backup. Needless to say I am a little scared to try again. It has done this with two separate sd cards. Please help? I am confused. Does anyone else have this problem?
I have had some similar issues. For me it doesn't acknowledge my external sd card alot of times lately.
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You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
Snazarian said:
You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
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I am stock just rooted.
OcXcPunk said:
I am stock just rooted.
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Have you tried removing and formatting the MicroSD card through Windows?
(Or mount as USB in FI03 and format that way)
Hi my sandisk 32gb sdcard is not showing up on my phone or computer anymore it shows on my phone that it needs to be formatted and i format it from my phone but it still doesn't do anything but reply saying card is either blank or has some sort of corrupted files on it. I really need to get my file off of this card which are extremely important so please if you can help me.
You can teach us all something if your sdcard is fixed, but your chances of recovering that sdcard are not very good. If you formatted it already from the phone, then your files are already gone.
Just some advice, but next time if you don't already, why don't you just backup your sdcard to your computer, or an online backup, at least once a week in order to keep a backup copy of your key files? It's so easy to do. Too many of us do not take it seriously until something happens.
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You can teach us all something if your sdcard is fixed, but your chances of recovering that sdcard are not very good. If you formatted it already from the phone, then your files are already gone.
Just some advice, but next time if you don't already, why don't you just backup your sdcard to your computer, or an online backup, at least once a week in order to keep a backup copy of your key files? It's so easy to do. Too many of us do not take it seriously until something happens.
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Wow.. well alright thanks for the help. I'll be more cautious about it now.
Hello All,
Two weeks ago I bought a new Samsung MicroSDHC Pro 64GB Class 10. Kinda from the beginning it wasn't working how it should.. I formated it EXT4, exFat and FAT32 but all give the same problem.
For example; I copy a flashable zip on my external sd card, copies just find, but as soon as I try to flash from the external sd card I keep getting an error and the flash failed, almost instantly. If I copy and flash the same file to my internal sd card, it works just fine and no problems what so ever.
I tried formatting it through Sense, GPe and even a USB card reader.. all give me the same issues. I can even make a titanium backup and it seems to work. Tho, as soon as I try to restore from it, it won't find the files from the backup..but when I check the external sd card on my pc (phone connect to pc by htc usb cable) the files are there and it seems the correct size. But when I want to try a batch restore in titanium backup, and I look the phone for backup folders, it finds the foder.. but when I actualy wanna start the batch recovery, it only sees 1/2/3 apps to restore, even tho there are over 70 apps to restore.
I'm at a loss at the moment, I feel like I've tried everything and nothing seemed to work. This is what the error looks like when trying to flash from external sd card:
E:Unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/blablabla/blablabla.zip'
Updating partition details
Hope anyone could help me with the issue.
Thanks in advance<3
nerotix said:
Hello All,
Two weeks ago I bought a new Samsung MicroSDHC Pro 64GB Class 10. Kinda from the beginning it wasn't working how it should.. I formated it EXT4, exFat and FAT32 but all give the same problem.
For example; I copy a flashable zip on my external sd card, copies just find, but as soon as I try to flash from the external sd card I keep getting an error and the flash failed, almost instantly. If I copy and flash the same file to my internal sd card, it works just fine and no problems what so ever.
I tried formatting it through Sense, GPe and even a USB card reader.. all give me the same issues. I can even make a titanium backup and it seems to work. Tho, as soon as I try to restore from it, it won't find the files from the backup..but when I check the external sd card on my pc (phone connect to pc by htc usb cable) the files are there and it seems the correct size. But when I want to try a batch restore in titanium backup, and I look the phone for backup folders, it finds the foder.. but when I actualy wanna start the batch recovery, it only sees 1/2/3 apps to restore, even tho there are over 70 apps to restore.
I'm at a loss at the moment, I feel like I've tried everything and nothing seemed to work. This is what the error looks like when trying to flash from external sd card:
E:Unable to open zip file.
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/blablabla/blablabla.zip'
Updating partition details
Hope anyone could help me with the issue.
Thanks in advance<3
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I've seen in the past that 64gb cards have issues with formatting unless formatted in windows as Fat32 - mine did
As soon as I did that it worked.
Have you checked it to make sure it's not fake? Where did you buy it from & what is the formatted capacity? Should be like 59gbs and change
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aer0zer0 said:
Have you checked it to make sure it's not fake? Where did you buy it from & what is the formatted capacity? Should be like 59gbs and change
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Got it from a dutch website, through a person, not a company.. it had all legit packages etc, but how can I check to be 100% sure that it's real?
My computer shows it has 62,4GB total capacity.. reading it from card reader. Sounds wrong?
nerotix said:
Got it from a dutch website, through a person, not a company.. it had all legit packages etc, but how can I check to be 100% sure that it's real?
My computer shows it has 62,4GB total capacity.. reading it from card reader. Sounds wrong?
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Deffo wrong. Sounds like a fake. Capacity is 64gb. Available is obviously lower after formatting. Legit packages mean nothing - take a look here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrFiePAL0Pg
I would return it asap
grentuu said:
Deffo wrong. Sounds like a fake. Capacity is 64gb. Available is obviously lower after formatting. Legit packages mean nothing - take a look here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrFiePAL0Pg
I would return it asap
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Meh so stupid.. never knew ppl still sell fake sd cards.. thought that time was over.. thanks for letting me know <3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52626530#post52626530
this is the post i responded to in the forum a couple weeks ago, everything pertinent to testing your card seeing if it is fake or not is in there