For some reason, I create a custom backup and all runs fine and it even tells me at the end that the backup was successful. However when I notice the file size of the backed up file, its smaller that it should be and they always seem currupt. This has happened ever since Ive been on the TP2. It worked flawlessly on my original TP.
Any Advice?
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hi, i used clockworkmod for a while now backed-up, but never really tried to restore from those back-ups....
i just tried to restore a nandroid backup, i went on the PC and re-named backup as something i`d remember put it back on the Desire, and nandroid just fails instantly at `MD5 mismatch`
could this be because the folder name changes after the backup has been made??, thanks.
also i thought i was being thorough by doing a wipe, from nandroid 1st.
Luckily I went advanced `restore sys only`, this went back to basic stock, logged into myy acc on market, downloaded My Backup PRO, restored the apps/dATA i did with that app.
restarted phone, all is good
whats up with md5 missmatch ?
cheers
Don't move the file around next time. Probably induced an error.
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Don't move the file around next time. Probably induced an error.
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not sure if its moving the file around so much, as the characters in the filename itself
i did a quick backup this morning, left the filename alone,restored it fine.
booted phone, went into Rom manager and renamed the original back-ups with that instead of PC, they now restore ok.
what i did notice though was when renaming from Rom manager it automaticly replaces spaces with _ seems a bit sensitve to certain characters.
must be filenames (or _+ - spaces etc)the are accepted ok on windows creates, arent freindly when nandriod comes to read them?
hi, i need help restoring my backup in cwm 3.0.2.8.
The system partition restores fine but none of my apps or anything get restored. I've tried different versions of cwm and none of them have worked. I know i can just restore my apps with my backup or titanium but i shouldnt have to and i forgot to before i made the backup.
It doesnt even restore any if my contacts, texts, etc. It seems like its just restoring the rom with what ever mods and tweaks i had applied. This has happened with multiple roms so i reckon its a fault with cwm. Also when restoring just the data in cwm it doesnt say "Restore complete!"
Anybody got any suggestions?
Anybody got any suggestions?
How are you restoring your ROMs?
Your contacts should be backed up with your Google account.
They are backed up but cwm should restore everything. After i restore it asks me to login to my google account, select my time-zone, etc.
Im restoring from recovery.
It seems like cwm is crashing while restoring my data partition because the screen goes black whilst still showing the rom manager icon and it goes back to the inital screen of recovery like i just booted into it.
Have you checked your SDcard for errors?
There are hundreds of people who use ClockworkMod Recovery without issue. (excusing 3.0.2.5)
Could be something as simple as a couple of bad sectors on your card.
I recently formatted it before i made the backup, how would i check for any more errors?
Try HERE. Its in Russian. So you'd need to visit via Google or use Chrome.
I downloaded but i dont have a clue how to use it
Read through the manual.
Or you could follow this guide HERE, I'm pretty certain that the first tool would be more accurate.
I tried the russian one but i got access denied so im doing the windows method. If none of this works, is there a way to manually extract the files from the .img file? I mainly want the data from my apps because i hav around 300
How are you connecting your SDcard to your computer? I just ran a test using ,
Code:
flashnul G: -T
It worked fine, that was connected via USB cable with the card mounted as a drive.
No problems which I'm pretty pleased with, now just to transfer my data back.
I forgot to run CMD as admin, its running now
EDIT: I didnt get any errors
If the SDcard is fine. Then I'd reflash CWM Recovery.
I have. The only reason I flashed .2.8 was because of this problem. I have to send my phone to HTC on monday for repair so when I get I back (20 days later) Il start again from fresh. For now I'm gonna unroot and s-on etc etc... I hate sense.
Thanks a million for your help though!
Question: If HTC swap my phone with another, will my backup still work with the new one?
Off topic, I point blank refused to wait 21 days + for a repair. After some wrangling got an exchange. Sadly the exchange handset had severe case misalignment issues. Refused that also.
Yes your backup will still work. It doesn't matter what handset you use. The backup isn't tied to it.
Haha the speaker for calls doesn't work anymore so i hav to send it back. 20 days is gnna seem like forever lol. I'm gnna hav to look for my Nokia 3310. It's like 10 years old and its never failed me once.
As for my back up, when I do get my phone back i need to go through my apps and delete what I don't want.....or I could buy a bigger mem card and setup A2SD. Is there no way to browse inside the data.img file from the backup?
I recently wanted to try a different ROM, so I backed up all my apps with Titanium Backup and then did a Nandroid with Amon Ra. After playing with the new ROM for a few hours, I decided I didn't like it and wanted to return to my previous setup. I tried restoring from the Nandroid 3 times, but I kept getting sent into a bootloop. So I cut my loss and just flashed the same ROM again and figured I'd just restore my apps and set everything up again (I've done this so many times, it doesn't even take me that long anymore). However, after setting everything back up again and restoring my apps, I realized that several of my apps hadn't backed up for some reason and I was restoring from versions several months old (some of these were games that I'd made considerable progress in).
Is there any way of extracting apps from a Nandroid and replacing my current version with them (assuming the Nandroid isn't corrupt and the app files are valid - not sure this is a reasonable assumption, since the phone wouldn't restore to this backup, but I figure it's worth a try...).
Thanks in advance!
Dave
Anybody?
I just tried following this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890508, but it didn't have very good instructions once the files were extracted. I didn't find any of my apps in the /app folder, instead the only files I found were in the data.img file and then in the data folder. I tried copying the folder I found onto my phone, but the app crashed as long as I used this replaced folder.
Any suggestions?
The other day, I used NRT v1.5.3 to successfully make a Nandroid backup. Today I tried multiple times without success. In each case the phone would hang at the TWRP screen. NRT itself said the process completed. NRT did create a folder on the PC, but it was empty. Any ideas on what the problem might be? BTW, I did run the full driver test multiple times and it always passed.
Pete
Update: I seem to have solved the problem. I wracked my brain to think of what had changed between the successful Nandroid backup and the unsuccessful one. I finally recalled that I had uploaded about 8 GB of pics, videos, and music to the phone. I deleted all of those and was then able to do the Nandroid backup successfully. I conclude that NRT and/or Nandroid has a maximum size restriction. Can anyone comment?
Pete
I ran into a weird problem when trying to get a backup onto my device.
I created that backup today, copied it to my pc for storage, wiped the system and tried to install a custom ROM. That failed so i decieded to just move my backup back to the phone and restore it.
Now the real problem comes in: One of the files is bigger than 4GB and I can't find any way to get that thing back onto the device. ADB just fails miserably and doesn't do anything and direct copying via windows explorer tells me it exceeds the file size limitation which seems pretty dumb to me because this file comes from the phone.
Is there some workaround for a file transfer like this?
Hope you guys can help
DarkMathis said:
I ran into a weird problem when trying to get a backup onto my device.
I created that backup today, copied it to my pc for storage, wiped the system and tried to install a custom ROM. That failed so i decieded to just move my backup back to the phone and restore it.
Now the real problem comes in: One of the files is bigger than 4GB and I can't find any way to get that thing back onto the device. ADB just fails miserably and doesn't do anything and direct copying via windows explorer tells me it exceeds the file size limitation which seems pretty dumb to me because this file comes from the phone.
Is there some workaround for a file transfer like this?
Hope you guys can help
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if your device supports otg, you could flash it from there. it would also be easier in the future to backup to otg, then you dont have to move it and worry about possible corruption.
The Problem is resolved. Luckily the file was only needed for a system image backup so i coulld just ignore it and still restore the phone. Now for that stock recovery