Quick ? since i been playing around with different roms i've also done a lot of backing up but now since im sticking to a rom how do i delete the old backups saved in recovery i mean the ones i dont want anymore?
You can delete via rom manager, manage backups and restore, select, and then delete.
Or mount your sd card on your comp, navigate to the backup folder, and delete.
thanks for the tip.
No problem man. They can eat up space if you have a lot.
teh roxxorz said:
No problem man. They can eat up space if you have a lot.
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Especially if you make a backup before you install the latest CM7 Nightly like I do. I just deleted about six backups last night before creating one for build 28 and then installing build 30.
Astro, root explorer or most of the file explorers can delete them. They should be in /sdcard/nandroid/(device identifier). Just delete the older dates you don't want.
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The question i've always had is can you rename this files and if so, will nandroid be able to restore from whatever custom name you create? Does it look at some other identifier number or something to know which is the last back up that was created?
I think I had read a while back that you can because it's hard to loose track of which out of the many in that folder is your last back up or what is on that back up. Wasn't there an app that let you rename them and or put a description of the ROM's contents as well?
QuiQNeZZ said:
The question i've always had is can you rename this files and if so, will nandroid be able to restore from whatever custom name you create? Does it look at some other identifier number or something to know which is the last back up that was created?
I think I had read a while back that you can because it's hard to loose track of which out of the many in that folder is your last back up or what is on that back up. Wasn't there an app that let you rename them and or put a description of the ROM's contents as well?
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You can rename them. No spaces tho! (Use - instead) cant rename the folder tho.
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aimbdd said:
You can rename them. No spaces tho! (Use - instead) cant rename the folder tho.
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Ok so as the other poster said, there is a "Phone Identifier" numbered folder. I know I can't rename that. Then inside that are the different backups I have in folders and the files within them. So are you saying I can't rename THOSE folders too?
You can rename the individual backup folders, just not the phone identifier folder. My paths look like this. /sdcard/nandroid/HT0A****/ (then I have my cm backup folder named CM7, My fresh folder named Fresh and a couple others). The *'s are just place holders, I can't remember the exact name.
You can change any folder names after the HT0A folder. Just no spaces, - or _ work fine though.
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I know how to delete old backups of clockwork, but how the hetch do you delete old backups on amon, i don't see amon on my sdcard like how clockwork is, do i have to actually go into amon and delete while in recovery or what.
Look on the root of your sd card for the nandroid folder. Open the subfolder and all your backups are there. This can also be done with any file manager program such as Astro.
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Look on the root of your sd card for the nandroid folder. Open the subfolder and all your backups are there. This can also be done with any file manager program such as Astro.
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yeah i just found it, was doing a search and came across that, lol, see search does work, and people don't think it does, lol.
thanks though.
Look in /sdcard/nadroid/HT##CCC#####
For example, my latest backup is /sdcard/nandroid/ht06AHL05422/BCDS-2010926-2318
Who sets up the naming convention of these backups anyway?
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Look in /sdcard/nadroid/HT##CCC#####
For example, my latest backup is /sdcard/nandroid/ht06AHL05422/BCDS-2010926-2318
Who sets up the naming convention of these backups anyway?
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i did learn one thing, if you actually name a backup, say "fresh 3.3" and it's the only backup you have and you have to do a nandroid, well it won't restore, for some reason they must be saved as a date or else you have to dismount the sdcard, rename the file to look like it's a date instead of a actual name, i ran into this once, was freaking out, lol.
So I tried renaming my backups on pc, since rom manager would always mess up when trying that method. Both ways I get a "m5 sum incorrect " or something like that!
Any ideas, sometimes I have so many backups its hard to tell what's what
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ROM Manager will let you name your backups. Only thing I can think of.
how do you use rom manager to rename them i renamed them all with ES File Explorer and now all my backups get that m5 sum incorrect thing
Already tried rom manager to rename, if I try and restore I get the "sum "error
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I used to have this problem. What I currently do, is as follows, using Amon_RA 2.2.1 Located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
I use the recovery nandroid backup. When I do this it creates a folder under /sdcard/nandroid/...... where ...... is the folder nandroid will create upon your first backup. From there all your future backups will go into that folder, it will be something goofy, the folder for me is Ht096Hl01177 (path looks like this: /sdcard/nandroid/HT096H101177/New Backup, rename this folder, not the HT one), within that folder will be your actual backup. Create the nandroid backup, I use ROOT EXPLORER (Paid but worth it since you can do mounted deletes), to rename the newley created backup, do not change the parent folder. Then when I want to restore to that one, I make sure I do a full wipe including Dalvick Cache. Using this process I don't hardly ever get the m5sum error. Hope that helps. I currently have 4 backups under the parent directory and I can restore them fine as long as I wipe first.
The easiest and cheapest way is by opening rom manager and scroll down to where it says backup/restore and on the backup you want to rename you hold it and then it will give you options like delete etc...chose rename and rename it example MikFroyo_1-24-2011 when you space make sure you _ for spaces and you should not get an error I segest you make a backup and use that to test it you can also rename it by clicking back up restore within rom manager and press back and rename it like showed in the example hopes this helps I have tested both with no problems what so ever
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I always rename mine with no issues...so far. I just leave all the numbers then start at the end like this. 2010-11-20.07.24.51 then I add -MYN-01-HB-76. Dont know if this will work for everyone. I just didnt want to mess with the file name too much
Evo - Myn 2.2 RLS 3 - Clockwork - HBoot .76
The key thing to know about renaming nandroids is that you have to be sure to leave no spaces in the names...
You can name it CM6.Jan25 but not CM6 Jan 25
You do not need to save the given name of it, I assure you.
....this is true whether you rename with rom manager, root explorer or estrongs ..... that is all you need to be concerned with, as long as you do that you should be fine....
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I used to have this problem. What I currently do, is as follows, using Amon_RA 2.2.1 Located here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=705026
I use the recovery nandroid backup. When I do this it creates a folder under /sdcard/nandroid/...... where ...... is the folder nandroid will create upon your first backup. From there all your future backups will go into that folder, it will be something goofy, the folder for me is Ht096Hl01177 (path looks like this: /sdcard/nandroid/HT096H101177/New Backup, rename this folder, not the HT one), within that folder will be your actual backup. Create the nandroid backup, I use ROOT EXPLORER (Paid but worth it since you can do mounted deletes), to rename the newley created backup, do not change the parent folder. Then when I want to restore to that one, I make sure I do a full wipe including Dalvick Cache. Using this process I don't hardly ever get the m5sum error. Hope that helps. I currently have 4 backups under the parent directory and I can restore them fine as long as I wipe first.
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right on. this is execly what i do to rename
Vandelay007 said:
The key thing to know about renaming nandroids is that you have to be sure to leave no spaces in the names...
You can name it CM6.Jan25 but not CM6 Jan 25
You do not need to save the given name of it, I assure you.
....this is true whether you rename with rom manager, root explorer or estrongs ..... that is all you need to be concerned with, as long as you do that you should be fine....
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Yeah, I use Root Explorer, no spaces, works fine for me.
how do I delete nandroid backups for an evo 4g?
I delete mine by using a file manager then go to the nandroid folder and delete the old nandroids also I backup ALL my nandroids on my pc then delete them
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Go into nandroid folder then into the next folder H something, in that folder will be all your nands named by date. Just delete which ever ones you don't need either via some root explorer app or Pc usb.
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Go to the sd card > open nandroid folder > open HT... > select the backup and delete it.
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evo4gnoob said:
I delete mine by using a file manager then go to the nandroid folder and delete the old nandroids also I backup ALL my nandroids on my pc then delete them
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Thanks
Smurflock soon...
Please don't revive old threads
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teh roxxorz said:
Go to the sd card > open nandroid folder > open HT... > select the backup and delete it.
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I have just recently rooted my intl' S3. I also did a nandroid backup to the phone twice and its taking up quite a bit of space. I have tried to locate the nandroid folder from what you posted and cannot find the nandroid folder. I am using astro folder right now but maybe switching to my file app later if this does not work. thanks in advance!
rcali001 said:
I have just recently rooted my intl' S3. I also did a nandroid backup to the phone twice and its taking up quite a bit of space. I have tried to locate the nandroid folder from what you posted and cannot find the nandroid folder. I am using astro folder right now but maybe switching to my file app later if this does not work. thanks in advance!
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The folder should be named whatever recovery you are using. If you're using ClockworkMod, it may say 'clockworkmod' or 'cwm'. If you're using TWRP recovery, it should say 'twrp'. The backup files will be in that folder.
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I have just recently rooted my intl' S3. I also did a nandroid backup to the phone twice and its taking up quite a bit of space. I have tried to locate the nandroid folder from what you posted and cannot find the nandroid folder. I am using astro folder right now but maybe switching to my file app later if this does not work. thanks in advance!
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FinZ28 said:
The folder should be named whatever recovery you are using. If you're using ClockworkMod, it may say 'clockworkmod' or 'cwm'. If you're using TWRP recovery, it should say 'twrp'. The backup files will be in that folder.
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Fln is correct, in that it'll be named whatever recovery you're using. Probably cwm, listed under clockworkmod, unless you explicitly changed to twrp. Just make sure you look on the device sdcard for the backups.
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FinZ28 said:
The folder should be named whatever recovery you are using. If you're using ClockworkMod, it may say 'clockworkmod' or 'cwm'. If you're using TWRP recovery, it should say 'twrp'. The backup files will be in that folder.
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I have looked into these folders and found nothing. I have used File manager and Astro File with no luck finding this folder. I went back into the Samsung tool kit to see if it will allow me to delete those files on the phone put no luck there either. thanks again for your assistance.
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teh roxxorz said:
Fln is correct, in that it'll be named whatever recovery you're using. Probably cwm, listed under clockworkmod, unless you explicitly changed to twrp. Just make sure you look on the device sdcard for the backups.
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thanks but I still cannot find the back up. I have used the samsung tool kit to create the nandroid back ups but now I dont know how to find it to delete. in the toolkit it does not provide an option to delete back ups from the phone unless I maybe misunderstanding the option available. i have installed rom manager and there i can create nandroid backups by going into the recovery page. I cannot flash roms because of the space limitations. I want to delete these back ups on the phone and just leave it on the computer so that i can start flashing roms thru rom manager.
I do not have an external SD card because its still in the mail. Thanks for all your help!
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FinZ28 said:
The folder should be named whatever recovery you are using. If you're using ClockworkMod, it may say 'clockworkmod' or 'cwm'. If you're using TWRP recovery, it should say 'twrp'. The backup files will be in that folder.
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I just went into the CWM recovery mode and located the 2 nandroid backups I created but still could not delete any of them. All my file explorers does not have any nandroid folders and the CWM folder is still empty. Am I missing a particular setting that is not allowing me to see the backups?
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I just went into the CWM recovery mode and located the 2 nandroid backups I created but still could not delete any of them. All my file explorers does not have any nandroid folders and the CWM folder is still empty. Am I missing a particular setting that is not allowing me to see the backups?
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What file explorer are you using? I prefer es file explorer [free], make sure you set the root settings to r/w, for giggles. It should be listed as internal sd card or sdcard01, probably the prior; I forget what its called on tw. Just verify for clockworkmod folder, and should list your device id, and the backups inside.
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teh roxxorz said:
What file explorer are you using? I prefer es file explorer [free], make sure you set the root settings to r/w, for giggles. It should be listed as internal sd card or sdcard01, probably the prior; I forget what its called on tw. Just verify for clockworkmod folder, and should list your device id, and the backups inside.
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You are the MAN teh roxxorz, adjusted the root settings for es file explorer and was able to free up 4gb of space (nandroid BU) Thank you so much! Now I do not have to unroot, do a factory wipe just to delete excess backups!!
How do I delete old backups?
They are located on your sdcard in the TWRP folder.
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How do I delete old backups?
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It's in /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS
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I use a file manager (root explorer), navigate to sdcard/TWRP/backups/00000000/, and delete the files you choose. I also rename my backups, using recognizable titles rather than the default date and time stamp. I need to do this, as I have back ups from 6 different ROMs.
How do I delete old backups because they have blobs and I don't know which one is from my old backup? I think I delete the folder then go into CWM and free up unused space?
If by old backups you mean nandroids made with CWM then open a file explorer and go to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup and you will see a list of backups.....just delete the ones you don't want.
P.S. you can also rename them here....don't use spaces as then they won't show up, or show up as corrupted when/if you try to restore them.
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If by old backups you mean nandroids made with CWM then open a file explorer and go to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup and you will see a list of backups.....just delete the ones you don't want.
P.S. you can also rename them here....don't use spaces as then they won't show up, or show up as corrupted when/if you try to restore them.
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I was wondering about the deletion of blobs though because some of the blobs will become unable once i delete the backup and take up my space.
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