Hello everyone,
I have been running cyanogen 7 nightlies for the past week. Today I decided to give a couple sense based roms spin. I decided that I preferred cyanogen and attempted to restore to my backup. No matter what I tried, I could not restore the rom, it kept saying there was an error and go check the log files. I tried several different cyanogen backups I had made. So I reflashed cyanogen, after restoring a previous backup of a sense rom. So after flashing and resetting up my phone on cyanogen, I performed a backup and attempted to flash back to the same sense rom that had worked for me earlier on in the day, because I wanted to update my prl. Now I can't flash from my cyanogen rom to the sense rom due to an error again. Obviously this is a problem if my backups wont work. I have tried flashing from RA to clockwork and back to RA 2.3, but that did not fix the problem. What is going on?
Thanks
hate to say it but you could be one of those Rare cases where the nandroid/clockword backup is bad. i would suggst nandroid another rom to see and if you can go back to that one from nandroid you will know the other backup is bad.
Also i would upload the log files here cuz im sure plenty of people can ready your log files(i cant..lol).
Also i read when i was on the HTC HERO that sometimes when you flash to a different rom it does something to the flash portion of the backup(or watever). One time i flashed to a sense rom on my hero to try it out and then flashed back to CM6 and i couldnt flash ANY zip, or backup file. i had to do a adb line on my phone in order to enable to flashing/backups to work again. cant remember the line tho.
By any chance were you naming them, on clockwork from rom manager, and on pc for amon_ra? If so and they had spaces, you need to re-name them, just no spaces. Hyphens, underscores, and periods are okay though.
teh roxxorz said:
By any chance were you naming them, on clockwork from rom manager, and on pc for amon_ra? If so and they had spaces, you need to re-name them, just no spaces. Hyphens, underscores, and periods are okay though.
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Really? I did just recenty start naming the backup via my pc, where I did include spaces (file manager won't allow this). Ill rename and let you know what happens.
That fixed it. Thanks a lot.
-Tosses scarf like Homer- And that's the end of that chapter.
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I recently rooted and have been enjoying the different ROMS I am now able to use which makes my phone more enjoyable.
I wanted to ask something about backup's that I am a little confused on.
I know there are a few methods of backing up. I do the method of rebooting into recovery and backing up.
My question is, what exactly is this backing up? I would like the backup method to back up the whole ROM with everything I have set in place, kind of like a .img file of sorts on a PC.
I have been going back and forth between an ASOP (MIUI) ROM and a couple Sense based ROMS (MikFroyo and MYNS.) It is frustrating when going between each that I have to go through and reinstall everything and set it all up the way I like it.
Is there a method to create a image that I can just go into recovery, "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" then "Wipe Cache Partition" then "Calkulin's FORMAT_ALL" and then load up the saved image file that will have everthing in tact that I saved in the image file?
Thank you,
Whiteice
Simply back up everything (wimax, sd-ext, boot...) on the particular ROM you have set up, and then set up your next ROM. I use Amon_RA 2.2.1 and you can rename the actual nandroid backup to make it easier to remember which ROM it is. So you can pretty much do exactly what your asking. Once you've set them up, you can easily restore different ROMs.
You can backup an entire rom with rom manager with clockwork. It saves everything the way you left it, from your settings, apps, and even call log.
WhiteiceDMSTech said:
I recently rooted and have been enjoying the different ROMS I am now able to use which makes my phone more enjoyable.
I wanted to ask something about backup's that I am a little confused on.
I know there are a few methods of backing up. I do the method of rebooting into recovery and backing up.
My question is, what exactly is this backing up? I would like the backup method to back up the whole ROM with everything I have set in place, kind of like a .img file of sorts on a PC.
I have been going back and forth between an ASOP (MIUI) ROM and a couple Sense based ROMS (MikFroyo and MYNS.) It is frustrating when going between each that I have to go through and reinstall everything and set it all up the way I like it.
Is there a method to create a image that I can just go into recovery, "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" then "Wipe Cache Partition" then "Calkulin's FORMAT_ALL" and then load up the saved image file that will have everthing in tact that I saved in the image file?
Thank you,
Whiteice
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trust me if your not to sure about what you are doing at least try and get Amon on your phone. It IMO and quite a few others is safer than Clockwork. Clockwork and Rom Manager are for beginners I will admit but before something goes crazy try and flash over to Amon..
edit: to answer you question though nandroid is like system restore in windows... you will get back everything exactly as you left it.
the nandroid backup in your recovery mode does back up everything. once you back it up then flash whatever you are flashing and you dont like it, u just go back and click nandroid restore and it will go back to exactly how it was when u backed it up
Quick question in the new amon what do we check when making a backup.
I'm used to 2.2 and just hitting make a backup.
And just like someone said above, Rom Manager and clockwork may be for beginners but seasoned users also use this. I find it simple to use and flashed about 12 Roms in a couple of months and I have 6 backups stored in the Rom Manager backup list. Very simple to restore back to one of your saved backups as well as easy to save new ones.
And one thing I have picked up about AMon RA is that in the newer versions, make sure you toggle the verification to off so that if a rom or whatever it is you're trying to flash is unsigned, it will not give an error and you'll be able to download.
playya said:
trust me if your not to sure about what you are doing at least try and get Amon on your phone.
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couldn't have said it any better myself
shaglioni said:
And one thing I have picked up about AMon RA is that in the newer versions, make sure you toggle the verification to off so that if a rom or whatever it is you're trying to flash is unsigned, it will not give an error and you'll be able to download.
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Just to point out, the same can happen in clockworkmod.
Really? I was looking for an option about toggling verification on Clockwork but I couldn't find it anywhere. You know where that option is? I mean I haven't' had any errors using it but just in case.
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Really? I was looking for an option about toggling verification on Clockwork but I couldn't find it anywhere. You know where that option is? I mean I haven't' had any errors using it but just in case.
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After you select install from zip, right before you check install form sd card, there should be the option on that screen to toggle signature verification.
That's awesome to know. I guess I never looked at that part of the screen before I flash something because I never get an error. So now if it happens I'll give it a thorough look over. Thanks a lot Roxxorz.
Oh, and you were commenting on the other thread in regards to King Ultra's rom animation. I replied back to that thread but I'm trying to get my own screename configured. Thanks for your input on that issue to but that's puzzling to me. I also have the Amon RA 1.8 version as I hear that's a good version to use as well on my SD in case I want to try it later on.
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Oh, and you were commenting on the other thread in regards to King Ultra's rom animation. I replied back to that thread but I'm trying to get my own screename configured. Thanks for your input on that issue to but that's puzzling to me. I also have the Amon RA 1.8 version as I hear that's a good version to use as well on my SD in case I want to try it later on.
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So what exactly were you trying to do?
Hey guys, ive read every solution to Error: run ' nandroid-mobile.sh restore ' via adb! hero, eris etc whatever phone that has this problem and no solutions work. ive run the restore through adb and restores just fine. but that is a pain in the ass. i wanna restore via recovery. sometimes ill be running a rom and need to switch to run gps or 4g etc. ive partitioned the sd card. ive made a new restore of current rom and flashed a different rom and restored and works just fine. but what about all of my other nandroid back ups i put them back on and get that error. even my original before i started rom flashing. should i unroot and flash it to stock etc and start fresh? sorry if its just ramblings and not really questions but dont now what to ask. i just want my backups to work. ps have over 7 gb free and battery is full and plugged in when tring to restore. ive flashed restores with alot less
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Hey guys, ive read every solution to Error: run ' nandroid-mobile.sh restore ' via adb! hero, eris etc whatever phone that has this problem and no solutions work. ive run the restore through adb and restores just fine. but that is a pain in the ass. i wanna restore via recovery. sometimes ill be running a rom and need to switch to run gps or 4g etc. ive partitioned the sd card. ive made a new restore of current rom and flashed a different rom and restored and works just fine. but what about all of my other nandroid back ups i put them back on and get that error. even my original before i started rom flashing. should i unroot and flash it to stock etc and start fresh? sorry if its just ramblings and not really questions but dont now what to ask. i just want my backups to work. ps have over 7 gb free and battery is full and plugged in when tring to restore. ive flashed restores with alot less
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I usually got that issue when one of two things happened. The nandroid backup I did was corrupted, or never backed up right. Or two, when I changes the name, and added spaces or certain symbols it borked it.
If you haven't changed it, it may just not have nandroid backedup correctly. If you are able to restore via ADB then do so and renandroid.
Did you use illegal characters in your file name? Did you try to restore a clockwork backup with amon ra or vice versa?
ive only used amon ra from the very beginning. i will try clock just cuz i can. and nope all the backups ive tried are original names. i have renamed some in the past and they have restored fine before. but ones im trying are original. i cant even flash the first nandroid i made and ive gone to that one bunch times?! idk cuz this randomly started happening.
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ive only used amon ra from the very beginning. i will try clock just cuz i can. and nope all the backups ive tried are original names. i have renamed some in the past and they have restored fine before. but ones im trying are original. i cant even flash the first nandroid i made and ive gone to that one bunch times?! idk cuz this randomly started happening.
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Did you make any changes to system files? The files may be corrupted.
crzy619 said:
ive only used amon ra from the very beginning. i will try clock just cuz i can. and nope all the backups ive tried are original names. i have renamed some in the past and they have restored fine before. but ones im trying are original. i cant even flash the first nandroid i made and ive gone to that one bunch times?! idk cuz this randomly started happening.
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what version of Amon-Ra are you using? If your not using 2.3 go flash it immediately and try again.
Is there a way to restore, or at least read, the contacts data that were stored in the phone (not through google account) from a ClockworkMod nandroid?
Summary:
1. Went to update family member's phone to newest SprintLover's ROM from original stock rooted 3.29.
2. Backedup apps through titanium, flashed CWM 3.0.0.5 through ROM Manager.
3. Used ROM Manager to make a new backup of the 3.29 stock ROM.
4. PHONE COULD NOT REBOOT AFTER BACKUP! (Hung at the white HTC screen)
5. Figured, **** it, and installed the all-in-one radio/ROM PC36IMG.zip from SprintLover's ROM.
6. Update went fine, but realized some of the contacts were stored in PHONE and not google account.
7. Can't flash into the backup I made, it hangs at the white HTC screen.
dom085 said:
Is there a way to restore, or at least read, the contacts data that were stored in the phone (not through google account) from a ClockworkMod nandroid?
Summary:
1. Went to update family member's phone to newest SprintLover's ROM from original stock rooted 3.29.
2. Backedup apps through titanium, flashed CWM 3.0.0.5 through ROM Manager.
3. Used ROM Manager to make a new backup of the 3.29 stock ROM.
4. PHONE COULD NOT REBOOT AFTER BACKUP! (Hung at the white HTC screen)
5. Figured, **** it, and installed the all-in-one radio/ROM PC36IMG.zip from SprintLover's ROM.
6. Update went fine, but realized some of the contacts were stored in PHONE and not google account.
7. Can't flash into the backup I made, it hangs at the white HTC screen.
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Have you tried restoring the backup from within your recovery instead of using ROM Manager? Give it a try and see if it helps.
dougjamal said:
Have you tried restoring the backup from within your recovery instead of using ROM Manager? Give it a try and see if it helps.
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Thanks for the fast reply, but...
I forgot to mention that. I did clear data/cache after I updated to SprintLover's in recovery, and then tried to nandroid restore my stock 3.29 backup.
It still hung at the white HTC screen, no luck.
I have since restored the SprintLover backup.
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Thanks for the fast reply, but...
I forgot to mention that. I did clear data/cache after I updated to SprintLover's in recovery, and then tried to nandroid restore my stock 3.29 backup.
It still hung at the white HTC screen, no luck.
I have since restored the SprintLover backup.
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Oh okay. If you want the original 3.29, you can download it from the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
If you don't mind a little friendly advice, I recommend that you stop using ROM Manager and flash amon RA v2.3 atop of your ClockworkMod. ROM Manager, in my opinion, has its uses, however, too many people have experience similar things as you while trying to flash roms. Anyway, take care and have a great weekend....
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Oh okay. If you want the original 3.29, you can download it from the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884060
If you don't mind a little friendly advice, I recommend that you stop using ROM Manager and flash amon RA v2.3 atop of your ClockworkMod. ROM Manager, in my opinion, has its uses, however, too many people have experience similar things as you while trying to flash roms. Anyway, take care and have a great weekend....
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Thanks for the tip and link.
I use AmonRa on my phone (for at least the past 8 months), but figured I wouldn't run into trouble since Clockwork has been updated so much. However, I agree, too many issues I've had in the past and now with Clockwork.
I appreciate the original 3.29 link, but I only really need the contacts that were on my nandroid.
I guess I'll poke around and see if anything is in some sort of plain text file in the nandroid about the missing contacts. About half were in google, and half in the phone.
Apologies for what is probably an often asked question, but the search seems to be down at the moment. I'm currently running Ras 2.3 and when I make a nandroid backup of my MIUI, it always runs into an error when trying to restore? I don't even know where to begin looking for solutions to the issue, is this a common thing? Should I just re-flash Ras or something?
Seems the backup was corrupted, reflash your recovery, then make a new one.
Yeah every backup I do seems to get corrupted. I'll try reflashing AmonRa.
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Yeah every backup I do seems to get corrupted. I'll try reflashing AmonRa.
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Let me know how it goes. Also make sure to have at least ~500mb available for a backup.
So I finally re-flashed AmonRa 2.3, and my nandroids STILL show an error! It gets like one dot into resotring and says "oops! an error occurred, check the logs" or something like that. What is happening
first thing would be to check your memory card to see if you have enough space like the post above says. if that doesn't work move the recovery.log via your recovery screen to the sd card and post it here. that should get some questions answered.
edit: also i had this happen to me a couple times when trying to restore it only happened when i changed big things like the radio or the hboot or switching from aosp to sense. that kinda stuff. you might just need to start over and flash a new rom. good thing you used titanium...right? p.s. just relized you were trying to restore not backup so the memory card issue shouldn't apply sry.
I have my MIUI backup so it's not so much of a big deal since that works, but I'd like to have a 100% working nandroid backup in the event that I wanna try out a new rom. Where to I find the recovery log so that I may post it up on here? Thanks for the help guys, I'd be lost without xda
So I just tried moving my recovery log to the SD card and I got the same message, "Oops... something went wrong! Please check the recovery log!"
WTF is going on here?
Potential causes and solutions:
Corrupt SD card. You're screwed, reformat SD card and flash the rom over again.
Corrupt Nandroid file. You're screwed, delete from SD card and flash the rom over again.
Corrupt Recover. Download Rom Manager and re-flash recovery (if you use clockwork, flash alternate then back to clockwork or vice versa if you use amon ra). If this doesn't work, it's likely one of the two above.
However, this is usually the problem when they mess up.
Is there a space in the name of the Nandroid backup? Nandroid backups can NOT EVER have a space in the title. Go into your favorite file manager and remove the space if it has one and it should work just fine.
For example:
MikFroyo 4.61 is NOT an acceptable name. There's a space between the o and the 4.
KonisEliteSeriesIII IS an acceptable name. Notice, there's no spaces.
Hit the thanks button if I helped. Toodles!
Don't use ROM Manager to reflash Amon Ra. Just use the PC36IMG
Trust me on this.
Is it possible that your original nandroids were with clockwork and now that you have updated to amon that they will not work?
Okay so I've re-flashed Amon Ra and reformatted my SD card and I STILL can't get the nandroids to work or my recovery log to move over to the SD card! I've only used Amon Ra for as long as I've been rooted, and nandroids previously worked. Also, these are nandroids that I made within the last 2 weeks or so, they're not old and I have not renamed them. Should I maybe try an older version of AmonRa or something?
OMG I figured it out! Here's the story:
So I bought a new SD card a few weeks back and put it in with just a straight copy of my old SD card in there. This included my nandroid folder. I had been making backups and deleting old backups, but the folder under sdcard/nandroid/HT089HL02240 simply needed to be deleted. I kept sdcard/nandroid, deleted HT089HL02240, then made a new nandroid so that the recovery could simply make this folder itself. Somehow this worked, I don't know why, but it seemed like it might help being that you can't restore nandroids between phones. Perhaps the recovery thought I was attempting to do this, given the SD card switch. Well it works now!
Just wondering what course of action I should take. If anything could get me back to my first nandroid. I just rooted my phone, and I started trying out roms, seeing which I liked best. Not sure how it works exactly, but I figured it was that I could go from one nandroid to any other and it would work. I flashed mik3d, made a nandroid, and then flashed destroyer. All correct steps done, all fine up until that point. Tried to restore, and neither of the nandroids worked. And i tested them before I flashed destroyer. I was stuck in destroyer. Since then ive been able to flash either destroyer or mik3d, but i tried cyanogen and it gets me stuck in bootloop no matter what I do. After flashing mik3d or destroyer, it let's me restore to the last backup before the flash. No other. I backed up my apps originally, but not the data. i guess i just wanna know if I could find a way to restore the original nandroid and get my apps back instead of losing all the data. Also, mik3d is currently running EXTREMELY slow. Computer unavailable for the next few hours, typing this on my phone, and its so laggy. This has taken about 15-20 minutes to type. And if there really is no way to restore my app data by restoring the original nandroid, then what should i do to restore to stock ROM, rooted or not, doesnt matter.
OK, first off, if you're just rooted, you probably have Clockwork Mod for recovery.
You want to change that to Amon Ra.
There's a post in the development section with the file and how to flash it.
This will make your nandroids obsolete.
If you DO have Amon Ra now, or after you flash it, so this:
Go to Wipe.
Wipe All User Data/Factory Reset.
Then wipe ever sub-option, EXCEPT, SD Card: or Battery Stats if you're not fully charged.
Hit return and USB Toggle. Put the ROM you want to flash on your SD Card, then you can flash that. If I were you, I would just use the Stock/Rooted ROM from the Dev section first. You need to have a Sense ROM anyhow, if you ever need to update PRL, Profile, or take your phone into Sprint.
Once you have that loaded up, go back to Recovery and make a Nandroid of it. I always backup everything except cache, which ensures that if I have to restore, it's exactly back to how I had it all set up.
Then, put a custom ROM on that you want to flash, repeat the Wipe Procedure and flash away!
Well I'll try all that when I get home. In the middle of a 4 hour drive now. But I realized that I might have an out. Just got a new SD card yesterday, and I was using that. Switched to the old one, which happens to be after I loaded mik3d but not yet destroyer, and I'm back to the stock Rom rooted. I'll deal with the rest later.