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[Q] CWM Backup/Restore Question

Is there a safe way to rename the backups we make in CWM ? It currently labels them as "2011-05-22.17.55.36" depending on date/time .... I wanna be able to rename it so I know what is actually on that particular backup ; such as "SRF-1.1.1" "UrbanFury" , etc. When I renamed them before and then tried to restore , it wouldn't work. Anyone find a solution to this ?

use rom manager to rename, or just rename the directory in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/

chris41g said:
use rom manager to rename, or just rename the directory in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
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That's what I have already done in the past , and when I tried to restore my back-up it wouldn't work ...was wondering if anyone else had actually renamed their backups and then successfully restored them. Maybe the way I was renaming them was wrong ? I need to leave spaces between words ? I need to include date/time format ?

I haven't done it before... but try changing to the 2 in 2011 to a letter. Sfr = s urban fury = u... see if it works.
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qbking77 said:
I haven't done it before... but try changing to the 2 in 2011 to a letter. Sfr = s urban fury = u... see if it works.
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Sounds Good = I hadn't tried that option yet.....now I gotta make another backup before I try renaming my last backup....LOL

the directory name doesnt matter at all... just dont leave any space, you may need to regenerate nandroid.md5 i dont know.. but if so its easy enough
in a shell goto your new backup directory
Code:
md5sum *img > nandroid.md5
BTW i have a script to make and restore nandroid backups.. not using the builtin cwm functions, useful for installs and i guess maybe your situation of naming it whatever you want..

If you back it up in CWM and then boot up and open Rom Manager you can click manage, hold down the backup you want to edit and choose rename. It works just fine, this is how I keep track of my backups.

Censura_Umbra said:
If you back it up in CWM and then boot up and open Rom Manager you can click manage, hold down the backup you want to edit and choose rename. It works just fine, this is how I keep track of my backups.
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So - is it OK to just rename as "SRF " "UrbanFury" "Frankenstein" "SuperNova" etc ? Do I need to have date/time in there or anything else ?

chris41g said:
the directory name doesnt matter at all... just dont leave any space, you may need to regenerate nandroid.md5 i dont know.. but if so its easy enough
in a shell goto your new backup directory
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md5sum *img > nandroid.md5
BTW i have a script to make and restore nandroid backups.. not using the builtin cwm functions, useful for installs and i guess maybe your situation of naming it whatever you want..
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This sounds great Chris, does it still require root?

Censura_Umbra said:
If you back it up in CWM and then boot up and open Rom Manager you can click manage, hold down the backup you want to edit and choose rename. It works just fine, this is how I keep track of my backups.
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Ok I'm currently made a nandroid backup with cwn 3.0.0.6 and I'm trying to edit the name of my nandroid backup...in Rom manager, it wants me to flash clockwork recovery again...should I flash it or is that an error...I'm on srf 1.1.1 rite now

kobby2k6 said:
Ok I'm currently made a nandroid backup with cwn 3.0.0.6 and I'm trying to edit the name of my nandroid backup...in Rom manager, it wants me to flash clockwork recovery again...should I flash it or is that an error...I'm on srf 1.1.1 rite now
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It won't actually flash it, choose flash and epic, and choose 3.x
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kennyglass123 said:
This sounds great Chris, does it still require root?
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Yea, its meant to be run from recovery in install scripts, but could be run from a shell... it has to be in recovery to do the system partition.. suppose the backup can be run from a shell regardless though...
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TexasEpic4G said:
That's what I have already done in the past , and when I tried to restore my back-up it wouldn't work ...was wondering if anyone else had actually renamed their backups and then successfully restored them. Maybe the way I was renaming them was wrong ? I need to leave spaces between words ? I need to include date/time format ?
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I don't believe there should be any spaces. Try underscores: __ .
-Sent from my Random Epic.

It has to be a DOS name like: Bonsai411.6.1.2011
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Top Nurse said:
It has to be a DOS name like: Bonsai411.6.1.2011
Sent from Bonsai 7.1.1.1
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can I rename like you are suggesting (Bonsai411.6.1.2011) by connecting to my PC or will this only work via ROM Manager ?

I use es file explore and I just rename it to what ever the rom name is. For example I backup bonsai 4.1.1 and I named it bonsai. I was able to restore it with no problem. I also backed up marcusant rom and just renamed it gingerbread and I was able to restore with no issues. Hope this helps
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Top Nurse said:
It has to be a DOS name like: Bonsai411.6.1.2011
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OK - I tried your suggestion to rename but I did it on the computer ( don't have much experience with ROM Manager since I've always been told it don't really work on our Epic phone ) .... IT WORKED !!! I just changed the 2011 to UrbanFury and SRF and did restore with No Problemas ( I musta left spaces the first times I tried renaming ) ... so the moral of the lesson is - NO SPACES

I have an additional CWM backup/restore question. Does this back up apps installed on the SD card too, as well as their data? I don't don't know whether or not it matters, but I have CWM 3.0.2.5 and the Swiss Cheese ROM.

OrygunGal said:
I have an additional CWM backup/restore question. Does this back up apps installed on the SD card too, as well as their data? I don't don't know whether or not it matters, but I have CWM 3.0.2.5 and the Swiss Cheese ROM.
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No your SD card is seperate storage and can be backed up on a computer.

OrygunGal said:
I have an additional CWM backup/restore question. Does this back up apps installed on the SD card too, as well as their data? I don't don't know whether or not it matters, but I have CWM 3.0.2.5 and the Swiss Cheese ROM.
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kennyglass123 said:
No your SD card is seperate storage and can be backed up on a computer.
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It doesn't back up the actuall apps, you would need another app for that
like File expert or titanium back up or any other of the multitude of apps out there that do that

MD5 error when restoring old roms

i wanted to use an old rom ...i made a back up through recovery and when i went to restore it it says MD5 error what do i do to get my old rom that i backed up to work again

Did you use any weird things in the name or spaces it has to look something like this to work. cm9stable or 22912 or don't name it period. Been here several times tool I fig it out.
~ Sent from my GNexus running cm9~

sway40 said:
Did you use any weird things in the name or spaces it has to look something like this to work. cm9stable or 22912 or don't name it period. Been here several times tool I fig it out.
~ Sent from my GNexus running cm9~
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**** i did so i could remember it i put dewizz 2-25 so i could remember what date it was and the name of the rom...

you can't have spaces. delete the space and try it. if it still doesn't work you can manually create a new MD5 for it

zander21510 said:
you can't have spaces. delete the space and try it. if it still doesn't work you can manually create a new MD5 for it
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so would dewizz2-25 work?

mightymike889 said:
so would dewizz2-25 work?
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Prolly not, I've never tried renaming it either. Idk why it's sensitive like that but it is
~ Sent from my GNexus running cm9~

I was having that problem with cwm touch, went back to cwm that uses hard keys and it works, but all backups made with touch recovery are shot.
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Same thing happened to me. I am still looking for the solution. How to I manually create an md5?
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Flash the old recovery
M&S

Yeah, I pretty much lost intrest in CWM touch when it kept restarting and wouldn't finish a dang thing without restarting randomly. Sometimes its best not to fix something that isn't broken...if you really can't handle using the volume rocker and power button you shouldn't be in there anyway...
but i digress...i remember I had a bit of a hard time getting it to recognize the device but if you get this string of commands to run it will fix it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114

I am still using the old recovery (every time I reboot, touch recovery goes away) and I tried restoring after changing the name and I got md5 error. Then I changed it to all numbers and it gets stuck at checking md5 anyone have an idea?
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I rename my backup folder by ES Explorer and that become bad file

I can confirm this works 100%, I had a copy of Juggs 5.0 and did TDJs superwipe and my backup was coming up as MD5 mismatched. Ran the commands from the guide and violla it worked !

Force close when I try to get into 3G hotspot settings

I am getting a force close when I try to get into 3G hotspot settings, this is most likely related to the fact that I can no longer use my phone as a hotspot with ease.

Okay.....
What ROM are you using? Are you rooted?
Need more information.

Jizzylax said:
Okay.....
What ROM are you using? Are you rooted?
Need more information.
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Rooted, running andi bones.
it use to work fine, now I restore some backups but none cure the problem.
I have tried factory reset, and every backup I have and the problem is still there.

OK, I ended up going back to stock and installing the original rom I was running, now it's working, I think this got messed up when I tried UKB rom, and all my backups newer than stock would not take care of the problem.
Now I want to delete some of the backups and save a new backup, but I have not found the location of the backup files.

Lino. said:
OK, I ended up going back to stock and installing the original rom I was running, now it's working, I think this got messed up when I tried UKB rom, and all my backups newer than stock would not take care of the problem.
Now I want to delete some of the backups and save a new backup, but I have not found the location of the backup files.
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If you want help you've got to give us info. What recovery are you using? For twrp there is a folder on your sd card called twrp. I don't remember the name for the cwm folder because I haven't used it for a long time. I've never used 4ext, so if you are on that you'll have to wait for someone else's input.

gtdtm said:
If you want help you've got to give us info. What recovery are you using? For twrp there is a folder on your sd card called twrp. I don't remember the name for the cwm folder because I haven't used it for a long time. I've never used 4ext, so if you are on that you'll have to wait for someone else's input.
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Thanks I got it.

gtdtm said:
If you want help you've got to give us info. What recovery are you using? For twrp there is a folder on your sd card called twrp. I don't remember the name for the cwm folder because I haven't used it for a long time. I've never used 4ext, so if you are on that you'll have to wait for someone else's input.
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4ext backups to cwm folder
I'm so fresh you can suck my nits...

Lino. said:
Thanks I got it.
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Do you mind posting your solution in case someone else has the same question?

CM10 is keeping my backup from running?

So, I rooted and then made a nandroid backup - then I flashed CM10 and set that all up, no issues. Then I rebooted into restore to check on my backup and CWM doesn't see the backup. I can browse to my backup using a file explorer and I can see it but my CWM doesn't see it.
As if thats not bad enough, I convince my buddy to try flashing CM10 on his Sprint GS3. First thing he says to me after is that his CWM doesn't see his back up. Now he's pissed because he can't restore to stock - same boat I'm in.
Has anyone else experienced this yet??
Thanks

jackryan57 said:
So, I rooted and then made a nandroid backup - then I flashed CM10 and set that all up, no issues. Then I rebooted into restore to check on my backup and CWM doesn't see the backup. I can browse to my backup using a file explorer and I can see it but my CWM doesn't see it.
As if thats not bad enough, I convince my buddy to try flashing CM10 on his Sprint GS3. First thing he says to me after is that his CWM doesn't see his back up. Now he's pissed because he can't restore to stock - same boat I'm in.
Has anyone else experienced this yet??
Thanks
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Do you still have the CWM image (recovery.img)? If so, download Android Terminal Emulator from the Play Store, have the recovery image on the internal memory, run:
Once in the terminal type: su (press enter)
Then type: dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 (press enter)
I think it flashed a newer version of CWM and it doesn't see the old backup you made.

BWolf56 said:
Do you still have the CWM image (recovery.img)? If so, download Android Terminal Emulator from the Play Store, have the recovery image on the internal memory, run:
Once in the terminal type: su (press enter)
Then type: dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 (press enter)
I think it flashed a newer version of CWM and it doesn't see the old backup you made.
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I get this "/sdcard/recovery.img: cannot open for read: no such file or directory"
but I do see that file in the CWM folder on the sd card it's called recovery.img

jackryan57 said:
I get this "cannot open for read: no such file or directory
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Umm, you might have to push it with ADB then. I'm not sure what the command is but I suggest you look it up. I'll try to look for it myself.

BWolf56 said:
Umm, you might have to push it with ADB then. I'm not sure what the command is but I suggest you look it up. I'll try to look for it myself.
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Please excuse my noobness - but I have no idea what you just said

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Please excuse my noobness - but I have no idea what you just said
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Does is matter that the recovery.img isn't in the root of the SD card - but its in a folder called clockworkmod? so the path would be /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.img

jackryan57 said:
Does is matter that the recovery.img isn't in the root of the SD card - but its in a folder called clockworkmod? so the path would be /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.img
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That's your current recovery. We need your older one. Well that's my guess anyway. Which recovery did you first install? If you can refind it, that would be best.

BWolf56 said:
That's your current recovery. We need your older one. Well that's my guess anyway. Which recovery did you first install? If you can refind it, that would be best.
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Thats the recovery I made while I was still stock, I made that backup just before flashing CM10. Once I was on CM10 I didn't make any backups.

jackryan57 said:
Thats the recovery I made while I was still stock, I made that backup just before flashing CM10. Once I was on CM10 I didn't make any backups.
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I was just browsing my file structure and something looks weird since flashing CM10. It looks like it took all my folders that used to be in the root directory of my SD card and put them all in a folder called "0" so the path would be sdcard/0/ and that "0" folder has all the contents of my phone. If I browse to sdcard/ I see most of my folders also but not all of them and most of them are empty. My buddy is reporting the same scenario on his phone after flashing CM10

jackryan57 said:
I was just browsing my file structure and something looks weird since flashing CM10. It looks like it took all my folders that used to be in the root directory of my SD card and put them all in a folder called "0" so the path would be sdcard/0/ and that "0" folder has all the contents of my phone. If I browse to sdcard/ I see most of my folders also but not all of them and most of them are empty. My buddy is reporting the same scenario on his phone after flashing CM10
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Well that explains it. You're coming from ICS aren't you? In JB, they divided it by users (0, 1, 2..). Copy your backup to your new emplacement and it should be fine.
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BWolf56 said:
Well that explains it. You're coming from ICS aren't you? In JB, they divided it by users (0, 1, 2..). Copy your backup to your new emplacement and it should be fine.
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No, I had JB not ICS - I tried moving it to the root as well and still not working. My buddy also noticed the change in his file structure upon flashing CM10 as well - he was also on JB - ugh!!!!!

jackryan57 said:
No, I had JB not ICS - I tried moving it to the root as well and still not working. My buddy also noticed the change in his file structure upon flashing CM10 as well - he was also on JB - ugh!!!!!
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Mind if I ask why you need that backup? Anything went wrong in the flash?

BWolf56 said:
Mind if I ask why you need that backup? Anything went wrong in the flash?
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Haha - no everything went ok, but if I want to go back to stock and the way my phone was set up before - I can't. I'm so anal that just knowing I can't restore to the way I was is enough to keep me up at night haha. I love CM10 but just knowing I can't restore is enough to make me blow out my phone and install stock rom and start over - it's not easy being me

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Haha - no everything went ok, but if I want to go back to stock and the way my phone was set up before - I can't. I'm so anal that just knowing I can't restore to the way I was is enough to keep me up at night haha. I love CM10 but just knowing I can't restore is enough to make me blow out my phone and install stock rom and start over - it's not easy being me
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If you never need to go back to stock, just use Odin
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Yeah but then all my screens and folders aren't set up the way I like

jackryan57 said:
Yeah but then all my screens and folders aren't set up the way I like
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Get Titanium Backup and all will be well again

BWolf56 said:
Get Titanium Backup and all will be well again
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UGH!!!! Not if I cant restore!!!!!!!

jackryan57 said:
UGH!!!! Not if I cant restore!!!!!!!
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lol That old restore is no good to you. Tibu is independant so as long as you don't wipe you SD, you can restore, whatever you flash. So here's my suggestion, make it the way you like it (I'm sure you'll spend all the time in the world doing it I'm the same way lol) and make one good backup. Keep it up to date when you make changes (especially your launcher) and w/e you decide to flash afterwards, you'll only have to restore your TiBu backup.

TWRP Backup Can't Be Deleted

I was backing up the Rom I'm using. Jedi X11 (I back up every 4 weeks) when during the process it says "back up failed".
Something to do with the MD5.
Now in the back ups folder I got this weird folder that I can't delete. I activated the necessary permissions and it says delete failed.
The contents also can't be deleted.
Any idea on how I can delete them?
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I see your using root explorer.
Select the file you want to delete with a long press, not a tap.
Press and hold down the selected file until another Window pops up and gives you the option to delete it.

Yeah I got through to that but it just says "delete failed".
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Thugnificent69 said:
Yeah I got through to that but it just says "delete failed".
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Your ext sdcard might be failing. Same thing happened to me. Get your stuff off the card just in case. Go back in recovery and go to settings or advanced and select use internal sdcard for now.
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Try mounting it on a laptop and delete
Carbon 1.5 | Kroz Hue Brown Theme | Crack Flasher

RonnieRuff said:
Try mounting it on a laptop and delete
Carbon 1.5 | Kroz Hue Brown Theme | Crack Flasher
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I'll try that right now.
If that fails, formatting wouldn't be a bad idea right?
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See attached pic for help
This method never fails, if it fails in an app.
Boot to twrp and use the terminal in there
Also because there is a funky character in the name. You may need to just delete the backup folder. .. Since I don't see any other files in there if shouldn't be an issue

runandhide05 said:
See attached pic for help
This method never fails, if it fails in an app.
Boot to twrp and use the terminal in there
Also because there is a funky character in the name. You may need to just delete the backup folder. .. Since I don't see any other files in there if shouldn't be an issue
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I'll give that a try.
I also wasn't able to delete the back up folder or the main TWRP folder.
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Did a search and this was the closest thread I could find..
I'm already rooted on my SGH-T889, How do I go about find TWRP & its install instruction? A point in the right direction or better yet a link would be greatly appreciated for this new to Note 2 user. Just got it Today! Thanks in advance!!

tb21666 said:
I'm already rooted on my SGH-T889, How do I go about find TWRP & its install instruction? A point in the right direction or better yet a link would be greatly appreciated for this new to Note 2 user. Just got it Today! Thanks in advance!!
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Download goo.im from the play store. It will DL and flash it.
Carbon Nightly | Kroz Hue Theme | Crack Flasher

RonnieRuff said:
Download goo.im from the play store. It will DL and flash it.
Carbon Nightly | Kroz Hue Theme | Crack Flasher
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tb21666 said:
I'm already rooted on my SGH-T889, How do I go about find TWRP & its install instruction? A point in the right direction or better yet a link would be greatly appreciated for this new to Note 2 user. Just got it Today! Thanks in advance!!
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Disregard that. Thought I was in the vzw note 2 thread

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tb21666 said:
I'm already rooted on my SGH-T889, How do I go about find TWRP & its install instruction? A point in the right direction or better yet a link would be greatly appreciated for this new to Note 2 user. Just got it Today! Thanks in advance!!
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UPDATE: did the GooManager install method, but when i reboot to recovery the TWRP touch interface isn't there, just a basic push button recovery with no backup or restore options? do I try again? do I need to remove the initial install first & if so, how? would CWM be a better option on 4.1.2?
UPDATE: after messing with it, and discovering I can't use CWM, I basically just need help on how to completely remove all traces of & the app itself from my phone so I can do a fresh install, just uninstalling it doesn't help. When i reinstall the program it doesn't give me the chance to reinstall the script, like its already there but messed up somehow. phone is still rooted & functions fine. go figure

FIXED!!
tb21666 said:
UPDATE: did the GooManager install method, but when i reboot to recovery the TWRP touch interface isn't there, just a basic push button recovery with no backup or restore options? do I try again? do I need to remove the initial install first & if so, how? would CWM be a better option on 4.1.2?
UPDATE: after messing with it, and discovering I can't use CWM, I basically just need help on how to completely remove all traces of & the app itself from my phone so I can do a fresh install, just uninstalling it doesn't help. When i reinstall the program it doesn't give me the chance to reinstall the script, like its already there but messed up somehow. phone is still rooted & functions fine. go figure
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Figured out that all I had to do was reflash the .tar file of TWRP 2.4.4.0 manually with ODIN & it worked. Didn't reset my device at all. :victory:
Thanks to anyone & everyone who helped & put up with my NOOB to Samsung, ODIN, etc.. Hopefully day 2 with this phone goes a bit more smoothly.
Don't know what I'd do without this site!

As this topic came up top on Google for 'TWRP backup can't be deleted' I thought I would add that I managed to delete the backup by changing to the non touch CWM. I did this with the play store Rom Manager so I did not have to flash from download or Odin :good:

Use Data/Media insted of sdcard/ solved
I just had the same problem, wanted to delete 2 failed TWRP backups from my internal memory, had a good backup on my external, all delete attempts failed.
No need to flash or install anything... I used ES file Explorer.. (any root file Explorer should work).
Changed the path on top to (Data/Media) and browse to your backup, delete successful
Had to reboot to see the new free space back.

Nitrous828 said:
I just had the same problem, wanted to delete 2 failed TWRP backups from my internal memory, had a good backup on my external, all delete attempts failed.
No need to flash or install anything... I used ES file Explorer.. (any root file Explorer should work).
Changed the path on top to (Data/Media) and browse to your backup, delete successful
Had to reboot to see the new free space back.
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THANK YOU!!!

Nitrous828 said:
I just had the same problem, wanted to delete 2 failed TWRP backups from my internal memory, had a good backup on my external, all delete attempts failed.
No need to flash or install anything... I used ES file Explorer.. (any root file Explorer should work).
Changed the path on top to (Data/Media) and browse to your backup, delete successful
Had to reboot to see the new free space back.
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Well done Nitrous828, thank you.

Nitrous828 said:
I just had the same problem, wanted to delete 2 failed TWRP backups from my internal memory, had a good backup on my external, all delete attempts failed.
No need to flash or install anything... I used ES file Explorer.. (any root file Explorer should work).
Changed the path on top to (Data/Media) and browse to your backup, delete successful
Had to reboot to see the new free space back.
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I know this is an old-ish thread - but thank you! Feeling like an idiot.