I am get this message whenever I plug in my SD card. Whenever I try to format, it just gives the same message. Any idea what this is?
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When you plug it into your phone or computer?
To my phone...
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It looks like your SD card is toast. There is a small chance of recovering some files from it, but I wouldn't get my hopes up just yet. It's time to connect it to your PC and use of the many freeware recovery utilities out there.
Good luck to you and I hope you get your data back. I lost all mine like this recently and it isn't fun
try using this
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/
Thanks kenfly.
Good tip and if you have Titanium Backup Pro it's pretty painless to restore what's missing.
jerryp7 said:
Thanks kenfly.
Good tip and if you have Titanium Backup Pro it's pretty painless to restore what's missing.
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The very same thing just happened to me last night- lost everything.
How is Titanium an option when backups are stored on memory card which is now unreadable?
ScandaLeX said:
The very same thing just happened to me last night- lost everything.
How is Titanium an option when backups are stored on memory card which is now unreadable?
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Sorry - I should have said IF you saved your backup to dropbox or copied the backup to a safe spot on your computer. There is also an option to make an "update.zip" where all your apps+data can go but this might be something that only the Pro version offers.
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So i just went to backup my rom and i noticed that my important backups were gone... It seems like anything that i had actually named got deleted. Any ideas?
I lost my virtuous back up and my backup of my stock rom which i consider to be both very important.
Do you have ROM manager set to do automatic backup, according to a schedule?
Perhaps it overwrites what is in the /clockwork/backup folder....
Maybe you have a backup of the SD card on your PC that contains those old ones?
Periodic SD card backup to PC is a good practice - may not help you in this instance, but the future may not be a gotcha when something goes wonky again...
Yea I now know to backup my SD card from time to time.
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Hi! I am new to making Nadroid backups. Yesterday, I could've swore my /blobs folder was about 3GB. Today, when I made another Nandroid and it was at 6GB.
I'm on the dedup method, so my /blobs folder shouldn't be increasing. I also tried "free unused backup data" and still at 6GB.
Here's my storage usage, attached. Am I in the right ballpark or is something odd here?
P.S. If anyone has a Nandroid backup management system, let me know! I keep jumping between CWM Recovery to make them and then to Android to fix all the things CWM Recovery does wrong (like the date-for-the-file-name; it's not 1970 and the month/day/time are all incorrect) and can't do (like viewing the backups, renaming the backups, uploading the backups to cloud storage).
My blobs folder at one point was at 4gig. I deleted all my backups except for two. Went into cwm and selected free space under backup/restore and brought it down to 1.01gig.
Mind you the only backup I care about (rooted, stock with TW) is 1.8gig but I have that on external and on my computer just in case.
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KorGuy123 said:
My blobs folder at one point was at 4gig. I deleted all my backups except for two. Went into cwm and selected free space under backup/restore and brought it down to 1.01gig.
Mind you the only backup I care about (rooted, stock with TW) is 1.8gig but I have that on external and on my computer just in case.
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Hmmm...that may be it: this new backup required new blobs for whatever reason. Let me figure out a way to restore SystemUI and SecSettings to stock and then maybe delete those early backups...
How much space have you used,by chance, on the internal SD card?
~Ibrahim~
the blobs folder continues to grow with each backup. the only time it would decrease is you delete a backup then clear unused data after booting to recovery.
this blobs folder will drive your media scanner CRAZY.
my suggestion is to boot into recovery, set the backup type to .tar rather than the default .dup. This unfortunately will cause each backup to take up approx 1.5g, but that is an incredible reduction in indvidual files for the media scanner to scan. but, thats what ext sd cards are for
after making this change, if you have .dup backups you want to convert to .tar, you will have to restore each then backup again.
ikjadoon said:
Hmmm...that may be it: this new backup required new blobs for whatever reason. Let me figure out a way to restore SystemUI and SecSettings to stock and then maybe delete those early backups...
How much space have you used,by chance, on the internal SD card?
~Ibrahim~
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I formatted internal when I went to PAC-Man I've done one back since so my internal is fairly empty. (I switched to TWRP recovery and the backups are around 750mbps)
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Russ77 said:
the blobs folder continues to grow with each backup. the only time it would decrease is you delete a backup then clear unused data after booting to recovery.
this blobs folder will drive your media scanner CRAZY.
my suggestion is to boot into recovery, set the backup type to .tar rather than the default .dup. This unfortunately will cause each backup to take up approx 1.5g, but that is an incredible reduction in indvidual files for the media scanner to scan. but, thats what ext sd cards are for
after making this change, if you have .dup backups you want to convert to .tar, you will have to restore each then backup again.
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YES. YES. THAT'S THE OTHER ISSUE! These things are all related! My Media scanner, out of *nowhere*, exploded to 50% battery usage.
Going to *.tar, then. Thank you hugely.
@KorGuy
I may transition to TWRP. CWM is a fine recovery, but it's backup solution isn't up to par. Appreciate the help!
0... I don't make nandroids... use the external sd...
Quasimodem said:
0... I don't make nandroids... use the external sd...
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Wait, so how do you backup? I make Nandroids onto the external SD.
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Wait, so how do you backup? I make Nandroids onto the external SD.
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I don't make backups or use tibu...
Not sent from your phone...
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I don't make backups or use tibu...
Not sent from your phone...
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You're brave. But probably more experienced. I bootloop'd my GS3 after just trying to modify the framework-res.apk and my Nandroid saved me! But, I'm on TWRP now and it looks much better.
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You're brave. But probably more experienced. I bootloop'd my GS3 after just trying to modify the framework-res.apk and my Nandroid saved me! But, I'm on TWRP now and it looks much better.
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I've got everything I need on the SD to fix whatever... not really worried about it...
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To be honest the huge blobs folder you are stuck with using cwm is exactly why I switched to twrp recovery and I was a long time user and big fan of cwm for a long time. But the blobs really screwed that up for me anyway. Twrp works great and is better in my opinion ...
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I'm using cwm 6.0.2.2 touch recovery and it doesn't have none of that blob folder crap
sent from the dark side of the universe....
thatsupnow said:
I'm using cwm 6.0.2.2 touch recovery and it doesn't have none of that blob folder crap
sent from the dark side of the universe....
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I just updated cwm and noticed that the default is now .tar
Good call from Koush, then. They're a good idea, but executed poorly.
But, CWM has problems for me beyond blobs: it mislabels backups without a way to rename in CWM, somehow mismatched the MD5 of my backups (until I renamed them to "backup" ), and doesn't seem to compress backups = all fixed in TWRP.
Battery life is fixed!
I broke the screen on an s3 and just got my new one from Assurion. What is the easiest way to transfer everything from one to the other? Especially sms, pics, etc...
Thanks!
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I broke the screen on an s3 and just got my new one from Assurion. What is the easiest way to transfer everything from one to the other? Especially sms, pics, etc...
Thanks!
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Did you take a Nandroid backup of your phone?
I had the same problem, broke the screen on my first S3, I was able to restore the Nandroid backup I took on the new S3 and it was like nothing changed.
Thanks for following up but it's unrooted. I don't want to root the phones for now.
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Thanks for following up but it's unrooted. I don't want to root the phones for now.
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Sprint store. Or root. Take your pick.
You could move all your files from the internal sdcard to the external... if you have one. And then put the sdcard in the new phone. Pics are on the internal, and prolly your SMS as well.
Sconnie
The most sprint can transfer is contacts I believe anything else you would have to transfer if your data is on your external SD card then u should be fine but as far as SMS you won't transfer those unless u can actually get into the phone and download an SMS backup app or root In my opinion I would just root it will make sure everything transfers
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Contacts SHOULD be backed up to Google. You can check by looking at Google contacts on your computer and see if they are there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync will backup SMS to your gmail in a folder so you can restore them easy.
If you don't have an external SD card to transfer pictures, you can plug your phone up to the computer and get them or use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome to back them up over WiFi.
If you use Apex or Nova launcher you can backup your launcher settings and hone screen layout so that would be an easy restore.
If you want to backup your apps (not the app data) you can use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife.appbackup to copy all of the apks to your SD card which you can then plug up to the computer and transfer them to the new phone for restore.
I think that covers everything. Haha.
Hello,
So I connected my Note 2 to my pc, and noticed that there was a lot of space being taken up by Titanium Backup, so I cut/pasted the files somewhere else, but my computer did not show that any space had been freed up. So then I navigated to the CWM folder, and cut and paste the only backup I have from the phone to my pc, and now on my computer shows it taking up 0 space. But when I look at the folder in the phone itself, it says CWM is taking up 3.15gb. Any help is much appreciated. I've already changed the destination of Titanium back up to my SD card. Below is a link to the screen shot of the space CWM is taking up on my phone.
http://db.tt/0Vc78M8T
Are you taking the entire cwm folder or just the backup folder? Because the is a folder labeled blobs inside the cwm fold er. That's where all the space is taken up.
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Weird, when I right click the whole cwm folder, it says it's taking up no space. Do you know for a way for the backup to go to my sd card instead of the phone drive?
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Weird, when I right click the whole cwm folder, it says it's taking up no space. Do you know for a way for the backup to go to my sd card instead of the phone drive?
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I'm sure under the backup section on cwm there is an option for external. I would check but I use twrp
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I'm sure under the backup section on cwm there is an option for external. I would check but I use twrp
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I think I'm going to flash twrp and then just delete the CWM folder all together from my phone. Thanks for your help!
I had the same exact problem and ended up uninstalling Titanium Backup and Rom Manager and now I'm using Rom Toolbox with TWRP. I was kind of attached to TB and RM (and CWM) since I've been using them for so many years, but RM got wonky and annoying, and I don't even want to talk about when I tried to upgrade to the touch version.
So my S2 is stuck in an infinite reboot loop. I was wondering if there's any possible way for me to retrieve my photos? I saved Gallery in Titanium backup.
My question is: when I log into my account with a different phone and I restore the gallery app with Titanium backup, will my photos be restored too?
First...titanium backup backs up and saves everything on either your sd card or internal storage. So if you sign into a different phone, you wont be able to restore anything you backed up.
Second...pictures are saved in your internal storage. They are files, not data or apps that can be restored.
Now since you're using titanium backup im assuming you are rooted and have a recovery installed. You can try booting into recovery..connect usb cable from phone to computer and mount storage to transfer them onto your computer for safe keeping.
Or if you want to have a fully functional phone again, take a look at this thread.
EDIT: You can use the new jellybean 4.1.2 update instead of the ics version. Just go to the thread and download the odin version.
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First...titanium backup backs up and saves everything on either your sd card or internal storage. So if you sign into a different phone, you wont be able to restore anything you backed up.
Second...pictures are saved in your internal storage. They are files, not data or apps that can be restored.
Now since you're using titanium backup im assuming you are rooted and have a recovery installed. You can try booting into recovery..connect usb cable from phone to computer and mount storage to transfer them onto your computer for safe keeping.
Or if you want to have a fully functional phone again, take a look at this thread.
EDIT: You can use the new jellybean 4.1.2 update instead of the ics version. Just go to the thread and download the odin version.
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Reverting back to stock does not delete your internal storage I believe. I can't turn on my phone at ALL so I can't use adb or anything.
lilsaiful said:
Reverting back to stock does not delete your internal storage I believe. I can't turn on my phone at ALL so I can't use adb or anything.
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*face palm* you said your phone is stuck in bootloop...pull the battery...hold volume up and down and connect USB cable from computer to phone
Did you even read the thread I provided?
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iburnhearts said:
*face palm* you said your phone is stuck in bootloop...pull the battery...hold volume up and down and connect USB cable from computer to phone
Did you even read the thread I provided?
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That's what I meant by turn on my phone. It's just non stop vibrations. I somehow got lucky and managed to get into recovery mode and restore a previous backup. And yes, I read those before you even posted it to me. People have been solving it by different methods but it's all luck. It's a manufacturer's problem.