I've been using the clockwork mod recovery for a while now and been doing the usual backups and stuff when flashing new roms. I notice it does create a very good backup image. I always wondered how exact and precise of a backup is it? Anyone run into odd issues after doing a restore that doesn't appear until they do a restore?
Only had one problem but that was my own fault..I didn't have enough memory on my memory card and kept getting md5 mismatch... Solved that and flashed the backup but my phone got messed up had to flash a fresh rom such a pain... So always have at least 400mb of memory ha
Edit: and I think u should of post this in android general section
Pretty darn exact, haha.
It also seems to get md5 mismatch error if u try to move the file any where. But it solve by zip-ing the backup before u move it tho. Just thought i share somthing i experienced.
Out of curiosity, what's the average time it takes for a full backup? Whenever I do one, it takes me 15 to 20 minutes...and the backup is almost always over 1 gb but that part makes sense due to how much it backs up.
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brsingr said:
Out of curiosity, what's the average time it takes for a full backup? Whenever I do one, it takes me 15 to 20 minutes...and the backup is almost always over 1 gb but that part makes sense due to how much it backs up.
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U already answer that. It depends on how much it backs up. Lol.
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U already answer that. It depends on how much it backs up. Lol.
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Lmao, fail on my part hahah.
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Thanks for your experiences. Good to know! :good:
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My tbolt took like 15-20 minutes. Is this normal on a INC 2?
It's normal for me, also about the same on my og dinc.
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Thats awesome.
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All depends on how much info there is to back up. A freshly flashed rom with little downloaded and cached will require less time to backup to your sd card.
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All depends on how much info there is to back up. A freshly flashed rom with little downloaded and cached will require less time to backup to your sd card.
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Good point was just about to address this before I saw your post. It also has to do with the amount of RAM for the ROM booting up it seems. On the Inc1, I noticed first boot took around the said 10 minute mark, but with the inc2 I've had fresh installed ROMs pop up in less than 5. This phone is great rooted.
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Good point was just about to address this before I saw your post. It also has to do with the amount of RAM for the ROM booting up it seems. On the Inc1, I noticed first boot took around the said 10 minute mark, but with the inc2 I've had fresh installed ROMs pop up in less than 5. This phone is great rooted.
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What? That makes absolutely no sense. You should do some research and read the OP correctly before you spout crap.
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Double post fail.
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What? That makes absolutely no sense. You should do some research and read the OP correctly before you spout crap.
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I love it. If you're going to say I'm spouting crap, how about you defend yourself and explain to me and rest of us how it doesn't make sense instead of being a brat? That's the point of XDA to spread and share. Not to be an ass an demeanor someone.
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Noob Q sorry
I'm no expert, but it just saves your current setup so you can go back to it if you wish or if something goes wrong while doing something to your phone. I've done some restores and that's what happens so yeah. It's the backups and restore options in CWM.
Maybe someone else can give you a more detailed explanation
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459830
There is a entire explnation as to what it is on another post.
It backups every last detail. Really handy, I would suggest you do a lot of these
Awesome thank you
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Keep in mind these backups are pretty large in size, like 3+ gb. I generally keep about 3 backups on my device and have the rest copied on my pc
So I don't know what is going on with my phone.
At one point it said it was complete full, yet I couldn't find the files that were so big that i had filled up 15 GB already.
So I did a factory reset, which work for all of 10 mins. The space I had taken up had been reduced but I still got the message even after rebooting the phone.
I have attached screenshots which I hope further clarifies things.
I'm tempted to try and go back to a stock rooted room but I'm not sure that will even help.
Anyone that can offer any kind of advise would be a god sent.
Ok, so your internal is just about full. Move some stuff to the external SD.
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So I don't know what is going on with my phone.
At one point it said it was complete full, yet I couldn't find the files that were so big that i had filled up 15 GB already.
So I did a factory reset, which work for all of 10 mins. The space I had taken up had been reduced but I still got the message even after rebooting the phone.
I have attached screenshots which I hope further clarifies things.
I'm tempted to try and go back to a stock rooted room but I'm not sure that will even help.
Anyone that can offer any kind of advise would be a god sent.
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I had the same problem. I had to odin back to factory and reroot. That was the only fix I found for it.
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Ok, so your internal is just about full. Move some stuff to the external SD.
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I think he was saying that his cards not really full that there's a problem.. and from the graph of his internal if he was really full, that bar would be fully across not a little piece of it.
Flashing roms can push your sd contents into strange places. I had it happen once.
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I was getting full at one point myself, and I found a utility called Disk Utility to help me find out where all of the storage was going. Turned out it was from downloading nightlies and they get tucked away in some inconspicuous place. This may, or may not be your issue, but it's worth a try. Good luck.
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I was getting full at one point myself, and I found a utility called Disk Utility to help me find out where all of the storage was going. Turned out it was from downloading nightlies and they get tucked away in some inconspicuous place. This may, or may not be your issue, but it's worth a try. Good luck.
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Yeah, that and nandroids are usually the culprits. People don't realize that 1 uncompressed backup can be from 500mb to 1.5GB.
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My TWRP backups are always around 2.2GB lol
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Touchwiz backups usually start at around 750mb because of all the TW bloat. Lol. And I can see easily have 1.5GB of apps+data.
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Is it ok to restore my sprint galaxy s3 16gb rom backup on another sprint galaxy s3 16gb phone. I had to unroot my phone but there is some information I need out off my backup.
Ps just as a side note and future reference is this possible with the 32gb as well. For ex. Does the phones storage make a difference. Restore a backup from a 16gb on a 32gb and vice versa.
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I recommend just to restore apps and data not system apps neither nandroids.
When I switch from my OG Epic to the GS3 I just restore apps and data from Titanium Backup. No issues.
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Yes, this is perfectly OK as long as its the same phone, the internal storage size doesn't make a difference (unless you're restoring 20 gigs of data or something, which is very unlikely)
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Yes, this is perfectly OK as long as its the same phone, the internal storage size doesn't make a difference (unless you're restoring 20 gigs of data or something, which is very unlikely)
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Hey thanks I will try this later. You saved me lots of work and worry.
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Hey thanks I will try this later. You saved me lots of work and worry.
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Yup dont worry. I've gotten a refurbed evo shift tons of times and restored the same nandroids across all of them with no problems. I've even seen people upload their nandroids for others to restore in the hopes of fixing a seemingly random bug
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Hey I want to do the same. Want to restore my ROm to 32 Gb phone. Did it work for you? Someone else posted somewhere that IMEA number became the same. Don't think that could happen.
That cant happen, that info is stored in the NVRAM...
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Hey I want to do the same. Want to restore my ROm to 32 Gb phone. Did it work for you? Someone else posted somewhere that IMEA number became the same. Don't think that could happen.
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Haven't done it yet because im going to do it on my sisters phone and she has needed it. I will see if I cant do it tonight and let you know. I was wondering how the phone number and service would work out in this case. Although in my case all I plain on doing is restoring the nandroid getting some info off and then put her rom backup back on.
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It wont affect anything to do with that as that info is stored in the nvram
You dont lose your number when you flash roms right? same concept when restoring a backup, you're just reflashing a rom thats been modded by you
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It wont affect anything to do with that as that info is stored in the nvram
You dont lose your number when you flash roms right? same concept when restoring a backup, you're just reflashing a rom thats been modded by you
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Hey I like the way your looking at it. Now that totally makes since.
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I have TWRP. I used to use CWM, but ever since getting my G4, that was what was only avail at the time. I really have to complaints on it though...other than the navigation from forlder to folder was easier on CWM.
Cwm is rock solid. Twrp has bugs(backup/restore especially) and lacks dev support.
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Since OUDHS is based off CWM (IIRC), I'll have to say that. For the most part I've used CWM without problems anyway.
If you are using roms bssed off cyanogenmod... I say CWM but if your using TW roms go with TWRP
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Wow. Didn't expect these comments. Here's my 2 cents. I started with cwm on my DX, then got touch cwm, then started to do aosp on all my phones really started with the gnex. Once I got my gnex ran aosp ever since. Have 3 s3,s as well. Twrp all the way. Never had issues and last checked it was faster. But then again. I haven't used cwm in years
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I tried all three on touchwiz and twrp seems to work best for me.
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I prefer TWRP, used to use CWM and it never failed me, so I will not complain, it's a preference. My bigger question would be, how would I move a file in recovery to another recovery if I wanted to have a few recovery options? Example, have the original backup on OUDHS and then switch to TWRP, how do you move that file? Sorry, not trying to hijack, but this thread seems like a good place for this kind of a question.
Had alot issues with twrp restoring nands, I went to cwm on my s3.
Twrp it points to backups that get put into the "0 "partition instead of the way it used to let u restore from external sd...in my opinion the multiple user partitions that now get created in custom recovery since jellbean is a huge headache. .. ive lost plenty of backups.. and no thanks to flashing cm10, downgrading to move all info back to internal storage is a train wreck ... I hate the way it is all set up now ..
Twrp benefit is its touch based and u can name your backups.
Cwm seems better but not as pretty.
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I prefer TWRP, used to use CWM and it never failed me, so I will not complain, it's a preference. My bigger question would be, how would I move a file in recovery to another recovery if I wanted to have a few recovery options? Example, have the original backup on OUDHS and then switch to TWRP, how do you move that file? Sorry, not trying to hijack, but this thread seems like a good place for this kind of a question.
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Anything done from one recovery is not compatible with the other.. for instance as far as I know u can not restore a twrp backup with cwm and vise versa
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Anything done from one recovery is not compatible with the other.. for instance as far as I know u can not restore a twrp backup with cwm and vise versa
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Easiest way, save a backup with each recovery, that way, when the need arises to switch recoveries, you have it saved.
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Easiest way, save a backup with each recovery, that way, when the need arises to switch recoveries, you have it saved.
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That sounds like a lot more work (and space?) than it's worth!
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That sounds like a lot more work (and space?) than it's worth!
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True, but it is an option, and when I needed it (due to a different recovery) I was in a jam, I had to wait til I got to my home computer. I have now uploaded all my recoveries to DropBox. I have a 32gb sd card, so space is of no real problem for me at this time.
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True, but it is an option, and when I needed it (due to a different recovery) I was in a jam, I had to wait til I got to my home computer. I have now uploaded all my recoveries to DropBox. I have a 32gb sd card, so space is of no real problem for me at this time.
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Good point. I've been meaning to sync a bunch of stuff to my dropbox, but with upload speeds of less than 1Mbps, it's easy to procrastinate doing that.
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Good point. I've been meaning to sync a bunch of stuff to my dropbox, but with upload speeds of less than 1Mbps, it's easy to procrastinate doing that.
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Try and edit and change your apn settings to back to hspa+
My thread in general explains how and why ...you may gain a mb or 2 on upload there's no real fix for faster uploads, but u will get huge increase in megabytes on the download side.
I always use wifi for dropbox uploads.
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Try and edit and change your apn settings to back to hspa+
My thread in general explains how and why ...you may gain a mb or 2 on upload there's no real fix for faster uploads, but u will get huge increase in megabytes on the download side.
I always use wifi for dropbox uploads.
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Ohh no, it's nothing to do with my APN settings; it's the area which I live. I'm on AT&T service, and within about a 20 mile radius of my home I'm on EDGEand spotty 3G. My home internet is only 2Mbps down/ .25 up, so that's out too. It's just a case of bad location.
But thanks anyway!
Cwm but at the time twrp was only available. Twrp had crashed several times on my tablet while loading roms. But no issues so far on my phone.
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Ohh no, it's nothing to do with my APN settings; it's the area which I live. I'm on AT&T service, and within about a 20 mile radius of my home I'm on EDGEand spotty 3G. My home internet is only 2Mbps down/ .25 up, so that's out too. It's just a case of bad location.
But thanks anyway!
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So u are on att sim withba Tmo s4? Or att branded s4, just confused why u wasnt in the att forums
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So u are on att sim withba Tmo s4? Or att branded s4, just confused why u wasnt in the att forums
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TMO S4 on AT&T service... I jump around between the two, whatever peaks my interest I read/reply.
I prefer TWRP. I've never had a problem with it, very reliable. In my experience, it is very well supported and updated frequently. Not to say CWM is bad, it always worked for me as well.
TWRP for me!