I made a backup with CWM touch and then put it on my pc. Now I want to restore it, but I don't know exactly where to put it so it will restore as it does not let me select the location. What folder do I need to make where with what name to put the backup in.
Exostenza said:
I made a backup with CWM touch and then put it on my pc. Now I want to restore it, but I don't know exactly where to put it so it will restore as it does not let me select the location. What folder do I need to make where with what name to put the backup in.
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Mine is in
/clockworkmod/backup/
all the folders are there with the backup files inside of them
Wolfbeef123 said:
Mine is in
/clockworkmod/backup/
all the folders are there with the backup files inside of them
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Many thanks
Exostenza said:
Many thanks
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no problem.
glad i could help :laugh:
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Hi There! I would just like to ask if it is possible for me to copy and paste the backup I've done with cwm recovery to my PC and then delete the file from my SD Card? Since it takes up a big chunk of MB on my SD Card (which is 8gb only) I was wondering if it is fine. I'll just restore it to my sd card if I needed it.
Thanks in advance!
Yes you can copy the Backup to your Pc and delete it on your SDcard.
juli9797 said:
Yes you can copy the Backup to your Pc and delete it on your SDcard.
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Thank you sir!
buizon said:
Thank you sir!
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Last noob question sir, can I delete the whole clockworkmod folder or just the sub folder with back up or date for a name/
Thanks!
buizon said:
Last noob question sir, can I delete the whole clockworkmod folder or just the sub folder with back up or date for a name/
Thanks!
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It works either way just remember to put them back in their place as they were.
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I've done that and backed up with no problem
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
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Please don't revive old threads
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Delete Nandroid
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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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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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!
Delete Nandroid backups
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!!
On external_sd\clockworkmod\backup there are folders named by date/time they were created. Can I rename these backup folders so I know what I am restoring before I restore it?
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On external_sd\clockworkmod\backup there are folders named by date/time they were created. Can I rename these backup folders so I know what I am restoring before I restore it?
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Yep, you absolutely can. I rename mine like 'Starburst198r_2010-10-14-11-15-03'. Can't remember the exact date format that cwm uses, but you get the idea. Just don't rename any of the files within that folder. That would mess up the md5 check.
I renamed my backups when I had my evo and none of them would restore
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Yep, you absolutely can. I rename mine like 'Starburst198r_2010-10-14-11-15-03'. Can't remember the exact date format that cwm uses, but you get the idea. Just don't rename any of the files within that folder. That would mess up the md5 check.
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Gotcha, so appending the ROM name (for example) to the front of the folder name is fine. Good to know.
Other question...why is the time stamp so far ahead from my time?
just no spaces
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just no spaces
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Cool. Good to know. Thanks.
Are u sure they will work? I would think it would mess up the md5
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musclehead84 said:
Are u sure they will work? I would think it would mess up the md5
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Where's the md5 generated from?
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Are u sure they will work? I would think it would mess up the md5
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nandroid.md5 doesn't contain the directory name.
I back up with rom manager. It lets you rename the back up before it reboot into recovery and backs up,
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You can definitely rename the files. I do it and have restored from them on multiple occasions. As mentioned above, you just can't have spaces in the name or the md5 check fails. If it starts failing when you rename, it's probably just a naming issue. May not want to try too many symbols (though I've used hyphens and underscores I think).
On a related note, anyone know if you can change the actual folder CWM backs up to? I haven't even looked, so I'm sorry if it's something super obvious.
I have a backup file on my sd card from my old evo. The phones broken so i can't restore the backup. I wanted to pull some files out but I don't know how to go about doing it. I started making an emulated version of the phone but I'm not sure I'll be able to restore the backup in the emulated version. Any help would be great.
Put the file in your new phone and use a program like Nandroid Manager to extract what you need.
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Put the file in your new phone and use a program like Nandroid Manager to extract what you need.
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Great. Thank you.
My phone is GT-N7105 (Samsung Note 2)
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TWRP can't recognize my backup folder name which I am trying to restore
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I had a nandroid backup before, then I copied the backup to PC, still have it. Then I flashed lineage 13. I deleted the nandroid backup on the phone storage. Now I want to restore the backup so I copied the backup files from the PC.
Now when I go to TWRP Restore mode, no backups are found.
I already searched through the internet and found the renaming method but there's a problem:
this is my original backup:
TWRP/backups/42f7491d7b409fc7/2017-03-01--05-28-34_JZO54K.N7105XXDMB
I tried to make a new backup of my current lineage (just to see if the folder name changed based on the new folder the backup process will create), here is what the resulting folder was:
TWRP/backups/42f7491d7b409fc7/2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
As you can see, only the innermost folder name changed. So from what I found through searching, it said to rename the old backup folder to the new backup folder's name, meaning :
I changed
2017-03-01--05-28-34_JZO54K.N7105XXDMB
to
2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
TWRP still can't see the original backup.
So what should I rename the original backup folder for TWRP to recognize it and make it appear?
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I already updated my TWRP but problem still exists.
Create a new backup with your current rom, then remove it and add the old one instead.
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Create a new backup with your current rom, then remove it and add the old one instead.
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Sorry not really a developer type of guy and I regret tinkering with these stuff on my phone.
What you meant was to make a backup with current rom just to get the folder name that TWRP will recognize and then swap the old stock backup into the folder?
If I just rename the stock backup folder name to 2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c it's the same as what you said right?
and it should still run smoothly (stock rom should be restored without errors)?
Sorry just asking out of caution.
It's ok, we're all helping each others here. And we all had lots of mistakes and we still do.
Anyways, yes renaming it could do the trick but you don't need to rename the backup name directly. Instead, you need to rename the folder containing the backup.
TWRP path is going to be similar to that
/TWRP/BACKUPS/4d00475b004150de/2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c
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All you need to get is that folder name "4d00475b004150de" because it's auto generated by twrp, that's why I asked you to create another backup even if you just backed up your boot file to generate the folder.
Once you did the backup you can then move your old backup to that folder or rename that old similar folder to the newly created one (not the rom backup folder itself).
sgn15 said:
Sorry not really a developer type of guy and I regret tinkering with these stuff on my phone.
What you meant was to make a backup with current rom just to get the folder name that TWRP will recognize and then swap the old stock backup into the folder?
If I just rename the stock backup folder name to 2017-07-05--09-27-29_lineage_tOlte-userdebug_6.0.1_MOB31K_ab972c it's the same as what you said right?
and it should still run smoothly (stock rom should be restored without errors)?
Sorry just asking out of caution.
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futchy4u said:
It's ok, we're all helping each others here. And we all had lots of mistakes and we still do.
Anyways, yes renaming it could do the trick but you don't need to rename the backup name directly. Instead, you need to rename the folder containing the backup.
TWRP path is going to be similar to that
All you need to get is that folder name "4d00475b004150de" because it's auto generated by twrp, that's why I asked you to create another backup even if you just backed up your boot file to generate the folder.
Once you did the backup you can then move your old backup to that folder or rename that old similar folder to the newly created one (not the rom backup folder itself).
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Oh, the folder name code you're referring to was 42f7491d7b409fc7 for me. Thanks. I tried it and everything worked (done restoring and it looks like everything is working so far). Thanks a lot again!
To moderators, this topic's problem is solved. Not sure if the topic needs to be locked after being solved, but yeah just a heads up. Not very active here.
Cheers.
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Oh, the folder name code you're referring to was 42f7491d7b409fc7 for me. Thanks. I tried it and everything worked (done restoring and it looks like everything is working so far). Thanks a lot again!
To moderators, this topic's problem is solved. Not sure if the topic needs to be locked after being solved, but yeah just a heads up. Not very active here.
Cheers.
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You're welcome. I think it's ok to be left here so that it could help others.