quick question... i have about 8 nandroid backups on my phone.. problem is they are all named by date and i have no idea what is what... what i want to do is just delete them all and make 1 main nandroid back up of stock el29..blah blah... but i cant see where i can delete all the other backups... anyone know of a app or dir. where i should look and delete!?
thanks in advance!... muchas gracias por todo!
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Mine were on the SD card in the Clockwork folder or something very close to that.
Just use es file explorere and delete
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should be external sd card / Clockworkmod / backups. in that folder is all the back ups you have created. you can also rename them as well.
i usually rename mine then copy them to my laptop, then cannot get myself to delete them, i am up to 50.1 gb of nandriods right now
As stated above they should be on your external sd, under clock work mod folder.
I love the 50 gigs worth of nandroids. Lol, it's like once you start chronically flashing roms, you get especially careful of not losing things. I had about 10 before I wiped useless nandroids. I'll be on the Hoarding show eventually.
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the only reason i haven't had to delete any is because its a work laptop, no porn on it so plenty of room
Mine where in clockwork mod on sd. I have about 7 backups. I recommend that next time you nandroid, go to the folder and rename the backup so you know exactly what it Is. If you go into cw rom manager, you can designate where they are save. Don't recommend using rom manager for anything else but that
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ill go search.. i didnt recall seeing the clockworkmod directory any place.. i used to see it when i would make backups using rom manager. but i made these in recorvery...
let me look.. thank you all for responding
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FOUND IT!!!
Cool, and keep making them in recovery... Rom manager is not your friend lol
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Make sure you look on the external SD
chris-allen said:
quick question... i have about 8 nandroid backups on my phone.. problem is they are all named by date and i have no idea what is what... what i want to do is just delete them all and make 1 main nandroid back up of stock el29..blah blah... but i cant see where i can delete all the other backups... anyone know of a app or dir. where i should look and delete!?
thanks in advance!... muchas gracias por todo!
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Just came across this and thought I'd add some things, some of which were already stated too I guess.
Backups will usually be on the external SD card/clockworkmod/backup then in folders named by international date and time (GMT by the way usually)
OR depending on your recovery it could put it in to a folder 'sdcard' on your external SD card (I've seen that too).
IF you are going to rename your backup folders you should rename 'to the back of the file folder name(s) with no spaces or special characters.
AND if you don't already you should verify you nandroids too. I use the freeware app Android File Verifier from the Play store [ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sa.afv&hl=en ].
Few things are more fustratiing that starting a restore and having it fail - at the end. I too am an image freak on all my machines and always check my backup images.
Oh, and I can't re-iterate this enough DO NOT USE ROM MANAGER!! You will surely end up with an expensive paperweight.
Do some searching and loads of reading and put on a 'safe recovery' for the Android version you are on - GB or ICS and you'll be OK
Good luck.
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I have been a long term lurcker, and have learned a lot from you guys, and appreciate all the wealth of knowledge. My problem is, I have like 8 nandroid backups and they are close to a gig each. My SD card is at 85% and I want to delete the backups I have no use for. Anyone have step by step instructions as I am scared to do a total wipe and end up with stock, or something stupid like that. (noob as u can see). Thanks in advance.
SRF 1.2
Twilightzone 1.1
EC05
Rooted (of course)
Look for a folder called clockworkmod on ur sd, inside u should find one called backup, inside that each folder is a backup, they are named with their date in something like yyyymmddhhmmss
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LOL... I am sooooo dumb!! That was easy as pie!! I'm down to 50% on my SD card in a matter of seconds!! Thanks!!
I'm running Calkulins rom with rom manager installed and I cannot see and recovery images under the manage section. Also, I can't delete the recovery images through Rogue recovery neither. I'm running out of storage! Please help...
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Open your file explorer...go to clockwork mod/backups and delete from there
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And get rid of Rom Manager. It's crap.
I don't have any images in the directory you specified. I use rogue to make the images. Is there another way I can delete the images?
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Are you looking in both the internal storage and on the actual sdcard? (Internal is mounted at sdcard, external mounts at sdcard/external_sd by default -- kinda confusing until you get used to it.)
Get rid of Rom manager ...no real use on our phones. It works well for others just doesn't seem to play nice with the sg2...download a like manager from the market...I like file expert...go to sd card( might say internal sd). Find the clockwork folder...open it....find backups..open it....these r ur backups.
If u put ur backups on ur sdcard it Will be under external sd....then clockwork. Help it helps
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Durrrr! It was in external sd! Thanks so much for the help guys!
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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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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?
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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!
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.
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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.
I am relatively new to this phone but not new to flashing. I was wondering if anyone knows why the phone doesn't find backed up Roms on my internal memory? When I search for the backup (restore from internal storage in clockwork mod) it says directory not found. I can see it (nandroids cm folder) when I go in as if to install a new ROM. When I want to restore a Nandroid there is no directory on the internal storage. Any help would be appreciated
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Well because your on CM which is a 4.2 rom I'm sure and all your internal gets moved to the 0 folder. Your complete root directory was moved there when you went to a 4.2 rom. You have to re direct your app to the correct folder now.
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What app? I tried to use to use ROM manage only to chance location or backup and there was no option. You are absolutely right. That's exactly what it moved to (0 folder). Tried to move folder it back to the internal SD but it didn't work that way. A little help please
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You can't move it as long as you want to stay on that type of rom. If you go back to 4.1.2 rom you can copy everything back and delete the new 0 folder. When I said app I'm referring to whatever your using Titanium backup, or Rom Manager... They have to have a way to redirect where to search for the files.
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Yeah ROM manager has no option for that. I have titanium but I was looking along the lines or when I go into custom recovery and it says directory not found. As if my internal is blank. If I act like in want to install a ROM its all there again. So I'm in liquidsmooth and want to head back to WicSen. Should I install the WicSen rom move the Nandroid (to where) and then try to recover the backup? By the way thanks for all your help on this. Never had this problem before with the s2
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Easiest thing would be to try and copy not move it to the directory that custom recovery is looking for it. The only problem with this is that sometimes the nandroid get corrupted when copying over. In that case you will have to do a fresh flash.
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Yes I have had files go corrupt on previous phones by doing that. Unfortunately, the file the phone does recognize Nandroids in is on my ext SD card and it doesnt have enough room. I guess I will have to just figure something else out. Thanks again
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