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Alternatives to Clockwork recovery

i have used clockwork recovery for a while. But is is old with not much development. is there a alternative that is better with all the functionality and more.

Clockwork mod has set the standard for custom recoveries I wouldn't suggest deviating from it. But if you dont care you can try TWRP its not bad, you can theme it and its touch like Cwm
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Not much development..? There's only so much recovery can do.
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TWRP
That's what I use.
Hoping Maxx brings 4EXT Touch to GNexus eventually. Loved it on my N1.
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lol wow...
Its like asking for a Windows Recycle bin with more functionality... Since its been the same since Windows 95 lol

mellll said:
lol wow...
Its like asking for a Windows Recycle bin with more functionality... Since its been the same since Windows 95 lol
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HAHA I LMAO'd

Might happen with windows 8. They are messing with everything else why stop with the recycle bin lol.
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I'll second TWRP
when playing around with different roms and kernels, it's layout just seems more logical and natural. Didn't have any problems so far with wiping and installing stuff (that wipe cache/dalvik button after install is really handy)
Hope they continue to develop

I also use twrp. Best recovery overall IMO.
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joshnichols189 said:
Not much development..? There's only so much recovery can do.
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clockwork never restores my nandroid backups. it always errors out near the end of the restore. even with a wiped phone and a fresh root and rom. liquid rom

swogg said:
clockwork never restores my nandroid backups. it always errors out near the end of the restore. even with a wiped phone and a fresh root and rom. liquid rom
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Sounds like bad nand memory not a recovery... I could be wrong though. Or your partitions are corrupt.
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ÜBER™ said:
Sounds like bad nand memory not a recovery... I could be wrong though. Or your partitions are corrupt.
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how do you fix a bad nand memory?, or fix the partition?
clockwork finds the nand backup fine and starts the restore process. restores system fine, secure fine, but errors out while restoring data

swogg said:
how do you fix a bad nand memory?, or fix the partition?
clockwork finds the nand backup fine and starts the restore process. restores system fine, secure fine, but errors out while restoring data
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You dont... means busted phone... like i said i could be wrong. Do you have enough space for the nandroid? you need about 2gigs for it to back up properly depending on how much /data you have... like how many apps you have... i have roughly 30-40 and my nandroids are around 800mbs... otherwise yes it will error.

ÜBER™ said:
Clockwork mod has set the standard for custom recoveries I wouldn't suggest deviating from it. But if you dont care you can try TWRP its not bad, you can theme it and its touch like Cwm
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that's crazy to think about. I remember when Koush made it for the D1 just so we could flash CM because SPR used a different format. Thinking back, that guy did a LOT in a short amount of time

uoY_redruM said:
TWRP
That's what I use.
Hoping Maxx brings 4EXT Touch to GNexus eventually. Loved it on my N1.
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+1 on this. I had just started using 4EXT on my Evo 3d, it was great. I think Clockwork mod is great as well but I prefer 4EXT and TWRP's user interface. I would use TWRP but it seems a lot of mods I wanna flash can't be done with it.
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I really liked AmonRA's recovery when I was on the Dream. I was sad when I had to switch to CM. But, now I'm cool with it.
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I've gone back to cm touch after using TWRP for a while.
TWRP is great, and I did like the ability to queue zips, but I had trouble with nandroids and with rom manager integration. Basically, I would hit apply in rom manager, and my phone would boot to the menu in TWRP instead of flashing the rom. Ultimately, nothing beats the ease of being able to hit a button in Android, and have the phone reboot and automatically install your updates. (On the other hand, if someone can tell me how to integrate TWRP with rom manager, that'd be awesome...)
With nandroids, the process took about 3 seconds and the files weren't nearly big enough, so I guess it was missing something.

team win recovery project - awesome & advanced recovery!

m.is.for.michael said:
I've gone back to cm touch after using TWRP for a while.
TWRP is great, and I did like the ability to queue zips, but I had trouble with nandroids and with rom manager integration. Basically, I would hit apply in rom manager, and my phone would boot to the menu in TWRP instead of flashing the rom. Ultimately, nothing beats the ease of being able to hit a button in Android, and have the phone reboot and automatically install your updates. (On the other hand, if someone can tell me how to integrate TWRP with rom manager, that'd be awesome...)
With nandroids, the process took about 3 seconds and the files weren't nearly big enough, so I guess it was missing something.
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It's called learn to do the process yourself and not use rom manager...I have not had it on my phone since the evo it has never really worked on a Samsung phone and koush never wanted to fix it...
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Well thanks: I know how to do it myself, but rom manager and CWM is heaps more convenient and works fine for me on my gnex
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Though somebody helpfully just suggested on another thread that I should try goo manager instead of ROM manager. I might give that a go.

CWM vs TWRP

CWM v6.0.0.0
http://plus.google.com/u/0/103583939320326217147/posts/cPF6gkmpM9m
koush said:
The recovery builder is now building version 6 of the recovery. The main changes are as follows:
Backups are much faster. 4-5x faster. (Bug fix due to excessive status updates of the UI and new backup technique)
Incremental backups are smaller. Way way smaller. Only 15-20MB each for each additional backup of a ROM. This is done using a new tool I wrote to dedupe the files between incremental backups to eliminate duplicates.
Here's a test build for maguro (Galaxy Nexus GSM):
http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/maguro-test-recovery.img
And the builder site:
http://builder.clockworkmod.com
Still in alpha, please test.
Update: Here's the touch version as well:
http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/maguro-touch-test-recovery.img
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Team Win Recovery Project
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592689
http://www.teamw.in/
http://goo.im/devs/OpenRecovery
ClockworkMod Recovery
http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/
http://download.clockworkmod.com/test/
Custom Recovery - The first prerequisite for our jollification! Which do you think is better?
Edit : flashable zip in the existing recovery (GSM)
CWM_maguro_v6.0.0.0.test_touch.zip
TWRP_maguro_V2.2.0b1.zip

Clockworkmod.
I miss the clockworkmod-based 4EXT Recovery (for the Nexus One, amongst others), though.

I preferred the polished look and feel of TWRP, but alas when I boot into recovery it would be gone. Im not sure what's going on there.
CWM so far hasn't given me any problems, and now I have several nandroids using the recovery, so Ill probably stick with this version.
I wont say neither is better. As long as they are functional its all a matter of preference.

CWM > TWRP tried the latter didn't like it as its pretty limited when I had it. Couldn't flash Zephyr Keys and the like. Still loving the original.
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I really liked CMWR, i have used it almost in every Android phone i've had but TWRP is way to go now. Extremely fast backups, touch-friendly UI and most importantly - you can give names to your backups right from recovery which i find very useful.

daskalos.healing said:
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Edit : flashable zip in the existing recovery
CWM_maguro_v6.0.0.0.test_touch.zip
TWRP_maguro_V2.2.0b1.zip
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TWRP faster and more convenient than CWM

the title said "vs" but nothing is compared...
anyway, im using touch cwm, as long as it's not broken, not going to change to other recovery. im scared of bricking it haha

I was SO confused. I've been using CWM Recovery since 2008... but the same backup states with each recovery resulted in 1200mb file size with CWM and about 700mb with TWRP using compression. Still sorta prefer CWM's looks, but that could just be because I'm used to it after so long.

uansari1 said:
I was SO confused. I've been using CWM Recovery since 2008... but the same backup states with each recovery resulted in 1200mb file size with CWM and about 700mb with TWRP using compression. Still sorta prefer CWM's looks, but that could just be because I'm used to it after so long.
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cwm recovery wasnt around in 2008, and almost everyone was using Amon_RA recovery in 2009(almost all android recoveries are based off Amon_RA recovery, including cwm btw).

simms22 said:
cwm recovery wasnt around in 2008, and almost everyone was using Amon_RA recovery in 2009(almost all android recoveries are based off Amon_RA recovery, including cwm btw).
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Wow, you're right! I WAS using Amon_RA on the G1..I guess I switched to CWM on the N1. They looked the same if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway, my point is I've been using that basic format all these years, so I likely need time to get used to a whole new look..
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uansari1 said:
Wow, you're right! I WAS using Amon_RA on the G1..I guess I switched to CWM on the N1. They looked the same if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway, my point is I've been using that basic format all these years, so I likely need time to get used to a whole new look..
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they did look the same. CWM was based on amon_ra.
i think the first CWM was only a slightly tweaked version of amon_ra

Zepius said:
they did look the same. CWM was based on amon_ra.
i think the first CWM was only a slightly tweaked version of amon_ra
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I do recall that as well.
So does anyone have a technical summary of the disadvantages of one vs the other?
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uansari1 said:
Wow, you're right! I WAS using Amon_RA on the G1..I guess I switched to CWM on the N1. They looked the same if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway, my point is I've been using that basic format all these years, so I likely need time to get used to a whole new look..
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Zepius said:
they did look the same. CWM was based on amon_ra.
i think the first CWM was only a slightly tweaked version of amon_ra
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yup. cwm was a tweaked amon ra recovery. speaking off, ive been trying to talk amon ra into making a new ns and gnex recovery(since he has both phones), but hes pretty solid solid about being retired from recovery work. at least we have a great base that these new recoveries can use to grow from.

TWRP. Keyboard in recovery, file manager, terminal emulator, zip queueing, back up partitions larger than 2GB, more convenient intuitive layout, battery percentage in recovery and time in recovery. And probably a few other things I'm missing. TWRP.

jesusice said:
TWRP. Keyboard in recovery, file manager, terminal emulator, zip queueing, back up partitions larger than 2GB, more convenient intuitive layout, battery percentage in recovery and time in recovery. And probably a few other things I'm missing. TWRP.
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dimension of the backup introduced by cwm is a big change what about twrp backup dimension?

spupuz said:
dimension of the backup introduced by cwm is a big change what about twrp backup dimension?
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Can you elaborate? What is the question?

jesusice said:
Can you elaborate? What is the question?
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i mean the cwm backup size is around 16/20mb bucause there a share "blob" dir for all the backups that contain the redundant data, what's the dimension of the twrp backup?

spupuz said:
i mean the cwm backup size is around 16/20mb bucause there a share "blob" dir for all the backups that contain the redundant data, what's the dimension of the twrp backup?
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I believe you're speaking of differential backups, where only updated data is backed up and a centralized backup is used as a base.
I don't believe differential backups are supported by TWRP, but it is on their to-do list. So at this point, every backup is a full backup.

Cilraaz said:
I believe you're speaking of differential backups, where only updated data is backed up and a centralized backup is used as a base.
I don't believe differential backups are supported by TWRP, but it is on their to-do list. So at this point, every backup is a full backup.
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yeah sorry for my bad english that was the point

Cilraaz said:
I believe you're speaking of differential backups, where only updated data is backed up and a centralized backup is used as a base.
I don't believe differential backups are supported by TWRP, but it is on their to-do list. So at this point, every backup is a full backup.
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I haven't used new CWM yet, how is it? Incremental backups sound cool but makes me worry that there's more things that could go wrong. Since I've got a 32GB Gnex I'm not really concerned about size though.

TWRP vs. CWM recovery

I'm just curious what the general consensus is out there between these two recovery modules. I've always used cwm rec until recently when I couldn't test flash ANY cm10 jb roms. I had to install twrp in order to flash them and it worked right away. It nice to have touchscreen controls but newer cwm's have that now too so I guess I just want to be sure I'm not losing anything or missing out on anything by leaving cwm rec for twrp .. and many say to switch anyways but what is the general feeling out there and what are you others using?
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TWRP to me just has a better layout and mor responsive touch UI.. Havent had any problems with it so far not being able to flash or anything so...

+1 TWRP is overall smoother and easier to use IMO, and 0 issues so far flashing anything or restoring backups.

I've used CWM since it was available for the Samsung Captivate. Great program. I'm now using TWRP, and I like it better. It appears to be faster, quicker backups and allows for more options. TWRP feels more responsive than Touch CWM (and I paid for that program).
Two points to consider. Backups for each program are only able to be restored by that program. Meaning, you can't restore a CWM backup using TWRP and you can't restore a TWRP backup using CWM.
If you use TWRP v2.2.1, the INTERNAL SD card mount point is \data\media instead of extSdCard. That's really confusing for CWM users and really annoying general.
You can flash recovery zips in both CWM or TWRP.. I flash my .zips from the external card now that I'm using TWRP.....
Both great programs....:good:

My favorite part about TWRP is that you can enable compression on nandroid backups.
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cellgeek said:
I've used CWM since it was available for the Samsung Captivate. Great program. I'm now using TWRP, and I like it better. It appears to be faster, quicker backups and allows for more options. TWRP feels more responsive than Touch CWM (and I paid for that program).
Two points to consider. Backups for each program are only able to be restored by that program. Meaning, you can't restore a CWM backup using TWRP and you can't restore a TWRP backup using CWM.
If you use TWRP v2.2.1, the INTERNAL SD card mount point is \data\media instead of extSdCard. That's really confusing for CWM users and really annoying general.
You can flash recovery zips in both CWM or TWRP.. I flash my .zips from the external card now that I'm using TWRP.....
Both great programs....:good:
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Yep, I too had been using cwm since my first Captivate...and have always enjoyed it but have also recently switched to TWRP and find it to be better and plan to use it now.as.my only recovery.
It is unfortunate but true that u can't restore backups from the others program so all.my old.cwm nandroid backups are basically useless now unless I reinstall cwm but that's OK moving forward I guess.
I too was a bit confused by the internal.SD card file.system location in data/media and still.don't understand it but as long as u know then its OK. So far it sounds like twrp is the future of recovery and more and more people are switching...and the touch function and extra options.are.nice.features.
The bottom line is as long as I am not missing out on something or losing some important functionality then I'm fine with the switch from cwm and.will.stay with TWRP but will never deny the popularity and usefulness of cwm and how it got me going in the whole.game of flashing and.mod'ing phones.

TWRP is by far the best recovery I have ever used. I couldn't imagine life without it now.

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TWRP is by far the best recovery I have ever used. I couldn't imagine life without it now.
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I totally agree. I was using CWM on my Thrill and didn't get a chance to use TWRP till I got my Fire. Now I will only use TWRP. CWM is an excellent recovery but I like the features of TWRP better.
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a lot of the rooting/recovery guides are suggesting to use clockwork recovery, is that just because twrp wasn't really supported back then? any issues noticed with using twrp on the sgs3?

as with all programs there is no "best" just personal preference: try one, then the other and settle on that which suits yoiur phone and needs "the best"
I tried TWRP and went back to CWM -- many others, obviously, tried and preferred TWRP

TWRP is easier & more efficient to use. Bar none.
But with that said, IMO CWM is still the better recovery for some situations. First, there is more support for CWM still.
Second, if you use a ROM's built in functionality to update itself (like AOKP has), then that requires CWM as far as I can tell.
Also keep in mind that it's easier to screw up on TWRP because it is touch-based. I've accidentally pressed buttons without meaning to. It's only a matter of time before that gets me into trouble.
I just wish CWM would remove the thousand "no" that you have to sort through before getting to a "yes". And I wish they would update it more often.
I did pay for my ClockworkMOD, btw.

hey guys please give me tips on the twrp
i gave up on cwm i couldn't install cm10 on my galaxy s3 i747m ROGERS (at&t)
so can someone walk me through the twrp way of flashing cm10 rom
pleaaaaaaasee
cheers

totti107 said:
hey guys please give me tips on the twrp
i gave up on cwm i couldn't install cm10 on my galaxy s3 i747m ROGERS (at&t)
so can someone walk me through the twrp way of flashing cm10 rom
pleaaaaaaasee
cheers
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Exactly the same as cwm. Except all wiping option are put together in the wipe menu, you can select multiple file to flash on after another and fix permissions is in the advanced menu.
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CZ Eddie said:
TWRP is easier & more efficient to use. Bar none.
But with that said, IMO CWM is still the better recovery for some situations. First, there is more support for CWM still.
Second, if you use a ROM's built in functionality to update itself (like AOKP has), then that requires CWM as far as I can tell.
Also keep in mind that it's easier to screw up on TWRP because it is touch-based. I've accidentally pressed buttons without meaning to. It's only a matter of time before that gets me into trouble.
I just wish CWM would remove the thousand "no" that you have to sort through before getting to a "yes". And I wish they would update it more often.
I did pay for my ClockworkMOD, btw.
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I use the touch version of cwm and am very thankful for the thousands no's, help mitigate those "oh crap" moments that touch screen introduces.
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CZ Eddie said:
TWRP is easier & more efficient to use. Bar none.
But with that said, IMO CWM is still the better recovery for some situations. First, there is more support for CWM still.
Second, if you use a ROM's built in functionality to update itself (like AOKP has), then that requires CWM as far as I can tell.
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Task and ktoonzes aokp ota updater now works with the newest twrp.

TWRP. I like its layout, and love that I can build a stack of .zips to flash. (Not sure if CWM has that feature, won't be causing me to switch over to it.)

Encrytion and backups!
The most impressive feature of TWRP hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet.. TWRP supports flashing ROM's on devices that have been fully encrypted !
Also, it allows for backup and restore of ROMs on encrypted devices that neither CWM nor CWM Touch support.

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[Q] Which one is the BEST custom recovery TWRP vs CWM

Hello! Which one is better / more feature rich / YOUR favorite ?? And why?

Twrp... Search this and other threads... Been a long debated and posted about topic b4.....
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Twrp too. Love how fast make nands. Plus themeable.
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Twrp. Its got every thing you want in a recovery
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TWRP
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I like twrp but I feel more secure with cwm for some reason
Also twrp doesn't pickup my cwm nandroids
It might not be a bug idk
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twrp without a doubt.

I always ran cwm on my other phones so when I bought this one I went straight to cwm. Then I heard about twrp and tried it out. I will never go back. Twrp now the only recovery I will flash.
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Thanks so much for all the replies! I've rooted several GS3 for friends and coworkers and left CWM since they wont ever go in and use it anyways (they all wanted the free hotspot lol) but I finally made the jump back to android since I got an iPhone 4s when it came out for Sprint and followed your advise to use TWRP recovery. Hopefully it will not be a problem if I decide to start messing around with Cyanogen based ROMs for the GS3.

TWRP
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CWM
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TWRP no question

eurominican said:
Thanks so much for all the replies! I've rooted several GS3 for friends and coworkers and left CWM since they wont ever go in and use it anyways (they all wanted the free hotspot lol) but I finally made the jump back to android since I got an iPhone 4s when it came out for Sprint and followed your advise to use TWRP recovery. Hopefully it will not be a problem if I decide to start messing around with Cyanogen based ROMs for the GS3.
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I used to be on CM or any other AOSP ROMs while using a themed TWRP v2.2.2.0 and had no issues
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TWRP
the latest CWM Version included in GNT 9.2 keeps crashing during Backup - the Backup file is about 20MB in size.
won't trust CWM anymore...

I never understood this question. Best for what? Flashing zips every once in a while? They both do that. What do you want your recovery to do that one or the other do not do? Try them both and see which one appeals to your sense of what's best.

where can one find twrp?

TrusterX said:
TWRP
the latest CWM Version included in GNT 9.2 keeps crashing during Backup - the Backup file is about 20MB in size.
won't trust CWM anymore...
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Did you delete .android_secure from internal sd? I had problems till I did that. Also:
QUESTION: Why are the backups size soo small now compared to the previous cwm backups?
ANSWER: Basically on the new cwm all the data is stored in a blobs folder in the clockworkmod folder. The backups folder now doesnt hold the actual data and instead the system and data files contain links to the files in the blobs folder (with the hash of the file as its filename). When you perform another backup only the changes have to be added so it performs incremental backups instead of full backups everytime. You can still flash different roms and back them up as any new data is stored in the blobs folder with the links in the backup folder. Several backups can share the same blobs file so over several backups the total file size of all the backups will be much much smaller. When you delete a backup via cwm you can then free space of the blob files that are no longer needed to keep everything tidy and make sure that no files are stored that arent referenced to any backup. If you don't free the space then any unused files will automatically be deleted when the next backup is performed.
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eurominican said:
Hello! Which one is better / more feature rich / YOUR favorite ?? And why?[/QU
I have to say TWPE i WAS ON CWM BUT TWP GIVE SO MUCH MORE IN RECOVERY
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I prefer CWM, just because I'm used to it...

TWRP

TWRP Problem!

Hi, So when I tried to open up twrp recovery, it wouldnt open....it would just stay at the logo and blink every now.and then....So I used oden and installed cwm over twrp and it was fine....I didnt like cwm so I went back to twrp..... it works fine and I can do everything EXCEPT some files are inaccessible and every time I flash something,it works but also gives me the error measages in the image I posted... does anyone know how to fix this?
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razzack3000 said:
Hi, So when I tried to open up twrp recovery, it wouldnt open....it would just stay at the logo and blink every now.and then....So I used oden and installed cwm over twrp and it was fine....I didnt like cwm so I went back to twrp..... it works fine and I can do everything EXCEPT some files are inaccessible and every time I flash something,it works but also gives me the error measages in the image I posted... does anyone know how to fix this.
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Maybe try installing twrp from goo manager while connected to WiFi to ensure a good download
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I had the same exact problem a couple days ago. I fixed it by going Into goo manager and re flashing a new TWRP. I did it on Mobile Data, worked fine!
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Go back to 2.3.3.0. Search for the flashables ones. Since 2.4.2.1 TWRP have a lot of issues.
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I see a lot of people complaining about TWRP related issues with various versions of this recovery.
Is there any reason people don't talk about CWM around here? I've been using different versions of cwm touch and twrp ... And I'm honestly pretty happy with cwm.
Why does it appear that people avoid talking about cwm? ... If indeed it works as well as it seems to me that it does?

One reason is that a lot of people think it's better and recommend it to others. I used cwm on my old evo and was going to when I got my s3, but most people and roms were recommending twrp. I've been using it and have tried out cwm as well. For me, at least it hasn't been problematic, but I don't download them through the goo manager. As I feel like I have less control over what I'm getting (I don't even know what version I'm getting until after I download it). That, and I just don't trust the phone to download without errors even when on Wi-Fi.
Just my two cents.
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I just actually switched to cwm a couple days ago because twrp had been giving me backup and restore problems.. everything twrp can do cwm does also, and it seems to be faster backing up and restoring also, but that might just be placebo... devs recommend twrp because that is what their Rom/kernel/mod was tested with... 99% of the time cwm will work just fine also
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It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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razzack3000 said:
It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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Actually, having used both, I think TWRP had been the better of the two because of the ease of naming your nandroids and the fact that backups in TWRP don't take up so much space as the CWM backups do. Have you seem the crazy Blobs folder in CWM? I like backing stuff up to the PC, but the CWM backups made that process extremely painful. I don't know what happened to make TWRP so unreliable recently, but I just noticed a newer version is out: 2.5.0.0
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DurhamHusker said:
I see a lot of people complaining about TWRP related issues with various versions of this recovery.
Is there any reason people don't talk about CWM around here? I've been using different versions of cwm touch and twrp ... And I'm honestly pretty happy with cwm.
Why does it appear that people avoid talking about cwm? ... If indeed it works as well as it seems to me that it does?
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There's nothing bad about CWM, but is 2013 and you can't rename your nands which is very important(not necesary) in a phone which date as 1970. Also the touch version looks like a '90 recovery.
But if you want a issues free TWRP go back to 2.3.3.0.
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I did that... Now it only recognizes my ext sd card and the 0 folder in my internal storage that I clear out a while ago
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topherk said:
One reason is that a lot of people think it's better and recommend it to others. I used cwm on my old evo and was going to when I got my s3, but most people and roms were recommending twrp. I've been using it and have tried out cwm as well. For me, at least it hasn't been problematic, but I don't download them through the goo manager. As I feel like I have less control over what I'm getting (I don't even know what version I'm getting until after I download it). That, and I just don't trust the phone to download without errors even when on Wi-Fi.
Just my two cents.
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If you update from goo manager, a pop up will tell you what version you are about to install beforehand. Also the webpage that it takes you to in order to start the auto download also states the name of the .IMG which also indicates version. I know what you mean about trusting downloads from the phone though. I personally think that is the reason a lot of people have issues with twrp. I've always updated to the latest twrp and flash almost daily, but have never had to switch versions because of bugs. All versions have ran perfect for me.
razzack3000 said:
It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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I've used both for quite a while. I used to only use cwm for the longest but decided to try out twrp because of those ridiculous blobs! What's with that? So I decided to try twrp and I've stayed because of all the little features like a warnings before you wipe things you shouldn't, option to flash more than one zip at once, option to clear cache and dalvik right after flashing, etc... Plus there are some pretty major features that get overlooked. Like the built in file browser. I installed miui once and it created a folder I could not delete and keep deleted. Every time I would reboot, it would come back. Twrp file browser deleted it and kept it deleted. The only thing I don't like about twrp is the system date and time being way off.
Edit: Lol. I've edited like 5 times because I keep wanting to add more info. Also, twrp doesn't take ages to fix permissions. As long as cwm takes, I can just do it manually
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I've been on 2.4.0 and 2.4.4, and only had to do backups but haven't tried to restore yet, so after hearing all the war stories, I went back to 2.3.1.

UPDATE: I just upgraded from 2.3.1 to 2.5.0, performed wipes, a backup and a restore and all went perfectly smooth. The only issue was the time was 2 hours behind what it should have been for US central, so I selected 2 hours ahead and chose military time (my preference) and I'm happy.

Where did you get 2.5.5?i only found 2.5.0
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oops, I mean't 2.5.0