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[Q] Backup software

Hello all,
I'm sorry if my question was answered in this forum, but I wasn't able to find the answer to be 100% sure.
I used Rezo609's all in one utility, so I unlocked the bootloader, rooted the phone and when doing this, the software made a backup of my phone (it's saved on the SD card).
I use Android 2.3.5. and now I'd like to try Android 4.0 on my WFS.
My question is, when it will not work for me (or I don't like it), can I restore the phone from that backup? I mean my 2.3.5, my apps, contacts, emails etc?
Thank you so much, and again I'm sorry if it was posted somewhere here :angel:

Pribina said:
Hello all,
I'm sorry if my question was answered in this forum, but I wasn't able to find the answer to be 100% sure.
I used Rezo609's all in one utility, so I unlocked the bootloader, rooted the phone and when doing this, the software made a backup of my phone (it's saved on the SD card).
I use Android 2.3.5. and now I'd like to try Android 4.0 on my WFS.
My question is, when it will not work for me (or I don't like it), can I restore the phone from that backup? I mean my 2.3.5, my apps, contacts, emails etc?
Thank you so much, and again I'm sorry if it was posted somewhere here :angel:
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I don't know what backup it made coz i haven't used that utility ever.
But here's another way of being sure.
I suppose you have clockwork Recovery installed already, If you don't, download rom manager from market and do.
Boot into recovery.
>go to backup and restore and backup.
>It will take some time.
> Now in sd card, you'll see a folder named clockwork, save that folder somewhere in your pc cozz that is a lifesaver for you.
> Install whatever rom u want now.
> If you want to restore, just go to clockwork and restore.
Hope i helped.

Best way....... Download rom manager from the play store... Then select "Backup current rom" If backs up your rom.....

Thank you both guys!
The clockwork recovery is part of the utility so I have the backup done, that was the backup I was writing in my first post.
So right now I have to find the best 4.0 ROM

Pribina said:
Thank you both guys!
The clockwork recovery is part of the utility so I have the backup done, that was the backup I was writing in my first post.
So right now I have to find the best 4.0 ROM
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Cm9 Alpha 3.

sukhjit321 said:
Cm9 Alpha 3.
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will try today, thanks for the tip!

Cwm troubles

Sorry its long but i want all the info out there might help with a answer. Last night I went step by step install cm10 nightly. Did the cwm update through rom manager as instruction said to cwm 6.0.2.3 (non touch) did a nandroid of my stock rooted setup. Then did all the wipes and clears all of them. Installed cm 10 let it boot then installed gapps let it boot and settle. I liked it but seamed like something was not right speed wise. Quadrent showed it had dropped to around 3500 where I was getting around 5600 on stock rooted. Went to nandroid back and it could not find back up. Nothing at all showed on internal card through cwm. But when hooked to pc everything was there. So I copied the backup to pc and to ext. Sd card. Cwm found the backup on ext.but said missing something so didnt work. So I nandroid the cm10 I was running checked restore and it worked to nandroid cm10. So I hooked to computer went to backup file and replaced the files with files from my stock rooted I had saved to pc. Cwm restored it perfect back to stock rooted after doing that. Now before I check out other roms could something be wrong with my cwm causing the nandroid problem and also why such low scores on cm 10?
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kleigh774 said:
Sorry its long but i want all the info out there might help with a answer. Last night I went step by step install cm10 nightly. Did the cwm update through rom manager as instruction said to cwm 6.0.2.3 (non touch) did a nandroid of my stock rooted setup. Then did all the wipes and clears all of them. Installed cm 10 let it boot then installed gapps let it boot and settle. I liked it but seamed like something was not right speed wise. Quadrent showed it had dropped to around 3500 where I was getting around 5600 on stock rooted. Went to nandroid back and it could not find back up. Nothing at all showed on internal card through cwm. But when hooked to pc everything was there. So I copied the backup to pc and to ext. Sd card. Cwm found the backup on ext.but said missing something so didnt work. So I nandroid the cm10 I was running checked restore and it worked to nandroid cm10. So I hooked to computer went to backup file and replaced the files with files from my stock rooted I had saved to pc. Cwm restored it perfect back to stock rooted after doing that. Now before I check out other roms could something be wrong with my cwm causing the nandroid problem and also why such low scores on cm 10?
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Quadrant score means absolutely nothing, don't base yourself on them.
You can change your kernel settings (governor, scheduler) to get a better performance if the current one don't work well with your phone.
I'm not sure why your nandroid wasn't working but I expect it's cause it was made without the cwm recovery.

kleigh774 said:
Sorry its long but i want all the info out there might help with a answer. Last night I went step by step install cm10 nightly. Did the cwm update through rom manager as instruction said to cwm 6.0.2.3 (non touch) did a nandroid of my stock rooted setup. Then did all the wipes and clears all of them. Installed cm 10 let it boot then installed gapps let it boot and settle. I liked it but seamed like something was not right speed wise. Quadrent showed it had dropped to around 3500 where I was getting around 5600 on stock rooted. Went to nandroid back and it could not find back up. Nothing at all showed on internal card through cwm. But when hooked to pc everything was there. So I copied the backup to pc and to ext. Sd card. Cwm found the backup on ext.but said missing something so didnt work. So I nandroid the cm10 I was running checked restore and it worked to nandroid cm10. So I hooked to computer went to backup file and replaced the files with files from my stock rooted I had saved to pc. Cwm restored it perfect back to stock rooted after doing that. Now before I check out other roms could something be wrong with my cwm causing the nandroid problem and also why such low scores on cm 10?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium
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as has been said, quadrant is a joke. if you have an sd card, next time you make a backup in recovery, select "backup to external sd". that will save your nandroid to a location that will remain untouched during your wipes.

Re: Cwm troubles and cm10 question
BWolf56 said:
Quadrant score means absolutely nothing, don't base yourself on them.
You can change your kernel settings (governor, scheduler) to get a better performance if the current one don't work well with your phone.
I'm not sure why your nandroid wasn't working but I expect it's cause it was made without the cwm recovery.
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My nandroid was made with cwm the same one I used to flash cm10.
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Use TWRP ? I prefer how it stores nandroids....although I had the same issue as you with TWRP where it was there when I explored with PC but TWRP could find it. I had to move folder around in windows and put them back into the correct folders. Then created a nandroid on ext card and only moved it when I needed to flash it.

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hednik said:
Use TWRP ? I prefer how it stores nandroids....although I had the same issue as you with TWRP where it was there when I explored with PC but TWRP could find it. I had to move folder around in windows and put them back into the correct folders. Then created a nandroid on ext card and only moved it when I needed to flash it.
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Speaking of twrp when I go to rom manager and click recovery where you update cwm under installed recoverys it list I have cwm and twrp installed how is that?
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kleigh774 said:
Speaking of twrp when I go to rom manager and click recovery where you update cwm under installed recoverys it list I have cwm and twrp installed how is that?
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You can only have one recovery installed as it saves it as recovery.img. If you install a new one the old one is written over. This has always been my experience. You can install the new recovery in Goo Manager like you do with CWM in Rom Manager.

All back ups gone, wish this had a SD card

OK, so I'm used to phones with external SD cards where backing up was very easy. With the GN its a pain in the ass. After flashing a rom and factory resetting it, CWM can not find my back ups. I can see them with root explorer on the "sdcard" but CWM doesn't. I tried dragging them to /data/media/, but cwm doesn't see them.
I saved the back up to my pc before resetting as well. Where can I put it so CWM sees it?
I have the same problem with Titanium Back up. I backed up all apps and data, but after the wipe they were gone. I saved the back up on my PC but now I don't see a titanium backup folder to drag them too.
I realize this question has been asked before but all my research points me to dead ends.
Any help would be appreciated.
edit: was able to to drag an old backup to CWM, tried to restore and it failed. Phone is now stuck at Google logo :/. Factory resetting it again did not help.

update your CWM.

Zepius said:
update your CWM.
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It doesn't matter, I flashed back to stock and rerooted. How can I avoid this in the future. It seems that if I wipe data I lose my back ups. How can I save my back ups in the future?

Zepius said:
update your CWM.
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If you just put your backup in data/media/ then CWM might not see it. Mine are in data/media/clockworkmod/backup/

This is why I use TWRP now.
I've had a bad CWM backup/restore operation fail. I think the dev of CWM is losing the ball and TWRP is starting to become the better recovery solution now.

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akira02rex said:
This is why I use TWRP now.
I've had a bad CWM backup/restore operation fail. I think the dev of CWM is losing the ball and TWRP is starting to become the better recovery solution now.
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I've never once had any errors or failed operations or issues of any kind since using CWM Recovery. Even with my old phone (which was not technically CWM, but based on it). Its hard for me to blame CWM and say that those issues are NOT user error.

If you go from a 4.1.X ROM to a 4.2.X ROM then you will have this problem because it changes the file structure that android uses. Same would occur on TWR. You just need to move the files to the correct location after the fact.
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pyroemaniac said:
If you go from a 4.1.X ROM to a 4.2.X ROM then you will have this problem because it changes the file structure that android uses. Same would occur on TWR. You just need to move the files to the correct location after the fact.
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Problem is that I tried moving the backup from the old location to the new. When I tried to restore, it failed and never was able to boot past the google logo. I had to unroot and flash back to stock. A great feature that I wish CWM had would be to direct it to where we keep the backup and just restore from there. Since the change from 4.1 to 4.2 I have read many people having similar issues.

Do you have cwm making a md5 for your backup? If not hat is the only time I've had trouble restoring. I've switched from 4.2 to 4.1 and vice versa multiple times without problems.
Also are you using cwm touch or non touch?
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Also, like others have said, make sure you are using the latest CWM. You can easily get it by downloading ROM manager and selecting "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery". It will also tell you what version you have and what version is the latest.

Thanks for the help. I'm also having problems with titanium back up. I copied the backup folder before the wipe, I dragged the files back to the titanium back up folder but TB doesn't recognize the back ups.

spillner said:
Thanks for the help. I'm also having problems with titanium back up. I copied the backup folder before the wipe, I dragged the files back to the titanium back up folder but TB doesn't recognize the back ups.
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In Titanium Backup, select menu then preferences. Scroll down and select backup folder location. Tap the "detect" button then whole device. It should find it.

Also I'd grab a cheap otg adapter... And a 32gig min flash drive to backup to. I have mine run overnight (otg w/charging port) it's basically like having external just deciding when you need it
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pyroemaniac said:
If you go from a 4.1.X ROM to a 4.2.X ROM then you will have this problem because it changes the file structure that android uses. Same would occur on TWR. You just need to move the files to the correct location after the fact.
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an up to date version of CWM or TWRP will 'move' (actually rename with the new path) your file system for you so you don't have to do it manually - that's why peeps keep on telling you to update your recovery...

help!
spillner said:
Problem is that I tried moving the backup from the old location to the new. When I tried to restore, it failed and never was able to boot past the google logo. I had to unroot and flash back to stock. A great feature that I wish CWM had would be to direct it to where we keep the backup and just restore from there. Since the change from 4.1 to 4.2 I have read many people having similar issues.
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I have the same exact problem. When I try to move the backup to the main sdcard directory (a 3 gig file) it fails halfway through. No matter if I use adb push or windows/mtp to copy/paste the file.
Any ideas? Please help, I just want to restore my old rom with all my data. I dont care about 4.2 if I dont have my data.
EDIT:
I FIXED IT! This is how I did it. I had backed up my SD card (including clockwork backups) to my computer using adb pull. So I used clockworkmod recovery to format the SD card and /data/media. Then I started up the phone. I used windows to copy the backups to the phone. Now when I went to clockwork and tried to use the restore backup, it worked correctly. I'm now back to my old phone

I have a solution
spillner said:
OK, so I'm used to phones with external SD cards where backing up was very easy. With the GN its a pain in the ass. After flashing a rom and factory resetting it, CWM can not find my back ups. I can see them with root explorer on the "sdcard" but CWM doesn't. I tried dragging them to /data/media/, but cwm doesn't see them.
I saved the back up to my pc before resetting as well. Where can I put it so CWM sees it?
I have the same problem with Titanium Back up. I backed up all apps and data, but after the wipe they were gone. I saved the back up on my PC but now I don't see a titanium backup folder to drag them too.
I realize this question has been asked before but all my research points me to dead ends.
Any help would be appreciated.
edit: was able to to drag an old backup to CWM, tried to restore and it failed. Phone is now stuck at Google logo :/. Factory resetting it again did not help.
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I was able to solve this problem. Check my post (above this) and the edit! Goodluck!

Reviving this thread
I am reviving this thread because I would like to know if there is any way to preserve CWM backups and Titanium Backup files when wiping data for a new ROM install.
Is it possible to create a symlink using terminal and link to a static directory which could be protected from wiping data? This is granted the shell permits symlinks.
Thoughts?

[Q] Help! Rooted 4.3, Backed up, and now cant restore backup

Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.
The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.
Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.
Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.
Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.
I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance

You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.

tx_dbs_tx said:
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.
Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?

Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry

ColeTrain! said:
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
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Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:

alexandnen said:
Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
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That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.
If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.

Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.
Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.
I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.
Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.

[Q] Galaxy S3 I747M Rogers ROM unlocked and rooted How to Backup ROM to SD?

Guys,
I rooted GS3 using CFroot and Odin, SuperSU is running. I have i747m Rogers canadian version. How do I backup the current ROM?
I downloaded 'stock' ROM from SamMobile I747MVLUFNF2 for backup purpose. There is so many posts and videos everywhere on how to do backup of current ROM and I am very confused, and dont want to mess this phone up. I downloaded ROM Manager but when I boot into recover mode I dont have option to backup ROM, only restore from SD, reset, restore from flash, wipe cache , there is no backup option. I pulled the battery out and tried many times it did not see backup ROM option.
This is what I want to do, what is the best aproach ?
1. How to backup current Rooted ROM to sdcard, so I can recover if required. ROM Manager I have on the phone is v5.5.3.7. I watched video on galaxys3root.com but he used 9300 GS3 from different carrier.
2. I want to try a new ROM give the phone new life, with all functions working including front camera. WHich ROM do you recommend for my phone?
I also installed ROM Manager, Titanium Backup, Terminal Emulator, Nandroid Manager, and BusyBox. Not sure if I need these apps, but they are there.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,

Install the latest version of Philz Touch or TWRP for the d2lte, boot into recovery, create a backup and save it to your external SD card and computer.

Thank you.
audit13 said:
Install the latest version of Philz Touch or TWRP for the d2lte, boot into recovery, create a backup and save it to your external SD card and computer.
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Thanks! Philz Rocks, it is exactly what I was looking for !
I loaded Philz Touch 6.48 for d2lte, and it worked great. Did full backup and I am ready to flash.
DO I NEED to keep ROM Manager for anything ?

PabisPL said:
Thanks! Philz Rocks, it is exactly what I was looking for !
I loaded Philz Touch 6.48 for d2lte, and it worked great. Did full backup and I am ready to flash.
DO I NEED to keep ROM Manager for anything ?
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I don't use ROM manager. I just flash a custom ROM and a quick reboot app which gives me the option to boot into download mode, power off, reboot system, or reboot into recovery.

Thanks.
audit13 said:
I don't use ROM manager. I just flash a custom ROM and a quick reboot app which gives me the option to boot into download mode, power off, reboot system, or reboot into recovery.
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Hi audit13,
1. how do I copy backup from SD to computer. These are hidden on SD card and not visible even to Android? Is there a trick to it?
2. Which ROM do you recommend for Galaxy S3 i747m (original Rogers now unlocked), so all the functions work well and stable on the phone? I was interested in CM11 Nightly.
This is ALL new to me, first time doing it.
Thanks again for you answers,

PabisPL said:
Hi audit13,
1. how do I copy backup from SD to computer. These are hidden on SD card and not visible even to Android? Is there a trick to it?
This is ALL new to me, first time doing it.
Thanks again for you answers,
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Both CWM and TWRP recoveries create a directory in /sdcard named either clockworkmod or TWRP and store the backups in a subdirectory. It is likely that PHILZ does the same. There may even be an option to store the backup to the external sdcard at the time of creation.

TWRP stores the backup in a folder called \TWRP\Backups\serial#ofphone\name of folder.
I'm not sure about CWM as I don't have a phone with CWM at the moment.
I run the Liquidsmooth milestone on a Nexus4 and Moto G because I love the dark theme.

I have a device on TWRP and another on CWM, I just didn't bother with the full path because he is on PHILZ, as you recommended, and I could not check that path.

Philz Touch to TWRP recovery migration.
dawgdoc said:
I have a device on TWRP and another on CWM, I just didn't bother with the full path because he is on PHILZ, as you recommended, and I could not check that path.
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Thanks to you guys, I have successfully converted GS3 stock Samsung 4.4.3 GS3 (rogers unlocked) to Philz Touch with CM11 rom, works great on Bell (Virgin) network.
But I have a question;
I would like to try TWRP If I want to switch from Philz to TWRP recovery instead, how much is involved to make a switch? Which recovery is more popular and better supported?
Is it as simple as flashing in Odin proper twrp .tar file for my d2lte?
Thanks.

If there is a flash able zip for twrp, you can boot into philz and flash it.
Any backups made with philz cannot be restored with twrp.
I tried twrp and switched to philz due to issues I had flashing custom roms with twrp.
I don't have my i747m because I have it to a relative in May so support has probably improved with newer versions of twrp.

Philz Touch to TWRP recovery migration.
I flashed TWRP over Philz Touch using Odin. I am going to wait until newer CM11 nightly comes out to test it, but Philz seems more intuitive to me. I can always flash back to restore backups I made with Philz Touch.
Thanks.