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I used to format /system every time I flashed a ROM on my gs2, but I saw in the numerous imei threads some posts about not doing so because it may be part of the lost imei issues. Do you do it ? Have you had issues ? I'm reluctant to do so , but feel it will be " beneficial to my flashing" if I did...
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jasonren29 said:
Format system does not wipe out imei. It's when you root it the wrong way. If you want to play safe, you can go to development section use imei back up method to back it up
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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Did you changed the backup in any format? Change name or date? Any minor changes to the backup will fail md5 check
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None what so ever. I really just flashed the stock back up right before I flashed my gsfree back up so no I made no changes what also ever. Some times when you format systems in clockworkmod recovery this could happen because it happen to me. Can't wait till ext4 touch recovery comes to us here in this forum. Not saying cwm recovery isn't nice but I never had any problems with other recoveries that have been offered.
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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Yes you are right. But I didn't want to go thru all of that. Really didn't have time so just unrooted my phone so there would be no more problems. I get like alot of people and become flash aholics. So I just stop it from being problem later down the road. Look I like rooting and adding mods to my phone like the next guy but there comes to a point where unnecessary issues can be avoided. Like the one I had.... but on the real tip I really enjoy the phone just the way it is STOCK I have zero issues and love the battery life that I have. So until some cooler roms come out I just don't have interest in cm9 or cm10 base roms. I mean I came from the sensation where I could flash a lot more variety of roms. I like this phone the way it is and really that's why I bought it.
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Hi guys, so I was using wicked ROM, whenever I tried to boot into recovery, it just rebooted back to system. Odin'ed back to stock, flashed twrp through goo manager app, but still no use. Any help greatly appreciated
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eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I was using wicked ROM, whenever I tried to boot into recovery, it just rebooted back to system. Odin'ed back to stock, flashed twrp through goo manager app, but still no use. Any help greatly appreciated
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What methods have you tried?
adb reboot recovery is the easiest way to get to recovery
Maybe try flashing CWM, seeing if that works, and then flashing TWRP (I've never flashed TWRP through Goo Manager so I don't know how that works)?
If you don't have adb set up, get quick boot from market and try recovery through that.
If that doesn't work, I honestly don't know. I'm assuming you've done the power off then volume up+home+power at the same time trick already.
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What methods have you tried?
adb reboot recovery is the easiest way to get to recovery
Maybe try flashing CWM, seeing if that works, and then flashing TWRP (I've never flashed TWRP through Goo Manager so I don't know how that works)?
If you don't have adb set up, get quick boot from market and try recovery through that.
If that doesn't work, I honestly don't know. I'm assuming you've done the power off then volume up+home+power at the same time trick already.
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With the goo app, I can boot directly into recovery, but my issue is that I get to the Recovery's splash screen, it hangs there for a second and immediately reboots back to system. I'm thinking to get the stock recovery back and try again I'm really not sure what the Hecks going on
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Mhm OK, got cwm working, guess I'll just use that one for the time being
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eggydrums said:
Mhm OK, got cwm working, guess I'll just use that one for the time being
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I would highly recommend putting TWRP back on there. The CWM was more for testing... people have reported issues using CWM with certain ROMs. Glad you were able to get CWM on though.
Nothing wrong with CWM.
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Nothing wrong with CWM.
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There are a number of ROMs that do not support CWM so that statement is false. FreeGS3 loses update functionality, for example.
Also, there have been complaints in the case of CWM touch of it being too easy to wipe your entire device.
Not to mention there is no Goo Manager functionality without TWRP as well.
Lots of benefits of TWRP versus CWM. I used CWM for years then had to switch to a modified TWRP for my MAXX and was more than happy when I found out the SGS3 used TWRP as well (although I wish we had the ROM slots like the MAXX though - that was actually cool)
The statement is not false. I think FreeGS3 hasn't been updated for 4.5 months? Maybe not the best example. And I still think you should use as few automated tools as possible where flashing is concerned (Goo/ROM Manager).
It can be easy to wipe the wrong partition in CWM, if you are careless or illiterate. In the 6 months that I've used it (nearly every day), I have never once wiped the wrong partition, or my entire device. Never had a backup that wouldn't restore.
I like some of what TWRP offers. But I still experience showstopping bugs with it on my device. At this time, the devs are unable to track down the cause of the problems.
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The statement is not false. I think FreeGS3 hasn't been updated for 4.5 months? Maybe not the best example. And I still think you should use as few automated tools as possible where flashing is concerned (Goo/ROM Manager).
It can be easy to wipe the wrong partition in CWM, if you are careless or illiterate. In the 6 months that I've used it (nearly every day), I have never once wiped the wrong partition, or my entire device. Never had a backup that wouldn't restore.
I like some of what TWRP offers. But I still experience showstopping bugs with it on my device. At this time, the devs are unable to track down the cause of the problems.
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Don't get me wrong, I've used CWM on many devices for years and even have a premium license for ROM Manager but I've seen a number of ROMs explicitly say not to use CWM, FreeGS3 was just the first that came to mind. I don't flash often because quite frankly, I have no problems with Wicked v8 and see no reason to switch to anything else.
And I am neither careless nor illiterate but I have accidentally borked things using CWM before in the past (it was a modified CWM Touch recovery) and I was not happy.
I think most of the complaints about CWM these days though come from CWM Touch, not regular CWM. Sorry TWRP has issues for you.
OK, so I'm getting a new issue, I changed to AOKP and I had problems with the ROM saying I needed to wipe data, I did, the issue persisted for few reboots, now apps won't install, and for some reason the /data folder still displays apps from my previous ROM ugh I don't know what's happening
Oh and for some reason the app exchange service kept force closing
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OK, so I'm getting a new issue, I changed to AOKP and I had problems with the ROM saying I needed to wipe data, I did, the issue persisted for few reboots, now apps won't install, and for some reason the /data folder still displays apps from my previous ROM ugh I don't know what's happening
Oh and for some reason the app exchange service kept force closing
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Which recovery? Try erasing data, cache, and system three times each and reinstalling the ROM... If that doesn't work you might consider doing a back up of everything internally stored on your phone and then wiping the internal storage entirely and starting over.
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Which recovery? Try erasing data, cache, and system three times each and reinstalling the ROM... If that doesn't work you might consider doing a back up of everything internally stored on your phone and then wiping the internal storage entirely and starting over.
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I tried. I think for some reason, the recovery isn't wiping data, even though it says so. I'm using twrp
Managed to install apps through the play website, still no go with the play store app though
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I tried. I think for some reason, the recovery isn't wiping data, even though it says so. I'm using twrp
Managed to install apps through the play website, still no go with the play store app though
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Hmmm... Have you tried doing it through CWM? Its starting to sound like your partitions are messed up.
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Hmmm... Have you tried doing it through CWM? Its starting to sound like your partitions are messed up.
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I think that's a possibility I just tried through clockwork, and it's all good now but exchange service fcs here and there
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eggydrums said:
I think that's a possibility I just tried through clockwork, and it's all good now but exchange service fcs here and there
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Did you fix permissions?
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Did you fix permissions?
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I tried while I was in twrp, it failed, something about a an error "failed to chmod data/data/ email.apk" (not exactly like that)
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Hi.
I have no idea what's wrong. My backups usually restore easily with no problems. I have two backups currently. One made on the 11th and one made on the 15th. I've restored to the 11th many times before because I was testing out ROMs then. I decided I was satisfied with the one I already had, and kept it the way it was, restoring back to the 11th. I've used it since then, downloading apps and stuff. But today, I wanted to try another ROM. So I made the backup for the 15th. I didn't like the ROM i was testing out, so I TRIED to restore to the 15th. But, while restoring on CWM, it just stops, and my phone restarts. I thought it was just ONE bad restore. But I tried multiple times, and the same thing keeps happening. So I decided to restore to the 11th to see if it was just a bad backup, but same thing happens when I try to restore. Please help! I've searched the forums and googled it before posting. But I haven't found any threads with this specific problem. Thanks a lot!
Try clean installing the ROM of the backed up ROM, and then restoring backup.
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diablo009 said:
Try clean installing the ROM of the backed up ROM, and then restoring backup.
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By clean installing you mean reflashing cm 10.1 and gapps right?
yeeedelta said:
By clean installing you mean reflashing cm 10.1 and gapps right?
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Yes. The original ROM of which you took backup.
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Yes. The original ROM of which you took backup.
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Okay. I tried it. Flashed the original ROM and gapps that I started with. Still the same thing. But, I tried starting from scratch, making a backup of that, and restoring it to see if it was still a problem. But the brand new backup works now, but the others still don't. It seems as if it always restarts when restoring a specific data.
Looks like some data got messed up. Sorry, this is as far as I can think of.
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What version of cwm are you on?
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I'm currently using 6.0.3.1. I made the backups using the touch version and tried restoring on touch as well. But I reverted back to this and tried restoring but it didn't work either.
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I can't seem to find a working link to download CM10.1 RC1, if anyone has it around, I would appreciate it very much if someone can provide it.
File name: cm-10.1.0-RC1-d2att.zip
Thank you.
Arcticsilverfox said:
I can't seem to find a working link to download CM10.1 RC1, if anyone has it around, I would appreciate it very much if someone can provide it.
File name: cm-10.1.0-RC1-d2att.zip
Thank you.
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They pulled it off the get.cm site I believe shortly after rc2 came out
Sorry
Interested why you want / need such an out of date release.
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KorGuy123 said:
They pulled it off the get.cm site I believe shortly after rc2 came out
Sorry
Interested why you want / need such an out of date release.
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I made a nandroid backup in CWM when I was on RC1. I'm trying to do a nandroid restore but it keeps failing when it gets to system, so I figured if I go back to RC1, everything should be identical so it should work.
If not, I don't know why the nandroid restore is failing. Any ideas?
Arcticsilverfox said:
I made a nandroid backup in CWM when I was on RC1. I'm trying to do a nandroid restore but it keeps failing when it gets to system, so I figured if I go back to RC1, everything should be identical so it should work.
If not, I don't know why the nandroid restore is failing. Any ideas?
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Could be a hand full of things.
Corrupt nandroid, different recovery etc
You could always flash stock and try to restore it than.
I've honestly never had that issue not sure if flashing rc1 would change anything because it overwrites the system anyway
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KorGuy123 said:
Could be a hand full of things.
Corrupt nandroid, different recovery etc
You could always flash stock and try to restore it than.
I've honestly never had that issue not sure if flashing rc1 would change anything because it overwrites the system anyway
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I put the same CWM version on and I copied the nandroid backup to my computer. Is there a way to verify that the nandroid is good?
I tried advanced restore too but only the boot seems to work. System, data, and cache seem to all give an error.
Are you saying that I should flash back to stock rom and try a restore from there?
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I put the same CWM version on and I copied the nandroid backup to my computer. Is there a way to verify that the nandroid is good?
I tried advanced restore too but only the boot seems to work. System, data, and cache seem to all give an error.
Are you saying that I should flash back to stock rom and try a restore from there?
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At this point I'd be guessing.
Maybe you lost a file or part of one copying to the computer and back.
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KorGuy123 said:
At this point I'd be guessing.
Maybe you lost a file or part of one copying to the computer and back.
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Well all the files are there from what I can tell
(boot.img, cache.ext4.dup, data.ext4.dup, nandroid.md5, recovery.img, system.ext4.dup)
I'm sort of running out of options as this is becoming a serious problem...
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Well all the files are there from what I can tell
(boot.img, cache.ext4.dup, data.ext4.dup, nandroid.md5, recovery.img, system.ext4.dup)
I'm sort of running out of options as this is becoming a serious problem...
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You can try this link I'm not sure it is still active or not.
http://get.cm/get/jenkins/27309/cm-10.1.0-RC1-d2att.zip
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KorGuy123 said:
You can try this link I'm not sure it is still active or not.
http://get.cm/get/jenkins/27309/cm-10.1.0-RC1-d2att.zip
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Hmm no go. It's ok, I just gave up trying to restore the nandroid. Just started over with RC4. Thanks for the help.
So i decided to go from illusion to stockaroma v2 and once i got the phone setup it said i was running low on storage space so later on i rebooted my phone and i got android.phone has crashed blabla
Upon rebooting it kept crashing and crashing so i decided to wipe and reflash stockaroma but funny thing is everytime id wipe and start over I'd get same settings apps and stuff already preloaded as if cwm wasnt even wiping i tried couple times reflashing the rom didnt work..
So i decided to restore my backup now when i went ahead to do that o couldn't because it was saying there is no files ? And i flashed a rom i had on my sdcard but even tho i wiped i got some stuff preloaded which is not normal ? And now i got like 7 times the same directory it looks like this : sdcard/emulated/0/0/0/0 ??
Everything is messed up and down i do not want to go through odin since i have a damn slow computer which shutdowns by its own now imagine me flashing and it crashes...
So my question is how may i restore my backup ? I have like many "0" directory just not sure which one to delete as each contains different file ??
Please help me out im not a noob but this is the first time ive seen this
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Does each "O" folder have a recovery folder?
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Does each "O" folder have a recovery folder?
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Nope and just accidentally lost half of my data and my 500 music about 400pics i am going to murder someone f*king hellllll today is not a good day for me
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Sorry but Odin seems to be your best bet or go buy an external sdcard and reader (as I've advertised on all forums before). This is also why we say to update your recovery to the latest one constantly, in many threads and most OP posts of most roms. Good luck. Also always having a backup of all your contemts on memory is recommended before messing with flashing ROMs. Live and learn.
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Sorry but Odin seems to be your best bet or go buy an external sdcard and reader (as I've advertised on all forums before). This is also why we say to update your recovery to the latest one constantly, in many threads and most OP posts of most roms. Good luck. Also always having a backup of all your contemts on memory is recommended before messing with flashing ROMs. Live and learn.
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Funny thing is in 4 years never been through anything similar you're telling me live and learn like i probably never read anything before flashing which is not the case i am always careful....
My guess is i ran out of storage space and maybe thats why there was so many /0 folders now that i cleaned some junk im all set up back and running just was wondering what happened and i had the latest cwm touch recovery so i don't know how should i upgrade my recovery if an update isn't out?
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Personally I use TWRP. You may try that instead. CWM may or may not be the problem
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shahkam said:
Funny thing is in 4 years never been through anything similar you're telling me live and learn like i probably never read anything before flashing which is not the case i am always careful....
My guess is i ran out of storage space and maybe thats why there was so many /0 folders now that i cleaned some junk im all set up back and running just was wondering what happened and i had the latest cwm touch recovery so i don't know how should i upgrade my recovery if an update isn't out?
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I say live and learn cause you didn't have thing backed up like you should and you made a mistake. I've yet to see anyone have duplicate /0 for that reason and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the cause. Its cause you weren't on the latest or even up to date to handle 4.2.2. I never said you weren't careful but in lots of the threads including illusion my post and Ramsay's, I think, says make sure you have updated your recovery and backup your sdcard contents. Just saying and its a friendly heads up, also advised you on external sdcard. No need to be defensive, just giving pointers and helping, bud.
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I say live and learn cause you didn't have thing backed up like you should and you made a mistake. I've yet to see anyone have duplicate /0 for that reason and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the cause. Its cause you weren't on the latest or even up to date to handle 4.2.2. I never said you weren't careful but in lots of the threads including illusion my post and Ramsay's, I think, says make sure you have updated your recovery and backup your sdcard contents. Just saying and its a friendly heads up, also advised you on external sdcard. No need to be defensive, just giving pointers and helping, bud.
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Yeah sorry having just another bad day but from now on i will be backing up content to dropbox on my pc aswell just to make sure its just that i never though of such a thing ever happening and it did....
And the most annoying part here is i can't delete the multiple "0" folder i did delete two of em but the rest i can't it says some files were not delete using oi file manager
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I haven't ever ran into the issue so maybe someone else can chime in. I would just format it if you don't care what else you lose.
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Can you delete them from the built-in file manager in recovery?
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Can you delete them from the built-in file manager in recovery?
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I can't :/
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In TWRP there's an option to only wipe internal sd if you want to try that.
Or maybe if you Odin the stock firmware it'll kill the symlink or whatever is holding it there. Then try to delete.
Or factory reset?
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In TWRP there's an option to only wipe internal sd if you want to try that.
Or maybe if you Odin the stock firmware it'll kill the symlink or whatever is holding it there. Then try to delete.
Or factory reset?
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Usually I'd odin but since i broken my laptop i only got my super buggy one which crashes random moments and just don't want to risk that happening while im in odin flashing the stock firmware...
But my issue is solved as i flashed illusion rom a copy i had on my sd just little annoyed i can't restore my nandroid backups might delete them its taking 3gig of space for nothing lol..
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Isn't there a way you can extract specific data from them? Never had to myself but I swear I've seen it mentioned somewhere.
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Isn't there a way you can extract specific data from them? Never had to myself but I swear I've seen it mentioned somewhere.
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You can use TiBu. But I just open them with WinRAR. Any archiver should work.
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Yeah sorry having just another bad day but from now on i will be backing up content to dropbox on my pc aswell just to make sure its just that i never though of such a thing ever happening and it did....
And the most annoying part here is i can't delete the multiple "0" folder i did delete two of em but the rest i can't it says some files were not delete using oi file manager
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Use Odin and switch to the latest twrp, lots of ppl have been having issues with cwm lately as its not updated with the latest flashing scripts and such, most cwm recoveries can't handle preload or wipe everything needed for 4.2 roms, try twrp and u shouldn't have anymore issues...
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Use Odin and switch to the latest twrp, lots of ppl have been having issues with cwm lately as its not updated with the latest flashing scripts and such, most cwm recoveries can't handle preload or wipe everything needed for 4.2 roms, try twrp and u shouldn't have anymore issues...
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Will try its just that I've always used cwm before feeling more comfortable whit that but will try twrp also and let you know how it goes
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Isn't there a way you can extract specific data from them? Never had to myself but I swear I've seen it mentioned somewhere.
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(In TWRP) Restore>Advanced>Select the partitions you want to restore
There is a similar option in CWM6 (at least there was last time I used it on my old phone) but I don't remember the specifics.
Adreaver said:
(In TWRP) Restore>Advanced>Select the partitions you want to restore
There is a similar option in CWM6 (at least there was last time I used it on my old phone) but I don't remember the specifics.
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Yeah, that's an option in both, but I was referring to the ability to just pull a certain app and data out of one of those partition backups.
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Yeah, that's an option in both, but I was referring to the ability to just pull a certain app and data out of one of those partition backups.
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Ah ok. Yeah thats in Titanium. Batch>Restore>Data from Nandroid, then you should be able to select the specific data/apps you want.