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Welcome,
I've compiled ClockWorkMod 3.0.1.4 and I made some changes to it, copying BlaY0's work for the HTC Legend.
Changes:
Removed menu entries for updating via /sdcard/update.zip
[*]Stripped some "No" line entries from confirmation menus (only 1 left)
[*]Removed some insane size values from partitioning list
[*]Recovery is closed using pkill instead of ps and grep
Installation
Code:
Copy the desired update.zip to your sdcard and apply it from ClockWorkMod
Extras:
Install noconfirm to remove the "no" lines. Works on all clockworkmod-based recoveries.
Thanks to BlaY0, Cyanogen and Koush
Thanks. Thanks a ton! You actually addressed what annoyed me most with this recovery. I have to admit, I do miss RA on the Vision...
But no complaining here, thanks for your work!
Edit: Ugh, I don't get it with the .no_confirm file. Put it where...?
Going to try this, sounds good =))
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Aha i just moved this in clockwork recoveries files then i just renamed the rec.img with the recovery of the g2 then flash it...
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So this still has the fix for power off while charging? And just the menu for sdcard update has been removed that can be noticed other than that, the other two updates to it is file size or so??
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noodles2224 said:
So this still has the fix for power off while charging? And just the menu for sdcard update has been removed that can be noticed other than that, the other two updates to it is file size or so??
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It still powers on when charging
And he did remove the other "NO" from the list, so now it's a lot easier
Hey hey! I like what you've done with the source file. I was using your recovery while in the process of making a backup and thought it was pretty neat because I couldn't for the life of me figure out where and what to edit in source since nothing is commented out by anyone. I can read the code but have a difficult time tracing it through. I'm still newbie with the C++
But anyways, while backing up, I was reminded of how annoying it is to backup the system, data, cache, sd-ext, boot, and etc folders into img files for every backup of CM7 when the only thing that really needs to be backed up is the data folder to data.img which contains all the userdata, settings and applications downloaded from the market. The only exception would be if I had changed keymap files, changed stuff inside /system/app/ folder, or any other folder/files other than data since the previous backup of the same rom.
So, if I was to make ONE backup of CM7 Tuesday morning, and wanted to make a backup of the very same rom later on in the day (containing more recent apps, emails, settings, etc. ) I would have to delete the old backup already saved and start the backup process over again from the beginning, or I would have to keep making duplicates of the same backup that differs only by the data.img file, wasting precious space on a baby **** sized microsd. IMO it completely ruins the purpose of the automatic backup feature of Rom Manager since I have to remind myself to delete the previous backup everyday. However, I do think it'll be useful if clockworkmod can be modified.
SO, I was wondering, where should I be looking in the source to add an option such as "backup data only",
that when selected,
1.) Looks for an extra line in the md5sum file for every folder in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ that specifies the android version (cm7, cm6, date, w/e)
2.) Compares extra line with what it's about to back up (via contents of /system/build.prop ) and
3.) if they match up
calls only the function that backs up the data folder excluding calls for the backup of system, cache, boot, etc.
Sorry, if its confusing how I've explained it. Its quite late here in soFla, and I didn't get no sleep 8(
But I'm sure you get what I mean considering that you know some code. That's a very rough pseudo-code I guess.
Another method that probably is a lot easier, if possible, would be to figure out what command/message Rom-Manager leaves behind for clockworkmod before rebooting to clockworkmod. If it is a small script like I hope it is, backing up only data.img would be a heck of a lot easier since I'm pretty sure the source has an individual definition call for backup for each partition.
so how do i fix this powering on issue.. its starting to piss me off -.- lol,. least how to fix it on stock recovery.
CaliBoyPhillip said:
so how do i fix this powering on issue.. its starting to piss me off -.- lol,. least how to fix it on stock recovery.
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I think this issue is caused by the hardware on the desire z and thus is unfixable. If you press power off from the menu will it just power on again? Because then the entry should be renamed to reboot recovery.
thrice43 said:
Hey hey! I like what you've done with the source file. I was using your recovery while in the process of making a backup and thought it was pretty neat because I couldn't for the life of me figure out where and what to edit in source since nothing is commented out by anyone. I can read the code but have a difficult time tracing it through. I'm still newbie with the C++
But anyways, while backing up, I was reminded of how annoying it is to backup the system, data, cache, sd-ext, boot, and etc folders into img files for every backup of CM7 when the only thing that really needs to be backed up is the data folder to data.img which contains all the userdata, settings and applications downloaded from the market. The only exception would be if I had changed keymap files, changed stuff inside /system/app/ folder, or any other folder/files other than data since the previous backup of the same rom.
So, if I was to make ONE backup of CM7 Tuesday morning, and wanted to make a backup of the very same rom later on in the day (containing more recent apps, emails, settings, etc. ) I would have to delete the old backup already saved and start the backup process over again from the beginning, or I would have to keep making duplicates of the same backup that differs only by the data.img file, wasting precious space on a baby **** sized microsd. IMO it completely ruins the purpose of the automatic backup feature of Rom Manager since I have to remind myself to delete the previous backup everyday. However, I do think it'll be useful if clockworkmod can be modified.
SO, I was wondering, where should I be looking in the source to add an option such as "backup data only",
that when selected,
1.) Looks for an extra line in the md5sum file for every folder in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ that specifies the android version (cm7, cm6, date, w/e)
2.) Compares extra line with what it's about to back up (via contents of /system/build.prop ) and
3.) if they match up
calls only the function that backs up the data folder excluding calls for the backup of system, cache, boot, etc.
Sorry, if its confusing how I've explained it. Its quite late here in soFla, and I didn't get no sleep 8(
But I'm sure you get what I mean considering that you know some code. That's a very rough pseudo-code I guess.
Another method that probably is a lot easier, if possible, would be to figure out what command/message Rom-Manager leaves behind for clockworkmod before rebooting to clockworkmod. If it is a small script like I hope it is, backing up only data.img would be a heck of a lot easier since I'm pretty sure the source has an individual definition call for backup for each partition.
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I understand the issue. I do have an idea for you which I will work on later today. It's an update.zip with a script in it which will yaffs up the data partition and put the data.img into /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/*foldername*/
Next is should take the md5sum and write it to md5sums.txt
Like this you can restore your backup. I can cook you a custom recovery which has added update from /sdcard/update.zip baked in, but changed to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backupdata.zip
I know this isn't the easiest way to do it, but it is the easiest to code for me, so I'll use it untill I expand my knowledge
schaggo said:
Thanks. Thanks a ton! You actually addressed what annoyed me most with this recovery. I have to admit, I do miss RA on the Vision...
But no complaining here, thanks for your work!
Edit: Ugh, I don't get it with the .no_confirm file. Put it where...?
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Ah how stupid of me, it should go in sdcard/clockworkmod/
I'll confirm and update the first post, thanks for pointing it out
Mikevhl said:
I think this issue is caused by the hardware on the desire z and thus is unfixable. If you press power off from the menu will it just power on again? Because then the entry should be renamed to reboot recovery.
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Yeah, it happens regardless If i plug in my charge and pull of battery and back in or pull out battery and put back in and plug charger haha... same with power menu ugh... =( I'm on a T-Mobile USA G2 if that helps but its pretty much a DZ
CaliBoyPhillip said:
Yeah, it happens regardless If i plug in my charge and pull of battery and back in or pull out battery and put back in and plug charger haha... same with power menu ugh... =( I'm on a T-Mobile USA G2 if that helps but its pretty much a DZ
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Nah I'm on a Desire Z so it's the same. Since this does not happen on other devices, the problem isn't caused by clockworkmod. The bootloader is just coded to boot into recovery when AC plugs in. I don't know if this happen the stock recovery as well. It could be caused by gfree, but also it could just be that the stock recovery forces the system to be shut down. Whatever it is, we won't be able to fix it..
Mikevhl said:
I understand the issue. I do have an idea for you which I will work on later today. It's an update.zip with a script in it which will yaffs up the data partition and put the data.img into /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/*foldername*/
Next is should take the md5sum and write it to md5sums.txt
Like this you can restore your backup. I can cook you a custom recovery which has added update from /sdcard/update.zip baked in, but changed to /sdcard/clockworkmod/backupdata.zip
I know this isn't the easiest way to do it, but it is the easiest to code for me, so I'll use it untill I expand my knowledge
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Damn... Why are you so OG? I would appreciate that so much. How many source files were actually modified from the original clockworkmod source? If its not many, would you mind commenting out some important bits of code so I can pick up from somewhere when looking through the code and have a better understanding of the basic/general algorithm used by the original dev? Its cool if you don't though lol. I still appreciate what you've already put together.
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Damn... Why are you so OG? I would appreciate that so much. How many source files were actually modified from the original clockworkmod source? If its not many, would you mind commenting out some important bits of code so I can pick up from somewhere when looking through the code and have a better understanding of the basic/general algorithm used by the original dev? Its cool if you don't though lol. I still appreciate what you've already put together.
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Do you mean the things that I've removed and added? If you take a look at the sources you will aee that there is a line on which the modification takes place, next a + or - which indicates if the line was added or removed. Is that what you mean?
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Do you mean the things that I've removed and added? If you take a look at the sources you will aee that there is a line on which the modification takes place, next a + or - which indicates if the line was added or removed. Is that what you mean?
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Whoops yes I understand the layout now. sorry. I was curious as to where, and which file to begin looking to unstand customizing cwm
Mikevhl said:
Nah I'm on a Desire Z so it's the same. Since this does not happen on other devices, the problem isn't caused by clockworkmod. The bootloader is just coded to boot into recovery when AC plugs in. I don't know if this happen the stock recovery as well. It could be caused by gfree, but also it could just be that the stock recovery forces the system to be shut down. Whatever it is, we won't be able to fix it..
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actually, it DOES happen on other devices, and it IS a clockwork issue that, to my knowledge, Koush is aware of and is looking to fix. Before I came to the g2, I had a red mytouch 4g which, when rooted and CWM was installed, would boot into recovery from a powered down state when it connected to the charger. The explanation I heard back then was that the stock recovery for the phone would boot up upon connecting to a charger while off, but that it would somehow keep the screen off. however, when the recovery is replaced with CWM, it still exhibits this behavior, but it does not keep the screen off.
Just an fyi, though, in the mexDroid forum OP, there is a modded version of CWM which, when installed, will keep the phone off while charging. I have personally verified that it works (now if only someone would find a way to have android start up and shut down at preset times, like to have an alarm go off.. that would be awesome).
Would it be safe to assume that this'll also work on my galaxy tab?
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JasonTCelum said:
Would it be safe to assume that this'll also work on my galaxy tab?
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no, that's a bit of a stretch, as each recovery is made for the device that uses it, not device-agnostic. However, if you would like to try it out and dont mind taking the risk, you never know, you could get lucky.
mt4g?
Currently loving this on my G2 is there any chance of it becoming compatible for the mytouch 4G?
Ill be the Guinea!
Alright, as some of you know, I really, really, REALLY, messed up on my last root attempt.
Apparently I didn't backup what I was supposed to. That was my own stupid a55 mistake and I have admitted to it.
I DO plan to attempt a root again so that I can get this theme on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042268
There are things that I need to know before I attempt this (and yes I know there are forums already on this but I need to be 110% sure)
1) How do I back up EVERYTHING on my phone and put it on my computer or SD card or somewhere that I can go to incase I mess up again?
2) What is the EASIEST program/method to root this Samsung Epic 4g?
3) (I'm not too sure what I'm talking about here ((remember, I'm a total noob)))
I tried CWM 3.0.0.5 before... is this a ROM that I attempted to go to?
3ii) If I should'nt be using CWM, what should I use?
4) Is Froyo and CWM the same time of thing? or two different things completely?
and finally:
5) Give me all of your recommendations on this please! I DON'T WANNA MESS UP AGAIN!
And please none of this "You messed up before, dont try it again!" crap, I know I messed up, and I know this is stupid, but the fact of the matter is, I'm trying it again to get this theme on my device. So PLEASE help me out!
Thanks everyone!
cheech92007 said:
Alright, as some of you know, I really, really, REALLY, messed up on my last root attempt.
Apparently I didn't backup what I was supposed to. That was my own stupid a55 mistake and I have admitted to it.
I DO plan to attempt a root again so that I can get this theme on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042268
There are things that I need to know before I attempt this (and yes I know there are forums already on this but I need to be 110% sure)
1) How do I back up EVERYTHING on my phone and put it on my computer or SD card or somewhere that I can go to incase I mess up again?
2) What is the EASIEST program/method to root this Samsung Epic 4g?
3) (I'm not too sure what I'm talking about here ((remember, I'm a total noob)))
I tried CWM 3.0.0.5 before... is this a ROM that I attempted to go to?
3ii) If I should'nt be using CWM, what should I use?
4) Is Froyo and CWM the same time of thing? or two different things completely?
and finally:
5) Give me all of your recommendations on this please! I DON'T WANNA MESS UP AGAIN!
And please none of this "You messed up before, dont try it again!" crap, I know I messed up, and I know this is stupid, but the fact of the matter is, I'm trying it again to get this theme on my device. So PLEASE help me out!
Thanks everyone!
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Ok, first things first. Not to be rude, but you are at the first step of enjoying Epic goodness; rooting your phone. It should be obvious that this step is covered ALL over XDA and a simple google search would have lead you to the following page:
CWM 3.0.0.5
There are already wayyyy too many threads asking questions that were answered long before they were ever even asked in the first place.
Okay, now that that's out of the way .
1. If you're absolutely freaked about losing anything, MyBackup and MyBackup Pro will back up all your apps. Then simply plug your phone into your computer and copy the entire contents of your sd card to your harddrive. Mybackup Root can be used once your rooted and is free.
2. Use the link i posted.
3. CWM is not a Rom. It replaces the default recovery subsystem with one you can use to flash Roms. You enter it from the off state by pressing Volume Down+Camera+Power. Do not use CWM 3.0.2.4.
4. Froyo is simply the version of android. The Samsung Epic is on Froyo, or 2.2. Roms come in various flavors like Eclair(2.1), Froyo(2.2), and hopefully soon for the Epic, Gingerbread(2.3).
5. Search around the Epic Android Development for a Rom that makes you excited. A good suggestion for you would be Midnight 5.2. All you have to do is download the Rom .zip file to your SD, boot into CWM 3, Install from SD, and point it to the .zip. Read the forums for how to safely install their Roms like clearing data and making/restoring backups.
Remember, everything you've asked has been asked and answered many times, so please search next time to avoid making unnecessary threads and to gain your answer faster!
RandomKing said:
Ok, first things first. Not to be rude, but you are at the first step of enjoying Epic goodness; rooting your phone. It should be obvious that this step is covered ALL over XDA and a simple google search would have lead you to the following page:
CWM 3.0.0.5
There are already wayyyy too many threads asking questions that were answered long before they were ever even asked in the first place.
Okay, now that that's out of the way .
1. If you're absolutely freaked about losing anything, MyBackup and MyBackup Pro will back up all your apps. Then simply plug your phone into your computer and copy the entire contents of your sd card to your harddrive. Mybackup Root can be used once your rooted and is free.
2. Use the link i posted.
3. CWM is not a Rom. It replaces the default recovery subsystem with one you can use to flash Roms. You enter it from the off state by pressing Volume Down+Camera+Power. Do not use CWM 3.0.2.4.
4. Froyo is simply the version of android. The Samsung Epic is on Froyo, or 2.2. Roms come in various flavors like Eclair(2.1), Froyo(2.2), and hopefully soon for the Epic, Gingerbread(2.3).
5. Search around the Epic Android Development for a Rom that makes you excited. A good suggestion for you would be Midnight 5.2. All you have to do is download the Rom .zip file to your SD, boot into CWM 3, Install from SD, and point it to the .zip. Read the forums for how to safely install their Roms like clearing data and making/restoring backups.
Remember, everything you've asked has been asked and answered many times, so please search next time to avoid making unnecessary threads and to gain your answer faster!
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Okay the main thing that I am confused about is number 5. Why do I want these ROM's exactly? Pretty much all I want is that Red Angry Alien theme.
cheech92007 said:
Okay the main thing that I am confused about is number 5. Why do I want these ROM's exactly? Pretty much all I want is that Red Angry Alien theme.
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After reviewing your other posts, I am now aware that you have asked a lot of this and already been answered but are clearly not interested in reading the information presented to you. This should have been continued in the last thread that you started, but what's done is done. Your key problem is rooting with CWM which converts the file system to EXT4. You will have to flash a new rom or kernel immediately following or the phone can't boot. This means that you must have a new rom or kernel .zip file on your sd card PRIOR TO ROOTING. I haven't messed around too much with a rooted stock rom, but at the least you need a new kernel, search for and try VisionKernel if thats all you want.
Please refrain from starting any more threads, you've already been given more information than you need by myself and others. Search around XDA, it can be fun!
RandomKing said:
You will have to flash a new rom or kernel immediately following or the phone can't boot. This means that you must have a new rom or kernel .zip file on your sd card PRIOR TO ROOTING. I haven't messed around too much with a rooted stock rom, but at the least you need a new kernel, search for and try VisionKernel if thats all you want.
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Alright, I just downloaded the EB13-DUALFS-KERNEL.zip to my desktop...is THIS what you were talking about that I need on my SD card first? I looked inside it and it has a KERNEL file in it... So I put this on my SD card, then ROOT, then UNZIP the EB13 on my devices when Im in CWM Reboot?
cheech92007 said:
Alright, I just downloaded the EB13-DUALFS-KERNEL.zip to my desktop...is THIS what you were talking about that I need on my SD card first? I looked inside it and it has a KERNEL file in it... So I put this on my SD card, then ROOT, then UNZIP the EB13 on my devices when Im in CWM Reboot?
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There is no unzipping. In CWM, you simply select "Install from sd", point to your .zip file, and tell it to start. CWM is pretty straight forward to navigate. It will probably take a couple minutes, after which you will select the Reboot option and watch your phone load.
cheech92007 said:
Okay the main thing that I am confused about is number 5. Why do I want these ROM's exactly? Pretty much all I want is that Red Angry Alien theme.
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What randomking said....and
I didn't see what the red angry alien theme was designed for.... it just says ec05...ec05 is the latest build of froyo we have. Because all you want is a theme I'm going to suggest you do the oneclick root cwm version 2.5.5(stock file system).
I assume you'll need to be on a deodexed rom to flash that, but you may want to try it(since you learned how to odin you can just about recover from anything) and see if it works.
After you run the oneclick 2.5.5 root your good to go, just boot back into clockworkmod(2.5.5 is green text and not orange) click down to backup/restore, click on it and then click backup. This is what's called a nandroid. A nandroid is a complete backup of your entire system, including all user data. The only thing it will not backup is the kernel, since your not changing the kernel it won't matter. If you have problems or mess up you just wipe everything/factory reset/cache/dalvik cache and instead of going to backup, you select restore....blaam exactly the way your phone was when you backed it up. BTW backing up and restoring takes about 10minutes and don't try it when your battery is almost dead.
Hope that helps a bit more and don't rush it, the theme will be here for a long while I'm sure.
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There is no unzipping. In CWM, you simply select "Install from sd", point to your .zip file, and tell it to start. CWM is pretty straight forward to navigate. It will probably take a couple minutes, after which you will select the Reboot option and watch your phone load.
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Great, Thank you so much I really appreciate it.
Now all I need to do is get my theme on here xD
cheech92007 said:
Great, Thank you so much I really appreciate it.
Now all I need to do is get my theme on here xD
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On second thought cheech, go herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009997 and watch every single one of these videos and don't ask anything more untill you have.....deal?
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On second thought cheech, go herehttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009997 and watch every single one of these videos and don't ask anything more untill you have.....deal?
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yessir!
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yessir!
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I'll thank that post later if you really watch ALL those videos.....they're really helpful
Just wondering if you guys enable compression to save space when making nandroids on twrp. I have never done it and want to try but wanted to see how many people do it.
Thanks
stu5797 said:
Just wondering if you guys enable compression to save space when making nandroids on twrp. I have never done it and want to try but wanted to see how many people do it.
Thanks
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I do it every time. Why wouldn't you want your backups compressed? It lowers their size so you save some room on internal or external
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I do it every time. Why wouldn't you want your backups compressed? It lowers their size so you save some room on internal or external
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Is there any downside to this? Have you successfully restored a backup after compressing it in this fashion?
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Is there any downside to this? Have you successfully restored a backup after compressing it in this fashion?
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nope none that i see and yes i have restored the compressed backups before. Only problem is after you restore a compressed backup it gets uncompressed and goes back to the size it would be if you didnt compress it. But all you would have to do is delete it that backup and make a new compressed backup
well sure. it takes longer on both ends (compression and decompression) but its seriously minor. I always used it and restoring has never proven a problem yet.
Good deal, thanks for the feedback. I'm backing up right now and chose to compress it. I'll be interested to see how big it is compared to an older backup and how much space it actually saves.
I compress mine, longest its taken so far was 420seconds to do the whole setup with about 300apps installed. A basic backup of a rom takes me 190seconds. One thing I haven't noticed is my backups themself being decompressed after restore, but I don't pay much attention cuz I usually delete and make a fresh one just so its more current.
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Any reason why this is not the default?
stu5797 said:
Any reason why this is not the default?
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Mine is enabled by default always has been on every device I've ever used twrp on
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I use twrp on my gs3 and my note2. Neither have compressed as a default setting
Its enabled on my et4g, gs3, kindle fire and og evo4g I've never had to enable it, however the gs3 already had twrp on it so my dad may have enabled it on it and being as its always default on the others I didn't pay much attention. Twrp on the gs3 is a different build than my other devices they are all on twrp2.x and the gs3 is twrp3.1.0 so they may have disabled it by default on the newer builds
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What do you have checked when backing up?
Hi..
Nice info..
What information do you have have Xd out when doing the nand?
I have Boot, Data, Modem, EFS, System .. What else should we have checked?
I use TWRP 2.3.3.2. on the Note 2 running CleanROM 4.0.5 and Jedi XP9
navyvet420 said:
Hi..
Nice info..
What information do you have have Xd out when doing the nand?
I have Boot, Data, Modem, EFS, System .. What else should we have checked?
I use TWRP 2.3.3.2. on the Note 2 running CleanROM 4.0.5 and Jedi XP9
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http://teamw.in/whattobackup
I would certainly not zip a nandroid backup (at least not the one you carry on your device in case of need). Besides taking more time and work for the process, there are two major drawbacks. Imagine the necessary storage space to be not sufficient for the decompression, you would have first to estimate the needed space to free, then search and decide which files to get rid of, while counting the sum it frees and then perform the unzip. Now the worst and most probable situation.. If you need a restore it's likely that you get a system failure. So what if wou're not able to decompress first?
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I would certainly not zip a nandroid backup (at least not the one you carry on your device in case of need). Besides taking more time and work for the process, there are two major drawbacks. Imagine the necessary storage space to be not sufficient for the decompression, you would have first to estimate the needed space to free, then search and decide which files to get rid of, while counting the sum it frees and then perform the unzip. Now the worst and most probable situation.. If you need a restore it's likely that you get a system failure. So what if wou're not able to decompress first?
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Seriously dude? I think this topic has been asked answered and solved 4 to 5 years ago. So why bump a thread that has been dead for nearly half a decade?
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Seriously dude? I think this topic has been asked answered and solved 4 to 5 years ago. So why bump a thread that has been dead for nearly half a decade?
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Oh my, your post makes me feel rather ashamed, sorry to have annoyed you
Since I didn't see it anywhere and you're nice to join on a dead thread please can you lead me where this have been "solved"?
Thanks much
Aerocap said:
Oh my, your post makes me feel rather ashamed, sorry to have annoyed you
Since I didn't see it anywhere and you're nice to join on a dead thread please can you lead me where this have been "solved"?
Thanks much
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Twrp has the option built in to enable compression. You don't zip it yourself. The answer is, it's simply a preference. It's also advised to save twrp backups off device, in external sd or flash drive, even on a PC. Device storage never enters the equation. You can restore backups directly from said storage devices.
So again, simply a preference. You didn't "annoy me. That's a fairly arrogant assumption. I just thought it odd to attempt to answer a question that no one has queried in years.
@madbat99 Of course there is also to save a backup somewhere else, I mentionned especially the one we carry for emergency after reading a previous post
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Only problem is after you restore a compressed backup it gets uncompressed and goes back to the size it would be if you didnt compress it.
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@madbat99 Of course there is also to save a backup somewhere else, I mentionned especially the one we carry for emergency after reading a previous post
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Emergency backups should be on external sd. What if /data is corrupted? Backup is lost. Who would ever run device storage so close to full that a decompressed backup wouldn't fit, if it fit while compressed? Your device would run horribly.
So many issues would be solved if people would just maintain healthy device habits. Don't run right at storage limits, keep backups on external sd.
I never compress my backups by the way. No need. But it's not because I don't have room for it to decompress. It's just an extra step that I have no use for.
Hi, its my first time posting, I figured I wanted to sign up to XDA eventually so why not when I feel like I've completely ruined my phone... or at least internal sd card...
Basically I rooted my phone and was flashing the Jellybam rom, and everything was going smoothly until I got to the bootloader and my phone started bootlooping. My first thought was 'Oh but I have a backup'. So I went to my backup in CWM and to my dismay I got an error saying "No files were found."
I could clearly see my files from exploring around on my sd card however they were now in a file called '0' and CWM could not read them from there. Without a working ROM I started to panic. However I had a zip of CM10 still on my internal sd card so I flashed that and (luckily) it worked.
Not really being too competent with flashing new ROMs yet I was quite happy that I had anything. So I used titanium backup to reinstall my old apps and data. However once they were installed I now get an error with 'the process android.process.media has stopped'.
I'm guessing this has do do with the fact that I have all my files still on the '0' folder. All the other folders from the '0' folder were the same except they were all empty, soooooo I decided to delete them. At this point I'm guessing that was a really bad idea because my initial plan of moving all the files from '0' to my pc then back to my phone, I did not think about the fact that I would be moving 14 Gb of data...
So basically now I'm hoping if someone knows a way to revert my phone to 4.1.2 by somehow moving all the files from '0' back onto the internal storage (basically getting rid of this '0') folder. The CM10 ROM is a 4.1.2 ROM so its not like I'm fudging up my phone further (I hope).
If you could be as detailed as possible as to what to do that would be great, because I'm really really new to this....
From what I've read I've heard a couple of suggestions:
1. updating the recovery.img of CWM will work? How exactly do I do this?
2. opening abd shell recovery and moving the files like that (however I deleted all the other files in the internal storage apart from '0' because that was where all the data was stored and everything else was empty...'
help. :crying:
0Capita said:
Hi, its my first time posting, I figured I wanted to sign up to XDA eventually so why not when I feel like I've completely ruined my phone... or at least internal sd card...
Basically I rooted my phone and was flashing the Jellybam rom, and everything was going smoothly until I got to the bootloader and my phone started bootlooping. My first thought was 'Oh but I have a backup'. So I went to my backup in CWM and to my dismay I got an error saying "No files were found."
I could clearly see my files from exploring around on my sd card however they were now in a file called '0' and CWM could not read them from there. Without a working ROM I started to panic. However I had a zip of CM10 still on my internal sd card so I flashed that and (luckily) it worked.
Not really being too competent with flashing new ROMs yet I was quite happy that I had anything. So I used titanium backup to reinstall my old apps and data. However once they were installed I now get an error with 'the process android.process.media has stopped'.
I'm guessing this has do do with the fact that I have all my files still on the '0' folder. All the other folders from the '0' folder were the same except they were all empty, soooooo I decided to delete them. At this point I'm guessing that was a really bad idea because my initial plan of moving all the files from '0' to my pc then back to my phone, I did not think about the fact that I would be moving 14 Gb of data...
So basically now I'm hoping if someone knows a way to revert my phone to 4.1.2 by somehow moving all the files from '0' back onto the internal storage (basically getting rid of this '0') folder. The CM10 ROM is a 4.1.2 ROM so its not like I'm fudging up my phone further (I hope).
If you could be as detailed as possible as to what to do that would be great, because I'm really really new to this....
From what I've read I've heard a couple of suggestions:
1. updating the recovery.img of CWM will work? How exactly do I do this?
2. opening abd shell recovery and moving the files like that (however I deleted all the other files in the internal storage apart from '0' because that was where all the data was stored and everything else was empty...'
help. :crying:
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1- Your solution
2- Was quite the bad idea to delete it all so this solution won't work now.
clockwordmod.com is where you'll find the latest recovery.
BWolf56 said:
1- Your solution
2- Was quite the bad idea to delete it all so this solution won't work now.
clockwordmod.com is where you'll find the latest recovery.
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So how exactly do I do that? I just download the the latest clockwork mod and flash it? Why can't it be updated via an automatic updater? And what will it do to the file or will it change clockwork mod so that it will scan the entire sd card?
Also if I just remade folders identical to the ones I deleted, will that still work?
I'm just trying to get my phone to be as functional as it was before this all started.
Thanks for replying btw!
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So how exactly do I do that? I just download the the latest clockwork mod and flash it? Why can't it be updated via an automatic updater? And what will it do to the file or will it change clockwork mod so that it will scan the entire sd card?
Also if I just remade folders identical to the ones I deleted, will that still work?
I'm just trying to get my phone to be as functional as it was before this all started.
Thanks for replying btw!
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That's a lot of question for the simple fix I gave you.. I haven't used cwm in a while so Idk what changed in the update but if people said it fixed it, then it did..
0, 1, 2, etc.. Is something that came with JB, it's for the different users. Not much can be done about it.
About how you should do that: Go on their website, FOLLOW their instructions to a T, Enjoy.
As for why it can be updated via an automatic updater.. Well I'm not the person you should ask.
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Wolf56;371questions it's a lot of question for the simple fix I gave you.. I haven't used cwm in a while so Idk what changed in the update but if people said it fixed it, then it did..
0, 1, 2, etc.. Is something that came with JB, it's for the different users. Not much can be done about it.
About how you should do that: Go on their website, FOLLOW their instructions to a T, Enjoy.
As for why it can be updated via an automatic updater.. Well I'm not the person you should ask.
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Sorry for all the questions, I'm just worried that I messed up my phone. Would you know if I were able to be able to access my old clockwork mod backups and used one of them, would it put my 0 files back into the internal storage like they used to? Or would it only revert the settings and I would still be SOL.
0Capita said:
Sorry for all the questions, I'm just worried that I messed up my phone. Would you know if I were able to be able to access my old clockwork mod backups and used one of them, would it put my 0 files back into the internal storage like they used to? Or would it only revert the settings and I would still be SOL.
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Yes, that's the whole point of the cwm update. Now to flash it!
Or, go digg through the cm nightly thread. They had a flash able zip that would restore your internal sd after downgrading Android versions.
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Yes, that's the whole point of the cwm update. Now to flash it!
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Well here's my latest problem... I tried to update CWM with an .img however when I tried to run it in the terminal it said there was not enough space... I don't know what to do... there is definitely a couple gigs free so I don't know what is wrong...
mrhaley30705 said:
Or, go digg through the cm nightly thread. They had a flash able zip that would restore your internal sd after downgrading Android versions.
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the cm nightly thread? So theres a zip that would make 4.2 go back to 4.1?
Okay update:
I managed to flash update the new version of CWM... still can't use backup... I get a /system fail
It doesn't downgrade you're ROM. It fixes the 0 folder issue
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It doesn't downgrade you're ROM. It fixes the 0 folder issue
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Ugh Okay I've given up... I dont know what else to try. Now that I've updated my CWM I cant flash the old CM10 because it reads it as a 4.1 and uncompatable... FML.
Can anyone point me to where I can find the Odin stock factory? I guess I'll just start from scratch...
http://db.tt/rWFbAFiF
Link to restore files from /0 directory
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Helloworld294 said:
http://db.tt/rWFbAFiF
Link to restore files from /0 directory
Credits go to madmack
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OOOMMMMMGggg ahhhhhh, that would have been so helpful but I've already started to factory reset it. Thanks though!
ahhhhhhhhh
Forget cwm it sucks use twrp and be done with all the problems
Sent from the scary door....
I am about 9 days into the purchase and may regret having done so. To keep this brief, I have never seen so many things that don't work right, out of the box. Mostly force closes on some key apps I have. However, the thing that is most irritating is the internal storage. I just went back to stock MDL, to sortof start from the beginning, but (and since I can't use Root Explorer atm) Estrongs file explorer still shows 8.37 GB's used out of 9.62. I get the thing where we really don't get 16 GB's, but I am looking at what is on the internal and I can't see anything at all that is using anything close to that much space. Is it correct that apps don't show up in a file explorer, and is that likely what is taking up all the space? Regardless, this is nuts. I can't be jockeying around with trying to free up a GB or two just to nandroid the stock ROM for the next two years or however long I have this. I was rooted and had installed a custom ROM or two since I got it, but I tried to nandroid the stock ROM before flashing AOKP last night, and it would not let me due to the internal card being full. Has anybody else experienced this, and figured out how to free up some significant space? Last couple of things: for when I am rooted, does anybody know how to get fix permissions in ROM Manager to work? I keep getting "error trying to run privileged commands". Has anybody gotten My Backup Pro to actually do a full backup? Finally, having gone back to MDL, isn't that what the phone "upgraded" to when I first turned it on, and am I now able to bring it back without concern of the warranty being voided?
Something must be wrong between your shoes & the phone...just saying.
Insert a Class 10 32GB stick from Samsung, storage woes solved. Added bonus, snap many more pics & faster too.
Lots of force-closes? On a custom ROM or OEM? Either way, be sure to FULLY WIPE when you do either...99.9999999% of n00b foolishness quoting "this phone is a piece of junk bla bla bla" stems from not following instructions properly, or just missing a key procedure.
Samsung have spent MANY millions developing this phone, rest assured that they've had any number of tards try to do stupid things with it to find it's weaknesses...hardware OR software.
Btw, why are you trying to have ROM Manager fix any permissions? Do you have expressed instruction to do so or is it an old habit from Android 2.2x days? Otherwise don't do it.
The storage is horrible. The external sd card if basically useless; you cant move apps and you cant backup directly to external sd. I'm returning the S4 tomorrow and going back to the S2.
Purple Velvet Pimp said:
The storage is horrible. The external sd card if basically useless; you cant move apps and you cant backup directly to external sd. I'm returning the S4 tomorrow and going back to the S2.
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You can't backup what? Nandroids? Yes you can. I don't know how you can fill up 9gb with apps but if you did then maybe you should get a different phone or wait for the 32gb version
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elflip88 said:
You can't backup what? Nandroids? Yes you can.
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Read what I wrote. 3 backups and I'm already maxed out, and I debloated before I backed up. Beautiful phone but I like the S2 a helluva lot more.
Update: Finally was able to save a backup to the external sd card. Keeping the S4
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Purple Velvet Pimp said:
The storage is horrible. The external sd card if basically useless; you cant move apps and you cant backup directly to external sd. I'm returning the S4 tomorrow and going back to the S2.
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I don't know where you guys get your information from, of course you can make nandroid backups and restore from
external sdcard using the latest CWM or TWRP recoveries, and of course you can flash roms and install APK apps
from either the internal sdcard or the external sd card.
You just need to get better acquainted with the file system in the Galaxy S4.
It is way different than the file system on the Galaxy S2 or S3.
Good Luck
puretone said:
Something must be wrong between your shoes & the phone...just saying.
Insert a Class 10 32GB stick from Samsung, storage woes solved. Added bonus, snap many more pics & faster too.
Lots of force-closes? On a custom ROM or OEM? Either way, be sure to FULLY WIPE when you do either...99.9999999% of n00b foolishness quoting "this phone is a piece of junk bla bla bla" stems from not following instructions properly, or just missing a key procedure.
Samsung have spent MANY millions developing this phone, rest assured that they've had any number of tards try to do stupid things with it to find it's weaknesses...hardware OR software.
Btw, why are you trying to have ROM Manager fix any permissions? Do you have expressed instruction to do so or is it an old habit from Android 2.2x days? Otherwise don't do it.
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Thanks for nothing. The subheading of this section is "HELP and troubleshooting", not butt wupping. How are my storage woes solved if there is not enough space on the internal card to then try to transfer it to the external, regardless of how large it is? Glad to know that you have it all together and never needed a hand to understand something. Oh, and BTW, good for you that you apparently don't have any "tards" in your family or in anybody's you know. Karma, dude.
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I don't know where you guys get your information from, of course you can make nandroid backups and restore from
external sdcard using the latest CWM or TWRP recoveries, and of course you can flash roms and install APK apps
from either the internal sdcard or the external sd card.
You just need to get better acquainted with the file system in the Galaxy S4.
It is way different than the file system on the Galaxy S2 or S3.
Good Luck
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With TWRP I get an almost instant failed when backing up to external. CWM took so long [easily 3 x longer than S2] I restarted. Finally I let it go about 20 min and it completed. Restore worked too. I've had trouble getting OUDHS to backup external and where I can see the file. With CWM I can at least see the file, renaming it though seems to screw up restore. OUDHS is the fastest, hope I can get it to work as needed.
UPDATE: just finished backing up with OUDHS & think I found the file. I had to install CWM recovery first, save to external so I have a backup folder created under clockworkmod and now OUDHS saves to that folder. Before it was nowhere to be found. Nice.
I don't know where you guys get your information from
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Mainly porn sites, why?
Purple Velvet Pimp said:
The storage is horrible. The external sd card if basically useless; you cant move apps and you cant backup directly to external sd. I'm returning the S4 tomorrow and going back to the S2.
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I've got nearly 120 apps installed, all downloaded from the play store, nearly 7GB free space left on internal storage. How many apps etc do you have installed? Or do you mean that the performance of the internal card is horrible?
I backed up to external 3 times now; ROM Manager, MyBackup & Titanium all allow it.
Is Apps2SD not available for the S4?
You might miss some of the speed of the S4 if you go back to the S2
Also keep in mind that they may not take it back for a refund or anything in the worst case. It is likely that you've got to pay the 75$ restocking fee.
Edit: duh, you've already answered yourself, my bad. Tho keep in mind keeping 1 or 2 ROM backups is usually enough, unless you're developing really hardcore.
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Thanks for nothing. The subheading of this section is "HELP and troubleshooting", not butt wupping. How are my storage woes solved if there is not enough space on the internal card to then try to transfer it to the external, regardless of how large it is? Glad to know that you have it all together and never needed a hand to understand something. Oh, and BTW, good for you that you apparently don't have any "tards" in your family or in anybody's you know. Karma, dude.
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Relax, I wasn't referring to you as a tard, I meant the many unsuspecting randomly chosen folks charged with road-testing early development S4's...you know, the product surveying/market research boffins.
What you did describe previously sounds a heck of a lot like a missing step here or there. I've been there often, with a phone acting wonky, until I found it was all my dumb mistakes bc I didn't bother to RTFM enough. Don't take the internet so seriously, after all the internet is full of cynical bastards like myself.
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With TWRP I get an almost instant failed when backing up to external. CWM took so long [easily 3 x longer than S2] I restarted. Finally I let it go about 20 min and it completed. Restore worked too. I've had trouble getting OUDHS to backup external and where I can see the file. With CWM I can at least see the file, renaming it though seems to screw up restore. OUDHS is the fastest, hope I can get it to work as needed.
UPDATE: just finished backing up with OUDHS & think I found the file. I had to install CWM recovery first, save to external so I have a backup folder created under clockworkmod and now OUDHS saves to that folder. Before it was nowhere to be found. Nice.
Mainly porn sites, why?
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I had pretty much the exact same issues. CWM now works just fine.
There is mention that on the S4 / 4.2.2, file storage is encrypted and hidden if I remember correctly.
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I've got nearly 120 apps installed, all downloaded from the play store, nearly 7GB free space left on internal storage. How many apps etc do you have installed? Or do you mean that the performance of the internal card is horrible?
I backed up to external 3 times now; ROM Manager, MyBackup & Titanium all allow it.
Is Apps2SD not available for the S4?
You might miss some of the speed of the S4 if you go back to the S2
Also keep in mind that they may not take it back for a refund or anything in the worst case. It is likely that you've got to pay the 75$ restocking fee.
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I got about 71 apps & now that I figured out how to get my backups on external I got a little over 8gb on internal. I can live with that. The internal memory performance is fine, it was the limited space I was griping about. Apps2SD and similar programs won't work on S4 or S3 I believe. S2 is good to go depending on ROM. I think my backing up to external problem was due to using an 8gb card for testing instead of a larger one. Once I put in a 32gb it was off to the races
You're right about the speed, the S4 blows the doors off the S2. Restoring my sms' was 10x faster. And I got a sick odex theme so I'm mostly stock but thoroughly themed.
And with Tmobile the restock fee is $50, not bad if you're not happy with the phone
So here is my issue...
I've backed up with OUDHS the first day i had the phone and without a sdcard on it... Now I cant find the backup folder and my internal storage is completely empty but when i check on the PC it has 3gb of used space! How is it possible? My only guess is that the backup is somewhere in there but i cant find it at all.... I've looked with root explorer and nothing!
Any ideas?
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