So I went to flash Cyanogen mod nightly this morning and I made a new backup of my stock rom to restore in case of any issues. screen displayed back up complete and I double checked I read that correctly due to many a issue with CWM on past devices. I flashed Cyanogen to find it was stuck on boot. I go to restore back up and no files found.
FML
I managed to get cyanogen working but I want my stock back
Anybody else had this issue?
Did you back up to internal memory or microsd card? Restoring a backup needs you to also select either back up from internal or external memory. If you know all this then maybe you have a fake micro sd card (if you backed up to external memory). Little more info on where you backed up your nandroid and whether it could be stored on a "5-dollar 32GB chinese micro sd card".
I also remember having had a similar problem, but that was due to a rom I flashed that needed another version of CWM, so I then had to re-flash the CWM from before to be able to recover my old backups. I think that should not be the case anymore though... I hope.
May be you saved the back up on internal sd and it got wiped after full wipe. ...I always save back ups on external sd
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I'm a long time reader of XDA but I'm fairly certain that this is the first time I've ever really needed to post as most of my questions are answered by others. This time I can't find any answers so I have to post.
Here is my situation: I've backed up all of my data with Titanium Backup Pro, I do this regularly. I was running CM9 and everything worked beautifully well and all of the apps that I wanted to be were saved on my external micro SD card. Then I decided to upgrade to the new CM10 for one reason or another so I did a backup with TB then wiped my phone, installed Gingerbread, and then installed CM10 (I guess I had to, the current CM9 wouldn't allow me to flash CM10 for one reason or another).
The installation all went well but then when doing the restore with TB I realized that it was restoring everything to my phone memory and not to the external SD. It then stopped restoring when it ran out of space on the phone. Now I have data on both my external (that wasn't wiped so the info is still there) and on my phone. When I try to move any app to the external SD as I once did, instead of sending it to the micro SD card, it sends it to an internal mounted drive called ASEC (or at least as far as I can tell). Basically the phone ignores the fact that I have an external card and it won't let me move apps there. Being put off by this I went through the steps of restoring CM9 but not through a Nandroid backup. I did a full factory wipe and just reinstalled it. I didn't think to make a nandroid because it was backed up with TB. It may have been stupid but there's nothing I can do about it now.
Now with CM9 installed I'm having the exact same problem I had with CM10 and I'm confused as hell. Why doesn't it want to link my apps to the external data that's already there? Shouldn't TB remember the directory's and point the apps in that direction? I can understand why it would be confused with CM10 because the file naming structure was different (it was Sdcard1 or something like that instead of external_SD) but now I'm completely lost after reinstalling CM9. Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this? When I try to move any apps to the SD card it just puts them in the same ASEC folder. Any help is certainly appreciated.
I'd like to try a couple other roms since the one i am on seems to be having a few issues AND I would like to eliminate that its the rom and not my phone...
I do have a Philz backup of the synergyrom with my settings on my sd card. If I dont like the new rom, or have issues, can I just go into Philz and restore my backup without needing to reflash the synergyrom first, then the backup?
Thx!
Yes you can. BUT you need to make sure you back up your current ROM to your external SD card not internal because it can easily get deleted by doing a data wipe. Just to be safe I always put my backups on my external SD card.
Hello guys,
I have a problem, help would be greatly appreciated. Here's what I did and what happened.
I was on JellyKat 6.7 but phone kept reboting so I decided to do dirtyflash of the same ROM. What could go wrong, right, after all - it is a same ROM
After flashing JK and 3 OTAs from TWRP the phone booted fine. But after a while I noticd that I can't write to internal SD card.
After more playing, I noticed that I can write to internal SD from \data\media\... but not from \storage\...
Since nothing worked, I decided (bad choice again) to wipe the internal SD. After all, I have a backup on ExtSD of all important folders.
After formatting IntSD from recovery (and wiping dalvik&cache), I still couldn't see internal SD (from \storage) but I also couldn't see EXTERNAL storage as well!
Putting the SD card in the reader I checked that it is visible on PC. Uhhhh, didn't lose my data!
Now. With problems with both int and ext SD.... what do I do to repair it??? The phone boots OK, but no storage is available
Thanx!
edit:
I formatted extSD card on my pc to FAT32 (was exFAT) so now I can see it from recovery (but still not from the ES explorer when the phone boots).... will try to restore nandroid of 4.3 I have....
edit2:
OK, flashed Philz (since my nandroid backup was done with that), and restoreing... keeping my fingers crossed. If this fails, is it safe to flash STOCK Samsung 4.1.2 ROM from Odin (I'm on MJ5 bootloader so no Knox)?
edit3:
Seems my backup was 4.1.2 But it worked. I see both int and ext cards. Luckily it is rooted. I'll try flashing JellyKat now all over again.... Hmmm, hope I'm still on MJ5? Can nandroid restore bootloader?
edit4:
I'm on MJ5 So hurray to flashing! Actualy, before flashing I have to restore files to SD card which might take a while.... so far on 4.1.2
edit5:
Flashed JellyKat, so far so good
I know this should be directed to the twrp forums but I wanted to get feedback from owners of the sprint lg g3 preferably using the CM12.1 android version 5.1.
I have always had this issue where I am unable to flash roms on my external sd card via twrp. Everytime I try (just tried again tonight), after over and hour of restoring, it was only at 10%. When I flash the same rom on the internal sd (memory) it only takes about 10 minutes to accomplish the entire restore, its the same way for backups too. I don't understand why I am unable to do backups and restores from my external sd. It is very inconvienant to keep moving the backups from external to internal and vice versa. Plus, I can never put more than 1 backup on my internal because they take up so much space (roughly 8gb). It doesn't matter what backup rom I flash it does the same thing. Has anyone else been able to flash roms from their external sd card and if so, what did you have to do to get it to work? I have sent my concerns to the twrp team with no replies back. I am just curious if others are having the same problem or if their has been a fix for this.
I am currently on version 2.8.5 of twrp.
Does anyone have any suggestions or feedback on this issue? Thanks
Hey mate,
You could try installing the TWRP version for the G3 from their app, rather than just the generic version for any phone. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your SD Card could be corrupted. I backup my whole phone to my external SD Card before I flash any updates or anything else, and can install the ROM updates from my SD Card with no problems whatsoever.
All I can really think of is either a new SD Card, or the official TWRP for the G3 from their app.
iDefalt said:
Hey mate,
You could try installing the TWRP version for the G3 from their app, rather than just the generic version for any phone. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your SD Card could be corrupted. I backup my whole phone to my external SD Card before I flash any updates or anything else, and can install the ROM updates from my SD Card with no problems whatsoever.
All I can really think of is either a new SD Card, or the official TWRP for the G3 from their app.
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Thanks for the response. Do you have a G3 also? I have installed the official bumped version of twrp for my sprint phone and am still having issues. Just by curiousity, when you are in twrp, are you able to backup and restore directly to/from the sd card. I do not have any issues with my card other than this, I can transfer and move files, etc. I have noticed though on my 64 gb scandisk card that when it first boots up, it will say not able to retrieve location. I put a different card in the phone and that message stopped which makes me believe it has something to do with the card. That location message just started about a month or two ago.
iDefalt said:
Hey mate,
You could try installing the TWRP version for the G3 from their app, rather than just the generic version for any phone. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your SD Card could be corrupted. I backup my whole phone to my external SD Card before I flash any updates or anything else, and can install the ROM updates from my SD Card with no problems whatsoever.
All I can really think of is either a new SD Card, or the official TWRP for the G3 from their app.
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It turns out that it was something to do with the external SD card. I replaced it with a brand new card and i am able to backup and restore to/from the external card with twrp.
jreink01 said:
It turns out that it was something to do with the external SD card. I replaced it with a brand new card and i am able to backup and restore to/from the external card with twrp.
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Nice, good to see it got worked out!
hey,
i hope this is a good place for this. let me know. I posted in Viper thread and TWRP. I'm desperately seeking answers because I'm stuck now with low functionality and trouble restoring system image... Read on...
i have Viper10 4.4.0, and i have a 128gb MicroSD card as internal storage. Well this card just bit the dust, i lost everything on it. That's ok cus it was backed up, but I am still having problems, so i am guessing the Viper ROM / system doesnt like that the card is gone. it's corrupted i suppose.*
Before i bought a replacement card, i tried using my camera. "please insert an SD card" - so it couldnt adapt to the card being gone? there were other similar things but thats a good example. So i bought another card, class 3, so its fast. i formatted it as internal storage, and still got the same message in the camera!
Another example is I cannot download anything in Chrome - whether I have no card, new card as internal storage, or new card as removable storage - none of those will work.
So i thought it must be time to restore TWRP that system image i made while back. i pasted my backup onto the SD card, went to TWRP to restore, and TWRP didn't even see any files on the card. So, i reformatted to removable storage, pasted, went to TWRP. did restore > my system backup. It said "select partition" but it didnt allow me to select anything, nor did it initially show anything selected. so the backup initiates but stops and complains "no partition selected."
can you advise me at all? is the system image restore what i need to do, and if so, what do i do about the partition selection?
Any other ways I can get back to stock?
thanks!
ben
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