I flashed from "stock" Optimus Z to Vanilla RootBox and made a CWM backup prior to flashing. I need to restore the CWM backup in order to pull a notification ringtone and some memos that I made, but I can't restore the CWM backup because the mount points changed, so the backups don't show up in CWM. Is there any way for me to recover that CWM backup? When I connect my Optimus G to the computer, everything shows up fine, including both CWM backups. One before the flash, one after the flash. They're both in the same folder and location.
You can try with Titanium Backup.It has this feature, to extract apps from a nandroid backup.
Not to mention, that backup is an archive. you can use 7zip to open and take the files you need.
About that memos, not so sure.
I tried reflashing stock Optimus Z then went into CWM in hopes of restoring my CWM backup. No go. Guess I'm SoL...
kimitza said:
You can try with Titanium Backup.It has this feature, to extract apps from a nandroid backup.
Not to mention, that backup is an archive. you can use 7zip to open and take the files you need.
About that memos, not so sure.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.
Ok as I suspected, the mount point changed. My CWM backup is in /sdcard/0/clockworkmod and not /sdcard/clockworkmod/. Is there any way to change and fix this? Basically, it seems that the CWM we're using is faulty..
Edit: Fixed! Had to go to /data/media/clockworkmod
Hello guys, I'm a user of Moon ROM and when I tried to upgrade to v10 .. It was upgraded successfully .. through AROMA installation I backed up EFS, It was backed up into a folder .. not a tar or IMG file, And I found out that I lost my IMEI, and I couldn't find out how to restore the " folder " EFS backup .. So I tried various ways, In the end I tried to make an IMG file of that folder by ImgBurn and then restored it using this script
I got into a FOREVER boot loop, I tried to unroot, i tried to go back to stock firmware, I tried to reflash v9 Moon ROM and v10 again, I tried everything .. Also getting failed to mount /efs in recovery.
It's just killing me and I actually lost hope
So I was wondering if there's a way to reset my counter so I can send it to warranty.
Since I can't boot up to use Triangle away, Any solution ?
Cheet0z said:
Hello guys, I'm a user of Moon ROM and when I tried to upgrade to v10 .. It was upgraded successfully .. through AROMA installation I backed up EFS, It was backed up into a folder .. not a tar or IMG file, And I found out that I lost my IMEI, and I couldn't find out how to restore the " folder " EFS backup .. So I tried various ways, In the end I tried to make an IMG file of that folder by ImgBurn and then restored it using this script
I got into a FOREVER boot loop, I tried to unroot, i tried to go back to stock firmware, I tried to reflash v9 Moon ROM and v10 again, I tried everything .. Also getting failed to mount /efs in recovery.
It's just killing me and I actually lost hope
So I was wondering if there's a way to reset my counter so I can send it to warranty.
Since I can't boot up to use Triangle away, Any solution ?
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Sorry, but, you pretty much screwed your EFS partition by doing serious mistakes.
First of all, that script is backing up/restoring as RAW image that is taken by DD
I never tried to backup EFS using TWRP. But probably it's taking the file(s) in /EFS partition, not taking a RAW image.
So you tried to create a raw image from TWRP's EFS files using ImgBurn and restored it using DD (that script does that). Big mistake.
All you had to do was restoring EFS back using TWRP
However I think you can still restore EFS if you still have the EFS backup taken by TWRP?
If yes
Find a EFS raw image of Note 2 from somewhere (from a friend or internet...)
It has to be taken by DD (script also will work)
Then restore it using that script
Then enter into TWRP and restore your EFS which you took using TWRP before.
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Sorry, but, you pretty much screwed your EFS partition by doing serious mistakes.
First of all, that script is backing up/restoring as RAW image that is taken by DD
I never tried to backup EFS using TWRP. But probably it's taking the file(s) in /EFS partition, not taking a RAW image.
So you tried to create a raw image from TWRP's EFS files using ImgBurn and restored it using DD (that script does that). Big mistake.
All you had to do was restoring EFS back using TWRP
However I think you can still restore EFS if you still have the EFS backup taken by TWRP?
If yes
Find a EFS raw image of Note 2 from somewhere (from a friend or internet...)
It has to be taken by DD (script also will work)
Then restore it using that script
Then enter into TWRP and restore your EFS which you took using TWRP before.
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Thanks in advance, So let me get this straight .. I have to look for a EFS img backup from a friend or from internet and restore it then restore the folder backup that I took using AROMA ?
should he be using the same ROM/baseband/kernel/etc or even from my country ?
Cheet0z said:
Thanks in advance, So let me get this straight .. I have to look for a EFS img backup from a friend or from internet and restore it then restore the folder backup that I took using AROMA ?
should he be using the same ROM/baseband/kernel/etc or even from my country ?
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As long as the device model matches like n7100, it should work. It doesn't has to be same ROM/baseband/kernel.
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As long as the device model matches like n7100, it should work. It doesn't has to be same ROM/baseband/kernel.
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Actually I don't have any friends with a Note II, And I read previously that not a lot of people would share there IMEI, so can I ask You for it please ?
Cheet0z said:
Actually I don't have any friends with a Note II, And I read previously that not a lot of people would share there IMEI, so can I ask You for it please ?
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For the same reason, no, I won't give you mine either.
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For the same reason, no, I won't give you mine either.
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*sigh*
What to do then
Would this method work ?
I came across it while googling for an EFS backup.
Cheet0z said:
*sigh*
What to do then
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Find a friend
Cheet0z said:
Would this method work ?
I came across it while googling for an EFS backup.
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Your EFS partition corrupted because of your writing improper image.
That's why you can't get your EFS partition mounted.
You still need a raw image of EFS partition of Note 2, then restore your EFS backup properly.
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Find a friend
Your EFS partition corrupted because of your writing improper image.
That's why you can't get your EFS partition mounted.
You still need a raw image of EFS partition of Note 2, then restore your EFS backup properly.
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Ok a guy was nice enough and gave me his IMG backup ..
Now I'm stuck at how to restore it !
I mean I can't use the script because it needs the phone to be booted up and android debugging on.
Cheet0z said:
Ok a guy was nice enough and gave me his IMG backup ..
Now I'm stuck at how to restore it !
I mean I can't use the script because it needs the phone to be booted up and android debugging on.
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Don't do anything. I'm going to make CWM update zip for you. I'm a bit busy right now.
Put your efs.img file into the root folder of the zip file
Then flash it via CWM or TWRP
Then restore you original EFS files
I need someone who has done nandroid backup for GT-I9190 running on stock rom (4.4.2). One of my friends has not computer and he wants to flash stock rom via cwm. If someone has nandroid backup and upload for me, I will really appreciate that. Thank you
Nobody will post an nandroid backup because it contains all personal data, IMEI, contacts, messages and so on.
I remember that there is a EFS option in TWRP. If you don't check EFS option, it will not backup EFS.
echelonx said:
I remember that there is a EFS option in TWRP. If you don't check EFS option, it will not backup EFS.
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Sorry I don't use TWRP and don't know too much about.
Good luck
Guys i lost my imei
This was because when i flashed the latest twrp and then lower version of twrp recovery using higher version, after that i got stock recovery i again flashed twrp using odin and realised i lost my imei
I have two backups of imei one efs.img which i tried to restore using terminal emulator it was successful but i didn't get my efs back
I have one more efs backup of extension tar.gz of 61.3 kb if i extract it i get a folder of 5mb with many files how do i restore it?
Is there any other way i can get my imei back.
Please help ;(
Edit : Problem solved
Kartik pat said:
Guys i lost my imei
This was because when i flashed the latest twrp and then lower version of twrp recovery using higher version, after that i got stock recovery i again flashed twrp using odin and realised i lost my imei
I have two backups of imei one efs.img which i tried to restore using terminal emulator it was successful but i didn't get my efs back
I have one more efs backup of extension tar.gz of 61.3 kb if i extract it i get a folder of 5mb with many files how do i restore it?
Is there any other way i can get my imei back.
Please help ;(
Edit : Problem solved
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I have same problem.
Please share the solution.
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Kartik pat said:
Guys i lost my imei
This was because when i flashed the latest twrp and then lower version of twrp recovery using higher version, after that i got stock recovery i again flashed twrp using odin and realised i lost my imei
I have two backups of imei one efs.img which i tried to restore using terminal emulator it was successful but i didn't get my efs back
I have one more efs backup of extension tar.gz of 61.3 kb if i extract it i get a folder of 5mb with many files how do i restore it?
Is there any other way i can get my imei back.
Please help ;(
Edit : Problem solved
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Hey you should try EFS PRO for making backup of your efs because it's easy to use..???????
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After a problem with my computer I lost the backup made with twrp, and I need to flash back EFS to the z2 after a few test I made. Can someone send me a EFS backup? Tried to restore it with LineageOS but no luck, I keep getting IMEI 0.
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After a problem with my computer I lost the backup made with twrp, and I need to flash back EFS to the z2 after a few test I made. Can someone send me a EFS backup? Tried to restore it with LineageOS but no luck, I keep getting IMEI 0.
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You must restore your own IMEI .. But here are TWRP backup from my 1710-08:
St.Noigel said:
You must restore your own IMEI .. But here are TWRP backup from my 1710-08:
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Thank you a lot!!!