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How to make a flashable ODIN backup?

Hey guys,
I'm looking for some info from a knowledgeable dev on how to create a custom ODIN backup that can be restored using the ODIN executable for Windows? My goal is to create a complete hard image of my entire device (including my apps/personal data) that I can restore at anytime (as if it was never touched since the backup) using ODIN.
If anyone can fill me in on the details I would highly appreciate this.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I see some other guides here, here, and here. But I noticed some of the blocks they reference are nonexistant on the Galaxy Nexus.
Update #1: Looking for answer to this - Link to post
Update #2: May have found it - Link to post
Info that may help #1
Info that may help #2

would also like to know how to backup with odin since my nandroids always fail at restoring data and then im forced to fresh install a rom

The Race To Die said:
would also like to know how to backup with odin since my nandroids always fail at restoring data and then im forced to fresh install a rom
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Yes! Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this issue. Are you using Touch CWM 5.8.0.2? Or the regular 5.5.0.4?

open1your1eyes0 said:
EDIT: I see some outdated guides here, here, and here. But I noticed some of the blocks they reference are nonexistant on the Galaxy Nexus.
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How are these guides outdated? They work just fine for the devices they were written for. The Charge uses a completely different device layout compared to the Nexus. They are meant for completely different phones, hence the reason stuff isn't the same. Someone needs to find the proper names for the items that are dumped, and then an Odin package can be put together, but every device will have it's own guide on how to make the packages.

open1your1eyes0 said:
Yes! Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one who has this issue. Are you using Touch CWM 5.8.0.2? Or the regular 5.5.0.4?
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Haven't tried koush's touch yet. Doesn't look as good to me as the unstableapps touch recovery, but have no luck with unstable or regular cwm recovery
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imnuts said:
How are these guides outdated? They work just fine for the devices they were written for. The Charge uses a completely different device layout compared to the Nexus. They are meant for completely different phones, hence the reason stuff isn't the same. Someone needs to find the proper names for the items that are dumped, and then an Odin package can be put together, but every device will have it's own guide on how to make the packages.
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I see, so each device has different blocks allocated. I wonder how people figure out what blocks go to what?
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Haven't tried koush's touch yet. Doesn't look as good to me as the unstableapps touch recovery, but have no luck with unstable or regular cwm recovery
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I'm assuming you're referring to the first Touch Recovery (Unofficial) that was released? But really? Even the regular CWM doesn't work for you? This is a serious issue if we can't restore backups. How are we the only ones who noticed?

Yes that is the one I am talking about. Creating backups works fine, but restoring always fails while restoring data.
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The Race To Die said:
Yes that is the one I am talking about. Creating backups works fine, but restoring always fails while restoring data.
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I can confirm the same on the official Touch CWM 5.8.0.2 however I think I can recall making and restoring backups back when there was only the regular 5.5.0.4. Do you mind flashing that and testing if you can make a backup and restore it again?

open1your1eyes0 said:
I see, so each device has different blocks allocated. I wonder how people figure out what blocks go to what?
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Look in /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
Those are what you set your "if" path to.
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open1your1eyes0 said:
I can confirm the same on the official Touch CWM 5.8.0.2 however I think I can recall making and restoring backups back when there was only the regular 5.5.0.4. Do you mind flashing that and testing if you can make a backup and restore it again?
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sure, will report back in a little. could it have been that i ran out of space? i only had 5 or 6 gigs left, but just erased all my backups and now have about 18gb

efrant said:
Look in /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
Those are what you set your "if" path to.
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I'll take a look right now.
The Race To Die said:
sure, will report back in a little. could it have been that i ran out of space? i only had 5 or 6 gigs left, but just erased all my backups and now have about 18gb
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That is possible actually, I only had about 2-3GB left when I had the failed restores. Now that I redid my phone maybe it won't be an issue.

I am very interested in this topic since the stock image for my phone is not available. I would like to have an option to restore the stock image in case of a warranty issue.
I was exploring using ADB backup. Would it make sense to do a factory reset before creating the backup image?
Stuck on 4.0.1

efrant said:
Look in /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
Those are what you set your "if" path to.
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How do you differenciate which one refers to which partition (data, dbdata, system, etc...). I think this is the main issue here.

open1your1eyes0 said:
How do you differenciate which one refers to which partition (data, dbdata, system, etc...). I think this is the main issue here.
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Not really sure what you are referring to. Each of those is a partition. User data is the data partition, system is the system partition, boot is the boot partition, etc, etc.
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efrant said:
Not really sure what you are referring to. Each of those is a partition. User data is the data partition, system is the system partition, boot is the boot partition, etc, etc.
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EDIT: Disregard I was looking in the wrong directory.

flashed 5.5.0.4 through rom manager
rebooted into recovery
backup completed fine
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/IMG_20120208_204435.jpg?w=d80708cb
now making a backup through rom manager just for the hell of it to see if one works over the other

The Race To Die said:
flashed 5.5.0.4 through rom manager
rebooted into recovery
backup completed fine
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/IMG_20120208_204435.jpg?w=d80708cb
now making a backup through rom manager just for the hell of it to see if one works over the other
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Really hope it works.

efrant said:
Look in /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
Those are what you set your "if" path to.
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Ok so I figured out which block goes to what partition (here). Now using this, how can I make a flashable package for ODIN? Also do the filenames of the "of" have to be a specific extension or name or it can be named anything? How does ODIN know which "of" file to treat as which partition in that case?

amazingly it worked! must not have had enough space to restore all of the data or something. now to figure out this odin thing. first samsung ive owned so ive never used it, had an og before my nexus.

The Race To Die said:
amazingly it worked! must not have had enough space to restore all of the data or something.
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Thank you for testing this! I will stick to 5.5.0.4 for now and make sure I have enough space from now on.
FYI, I found another backup method: Link and More Info. For that you need to have the latest adb.exe from the Android SDK. I am attaching it to this post.

Formatting system...?!?

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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jasonren29 said:
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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einrae214 said:
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.

Kid Poker said:
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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Help...unable to restore my nandroid backups?

Hello all.
Been having a little problem and hope u guys can help.
Twice now I've done nandroid backups in CWM and both times when I've tried to restore the backups, they have failed.
Both times it stopped when restoring data. It says...error unable to restore data.
I'm running stock 4.1.2 rooted.
I should also note that I renamed the backup files both times. I don't know if that could be the reason but I doubt it as I've done this dozens of times in the past on my different devices and its never been a problem.
Thanks for any help.
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yes renaming them matters if you have spaces.

Just get rid of CWm and go to TWRP, you name your nandroids right recovery, plus its about 10 times faster.

andrewjt19 said:
Just get rid of CWm and go to TWRP, you name your nandroids right recovery, plus its about 10 times faster.
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Interesting...never thought of that. I will give it a try and see.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Zepius said:
yes renaming them matters if you have spaces.
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I never have spaces when I rename such files so i don't think its that.
But gonna try the other recovery option suggested above.
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Help, need CM10.1 RC1

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?

Arcticsilverfox said:
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...

Arcticsilverfox said:
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.

My phone acting extremely weird 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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alloycowboy said:
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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mt3g said:
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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DocHoliday77 said:
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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DocHoliday77 said:
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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DocHoliday77 said:
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.

shahkam said:
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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soupysoup said:
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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DocHoliday77 said:
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.