I had to have my note2 replaced I did a twrp backup placed it on new phone in the backup twrp folder but it is not recognized. Anyone have any possible solutions? Really all I'm after is game data that was backed up,and I'm not sure where to find that particular file in the backup thanks.
pretty sure u wouldnt wanna do a full nandroid restore of your partitions to another device... but as far as your game data goes.... you can use titanium backup to recover the apk and the game data by extracting from the nandroid backup file.
I've tried to do this before. It won't work.
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Hey,
I was on the same boat as u. I got it to work. I can remember the specifics at the moment but gist of it is that twrp creates a specific backup folder unique to each device. Open up an file browser and navigate over to where u have your backup. If theyre o. Your sd card it should be TWRP > BACKUPS > (Here u should find 2 folders with a bunch of random letters and numbers)
Those 2 folders are your backup folders. One was from your old device and the other is the folder twrp created for your new device.
When u reeboot into recovery, twrp wont recognize the old backup folder since it was unique to your old phone.
Long story short. Lol. Just go into the old folder from the file browser and copy the backup to the new back up folder.
After that, delete the old backup folder. Your backup should then show up when you boot into recovery.
As for which is the old and which is the new folder. My best bet is tbat the new folder is empty and the old folder has your backup.
Hope that helps.
Let me know if you need more help.
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Currently, I am saving the ROMS I download into a folder on my SD card named "ROMS". Within that folder I have "Froyo", "Gingerbread" and "add-ons".
Once I finish flashing a ROM (ie. reset apps, contacts, get screens set the way I want, make sure all works..etc.) I create a back-up for that ROM and name it. If I ever add new apps or anything, I reback-up..overwrite the orginal back-up..and so on..
I leave the "ROM" folder alone. Is there any reason for me to keep the orginal ROM zips when I keep updating the "back-up" folder?
I think I am just using extra space on the card that is not needed by keeping BOTH the "back-up" folder and the orgianl ROM downloaded zip file??
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Currently, I am saving the ROMS I download into a folder on my SD card named "ROMS". Within that folder I have "Froyo", "Gingerbread" and "add-ons".
Once I finish flashing a ROM (ie. reset apps, contacts, get screens set the way I want, make sure all works..etc.) I create a back-up for that ROM and name it. If I ever add new apps or anything, I reback-up..overwrite the orginal back-up..and so on..
I leave the "ROM" folder alone. Is there any reason for me to keep the orginal ROM zips when I keep updating the "back-up" folder?
I think I am just using extra space on the card that is not needed by keeping BOTH the "back-up" folder and the orgianl ROM downloaded zip file??
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Best thing to do is backup all your stuff on your computer then you can delete whatever you want but leave your backups alone just invade you need them In a hurry
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I do kind of the same thing....I have a folder on my SD card named ROMS and folders inside of that. After I install the ROM I delete the zip from the SD card. When I download a new ROM (Warm Z TwoPointTwo Nightlies) I backup using Recovery in CWM and I also backup my apps using TitaniumBackup.
Then I flash the new ROM and restore my apps. If anything goes wrong (so far it has not) I can always restore from the Recover backup.
Hope this helps
I keep a text file in the directory where I backup my Nandroid backups which is a legend of the backups (which ROM's, mods, etc.). I tend to delete earlier backups where a subsequent backup is of the same setup only updated. I also note which backups are still on my SD card. Since I have a 32gb card, I tend to keep the stock ROM, my last good backup, and the last backup of any prior ROM (i.e. 3 backups) on the card, in case I can't get to my computer and need a quick restore.
I use either Rom Manager or CWR to create my back-ups. I have seen alot of references to Titanium. I recently flashed a CM7 ROM where Titanium is pre-installed. What is the benefit (if any) to using Titanium instead of RM or CWR?
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I keep a text file in the directory where I backup my Nandroid backups which is a legend of the backups (which ROM's, mods, etc.). I tend to delete earlier backups where a subsequent backup is of the same setup only updated. I also note which backups are still on my SD card. Since I have a 32gb card, I tend to keep the stock ROM, my last good backup, and the last backup of any prior ROM (i.e. 3 backups) on the card, in case I can't get to my computer and need a quick restore.
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A text file? Sorry..new to most of this..but is storing as a text file less storage space used? Also, is it a simple matter of going into root explorer..changing the file type to .zip to access it again if needed?
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I think he means making a legend as a text file and leaving the zips as is. Plus you wouldn't see much size difference by changing the extension to .txt and you'd be screwed if you got a bootloop since you'd have to change it back somehow.
Hello,
I having been having some major problems the last 2 weeks with any and all backups i create of my phone. I have tried to make backups of various Roms using both Rom Manager and also directly by flashing into recovery (CWM touch). Each time the backup is successfully made, but then when i try to flash the backup i get errors saying "file not found". I lost my stock rooted backup, a backup of CM10, a backup of Liquid Smooth, and a backup of JellyBam. Does anyone have any idea why my backups don't seem to work? This is incredibly frustrating as I lose all of data and have no security blanket should something go wrong. Every time i flash a new Rom i wipe Dalvik, Cache, and factory reset/wipe.
Anyone have any idea what's going on with the backups?
what versions of android have you been flashing and are you sure your on the latest recovery?
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what versions of android have you been flashing and are you sure your on the latest recovery?
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Thanks for the reply. believe liquid smooth was version 4.2 and the jellbam was 4.1.2. My stock was either 4.1.1 or 4.1.2, whichever the last update went to. As far as CWM, I am on 6.0.2.3.
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Not sure if this is relevant in all this, but my Titanium Backup wasn't working on it's own either when I flashed any new Rom. It would not see any backups and I would have to go into the Preferences and scan for the folder that had backups in it as it did not automatically detect backups in whatever folder it defaults to. This is also a recent development.
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Hello,
I having been having some major problems the last 2 weeks with any and all backups i create of my phone. I have tried to make backups of various Roms using both Rom Manager and also directly by flashing into recovery (CWM touch). Each time the backup is successfully made, but then when i try to flash the backup i get errors saying "file not found". I lost my stock rooted backup, a backup of CM10, a backup of Liquid Smooth, and a backup of JellyBam. Does anyone have any idea why my backups don't seem to work? This is incredibly frustrating as I lose all of data and have no security blanket should something go wrong. Every time i flash a new Rom i wipe Dalvik, Cache, and factory reset/wipe.
Anyone have any idea what's going on with the backups?
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I started several threads on this very issue....my backups also are not working - "file not found" You aren't alone, once more people start experiencing this I'm sure we will see an answer
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I started several threads on this very issue....my backups also are not working - "file not found" You aren't alone, once more people start experiencing this I'm sure we will see an answer
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I've tried searching and nothing relevant came up. Do you also have several folders that appear the same when you reboot into recovery? For example, I have a folder titled "0" that popped up around when the issue started. I have a CWM folder as a subfolder under "0" that appears to be identical to the CWM folder that is not in a subfolder. That's why i brought up the issue i am having with titanium backup, wondering if that has anything to do with anything.
I've tried flashing the backups from both the subfolder and the non-subfolder, and nothing seems to work. The only thing i can successfully do is do a complete wipe and reset and flash a new Rom from scratch off the zip.
If your flashing anything 4.2 related its highly recommended that you use twrp as your recovery because of how the files get condensed into that "0" folder.. Your probably going to have to hunt down your backups I'm sure they are somewhere in that 0 folder
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If your flashing anything 4.2 related its highly recommended that you use twrp as your recovery because of how the files get condensed into that "0" folder.. Your probably going to have to hunt down your backups I'm sure they are somewhere in that 0 folder
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I thought it might have to do with the folder issue, but i have tried flashing from the CWM, backup, and various other folders in both the "0" subfolder and the main folder. In both cases i get an error that say's file not found. That said, do you really think twrp would make a difference? I'm pretty new to android, so i'm not really familiar with it beyond knowing it's a recovery like cwm. I'd be willing to try it out if it wont jack up the little amount of cwm i do actually know and am familiar with. At least now i can flash a new Rom and start over with a titanium backup of files if shizz hits the fan.
The only thing I can think of is to copy and paste the clockworkmod folder from the 0 folder to the root folder and try the restore process from the root folder instead of the 0 sub folder. If that doesn't work I dunno bro
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The only thing I can think of is to copy and paste the clockworkmod folder from the 0 folder to the root folder and try the restore process from the root folder instead of the 0 sub folder. If that doesn't work I dunno bro
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I'll give it a shot even though I've tried loading from the folder directly already.
How would i move it? I've actually tried using file manager and it doesnt let me. It says it can't move the file, or any file actually, from the "0" subfolder.
so i made some serious progress. I used ES file explorer instead of file explorer and it let me move the file for CWM from the "0" subfolder to the main folder. It said that it was going to overwrite everything in the main folder with the subfolder stuff. I accepted and then i dirty flashed a backup of the same Rom (in case the file would not be found again) that had previously not worked.
It actually ended up working. I am afraid to try to flash a backup after completely wiping b/c i dont want to go through the crap of setting everything up again tonight, but i will give it a go tomorrow and report back. So for some reason, backups can't be flashed from CWM from the "0" subfolder, and they can't be flashed from the main folder, unless you move the files from the "0" subfolder to the main folder.
Hope that makes sense to anyone that may have this problem.
If you have the time and are by a computer you can also just move everything out of the 0 folder into the root folder and just get rid of the 0 folder altogether and start from scratch. I think it has something to do with cwm and how they recognize the file system. Like I said you should give twrp a try its very good.
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I've looked around for at least 3hrs for that without getting answers so please if this has been discussed thoroughly in another thread point me to it.
I have made several nandroid backups using cwm and so far I had no problems backing up and restoring. Now I need a specific file from a backup I have on my pc. I have the complete sdcard on the pc with the /clockworkmod/backup and /blobs folders and the other files. On the new version of my phone the backups are on /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup/
I tried to to copy the backup folder (2013-01-...) From my pc to the new back up location and restoring. Obviously that didnt work that's when I realized they were .dup files. So I tried to paste the blobs folder as well and restore but same thing ... Error while restoring.
Now since the backup was done using a different path than this one would that cause the problem? Is there a specific procedure to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Are there other files other than the backup and blobs folders implicated in this type of backup?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
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I recently moved my Nandroid backup to my PC to free up space on my phone. Now, once I place it in BACKUPS in TWRP it doesn't show up when I go to restore it. I'm not sure what it is I'm missing. Could someone help me with this?
You may be missing the folder in the backups folder. I think it's usually the serial number of your phone? Easiest way to create it again would be to back up your current boot.img or something small. Then move the backup from your PC to the folder that backup is in. You know what I mean?
Yep that's it. In the backups folder there is another folder that has the backups in it. It is the same as your serial number.
I am stuck in a confusing situation I cant get out of and am in serious trouble.
My work Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 LTE (T325), after more than 2 years of perfect service fell to the ground and broke in a million pieces this morning. I had CM11 on it and had done a TWRP backup just yesterday onto the external MiniSD Card. So, I went to a second hand shop phone shop in the afternoon and found another T325 just like mine in good shape with stock 4.4.2 Samsung TouchWiz ROM.. just white instead of white, but no matter. I immediately rooted it and flashed TWRP.. all good.
I booted into TWRP and first thing I did was to make a backup of the stock ROM to the internal SD Card and also the external MiniSD Card (just to be safe). But after I made the safety backup, when I went into restore, TWRP CANT find it the old backup of my other Tab on the external MiniSD Card. It can only see the new backup I had just made, both on the internal and external memory!
Confused, I booted up the Tab again, and using Root Explorer (with full root access) the first strange thing I noticed was that inside the TWRP folder on the root directory of the internal SD card, its "empty".. but the new backup I just made is actually there.. if I go to the root folders under MNT, there I can see perfectly the very same TWRP folder with the backup sub-folder inside! So why its not showing up when browsing \Emulated\0 TWRP folder? I dont understand this one. Anyway, next I went into my external MiniSD Card, and indeed I have now 2 backups inside the TWRP folder, the old backup from my old Tab that I want to restore and the new backup I had just made, each in their own sub-folder structure as they should be.
So, I rebooted into TWRP recovery and again and I can ONLY see both the new internal and external backups I just made, but NOT the old backup I need to recover from.. it just doesn't show up! Such a mystery has never happened to me before. This is the same Tab, same model, same old TWRP version (2.7.1.0) and using the original external MiniSD Card. Where am I going wrong? I can see the file names inside the new and old backup are different.. is this the problem? Why is the same TWRP version on a new Tab generating different file names than the same TWRP of the old Tab?
To be specific, the new (recoverable) backup folder has the following files:
\TWRP\10d401a5\2014-02-05--07-03-30 KOT49H.T325ZSU1B0B4\
boot.emmc.win
data.ext4.win
system.ext4.win000
system.ext4.win001
recovery.log
The old (not-recoverable) backup folder that I want to restore from, has the following files:
\TWRP\d59ee67a\2014-03-09--08-44-04 cm_mondrianlte-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q b9f00\
boot.emmc.win
data.ext4.win000
data.ext4.win001
system.ext4.win
recovery.log
Any advice on this is greatly appreciated and I apologize in advance if its me missing something obvious or just being plain stupid!
Thanks again!!!
I suspect the d59ee67a \ 10d401a5 are generated from the tablet serial number, so twrp will only look in the folder for the current serial number match, which is why it won't show the other backup.
I would assume you could copy the file contents from your old backup into the new twrp folder then restore, as long as you are sure the tablets are identical, have the same bootloader and same memory sizes...etc
so basically try to copy the folder "2014-03-09--08-44-04 cm_mondrianlte-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q b9f00" to TWRP\10d401a5\
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I suspect the d59ee67a \ 10d401a5 are generated from the tablet serial number, so twrp will only look in the folder for the current serial number match, which is why it won't show the other backup.
I would assume you could copy the file contents from your old backup into the new twrp folder then restore, as long as you are sure the tablets are identical, have the same bootloader and same memory sizes...etc
so basically try to copy the folder "2014-03-09--08-44-04 cm_mondrianlte-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q b9f00" to TWRP\10d401a5\
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Wow, yes, thank you very much for the reply! I had no idea that each hardware generates a specific number by which TWRP tags the folder. This is why the backup of the old Tab is not found because its inside the folder with the number of the older hardware. I followed your recommendation and simply moved the old backup into the subfolder of the new backup I had made and instantly TWRP could see it and I made a successful restore!
This is a very import tip to know and I cant thank you enough for sharing it with me! Thanks again