Hey everyone.
Well, I'm getting back into rooting devices and changing roms etc... So, last night I refreshed myself (it's been a few years) and decided to flash Chameleon OS. With that said, I backed up some OS data by using My Backup. I also did a Nandroid backup, wiped my SD card (full of junk), and performed a system reset, cache wipe, and Dalvik cache wipe. Afterwhich, Chameleon installed fine; however, my SD card now has ALL of the junk back on it again. I still see old references to pictures, apps, and db files. As a result Chameleon, is not running at its best. Can someone tell me how/why my data was restored to my SD card?
Also, the backup I created using My Backup is no longer on my SD card. I re-downloaded to app after flashing Chameleon and attempted to perform a restore of my APN data...needless to say, My Backup reported that it could not find the backup on my SD card. Presumably due to the restoration of the old junk back to my SD card????
Can someone shed on light on this??
Thanks.
Jordan
jaykel941 said:
Hey everyone.
Well, I'm getting back into rooting devices and changing roms etc... So, last night I refreshed myself (it's been a few years) and decided to flash Chameleon OS. With that said, I backed up some OS data by using My Backup. I also did a Nandroid backup, wiped my SD card (full of junk), and performed a system reset, cache wipe, and Dalvik cache wipe. Afterwhich, Chameleon installed fine; however, my SD card now has ALL of the junk back on it again. I still see old references to pictures, apps, and db files. As a result Chameleon, is not running at its best. Can someone tell me how/why my data was restored to my SD card?
Also, the backup I created using My Backup is no longer on my SD card. I re-downloaded to app after flashing Chameleon and attempted to perform a restore of my APN data...needless to say, My Backup reported that it could not find the backup on my SD card. Presumably due to the restoration of the old junk back to my SD card????
Can someone shed on light on this??
Thanks.
Jordan
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seems like nandroid backup wasnt backing up anything when it was saying it did lol. delete and install the apk again just to make sure it wont do it in the future
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I sort of started explaining my issue in the Skyraider Vanilla RC2 thread... but I didn't want to take over that thread for my own issues.
This is what happened-
I tried to install this update that was on the thread, I did a nandroid +ext back up before I did so. When I ran the update it said something about sense 3.1 update so I thought something was a bit wierd, when I turned on my phone, all my apps were rapidly force closing in front of the setup window so I rebooted my phone into recovery and did the nandroid restore. I cleared dalik cache as well, just to make sure things restored smoothly. My phone turned on, but was laggy and and the sd card was read only, it didnt show up when I attached it to my computer... I didn't have the original Vanilla RC2 file on my card, since I initially installed with rom manager, but then switched over to the amon ra recovery image so it was not there.
I rebooted into recovery again, and cleared dalik again, and cache, and then cleared the ext part of my sd card because I thought maybe there was an issue there... Now i turned on my phone my launcher is gone, some of the apps that came with vanilla in the first place are gone along with most of my other apps aside from appbrain for some reason. The phone is so laggy it is almost not even usable as a phone... What should I do?
Buy a new sd card? factory reset? I am totally at a loss..
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this is what I would do... go back into recovery and do all wipes. then format the card to your desired partitions. toggle usb and redrop the rom you want back on there and run zip from sdcard. You will have a bone stock system again and have to load all the things you want on there, but at least you will have a normal running phone again. If you happened to have things you wanted to save from the sdcard then the nandroid backup you had saved , well you should have drug it off the sdcard to your computer first. Then after you have a setup with the same rom running that you had your nandroid originally made from should load fine when you reload the backup.
1 save that nandroid backup to your pc
2 wipe completely and reformat your card
3 load the rom zip on the card and run it
4 load the nandroid backup to your sdcard and run it
or do 1-3 and start from scratch... hope this helps
buzzdroidx said:
this is what I would do... go back into recovery and do all wipes. then format the card to your desired partitions. toggle usb and redrop the rom you want back on there and run zip from sdcard. You will have a bone stock system again and have to load all the things you want on there, but at least you will have a normal running phone again. If you happened to have things you wanted to save from the sdcard then the nandroid backup you had saved , well you should have drug it off the sdcard to your computer first. Then after you have a setup with the same rom running that you had your nandroid originally made from should load fine when you reload the backup.
1 save that nandroid backup to your pc
2 wipe completely and reformat your card
3 load the rom zip on the card and run it
4 load the nandroid backup to your sdcard and run it
or do 1-3 and start from scratch... hope this helps
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If do have a few backups saved to my computer, (from vanilla 2.5.2) but not the new one. (which is fine)
If I repartition the card, will it go back to being normal again? right now it is read only and will not show up on my computer at all so.. Also when you say wipe, do you mean wipe all data also?
yes wipe all the wipes they recovery you use offers then do a factory wipe THEN go into the format options and reformat your card. It wipes it all but you get a fresh start. then after you drag your rom back onto the sdcard and load it then do your nandroid Its possible your sdcard is hosed but not very likely
buzzdroidx said:
yes wipe all the wipes they recovery you use offers then do a factory wipe THEN go into the format options and reformat your card. It wipes it all but you get a fresh start. then after you drag your rom back onto the sdcard and load it then do your nandroid Its possible your sdcard is hosed but not very likely
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It's alive!!!! Thank you so much =)
Gotta reload everything but, who cares!
your very welcome
Will wiping the data (before ROM flash) also wipe the "SD Card" data? I know on other phones, that have a physical SD card, when you wipe data the SD data remains. But, with the Nexus having a virtual SD card, I didn't know what would happen.
In essence, I'm thinking Titanium Backup is useless unless you pull the backup data from the phone before flashing a new ROM, because the backed up data would be deleted with a data wipe for new ROM flash.
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Will wiping the data (before ROM flash) also wipe the "SD Card" data? I know on other phones, that have a physical SD card, when you wipe data the SD data remains. But, with the Nexus having a virtual SD card, I didn't know what would happen.
In essence, I'm thinking Titanium Backup is useless unless you pull the backup data from the phone before flashing a new ROM, because the backed up data would be deleted with a data wipe for new ROM flash.
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The "sd card" data remains. Nothing is messed with in that portion of memory. TiBu works great.
strongergravity said:
The "sd card" data remains. Nothing is messed with in that portion of memory. TiBu works great.
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Thanks! I wondered what would happen with a data wipe.
If you flash a stock ROM via fastboot it WILL WIPE THE "SDCARD". EVERYTHING.
Basically:
Stock recovery data wipe/factory reset = SDcard wiped
Custom recovery data wipe/factory reset = SDcard untouched
So if you haven't rooted/CWM'd your phone yet, don't put anything big and important on the SDcard. If you have put stuff on your card just make a backup of it on your PC and then do the unlock/recovery install procedure. Then you'll be set. Titanium Backup will be back to working just like it does on any other phone once you have a custom recovery installed. No worrying about the SDcard getting wiped.
you'll definitely want to install a custom recovery if you're going to be wiping anything. Id highly recommend the clockwork touch recovery. The standard one is really a pain to use as the navigation is odd and its hard to select what you want.
^ I wonder as well, but I proceed without thinking about sdcard. Lucky enough our great dev took care of that. Btw, I didn't have time to see the recovery since when I got it I flash CWM immediately.
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This thread had been dead for 8 months...
I was restoring my phone and then while it was restoring it said Sd-ext.img not found and then restore complete. I highly doubt that it was a full restore since it only restored one folder which was .android_secure. What do I do now? Factory reset?
See if the phone operates fine with the SD card readable with no issues. If there's something wrong, do a reset.
i've been trying out new CM10.1 nightlies and nothing has worked as well as 3/17, so i keep reflashing my 3/17 nandroid backup. however, ive noticed that after 1 or two times of doing that, the phone battery has sucked and my data connection is acting funky.
when restoring from nandroid, does it basically wipe the phone and restore it exactly back to how it was, or do files from frequent flashing and trials of other nightlies still stick around?
if so it is the latter, would i benefit from moving my backup to my external SD card, doing a total wipe of the phone 100%, and reflashing the nandroid backup?
At the very least you should wipe cache,dalvic, and factory reset, which you could've learned from a simple search.
When you dirty flash rom updates and backups, you begin to run into these small bugs. Layering your software like this will add up. It's safe to keep a copy of your backup on your sd card, yes. If you perform a full wipe (wipe data, cache, dalvik, and system) you will be removing the OS entirely and allowing for a completely clean install. That's what I recommend. Since you are not formatting/wiping data, you will not lose any.
TeknoGodz said:
At the very least you should wipe cache,dalvic, and factory reset, which you could've learned from a simple search.
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yes. i know. that was already done. i was asking about something more in depth. thanks for nothing.
xBeerdroiDx said:
When you dirty flash rom updates and backups, you begin to run into these small bugs. Layering your software like this will add up. It's safe to keep a copy of your backup on your sd card, yes. If you perform a full wipe (wipe data, cache, dalvik, and system) you will be removing the OS entirely and allowing for a completely clean install. That's what I recommend. Since you are not formatting/wiping data, you will not lose any.
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much appreciated. i did a full system wipe 100% and just restored from the nandroid fresh (it had worked before all teh crazy flashing.).
thanks!
Just to add to this thread, a Nandroid does not capture everything.
Such as, if you have maps saved to your internal SD card from a navigation app, those maps are not picked up as part of the nandroid.
I make a habit of copying my internal SD card contents onto my computer and then restoring them after restoring a Nandroid.
Hello,
I'm running the latest stable CM, and took a CWM backup. I wanted to revert back to stock to try a bunch of GPS fixes (not that any of them helped). Afterwards, I restored the backup, but all my photos and music are gone (there were not stored on the external SD card). Does CWM back up internal storage? Any ideas on what to do next?
Thanks.
If you wiped internal storage to flash AOSP, then your pictures are gone, If you used a full wipe odin oneclick, that has removed and wiped internal storage as well. You'll need use special tools to recovery data from internal, hopefully you didn't wipe the device like 1-3 times as people do that to fully make sure the device is wiped properly.
thetuber said:
Hello,
I'm running the latest stable CM, and took a CWM backup. I wanted to revert back to stock to try a bunch of GPS fixes (not that any of them helped). Afterwards, I restored the backup, but all my photos and music are gone (there were not stored on the external SD card). Does CWM back up internal storage? Any ideas on what to do next?
Thanks.
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If it was lollipop cm you tried, to go back to KitKat you have to wipe internal storage (data/media) or that will happen. Cwm does not backup internal SD, but it also does not wipe it unless you specifically wipe it. Wiping data does not wipe internal SD nor does a factory reset done in recovery.