Dear All,
I was on stock ROM on my optimus G -e975, installed AOSP, installed philz touch and houston's kitkat, then moved to CM11. While moving to kitkat, i modified philz touch to look into \data\media folder, so that i find's the ROM zip files from there... Now, i had an issue in CM11, which forced me to restore my stock nandroid backup... during the restore process, i forgot that i have changed the default path, so I did a clean install wiping everything in the following order:
Recovery--> advanced--> wipe system\data\cache --> back format\factory reset-->wipe data...
After than I restored the nandroid backup of stock rom. Now, I don't have anything in my internal SD card.. Free space is 24 GB out of 25 GB... I had around 24 GB of data in my internal memory card befor the restore...
So, Is there any way to restore the wiped data???? Any help willl be very greatfull for me.. since I have lost everything from my phone.....:crying:
U formatted ur sd card...i dont know if it still recoverable.. There's an app on playstore which could retrieve files try it
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Dave,
I tried some apps from playstore, but they don't have the capability to restore the recovered data to the same internal memory... also, since our device doesn't support otg, i'm unable to point the app to external memory devices...can you pls suggest any apps which has capability to restore to internal memory???
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Since the is no sd card on this phone to save stuff on (i.e. pictures music, etc), when we flash a rom and have to do a wipe , do we lose all of our stuff?
Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
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Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
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ok do a backup in CWM ? so when I flash after the new rom is on , my folders and files will still be on the built in storage ?
Create a CWM backup and backup the apps you want on titanium. My suggestion for titanium, after you wipe let the market automatically restore your apps and use titanium to restore your data from the apps you want. Most everything like pictures and what's on your internal storage should still be there after wipe, but I would throw them on your laptop or wherever just in case.
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The phone does have a "sdcard." Just think of it as a irremovable 16 GB sdcard.
Everything else is the same.
Making a backup is optional, you can do it if you want. Or not do it.
You can always restore yourself back to stock using the stock images provided by Google (google it if you wish to find it).
OK, so backing up my current ROM, takes up alot of memory. I believe you don't have to backup
System
Data
Boot
Recovery
Cache
flexrom (another option to back up even tho i'm not using flexrom at the moment...kinda weird)
Isn't there only 3 of the above you only need to back up technically??
And is there anyway to automatically back up to my external sd card?
and restore from my external sd card?
Cause my internal memory is completely full, mostly from twrp backups it seems like
P.S. in the back up option why does it give me an option for flexrom? and i remember one time it was like over 1000 mb or something, now its only 4mb (currently on aokp)
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OK, so backing up my current ROM, takes up alot of memory. I believe you don't have to backup
System
Data
Boot
Recovery
Cache
flexrom (another option to back up even tho i'm not using flexrom at the moment...kinda weird)
Isn't there only 3 of the above you only need to back up technically??
And is there anyway to automatically back up to my external sd card?
and restore from my external sd card?
Cause my internal memory is completely full, mostly from twrp backups it seems like
P.S. in the back up option why does it give me an option for flexrom? and i remember one time it was like over 1000 mb or something, now its only 4mb (currently on aokp)
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For a minimal backup to restore you need system and data. Those are the big ones but also the two you need to restore at minimum. If you don't care about settings and apps backup only system.
I suggest at least one backup with recovery and boot just in case something goes wrong with either one.
Cache isn't needed as you should wipe it before booting a restore anyways.
In twrp go to mounts and check use external SD, it will stay that way unless you change recoveries or wipe cache.
I never backup flex unless its an Acer based rom.
You can also move the twrp folder to external SD and your current backups will be available when you switch twrp to external, and you can delete any unneeded backups.
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thanks button hit and wanted to say thank you in person or text or in forums, what ever you call it lol
So here's my problem guys (bear with me here ! , it takes a lil explanation ) :
i've had my arc for almost a year now, i'm using link2sd with a 2nd partition on my sdcard for linking my apps to help free up some internal memory , i also use CWM "back and restore" frequently and this is how i do it :
as a full nandroid backup would take nearly 1Gb of storage , i instead backup only the system and data files(less than 400Mb), manually calculate the md5sum for it, and then resore it when i need , and it has worked for me till recently , now when i restore the backup, i only get the system settings and the apps on my internal storage, no sdcard apps and no linked apps (previously it restored everything properly) , so my question is :
is it a Rom or kernel related issue ??. is there a way to fix it ?? or do i have to do a full backup from now on ??
btw i'm currently using JJ'Hybrid and arknight kernel 3.3 RC.
i know it's a long one guys , so thanx in advance .
You'll need to backup data from sd or sd-ext, which would need a full nandroid backup. I found the best compromise to save space is to backup, rename the backup to id it(eg aokp4),copy it to my pc, and only keep the newest one on my sd card.
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You'll need to backup data from sd or sd-ext, which would need a full nandroid backup. I found the best compromise to save space is to backup, rename the backup to id it(eg aokp4),copy it to my pc, and only keep the newest one on my sd card.
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yeah i know, but that doesn't answer my question , why was it working before and now it's not , thanx anyway
Hello guys, I have a major problem on my N7100. After updating to 4.4.2 TW, I see that I'm not able to write on my INTERNAL storage (I don't have any sd card), and I can't do a full wipe because I have many apps with valuable data, and I can't erase them without a backup, and since I cannot do a backup, so I cannot do a full wipe. Also I cannot put a rom in my phone to flash it without touching Data partitions, please help!!!
aze300 said:
Hello guys, I have a major problem on my N7100. After updating to 4.4.2 TW, I see that I'm not able to write on my INTERNAL storage (I don't have any sd card), and I can't do a full wipe because I have many apps with valuable data, and I can't erase them without a backup, and since I cannot do a backup, so I cannot do a full wipe. Also I cannot put a rom in my phone to flash it without touching Data partitions, please help!!!
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What about taking the MicoSD out from the back of the GN2 and using a multi card reader or similar and backing up the contents onto a PC/MAC, then formatting it to the correct format type (I think FAT32) for non stock ROMS, then doing what you need to do with the device. The only reason I suggest this route is because this is exactly what I ended up doing this very week. I now have a GT-N7105 running Omni 4.4.2 with 64Gb worth of MicroSD storage, and all the data that I had before Samsung screwed the pooch with an update.
Hope this helps.
WB
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.