I have nandroid backed up from cwm 4.02.1 and flashed new cwm 5.02.06 but it wont let me restore from 4.02.01 nandroid back up or vice versa is there any fix for this?
thanks in advance
I made a thread about this a few weeks back and people say that the old backups should be reverse compatible is your on the new version you should be able to restore old back ups from 4.xx. glad I didnt find out the hard way ans read it here..
Can't mount sd card in CWM???
Any ideas on why ver 5.xx CWM won't mount the internal sd card yet version 4.xx* will.
I've flashed kernels that use v4.xx (in my case it is an Orange version of CWM) and can make/restore backups with no problem.
But....if I ODIN or flash a kernel (i.e. Lostkernel) that uses the newer release of CWM, the kernel is there fine but CWM can't mount the sd card!
few days ago I just flashed cwm recovery and made a backup for every partition, after that I flashed the cm7.2.
but now when I want to go back to stock, I cannot restore the backup. it seemed that the recovery cannot format the partitions into rfs. (even I used the rfs+ext4 recovery)
anyone has any ideas?
Did you have an ext4 partition when you did the backup? I've experienced problems with the CWM backup a couple of times because it's not getting along well with ext4 partitions so I had to go from scratch a couple of times because I couldn't do a restore. For Galaxy Gio, I would recommend you to use Titanium Backup instead of CWM Recovery from now on if don't want to get into trouble with backups and stuff.
Just flash a new firmware via ODIN.
LegoGabi said:
Just flash a new firmware via ODIN.
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thanks for replies but my original firmware contains chinese which cannot available here
Try this:
1) flash some stock multi-package firmware (that would format your FS to rfs from ext4); shouldn't matter much what firmware you flash, just something Gingerbread-ish to allow CWM to work, as you only need it to format partitions
2) flash CWM (or install via update.zip method from recovery) that works with stock firmware (I believe it's the one with rfs+ext4 support but you better check in CWM thread)
3) restore your stock ROM backup
Have you checked Samsung firmware websites like samfirmware to see if they had yours?
If not, there are instructions here on creating an Odin flashable backup, which you could do if you have access to another, unmodified Gio.
Otherwise, look into the workings of CWM. You may be capable of DD'ing the nandroid files manually, but don't take my word for it.
thanks everyone who replied, i finally figured out what's wrong.
It turned out to be the problem that no CWM for gio could format the partitions into rfs therefore they kept giving me errors when i tried to restore.
and after some trials, I found that the CWM for CM7 (cwm-v2.zip) can actually restore my backup, but with the system, data, cache formated in ext3. Therefore with the stock kernel, it won't boot.
Final remedy: use CWM for CM7 to restore the backup, then flash a custom kernel for stock rom.
crescal said:
thanks everyone who replied, i finally figured out what's wrong.
It turned out to be the problem that no CWM for gio could format the partitions into rfs therefore they kept giving me errors when i tried to restore.
and after some trials, I found that the CWM for CM7 (cwm-v2.zip) can actually restore my backup, but with the system, data, cache formated in ext3. Therefore with the stock kernel, it won't boot.
Final remedy: use CWM for CM7 to restore the backup, then flash a custom kernel for stock rom.
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Which kernel? Im in your exact situation, i got the cwm you mention and it restored the back up and flashing the kernel for stock rom with lots of options claiming to support ext4 i get boot loops. If you can tell me what kernel you booted with i will be very grateful. Tomorrow is my daughters bday and i need my korean gio with different wifi hardware to tether to my tablet for ideo chat, which only works with stock. Thank you.
I've had CWM for quite a while now and I have my nandroid backup of my stock rom on it. If I switch to TWRP, will the backup still be there? Also, if it is, will the backup be compatible and able to restore using TWRP? Thanks.
no
So should I just stick with CWM or is there anything I can do that can keep my backup if I switch to TWRP?
Just keep a copy of the cwm recovery. You can always reinstall it if you need to flash your stock backup.
I have backed up my ROMs... Working from CWM it finds the backups, but in recovery mode, it can't find them (restore). Ideas??
even it is stored in sd card1..it says no backup found.
any ideas?
I want to restore my stock (which i already backup) via cwm..
right now im on cm11
Hi all,
I need to recover some information from my phone from before I flashed a new ROM, and wondering what's the easiest way about it based on the scenario given below;
I was running a rooted stock ROM (LB) with TWRP. I used titanium to batch backup my apps ( but seem to have overlooked my notepad app which had info in it that I now need.)
I installed resurrection remix which comes with CWM so can't just do a new nandroid, then restore the old one to get the info, then re-restore the newer backup.
Is there a way to extract the info direct from my twrp backup on my SD/ laptop or do I need to/is it possible to flash TWRP to replace CWM and keep the rest of the ROM as-is?
TIA
If you are just recovering a file, and not restoring the backup itself, try using nandroid manager. I can extract a file from my nandroid backup (created by cwm). I never tried it with twrp nandroid backup though.
Other option is to try to flash the Dual Recovery on your phone.
Then you have TWRP and CWM on your phone.
-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2261606