I'm trying to do a TWRP backup of my GPE M8, but it's stuck at 75% for the last 40 minutes with no sign of progress. The striped progress bar is still moving, but the progress indicator has not budged. How do I get out of backup mode, or does it really take an hour to do a backup?
I believe it has a zip-up function, if you unselect that option the backup won't be zipped and should be ready in minutes.
Correct me if i am wrong.....
Mr Hofs said:
I believe it has a zip-up function, if you unselect that option the backup won't be zipped and should be ready in minutes.
Correct me if i am wrong.....
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Ya thanks I had selected the compression option. I was able to use the HTC AIO toolkit to reboot the phone, unselected compress, and backup was done in a couple of minutes. Thanks!
yngdiego said:
I'm trying to do a TWRP backup of my GPE M8, but it's stuck at 75% for the last 40 minutes with no sign of progress. The striped progress bar is still moving, but the progress indicator has not budged. How do I get out of backup mode, or does it really take an hour to do a backup?
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had that installed nandroid all worked fine https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.onnandbup&hl=en_GB
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OK so I have some doubts on whether to flash the leaked update and whether or not it is a TRUE update, or like a reflash where all my info/apps/settings would get reset.
Any light that you guys can flash on this for me would be great.
Thanks
4 Door Skyline said:
OK so I have some doubts on whether to flash the leaked update and whether or not it is a TRUE update, or like a reflash where all my info/apps/settings would get reset.
Any light that you guys can flash on this for me would be great.
Thanks
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You would have to wipe your cache before you flash. I tried it to see what would happen and the keyboard didn't install. Just back up your apps/contacts/calendar and you'll be fine.
i'm not sure if it wipes everything. you can always do a nandroid before..
titanium backup + google concacts sync and you wont even notice that you wiped, takes you 15 minutes to set everything back up, instead of a few hours.
forgot to mention that Im only partially rooted via the unrevoked3 method, been waiting on the official release of froyo before jumping in to a custom rom.
davebu said:
titanium backup + google concacts sync and you wont even notice that you wiped, takes you 15 minutes to set everything back up, instead of a few hours.
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Check and check, I do regular backups of both. Hell I might just dive in head first, I could always flash a stock RUU if I screw up right?
Another question, does titanium also back up call logs/text messages?
The update doesn't require a wipe, but its always a good idea. I did it without wiping and everything pretty much worked, but I wanted to make sure nothing would go wrong later, so I did a factory reset afterwards. If anything goes wrong, just do a factory reset.
4 Door Skyline said:
Another question, does titanium also back up call logs/text messages?
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It should, but you need to back up a specific thing in Titanium Backup. It's a green entry that says (I think) Email & Messaging.
Saturn2K said:
It should, but you need to back up a specific thing in Titanium Backup. It's a green entry that says (I think) Email & Messaging.
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didnt find it, but used mybackup to back it up just in case, if worse comes to worse all I have is a double backup, nbd
Thanks for the helps guys
Can someone please tell me how long a nandroid restore can take as a maximum?
I am running a nandroid restore as I type.
From CM6 RC1 with snap kernel
To Nandroid back up of Fresh 3.1.0.1.
It's been going for 2+ hours, the dots are still progressing but this seems like its taking longer than it should.
Question: Is this amount of time a sign that something is severely wrong?
How can I correct the issue? What will a battery pull do to my device?
Update: Battery pull did the job and my phone isn't bricked.
Shouldn't take that long.. I've done dozens of restores and most it took was 10 minutes or so.
Pull the battery and try again.. might be a r/w issue with the card.. You should still be able to get to recovery.
did you do the backup with clockwork, and trying to restore with RA, or the other way around? I heard that can cause issues.
yep, 10 minutes is the longest I've ever had one go. Also, fwiw, it always seems to finish somewhere around the fifth line of dots..
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did you do the backup with clockwork, and trying to restore with RA, or the other way around? I heard that can cause issues.
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Nope, all done with Amon. Still not sure what the issue was. Resolved, I just flashed the rom again instead.
I moved from SGS2 (having befor many android phone for more than 4 years now).
And what's amaze me is how long it takes to make nandroid backup/restore in comparisson to SGS2
Is it the hardware or CWM version for GN is slower?
I am with recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-maguro.
You cannot rush perfection.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
pesho00 said:
I moved from SGS2 (having befor many android phone for more than 4 years now).
And what's amaze me is how long it takes to make nandroid backup/restore in comparisson to SGS2
Is it the hardware or CWM version for GN is slower?
I am with recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-maguro.
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ICS is a much larger OS...
adrynalyne said:
ICS is a much larger OS...
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Really?
I have Nandroids from SGS2 and they are in average 830-840 MB, ICS 4.0.3 nandroid of GN is in average 970 MB (first nandroid was in fact 470 MB, than 670 MB and just now 970 MB), or in other words SGS2 ones are 14% smaller but it takes like 2x faster to be backed up?
pesho00 said:
I moved from SGS2 (having befor many android phone for more than 4 years now).
And what's amaze me is how long it takes to make nandroid backup/restore in comparisson to SGS2
Is it the hardware or CWM version for GN is slower?
I am with recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-maguro.
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You can speed things up in the backup process by putting a file named ".hideandroidprogress" in the Clockworkmod folder on your sdcard. It will prevent CWMR from displaying the little progress meter during a backup.
Good luck
To get the "hideandroidinprocess". There are two ways, terminal and rom manager. Rom manager might be the easier way. Install it if you don't already have it installed. Menu, settings, check mark the backup and restore. Delete rom manager after done if you want, setting will remain.
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You can speed things up in the backup process by putting a file named ".hideandroidprogress" in the Clockworkmod folder on your sdcard. It will prevent CWMR from displaying the little progress meter during a backup.
Good luck
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Das not work for me it steal shows a progres and time is the same Near 11 minutes!!!!
But i have done some research - Backup files grow constantly - mainly data.ext4.tar - i have done some analisys and it happen that cache and dalvik cache are groing dramaticaly ~300 MB. I wiped cahce in CWM and Dalvik but it took same time to finish backup???
It's always good to keep a nandroid of your setup. Mine has never taken 11 min. to make a backup. Probably always less than 5. Make sure you have the latest version of CWM installed. If you change Roms often and that is why you are making backups, may I suggest the app Boot Manager. It allows you to install several Roms and a simple reboot and you will be in a different ROM once you get them installed. This eliminates having to make a nandroid for all the different Roms you like and want to update. I'm not going to go into a bunch of detail on the app, but if you want to learn more here's the Market link: http://tinyw.in/upSZ
There is also a free version which will allow you to install 1 other Rom. You should try the free version and if you think it is something you would use, you could buy the full version. Take a look on the Market description and you will find the user manual to help you get more info on the app and on how to use it. They even have a video posted now to show more about it. The devs are very responsive and will help via email if you email them for help. They always reply to me within a couple hours of contacting them and usually within the hour. I am in no way affiliated with the app. I just love it and it is the best purchase I have ever made on the Market for sure!
Waw! I have installed ROM Manager and set Quick Backup option (Thank You for sugestion!!!) Now Nandroid takes 4:15 Minutes - Tremendouse improvment!!!
How come showing progres can slow the whole proces 2.5 times???
Geezer Squid said:
You can speed things up in the backup process by putting a file named ".hideandroidprogress" in the Clockworkmod folder on your sdcard. It will prevent CWMR from displaying the little progress meter during a backup.
Good luck
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It sholud be .hidenandroidprogress instead of .hideandroidprogress
pesho00 said:
Waw! I have installed ROM Manager and set Quick Backup option (Thank You for sugestion!!!) Now Nandroid takes 4:15 Minutes - Tremendouse improvment!!!
How come showing progres can slow the whole proces 2.5 times???
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Good to know about this setting. I will try after my back up is complete. I'm about 60% complete and about an hour into the backup. The only thing I can think of as to why it is taking so long to backup is because of all my music (not sure why it backs that up when it is already on device).
I'm going to try this trick too. I have the Verizon Galaxy S3 and my nandroids take an hour and a half. On my DInc, they only took around 10 minutes. It's really annoying having to wait and hour and a half for a nandroid. That, and it eats ~40% of my battery doing it. Hopefully this little file helps it out. <fingers crossed>
Well, with adding the file to hide the progress bar, my Android took about 25 minutes last night. So it did speed up considerably, which I like, but it still takes longer than they used to. I'm definately content with that though. Thanks for the tip.
What file system r u usen.. I noticed with my samsung intercept usen anything other then rfs made nandroid backups real slow..
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The microSD card is formatted as FAT32, and I have no clue what the internal storage is.
So I was got my s3 awhile back and rooted it and ran Clean bean without any problems, well after those annoying system update messages started to get to me I decided I wanted to try and new rom and update my phone a bit as I would be leaving the country and wanted my phone updated. So I decided to flash slimbeam , It went off without a hitch. Only problem was I could not figure out how to get Titanium backup to restore all my contacts and app data. I saved all the backup files on my computer and even after putting them in the Titanium backup directory it would not let me do it. Anyway.....I decided to try and use the titanium backup program that lets you extract the data from a nandroid backup and flash it in recovery. I forgot to put it on my internal card when doing so and when I did my wipe I deleted it (epic facepalm) so I have to reflash cleanbean go back into my phone and make the .zip file to flash...
So I got tired and went to bed before flashing anything else, when I wake up. My phone is stuck on the samsung boot image screen. I try starting only to get the same thing. So I boot to CWS recovery and try to restore one of my nandroid backups. I accidentally hit backup to external sd and it started to run a backup, thenn my car charger came unplugged and the phone died....thinking it would just make that specific nandroid corrupt I thought nothing of it. So I reboot to CWS recovery again and actually try to do a restore with my oldest nandroid, But I get the error "Error updating /system" and error updating "/data".....I tried multiple backups that I have, none of them work and all produce that message.. 'm fairly new to this, What Am I doing wrong? I really love this site and all you guys do and I will be forever greatful of any help you guys can give me. I leave the country for Mexico in 2 days and I cant afford to pay the $150 to get my phone warrantied from sprint!
Thanks in advance, and sorry for spelling/grammar mistakes (at work, not suppose to be on here)
-Lucid.
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So I was got my s3 awhile back and rooted it and ran Clean bean without any problems, well after those annoying system update messages started to get to me I decided I wanted to try and new rom and update my phone a bit as I would be leaving the country and wanted my phone updated. So I decided to flash slimbeam , It went off without a hitch. Only problem was I could not figure out how to get Titanium backup to restore all my contacts and app data. I saved all the backup files on my computer and even after putting them in the Titanium backup directory it would not let me do it. Anyway.....I decided to try and use the titanium backup program that lets you extract the data from a nandroid backup and flash it in recovery. I forgot to put it on my internal card when doing so and when I did my wipe I deleted it (epic facepalm) so I have to reflash cleanbean go back into my phone and make the .zip file to flash...
So I got tired and went to bed before flashing anything else, when I wake up. My phone is stuck on the samsung boot image screen. I try starting only to get the same thing. So I boot to CWS recovery and try to restore one of my nandroid backups. I accidentally hit backup to external sd and it started to run a backup, thenn my car charger came unplugged and the phone died....thinking it would just make that specific nandroid corrupt I thought nothing of it. So I reboot to CWS recovery again and actually try to do a restore with my oldest nandroid, But I get the error "Error updating /system" and error updating "/data".....I tried multiple backups that I have, none of them work and all produce that message.. 'm fairly new to this, What Am I doing wrong? I really love this site and all you guys do and I will be forever greatful of any help you guys can give me. I leave the country for Mexico in 2 days and I cant afford to pay the $150 to get my phone warrantied from sprint!
Thanks in advance, and sorry for spelling/grammar mistakes (at work, not suppose to be on here)
-Lucid.
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Ok Lucid, stay calm.
First off, never do any work in Recovery without a fully charged phone. You're just asking for trouble if you're relying on the cable being plugged in.
I've never had good luck with trying to restore data in TiBu from a nandroid backup.
I'm not going to go into how to make your backups work. I'm honestly more concerned with just getting your phone back into working order. This thread has the most current Stock Rom in TAR form. Odin instructions can be found in this post within that thread.
After you're back to 100% stock, unrooted, you can follow the rooting guide to gain root back.
THANKS
topherk said:
Ok Lucid, stay calm.
First off, never do any work in Recovery without a fully charged phone. You're just asking for trouble if you're relying on the cable being plugged in.
I've never had good luck with trying to restore data in TiBu from a nandroid backup.
I'm not going to go into how to make your backups work. I'm honestly more concerned with just getting your phone back into working order. This thread has the most current Stock Rom in TAR form. Odin instructions can be found in this post within that thread.
After you're back to 100% stock, unrooted, you can follow the rooting guide to gain root back.
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Thanks man! Most appreciated! You just relieved a large amount of stress! I'll pay it forward!
topherk said:
Ok Lucid, stay calm.
First off, never do any work in Recovery without a fully charged phone. You're just asking for trouble if you're relying on the cable being plugged in.
I've never had good luck with trying to restore data in TiBu from a nandroid backup.
I'm not going to go into how to make your backups work. I'm honestly more concerned with just getting your phone back into working order. This thread has the most current Stock Rom in TAR form. Odin instructions can be found in this post within that thread.
After you're back to 100% stock, unrooted, you can follow the rooting guide to gain root back.
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Do what he said, I can vouch that restoring data through tibu from a nandroid has never worked for me either. If you backed up your contacts with Google you can just export them into a file (either .csv or .xml i forget) and then import that into your contacts
Sent from my SPH-L710
sevenpioverthree said:
Do what he said, I can vouch that restoring data through tibu from a nandroid has never worked for me either. If you backed up your contacts with Google you can just export them into a file (either .csv or .xml i forget) and then import that into your contacts
Sent from my SPH-L710
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And after looking through the sextape forums thread a bit more, you don't actually have to reroot, just use the following TAR file:
"Restore" Versions - Wipes your user data
SPH-L710_MD4_1130792_Stock_Restore [EXE|TAR.MD5.GZ]
SPH-L710_MD4_1130792_Rooted_Restore [EXE|TAR.MD5.GZ]
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They also have really good instructions for the Odin work on there.
Hope you get it working!
GOT IT! Thanks for the help man, worked like a charm. Even learned a thing or two .....So can you tell me how I get my stuff back using titanium backup? I got the backup files on my computer and I'm flashing a rom as I type this.
Lucid420 said:
GOT IT! Thanks for the help man, worked like a charm. Even learned a thing or two .....So can you tell me how I get my stuff back using titanium backup? I got the backup files on my computer and I'm flashing a rom as I type this.
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Here is a link to a post where I talked about Tianium Backup and what not to restore. It should be fairly informative.
In TiBu for SMS and call logs hit menu from the main screen and backup data as XML, select save locally when it's done. Move the xml files to external SD if you're gonna flash a 4.2.2 rom, flash new rom move the xmls back to internal, go to tibu, same menu, restore from xml and select which one you want to restore. It'll open a quasi file explorer, locate the corresponding xml for the option you chose(call log, SMS, wifi, bookmarks) and select it. It will restore the data via XML and you'll have all your call logs, sms, bookmarks and wifi accesspoints back like you never left your previous rom.
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I am currently in the middle of a nandroid. It has been backing up data for 1.5 hours now. I enabled compression and the data size is 3322mb. I am backing up the Viper rom for the M8 on TWRP. Is there a way to do a battery pull to cancel this nandroid?
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I am currently in the middle of a nandroid. It has been backing up data for 1.5 hours now. I enabled compression and the data size is 3322mb. I am backing up the Viper rom for the M8 on TWRP. Is there a way to do a battery pull to cancel this nandroid?
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Every time I try to do a simulated battery pull by holding down the power button, it just locks twrp. Even if it is still working, 2 hours is way too long for a backup.
memekmek said:
I am currently in the middle of a nandroid. It has been backing up data for 1.5 hours now. I enabled compression and the data size is 3322mb. I am backing up the Viper rom for the M8 on TWRP. Is there a way to do a battery pull to cancel this nandroid?
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hold power and vol up
jaythenut said:
hold power and vol up
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that awkward moment when you feel really dumb. Thanks again. I'll try without compressing this time.
without compression,,, the backup took 1 min!
memekmek said:
without compression,,, the backup took 1 min!
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thats a bit better lol
Compression in this ver of TWRP is a pig. I think quite a few of us have been bitten by that extended backup.......;0)