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[Q] Wrong time/date for nandroid backups in CWM?

Hi,
I installed CWM on my Rogers S3 using the ODIN method that doesn't trip the counter, and everything is going great, except for my nandroid backups all having the wrong date/time (the year shows as 1970). Does anyone know of a fix for this?
Thanks!

the only fix is to flash a new cwm. Not I.would STRONGLY suggest against it. I did that and I lost my imei. So I had to get a new phone. Wait
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MacTheRipperr said:
the only fix is to flash a new cwm. Not I.would STRONGLY suggest against it. I did that and I lost my imei. So I had to get a new phone. Wait
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Oh damn, that sucks. :\ Well it's not a huge issue, I can deal with it for now. Thanks for the info!

I know on my epic if I take out the battery and boot straight into cwm to do a backup it would always show the wrong date.
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Currently, this is a known issue... I would also stay away from 5.8.4.9...you lose sd card function. V. 7 works ok for now other than the date issues.
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I am having the same date issue as well. Also my CWM is not seeing my ext SD card. Any clue how to fix that.

Format your card as fat 32

jmorton10 said:
Format your card as fat 32
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I did that. CWM still not seeing the ext SD for backups or installing ZIP. However if you go into mounts and storage you can mount or unmount
either the sd or ext sd and you can format both. This is very odd. any idea. My phone is on AT&T, not that should matter.

I have CWM and it can see my exSD card fine... It does show the wrong date for the backup though... Question: Will the wrong time/date mess up the ability to restore? Has anyone ever tried to restore from the incorrectly-dated backup? Was it a :good: or did it result in :crying:?!

XooLoo said:
I have CWM and it can see my exSD card fine... It does show the wrong date for the backup though... Question: Will the wrong time/date mess up the ability to restore? Has anyone ever tried to restore from the incorrectly-dated backup? Was it a :good: or did it result in :crying:?!
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Have restored from a few nandroids without issue even though the date is wrong.

Can we just rename the folders to the correct date? Or will that screw something up?

Renaming folders is fine. Just don't rename any files inside.

kthung said:
Can we just rename the folders to the correct date? Or will that screw something up?
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I renamed the folder, and later had to restore using that folder, and it worked beautifully... that date, as it turns out, is just a label. You can change it to whatever date you want...

Rom Manager
Actually if you do a backup using Rom manager the dates come out right

[Q] TWRP Backup Transfer

So my phone broke and I got sent a new one from Sprint, and I had all my TWRP backups on the external sd card. I have TWRP now on the new phone, but it won't read the backups from the external sd card and when I moved the backups into the TWRP folder on the internal sd, it still won't find it in recovery. How can I get it to read and restore a nandroid from the other phone? Any help is really appreciated

Are you sure the backups weren't made in an older, not compatible version of twrp?

teh roxxorz said:
Are you sure the backups weren't made in an older, not compatible version of twrp?
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Yes, they were made with v2.3.1.0 and that's the version I'm also currently using, only thing I can think of was that originally I got TWRP from Goo.im app and I installed it via Odin this time.
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imaconeheadXD said:
Yes, they were made with v2.3.1.0 and that's the version I'm also currently using, only thing I can think of was that originally I got TWRP from Goo.im app and I installed it via Odin this time.
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They're not corrupted at all? No backups named with invalid characters, like spaces?

teh roxxorz said:
They're not corrupted at all? No backups named with invalid characters, like spaces?
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Not corrupted, but they do all have spaces and dashes... I'll try removing them and seeing if that does it
Edit: It didn't work
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imaconeheadXD said:
Not corrupted, but they do all have spaces and dashes... I'll try removing them and seeing if that does it
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if you run a nandroid backup on the new phone, compare the numbers for that backup with the numbers for the old backup you want to restore. they will be different numbers. i had this issue before and changing the numbers from the old backup to the same numbers of the new backup fixed the problem. then TWRP will see the nandroid for you to restore. the folder inside "TWRP" then the folder inside "BACKUPS" that is the folder you want to rename. it will be a number like.....mine is 9202f5d1. thats the number specific to that exact phone. good luck.

jdg2002 said:
if you run a nandroid backup on the new phone, compare the numbers for that backup with the numbers for the old backup you want to restore. they will be different numbers. i had this issue before and changing the numbers from the old backup to the same numbers of the new backup fixed the problem. then TWRP will see the nandroid for you to restore. the folder inside "TWRP" then the folder inside "BACKUPS" that is the folder you want to rename. it will be a number like.....mine is 9202f5d1. thats the number specific to that exact phone. good luck.
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This worked! Thank you
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imaconeheadXD said:
This worked! Thank you
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Lol, that's what happens when I assume. Though yes, that's how you restore backups between phones. Also you'd have to do this on any recovery, should you ever switch recoveries and need to transfer between phones. Though I wouldn't restore the system, personally.

Restore nandroid on replacement device?

getting a replacement soon (screen)... can I just root it, install cwm, and restore a nandroid backup from my current phone?

Absolutely!
In fact, I customized the heck out of a Galaxy Skyrocket ROM and did a nandroid and restored it to my buddies Galaxy Hercules!

awesome. loving this thing now that I got my beans all sorted out, don't really want to rebuild.

I would definitely do a copy/paste of ALL contents of your internal and external SD cards also. Just copy them onto a folder on your computer. And then restore the nandroid. Then copy all the contents from the computer folder back onto the phone. Replacing as you go.
Nandroids are just not fool-proof recovery, IMO. They don't restore EVERYTHING from your internal SD card.
And also a titanium backup (including cache) of all user apps, just in case things go wrong.

Russ77 said:
getting a replacement soon (screen)... can I just root it, install cwm, and restore a nandroid backup from my current phone?
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I don't think it will work like that. It doesn't for CDMA phones anyway I can say that for sure. For example I did it for a buddy if mine with his droid incredible. Restored his old meid (in gsms case the imei ) on top of the new one. Replacing it so to say so down the road even if it was operational I'm sure it would cause you problems down the road.
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CZ Eddie said:
I would definitely do a copy/paste of ALL contents of your internal and external SD cards also. Just copy them onto a folder on your computer. And then restore the nandroid. Then copy all the contents from the computer folder back onto the phone. Replacing as you go.
Nandroids are just not fool-proof recovery, IMO. They don't restore EVERYTHING from your internal SD card.
And also a titanium backup (including cache) of all user apps, just in case things go wrong.
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of course.

mar5hal said:
I don't think it will work like that. It doesn't for CDMA phones anyway I can say that for sure. For example I did it for a buddy if mine with his droid incredible. Restored his old meid (in gsms case the imei ) on top of the new one. Replacing it so to say so down the road even if it was operational I'm sure it would cause you problems down the road.
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interesting. I've read on several threads in the various S3 forums that for those who have lost their IMEI by flashing ROMs, restoring a nandroid backup does NOT restore the IMEI.
regardless, I will do a nandroid of the stock setup before restoring from my backup.

[Q] Nandroid backup size

I just made a backup via nandroid and CWM of my phone in possible anticipation of trying out a new rom. However, the backup is only 21mb. How is that possible? Does it not back up my apps? What exactly gets backed up?
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slicetwo said:
I just made a backup via nandroid and CWM of my phone in possible anticipation of trying out a new rom. However, the backup is only 21mb. How is that possible? Does it not back up my apps? What exactly gets backed up?
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It should backup everything. I would suggest remaking a backup.

BWolf56 said:
It should backup everything. I would suggest remaking a backup.
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still only 21mb.

CWM backups show as very small on the inital folder but I believe if you drill down further all the information is stored in what is called a blob IIRC and that will be larger folder.
I would suggest TWRP instead as it is easier to store your backups in a safe place just in case you have a srcew up.

hednik said:
CWM backups show as very small on the inital folder but I believe if you drill down further all the information is stored in what is called a blob IIRC and that will be larger folder.
I would suggest TWRP instead as it is easier to store your backups in a safe place just in case you have a srcew up.
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YES. i see that now. 2.1gb for the whole folder.
thanks!

slicetwo said:
I just made a backup via nandroid and CWM of my phone in possible anticipation of trying out a new rom. However, the backup is only 21mb. How is that possible? Does it not back up my apps? What exactly gets backed up?
Thanks!
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Check to see of you also have a folder in the cwm folder called blobs. Your info would be there and it should be a considerable size.
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This probably could be different depending on which version of cwm you have installed so take a look first.
Go I to recovery, choose backup and restore, scroll down to CHOOSE BACKUP FORMAT, then you will see .DUP or .tar
What you have right now that saves them as blobs is the .DUP format and has a separate folder that your looking at. If you change it to .tar format it saves the whole nandroid backup in one file.
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Warning!! Warning!! Dont lose your backups!!

VERY IMPORTANT!!
I recently FTF'd up to 4.2.2, rooted, and installed CWM.
The first thing I ALWAYS do when I first root and install CWM is make a backup of stock, to have incase I need it.
Now I always name the backup according to the date I created it, and usually use my favorite file explorer (es file explorer) to find the backup and rename it.
When I attempted to do this, I could not find my backup ANYWHERE!!! I thought maybe It didn't get created properly or something, yet, I saw and big ding on my storage capacity, presumably due to the backup I made, but couldn't find.
I just happened to stumble across a message in ROM Manager that gave me the answer I was looking for.
In ROM Manager it states:
"In Android 4.2, backups are placed in a secure directory, INACCESSIBLE to other apps.
Backups can be pulled with ADB or by using the ROM Manager Backup Download Server."
Basically you HAVE to use ROM Manager to find and rename your backups if your using CWM on Android 4.2
Figured I would post this and save people the headache I went through trying to locate the backup I made.
Check the attached picture of the message that's in ROM Manager.
Thanks and happy flashing!

ATRIXXIRTA said:
VERY IMPORTANT!!
I recently FTF'd up to 4.2.2, rooted, and installed CWM.
The first thing I ALWAYS do when I first root and install CWM is make a backup of stock, to have incase I need it.
Now I always name the backup according to the date I created it, and usually use my favorite file explorer (es file explorer) to find the backup and rename it.
When I attempted to do this, I could not find my backup ANYWHERE!!! I thought maybe It didn't get created properly or something, yet, I saw and big ding on my storage capacity, presumably due to the backup I made, but couldn't find.
I just happened to stumble across a message in ROM Manager that gave me the answer I was looking for.
In ROM Manager it states:
"In Android 4.2, backups are placed in a secure directory, INACCESSIBLE to other apps.
Backups can be pulled with ADB or by using the ROM Manager Backup Download Server."
Basically you HAVE to use ROM Manager to find and rename your backups if your using CWM on Android 4.2
Figured I would post this and save people the headache I went through trying to locate the backup I made.
Check the attached picture of the message that's in ROM Manager.
Thanks and happy flashing!
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Ah yes! I had forgotten about that from the Nexus 4! That explains why I was missing some space, and of course this means I lost the backup I had. Luckily I have a Titanium Backup of my apps and settings, and the pictures were not that important.

havanahjoe said:
Ah yes! I had forgotten about that from the Nexus 4! That explains why I was missing some space, and of course this means I lost the backup I had. Luckily I have a Titanium Backup of my apps and settings, and the pictures were not that important.
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You may have your backups still. Just look for them in Rom manager.
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ATRIXXIRTA said:
You may have your backups still. Just look for them in Rom manager.
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No, I wiped the /data partition when installing a clean version of the .423 FTF. I was missing about 7 GB of space when on RomAur, and I bet some of that space was used by at least one backup. I don't think I had more than one though.

Wiping data doesn't erase your backups. Our anything on your sd cards. Formatting your storage or manually deleting them is the only way to erase them.
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I save my CWM backups on the external SD card so it doesn't disappear even when I upgraded to 4.2
Press thanks if I helped
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Ya that's for sure the way to do it.
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