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Hello,
I'm trying to Restore one of my backups from recovery and after reboot, the phone stuck on the white HTC screen, It happen to all the backups I have.
It's the first time this is happen, I managed to do that before without problems.
My recovery version is 3.0.1.5 and always has been (I didn't upgrade/downgrade) it ever.
I'm able to install a new fresh ROM, but I'm not able to Recover and this is very important for me.
I read other threads about it but neither are solving my issue.
Please advice.
Thanks!!!
(The backups are Coredroid and RCMixHD both Gingerbread).
I had the same problem and solved it by first flashing the old, clean ROM (in my case RCMix) and after the first successful boot restoring only data and system (in CWM "backup and restore" -> "advanced restore"). And I suppose if you restore system, the backup should be the same ROM as the one you have installed.
After that everything worked fine again...something must be wrong with CWM, seriously...
frosty_ice said:
I had the same problem and solved it by first flashing the old, clean ROM (in my case RCMix) and after the first successful boot restoring only data and system (in CWM "backup and restore" -> "advanced restore"). And I suppose if you restore system, the backup should be the same ROM as the one you have installed.
After that everything worked fine again...something must be wrong with CWM, seriously...
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yes, but from then, are you able to do Restore as regular, like you did before without any problems ?
Or that only your system is working but your'e still unable to do restores ?
Well I am unable to do a complete restore, but it works when I first install the ROM and afterwards manually restore system and data. So I have got everything set up as if I did a normal restore.
It's almost the same as a regular restore any way, you won't notice any difference.
I will take a look into the CWM backups, maybe I'll find the reason for this bug.
thanks, that's nice, it's not so comfortable, but if I wont have a choice I will do that.
In the meanwhile I prefer fixing this issue, anything can do to fix it ?
(Strange, but my problem has been started since I'm using RCMix, may something in this ROM conflicts with CWM?!)
Quite the same here, I'm using RCMix too. But it might just be a random correlation, unless more people have this problem.
Until it is fixed I will just use my workaround, it is not too much trouble luckily
Oh yeah and I took a look in my backups. On the surface everything seems to be in order....
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Quite the same here, I'm using RCMix too. But it might just be a random correlation, unless more people have this problem.
Until it is fixed I will just use my workaround, it is not too much trouble luckily
Oh yeah and I took a look in my backups. On the surface everything seems to be in order....
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I'm using CM7 and have no problem restoring my Nandroid backup, so IMHO it may be a specific issue with RCMix
Ok guys, problem has been solved by installing the latest recovery version from Rom Manager app. Then restart, wipe and... Restore successfully.
I still suspect the RCMixHD, because the problem has been started since I have installed it, maybe it changed something in the CWM, I'm afraid to reinstall it now , I'm sticking with Coredroid 5.3
First post and I have to say great forum here and lots of great information!!
I am a long time unix / linux user and work in the technology product development and I have been researching for about a week after updating to official ICS over Kies for information on backuping up my phone and rooting.
I had considered rooting before but never had a good reason really until I loaded the official ICS update and had to reset to get it working, losing all my apps / data. Kies was not cooperating so I did not get a good backup and it would not keep my app settings any way. This is when I found out that my old Blackberry and even iPhone had much more complete backup solutions that non-rooted Android. I have totally recovered the other devices without losing anything in the past so I thought Android would be a snap as well.
Any way to the point now. After searching I have found great work done by the members and I feel pretty comfortable proceeding to root my stock ICS and getting Titanium to do a full backup. I will fix my keyboard and few other things while at it.
My questions are:
1. When the next official release comes from ATT / Samsung will I have to reflash to the stock boot.img (found in another thread) to be able to get the upgrade and then root my phone again?
2. Once rooted, is it better to just come back here and get the updated ROM and flash manually?
3. Is the best way to achieve the complete backup solution I am looking for?
I am pretty happy with the stock ROMs but I want to be able to get a good and full backup going forward since it takes so long to reinstall everything. I could even live with the bloatware if I was confident I could completely restore at anytime.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Roy
Titanium is good for backing up apps and data. If you want a complete back up, you'll want to make a nandroid backup with CWMR. As for the ROM part, it all depends on if you're happy with what you get stock or if you like customized things. I'm sick right now or I would go into detail.
sent from my captivate glide running ICS (NardROM 0.4 Rooted)
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Titanium is good for backing up apps and data. If you want a complete back up, you'll want to make a nandroid backup with CWMR. As for the ROM part, it all depends on if you're happy with what you get stock or if you like customized things. I'm sick right now or I would go into detail.
sent from my captivate glide running ICS (NardROM 0.4 Rooted)
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Thanks Shawn. I saw a reference to nandroid but did not realize it was part of CWMR. Can I assume if I get CWMR loaded I will be able to backup my current apps / settings or will that just set me up for the next time? I have been sort of assuming once I get CWMR loaded and get root that I may lose my current settings.
Appreciate the reply especially while sick! Hope you feel better soon.
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Thanks Shawn. I saw a reference to nandroid but did not realize it was part of CWMR. Can I assume if I get CWMR loaded I will be able to backup my current apps / settings or will that just set me up for the next time? I have been sort of assuming once I get CWMR loaded and get root that I may lose my current settings.
Appreciate the reply especially while sick! Hope you feel better soon.
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A nandroid backup is more like an image backup of the flash, so you would have to restore the whole thing to get back any files you may have lost. It's mostly for backing up prior to flashing a new ROM, so if you don't like it you can go back to what you had easily.
If you want to back up pictures and things like that you should be able to plug the phone into a computer and mount the flash as a drive (I've done this on my Linux and Windows systems many times). Then you can copy the files you want to save to your computer, or copy a new ROM to the phone so you can flash it with CWMR.
You're welcome. Nandroid backups are for when your phone bootloops or is "bricked" or if you want to restore to something previous. For me, I use Titanium to backup all app data before flashing something and then make a Nandroid with CWMR. In my opinion its a good idea to use both so you're safe from any problems down the road.
sent from my captivate glide running ICS (NardROM 0.4 Rooted)
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You're welcome. Nandroid backups are for when your phone bootloops or is "bricked" or if you want to restore to something previous. For me, I use Titanium to backup all app data before flashing something and then make a Nandroid with CWMR. In my opinion its a good idea to use both so you're safe from any problems down the road.
sent from my captivate glide running ICS (NardROM 0.4 Rooted)
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mvi57 and Shawn,
Thanks guys, got it now. I will probably do both types of backups as well.
I think I understand the system a little better now. The recovery partition probably does not affect the bootloader or ROM so if I just replace it with CWMR I still boot the same and will not lose my current data. I am guessing the next official ROM will probably load fine but I would probably just have to root the phone again.
Thanks for putting up with the noob questions. I have not done embedded development before but some of the guys on team have so I have some terminology i need to get used to.
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mvi57 and Shawn,
Thanks guys, got it now. I will probably do both types of backups as well.
I think I understand the system a little better now. The recovery partition probably does not affect the bootloader or ROM so if I just replace it with CWMR I still boot the same and will not lose my current data. I am guessing the next official ROM will probably load fine but I would probably just have to root the phone again.
Thanks for putting up with the noob questions. I have not done embedded development before but some of the guys on team have so I have some terminology i need to get used to.
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You will need to root again once you update. Replacing stock recovery with CWMR will not make you lose any data.
sent from my captivate glide running ICS (NardROM 0.4 Rooted)
VideoRoy said:
First post and I have to say great forum here and lots of great information!!
I am a long time unix / linux user and work in the technology product development and I have been researching for about a week after updating to official ICS over Kies for information on backuping up my phone and rooting.
I had considered rooting before but never had a good reason really until I loaded the official ICS update and had to reset to get it working, losing all my apps / data. Kies was not cooperating so I did not get a good backup and it would not keep my app settings any way.
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It's a hard lesson to learn that there were relatively easy solutions to avoid it :/ I as a fellow long time Linux user, I'm suprised!. I myself can not stand not having root access when I need it. I luckily have had Titanium Backup for quite some time now and it IS a life saver for many of your apps and settings! It's a must! I too had the issue of not being able to update via kies and assumed it was because my device was rooted, so in my frustrated lack of sleep mood I had going, I said meh all and grabbed easily accessible data off the memory and flashed the ICS from sammobile.com if i remember right. I've since flashed NardRom as well and am having some signal/sms issues. That being said, MAKE SURE you do a nandroid backup and don't get all anxious and overzealous like I did. If I am not mistaken and understand correctly, sometimes when flashing roms you may overwrite various signal related files like the modem or wireless? With a nandroid backup you can simply restore from that like nothing ever happened! Just follow directions to the T. I've yet to brick my SGH-i927 but I've bricked our captivates a few times
ZeroHour064 said:
It's a hard lesson to learn that there were relatively easy solutions to avoid it :/ I as a fellow long time Linux user, I'm suprised!. I myself can not stand not having root access when I need it. I luckily have had Titanium Backup for quite some time now and it IS a life saver for many of your apps and settings! It's a must! I too had the issue of not being able to update via kies and assumed it was because my device was rooted, so in my frustrated lack of sleep mood I had going, I said meh all and grabbed easily accessible data off the memory and flashed the ICS from sammobile.com if i remember right. I've since flashed NardRom as well and am having some signal/sms issues. That being said, MAKE SURE you do a nandroid backup and don't get all anxious and overzealous like I did. If I am not mistaken and understand correctly, sometimes when flashing roms you may overwrite various signal related files like the modem or wireless? With a nandroid backup you can simply restore from that like nothing ever happened! Just follow directions to the T. I've yet to brick my SGH-i927 but I've bricked our captivates a few times
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I am with you all the way.
I have installed CWMR now and completed a nandroid backup. After tracking down the backup I copied to my laptop for safe keeping. Also installed the keyboard fix only and it worked fine. Later tonight I will give root a try with Titanium.
BTW I was having SMS issues with the stock ICS. No alerts and basic funky things. I have loaded Go SMS Pro and am happier not only fixing the app issues but giving me Group text mode so I am not an outcast with the rest of my iPhone family
Thanks for helping me get going here.
ICS has a bunch of issues, including the bad notifications.
sent from my captivate glide running ICS (NardROM 0.4 Rooted)
As others have posted. I back up all my information per app via Titanium backup and every few months I make a new Nandroid backup. This gives me the best of both worlds. A full backup that I can get back to via Nandroid backup and little backups from Titanium backup if I choose to uninstall and re-install an individual app later on in the future.
Just a few other tips from my recent experiences. Since the problems I was having with NardROM... an entire night with no text msgs from my ole lady got me pretty worried and I learned it was issues with my flash or the rom with my phone so I wiped it out and went back to the stock ICS. I also flashed the keyboard fix and have noticed no problems. I did flash the tether fix too but it's not working for me at the moment so I'll play with it later. I'm also using my regular Captivate as a secondary phone/toy using google voice and wireless so if I'm not getting anything on one # during testing or usage I will notice it and get it on the other phone.
Also, as a long time GOSMS user I like to try out the various features but I must warn you stay away from, or have a backup plan on top of it, if you purchase the 180-day premium features and utilize the local backup. I'm not fond of having things backed up to a cloud so like you I back up all my phone stuff to my server and desktops at home but running raid 5 (paranoid much?). The problem I had is when I restored all my text from the cloud after a flash and noticed the new local backup feature in a GOSMS update I thought hey i can do away with the cloud and use this right!? Wrong. I deleted the cloud backup without double checking and on this last flash, attempted to restore roughly 20k+ messages from the Gosms local backup feature and it errored out or froze the phone EVERY time I tried. Frantically searching through everything I had, I learned that Titanium Backup does do a backup typically of the related data, I beleive the listed backup is SMS/APN/MMS or something similar. You have to enable writing to /system in Titanium's settings. There's a howto on xda I beleive and google searches on restoring it. Another thing, if you have numerous backups and are playing around and i.e. have just flashed, installed Titaniumbackup and want to backup something before you restore it from an older version, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CHANGED MAX # of BACKUPS FIRST, otherwise you have just overwritten your previous backup :crying:
*Correction* I'm using jayjayjoker2's debloated ICS 4.0.4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1843001
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Just a few other tips from my recent experiences. Since the problems I was having with NardROM... an entire night with no text msgs from my ole lady got me pretty worried and I learned it was issues with my flash or the rom with my phone so I wiped it out and went back to the stock ICS. I also flashed the keyboard fix and have noticed no problems. I did flash the tether fix too but it's not working for me at the moment so I'll play with it later. I'm also using my regular Captivate as a secondary phone/toy using google voice and wireless so if I'm not getting anything on one # during testing or usage I will notice it and get it on the other phone.
Also, as a long time GOSMS user I like to try out the various features but I must warn you stay away from, or have a backup plan on top of it, if you purchase the 180-day premium features and utilize the local backup. I'm not fond of having things backed up to a cloud so like you I back up all my phone stuff to my server and desktops at home but running raid 5 (paranoid much?). The problem I had is when I restored all my text from the cloud after a flash and noticed the new local backup feature in a GOSMS update I thought hey i can do away with the cloud and use this right!? Wrong. I deleted the cloud backup without double checking and on this last flash, attempted to restore roughly 20k+ messages from the Gosms local backup feature and it errored out or froze the phone EVERY time I tried. Frantically searching through everything I had, I learned that Titanium Backup does do a backup typically of the related data, I beleive the listed backup is SMS/APN/MMS or something similar. You have to enable writing to /system in Titanium's settings. There's a howto on xda I beleive and google searches on restoring it. Another thing, if you have numerous backups and are playing around and i.e. have just flashed, installed Titaniumbackup and want to backup something before you restore it from an older version, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CHANGED MAX # of BACKUPS FIRST, otherwise you have just overwritten your previous backup :crying:
*Correction* I'm using jayjayjoker2's debloated ICS 4.0.4 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1843001
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Great information thanks!!
The backups I am most worried about are all the system settings, app settings and data mostly. I am probably older than most folks here and I do not really text much except family and a few co-workers. I honestly never worried about backing up my SMS / MMS but I will check on my APNs because I had that problem on a Blackberry once. Email is where I store most important stuff and talk about paranoid I have multiple copies of my emails on different computers on different operating systems. 20 years working in storage will do that to you
I believe that if Google or Samsung even came up with a backup solution that did what Blackberry or Apple could do it would solve a lot and I probably would not even be working on this. Blackberry saved my bacon more than once with the complete backup they do in their clunky software and last year when my daughters iPhone would no longer power off, I was able to use iTunes to do a complete backup and she was up and running on a new phone in 15 mins exactly where she left off.
Thanks for the advice!
Just to preface, I have been flashing ROMs for 2 years now, and am by no means new to the game. However, I'll be the first to say that I'm not immune to making stupid mistakes. So if I'm being stupid, you can tell me and not hurt my feelings
I will give a history of what I have done with my phone since Monday after I picked it up, and some quirks I have noticed.
- Set up my phone, accounts etc
- Let Google backup/restore download and install all of my apps
- Installed OTA to ALJC
- Installed Note2 Toolkit on my PC, drivers load, adb recognizes.
- Rooted & Installed CWM recovery
- Flashed stock de-odexed ALJC
- Installed 5x6 launcher & ALJC 4x1 reboot options (rebooted and proceed to setup my homescreens, icons, etc.) (I noticed when trying to flash items from "internal" sd card, it says there are not any
- inserted my SD Card from my OG Epic (Titanium backups in place)
- Restored text messages from .xml file via TB
- None of the games I wanted to transfer data from would run after restoring data from my TB backups, had to clear data and apps run fine, except for NBA Jam (guessing b/c they were from a CM10 ROM and a different device)
-Got all my apps setup, wiped all the bogus data I got from my prior TB backups. After playing with the phone, running apps for several hours, did a full Titanium backup of my phone
- Booted to CWM & Saved a nandroid backup to external SD Card
- Flashed (dirty) ULE 1.0 ALJC Rom (I thought by flashing dirty, it would preserve all my data, apps, etc. = I was wrong)
- Attempted to restore all of my Titanium backups (only ~60% would restore...still trying to figure this out).
- Attempted to restore the backed up 5x6 launcher (with my screens/icons setup intact) via TB. This kind of worked, it definitely changed the icon setup, but it was NOT 5x6, and it did not have my previous layout (probably b/c it was trying to fit a 5x6 on a 4x4).
- Figured that the dirty flash screwed things up, so I would restore my nandroid and go back to square one, where I had stock deodexed with 5x6 & reboot options, and launcher screens intact. So I booted CWM and restored that nandroid.
- After restoring and rebooting, I'm not sure if anything happened at all. I had a 4x4 launcher, no reboot options, and several of my apps were missing (particularly, the ones that would not restore from TB before)
- Figured I aught to factory reset and then restore, same result as above.
- Currently downloading stock ALJ1 tar so I can start all over again
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I know this is long-winded, but I wanted to put it all out there in case I am doing something categorically wrong with my Note II, so I do not replicate this problem. It has always been the case that a nandroid backup gets me back EXACTLY where I was when I made it (on both my Touchpad & Epic). For whatever reason, this did not happen in this case, even after a factory reset/wipe.
Perhaps CWM isn't working properly? Perhaps I need to try TWRP so that I can manually wipe /system (as far as I can tell you can't manually do that in CWM, but if I understand correctly, this is done when you flash a ROM or restore a nandroid).
Am I doing something wrong? Also, why won't CWM see any of the files I downloaded to the internal memory? Several times now I have booted CWM and when I try to flashing things I downloaded, I have to reboot and move them to my external SD card so that CWM can see them.
Are there settings that are being saved to my external SD card that are causing problems (I highly doubt it)?
Thanks to any and all suggestions/guidance/advice.
Looking forward to learning more and more about these awesome devices.
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Just to preface, I have been flashing ROMs for 2 years now, and am by no means new to the game. However, I'll be the first to say that I'm not immune to making stupid mistakes. So if I'm being stupid, you can tell me and not hurt my feelings
I will give a history of what I have done with my phone since Monday after I picked it up, and some quirks I have noticed.
I know this is long-winded, but I wanted to put it all out there in case I am doing something categorically wrong with my Note II, so I do not replicate this problem. It has always been the case that a nandroid backup gets me back EXACTLY where I was when I made it (on both my Touchpad & Epic). For whatever reason, this did not happen in this case, even after a factory reset/wipe.
Perhaps CWM isn't working properly? Perhaps I need to try TWRP so that I can manually wipe /system (as far as I can tell you can't manually do that in CWM, but if I understand correctly, this is done when you flash a ROM or restore a nandroid).
Am I doing something wrong? Also, why won't CWM see any of the files I downloaded to the internal memory? Several times now I have booted CWM and when I try to flashing things I downloaded, I have to reboot and move them to my external SD card so that CWM can see them.
Are there settings that are being saved to my external SD card that are causing problems (I highly doubt it)?
Thanks to any and all suggestions/guidance/advice.
Looking forward to learning more and more about these awesome devices.
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Well I personally use twrp and have had no issues so I cannot speak on your nandroid issues...I do know however that in twrp after selecting internal or external sd card, you sometimes have to manually navigate to the respective sdcard...as for your TB not seeing your back ups from your prior device, go to preferences< backup location< detect and select scan whole device
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Just to clarify your remarks to avoid confusion. I can clearly see my TB backups.
I did have to go and do those steps first. About only half of them would restore though. Kind of odd. Maybe some data corruption? Didn't matter if I did them one at a time or during batch mode. Also didn't matter which of the 3 processing modes I selected in TB. Once one of the offending backups was being processed in batch mode, the restore process would hang until I force stopped TB or rebooted.
How much free storage does your internal sd have remaining? I ask because my wife's s3 would do the same when it was below 1gig
Multiple GB, probably 7 or 8. I store everything on my external, music, pics, etc. Haven't had that much chance to fill up the internal yet =]
I don't know. ..Very irritating isn't
It is indeed. But that's the risk of being a flashaholic
...and of being a first-mover on a brand new device =]
Beginning to wonder if me rooting with SuperSu, and then flashing (dirty) ULE which uses superuser, may have caused any problems. Perhaps binaries were conflicting?
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Just to clarify your remarks to avoid confusion. I can clearly see my TB backups.
I did have to go and do those steps first. About only half of them would restore though. Kind of odd. Maybe some data corruption? Didn't matter if I did them one at a time or during batch mode. Also didn't matter which of the 3 processing modes I selected in TB. Once one of the offending backups was being processed in batch mode, the restore process would hang until I force stopped TB or rebooted.
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Oh okay I see what you mean now...I have no idea whats going on there lol. ..I hope you can somehow get that figured out because I know how much it sucks to lose app Data
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I am really puzzled now, I just odined back to stock and then up through all rooting/etc to get to ULE again. Totally wiped everything. TB is still giving me fits. I'm assuming they backups were bad. Half work, half don't.
I was able to restore apps from a nandroid I made on my OG Epic a month ago. So that's helpful. I'm going to delete all my TB backups once I get everything situated and start fresh (possibly b/c I made backups while on an odexed ROM and restored them on a deodexed ROM?).
I think I'm going to stick with TWRP for now. I don't know if CWM was working properly at all, and TWRP has a few more features. TB wasn't able to see a single app to restore from the two CWM nandroids I made. Not sure what's up with that.
I was going to mention the codex stuff but it really shouldn't matter as you are backing up the data portion not the system. Still you might have a look at setting/storage. USB debug on ...all that jazz
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In past devices I've owned lately (can remember which cuz there's been A LOT) I've noticed that at times, when i restore a back up i suddenly have bugs that weren't there b4. I'm not saying it's common but i HAVE seen it. I wanna try installing some mods my phone but b4 i do I'm gonna create a back up. Im just hoping that if i do have too restore a back up that it's not gonna suddenly create problems. My set up is dam near perfect right now. So I'm just putting some feelers out here: has anyone restored a back up using TWRP? And if so, was everything running perfectly afterwards?
Thanks.
Never had an issue.
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If I restore a backup I usually do a factory reset first and foremost everything, that way its restoring to a clean space.
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Just did it today. No problems at all.
I have noticed stuff like google play services needing to be updated even though it was just updated and smart cards stop working. Never anything major though and it only happens every now and then.
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If I restore a backup I usually do a factory reset first and foremost everything, that way its restoring to a clean space.
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Yeah, i do too. I think it was a while back on the note 3 that even when wiping fully you'd still get issues. Just glad to see others aren't having problems with this device. Thanks.
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Yeah, i do too. I think it was a while back on the note 3 that even when wiping fully you'd still get issues. Just glad to see others aren't having problems with this device. Thanks.
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That's because TWRP was horribly broken on the Note 3 for a long time. It wasn't restoring SELinux contexts properly so you'd wind up with a non-functional device (e.g. every app FC'd on launch, device would bootloop, etc.). It was also corrupting exFAT-formatted SD cards due to a buggy FUSE implementation. (I helped bigbiff troubleshoot and fix all of it over the past year.)
I had to restore contexts manually via adb after a TWRP restore before rebooting into Android. They only fixed that in the 2.7.1.0 release IIRC.
I haven't had a single problem. Restores perfectly. I do wipe like 3 times first though.
Just wondering what everyone else is using for backups (apps, app data, internal storage, sms/mms, etc.), particularly if you're switching between ROMs or anything else that involves wiping periodically. I love experimenting with custom ROMs but I hate the wipe/restore that goes with it, and I almost always lose data when I soft-brick. I also often lose data when intentionally wiping to flash a different ROM and my app data fails to restore. Anyone have a flawless solution for always staying backed up (preferably on a schedule) and always restoring successfully?
Things I've tried:
* Migrate: Earlier versions had restoration problems, but these days it's more reliable. I do a full backup before any intentional upgrade or ROM flash, then copy to a computer manually, and it usually restores successfully
* SwiftBackup: Limited options, but the nightly schedule keeps most of my data backed up to the cloud and has restored successfully about 95% of the time
* Titanium Backup: Was beyond perfect, but discontinued
* OAndXBackup: Seemed like an okay replacement for TiBu but the only time I tried to restore it failed
* AlphaBackup: Flexible manual backups but limited auto backup options. Haven't tried to restore
What else is out there? I especially miss the options for TiBu where I could back up everything once a week and then backup "apps with modified data" nightly. Nothing else I've found has that specific option.
Powerful, efficient, configurable, scheduled https://github.com/VR-25/migrator
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Powerful, efficient, configurable, scheduled https://github.com/VR-25/migrator
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Looks great! I'll definitely give it a try. As a Linux person I love that the help section is written like a man page. How's actual real-world success in restoration?
I have searched on github for a zip to install, but nowhere to be found, so no magisk installable zip.
Then I saw that there is an issue that after using the app for a backup it breaks every app on the device.
So this is both not installable nor stable.
I may have used Titanium since Android 7, until Android 12 Titanium is still running well
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I may have used Titanium since Android 7, until Android 12 Titanium is still running well
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TiBu development was stopped at least a couple of years ago and I've had all sorts of issues since Android 10. App freezes when it encounters certain apps, it can't handle split apks, restored apps tend to crash, etc. Glad it's working for you, but that hasn't been my experience the last couple of years.
Titanium still has some usefulness, but is definitely outdated!
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Just wondering what everyone else is using for backups (apps, app data, internal storage, sms/mms, etc.), particularly if you're switching between ROMs or anything else that involves wiping periodically. I love experimenting with custom ROMs but I hate the wipe/restore that goes with it, and I almost always lose data when I soft-brick. I also often lose data when intentionally wiping to flash a different ROM and my app data fails to restore. Anyone have a flawless solution for always staying backed up (preferably on a schedule) and always restoring successfully?
Things I've tried:
* Migrate: Earlier versions had restoration problems, but these days it's more reliable. I do a full backup before any intentional upgrade or ROM flash, then copy to a computer manually, and it usually restores successfully
* SwiftBackup: Limited options, but the nightly schedule keeps most of my data backed up to the cloud and has restored successfully about 95% of the time
* Titanium Backup: Was beyond perfect, but discontinued
* OAndXBackup: Seemed like an okay replacement for TiBu but the only time I tried to restore it failed
* AlphaBackup: Flexible manual backups but limited auto backup options. Haven't tried to restore
What else is out there? I especially miss the options for TiBu where I could back up everything once a week and then backup "apps with modified data" nightly. Nothing else I've found has that specific option.
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How come nobody's mentioned custom recoveries and their backup options? TWRP has some solid backup options, though I will mention it's far from perfect.
razercortex said:
How come nobody's mentioned custom recoveries and their backup options? TWRP has some solid backup options, though I will mention it's far from perfect.
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I'm not familiar with the options in TWRP other than making a full nandroid or partition backup (which is huge since I keep a lot of data on my phone). Are there other options? Does it have a way to back up apps and app data? I also assume TWRP doesn't support Android 12 on this device yet?
It should work regardless of the Android version, but I'll stop myself from making assumptions.
Some custom recoveries like OrangeFox have app specific backup, though it's quite unstable. So a full nandroid backup may be your best bet. Try compression, it may reduce the backup size.
TWRP isn't available for 12 yet that I'm aware of. The last update that went official stated in the changelog that the recent update should make it easier to port it for A12. Flashing/booting it on an A12 rob will send you straight back to bootloader.
Titanium is indeed old, discontinued and had a terrible UX, but still works (Android 11).
Swift Backup has matured a lot, I believe is the complete replacement for Titanium.
razercortex said:
How come nobody's mentioned custom recoveries and their backup options? TWRP has some solid backup options, though I will mention it's far from perfect.
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Because twrp cannot use my external USB flash card, it's unusable. I have to make a full backup on internal data and then export that, but how could I ever restore if needed?
I wished twrp would work, had that half of my life on my phones, but not on this one until this works. Twrp on oneplus9 I'm seeing too much problems atm.
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Because twrp cannot use my external USB flash card, it's unusable. I have to make a full backup on internal data and then export that, but how could I ever restore if needed?
I wished twrp would work, had that half of my life on my phones, but not on this one until this works. Twrp on oneplus9 I'm seeing too much problems atm.
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Ah I see. Thank you for clarifying.