I made a full backup with TWRP (checked every box), compression enabled. Now, while trying to restore my backup file only shows restore "system"? I don't see data, recovery, boot, etc. Have I lost it all?
You only need system. Data can be corrupt, recovery doesn't exist and etc never changes anyway.
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In the newest version of AMON Ra recovery v2.3 when you go to the nandroid backup it gives you a checklist of things you can backup. Which ones should be checked.
Theres:
boot
system
data
cache
recovery
wimax
sd-ext
.android_secure
I'm assuming that you only need to backup boot system data recovery and wimax right?
I believe that boot, system, and data are checked by default. They should definitely be backed. If you already have your wimax img then no need for that one. If not, then back it up at least once then for subsequent back ups, it's not essential. Some people check everything at least for the first back up, but if you go with what I mentioned at first, then you will be fine. Good luck
agentphantom said:
I believe that boot, system, and data are checked by default. They should definitely be backed. If you already have your wimax img then no need for that one. If not, then back it up at least once then for subsequent back ups, it's not essential. Some people check everything at least for the first back up, but if you go with what I mentioned at first, then you will be fine. Good luck
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I agree with phantom!
I did everything except sd-ext, which I think is only necessary if you set up a partition. The default ones should be ok, but make sure you have those wimax keys backed up somewhere.
So I backed all the boxes except the SD-EXT and I have a backup of my wimax.img. This was done with Amon v2.3 last month. I now have so many flashes I somehow lost my Wimax as I can't get onto the 4g network and Wimax Key checker from the market says I lost my keys. So I restore that backup that has the wimax.img and it restores with no errors except I'm stuck at the boot screen and won't go any farther. Pull the battery and reboot into Amon, wipe the cache and delvik cache and still same problem.
So can I take that wimax.img and move it to another backup folder and restore it from a differant backup?
Hi guys, having an issue trying to restore my CM 10.1 backup, everything will restore apart from data, I've checked the MD5 sum and the data backup is fine, I can manually extract the data backup without any issues it just won't restore through TWRP. Anyone any ideas?
it once happened to me, I'm using CWM
I just mounted data from mount and storage then started an advanced restore then data only.
so why don't you try "advanced restore"
if it doesn't work, it won't harm anything
I've just restored my data from the backup using titanium so now everything is recovered. It's just strange that TWRP wouldn't restore it.
Good to know
update to the latest TWRP (if you haven't) , it might be a known bug.. since the data is not corrupted nor missing and the md5 is correct
all we can assume is that it's TWRP fault , right?
anyway, restoring with titanium doesn't restore all the settings if I remember right, or does it?
I have been using TWRP for a while and have been saving backups regularly on the external SD-card. I have restored many times after testing some custom ROM.
Today I tried to restore my most recent backup and after it was done, it throws me back into the boot screen.
I can see a long list of previous backups but when I select them I observe the following, which I had not paid attention to before:
1) the most recent backup involves the partitions System and Data
2) the three next backups show no partitions and TWRP refuses to restore them (and I could swear I had restored from them in the past)
3) a very old backup shows System, Data and Boot
4) an older custom ROM backup also shows System, Data and Boot
Can someone please tell me what you think the problem is here? I cannot go back to my most recent backup.
Make sure you've not somehow ended up with 2 twrp folders with different id's as twrp will only recognize the current Id.
If that's the case copy the backups into that folder.
There is only one TWRP folder. It seems some backups contain "Boot" "Data" and "System" and some backups contain only "System" and "Data" and are missing "Boot".
As I only followed the "defaults" when I did the backups, I need to understand why in some cases it did not save "Boot".
Would you know why?
Zilliman said:
There is only one TWRP folder. It seems some backups contain "Boot" "Data" and "System" and some backups contain only "System" and "Data" and are missing "Boot".
As I only followed the "defaults" when I did the backups, I need to understand why in some cases it did not save "Boot".
Would you know why?
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I've no idea, never come across it, unless you accidentally unchecked those partitions?
In any case none are full backups.
You should make a backup of EFS and modem too.
ashyx said:
I've no idea, never come across it, unless you accidentally unchecked those partitions?
In any case none are full backups.
You should make a backup of EFS and modem too.
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I have managed to restore an older backup which had Boot, Data and System partitions. I then restored the latest backup which only had Data and System. It now seems to work. I started it up and it all appears to be in place.
I then booted into TWRP and selected to do a backup and it had automatically selected the Data, System and Boot partitions. Why did it leave Boot out of the previous backups I do not understand but will keep an eye on it from now on.
Regarding the EFS partition: Originally I installed the stock ROM using ODIN. Does this mean that all the partitions were created during that initial installation? Or was the EFS partition present beforehand?
EFS partition is not part of the firmware, so is extremely important to back up, probably the most important of all to backup as it contains a lot of information that could render your device useless if it gets corrupted.
OK, thanks, will do it now.
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EFS partition is not part of the firmware, so is extremely important to back up, probably the most important of all to backup as it contains a lot of information that could render your device useless if it gets corrupted.
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Can we make EFS checked by default? I had no idea that it's that important..
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Can we make EFS checked by default? I had no idea that it's that important..
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"Important" - is there anything other than the IMEI to worry about? On my other, dual-SIM Chinese phones, I used to change the IMEI as I liked.
Yes. And it's ONLY 20MB, compared to the other partitions which are many GB in length.
And Restore should be made to have the partition unchecked by default.
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"Important" - is there anything other than the IMEI to worry about? On my other, dual-SIM Chinese phones, I used to change the IMEI as I liked.
Yes. And it's ONLY 20MB, compared to the other partitions which are many GB in length.
And Restore should be made to have the partition unchecked by default.
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Check it and it should stay checked.
And yes it contains a lot of important stuff related to imei, wifi, network, Bluetooth.
Lose it and you could be in trouble.
Search Google for more info.
The new partitions are not very clear to me...
What do I have to backup to fully restore the phone?
Boot, data, system and vendor? No IMGs?
Thanks!
I believe the ones that are already selected when you go to make a backup. Data, system, boot. Though I tried to make a backup last night and it failed to mount and wouldn't create a backup. It might be because I'm still encrypted
i recently decrypted my 5x via fasboot. before i decrypted, i ran a backup with twrp (system, boot, data), which means i am still encrypted in the process, then rebooted in bootloader to decrypt. after it was decrypted, i restored the data from twrp. the question is wouldnt the data that was restored be encrypted? because before i decrypted, the data is encrypted.
I don't recall the options in TWRP but I believe there is an option to backup image or backup files. Backup files does a file level archive. Image does what you think it does. The former isn't encrypted, the latter is whatever encryption you had.
Out of the box, System and Vendor aren't encrypted but are hash-protected against modifications. I don't recall if TWRP does image or file-level backup for those two. Boot and recovery would be image backups.