So I just came to RR ROM from Stock 3.2.8 via TWRP 3.0.4-1
Before upgrading etc. I took Nandroid backup. I firstly thought my all contacts would be synced with Google so I did not take separate backup of contacts. but now it seems it has messed up my contacts and most of them are missing after syncing on my RR.
So I tried finding answers if contacts extraction is possible or not from Nandroid backup or not but it seems its not possible. Even after using couple of apps from Play store.
So I thought, I would just go back to 3.2.8 Nandroid and backup my contacts and come back to RR again. But its giving me error while restoring data partition:
Code:
Restoring Data(excl. storage)...
extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
So, Do I need to flash firmware/modem for 3.2.8 before I come back to 3.2.8 nandroid backup?
Tried this. Doesn't work.
Or what other options do I have?
Thanks!
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This isn't like some of the other nandroid fail threads i've encountered.
I had a full nandroid backup of my tmobile g2 (eng hboot) and I lost that device. I got an exact replacement, rooted it (no eng hboot), installed rom manager only and flashed clockwork. I then copied my nandroid backup to the clockwork/backups directory and did a restore.
The phone booted successfully with cyanogen 7 nightly 22 flashed but the only problem is that it seems to have done a fresh install...as in there are no apps, no data, just cyanogen 7 nightly 22. It appears it didn't restore anything except the rom itself. Any ideas? thanks in advance.
ps. ive done multiple data wipes, and tried 2 different nandroid backup files on the new phone.
Did you have darktremors a2sd installed on the old ROM? CWM3 seems to have an issue for some with seeing the sd-ext partition and won't back it up. So when you select 'restore' in CWM it *successfully* completes the nandroid restore correct, no errors? It would be odd for it to give you a 'restore complete' message if it ran into any errors.
pretty sure I don't have a2sd installed on the old rom. first time i'm hearing of it. I don't recall getting any errors after restoring the backup but I will try again and double check. I also have much older backups that I can try to restore and see if those go through
Well I think this needs more attention if it's really not restoring the nandroids fully. Seems like it's restoring the system.img and whatnot just not the data.img. Maybe try it with ADB and see if it works. I've never had to do it that way but I know it can be done, you may have to run it in a shell.
I tried restoring a nandroid backup from February, which I believe was backed up with an older version of clockwork, and it was completely successful. This tells me that either the new clockwork is not backing up correctly or it's getting corrupted.
I then tried restoring 3 different backups and they did not give me any errors but failed to restore my data. hmmm
After backing up messages from the stock rom and then restoring them on this rom, My phone soft reboots every 10 seconds and makes it impossible to do anything. ive tried this multiple times and I always end up having to restore the original nandroid backup from clockworkmod.
Ive been able to do this on other roms but this is the only one that i have problems with restoring my messages.
Is there another way to restore my messages or am I doing something wrong?
p.s the app i used to backup/restore my messages is ' SMS Backup & Restore' and gosmspro..
Titanium backup does wonders for me, coming from diff roms as well.
s8int117 said:
Titanium backup does wonders for me, coming from diff roms as well.
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Oh yeah I forgot to mention ive tried TB also. I backed up all my apps before flashing the new rom but the messages didnt get backed up just gosms pro..?
Restore nandroid(if applicable), backup any sms,mms,contacts storage in green highlighted [ ], then install ur desired rom, restore data from said backup.
Hello!
I'm in a bit of panic. Since Google pushes their stuff over OTA and my custom rom PAC somehow didn't deal with that correctly, it caused to use all my data, so I wanted to give stock 4.3 a try.
Rebooted into CWM, made a backup of my current ROM, free unused backup data, did a factory reset like always and flashed the 4.3 image. Wasn't happy at all with stock 4.3 so I wanted to go back. To my horror, restoring that image failed. Error while restoring /data!. I tried booting up anyway, maybe only a few settings were lost, but it started like the first time I flashed the ROM with the gapps log-in thing and all my apps are gone.
I tried getting back in CWM, manually restored /data, but that didn't work either. It starts restoring /data but then halfway through it stops with the error.
Previous backups (AOKP/CM/PAC) didn't restore /data either.
Installing Nandroid Manager to restore individual apps to a fresh ROM fails too. It sees all apps but it can't restore anything at all.
I have come to the discovery that apps won't even install. Apps manually extracted from the backups are 0kb and I can't seem to install some apps from the Play Store either. Unknown error code during application install: "-24"
Does 4.3 change anything about where the /data partition is? Or what happened?
What's the problem and can I even restore the data? Or do I have to start over?
RainbowSwag said:
Hello!
I'm in a bit of panic. Since Google pushes their stuff over OTA and my custom rom PAC somehow didn't deal with that correctly, it caused to use all my data, so I wanted to give stock 4.3 a try.
Rebooted into CWM, made a backup of my current ROM, free unused backup data, did a factory reset like always and flashed the 4.3 image. Wasn't happy at all with stock 4.3 so I wanted to go back. To my horror, restoring that image failed. Error while restoring /data!. I tried booting up anyway, maybe only a few settings were lost, but it started like the first time I flashed the ROM with the gapps log-in thing and all my apps are gone.
I tried getting back in CWM, manually restored /data, but that didn't work either. It starts restoring /data but then halfway through it stops with the error.
Previous backups (AOKP/CM/PAC) didn't restore /data either.
Installing Nandroid Manager to restore individual apps to a fresh ROM fails too. It sees all apps but it can't restore anything at all.
I have come to the discovery that apps won't even install. Apps manually extracted from the backups are 0kb and I can't seem to install some apps from the Play Store either. Unknown error code during application install: "-24"
Does 4.3 change anything about where the /data partition is? Or what happened?
What's the problem and can I even restore the data? Or do I have to start over?
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have the same story with galaxy note 2..
Flash backwards first
not an expert here, but isnt the general protocol to try to flash back to the same version of the os first (i.e 4.2.2), and then try the CWM restore?
Are you able to try to track down the same os version you had before?
Have the same issue with my i717
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not an expert here, but isnt the general protocol to try to flash back to the same version of the os first (i.e 4.2.2), and then try the CWM restore?
Are you able to try to track down the same os version you had before?
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I flashed back to 4.2.2 and then tried restore, but no luck. It gave me the same error (Error while restoring /data).
Everything seemed to work after I flashed and restored my apps and data only (system data restore caused my phone to stop working) but I don't have any contacts except the emails of people which I assume is through my gmail account. I've tried going through the files on Titanium and restoring contacts storage but that caused my dialer and contacts to not work at all. Every time I do this I wipe my phone again and flash the rom and gapps again. Please help! I'm not very experienced I've gotten all the info from the internet. If I can't restore my contacts this way, is it possible to restore them going back to the stock rom that came with my phone. LG G Pro.
There's nothing to help u to get the contacts back, if u haven't kept a backup of it.
Coming back to stock ROM will repeat the same scenario.
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tra_dax said:
There's nothing to help u to get the contacts back, if u haven't kept a backup of it.
Coming back to stock ROM will repeat the same scenario.
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Well I backed up all app and system data to Titanium back up. Is that not the right way to do it?
hello guys, yesterday, i changed rom to LOS, of course before changing rom from stock OS to LOS, i made a nandroid backup via TWRP, using adb backup --twrp. Now i want to go back to stock OS, i restore that nandroid i've made with adb restore backup.ab (the filename is backup.ab), when restoring system, it goes well, but when it says "restoring data (excl. storage)" it took long time, i've been waiting for it about 1 hour but it looks like it stuck.
Is there something wrong with my nandroid backup ? because i want my app and data back