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Is it possible to clone Fire TV's with ClockWorkMod?

Is it possible to clone Fire TV's with ClockWorkMod?
I have to set up a bunch of Fire TV's for family and it would be much easier to set one up, create a system image and then clone it onto another Fire TV.
Is this even possible?

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Provided the nandroid backup/restore functions are working properly in CWM for this device; that should not be a problem.
The "clones" would need to be rooted have CWM. Probably should back up at least the first device you try this on (just in case the other backup from other device does not work) But either way as long as you don't overwrite recovery you can just reflash whatever rom you were running before trying
All you need to do is pull the images from nandroid backup made on device A and push them to devices B,C,D,etc. Then just do an advanced restore on the clones. Restore system, boot, and data.
Haven't got a spare AFTB to test with, but that's how it's been done on every other device since the first commercial android device to have a custom recovery back in 2008. Don't see any reason it would be any different for this one.
Amazon login might be a slight issue though. You will probably have to sign out before backing up, otherwise you will need to go to your amazon account and deregister all the devices you copied to.

gurnted said:
Provided the nandroid backup/restore functions are working properly in CWM for this device; that should not be a problem.
The "clones" would need to be rooted have CWM. Probably should back up at least the first device you try this on (just in case the other backup from other device does not work) But either way as long as you don't overwrite recovery you can just reflash whatever rom you were running before trying
All you need to do is pull the images from nandroid backup made on device A and push them to devices B,C,D,etc. Then just do an advanced restore on the clones. Restore system, boot, and data.
Haven't got a spare AFTB to test with, but that's how it's been done on every other device since the first commercial android device to have a custom recovery back in 2008. Don't see any reason it would be any different for this one.
Amazon login might be a slight issue though. You will probably have to sign out before backing up, otherwise you will need to go to your amazon account and deregister all the devices you copied to.
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COrrecting my earlier post... this does actually work I just confirmed it however the amount of time it takes to do may actually be longer than manually sideloading all your apks again. Plus it does not backup data so your xbmc build will have to be reloaded after doing this.

You can nandroid it. You will have to unpair the remote from the one you copied and pair its remote. That was the only issue I ran into.
You can also copy over the data directories.

designgears said:
You can nandroid it. You will have to unpair the remote from the one you copied and pair its remote. That was the only issue I ran into.
You can also copy over the data directories.
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Can you copy over the rooted firmware etc? or does that need to be done before hand. Also how do you get it to copy the data directory? It didn't carry my xbmc files over when I did this.

danknasty said:
Can you copy over the rooted firmware etc? or does that need to be done before hand.
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The second one needs to have Clockworkmod recovery installed, you need to root it first.
Setup everything the way you want it on the first one
Make a nandroid backup and copy it to your pc
Root and install clockworkmod recovery on your second, third, forth units (how ever many you have)
copy the nandroid files over to other units
restore the backup
re-pair the remotes

designgears said:
You can nandroid it. You will have to unpair the remote from the one you copied and pair its remote. That was the only issue I ran into.
You can also copy over the data directories.
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Thanks, but what's Nandroid?

Neo3D said:
Thanks, but what's Nandroid?
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a clockwordmod recovery backup

danknasty said:
COrrecting my earlier post... this does actually work I just confirmed it however the amount of time it takes to do may actually be longer than manually sideloading all your apks again. Plus it does not backup data so your xbmc build will have to be reloaded after doing this.
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Wait, so when you did a full image backup, it didn't image the apps + apps data? I thought that's what a full system image meant? Like, when you do a full system image of Windows 8, it restores your whole system.

designgears said:
The second one needs to have Clockworkmod recovery installed, you need to root it first.
Setup everything the way you want it on the first one
Make a nandroid backup and copy it to your pc
Root and install clockworkmod recovery on your second, third, forth units (how ever many you have)
copy the nandroid files over to other units
restore the backup
re-pair the remotes
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What's the location of the backup files? Are there a lot of files to transfer over?

Neo3D said:
Wait, so when you did a full image backup, it didn't image the apps + apps data? I thought that's what a full system image meant? Like, when you do a full system image of Windows 8, it restores your whole system.
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If you do a full backup it will get the data partition as well, which will have your apps+data.
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What's the location of the backup files? Are there a lot of files to transfer over?
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clockworkmod directory on the sdcard

Neo3D said:
Wait, so when you did a full image backup, it didn't image the apps + apps data? I thought that's what a full system image meant? Like, when you do a full system image of Windows 8, it restores your whole system.
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When I did it it did not backup the data for xbmc only the app itself. I really don't have much else on my firetv that I use so i can't say if it transferred data for amazon approved apps. All it really did was restore all my apps sideloaded apps etc... somethign I can probably do manually in about 10 minutes or so.

Restore backups from G3

Hi,
is there a tool where I can use my G3 backup files of the "Backup & Restore" section in the G3 settings, to restore some settings (especially wifi settings) to a new phone which is not from LG?
Can I extract those backup files, at all?
Thanks.

lowlands said:
Hi,
is there a tool where I can use my G3 backup files of the "Backup & Restore" section in the G3 settings, to restore some settings (especially wifi settings) to a new phone which is not from LG?
Can I extract those backup files, at all?
Thanks.
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Wifi settings should carry over and stay attached to your gmail account. However, LG backup is only compatible with other LG phones.

ItsJacobee said:
Wifi settings should carry over and stay attached to your gmail account. However, LG backup is only compatible with other LG phones.
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Is there a way to extract those .lbf files in order to extract for example my "download" or "Android"-directory?

lowlands said:
Is there a way to extract those .lbf files in order to extract for example my "download" or "Android"-directory?
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Hello is there any idea how to use the Backup files from LG G3?
I have the same problem.
I have an LG-Backup file with file extension ".lbf" but i have had lost my LG Phone.
I want to restore my whatsapp chat which is in the backup and switch it into my new Samsung Galaxy S5
I would be fine if someone has an solution for this problem.

Did you ever figure this out? I'm facing a similar problem
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[Q] TWRP backup folder location?

I just purchased the G3 a few days ago, am up and running with V20C rooted with TWRP custom recovery.
For the life of me, after doing 2 backups, I can't find the TWRP backup folder/files?!
I've done dozens of backups and restores using TWRP on many different phones but have yet to encounter this problem.
I know that the backup's exist because my storage space keeps going down every time I try to backup.
Has anyone had this issue before?
Thanks in advance!

zohan99 said:
For the life of me, after doing 2 backups, I can't find the TWRP backup folder/files?!
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It should be at:
/sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS
or
/storage/emulated/0/TWRP/BACKUPS​

Thanks for the reply. Obviously, I checked there, but the folders don't exist.
There is a TWRP file in the root folder, size is 0 bytes. This is really odd..

zohan99 said:
Thanks for the reply. Obviously, I checked there, but the folders don't exist.
There is a TWRP file in the root folder, size is 0 bytes. This is really odd..
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What does > TWRP(Recovery) > Restore > Select Storage / very top line, go through options it gives and you should find your Backup, if it exists in TWRP.

After searching a bit online, I was able to figure it out.
Booted into recovery, then plugged in USB cable. All of a sudden, the TWRP folder magically appeared on my computer, and I was able to copy the backup files.
No idea as to why this is happening..

zohan99 said:
After searching a bit online, I was able to figure it out.
Booted into recovery, then plugged in USB cable. All of a sudden, the TWRP folder magically appeared on my computer, and I was able to copy the backup files.
No idea as to why this is happening..
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Hi, I had the same identical problem and I found this thread searching for a solution. Not a single file manager could find the twrp folder but it existed, I could'nt create a new folder with that name in storage/sdcard. In the meantime I found a topic in which an user finds his backups in DATA/MEDIA/(etc), I tried and it works, but still apps like titanium and others couldn't access that folder! In a moment tried to set selinux mode to permissive and immediately titanium sees the nandroid! I think this is a VERY IMPORTANT info, I have stock rom bumped and rooted, can anyone copy this post to a more important troubleshooting topic?
Edit: I see some nexus 4 users had the same problem, this could be caused by lollipop instead of the g3 environment or the root method or so

How to copy the system 1:1 to a new device by using TWRP

I got a new device by RMA and now I want to copy my nandroid backup made with TWRP to the new one.
Which partitions do I have to copy?

Most of the partitions are system based, so don't touch them. All you would want to copy is data, but I am not even sure that would work, without a boot loop? I keep all my data backed up with Titanium. And Google drive would restore most of what you had on your phone as long as you were allowing setting>system>backup.

Sui77 said:
I got a new device by RMA and now I want to copy my nandroid backup made with TWRP to the new one.
Which partitions do I have to copy?
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Data, as it is the one where your settings and app updates are stored. Just be sure the new device is running the same version of Android as the old.
Droid_Nut said:
Most of the partitions are system based, so don't touch them. All you would want to copy is data, but I am not even sure that would work, without a boot loop? I keep all my data backed up with Titanium. And Google drive would restore most of what you had on your phone as long as you were allowing setting>system>backup.
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Restoring a nandroid backup of the data partition to another, identical, device will work without causing a bootloop given the precautions I describe above. Do note however that Google's backup only restores items acquired through the Play Store. Alternative app stores such as Amazon will not be restored, apps acquired through Amazon will not be restored, and any apps sideloaded will not be restored. Since Google's restore function doesn't restore everything, any backup solution - like a nandroid backup - is going to be a better alternative.

Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Data, as it is the one where your settings and app updates are stored. Just be sure the new device is running the same version of Android as the old.
Restoring a nandroid backup of the data partition to another, identical, device will work without causing a bootloop given the precautions I describe above. Do note however that Google's backup only restores items acquired through the Play Store. Alternative app stores such as Amazon will not be restored, apps acquired through Amazon will not be restored, and any apps sideloaded will not be restored. Since Google's restore function doesn't restore everything, any backup solution - like a nandroid backup - is going to be a better alternative.
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Thanks for the clarification that you can restore data as long as you are on the same version, does it have to be at the same security update level as well?
That is why I use Titanium for apps I got off of Fdroid and other sources. I will make sure I try the Nandroid data backup next time.

Security level shouldn't make a difference, but that is not something I have attempted. The pair of identical tablets I have here are running the same security update.

Thanks, data did the trick.
I had to delete 2 files due to a non working finger printer by using TWRP files explorer, but now the phone is fine.
Last thing pending are customer ringtones, but this is a nasty one.
Any idea how to do it?

Sui77 said:
Thanks, data did the trick.
I had to delete 2 files due to a non working finger printer by using TWRP files explorer, but now the phone is fine.
Last thing pending are customer ringtones, but this is a nasty one.
Any idea how to do it?
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I am having the same problem with the fingerprint reader after restoring data from one phone to another, what files did you delete in TWRP file manager?

Solution for fingerprinter:
1. Boot into TWRP
2. Go to advanced>filemanager to acces the files in your phone.
3. Enter the folder /data/system/user/0
4. Delete following files: ./fpdata/user.db, settings_fingerprint.xml
5. Reboot to system and set up new fingerprints with the fingerprint wizard
6. Everything should work normal
Was not easy to find, but it's easy to do

Sui77 said:
Solution for fingerprinter:
1. Boot into TWRP
2. Go to advanced>filemanager to acces the files in your phone.
3. Enter the folder /data/system/user/0
4. Delete following files: ./fpdata/user.db, settings_fingerprint.xml
5. Reboot to system and set up new fingerprints with the fingerprint wizard
6. Everything should work normal
Was not easy to find, but it's easy to do
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I didn't think it would be easy to find, but thanks for the tips. :good:

I am just putting this phone online with Q Beta 3 today, I have no notifications for text, and all options are greyed out?

Droid_Nut said:
I am just putting this phone online with Q Beta 3 today, I have no notifications for text, and all options are greyed out?
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Turns out this is a bug in Android Q. With Pie there were some many notifications that I set my sound to none, so I just set my sound to Gibbon Call, and now I get text notifications. :good:

Full Backup

Hi, I have a question, is there a way to backup the phone like what trwp does? that is that once the phone has been restored it can find it as I had before? yes samsung cloud makes me find it as before but still I find installed also those annoying system apps that I have to delete manually every time .. even a program from pc if there was ...

homer1005 said:
Hi, I have a question, is there a way to backup the phone like what trwp does? that is that once the phone has been restored it can find it as I had before? yes samsung cloud makes me find it as before but still I find installed also those annoying system apps that I have to delete manually every time .. even a program from pc if there was ...
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I use backup from samsung smart switch and backup from pc.
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homer1005 said:
Hi, I have a question, is there a way to backup the phone like what trwp does?
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No, smart switch doesn't back up user data.

homer1005 said:
Hi, I have a question, is there a way to backup the phone like what trwp does? that is that once the phone has been restored it can find it as I had before? yes samsung cloud makes me find it as before but still I find installed also those annoying system apps that I have to delete manually every time .. even a program from pc if there was ...
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You can use ADB for total backup and restore from your PC.
And download from ADB, Fastboot and Drivers - 15 seconds ADB Installer v1.4.3 .

harfot said:
You can use ADB for total backup and restore from your PC.
And download from ADB, Fastboot and Drivers - 15 seconds ADB Installer v1.4.3 .
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Ok can you tell me how to do it? there is guide?

Search and you will find eg. [GUIDE] Full Phone Backup without Unlock or Root

If it's ok for you to take backup of your Samsung phone to a computer. My suggestion is Coolmuster Android Backup Manager. Its free backup function can help us transfer all data like app, contacts, sms, music, photos, videos, books, call logs to computer with one-click. Hope it can help you.