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[Q] How to reload folder created by clockwork mod

I made a copy of the original ROM in a folder Clockworkmod created and moved it to my PC and upgraded the SD card. I tried copying the folder back and run Clockworkmod to restore my backup via recovery but it doesn't seem to take it.
There are some messages but it was too fast to read. How do I use the folder I copied to reflash back to the ROM I copied. Thoughts?

iamthechickengod said:
I made a copy of the original ROM in a folder Clockworkmod created and moved it to my PC and upgraded the SD card. I tried copying the folder back and run Clockworkmod to restore my backup via recovery but it doesn't seem to take it.
There are some messages but it was too fast to read. How do I use the folder I copied to reflash back to the ROM I copied. Thoughts?
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Use Rom Manager and select "Backup and Restore" select a prior back up. Then select wipe and install and rom manager will do the rest. If your getting a md5 mismatch error, if your renamed your backup file and have spaces in the title you will get the md5 mismatch error, just rename the file to a one word title.

joemm said:
Use Rom Manager and select "Backup and Restore" select a prior back up. Then select wipe and install and rom manager will do the rest. If your getting a md5 mismatch error, if your renamed your backup file and have spaces in the title you will get the md5 mismatch error, just rename the file to a one word title.
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I had to make a backup of my current first before I was able to find out which folder Clockworkmod was putting the backup ROM too. I'm already in the process of finishing the restore.

TWRP (greatslon mod) Backup Error

I’m getting “CreateTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255 Backup Failed” on my BTV-W09 using the greatslon TWRP US version while doing a backup. I’ve tried internal storage and external SD card. Haven’t tried an external USB drive yet though. Flashing SuperSU worked fine with this TWRP, I did get the error about the 3rd modem but this may be because this is a Wi-Fi only device? I’m going to try it again and then try pulling the recovery.log to see if this gives some indication of the failure. Is anyone else receiving this error?

I received this error last night in my data section as I was creating a nandroid backup in my preparation to install the xposed framework. I was backing up to the external SD card and what fixed it for me was to delete the existing TWRP directory and make sure compression was not checked. After that the backup completed successfully. I did receive the 3rd modem error, but like you, I believe that is due to not having a cellular modem (WiFi only). I also received an "unable to unmount system" error at the very end, but I don't think that is any cause for concern.

Thanks for the feedback johe. I checked the recovery logs and the backup was failing on different files each time on the data partition. So I added a larger SD Card and the backups work now. So turns out it was just a space issue. The backups take a lot more space than what I thought originally, presumably for caching.

Titanium Backup Pro adn TWRP won't recognize backup on SD card

As the title says neither TB nor TWRP will recognize my SD card, the backup on it respectively. I made a Nandroid-backup with TWRP 3.0.2 on my Z3C, put the SD card into my XC and tried to restore from said Nandroid-backup but TB doesn't even recognize the SD card. Says there is no TWRP folder/backup on it. But there definitely is. I can see it in the browser. I also copied it to my internal storage and from there I could access it without problems.
Weirdly enough TWRP also doesn't recognize the backup folder. When I select to restore and select my SD card there is no backup to choose from. I'm using TWRP 3.1.1 on my XC.
Phone is rooted and running the latest fw 34.3.A.0.217 with Genesis kernel 1.05-nondrm
Is the backup faulty or could it be because of some incompatibilities with the kernel?

Backup a file so TB makes a new folder then copy your the contents of your backup into it and try again and you need to select your SD card in TWRP.

I backed everything up with TWRP to my SD card. The folder is there, as are the files.
TB just doesn't recognize my SD card at all. It only recognizes my internal storage, but not my SD card.
When I copy the TWRP backup from the SD card to the TWRP folder on my internal storage I can restore from Nandroid backup.
But I think that the backup is faulty too, because after restoring contacts and messages to test it the apps crash. When I open the telephone app it crashes and says "android.process.acore" has been closed. It says the same when I open the messaging and contacts app but the messaging app doesn't crash.

razzledazzle83 said:
I backed everything up with TWRP to my SD card. The folder is there, as are the files.
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I was talking about TB and what I've done in the past after restoring my Phone to get TB to recognize my files. Browse through a few pages of the TWRP threads, I'm sure I've seen similar issues reported about the SD.

razzledazzle83 said:
But I think that the backup is faulty too, because after restoring contacts and messages to test it the apps crash. When I open the telephone app it crashes and says "android.process.acore" has been closed. It says the same when I open the messaging and contacts app but the messaging app doesn't crash.
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A common solution to this problem is to 'Clear Cache' of affected apps in their App Info / Storage dialog.

ypnos42 said:
A common solution to this problem is to 'Clear Cache' of affected apps in their App Info / Storage dialog.
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Yes, I have restored data+cache. Maybe that's what caused the errors. Weird thing is, no messages were restored except the drafts I didn't send but saved.
XperienceD said:
I was talking about TB and what I've done in the past after restoring my Phone to get TB to recognize my files. Browse through a few pages of the TWRP threads, I'm sure I've seen similar issues reported about the SD.
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I've read somewhere that since 4.4.4 TB cannot read/write a partition it wasn't installed on. Did you mean that? To create a TB folder on the SD card so TB will have access to the SD card?
Edit: ok, so I tried this method
Code:
create a folder on the external sdcard,using the following folder-structure:
/storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/
If you already have existing backups, move them with a file-explorer from their current place to:
/storage/extSdCard/Android/data/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup/
Lastly, go to the preferences of TitaniumBackup, choose “Backup folder location” and choose the above specified folder.
Finish.
And it does kinda work. I do now have access to my SD card via TB. But it still says there is no TWRP folder on it. I even copied the TB backup to the TWRP folder and the TWRP folder to the TB folder. No luck.
Also TWRP doesn't recognize the TWRP backup I created on the SD card even though it recognizes the card itself.

If you copied files to computer:
It adds .zip extension to tar.gz files
And .txt extension to properties files
That's why program cannot recognize them.
U should delete that extra additions from file names

TWRP nandroid backup

Two problems -
1. Whenever I try to make a system backup and wanna write it to the sd card via TWRP, it always fails. I get the error 'backup failed. Cleaning backup folder'. Just this and no error code. However if I back it up to the internal storage, it works just fine. Also I'm rooted btw.
2. After backing up, I cannot move/access the TWRP folder created in the internal storage. As you can see in the screenshot, whenever I tap on the TWRP icon, I get that error popup. And I've granted superuser permissions to es file explorer.

guys please help!! this is the error im getting on TWRP

2019 Tab A T510: empty internal storage after root with TWRP

Hi,
Brand new T510. I followed [GUIDE][SM-T510/T515]Unlock/TWRP/Odin HowTo/Root - Tab A 10.1 (2019) and successfully rooted the device with stock ROM and Magisk.
Then something strange happened. When I open My Files app, the internal storage showed about 10 folders with weird names, all empty. I deleted all those folders and it showed an empty folder. I then went on to install some apps.
However, I then realized that the internal storage is really not available in most of cases. My Files showed (17.56GB / 128GB) but when I tried to create a folder it will say "there is not enough space in internal storage. Delete some files and try again."
All the normal folders are not there, like Download etc.
What can I try to fix this?
Thanks

redhonker said:
Hi,
Brand new T510. I followed [GUIDE][SM-T510/T515]Unlock/TWRP/Odin HowTo/Root - Tab A 10.1 (2019) and successfully rooted the device with stock ROM and Magisk.
Then something strange happened. When I open My Files app, the internal storage showed about 10 folders with weird names, all empty. I deleted all those folders and it showed an empty folder. I then went on to install some apps.
However, I then realized that the internal storage is really not available in most of cases. My Files showed (17.56GB / 128GB) but when I tried to create a folder it will say "there is not enough space in internal storage. Delete some files and try again."
All the normal folders are not there, like Download etc.
What can I try to fix this?
Thanks
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The data partition is encrypted and TWRP can't handle it. After flashing TWRP, you need to format the data partition by clicking Wipe and then Format data. When asked to verify, type "yes" and NOT just "y". After doing this, reboot to recovery and you'll see Internal Storage is no longer a "0".
Before doing any of this, be aware that formatting the data partition will erase EVERYTHING on it, including any saved pictures, movies, music and all apps. So be sure to back you data up to another device or the external SD card before you start.

Worked. Thanks