Nandroid 2.2 Restore Troubles - Hero CDMA General

Hey guys, im trying to do a nandroid restore from recovery and i keep getting the Error: run 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' via console!
Did i misunderstand or something about the process? If i had a backup in sd/nandroid/"my model#" where i backed up an older restore at stock with MR. and I start "Nandroid v2.2 restore" it should simply restore it or am i missing something? BTW i have no other backups in that folder.

I had the same issue after I copied the backups to another sdcard. I was not able to get around the error. I just booted into recovery mode and then used the adb shell to run the backup command. No errors whatsoever when I use this method to restore.

Well does anyone else have the same problem or know what the issue/fix might be? Cause its really annoying if this restore feature won't work.

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Magic aint working

Hey!
I tried flashing a Hero rom to my HTC Magic this evening, but after flashing the phone just froze at the HTC Magic screen, it didnt reboot, it just froze.
I then tried to boot in the recovery menu, and install a earlier version of cyanogen, that i know have worked on my phone before. But the same happens, the phone just freeze at the HTC Magic screen, and nothing happens.
I have a Magic 32A
Hope that anyone here can help me, dont know what i need to do to get it working again.
1.) wrong section
2.) do you have a nandroid backup ?
1) Sorry, maybe an moderator can move the thread to the proper forum
2) Yes i have a Nandroid backup on my computer. I have tried taking that nandroid and copying it to a spare SDcard i have, and then boot in recovery and then choose Nandroid Restore, but i keeps saying : Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console.
Dont know what that means
So i guess i dont have a nandroid backup, or not a working nandroid
Any ideas?
Per
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Dosnt any1 know what i can do?
Can i be the SPL that i have broken, and need to flash a new one?
perevers said:
1) Sorry, maybe an moderator can move the thread to the proper forum
2) Yes i have a Nandroid backup on my computer. I have tried taking that nandroid and copying it to a spare SDcard i have, and then boot in recovery and then choose Nandroid Restore, but i keeps saying : Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console.
Dont know what that means
So i guess i dont have a nandroid backup, or not a working nandroid
Any ideas?
Per
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Did you rename your Nandroid backup from the original name? If so then this can cause problems when you try to restore.
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata data.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
boot to fastboot and put your nadroid system.img data.img boot.img files inside sdk tools folder
and open cmd and copy paste above
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512319
this might help also
sitimber said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512319
this might help also
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Thanks alot, tried this link, and did what they told, and it worked. So thanks alot for the help, it is really appriaciated
perevers said:
1) Sorry, maybe an moderator can move the thread to the proper forum
2) Yes i have a Nandroid backup on my computer. I have tried taking that nandroid and copying it to a spare SDcard i have, and then boot in recovery and then choose Nandroid Restore, but i keeps saying : Error performing restore! Try running 'nandroid-mobile.sh restore' from console.
Dont know what that means
So i guess i dont have a nandroid backup, or not a working nandroid
Any ideas?
Per
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I'll move it to General and close it.

Cannot restore from nandroid

Im running fresh 0.5.3 and have the latest amon recovery, i can do a ext+nandroid backup fine but when i try to restore after i reboot, it gets hung on the
htc screen and will not load. Ive tried several backups and it will not work when restoring. Any ideas?
Make sure you're wiping the data, cache and dalvic before restoring the backup.
Are you sure the backup is getting created?
I know SteelH was posting yesterday about the NAND + EXT backup not even working with amon recovery.
I personally don't even know what it does, but all my backups are just "NAND backups and seem to work fine.
I'm assuming you used Amon_ra to create the backup and you're using Amon_ra to restore?
I created a backup with amon_ra and tried to restore with Clockworkmod and the backup doesn't even show up and vice versa. I found out by trial and error that backups created by clockworkmod have to be restore with clockworkmod and backups created by amon_ra have to be restored with amon_ra.
I don't know if that's the case for everyone, but it sure is for me. I'm running whitslack's 1.47 and Evolution V9.
Back to the Nand+Ext, maybe SteelH has figured it out, maybe send him a pm or search for his posts in the Q&A forum from yesterday.
make sure your batt has enough power
I am fully charged when i nandroid. It creates the backup and restores it but when i reboot it freezes on the htc screen. So this is a bug with the amon recovery image then? It would be nice to be able to backup & restore my ext apps because i use apps2sd. I could use titanium backup but nandroid is faster.

[Q] Does Acer Recovery Actually Back UP and Restore The ROMs?

Noob here. It doesn't "seem" like Acer Recovery is actually making backups of my ROMs. I'm really missing something either in terminology or execution and I'd like to understand what it is.
I don't know how to explain it other than to relate exactly what happened
I purchased one A500, but had to return it. I kept the backups taken with Acer Recovery, all Build A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2
Got a new tab with Build Acer_A500_4.010.07_COM_GEN2
I immediately did a full backup:
Root (Iconiaroot 1.3)
Acer Recovery Installer
select "ClockworkMod Recovery rev1.3.4 by thor2002ro"
click "Install Recovery Image"
click "Yes" when asked to backup the current image!!!
Reboot into CW recovery.
Create a full backup: "backup and restore" -> "Full Backup"
The backup proceeded normally.
Rather than re-installing everything, I restored one of the backups from the old tab with Build A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2
Backup installed fine, but instead of Build A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2, I had Acer_A500_4.010.07_COM_GEN2, the same as the new tab.
I thought that was odd and I still don't know why it happened, but as I had just made a fresh new backup, I let the new tab go through the OTA updates to Build A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2
Got everything working OK and decided to restore my new stock backup and make fresh incrementals of all the OTA updates.
Restored the original backup and now my original backup shows Build A500_4.010.13_COM_GEN2 instead of the original Build Acer_A500_4.010.07_COM_GEN2.
From these two instances, it doesn't "seem" like Acer Recovery is actually backing up or restoring the original ROM.
What is it that I'm either missing or don't understand about this process?
Thanks
If I understand the process, Acer Recovery will make backups of your recovery image. CWM does a full backup of ROM/kernel.
So, I'm not sure if I understand where you are restoring from.
If you restore through the Acer Recovery Installer, you should be just getting the old recovery image.
If you restore through the CWM menus after botting into recovery, then you are doing a full restore.
First.. it's not Acer recovery installer that's giving you the issue. The backup and restore are functions of clockworkmod.
The problem was that your flexrom did not get restored due to a bug that I demonstrated on thor's clockworkmod thread.
When doing a restore that restores data.img, it will also attempt to restore .android_secure.img and will fail, skipping flexrom which is supposed to follow. I bet you don't ever see the "Restore Successful" message after a full restore.
You need to either delete .android_secure.img from your backup set or restore flexrom separately.
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PS. Clockworkmod does not backup anything from /data/media
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So how to do a full backup of the image and restore if not from cwm.
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You need to either delete .android_secure.img from your backup set or restore flexrom separately.
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Thanks Euclid,
Sorry about the confusion in the thread title. I thought Acer Recovery Installer had several functions: backup and restore recovery images and load CWM recovery to do the actual backup and recovery. Since I thought it did both, I assumed it was O.K. to use Acer Recovery Installer generically.
I did another restore to check what was done:
Fixing a500 Boot/recovery Checksums...
Running itsmagic
Done
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore
Restoring Boot Image
Restoring System
Restoring Data
Done
Screen refreshed to "Reboot Now".
As you said no "Restore Complete" message.
I wonder how many people including myself, assumed that the restore had completed successfully when they got the "done" message?
Both fixes worked well. I hope this helps someone else.
Below is the text from within CWM Recovery when .android_secure.img was deleted from the backup folder and a restore was run:
Fixing a500 Boot/recovery Checksums...
Running itsmagic
Done!
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore
Restoring Boot Image
Restoring System
Restoring Data
.android_secure.img not found, Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
Restoring cache
Restoring flextrom
Restore Complete!
Restored my original stock ROM. So nice of it to ask me to update to a newer version immediately after the restore!
I did have one problem. I tried deleting .android_secure.img while rooted, using ES File Explorer with the Root Explorer and Mount File System options selected. I could never see the file on my external SD in the clockworkmod/backup
folder, so I pulled the card and manuall deleted it from my PC. I'm curios as to why this happened, but it didn't affect the result.
It was just as easy using backup and restore/advanced restore/your restore folder/ - Restore flexrom from within CWM Recovery.
I've read hundreds of post, in I don't know how many threads, sticky's included and never saw the advice about deleting .android_secure.img, manually restoring flexrom or even checking to make sure that you got "Restore Complete" I wish these things were part of an updated guide.
Lesson learned,
Thanks again
Just wondering, is there anyone working on a new recovery which will complete backups and restores without additional deletions, etc.?
bug was in thors post
The bug was mentioned.but I don't think there was much discussion about it.I don't think Thor acknowledged or tried ti fix.
With that said I could be incorrect. I however even with the bug think its a awesome tool.don't. Consider this as complaint.
Its like on page 3 or 4of the Thor recovery thread if im not mistaken
The blonde chic erica Renee
Yeah we need something reliable when restoring from backup. I tried once, cwm sees it but can't do the restore so I gave up even though I had all my apps backed up so did all one by one.
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Can't restore backup on Nexus 7

Hey all, I updated to a beta of Paranoid Android that screwed up everything. I created a backup ( and actually have several more older ones) with ClockworkMod Recovery. The very latest backup will not restore for whatever reason, but the main issue is that it's the only backup I can even see.
All the other backup folders don't even show up in recovery. Accessing /sdcard/ I can see them all. Any ideas on how to restore?
Actually, the one backup that CWM Recovery shows, I can't see under /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
I'm guessing CWM Recovery is pointed in the wrong directory..?

Cant restore nandroid backup with CWM (solved)

Hello,
When I try to resore my nandroid backup with the google nexus 7 toolkit (by mskip) after the files are pushed It says that i must click on "backup and resore" and than "restore" (in cwm recovery). When i do that I get the error "could't open directory. No files found". I tried to reboot into recovery a couple of times, but nothing changed. I also clicked on "fix permissions", but that didn't help too. Could someone please help a poor noob trying to restore his nandroid backup?:fingers-crossed:
Anyone?
Where are the files being pushed? I believe CWM needs them in /data/media/clockworkmod, not /sdcard/clockworkmod.
Thanks for your reply,
After looking at your reply, I put my backup in the folder you mentioned and tried to do the restore. Sadly, that did not work. So I tried to make a backup of the rom I was currently running to see where that gets saved. Seems to be a "backup" folder in the folder you mentioned. after moving the backup there it worked fine, thanks.

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