My Nandroid backups' directory name is always like 12 hours ahead or something making it looked like I made my backup tomorrow. Know what i mean? Is it based off the internal clock?
I'm just a little OCD about it. How can I fix this? The phone displays the time fine when booted in Android. i think it's just either RA or nandroid...
scirio said:
My Nandroid backups' directory name is always like 12 hours ahead or something making it looked like I made my backup tomorrow. Know what i mean? Is it based off the internal clock?
I'm just a little OCD about it. How can I fix this? The phone displays the time fine when booted in Android. i think it's just either RA or nandroid...
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Its bacause you live 12 time zones away from Greenwich.
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Anyone else have an issue with the date and time stamp of their nandroid backup being off? Mine's off by 4 hours. I backed up at 4 in the afternoon (which would be 16:00), the file name was 2010-07-28.20.06.47.
I noticed another post where someone said the time was based on Greenwich Mean Time. I thought they were joking, but it must be, because I think on the east coast we're 4 hours different.
Not knowing this cost me a little time as I restored the wrong backup. I've looked at some of the nandroid guides, but can't find where it's documented. Just thought I'd comment in case it helps someone else.
Ronnie
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Yes, I noticed this as well, it does store greenwich time..because of this, I decided to rename the files (located in sdcard\clockwordmod) to the proper date with a short description of the ROM backed up. Havent had a problem restoring!
FYI: If you rename your nandroid, make sure there are no spaces or the "/" symbol. You will get a md5 error. Probably a few other symbols you shouldn't use.
i'm probably going to exchange my epic tomorrow for a different one. I know I'll have to reroot, but is there anyway to backup everything that is on there and just restore it?
I have titanium backup, but not sure if that will do it, I think I can just copy the folder onto my computer with all the apps backed up and then copy it back to the new phone?
or is there an easier way?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782300
really not worth going through that trouble when i'm exchanging the phone. other ways that will get the job done?
robl45 said:
i'm probably going to exchange my epic tomorrow for a different one. I know I'll have to reroot, but is there anyway to backup everything that is on there and just restore it?
I have titanium backup, but not sure if that will do it, I think I can just copy the folder onto my computer with all the apps backed up and then copy it back to the new phone?
or is there an easier way?
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Thats the easiest way, titanium. I use the same backup between my nexus, hd2 and epic 4g. I just dont restore system data.
Copy your titanium backup folder to your computer and just copy it back to your new phone.
MvP77 said:
Thats the easiest way, titanium. I use the same backup between my nexus, hd2 and epic 4g. I just dont restore system data.
Copy your titanium backup folder to your computer and just copy it back to your new phone.
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Even better keep the old card... they wont ask for it.
robl45 said:
really not worth going through that trouble when i'm exchanging the phone. other ways that will get the job done?
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If you want restore to what you have now, no there is no other way.
titanium it will be then, that should be easy enough, especially if I just keep the sd card.
anything think it will be a problem to exchange if the phone is rooted? i'd like to just exchange tonight and really don't have the time to start figuring out how to unroot it. exchanging at rat shack if that makes any difference.
robl45 said:
titanium it will be then, that should be easy enough, especially if I just keep the sd card.
anything think it will be a problem to exchange if the phone is rooted? i'd like to just exchange tonight and really don't have the time to start figuring out how to unroot it. exchanging at rat shack if that makes any difference.
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I returned about 4 rooted Palm Pre's to Sprint without a problem, FWIW.
Can one backup work across multiple phones? For example, if I do a full Titanium backup on my Epic, then take the SD card, put it into my Evo, and restore....will that work?
so back to this. I used titanium after exchanging my phone and it went okay except I lost my call history and text messages. is that normal for titanium? surely with people switching roms 5 times a day, there has to be a simple way to do this.
I was wondering if anyone elase was having an issue with all of their apps and icons being removed.
I have been running Android now for about a week and my device switched off during the night due to the battery running out.
I have rebooted several times but everyting has gone off all the screens.
I can still see them from the apps page though.
Cheers.
Never had that problem but I've read that you never should run your mobile out of battery under Android. It could corrupt your data.img and your problem just sounds like that happend to you.
That's a bit dodgy, especially when the battery drains soo fast.
I fully charged it before I went to bed, (Bearing in mind I did have an animated wallpaper set for the first time).
Do you know if there is a backup copy of the data.img stored automatically somewhere in case of this happening ?
Mutha said:
That's a bit dodgy, especially when the battery drains soo fast.
I fully charged it before I went to bed, (Bearing in mind I did have an animated wallpaper set for the first time).
Do you know if there is a backup copy of the data.img stored automatically somewhere in case of this happening ?
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Yes I know. How long does your battery last then?
No there isn't. In a normal Android device the data.img isn't a file itself, it's the internal storage of your phone. There's no possibility to backup (just no easy way ). But if you want to backup the content of this file try this thing:
Titanium Backup
It backups everything in this image and saves it on your SD in a folder. If your build crashes just start over and restore everything.
Well at least I am now familiar with Android so it wont take me so long to set it up again.
My battery has been draining pretty quickly, too early to say exactly as I have been doing a lot of messing about. I know that animated screens, even when the screen is blank seems to be a big overhead as well as Bluetooth.
I just looked in my Android folder and can see the data.img file. I am assuming I can manually back ip up.
I will give Titanium a go sounds a bit like SPB Backup, which is great.
Cheers for your help.
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Well at least I am now familiar with Android so it wont take me so long to set it up again.
My battery has been draining pretty quickly, too early to say exactly as I have been doing a lot of messing about. I know that animated screens, even when the screen is blank seems to be a big overhead as well as Bluetooth.
I just looked in my Android folder and can see the data.img file. I am assuming I can manually back ip up.
I will give Titanium a go sounds a bit like SPB Backup, which is great.
Cheers for your help.
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Which build do you use? There are some things you might try to get down the drain a little.
I tried SPB too but I like Titanium better
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After unsuccefull rooting I can't restore my NST. In partition table I look only 1 - 240MB. "AlfaFormatter" and "n2t-recovery" can't help. May be anyone know more methods?
Thank you
Sounds like you didn't use "Noogie" before you backed up. "Noogie" reveals all the partitions of your Nook, so you can back all of it up. If you back up without using "Noggie," you will only backup the ~250mb of data that are, by default, on the partition titled "NOOK."
Please post again if this explanation was not clear.
-Feliks.
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Sounds like you didn't use "Noogie" before you backed up. "Noogie" reveals all the partitions of your Nook, so you can back all of it up. If you back up without using "Noggie," you will only backup the ~250mb of data that are, by default, on the partition titled "NOOK."
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Yep, this is a common mistake.
The worst part is that restoring a invalid backup image like that, also overwrites your /rom partition and the rom partition backup zip that resides on partition 3
If this is what happened, then you're out of luck, there's no method that can recover the device.
Ouch! I also, almost, did this, but it seemed too strange to me that the backup should be so small.
On this note--can an admin start to make a few, forum, stickies? I'm surprised that there aren't any already. It would be good for old hands and n00bs alike to have a few, key, threads posted and pinned to the top.
My 2 cents.
-F...
So, question:
I just bought a refurb. Started it up and I only have 240MB space so I came here looking for help. Can I assume from this that I should just not even bother with it and should try to get my money back?
Not happy.
AlexandriaMC said:
So, question:
I just bought a refurb. Started it up and I only have 240MB space so I came here looking for help. Can I assume from this that I should just not even bother with it and should try to get my money back?
Not happy.
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That's normal for it to be like that. B&N only gives you a (relatively) small amount of space for side loaded content. I think there's some way to give yourself some more space, but I don't know. Either way, it doesn't affect the rooting process.
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That's normal for it to be like that. B&N only gives you a (relatively) small amount of space for side loaded content. I think there's some way to give yourself some more space, but I don't know. Either way, it doesn't affect the rooting process.
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Yeah, I know, but thanks. The unit has a lot of issues. I can't successfully get it working. The WiFi won't work either, doesn't have MAC address. I won't call it a brick, but how it got to me as a "factory certified" refurb in this state is beyond me and not worth the trouble. I already got it swapped for a new unit.
Due to the limited storage space on N4 I'm constantly having to rotate my nandroids which I back up regularly with Orange Backup which also sends them to my cloud but this also means I've always got to have a nandroid permanently on my phone in case I'm away from a PC. My nandroids can be anywhere from 1.3Gb to 4Gb depending on what I'm doing and whether I've bothered to spring clean :cyclops:
I had an idea of a "tiny nandroid" which would be a completely stripped ROM and basic a kernel. It only needs the very bare basics so that I can have a functional phone and can download one of my nandroids from my cloud (GDrive in this case) so I can perform a full, proper restore.
I've searched on here and found Slim Bean, but wondered if this is the smallest functional ROM? I figured I just needs the system essentials and and a browser.
Any better ideas gratefully received :good:
It's "tiny" only because it probably doesn't include the GAPPS.
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Just keep one nandroid, the last one before you flashed a new ROM. Keeping old ones is pointless but if you insist on doing so keep them on your PC instead
EddyOS said:
Just keep one nandroid, the last one before you flashed a new ROM. Keeping old ones is pointless but if you insist on doing so keep them on your PC instead
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Thanks Eddy.
I do only keep 1 on the phone but when it gets to 4gb that's a quarter of my available space gone
I was just wondering if there is a bare essentials ROM available? So I can just keep that one permanently on the phone and keep any others on the cloud.
Thanks again
I use twrp recovery with its compression options. Mine average 400mb on custom roms.