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Accessing files in a Nandroid backup?

Hi,
Probably a silly question, but is there a way of accessing some of the files in a nandroid backup? I recently flashed a new ROM and in preparation I completely re-formatted my sdcard. I did take the precaution of doing a nandroid backup but I didn't copy over an important folder - my holiday snaps.
Now, rather than nandroid restore completely, I'm just wondering if there is a way of opening the file and extracting just what I need?
Thanks

Nandroid only back-ups your system files on the phone not the SD card. If you think about it, it is backing up to the SD card so if your holiday snaps were stored on your card you will have lost them.

Aha! Yes, of course. Bottoms!

Recovering files from SD
stupid suggestion but did you try a program that undeletes/retrieves data from memory cards?

No, I've moved on and, formatted Fat32/Ext3/Linux-Swap and flashed a new ROM
I'll just say I deleted the piccies by mistake and take the flak from the missus.
Thanks all.

palexr said:
No, I've moved on and, formatted Fat32/Ext3/Linux-Swap and flashed a new ROM
I'll just say I deleted the piccies by mistake and take the flak from the missus.
Thanks all.
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If the portion of the SD card your photos were sitting on hasn't been over written yet by new data, a recover program may work. The longer you use the card the less likely you are to recover them.

Removal of Cyanogen Recovery Console

Hello
Please accept my apology if this has already been covered somewhere - I've looked and can't find an answer...
I have a modaco 2.2 modded Hero with the Cyanogen v1.4 Recovery Console. All has been fine but only recently I cannot create a backup using Nandroid 2.2 - I get an error saying 'Error running nandroid backup. Backup not performed'.
I also get an error when trying to restore from previous backups. I've tried deleting the Nandroid folder from my SD card and trying the backup again but this hasn't worked. The next thing I wanted to try was to remove the recovery console and reinstall it - but I simply can't find any instructions on how to do this.
Any help would be appreciated.

Try deleting some of the stuff on your sd card. I had the same issue and it turned out to be not enough room left on card to perform a backup.

padstar said:
Try deleting some of the stuff on your sd card. I had the same issue and it turned out to be not enough room left on card to perform a backup.
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Thanks hugely! That was the problem - I had recently partitioned the SD card so that I could use Apps2SD (not knowing that ModaCo's ROM has it included already) and as a result I was left with very little space on the card. So I've taken off a lot of stuff from it and it's now working!!
Happy days

heres my gameplan for buddies phone.. what u think?

hes got a sprint cdma hero that he is complaning that theres no room to install programs and its slow.
he has a 8gb sdcard in the phone and another spare
today i tried rooting but it appears that the phone is already rooted
installed titanium backup and backed up all his apps to the sdcard
installed sms backup and restore, backed up to sdcard
went to contacts, settins, and exported to sd card
Q. I rooted and custom romed my other buddies phone and not all his contacts were exported. Is there something else i need to do to get all contacts backed up?
Q. i couldent find "Call Logs Backup & Restore" in the market. Do i really need it?
ok so this point i plan on plugging the phone into ubuntu, and copying all the data on the SD card to my laptop. This should backup all his pictures, contacts, craps onto my laptop.
Then i will install clockworkmod recovery from market. Reboot into recovery.
The use ADB to manually partiton the 8 gb SD card
1 - 7.5GB FAT32
2 - 512MB ext4
3 - 32MB swap
Q. Is this sound like a good layout?
Now that the card is partitioned i will install clockworkmod via the market and make a backup of the current system state, just incase he wants to go back to original. and copy the new rom from the laptop to the sdcard
as far as roms / kernels
i am overwhelmed and confused by the choices, he just wants something fast without bugs and without the sprint preloaded crap. But i dont think he wants any fancy custom hacker looking ****, just something plain fast and works.
Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
sorry about the questions, this is a guy i work with and i wanna show off my leet, but i dont wanna **** his phone as hes goin on vacation soon and needs it to just work. I have a galaxy tab, acer tab, but never messed with a htc phone. i am curious to hear if this sound like the best way to go at it?
thanks

gophet said:
hes got a sprint cdma hero that he is complaning that theres no room to install programs and its slow.
he has a 8gb sdcard in the phone and another spare
today i tried rooting but it appears that the phone is already rooted
installed titanium backup and backed up all his apps to the sdcard
installed sms backup and restore, backed up to sdcard
went to contacts, settins, and exported to sd card
Q. I rooted and custom romed my other buddies phone and not all his contacts were exported. Is there something else i need to do to get all contacts backed up?
Q. i couldent find "Call Logs Backup & Restore" in the market. Do i really need it?
ok so this point i plan on plugging the phone into ubuntu, and copying all the data on the SD card to my laptop. This should backup all his pictures, contacts, craps onto my laptop.
Then i will install clockworkmod recovery from market. Reboot into recovery.
The use ADB to manually partiton the 8 gb SD card
1 - 7.5GB FAT32
2 - 512MB ext4
3 - 32MB swap
Q. Is this sound like a good layout?
Now that the card is partitioned i will install clockworkmod via the market and make a backup of the current system state, just incase he wants to go back to original. and copy the new rom from the laptop to the sdcard
as far as roms / kernels
i am overwhelmed and confused by the choices, he just wants something fast without bugs and without the sprint preloaded crap. But i dont think he wants any fancy custom hacker looking ****, just something plain fast and works.
Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
sorry about the questions, this is a guy i work with and i wanna show off my leet, but i dont wanna **** his phone as hes goin on vacation soon and needs it to just work. I have a galaxy tab, acer tab, but never messed with a htc phone. i am curious to hear if this sound like the best way to go at it?
thanks
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Q. would cynagonmod be a good choice?
Yes
Q. Do i need to load a custom kernel in addition to loading the ROM ?
No
Q. after the new rom is installed is that when i copy his original sdcard data back to the newly formatted sd card?
Yes
I wouldn't do the swap partition tho. It will kill the SD card in a less than a month. Cyanogenmod and AOSPCMod are good choices and have settings under the Cyanogenmod settings for memory management and caching so the swap partition really isn't needed. It wouldn't help unless it was at least a class 6 sd card too.

fpineda thank you for the prompt reply

Yea, Cyanogenmod 7 is best. Make sure it's the Heroc one. It will say "aospCWMod-HEROC" on the file name, then the version number. Download it and copy it to the root of the microsd card.
I also agree with gophet about partitioning the SD card. Just leave it alone. You won't have to restore any of the data but it's good that you backed it up on the laptop just in case.
Once you install clockworkmod, shut down. Then turn on the phone while holding down the home key. It will put you in recovery.
From there go to "flash zip from sd card" --> and pick the Cyanogenmod. It will take a while but you should have no problems. Also, the first boot will take a long time.

Sounds like you should look into firerating it, if that's even a word.

[Q] Rooted, swapping out ext SD?

I've done quite a few searches, and didn't find anything, so if anyone knows the answer, i'd appreciate it. I am upgrading my ext SD from 8gb to 32gb. My usage recently has completely replaced my laptop, so I'm in desperate need for more HD space. I am rooted, will I need to re-root when i install the new SD? It is my understanding the recovery is installed on the SD. Would I just need to transfer the files from the old (current) SD? Thanks in advance for the help.
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breakinghbts said:
I am rooted, will I need to re-root when i install the new SD? It is my understanding the recovery is installed on the SD. Would I just need to transfer the files from the old (current) SD? Thanks in advance for the help.
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No, root and CWM are installed on internal memory, not external SD. Swapping the SD to another one is perfectly safe. Just remember to copy any backups to the new one if you have any

Thanks for the info. OK, just the backups will need to be transferred. Should be an easy swap then!

[Q]do you still Backup even if Andy is in SD?

if Android is on SD card do you still need to run backup like Titanium? all you have to do is is copy the whole SD card or make an image of it for future backups right? no?

Well you can obviously just copy the contents of the SD card, but if you want to move apps from one build to another, Titanium Backup is probably the best choice
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA

thanks for your input Nigeldg.