Hello all,
I tried to restore a nandroid backup via Clockwork recovery, at the end I got a E:Error in CACHE:recovery/log (No space left on device) message. After restart I am stuck at the htc screen (green letters on white screen). Any solutions please?
Thank you.
That's almost the exact same thing that happened to me after a nandroid restore, it just hung on that HTC screen forever. I'm not sure what the problem was in my case, but restoring an earlier backup worked for me so it's possible that the backup that I was trying to restore was somehow corrupted.. could be the same with yours.
try doing an advanced restore then restore everything EXCEPT sd-ext. had a similar problem too. checked my sd-ext after restore (full, not advanced). got nothing on it except folders with no files on each whatsoever. my phone still bootloops. maybe some of the great devs here could shed some light.
doing the advanced restore thingy though always works for me. HTH
I still get this and was wondering if there was a solution
This is a problem I've only heard of on backing up with different versions of CWM. Try checking into that.
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How would I get a different version of CWM then? Cuz I can't get pass the HTC splash screen.
Happened to me, too.
I don't know what else to do but load a different nandroid.
Now, I'm trying to load my first nandroid (because my sms messages are HORRIBLY late).
NO. GO.
Is it because of the lack of space on my microsd card? Possibly related? Also, what the heck is taking up all the damn space on an 8 gig card?! I deleted almost all my photos. Is it nandroid backups?
HERO CDMA
I have enough space on my SD card cuz I have 32gigs and only use about 10gigs. I was told that there were issues with 5.0.x.x versions of clockworkmod......
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Hey all,
When I had my Windows mobile phone, I could use Sprite Backup to make a backup that basically acted as an image that I could store on the SD Card. I could then do anything possible to my phone, and then I could simply restore the image, and it went back to the EXACT state it was when i took the image - registry, ALL apps, messages, icons, etc..., just like a 100% hard drive image.
I have Sprite backup on my Samsung Epic now, and was wondering if it acted the same way?
That is, if I install a custom rom, I would like to be able to factory restore it, then apply the backup to take it back to the exact state it was.
Is this how it works?
Thanks,
Matt!
It's called a nand backup and one of the benefits of rooting
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Great,
I'm rooted, so I'll. Check it out....
Thanks!
Get the one click root and recovery. Once you have clockwork mod you can do a full backup. Also you can do an "advanced restore" and just restore your /data.
I have found that sometimes a restore doesn't work correctly and I have to reflash the rom and just restore /data to put my apps and settings back.
A word of warning, sometimes when you flash an old /data to a new rom it causes issues with programs. Personally, I have had very few issues doing it, even when moving between 2.1 and 2.2.1, but ymmv.
So, I just rooted my Mytouch 4G a few days ago using the 'Ultimate' guide on this forum. I had root access and I disabled and deleted some stock apps from my phone. I was using LauncherPro instead of the HTC Sense launcher. I made a backup in Clockworkmod recovery immediately after installing Clockworkmod, before I'd made any major changes.
So, I spent the past few days removing and tweaking things. I had my phone working extremely well. But then I realized that I actually wanted an .apk file (the stock visual voicemail app) that I'd already deleted from the phone. It should be in my original backup file, right? So I figured that I'd make a new backup, restore my old backup containing the .apk file, copy the .apk file off of the phone, then restore my recent backup. Well...this didn't work.
When I restored either the original backup or the more recent backup, the phone would boot up and I'd get a message that the System UIDs are inconsistent. The phone would let me make phone calls, but 95% of my apps were missing from the loader. Most of the icons on my home screens were grayed out and would tell me the applications were missing when I tried to click on them.
I tried Fix Permissions in Clockworkmod recovery, but it didn't help. My Android Market app and all of my file manager apps didn't work, so I couldn't reinstall any apps. When I'd wipe all the data on my phone, but only restore the System backup, the Android Market would work and the phone basically returns to stock. But as soon as I restore my Data backup, everything breaks.
At this point, I've already wiped the phone and started over from scratch, but I'm afraid to rely on Clockworkmod/Rom Manager for backups again. Any ideas what went wrong?
did you flash a different kernel? this may be the issue, as I know that for other devices CWM does not restore the kernel.
this happens when your backups/card gets corrupted... it could of been a number of things... changing the name of something to how much you scan the card... hard to say exactly what caused it... If your really worried about it I would suggest making a backup of your backup on your computer just to be safe...
Hmm. Mine does.
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did you flash a different kernel? this may be the issue, as I know that for other devices CWM does not restore the kernel.
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I did make a backup of my backup, but it's not like these backups sat on the memory card for months before they got used. I ran the restore within minutes of when I made the last backup. Besides, aren't the backups hashed with md5 and then retested before restoring? So, if the files did get corrupted, I would think Clockworkmod would have notified me, no?
I just wish that after making a backup, there was some way to test it out without taking the chance of trashing my phone.
Regarding using a different kernel, I did not. I did not flash any experimental/downloaded images, these were simple backups and restores of my existing phone data.
mr.tenuki said:
did you flash a different kernel? this may be the issue, as I know that for other devices CWM does not restore the kernel.
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This is for phones that dont support Nand like the vibrant. HTC phones is a full backup including kernel.
sundayhustler said:
I did make a backup of my backup, but it's not like these backups sat on the memory card for months before they got used. I ran the restore within minutes of when I made the last backup. Besides, aren't the backups hashed with md5 and then retested before restoring? So, if the files did get corrupted, I would think Clockworkmod would have notified me, no?
I just wish that after making a backup, there was some way to test it out without taking the chance of trashing my phone.
Regarding using a different kernel, I did not. I did not flash any experimental/downloaded images, these were simple backups and restores of my existing phone data.
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Your right, CWM does do a md5 check when restoring. I'm sorry, I don't know what could be wrong. I currently have like 5 backups of 4 ROMS and have to restored to just to play around. Did you do apps2sd? This can cause major issues when switching ROM's.
I am also having a problem restoring to my stock rom. how big does my backup file have to be?
I have had this problem before. I think in my case my issue was caused by and incompatible version of CWM. I found that to be safe, I usually make two back ups, one with recovery in 2.5.12 and one with 3.0.0.6.
It was the file. It was only 60mb, apparently I ran out of memory thanks though my other backups work fine and I found the stock rom on a thread.
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oh haha i was about to post.
Hi,
Sorry if this has been pointed out, but I have just lost some (hopefully not much) of my work due to a very silly bug in CWM.
I messed up with my HTCCamera.apk and before start I created a backup - seemingly successfully.
A few hours later I needed to restore, after a successful restore I got stuck at the white HTC screen.
Cause: I have run out of space in SDCard. CWN created the backup and did not notice me it could not complete due to low space - it said backup completed successfully, however, about half of my NAND could have been backed up before it run out of space. Same case for restore, backup files even passed MD5 hash check.
Always check if you have enough SDCard free space before creating a backup.
Very good point. And actually my first nand backup took 720 megs of space, so people should really have at least a gig of free space before starting the backup process.
jkoljo said:
Very good point. And actually my first nand backup took 720 megs of space, so people should really have at least a gig of free space before starting the backup process.
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Yeah I've experienced this before, I had like 500MB of space and I knew that my backups were around 1GB, so I knew something was fishy when it completed.
Can anyone on Gingerbread builds confirm that it happens on CWM3 as well?
Springdale said:
Can anyone on Gingerbread builds confirm that it happens on CWM3 as well?
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More than likely, but as I never create a backup with a nearly full sd card it's not an issue.
Whilst i appreciate it would be nice is cwm informed us that we had insufficient space for a backup or that the backup had failed, should this thread not be titled warning making a backup with insufficient space wont work!
ghostofcain said:
More than likely, but as I never create a backup with a nearly full sd card it's not an issue.
Whilst i appreciate it would be nice is cwm informed us that we had insufficient space for a backup or that the backup had failed, should this thread not be titled warning making a backup with insufficient space wont work!
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I almost lost everything due to this bug, because I messed up my framework but I believed I had successfully created a nandroid backup, which turned out to be incomplete due to this issue.
Of course I had another nandroid backup on my PC from the day before... That was my luck.
update CWM to 3.0.0.6 and you wont have issues anymore. its compatible with both. I had the same issue last night.
equlizer said:
update CWM to 3.0.0.6 and you wont have issues anymore. its compatible with both. I had the same issue last night.
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I heard there is a known bug in 3.0.0.5 that sometimes it can't restore backups, and so far nobody was able to confirm that it's fixed in the latest version...
i said 6, not 5 dude Im using 6 right now with both 2.2 and 2.3 with no problems
equlizer said:
i said 6, not 5 dude Im using 6 right now with both 2.2 and 2.3 with no problems
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So, just to be sure, v3.0.0.6 is able to fully backup & restore both 2.2 Sense ROMS and 2.3 CM7 ROMs?
In that case, there's no more need for v2.5.1.3?
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Always check if you have enough SDCard free space before creating a backup.
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Thanks for your warning
Btw, it's not fixed in 3.0.0.6, only change is that it outputs the available sdcard storage space before starting the backup process.
Springdale said:
Hi,
Sorry if this has been pointed out, but I have just lost some (hopefully not much) of my work due to a very silly bug in CWM.
I messed up with my HTCCamera.apk and before start I created a backup - seemingly successfully.
A few hours later I needed to restore, after a successful restore I got stuck at the white HTC screen.
Cause: I have run out of space in SDCard. CWN created the backup and did not notice me it could not complete due to low space - it said backup completed successfully, however, about half of my NAND could have been backed up before it run out of space. Same case for restore, backup files even passed MD5 hash check.
Always check if you have enough SDCard free space before creating a backup.
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The same thing with mine.. im stuck in that white HTC screen, i reset my phone in factory data, then it just loop in android then i do the clockwork recovery "backup and restore" everthing was successfull then when i reboot my phone it is stuck in that white HTC screen.. any idea how to fix this problem??? Thnx...
Hey guys so I have a weird problem.
I can't restore my new backups.
That means all backups I did 2 weeks ago are restorable but now, when I do a backup of my current cyanogenmod rom and try to restore it, I get stuck at the HTC boot screen.
I heard it's because I used rom manager and sometimes rom manager destroys the PC10IMG, is that true??
Same thing happened to me. I had to do everything all over again. It will be nice if there is some more information about the problem. Thank you.
whitis said:
Hey guys so I have a weird problem.
I can't restore my new backups.
That means all backups I did 2 weeks ago are restorable but now, when I do a backup of my current cyanogenmod rom and try to restore it, I get stuck at the HTC boot screen.
I heard it's because I used rom manager and sometimes rom manager destroys the PC10IMG, is that true??
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don't trust rom manager to perform recovery operations through its gui with any consistency.
if you're going to perform a recovery operation, just do it through CWM and save the hassle.
Well I did it all /backups & recovery/ through CWM and just hang on the welcome screen. Not that it was important because I only wanted to back up something I forgot after intending of installing a new rom, but still the question remains and it will be helpful for future time
I've found that Nandroid backups are unreliable if I'm at all low on free space on the SD Card. Even if there are no errors during the backup. I make sure I've got at least room for two whole backups now. Seems to solve the problem.
I'm using: NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA V2.4
Something went wrong on my phone so I decided to restore a backup. I had one from 2 weeks ago. After the restore completed, I rebooted my phone. It was stuck on the ROM splash screen and never got past that. I left it running for 20 minutes. I tried clearing /cache and dalvik-cache, with no luck. If I format /data then it works, but then of course all my data is gone.
Luckily I had a previous backup which did work.
I'm nervous about nandroid backup/restore. Can I trust it? It only happened for this particular backup, but why would it happen at all? There were no MD5 sum errors at all.
Any advice would be useful.
frostinide said:
I'm using: NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.4-CM9-HWA V2.4
Something went wrong on my phone so I decided to restore a backup. I had one from 2 weeks ago. After the restore completed, I rebooted my phone. It was stuck on the ROM splash screen and never got past that. I left it running for 20 minutes. I tried clearing /cache and dalvik-cache, with no luck. If I format /data then it works, but then of course all my data is gone.
Luckily I had a previous backup which did work.
I'm nervous about nandroid backup/restore. Can I trust it? It only happened for this particular backup, but why would it happen at all? There were no MD5 sum errors at all.
Any advice would be useful.
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I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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I did not change the partition size at all. The backup before this one worked fine, so it can't be that. I also just did a new backup of today, and restored it. It worked at the first boot and didn't take extra time. I then tried restoring the broken backup again but ONLY data, and again I got a splash screen loop. I doubt multiple reboots will help, but I did try that.
I have an urge to mount the data backup and slowly take out folders until I find out the cause. If not for anything else, just out of my own curiosity.
Nigeldg said:
I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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I am facing exactly the same problems...
In same cases i got bootloops when restoring a Backup, in other cases i can boot after restoring but then my data is gone and i am asked to configurate my phone again with the wizard...
I never tried to boot several times if the data comes after some tries...
Btw I also didn't change the partitions...is it possible that it has something 2 do with link2sd?
In that case (@OP) I'm guessing its just a broken backup. This is why I always use Titanium as well. It takes up less space and you can restore it on almost any ROM.
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Are you using an A2SD script? or do you have an ext partition?
You may have resized it, you can also try formatting it.
Nigeldg said:
I've had an issue only once with CWM backup where my data from the ROM was lost but the ROM itself flashed fine. I suspect though that I actually had to reboot a few times more before giving up so quickly, because somehow the wallpaper was still kept and I've found on occasion that my data from a ROM restore/update slowly comes back after a few reboots. Anyway, as for your issue, did you change partition sizes between the time you made a backup and when you tried to restore it? I'm using NexusHD2 and I know that the required partition sizes have changed quite a lot between the ROMs.
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Marvlesz said:
Are you using an A2SD script? or do you have an ext partition?
You may have resized it, you can also try formatting it.
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I use Link2SD, i have ext4....i didn't change anything in the SD Card Layout since first install of the Rom and updated several times without any problem...