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Clockworkmod

Can someone please tell me what folder clockworkmod stores the backup's in? I formatted my sdcard on accident with a rom that was not booting.
I have copied backup's stored on my computer but when i put in on the sdcard and go into restore, clockwork does not see it. I thought is was in a folder called "backup" on the sdcard, but that does not seem to work.

clockworkmod/backup/
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*edit* removed apparently I forgot my helmet

Kumetto said:
Also you want to make sure to use the correct recovery CWM 2.x or 3.x.
CWM2 ex. BCDMRS-date-...
CWM3 ex. Date-...
The times are in military/24 hour format.
My cousin ran in to issues mixing recov's & backup's. I suspect it was more than just that. However I haven't tried when its pretty painless to switch between the two.
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Not quite sure what your saying here. So you know, you can name the backups whatever you want, like "3/26gb.firerat.4_20" and you can restore backups between cwm2 and 3.
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il Duce said:
Not quite sure what your saying here. So you know, you can name the backups whatever you want, like "3/26gb.firerat.4_20" and you can restore backups between cwm2 and 3.
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Every time i rename them the backups always fail. I had to stop naming them. It would just say md5 sum failed or something like that. I got screwed over twice that way so if you do rename just be cautious.

herouser26 said:
Every time i rename them the backups always fail. I had to stop naming them. It would just say md5 sum failed or something like that. I got screwed over twice that way so if you do rename just be cautious.
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FYI the key is not putting spaces in there. I have renamed EVERY backup I have ever made (using ANY recovery) so I could tell them apart. I never use anything but numbers, letters, periods, and underscores. I currently have 6 on my sd in /clockworkmod/backup/ named:
gb326.perfection.norat
gb326.perfection.rat
gb326.perfection.rat_ap5
gb421.perfection.rat
gb421.perfection.rat_ap5
nfx.prl01115.pri2.20
I have restored each one of these (I always restore them to make sure they work).

Transferring Nandroid Backups

I have a problem. I deleted a few apps that i can't seem to install or get back, even if i download the apks and such. So i was wondering, if someone provided me with their stock nandroid backup, would it work on my Evo? I tried flashing a stock ROM but it didnt work, with the files i needed still missing, and I'm desperate to just have a completely stock nandroid backup. Anyone have any idea about this?

You can't (or really shouldn't) use a nandroid from a different phone. Why didn't a flash of a stock rom work? What apps are you trying to install?
We're comin from a pure power source.

So you can't take the apk files and use ES file manager and set it to root priv and mount permissions and install the apks that way from your sd card.

You can restore nandroids from other phones but not recommended. I did it from my old phone to my new one.
To make it work.
1. Make nand of your phone
2. Make nand on phone you want to use
3. Copy nand files over the top of the nand made on your phone.
4. Restore nand on your phone with modified files.

make sure you don't backup wimax on the source phone.

I can't install Facebook for sense and HTC peep
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Wouldn't it be much faster to flash a new rom and start over? If not faster def. safer, less chance of screwing up Wimax

I've tried flashing stock rom and fresh rom, both times these apps didn't show up, and when I try to install just the apk, it just says "application not installed "
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I used to move my backups between Hero phones with no issues

ronnienyc said:
I used to move my backups between Hero phones with no issues
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Your hero didn't have wimax now did it..........
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You can easily delete wimax.img and remove its line from nandroid.md5 and you should be fine. As long as that img is gone, your wimax will be safe.

Find a copy of root explorer... using that, copy the apks that you want to your system>app folder ( your system will have to be mounted rewritable) once the apks are in place, change their permissions to resemble other apks in the folder... once you do that, reboot your phone

Use Amon RA recovery and uncheck wimax

[Q] Create Rom.zip from backup

Hey,
I was just wondering, is there a way to create a flashable ROM (.zip) from an existing backup??
I have used CWM Recovery to create a backup of a ROM that I'm using (BlackICE). It has been customized to an extreme point. Removed several system apps and pushed my own apps to the system. Now I want to save it as a flashable ROM so that others, specifically a few of my friends, could also use it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

You could download a ROM, then use the kitchen in the Chef Central section to add all if your stuff and remove the original developers stuff. That's the fastest way I know. I'm sure there is a better way.
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Thanks. I know of that method, I was just wondering if it were possible to directly convert a backup to a ROM.
I'll keep searching. Thanks though =)

SH31KH said:
Thanks. I know of that method, I was just wondering if it were possible to directly convert a backup to a ROM.
I'll keep searching. Thanks though =)
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I've never tried but you may be able to open the backup and get the data from it
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Root explorer will allow u to zip the archive and make it flashable.. just go to ur back up location, long press it, then hit zip this file.. it'll be saved to the speed software folder
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Kinda slow with my responses but I tried that and although it did create a zip, I was unable to flash it because the file wasn't signed.
Another question comes to mind..
If I give my backup to someone else, will they be able to restore from it? By placing my backup folder into their /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ ??
Just curious =)
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SH31KH said:
Kinda slow with my responses but I tried that and although it did create a zip, I was unable to flash it because the file wasn't signed.
Another question comes to mind..
If I give my backup to someone else, will they be able to restore from it? By placing my backup folder into their /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ ??
Just curious =)
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You could try toggling signature verification in CWM and then you should be able to flash..

SH31KH said:
Kinda slow with my responses but I tried that and although it did create a zip, I was unable to flash it because the file wasn't signed.
Another question comes to mind..
If I give my backup to someone else, will they be able to restore from it? By placing my backup folder into their /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ ??
Just curious =)
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Yes, that should work, as long as you have the same phones (mytouch4g). although, any texts or personal contact info will also restore to your friends phone

Nicgraner said:
You could try toggling signature verification in CWM and then you should be able to flash..
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Greetings,
I made image files with dd command (boot.img, recover.img, system.img, etc.).
I zipped them, but when I wanted to flash them (usin toggling the signature), it requests an update file, which is not available.
(the phone is a bit different, Alcatel 918D)
I have been looking for the solution for 3 days with google.
Could anybody suggest?
Thanks,
Cappa.

[Q] Phone.apk lost, trying to reinstall [SOLVED!!]

Okay, this is the 2nd time this has happened.....my phone.apk has disappeared from my phone, EC09.
Last time I just blew everything up and started over. This time I refuse to do that. I'm using Dialer One, so at the moment, things are not urgent. But I do want my touchwiz dialer back.
I've backed up the app with Titanium Backup on a previous nandroid backup, and it will not restore the phone app on my current ROM. I've also tried using ADB and the install command, and I get a "install parse failed no certificates" error message.
Anyone have a way to solve this problem for me?
UPDATE: I found a valid backup from TiBu that worked for me and another user. Download this zip, unzip the files into your Titanium Backup folder on your SD card. Scroll through the apps/backups in TiBu until you find [Voicemail] Dialer 2.2.2, restore app+data. Should be good to go!
Download Dialer Tab Titanium Backup files

This seems to be a common thing happening on this phone. This also happened to me when i was running complete stock no root a while back and I had to do a hard reset to get it back. I don't know what the apks issue is but its happening to a lot of people and so far the only way to get it back that I know of is to do a hard reset.

I also lost dialer on EC09 awhile back, gave up trying to fix. Just have also just been using Dialer 1. Odd thing with it though is I had to dial 911 and it wouldn't let me, every time inputted numbers it would bring up my contacts and wouldn't let me dial it.
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Well I guess it's mildly comforting to know I'm not alone with this problem. I know there must be a way to get the dialer back without a hard reset. I just got tired/overwhelmed of researching exactly how Android handles apk's and how ADB works.
I have the apk. I just haven't been able to get it on my phone properly.

Well, the problem has been solved.
Apparently the backup I made of the phone app through Titanium Backup was corrupt. I had an entire backup of my SD card on my hard drive and I tried restoring the phone app from that. Titanium Backup restored it fine.
I couldn't understand why TiBu would be unable to restore an app IT backed up! Apparently it wasn't unable to!
If anyone wants the three files created by the backup, I can zip them up and post them.

spearoid said:
Well, the problem has been solved.
Apparently the backup I made of the phone app through Titanium Backup was corrupt. I had an entire backup of my SD card on my hard drive and I tried restoring the phone app from that. Titanium Backup restored it fine.
I couldn't understand why TiBu would be unable to restore an app IT backed up! Apparently it wasn't unable to!
If anyone wants the three files created by the backup, I can zip them up and post them.
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If not to much trouble I would like a copy of them, as my Tibu won't restore either and tried another method offered here somewhere without success and just gave up.
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KJW979 said:
If not to much trouble I would like a copy of them, as my Tibu won't restore either and tried another method offered here somewhere without success and just gave up.
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I'm pretty sure I should post this link elsewhere, but here you go!
Phone 2.2.2 backup up with TiBu

Nevermind I see it's resolved.

Okay since this is zip I believe it just gets installed through recovery, am I right. So when I try it just hangs at installing, had to pull battery to restart phone.
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I'm sorry for not explaining things with the link. That is the three files that Titanium Backup creates when backing up an app. I zipped them into one file. Unzip them into your Titanium Backup folder on your SD card, and restore the phone app through Titanium Backup.

Well I give up, just going to stick with Dialer 1. Took zip, extracted and moved to Tibu backup folder, went into Tibu, didn't show up in apps list went to batch and reinstalled from batch mode and still nada. Tibu shows as installed but not there. Under application settings it shows 0.00 for file size, that can't be right, so guessing did not install.
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fix!
No need for any flashing!!!
Just go into a file explorer (like root explorer) and go into system/app/ and look for the app the has disappeared and hold it down, a menu will pop up and go down to permissions.
there will be 3 columns. The first one should have all 3 boxes checked, the second column should only have the top box checked, and the last column should have all boxes UNCHECKED.
After you do that press ok and there should be a pop up saying that permissions were changed!
And that's it! Your app should be back! If not, try installing it after u change the permissions by pressing down on the app until u get a pop up and press open with, then pick apk handler, then just install, and it should work!
I'm new to the forums, so I hope this is helpful!

killjoy1179 said:
No need for any flashing!!!
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No one has suggested or recommended flashing in this thread, to my knowledge.
Killyjoy's suggestion may very well work, but the file you downloaded from me might not have been the right one.
I have two trios of files that came from Titanium Backup when I was trying to restore the phone app. One trio has the word "phone" in it...and that's what you downloaded from me the first time, the other trio has the word "dialer" in it, and that is here
My initial instructions should still apply. Unzip these three files into your Titanium Backup folder of your SD card. Look in TiBu for "[Voicemail] Dialer"
You should see that there is a backup from 4/06/12. If the app shows as installed on your phone, I'd uninstall it (MAKE SURE you see that TiBu recognizes a backup exists first) and then restore the app+data from the backup.
That's how I got back up and running......if you want to give the TiBu method one more go.

spearoid said:
No one has suggested or recommended flashing in this thread, to my knowledge.
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Sorry, I just browsed thru the comments real quick and thought I saw the word flashing in there lol. But this way definitely works, I lost my phone apk. 2 times after installing tb101 mod and I got it back both times.
I figured I'd post some screencaps so you guys could maybe understand what I was saying a little bit better.
Hope they help!

killjoy1179 said:
No need for any flashing!!!
Just go into a file explorer (like root explorer) and go into system/app/ and look for the app the has disappeared and hold it down, a menu will pop up and go down to permissions.
there will be 3 columns. The first one should have all 3 boxes checked, the second column should only have the top box checked, and the last column should have all boxes UNCHECKED.
After you do that press ok and there should be a pop up saying that permissions were changed!
And that's it! Your app should be back! If not, try installing it after u change the permissions by pressing down on the app until u get a pop up and press open with, then pick apk handler, then just install, and it should work!
I'm new to the forums, so I hope this is helpful!
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Checked permissions they were right, used apk installer but get message saying not installed.
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spearoid said:
No one has suggested or recommended flashing in this thread, to my knowledge.
Killyjoy's suggestion may very well work, but the file you downloaded from me might not have been the right one.
I have two trios of files that came from Titanium Backup when I was trying to restore the phone app. One trio has the word "phone" in it...and that's what you downloaded from me the first time, the other trio has the word "dialer" in it, and that is here
My initial instructions should still apply. Unzip these three files into your Titanium Backup folder of your SD card. Look in TiBu for "[Voicemail] Dialer"
You should see that there is a backup from 4/06/12. If the app shows as installed on your phone, I'd uninstall it (MAKE SURE you see that TiBu recognizes a backup exists first) and then restore the app+data from the backup.
That's how I got back up and running......if you want to give the TiBu method one more go.
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This one worked, stock phone finally back, thanks for zips and help.
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Excellent! I'll update the OP

Weird...I've tried the whole process using root explorer and its not working for me either...I know it can be done, so I'm going to keep working on it.

killjoy1179 said:
Weird...I've tried the whole process using root explorer and its not working for me either...I know it can be done, so I'm going to keep working on it.
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If using Tibu to reinstall back up, I had to verify back up was there then uninstall in TiBu and then reinstall.
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Ok so I think I've got it figured out.
You delete the app that's missing out of the system
/app folder.
Copy and paste the new app into the system/app folder.
And then check the permissions and then reboot and it should be there.
Note: the app that your replacing needs to be from the Same ROM. So just download the rom your using and extract the app and go from there.
So next time your app goes missing, try this method and let me know if it works.

Nandroid backup problems.

I'm running version 5 (beta) of the Tweaked Stock ICS ROM on my GT-P6800, but I'm having a problem with nandroid from CWM.
I've created some valid nandroid backups in the past, but I found (to my cost!) a few weeks ago that the more recent backups I'd made weren't valid.
Reading the CWM thread over at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542897 it sounded like there was a known problem, but should have been fixed. I flashed version 6.0.1.1 this morning, but I'm still having the same problem.
Instead of getting three .img files and three .tar files, I'm getting the three .img files but then get three small (<1MB) .dup files instead of the .tar files (data.ext4.dup, cache.ext4.dup and system.ext4.dup).
Anyone else seen this? Any ideas why?
Sorry for posting this here instead of in the developers forum - I don't seem to have posted enough on XDA to allow me to post the question in the right place!
Thanks,
Adam.

Cwm now does incremental backups as only the changes from the original backup are done. This results in faster and smaller backup sizes after the original backup. If your original backup is corrupt delete the clockworkmod folder and redo your backup. After that incremental backups will be fast and small.
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kishd said:
Cwm now does incremental backups as only the changes from the original backup are done. This results in faster and smaller backup sizes after the original backup. If your original backup is corrupt delete the clockworkmod folder and redo your backup. After that incremental backups will be fast and small.
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Aaaaah! Right. Hmmmm. I kinda liked the standalone nature of the full backups.
Having been bitten by a broken backup before, I'm rather nervous of testing this out! So if I want to restore an incremental backup, do I select just the latest dated file, or do I need to restore the last full back-up (and it'll restore the original and all the changes), or do I need to restore each increment myself?
Are the backup folders completely portable, such that I can move them in and out of the 'clockworkmod' directory as requried, to force full backups each time?
Many thanks,
Adam.

Just select the last dated backup. I have restored a number of times using Iocerra's cwm 6
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Fantastic. Thanks, kishd.
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Is there any way to make a standalone backup?
And how do we know what backup folder is the main backup? Aka how do we know what one is safe to delete?
I've made several backups on different roms/kernels, and I often delete old backups to free room on sdcard..
edit: I just did a backup after changing backup format to "tar" and it was over 1GB. The previous backups were between 1 and 3 hundred MB, so I assume setting the backup mode as tar does a standalone backup. can anyone confirm?

changing backup format to "tar"
mvmacd said:
edit: I just did a backup after changing backup format to "tar" and it was over 1GB. The previous backups were between 1 and 3 hundred MB, so I assume setting the backup mode as tar does a standalone backup. can anyone confirm?
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How did you do this? I know I saw the option last night, selected it, and backed up, but then I flashed a couple upgrades and now I don't see this option anymore. I tried deleting the clockworkmod folder and backing up from fresh, but it made a dup backup. I've been burned by a string of broken dup's so I really want the tar format (plus, I can extract apps and data from a tar, but not from the blob/dup mixture). I even see a file in my new clockworkmod directory called ".default_backup_format" that contains only one word: tar. This file had to be created with the backup I just did, and yet it was still a dup style backup.
So, where did you see the option to change format to "tar"? I would really like to know.
Thanks.

kevlar11 said:
So, where did you see the option to change format to "tar"? I would really like to know.
Thanks.
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advanced backup options in CWM recovery (or same) ))