Hope someone could help me out with this one, I just did a back of my rom using xrecovery. Does that back file get saved on my sdcard and if so where, and does it get saved as a zip file?
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It gets saved at /sdcard/xrecovery/backup/ in a regular folder. The folder contains 3 image files (system.img, data.img, cache.img) and a nandroid.md5 file.
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Hi,
AND don´t rename the folders like I did because then the MD5 sum does not fit anymore.
Ralf
Kat-CeDe said:
Hi,
AND don´t rename the folders like I did because then the MD5 sum does not fit anymore.
Ralf
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I always rename the folders. I find it hard to keep track of them by the dates alone. I always name them something along the lines of YYYY-MM-DD.HH.MM.SS-ROM-NAME-BASEBAND. That always works for me.
EDIT: But I NEVER touch any of the files inside.
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Oops... what happened here? Double post.
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Kat-CeDe said:
Hi,
AND don´t rename the folders like I did because then the MD5 sum does not fit anymore.
Ralf
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You can rename xrec back up but dont put spaces on it. Eg; gb2.3_Stock or whatever you like but no spaces.
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Onto my sdcard and guess what??? You can't have 2 android folders. Damn it some off the dumbest mistakes are so easy to do.
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Onto my sdcard and guess what??? You can't have 2 android folders. Damn it some off the dumbest mistakes are so easy to do.
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Change your Android folder to what ever you want and edit the startup.txt accordingly. You can have as many build as your heart desire.
Yeah I know. What I'm saying is....I used androzip to unzip to sdcard, which when writing to specified location OVERWRITES any existing folder named android with the one it is unzipping. I'm retarted for short
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Yeah I know. What I'm saying is....I used androzip to unzip to sdcard, which when writing to specified location OVERWRITES any existing folder named android with the one it is unzipping. I'm retarted for short
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that sucks.
live and learn
chrisgto4 said:
Yeah I know. What I'm saying is....I used androzip to unzip to sdcard, which when writing to specified location OVERWRITES any existing folder named android with the one it is unzipping. I'm retarted for short
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Use pocketrar and you can set the location it extracts to, chose something like Android2, Android3 etc then in startup.txt edit this line:
Code:
set cmdline "rel_path=Android2"
Set the rel_path to whatever folder its in, and there you go.
My friend has the HTC evo which is the same screen size as the DX, and I noticed he had a sick boot animation from the Virus rom. I had him send me the bootanimation.zip file.
Would this work if I replace my current bootanimation with it?
I am just worried about whether or not it will boot. I know how to do everything else
Give it a try. Your phone will still boot if it doesn't work.
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Yea all that will happen if it doesnt work is ull have a black screen while it boots up instead of an animation... Even if it wasnt sized right as long as u put it in data/local in its zipped form it should work
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Do u have a preview? Could u post the file here?
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owenbeals said:
Yea all that will happen if it doesnt work is ull have a black screen while it boots up instead of an animation... Even if it wasnt sized right as long as u put it in data/local in its zipped form it should work
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/data/local? In all of my experiences it has only worked in /system/media, which is where my current one is and there is nothing in /data/local. I will try both I guess.
And yes I will post the file here, just after I test it
Well apparently data/local is the default for any rom... (it would override system/media if there was somthing there.) Let us know how it works for you.
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I just tried it, and it worked perfectly. I copied the file into /system/media where my old bootanimation.zip was, and rebooted, and it worked. There was no boot animation in /data/local, and when I put it there in the past, it didn't work, so I did not try it in there.
I have attached the file with my post if anyone else would like to try it out.
Hmmmm..... Never mind my computer is not allowing me to upload the file, I will do it in an hour or two with my phone.
Jmoney47 said:
I have attached the file with my post if anyone else would like to try it out.
Hmmmm..... Never mind my computer is not allowing me to upload the file, I will do it in an hour or two with my phone.
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Thanks, I've been looking for a new boot ani
Sweet thanks Jmoney
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Here it is... Credit goes to the creator of virusROM - XxXViRuSXxX (or whoever created the boot animation for his ROM).
Rename to bootanimation.zip and copy to /data/local/ (for me it did not work in /system/media/ where I usually put it, but try it in either one).
virusROM bootanimation.zip
Thanks for posting. Sorry everybody, my computer was being gay last night.
Please nobody try to flash this in CWM, it will not work
Jmoney47 said:
Thanks for posting. Sorry everybody, my computer was being gay last night.
Please nobody try to flash this in CWM, it will not work
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No prob! Didn't mean to impose, just figured you either forgot or your computer indeed was still being "gay" haha.
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so i made a backup via CWM recovery and, to recognize the backup, i renamed the folder to the name of the ROM... when i tried restoring it, i got a size mismatch error... good thing i made a backup of all of my sdcard, including the original name of the folder, and the restore worked again
SO PLEASE! do *NOT* rename the backup folder!!
and this is news because....?
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and this is news because....?
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because i didn't see someone doing it... so i think its new...
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I agree thanks for the heads up. I'm sure there are those that don't know this. I found out the hard way monthes ago.
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I didn't know this either. Surprising that this isn't more widely known. Learned this afew months ago by mistake. Never thought of making a post though.
Koodos!
Uh..duh
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Actually, here's the deal
You CAN rename backups. I do it all the time. What you CANNOT do is add spaces.
My_Rom <----works
My Rom <-----will fail
I usually use camel casing (camelCasing). I've seen people with this problem in a few other phone forums and just happened to stumble on this
OP, if you rename your backup to one that has no spaces, then you should be alright!
Hope I helped!
i didn't try without spaces, but could a space make the md5sum different? i thought just renaming the thing changes the md5sum
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i didn't try without spaces, but could a space make the md5sum different? i thought just renaming the thing changes the md5sum
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Nope, the md5sum is stored in a .txt file in the backup folder and doesn't ever change (even with the name). If you change the .txt file in any way it'll probably break the back up. I'm not sure the logistics behind it, but spaces break something that removing the space will fix.
A couple things.. The spaces are because of the file reader cannot register the new tokens, some programs (windows and most OSs) are completely fine with this, however some just don't have he exception to deal with it. As for changing the .txt file with the md5, that wont actually break the backup, but CWM will think that it is cause they don't matchup
Why not just use 4ext? They name the backup for you, very nice recovery.
I want to save it on the PC,and put it in another nexus 4...but i can't find it
Which recovery did you make the backup with? CWM and TWRP save them in different spots.
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cwm :laugh:
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cwm :laugh:
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CWM backups are in mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
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Or data/media/clockworkmod
ok i found it but how can i copy it to the PC?
i tried with root browser to copy the folder in mnt/sdcard but it failed
nic85 said:
ok i found it but how can i copy it to the PC?
i tried with root browser to copy the folder in mnt/sdcard but it failed
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Move the CWM folder to your SD card.
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i get "operation failed" :crying:
nic85 said:
i get "operation failed" :crying:
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With Solid Explorer? Try a different file manager. You could always just upload the backup to the cloud and download it on your PC lol
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how lol?
btw i have to copy all the clockwork folder or just the folder inside the backup folder?
i guess i need also the blob folder with all that files in it..
nic85 said:
how lol?
btw i have to copy all the clockwork folder or just the folder inside the backup folder?
i guess i need also the blob folder with all that files in it..
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Just the backup folder. If you open up the blobs folder inside there will be many more EMPTY folders (at least for me).
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omg i can't copy the files in it...i copy the entire folder in the PC,but at the end i have the folder empty
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omg i can't copy the files in it...i copy the entire folder in the PC,but at the end i have the folder empty
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On your phone if you look into that folder, do you have any backups?
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android88 said:
On your phone if you look into that folder, do you have any backups?
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yes i have boot.img,nandroidm5 etc...but i don't know why i can copy that files in the computer
the backup folder is in mnt/sdcard
rebooted the phone...and worked...now i try to restore it in the other nexus :silly:
p.s. i read i other sites that i need that blob folder also...?
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rebooted the phone...and worked...now i try to restore it in the other nexus :silly:
p.s. i read i other sites that i need that blob folder also...?
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If restoring it on your other Nexus worked, then you don't need the blob folder.
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i get error while restoring system...
maybe because i'm trying to restore the nandroid in another nexus 4? or it doens't matter?
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yes i have boot.img,nandroidm5 etc...but i don't know why i can copy that files in the computer
the backup folder is in mnt/sdcard
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Check the permissions in your mnt/sdcard whether owner and group are root and the there are full read write permissions.
You can always cloud upload and download and
Yes you need the blobs folder. I assume you have cwm6 and the blobs folder has important files..
cm9 htc a310e k2.6
thank you.
anyway i got an error flashing system file,so i had to do all from zero... :crying:
Hi, i have galaxy s4 i9500 rooted.
i accidentally copied .nomedia file into /storage/emulated but after i deleted it i still cant see any pictures or music in gallery or any other app, how to fix this ?
Thanks before hand
Rescan your SDcard. Either reboot your phone, or download rescanSD app from the play store.
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pardoned said:
Rescan your SDcard. Either reboot your phone, or download rescanSD app from the play store.
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it did not help..
i tried Rescan SD from "sTOOPIDfiG" and "Kevinpr007"
it still not working
but, i did use the camera to capture new pictures,
the new ones i can see in the gallery, but the old ones still cant, all the picture in the same folder !!
1. Copy them (not the parent folder) to another file or off device
2. Reboot
3. Copy back to device original folder
4. Reboot
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1. Copy them (not the parent folder) to another file or off device
2. Reboot
3. Copy back to device original folder
4. Reboot
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thanks, it did worked, but i would be more thankful if you can tell me what was the problem ?
khalilman said:
thanks, it did worked, but i would be more thankful if you can tell me what was the problem ?
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Sorry, without actually seeing the folder before, I would only be guessing
Glad its sorted
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