after a long night i finally downgraded, re-rooted (using gfree method), and unlocked my mt4g. so i was abe to install cwm 5.0.2.0 recovery, which i had before and i was trying to reinstall my backup(s) of Virtuous Unity 2.39 but im getting the error message "error while restoring /system!" ive never seen this problem before nor have i had a problem restoring backups using the recovery. does anybody know what the problem is and how i could fix this?? in the mean time ive installed a fresh VU 2.39 so that i have a working phone.
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after a long night i finally downgraded, re-rooted (using gfree method), and unlocked my mt4g. so i was abe to install cwm 5.0.2.0 recovery, which i had before and i was trying to reinstall my backup(s) of Virtuous Unity 2.39 but im getting the error message "error while restoring /system!" ive never seen this problem before nor have i had a problem restoring backups using the recovery. does anybody know what the problem is and how i could fix this?? in the mean time ive installed a fresh VU 2.39 so that i have a working phone.
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Was the backup of VU 2.39 made on a previous version of CWM? If so, that would be why. I warn of that issue in the recovery thread.
no, ive had 5.0.2.0 since it has been out and i have made backups since then.
ok i figured it out, i wiped everything using cwm and then installed VU 2.39. after that i want to backup and restore and clicked on advanced restore, picked the backup i wanted and ONLY restored the data from the backup file, not the sd-ext, cache, or system part of the file and i got my stuff back. so WOOHOO! lol
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Im running fresh 0.5.3 and have the latest amon recovery, i can do a ext+nandroid backup fine but when i try to restore after i reboot, it gets hung on the
htc screen and will not load. Ive tried several backups and it will not work when restoring. Any ideas?
Make sure you're wiping the data, cache and dalvic before restoring the backup.
Are you sure the backup is getting created?
I know SteelH was posting yesterday about the NAND + EXT backup not even working with amon recovery.
I personally don't even know what it does, but all my backups are just "NAND backups and seem to work fine.
I'm assuming you used Amon_ra to create the backup and you're using Amon_ra to restore?
I created a backup with amon_ra and tried to restore with Clockworkmod and the backup doesn't even show up and vice versa. I found out by trial and error that backups created by clockworkmod have to be restore with clockworkmod and backups created by amon_ra have to be restored with amon_ra.
I don't know if that's the case for everyone, but it sure is for me. I'm running whitslack's 1.47 and Evolution V9.
Back to the Nand+Ext, maybe SteelH has figured it out, maybe send him a pm or search for his posts in the Q&A forum from yesterday.
make sure your batt has enough power
I am fully charged when i nandroid. It creates the backup and restores it but when i reboot it freezes on the htc screen. So this is a bug with the amon recovery image then? It would be nice to be able to backup & restore my ext apps because i use apps2sd. I could use titanium backup but nandroid is faster.
I rooted my Vibrant a week or so ago.
I flashed an update.zip and installed Clockwork Recovery Mod.
I immediately took a nandroid update of the stock, rooted system.
I tried out the AOSPish 1.4 Eclair rom (stock kernel) from the Development section, which works quite well.
My problem is that I cannot restore the nandroid backup I took before flashing teh AOSPish rom. I did a data/cache wipe in Clockwork, restored the nandroid backup, and it hangs at the Vibrant boot logo.
I can restore the AOSPish nandroid backup just fine.
I'm pretty sure it wont work...you have to Odin stock JI6 then restore your JI6 nandroid
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Fair enough. I'm happy with the AOSPish rom anyway, just wanted to see if it could even be done.
Hello peeps,
I am very confused as to why my nandroid backup doesn't want to restore my data.
I've been doing this many time over the past half-year....
Today, I wanted to try the new nightly of CM7, so I flashed and backed-up using ROM Manager, everything was fine. (went from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4)
Now I am trying to do a restore and it works until "restoring data" and it gets stuck there then the ClockWorkMod restarts....
Is there any way to save this?
Is my nandroid backup corrupt?
Did I just lose everything? Help!!!
Thanks a lot guys!
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Hello peeps,
I am very confused as to why my nandroid backup doesn't want to restore my data.
I've been doing this many time over the past half-year....
Today, I wanted to try the new nightly of CM7, so I flashed and backed-up using ROM Manager, everything was fine. (went from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4)
Now I am trying to do a restore and it works until "restoring data" and it gets stuck there then the ClockWorkMod restarts....
Is there any way to save this?
Is my nandroid backup corrupt?
Did I just lose everything? Help!!!
Thanks a lot guys!
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It sounds like it is corrupt. Do you have another NANDROID besides the one your restoring?
no.... sadly just this one... is there a way to every get this back??? i am doing the "advanced restore" and doing them one by one... boot worked, system worked, cached worked.... data is... not (
I was on Google edition using faux kernal. I decided to restore my stock rooted nandroid using twrp and I believe something went wrong. My phone rebooted on its own after the restore and everything went wrong from there. Force closes galore. I checked the kernal and it was still faux kernal so I figured that was the problem. I decided to wipe and restore one more time. This time it went smooth and I had the option to reboot when it was complete. Everything is running perfect but the weird thing is that the kernal appears to be stock now...
I'm very confused. Some Google searches led me to believe that a nandroid does not save your kernal but my kernal clearly changed on my second restore.
Does a nandroid restore kernal? What is the stock kernal for the i337 and is it around this site because I can't find it anywhere?
My kernal version reads...
3.4.0-453947
[email protected] #1
Sat April 27 17:06:05 kst 2013
Can someone confirm this is stock?
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I was on Google edition using faux kernal. I decided to restore my stock rooted nandroid using twrp and I believe something went wrong. My phone rebooted on its own after the restore and everything went wrong from there. Force closes galore. I checked the kernal and it was still faux kernal so I figured that was the problem. I decided to wipe and restore one more time. This time it went smooth and I had the option to reboot when it was complete. Everything is running perfect but the weird thing is that the kernal appears to be stock now...
I'm very confused. Some Google searches led me to believe that a nandroid does not save your kernal but my kernal clearly changed on my second restore.
Does a nandroid restore kernal? What is the stock kernal for the i337 and is it around this site because I can't find it anywhere?
My kernal version reads...
3.4.0-453947
[email protected] #1
Sat April 27 17:06:05 kst 2013
Can someone confirm this is stock?
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Yep, that's the stock kernel.
I'm not sure about TWRP. I know there are different options to save different partitions when creating a Nandroid with TWRP.
But there is something else I've been noticing through various posts about the S4. It seems that sometimes, with CWM, TWRP, or even ODIN, that some people have to flash files twice before they take. I'm not sure why it would be that way or if it's just a bunch of people screwing up on the first flash, but it sure seems that way. Maybe this is just one of those phones that depending on which lot you get, needs to be flashed twice?
yeah, Scott may be right. I don't think these recoveries are quite up to speed yet for the S4. Esp TWRP. I just like and have been use to TWRP UI.
Heard good things about Phil's Touch CWM--haven't tried yet. But, haven't restored yet either. Shabby's seems solid too. But, Phil's will restore both TWRP and CWM nandroids.
If you nandroided boot partition then the kernel should be restored
Only thing not touched in nandroids is radio
simply restoring the boot image from a nandroid will restore the kernel to what was backed up. I ALWAYS have a nandroid of a full factory ROM on my SD card in case I get problems. technically you don't even need to clear cache / dalvik cache.
note that some kernels actually flash more than the kernel and update Bluetooth and/or WiFi drivers, and would require more than the boot image to be restored.
keeping a fully stock ROM nandroid should be flashing 101... I've gotten into situations where I've had md5 mid matches when restoring backups, lost imei, all kinds of fun stuff. almost always doing a full factory reset/cache wipe/dalvik wipe/system format before restoring stock will fix those type of problems. after that I've had good luck then restoring the "problem" backup. very rarely have I ever had to Odin back to stock.
I installed a custom rom(GPE 5.0)on my i337m from Android 4.4.2 Stock ROM. I made a Nandroid backup with twrp 2830 before flashing the new rom. After playing with it a while I decided to go back to 4.4.2 using the Nandroid backup.
The Nandroid restore was successful(did a factory wipe before restore). However now I am getting force close non stop(seems like every app after the boot animation). I did a second restore without factory wipe and same problem. How can I get my backup restored properly?
If I install a custom rom(tried Goldfinger v9 among others), they boot fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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I installed a custom rom(GPE 5.0)on my i337m from Android 4.4.2 Stock ROM. I made a Nandroid backup with twrp 2830 before flashing the new rom. After playing with it a while I decided to go back to 4.4.2 using the Nandroid backup.
The Nandroid restore was successful(did a factory wipe before restore). However now I am getting force close non stop(seems like every app after the boot animation). I did a second restore without factory wipe and same problem. How can I get my backup restored properly?
If I install a custom rom(tried Goldfinger v9 among others), they boot fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Sounds like your nandroid is corrupted.
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Sounds like your nandroid is corrupted.
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I tried again, this time I did advanced wipe and selected the usual system, cache, dalvik etc...and also format internal sd. When I restored the nandroid backup it finally worked properly. Pretty sure the backup is not corrupted.
Hey,
I've had this problem for ages now, and always gave up on my data, but now I really want to fix this for good.
Yesterday I was ready to update my CM12 nightly to the lastest version (didn't see it was actually CM13), and did a backup in cwm before the update. The backup succeeded, but it gave the message that .android_secure couldn't be found and it didn't back that up. It always gives me this message after a backup and after google searching, it seems to me that it doesn't matter.
After installing the update, I noticed it was CM13, and my gapps wasn't updated to the marshmellow stock, as expected, so errors occured all the time.
I didn't want to upgrade to CM13 just yet, so I decided to restore my backup.
As always, the restore process goes without errors, but upon reboot I'm stuck at the CM logo. I can wait untill the battery is dead or ignites from the heat, but nothing happens. This has also happened to me every time I make a backup. I've watched about every video on youtube on how to do a proper backup and how to restore one, so I'm confident that I did it right.
For some reason, any backup I make, no matter what android version (didn't work with stock kitkat, either, before I switched to CM12) it never works and I'm forced to do a clean install and start over again.
I've tried to do partial restores from the backup file, and if I only restore the data partition (and wipe dalvik) It does boot, but gives me non stop errors that apps are crashing.
I've tried to do a dirty flash to no avail, always endless error messages.
When I do a clean install and check the MK5 of the backup with nandroid manager it gives no errors.
Is there anything wrong with my phone or something? I'm not making backups to be unable to restore them.
Can anyone help me out with this?
(I have a i9505)
Try a different recovery. CWM is outdated. TWRP is nice. Worked for ne every time. There are TWRP flashable zips so you won't have to mess around with Odin.
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Try a different recovery. CWM is outdated. TWRP is nice. Worked for ne every time. There are TWRP flashable zips so you won't have to mess around with Odin.
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Won't changing recovery make my old backups useless? I'm all for changing to TWRP, but first I'd love to restore my CWM backup...
Yes it will. Unfortunately I don't know what to suggest. Haven't used CWM since I switched to the S4.