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[Q] How to backup?

Good evening!
I'm an owner of the x8, I've already installed Root, BusyBox, App2Sd, recovery!
I'm going to try the installation of JiT, but before this i'd like to make a backup (because at the moment everything's OK) and I know that I could make my phone a sort of nothing!
Could you explain me how to backup/restore via xrecovery?
And could you link me the Jit for x8 Guide?
Many Thanks in advance!

In xRecovery.. boot into flashmode, go to backup/restore and make new.
Simply

Many Thanksss : I've not tried it yet but if I've understood well:
1. Open xRecovery (trough BACK button)
2. Backup&Recovery
3. New
Isn't it?

1. Open xRecovery via back button
2. Scroll down to Backup & Restore
3. Click Backup and wait for xRecovery to do his work.

just use xRecovery,you don't have to be afraid if you have it...

antimadridista1 said:
just use xRecovery,you don't have to be afraid if you have it...
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Is the easiest program to use backup, original Backup & Restore is crap.

How much storage is nedded? I have only 80 mb on sdcard :S thanks for your replies
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On my phone the backup was ~240 Mb. So, you'll need more, otherwise backup will be a mess. Been there, done that.

enabling jit screwed my phone.. i didnt back up and now my phone is stuck at sony erricsson logo. any help please?

Siso93 said:
How much storage is nedded? I have only 80 mb on sdcard :S thanks for your replies
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>200 mb
make sure you have more than 200mb free space.

redsock said:
enabling jit screwed my phone.. i didnt back up and now my phone is stuck at sony erricsson logo. any help please?
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If you made a backup with a xRecovery just restore it the same way you backed up. If you don't have backup you can try disabling JiT and/or flashing your x8.

masslany said:
If you made a backup with a xRecovery just restore it the same way you backed up. If you don't have backup you can try disabling JiT and/or flashing your x8.
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He didn't make a backup.. so reflash your phone.

Now i have a problem :S I have installed app2sd on my sd and I have no free space on the fat32 partition I decided to buy a 4gb sd but what about the apps on the old sd? I would like to take them :S thanks in advance for all your replies
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Siso93 said:
Now i have a problem :S I have installed app2sd on my sd and I have no free space on the fat32 partition I decided to buy a 4gb sd but what about the apps on the old sd? I would like to take them :S thanks in advance for all your replies
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Try copy them on your PC

I could also try to clear my sd for some time only to backup and try to make my phone jit then I can erase the backup though astro isnt it?
300 mb are enough???
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>300mb is more than enough

Really thank you for these replies I will try these tips after
Thank you again *-*
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Siso93 said:
Really thank you for these replies I will try these tips after
Thank you again *-*
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No problem, we're here to help

Siso93 said:
Now i have a problem :S I have installed app2sd on my sd and I have no free space on the fat32 partition I decided to buy a 4gb sd but what about the apps on the old sd? I would like to take them :S thanks in advance for all your replies
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Hello
I think that's why Link2SD is better thant App2SD,
you can choose, create & delete which App on SD you want,
and cache are still on internal
bye

spider1163 said:
Hello
I think that's why Link2SD is better thant App2SD,
you can choose, create & delete which App on SD you want,
and cache are still on internal
bye
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We know that, thanks

nand restore trouble

tried restoring a backup and it says md5 or whatever mismatch... is there anything i can do so i can flash that?

I think there is a way to bypass the security in the advandced options in CWM as long as you are certain the restore is valid. there should be no problems? but I'm no expert
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What version of clockworkmod are u on and what version of clockworkmod is the back up from?
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Esteway.619 said:
What version of clockworkmod are u on and what version of clockworkmod is the back up from?
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both from the new one 3.0.25

steviee7 said:
both from the new one 3.0.25
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Huh that's strange. U might have to just reflash the rom and really do everything. Never heard of that problem
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Make sure ur on the proper format (rfs or ext4) of that nandroid backup image
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shortyboy said:
Make sure ur on the proper format (rfs or ext4) of that nandroid backup image
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i am both EXT4

If you change the file name of a backup, it will give you that error. Did you do that?

maybe file corruption on the sd card ??
you could try making a backup of the sd card on your pc, then formatting the SD card, then restoring what's necessary to do the nandroid restore .. just another suggestion.

Just shell into your phone goto the backups dir and do
Md5sum -t *.img > nandroid.md5
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i n00b teh pwns said:
If you change the file name of a backup, it will give you that error. Did you do that?
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I did! it was hard to find the exact one

Making a new nandroid.md5 file like I described above will fix the issue
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shortyboy said:
Make sure ur on the proper format (rfs or ext4) of that nandroid backup image
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This will not make a difference backups are made into a yaffs image. You can backup a rfs system and restore it to an ext4 system.
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skeeterslint said:
This will not make a difference backups are made into a yaffs image. You can backup a rfs system and restore it to an ext4 system.
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But yet a lot of people seem to go into boot loops restoring a backup of an RFS system on a newly formatted EXT4 system.
Do you BONSAI?

kennyglass123 said:
But yet a lot of people seem to go into boot loops restoring a backup of an RFS system on a newly formatted EXT4 system.
Do you BONSAI?
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From my experience with nand backups is that its like the whole /data partition gets backed up/restored which brings in things that can cuase conflicts, things in dalvik cache and such.I have only ever had luck restore a nand to the same rom that the backup was made from I have always had issues going from one rom to another.IMO backing up your apps with Titanium Backup and restoring them without restoring system data has always been a win for me, nand backups have always been hit or miss.

skeeterslint said:
From my experience with nand backups is that its like the whole /data partition gets backed up/restored which brings in things that can cuase conflicts, things in dalvik cache and such.I have only ever had luck restore a nand to the same rom that the backup was made from I have always had issues going from one rom to another.IMO backing up your apps with Titanium Backup and restoring them without restoring system data has always been a win for me, nand backups have always been hit or miss.
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Best to clear cache dalvik and tombstone at the very least after a nandroid restore
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chris41g said:
Best to clear cache dalvik and tombstone at the very least after a nandroid restore
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Yeah good call on that.

[SOLVED] Phone can't mount cache

my phone cant mount cache, wiped but still no cache, and my phone cannot boot, pls help!!!

prob solved this thread can be deleted

Montoyatok said:
prob solved this thread can be deleted
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just post the solution here, so that others can benefit

dharamg3 said:
just post the solution here, so that others can benefit
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the solution is converting cache partition to ext2..
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Just remove your sd card and boot the phone, then put the sd card back
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your given sol. worked thanxxxx.....

Montoyatok said:
Just remove your sd card and boot the phone, then put the sd card back
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i have tried this but still cache cant mount?? should i put the sd card while the phone is in recovery?

flash a new cm7 rom via odin : A.X.T.C

[Q] ROM not detecting ext4 partition for dataext

I partitioned my 8gig sd card => 6.5(fat 32-prim) & 1.5(ext4-prim).
In Storage Menu under settings,it is showing available space as 0.00 B
Also whenever i reboot the phone, it gets back to default state.
Any help ?
P.S. I tried partitoning using CWM & PC both. Still the same results

did you Install a dataonext script?
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coolsid8 said:
I partitioned my 8gig sd card => 6.5(fat 32-prim) & 1.5(ext4-prim).
In Storage Menu under settings,it is showing available space as 0.00 B
Also whenever i reboot the phone, it gets back to default state.
Any help ?
P.S. I tried partitoning using CWM & PC both. Still the same results
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Please re-format your ext4 partition to 1gb. As far as I know all those dataonext scripts using 1gb.
By the way:
I did the formatting of the partition for dataonext not over CWM. I used the program "Mini Partitioning Tool".
Just search the Internet, Google is you're friend
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shanman-2 said:
did you Install a dataonext script?
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I installed NexusHD2-JellyBean-4.2.2-CM10. Do i still need to install dataonext separately ?
lEil_0575 said:
Please re-format your ext4 partition to 1gb. As far as I know all those dataonext scripts using 1gb.
By the way:
I did the formatting of the partition for dataonext not over CWM. I used the program "Mini Partitioning Tool".
Just search the Internet, Google is you're friend
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I tried that too before. Didn't work !!

You need to select dataonext when installing!
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search for CronMod script, thats what i use for my HD2.
here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1716124
i used the Int2Ext4+ script but rad carefull and choose what suits you

coolsid8 said:
I installed NexusHD2-JellyBean-4.2.2-CM10. Do i still need to install dataonext separately ?
I tried that too before. Didn't work !!
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I hope you created the 1GB as primary and not logical. I made the same mistake some months ago
Please check the OT http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2224469 installation section.
Do it like he is descriping and flash the ROM again. Otherwise it seems to be a problem with your SD card. Cheers

[Q] Help Recover files after userdata partition got wiped!!!

Hey guys as usual I had an itch to change something on a fully functional phone. So going from cm10.2 to paranoid I accidently ran the stock image 4.3 batch file forgetting that it wipes my internal memory and now I need to recover some files. The mmcblk0p23 block is the userdata parition I believe so I need to recover that somehow?
Can anyone help me...I followed this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705&highlight=0kb, but only ended up with a 0kb file.

hydronos said:
Hey guys as usual I had an itch to change something on a fully functional phone. So going from cm10.2 to paranoid I accidently ran the stock image 4.3 batch file forgetting that it wipes my internal memory and now I need to recover some files. The mmcblk0p23 block is the userdata parition I believe so I need to recover that somehow?
Can anyone help me...I followed this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705&highlight=0kb, but only ended up with a 0kb file.
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It will not work with the Nexus 4, because MTP/PTP is not supported by the scanning tools. It will not be read properly which is why it showing as a 1kb file. Unfortunately all data is erased when you fully wipe NAND flash memory on a factory restore so your data cannot be recovered.
You do not have a SD/MMC card. That thread is mostly for phones with SD card data it works on a few HTC ones but not nexus.
sorry I couldn't help more

Not true I ran this same thing and it worked but couldn't recover anything useful. Are you typing in su when opening the second terminal command? If so try it without typing su or vice versa.
Search in that thread for 0kb some people in that thread had the same issue.
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otariq said:
Not true I ran this same thing and it worked but couldn't recover anything useful. Are you typing in su when opening the second terminal command? If so try it without typing su or vice versa.
Search in that thread for 0kb some people in that thread had the same issue.
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Hey yes I already typed su after adb shell and checked the log and I saw the root access, still no luck however

iOSecure said:
It will not work with the Nexus 4, because MTP/PTP is not supported by the scanning tools. It will not be read properly which is why it showing as a 1kb file. Unfortunately all data is erased when you fully wipe NAND flash memory on a factory restore so your data cannot be recovered.
You do not have a SD/MMC card. That thread is mostly for phones with SD card data it works on a few HTC ones but not nexus.
sorry I couldn't help more
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that thread is made for the galaxy nexus which also does not have an external memory only internal like ours...

In the commands are you using "....system/bin/..." or ".../xbin/..."? For me I had to use xbin and try it again without the su commands and see if that makes a difference.
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otariq said:
In the commands are you using "....system/bin/..." or ".../xbin/..."? For me I had to use xbin and try it again without the su commands and see if that makes a difference.
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i used xbin

You can use android data recovery tool, here's a good guide: android internal memory data recovery
hope this helps.