I have rooted and installed CWM Touch 6.x and have done a backup. I have also successfully restored from that backup so I know it is working, however........
I want to store the recovery data files Off-Device but when I review the contents of the "sdcard" I can see the boot and recovery .img files of a decent size but system, cache and data are not there, just tiny files with an extension of DUP and each with a filesize of little over 500k so definately not the actual data files.
Where are these actual files stored? I have root access and also checked mnt/sdcard0 but again I cant see them....
HELP
RESOLVED, I have seen the blob folder and read up on how CWM touch does differential backups now.
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Using the newest CWM recovery touch, I'm trying to make a backup before jumping to AOKP (hooray!) But.... My backups are tiny; about 15mb. I'm not sure how big they should be (the one I made immediately after rooting was 880mb) but I'm certain this is too small. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
If you've used an older version of CWM, I'm sure you're used to ~1GB backups. In 6.0 and above, backups are handled differently. A good portion of backups are put into these "blob" files and then a smaller backup is made for each specific backup. The theory is that if you have multiple backups, they can pull data from the blob files instead of duplicating things that haven't changed. Whatever you do, DO NOT delete these blob files, doing so will corrupt your backup.
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If you've used an older version of CWM, I'm sure you're used to ~1GB backups. In 6.0 and above, backups are handled differently. A good portion of backups are put into these "blob" files and then a smaller backup is made for each specific backup. The theory is that if you have multiple backups, they can pull data from the blob files instead of duplicating things that haven't changed. Whatever you do, DO NOT delete these blob files, doing so will corrupt your backup.
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Thank you! I was so confused by this. So if I want to transfer my backup to my laptop HDD, I now need to copy the entire Clockworkmod folder? (and this will have all of the files necessary for a full backup?)
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So if I want to transfer my backup to my laptop HDD, I now need to copy the entire Clockworkmod folder? (and this will have all of the files necessary for a full backup?)
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Unfortunately yes, the new blobs system means it will take a longer time to make a copy of your backup, it's horrible over Wi-Fi. I just didn't bother with it and went with TWRP instead.
I'm running stock/unrooted with my bootloader unlocked.
I wanted to try out the PA beta with the PIE navigation so I used adb fastboot to boot into TWRP 2.3.3.3 (not flashed, booted the image directly. I have no custom recovery flashed) to make a nandroid backup. This is the second one I've made with this method but this one went tits up. It reported success and I rebooted. All of my apps are in place and everything seems to be in order other than that my /sdcard folder was completely wiped. All my of pictures and everything. The only folders it contains are the ones the OS and apps are creating as they need them. I also have the /TWRP folder but it only contains .twrps and .version.
I get the same results from ES File Explorer. I went back in TWRP to use the built-in root file explorer to see if it was a permissions issue but it is not. The recovery file explorer shows the same results. The only folders under /sdcard are newly created by Android or by my apps.
Anyone have any idea what happened here and how I can prevent it from happening again?
EDIT: Oddly enough I just noticed if I go back into the TWRP backup screen it's reporting about 2GB less free space (approx backup size) than it did when I made the backup that apparently broke everything. I can't seem to find any backup actually stored though. The Restore option doesn't list any backups available to restore.
EDIT2: I found the backup. It is in /data/media/TWRP. /data/media/0 has the contents of the newly created /sdcard folder but none of my old data is anywhere to be found. Did TWRP writing this folder break my /sdcard folder somehow?
I flashed my i9500 with TWRP 2.8.1.0 using Odin and it wrote an undeletable backup onto my internal memory. To get rid of that, I backed up the "BACKUPS" folder and formatted the internal storage only for it now to cause the entire internal storage to be write protected to my android apps. I can copy and delete stuff to it through PC but my apps wont work, those that require to download pics and videos or make backups to the internal storage, web browsers can't download anything to the internal storage yet I now have over 7GB free space.
It's clear TWRP is write protecting the internal storage selectively (first it wrote protected the storage to both the phone and pc, now to the phone only). How should I sort this problem out?
I have also just tried using root explorer to change permissions to the internal storage but it doesn't work. It's failing. Titanium backup shows its own backup folder is unwrittable. It cannot be changed by Root explorer
I just tried fixing permissions in twrp but to no avail. I uninstalled Clean master only to try and re-install it and it won't install now, it gives a failed install error. Kingsoft office continually shows "stopped working" and fails to work completely. All this started with flashing Twrp. I can't view pics in whats app or send them, neither can I edit documents. Any help to rid of this issue will be gladly appreciated.
People please please avoid twrp at all costs!, i have now lost all my data and apps are all failing. I deerly deerly regret why i ever flashed twrp recover in the first place!
I seem to have solved the issue after a very grueling experience.
TWRP has its flaws and it is quite notable here. Here is how I have gotten around the issue:-
Immediately after I installed TWRP I made a system backup of the entire phone as of its state at the time.
I copied it to my pc and tried to delete the backup that TWRP had made. It was completely write protected, nothing could delete it.
I then decided to use TWRP to format my internal storage after backing it up. Then restore the data back which I did successfully.
Little did I know what had happened. TWRP had assigned the internal storage attributes that even Root explorer (paid) could not undo.
The internal storage had become unusable to the system and user apps.
Slowly my apps began to collapse one after the other failing. From frustration I tried to salvage the data the apps held at the time so that I can factory reset and restore but Titanium backup could not access its own folder. That's where all the frustration begun.
I later flashed CWM and accidentally formatted all my data instead of the data partition.. this was now hell.
One last try which was about 5 hours later I returned TWRP recovery, wiped the data partition and got hold of my prior backup with TWRP, restored it and am 9 hrs back from total loss of data. So the internal storage now has its initial attributes prior to the predicament.
Am actually back exactly to where all this mayhem began when I decided to delete the "BACKUPS" folder and there was absolutely nothing else that was wrong, which now I will attempt to delete hoping that I won't experience deja vu.
This is a problem worth reporting to TWRP developers and I don't know how
TWRP recovery Fix Permissions
I couldn't delete back ups from the internal storage at all. I couldn't even copy saved back ups from my pc to my Note 3. I went into TWRP recovery, under Advanced select Fix Permissions
Now I can delete folders in the TWRP main folder with a ES file explorer or on my PC via usb cable.
Never had any problems like this with TWRP on my S4+. For me the backups taken and its folders can be handled just fine, copied, deleted, moved etc. Must be som compatibility issue with your setup.
Hello, everyone, I came to this forum in hope for some advice with a problem I'm having. I'm sure I'll be sticking around as I just got a new S5 for Christmas, though. I apologize if these threads are redundant, but I've searched this forum and Google and haven't found a solution. First things first, I have a T-Mobile S5 running 4.4.2 and I rooted, installed CWM with Phil's Touch and created a backup. I saved the backup to my internal sdcard storage and copied a backup on my PC via usb. I've since deleted the backup saved to my internal storage to save space and would like to place it back in my phone to restore. I have not installed a custom ROM yet or re-partioned anything. The reason I'd like to restore is because my dumb-ass accidentally uninstalled the stock video/audio player while attempting to remove bloatware. I now can't listen to or view any videos sent via text without first downloading them and using an installed app' to play them. (Any tips on this would be nice.) Here's my main issue: when I attempted to place the backup back into my Clockworkmod/Backup/ folder, I'm prompted with a message saying I can't move this item. I've tried moving the file on my PC as well as my phone and had no success. I then tried using a root file manager to manually place the backup into the clockwork folder (it allowed me to put the backup in my phone's storage, but not clockwork's backup folder) and it ended up placing it the folder in clockwork, but not the backup folder. The folders now go: Clockworkmod/'My saved backup' - Backups folder/ empty. I can't move nor delete that file because it is write protected and I have no idea what to do from here. I need to restore my backup and definitely remove the copy that's write protected as it is taking a few gb's of storage. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I will likely give a small Paypal donation to the best response. (preferably tonight, if possible.) Thanks, guys. Let me know if you need any other details.
Update: I just tried installing Phil's Touch Aroma File Manager as I read that can delete/edit write-protected files and I'm not able to launch it in recovery. The folder and zip files were correctly placed, but it won't recognize the folder. I don't understand why my phone isn't recognizing anything in the Clockwork folder.
I had two, fairly recent, Nandroid backups on my phone that I copied to my computer.. Over the weekend I "jacked up" my phone and ended up having to format it, which means I lost everything... I wasn't worried because I had those 2 Nandroids, so I did a reset and then copied those to my phone and tried to restore them, but they didn't show up?? Here's what I did: I opened up the TWRP folder on my computer and copied the folder (and all it's contents) over to the TWRP folder already established on my phone.
I then flashed a ROM and tried restoring just the data in TWRP, but it didn't see the backups.... I let the phone reboot, downloaded Nandroid Manager and it found the backups with no problem, so I rebooted and tried to restore just the data again, TWRP still didn't find any backups.
How can I make this work for future reference, because I know I'll jack it up again.
Just to be sure you put the backup in the right place: TWRP folder which contains>BACKUPS folder which contains> Folder with random numbers and letters which contains the actual backup folder with the date stamp which contains the backup files.
I don't know if all that is necessary but maybe TWRP does look in that order. In the past when I've done that kind of restore I always save the folder with the random numbers and letters to my PC and then after wiping my phone and reinstalling TWRP I create a new BACKUPS folder in TWRP to put the folder with the random numbers and letters in. My restores done that way always worked for me.