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[Q] How to create a Backup of a stock A500 ?

Hi fellow Android lovers
I'm still not sure how to make a proper backup of my completely stock A500 (HC 3.0.1).
My plan is:
1. Root with Gingerbreak
2. Install Acer Recovery Installer App
3. Backup my Recovery with the app
4. Install CWM with the app
5. Make a Backup with CWM
Is this a good/correct way to make a backup ?
What would be the best way ?
Thanks a lot for any useful input

king.mark said:
Hi fellow Android lovers
I'm still not sure how to make a proper backup of my completely stock A500 (HC 3.0.1).
My plan is:
1. Root with Gingerbreak
2. Install Acer Recovery Installer App
3. Backup my Recovery with the app
4. Install CWM with the app
5. Make a Backup with CWM
Is this a good/correct way to make a backup ?
What would be the best way ?
Thanks a lot for any useful input
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Yes. This is EXACTLY what you should do but with a step 6 added.
Make a copy of your shiney new backups to seperate storage, such as your PC.

Cool ...
Thanks for answering.
Of cause I will safely store that backup on my PC.

A little bit more detail so you don't miss your original recovery.img:
Those interested in getting back their OTA, properly backing up their original ROMS or restoring them, please follow the tutorials in this thread:
Going back to stock TUTORIAL

Backup Help
I have rooted the device and installed the Acer Recovery app. Where's the backup function ? I can do the restore but how do I backup the device and cw install?
thanks,

you have to reboot into clockwork mod . Recovery .. then in there you can choose backup/recovery

Another thing to try and remember, if/when Acer Recovery updates with a new version of CWM - when you are putting this version on your device and updating recover, don't backup - it will overwrite your "stock" recovery backup with the previous CWM backup (which is likely not really needed with the new version of CWM) - leaving your only way back the final Acer Recovery option of "use stock <whatever version is included with that version of Acer recovery but may not match your recovery version>"
Learned that the hard way

pfc.joker said:
Another thing to try and remember, if/when Acer Recovery updates with a new version of CWM - when you are putting this version on your device and updating recover, don't backup - it will overwrite your "stock" recovery backup with the previous CWM backup (which is likely not really needed with the new version of CWM) - leaving your only way back the final Acer Recovery option of "use stock <whatever version is included with that version of Acer recovery but may not match your recovery version>"
Learned that the hard way
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I can, however, confirm that the stock recovery they have still works in all versions of 3.1. Just ran into that with the 4.010.13 update.

Cannot fullbackup in CWM
Hi all,
I did as follow:
install Acer recovery installer V 1.5
click Clockworkmod recovery rev 1.3.4 by thor...
install recovery image (recovey image installed successfully)
power off
press power and volume button enter CWM mode
highlight backup and restore
highlight full backup
it reply
clockworkmod recovery v5.0.0.0 (thor...)
Fixing A500 boot/recovery checksums
running itsmagic
done!
can't mount /sdcard
I really need help from you
thanks in advance

mangolia said:
Hi all,
I did as follow:
install Acer recovery installer V 1.5
click Clockworkmod recovery rev 1.3.4 by thor...
install recovery image (recovey image installed successfully)
power off
press power and volume button enter CWM mode
highlight backup and restore
highlight full backup
it reply
clockworkmod recovery v5.0.0.0 (thor...)
Fixing A500 boot/recovery checksums
running itsmagic
done!
can't mount /sdcard
I really need help from you
thanks in advance
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Do you have a working SD card inserted?

Yes, I have sdcard 16 gig from acer stock and external_sd memory card 8 gig, both of them work fine. I did remove external_sd card and repeat all steps it don't work...
Thanks

mangolia said:
Hi all,
I did as follow:
install Acer recovery installer V 1.5
click Clockworkmod recovery rev 1.3.4 by thor...
install recovery image (recovey image installed successfully)
power off
press power and volume button enter CWM mode
highlight backup and restore
highlight full backup
it reply
clockworkmod recovery v5.0.0.0 (thor...)
Fixing A500 boot/recovery checksums
running itsmagic
done!
can't mount /sdcard
I really need help from you
thanks in advance
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To be clear, it has to be a working external micro SD formatted to fat32

Hi,
The code said can't mount /sdcard I think it is the 16 gig acer stock, it isn't extenal _sd card. My external_sd format FAT 32 it have music and film and
the tab read these files fine. Any idea ???

mangolia said:
Hi,
The code said can't mount /sdcard I think it is the 16 gig acer stock, it isn't extenal _sd card. My external_sd format FAT 32 it have music and film and
the tab read these files fine. Any idea ???
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It is talking about the external, not internal. As for why its not working though I'm not sure

installed acer recovery installer but need premium to use backup. Doing a search i can find many referances to premium but nothing on how to get the premium version, can any one help?

jonhome2 said:
installed acer recovery installer but need premium to use backup. Doing a search i can find many referances to premium but nothing on how to get the premium version, can any one help?
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I just used the acer recovery from the market and do my backup, don't know what you mean by premium as the regular works fine for backup.

My TF101 won't reboot to either recovery CWM or just reboot.....

Hello, can you guys help me with the following issue:
I have TF101, it was rooted a while ago with Razoclaw APK and CWM recovery was also done with a help of APK recoveryinstaller.
During my usage, I also experienced the loopboot to recovery and I solved it with the trick in terminal on TF101 itself - echo echo boot | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=0 ( I also installed the new recovery via ROM Manager)
Now yesterday, I installed the new recovery via ROM manager and tried to reboot to recovery via ROM manager and it worked for the first time!
Before that I had to use the "Reboot2recovery" app.
next't I also Installed the touch recovery via ROM Manager and now.....
....the only think I can do is power button + vol down and then cold boot - if I reboot of power off.
Nothing else works!
So how can I re-enable the CWM recovery the easy way ( like using aome commands in Termi al as ROOT) since I would luke to avoid the ADB USB stuff
help, please ! i would like to update my AOPK rom to build 31
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WOW!
I was literally a second away from clicking the flash recovery button in Rom Manager when I saw this thread on my computer. Do you think it's the new recovery, Rom Manager, or just the tablet that caused it. This has me worried. I really want to install CWM Touch today. Does anybody else have this problem on their tablet?

MC153 said:
I was literally a second away from clicking the flash recovery button in Rom Manager when I saw this thread on my computer. Do you think it's the new recovery, Rom Manager, or just the tablet that caused it. This has me worried. I really want to install CWM Touch today. Does anybody else have this problem on their tablet?
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Use RecoveryInstaller to install CWM recovery.
After that use that CWM to flash the touch version by Roach2010.
Koush keep saying he has fixed the CWM in ROM Manager but I keep seeing peoples
with problems.

Not quite What I was looking for.
baseballfanz said:
Use RecoveryInstaller to install CWM recovery.
After that use that CWM to flash the touch version by Roach2010.
Koush keep saying he has fixed the CWM in ROM Manager but I keep seeing peoples
with problems.
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Thanks for your feedback. Do you know if anyone has flashed the new 5.8.2.1 that just came out a couple days ago? If they did do you know if they had any problems? I know it was the 5.5.0.4 they were having problems with and I haven't heard anything about the 5.8.2.1.

kacab said:
Hello, can you guys help me with the following issue:
I have TF101, it was rooted a while ago with Razoclaw APK and CWM recovery was also done with a help of APK recoveryinstaller.
During my usage, I also experienced the loopboot to recovery and I solved it with the trick in terminal on TF101 itself - echo echo boot | dd of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=1 seek=0 ( I also installed the new recovery via ROM Manager)
Now yesterday, I installed the new recovery via ROM manager and tried to reboot to recovery via ROM manager and it worked for the first time!
Before that I had to use the "Reboot2recovery" app.
next't I also Installed the touch recovery via ROM Manager and now.....
....the only think I can do is power button + vol down and then cold boot - if I reboot of power off.
Nothing else works!
So how can I re-enable the CWM recovery the easy way ( like using aome commands in Termi al as ROOT) since I would luke to avoid the ADB USB stuff
help, please ! i would like to update my AOPK rom to build 31
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk 2
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Download one of the good cwm version, either by roach2010 or Team Rouge.
Boot into recovery and flash the good cwm version.
Do NOT choose Reboot system but do a cold reboot
Once you're in the os, use terminal to run the same script you posted above.
After that reboot

Well....it won't boot into recovery. The only thing I can do is - when powering off the TF101 or rebooting - is cold boot. So if I want to get to OS, I have to press and hold power button + vol down, wait and then choose to boot to Linux. This is all I can really do.
So I can not boot in to CWM recovery anymore and recoveryinstaller doesn't help and script from above also not.....
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Follow the instructions on the Team Rogue recovery thread. I had the same problem as well, once I flashed the new recovery it fixed itself.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using CM9

afflictive said:
Follow the instructions on the Team Rogue recovery thread. I had the same problem as well, once I flashed the new recovery it fixed itself.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using CM9
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Thank you !
Now at least I have my ASUS back - with CWM and OS !

kacab said:
Thank you !
Now at least I have my ASUS back - with CWM and OS !
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Exact same problem here. Just happened for no reason. I just tried to boot to recovery and it boots up, when I click the vol+ button nothing happens, it's completely stuck, so then have to go through it all again and cold boot linux. Any ideas guys please? I have just down loaded ADB but have never used it before. I really want to update my rom, I suspect its something to do with a megatron update I just downloaded but have not applied yet. I know that sounds silly but as soon as I downloaded that update and said yes to reboot in to recovery that's when it all went sideways.lol
Thanks
I can not even re boot normally back to my OS now. I have to cold boot to linux every time. Like I say guys, Any wisdom would be appreciated.
Thanks

Deleted everything except TWRP recovery!

Help. I was trying to install Cyanogen on my Asus TF300T and deleted all files from my internal memory and SD Card. Now I obviously cannot reboot because there is nothing installed on tablet. When I reboot, it hangs at the Asus startup page. My TF300T is unlocked. How can I restore this tablet? Thank you for any suggestions.

Push your room through adb
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If you still have recovery, put a ROM zip on your SD card and flash it in maybe?
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I am relatively new to rooting and custom ROMS. How do I install the ROM via adb? Thanks.

I don't think you can install a ROM from the external sd card. I tried that before this post.

adb push romname.zip /sdcard/
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Use adb to put the Rom on the sdcard then boot into recovery and flash it off the sdcard

I am having trouble connecting my tf300 to my computer. I cannot get it to recognize the tablet. I have tried it on an XP pc and a Windows 7 pc.
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OK...I gave up on connecting the tablet to my pc and instead installed the ROM file (cm-9.1.0-tf300t) to my external sd card, and then moved the file to /sdcard on my tablet. When I try to install the ROM via TWRP, it gives me the message - E:\Unable to mount /staging. Any suggestions...?

schwadb said:
OK...I gave up on connecting the tablet to my pc and instead installed the ROM file (cm-9.1.0-tf300t) to my external sd card, and then moved the file to /sdcard on my tablet. When I try to install the ROM via TWRP, it gives me the message - E:\Unable to mount /staging. Any suggestions...?
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Seems that you are on the last TWRP. This problem is known to some other user and me, too.
I was only able to fix it with wiping everything: You have done that already
Then flashing the latest stock.
DL the stock, unzip it one time you know have a zip called: WW_epad-user-10.4.2.13
Go to this thread and dl the adb pusher
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1599332
extracted it and open the Quick ADB Pusher v0.4.1 exe
If you are in TWRP you should seen a number next to select device. Your Pad is in adb mode
click the second browse button from top. Here you can choose the destination folder on your Pad. Choose sdcard
Now drag and drop the WW_epad-user-10.4.2.13.zip on the top empty space under drag and drop
Now push the send button. This should take some time. Once you read file send succesful you have the file on your sd.
Now just flash the stock rom. This should fix all of your problems and you should be up to stock with stock recovery.
So after rebooting and going into stock system Just put all needed files back to internal storage.
Then switch of the pad and switch it back on with Vol- and power and you should be able to go to fastboot again.
Flash the older TWRP via fastboot. Reboot via fastboot while holding Vol- and go back to recovery.
Now you should be able to flash your desired Rom again I hope

and @mikaole is the winner
faster than me

Well, one should note that after installing the Jelly Bean stock ROM there's no way to install Cyanogenmod because of the incompatible bootloader...
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so, did it work?

How make backup on internal storage?

Hi,
i'm trying to make a rom backup with cwm recovery.
but it failed,because cwm try to backup the rom on the sd (that i haven't) and if I choose to backup to internal memory,the task remains on 'backuping boot image....' and does not continue.
How can i proceed?

flash TWRP, CWM is causing many problems (did also for me, I ended up with a corrupt flash in CWM and since I flashed TWRP I had no such problems at all!)

thanks...
can you link me this recovery? i have 4.1.1

Go here,2nd post....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2029364
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Can the stock rom be backed up?

Hi
I was wondering can I somehow backup my stock rom before rooting and flashing custome rom etc?
Thanks
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ophirb said:
Hi
I was wondering can I somehow backup my stock rom before rooting and flashing custome rom etc?
Thanks
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+1
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Do a nand backup before installing custom ROMs

Crauze said:
Do a nand backup before installing custom ROMs
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Do you mean by CWM?
If you do then it is not stock anymore is it?
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Do a nandroid backup. You don't need to have root for that.
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CWM
Backup:
1. Reboot into recovery
2. Select "backup and restore"
3. Select "backup" or "backup to external sdcard" depending on where you want your backup saved (recommended to keep at least one backup, preferably stock, on the internal sdcard in case of external sdcard malfunction)
4. Select "Reboot now" to reboot the phone
*note: the backup can be found in the "clockworkmod" folder (either on internal sdcard or external depending on chosen save location) where you can rename the backup to something you will remember rather then a series of numbers. DO NOT INCLUDE SPACES WHEN RENAMING! including spaces in the backup name will cause you to get the MD5-mismatch error when trying to restore the backup at a later time*
TWRP
1. power phone off
2. boot into recovery by holding the home + volume up + power; when phone vibrates release the POWER button only and continue holding home and volume up till recovery screen loads
3. Select backup
4 select back to "external sd card" or "backup
5. enable compression and change name of your backup if you like (gives you smaller backup sizes)
6. swipe the arrow bar and let the backup process run

TheAxman said:
CWM
Backup:
1. Reboot into recovery
2. Select "backup and restore"
3. Select "backup" or "backup to external sdcard" depending on where you want your backup saved (recommended to keep at least one backup, preferably stock, on the internal sdcard in case of external sdcard malfunction)
4. Select "Reboot now" to reboot the phone
*note: the backup can be found in the "clockworkmod" folder (either on internal sdcard or external depending on chosen save location) where you can rename the backup to something you will remember rather then a series of numbers. DO NOT INCLUDE SPACES WHEN RENAMING! including spaces in the backup name will cause you to get the MD5-mismatch error when trying to restore the backup at a later time*
TWRP
1. power phone off
2. boot into recovery by holding the home + volume up + power; when phone vibrates release the POWER button only and continue holding home and volume up till recovery screen loads
3. Select backup
4 select back to "external sd card" or "backup
5. enable compression and change name of your backup if you like (gives you smaller backup sizes)
6. swipe the arrow bar and let the backup process run
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Thanks
I know how to use cwm and twrp to create a nandroid backup, but i need to flash them first and so the rom is not stock anymore. Does a stock rom comes with cwm or twrp - No, so after i flash cwm or twrp it is not stock anymore.
I guess what you are saying is that tgere is no way of backing up a FULLY stock rom. Correct?
Thanks.
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ophirb said:
Thanks
I know how to use cwm and twrp to create a nandroid backup, but i need to flash them first and so the rom is not stock anymore. Does a stock rom comes with cwm or twrp - No, so after i flash cwm or twrp it is not stock anymore.
I guess what you are saying is that tgere is no way of backing up a FULLY stock rom. Correct?
Thanks.
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This will backup a stock rom, I am confused.
Also, thanks is a good thing, using the thanks button is better.

ophirb said:
Thanks
I know how to use cwm and twrp to create a nandroid backup, but i need to flash them first and so the rom is not stock anymore. Does a stock rom comes with cwm or twrp - No, so after i flash cwm or twrp it is not stock anymore.
I guess what you are saying is that tgere is no way of backing up a FULLY stock rom. Correct?
Thanks.
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Hi ,
A nandroid does not take the recovery into consideration.
So, you will still get a "Stock " image when you make a nandroid.

malybru said:
Hi ,
A nandroid does not take the recovery into consideration.
So, you will still get a "Stock " image when you make a nandroid.
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So if i restore it, i will also need to flash a stock recovery?
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ophirb said:
So if i restore it, i will also need to flash a stock recovery?
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Hi,
Yes.

+1 for wanting to know if there is a way to image a factory S4, as is, without rooting or installing a different recovery.