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Is it possible to have multiple NANDROID backups at once? The only thing I can see that would resemble this is via ROM Manager, where it let's you do multiple backups but I'm not sure if these are NANDROID backups.
It would be cool to have all ROMs installed and as backups, so that it's easier to go from one to another while testing and deciding on which one to use as your daily driver.
I have three different nandroid backups on my SD card currently.
HondaCop said:
Is it possible to have multiple NANDROID backups at once? The only thing I can see that would resemble this is via ROM Manager, where it let's you do multiple backups but I'm not sure if these are NANDROID backups.
It would be cool to have all ROMs installed and as backups, so that it's easier to go from one to another while testing and deciding on which one to use as your daily driver.
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You can have multiple backups in amon ra or clockword. Clockwork/Rom Manager let you rename backups.
chazglenn3 said:
I have three different nandroid backups on my SD card currently.
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Sweet! So you did them straight from Recovery or via ROM Manager?
Yes, that's the beauty of it. Just wipe and restore to any setup you have backed up. However many you want, however different.
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adelaney said:
Yes, that's the beauty of it. Just wipe and restore to any setup you have backed up. However many you want, however different.
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donatom3 said:
You can have multiple backups in amon ra or clockword. Clockwork/Rom Manager let you rename backups.
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Man, how have I lived without doing this! hahahah I guess because I've been living on CM6 ever since the first nightly was released. But I am going to give it a shot too. Thanks.
HondaCop said:
Is it possible to have multiple NANDROID backups at once? The only thing I can see that would resemble this is via ROM Manager, where it let's you do multiple backups but I'm not sure if these are NANDROID backups.
It would be cool to have all ROMs installed and as backups, so that it's easier to go from one to another while testing and deciding on which one to use as your daily driver.
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Yes.
Open up your nand backup file, usually named "nandroid" you will find the last 5 or so backup with date and time used to name the files. The Recovery program may have a limit on how many it keeps at once (i.e. last 5...) However if you're trying to back up specific ROM's you may want to copy and paste these to another area of the SD Card so that they are not overwritten in subsequent backups. You can then move them back (in the event that they are overwritten) to the nandroid folder to restore.
-kp
You can use nandroid to make as many backups as you want as long as you have room on your SD card. It is also safe to rename by mounting your SD card and going to the nandroid folder and renaming each one.
HondaCop said:
Man, how have I lived without doing this! hahahah I guess because I've been living on CM6 ever since the first nightly was released. But I am going to give it a shot too. Thanks.
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Right now I have a Sprint 1.47 rom with root access, a DC 3.2.3 rom and the latest CM6 nightly all as Nandroid backups. Once the official Froyo update comes out and is given root access by someone here I will replace the Sprint 1.47 with that and have those three backups.
Captainkrtek said:
You can use nandroid to make as many backups as you want as long as you have room on your SD card. It is also safe to rename by mounting your SD card and going to the nandroid folder and renaming each one.
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I use Amon's recovery and I renamed 4 of my backups a few days ago. They won't restore now, I'm getting the "run from mobile-sh" error
According to SD card Analyst I have
Clockworkmod: 1.99GB
TWRP: 1.12GB
TBU: 383MB
As you can imagine, that is a BIG chunk out of my 6GB total!
I have flashed lots of ROMs in the last couple of weeks but I have now settled on one. AFAIK all I need to keep is the current bakup in TWRP in case anything happens.
I would be glad for some advice as to what I can safely delete. I don't want to make a mistake as my system is running brilliantly right now.
Many thanks for any help!
StrangerWeather said:
According to SD card Analyst I have
Clockworkmod: 1.99GB
TWRP: 1.12GB
TBU: 383MB
As you can imagine, that is a BIG chunk out of my 6GB total!
I have flashed lots of ROMs in the last couple of weeks but I have now settled on one. AFAIK all I need to keep is the current bakup in TWRP in case anything happens.
I would be glad for some advice as to what I can safely delete. I don't want to make a mistake as my system is running brilliantly right now.
Many thanks for any help!
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As you already said, you should keep the TWRP backup as a safety net... The dated folders in the Clockworkmod can be deleted if you don't need to use them any more. Just leave the main folder but delete the sub folders.
TBU backups are just your apps + data... if you don't need data restored (since you probably have them in your TWRP backup) you can delete the contents there as well.
StrangerWeather said:
According to SD card Analyst I have
Clockworkmod: 1.99GB
TWRP: 1.12GB
TBU: 383MB
As you can imagine, that is a BIG chunk out of my 6GB total!
I have flashed lots of ROMs in the last couple of weeks but I have now settled on one. AFAIK all I need to keep is the current bakup in TWRP in case anything happens.
I would be glad for some advice as to what I can safely delete. I don't want to make a mistake as my system is running brilliantly right now.
Many thanks for any help!
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I agree with cvcduty, but I just wondered if there was a reason you use both TWRP and Clockworkmod, especially on an 8GB N7 with limited space. I've always just used CWM, so I was curious
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RockNrolling said:
I agree with cvcduty, but I just wondered if there was a reason you use both TWRP and Clockworkmod, especially on an 8GB N7 with limited space. I've always just used CWM, so I was curious
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Well, to be honest the answer is a bit silly: I am not aware of having used CWM, I didn't even know I had it!
Can I uninstall it altogether? And if so, how?
In CWM, there is a folder called Blobs with 1.78GB worth of folders. Is it safe to delete it?
If you don't use cwm then yes you can delete it.
I removed mine aswell as I have a nandroid backup on my PC which I can adb push if worst comes
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The clockworkmod APK
and
The clockworkmod RECOVERY
both use that same folder. Every time you flash a cyanogen Rom it had the apk installed by default. So that's where it's coming from.
In the folder back up the Nandroid folder or the one with data system recovery files (140-250mb) to your computer and then delete the whole dang folder if you do not use clockwork recovery.
As for titanium you can use the cloud storage feature and save another 500mb
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Ok, I ordered a white nexus 4 from the google play store. I was just thinking that there is no sd card, so how does flashing roms work? Do we just flash from the internal sd card. Im just confused with this no external sd card and internal on the nexus 4.
mattoaida said:
Ok, I ordered a white nexus 4 from the google play store. I was just thinking that there is no sd card, so how does flashing roms work? Do we just flash from the internal sd card. Im just confused with this no external sd card and internal on the nexus 4.
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it works the same as having an sd card when flashing roms/kernels.
simms22 said:
it works the same as having an sd card when flashing roms/kernels.
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Well what do you guys wipe before flashing a ROM?
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There is a partition of storage which acts exactly like an SD Card (you just can't remove it), so things like your Downloads, Pictures and Photos wont be wiped when you do a full wipe as they are in the internal "sd card" storage
But always good practise to take a backup in case something goes wrong during a flash
mattoaida said:
Well what do you guys wipe before flashing a ROM?
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just chose wipe data/factory reset in the recovery. and as stated above, nandroid backup!
A bit of a noob question, what exactly is contained within a nandroid. Just system files and and user apps? What about apps that store to sd card?
I tried helium but it doesnt back up the sd card part and i doubt titanium does either. (eg real racing back ups only save the apk)
drawkcaB said:
A bit of a noob question, what exactly is contained within a nandroid. Just system files and and user apps? What about apps that store to sd card?
I tried helium but it doesnt back up the sd card part and i doubt titanium does either. (eg real racing back ups only save the apk)
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A nandroid backs up everything on the phone - boot and system files, ROM, kernel, user apps - except the SD card. So no, if apps are installed to your SD card they will not be backed up.
Just copy your SD partition onto your computer so you have a backup.
After trying out some roms I want to start fresh. I plan on odining back to MDB and was wondering if it's possible to format the internal SD as well. Is there an option in Odin to do that or is it bad to wipe the internal SD?
do u mean phone memory by interal sd ?
Not sure why you would need to format it--just back it up before you do anything
Why back to MD--just curious
As far as formatting internal, not sure
I rooted before looking into stock recovery to see if it had option. CWM did on the S3, but I have twrp and it does not have that option
there use to be codes to format internal also--don't remember them
some research needed--but still back up everything and pull ext sdcard before you do anything
I have a similar question, does formatting internal sd also wipe everything (except system) from root (/)?
seanpr123 said:
I have a similar question, does formatting internal sd also wipe everything (except system) from root (/)?
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It'll wipe /storage/sdcard0 and everything on it only. Not sure what you mean by root.
jd1639 said:
It'll wipe /storage/sdcard0 and everything on it only. Not sure what you mean by root.
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Kinda what I figured, so I'm curious is it possible to start completely fresh from / or maybe that happens on a ROM install anyway?
For instance under root I have the following directories:
acct,cache,config/d/data/data_1-3,dev,efs,etc,firmware,mnt,persdata,preload,proc,res,root,sbin,sdcard,sotage,sys,system,tombstones,vendor. Along with a bunch of files, many are init.something. I know how to wipe sdcard (as you mentioned above), and system but what about everything else.
Make sense?
seanpr123 said:
Kinda what I figured, so I'm curious is it possible to start completely fresh from / or maybe that happens on a ROM install anyway?
For instance under root I have the following directories:
acct,cache,config/d/data/data_1-3,dev,efs,etc,firmware,mnt,persdata,preload,proc,res,root,sbin,sdcard,sotage,sys,system,tombstones,vendor. Along with a bunch of files, many are init.something. I know how to wipe sdcard (as you mentioned above), and system but what about everything else.
Make sense?
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Flashing a Rom will write over those other folders.
lazard said:
After trying out some roms I want to start fresh. I plan on odining back to MDB and was wondering if it's possible to format the internal SD as well. Is there an option in Odin to do that or is it bad to wipe the internal SD?
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There's really no reason to do this before using ODIN. ODIN rewrites anything in it's way. If there's something it didn't rewrite it's probably because you need that.
agent929 said:
There's really no reason to do this before using ODIN. ODIN rewrites anything in it's way. If there's something it didn't rewrite it's probably because you need that.
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Not necessarily, I've odined many times and it hasn't touched my internal sd card.
jd1639 said:
Not necessarily, I've odined many times and it hasn't touched my internal sd card.
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....what do you mean internal SD card? I guess I'm just a little confused. I know there are many partitions (I think 7 total) but ODIN won't write to all of them. I'm assuming that if you format the internal storage completely it will mess your phone up.
agent929 said:
....what do you mean internal SD card? I guess I'm just a little confused. I know there are many partitions (I think 7 total) but ODIN won't write to all of them. I'm assuming that if you format the internal storage completely it will mess your phone up.
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The part where pics, etc are stored /storage/sdcard0. Yea, the other partitions get overwritten when you Odin. And you certainly don't want to try and format those.
Ps, there are closer to 30 different partitions that android creates.
Alright yeah I understand what you mean now. Your right ODIN won't do that part, to my knowledge the only safe way to do it through recovery on your phone.
Please forgive me if this has been answered before but ive recently upgraded from the m7. nandroid backups used to be as simple as booting into recovery > backup > checking everything and pressing ok. However now it seems like theres a decryption encryption thing going on? is backing up now basically impossible unless u have an external sd card or can you still backup to phones internal memory?
afaik you can only backup to sdcard due to encryption issues.
Mr Hofs said:
afaik you can only backup to sdcard due to encryption issues.
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hmmm thanks for clarifying that for me. guess i gotta pick up an sd card its so tempting to flash a rom T_T