Can someone attach a nandroid backup file i need one thanks
Are you looking for a stock one? I would think the nandroid images have personal/private data in them (account info and stuff from however people had their hero setup)
nevermind i dont need one anymore i got my phone fixed
Guys,
I'm selling my transformer to a friend and im wanting to know how to delete backup images that i created in the clockworkmod?
Sorry if this question have been asked before. I tried to google it but couldn't find any answers for it. Theres a tread on the forum said using root explorer to delete nandroid backups but i dont know where to go to look for the nanroid in root explorer.
Any help from anybody would be great.
Thanks
/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/
If you don't find it there, try /Removable/MicroSD/clockworkmod/backup
That where mine is.
thanks
Thanks guys. I appreciated
Not sure whether or not this is actually a EFS backup. It just showed up in my External SD card and it's named 'efs.tar.gz' and it's only about 5kB. What does the EFS folder contain? I have folders such as bluetooth, WiFi, IMEI, carrier, etc.
Is it necessary to do a EFS backup nowadays?
How would I do an EFS backup?
emckai said:
Not sure whether or not this is actually a EFS backup. It just showed up in my External SD card and it's named 'efs.tar.gz' and it's only about 5kB. What does the EFS folder contain? I have folders such as bluetooth, WiFi, IMEI, carrier, etc. Is it necessary to do a EFS backup nowadays? How would I do an EFS backup?
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Yes, DO make a backup of your EFS folder. Find the folder on your phone (I am away from my phone right now, but I believe it is a folder off of the root directory). You can easily find this folder (on a rooted phone) by using a file manager app-- then copy the entire folder and keep one copy of it on your SD card and keep ANOTHER copy of the EFS folder on your desktop computer or off-phone on a disk.
There are several threads here by folks who have lost their EFS folders or some setting on their phones, which can only be re-aligned by the data stored in the EFS folder. I believe at least some of the data is unique to your own phone, so it can't just be copied from another phone without some effects.
EFS folder seems like a small thing until it is gone. Then it really is a major pain in the neck to recover. MAKE YOUR OWN BACKUP COPIES of it now. Please search some threads --usingthe term EFS! -- and you will see more details about the effects of corrupt or missing EFS files.
Good luck!
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Yes, DO make a backup of your EFS folder. Find the folder on your phone (I am away from my phone right now, but I believe it is a folder off of the root directory). You can easily find this folder (on a rooted phone) by using a file manager app-- then copy the entire folder and keep one copy of it on your SD card and keep ANOTHER copy of the EFS folder on your desktop computer or off-phone on a disk.
There are several threads here by folks who have lost their EFS folders or some setting on their phones, which can only be re-aligned by the data stored in the EFS folder. I believe at least some of the data is unique to your own phone, so it can't just be copied from another phone without some effects.
EFS folder seems like a small thing until it is gone. Then it really is a major pain in the neck to recover. MAKE YOUR OWN BACKUP COPIES of it now. Please search some threads --usingthe term EFS! -- and you will see more details about the effects of corrupt or missing EFS files.
Good luck!
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Good advice, but I think more than just the EFS folder itself needs to be backed up in order to be able to restore EFS information to the phone if needed. Backing up or making a copy of the actual EFS "folder" is only part of the equation. TWRP variants usually offer an option to properly back up EFS and I have also seen several apps on the market, but I have not personally tried any of them. If anyone has any experience in methods to back up and restoring the EFS information to the phone please post your experience.
So basically all I have to do is copy the efs folder located in the /~ directory and memorize the permissions. And if anything happens I can just restore that folder and the set the permissions back?
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So basically all I have to do is copy the esf folder located in the /~ directory and memorize the permissions. And if anything happens I can just restore that folder and the set the permissions back?
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yikes. . . not so sure (anymore) that a copy/paste and a chmod will be enough. . . A quick search for recover ESF provides numerous results inside XDA.
It seems that there are several methods to doing an effective backup of ESF data (and by effective, it means more than our copy folders!). The below thread by @tamirda offers several techniques for the I9500 model of the S4! This ESF process does seem to be "kind of" phone-specific, but perhaps some processes are fungible among all models.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2392632
From my quick (as yet unfinished) reading of some of the threads, it seems good to also know your IMEI #, independent of the ESF folder. Also --as @scott14719 stated--- there *is* more to it than just replacing the folder contents
@emckai, before you question, I was sanguine just having the folder backed up -now I am not. So thank you for asking this question! The answer is more than I thought!
Already I hit Play and downloaded/tried one of the programs. It loaded and "backed up" my ESF folder -then hot booted. However, I have not trashed my ESF data to test it so I will have to wait and see. (Some of the comments made it sound not so promising.)
But it also seems Odin can backup the ESF/IMEI data and restore it as well! I was going to see if Mobile Odin could do this too but I am running a 4.3 rom and Mobile Odin does not work so well on 4.3 yet..
Thanks. . .I have some more reading to do to protect my ESF :victory:
Edit: not sure, but perhaps that tar file for your ESF might be left there from an original Odin Flash of a kernel or rom. . .
Yeah I did some reading also around the XDA forums and some information found on Google but the information I found wasn't that useful; mostly because it was device specific.
After looking inside the EFS folder, each file had it's own permission which would cause a headache at the end.
Doesn't TWRP recovery have the option to backup the EFS folder? But it would be the same thing? Because apparently there are 2 blocks on the device where the IMEI information is stored and whenever something happens to the EFS folder or one of the blocks, it'll trigger on the Samsung boot screen and restore whatever is contained inside those blocks.
There is a lot of misinformation going around stating about EFS so I'm just left confused.
Need my efs folder fixed on my 10.1 tab.... it got deleted with no backup.
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Need my efs folder fixed on my 10.1 tab.... it got deleted with no backup.
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Uh..oh.... Always backup your efs folder before you mess with your tab... Here's alot of homework to do, since you'll have alot of work, keep your 50 bucks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255
As I see often people having problems after flashing roms, I noticed that they always forgot one important thing to backup.
So I decide to write this article about the importants of the EFS as it is your lifeline of your phone.
Maybe you already have heard of the EFS partition, if not then keep on reading.
The EFS is a partition where the most important device infromation like Wi-Fi address, Bluetooth MAC address, IMEI address, etc is stored.
Without this data, you won’t be able to use your phone anymore and it's completely bricked.
So It’s extremely important to keep a local copy of your EFS partition as when the EFS is damaged then your phone has become useless and can only be restored with your personal EFS file.
You can't use an EFS file from somebody else as the file is your personal acces code to your hardware.
Hopefully you will never have to restore your EFS partition.
However, it’s never a bad idea to make a backup copy, especially if you flash allot of roms like I do.
Thanks to xenon92 for the APK version.
Thanks to lyriquidperfection for the window version
Reserved...
but i dont have an efs.img backup
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but i dont have an efs.img backup
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I don't understand the question.
Technical you might never need it, but it's just incase something went wrong.
i have flashed my phone already hundred of times and it always went okay.
If you use the tool from Xenon92 then it will create your backup and you can copy it somewhere safe
Thank you
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