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[Q] nandroid backup quiestion

I currenty running Thor rom 14.2 and i want to return to stock 3.1.
I have a nandroid backup but accidentally i deleted .txt files inside.
Could i restore it or my tablet will brick

anyone??

First of all: Remember xda-developers is quite international so the person with the answer to your question may be asleep or working at the time you post...
Other than that: If you deleted part of your backup that's bad. You may get away with a partial (possibly non-functional) restore, or restore may fail altogether... Both shouldn't brick your tab, but you might have to do a full wipe and configure your rom from scratch; it may well be worth trying a restore, though, as you won't be causing any more damage anyway if your tab doesn't work anymore. Just make another nandroid backup in case you decide things were better before you hit the restore button... As long as you don't accidentally kill your recovery, android devices are incredibly hard to brick.

jimmis1996 said:
I have a nandroid backup but accidentally i deleted .txt files inside.
Could i restore it or my tablet will brick
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I just checked a number of nandroid backups of mine and the only ".txt" file that I could see was uid.txt in the main backup directory that contained the ".img", ".tar", and ".md5" files.
You could just run another nandroid BU of your current system and copy over the uid.txt file from that one to replace the one that you deleted. The uid.txt file should be the same from one BU to the next.
Jeff.

Thanks
Thanks for your help
So if i create a .txt file with my id number my restore will work?
Is there another way to restore to stock.

jimmis1996 said:
Thanks for your help
So if i create a .txt file with my id number my restore will work?
Is there another way to restore to stock.
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If you just put a text file with some random information in it, it may not work right.
Here is the procedure that was suggested:
Make a backup of your current settings
make a copy of the text file in that most recent backup
place that copied text file in the backup with the missing text file
try to restore the backup that was missing the text file, which you just copied the text file to

Psichi said:
If you just put a text file with some random information in it, it may not work right.
Here is the procedure that was suggested:
Make a backup of your current settings
make a copy of the text file in that most recent backup
place that copied text file in the backup with the missing text file
try to restore the backup that was missing the text file, which you just copied the text file to
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I will try it.
I remember when i downgraded to 3.0 from 3.2 i use something called APX mode could this restore my tab to full stock

problem solved
ok backup my rom copy uid file and everything is ok.thanks

[Q] [Help[ Recovery does not recognize backup files

Hey guys, hope is a simple problem solving (!)
I have a galaxy i9500 and I have made a nandroid backup with Rom Manager, using Omega v10. Then Realize a Full Wipe (pretending change wanamlite). Now I want to restore the Omegav10 rom but backup folder it´s not .zip and has the following files (attached)View attachment 2123305
From Recovery not allow me to do a restore with externalSD .Zip, nor from RESTORE/BACKUP as indicated. Md5 missmatch.
Please help!

problem solved... DONT RENAME BACKUP FOLDERS :good:

[Q] TWRP / Kies / Helium Backup.

Hi
While updating my S4 i9505 to newer boatloader / firmware (XXUGNH8 / Imperium), I made a backup using TWRP on Ext-card, also used Kies to make a backup of all the files on PC, used Helium to back-up application data.
However, after I updated the firmware, I lost some of the files which were mainly under the directory of "programdata". I tried to restore data files from TWRP, but of no use. Tried complete restore of the previous firmware (Omega), but it didn't get back my "programdata" folder.
I can find a few files under Kies backup, but these are mainly 0 kb files. Somebody please help me to restore my "LOST" files.
Regards,

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You can try to manually extract the files from your backup using something like 7zip on your pc.

Cannot access the TWRP folder

I recently flashed the stock android lollipop tgz file on my nexus 7. I rooted it, and then wanted to restore my nandroid backup. But, the backup does not appear in the recovery menu. I couldn't also copy the backup files to the tarp folder (no such folder existed, and when I tried making one using es file explorer or root explorer, it gave an error message.) How do I fix this problem. Please help guys I am sort of new to the forum[emoji16]

Same problem here. It does show up but it's a 0 bytes file last modified in 1970 (start of unixtime)
This is on my Nexus 4 though. Flashed manually with official images from Google and rooted with SuperSU.

- make sure you're using the latest twrp recovery for your device. get the latest img file for grouper (nexus 7) and mako (nexus 4) here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2
- if you look around the forums, you'll find that people have had similar issues since lollipop. forget about trying to access twrp folder in android/es explorer for now (BTW droiderrr18 is probably getting the error when trying to create the folder because it's already there, just doesn't look like a folder and can't be opened, it looks like the 0 byte file looking thing LooieENG mentioned).
What you want to do instead is boot into twrp recovery and connect to your computer. you should be able to access your folders and files in MTP connection from Windows and move to your old backup that way. if not you can always use adb push command. the backup folder for twrp is storage/sdcard0/TWRP/BACKUPS
you can also do a new backup and find it, then move your old backup there to restore.
(side note: twrp also has its own file manager where you can see and if necessary manipulate your files, but be sure you know what your doing in there)

dtg7 said:
- make sure you're using the latest twrp recovery for your device. get the latest img file for grouper (nexus 7) and mako (nexus 4) here: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2
- if you look around the forums, you'll find that people have had similar issues since lollipop. forget about trying to access twrp folder in android/es explorer for now (BTW droiderrr18 is probably getting the error when trying to create the folder because it's already there, just doesn't look like a folder and can't be opened, it looks like the 0 byte file looking thing LooieENG mentioned).
What you want to do instead is boot into twrp recovery and connect to your computer. you should be able to access your folders and files in MTP connection from Windows and move to your old backup that way. if not you can always use adb push command. the backup folder for twrp is storage/sdcard0/TWRP/BACKUPS
you can also do a new backup and find it, then move your old backup there to restore.
(side note: twrp also has its own file manager where you can see and if necessary manipulate your files, but be sure you know what your doing in there)
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I have the same problem. I need to access its data.f2fs.winxxx files for restoring my backed up apps using Nandroid Manager, which cannot access the folder, even though the original folder (/data/media/0/TWRP) can be accessed from ROOT EXPLORER and TWRP recovery file system
Nandroid Manager looks for only /sdcard/TWRP directory i guess, thus is unable to get backup storage location. Changing the Storage location in Nandroid Manager also has no effect.
I need to restore my backup apps. Please help if u can!

[Q] TWRP backup folder visibility in Lollipop

Recently updated my Nexus 10 to 5.01 stock. Installed TWRP 2.8.0.1 and rooted. I did a TWRP backup and in the TWRP file manager I can see the TWRP backup folder and the backup.
When I boot into the system and use either root file manager or ES File manager there is no TWRP folder visible. All I see is what looks like a file named TWRP. It has a question mark as the file type and the size is NA.
On my KitKat phone, I can see the actual folder and backup file(s) using ES File Manager.
Is this normal for Lollipop?.

See this post fit the easy fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56985526&postcount=567
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Thanks. That did it.
Can't say I'm loving Lollipop though.

Thanks, easy fix.