When i realized that Rom Manager was not fully functional on our phones I was pissed. One of the reasons is that at first i couldn't get my phone to do a quick backup and restore with cwm or cwm Manager so it seemed to take twice as long when the progress bars were showing during backups and restores. Anyways you dont need to keep rom manager installed to do this but you have to do it at first in order to get the files to enable the quick back up and restore feature.
1. Install Rom manager and enable "quick backup and restore" - this will create a folder and within the folder a number of files one of which is called "hidden progress". Rom manager most likely installed it on your internal sd card and if you do backups to your internal sd card and not your external then you dont need to do this next step of you dont want to, although it wouldn't hurt to do it anyways.
For quick backup and restores to external_sd
2. Copy the clockworkmod folder and its contents (if you already have backups and you dont want them on you internal than just create a new folder on your external_sd and name it clockworkmod. After that copy the hidden progress file over to the clockworkmod folder and thats it. whether you use CWM Manager or just boot into recovery and do it that way, you should always have the quick backup and restore feature back)
*There are a few other files in the clockworkmod folder than rom manager creates. I went ahead and just copied the whole folder including everything inside the folder and thats how i was able to finally get it working, but I think it is most likely just that one file that doe the fix.
Backup and Restores now take me 2-3 minutes as opposed to 5 mins and longer
If this has already been figured out and posted i apologize, i stumbled upon it while trying q b&r on my phone again. I searched and never found a solution.
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i backed up my apps with helium and moved the files to my laptop as i wanted to do a full wipe + a format to my internal storage,after i did all that and flashed a new rom,i installed helium again,plugged my phone to my laptop and copied the contents of the "carbon" folder on my laptop to the folder that got created in the phones storage after i installed the app.
Now when i try to restore the apps from the internal storage i see a message that says "No backups were found on your internal storage.Maybe you should make some"
is there any workaround this issue or am i doing something wrong
So the other day I restored my rooted phone back to stock everything and unrooted. I thought my photos were saved to my SD card so I didn't think about saving anything when I restored. But yesterday I went to upload a photo and they were all gone! Luckily I made a twrp backup before I restored but I have no idea how to find my photos in the backup. Can anybody help?
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but a twrp nandroid is not going to contain your photos. They're on a part of the sd card a nandroid doesn't backup. Did you have them backed up on Dropbox of anything?
jd1639 said:
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but a twrp nandroid is not going to contain your photos. They're on a part of the sd card a nandroid doesn't backup. Did you have them backed up on Dropbox of anything?
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I didn't have them saved anywhere.. Is there a tool that will allow me to still view the data from the saves?
white.noise said:
I didn't have them saved anywhere.. Is there a tool that will allow me to still view the data from the saves?
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You had them on your internal? Idk of any tool that can recover them. Someone very familiar with adb may be able to help on how to access the sd card but it won't be easy. There are, expensive, services that can recover them but they'd have to be very important to you.
In the future, set up Dropbox. It's free for a fair amount of storage and it's automatic. Take a pic and it'll upload.
TWRP does not backup photos in DCIM folder in internal memory
jd1639 said:
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but a twrp nandroid is not going to contain your photos. They're on a part of the sd card a nandroid doesn't backup. Did you have them backed up on Dropbox of anything?
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Thanks jd. I found this thread because I was doing a search for what TWRP actually backs up. I did a search as I also had noticed that no photos show up in the DCIM folder after a TWRP 'restore' operation, which looked like TWRP doesn't backup photos contained in the internal DCIM folder. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, and was wondering if something prevents TWRP from backing up the photos.
TWRP is definitely a very good backup utility, but I think that some kind of pop-up message (with a don't show again checkbox option) would be nice to warn users that TWRP doesn't backup the DCIM photos. I'm thinking that if the utility has the option to backup data + system + boot, then it should backup the valuable user data - which includes photos in internal memory (- that would be expected).
I'm running stock rooted ICS ROM, and I use TWRP to backup data+boot+system, and I also use KIES to do a backup as well. The TWRP restore gets all the apps back (and most things), and the KIES restore gets back the photos. A nice combo.
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Thanks jd. I found this thread because I was doing a search for what TWRP actually backs up. I did a search as I also had noticed that no photos show up in the DCIM folder after a TWRP 'restore' operation, which looked like TWRP doesn't backup photos contained in the internal DCIM folder. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, and was wondering if something prevents TWRP from backing up the photos.
TWRP is definitely a very good backup utility, but I think that some kind of pop-up message (with a don't show again checkbox option) would be nice to warn users that TWRP doesn't backup the DCIM photos. I'm thinking that if the utility has the option to backup data + system + boot, then it should backup the valuable user data - which includes photos in internal memory (- that would be expected).
I'm running stock rooted ICS ROM, and I use TWRP to backup data+boot+system, and I also use KIES to do a backup as well. The TWRP restore gets all the apps back (and most things), and the KIES restore gets back the photos. A nice combo.
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I think it makes sense to not back up the internal user storage. It's the same way it wouldn't back up an external SD, and plus then if it tried to back up all of it then it would add a few more gigs to the backup size and it probably wouldn't fit for many people. Not to mention that making a backup of something on itself is not the greatest idea in the first place (all the others are at least backups of different partitions). Makes more sense to just regularly pull off files to PC before doing flashing and modifying.
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I think it makes sense to not back up the internal user storage. It's the same way it wouldn't back up an external SD, and plus then if it tried to back up all of it then it would add a few more gigs to the backup size and it probably wouldn't fit for many people. Not to mention that making a backup of something on itself is not the greatest idea in the first place (all the others are at least backups of different partitions). Makes more sense to just regularly pull off files to PC before doing flashing and modifying.
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Thanks deadlysin. I know where you're coming from there....know what you mean. I don't mind it if TWRP doesn't backup all user data in internal memory after now having understood what TWRP defines as 'data' in it's 'DATA + system + boot' backup. I now use a combo of TWRP and KIES for backing up. The TWRP does a nice job of preserving most things - apps, call logs, contacts, messages etc, and KIES does the photos, as well as contacts and messages (but KIES seems to have a problem with backing up call logs, but TWRP can handle call logs which is great).
I fully understand the extra memory that a TWRP backup would take (in some cases) if TWRP did have an option for backing up the internal storage DCIM data too. But I reckon that it would be terrific to have such an option where 'data + system + boot' creates a complete image of internal storage information. The reason for this is because I was looking for a utility that would provide a fairly 'complete' one-shot backup of the user environment (photos, logs, messages, contacts, apps etc etc). But for TWRP, it looks like the definition of 'data' at the moment is 'data MINUS photos and possibly some other internal storage things'. This is ok though - since the most important thing is to just understand which user/personal data is not included in a TWRP 'data + system + boot' backup. On the net, I saw a TWRP page that had contents saying 'what to back up?', and on that page, I think that adding extra information like 'which user information/data does TWRP NOT backup?' would be handy. Anyway, the TWRP software is really good. Highly recommended.
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I did a search as I also had noticed that no photos show up in the DCIM folder after a TWRP 'restore' operation, which looked like TWRP doesn't backup photos contained in the internal DCIM folder. This came as a bit of a surprise to me, and was wondering if something prevents TWRP from backing up the photos.
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Same problem with CWM, no photos in the backup. I also thought first that something was preventing CWM to backup everything. And everywhere it reads that this backup would be a nandroid backup and therefore an exact copy of the contents. So this obviously is not correct - looks like a lot of people are copying statements without knowing or proofing.
The folder /sdcard/0 (which actually is /data/media ) is the part which you are allowed to see without root permissions and here is all the data like photos, media, downloads and so on which you created or copied there.
THIS is the way to get this important folder - at least it worked with CWM 6.0.4.7:
Enter recovery mode. Connect Phone to PC. ADB should be already installed. Create an empty folder and change directory to there within command shell. Type in
adb pull /sdcard/0
and voilá, you will have a copy of all the missed data.
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.
Hey all,
Did a Nandroid backup yesterday of stock 4.4 Touchwiz. Installed CM13, didn't like it, restored back to my backup from the day prior. It boots fine, all my apps are there, but if I open eStrongs File Explorer it opens to /storage/emulated/0 and it's completely empty. I also can't write to that location. This is causing issues for any app that needs to access the internal memory.
I know all my data is still there because if I plug the phone into my PC via USB I can navigate all my folders etc.
Anybody know what's gone wrong?
Side note - but I did the backup with TWRP v 2.7 or 2.8, then upgraded it to v3 at some point prior to the restore.