Hey all, like the title said, I need to recover some files from a TWRP backup. But I do not want to flash the backup. I changed the extension to .tar and was able to browse just fine, but am unable to find the home folder which is where the files I need were stored. Specifically Storage\Emulated\0\ProgramData but of course this path doesn't exist since it's essentially little more than a link to the real path, so where would I find the correct path in a twrp backup? Thank you for any advice or help!
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So I did the tab unlock, but the backup gone wrong.
Know I have a bogus IMEI and can't use market, it just displays a weird one...
Is there any change I can recreat a correct EFS folder to use?
My Tab is form Portugal, TMN.
Thank you
Did you do the unlock by xediting the nv.data.bin file ? If so you should have in your efs folder a nv.data.bak file. Most probably it's a good copy of your nv.data.bin file (look at the file property and check the creation/modify date.....
No, I didnt edit the file, I downloaded the repair_nv filea exchaged it.
Also, hen I open my efs backup the tar file is empy, it show no files...
Can you sugest any file manager for it?
Or can you tell me the adb command to try and restore that backup?
thanx
You need to have root access in order to see the content of the efs folder. Rootexplorer is an excellent tool, well worth the price.
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
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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
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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
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!
Hello everyone, I wanted to open a new thread, maybe others like me found themselves in the same siditura, that is, to be able to extract a saved file, backed up with TWRP the file in question, was initially saved in.snb format, file an app. pre-installed on the S3Neo, and it's called SMemo, the file contains sensitive data and password, you will say but because it does not restore the backup, if you want, but the saved one there are data that are not in another file, I made two backups , with the data inside, are in various formats, some I add immediately after, now what I ask, you can find that file and extract it using a PC with windows7 system, thank you in advance.
- recovery.emmc.win.md5
-system.ext4.win000.md5
-recovery.log
-data.ext4.win001
-data.ext4.win000
-boot.emmc.win
-recovery.img
and others similar with different formats. :fingers-crossed:
I screwed up! I am not sure how I did it, but, I accidentally deleted my OS! I can LUCKILY still boot into TWRP, and need a .win backup file to save the device! if you have one, please, PLEASE help me.
to do it, simply boot into twrp (I have the files needed, if you don't already have twrp), go to "Backup", and make a copy. I need ALL the partitions! Note: Creating a backup does NOT copy any files, such as downloads, images, or saved passwords, it only creates a backup of the system files. if you can help, please do! THIS IS URGENT!