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
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Good evening.
I made a nanroid backup under the assumption that it backed up everything. (including files on SD) is this a correct to assume?
After parting the sd card for App2sd I discovered my photos were gone. I went to run recovery and recovered but no picture files...
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. It wiped out all my other backups that were stored on SD.
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Good evening.
I made a nanroid backup under the assumption that it backed up everything. (including files on SD) is this a correct to assume?
After parting the sd card for App2sd I discovered my photos were gone. I went to run recovery and recovered but no picture files...
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. It wiped out all my other backups that were stored on SD.
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Its not good to assume. Lesson learned.... Partitioning, not parting, will erase EVERYthing on what you are partitioning. Sorry bro, they are gone. Im not sure if a partition will overwrite the old data, or just delete the record of it. If it's the latter of the two i would get that SD card into a disk utility program asap. Every time something new is written to the card though the less likely you are to get any of the data back.
So now you know...
1. nandroid only backs up the phone itself.
2. you should backup your sd card to your computer
3. dont assume
and last but not least...
4. if you have never done anything like this, make sure you read ALL the steps first...
Oh boy. Yes those are gone. Nandroid only backs up the phone image to the sd card, not the phone image + the sd card itself. Formatting erases everything like he said. Assumptions are always good to make.
It was parting
No...it was partitioning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning
Could someone please explain what nandroid is.
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jamietuffen said:
Could someone please explain what nandroid is.
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Hello,
nandroid is a backup tool. It is run from recovery mode, and makes a copy of the internal memory of the phone and saves it on the SD-card. It can also backup the apps installed on the SD-card in the same manner. It is often used when flashing new roms to the phone, since it provides a means to fully restore the phone to the previous state.
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Henrik
So if i did a nandroid back up on my phone it would back up everything onto my sd card and then restore it to its original state (ie nothing).
J
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Yes, the nandroid image on the SD card is an exact copy of the relevant parts of the phones internal storage, so when doing a restore everything will be back as it were before. If, however, you have apps installed on the SD card using Froyos apps2sd (which stores the applications on the ordinary fat32 partition of the SD card) those applications is not backed up. Nandroid includes functionality for backing up apps installed on a ext partition, though.
Personally I use Titanium backup to backup applications when I'm changing ROMs.
Br,
Henrik
Does Nandroid overwite previously made backups, or will it make a new backup every time? In case of the latter, can you choose from recovery wich backup you want to restore?
(Before I flashed my Hero, I made a Nandroidbackup of the original ROM. I don't want risk loosing this backup when I make another Nandroidbackup.)
I think it overwrites, but i'm not sure.
No, it doesn't overwrite the old backups. You can choose which image to restore.
Br,
Henrik
Tanks for your reply!
Hi Guys,
As we all know that the Atrix now has support from ROM Manager and official CWM by koush has been released.
It has some bugs as now, so we can use this thread to report the bugs, those of you who are using it, please report bugs here and I will consolidate them in the first post and then we can report them to koush so that he can fix them.
I hope this will help everyone including koush.
Buglist
- wipe data not working
- backups/restores not working properly
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Feature Request
- Add support for external sd-card
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- wipe data wasn't working for me and also mounting sd-card
- No support for external sd-card
Haven't tried other options
I'm not certain, but I think a couple people mentioned that backups/restores weren't working properly either?
Thanks guys. updated OP.
I am able to make backups, and see the files on my INTERNAL SD Card (since there is no external sdcard support yet) but i have not tried a Restore using the backup files that the backup process created.
I ran a normal backup, which should have included everything
im a little hesitant to run restore in worries that it will fatally screw something up
jakew02 said:
I am able to make backups, and see the files on my INTERNAL SD Card (since there is no external sdcard support yet) but i have not tried a Restore using the backup files that the backup process created.
I ran a normal backup, which should have included everything
im a little hesitant to run restore in worries that it will fatally screw something up
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Yeah, I heard it would complete a backup but you wouldn't find out it went wrong until you tried to restore
I think everyone is afraid to try it out...The dev can do a little more testing I suppose before he releases something
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I think everyone is afraid to try it out...The dev can do a little more testing I suppose before he releases something
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only if he has the phone which I guess koush does not have , as in he does not own the Atrix ..
munchy_cool said:
only if he has the phone which I guess koush does not have , as in he does not own the Atrix ..
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Hmmm good point.. Seems like someone is gonna have to take one for the team and try a backup to see if it works lol. I'm gonna take a peak through the other recent Rom Manager threads and see if anyone mentioned anything with more details about a backup.
External SD access is really a bug. Its looking for sd-ext instead of sdcard-ext.
Backups complete. Restores fail b/c one of the first steps is to format /system...which fails.
Wipe doesn't work, back up completes, but will not restore, gives error after first step.
i was able to flash a restore. but after it was very bugggggy
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Wipe doesn't work, back up completes, but will not restore, gives error after first step.
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AS in wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe data or factory reset or all of them?
Don't know if it's applicable, but tefars CWM, reads 0mb of free space then does a nandroid.
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First of all... I wanted to start this post off by saying yes, I know I'm an idiot.
Now that that's out of the way....
A few weeks ago, I got so excited to flash a custom ROM, that somehow when I ran TWRP and backed up my system to the external SD card, I also wiped my external SD card. Because I'm an idiot. I don't know how or why it happened really. I just know it did.
I had previously saved EVERYTHING to my external SD card, thinking that was the safest place for the data... and now the past two years of my life documented in photographs are gone.
I have tweaked out on running custom phone software since the days of the original Razr and flashing Alltel firmware on it... and this is the first major screw up I've ever done.
Now... does TWRP back up that data somewhere, somehow? Or is it just system data/apps that get backed up? If TWRP didn't save it somewhere, is there possibly somewhere that the contents of my external SD card were MOVED upon installation of the custom ROM?
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A few weeks ago, I got so excited to flash a custom ROM, that somehow when I ran TWRP and backed up my system to the external SD card, I also wiped my external SD card.
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You should never store your sole backup copy on the same device as is being backed up as you probably realize now.
Anyway, it's not clear from your post if you were storing a redundant copy of your backup on your external SD card or if you had configured TWRP to use your external SD card as the primary folder and therefore sole backup copy. The default location is usually /data/media/0/TWRP. Try a search for TWRP folders using a root aware file browser. With any luck you will find a backup on your internal SD card.
If not, then the only way to recover would be to try a data recovery program on your external SD card. Unless you do Google /cloud backups as well?
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Recuva does most of the work well, and there is an option to restore the directory structure too if you poke around in the settings. Puran File Recovery works where Recuva did not in recovering some images and videos.
Both I have tried after an accidental format of the SD card from the phone settings.
They are both free desktop software.
Important to take not not to copy any files over to the affected card, or even your recovered files as well. Only do so when you are sure you have recovered all that you can onto a desktop folder.
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Anyway, it's not clear from your post if you were storing a redundant copy of your backup on your external SD card or if you had configured TWRP to use your external SD card as the primary folder and therefore sole backup copy.
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The second scenario is what I believe I did. And I think when it created the backup, it wiped the external SD to suit it's needs. Problem being that the Nandroid backup wanted 6 gigs ish of space, and I had 4.5 or so remaining on the internal SD.... don't know what stuff I had on there... but *shrug*
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Recuva does most of the work well, and there is an option to restore the directory structure too if you poke around in the settings. Puran File Recovery works where Recuva did not in recovering some images and videos.
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Thank you for the tip. I will try both of these. I think the nandroid backup wrote over the areas on the SD where the pictures were stored. You'd think it would pick the empty space before the occupied space... but I guess since it wiped it clean prior to backing up, it was ALL empty space. *sigh*
Thank you both very much for your help.
Hey there. I have what I bet is a silly question for most here. Anyhow, here goes:
I have my user apps and data backed up with Titanium Backup. Am on stock Lollipop, but will flash CM12 eventually. As it requires a data wipe, my question is how to "save" backed up data in TIBackup so that I can restore everything I need after flashing?
Is everything stored in some specific file/folder that I need to copy to my PC and copy it back on my SD card after flashing CM? Or is it something else?
Thanks in advance.
Misce said:
Hey there. I have what I bet is a silly question for most here. Anyhow, here goes:
I have my user apps and data backed up with Titanium Backup. Am on stock Lollipop, but will flash CM12 eventually. As it requires a data wipe, my question is how to "save" backed up data in TIBackup so that I can restore everything I need after flashing?
Is everything stored in some specific file/folder that I need to copy to my PC and copy it back on my SD card after flashing CM? Or is it something else?
Thanks in advance.
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yes, you need to back it up in SD card.
nijom said:
yes, you need to back it up in SD card.
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Oh crap, it's the whole TitaniumBackup folder isn't it? I was hoping it was all compressed in one file, but... Oh well. Thank you for the info, case closed.