Can nandroids be renamed? I'm getting quite a few saved up and the date code is not tickling my memory of what the set up was on that particular day. Just wondering if I rename them will they still work?
Thank you kind sirs
If you happen to get a md5 mismatch make sure you didn't put a space in the name, and if so remove it and use _ , -, or a .
Also, don't use an ampersand (this will cause the Nandroid restore to be launched in the background via the shell and never able to return his status to the recovery that launched it).
Stick with "normal" characters (letters, numbers, dash, underscore, period, etc.) and avoid using any character that the shell might interpret as a meta character (asterisk, question mark, greater than, less than, vertical bar, semi-colon, ampersand). This is because your custom recovery will launch the nandroid-mobile.sh script to a shell and pass its arguments and parameters that the shell will interpret and possible take action against that you didn't anticipate.
Also, be sure to not rename the folder name above the Nandroid backup directory. This will be your phone's serial number and custom recovery won't be able to find your backups if you rename it (you can always rename it back to its proper value if you need to).
Cheers!
If I'm reading this right do NOT rename the 10-26-2012-34.96.37 folder??
Also, don't use an ampersand (this will cause the Nandroid restore to be launched in the background via the shell and never able to return his status to the recovery that launched it).
Stick with "normal" characters (letters, numbers, dash, underscore, period, etc.) and avoid using any character that the shell might interpret as a meta character (asterisk, question mark, greater than, less than, vertical bar, semi-colon, ampersand). This is because your custom recovery will launch the nandroid-mobile.sh script to a shell and pass its arguments and parameters that the shell will interpret and possible take action against that you didn't anticipate.
Also, be sure to not rename the folder name above the Nandroid backup directory. This will be your phone's serial number and custom recovery won't be able to find your backups if you rename it (you can always rename it back to its proper value if you need to).
Cheers!
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Edit...I tried renaming that same type of folder, I left the original name and added to the beginning of it so it looked something like this...
abcd-abcd-abcd-10-26-2012-34.96.37
I got the same as you say in the post below this one???
Figured out my issue...I had an extra space before the beginning of the name that I did not see until I went to remove the additional naming. I think it was an autospace from swype I didn't catch while editing.
It looked something like this...
" Apex-nextheme-noclock-2010-10-26.15.42.59"
Removed that space from the front and they now work just fine.
I also added folders within "backup" and moved renamed backups to them. "Original", "Themes", "ROMs". They all work now.
Thanks again Ladies and Gents.
I also added folders within "backup" and moved renamed backups to them. "Original", "Themes", "ROMs".
I take this back, the folders do not work properly. When I boot into recovery, got to restore, and go to my "ROMs" folder, it does not show me the multiple options within...just immediately goes to the restore confirmation screen without letting me select which of the 2 folders contained in "ROMs" to restore. I did not hit yes as I did not know what would happen, so I've removed the extra folders and am sticking to my naming convention, I'll be able to figure it out well enough.
I'm just going to use ROM Manager to rename them.
I renamed mine through root explorer, just make sure your keyboard doesn't add spaces automatically, that's how mine messed up a couple of times.
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