I just wondered if anyone had done a successful restore
A piece of cake every time.how it went and what you see on screen.
Yup, dozens.
A piece of cake every time.
Once you've selected "restore latest backup" you'll see the prompt
"-- Restore latest backup
-- Press HOME to confirm, or
-- any other key to abort."
If you press HOME it tells you it's performing the restore and shows a progress bar. Once it completes you get confirmation and are returned to the recovery menu.
Was this what you wanted to know?
I just wondered if anyone had done a successful restore, how it went and what you see on screen.
Is it possible to make a partial restore? My Hero has been locked by entering wrong unlocking movement order (the one where you have to connect dots) and now it's asking for a username and password, but won't accept them. I've done nandroid backup, but after restore I see the same locking screen. Also the phone isn't recognized by USB anymore.
Is there any possibility to restore installed apps, contacts and sms from nandroid?
Thanks!
Hi Penny!
Dunno what's wrong, but I can (hopefully) tell you how to sort it.... you'll need the adb.exe program file which, if you didn't already d/l it along with your recovery image, can be found within this package.
Extract the files from the above to a folder on your PC. I'll use c:\adb as an example.
Reboot your handset into the recovery screen as before (POWER+HOME)
Connect the handset to PC with the USB cable
Open a command prompt window (Start-All Programs-Accessories-Command Prompt)
Type cd/ and hit <enter>
Enter cd adb
Now enter adb devices and it should show "000000000000 recovery"
If so, enter adb shell and you should see the prompt change to #. You're now running as su (root)!
Enter nandroid-mobile.sh --restore. You'll see instructions about "Using G1 keyboard..." disregard and hit <enter>.
After a brief search, the default (most recent) backup found will be displayed along with any others located. If the default choice isn't the one you want to restore, you'll have to enter the full path to the correct one as displayed in the list. You can use the Edit...Mark... function from the command prompt window menu to simplify this, though. Put the cursor at the beginning of the required line, hold <shift> and highlight the test using the arrow keys. <Enter> copies to the clipboard, and Edit... Paste... places it wherever the cursor is placed.
Once you have the correct backup referenced, hit <enter> and you should see the script work its magic.
When Restore done is displayed you can reboot the handset from the recovery menu.
Hope this is clear. If not I'll try to explain a bit better.
Thanks so much instructions were very clear
At what point exactly does the error appear?however I am getting a permission denied error...
I wonder if it failed or got corrupted and that's confusing things? Can you mount the SD card via USB and check the /nandroid folder to see if it's visible to the PC?also my last backup isn't showing
After I put in the path of the next to last backup that shows and hit enter.At what point exactly does the error appear?
I wonder if it failed or got corrupted and that's confusing things? Can you mount the SD card via USB and check the /nandroid folder to see if it's visible to the PC?
/sbin/sh: /sdcard/nandroid/device#/cdmrs12-20091207-1729 : permission denied
Hmm, I wonder.... were you at the # prompt when you ran nandroid-mobile.sh or was it by any chance the $? If the latter, enter su to elevate your user privileges and get #, then run the script as before.
Penny,
Hook the handset up to the PC again and take a look in that /nandroid folder. Drill down to the folder containing your latest backup (/cdbmrs12-20091215-012), open it and tell me if there's a nandroid.md5 file there with a 'last modified' date/time similar to the other *.img files.
Edit: looking at that backup path.... is that correct for the folder in /sdcard/nandroid? The format should be cdbmrs12-yyyymmdd-hhmm, but yours only has 3 digits in the final part.
Ok, will do that.....sorry it is cdbmrs12-20091215-0125 I forgot the % when I posted.
edit*** Crud no it has no nandroid.md5 in fact the entire folder is empty. the others have all files in them....
I wonder why it says permission denied for the rest?
/sbin/su: SU: not found
Hehe, I thought that might have happened but wanted to check.
Oh bum.... something's gone wrong.
Dunno, but we may have to "get creative" if you still need to restore one of the earlier ones.
First up, check the contents of whichever backup you want to restore; there should be 6 *.img files (boot, cache, data, misc, recovery and system) plus a nandroid.md5 file.
I then suggest that you delete that empty CDBMRS12-* folder and reboot the handset. If you now restart in recovery mode and attempt a restore, hopefully the most recent backup will be recognised as valid and work. No guarantees though - I've done this myself successfully but only to restore a particular backup for testing, never due to a restore error such as yours.
THAT WORKED!!!
Thanks for taking the time to help!
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