[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Clockworkmod Backups

***Note: Posting to be updated for Official Clockworkmod 5.0.2.7 - Update forthcoming.

In the second post we will talk about Clockworkmod backups, or CWM backups.

We will be discussing Clockworkmod version 4.0.0.9

If you are still using 4.0.0.8, then you should go Here to upgrade.

Now that we're all on the same, most recent version of the MT4GS CWM recovery utility, let's take a look at how we can use just the phone itself to generate and restore our backups.

Before we start:

- Charge your battery to full. You don't want to lose power while doing this.

- Make sure you have enough free space to make the backup. A stock backup fresh after S-OFF should be right around 700MB. Try to have about a gig available on your sdcard to make sure you get the whole backup.

First, boot into recovery mode.

- Turn off fastboot in ( settings: Power: [uncheck] fast boot.

- Power off the MT4GS

- wait until it completely powers down, there will be a red light faintly blinking inside the trackpad. Wait until it stops.

Then:

+ Hold the volume-down button

+ Then press the power button

+ Hold the volume down button until you see your HBOOT menu, then release.

+ Wait for HBOOT to load, then use the volume up and down keys to navigate to recovery, and the power button to choose it.

+ Clockworkmod will load, and then you see the main menu of your recovery utility:

*Within CWM itself, you can use either the volume up and down buttons or the trackpad to scroll the menu selections.

*You may press either the trackpad or the camera button to choose your selection.

To make a backup:

+ Scroll to 'backup and restore', then select it.

At the next menu you see:

Okay, as soon as you select backup, it will immediately start the backup process.

Before we do that, we just want to make sure we have a full or decent charge on the battery, and we won't be shaking or jarring the phone while it's working. Don't do this in a moving car or train or anything.

Just put it down on a table or something, choose 'backup' and then walk away from it for 5-15 minutes.

( The amount of data and class rating/brand of your MicroSD card directly impacts the time it takes to create or restore a backup. )

When you come back, the last line of text on the screen will say:

"Backup complete!"

Now you have two choices for what you should do next. First go back to the main clockworkmod menu ( hit the hardware 'back' key if necessary ) and then choose:

- power off. If you want to turn the phone off, and take the memory card out to copy the backup to something else.

- reboot system now. If you want to boot up and transfer the backup off the phone using the phone somehow.

+ I recommend reboot, then after fully booted plugging your phone into a computer through the usb cable. Then you can transfer the file to a computer without opening the phone and exposing the internals.

Once you copy the backup onto the computer, you should probably burn it to a cd or something to make sure you don't lose it.

About the 'image' files in the folder with the current time/date on it:

-Some will be saved, some will read as an error on the screen probably...

+++As long as you have these 3 images you are okay:

-Boot

-Recovery

-System

Anything else is not really necessary, but can be helpful. If you have those 3 core image files and an MD5 checksum that matches up, you're in good shape.

...and that's basically it. CWM will make the backup or not, and if not you need to figure out why. Ask questions in this thread if this happens to you and you can't figure out why.

CWM makes the backup in a folder on the sdcard called 'clockworkmod', then the 'backup' folder, then your backup in it's own folder, the name of which is the current time and date.

/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/

Attached below is a picture I made showing the process, including some errors of partitions not found. This is still a good backup, because I have boot, recovery and system.