yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LordGeek:
FYI .. your "recovery.tar.md5" does not work.. Odin fails with md5 verification .. this happen on both 1.83 & 1.85.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
Can you try downloading it again? Might have had a bad download. And are you doing it in the "pda" tab in Odin?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LordGeek:
Re-downloaded it now 4 times, each with the same result. Does not download as "recovery.tar.md5". . comes down as "recovery.tar.tar" .. does not work either way .. even if you rename the extension as md5.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
i just downloaded it from a friends computer and flashed it on my phone using Odin and it worked fine. is this the link you are downloading: http://sk8erwitskil.com/guest/skyrocket/CWMRT/ICS background-all/4.0/recovery.tar.md5

are you on windows? and using firefox or internet explorer or chrome?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Razor1973:
I have tried 5.5.0.4 v4.0 on my Skyrocket and when backing up, it gets stuck in "Backing up system" forever. I stopped it after 1 hour. I re-downloaded and re-flashed and tried this several times with the same result. I actually think one of these times, it went past this in a couple of minutes, but got stuck in "Backing up data". Is anyone else experiencing this?

In all fairness, I am now giving the standard CWM Touch 5.8.1.3 a try and it's been backing up system for the past 20 minutes.

I like how in the original non-touch CWM, you can see the progress bar and the file that's being backed up, not just "Backing up system." At least, you can tell it's working.

EDIT: Just for the heck of it, I installed the non-touch CWM and it finishes backing up system, but it gets stuck about 30% after backing up data. What could be causing this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
please read the entire OP and search. this is a very known issue and there is a fix. if you still cannot figure it out after reading the OP i will be more than happy to help you out.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Razor1973:
Sorry, I just saw that. Well, I just reinstalled 5.5.0.4 v4.0, started my backup (to external SD) and issued the command. It failed. (attachment 1)

I then went back into recovery and did ls sdcard and ls sd-ext and they both seem to be empty. (attachment 2)

Sorry if I'm doing something stupid. I'm not a Linux guy.

Also, I doubt issuing that command will get me a backup. What do I do after? Pull the battery (because the phone is just stuck at that point), go back into CWM and attempt to back up again, at which point it should succeed?

Thanks for your help.

UPDATE: I decided to back up to internal storage and it worked. Something curious is that I just read in the first post in this thread that talks about .hidenandroidprogress is that it's supposed to stop the enumeration of files. I actually never saw these files being enumerated like in the non-touch CWM as I mentioned above.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
were you in recovery when you were issuing those commands? if so, you would need to go into 'mounts & storage' and 'mount /sdcard' before you would be able to see anything in that folder.

so heres what you can do. first, take out your external sdcard from your phone so you only have the internal storage available (for now)

1) boot into clockworkmod

2) mounts & storage >> mount /sdcard

3) open command prompt and run 'adb shell'

4) run touch /sdcard/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress

5) go to backup & restore >> backup to internal sdcard

6) it will not show any progress in the black bar as it will not be enumerating any files to itself. It will sit for a minute and finish.

now to backup to external sdcard

1) put external sdcard back into your phone

2) boot into clockworkmod

3) mounts & storage >> mount /sdcard

4) open command prompt and run 'adb shell'

5) run touch /sdcard/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress

6) backup & restore >> backup to external sdcard

7) it will not show any progress in the black bar as it will not be enumerating any files to itself. It will sit for a minute and finish.

hopefully that helps. just follow those directions for either internal sdcard or external sdcard and itll work. after making the .hidenandroidprogress the first time you do not have to do it again so you can skip that step after doing it once.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Razor1973:
I was in recovery. I was able to back up to internal and that's where it'll stay. Thank you!

LOLOLOL
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
Too many people on XDA, are " in recovery " Damn phones :p

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
lol its cool. i should have not been so quick to assume. anyways.....is there anyone who is having backup issues still even after following those instructions i posted a page back?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] iceman4357:
interesting issue. was working fine for backups then it kept freezing 4 times in a row when trying to make a backup. on internal, It freezes on data. any idea why it would work fine thhen stop working?

Downloaded Terminal Editor and entered the two command lines. I downloaded the program for the phone. Dont know if thats the process you wanted people to use or not. I am trying an internal backup now. If it doesnt work, I will try ADB shell.

Final EDIT- I reflashed tyour touch CWM and it finally backed up....interesting. I tried to make another backup and it started freezing again. Any ideas? Attached is a screenshot of my hidenandroidprogress in my SD card. I DO NOT have a hiddenandroidprogress folder in my external SD, but if I am backing up to my internal SD card should that matter?

Also, tried ABD and when I run "adb shell" it says device not found. :-/ I dont understand what I am doing wrong. Unfortunately this seems like an issue that is way over my head. I followed every bit of instruction and got nowhere.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
I haven't had any problems. I only backup to my external SD card. With the .hide file in there it works fine for me. I had problems originally with the 3.5 but once that file was in there it worked. I'm on 4.0 now and the file is still in there.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] MaxCarnage:
As long as I've had the .hidenandroidprogress files in the correct folders and I've mounted /sdcard before I do my backup/restore, it has worked great every time.

Without nandroid flashing new ROMs would be a PITA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] unibombz:
Does this version work well with ICS rom flashes ? I am currently using CWM 5.0.2.7 for quite some time now (I am still on gingerbread) but been looking into ICS roms and wanted to know what is best to use when flashing ICS roms ?

Thank you :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
This latest 4.0 version works perfectly. "Fix Permissions" also works as he states in the changelog. I know the touch version (5.8) fix permissions doesnt work properly as its not truly designed for the skyrocket.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Saitou33:
This being the case, is it better to fix permissions in recovery or in CWM? Clearly, it is more convenient to be able to do it in recovery and not have to reboot an extra time. Is the result completely the same from both?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] unibombz:
yah i was just testing it , i just installed it and tried to perform a backup of my current rom. I have to say I do like the new interface, but during the backup there is no progress bar. I am having troubles trying to get the work around to work as i have had backups hang? suggestions?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
Both touch versions don't have a progress bar anymore. Look at the first post again. The hanging happens for some and you need to put that hidenandroidprogress file in the location you do the backup. That fixed it for me.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
I only use the CWM myself. So I can only speak to that. I don't use ROM manager. I also use Root Explorer so I manually inject files myself and fix permissions and ownership through Root Explorer.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] unibombz:
I am trying the adb fix but it is giving me an error...

I also have been using CWM, i was just on CWM 5.0.2.7 and upgraded to this version, but I can not make backups now :(

I wanted to try a backup and restore before I got flashing new roms etc

edit: I fixed sorta, I have to manually mount sd-card and can ONLY backup to Internal SD, I tried to mount ext-sd, but it does not allow me to mount it, would have been nice if that worked because I have much more room on my ext-sd for backups

I also have purchased root explorer, but generally just use it for browsing files
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
so it looks like to backup to internal sdcard when you have an external sdcard you have to remove the external sdcard, reboot into recovery, mount /sdcard, backup to internal sdcard.

its a pain to have to follow these steps but for now its the only way to get it to notice the file because if you have an external sdcard installed and you mount /sdcard then it mounts the external sdcard as /sdcard and internal as /emmc and its looking for that file in /sdcard. i hope that makes sense. but if you remove your external sdcard before booting into recovery and mount /sdcard then backups to internal sdcard will work everytime
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
so the way the fstab in recovery works right now is when you boot into recovery and go to mounts & storage>>mount /sdcard it is looking first for the external sdcard and mounts that to /sdcard, if the external sdcard is not existent then it mounts the internal sdcard as /sdcard. so if you mount /sdcard while you have an external sdcard installed and try to backup to internal sdcard then it will not recognize that file since it will be mounted as /emmc. i know this is super frustrating but its the only way i can figure out a workaround for now. so.....here is a simplified way to say what i just said lol:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] iceman4357:
Interesting. Thanks for the help, I will try that next time. What is weird is that I didn't have to remove my external SD card before and was able to backup just fine. Guess its just a few quirks of modding phones.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] unibombz:
Thank you, I just moved the .hidenandroidprocess from clockworkmod folder on my internal to my external with root explorer. I then booted back into CWM to test a backup to external SD, and all went smooth, no need to go to mounts at all. I appreciate the assistance, love this community! :) Cheers
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
theres no need to move the file. just duplicate it :-):D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Captiv8d:
Quick question for those who have this recovery working correctly. Does this recovery seem alot faster at backing up your phone compared to non touch recovery? I ran backup and it ran thru the step and generated a md5 sum. It seemed to me that it ran too fast compared to non touch. I may be a little paranoid I guess. Just want to know if it did its process correctly or not b4 I flash an ICS rom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
I've tried this one and non touch and the backup times seem the same to me. For me it takes about 9mins for a full backup. My backup size is about 1.4gig.

I'm sticking with this one for now. This one obviously has the proper fix permissions function. The other touch doesn't do it properly since it's not truly built for the skyrocket. This touch as the dev stated is built for the skyrocket.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
there should be no difference in the time it takes as its running literally the exact same script as the non-touch version since all i did was take the non-touch source code and add the code for touch on top of it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
When I am flashing the recovery, do I only flash it or do I also have to wipe cache and dalvik cache?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
you do not have to do any of that. the recovery partition is completely separate from the partition that houses the OS. just flash and enjoy :-)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
If I use this recovery to install an ics rom, will my nandroid backups from my non touch recovery work allowing me to revert back to my gb rom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eagle0042:
Yes, backups made using non-touch recovery will restore in touch recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] eachitandi:
new skyrocket user (upgraded from captivate)

this CWM works like a charm if you follow the directions :)

thank you very much!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to install all ics based roms using this recovery as all of the ics roms tell everyone to use the other touch recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] WWill MM:
wow after all that ,,,can someone point me to the download.....heheheh
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
it should work fine

It's in the op
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cmlohff:
I can't seem to get this recovery to make a backup. It always freezes when backing up "data". I let it sit for 4 hours once with no success. I have reflashed recovery multiple times with no avail. Anyone know of a fix?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Did you follow OP instructions
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cmlohff:
I don't know exactly how it happened, but the .hidenandroidprocess file was misnamed. I reflashed and changed the name and it works now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
Does anyone one know how I can get back to the non touch recovery? Do I go to rom manager and download the cwm for t-mobile galaxy s2?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Ya that's the easiest way
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
yah i know its such a freaking hassle to have to have files in certain places and mount things just to make a backup. hopefully koush will update his cwm source to 5.8.1.3 soon so i can use it to make a good touch version
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
This is still the best one out of the 3 we have though
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aSquard:
Yeah I might wait for that option - your recovery does look MUCH better, IMO

Munching on Ice Cream with Sky ICS and XDA Premium
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
I'm having trouble with the recovery as I am now stuck at the restoring backup. Can anyone help?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Did you make hide nandroid progress file and mount sdcard before restoring?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
I believe so, I followed what the instructions said

---------- Post added at 12:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:00 AM ----------

I went to cwm and went to mounts and storage, mount/sdcard, backup & restore and restored it. Now I am stuck at the restoring system

---------- Post added at 12:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 AM ----------

Got my phone to work now, I basically just pressed and held the power button until it turned off. Turned it back and on and it now back to normal. Thanks for the help though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
You might want to factory reset and restore again, as the one you restored might be incomplete
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] redragonx6:
I just reverted back to the non touch recovery and restored my phone. I wonder what caused it to hang. Maybe installed the restore from my external sd card and not my internal sd.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bluntman420:
I like this CWM WAY better than 5803. I hard bricked using TWRP. My question though is this: When i use mount usb storage it is mounting the internal emmc. I would like it to mount the external sdcard. Is there a way to do this? Also thank you OP for the great recovery.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
there isnt a way to do that on this recovery. i could make an option for that though. let me look through the code and see how i would implement that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bluntman420:
Hey thanks alot!!! Other than that this is for sure IMO the best recovery on the skyrocket!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
cool thanks man. so for now i can make either a version that mounts internal sdcard to usb or a version that mounts external sdcard to usb. im trying to find a way that lets me choose between internal/external. but for now in v4.1 i left it as internal. if anyone would rather have a version that only mounts external sdcard to usb then let me know and ill post that version as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bluntman420:
Sounds good. Hopefully you'll find a way. Can you maybe add another Mount usb storage option and point it to the external sdcard?.

Mount USB storage (Internal)

Mount USB storage (External)

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
thats exactly what ide like to do but to me it looks like the way it looks for the storage is through a lunfile (idk what that even is) and i can make it look for one or the other but idk how to make it have the option for both. im gona have to do some research and try to figure out a way.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] edgex:
I didn't bother to read all 36 pages but why 5.5 over the (newer?) 5.8? never had a lick of trouble with 5.8. do they look or function differently?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
5.8 hasnt been open-sourced (and i think i remember koush saying something about it never being open-sourced). which means there is no source code available for it :mad: i reallllly wish koush would release that but he is being stingy about it. idk.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] midgetzombiekiller:
Great work! My fav recovery tool! Thanks!:cool:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bluntman420:
Hey sk8erwitskil, any luck with adding the option of external sd for USB storage?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
no unfortunately not yet. i need someone with some more in depth coding skills. my boss is going to help me pretty soon :-)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] odeccacccp:
Does this mean I can;t do a back up to external SD?

It freezes on backing-up data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
Shouldnt do. You sure you got that ".hidenandroidprogress" file on your external SD card? I have it on both my internal and external SD and have no issues. I used to have issues till I got that file in there.

File should be here for the internal SD

/sdcard/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress

and for external SD its

/sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress

Without this file some run into an issue where the backup actually just freezes and will sit there for hours with no progress. Put that file in there (if you dont have it) and try it again.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] odeccacccp:
nope, had no idea about the file.

Would you mind telling me where to get it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
Read post#1 at the bottom. You dont have to get the file, you just create it. Its a blank file. CWM just needs to "see" this file exist. The last thing in Post 1 shows how to create it through terminal editor. Or if you have root explorer you can do it from there or through ADB, whatever you prefer. Just needs to be a blank file named exactly how it shows in the exact directory it shows in that post.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] odeccacccp:
saw that, it was too techy for me:))

But I will do that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
and once that file is there you should be good. just make sure to manually mount /sdcard in mounts & storage menu before you backup. you only need to create the file one time but you need to mount /sdcard everytime.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dixit:
Am I one of the lucky ones? Or does that above statement only apply to internal SD backup?

Because Ive never had to manually mount the external SD in your CWM. I just have that file in there and just go straight to backup and it does it with no issues. I dont think Ive ever done internal SD backup.

Dixit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] megagodx:
How come CWM never lets me mount my sd card? I always have issues with that, what could be some of the reasons behind these symptoms?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
yah you must not have the offending app that causes the hangs. there are a few apps that have long filenames (com.android.whatever....) in /data that cause the hang.

how are you trying to mount it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] bacheezy:
+1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Justin Buser:
So, let me just try to get my head around this. You see a user complaining about CWM erroneously formatting his sd card with no confirmation during a factory reset. This is then followed by another somewhat ambiguous complaint that CWM is unable to properly format the sd-ext partition and despite the fact that you don't know what the actual error is, or have the slightest clue what is causing it, you still have the gall to repeatedly claim there is nothing to worry about and that it is "expected" behavior.

It may not be a big deal do you but not everyone can afford to blow $600 on another phone. Saying "Don't worry about it" is an irresponsible and frankly despicable response to give people, you didn't even BOTHER to ask what the f'ing error was.

PART of the problem has to do with the following fdisk output and fstab entries. You're just lucky the filesystem type was unknown in the recovery environment because if formatting the sd-ext partition DIDN'T fail during the wipe routine and actually deleted the boot sector it's pointing at you'd have a lot of PISSED off people wanting answers.

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15.7 GB, 15756951552 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1923456 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes

Device
Boot Start End Blocks Id
System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 1 12801 102400 92 Unknown
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 * 12801 12863 500 4d Unknown
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 12863 13051 1500 51 Unknown
/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 13051 1923584 15284271+ 5 Extended

~ # cat /etc/recovery.fstab
cat /etc/recovery.fstab
# mount point fstype device [device2]
/boot emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
/recovery emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
/efs ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
/data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
/system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
/cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
/emmc vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcblk0p28
/sd-ext ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

Finally a word of advice to everyone else, never accept any answer from anyone that doesn't _actually_ answer you. Responses like:

'The "external sd card not found error" is not an actual error' and gibberish like: "that error is expected because you arent backing up the external sd-card, you would have to manually mount the external sd-card" are as useless as they sound, if your question isn't answered to your satisfaction don't just take someones word for it as you could easily end up with a bricked device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
Check this out, it should answer your question.

http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...ter-no-sd-ext-found-skipping-backup-of-sd-ext

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