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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mbh87:
Tried backing up to internal storage 4 times now and it hangs. It got 90% done on the last try too >.<

I tried twice without the hidenandroid and twice with. My dad doesnt have a micro SD so I was really hoping for this to work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] merlen:
Just checking, did you guys include a period in front of the file you created?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Ya here's a screen shot in case you notice that I did something wrong. I was trying to back up to internal sd too, but in haven't tried doing the hide progress thing with external sd yet. Would it make a difference?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] merlen:
I have only backed up to my external sd. Something I read in a different thread is to edit the file with a text editor and add a 1.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Edit which file? And put a 1 where? Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] merlen:
Edit the hidenandroidprogress file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
that wouldnt make sense. from looking at the source code it is only looking for the existence of that file...it doesnt check the contents of the file. also i made a mistake in every other version except the newest 3.5 where CWM doesnt recognize the hidenandroidprogress (oops) becuase it was mounting the partition wrong. (sorry everybody) but now for it to recognize the file you need to boot into CWM and go to mounts and storage>>mount /sdcard then go back and backup to internal and it should work everytime (as long as you do the steps in that order and you have the .hidenandroidprogress file in /sdcard/clockworkmod & /sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod folders)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RiNo808:
Okay I got a question...I attempted to make a back up and I followed your directions...it send to proceed...then I get an error saying that it was unable to mount to ext sd and that backup was aborted...but then it proceeds on and when I check cwm folder the back up file is there...did the back up go through? Also is there a progress bar when making a backup, like the non touch version...thanks in advanced...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
the unable to backup sd-ext & .android_secure just means you dont have any apps2sd on your sdcard. you can ignore that. it didnt abort, it worked fine. itll always say that unless you have apps there. there shouldnt be a progress bar as the .hidenandroidprogress file makes it go away so it doesnt enumerate the files and get stuck on backing up data
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] RiNo808:
Okay thanks a bunch...I guess its just a waiting game...thanks again...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
So theres not even supposed to be a static status bar after doing hide progress thing? When I tried it I got a black bar with a tiny bit of green that didn't appear to be moving. I was using the version in the op from about a week ago. so I shouldn't have to do that mount work around right? Unless there's a newer version since then?

Also is there any way you could put the tar version back up if it's not too much trouble? I'm still determined to get this to work since everything besides that one bug is way better than regular cwm and the official touch version for t989. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
yah no problem ill put the tar back. so the deal with the versions before 3.5 is that the recovery was looking for .hidenandroidprogress in the /sdcard/clockworkmod folder but nandroid backup was mounting it as /emmc/clockworkmod so no matter what it was not seeing the file :eek:. so i fixed that in 3.5 but you have to manually mount /sdcard in mounts and storage before you do a backup.

so long story short, that file isnt doing anything unless you use 3.5. i hope that answers your question.

edit: tar is back in OP
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Awesome, thanks! I'll try that this weekend and let you know how it works
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Yeah it's working great now, thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
Sweet. That's what I like to hear :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] wasimahmad:
hi sk8erwitskil

i am useing your test ver and working great for me after test ver you releas full ver 3.5 shuld i upgrate 3.5 or not because test ver working great for me without any issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
If it's working good for you then it doesn't really make a difference but if you ever have a problem backing up I would update and follow the instructions in the OP for backups cuz I fixed it in 3.5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Just tried restoring and the first time I didn't check if sdcard was mounted and it got stuck on data. Then I mounted the sdcard and it worked just fine. So I just wanted to let you know that it seems like it needs to be done for both backup and restore, in case you didn't already know.

it's still much better than the original cwm though, so thanks again!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ex-28:
so we have to manually mount and unmout each time to use this for backup / restore ?

edit all working good ,

in a side not ewith rom manager , when i select manage backups , none are found in the list , i have confirmed they are stored on my external_sd/clockworkmod/backup

any ideas ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mitchdickson:
I've never had to do that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
so i recommend mounting /sdcard before backing up (as long as you are on 3.5) because if you do not it might mount as /emmc and not detect the .hidenandroidprogress file as the source tells the recovery to look for that file in /sdcard/clockworkmod and not /emmc/clockworkmod
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Crack85:
Does this version work with all the ICS leaks. I upgraded and tried to reinstall and now it tells me that it is not compatible with my device.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
the version of recovery has nothing to do with the ROM version compatibility (they are on 2 completely different parts of the phones partition system). when you try to install a rom .zip the recovery is telling you the rom is not compatible?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Crack85:
I purschased it off of the playstore, and the app gives me the error msg when i try to reinstall it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] iceman4357:
If I may add to his question. This new ROM from Sean states that you "need" to use the new touch CWM. I didnt think it would matter if you were on the older CWM, CWM touch, or your version of CWM Touch. I havent tried to flash his ROM yet, I am waiting on an answer first before I try with your CWM version.

Link to his ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1589977
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
yeah so does that mean we are supposed to use the 5.8.... one in the other thread on this forum, or can we use this version too?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
no that is entirely false. the version of CWM has no affect whatsoever on the rom. they are on completely separate partitions. do not believe anyone that tries to tell you otherwise as they are wrong. i would like to know why they think the version of CWM matters. (as long as you arent using a pre 3.0 cwm which uses amend scripting, which is impossible since its not even made for this phone.) every version of clockworkmod above 3.0 uses edify scripting and they are all the same in that aspect.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] iceman4357:
hmmm....interesting. I figured it didnt matter, but didnt want to risk it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Crack85:
NO. the rom doesnt tell me that it is not compatible. the appCWMR Touch Installer says its not compatible with my device... Any ideas??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
that has to do with the "ro.product.device=" variable in the build.prop file. what rom are you on?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Crack85:
Figured that. I am on mhx 5.0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
interesting. its defined as SGH-I727 which should work. Ill have to contact the app developer for that app as he might have put in a check for only gingerbread devices or something. but the recovery in that app is old anyways. i wouldnt recommend using it as i havent sent him the newest recovery yet. im waiting on some fixes
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psirage:
I am on stock 2.3.5 ATT, non root. I tried the CWM from http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1340526 and here. I made sure there is a .hidenandroidprogress in both /sdcard/clockworkmod and /sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod, and mount /sdcard before doing a backup. But I still get stuck in "backing up system" before I get "Error while making a backup image of /system" after I wait for a long time.

After that when I reboot with the sdcard inserted, android would kick off media scanner out of the blue, take a long time, and restart my launcher and I would lose the taskbar at the top of screen.

If I remove the sdcard, everything would work fine again. If I format/scandisk the sdcard, android wouldn't kick off media scanner randomly either.

I don't see any files within the sdcard beside the .hideandroidprogress

Since I haven't root yet, I don't think /system has been modified ever. I am not sure why it's having so much trouble just backing up /system. Has anybody seen this?

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
install this recovery HERE in Odin. this is the base clockworkmod 5.0.2.7, and try to make a backup from there and let me know how that goes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psyc0:
i just installed touch recover and i went to do a back up and its been on backing up data for like 10 min already...is this normal what should i do if its locked up

edit: i need to read the op better next time i guess...

edit 2: followed op instructons....and hung up on backing up system this time
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psirage:
Thanks. I tried recovery.tar, but it's v5.0.2.6, not v5.0.2.7. This is the same version I picked up here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1340526

I am still seeing "backing up system..." stuck for a long time before hitting "Error backing up /system!" message. There is a black bar at the bottom with no progress.

Before I backup, I've confirmed it's able to see my external SD card through adb after I mount.

But the failed backup, I can't even "ls" into /sdcard. I also get an error trying to unmount the /sdcard.

On a reboot after I mount my /sdcard, when I "ls" in /sdcarrd/clockworkmod, I see

ls: ./backup: I/O error

. .. .hiddenandroidprogress

I looks like it tries to write into the sdcard but failed, causing IO error. This also explains why my SD card would need to be reformat or scandisk. Otherwise android would get stuck in media scanning.

I also tried to format the sdcard within CWM, but that doesn't work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] doodman:
I go to download v3.5 and the file I end up downloading and flashing in cwm shows up as Beta 14, not v3.5

Can you please post v3.5 file please?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
they are the same. its Clockworkmod version 5.5.0.4 base code, with my Clockworkmod Touch 3.5 code
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] latinohot:
so has the hang issue been fixed?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
there is a working workaround. nobody has had backup issues in 3.5 as long as you mount /sdcard in mounts & storage before you make a backup.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psirage:
Actually I still have the same problem with backing up /system to the external SD card. It still gets stuck. I mount /sdcard and confirmed I can see .hidenandroidprogress before kicking off backup.

After waiting a long time, it died and there is an IO error with the backup directory in my external SD card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
so since you have the issue on non-touch 100% stable clockworkmod that makes me think that you have an issue with either a corrupted sdcard or a corrupted filesystem on your phone. i would try a different sdcard and flashing a completely new stock image from Odin.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psirage:
You are absolutely right. After going through the recovery log, i can see CWM is complaining about an IO error during tar of system. I am able to back up to the external SD card once I changed to another one. The weird part is I have format and scandisk on it multiple times.

Thanks for your help!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] PsyCl0ne:
Sorry, but just wondering if there is a difference between backing up to internal or external storage. Well besides the obvious less free space on the internal.

~PsyCl0ne
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
yah sometimes sdcards can just be physically borked. is it an old card?

yah theres not really any difference except the fact that you can take an external sdcard and save it elsewhere in case you need the backups later or if you get a replacement phone. i just always save my backups to my internal sdcard cuz i dont want to lose the sdcard lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psyc0:
why is it when i run this touch /sdcard/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress in the terminal i cant find it on the sd card.....when i ran the one for the external card it was on the card....but i cant find it on the internal card
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
what file browser are you using? you need to enable hidden files.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] psyc0:
Good looking out, I found it now I'll try a backup again in the morning
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Super_Dork_42:
One quick question because I don't have time to look through all these pages, does it work with the HTC Droid Eris? If not, it needs to because our phone has a design flaw that makes it so eventually the trackball WILL fail.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but what's the difference between this Touch & the one purchased from the market?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] lyndone58:
Read the OP. It is in the first 5 sentences.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
Yes, thanks I did read the OP. My "dumb question" was not so much about the functionalities of this version, but if it will work with the same roms, ie; does it matter which version is used when flashing?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
Yah the version of clockwork has no affect on roms.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
this isnt working properly

i try to backup my rom and it just sits thereforever, help?

if i go into the app and try to backup it freezes there too because it wants to install clockwork, but ialready have it.

how can i go back to the normal version

also i put this in terminal

touch /sdcard/external_sd/clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress

then when i re boot and hit backup i just get a blank screen
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
did you mount sdcard in recovery before backing up? and you need to put it in your internal sdcard too if you're trying to backup to internal.

if you still want to go back to regular cwm, just go to rom manager and choose to flash cwm recovery, then choose t-mobile sgs ii, and you will get version 5.0.2.7 of non-touch cwm.

---------- Post added at 10:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:41 PM ----------

i highly doubt it will work, since it's designed for a completely different phone. it might brick your phone if you flash it, but you're welcome to try.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
i tried but it freezes when i try doing that

yes i mounted first

it says sd-ext error or something after though (doing external sd card)

can i have the old clockwork zip?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
i don't know if there's a flashable zip, but you can just use rom manager to flash it. or you can use odin and flash the tar, here's the link for that: http://www.mediafire.com/?5xc7gjkrbwihajp
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
that error is expected because you arent backing up the external sdcard, you would have to manually mount the external sdcard. but thats kinda pointless to backup all your media in a nandroid. you can just ignore that error. its totally fine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] :
but i am backing up to the external sd card, though it puts the files on my sd card card anyway ~700 megs. Or is this external sd card it's referring to different from the 32gb microsdhc card I have in my phone...?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] shaggyskunk:
The "external sd card not found error" is not an actual error... It's a hold over from the early days of CWM, when the size of memory was a problem.

Sent from Down The Rabbit Hole, using Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
I have a weird issue to report. I've been using cwm touch 5.5.0.4 Beta 14 for a couple of weeks with no problems.

However, after updating to the latest ICS leak (UCLCD5), when I went to wipe data/factory reset before flashing a rom it formatted not only data, but also my external sd card (but not internal sd card) Luckily I didn't have anything important on it and had a base rom on my internal, but it wiped the whole external sd card.

I installed the Odin version of cwm touch.

Right now I'm downloading the cwm flashable version and will install that. Next time I flash a new rom (could be in 5 minutes or in 5 days--flashing a lot lately), I'll see if it happens again and report back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] skrambled:
Yeah, so this cwm is still trying to format my external sd card (which I took out this time prior to wiping).

I installed the cwm flashable version and the same thing happened that I got on the Odin version.

When I select Wipe Data/Factory Reset, first I get "Formatting /data", then "Formatting /sd-ext"... (then a bunch of other stuff that I don't remember because I was taking a walk while doing this).

I'm on a UCLCD5 rom (Sky ICS currently but was on stock when this first happened). This problem started at some point after flashing the leak...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
ok so /sd-ext is only going to exist if you have apps2sd enabled. do not worry about that sd-ext error you get. the /sd-ext partition is ONLY created when you use apps2sd and the reason it tells you that error is because you are not using it. I will remove that option if it really worries people.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
updated links to new v4.0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
flashed the cwm zip version thru previous version of cwm touch 5.5.0.4, and now the on screen touch buttons no longer are working
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Crack85:
What he said
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
ok i must have borked something. ill fix that right now. thanks for letting me know.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] midgetzombiekiller:
+1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
ok i fixed that issue. re-download and flash.

edit: the reason was because i was compiling recovery against an ICS kernel but the event codes for touch are different for ICS than GB apparently. All is good now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
working great now, thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dakpluto:
Just locked up on me doing a backup to external SD. Was on Backing up data... for well over 15 minutes with no change.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] PsyCl0ne:
Have you tried mounting the external card before backing up?

~PsyCl0ne
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dakpluto:
2 more attempts dying trying to back up :\ On both internal and external SD card. (mounting made no difference)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mahausrath:
I've tried 5 times now, for some reason it always freezes up on data. I've ran the touch /sdcard/external_sdcard/clockworkmod/.androidhiddenprogress. Gets about 20% and still a no go. One more try... Love the new design though, and once the bugs are worked out I'm pretty sure I'm going to like it a lot better =).

Edit: Made it 25% this time
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
It works perfectly if you do everything right. You should make a .hidenandroidprogress file in clockworkmod folder of both sdcards. Use root exploreer to verify their existence (they're hidden files so make sure option is on to view hidden. Then in recovery make sure to mount sdcard if you're backing up to internal, or emmc for external. Also make sure that before backing up, speedy backup option is checked in ROM manager.

I used to have same problem til I did all these things really carefully. As long as you do them it should be virtually bug free.

Even with having to mount sdcard, this version is by far the best, both functionally and aesthetically, out of all the cwms this phone can run.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Is the Odin link updated to newest version as well?

should be hide nandroid progress not Android hidden progress
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] dakpluto:
Thanks! Got it working now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
It seems I may have spoken too soon. Fix permissions didn't work when I just tried doing it, unless it's supposed to take less than a second because my permissions were already okay or something.

edit: just tried again and it's working fine now. Weird
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mahausrath:
Hm, that may have been my problem, i had hideandroidprogress rather than hidenandroidprogress (typo in last post, i was recalling from memory rather than looking at my phone haha). I'll give it another try, thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
No problem. just make sure you have a dot ( . ) in front of it too and put it in the sdcard you're backing up to and then in cwm mount that same sdcard
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
First of all its hideNandroidprogress. NOT hide android progress. nandroid NOT android. And take out your external sdcard, mount /sdcard and make a backup. It'll work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] onearmedscissor:
Sk8er, if you don't mind, I havea couple suggestions: I was thinking maybe you should put step by step instructions about the hide nandroid progress thing next to the dl links so that people might actually read it. Also I'm not sure if you're aware but for me art least, restoring hangs on data too unless I mount sdcard first so you might want to add that too.

also in have one small request - I was thinking it would be cool if there were an option to reboot to recovery like in the regular cwm. It's not really a big deal or anything so don't worry about it if it's hard to do, but it would be convenient to have that option sometimes.

Other than that, everything's been working great for me for a while now, thanks again!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sk8erwitskil:
Yah I'm always looking for ways to make it better. I was actually going to put reboot recovery in the main menu on the v4.0 but totally forgot. Thank you for reminding me. Lol. And I will edit the OP next time on a computer with the fact that you must mount /sdcard for restore as well. Thanks for the feedback!