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[Android Apps and Games] MachinePower:
Man thanks for all of your help. So just to confirm before I do this.. Are we saying try the restore option with the nandroid backup from 8 months ago and if that doesn't work then dirty flash or just go straight for dirty flash? Does it matter what rom I choose? I would like to go to jedi x20 on that phone but if it's safer to reflash the same rom first I could easily do that. I read something about flashing rom with different kernel being a problem but I don't really know anything about any of that.

Thank you thank you thank you
[Android Apps and Games] jthrasher47:
Go for the dirty flash and if that does not work restore it when you flash it will install the kernel everything will be ok as long as you are flashing something made for your device
[Android Apps and Games] MachinePower:
I ran out of thank you's but thank you lol. I am downloading jedi now and will follow the instructions you laid out. I appreciate all of your patience in talking me through my options.
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
Still active?

I recently upgraded my Galaxy Note 2 n7100 with Ditto Note 4, and now the phone thinks it's a Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910C. I bought the pro version of ONB, but it's not recognizing the device properly (although it does list variants of the GN4). I emailed [MENTION=4535362]H3R3T1C[/MENTION] but haven't heard back.

Is this being developed anymore? I've gone back to manual backups via TWRP for now
[Android Apps and Games] jthrasher47:
No worries let me know how it goes

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Just change the model number in build prop
[Android Apps and Games] jimydirektsaft:
Is it possible to change the google drive upload location?

It seems that the upload location is locked to "<Root Folder>".
[Android Apps and Games] MachinePower:
I guess I have to sideload it through ADB or something like that? I have the rom downloaded on cpu and I'm ready to do the flash the way you advised but I can't get the rom on to the phone to flash lol. My pc won't recognize my device in recovery mode. Am I missing anything or is this adb sideload thing I'm reading about my only option?
[Android Apps and Games] jthrasher47:
Do you have a memory card?
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
ro.product.model only? There are at least a handful of other settings that mention device 'trelte'. Won't this have other consequences too?

Previously I actually tried telling ONB that it was my phone was a different GN4 variant and the subsequent nandroid backup would just bootloop.
[Android Apps and Games] chris247:
Hi,

I have Online Nandroid Backup Pro. It is a great app, I have been able to make manual Nandroid backups without rebooting the phone with this app.

But ONB scheduling backups is not working: at the day and time the backup is set to start, nothing happen :(

So I have tried to use the Online Nandroid Backup Tasker plugin to launch the Nandroid backup but the Nandroid backup does not start.

Why is the Nandroid backup scheduling not working?
[Android Apps and Games] SUNUN:
plsss add galaxy note 4 SM-N910C support.
[Android Apps and Games] JulGer01:
Still no android secure backup on n7000 with cm11 nightly... ?

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[Android Apps and Games] _Sofos_:
Works fine with Samsung galaxy Note 4 F Snapdragon, had to download and install busybox tho and changed shell to default.

Great work, cheers for the project, really handy.

EDIT : Do NOT and repeat NOT try to restore back, it gives so many fc's that makes the phone unusable. For Note4 (F) using the latest Philz CWM that is.
[Android Apps and Games] CapnKrunchy:
Google Drive upload fails, even with screen left on

Any time I do a scheduled or custom backup on my Verizon LG G3 (VS9854G) with the upload option selected, the backup goes through fine, but the GDrive upload fails about halfway through even if the screen is on and I'm interacting with the phone. Here are screenshots of the errors:

View attachment 3043672View attachment 3043673View attachment 3043674View attachment 3043676

I've made sure I'm on a stable WiFi connection (it does this on any connection I've tried) and that my WiFi doesn't disable when the phone is asleep. I have more than 10GB free on my Drive, the backups are only about 2-3GB.

Any fixes?

EDIT: Also, is there a proper way to restore these backups? Restoring through TWRP doesn't work, it soft bricks the phone and I have to re-flash the stock firmware.
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
When you say it works fine, do you mean that the backup was successful, or that the backup AND restore of that backup were both successful?
[Android Apps and Games] _Sofos_:
Damn.. I was so sure that it was going to restore without any problems that i've actually tried it without backing up through recovery.. now fc's are all over the place and even reinstalling rom doesn't help.

So No restoring is causing lots of fc's and phone is pretty much not usable. Note4 (F Version - Philz latest CWM).

Edited my post as well.
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
That's what I was afraid of, it's what happened to me when I first flashed DN4. ONB doesn't have a patch for the Galaxy Note 4 SM-N910C, so to identify the phone, I chose GN2 GT-n7100. The subsequent backup soft-bricked the phone and it was only later that I noticed it was much smaller (>3GB) than it should have been (>4GB). Luckily I still had my last working backup from before flashing DN4, so I restored that, got my phone working and reflashed DN4, being more careful with my backups. [MENTION=4535362]H3R3T1C[/MENTION] didn't respond to my emailed patch request - which ONB generates automatically when it doesn't recognize the device - so I've stopped using ONB (Pro, actually) for now and have just been doing manual backups via TWRP.

If you have no working backups - don't forget that if you have ONB Pro, it may have uploaded them to Dropbox, etc. - reflash your ROM and then restore from Google Play. But first, take a full recovery backup of the phone as is - even fc-riddles and unusable - because you can later extract working pieces from it, like your apps, data, call/sms history, your IMEI information (efs partition), etc. Then, try dirty flashing first. If that doesn't work, do a full factory reset and start fresh.

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If it soft-bricks the phone, it means that your ONB backup settings are incomplete/wrong and that the backup doesn't have all the information (= backed up partitions) that the phone needs to restore successfully.

But at least you're able to get up again by reflashing stock.

To get this working:

In TWRP, do a full nandroid backup: efs/boot/recovery/modem/cache/system/data. Do NOT enable compression. I skip md5 generation too

If the backup is successful, it should be >4GB, and probably even >5GB. In that case, still in TWRP, wipe dalvik/cache/system/data, restore the backup you just made and reboot system

If you get this far, you at least know how to backup manually and successfully

Now in ONB: Custom Backup > Backup Mode > Selective Backup Mode. Then Select > (select everything)

Make sure the Save Location is set, then press the Play symbol in the upper right hand corner to kick off a backup

If the backup succeeds, restore it. It should work, since you selected everything

If the restore succeeds, go back to ONB > Select and deselect whatever seems to be for devices other than your own (eg. if you have a Samsung, deselect the Acer/Alcatel/etc. stuff). Choose ok and then backup and restore that backup

If that works, you can keep going by deselecting other things to be backed up by ONB, but it's probably not worth the time since you now have working settings that can be automated

Now start restoring any apps/data that was missing when you last flashed stock

Turn on scheduling
[Android Apps and Games] msolutions:
Thank you for sharing
[Android Apps and Games] CapnKrunchy:
I followed your steps up to backing up using ONB. The backup saved in /sdcard/android/obb/TWRP/ for some reason even though I selected external SD as the save location. Looking at the backup, it's about the same size as a TWRP backup (6GB), but the ONB backup only has 6 files, as opposed to the 13 of the TWRP backup. Is this a problem?
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
Good question! I forgot about that. This is normal.

There are a number of reasons why you might have a different number of files:

Your settings are off, so TWRP and ONB aren't backing up the exact same things

TWRP tends to split larger partitions into multiple files, but ONB doesn't

If you skipped MD5 generation for one but not the other

TWRP includes .info files, ONB doesn't (not sure why)

But it sounds like you're doing fine. If your TWRP backup has restored successfully, just wipe & restore the ONB backup and keep following the instructions to know for sure whether the file differences matter in this case.

And the save location is fine; ONB looks for where your current recovery (TWRP) is configured to store backups and use that location too so they're all kept together.
[Android Apps and Games] CapnKrunchy:
I restored the ONB backup and got the same result as before: soft brick. I've pretty much given up on this app. Also, since ONB doesn't split into smaller files and my SD card is formatted to FAT32 so that TWRP can detect it, I can't save my ONB backups to SD because of the FAT32 file size limit.
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
That sucks all around.

I'm going to do some testing of my own over the weekend with ONB, because I'd really like to see it work. I don't want to have to rely on manual TWRP backups. I'll report back when I'm done.
[Android Apps and Games] CapnKrunchy:
Ok, good luck. Thanks for your help thus far.
[Android Apps and Games] vishalbiswas:
I have a Nokia_XL.

I have applied the proper patch for my phone.

Now, if I try to make a normal backup, it succeeds in under 9 minutes and the file size is nearly 3GB. So, everything is normal. But when I try to restore it in TWRP it cannot restore the Android_Secure partition. Restoring other partitions worked without a hitch.

Is it normal?

I used Nandroid Manager to restore all my apps. But there's a problem there. My phone has a partition called /preload where all the preloaded apps' apks are stored. While restoring apps through Nandroid Manager it also populates the list with these apps which aren't installed.

Sent from my Nokia_XL
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
So I was finally able to take a good backup of my SM-N910C with ONB.

The Selective Backup method doesn't give me a usable backup. Even when I select almost all the partitions to be backed up (except a: and x: ), the modem partition isn't backed up. And you definitely need that. I'm assuming this is what happens when ONB doesn't recognize the device, which is my case because ONB currently has no device patch for the SM-N910C.

What does work is leaving ONB with an Unknown Device and then just using the Normal Backup as your default instead of the Selective Backup. This does backup the modem partition too and I was able to restore the backup it generated.

The backup contains 9 files although preload.ext4.win is basically empty - and throws an error in the backup log - because my ROM doesn't seem to use a preload partition, which is why TWRP backups don't include a file for it either.

I attached a screenshot of my current default settings that worked.
[Android Apps and Games] CapnKrunchy:
Ok, so I was looking at the patch page, and my device (VS985) detected as a Jiayu G3, so I scrolled down to look at the list of patches, and realized there's a patch specifically for the VS985. I took a backup (using ONB) and it has 7 files, including the modem. I'm going to try restoring it now.

EDIT: Restoring a backup with normal settings using the VS985 patch worked fine. My initial problem still stands that the uploads fail about halfway through.

EDIT2: If it helps, FolderSync uploads to GDrive go through without a hitch. ONB and Titanium Backup uploads both fail about halfway through, only on larger files however. Smaller TiBu uploads (just tested with 7.5MB backups) go through fine.
[Android Apps and Games] jshare:
I tried a backup + upload to GDrive. The backup was fine again, but the upload failed with java exceptions. I would attach the upload log, but after dismissing the log popup by accident, I can't find it
[Android Apps and Games] kevinola:
some files to help?

I have found some files from the official ROM installer/flasher. It has the recovery and the boot. Would it help to improve the XT626 patch? The 2.3.6 version as the 4.0.4 is not yet complete or on the web.
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
LED Light?

When I run ONB on my S3, the LED stays on after, a blue color, and won't go off without rebooting. I know this must've been asked on this thread, but I've searched here (and on Google+) and can't find an answer..

Thanks for any help!
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
Okay, I figured it out. I just had to disable 'vibration on complete' and it also disables the LED. Good enough, though I went round and round for days trying to figure out a way to turn it off. Adding a couple of words to that line would've short circuited the confusion, like 'and LED.'
[Android Apps and Games] JoeFCaputo113:
Is this compatible with Android Lollipop... hasn't been updated since August my guess is no?
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
I have been using it with success on LP.
[Android Apps and Games] v12xke:
Nexus 9 LTE

I don't see a script for Nexus 9 LTE, but ONB appears to be working. Backup finished, log looks normal and I can see it in Nandroid Manager. If it is using a script I can't tell which device. Will there be a script added for "flounder_lte" or can another script be safely substituted? Do I need a script at all? Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
You better test it! Make a backup the regular way first and then try to restore the onandroid one and see what happens. It might not boot or your data might not be back in place.
[Android Apps and Games] christoferos:
Hey.

I've got a problem on my lg l7II. Installed ONB, selected external sd in backup settings, but backup still make on internal sd. I have root, fix sd (cause my phone is running with 4.4.2. KK), busybox, and srill is the same. What is wrong?

Here's log:

Starting backup...

Running with the following commands: -o --custom kk_rooted --storage /external_sd -pd -r

Using Default Shell

##########################################

Online Nandroid Backup v9.52

* A tool to perform a nandroid backup

without booting into recovery.

* It is fully compatible with nandroid.

* Type 'onandroid --help' for usage

instructions.

* Created by Ameer Dawood

##########################################

14:30:44 Using busybox from: /data/data/com.h3r3t1c.onnandbup/files/busybox

14:30:44 Checking for root permissions...

14:30:44 Root permissions acquired!

14:30:44 Analysing battery level...

14:30:44 Sufficient battery available!

14:30:44 Checking version of BusyBox installed...

14:30:44 BusyBox version 1.20 or above installed!

14:30:44 Searching for SD card...

14:30:44 SD card found!

14:30:44 This device has a patch file installed!

14:30:44 Checking for required tools...

14:30:45 All required tools available!

14:30:45 Checking disk space...

14:30:45 SD Card Free Space: 1186 MB

14:30:45 Required Space: 1719 MB

14:30:46 Not enough disk space! Exiting...

exitcode [86]

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[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
That is just the syntax it is using to write the log. You still may not have enough room on your external sdcard. It is using "SD Card" here informally for external_sd so you need to see if the free space mentioned is the same as your external sdcard.
[Android Apps and Games] christoferos:
Sorry, don't understand. I've got more than 4 GB free space on external sd... Here shows space of internal sd called sdcard, external sd is called external_SD

Kura pazurem to wydrapała, a Xperia Neo V Tapatalkiem 4 wysłała :D
[Android Apps and Games] christoferos:
Ok, [MENTION=5519140]Master Cylinder[/MENTION], i already undesrstood, what you wrote. First i didn't, but now i do. I changed save location to /storage/external_SD instead external_sd, and now is ok. Thanks for driving me to solution my problem. :D

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[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
Ah! Smart man!:D

EDIT: On my Samsung S3, /external_sd works, but I don't have a /storage/external_sd option (I have a /storage/sdcard1 option.) I guess it depends on how the ROM is mounting the external sdcard.
[Android Apps and Games] christoferos:
Yes, cause in different devices micro sd card have different names. It may be sdcard1, external sd, or as in my device -external_SD. There are small details, but sometimes, they're a reason that something work good, or not.

And btw, i'm smart man, but sometimes must think over this or that, and then, any good idea born in my head. :D

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[Android Apps and Games] vishalbiswas:
The problem (or more of an advantage) is Android is Linux and Linux uses a case sensitive file system.

So, external_sd and external_SD are not the same as in others.

Now, don't go trying this by creating files with same name but different cases. Your memory cards are formatted with the FAT32 filesystem which is a case insensitive filesystem. So, it won't work!

Sent from my Nokia_XL
[Android Apps and Games] SJMarty:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with patch file installed. I set the Backup Name to "Phone Timezone Name" but the backup file is always generated in UTC. I have tried the various combinations of Busybox and shell options and not had any success in getting the correct backup name to generate.

Does anyone else see this same issue? Any ideas what to try?
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
Same here - it just don't work as far as I can tell.
[Android Apps and Games] Mike B.:
Confirmed here as well. However, the log suggests that ONB is passing the correct parameter ("--phone") to Ameer's script and the problem might not be with ONB. I suppose it would be simple to try invoking the script directly to see if the requested name is correct, but I never bothered since it's (at least for me) a rather trivial issue.
[Android Apps and Games] _Sofos_:
Keep in mind that even tho creating a backup for Note 4 seems to be working fine, restoring it will mess up your phone.

So always remember to create one manually through recovery.

If I'm wrong and it's fixed please let me know (+ the settings you're using).
[Android Apps and Games] m0han:
+1 to this^.
[Android Apps and Games] arboeh:
I'm unable to restore my Nexus 5-TWRP-backups!

I'm getting the following error message during restore: unable to locate partition by backup name: modem

My Android-Version is CM 12 2015-01-07. Nandroid Online Backup is v9.52

Backup-Log:
[Android Apps and Games] dipole:
What does that mean, I have note 4 , are you saying my backups are bad? I haven't tried to restore yet
[Android Apps and Games] _Sofos_:
Well then I just spoiled a big surprise.. :P

Yes, Note 4 backups via ONB are "bad" at the moment, you won't be able to restore them.
[Android Apps and Games] dipole:
SO only via ONB? Using ameers script via terminal still works though right? I also have a tasker task to run that everynight
[Android Apps and Games] _Sofos_:
I have no idea.. since you're using it and I'm not you should probably check it out and let us know or ask in Ameer's thread. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
No backup is good until it's been tested. So, you have to become secure that this is making reliable backups by testing some, but as _Sofos_ said, make one the regular way in case it doesn't work. This program can work fine, or not. You may have to jack with the settings to get it to work right. On my S3, compressed TWRP backups worked, then they didn't. CWM was working. It may work fine if you get the settings right.

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Don't backup modem - no need.
[Android Apps and Games] arboeh:
Thanks! Restore process works without errors, but I'm sticking in boot.

I'm using ElementalX kernel. Any other options to backup then...?

In TWRP I'm backuping up boot, data, efs and system and then there is no problem.
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
As far as a restore, boot, system, data and cache is all that's needed, with cache optional, but I always do. One efs backup saved somewhere is enough in case of very remote catastrophe, but is not part of the ROM. I have it backed up somewhere but don't mess with it otherwise. I expect it's best to leave it alone and not overwrite it every restore.:good:
[Android Apps and Games] SJMarty:
Can you elaborate a bit on this? What do you mean when you say a restore will "mess up" my phone? What happens?

Do you know if the developer @H3R3T1C is aware of this issue? I checked his profile and he hasn't been on XDA since December 11 so it doesn't appear he is active in this thread.

Any information you have would be great.
[Android Apps and Games] arboeh:
Same problem with my Nexus 7 2013 (Last official CM 12 nightly): I'm sticking in reboot.

Backup options are boot, sytem, data and cache.

If backup is created with TWRP there is no problem... :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] JulGer01:
From my experience I'd say stick with *normal* backup in recovery. ONB backups are unreliable! Uninstalled it long time ago. Never was able to get a working backup for my n7000 (old one, I know...).

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[Android Apps and Games] stellaignis:
Please help

If I try to create a backup with tasker plugin, the app creates a backup with an older date. It always creates a backup with dated as 2014-12-29--08-49-46. The old one is overwritten. Is this a bug?
[Android Apps and Games] SJMarty:
Yeah, it seems that YMMV. Prior to the phone I have now, I had a low-end LG Optimus and ONB Pro and NM Pro worked perfectly. I did many full restores without problems. I'm just trying to find out what the actual issue is with ONB Pro and the Note 4. I e-mailed the developer today, too to find out if there truly is an issue and if so, will/can it be fixed. The Note 4 has been out for almost three months now (October 17th) but ONB has not been updated since August.
[Android Apps and Games] m0han:
same is my case too. everything was fine for me till this post on the script thread.

oh! how i miss the convenience and reliability of the onb script backups! :(

been waiting for long for [MENTION=4540978]ameer1234567890[/MENTION] to come up with a permanent solution.
[Android Apps and Games] SJMarty:
Are you just running a shell command to directly run the script in Tasker?

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[Android Apps and Games] dipole:
I tried both, I ran it in terminal and then using shell command in tasker.

They both restored but holy headache, they didn't restore correctly and I spent some time getting back up, which means that it is likely a problem with the Note 4 partition script
[Android Apps and Games] SJMarty:
But backing up and restoring in recovery works fine?
[Android Apps and Games] dipole:
Yes absolutely, using TWRP works fine in recovery
[Android Apps and Games] Master Cylinder:
Working with Compression

Ola!

I have just completed and restored a backup using TWRP with compression on my Verizon S3 with perfect results. The ROM was cm11 1/02/14 nightly. I have latest Sterickson Busybox (Pro) 1.23.0. Only backing up /boot, /system, /data and /cache. No MD5.

The reason I gave up on ONB before was because I want only compressed backups. It worked for awhile with TWRP, then it stopped restoring properly for some unknown reason. The script doesn't allow for CWM compression.

Working now, though!:good:
[Android Apps and Games] smegg:
Is anyone else having trouble with note3 lollipop and TWRP? My backups keep failing but reports as successful... weird!