[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] samccfl99:
FF & MS

Welcome back. Hope you had a nice time and a good rest.

Sorry, this got a bit long as i tend to do. NOW, just a bit more about the Restore function. Love the app, on V0.18 Pro using G900A (ATT S5). All other functions work great and it is so easy to use. Thanks and thank you for the response about Folder "0". This has happened a couple of times before i tried MultiSystem. Once I had a freeze during restore. That was not good and i think i had to go back to NCE and forward to LP (can do it in my sleep now...LOL). Next time this happens, i will try to remember to get a log, if possible. I just wanted you to know my experience with FF and MS. i did finally sucessfully install Multisystem the other day as a test. so i created a virtual rom from the stock rom, which i restored stock 5.0 OC4 back in like Hsbadr recommends and then tried to use FF to restore my backup of Alliance. I did not do a wipe in MS (was confused because i was on the virtual rom, which you have to be) and i did not do a wipe before restore in FF. i asked this question before if a wipe was needed before restore in FF, but got no answer. Seems to work ok without the wipe not using MS. Anyway, I called FF from within MS and it started to restore and it was going EXTREMELY slow. Backup file was on internal (only small test 16gb sdcard for MS test) and of course i am assuming it was writing to the EXT4 partition of the sdcard. i know the write function is very slow on sdcards, but i also know the speed of a Normal FF backup to sdcard and believe me, it was super slow. As a matter of fact, even the loading of the program was stopping and starting, something that never happens. I was watching it and somewhere in System, it just stopped, displayed WIPE and started again. this happened once more in System and then on the 3rd time it finished and went to Data. Somewhere in Data it stopped and i got a message saying there was no more space. The backup file was 3.39gb and the EXT4 partition was 8.5gb (planned on trying 2 virtual roms, OP says 4gb per rom required). Truth be told, most of the testing has been done with VZ Note 3, but very recently was released to try on many phones, including mine. FF said wait 3 minutes to see this message and it finally rebooted. Stuck at S5 boot screen. thought a bit and then took the sdcard out and it came up, but OH MY, what a mess. Besides the screenshots below of the internal, it still was stock rooted 5.0, but Nova was not there anymore and stock widgets were there that were removed...LOL. Whatever, FF still was there and worked (needed SU grant...LOL) so i just first restored my modified stock and it came up like it was. had to fix the folders, but this really was a mess (see screenshots) so i had to delete the whole thing and restore my backup (of course Android needs special care) and then i restored my Alliance rom and all was well again. Oh, i did flash a zip Carl gave me to make SS work again and good as new.

Again, sorry this has been so long. Maybe you and Hsbadr can get together on this. He still is developing, as you are. I know i live in a small world of the ATT S5, but i think that FF and MS will be good for many phones, BUT HEY, WHAT DO I KNOW?...LOL. If you are still reading this, thank you. I know you read everything on here even though you comment infrequently.

Thank you so much for the app. Can't wait to see it develop.