First Backup using Xionia

[c4manceph]

Installed Xionia v1.2518.6
Everything went well.

Preformed my first backup:
Backing up boot...
Backing up recovery...
Backing up system...
Backing up data...
Backing up .android_secure...
Backing up cache...
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
Generating md5 sum...

It has hung there for the past 25 minuets.

Suggestions please

 

[eletendre84]

Mine takes awhile to generate a checksum too, but not 25 mins. I'd say reboot, and try again

 

[c4manceph]

Pulled the battery. (No choice)
Restarted phone
Tried again
This time it hung at Backing up system...
Am I missing something here?
Maybe third times a charm. I'll give it another go.

 

[bblaze]

Try repushing the recovery through ADB. That may help. Could have been a bad push the first time.

 

[c4manceph]

Well, third time was a charm.
Not sure what was going on there. Maybe an SD card issue.
Time to flash my first ROM.

 

[tlrsax54]

Well, third time was a charm.
Not sure what was going on there. Maybe an SD card issue.
Time to flash my first ROM.

Glad it worked out, good luck

 

[uberjam545]

Well, third time was a charm.
Not sure what was going on there. Maybe an SD card issue.
Time to flash my first ROM.

I've had problems like that in recovery too when i try to flash things or create backups, I eventually found out that if your battery is close to dead it won't let you do anything and will give you an error message of some kind.....Then I plug it in and it works like it's suppose to.

 

[c4manceph]

I've had problems like that in recovery too when i try to flash things or create backups, I eventually found out that if your battery is close to dead it won't let you do anything and will give you an error message of some kind.....Then I plug it in and it works like it's suppose to.

That's really good information, thanks.

I made sure that I had a full battery before I started, I didn't want to run the risk of anything happening as a result of the phone dying due to a low battery charge.

Things got kind of busy so I still haven't flashed a ROM yet. I want to make sure that I can give it my undivided attention my first time round.

 

[blackops1125]

That's really good information, thanks.

I made sure that I had a full battery before I started, I didn't want to run the risk of anything happening as a result of the phone dying due to a low battery charge.

Things got kind of busy so I still haven't flashed a ROM yet. I want to make sure that I can give it my undivided attention my first time round.

Flashing a rom only takes about 2-4 minutes. Your past the hard part! (installing the recovery)
From here on out, everything should only take a couple of minutes and most of that time is waiting while the phone boots into recovery, flash rom (takes 1-2minutes) (or whatever your flashing...kernel...flashplayer...themes!), waitng for phone to reboot again normally!

Just make sure you always do a nandroid in case something screwsup! The best part about nandroids you can try anything and recover from it! Almost....LOL

 

[DoesItMatter]

Pulled the battery. (No choice)
Restarted phone
Tried again
This time it hung at Backing up system...
Am I missing something here?
Maybe third times a charm. I'll give it another go.

You would be wise to re-format your card.

Get a micro-sd adapter and pop that in a Windows PC and copy all the data over to
your hard drive, then fully re-format the sd-card as Fat-32 (slow format, not quick)
then copy the data back over to your sd-card and pop it back in the phone.

Best to do this while the phone is off.
Side benefit of doing this: Fresh format + defrag'd SD card!

If it's got any kind of trouble writing to the SD-card - you could have bad sectors developing.
Some SD cards are very fickle.

 

[c4manceph]

Thanks DoesItMatter that really seems to have made a huge difference. When I turned my phone on the SD card was mounted much faster than what I am accustomed to.