Nandroid backup issue

[Guest wlad19]

Hi All,

I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to create a nandriod backup for my t-mobile pulse, and would welcome any suggestions for getting it to work.

All the amon-ra recovery image is installed and am able to get to it without any problem. On running the regular nandroid backup, it also completes fine. Unfortunately however, after the backup completes the nandroid directory on the sdrom is empty, and any attempts to (test) recover naturally fail.

Below's the backup log showing all that.

Interestingly enough while the backup is proceeding, I have connected to the thing via the adb shell and confirmed that the said directory is indeed there. It disappears as soon as backup completes. BTW I have not changed anything regarding the (supposed default) fat32 partition type, eg changing it to ext3.

Given that I need to take the phone back to a t-mobile shop due to an issue with the ear-speaker, I really would appreciate your help in getting a recovery image done.

Thanks.

Starting recovery on Mon Aug 16 11:06:09 2010

framebuffer: fd 4 (320 x 480)

Build : RA-pulse-v1.5.2

Fixing execute permissions for /cache

I:Set boot command "boot-recovery"

Command: "/sbin/recovery"

ro.secure=0

ro.allow.mock.location=0

ro.debuggable=0

persist.service.adb.enable=1

ro.build.id=CRB17

ro.build.display.id=CRB17.eng.huawei.20090910.232004

ro.build.version.incremental=eng.huawei.20090910.232004

ro.build.version.sdk=3

ro.build.version.release=1.5

ro.build.date=Thu Sep 10 23:31:21 CST 2009

ro.build.date.utc=1252596681

ro.build.type=user

ro.build.user=huawei

ro.build.host=AndroidDev

ro.build.tags=ota-rel-keys,test-keys

ro.product.model=Pulse

ro.product.brand=T-Mobile

ro.product.name=U8220

ro.product.device=U8220

ro.product.board=U8220

ro.product.manufacturer=HUAWEI

ro.product.locale.language=

ro.product.locale.region=

ro.product.ANU=huawei-technology

ro.product.HW_DATE=2009-07-03

ro.board.platform=

ro.build.product=U8220

ro.build.description=U8220-user 1.5 CRB17 eng.huawei.20090910.232004 ota-rel-keys,test-keys

ro.build.fingerprint=T-Mobile/U8220/U8220/U8220:1.5/CRB17/eng.huawei.20090910.232004:user/ota-rel-keys,test-keys

wifi.interface=eth0

ro.com.android.dateformat=dd-MM-yyyy

rild.libpath=/system/lib/libril-qc-1.so

rild.libargs=-d /dev/smd0

persist.rild.nitz_plmn=

persist.rild.nitz_long_ons_0=

persist.rild.nitz_long_ons_1=

persist.rild.nitz_long_ons_2=

persist.rild.nitz_long_ons_3=

persist.rild.nitz_short_ons_0=

persist.rild.nitz_short_ons_1=

persist.rild.nitz_short_ons_2=

persist.rild.nitz_short_ons_3=

persist.cust.tel.adapt=1

persist.cust.tel.eons=1

DEVICE_PROVISIONED=1

use_csp_plmn=0

ro.url.legal=http://www.google.com/intl/%s/mobile/android/basic/phone-legal.html

ro.url.legal.android_privacy=http://www.google.com/intl/%s/mobile/android/basic/privacy.html

ro.com.google.locationfeatures=1

ro.setupwizard.mode=DISABLED

ro.config.notification_sound=F1_New_SMS.ogg

ro.config.ringtone=Standard-Ringtone.ogg

ro.com.google.clientidbase=android-huawei

ro.config.sync=yes

net.bt.name=Android

net.change=net.bt.name

dalvik.vm.stack-trace-file=/data/anr/traces.txt

ro.modversion=RA-pulse-v1.5.2

ro.factorytest=0

ro.serialno=

ro.bootmode=unknown

ro.baseband=unknown

ro.carrier=unknown

ro.bootloader=unknown

ro.hardware=qcom

ro.revision=0

init.svc.recovery=running

init.svc.adbd=running

I:Set boot command ""

I:Set boot command ""

Create Nandroid backup?

Press GREEN to confirm,

any other key to abort.

Performing backup : .

nandroid-mobile v2.2.1

Using G1 keyboard, enter a prefix substring and then <CR>

or just <CR> to accept default: Accepting default.

Using - prefix to create a backup folder

mounting system and data read-only, sdcard read-write

checking free space on sdcard

..Dumping boot to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDMRS-20100816-1106/boot.img.....done

..Dumping recovery to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDMRS-20100816-1106/recovery.img.......done

.Dumping misc to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDMRS-20100816-1106/misc.img....done

Dumping system to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDMRS-20100816-1106/system.img......................................................................

..........................done

Dumping data to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDMRS-20100816-1106/data.img.......................................................................d

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Dumping cache to /sdcard/nandroid/mem=128M/BCDMRS-20100816-1106/cache.img.....done

generating md5sum file....................done

unmounting system, data and sdcard

.Backup successful.

Backup complete!

I:Set boot command ""

E:No Device-ID folder found

I:Set boot command ""

I:Set boot command ""

I:Set boot command ""

I:Set boot command ""

I:Set boot command ""

Move recovery.log to SD

Press GREEN to confirm,

any other key to abort.

Moving : .unmounting /sdcard

Edited August 16, 2010 by wlad19

[Guest wlad19]

Replying to my own post as I have found a solution of sorts, although not the cause... :-P

Basically I reformatted the SD Card, backing up the files beforehand naturally. After this, nandroid seemed to be happy to correctly mount & unmount the directory and write a backup.