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Root [Virgin Mobile/Sprint] [Recovery][VM]CWM 6.0.4.8 Touch for the LG Optimus F3

serealnewbie said:
I assume extsd is my external sd card that I can remove from the phone? But extsd also refers to a partition type that is a linux? To clear up the confusion. External sd doesn't have to be formatted as a linux partition?

And are you saying my "Internal sd card" is FAT32. That's why Windows can see it.

System rom storage
Internal storage
External storage

And to clear things up. You are saying it could back up certain data. But CWM is only designed to back up "all apps", and "all app data" "system" data? But then it would be impossible it to back up any data on a FAT32 file system on a extended parition, and on an internal sd card that is Fat32? Because it's designed to back up linux data? Sorry for the confusion
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What you are saying makes little sense. I will walk you through this:

CWM backs up EVERY app on you phone that is on INTERNAL STORAGE not your external storage. CWM DOES NOT back up your microsd card that you can take in and out of your phone. I said nothing about what type of filesystem anything uses, and it doesnt need to be brought up. If you have ANY form of app on your microsd card that you can pull in and out from your phone, IT WILL NOT BE BACKUP UP BY CMW.
 
DevoutDev said:
What you are saying makes little sense. I will walk you through this:

CWM backs up EVERY app on you phone that is on INTERNAL STORAGE not your external storage. CWM DOES NOT back up your microsd card that you can take in and out of your phone. I said nothing about what type of filesystem anything uses, and it doesnt need to be brought up. If you have ANY form of app on your microsd card that you can pull in and out from your phone, IT WILL NOT BE BACKUP UP BY CMW.
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Gotcha you on the external storage part. I don't know why you are trying to tell me that, that wasn't my dilemma in the first place. I didn't want it to.

I wanted to back up a folder called "storage/sdcard/" which is in my internal storage. Xclusive36 claims you can do it. Others are claiming CWM won't do it because it's not made to back up the /sdcard or the internal SD. Do you agree with that?

You said it back's up "Every App" "System" and all of "App data" . But my original dilema was that Titanium Back up had a back up folder in my /storage/sdcard0 folder. Which it didn't back up. And I'm assuming it could. But it wasn't programmed to do it. Is that correct?
 
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serealnewbie said:
Gotcha you on the external storage part. I don't know why you are trying to tell me that, that wasn't my dilemma in the first place. I didn't want it to.

I wanted to back up a folder called "storage/sdcard/" which is in my internal storage. Xclusive36 claims you can do it. Others are claiming CWM won't do it because it's not made to back up the /sdcard or the internal SD. Do you agree with that?
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Your internal SD card IS your /sdcard . CWM DOES backup your /sdcard BY DEFAULT
 
DevoutDev said:
Your internal SD card IS your /sdcard . CWM DOES backup your /sdcard BY DEFAULT
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Hmm then why isn't it backing it up. And I have two conflicting stories now, according to some xda members.

Should I paste the recovery log?


xclusive36 is right data/media does lead to my internal sd card.

But this folder is missing from the CWM back up. Any ideas why it didn't back it up guys?
 
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serealnewbie said:
Hmm then why isn't it backing it up. And I have two conflicting stories now, according to some xda members.

Should I paste the recovery log?


xclusive36 is right data/media does lead to my internal sd card.

But this folder is missing from the CWM back up. Any ideas why it didn't back it up guys?
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It does it by default
 
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/ClockWorkMod_Instructions

Note:

ClockworkMod's backup/restore feature will generally only back up the /system, /data, /cache, /sd-ext, and /dalvik-cache areas. Other partitions such as /emmc, /sdcard, and /media won't be backed up. In fact, the backed up system will typically be saved to the /sdcard/ partition in the /clockworkmod/backup/ directory, which, depending on your device, may or may not be actually located on a physical removable SD card."

Alright, done here.
 
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The internal storage resides in the /data/media folder. The /sdcard, or /storage/sdcard0 is a linked folder and not a real folder. Have you even tried to restore a backup?
 
serealnewbie said:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/ClockWorkMod_Instructions

Note:

ClockworkMod's backup/restore feature will generally only back up the /system, /data, /cache, /sd-ext, and /dalvik-cache areas. Other partitions such as /emmc, /sdcard, and /media won't be backed up. In fact, the backed up system will typically be saved to the /sdcard/ partition in the /clockworkmod/backup/ directory, which, depending on your device, may or may not be actually located on a physical removable SD card."

Alright, done here.
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I believe the confusion you’re having is that you are misunderstanding the phone setup itself. Upper level and flagship series phones have a true sdcard or internal storage. I'm sure you know there are 16, 32, 64 gb models. This phone does not have a "true" sdcard / internal storage partition set aside for just that purpose. This is an entry-level phone. It’s made with a symbolic link to a portion of the data partition as the internal storage or in this case sdcard0 (to keep the cost low). When you backup the data partition, you ARE backing up what is refer to in most info you'll come accross as the “sdcard”. If you extract the data backup cwm made, you will find the media folder (scdard0). There is also a symlink folder labeled sdcard but it's the same folder as media and sdcard0.
The sd-ext or sd-ext2 is the 2nd partition on the external sd for links2sd which is ext4. The 1st partition of the external storage (external_SD) is fat32. As far as your main problem goes. I have no idea why your Titanium backup wasn’t there. Truthfully you should be making backup’s by any utility to the external storage rather than the limited 'internal' of this model…actually, any model come to think of it, lol. Hope I’m on the mark here and was able to help you better understand the F3.
 
I rooted my ZV8 VM F3 today (24 Aug 2015) with the brute-force method of StumpRoot, SuperSU grants permissions OK, & Flashify seems to install the CWM-6.0.4.8 recovery image correctly. My goal is to have a look at xclusive36's (unofficial) CM11 ROM & use the phone as a media player (since I've since switch to AT&T-based Cricket on an unlocked SGS4).

I seem to be missing something, however, to start the new recovery image.

Power off, wait a few seconds, then Vol(-) + Power brings up the static LG logo/splash, followed by some very small text that appears for (what seems like) less than a second (at which point I release both Vol(-) & Power), and the phone boots back into the stock LG/VM 4.1.2 ROM.

I've even tried holding Home, too, but still the same: the phone boots normally.

What step am I missing ?!
 
DrGERTolOh said:
I rooted my ZV8 VM F3 today (24 Aug 2015) with the brute-force method of StumpRoot, SuperSU grants permissions OK, & Flashify seems to install the CWM-6.0.4.8 recovery image correctly. My goal is to have a look at xclusive36's (unofficial) CM11 ROM & use the phone as a media player (since I've since switch to AT&T-based Cricket on an unlocked SGS4).

I seem to be missing something, however, to start the new recovery image.

Power off, wait a few seconds, then Vol(-) + Power brings up the static LG logo/splash, followed by some very small text that appears for (what seems like) less than a second (at which point I release both Vol(-) & Power), and the phone boots back into the stock LG/VM 4.1.2 ROM.

I've even tried holding Home, too, but still the same: the phone boots normally.

What step am I missing ?!
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Do the button combo. After you let go, Do the button combo again. Some times it takes more than one try for it to work.
 
Thanks for the hint ! That did the trick. After the first text screen (and before the next LG static splash), Vol(-) + Home starts the CWM recovery. Now on to CM11...
 
so how are you supposed to repair / reflash CWM-6.0.4.8 recovery
when in bootloop and recovery shows

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open/cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open/cache/recovery/last_log

formating cache x3 doesn't fix anything ., wipe,reset,format, reflashing with lg flashtool tot method fails.
installing from zip fails both cwm & TWp recovery's.
 
You cant. Your phone is bricked. You need to use the unbrick tools. If it doesn't unbrick, keep trying with a break in between. Eventually it will work.
 
The dropbox link is broken. I seem to have installed an incorrect version of TWRP (my phone still boots). But trying to flash a rom for my LS720 gives me an error in recovery that there is a mismatch for my phone model? I think I flashed a metropcs aboot and need to have the one for sprint. I found another thread that links a CWM but it doesn't include an aboot image. I know development on this phone is pretty dead and this is kind of a long shot.
 
I don't really see how 3 years has anything to do with it. This website is much older than that, and Google is still around. The internet is usually pretty stable I thought, but anytime I try to find tools and roms for my LG Optimus f3 it's like a graveyard hehe. ah well, thanks ~
 
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