Restoring TWRP backup to a new phone

caseyatbt · Apr 6, 2013

I have to move to a new phone. I backed up my old one to the SDcard. I placed it in the new phone and booted into TWRP. When I enter the restore menu, I go to ext card and it doesn't show any backups. I am not sure why TWRP does not see my sdcard backups so I can restore my backup.

jameztownbarber · Apr 6, 2013

caseyatbt said:
I have to move to a new phone. I backed up my old one to the SDcard. I placed it in the new phone and booted into TWRP. When I enter the restore menu, I go to ext card and it doesn't show any backups. I am not sure why TWRP does not see my sdcard backups so I can restore my backup.

There different serial#s it dosent recognize that phone I had the same problems when I switched my s3 to another s3

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caseyatbt · Apr 7, 2013

Will it work with CWM or just start from scratch?

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CNexus · Apr 7, 2013

caseyatbt said:
Will it work with CWM or just start from scratch?

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CWM backups can only be restored with CWM, and TWRP backups can only be restored with TWRP

caseyatbt · Apr 7, 2013

CNexus said:
CWM backups can only be restored with CWM, and TWRP backups can only be restored with TWRP

Sorry, what I meant was, if I install CWM, will I have a better shot at a restoration or does CWM check serials as well?

CNexus · Apr 7, 2013

caseyatbt said:
Sorry, what I meant was, if I install CWM, will I have a better shot at a restoration or does CWM check serials as well?

And that's what I'm answering. CWM won't even attempt to restore it (much less check the serial) because its in a different format than what it saves its backups as, you have to be on TWRP if you even wanna try it

MrKman293 · Apr 7, 2013

caseyatbt said:
I have to move to a new phone. I backed up my old one to the SDcard. I placed it in the new phone and booted into TWRP. When I enter the restore menu, I go to ext card and it doesn't show any backups. I am not sure why TWRP does not see my sdcard backups so I can restore my backup.

Are you just trying to restore apps or what?

imaconeheadXD · Apr 7, 2013

@OP I actually started a similar thread a while back that could have given you the solution

make a backup on your new phone using twrp, then on your sd card within the twrp folder there should be two folders with different numbers, one will have the backup you just made and the other will have your old backups. Move the files with the old backups into the folder which contains the new backup, then delete the old, empty folder. Now you can restore your old backups

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caseyatbt · Apr 8, 2013

CNexus said:
And that's what I'm answering. CWM won't even attempt to restore it (much less check the serial) because its in a different format than what it saves its backups as, you have to be on TWRP if you even wanna try it

I meant install CWM, then make a backupwith CWM and use CWM on a new phone.

imaconeheadXD said:
@OP I actually started a similar thread a while back that could have given you the solution make a backup on your new phone using twrp, then on your sd card within the twrp folder there should be two folders with different numbers, one will have the backup you just made and the other will have your old backups. Move the files with the old backups into the folder which contains the new backup, then delete the old, empty folder. Now you can restore your old backups

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I tried that and it says it failed as it finishes the restore.

I decided to just restore from Titanium Backup and do the set it up over again.

CNexus · Apr 8, 2013

WAIT
Do you mean to say that you still have the old phone? If so, there's a way to make an ODIN flashable tar of the exact state of your old phone so you can flash to your new phone

Here's a link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1777579
Partitions are the same so you can use the script someone in there made

caseyatbt · Apr 10, 2013

CNexus said:
WAIT
Do you mean to say that you still have the old phone? If so, there's a way to make an ODIN flashable tar of the exact state of your old phone so you can flash to your new phone

Here's a link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1777579
Partitions are the same so you can use the script someone in there made

That is cool! Thanks. I have made the images, but making them flash-able seems a little less clear.

hex90 · Jun 3, 2013

caseyatbt said:
I have to move to a new phone. I backed up my old one to the SDcard. I placed it in the new phone and booted into TWRP. When I enter the restore menu, I go to ext card and it doesn't show any backups. I am not sure why TWRP does not see my sdcard backups so I can restore my backup.

TWRP bases backups and restores on serial number in a couple places. I've only done this from same phone to other of the same phones I've gotten of the same model (e.g. S3 to S3, HTC One 32GB to HTC One 64GB). Not sure how it would work from different model to different model - spose it depends on what you are restoring., model, rom, etc.

TWRP backup directory is sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/[SerialNumberOfDevice]/[timeStampOfBackup]/

Change the directory name to the serial number of the new device you want to restore to. Then, go to /[timeStampOfBackup]/recovery.log and do a find/replace on all of the old serial number with the new serial number - I believe there are 8 or 9 instances.

If you change the directory name from w/in TWRP recovery console, reboot - then it'll show up as a recovery option... though, you'll need to update the log file another way -if it's on an sdcard (vs. an HTC One where there is no true sdcard) neither should be a problem.

cheers

robertfah · Jun 11, 2013

hex90 said:
TWRP bases backups and restores on serial number in a couple places. I've only done this from same phone to other of the same phones I've gotten of the same model (e.g. S3 to S3, HTC One 32GB to HTC One 64GB). Not sure how it would work from different model to different model - spose it depends on what you are restoring., model, rom, etc.

TWRP backup directory is sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/[SerialNumberOfDevice]/[timeStampOfBackup]/

Change the directory name to the serial number of the new device you want to restore to. Then, go to /[timeStampOfBackup]/recovery.log and do a find/replace on all of the old serial number with the new serial number - I believe there are 8 or 9 instances.

If you change the directory name from w/in TWRP recovery console, reboot - then it'll show up as a recovery option... though, you'll need to update the log file another way -if it's on an sdcard (vs. an HTC One where there is no true sdcard) neither should be a problem.

cheers

I'm having a similar issue with TWRP not seeing backups but my device didn't change. I found my serial number but it's a long, 14 digit number and the folder you mention above is about 8 characters long consisting of characters and numbers. I tried to convert my serial number (is Hex I believe) to ASCII but it doesn't render the same name as the folder (not even close in terms of length). Any idea as to how I can convert it?

topherk · Jun 11, 2013

robertfah said:
I'm having a similar issue with TWRP not seeing backups but my device didn't change. I found my serial number but it's a long, 14 digit number and the folder you mention above is about 8 characters long consisting of characters and numbers. I tried to convert my serial number (is Hex I believe) to ASCII but it doesn't render the same name as the folder (not even close in terms of length). Any idea as to how I can convert it?

I think the easiest way of getting the "new" serial number is just to create a new TWRP backup for your phone (maybe something small like just recovery). It'll create a new folder with the name of your "new" serial number. That's the one you'd want to use.

CNexus · Jun 11, 2013

robertfah said:
I'm having a similar issue with TWRP not seeing backups but my device didn't change. I found my serial number but it's a long, 14 digit number and the folder you mention above is about 8 characters long consisting of characters and numbers. I tried to convert my serial number (is Hex I believe) to ASCII but it doesn't render the same name as the folder (not even close in terms of length). Any idea as to how I can convert it?

Connect your phone to your computer (make sure drivers are installed)
Download the adb_windows.zip from my devhost here: http://d-h.st/qmi

Then unzip that and open a command prompt in the unzipped directory (Shift + Right click > Open command prompt here)

Type "adb devices", press enter, and you'll have your serial in the following form:

Code:

xxxxxxx       device

Last step: profit

robertfah · Jun 11, 2013

topherk said:
I think the easiest way of getting the "new" serial number is just to create a new TWRP backup for your phone (maybe something small like just recovery). It'll create a new folder with the name of your "new" serial number. That's the one you'd want to use.

Yeah I did that but once again, I couldn't see it through TWRP (but could through Root Explorer or Windows Explorer).

CNexus said:
Connect your phone to your computer (make sure drivers are installed)
Download the adb_windows.zip from my devhost here: http://d-h.st/qmi

Then unzip that and open a command prompt in the unzipped directory (Shift + Right click > Open command prompt here)

Type "adb devices", press enter, and you'll have your serial in the following form:

Code:

xxxxxxx device

Last step: profit

Thanks for this...after doing this, the serial number was the same, however, I ran across this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2178264&highlight=twrp+not+finding+backups&page=2 and found Post #14 to be very helpful and my possible solution.

As it turns out, when I connect my phone to my computer, I get the drive "SPH-L710" and the folders "Card" and "Phone" within that. Phone has a 0 folder in it and I copied the TWRP from Phone\TWRP to 0\TWRP and then I was able to view them and restore them in recovery.

So why isn't TWRP storing the backups in 0\TWRP? What is supposed to be in the 0 folder and the Phone folders? it looks like I have some duplicate folders going on:

Phone:

0:

xstahsie · Mar 5, 2015

This actually worked for me. I bricked my LG G3, got Verizon to send me a replacement LG G3, and then I used the TWRP backup that I had made to restore everything. Thanks for this information.

How I got it to work was I made a TWRP backup on the new phone, transferred the backup that I had made on the old phone to the new phone, rename the new backup to something, and rename the old backup to to match the original name of the new backup.

xdax1 · Aug 14, 2016

TWRP backup directory is sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/[SerialNumberOfDevice]/[timeStampOfBackup]/

Change the directory name to the serial number of the new device you want to restore to. Then, go to /[timeStampOfBackup]/recovery.log and do a find/replace on all of the old serial number with the new serial number - I believe there are 8 or 9 instances.

If you change the directory name from w/in TWRP recovery console, reboot - then it'll show up as a recovery option... though, you'll need to update the log file another way -if it's on an sdcard (vs. an HTC One where there is no true sdcard) neither should be a problem.

cheers[/QUOTE]

Thanks I got it working like this

feeling7 · Dec 3, 2020

During the TWRP restore process (old phone backup to new phone but same model), should I restore every partition to have everything working properly? or maybe just system+data?
I mean about screen as below:

I am not sure if I should also restore partition as: modem, boot?

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