I'm not really sure what happened but I have PPCPimBackup installed on my SD. Long story short I made a fresh backup of everything since I was going to be flashing a new ROM. I always do a test restore to make sure everything is ok. This time everything isn't ok.. I have 5 contacts now after my restore. I have no clue what to do. Any ideas?
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I just loaded Drizzys rom to take a look, but prior to doing so I did a nandroid backup.
I then restored my backup and all my settings have been lost?! Any ideas why this would happen?
Luckily I also made a backup yesterday - that restore worked thankfully.
Why would my backup made today not restore my data?
Did you wipe before backuping?
If I did it certainly wasn't intentional. I have just compared the data.img file and the one I was hoping to restore was half the size. I must have wiped first, silly me.
Thankfully I had yesterdays backup (albeit without my completed levels of farm frenzy). Oh well we live and learn.
Mod please close my stupidity thread!
Suffice to say i'm a bit unclear about this... my scenario
currently running leedroid 2.3d with ext3 app partion and I wanted to test out some of the gingerbread ports so far.
If I do a nandroid wipe, and the clear the app partion, and wipe through clockwork, install the new gingerbread rom, decide I dont like it. Can I still restore from the nandroid backup and have lost nothing... I realize it may sound like an obvious question but I couldnt find any conformation on that and really dont want to loose my current setup
Yes, assuming you nandroid before you do the full wipe
To be clear -
Nandroid backups take a complete image of the phone (ROM, apps, homescreen settings...) which is used to put everything right back where it was before you started messing with it.
Take a backup before you do anything, personally I have about 5 or 6 now (usually 2 or 3 on the phone itself, and a couple of trusted older ones copied onto my laptop) so I can get back to a working system. I keep a spreadsheet list of exactly what they are (ROM, setup, kernel if appropriate) so I know which one to restore to. Maybe it's just me but I find "2011-02-02-15.43.53" less than helpful as a restore point name.
Once you have a backup I'd also suggest rebooting, connecting to your computer and backing up the contents of your SD card. So far I've had one card die completely on me, luckily for me there was nothing irreplaceable on it. Backups, like all other files, can be copied from one SD card to another.
Thanks to both of you that was exactly the clarification I was looking for
so the dhd fell out my pocket onto concrete and the screen is f**ked, completly smashed. (surprisingly the screen itself is still ok.) luckily i have insurance
I know this is a noob question, but I want to know for sure.. if i make a nandroid backup, this backups everything right? ie every setting, and every app and every icon on the home screen etc etc?
And i assume the best way to check it works is to try and restore it?
Thanks..
it should backup everything except the SD card content.
But if you've got apps installed on your SD card and you leave it in the state it is now, you can put the phone into recovery mode and it'll be exactly the same as before.
Correct me if i'm wrong please.
But what if you get a new phone, instead of this old one repaired? Can you still restore your nandroid backup? Because it's on another phone.
Why shouldn't it work. Its exactly the same thing, just root it and run the recovery.
I just read an interesting article about this and about saving settings and apps to the cloud on Gizmodo.
http://tinyurl.com/6fsmfeo
well the nandroid backup, or at least the one i've done through rom manager/cwm backs up to the sd card, so if i did get a new phone i'd just be able to put in sd card, root phone/install cwm again and then restore?
Titanium Back-Up is good for backing up and re-linking applications if you want to do just add application to a new rom image. I would suggest your current situation might be a good time for a fresh install.
Wickedd said:
it should backup everything except the SD card content.
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nandroid won't backup your radio either, so you'd have to re-flash your radio...
Hi
I recently helped my friend to move her phone from stock to Cm7.1 stable and realized that for some reason, changing ringtone doesn't really change the ringtone.
There is a standard ringtone that plays for around 45~60 secs before the ringtone she chose plays.
Does anyone else have this problem or know a fix for this?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Did you do a full wipe before / after flashing CM7.1?
Yeah,
I remembered doing that... do you think that is the way to go?
You HAVE to do that yes.
I think I did. The thing is. it's not my phone, and so if possible I don't really want to have to wipe her phone clean. Could you think of any other possible ways to fix this without me having to have her back up everything and wiping the phone?
Before flashing a rom you should take a nandroid backup and a titanium backup. When you wipe, you then restore the titanium backup.
If you havent got a titanium backup, nandroid back to the old rom before you flashed it and take one. You HAVE to wipe going to CM from Sense.
If you didnt take any of tehse backups, all you can do is flash a sense rom as close to teh rom that was there originally, then make sure you back everything up.
ok. I'll try it when I and she have time. Thanx for your help. I'll update this post respectively.
Hello,
My dad wanted soft keys on nikez ics. I copied the zip to the SD card and flashed it to his phone. I'm 100% sure it was for the right version of the rom. It was stuck in a bootloop. I thought no problem I still have a nandroid backup. So I restored the nandroid backup and restarted the phone. But when it was on I noticed that a few things had changed. For example all the homescreens he had set up are gone. Second and more important is that his apps still are in the appdrawer but they all force close when I open them. What went wrong and why doesn't the nandroid restore everything as it was before I made the nandroid backup. Can somebody please help me out!?
Thanks in advance,
Rsdf430.
Maybe the sd-ext broke somehow. Try repartitioning your sd-card.