I have used nand to backup my stock build and settings and then to restore after trying out a custom ROM. I know THAT works. My question is, can you restore custom Roms just the same way? I'm sure this is elementary, but I wanted to know before I did it just in case it wouldn't work if I backed one up.
What I am trying to do is restore back to Skyraider v1.9. I had to do a restore to stock last night because Pandora was sounding like crap and mixzing wasn't finding all of my albums and I really just needed music. BUT I like how skyraider is running otherwise and would like to go back to it until the OFFICIAL Froyo is out. I just don't want to lose all of my settings in case I end up reverting to stock again for something.
Also would it hurt my phone to do so many restores? Not like I'm doing it a lot, but I have done maybe 4 restores in as many days this week.
Thanks in advance for info
I RUU'ed back to stock so verizon could check my battery. Then did a nandroid restore to get back to SkyRaider 1.9 no problem.
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I RUU'ed back to stock so verizon could check my battery. Then did a nandroid restore to get back to SkyRaider 1.9 no problem.
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I've done a bunch of googling and can't seem to get a straight answer so I thought I'd just ask. I apologize for the noobishness of this question and thank every kind soul in advance for your help on this form in general and this question in particular.
To install cyanogenmod I had to install an older hboot (.76.2000 (pc361)). I did so and things are okay but I really need to wireless tether with 4G these days. So I want to go back to stock. When I try to restore my nandroid backup i get an error restoring the boot image. From what I've found this is due to the hboot version I'm using.
So my question is this: can I simply update the hboot to something newer? Would that remove my ability to run an nandroid recovery? Would I be better just doing a RUU recovery from scratch (or is that even possible)? Essentially, what is the fastest and safest way to get back to a stock image?
Thanks again for your help with this.
So I grabbed the latest RUU and thought I'd give that a shot. It won't work though as it won't see the phone...even though Windows is seeing the phone in device manager. I'm guessing this has to do with SENSE not being on there.
Can one extract the files from the RUU installer and just apply them via the clockwork recovery?
Sorry no one responded sooner you can just use the warm 2. 2 Rom its very good has 4g and Sprint hotspot is hacked automatically and its got a custom version of sense give it a go put it on the root of SD and flash through recovery no need for stock you'll see its enjoyable
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Also if necessary you can find an app for WiFi tether by googling WiFi tether apk
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hackulous said:
Also if necessary you can find an app for WiFi tether by googling WiFi tether apk
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You are both a scholar and a gentleman. I thank you for your help!
hackulous said:
Sorry no one responded sooner you can just use the warm 2. 2 Rom its very good has 4g and Sprint hotspot is hacked automatically and its got a custom version of sense give it a go put it on the root of SD and flash through recovery no need for stock you'll see its enjoyable
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From what I heard, the sprint hotspot app only tethers on 3G. Any truth to this?
I battled with the exact same issue. Search my posts for my thoughts and findings in this.
Briefly though, I can say I that you are on the money and I too didn't know how to get past this hboot issue, but I found a way around the issue.
from the beginning, To flash Cm6 you must flash to an older hboot, don't remember the version.
To perform a nandroid restore to your stock sense Rom backup you already made, that is now not working,you have to go back to that hboot you had before you went to the older on to get Cm6 to flash.
Here's how I did it with a little bonus info.
You can now ever make a nandroid backup of Cm6, incase you might want to go back to Cm6.
Use the 3.29. Ruu to get away from cm6 and put that hboot you need to run that nandroid restore to the sense Rom backup you made. This will make you completely stock.
Then you can use unrevoked to root again.
Now you can edo your nandroid restore to your backups that wouldn't work because our hboot is good to go now.
Also, good thing to know is that you can nandroid restore back to your Cm6 backup, if you made one, because its the flashing that requires that other hboot, not a nandroid backup.
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This is good info on how to go back to stock. If I weren't so damn busy with work and such I'd even think it should be a wiki article. The world of ROMs and ROOT is a fun place to play and opens up a lot of doors, but for a n00b you can feel kind of stuck. I thin it's because each phone/mfg tends to have their own quirks and so you can read general info but there are always these little variances which make me utterly afraid of bricking a $200 device....
I went with the Warm Two Point Two and, wow, it's slick. It gives me the 4G i needed and works quite well. It does also appear to tether over 4G as well. I'm very happy. But, again, it's good to have the steps outlined to go back to stock because I'm sure I won't be the last person to want to know how to do this.
Thanks again for all your help!
I rooted my Evo yesterday and flashed myns rom. I like the stock Rom that my phone came with and I would like to return to it. I would like to improve battery life as much as I can but with the stock Rom. So my questions are, Where can I download the stock Rom? I have hw 004 and it came with 3.30.651.3 second question is, what could I do to the stock Rom to improve battery life?
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Sprint Lovers is a very close to stock rom, your best bet probally lies there. After that, you can try running a few apps like SetCPU and Juice Defender. You do have to pay for SetCPU from the marketplace though, so it may not be your first choice.
A task watcher or killer also helps, I tend to lean towards Watchdog over something like Advanced Task Killer. You can also try AutoKiller Memory Optimizer, but if you don't know what you're doing, I'd suggest leaving it on the standard settings.
Is the stock available for download? Let's just say incase of warranty purposes and I had to unroot
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You should ALWAYS nandroid backup your current phone image before flashing any ROMs. If you would have, you'd be able to easily revert to the stock.
It is available somewhere, but not sure where for 004/3.30.
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You should ALWAYS nandroid backup your current phone image before flashing any ROMs. If you would have, you'd be able to easily revert to the stock.
It is available somewhere, but not sure where for 004/3.30.
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I did nandroid backup it was part of the instructions I followed to flash a rom. I didn't know that nandroid backup was for that. Thank you.
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Watch out, doing that nandroid recovery doesn't get you back to the stock rom for Sprint warrenties.
What you want is How to Unroot the EVO in 2 steps. After that you can take it back to Sprint with no worries whatsoever.
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Watch out, doing that nandroid recovery doesn't get you back to the stock rom for Sprint warrenties.
What you want is How to Unroot the EVO in 2 steps. After that you can take it back to Sprint with no worries whatsoever.
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So what is I want a stock rom with some of the sprint stuff removed, is there a way to remove the sprint stuff manually?
Nandroid recovery then unroot for warranty purposes correct? I want to stay rooted so I just did Nandroid recovery...I'm all good for now. Just wanted stock Rom
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I rooted my Evo yesterday and flashed myns rom. I like the stock Rom that my phone came with and I would like to return to it. I would like to improve battery life as much as I can but with the stock Rom. So my questions are, Where can I download the stock Rom? I have hw 004 and it came with 3.30.651.3 second question is, what could I do to the stock Rom to improve battery life?
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In these forums are rooted odex/deodex versions of 3.30.xxx.x. Choose your flavor. Improving battery life is subjective at best and the answer comes from you trying anything and everything. People can tell you what works for them but you should take it with a grain of salt, try it, and expect the worst.
Personally, I improved battery life with one simple solution...extended battery. I have tried many roms for the evo and have settled on a rom I built myself. It's funny because I flashed kernels and roms trying to find the best for me and I ended up making my own and using the stock kernel (I have also extended the stock kernel but that's a different animal).
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Is the stock available for download? Let's just say incase of warranty purposes and I had to unroot
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Yes. If you put in the effort you can find anything and everything you need in these forums. If you're good with google you can venture further. I'm not trying to be a **** but I am trying to let you know everything and anything you need is easily found somehwere in this wonderland of a forum.
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So what is I want a stock rom with some of the sprint stuff removed, is there a way to remove the sprint stuff manually?
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If you are rooted get titanium backup and uninstall whatever you want including sprint apps.
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Nandroid recovery then unroot for warranty purposes correct? I want to stay rooted so I just did Nandroid recovery...I'm all good for now. Just wanted stock Rom
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Again for me I settled on a stock rom I built. I still uninstalled all the sprint stuff and I found that uninstalling every single sense related gibberish helped improve my evo overall (battery, speed, responsiveness, memory space). My info/personal experience is also subjective but you can take it, try it, and if it doesn't work for you nandroid restore is your friend and lifesaver.
Good luck.
Thank you very much. I don't thing your being a ****, I Google a lot of what I asked I just can be a bit ocd and wanted to get info from a forum I trust. Its been a while since I did any flashing but I pick things up pretty fast. I'm gonna try sprint lovers next since its close to stock and experiment with others until I find what fits me best. Again thanks for your input.
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In these forums are rooted odex/deodex versions of 3.30.xxx.x. Choose your flavor. Improving battery life is subjective at best and the answer comes from you trying anything and everything. People can tell you what works for them but you should take it with a grain of salt, try it, and expect the worst.
Personally, I improved battery life with one simple solution...extended battery. I have tried many roms for the evo and have settled on a rom I built myself. It's funny because I flashed kernels and roms trying to find the best for me and I ended up making my own and using the stock kernel (I have also extended the stock kernel but that's a different animal).
Yes. If you put in the effort you can find anything and everything you need in these forums. If you're good with google you can venture further. I'm not trying to be a **** but I am trying to let you know everything and anything you need is easily found somehwere in this wonderland of a forum.
If you are rooted get titanium backup and uninstall whatever you want including sprint apps.
Again for me I settled on a stock rom I built. I still uninstalled all the sprint stuff and I found that uninstalling every single sense related gibberish helped improve my evo overall (battery, speed, responsiveness, memory space). My info/personal experience is also subjective but you can take it, try it, and if it doesn't work for you nandroid restore is your friend and lifesaver.
Good luck.
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wondering..
is the unrevoked hboot drivers this?
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.p...driver_install
also where is the SDK link?
I rooted my original inc this weekend, and am currently running cm7.1. I've got it backed up, also have another backup for skyraider 4.2, and another backup of the original rom when I first rooted. I flashed like 10 different roms, and backed up my existing rom every time I flashed a new rom, so I have like 11 different backups. Is it safe to delete all but my backup of the STOCKROOT, cm7.1, and skyraider?
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It most definitely is. You don't even really need the stock one, as SR4.2 is basically stock in the same way that CM is basically stock: similar, but more settings/features. And, you can always grab a stock ROM in the Android Development section here anyway
Very cool, thanks. I'm new to the root scene, but I'm liking everything so far, the possibilities are endless. Gonna activate my og inc tomorrow and give it a few day shakedown to see how it runs thru a normal days use.
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I only have 3 backups, anymore is unnecessary to me.
I keep stock, my latest for Magnolia, and my latest MIUI and delete the rest every chance I get.
Maybe save them to PC? I've got a couple of backups there of ROMs no longer available. So if I wanted to flash them I could, without doing setup, etc.
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I should know this but I haven't tried it. Can I make a backup of my current SRF1.2 ROM via CWM, flash an EG22 rom and if I decide to go back to Froyo simply restore my CWM backup of SRF1.2?
Thanks
yes
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Thanks, figured as much.
youll still have the eg22 modem, which will work, but you can odin just the ec05 or whatever modem you want back...
Well, for the most part yes. I do a ton of testing and I have gotten Google Services Framework errors on occasion when restoring a nandroid specifically after being on Gingerbread. It seems totally random though and if you aren't constantly changing setups like I am, you may not have this happen to you
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I always have 2-3 nandroid backups to switch between different roms etc. Been back and forth between EC05 based roms and EG22 w/plus kernel like 4-5 times this week alone, and no issues.
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I always have 2-3 nandroid backups to switch between different roms etc. Been back and forth between EC05 based roms and EG22 w/plus kernel like 4-5 times this week alone, and no issues.
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I keep 3 or 4 nandroid backups myself. Perhaps its due to the absurd amount of testing I do that it catches up to me (sometimes 4 to 5 times changing setups in a day) that it catches up to me. Its not likely but it is a possibility.
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Hey John, with all the switching around and flashing, what method are you using for restoring apps and data? cwm advance nandroid restore or titanium backup or both?
I've been on srf exclusively but with all the cool new gb roms I'm itchin to play around. Also what is your current favorite new rom?
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Hey John, with all the switching around and flashing, what method are you using for restoring apps and data? cwm advance nandroid restore or titanium backup or both?
I've been on srf exclusively but with all the cool new gb roms I'm itchin to play around. Also what is your current favorite new rom?
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I never restore data from one ROM on to a different ROM. I always do a clean install of apps and such. What I do is flash a ROM, get all of my apps added, set it up exactly how I want it then make my nandroid. Now, when I do restore data I do it through CWM Recovery Advanced/Restore Data Only. I do that (for example) if I install SRF 1.2 fresh then restore data from a SRF nandroid. Now people do restore data only from one ROM to another and don't have problems. I just can't test thoroughly that way because it could be app conflict causing an error. I wouldn't recommend restoring data from a Froyo ROM onto Gingerbread though. Now my Favorite ROM??? Wow that's tough. On Froyo; (in no specific order) SRF 1.2, Urban Regeneration, and ERA ReVolt. On Gingerbread its a ROM that isn't out yet...CompKid's upcoming EG22 release is going to be a big hit. They are all good though. You really have to try them and see what works best for you
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Running stock 2.3.6, T-Mobile, T989. Rooted via ODIN, CWM installed. Wasn't paying any damn attention and flashed a battery theme. Now my status bar FCs at startup.
Is there any way to recover from this, or would I be better off unrooting/returning to full stock and then rerooting, reinstalling, etc?
There may be a better answer, but I would just flash a new rom. There's so keep roms available if that's what you want
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well, if you made one do a nandroid backup. should work if im not mistaking
Anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong
Now, see, if I'd been thinking I'd've made a Nandroid before flashing. You know, like mentally stable people do. Unfortunately, thinking wasn't on the menu.
I flashed Zedomax's 2.3.5 and will do an ODIN -> Stock 2.3.6 -> root again once I touch my Windows PC again tonight.
Learn from my failure! Nandroid now, nandroid tomorrow, nandroid forever.
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Now, see, if I'd been thinking I'd've made a Nandroid before flashing. You know, like mentally stable people do. Unfortunately, thinking wasn't on the menu.
I flashed Zedomax's 2.3.5 and will do an ODIN -> Stock 2.3.6 -> root again once I touch my Windows PC again tonight.
Learn from my failure! Nandroid now, nandroid tomorrow, nandroid forever.
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What???
You don't have to root again once rooted already.
Just flash a stock rom from the T989 dev section. Do a nandroid backup.
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You can just flash a theme that's made for your ROM... I had this happen to me when I was trying to make my own theme and had bootloops with everything force closing in me so I instead just flashed a working theme to fix it.
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What I ended up doing was using ODIN to return to completely stock, then rerooting and removing CIQ by hand. I'm at the point where I'm not interested in flashing anything save the eventual CM9.