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When is best time to perform Backup Flash?

I have rooted, installed Amon Ra flash recovery, and currently using CM6.
I forgot to do the backup flash when I had my stock rom, so I went ahead and backed up the CM6. Is that okay?

SHicks18 said:
I have rooted, installed Amon Ra flash recovery, and currently using CM6.
I forgot to do the backup flash when I had my stock rom, so I went ahead and backed up the CM6. Is that okay?
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uhhh well, if you didn't need you're old stock rom or ever wanted to flash back to it you needed to back that up aswell, im guessing you atleast backedup your data and apps using mybackuppro or titanum?

From my research so far...and I have yet to actually commit to first root...you could just load the rooted 1.47...set it up...and back up that.
But...if I have the terminology right (please experts chime in as it will help me too)...titanium or whatever only backs up stuff...not the rom.
Nandroid back up is everything....
Which did you do? If you back up all the apps and whatever settings with titanium or my backup...then you should be ok regardless of rom.
If you are talking nandroid backup....then CM6 is now your fall back for everything.
So...my plan is to do my first nandroid with rooted 1.47. (Well it is at this moment in time.)
ps...is it nand or nandroid...oh well.

I could always download the stock rom, flash it as my backup, and go from there... correct?

SHicks18 said:
I could always download the stock rom, flash it as my backup, and go from there... correct?
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yes, that's an possible option.

youngdhillon said:
yes, that's an possible option.
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But...remember difference between stock Rom and rooted stock Rom...at least that is what I am reading. If you want to keep root...use a rooted version of that stock Rom.
(I have seen one thread saying could be issues.)
ps...again more experienced please chime in.

if you want to be safe dl rooted stock rom, flash radio then wimax then rom, once thats done do a nandroid backup of that then a nandriod restore of cm6 presto all warm and fuzzy with backups.

sablesurfer said:
..you could just load the rooted 1.47...set it up...and back up that.
But...if I have the terminology right (please experts chime in as it will help me too)...titanium or whatever only backs up stuff...not the rom.
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This is correct you can always just re flash a rooted stock rom to get back to the ... rooted stock rom. since CM6 nightly is still a bit touch and go and probably not ready to be most peoples daily driver i would suggest doing this sooner rather then later so you have a fall back.
sablesurfer said:
Nandroid back up is everything....
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This isnt exactly true. It does not back up radios, hboot, recovery. This usually isnt a big deal unless you are switching between roms using 1.47 and the older radios.
What i personally do is keep a fall back nandroid (or nand both same) of the stock rom as well as one for each rom i tend to play with (right now i have a cm6, dc3.5, and dc 3.2.3) this way i can easily restore to the roms i am playing with (cm6 dc 3.5) or back to my daily driver (dc 3,2,3) with out having to much of an issue.

Nandroid unrEVOked3 problems?

I have lost confidence in nandroid, and need help. I rooted using unrEVOked3. I did a nandroid backup before starting on the quest to install Froyo. I went back to stock and rooted with simple root. Installed clockworkmod recovery. I ran into some problems so restored my nandroid backup. The restore worked, but with problems. None of my icons or widgets were restored. My wallpaper went from black to multicolored (default I think). I read that there were some problems with Clockworkmod, so I installed amonRA recovery. I have taken a nandroid backup, but leery of it working. Am I doing something wrong or was it a problem with unrEVOked? I would like to get an answer to this before Taking my next leap and not having a good way back.

Anyone done a restore of a nandroid backup taken under unrEVOked3 with clockworkmod?
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todivefor said:
Anyone done a restore of a nandroid backup taken under unrEVOked3 with clockworkmod?
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We prefer not to use unrevoked as it is not a full root.

SteelH said:
We prefer not to use unrevoked as it is not a full root.
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I am not anymore, but looking for answers as to why my nandroid backup did not restore correctly.

todivefor said:
I am not anymore, but looking for answers as to why my nandroid backup did not restore correctly.
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Maybe because Unrevoked is not full root? Unrevoked causes 50% of the problems that rooted users have with root.

its a very good possibility the problem lies in unrevoked. I nandroid at least once a day (because i flash normally once a day. and yes thats sad). Never had that issue on a full rooted back up. (we are talking 100s of nandroid back ups and restores since i got my evo)

I did nandroid backup of 2.1, flashed burnt droid, and nandroid backup. Restored 2.1 worked great and then restored burnt droid. No problems. Must have been problems caused by unrEVOked3. Thanks everyone.

todivefor said:
I did nandroid backup of 2.1, flashed burnt droid, and nandroid backup. Restored 2.1 worked great and then restored burnt droid. No problems. Must have been problems caused by unrEVOked3. Thanks everyone.
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not to say that unrevoked was the problem but at least on mine when i did it you also have the option to do clockwork or RA. clockwork could have been the problem not wiping completely

[Q] triying to come back from cm6!!!!!

Need info on how to restore my nandroid backup. This is the story. I was rooted with a stock 2.2 froyo rom, make a backup with nandroid. Then I deside to install cm6 Tom. To do this I have to downgrade my hboot from .96 to. 76. I want to go back to my 2.2 root using nandroid but I can not get out of the hboot screen everytime I reboot the phone. Any ideas why is this happening??? Thanks for all your help in advance.

This happened to me today as well you'll need the same hboot as your nandroid backup. So go back to. 96. I ended up just flashing fresh evo and did a data only restore from my nand backup. Better battery life then stock sense rom.
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Can I flash nandroid backup of tmous 2.2 on 2.1?

So I was trying to backup a nandroid of the beta official tmous 2.2. I have two phones, one has the beta official 2.2 and the other stock 2.1. I rooted both, did a titanium backup of both, installed system recovery and ran backup of both. Then I went and loaded the 2.2 backup sd card onto the 2.1 phone and ran system backup and restored the backup. You are probably cringing by now...so it installed the backup and rebooted, and , is now in bootloop on the M logo. Can I somehow restore using the backups, or do I have to flash using rsdlite and use one of the roms on here?
Thanks in advance to any that can help!!! My wife just said she will not buy another phone for me, on my 4th phone within the last year...bricking it is a first though

So that's what you did...
To fix the 2.1 phone you bricked, try restoring the 2.1 nandroid you made.
If I'm correct, Moto's locked bootloader saved you and stopped Recovery from loading the new kernel that's used by FroYo. Which is why you're bootlooping...
If I'm wrong, you'll have to flash the leaked FroYo SBF and restore the FroYo Nandroid you made onto it...

yea, as you know I was trying to make a 2.2 tmous nandroid backup to post on here, but since I'm a noob at this I didn't want to post a possible corrupt nandroid, so I wanted to make sure it was good by trying it out. I couldn't restore the 2.1 nandroid, so I went ahead and flashed the UK 2.34. Thank goodness it worked.
So, now how can I flash the 2.2 nandroid backup onto this UK 2.34 to verify that I made a correct nandroid backup? Is it possible? I am thinking that it would have worked if I wiped data and cashe, wich I forgot to do that the first time...

well, just figured out that wiping didn't have anything to do with it...as I'm back to bootloop. Flashing the 2.34 again

The way you can test your nandroid backup is by booting into recovery, make a backup, wiping the phone, making another backup, and then booting the phone. This will allow you to see what is actually on the backup. Yes you will have to reboot and play around a bit to check, but it should be free and clear of things, at that point reboot into recovery, and restore your rom. That will mean that the second backup you made will be exactly what you just experienced. Hope that helps.

thanks. On a side note, last night when I was researching how to recover, I could have sworn I came across nandroid backups of the tmous 2.2 in the development section...Beach Head...have you looked in there (I think I saw it posted in the thread about the tmous 2.2 OTA update, thought I saw several people post a nandroid backup in the thread). Anyway, I still plan on getting this uploaded as soon as possible, but thought you might want to check in that thread...

You can restore nandroid backup of 2.2 when you are on 2.1. But you will have bootloop. It's beacause you have new kernel (from 2.2) that is not compatibile with bootloader. After restoring nandroid you should try flashing a 2.2tmo_boot only .sbf http://www.mediafire.com/?pkjkk75emk6x83f . Maybe that help. But i really not tested this with tmobile roms. With jboogie mods its working fine. Also remember about gsm fix if you use phone not in US. All 3g fixeS are in this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944258 . You should use the file with the frequencies of your country. If somethings go wrong you should flash 2.1 rom sbf (version that you are using now).

wont it just go back to stock if i..

hey i had skyraider then used chad's kernal and it got stuck in the boot loop. so i just restored it using the clockwork. now everything is back to normal just rooted. so...if i ever decide i want to go back to stock rom and kernal when i have custom roms and kernals cant i just restore it back to normal? does this make sense?

Is the backup you have of SkyRaider or a backup of the Stock ROM you made after rooting? You can always restore backups of anything you make to the point in which the backup was made. You should backup before flashing something new, in case you don't like it...saves lots of work.
If you want to go back to complete stock, un-rooted and all, you'd have to use the RUU. This would be putting the phone to the point just like it was when you unboxed it and turned it on.

ah ok i get it. yea i backed up before i flashed skyraider and the kernel. Thx

No problem, just some added info: the backup you make will also keep the kernel, so if you flash a custom kernel and backup the ROM, it'll keep that kernel too. So there's no need to reflash that if you restore a backup.

And s-on patch to unroot. Dont get in the situation like me where you can't s-on and use your warranty
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