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I feel totally comfortable flashing away on my evo knowing a backup will restore most anything. But I have zero comfort with my wife's epic.
If she hates a custom froyo rom with ext4, can clockwork restore back to her dl18 without issues? Im not sure what parts of memory are changed with these updates and if clockwork backs these up or not. Screwing up my phone is one thing, but I tread lightly with hers....married guys will understand
Yeah you'll be straight. In the Viperrom thread you will see the step by step for installing clock work mod 3 and flashing the rom. Of course you don't have to flash that particular rom. But when you're in cwm3 and about to convert to ext4 format (this is done before flashing the rom of choice assuming that rom runs on ext4) will be prompted to backup your data so you can restore if something goes wrong. Its really convenient because it backs up onto cwm so you can always just go into recovery mode if you need to restore
hdad2 said:
I feel totally comfortable flashing away on my evo knowing a backup will restore most anything. But I have zero comfort with my wife's epic.
If she hates a custom froyo rom with ext4, can clockwork restore back to her dl18 without issues? Im not sure what parts of memory are changed with these updates and if clockwork backs these up or not. Screwing up my phone is one thing, but I tread lightly with hers....married guys will understand
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I'm not sure if Clockwork will revert back to RFS and DI18 but if anything you can just odin back to di18, 1click root/cwm , and then restore data.
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I'm not sure if Clockwork will revert back to RFS and DI18 but if anything you can just odin back to di18, 1click root/cwm , and then restore data.
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Well it isn't CWM exactly. It's nandroid within CWM. It's no explicitly called nandroid when you're in CWM. It just says backup and restore. But if he follows the steps, and makes that backup before formatting to ext4, the name of the backed up file is called 'before ext4 formatting' or something like that so he knows exactly what that backup is.
Clockwork will not revert you back to RFS, and the stock ROM is not RFS-compatible. You will need to use Odin to revert back to stock. From there, you can restore your backup via CWM.
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Well it isn't CWM exactly. It's nandroid within CWM. It's no explicitly called nandroid when you're in CWM. It just says backup and restore. But if he follows the steps, and makes that backup before formatting to ext4, the name of the backed up file is called 'before ext4 formatting' or something like that so he knows exactly what that backup is.
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Do NOT remove the original folder name. This will cause a md5 sum mismatch. You need the original folder name to prevent md5 mismatch
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Do NOT remove the original folder name. This will cause a md5 sum mismatch. You need the original folder name to prevent md5 mismatch
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What? I didn't say that he should change any names. The backup is given a name automatically when it's backed up. The name isn't just the date of the backup like most backups are. It's actually named 'before ext4 formatting' or something similar to that so that it's obvious and stands out.
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What? I didn't say that he should change any names. The backup is given a name automatically when it's backed up. The name isn't just the date of the backup like most backups are. It's actually named 'before ext4 formatting' or something similar to that so that it's obvious and stands out.
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I didn't know we had cwm4. Did I miss something?
Sent From Da Hood.
You misread. I wrote ext4, not cwm4
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I didn't know we had cwm4. Did I miss something?
Sent From Da Hood.
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I don't think you can make a backup on di18 and then update to froyo and if she doesn't like it just restore back to di18. Cwm does not restore kernels. I don't think that is possible.
You are correct
Sent From Da Hood.
What you want o do is get the nandroid backup on di18. If she doesn't like froyo with ext4 then odin back to di18, install root and cwm, and then do an advanced restore->restore data to restore her apps an settings.
Odin isn't as scary as it sounds. If you're computer runs the one click root and recovery, it should odin just fine.
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Thank you everyone. So it is like I feared. Nandroid will not restore with the file system change. I just have no comfort with this odin thing. I'll figure it out I guess. Enough instructions around here.
And none of the roms seem very solid. Not even sure which to flash. She just needs super stable. Her stock epic tends to hang on the lockscreen and phone app. Viper seems the most popular, but the first time she can't hear someone on the other end of the call, it'll be my fault . Any recommendations for super stability and decent battery?
Word on the street is Bonsai4All for stability. It's stock more or less with a couple baked in addons. I'm a Viper guy and haven't had any sort of phone issues like other users have reported.
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Thank you everyone. So it is like I feared. Nandroid will not restore with the file system change. I just have no comfort with this odin thing. I'll figure it out I guess. Enough instructions around here.
And none of the roms seem very solid. Not even sure which to flash. She just needs super stable. Her stock epic tends to hang on the lockscreen and phone app. Viper seems the most popular, but the first time she can't hear someone on the other end of the call, it'll be my fault . Any recommendations for super stability and decent battery?
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I'm on bonsai right now and it's very stable. A new release is getting ready to come out which is version 2 and I'm running it now and it's super stable. About the issue where she wouldn't be able to hear anything that is a dk28 thing. Not a rom thing. I personally have only had it happen to me a couple of tines but just toggle speakerphone on/off and it fixes it. Good luck.
So any current froyo rom will have this phone bug? Sucky. Here's hoping sprint let's froyo loose this week so the talented devs have a better base to work with!
Are we sure it is a dk28 thing and not a sprint thing? My centro used to drop audio too. Usually just hanging up and redialing fixes it.
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OMG- so this is why my backups usually give me a mismatch, and I end up re-doing everything manually! I've been renaming the folders to something meaningful, like "4-1-11 SFR110Vision11"
Holy crap.
crap crap crap.
All this time I've just been screwing myself!
Is there a way I can determine what the original folder name was??? to change it back?
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Never had a problem with not hearing a phone call, must be phone specific bug. I put Bonsai on my gf's Epic and she LOVES it! I learned through much trials and tribulation on how to restore my phone so I could do hers without getting any grief. Also CWM3 does save a backup to return to rfs before it converts to EXT4. I would root with CWM 2.5.1 and get Titanium and back everything up then Odin the EB13 prerooted with CWM3 found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853209
And then Flash Bonsai 3.0.1 or 4.0.0 on it.
Agreed ^
My process is usually restore from CWM then restore apps from Titanium.
If Odin is necessary...then do that then restore from Titanium.
I recently rooted and have been enjoying the different ROMS I am now able to use which makes my phone more enjoyable.
I wanted to ask something about backup's that I am a little confused on.
I know there are a few methods of backing up. I do the method of rebooting into recovery and backing up.
My question is, what exactly is this backing up? I would like the backup method to back up the whole ROM with everything I have set in place, kind of like a .img file of sorts on a PC.
I have been going back and forth between an ASOP (MIUI) ROM and a couple Sense based ROMS (MikFroyo and MYNS.) It is frustrating when going between each that I have to go through and reinstall everything and set it all up the way I like it.
Is there a method to create a image that I can just go into recovery, "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" then "Wipe Cache Partition" then "Calkulin's FORMAT_ALL" and then load up the saved image file that will have everthing in tact that I saved in the image file?
Thank you,
Whiteice
Simply back up everything (wimax, sd-ext, boot...) on the particular ROM you have set up, and then set up your next ROM. I use Amon_RA 2.2.1 and you can rename the actual nandroid backup to make it easier to remember which ROM it is. So you can pretty much do exactly what your asking. Once you've set them up, you can easily restore different ROMs.
You can backup an entire rom with rom manager with clockwork. It saves everything the way you left it, from your settings, apps, and even call log.
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I recently rooted and have been enjoying the different ROMS I am now able to use which makes my phone more enjoyable.
I wanted to ask something about backup's that I am a little confused on.
I know there are a few methods of backing up. I do the method of rebooting into recovery and backing up.
My question is, what exactly is this backing up? I would like the backup method to back up the whole ROM with everything I have set in place, kind of like a .img file of sorts on a PC.
I have been going back and forth between an ASOP (MIUI) ROM and a couple Sense based ROMS (MikFroyo and MYNS.) It is frustrating when going between each that I have to go through and reinstall everything and set it all up the way I like it.
Is there a method to create a image that I can just go into recovery, "Wipe Data/Factory Reset" then "Wipe Cache Partition" then "Calkulin's FORMAT_ALL" and then load up the saved image file that will have everthing in tact that I saved in the image file?
Thank you,
Whiteice
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trust me if your not to sure about what you are doing at least try and get Amon on your phone. It IMO and quite a few others is safer than Clockwork. Clockwork and Rom Manager are for beginners I will admit but before something goes crazy try and flash over to Amon..
edit: to answer you question though nandroid is like system restore in windows... you will get back everything exactly as you left it.
the nandroid backup in your recovery mode does back up everything. once you back it up then flash whatever you are flashing and you dont like it, u just go back and click nandroid restore and it will go back to exactly how it was when u backed it up
Quick question in the new amon what do we check when making a backup.
I'm used to 2.2 and just hitting make a backup.
And just like someone said above, Rom Manager and clockwork may be for beginners but seasoned users also use this. I find it simple to use and flashed about 12 Roms in a couple of months and I have 6 backups stored in the Rom Manager backup list. Very simple to restore back to one of your saved backups as well as easy to save new ones.
And one thing I have picked up about AMon RA is that in the newer versions, make sure you toggle the verification to off so that if a rom or whatever it is you're trying to flash is unsigned, it will not give an error and you'll be able to download.
playya said:
trust me if your not to sure about what you are doing at least try and get Amon on your phone.
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couldn't have said it any better myself
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And one thing I have picked up about AMon RA is that in the newer versions, make sure you toggle the verification to off so that if a rom or whatever it is you're trying to flash is unsigned, it will not give an error and you'll be able to download.
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Just to point out, the same can happen in clockworkmod.
Really? I was looking for an option about toggling verification on Clockwork but I couldn't find it anywhere. You know where that option is? I mean I haven't' had any errors using it but just in case.
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Really? I was looking for an option about toggling verification on Clockwork but I couldn't find it anywhere. You know where that option is? I mean I haven't' had any errors using it but just in case.
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After you select install from zip, right before you check install form sd card, there should be the option on that screen to toggle signature verification.
That's awesome to know. I guess I never looked at that part of the screen before I flash something because I never get an error. So now if it happens I'll give it a thorough look over. Thanks a lot Roxxorz.
Oh, and you were commenting on the other thread in regards to King Ultra's rom animation. I replied back to that thread but I'm trying to get my own screename configured. Thanks for your input on that issue to but that's puzzling to me. I also have the Amon RA 1.8 version as I hear that's a good version to use as well on my SD in case I want to try it later on.
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Oh, and you were commenting on the other thread in regards to King Ultra's rom animation. I replied back to that thread but I'm trying to get my own screename configured. Thanks for your input on that issue to but that's puzzling to me. I also have the Amon RA 1.8 version as I hear that's a good version to use as well on my SD in case I want to try it later on.
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So what exactly were you trying to do?
I just did a CWM backup of my awesome ROM before I flasha new one (like I always does) and noticed it backed up awfully fast.
I just flashed the new 6.0.0.5 touch recovery so I booted back into Android before flashing a new ROM and noticed my backup folder in CWM was 20 megs...
Did my ROM really get backed up with data? Is all the info now in the "blobs" folder?
I am honestly tempted to just reflash the older CWM and do a backup just in case.
Is this normal?
Normal.
Backups are handled VERY differently for CWM now.
From what I understand:
Each file is diffed from the backup you're currently making to any old backups.
If the file was modified...a copy is made for your new backup.
If it wasn't...a reference to the file is made so that it doesn't have to copy said file over...it just says: Yes. File exists...it's here.
This cuts down on the a)
TIME. By a lot.
b)
Size...of incremental backups.
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This is just how my brain is processing the new CWM's features.
I've read nothing that states how it works...all I know is that YES, the above sizes are normal.
I'm generally pretty close in my assumptions...but I'm not a dev. Just...intuitive.
So if I'm wrong ::: Don't shoot me.
Makes sense.
here goes nothing...
Have done some reading a yesterday about this since I wanted to see if this was worthy of leaving my Old Touch Recovery.
It was worthy because the one feature that caught my eye was that it makes files smaller by compressing and preventing duplicated files in a back up.
This is why the back up is smaller(ish) and faster to back up and restore.
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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^
How can we safely delete old backups? I've read up on how it works, but it's still not clear. If I delete my oldest backup, will it render all the new ones useless because they don't have the duplicated files?
Well the ROM I flashed was fubar, couldn't get past the boot-animation, so I had to ADB enter recovery and did a CWM restore on 6.0.0.5 Touch, seems to work fine.
grantith said:
How can we safely delete old backups? I've read up on how it works, but it's still not clear. If I delete my oldest backup, will it render all the new ones useless because they don't have the duplicated files?
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This is a good question. I'm thinking the same thing. If I have backup #1, #2, and #3 (the newest) where #3 is incremental differences from #1 and #2 will backup #3 be trash if I delete backup #1 and #2??
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This is a good question. I'm thinking the same thing. If I have backup #1, #2, and #3 (the newest) where #3 is incremental differences from #1 and #2 will backup #3 be trash if I delete backup #1 and #2??
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You delete the entire CWM folder and do a fresh backup.
Some of you may be thinking "well, how do I delete a backup?".
First, never delete the blobs directory. This would actually delete all your backups by rendering them unusable.
Simply delete the usual backup directory, and the next time you run a backup, all the unused hash files will be automatically delete (a process known as garbage collection). The recovery will show "Freeing space..." while this is happening.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1757146
"Simple delete the usual backup directory." Unfortunately I don't really get what that means. Any ideas?
grantith said:
How can we safely delete old backups? I've read up on how it works, but it's still not clear. If I delete my oldest backup, will it render all the new ones useless because they don't have the duplicated files?
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Just to add, it looks like the app data and such is stored in the blobs folder, so if you delete an old "backup" from backup folder, but keep the blob folder intact, it will still restore fine.
grantith said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1757146
"Simple delete the usual backup directory." Unfortunately I don't really get what that means. Any ideas?
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exactly what I just said above
This jump in recovery version confuses the hell out of me, I honestly don't understand it. I have 9 different rom's backed up on my phone and I want to update them but I've read stories of people having issues restoring old backups. My question is do I need restore to each rom with a version of clockworkmod 5 then flash clockworkmod 6 and back up with clockworkmod 6?
masully84 said:
This jump in recovery version confuses the hell out of me, I honestly don't understand it. I have 9 different rom's backed up on my phone and I want to update them but I've read stories of people having issues restoring old backups. My question is do I need restore to each rom with a version of clockworkmod 5 then flash clockworkmod 6 and back up with clockworkmod 6?
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That's what I did.
Not sure if you "have to" but I didn't want to chance it.
orangekid said:
That's what I did.
Not sure if you "have to" but I didn't want to chance it.
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Thanks man, yeah it seems like the safest way to approach it
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Thanks man, yeah it seems like the safest way to approach it
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And it also sounds like it will conserve a lot of space because it won't double up on app data which matches your other ROMs.
A couple of things. I've been reading xda for a while but am by no means anything other than a "noob" I know just enough to be dangerous to my phone, but so far only soft bricked my old cappy once. So a very grateful thank you to all the hard work you guys put in to pushing the development.
As a somewhat experienced noob I can say first hand that reading through all these threads and posts that lead in a thousand directions is pretty hard and time consuming. That's why all the "what ROM is best" threads. I sounds kind of selfish coming from someone who has contributed nothing other than traffic to xda, but a section for comparing different ROMs would stop most of those posts.
Now for the questions. Is there a way to put a .zip of the stock ROM on my sd card so I can go back to stock anytime I want? I know I can flash back to stock with odin, but can it be done thru the recovery console? I would like to be able to have several ROMs saved on sd and use recovery to flash between them. I'm not real happy with ROMManager... is freezes all the time, and I've not one time been able to flash with it.
Thanks
Make a backup! Install cwm on your device ...boot into recovery> create backup....
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k.zacher said:
A couple of things. I've been reading xda for a while but am by no means anything other than a "noob" I know just enough to be dangerous to my phone, but so far only soft bricked my old cappy once. So a very grateful thank you to all the hard work you guys put in to pushing the development.
As a somewhat experienced noob I can say first hand that reading through all these threads and posts that lead in a thousand directions is pretty hard and time consuming. That's why all the "what ROM is best" threads. I sounds kind of selfish coming from someone who has contributed nothing other than traffic to xda, but a section for comparing different ROMs would stop most of those posts.
Now for the questions. Is there a way to put a .zip of the stock ROM on my sd card so I can go back to stock anytime I want? I know I can flash back to stock with odin, but can it be done thru the recovery console? I would like to be able to have several ROMs saved on sd and use recovery to flash between them. I'm not real happy with ROMManager... is freezes all the time, and I've not one time been able to flash with it.
Thanks
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WOW one of the most brutally honest statements I've seen here in a while. That's good. And yes it's all very confusing at times, even for non-noobs lol.
Answer-->once you have rooted and cwm or twrp installed make a nandroid of your system, you can restore this at any time. Once you install a rom and get it running how you want and want to try another rom make a nandroid of that one in recovery, you can go back by restoring it. You can do this in this way until your happy with what your running or you run out of storage.
One word of advice...nandroids are snapshots of how your phone is at that moment...any apps, texts, modifications after the nandroid wont be in it....but...a nandroid combined with my back up or titanium backup is great, nandroid for the system and my back up or titanium backup for texts, apps, call logs and such and you can switch back and forth or install a new rom and restore user apps and call logs, texts, ect without losing those. Remember don't back up system apps or system settings as those may mess up on a different rom, only back up user apps(those you've installed).
Hope this helps a little
BTW--> don't use ROM manager to flash anything other than the recovery. Boot into recovery and flash stuff manually. Also, I would suggest twrp recovery as both have issues with auto naming backups, but at least with twrp you can name it whatever you want before you make it.
Just be careful. I remember a Nandroid not flashing the radio but they may have fixed that. Other than that you should loose nothing other than whatever apps you may have installed on the ROM your tinkering with.
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I was hoping to make a backup of my non rooted completely stock ROM. I don't see how to do that if first I have to root and flash CWM or another recovery to do the backup. I didn't see any way to do it from the stock recovery. I have looked to see if anyone has posted an zip image of stock non rooted but the only way I've seen to go back to stock is odin3. Is that correct and am I just wasting my time? I wanted that image so I could go back and update to the new stock ROMs as they come out to test drive and see if I want to use them. Just seems easier that way.
Thanks for your responses
I THINK someone posted a zip format of stock but your best bet would be Odin since you didn't make a backup before. I was wondering this a while back too.. Kinda surprised its not in such high demand..
Edit: are nandroid backups device specific? Can one nandroid backup be used for multiple phones? If it can, I'll flash Odin and post nandroid of stock later tonight
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WOW one of the most brutally honest statements I've seen here in a while. That's good. And yes it's all very confusing at times, even for non-noobs lol.
Answer-->once you have rooted and cwm or twrp installed make a nandroid of your system, you can restore this at any time. Once you install a rom and get it running how you want and want to try another rom make a nandroid of that one in recovery, you can go back by restoring it. You can do this in this way until your happy with what your running or you run out of storage.
One word of advice...nandroids are snapshots of how your phone is at that moment...any apps, texts, modifications after the nandroid wont be in it....but...a nandroid combined with my back up or titanium backup is great, nandroid for the system and my back up or titanium backup for texts, apps, call logs and such and you can switch back and forth or install a new rom and restore user apps and call logs, texts, ect without losing those. Remember don't back up system apps or system settings as those may mess up on a different rom, only back up user apps(those you've installed).
Hope this helps a little
BTW--> don't use ROM manager to flash anything other than the recovery. Boot into recovery and flash stuff manually. Also, I would suggest twrp recovery as both have issues with auto naming backups, but at least with twrp you can name it whatever you want before you make it.
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Titanium backup is a must. And pay for the app, its cheap and you support the developer.
Also, I've had better results with cwm. As soon as I make a backup to my SD card I boot into the ROM and change the filename.
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Titanium backup is a must. And pay for the app, its cheap and you support the developer.
Also, I've had better results with cwm. As soon as I make a backup to my SD card I boot into the ROM and change the filename.
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree titanium is not a "must" I've been using my backup pro for years without problems to make my backups. In my opinion its has a better more user friendly user interface with the same freeze/uninstall options. Also as a recovery twrp is gaining ground on cwm for its better options, one of which is renaming backups on the spot when you make it. Add in a file manger, terminal window, multiple flashes at once and many more options many think it is a better recovery. The way the newer cwm makes nandroids makes it very hard to delete individual nandroids, search cwm blobs for more info.
Also, check our mskips toolkit stickied in the dev section for a backup. You will need to be rooted but not to sure about the recovery. You may be able to do it with the stock recovery as I think it uses adb for pretty much everything it can. There is a way to make a backup on stock recovery through adb but you will need to be rooted, his toolkit will do that also.
Hello there,
I googled a lot, I searched a lot here, but I did not find what I searched for.
I am thinking about testing the new Version of Cyanogenmod, the problem is that I in fact never did anything like this.
I want to set back the device to manufactures setting and then backup the original LG Software, so that I can go back to the standard before selling, or if CM isnt quite mine.
Anyone tips or links how to manage that?
Thank a lot before, sorry if this was asked before (I'm pretty shure), I couldn't find.
5MinutesAloneLG
After rooting and unlocking,make sure you place the efs backup somewhere safe. You can also make a nandroid backup and restore it if you don't like cm. or you can use kdz updater to flash stock firmware.
I'm sure you looked all the places,except the FAQ
Okay, this sounds good to me.
Does any of the 3 Methods give me the same way of a full backup from the original software, or is there something else that has to be done?
I searched for the Faqs, but I couldn't find any?
Thanks a lot!
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Does any of the 3 Methods give me the same way of a full backup from the original software, or is there something else that has to be done?
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No, these are different things. EFS backup is to save your butt in case something happens with your IMEI. This is one of the most important things, don't overlook it! Nandroid backup is a "snapshot" of your existing ROM, including all your installed apps and their settings. This is the easiest way to get back to your previous ROM after experimenting with others. And KDZ is not a backup - it's a factory image that will return your phone to the exact same state as it was when brand new.
I searched for the Faqs, but I couldn't find any?
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Look in @kimitza signature. It's his baby. :good:
the nandroid backup is like a restore image for windows. you will have all apps/settings from that time saved. here is a scenario:
1. On clean stock rom,root and unlock(unlock will also flash cwm recovery). Place FREEGEE folder somewhere safe.
2. Enter recovery mode and make a backup.
3. Flash any other rom ...and if you don't like it, restore the backup you made earlier.
4. Restore EFS with freegee.
5. Use Unroot from supersu.
6. Backup all your files(photo and other media to pc) then do a hard reset.
7. You will have a clean stock/official rom,like it came from factory.
All of this can be simplified by backing up your files and use kdz updater,followed by a hard reset. .It takes less time and it's safer.
I rooted it, but I dont have an hint of an idea how to do these efs backup?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38886073&postcount=1&nocache=1&z=7530246020855317
what is to do with that zip? I'm from germany and I have no clue what run in recovery mode should tell me. On the Phone or on the PC?
If unzipped, what is there to do?
As I want to use the cm installer with 10.2 stable, I just want to backup everything important..
Sorry, wrong link, i meant this of course, its allready rooted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38438579&postcount=1
Sorry for posting again, but honestly, I'm not allowed to post in the efs thread, so I cant do anything right now.
Im still waiting to flash it.
Anyone should do efs backup, so basicly people should be able to tell me how to do that or?
Please anyone!
When you unlock the bootloader with freegee, it automagically makes a backup of the EFS,amongst other things(like bootloader state,imei,partitions etc). It's enough to place that FREEGEE folder somewhere safe. If you ever run into troubles(like no IMEI shown or you just want to go back to stock without using KDZ updater),just restore with freegee. It will relock you bootloader and restore EFS(with imei).