I've tried to search but cant find a guide how to make a backup of my phone... if someone can explain or post me a link, i will be a happy man
Root phone.
Power off.
Hold volume down and power the phone on, and enter recovery mode.
Get into recovery menu (recoverywhatever.sh on *NIX or recovery-windows.bat)
Scroll to backup/restore in recovery menu.
Select backup NAND only - backing up EXT causes errors right now.
Find saved nandroid on your SD card.
Back up your apps separately using Titanium Backup or MyBackup Pro. Restore by wiping the phone, restoring the NAND, and restoring the apps via one of the above apps.
You need root for nandroid. Then it's done in recovery.
its rooted, but when i go into the recovery menu, the phone just shows a picture with a red triangle, is that correct?
No. Get back into the green recovery menu by running recovery-windows.bat or whatever method you used in step 2 of the rooting process to flash the rooted zip file.
ok thnx
one more thing, the titanium backup said i need busybox, how do i install that?... Found out myself
Did you get this problem solved as I have the same problem. I re rooted my desire and the same thing happened. The only time i can go to recovery is when I use recovery-windows.bat from the r5 tools. Any help?
i just use rom manager. choose backup in there, phone reboots itself, backs itself up and done.
used the recovery options a few times when moving from rom to rom.
ClockworkMod Recovery tool
ClockworkMod Recovery tool is really handy. Does everything itself in few clicks. I used Rom manager to backup with no problems without any previous experience.
tommo123 said:
i just use rom manager. choose backup in there, phone reboots itself, backs itself up and done.
used the recovery options a few times when moving from rom to rom.
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installed rom manager and when choosed backup curret rom it asked for desired name then tap ok and reboots, now its freeze into htc slash screen
A2SD
Edit:
I accidentally posted on the wrong thread...
Are there still problems with this?
"backing up EXT causes errors right now."
I have one question.
If i make a nandroid backup, does it make a FULL nand backup or just certain parts of nand ?
If i for example make a backup of my leedroid rom with all my apps and settings
make wipe and then try a gingerbread rom, will restoring nandbackup actually restore the prevision rom with all the settings and apps ?
hojnikb said:
I have one question.
If i make a nandroid backup, does it make a FULL nand backup or just certain parts of nand ?
If i for example make a backup of my leedroid rom with all my apps and settings
make wipe and then try a gingerbread rom, will restoring nandbackup actually restore the prevision rom with all the settings and apps ?
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It will restore the entire rom to the exact state as the time before the nandroid. So yes all settings and apps will be there.
Great to know..
Thx
Is it worth rooting for a backup?
Also will a new OTA just remove root if or when another OTA comes out... ?
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Lothaen said:
Is it worth rooting for a backup?
Also will a new OTA just remove root if or when another OTA comes out... ?
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No there is not a real point in rooting for the ability to back up. And despite what some say, never apply OTA updates on rooted devices! But custom versions will come out at the same time as the OTA so you don't miss out on anything.
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No there is not a real point in rooting for the ability to back up. And despite what some say, never apply OTA updates
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What's an OTA update?
Just install rom manager then click on back up . Boom you have a nandroid back up.
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Ota update is
Over the air update so its basically stock updates from phone manufactures
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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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Is there an easy way to switch between roms on my evo? There is two roms I like and would like to hop back and fourth between them...but I may can only flash one at a time...any ideas? I think I saw a program called rom manager? Maybe that will allow me to do that?
Thanks!
ROM Manager, it is. A blessing.
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You could use rom manager. Backup the roms you want to use and when you want to switch use the restore option in rom manager.
yes. use nandroid back-up and easily flash between whatever it is you wish.
wether it be clockwork mod or amon ra!
K this might be a stupid question, but with Rom manager you can easily switch back and forth between roms, i understand that fact, but can you flash files with Rom manager? I usually have to reboot into recovery and then flash a certain file and reboot.
I just bought clockwork premium! WOOHOO!
Right now I am running a sense rom...lets say I get rom manager to install Cyanogen rom...will it erase all my apps ect? Or when I switch between the roms will it save everything as is?
THANKS!
You wouldn't want to just keep flashing the ROMs over and over, you would want to create nandroid backups of each and then just restore which ever one you are in the mood for. You can do this with Rom Manager or Amon Ra. That way, when you switch, it will restore with all your apps and data that were on the phone when you created the backup.
you can use rom manager to do all that stuff, but i definitly reccommend booting into recovery, doing a backup of the roms you like, then when you want to switch roms, boot into recovery again, and just use the restore feature, this way u can switch between to two roms without have to reflash and reset them up, all ur doing is restoring the backup
Use Titanium back up for ur apps then back up ur ROM via ROM Manager which will bring you into recovery and do the rest. So now u got ur apps backed up for any ROM u decide to use.
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I am going to install Cyanogen, which I am aware is gingerbread based, however if I decide to go back to froyo, is this possible, if so, is it as simple as restoring the bacup, as the back up is froyo. Thanks! )
if you want to go back to froyo, you just have to install rom manager and store the clockwork mod recovery from there. The process is the same as CM then.
Yes it is very simple.
You should make a nandroid backup of your stock Rom before installing cm7. Nandroid backup can be made from CWM CUSTOM RECOVERY. After backing up stock rom, then you can install cm7 from the same CWM recovery ( version 3.x or above) .
If you are not satisfied with cm7 then you can just restore your stock Rom from CWM CUSTOM RECOVERY. The option will be called "nandroid restore".
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I am currently using cm10 with hellboy kernel and have a cvm backup of stock rom. I was wondering if *touchwood* something were to happen to the custom rom will a simple recovery be enough to get back to sense? or is there some kernel which will have to be flashed first? or is ruu the only way of going back to sense?
if u have a nandroid backup of stock ROM u can restore it and flash the boot.img found inside that particular backup.if u do not have a stock backup u will have to apply ruu or u can even restore nandroid backups of stock ROM found on XDA.
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