Right, i've finally managed to get my desire to the prefect state and i want to do a nandroid backup to guard against the inevitable SD card corruption or other problems that seem to be plaguing me.
The problem is whenever i preform a backup through CWM i get both a bootloop and a corrupted MD5 on the backup, making it impossible to create a backup.
Is there anyway to prevent these botloops from occurring so i can finally backup my nand?
Paratax said:
Right, i've finally managed to get my desire to the prefect state and i want to do a nandroid backup to guard against the inevitable SD card corruption or other problems that seem to be plaguing me.
The problem is whenever i preform a backup through CWM i get both a bootloop and a corrupted MD5 on the backup, making it impossible to create a backup.
Is there anyway to prevent these botloops from occurring so i can finally backup my nand?
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same my problem
i couldn't find any way !
please help us to prevent boot loop
Can anyone out there help?
Just had my SD card corrupt on me again and appear as blank, i could really use a nandroid back up.
Are you check card errors?
Paratax said:
Can anyone out there help?
Just had my SD card corrupt on me again and appear as blank, i could really use a nandroid back up.
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Try take your card out of the phone put into the card reader and check with windows for any mistakes
Card is completely boned, i dont think it could handle the ext partition, cant even format it anymore as it just lists as a media device with no space and any attempt to format just sits at 0% forever, have ordered a new one. What i really need is a a way to prevent bootloops from occurring after a nandroid backup, that way i can make a back up with my new card once it gets here.
Phone died on me again today, so i had to flash it back to stock to get it fixed. Please tell me that someone knows how to make a nandroid without bootloops, so i can make one as soon as it gets back.
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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...
This question sounds really stupid, but I want to know if there is anyway to backup a non-bootable device using a PC. Prior to flashing a MOD, I did backup, only to notice that the Nandroid backup made was not a complete backup due to the lack of space on my SD Card. I want to keep all of my recent messages, new contacts etc. but it seems I cannot find any way to do so.
Help is needed! If you do not get me, please read this thread below about my bricked device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1750071
If you know how to or have any advice, please respond ASAP! Thanks in advance!
you dont have much option here..nandroid backup is the only way now..get a hold of card reader..and make some space in your sd card and then do a nand backup..
but looking at your previous thread, best way wouldve been flashing back arc s lockscreen files.
If u already flashed 4.0.3 then there is no way to recovery your data..anyways contacts will be backed up on google server..
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.
Is it possible to pull my apps from a old recovery and flash them with out flashing anything else... im assuming I would flash the data? right or would it cause issues
Also in twrp do you want to do a full back up or just the 3 ? system boot, data
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Is it possible to pull my apps from a old recovery and flash them with out flashing anything else... im assuming I would flash the data? right or would it cause issues
Also in twrp do you want to do a full back up or just the 3 ? system boot, data
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Well only thing makes sense is I messed up and clicked something with out knowing a setting..
So if anyone tell me default settings most people use (not the twrp defaults) yours
That might help
Ya I flashed a old nandroid and my apps missing all accounts missing .... weird never had issue with backups till today now all backups seem bad dunnno going reflash twrp to be safe
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Im not sure if its another sd card (this one is from costco and is name brand) going bad....
Or... one of the tools I have been trying to master (doubt)
Bootanimation possible.... (maybe)
What I did to solve this... I told a old nandroid I knew was good and hacked it together with the data from the one that was bad.... I dunno what happed but ... im remaking my nandroids now
is there some way to check if your nandroids are good or not?"
Also how do you feel about compression in twrp is it have a point? I got a huge sd card I trying think why compresss it (isn't just take longer and more dangerious)