I know on the Journaling off, you can skip to just flashing the rom if you're already rooted, but on the Journaling on both instructions says to odin back to EC05. So my question is whether this is mandatory or can it be skipped? I am coming from an earlier MidNight Rom.
you can just flash the NEW midnight ROM best thing about them is that they added the modem in it so all you have to is flash and it will convert for you ............... REMEMBER ::: back up then flash .............
so if anything goes wrong just go back ... if u get forecloses they say to flash again n u should b good ... also TITANIUM backup to save files if u dnt already know .........\
\ hope this helps
#disclaimer : i do not take responsibility for anything that goes wrong
It worked Thanks
So u have journaling on or off and can it be turn on.
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If you want journaling on, it's easy to re-enable. And I suggest doing so as I've seen no noticeable advantage to the contrary. Make a CWM Nandroid backup, and then immediately restore that backup and journaling is back on. Might as well do it anyway, since if you ever HAVE to restore your Nandroid backup you'll be re-enabling it regardless.
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Short and sweet:
1. I'm using the recovery that comes with Toast's 2of2 method (this is Amon Ra?) The Nand/ext backup fails for me and I read in a thread that's expected, but I can't find it again with the forum search. How would I fix this, and is it necessary? Is the regular Nandroid backup good enough?
2. Does a Nandroid backup include the kernel? If I push a custom kernel and have problems, will a Nand restore revert me to the kernel I had when I made the backup?
Thanks for the help in advance.
yes and yes
the ext bkup fails bc you dont have a ext partition yet
1. Do you have an EXT partition on your card? If not then you can just use the straight Nandroid backup.
2. Yes a Nandroid should back up the kernel at the point you made the back up. (not 100% sure but 99% )
I hate to hijack the thread but it looks looks like it died down a little and in my search effort this is the closest to what my question is. so to save making a new post on something probably answered before.
I am a relative noob. (i know sad) but i am learnign fast. I was wondering what exactly a nandroid back up does and does not back up.
I am doing the Starting over method to get back to stock 1.47(rooted) to see if it fixes 4g and think i can just nandroid after doing the method described to get my rom back etc. My only fear is that by nandrioding what ever benefit i got from starting over will be reverted.
Srry for the long explaination but basically if i Nandroid is it basically a complete image changing literally everything back to the previous state(ala HDD img)? If not will doing the starting over method then nandroiding revert me back to having the problem again?
Thanks in advance.
Nandroid backs up your entire system config. Radio, software, kernel, rom, etc. As long as you don't unroot, your system will be exactly the way it was after you restore.
Omega, if you do the back to stock root and then restore Nandroid, I'm pretty sure it will be as if you never did the back to stock. Pretty sure but not 100% positive.
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Nandroid does NOT back up or restore your radio, wimax, boot or recovery partitions
AFAIK nand only backs up your system and userdata partitions, not positive about the cache or misc partitions.
nebenezer said:
Nandroid does NOT back up or restore your radio, wimax, boot or recovery partitions
AFAIK nand only backs up your system and userdata partitions, not positive about the cache or misc partitions.
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Thank you very much. This should mean that once i do the starting over i should then be able to just nandroid back to my rom without having to redo my kernal/theme/rom and it shouldn't mess up my wimax radio again.
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Thank you very much. This should mean that once i do the starting over i should then be able to just nandroid back to my rom without having to redo my kernal/theme/rom and it shouldn't mess up my wimax radio again.
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Correct .
*edit- looks like I'm wrong about the boot partition. I just unzipped a nand and there's a boot.img in there.. still shouldn't affect radio or wimax though
I have some general questions about what to do after a flash, in case any kind soul "in the know" would care to reply:
1) Every instruction set says to make a Nandroid backup. I assume this is in case something goes wrong with the flash. If you have a bad flash, or don't like the new rom, do you just restore your nandroid and you are done; or do you ALSO need to reflash your prior ROM first, and then restore your nandroid.
2) I have nandroid backups, titantium backups ("all data and all apps" natch), mybackup pro ("apps and their data") ... once you flash a new ROM, what is the best way to put all your apps back and get up to speed? I have to assume you DONT want to restore settings from one ROM to another.
3) Very similar to #1, if you like your stock and you flash a ROM and configure it too and take a nandroid backup (so you have different ROM's nandroided), do you simply restore the nandroid to switch between the two, or do you have to re-apply the dev's ROM first.
Thanks!
U can be on any ROM at anytime and restore a Nandroid backup with no real flashing of any ROM or data wipe or anything, i.e. u backup CM6 and install the new froyo with sense and if u want to go back to CM6 just restore ur nandroid backup, done. Sorry so short. Battery is dying
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Also u can only restore titanium backups from one froyo rom to another. Or 1 eclair to another. 2.1 and 2.2 dont mixx unless its an app only as far as i know. Cud b wrong
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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
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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
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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.
JOLTnPEST said:
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?
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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
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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?
[I'm going to post this as a new Q&A thread]
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.
Might be a pretty basic qtn but heres the deal.
I took a nandriod backup of dk28 (no root) and then flashed it with nebula rom. Now since the rom was new, all my data/contacts/apps etc are gone obviously.. I am wondering if I did a restore of the nandroid restore, will it restore all that (ie sms/email/contacts/data/apps) or is it used to go back to stock rom only, ie it will remove my custom rom and put back the stock as it was pre flashing nebula?
All I need is a way to keep the custom rom but also restore my sms/email/apps etc.
Thanks!
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Might be a pretty basic qtn but heres the deal.
I took a nandriod backup of dk28 (no root) and then flashed it with nebula rom. Now since the rom was new, all my data/contacts/apps etc are gone obviously.. I am wondering if I did a restore of the nandroid restore, will it restore all that (ie sms/email/contacts/data/apps) or is it used to go back to stock rom only, ie it will remove my custom rom and put back the stock as it was pre flashing nebula?
All I need is a way to keep the custom rom but also restore my sms/email/apps etc.
Thanks!
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It will restore everything excatly how it was when you saved it. Including your Texts/Mail etc that were in your inbox at the time you saved. You are basically going back to the exact point where you saved. You can create backups for every rom you have, it is not just for putting your phone back to stock. I always back up stock first, so I can always go back if needed.
Thanks Heelfan71..I understand it puts back everything as it was .. but will I loose my custom rom after that is my question.
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Thanks Heelfan71..I understand it puts back everything as it was .. but will I loose my custom rom after that is my question.
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If you restore your backup? Yes you will loose your custom rom, unless you make a backup of that too (this is what I do). So you can go back and forth between the 2 if needed. Is that what you were wondering?
basically i want to switch back and forth the roms but keep my data intact.. right now after flashing the new rom.. i have obviously lost all my sms/emails/apps etc.. is there a one click solution which will restore all my data on every new rom i install?
edit: Also , I did take a titanium backup before I flashed the new rom.. but i didnt do a complete (ALL) backup, since I couldnt find a option to backup all. I had to choose each service/app/etc to backup.. so I ended up backing up all the stuff that I understood..but restoring them hasnt restored my sms/email data yet.
Do an advanced restore->restore /data in cwm.
I've had pretty good luck keeping my contacts, apps, and settings this way. Some people see weird force close issues after restoring /data. Check it out and see if it works for you.
thaniks.. i ll give it a try .. i thought about it.. but wasnt sure what exactly it does.
did that .. now that removed the rom manager and spare parts.. not sure what else it did.. but it did bring everything sms/apps/emails back ..
i guess i can install rom manager from the market..
If you only restore data your custom rom will stay. It will only restore your apps and app data. If you are restoring data from a rom on the same file system, you should be fine.
In other words, flashing VIPERrom 4.0.3 EXT4, then backing up, then flashing Bonsai 1.1.4 on RFS, then restoring data is not a good idea.
@ryno502 makes sense....thats what i did and it did restore everything.. Thanks!
now i ve to find some good widgets and lockscreen changes..
Nandroid restore on Custom ROM
I own a Xperia Arc(LT 15i)..rooted,unlocked...
I have Cyanogenmod, stable version running on my phone now...
I had taken a nandroid backup using CWM Auto-installer...
But now I wanna know how can i restore my apps that i had with Stock ROM...i tried a advanced backup on /data alone but then, its not booting up if i do so...
Please help..
Xperia?
Your data is incompatible with CM. You will need to download apps again unless you have a Titanium Backup.
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Right, so this is probably a long and tired question, but I can't seem to find it, please link me if I've done that.
So I have been running this version of CM10 and the latest tripndroid kernel
I decided to try out Bricked's Kernel
So I made a Nandroid backup using CMW, and thought eh if I break it I'll just restore it.. how wrong I was.
So I broke it, after I installed the Modules for the new kernel, it would just bootloop, so okay I give up I need sleep.. run CWM and restore the backup I just made.
Backup loads, phone boots up.. wait a sec no WIFI or Network... check settings... that kernel I tried to use?!
I guess I have to start again from scratch.. joy.
But seriously, I was led to believe that a nandroid backup would restore EVERYTHING the way it WAS Including the kernel? I guess I was wrong.
You need to also restore the boot.img from the backup folder
Why thank you my good sir! a little piece of information, that could have caused some frustration for me!