Quick question, is it possible to make a nand backup with odin, or do you have to have cwm installed to do so?
BlueGoldAce said:
Quick question, is it possible to make a nand backup with odin, or do you have to have cwm installed to do so?
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you need CWM to create and restore a nand backup.
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I'd like to try out a ROM or two. i was just wondering what would be the best method for backing up my phone before wiping/loading a new rom? I've seen several mentions of nandroid backup, but i haven't found a link yet as to how to use that.
Will the backup restore the ROM i had when i created the backup? Or will i have to flash that rom back on the phone and then run the restore to just get my apps/data back?
thanks
You can make a nandroid backup in your custom recovery. And the backup will restore your phone to how it was the moment you made the backup.
How do I do a custom recovery?
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you are rooted and have nand unlocked, correct? if so, what method did you use?
dschoenike said:
you are rooted and have nand unlocked, correct? if so, what method did you use?
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rooted yes, not sure about nand. I used unrevoked to root the phone. I don't think unrevoked does the nand unlock. I'm not even clear on what nand unlocking is. So i hadn't looked into doing that yet since i didn't want to unlock 'it' until i knew what 'it' was
In for this answer... I titanium backed up but need to know if that's enough.
Ok - played around with the power btn+vol down menu and found nandroid and i am running a backup now.
What exactly is this backing up?
If i were to reinstall the original ROM from sprint on here, could i use this to restore the phone as i have it now? I assume i'd have to root the phone first in order to use the restore the backup?
thanks
merkk said:
Ok - played around with the power btn+vol down menu and found nandroid and i am running a backup now.
What exactly is this backing up?
If i were to reinstall the original ROM from sprint on here, could i use this to restore the phone as i have it now? I assume i'd have to root the phone first in order to use the restore the backup?
thanks
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1. It's backing up your nand.
There's an above post explaining this already.
2. Not necessary. Fully understand the answer to number 1.
3. Didn't you already root? You couldn't be doing this stuff otherwise.
I have already a copy of the original stock ROM on sd card which I want to bring it back on my Gio. When I try to restore it through CWM, it gives an error that there is error with the md5. I even tried it with Titanium and it gives error too.
How else can I restore this stock back on my phone?
The backup probably got wiped so you can only get stock using odin or one flashable through recovery from here
I did make a copy of the backup on my laptop too, and the same I have put on the sd card to restore it.
I tried to restore it from CWM but it failed.
How can I restore this backup (there are two folders backup + download) by Odin?
You can't restore backups using odin.
I guess you want full stock?
Grab official firmware for you country on sammobile.com
And search the flash instructions on the forums
Thanks for the suggestion.
If its not possible to restore with the backup, then what can it be done with the back up we take?
s!mon said:
Thanks for the suggestion.
If its not possible to restore with the backup, then what can it be done with the back up we take?
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If it isn't working the backup is useless, delete it and free up your sd card storage
You can't backup it by cmw.
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se7en2012 said:
You can't backup it by cmw.
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How else to take a backup of stock rom?
In cmw there is a nandroid backup function, what is this backup used for?
s!mon said:
How else to take a backup of stock rom?
In cmw there is a nandroid backup function, what is this backup used for?
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he has 6 posts, he's just trolling to get 10 I guess, and talking complete ****.
you can use ADB to backup, pull system.rfs, recovery.img, boot.img from a running phone, create a .tar, and create md5sum with cygwin, so you can flash it with odin, , but I don't know if you can also pull your data/cache partition and so have a backup..
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your current backup has a md5 fail I think, because you moved it to your laptop and it got corrupted.
you can remove .md5 and extract it?
voetbalremco said:
he has 6 posts, he's just trolling to get 10 I guess, and talking complete ****.
you can use ADB to backup, pull system.rfs, recovery.img, boot.img from a running phone, create a .tar, and create md5sum with cygwin, so you can flash it with odin, , but I don't know if you can also pull your data/cache partition and so have a backup..
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your current backup has a md5 fail I think, because you moved it to your laptop and it got corrupted.
you can remove .md5 and extract it?
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@OP you can restore the backup through CWM normally but in special circumstances the md5 checksum will change.. search online for md5 fixer ... i used to do this on my galaxy Y and it worked...
Catalyste said:
Hey
@OP you can restore the backup through CWM normally but in special circumstances the md5 checksum will change.. search online for md5 fixer ... i used to do this on my galaxy Y and it worked...
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and you are opening an old thread, before that was released
What exactly does a Nandroid backup. Is it like creating a Hard Drive image for windows?
After installing CM9RC I want to go back to my previous stock configuration. If I restore my phone with a nandroid, will I recover everything previously installed on my phone? I am assuming the stuff in the sdcard folder gets excluded from the wipe right?
Thanks in advanced,
Aphis
Yup a Nandroid is more or less like a restore point. And yes excluding sdcard.
IonAphis said:
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What exactly does a Nandroid backup. Is it like creating a Hard Drive image for windows?
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Yes.
IonAphis said:
After installing CM9RC I want to go back to my previous stock configuration. If I restore my phone with a nandroid, will I recover everything previously installed on my phone?
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Yes. Note that a nandroid backups up the system partition, the boot partition, the recovery partition and the userdata partition (excl. /sdcard). It does not back up your radio or bootloader, so if you change those, you will have to flash them separately.
IonAphis said:
I am assuming the stuff in the sdcard folder gets excluded from the wipe right?
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Yes!
EDIT: Ninja'd by WiredPirate.
Thanks for the quick response.
That would mean that if before creating the nandroid I had permanently installed CWM and rooted the phone, restoring the nandroid would keep my phone with CWM and root right?
IonAphis said:
Thanks for the quick response.
That would mean that if before creating the nandroid I had permanently installed CWM and rooted the phone, restoring the nandroid would keep my phone with CWM and root right?
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its a snapshot. whatever you had at that moment when it was created is what you will have when you restore to it.
IonAphis said:
Thanks for the quick response.
That would mean that if before creating the nandroid I had permanently installed CWM and rooted the phone, restoring the nandroid would keep my phone with CWM and root right?
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Yes.
Hey everyone. What exactly is a Nandroid Backup? If something goes wrong with a rom cant you just boot to download mode and restore via ODIN?
ebuks97 said:
Hey everyone. What exactly is a Nandroid Backup? If something goes wrong with a rom cant you just boot to download mode and restore via ODIN?
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A nandriod backup it a back up of your system, kernel and data. its used to restore via recovery. I've never restored via odin, but I think you can choose to make a back up as a .tar file and restore that way too. Correcet me if I'm wrong. But I make a nandroid as a .zip file.
ebuks97 said:
Hey everyone. What exactly is a Nandroid Backup? If something goes wrong with a rom cant you just boot to download mode and restore via ODIN?
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I usually make the nandroid from my Recovery (not sure if you can via Odin, I haven't used Odin since I rooted my phone because now I just use Mobile Odin for everything), and it makes it into a .zip file that can be loaded via recovery. Not sure if you can load it from mobile odin since I haven't really had a reason to try, but It's usually safe to restore your nandroid if something went wrong. I have multiple nandroids to restore to in case I need to, but the one I use most is a nandroid of stock EL26 rooted just because I like the recovery that came with it.
oh ok. thanks guys
Hi Friends,
i have a noob question about the EFS backup. So far i understand is the backup on 4.1.2 not compatible with 4.3 (new bootloader) b'coz it has a different folder path. What me makes scare is, i've read some posts from some users that they have no imei after official uptade with odin.
Why do i ask? I want to backup efs and flash the pre-rooted 4.3 rom without new bootloader b'coz i feel safer and the efs backup will work. But in my mind is to test the new 4.3 with new bootloader and knox (i know its not easy to get 4.1.2 back)
Is it really risky o are there some newbies wich makes mistakes? Can i paste the old backuped EFS folder in to the new path for correct imei?
I really searched on the forum also except XDA, but there are similar questions with different answers.
Thanks to all
I think that if you are worried about restoring, you should do a full nandroid backup to SD card from recovery. That way you don't need separate EFS backup as it is included in nandroid backup, so you can restore whole phone exactly as it was before.
dalanik said:
I think that if you are worried about restoring, you should do a full nandroid backup to SD card from recovery. That way you don't need separate EFS backup as it is included in nandroid backup, so you can restore whole phone exactly as it was before.
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1. Is EFS backup really included in CWMR or Philz Recovery?
2. Can i get back to 4.1.2 from 4.3 (new bootloader) only with an older NAND backup?
tryunus said:
1. Is EFS backup really included in CWMR or Philz Recovery?
2. Can i get back to 4.1.2 from 4.3 (new bootloader) only with an older NAND backup?
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1. I don't think so. In Philz, efs backup option can be found in Custom Backup menu
Check this thread out for backing up EFS http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2389426
2. I did restore my 4.1.2 nandroid backup after flashed DN3 rom. It worked. But do efs backup for just in case.