I rooted my Evo4G and its working pretty good but I think there is like extra clutter in there taking up space and in the sd card from past apps. I have stock rom btw. Before I got Titanium backup, I deleted some stock sprint apps without backups eek I got too excited with the whole root thing and went on some sites to check out what apps were safe to remove. Anyways, my questions is, If I wipe the data, will those removed apps cause a problem in the process? Would I have to restore all the stock apps I uninstalled or will they come back or not come back but not pose a problem? Or do I have to flash back the stock rom? You can see in the images what apps were not backed up. What I would like happen is wipe data, have my phone turn on (with or without those uninstalled apps) and start adding apps again from scratch. That way I can clear out my sd card too and have maximum power!
Just wiping data (or a factory reset) will not touch your system partition. Any apps that you've removed will still not be there after resetting. Any apps that you've added to /system/app (if you have for any reason) will remain.
My suggestion is to backup your SD card and format it. Then move back only what you want/need (photos, music, backups). Before booting the phone again, either do a factory reset or wipe everything and flash the stock rooted rom (or another if you're feeling adventurous). I believe that you said that you were stock. If you're on a different rom, you can of course wipe and flash that.
This will give you a fresh start on both your SD card and data partition.
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Hmm so is there a difference between factory reset and wiping everything? I have my sd backed up to my comp so I don't care if I loose anything on the phone or sd card. What would be the easiest for me since I wanna keep it stock but rooted and not flash unless I have to. Do I have to flash to stock rooted rom regardless or can I just factory reset and everything will work fine?
Ok so I did a factory reset and it turned on fine. Those apps that I uninstalled didn't come back which is good. That's exactly what I wanted. The best part is I didn't have to flash. Thanks though.
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Hey All,
I am curious about a few things...
I had a couple/few nandroid back ups that were stored on my phone, do you all only keep 1 nandroid and delete your previous backups?
I am running mikfroyo and flashed another ROM about 2 days ago, had some issues so I went back to mik. I think I may have done it in a way that nobody else does...I did it like I was flashing it for the first time, wipe everything and flash from sd card.
Should I have just did a nandroid restore? What does this actually bring back? Text, recent calls, apps?
When doing a nandroid restore should I wipe all before doing so? I would imagine the answer is yes.
And one more, before switching to any new ROM, should I always flash Caulkins Format All zip?
Thank you.
Nand restore will restore everything that was on your phone when you made the backup. Definitely a good idea to flash the zip when installing a new ROM. I also do it to restore though.
When you restore, unless you are backing up the cache, which isn't necessary, you need to minimally wipe the cache/dalvik before you restore. Also, if your SD Card is partitioned, you would need to wipe SD EXT. I pretty much flash Calk's format all anytime I restore or flash a new ROM.
I almost never have one back up. I have a few ROMs I like so, I set them up the way I want and restore between them when I get bored, which is like 100 times a day it feels like.
I do usually only keep the latest backup of any one ROM though. At any given time I probably have at least 5.
Edit: I re-read your post and I think I misunderstood one part the first time. Sometimes, when I got back to a previous ROM, I do just reflash it and start over, but I am anal about fresh starts. Usually I do just nand restore, especially if I know the setup was running well. I don't typically restore a lot between ROMs b/c I feel like it just adds to something that can go wrong. A lot of times I redownload apps instead of restoring, especially if they are purchased, since they are just stored in my apps in the market anyway. And I never restore app data. Usually end up only restoring about 30 apps w/out data, but most people do backup/restore a lot of info with no problems.
You should have just restore from a previous backup. When you restore, it bring ti back to EXACTLY how it was, texts, number of calls, ect. Actually you don't need to wipe when doing a restore. Well you can manually wipe all of them, or flash the format all, so I'm saying yes.
Also, I suggest against wiping data before creating a nandroid backup, lol. That would defeat the purpose, as your info and apps will be gone! Just wipe cache and davlik before a backup, or nothing at all, just so there's no confusion.
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Yeah, I didn't mean to wipe anything before backing up. But if your going to restore a different ROM and there's no cache included in the nand back up you're going to restore, then best to wipe it before you restore.
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Also, if your SD Card is partitioned, you would need to wipe SD EXT. I pretty much flash Calk's format all anytime I restore or flash a new ROM.
It is partitioned, what gets stored on there that needs to be wiped, apps?
Thanks for your help
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It is partitioned, what gets stored on there that needs to be wiped, apps?
Thanks for your help
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If the ROM has a2sd built in, yeah, if not, nothing. I always wipe it just so I'm in the habit of doing it for when it's there. Also depending on how a2sd is set up, dalvik can be on there.
So I got Cm7 running using rom manager, used titanium backup to restore apps + system data, then fixed permissions. For the last 10 minutes it's been stuck in the CM7 screen....
What should I do? Can I pull the battery without harm? Does it take that long to boot after fixing permissions?
Edit: pulled the batter and am trying to boot into recovery...going to wipe the dalvik/cache again.
Edit2: same thing for the last 6 minutes....dang. I guess I'll just nandroid in 5 minutes if it doesn't' get out of it.
Edit3: going to nandroid back. I might try it again later flashing from a Zip instead of using rom manager. I probably won't restore system data either next time. If anyone has any suggestions though please post them.
Edit4: not good...phone is bootlooping cyangen screen after nandroid.
Edit5: Cleared factordata, cache, and when I go to clear dalvik I'm getting
e unknown volume for path sd-ext
Any ideas here?
Edit6: I'm reflashing 6.1.2....okay...got through the boot and now I'm setting up the phone.
You may need to wipe everything now and reinstall fresh. Do a search for Calkulin's tools here and download the format all zip and put it on the root of your sdcard. Flash it just like you would a rom from recovery. It will wipe boot, data, cache and system. Then try flashing cm7 from recovery. Usually boot loops happen because of there not being enough space on one of your partitions like system or boot etc.
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You may need to wipe everything now and reinstall fresh. Do a search for Calkulin's tools here and download the format all zip and put it on the root of your sdcard. Flash it just like you would a rom from recovery. It will wipe boot, data, cache and system. Then try flashing cm7 from recovery. Usually boot loops happen because of there not being enough space on one of your partitions like system or boot etc.
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Will do....I know I had been installing apps to the SD card using CM6 and when I first got CM7 up it said my phone memory was low. I thought it would say on the SD card.
I'll probably try tomorrow again if I get the courage and I most definitely will DL Calkun's tools.
Thanks!
I'm going to guess the nandroid didn't work either because of the phone memory low issue?
I would reccomend re-doing what you did originally, except when restoring with titanium, do NOT restore system settings, only apps and data. That's probably the cause.
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I would reccomend re-doing what you did originally, except when restoring with titanium, do NOT restore system settings, only apps and data. That's probably the cause.
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Wiped manually, installed from zip, and didn't restore system data. CM7 has been running for about an hour now.
Thanks everyone!
Glad that you got it working man.
Is ANY system data safe to restore from Titanium?
Had the exact same problem myself... I'm restoring my Myn nandroid as we speak, and I'll mess with it more tomorrow.
Does anyone know what (if any) system data is safe to restore from Titanium? I just want my contacts and text messages basically... I don't know exactly what caused the problem from Titanium since I made sure not to check any of the Sense-related items.
For about 20 min after I pulled the battery I couldn't get the phone to do anything except vibrate three times when I tried to get into recovery. Eventually coaxed it into the bootloader where I selected to boot into recovery to nandroid back. Almost had a heart attack!
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Had the exact same problem myself... I'm restoring my Myn nandroid as we speak, and I'll mess with it more tomorrow.
Does anyone know what (if any) system data is safe to restore from Titanium? I just want my contacts and text messages basically... I don't know exactly what caused the problem from Titanium since I made sure not to check any of the Sense-related items.
For about 20 min after I pulled the battery I couldn't get the phone to do anything except vibrate three times when I tried to get into recovery. Eventually coaxed it into the bootloader where I selected to boot into recovery to nandroid back. Almost had a heart attack!
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You should never restore system settings.
For contacts, open accounts and sync, tap your google account, then sync contacts, and that'll be done.
For texts, people highly recommend sms backup or my backup. Then backup apps and data, then restore only apps and data, and you'll be set.
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So I'm going to go right into my question..
I own a Verizon Galaxy Nexus which is working great so far (except for the horrible battery life) currently I'm running THIS rom on my device. I am rooted boot loader is unlocked and have clockwork mod installed etc
I want to flash BAMF Paradigm 1.2 rom but I have some concerns
If I do a nandroid back up will it backup my text messages, apps and photos on the the internal storage?
IF i do a factory reset/wipe data will I loose EVERYTHING?
I want to try out this new one or if you have a better rom you'd like to recommend . I just don't want to loose all my files and data or settings in the process.
Thanks in advance btw
The nandroid will back those things up, but after you've wiped data, etc... they won't be visible to you on your newly flashed ROM assuming you've done the right thing and wiped. Titanium backup can be used to bu and restore your apps/data, but it's not a good idea to restore system data, restore user apps (+ data that you can't live without) after you've installed your new ROM; back ups aren't affected by wipes, unless you format your entire SD card.
Separate apps are available that can back up SMS's, can't think of any names offhand.
A nandroid will backup everything up including texts, apps, photos etc. as the previous poster said. However, when you factory reset/wipe data, CWM will not touch your virtual SD card so things on it will remain on it e.g. nandroids, photos if that's where you save them etc. The only time your SD card will be wiped is if you do fastboot oem lock/unlock or if you flash the stock Google image. Everything on the phone will be wiped though e.g. contacts (unless they're synced to Google), app data etc.
Personally I'd recommend AOKP but I'm just biased because that's what I use (well a derivative of it that's themed).
Thanks!
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I just flashed my first ROM on my GS3. I went from the LH1 stock OTA from Samsung, rooted, installed CWM, and then flashed AOKP(Jellybean) Task & Ktoonsez - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766684 - many thanks to them btw for some amazing work.
Anyway once I flashed the ROM and GAAPS and my device booted up, all my data was still there... my photos, my apps reloaded, even the data inside the apps was still there, which I cannot understand how. Don't get me wrong I am happy that everything was still there. Also, I did make a backup from CWM but I did not restore it because I did not need to (since all the data loaded on its own).
My question is: was this feature built into this ROM or is this something that is normally supposed to happen.
If you didn't factory reset (wipe data/cache) before flashing AOKP, then yes, all your apps will still be there. That's not recommended though because lingering system settings from the stock ROM could mess with things.
And factory reset doesn't erase your internal storage or SD card, it just wipes apps and settings, so your photos and stuff will be there regardless.
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If you didn't factory reset (wipe data/cache) before flashing AOKP, then yes, all your apps will still be there. That's not recommended though because lingering system settings from the stock ROM could mess with things.
And factory reset doesn't erase your internal storage or SD card, it just wipes apps and settings, so your photos and stuff will be there regardless.
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Thanks for the reply. I did definitely did factory reset in CWM as I followed all instructions to the T. I am not sure why but all of my apps remained, I saw some of them auto download rather quickly and for example I have this app called Vaulty. All of its contents were still inside.
Odd nonetheless
Today after 5 months of keeping my stock rom I wanted to change to a CM based rom.
I backed up the phone, then I noticed that factory rest is now factory reset/ remove data, so I press it thinking it will factory reset.
Put my rom and then reboot, after that I check my photos, videos, and music is gone. I have most of that backed up on my computer.
THEN, my titanium back up is gone! All i have is a back up from March for titanium backup and that isn't up to date with my apps and games!
I checked my cwm and the back up is corrupted. WOW
My internal storage is the same before putting a new rom but when I check it I can't find my files. If it removed my files why is my storage still the same???
I know all of you are going to tell me to back up to external but I don't have one... I really don't want anyone else to criticize because I know I should have backed up better.
What I don't get is how factory reset changed to wipe data/factory reset?
Is TWRP better than CWM?
Thanks!
Has nothing to do with recovery, I believe factory reset has always wiped data. Your files are still there, they are just "hidden" and that's from flashing an aosp ROM. If u flash a tw ROM, u will see them again.