Good idea to do a full wipe before doing a full nandroid restore?
Yes a full wipe should be done before a restore. It only takes a second anyway.
Schraader said:
Yes a full wipe should be done before a restore. It only takes a second anyway.
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Thanks appreciate the advice.
Schraader said:
Yes a full wipe should be done before a restore. It only takes a second anyway.
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Guys, does this still hold true? I'm on TWRP 2.5 and when I restore a nandroid, TWRP wipes data, system and cache before the restore happens...
Idk about cwm but on twrp you don't need to wipe, it will do it for you. But there's nothing wrong with wiping twice.
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Must one factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik...all before restoring a nandroid backup? Sorry for the noob question...just wondering.
you dont have to.
Zepius said:
you dont have to.
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Advised? Or not make a difference at all??
No difference at all
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bpark32 said:
Advised? Or not make a difference at all??
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Maybe not a Factory Reset but clear cache partition and clear dalvik won't hurt if you do. Better safe than sorry.
If you are restoring from a different ROM I would.
Although if something goes wrong you can then Clear before Restore.
bpark32 said:
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a backup overwrites those partitions.
Awesome! Thanks guys!!
I do wipe dalvik/cache and reset to factory before restoring to NAND of a different ROM. I am not sure it if helps or not, but I figure there is nothing to lose and it definitely can't make things worse.
Dalvik and cache can be wiped anytime you want anyway... It gets recreated on next boot.
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If you watch the dialogues when restoring a nandroid you'll see that it formats everything automatically when you restore a backup. So, no. Just restore it.
Hi!
I installed CM10, but I don't like it yet.
How do I go back to CM9? Just flashing the older ROM again doesn't work (it was stuck in a boot animation loop), although I didn't wipe.
Please help.
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Prysewhert said:
Hi!
I installed CM10, but I don't like it yet.
How do I go back to CM9? Just flashing the older ROM again doesn't work (it was stuck in a boot animation loop), although I didn't wipe.
Please help.
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Well, back up, then wipe
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iok1 said:
Well, back up, then wipe
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Are you sure that's gonna work? I don't wanna wipe for nothing.
/Oh with backup you mean the things I would wipe? or some thing in CWM?
i am not entirely stupid, but i am kinda new to this.
Prysewhert said:
Are you sure that's gonna work? I don't wanna wipe for nothing.
/Oh with backup you mean the things I would wipe? or some thing in CWM?
i am not entirely stupid, but i am kinda new to this.
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I mean with titanium, go backup, app2zip etc...... anything that can backup your apps and data
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Make a backup of you apps with Titanium Backup (not the system apps!), reboot in recovery, make a backup if you want, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache, install rom, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache again. Then it should work.
LordJeremy said:
Make a backup of you apps with Titanium Backup (not the system apps!), reboot in recovery, make a backup if you want, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache, install rom, wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache again. Then it should work.
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thank you, that did it.
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I went through a few guides about restoring from NANDROID backup, but all of them didn't mention about Wipe Data/Factory Reset or Wipe Cache etc. So I'm curious and don't know what to do now. Do I need to wipe?
Yes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30007255
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Teichopsia said:
Yes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30007255
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30530565&postcount=179
This? In the steps there's no wiping. So if you confirm to me here I need to wipe, I'll listen. So the answer is yes or no? And if yes, do I need to wipe cache?
Read the guide in post#7.
Yes to wipe.
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ImjuzCY said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30530565&postcount=179
This? In the steps there's no wiping. So if you confirm to me here I need to wipe, I'll listen. So the answer is yes or no? And if yes, do I need to wipe cache?
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It's always recommended to wipe to get a clean environment, especially if you want to restore to another ROM than the one you are currently on, you should wipe then Restore NAND.
Wiping is recommended, but often times I don't (just don't come screaming if things happen )
When you restore a ROM, all your existing system information is overwritten, so it shouldn't be an issue. Sometimes if the ROM you're restoring from doesn't contain a certain partition (like dalvik cache), but the ROM you're on right now and changing from does, you can get issues, since there's no dalvik cache to replace.
That's how I understand it at least.
This is what I do when I install a new ROM
I Use 4EXT Recovery Touch
Step 1:- backup | restore --> Backup
Step 2:- wipe | format --> wipe data/factory reset --> wipe cache --> wipe dalvik
Step 3:- install from sdcard --> choose zip from sdcard
Step 4:- full wipe
That's it.....
ImjuzCY said:
I went through a few guides about restoring from NANDROID backup, but all of them didn't mention about Wipe Data/Factory Reset or Wipe Cache etc. So I'm curious and don't know what to do now. Do I need to wipe?
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I stand corrected. It seems one doesn't have to manually wipe when restoring a backup. At least in 4ext it is done automatically. I'll be taking a look at it later and edit this post if I'm wrong. Just in case
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when you wipe the system or do a full wipe does that remove the TWRP recovery mode. I wiped to go to a new ROM before but I could not get back into TWRP recovery menu and had to re-install it all over again. IS this the case every time you wipe the system?
No, wiping system only wipe the ROM. I did run into the same problem once with an older version of TWRP. Haven't had any problems with TWRP 2.6.3.1 yet(knocking on wood)
josephh71 said:
when you wipe the system or do a full wipe does that remove the TWRP recovery mode. I wiped to go to a new ROM before but I could not get back into TWRP recovery menu and had to re-install it all over again. IS this the case every time you wipe the system?
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Short answer, no. It is highly abnormal for the recovery image to be wiped/corrupted from a reset/wipe. But then again, twrp has seen its fairshares of hiccups. Maybe it was just a fluke, luck of the draw.
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thanks for the help
Thanks I thought I was doing something wrong. I had to start all over and since then I have never done a complete wipe only Davlik and Cache
josephh71 said:
Thanks I thought I was doing something wrong. I had to start all over and since then I have never done a complete wipe only Davlik and Cache
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Whenever I flash roms or restore nandroid backups, I always do a factory/data reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache. Then I proceed to flash. Never had any problems. Sorry that you had to redo everything :-{
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Can someone please help. Running a rooted GS4 4.3. Made a backup with Rom Manager. was trying some zips to try and get WALLET with tap and pay working, well no go. so I did a full wipe, then booted into recovery and restored the back up I had. Now everything just force closes, making the phone pretty much unusable. There is no Fix Permissions in RM 6.0.2.2 to see if that will help. can someone please help!!!
Thank you
Rick
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dvst8ion said:
Can someone please help. Running a rooted GS4 4.3. Made a backup with Rom Manager. was trying some zips to try and get WALLET with tap and pay working, well no go. so I did a full wipe, then booted into recovery and restored the back up I had. Now everything just force closes, making the phone pretty much unusable. There is no Fix Permissions in RM 6.0.2.2 to see if that will help. can someone please help!!!
Thank you
Rick
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Try this, before you restore the nandroid backup in cwm recovery wipe data, system, cache, dalvik cache
and last but not least do a "factory reset".
Once that's done go a head and restore the nandroid backup in cwm recovery.
There is a very good chance it will work just fine after doing that.
Good luck!
Misterjunky said:
Try this, before you restore the nandroid backup in cwm recovery wipe data, system, cache, dalvik cache
and last but not least do a "factory reset".
Once that's done go a head and restore the nandroid backup in cwm recovery.
There is a very good chance it will work just fine after doing that.
Good luck!
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There is no data wipe in touch 6.0.4.4 it has data wipe/factory reset.
dvst8ion said:
There is no data wipe in touch 6.0.4.4 it has data wipe/factory reset.
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That's ok too, just do the data wipe factory reset and all the other wipes, system, cache, dalvik cache.
Misterjunky said:
That's ok too, just do the data wipe factory reset and all the other wipes, system, cache, dalvik cache.
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Ok so now in CWM Touch i cannot see my backup. I can see it when I'm in Rom Manager though. I did make a copy of the backup via Rom Manager server and saved it to my computer. How do I restore this back to my phone so CWM can see it.
This really sucks. I can not figure out how to get my backup into the secure section /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup. I tried to manually put it there using Root Explorer, but that doesnt work.. Really need help here.
dvst8ion said:
This really sucks. I can not figure out how to get my backup into the secure section /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup. I tried to manually put it there using Root Explorer, but that doesnt work.. Really need help here.
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Maybe try to restore from Rom Manager. Maybe it will restore through their server the same way you backed up. Just a thought.Good luck.
grncherry said:
Maybe try to restore from Rom Manager. Maybe it will restore through their server the same way you backed up. Just a thought.Good luck.
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It only gives me an option to download to my computer not from the computer to the phone.
dvst8ion said:
It only gives me an option to download to my computer not from the computer to the phone.
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From the short search that I did, it appears the restore function is only available with the Premium version.
grncherry said:
From the short search that I did, it appears the restore function is only available with the Premium version.
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I have the Premium. It is only one way it looks like. It makes a Zip file, which from my research, is a flashable zip. However i try to flash it and it fails;
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I have the Premium. It is only one way it looks like. It makes a Zip file, which from my research, is a flashable zip. However i try to flash it and it fails;
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I think you have to flash it through your CWM recovery. Try to boot into recovery and hit install.Seems there's a backup and restore function through Rom Manager.
You may want to reflash your kernel too, just for the heck of it.
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