Do I have to clear catch or anything else before restoring Nandroid backup?
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Restore, I never have and haven't run into any problems. I'm assuming that everything is getting written over during the restore except basic phone info and the modem. Others may disagree with me. If you want to clean and wipe the various caches before restoring, I don't think it will hurt anything.
The modem does not restore?
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I have never wiped when restoring.
djjosh said:
The modem does not restore?
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No, modem will remain what is currently on the phone even after a restore. you'll have to flash the modem to the one you want.
I never wiped on restore and no issues here.
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Do I have to clear catch or anything else before restoring Nandroid backup?
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Wiping cache and dalvik cache never hurts, so it's nice, but not necessary, when restoring a nandroid.
The modem (i.e. baseband or radio) lives outside of the data portions of your phone, therefore this will neither be backed up nor restored via nandroid.
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I installed my first rom (MIUI) yesterday and everything went well thanks to alot of reading. I like the way it look but i miss Sense. I did a backup before I flashed it so what is the steps to recover the back up with clockwork??
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Go back into recovery > backups> restore > choose the one you want. The names of the backups are based on the date you made the nandroid
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Before I do that do I have to wipe anything?
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OneDeep said:
Before I do that do I have to wipe anything?
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I won't hurt........I always wipe cache and dalvik cache. Your phone will take a few minutes longer to reboot.....that's about the only drawback.
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Before I do that do I have to wipe anything?
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Not necessary, but it wouldn't hurt anything. Calkulin's Format_All.zip wipes Cache, Userdata, Dalvik, System, and a few others that I'm forgetting. If I remember correctly, it's just a script that tells your recovery to wipe all those things. Like I said before, I like to use it if I'm ever changing ROM "brands" (ie going from MIUI to CM7, or From Myn's to CM7, etc.) because the systems are usually significantly different
i believe wiping before doing anything regardless its restoring or flashing a new rom is the way to go with Calkulin's format all and his clear temp. just in case it misses something. but thats just my opinion =)
i updated my phone from gingerbread to ice cream sandwich. i did a nandroid backup for the gingerbread. if i decided to go back to gingerbread, i just gotta go into recovery and do a restore? or do i gotta reset wipe factory again and wipe data,cache dalvik?
I flash dark side super wipe before restoring
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Before flashing anything even if it's nandroid, it is always best to wipe it clean.
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Teo032 said:
Before flashing anything even if it's nandroid, it is always best to wipe it clean.
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And flash proper radio before restoring, if necessary
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The recovery restore doesn't reflash my old radio and kernal? Cuz I'm not even sure what radio it had. So I pretty much need to do all the steps again like I'm flashing a new but use the the restore in place of flashing new rom.
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The recovery restore doesn't reflash my old radio and kernal? Cuz I'm not even sure what radio it had. So I pretty much need to do all the steps again like I'm flashing a new but use the the restore in place of flashing new rom.
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The recovery restores everything (including kernel) but not the radio. I have switched back and forth between ics and gb a few times without ever wiping before a restore and never had a problem. I would argue its not necessary but certainly doesn't hurt.
When restoring a backup from ics to jb or from jb to ics through cwm recovery, should I wipe cache/dalvik or factory in between, or does the back up overwrite things in a manner maikng it unnecessary?
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I think you should always wipe cache and dalvik. It will not hurt anything and can only prevent problems.
When you are switching from JB to ICS you may also need to wipe data (unless you are restoring data that was backed up with ICS).
The backup will only wipe/restore what was included in the backup.
Thank you, good to know!
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Im currently using Philz recovery and while doing a periodic backup, i think i saw efs while data was being backed up. So does the nandroid backup , backs up the device's efs?
I know for sure twrp does. So i puppose cwm should too.
Hope it helps.
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mariosraptor said:
I know for sure twrp does. So i puppose cwm should too.
Hope it helps.
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Thanx for the reply.
One more question I had . Is it possible to restore someone else CWM backup?
Yes it is. But if it really backs up efs. That is totally not recommended.
You can restore
System, data, cache, boot, and recovery.
Those are safe.
But if you want his apps for example then just data is enough.
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Yes it is. But if it really backs up efs. That is totally not recommended.
You can restore
System, data, cache, boot, and recovery.
Those are safe.
But if you want his apps for example then just data is enough.
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Before restoring a backup,CWM checks for md5 hash. What is that?
It is fir the integrity of the backup.
In case it is corrupted.
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It is fir the integrity of the backup.
In case it is corrupted.
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So there will be no conflict with md5 hash if I restore someone else backup?
And a silly question, how would the integrity of the backup deteriorate? :?
It can break during transfer an other instances. That is why it checks it.
https://www.google.gr/search?redir_...1358026677514&q=how does a file get corrupted
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It can break during transfer an other instances. That is why it checks it.
https://www.google.gr/search?redir_...1358026677514&q=how does a file get corrupted
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Thanx mate for the replies. Im out of "Thanks" for today so will thank you at the earliest :good:
No sweat. Glad I helped
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I had to go to stock via odin because my backups weren't working(they always have before) after I flashed PACman rom and didn't like it. Once I got back to stock I tried restoring from my backups again and they don't get an error or anything but after I restart the phone is still completely clean without any of my data restored on to it. What do? Thanks
Edit: When it gets to restoring data it says .android_secure.img not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
Sounds like a corrupt backup, you may be SOL. I could be wrong though and someone else will chime in. Good luck.
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RTC88 said:
Sounds like a corrupt backup, you may be SOL. I could be wrong though and someone else will chime in. Good luck.
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It's not a corrupt backup. They've all worked previously.
Maybe you could try reinstalling the custom recovery in Odin.
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RTC88 said:
Maybe you could try reinstalling the custom recovery in Odin.
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I have tried that and I've tried both my backups from twrp and cwm
Are you sure that the backups were able to fully restore previously?
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