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I am running Virtuous and it is running smooth as butter, but I would like to try one of the CM7 nighly, and want to be able to go back if need be with out hours of work. I am running clockwork recovery and rom manager, and also have titaium back up installed. Phone is rooted with s-off. Can I just run a back up from rom manager do a complete wipe and install CM7. I also need to update hboot from .79 to .92 should this be done prior to the rom manager back up. Should CM7 not work out how do I restore back? Thanks
Yeah just nandroid (which means backing up the rom and all your settings) and you can go back at any time. In Rom manager just go to Backup current Rom and you will always have a copy of your setup EXACTLY as it is.
You can update HBOOT whenever you want, it really doesn't matter when you do it. Once you do it will stay that way.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't doing a nandroid backup essentially make a complete clone of your entire phone that you can restore later?
eman5oh said:
I am running Virtuous and it is running smooth as butter, but I would like to try one of the CM7 nighly, and want to be able to go back if need be with out hours of work. I am running clockwork recovery and rom manager, and also have titaium back up installed. Phone is rooted with s-off. Can I just run a back up from rom manager do a complete wipe and install CM7. I also need to update hboot from .79 to .92 should this be done prior to the rom manager back up. Should CM7 not work out how do I restore back? Thanks
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Okay, here's what you to do back up:
1. Back up your apps with Titanium Backup - DO NOT BACK UP PHONE DATA. Backing up data for games (e.g. Angry Birds) is fine, but don't back up contacts or Gmail or anything that's going to be included in your new ROM. Reason is, when you restore everything (more on that later), you don't want to have conflicting data screwing things up.
2. Make a nandroid using ROM Manager. Just go to where it says backup current rom, and let it do it's magic. You can (and should) rename it to something you can remember. DO NOT USE SPACES. I like to name mine with the date, ROM name, and version number (e.g. 2-3-11_Virtuous_3.1.0)
3. After the backup finishes, install the new ROM - I always do this through ROM Manager.
4. When CM7 is finished installing, download Titanium Backup and restore your apps using the batch operation - it's a lot simpler than trying to find all your apps and download/install them yourself
5. To go back, simply click "Restore Backup" in ROM Manager and pick Virtuous and all your hard work will be restored
Enjoy!
I've had lots of trouble with ROM manager not restoring or backing up my current ROM properly.....it'll always say that the installation was aborted or say the file is corrupt
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AlpineM3 said:
I've had lots of trouble with ROM manager not restoring or backing up my current ROM properly.....it'll always say that the installation was aborted or say the file is corrupt
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How much free space is left on your card? Format and try it with a clean card. I have never had a problem with it restoring anything of mine.
Zoon0n said:
Okay, here's what you to do back up:
1. Back up your apps with Titanium Backup - DO NOT BACK UP PHONE DATA. Backing up data for games (e.g. Angry Birds) is fine, but don't back up contacts or Gmail or anything that's going to be included in your new ROM. Reason is, when you restore everything (more on that later), you don't want to have conflicting data screwing things up.
2. Make a nandroid using ROM Manager. Just go to where it says backup current rom, and let it do it's magic. You can (and should) rename it to something you can remember. DO NOT USE SPACES. I like to name mine with the date, ROM name, and version number (e.g. 2-3-11_Virtuous_3.1.0)
3. After the backup finishes, install the new ROM - I always do this through ROM Manager.
4. When CM7 is finished installing, download Titanium Backup and restore your apps using the batch operation - it's a lot simpler than trying to find all your apps and download/install them yourself
5. To go back, simply click "Restore Backup" in ROM Manager and pick Virtuous and all your hard work will be restored
Enjoy!
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Am I asking for trouble when backing up apps via titium, and switching roms? I thought that I read that somewhere? I have used app brain to do the restores, but it is a little slow. Also Thanks to everyone for the replies.
I've read that the newer versions of Clockwork are troublesome....anything after 2.5.05. I just went in and erased any previous ROM's that I don't use anymore to free up valuable space on the SD card. Hopefully it works, but the message error i've been getting......well not a message error, but my phone seems to freeze up while developing MD5sum. I read to leave it alone and it might take 10 min's actually, but just want to confirm this is true. Thanks.
g00s3y said:
How much free space is left on your card? Format and try it with a clean card. I have never had a problem with it restoring anything of mine.
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AlpineM3 said:
I've read that the newer versions of Clockwork are troublesome....anything after 2.5.05. I just went in and erased any previous ROM's that I don't use anymore to free up valuable space on the SD card. Hopefully it works, but the message error i've been getting......well not a message error, but my phone seems to freeze up while developing MD5sum. I read to leave it alone and it might take 10 min's actually, but just want to confirm this is true. Thanks.
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I use 2.5.1.2 and have never personally had any problem, sorry.
eman5oh said:
Am I asking for trouble when backing up apps via titium, and switching roms? I thought that I read that somewhere? I have used app brain to do the restores, but it is a little slow. Also Thanks to everyone for the replies.
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I've gone from Stock to Virtuous to MIUI to CyanogenMod and I can say definitively that I have never had any problems with Titanium backing up/restoring apps. You are asking for trouble if you try to back up system data and restore it for ROM's that they were never intended for - just back up the apps you downloaded from the market/installed yourself and you'll be fine
So here is what I did,
1 Did a Rom back up from Rom manager
2 Backed up user apps with Titanium Pro
3 Updated Clock Work Mod to 2.5.1.2
4 Flashed Hboot from .79 to .92
This is were ran into a problem, after hboot flashed it just went into a boot loop were all I could do is go into hboot or clock work recovery but that is it phone would not boot. I searched a little and read that hboot wipes the kernal and that is why it will not reboot. I then went into clockwork and restored the rom I backed up in step 1, and it worked like a charm. Thought I would share so any one else who runs into this. Now off to flash cm7!
Rocking CM7 now, Thanks for all the help and advice from everyone. The Android community rocks.
HI everyone,
Can any one explain how to take backup of ROM with installed applications before fashing the new ROM. I am using 2.3.3 with hardly 50 apps. Every time when I flash the ROM I should download all the apps from begining. Please help me by providing the solution.
spdgowda said:
HI everyone,
Can any one explain how to take backup of ROM with installed applications before fashing the new ROM. I am using 2.3.3 with hardly 50 apps. Every time when I flash the ROM I should download all the apps from begining. Please help me by providing the solution.
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hey dude installl cwm to flash zip files or roms of what ever you like... and for your aps you may like to checkout Titanium Pro backup google it or buy it from market.
and titanim pro backup will also help you in linking the apps with market and also the paid ones if you have purchased it from the same google account..
How to install cwm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL62BUZjmgw) check out thats worth seeing..
I have done as per your guidance , but I unable to get back my apps, please help.
matrixrewriter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TB+-+User's+guide check this out hope it will help
Is your phone rooted ? If so, then it's easy, use TitaniumBackup to backup all your apps.
If you don't have permanent root (i.e. by using the HTCdev bootloader unlock tool and then rooting, or by using the XTC Clip device and rooting), then you can get temporary root and still do the backup/restore that way. Just with temp root you will have to re-do the rooting after a reboot.
Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
Easiest way is to use CLockwork Mod and create a nandroid of your current Rom, then when you try other roms and decide to go back to previous Rom, you just use cwm and select restore.
Also use Titanium Backup as suggested earlier.
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Aef 101 said:
Easiest way is to use CLockwork Mod and create a nandroid of your current Rom, then when you try other roms and decide to go back to previous Rom, you just use cwm and select restore.
Also use Titanium Backup as suggested earlier.
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Thanks, Yesterday I have I have installed CM7 from 2.3.3 even I have taken back up with Titanium back up. Now I have installed Titanium backup in cm7. Now please guide me how to install my previous apps .
spdgowda said:
Thanks, Yesterday I have I have installed CM7 from 2.3.3 even I have taken back up with Titanium back up. Now I have installed Titanium backup in cm7. Now please guide me how to install my previous apps .
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Thanks, Yesterday I have I have installed CM7 from 2.3.3 even I have taken back up with Titanium back up. Now I have installed Titanium backup in cm7. Now please guide me how to install my previous apps .
Please can any one help.
Hello all,
Yesterday I rooted my HTC One X and then I installed the custom Cyanogenmod 10 nightly build (cm-10-20121105-NIGHTLY-endeavoru), that all went through succesfully. However it was only for testing purposes, to see what Cyanogenmod 10 ROM was offering, but I now want to revert back my stock Android ROM.
During the installation process I followed the guides and I made a back-up straight after installing Clockwork Touch Recovery 5.8.4.0 (recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.0-endeavoru), however when I reboot after restoring my back-up my phone doesn't boot into Android OS it stays at the HTC logo screen. Before I restore I delete data and cache.
I do belive its a boot.img fault and I would love it if someone could help me find a replacement for my stock image.
I originally was using
Android 4.0.3
Unlocked international version (Tegra 3)
I purchased from Virgin in Australia
I really need my old ROM back if possible, can anyone offer me any assistance?
Thank you
You have right, it's a boot.img problem. You have to flash the original boot.img of your stock rom. I think that it's normally in your Nandroid backup, but I'm not sure.
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FabMan_UK said:
Hello all,
Yesterday I rooted my HTC One X and then I installed the custom Cyanogenmod 10 nightly build (cm-10-20121105-NIGHTLY-endeavoru), that all went through succesfully. However it was only for testing purposes, to see what Cyanogenmod 10 ROM was offering, but I now want to revert back my stock Android ROM.
During the installation process I followed the guides and I made a back-up straight after installing Clockwork Touch Recovery 5.8.4.0 (recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.0-endeavoru), however when I reboot after restoring my back-up my phone doesn't boot into Android OS it stays at the HTC logo screen. Before I restore I delete data and cache.
I do belive its a boot.img fault and I would love it if someone could help me find a replacement for my stock image.
I originally was using
Android 4.0.3
Unlocked international version (Tegra 3)
I purchased from Virgin in Australia
I really need my old ROM back if possible, can anyone offer me any assistance?
Thank you
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You need to flash the original boot.img with fastboot. If you boot into recovery and mount usb storage browse the "sd card" to clockwork mod/back up you will see boot.img, copy to your pc and flash with fastboot.
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You need to flash the original boot.img with fastboot. If you boot into recovery and mount usb storage browse the "sd card" to clockwork mod/back up you will see boot.img, copy to your pc and flash with fastboot.
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JonasL1 said:
You have right, it's a boot.img problem. You have to flash the original boot.img of your stock rom. I think that it's normally in your Nandroid backup, but I'm not sure.
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as they said the your boot.img is in the nandroid backup.... just extract it and flash it in flastboot
could i ask you to upload your backup file and share it with the community? i would very appreciate it
matt95 said:
as they said the your boot.img is in the nandroid backup.... just extract it and flash it in flastboot
could i ask you to upload your backup file and share it with the community? i would very appreciate it
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I think I can do that.
Thanks guys for the suggestions, I'll test later and report my findings.
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Hey guys, thank you for your help. Following the advice given I was able to restore my boot.img and boot into my old phones OS, it states 4.0.3 and looks pretty much how my phone looked.
However I wonder if I could get some more assistance? My knowledge is limited I find it hard to even search for the correct terminologies on this website, let alone understand all the material that pops up. I do try to take care and follow guides, I didn't seem to have any problems with Cyanogenmod on my HTC Desire.
So my problem is difficult for me to explain, I'll try to be detailed.
Before I attempted to test CM10 I always transferred every app to the phone storage. Then starting the process I then installed SuperSU, ROM Manager and Titanium Backup but I did not move them to phone storage. I used HTCDev to unlock, via HTC One X All in One Kit 1.2.2. Then after installing clockworkmod I completed a backup, with a total size of 2.47GB (I'm not sure of a typical size).
I successfully tried a CM10 nightly build 4/11/12 then 5/11/12 an hour later and liked it but wanted to revert, I had my above OP problem now solved. But when after restoring my original backup I only have Titanium Backup, ROM Manager and SuperSu as my installed apps. No other apps are installed or registered at all, I don't have any old text messages (except 6 very recent ones), or call log history. However my details are stored, so it knows my google account details and my wifi details.
Most people here understand how the HTC One X works better than me. It seems the backup is made up of 7 files my guess in brackets:
.android_secure.vfat.tar (contains the stored apps) 1.51GB
boot.img (responsible for how it boots) 8MB
cache.ext4.tar (too small for me to guess) 10.5KB
data,ext4.tar (contains user data, configurations) 63.3 MB
nandroid.md5 (checksum) <1KB
recovery.img (to boot to clockworkmod recovery) 8MB
system.ext4.tar (Stores the OS) 906MB
Can someone help diagnose the problem and offer a possible solution? I'll upload the correct boot.img when this is working.
Thank you all again.
FabMan_UK said:
Hey guys, thank you for your help. Following the advice given I was able to restore my boot.img and boot into my old phones OS, it states 4.0.3 and looks pretty much how my phone looked.
However I wonder if I could get some more assistance? My knowledge is limited I find it hard to even search for the correct terminologies on this website, let alone understand all the material that pops up. I do try to take care and follow guides, I didn't seem to have any problems with Cyanogenmod on my HTC Desire.
So my problem is difficult for me to explain, I'll try to be detailed.
Before I attempted to test CM10 I always transferred every app to the phone storage. Then starting the process I then installed SuperSU, ROM Manager and Titanium Backup but I did not move them to phone storage. I used HTCDev to unlock, via HTC One X All in One Kit 1.2.2. Then after installing clockworkmod I completed a backup, with a total size of 2.47GB (I'm not sure of a typical size).
I successfully tried a CM10 nightly build 4/11/12 then 5/11/12 an hour later and liked it but wanted to revert, I had my above OP problem now solved. But when after restoring my original backup I only have Titanium Backup, ROM Manager and SuperSu as my installed apps. No other apps are installed or registered at all, I don't have any old text messages (except 6 very recent ones), or call log history. However my details are stored, so it knows my google account details and my wifi details.
Most people here understand how the HTC One X works better than me. It seems the backup is made up of 7 files my guess in brackets:
.android_secure.vfat.tar (contains the stored apps) 1.51GB
boot.img (responsible for how it boots) 8MB
cache.ext4.tar (too small for me to guess) 10.5KB
data,ext4.tar (contains user data, configurations) 63.3 MB
nandroid.md5 (checksum) <1KB
recovery.img (to boot to clockworkmod recovery) 8MB
system.ext4.tar (Stores the OS) 906MB
Can someone help diagnose the problem and offer a possible solution? I'll upload the correct boot.img when this is working.
Thank you all again.
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i'm not quitely sure but i would reboot into bootloader and do a factory reset to see if this solves the problem, but i'm not sure this will
matt95 said:
i'm not quitely sure but i would reboot into bootloader and do a factory reset to see if this solves the problem, but i'm not sure this will
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Doesn't that clear the data and or cache? Because I've done that, before I restore. I've tried several things including random button mashing
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Looking at the file sizes of other backups, the cache can be quite large. Is it possible during the backup the cache part was fudged? Meaning that its all gone. Or possibly I hit clear cache by mistake? Though I have absolute no memory of doing that or any reason as to why I would. When I install some apps, it picks up old content.
It's maybe better to buy Titanium Back-up Pro. Than you can back-up everything with that. (Apps, text messages, settings,...) And than a Nandroid back-up and you don't lose something. You can just lose your sd card if you do something wrong. I do it always so.
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JonasL1 said:
It's maybe better to buy Titanium Back-up Pro. Than you can back-up everything with that. (Apps, text messages, settings,...) And than a Nandroid back-up and you don't lose something. You can just lose your sd card if you do something wrong. I do it always so.
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Its embarrassing but I already own Titanium Back-up Pro, I assumed (incorrectly) that clockworkmod backup was almost like taking a snapshot of the current system operating.
I had already backed up everything on the USB mountable drive space, but not the part that is actually useful to backup. D'oh.
I wondered if anyone was familiar with clockworkmod back up process and could inform me of how I am missing something so obvious and I click X Y Z a voila, its restored.
That's strange if you restored both things and your apps and text messages and more stuff are missing.
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JonasL1 said:
That's strange if you restored both things and your apps and text messages and more stuff are missing.
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I know, I used 7-zip and I could successfully extract the *.tar files and there was so much information there, it had all of the apps I used. In the morning (I'm in Australia), I will try to find a way to manually import information. No idea how to start other than with an Internet Search.
Okay that didn't help at all, I'm stuck. I can see the apps but they will not install from the phone storage.
I can see in the .tar files the system apps that come pre-loaded but are not on my phone now, like Facebook. It's frustrating because I cannot do a factory restore because I do not have access to an original HTC installation. Is there an official international 4.0.3 installation image available or am I stuck with a screwed up phone until HTC release the official Australian 4.1 release?
Thanks people.
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I'm making the assumption that something failed during my first backup and that is why it didn't work on restore. I believe its the cache information as the rest are large in size and they pass the MD5 checksum, I don't know this for sure though.
My boot.img would be no good for the collection as it already exists. The boot.img I am using is the one I extracted from the RUU 1.29.728.12 I downloaded, since that should be the one my phone came with and it works.
My experience from this is that Cyanogenmod 10 is not yet ready for me to use but is looking promising. Also that I cannot rely on ClockWorkMod solely as a backup solution and should have used phones included backup features and Titanium Backup Pro that I own.
Cheers everyone.
Hello all, using a Bell Sgh-i747m here. Recently, I rooted and did a nandroid with cwm backup of my stock rom, and installed the m2 cm10.1 and the newest gapps. I made sure to have a backup, but mysteriously, it has disappeared! Does anyone know if it could've changed folders? Or was it completely deleted?
Thanks in advance.
Blazing angel said:
Hello all, using a Bell Sgh-i747m here. Recently, I rooted and did a nandroid with cwm backup of my stock rom, and installed the m2 cm10.1 and the newest gapps. I made sure to have a backup, but mysteriously, it has disappeared! Does anyone know if it could've changed folders? Or was it completely deleted?
Thanks in advance.
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Ive never heard of any being deleted. Did you do any kind of wipe when you flashed your ROM? I dont use CWM so not sure but does it store your Nan's to internal or external?
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Not sure if I am reading that right or not but I am thinking that you may need to update your CWR version to support the new 4.2 file structure. Can you get into a File Explorer and go to /storage/emulated/0/Clockwork/backup/ or /storage/sdcard1/Clockwork/backup and see of they are in there? It has been a long time since I used CWR so I am not sure if they are kept on the internal or external.
My guess is that they are still there, however your CWR version can't read them. Best way to check is to look with a file explorer like I mentioned above.
Blazing angel said:
Hello all, using a Bell Sgh-i747m here. Recently, I rooted and did a nandroid with cwm backup of my stock rom, and installed the m2 cm10.1 and the newest gapps. I made sure to have a backup, but mysteriously, it has disappeared! Does anyone know if it could've changed folders? Or was it completely deleted?
Thanks in advance.
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Not sure if I am reading that right or not but I am thinking that you may need to update your CWR version to support the new 4.2 file structure. Can you get into a File Explorer and go to /storage/emulated/0/Clockwork/backup/ or /storage/sdcard1/Clockwork/backup and see of they are in there? It has been a long time since I used CWR so I am not sure if they are kept on the internal or external.
My guess is that they are still there, however your CWR version can't read them. Best way to check is to look with a file explorer like I mentioned above.
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Woody is correct in saying you need to look in the "0" first. also /data/media/clockworkmod or /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod/backup. copy your cmw backup from "sdcard 0" (or wherever) to sdcard
as far as recovery versions, cwm is simply an installer. if it was not a recent enough version, you would have got an error 7 and it wouldnt even have flashed the rom. since you have flashed a 4.2 rom, you and cwm now need to know where to look for the files new locations. grab root explorer if you dont have it yet.
Hello there, I have a HTC Wildfire S I bought last week, I've already unlocked the bootloader, installed the CWM recovery and rooted the phone but I wanted to try new roms but at the same time I do not want to reinstall all my apps from my stock rom so I wanted to know a way of making a backup of the actual rom while keeping the installed apps so I wouldn't have to reinstall them, like going back time.
Yes I've made a backup of the stock rom after I rooted it and yes it is on some place safe.
Thanks.
Yepi69 said:
Hello there, I have a HTC Wildfire S I bought last week, I've already unlocked the bootloader, installed the CWM recovery and rooted the phone but I wanted to try new roms but at the same time I do not want to reinstall all my apps from my stock rom so I wanted to know a way of making a backup of the actual rom while keeping the installed apps so I wouldn't have to reinstall them, like going back time.
Yes I've made a backup of the stock rom after I rooted it and yes it is on some place safe.
Thanks.
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Use Titanium Backup app to backup all the apps and their data and keep the TitaniumBackup folder from SD card in a safe place and after installing a new ROM, transfer the TitaniumBackup folder into the root of your SD card, install Titanium backup app and then restore apps.
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Cwm backups all data in their current state, including applications.
If you're talking about bringing your already installed apps to another Rom,I wouldn't recommend doing it.
It worked as you guys said, thank you so much now I can enjoy CM10 and rollback to my stock rom with my apps already installed