Until the OTA release of JB I was running an unlocked/rooted Galaxy Nexus with custom recovery, franco kernel, and the standard 4.0.4 rom. I was pretty happy with my setup, but then I was alerted to the JB release which I wanted.
So, I reflashed stock/unrooted/OEM locked... and got the OTA release of 4.1.1
Luckily google re-downloaded all my apps, I restored images/etc, and I used SMS backup+ to get back my SMS history and call logs.. BUT, there were still problems.. I had to re-customize my desktop icons and widgets, and I lost lots of other app data. I EXPECTED THIS to happen, but it's still frustrating. Luckily my phone is only two weeks old, so it's no major.
Anyway, moving forward I would like to unlock and root my phone again.. and I'm wondering, what are the best practices for restoring your data.. I don't want a JB update in a couple weeks to cause me all this pain again.
Thanks!
Titanium Backup will restore apps and data. If you use a custom launcher, some give you an option to backup your homescreen locations. When it comes down to it, there will still be some things to setup again.
If you stay stock then another update won't wipe your device... only switching ROMs will.
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martonikaj said:
Titanium Backup will restore apps and data. If you use a custom launcher, some give you an option to backup your homescreen locations. When it comes down to it, there will still be some things to setup again.
If you stay stock then another update won't wipe your device... only switching ROMs will.
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Thanks for your response. Titanium Backup looks perfect. I found I wasn't able to upgrade to the new OTA without going back to full stock (lock, unroot, OEM lock, etc)... is it possible to update from stock ROM even while being rooted, etc?
funkdified said:
Thanks for your response. Titanium Backup looks perfect. I found I wasn't able to upgrade to the new OTA without going back to full stock (lock, unroot, OEM lock, etc)... is it possible to update from stock ROM even while being rooted, etc?
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Bootloader lock/unlock state doesn't change your ability to receive and apply an OTA.
If you're rooted, you can still apply the OTA, it'll just break root. Some people have success using "OTA root keeper" apps that "hide" your root while you OTA then restore it after.
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So my evo currently has software version 3.29 and this past weekend I rooted it with unrevoked3. I noticed that there is an update available (3.70), is there any reason for me to update this? I tried updating but while it was updating it crashed (I think because of the unrevoked).
And another question. I want to run new themes, etc. I used titanium back up to back up my apps and used Rom Manager to back up my system settings. Was it necessary for me to use 2 different programs to back up my phone and is there anyway to test to see if everything on my phone is backed up?
Thanks.
Ok 1. Never accept an OTA --over the air update after your rooted. It'll kill your root.
Do what i did pick a ROM from here thats based on 3.70. You'll have a new rom + all the updates.
2. No you didnt need 2 backups. Titanium has a batch button that says "Backup sytem data and user apps" thats the ONLY one you need!!!
Hey dont take it from me tho....always nand & try things for yourself!!!!
Phillysphinest1 said:
Ok 1. Never accept an OTA --over the air update after your rooted. It'll kill your root.
Do what i did pick a ROM from here thats based on 3.70. You'll have a new rom + all the updates.
2. No you didnt need 2 backups. Titanium has a batch button that says "Backup sytem data and user apps" thats the ONLY one you need!!!
Hey dont take it from me tho....always nand & try things for yourself!!!!
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I did try to OTA install but in the middle of installing the OTA program showed an error and stopped. My root is still there though.
Could you please direct me to where I can find 3.70 roms and what I need to launch them with?
I backed up using both programs any harm in this besides taking up more space on my microsd?
Thanks again.
evosq said:
I did try to OTA install but in the middle of installing the OTA program showed an error and stopped. My root is still there though.
Could you please direct me to where I can find 3.70 roms and what I need to launch them with?
I backed up using both programs any harm in this besides taking up more space on my microsd?
Thanks again.
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use mikfroyo or avalaunch or myns, all three great sense roms that are constantly updated, z3 is zippiest as of now
Go here for all the latest ROMs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Supersonic/ROMs
Hello,
Thanks all for the great site, sorry to ask this if its all ready been asked but there is so much information here I just cannot make sense of it all and don't where to begin.
I am working on the Galaxy nexus GSM for an employee and we had to unlock and root it to get rSAP working with his car.
I found here a one click solution (cannot find it anymore) after installing the Android SDK and finally getting the Drivers right (not easy) it worked and I unlocked the phone and rooted it. rSAP works!!
Unfortunately this set the phone back to default.
Now the employee is constantly receiving the 4.0.2 update notification (cannot turn off?) what he cannot install (dead android guy every time)
So my question is, what is the best way I can update the phone to 4.0.2 without losing all the data, apps and settings and then make sure the update notification reminder is turned off?
Thanks for any help!
John
cracks26 said:
Hello,
Thanks all for the great site, sorry to ask this if its all ready been asked but there is so much information here I just cannot make sense of it all and don't where to begin.
I am working on the Galaxy nexus GSM for an employee and we had to unlock and root it to get rSAP working with his car.
I found here a one click solution (cannot find it anymore) after installing the Android SDK and finally getting the Drivers right (not easy) it worked and I unlocked the phone and rooted it. rSAP works!!
Unfortunately this set the phone back to default.
Now the employee is constantly receiving the 4.0.2 update notification (cannot turn off?) what he cannot install (dead android guy every time)
So my question is, what is the best way I can update the phone to 4.0.2 without losing all the data, apps and settings and then make sure the update notification reminder is turned off?
Thanks for any help!
John
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I would load the latest AOKP rom, you can find it on here. Then he won't get any update notifications and it has Google autorestore feature which means once he logs into the device his apps and settings will be restored. Would that help? AOKP rom will bring the device up to 4.0.3 by the way. You will still be able to use the ASDK to install drivers etc.
Hi, thanks for the lighting fast reply..
I tried a search but cannot find that ROM, could you maybe point in the right direction?
will installing that ROM delete everything?
Yeah it will because you should wipe data and cache before flashing in CWM recovery. Do a backup of everything with Titanium before wiping. I wouldn't bother backing up apps cos the autorestore will download them and install automatically once your user logs in.
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402341
Be sure to flash the GApps zip file straight after flashing the rom. You know what I mean?
Let me know how you get on. I also modded the Kernel, I am using Franco's and it is insane.
Hi Jd,
I really am a noob and do not think I can undertake such an action..
The instructions there are very minimal...
Let me put it is this way - Is there any way I can easily ensure that the update notification is turned off - without having to wipe the phone and start over?
Cheers for the help man!!
John
cracks26 said:
Hi Jd,
I really am a noob and do not think I can undertake such an action..
The instructions there are very minimal...
Let me put it is this way - Is there any way I can easily ensure that the update notification is turned off - without having to wipe the phone and start over?
Cheers for the help man!!
John
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Unfortunetly not afaik. Someone told me you can mess around with an updater-script file but like yourself I am pretty much a noob to so I don't know.
I would repost and have the topic as something like "disabling ota update notifications" and then link to this post. There is a good chance that someone here will know a solution. That is if there is one John, I have not heard of one though. Best of luck.
jd1001 said:
Yeah it will because you should wipe data and cache before flashing in CWM recovery. Do a backup of everything with Titanium before wiping. I wouldn't bother backing up apps cos the autorestore will download them and install automatically once your user logs in.
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402341
Be sure to flash the GApps zip file straight after flashing the rom. You know what I mean?
Let me know how you get on. I also modded the Kernel, I am using Franco's and it is insane.
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Wiping data does not wipe the phone completely.
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joshnichols189 said:
Wiping data does not wipe the phone completely.
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Never said it did
Erm, I would definitely not install a custom ROM onto someone else's phone, with or without their consent unless the phone owner was technologically-minded and knew their way around the phone! I would assume that since they offloaded their issue to someone else, they do not belong to that group.
What I would suggest is to keep it as stock as possible. Grab the factory 4.0.2 maguro image (ICL53F) from Google (http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html). Back up apps and app data & SMS (I wouldn't bother with system data, I've only had problems when restoring this afterwards) using Titanium Backup. If there's only minimal user installed apps without any useful data, just letting Google's servers restore missing apps should be fine in lieu of Titanium Backup. Make a nandroid (via CWM) in case something hits the fan when you're flashing.
Once you've done all of this, flash the factory image and reapply root. The phone should now be on 4.0.2 (removing annoying update notifications) and will still receive future OTAs instead of being stuck on a static version of a custom ROM(!!!). I have heard that CWM can cause troubles with OTA updates so I would remove it once you've completed all of this as it's likely the client won't need it anyway (drop reboot-from-recovery.p back into /system/ and it'll restore stock recovery). Oh yeah don't forget to install Titanium Backup (stop all other app downloads in the market for now), restore apps and SMS. Done.
If you don't know how to flash the factory image, follow this tut: http://androidtobe.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-installing-ics-402-from.html
HTH
Krijs said:
Erm, I would definitely not install a custom ROM onto someone else's phone, with or without their consent unless the phone owner was technologically-minded and knew their way around the phone! I would assume that since they offloaded their issue to someone else, they do not belong to that group.
What I would suggest is to keep it as stock as possible. Grab the factory 4.0.2 maguro image (ICL53F) from Google (http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html). Back up apps and app data & SMS (I wouldn't bother with system data, I've only had problems when restoring this afterwards) using Titanium Backup. If there's only minimal user installed apps without any useful data, just letting Google's servers restore missing apps should be fine in lieu of Titanium Backup. Make a nandroid (via CWM) in case something hits the fan when you're flashing.
Once you've done all of this, flash the factory image and reapply root. The phone should now be on 4.0.2 (removing annoying update notifications) and will still receive future OTAs instead of being stuck on a static version of a custom ROM(!!!). I have heard that CWM can cause troubles with OTA updates so I would remove it once you've completed all of this as it's likely the client won't need it anyway (drop reboot-from-recovery.p back into /system/ and it'll restore stock recovery). Oh yeah don't forget to install Titanium Backup (stop all other app downloads in the market for now), restore apps and SMS. Done.
If you don't know how to flash the factory image, follow this tut: http://androidtobe.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-installing-ics-402-from.html
HTH
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THAT is the best advice in this thread, keeps the phone stock and up-to-date so the only time he'd get an update notification is when 4.0.x is pushed out
The ONLY thing I'd say is if you don't wanna lose the data, when you get to step 6 of the guide linked to above leave the -w switch from the update line. So instead of typing:
fastboot -w update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
You'd type:
fastboot update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
I am running ICS 4.04 on SCH-I515. I already unlocked the bootloader and I am currently rooted. I am not using the verizon ROM, I believe I am currently using a regular AOSP build.
I want to upgrade to Jelly Bean when its available but I know that flashing it will erase everything. What can I use to back up everything so when I upgrade to JB I will be able to restore everything. I am hoping to be able to restore contacts, apps, settings, configurations for apps.....maybe even home screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
smartadmin said:
I am running ICS 4.04 on SCH-I515. I already unlocked the bootloader and I am currently rooted. I am not using the verizon ROM, I believe I am currently using a regular AOSP build.
I want to upgrade to Jelly Bean when its available but I know that flashing it will erase everything. What can I use to back up everything so when I upgrade to JB I will be able to restore everything. I am hoping to be able to restore contacts, apps, settings, configurations for apps.....maybe even home screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Check out rom toolbox pro in play store. It'll backup those things and more. Titanium backup is another popular choice for apps and data, but I don't think it backups sms, contacts, settings, etc like rom toolbox does.
Before anything make a android if anything should go wrong you can restore. For messages I suggest SMS Backup and Restore found in the play store. For apps and all that use titanium backup and restore app+data on jellybean which will import all settings and data the application had on the original backup. Contacts should have been backed up to the Google servers so you don't really have to worry about that, once you sign in to jellybean for the first time your contacts will be completely restores automatically. Home screens not possible , to my knowing, unless you use a third party launcher such as Nova which let's you backup home screens.
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iLeopard said:
Home screens not possible , to my knowing, unless you use a third party launcher such as Nova which let's you backup home screens.
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icon placement can be backed up through titanium if you backup the launcher. Widgets wont restore though with any launcher. Except possibly Nova.
smartadmin said:
I am running ICS 4.04 on SCH-I515. I already unlocked the bootloader and I am currently rooted. I am not using the verizon ROM, I believe I am currently using a regular AOSP build.
I want to upgrade to Jelly Bean when its available but I know that flashing it will erase everything. What can I use to back up everything so when I upgrade to JB I will be able to restore everything. I am hoping to be able to restore contacts, apps, settings, configurations for apps.....maybe even home screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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titanium backup. Only certain launchers can back up your home screen stuff. Like apex.
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Cool I already use Titanium backup, so looks like I am covered on everything other then home screens. If I were to change to nova launcher that would mean I would have to re do my home screens anyway.
Picked up a Koodo SGH-T989D SII a few weeks ago. The device is running Icecream Sandwich.. I find it lags and has response issues.
Apparently jellybean is not yet out for it, I tried connecting the phone last night to Kies to check for an update because the device does not have a OTA option in Settings but KIES is such a POS software that I nearly pulled my hair out.
The software will just not detect the phone being plugged in.. not matter what I tried.
What are my options? Can I install jellybean from another carrier on this phone?
DHeffernan said:
Picked up a Koodo SGH-T989D SII a few weeks ago. The device is running Icecream Sandwich.. I find it lags and has response issues.
Apparently jellybean is not yet out for it, I tried connecting the phone last night to Kies to check for an update because the device does not have a OTA option in Settings but KIES is such a POS software that I nearly pulled my hair out.
The software will just not detect the phone being plugged in.. not matter what I tried.
What are my options? Can I install jellybean from another carrier on this phone?
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Root your phone. Check out the development thread for this phone. There are many stable if not perfect JB roms in there.
cricketAC said:
Root your phone. Check out the development thread for this phone. There are many stable if not perfect JB roms in there.
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Will i lose the stuff thats currently on the phone and have to restart everything?
Like game saves, etc?
DHeffernan said:
Will i lose the stuff thats currently on the phone and have to restart everything?
Like game saves, etc?
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Well if you ONLY root you will preserve your items (if you do it the proper method)
But if you want to transfer game saves and such (Google sadly doesn't backup all the data..) when you want to flash Jellybean for example, you can use Titanium Backup
Koragg618 said:
Well if you ONLY root you will preserve your items (if you do it the proper method)
But if you want to transfer game saves and such (Google sadly doesn't backup all the data..) when you want to flash Jellybean for example, you can use Titanium Backup
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Well only rooting will not get me anywheres and resolve the issue I am seeing.
So basically I would have to use titaniumBackup do a proper backup, then root and flash jellybean, then restore the backup?
Also Titanium Backup in the play store is showing *root besides it.. Does that mean I need to be rooted in order to use it? Basically not even being able to backup the stuff this initial first root?
DHeffernan said:
Well only rooting will not get me anywheres and resolve the issue I am seeing.
So basically I would have to use titaniumBackup do a proper backup, then root and flash jellybean, then restore the backup?
Also Titanium Backup in the play store is showing *root besides it.. Does that mean I need to be rooted in order to use it? Basically not even being able to backup the stuff this initial first root?
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This link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2195283
Rooting initially will not erase any memory according to this post, so you can root, then download Titanium Backup and backup, and then do a nandroid backup in the recovery if you don't like the next ROM you might use.
Root first, then install titanium backup (sorry I tried to post a link to rooting, but I'm new here so I'm prevented from posting links).
Anyways, once you root and install Titanium backup to backup your apps & data, then you can flash a custom ROM. Make sure to make a Nandroid backup first (Google it) in case you change your mind. There are a lot of choices. Jedi Jelly is good and has a similar look and feel (Touchwiz) to the ROM that came with your phone. AOKP and Cyanogenmod are very popular alternatives that look a bit different but also work quite well.
I received the notification to update this morning to 4.4, however the update started to apply, it kicked it out with a suspected root error. Before applying the update, I had already uninstalled Xposed and unrooted my phone, so I am not sure what set off the root checker. I was wondering what my options were at this point. I know I can flash back to stock, but I would like to avoid this if at all possible. Are there any alternatives, or will I be forced to flash back to stock?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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marksman81 said:
I received the notification to update this morning to 4.4, however the update started to apply, it kicked it out with a suspected root error. Before applying the update, I had already uninstalled Xposed and unrooted my phone, so I am not sure what set off the root checker. I was wondering what my options were at this point. I know I can flash back to stock, but I would like to avoid this if at all possible. Are there any alternatives, or will I be forced to flash back to stock?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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I'm having exactly the same issue. I used the one click root method and have unrooted using full unroot in SuperSu.
But it appears full unroot per SuperSu is not enough? I tried root checker in Play Store and it says I am not rooted.
When I run the install it takes a long time to download and gave 0x13e error after the reboot while upgrading.
I also tried the LG PC Suite but it says my phone has the most current version, that is weird...
This OTA seems to be very picky as I was able to update in January 2014 fully rooted....
I wonder if I need to flash the IOT and go through the hassle of reinstalling all apps and config....that's a lot of hassle...
View92612 said:
I'm having exactly the same issue. I used the one click root method and have unrooted using full unroot in SuperSu.
But it appears full unroot per SuperSu is not enough? I tried root checker in Play Store and it says I am not rooted.
When I run the install it takes a long time to download and gave 0x13e error after the reboot while upgrading.
I also tried the LG PC Suite but it says my phone has the most current version, that is weird...
This OTA seems to be very picky as I was able to update in January 2014 fully rooted....
I wonder if I need to flash the IOT and go through the hassle of reinstalling all apps and config....that's a lot of hassle...
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It is very strange but if I try update recovery it says my battery does not have enough charge. (but battery is at 100%).
I even bought a new battery. I did disable carrier iq spying service before I unroot.
Do I have to enable carrier iq spy in order to upgrade?
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It is very strange but if I try update recovery it says my battery does not have enough charge. (but battery is at 100%).
I even bought a new battery. I did disable carrier iq spying service before I unroot.
Do I have to enable carrier iq spy in order to upgrade?
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Your phone needs to be 100% stock in order for OTA updates to work. This means:
no custom recovery (CWM, TWRP, etc)
all bloatware must be present
you can't be rooted
all system services must be like stock (this includes carrier IQ, so yes, it needs to be reenabled).
If you can't get the OTA to update after fixing everything, try flashing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760895
This IS the ATT stock ROM, but mildly debloated. The creator only debloated things that could be installed via the Play Store though (like Google Music, Newstand, Books, etc), so there isn't anything like the remote app or something missing.
I flashed this version because I'm too lazy to try and return my phone to pure stock just to get the OTA and then have to reflash root and a custom recovery. Too much work for me.
EDIT: I'm not too sure what's going on with your recovery... I hope someone else can answer that for you.
The easiest thing to do is just flash the 4.4.2 Rom found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760895
This route saves allot of time having to flash back to pure stock, wait for your phone to receive the update again, and your phone taking forever to download said update.
spexwood said:
If you can't get the OTA to update after fixing everything, try flashing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2760895
This IS the ATT stock ROM, but mildly debloated. The creator only debloated things that could be installed via the Play Store though (like Google Music, Newstand, Books, etc), so there isn't anything like the remote app or something missing.
I flashed this version because I'm too lazy to try and return my phone to pure stock just to get the OTA and then have to reflash root and a custom recovery. Too much work for me.
EDIT: I'm not too sure what's going on with your recovery... I hope someone else can answer that for you.
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Thanks a lot. This is my wife's phone so she'd rather not to update if a data wipe is required. She's actually quite happy with 4.1.
Anything extra would only be a "good to have". I think I'll keep it on 4.1 until she switches to another phone.
I did download the slightly customized stock rom so that it could be updated in the future.
In fact, I still have stock recovery and the only reason I rooted was to disable carrier iq because it was doing funny things with the GPS, very annoying.
There is no other way to disable carrier iq without rooting...unfortunately...
View92612 said:
Thanks a lot. This is my wife's phone so she'd rather not to update if a data wipe is required. She's actually quite happy with 4.1.
Anything extra would only be a "good to have". I think I'll keep it on 4.1 until she switches to another phone.
I did download the slightly customized stock rom so that it could be updated in the future.
In fact, I still have stock recovery and the only reason I rooted was to disable carrier iq because it was doing funny things with the GPS, very annoying.
There is no other way to disable carrier iq without rooting...unfortunately...
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If you flash that ROM over her current stock ROM, it should act just like an OTA update and replace the JB OS with the KK OS. It should also replace JB version Google apps with KK ones too.
If you decide to do this, you will need to do 3 things:
1) Make a backup just in case, but then copy the backup to your PC
2) Backup the internal SD to a PC and then format the internal storage. (see *2 below as to why)
3) After the flash, you will need to install the apk from the following thread and use it to install a Kitkat compatible CWM. If you don't while in recovery at any time, you may get stuck in what's called the Recovery Bootloop. Basically, every time you try to reboot the phone into the system (whether from a powered off state or from recovery), you will always go back to recovery.
The only bad thing about this recovery is that it can't read external SD cards, so anything you want to flash/backup will need to be stored on internal storage.
*2) Kitkat uses a different directory system for internal storage. If you were to not wipe the internal SD and managed to get the OTA working, it would wipe the drive for you automatically (which means all your data would be gone!).
However, with this flashable stock ROM, what will happen instead, is that all your data will remain, but will be hidden from view/access. If you have root, you can get it and move it, but it's a pain. Otherwise, your files are hidden from you, yet the system reads X amount of your internal storage as being occupied by "Miscellaneous" files, yet shows that nothing is there.
So just backup the files, then format the internal storage (which will leave her apps alone) before updating. Then flash that ROM and then copy the files back over.
All this is up to you and your wife as to whether or not you deem it to be worth the effort.