Hi all, Just want to verify that my thinking is straight on this. If after rooting and before flashing a custom Rom, I make a Nandroid Backup; I can revert back to my stock rom at ant time by reverting to that stored backup? If my thinking is wrong..how would i return to my stock rom after flashing a custom rom?
daddythree said:
Hi all, Just want to verify that my thinking is straight on this. If after rooting and before flashing a custom Rom, I make a Nandroid Backup; I can revert back to my stock rom at ant time by reverting to that stored backup? If my thinking is wrong..how would i return to my stock rom after flashing a custom rom?
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That is correct. Backup and at any time boot into CWM and restore your backup.
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I have tried and tried to flash stock EL29 with Mobile Odin on Alpha5 of AOSP JB, and it doesn't work. Can I just flash an EL29 rom in CWM? I want to go back to GB.
P.S. I'm on a Mac
When I go back to GB, I Odin back to the EL26 recovery that I installed JB from, and then restore the nandroid backup I made of my original GB ROM. Then I'm back to what I had before I started; Calk's 3.0 GB ROM and Rogue kernel and CWM recovery in my case.
JimSmith94 said:
When I go back to GB, I Odin back to the EL26 recovery that I installed JB from, and then restore the nandroid backup I made of my original GB ROM. Then I'm back to what I had before I started; Calk's 3.0 GB ROM and Rogue kernel and CWM recovery in my case.
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Ok dont have all the info on what you are doing but going to assume that your trying to put a jb rom on and there's only a couple. The assuming part is which one your trying to do. You can flash your gb kernel back thru cwm. As for the back up depending on what your choosing to restore meaning if you do a full restore it will put your old rom back on that you previously had. I have put the jb rom on my phone and left it the way it came with out changing the kernel and have no issues I do have my phone flashed to another carrier so I do have to figure out how to get data working on it. But other than that it works flawlessly.
Hi all,
I'm having trouble restoring backups when I go between GB and JB. Sbrissen's lastest Alpha build is the JB I'm using. Everything goes fine with the restore until "Data". Then the restore fails. I mobile odin the EL29 with autoboot into recovery, install the ROM (JB in this example) . I then try to restore a backup I made with the same exact version of CWM from the same exact ROM that I used to create the back up. Maybe a better question is How can I create a JB backup, go back to GB, and return to JB and restore that backup. Cause what I'm doing isn't working.
Thanks
Which GB ROM are you coming from? GB recoveries should be safe so you shouldn't have to Odin to EL29, unless you're on a stock ROM without a custom recovery. Also are you wiping system, data, cache, and dalvik cache prior to restoring your backup?
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Which GB ROM are you coming from? GB recoveries should be safe so you shouldn't have to Odin to EL29, unless you're on a stock ROM without a custom recovery. Also are you wiping system, data, cache, and dalvik cache prior to restoring your backup?
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I'm using the latest Blazer GB Rom. I'm wiping everything also,factory reset,cache,dalvik cache, etc. I have to flash back to GB to update an app that requires my correct serial number to work, JB Roms do not do this at the moment so the app wont work. That is the reason for flashing back to GB (didn't want to mess with ICS for obvious reasons). I'm coming from HTC Evo 4g so things are a little different. On the Epic 4G, I was under the impression you had to use the same recovery to restore that was used to create the backup. Can I just jump back and forth between GB and JB using the nand backup with each others recovery? GB's CWM is 5 and JB's CWM is 6. I didn't think you could because if the backup won't restore with the same CWM is was created with, how would it restore with another version? Still a little foggy on the process E4GT uses.
Thanks
dal320driver said:
I'm using the latest Blazer GB Rom. I'm wiping everything also,factory reset,cache,dalvik cache, etc. I have to flash back to GB to update an app that requires my correct serial number to work, JB Roms do not do this at the moment so the app wont work. That is the reason for flashing back to GB (didn't want to mess with ICS for obvious reasons). I'm coming from HTC Evo 4g so things are a little different. On the Epic 4G, I was under the impression you had to use the same recovery to restore that was used to create the backup. Can I just jump back and forth between GB and JB using the nand backup with each others recovery? GB's CWM is 5 and JB's CWM is 6. I didn't think you could because if the backup won't restore with the same CWM is was created with, how would it restore with another version? Still a little foggy on the process E4GT uses.
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dal320driver said:
Hi all,
I'm having trouble restoring backups when I go between GB and JB. Sbrissen's lastest Alpha build is the JB I'm using. Everything goes fine with the restore until "Data". Then the restore fails. I mobile odin the EL29 with autoboot into recovery, install the ROM (JB in this example) . I then try to restore a backup I made with the same exact version of CWM from the same exact ROM that I used to create the back up. Maybe a better question is How can I create a JB backup, go back to GB, and return to JB and restore that backup. Cause what I'm doing isn't working.
Thanks
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I've gone from rooted EL29 back to a a JB ROM and restored with no issues. The ROM I use is Paranoid Android. I usually allow my phone to boot then reboot into recovery before restoring. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question, but sometimes things get forgotten/overlooked when flashing ROMs. Anyways, did you flash the JB gapps after flashing the ROM? Just asking since this step was not in your posts.
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Which GB ROM are you coming from? GB recoveries should be safe so you shouldn't have to Odin to EL29, unless you're on a stock ROM without a custom recovery. Also are you wiping system, data, cache, and dalvik cache prior to restoring your backup?
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kmok said:
I've gone from rooted EL29 back to a a JB ROM and restored with no issues. The ROM I use is Paranoid Android. I usually allow my phone to boot then reboot into recovery before restoring. Hopefully this isn't a stupid question, but sometimes things get forgotten/overlooked when flashing ROMs. Anyways, did you flash the JB gapps after flashing the ROM? Just asking since this step was not in your posts.
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Yes, I flashed JB gapps also. I'm not having trouble re-flashing the ROM's back and forth. . This part is successful. The problem is when I go back into recovery and try to restore a backup (of either ROM just flashed) it isn't working. Sorry for the confusion.
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dal320driver said:
Yes, I flashed JB gapps also. I'm not having trouble re-flashing the ROM's back and forth. . This part is successful. The problem is when I go back into recovery and try to restore a backup (of either ROM just flashed) it isn't working. Sorry for the confusion.
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Okay, I was just making sure something wasn't forgotten when you were going back to JB this time around. I figured you were able to get the different ROMs working since you were able to make a backup of the JB ROM you were using. AFAIK the different versions of CWM (5 vs 6) shouldn't matter in this situation. Hopefully someone else has had the same problem and will be able to chime in.
CWM6 creates backups differently than CWM5 or most other recoveries. Instead of putting the entire backup in one folder, it has a separate Blobs folder that contains a lot of the data. If the folders get separated, the backup won't get restored correctly. Did you by any chance move the main folder or delete the blobs folder?
Flashed different kernel, now want to go back to stock. Will Nandroid solve it?
If I restore my stock nandroid I made before flashing custom kernel, will it take me back to stock?
Also, I flashed a kernel KT747 - LJ7 - KTweaker that said that I need to reflash wifi drivers if go back to stock.....but if I do nandroid, will I need to do that?
Please help
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Yes, all you need to restore is system and boot.
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Hey guys,
I think I already know the answer to this, but wanted to double check before proceeding.
At the moment I'm actually still rocking Calk's 3.0. I wanted to play around with some of the new JB roms, but I want to back up my phone with CWM so that I can downgrade back to GB (Calk 3.0) if I ever wanted to come back.
It's completely possible for me to jump back to my backed up GB after upgrading to JB, right? I can just hop into CWM and restore back to my Calk 3.0 backup.
Thanks,
Gods
Godswrath said:
Hey guys,
I think I already know the answer to this, but wanted to double check before proceeding.
At the moment I'm actually still rocking Calk's 3.0. I wanted to play around with some of the new JB roms, but I want to back up my phone with CWM so that I can downgrade back to GB (Calk 3.0) if I ever wanted to come back.
It's completely possible for me to jump back to my backed up GB after upgrading to JB, right? I can just hop into CWM and restore back to my Calk 3.0 backup.
Thanks,
Gods
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Yes. Very simple too, actually.
Download the EL29Directboot kernel.
Flash the kernel with Mobile Odin.
Nandroid backup in recovery.
reflash calk's GB
Now follow the OP for whatever jellybean rom you want to flash. Whenever you want to come back to GB (which I doubt you will), just flash the EL29 directboot kernel with Mobile Odin, and restore the backup in recovery.
when going back to gingerbeead from jelly bean its best to do a stock one click gingerbread rom first. That way all partitions are set up like they need to be. Then you flash the el26 kernel and restore your nandroid thats gingerbread.
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