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I've moved my VZWGnex, like the rest of the herd, to JB and flashed a few kernels for fun. Personally, I had no issues at all. Now, about 24 hrs in, I'm kinda missing all of the customization of Liquid 1.5 (ICS).
Since there are so many threads that have been peppered with issues involving Nandroid/CWM/Alt Recoveries/TBU, I thought I'd start a thread to centralize the experiences.
The central question of the thread is...
Which are the reliable methods for moving from JB to ICS on the Gnex?
Obviously, there will be variations on the theme, based on individual history and preferences, but I've not seen the answer to this question clearly defined in any way other than via fastboot. That may be the only way, but I'm tempted to believe that a nandroid backup can work. Did it work for you?
I have TeamWin Recovery. I simply back up (nandroid) the ICS and then install JB. To go back, I simply restore the backup.
1Thess523 said:
I've moved my VZWGnex, like the rest of the herd, to JB and flashed a few kernels for fun. Personally, I had no issues at all. Now, about 24 hrs in, I'm kinda missing all of the customization of Liquid 1.5 (ICS).
Since there are so many threads that have been peppered with issues involving Nandroid/CWM/Alt Recoveries/TBU, I thought I'd start a thread to centralize the experiences.
The central question of the thread is...
Which are the reliable methods for moving from JB to ICS on the Gnex?
Obviously, there will be variations on the theme, based on individual history and preferences, but I've not seen the answer to this question clearly defined in any way other than via fastboot. That may be the only way, but I'm tempted to believe that a nandroid backup can work. Did it work for you?
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Yep. Just restored my ics backup a little while ago with no issues.
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tkirton said:
I have TeamWin Recovery. I simply back up (nandroid) the ICS and then install JB. To go back, I simply restore the backup.
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And you're already done this, right? This isn't just theory.
To which ICS rom did you restore? And from which JB rom?
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1Thess523 said:
And you're already done this, right? This isn't just theory.
To which ICS rom did you restore? And from which JB rom?
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I have cwm. Flashed bigxies (check spelling) jb rom last night and flashed back my backup of rascream/trinity combo a little bit ago
Did not wipe just flashed backup.
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In an effort to bolster others' confidence, maybe those of you who have restored ICS roms from nandroid backups could give some extra details, like:
Your daily driver that you backed up before going to JB.
Your preferred recovery.
Your version of JB.
The exact steps you took to restore the nandroid backup.
(Ex: All I did was restore my backup in CWM. Did not wipe.)
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Update:
Came from Liquid 1.5 and CWM 5.5.0.4 (it's not the touch version)
Flashed the Vicious JBv2 without issue. Tried several kernels - stock, stock linaro, Franco, etc.
Without wiping, flashed the Liquid 1.5 nandroid in CWM.
NO ERRORS
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so you can apparently restore to 4.0.4 cwm backup from 4.1 directly without any issues. is that right? and just a question. can i, after restoring to 4.0.4, restore back 4.1 again? that is without flashing the bigxie's jb rom , simply by restoring cwm backup, would it come back to 4.1?
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Incase you are wondering why would anyone want to do that, its just that iv experienced some wifi issues since jb update. and iv seen the verizon wifi fix. iv flashed it, only to make the signal more worse. i bot my nexus from the google play store. so i think i may have messed up the wifi files. by going back to 4.0.4 i want to copy the files in wifi directory from the etc folder. just hoping to get back to the normal wifi conectivity as on 4.0.4. is there anything im overlooking or any simpler solution?
thanks a lot in advance.
Yes. A nandroid restore formats everything beforehand so you will have no issue restoring between 4.0.4 and 4.1.
I used to format /system every time I flashed a ROM on my gs2, but I saw in the numerous imei threads some posts about not doing so because it may be part of the lost imei issues. Do you do it ? Have you had issues ? I'm reluctant to do so , but feel it will be " beneficial to my flashing" if I did...
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jasonren29 said:
Format system does not wipe out imei. It's when you root it the wrong way. If you want to play safe, you can go to development section use imei back up method to back it up
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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Did you changed the backup in any format? Change name or date? Any minor changes to the backup will fail md5 check
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None what so ever. I really just flashed the stock back up right before I flashed my gsfree back up so no I made no changes what also ever. Some times when you format systems in clockworkmod recovery this could happen because it happen to me. Can't wait till ext4 touch recovery comes to us here in this forum. Not saying cwm recovery isn't nice but I never had any problems with other recoveries that have been offered.
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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Yes you are right. But I didn't want to go thru all of that. Really didn't have time so just unrooted my phone so there would be no more problems. I get like alot of people and become flash aholics. So I just stop it from being problem later down the road. Look I like rooting and adding mods to my phone like the next guy but there comes to a point where unnecessary issues can be avoided. Like the one I had.... but on the real tip I really enjoy the phone just the way it is STOCK I have zero issues and love the battery life that I have. So until some cooler roms come out I just don't have interest in cm9 or cm10 base roms. I mean I came from the sensation where I could flash a lot more variety of roms. I like this phone the way it is and really that's why I bought it.
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I am new to rooting, mods etc. I have managed to get the Cyanogen 10 onto my Sprint Galaxy S3 and put the voicemail app. I find that the phone loses it's data connection intermittently and also sometimes the phone wont turn on and I have to hit the power button for a reboot.
I have searched these forums and the cyanogen ones and there is loose mention of this in posts dated back to August but nothing more recent.
1.) Is this a known bug and/or has it been fixed?
2) Is there a ROM that doesnt suffer from these bugs?
Thanks
BDO
Wrong area to post my friend!
I have SENSATIONS and its WICKED!!
These are questions to be asked in the cm threads
Where is the correct place to post?
bigdaddyo811 said:
Where is the correct place to post?
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Where you downloaded the rom bro
bigdaddyo811 said:
Where is the correct place to post?
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Shadefactor said:
Where you downloaded the rom bro
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While the response given to you is usually correct, you do not meet the requirements to post in a development section. So I have moved your question to the correct section. (Q&A section)
If you have a question about a particular rom that you downloaded, then you will post the question in that particular rom's thread. If it is just a general question, then you post the question in here. (Q&A section).
Development section is strictly reserved for development related items. No question threads should be started in there.
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I am new to rooting, mods etc. I have managed to get the Cyanogen 10 onto my Sprint Galaxy S3 and put the voicemail app. I find that the phone loses it's data connection intermittently and also sometimes the phone wont turn on and I have to hit the power button for a reboot.
I have searched these forums and the cyanogen ones and there is loose mention of this in posts dated back to August but nothing more recent.
1.) Is this a known bug and/or has it been fixed?
2) Is there a ROM that doesnt suffer from these bugs?
Thanks
BDO
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What voicemail app are you using? I'm just curious, I don't think it's related to your issues. I am using Google Voice, but I'd like to know what else is available.
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I'm very new to all this and really needed help...
1 - I am rooted and looking to run cyanogenmod and a kernel that supports over and under clocking...I have gaaps zip and the stable cyanogenmod zip on my phone. I did a nandroid backup, a titanium backup and backed up by contacts to Google.
2 - Should I do another nandroid backup when I do a factory reset (before flashing rom) that way I have a backup of the phone completely stock?
3 - After flashing I can reinstall my apps with the free version of titanium backup correct? And will the backup be wiped if it's on internal storage during factory reset?
4 - And do I do a nandroid restore after flashing rom or is that just in case something goes wrong or I don't like the rom?
5 - If I want to over and under clock I still need as kernel right? Basically I just want better battery life...does cyanogenmod generally improve battery life?
Sorry for all the questions I've been doing alot of reading and just not started watching YouTube videos...just wanna be cautious
...thank you
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beyeond said:
I'm very new to all this and really needed help...
1 - I am rooted and looking to run cyanogenmod and a kernel that supports over and under clocking...I have gaaps zip and the stable cyanogenmod zip on my phone. I did a nandroid backup, a titanium backup and backed up by contacts to Google.
2 - Should I do another nandroid backup when I do a factory reset (before flashing rom) that way I have a backup of the phone completely stock?
3 - After flashing I can reinstall my apps with the free version of titanium backup correct? And will the backup be wiped if it's on internal storage during factory reset?
4 - And do I do a nandroid restore after flashing rom or is that just in case something goes wrong or I don't like the rom?
5 - If I want to over and under clock I still need as kernel right? Basically I just want better battery life...does cyanogenmod generally improve battery life?
Sorry for all the questions I've been doing alot of reading and just not started watching YouTube videos...just wanna be cautious
...thank you
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I always do a nandroid right before a ROM flash. Then delete any older nandroids I have. You just want to be able to restore your device to it's state immediately before the flash if anything goes wrong.
Your backups will not be wiped. You will be able to restore them, but I seriously suggest purchasing the full version of TB.
Restoring the nandroid will give you exactly what you made the nandroid of. Its a back up if you do want to go back, or if something goes wrong. Only restore it when you want to return to it. I.e. if you don't like CM or if it's not working right.
You need the kernel to oc. The stock CM kernel doesn't do it. Make sure the kernel that you are flashing is meant for the ROM. Otherwise you're in for trouble.
Good questions for a beginner. Good luck.
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Thanks so much for the help. If I have a problem with cm10 I can just restore the nandroid, I don't have to un flash it or anything? Just boot to recovery and restore and that's it?
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beyeond said:
Thanks so much for the help. If I have a problem with cm10 I can just restore the nandroid, I don't have to un flash it out anything? Just not to recovery and restore and that's it?
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That's right. You can just restore it through recovery.
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mjben said:
That's right. You can just restore it through recovery.
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Thanks. One more question. I downloaded the stable version. Its that what I want? If they have a stable one then why do the nightlies.keep getting made? Are they just basically daily beta versions? If I get the latest nightly would I have to do this whole flashing and restoring my apps every time I want the new nightly? Thanks for helping me guys.
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I usually stick with the stable release. Not that I know of anything specifically wrong with any nightly; I also haven't read any of the change logs to see what the differences are. I would assume, like you seem to, that the team would be working on improvements.
When I have flashed nightlies, I didn't wipe data and restore apps. Just flashes the nightly, gapps, then clean caches.
BTW, a lot of people do say that restoring apps and their data with TB to a new ROM causes problems. I believe this could be true, but I do it anyway. If any app does give me trouble after a restore I deal with it individually.
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I usually stick with the stable release. Not that I know of anything specifically wrong with any nightly; I also haven't read any of the change logs to see what the differences are. I would assume, like you seem to, that the team would be working on improvements.
When I have flashed nightlies, I didn't wipe data and restore apps. Just flashes the nightly, gapps, then clean caches.
BTW, a lot of people do say that restoring apps and their data with TB to a new ROM causes problems. I believe this could be true, but I do it anyway. If any app does give me trouble after a restore I deal with it individually.
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Can anyone else confirm issues with using titanium backup on a newly flashed rom? That would seem like a pain for those that mod their phone almost daily..
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Hi, So when I tried to open up twrp recovery, it wouldnt open....it would just stay at the logo and blink every now.and then....So I used oden and installed cwm over twrp and it was fine....I didnt like cwm so I went back to twrp..... it works fine and I can do everything EXCEPT some files are inaccessible and every time I flash something,it works but also gives me the error measages in the image I posted... does anyone know how to fix this?
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Hi, So when I tried to open up twrp recovery, it wouldnt open....it would just stay at the logo and blink every now.and then....So I used oden and installed cwm over twrp and it was fine....I didnt like cwm so I went back to twrp..... it works fine and I can do everything EXCEPT some files are inaccessible and every time I flash something,it works but also gives me the error measages in the image I posted... does anyone know how to fix this.
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Maybe try installing twrp from goo manager while connected to WiFi to ensure a good download
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I had the same exact problem a couple days ago. I fixed it by going Into goo manager and re flashing a new TWRP. I did it on Mobile Data, worked fine!
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Go back to 2.3.3.0. Search for the flashables ones. Since 2.4.2.1 TWRP have a lot of issues.
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I see a lot of people complaining about TWRP related issues with various versions of this recovery.
Is there any reason people don't talk about CWM around here? I've been using different versions of cwm touch and twrp ... And I'm honestly pretty happy with cwm.
Why does it appear that people avoid talking about cwm? ... If indeed it works as well as it seems to me that it does?
One reason is that a lot of people think it's better and recommend it to others. I used cwm on my old evo and was going to when I got my s3, but most people and roms were recommending twrp. I've been using it and have tried out cwm as well. For me, at least it hasn't been problematic, but I don't download them through the goo manager. As I feel like I have less control over what I'm getting (I don't even know what version I'm getting until after I download it). That, and I just don't trust the phone to download without errors even when on Wi-Fi.
Just my two cents.
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I just actually switched to cwm a couple days ago because twrp had been giving me backup and restore problems.. everything twrp can do cwm does also, and it seems to be faster backing up and restoring also, but that might just be placebo... devs recommend twrp because that is what their Rom/kernel/mod was tested with... 99% of the time cwm will work just fine also
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It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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razzack3000 said:
It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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Actually, having used both, I think TWRP had been the better of the two because of the ease of naming your nandroids and the fact that backups in TWRP don't take up so much space as the CWM backups do. Have you seem the crazy Blobs folder in CWM? I like backing stuff up to the PC, but the CWM backups made that process extremely painful. I don't know what happened to make TWRP so unreliable recently, but I just noticed a newer version is out: 2.5.0.0
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DurhamHusker said:
I see a lot of people complaining about TWRP related issues with various versions of this recovery.
Is there any reason people don't talk about CWM around here? I've been using different versions of cwm touch and twrp ... And I'm honestly pretty happy with cwm.
Why does it appear that people avoid talking about cwm? ... If indeed it works as well as it seems to me that it does?
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There's nothing bad about CWM, but is 2013 and you can't rename your nands which is very important(not necesary) in a phone which date as 1970. Also the touch version looks like a '90 recovery.
But if you want a issues free TWRP go back to 2.3.3.0.
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I did that... Now it only recognizes my ext sd card and the 0 folder in my internal storage that I clear out a while ago
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topherk said:
One reason is that a lot of people think it's better and recommend it to others. I used cwm on my old evo and was going to when I got my s3, but most people and roms were recommending twrp. I've been using it and have tried out cwm as well. For me, at least it hasn't been problematic, but I don't download them through the goo manager. As I feel like I have less control over what I'm getting (I don't even know what version I'm getting until after I download it). That, and I just don't trust the phone to download without errors even when on Wi-Fi.
Just my two cents.
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If you update from goo manager, a pop up will tell you what version you are about to install beforehand. Also the webpage that it takes you to in order to start the auto download also states the name of the .IMG which also indicates version. I know what you mean about trusting downloads from the phone though. I personally think that is the reason a lot of people have issues with twrp. I've always updated to the latest twrp and flash almost daily, but have never had to switch versions because of bugs. All versions have ran perfect for me.
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It might be that people are ignorant about cwm just like people are about androids
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I've used both for quite a while. I used to only use cwm for the longest but decided to try out twrp because of those ridiculous blobs! What's with that? So I decided to try twrp and I've stayed because of all the little features like a warnings before you wipe things you shouldn't, option to flash more than one zip at once, option to clear cache and dalvik right after flashing, etc... Plus there are some pretty major features that get overlooked. Like the built in file browser. I installed miui once and it created a folder I could not delete and keep deleted. Every time I would reboot, it would come back. Twrp file browser deleted it and kept it deleted. The only thing I don't like about twrp is the system date and time being way off.
Edit: Lol. I've edited like 5 times because I keep wanting to add more info. Also, twrp doesn't take ages to fix permissions. As long as cwm takes, I can just do it manually
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I've been on 2.4.0 and 2.4.4, and only had to do backups but haven't tried to restore yet, so after hearing all the war stories, I went back to 2.3.1.
UPDATE: I just upgraded from 2.3.1 to 2.5.0, performed wipes, a backup and a restore and all went perfectly smooth. The only issue was the time was 2 hours behind what it should have been for US central, so I selected 2 hours ahead and chose military time (my preference) and I'm happy.
Where did you get 2.5.5?i only found 2.5.0
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Hey all. I recently had a custom rom all nice and set up (it was jedi) and I decided I wanted to see how an aosp rom looked on my n3. So, like a good boy, I backed up my data, system, and boot partitions. Once done I flashed my aosp, checked it out, saw potential, but decided I wanted to go back (for now). Anyway, upon restoring, my jedi rom wasn't the same. It got buggy. The power button stopped putting the screen to sleep and because of this (I think), he device started freezing up a bit. This was especially true when rebooting.
I'm posting here to ask if this was just a fluke for me? Have others had issues with restoring anything? I'm tempted to try a different aosp but I'm on wicked now and it is SWEET. Wouldn't wanna risk messing it up.
Thanks.
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pathtologos said:
Hey all. I recently had a custom rom all nice and set up (it was jedi) and I decided I wanted to see how an aosp rom looked on my n3. So, like a good boy, I backed up my data, system, and boot partitions. Once done I flashed my aosp, checked it out, saw potential, but decided I wanted to go back (for now). Anyway, upon restoring, my jedi rom wasn't the same. It got buggy. The power button stopped putting the screen to sleep and because of this (I think), he device started freezing up a bit. This was especially true when rebooting.
I'm posting here to ask if this was just a fluke for me? Have others had issues with restoring anything? I'm tempted to try a different aosp but I'm on wicked now and it is SWEET. Wouldn't wanna risk messing it up.
Thanks.
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dont quote me, but I think I have read that you should never restore any backups with the Note 3 as there is an issue causing a bunch of bad things to happen. Most the threads I have read through simply say to reflash never restore.
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Thanks for the warning...lol. I posted a similar question within a specific roms thread, and nobody really answered.
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dont quote me, but I think I have read that you should never restore any backups with the Note 3 as there is an issue causing a bunch of bad things to happen. Most the threads I have read through simply say to reflash never restore.
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That really sucks.
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drocksmash said:
dont quote me, but I think I have read that you should never restore any backups with the Note 3 as there is an issue causing a bunch of bad things to happen. Most the threads I have read through simply say to reflash never restore.
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i backup and restore with TWRP 2-3 times a week when i test the different 4.4 KK ROMs for the note 3. as i understand it (and practice), when restoring backups only restore the System, Boot and Data partitions. this has not failed me one time nor has it caused any issues. i recall that restoring the EFS partition caused device stability issues with earlier versions of the TWRP custom recoveries.
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i backup and restore with TWRP 2-3 times a week when i test the different 4.4 KK ROMs for the note 3. as i understand it (and practice), when restoring backups only restore the System, Boot and Data partitions. this has not failed me one time nor has it caused any issues. i recall that restoring the EFS partition caused device stability issues with earlier versions of the TWRP custom recoveries.
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They still causing issues. Some get lucky some don't.
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Yup
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They still causing issues. Some get lucky some don't.
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Guess I should consider myself as one of the lucky ones.
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Any word on if Titanium Backup people are working on a fix/update yet?