I just rooted my International HTX One X, and applied CWM. I am still running the stock ROM, and the only way I can access recovery is to power on + vol down. Is there an app like 4EXT that will allow me to boot right into recovery and perform backups with a simple date+rom name as the title? Or do I first flash a ROM to get that ability? As of now, I've done a backup, however I am wondering if I do another, will it overwrite the first one?
There are many apps on the Play Store which allow you to reboot to recovery.
All backups are saved individually and are not overwritten.
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Couple quick questions, sorry if any of these are very newbish. I just got my EVO a week ago (first android!!!). I did the simple root, RA recovery, and loaded cm6 nightly onto my phone. Here are my questions:
1) If I want to go back to stock root I just power down, volume down+power, and click on recovery?
2) If I want to load a new ROM do I just download the zip, place it on the SD, and use rom manager?
3) is nandroid the same thing as RA recovery i assume?
4) Since this is my first android, if there is a new OTA update from sprint how do i prevent it from updating my phone?
Thanks for the answers....sorry I am a super newb but I did a lot of research over the past week and decided to pull the trigger and root. These are some things I did not come across. Thanks again.
firsttimer44 said:
Couple quick questions, sorry if any of these are very newbish. I just got my EVO a week ago (first android!!!). I did the simple root, RA recovery, and loaded cm6 nightly onto my phone. Here are my questions:
1) If I want to go back to stock root I just power down, volume down+power, and click on recovery?
2) If I want to load a new ROM do I just download the zip, place it on the SD, and use rom manager?
3) is nandroid the same thing as RA recovery i assume?
4) Since this is my first android, if there is a new OTA update from sprint how do i prevent it from updating my phone?
Thanks for the answers....sorry I am a super newb but I did a lot of research over the past week and decided to pull the trigger and root. These are some things I did not come across. Thanks again.
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1. When you click on "Recovery" it boots you into either Clockwork or Amon RA, from which you can clear caches, factory reset, or flash new ROMs/radios/kernels/anything in .zip format. If you want to go back to stock, you need a stock ROM on your SD card (get one that's rooted!) if you don't want to risk losing root. I don't know if this is still an issue, but unless you need it factory-locked again, use a rooted ROM. See here. Stock ROMs, rooted or not, are flashed just like custom ROMs.
2. Yes, or you can do power+volume down and flash it from there. I just feel like that's the "pure" way to do it, but I haven't seen any complaints about going through the RM GUI. Don't forget to wipe all your data and caches!
3. Yes, the analogy I've been given is that it's basically a Ghost image for Android. Use ROM Manager or the recovery console to restore and you should be back as if nothing ever happened.
4. When OTAs are released, you are notified and asked to download them. Even then, I think you have to confirm again to install it. Just don't accept the download (turn off the scheduled check in Settings if you want). If there is an OTA, wait for a dev here to root it and give the all-clear, then download their version and flash it.
Thanks a lot!!!!!
OK i have done a little more looking and I am a little confused on something.
How do you backup your rom? I used my backup pro for contacts and apps and stuff, but I am not understanding how to create a backup rom to fall back on incase something happens.
firsttimer44 said:
OK i have done a little more looking and I am a little confused on something.
How do you backup your rom? I used my backup pro for contacts and apps and stuff, but I am not understanding how to create a backup rom to fall back on incase something happens.
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To do a nandroid backup just boot to the bootloader(holding vol. down button and pressing the power button) it will load up the white screen.
Hit vol. down to highlight "recovery" and press power. This brings up Amon RA recovery. Black screen with green text(I think).
Hit vol. down and highlight I believe it says "nandroid backup/restore" or something along those lines. Then hit the power button to bring it up.
Now, it will have multiple options like nandroid backup, nandroid backup + ext partition, nandroid restore, google propiertory(sp?) backup etc etc.
Hit vol. down and highlight nandroid backup and hit the power button. Then it I believe it asks for a confirmation and have to hit the power button again.
This will take a couple minutes to finish. When done I believe you have the option to reboot do so. Now, you will have a folder on your SD card named Nandroid.
If you don't have the option to reboot...you'll have to hit both the vol. up and vol. down buttons to go back in Amon RA.
Hope that helps.
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To do a nandroid backup just boot to the bootloader(holding vol. down button and pressing the power button) it will load up the white screen.
Hit vol. down to highlight "recovery" and press power. This brings up Amon RA recovery. Black screen with green text(I think).
Hit vol. down and highlight I believe it says "nandroid backup/restore" or something along those lines. Then hit the power button to bring it up.
Now, it will have multiple options like nandroid backup, nandroid backup + ext partition, nandroid restore, google propiertory(sp?) backup etc etc.
Hit vol. down and highlight nandroid backup and hit the power button. Then it I believe it asks for a confirmation and have to hit the power button again.
This will take a couple minutes to finish. When done I believe you have the option to reboot do so. Now, you will have a folder on your SD card named Nandroid.
If you don't have the option to reboot...you'll have to hit both the vol. up and vol. down buttons to go back in Amon RA.
Hope that helps.
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Or if you happen to have installed Clockwork instead, you'll get that recovery, but the menu is easy enough to understand. You can also do backups using ROM Manager without booting into recovery. Also, you don't have to push both volume buttons at once to navigate Clockwork like you do in Amon RA. They wrote in a "back" option on the menus, which is sensible, I think.
Ok.....well then let me ask this, can I just go into simple root and flash clock right over amon RA?
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Yes, AFAIK. I do know you can just install ROM Manager (you should do this anyway, it's included in most custom ROMs as well) and it gives an option to flash either one of them. I didn't use SR so I'm not familiar with the functionality of it.
I've read a lot of ROM threads, and they all say you should perform a NANDROID backup. How do you do such a thing?
convolution said:
I've read a lot of ROM threads, and they all say you should perform a NANDROID backup. How do you do such a thing?
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If your rooted you would use clockwork recovery
That is what i have gathered thus far.
I can't find that app on the market, though.
Does the free version of ROM manager work as well?
How bout Titanium Backup? Are they all the same thing?
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That is what i have gathered thus far.
I can't find that app on the market, though.
Does the free version of ROM manager work as well?
How bout Titanium Backup? Are they all the same thing?
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In rom manager 1st option, flash clockwork rec.
Where do I download these apps? I can't find clockwork recovery anywhere.
convolution said:
Where do I download these apps? I can't find clockwork recovery anywhere.
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Download Rom manager from the market. open it and
flash ckockwork should be the 1st option.
You should ask a mod to move this to q&a
1. Download ROM MANAGER from the Market
2. Flash Clockwork Recovery from the app.
Backing up your entire system:
Use ROM Manager and select Backup Current Rom.
alternatively, you can boot into Recovery Mode by turning off phone. Then hold Vol Down and Power at same time until you see the HBoot Screen. Then select Recovery using vol down and pressing power to select. The menu should be self explanatory.
Restore your entire system:
Use ROM Manager and select Manage & Restore Backups.
alternatively, you can boot into Recovery Mode by turning off phone. Then hold Vol Down and Power at same time until you see the HBoot Screen. Then select Recovery using vol down and pressing power to select. The menu should be self explanatory.
Titanium Backup is great for backing up apps and app data for using across multiple ROMs. It's also available on the Market. I highly recommend paying for the donate version for the Hyper Shell.
hello I just replaced a broken EVO and now that it is rooted I am trying to restore my old backup from my previous evo.. I am having a problem though
I go through all the normal process to restore a backup and everything works fine the super user permission pops up and the phone reboots but instead of rebooting directly into the reboot session it just boots me into the clockwork mod recovery recovery menu.. when i select the folder the recovery files are located in it shows up blank.. what am I doing wrong here? In the past when I selected to restore a backup from inside the os it just rebooted and started restoring automatically.. I feel like an extra step has now been added and I dont know what it is?
I should also not that while I do not know if it is related or not when I try to restore the backup from the nandroid section of the recovery menu it hangs on checking md5 sums and then says error while flashing boot image!
mind you this is on 2 separate backups I created in the past with clockwork mod recovery
It's probably not a good idea to use an old nandroid backup on a new phone. Think of how kernels run well on some EVO phones and not others. Your current phone might even be one of the EVOs with new hardware.
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ok but can I still get all my apps and data back?
it would be terrible to lose all of that
and now to make matters even worse my phone is stuck on an endless loop on clockwork mod recovery I every time I select reboot system now instead of it booting into the stock rooted rom it just reloads the clockwork mod recovery menu.. what gives?
yeah, not good to load a backup from a different phone. This has been documented as happening. Just reflash whatever rom you want then radios then kernel. Sorry but if you didn't use a backup prog I thinkyou will have to manually restore apps. You may want to try titanium backup, solves the problem, use it and follow the backup instructions in Titanium backup wiki on their web site and you should be good to go next time.
Did you try a battery pull and reboot?
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Nandroid backups are phone specific, you can't move them from phone to phone. You probably hosed your RSA keys which means your 4g may be broke. If I were you I would try to flash a stock rom and then reroot if needed. If that gets you out of the bootloop your in. You maybe visiting a Sprint store for a replacement phone again.
guys I could really use some help here please!
I went back to the stock rooted rom today.. all day I was adding apps making changes restarting the phone no problems.. I finally get my phone set up how I like it so I decided it was a great time to make a backup so I open clockwork mod recovery and select backup it gives me the superuser permissions prompt and restarts.. instead of starting the backup automatically it sends me directly to the clockwork mod recovery menu and now it will not load the phone's OS at all just reboot after reboot into clockwork mod recovery this is a 1 day old evo what is going on here!!??
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guys I could really use some help here please!
I went back to the stock rooted rom today.. all day I was adding apps making changes restarting the phone no problems.. I finally get my phone set up how I like it so I decided it was a great time to make a backup so I open clockwork mod recovery and select backup it gives me the superuser permissions prompt and restarts.. instead of starting the backup automatically it sends me directly to the clockwork mod recovery menu and now it will not load the phone's OS at all just reboot after reboot into clockwork mod recovery this is a 1 day old evo what is going on here!!??
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Hey that exact thing happened to me. it happened the first time i ever loaded anything on my phone. I freaked out. Turned out the Clockword mod recovery I had must have had something wrong. I went back into the part where you load the CWM from the computer. My phone is different than yours so I cant be sure but you go into bootloader by pressing stuff, its where the logo stays there the whole time. then you flash the CWM again. and then reload the operating system and stuff. should work but just redo the CWM again. Hope it works out for you. Hope thats what it is for you too.
Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I'm a little confused. I'm aware of all the S-OFF, permarooting etc and the necessary ways to get them. Before I go through with these guides however, I'd like a backup of some sort.
I know ClockworkMod is a custom recovery and you can perform nandroid backups with it, but I also understand there is a default recovery mode you can access from the bootloader that can also do that. Obviously I'd like to make a full nandroid backup before I make any permanent changes.
However, when I select 'Recovery' from the bootloader, my phone goes to a black screen with a generic phone icon and a red ! in a triangle. Why could this be? It is a standard UK T-Mobile Desire Z with no modifications aside from a Gfree S-OFF that was reversed again by copying the backup partition back.
That is the splashscreen of the stock recovery. Press Vol-Up and Power to get past that screen - but you won't be able to do a nandroid unless you have a custom recovery installed - sorry!
Thanks very much for that info. So there's no way of making a nandroid backup before I do things like permarooting? Will the unroot option in Visionary reverse that?
Presumably there's a way of reverting from ClockworkMod to the stock recovery?
the only time you will be able to make a backup is when you install clockwork. No clockwork no backup.
Use titanium backup for the settings and apps and then install clockwork and then do nandroid. if that doesnt work you have your TB to restore.
You can also try to "adb pull /system" and pull everything to your desktop.,... but pushging it back will require skillz.
If you want to revert from clockwork to stock recovery you need to flash stock recovery but do not do it with an incompatible rom.
Thank you, oh wise one!
Don't worry about the fact you can't do a nandroid backup before you root the phone, because it's easy enough to un-root.
You can do the nandroid backup as soon as you've got root/S-OFF, installed ROM Manager and flashed Clockwork recovery. It's very important to do this before you flash any sort of custom ROM. I am amazed by the number of people who seem to flash a custom ROM straight away with no backup whatsoever !
hi xda
first post, 2 week old first android phone (galaxy s GT-I9000).
I've just rooted my phone using super one click. im always reading that i HAVE to perform a nandroid backup before i do ANYTHING after i've rooted my device.
When i google "how to nandroid", i just get "get into recovery mode, select 'nandroid backup'.
But there isn't any back up options, only the standard 4 options: reboot, apply update, wipe data/facotry reset and wipe cache.
2 questions:
1) what must i do after rooting to make the nandroid option available? Surely doing THAT is doing something, therefore putting my phone at risk?
and thus,
2) what can i exactly do after rooting, before performing a nandroid? one click lag fix? normal use? installing a ROM? My understanding is that the nandroid backup is in case installing a ROM goes wrong, but then again a lot of the 'how tos' say you should instal clockworkmod, or rom manager before making a nandroid.
Please shed light.
Jon Alex
South Africa
You need a custom recovery like cwm installed to do a backup and for flashing ROMs. Whether you choose to do so is up to you, but there are advantages to being rooted either way i.e Apps that require root access to work.
thanks for your reply - please clear something up for me...
Everything i read says do a nandroid before you flash anything, but then it sounds like you have to flash a recovery ROM in order to do a nandroid?
Please let me know
1) how to install cwm recovery ROM and
2) what can go wrong? (since i'm doing this before making a nandroid)
3) can i install the recovery ROM before i root?
okay
at the moment i've got this far:
rooted? check. (super1click)
rom manager installed? check.
problem:
when i click flash clockworkrecovery ROM in ROM manager, it prompts me to choose my model (Galaxy I9000 International). Then it prompts me to allow poweruser functions, which i do. Then it saus something to the effect of "ClockworkRecovery ROM has been downloaded!"
note: not flashed, or installed, downloaded.
That finished the 'flashing' process. Now, if i select back up, it boots into recovery mode, but its still running the stock android recovery (2e), without any option to perform a nandroid backup!
How the hell do i do this? aargh.
help would be apprciated.
Go back into Rom Manager and again select install CWM and then backup current ROM. (sometimes it just needs doing again).
While you are using a stock ROM the stock Recovery will reassert itself on every boot, so having to flash CWM multiple times is not uncommon. Of course, this behaviour stops if you flash a custom ROM.
I've flashed it 3 times.. still no cwm recovery Rom... how many timed should I do this before trying something else, and what is that something else?
Just flashed another 3 times. Still nothing... please help!
THIS is the correct section for your device. I'm sure you'll find the answers you need there.
Good luck.