advanced restore menu in cwm - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

hey
i wanted to know if i could use the advanced restore menu in cwm to restore my data from previous roms. id rather use this than titanium backup.
if i installed a fresh rom. can i go into the advanced restore menu and just restore my data from a backed up rom?

bengali548 said:
hey
i wanted to know if i could use the advanced restore menu in cwm to restore my data from previous roms. id rather use this than titanium backup.
if i installed a fresh rom. can i go into the advanced restore menu and just restore my data from a backed up rom?
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I have successfully done this in GB rom on my old HD2 and would assume it will work fine with the S3 ICS or JB. I would not try it if the new installation rom is different from the rom with the saved data.

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I was trying to install MIUI on my Inc2 (i have CM7 on it currently) and when I installed it, it worked, then I restored, and when it turned on it was running CM7! And when I do advanced restore and restore only data, it'll get stuck in a boot loop. Is there a fix for this?
You can't restore like app data using cwm. You gotta use an app like titanium backup and when you install another ROM, you download it from the market and start restoring apps.
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Yea you gotta start off clean when restoring or installing a rom in clockwork. You should wipe data and cache then restore backup. Like said use Titanium to restore app data.

What to restore with Titanium Backup

I made backup for all user+system apps including data and flashed new ROM. What do you recommend to restore now? Only user apps or system apps + data as well? I'd like to restore as much as possible, but I'm not sure how system data is compatible accross different ROMs.
I don't recommend you to restore system data with an exception of data usage of you use it. However, if you don't want to set up everything again, you should have too much trouble with restoring non-custom Rom related settings
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Franco Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
The safe way is to restore only user apps+data. However, you can try this:
1. Restore user apps+data
2. Make a nandroid backup
3. Restore system data
You could restore the nandroid backup if you encountered problems after restoring the system data.
buzzcomp said:
The safe way is to restore only user apps+data. However, you can try this:
1. Restore user apps+data
2. Make a nandroid backup
3. Restore system data
You could restore the nandroid backup if you encountered problems after restoring the system data.
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help with restoring data to from a old rom

Hi all Im on stock 2.17 rom and wanna try some costum roms. So my question is how to restore all my settings and apps to that new rom if posible. Have cwm backups but dono if I restore that backup would I be back on previus rom version or only my data from rom will be restored,or maybe there is some other way. Ty in advance
In CWM, go to "backup and restore"
then "advance restore"
then choose your backup
then "Restore data"
It will restore only your data and settings for your new ROM.
But it is always good to have a clean install to avoid problems.

Nandroid vs clean flash

hello guys, i am using PA rom now, but i want to test another rom, but i have so much apps and so much configurations, is all in titanium backup but every time i install a new rom i must restore data for apps i want, so i was wondering, nandroid backup can restore all my files and even the rom that i was using? and about performance, when i want to go back to PA, is better restore a nandroid backup o clean flash and reinstall all apps?
and about the procedures is like this:
Nandroid of ROM 1
wipe and flash ROM 2
wipe and restore nandroid backup.
my question is about the correct procedure to restore, do i need to wipe data before?
i like to test s much roms but is so bad to take about 3 hours to configure everything when i come back to the i was before.
thanks in advance
leandronb said:
hello guys, i am using PA rom now, but i want to test another rom, but i have so much apps and so much configurations, is all in titanium backup but every time i install a new rom i must restore data for apps i want, so i was wondering, nandroid backup can restore all my files and even the rom that i was using? and about performance, when i want to go back to PA, is better restore a nandroid backup o clean flash and reinstall all apps?
and about the procedures is like this:
Nandroid of ROM 1
wipe and flash ROM 2
wipe and restore nandroid backup.
my question is about the correct procedure to restore, do i need to wipe data before?
i like to test s much roms but is so bad to take about 3 hours to configure everything when i come back to the i was before.
thanks in advance
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Titanium Backup and Carbon(Helium now ) doesn't cause any issue due they restore only /data/data/APP datas
Wipe data is need (ALWAYS) over Rom switching for different Settings and Features, e.g:
AOKP -> PA : Full data wipe ( i prefer add wipe system due nightly script recovery that keep gapps ) + Restore Carbon is right procedure
Pa -> Pa: in theory you need only wipe cache & dalvik
Nandroid is evil, restore nandroid data backup is same of dont do anywipe due nandroid make image of data partitions, and reflash it
Nandroid is usefull only as backup ( data lost or nightly fail or something like this )
I suggest anyway over change rom , delete /sdcard/Android for new system base.
so use a nandroid is valid? no performance loss when using it?
i want to try codex rom but i already setup everything i wanted on PA and i dont want to flash codex, and if i dont like and want to go back to PA i must setup everything again. this is the main reason i don not flash roms to much. i few months ago i never stayed in same rom for a week, but now i am tired to setup the same things again.
so if i make a nandroid of my current rom, flash codex test a few days, and restore nandroid everything will be fine like was before?

[Q] Restoring from CWM Backup

I have a question:
If I backup my current ROM, flash a completely stock one, then restore only data from the CWM backup. Will I get back my apps and everything I installed and did on the phone?
Thanks。
Buddhism said:
I have a question:
If I backup my current ROM, flash a completely stock one, then restore only data from the CWM backup. Will I get back my apps and everything I installed and did on the phone?
Thanks。
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yes, but be sure that data is selected for backup. also if rom system apps are moved to preload you cant restore it

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