Which is the correct way to go stock with One V? When i unlocked my bootloader, flashed an recovery, i took an backup of stock ROM with TWRP. Can i just use "Restore" function from TWRP when i have wiped the whole phone, or what?
Yes just restore it.But,of you want to go completely stock as if the phone came out the box,use an RUU.
Thanks for the answer. No, I am not staying at stock, I had just thing which i needed to do with stock. =)
Also,flash the kernel from the backup,or your restore will not work.
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Hey, this may seem like a silly question but i would rather ask it than brick my device.
I have rooted and s-off my stock rom, i have installed all my apps and settings and ive got it just the way i like it. i have created a nandroid backup using clockwork mod.
I now want to try Gingervillian rom, ive got titanium backup to install all the apps back and that but what i want to know is:
Will i be able to restore my stock rom from the nandroid backup with all my apps and setting in tact, even though s-off is set and its rooted. i know a read somewhere that flashing a stock rom on a phone with s-off can semi-brick it... so will clockwork recovery do the same?
When you make a 'nandroid' backup via ROM manager/CWM Recovery, it makes essentially a carbon copy of the current setup of your ROM (not your radio, S-Off status, etc.). Literally everything is perfectly as you have it now. It just like doing a full HDD backup of your computer.
When you restore this backup, it simply brings back your ROM from exactly how it was. There is no effect on your root or S-off, or your radio.
So, if you do a nandroid backup, then wipe the device and flash another ROM i.e. Gingervillain, and make a nandroid of that, you can then freely switch back and forth between the 2 (or more) recoveries via ROM manager/CWM Recovery, with no issues.
The issues with bricking as you're referring to are if you for some reason try to somehow flash a non-rooted ROM, which would most definitely cause issues. In order to get back your phone to stock-stock-stock-stock (unroot and S-on), you will need to follow unroot instructions and flash an official unrooted RUU/PC10IMG.zip to get back to everything as it came out of the box.
Hope this helps, let me know if I need to clarify.
thank you very much matey much appreciated!!
hey i had skyraider then used chad's kernal and it got stuck in the boot loop. so i just restored it using the clockwork. now everything is back to normal just rooted. so...if i ever decide i want to go back to stock rom and kernal when i have custom roms and kernals cant i just restore it back to normal? does this make sense?
Is the backup you have of SkyRaider or a backup of the Stock ROM you made after rooting? You can always restore backups of anything you make to the point in which the backup was made. You should backup before flashing something new, in case you don't like it...saves lots of work.
If you want to go back to complete stock, un-rooted and all, you'd have to use the RUU. This would be putting the phone to the point just like it was when you unboxed it and turned it on.
ah ok i get it. yea i backed up before i flashed skyraider and the kernel. Thx
No problem, just some added info: the backup you make will also keep the kernel, so if you flash a custom kernel and backup the ROM, it'll keep that kernel too. So there's no need to reflash that if you restore a backup.
And s-on patch to unroot. Dont get in the situation like me where you can't s-on and use your warranty
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Hi. I backed up my phone using the backup method found here: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28296/full-backup-of-non-rooted-devices
This method uses CMD and creates an android backup file (.ab) I want to unlock my bootloader and add the custom clockwork recovery. Of course unlocking the bootloader wipes everything. So if i were to restore everything with the .ab file, then do the custom recovey with the superuser thing, would that give me root, and would all of my apps and data be restored as they are right now?
Probably a stupid question, but i want to be completely 100% sure i won't mess up my phone. I know its going to void warranty, which would be a problem if i dropped it of course
Thanks
It should work yes, you can also backup apps with an app called carbon. Free in the playstore.
Then unlock the bootloader,flash a custom recovery and make a backup of the stock rom in there right away too (needed when you want to go back to full stock for future updates) its called a nandroid backup.
Then root it and restore, or install a brand new custom already rooted rom
Thanks a lot
If it was a custom rom i chose to install, will it still restore? or would it need to be the original stock for the restore to work properly?
Danw20 said:
Thanks a lot
If it was a custom rom i chose to install, will it still restore? or would it need to be the original stock for the restore to work properly?
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Afaik know you can restore apps on any rom with carbon. Watch out with restoring system data, it can crash the rom.
Because some custom roms have more changes and if you restore system parts it will break the rom. But apps should not be a problem. The most important thing is that you do a nandroid backup of the stock rom. The rest is easy to setup new in the worst case.
Brilliant. Thanks for the help, much apreciated.
Was half expecting an answer like that, i think i will give root stock a go, then probably when HTC stop updating i will be very tempted to give a custom a go.
Cheers
I have unlocked the bootloader, i think i have flashed the recovery, downloaded nandroid and still says i need root, so i downloaded the superuser thing and when i try to install the binary thing it says there is an error. Anything i can do?
Update: I have learnt Its all good now.
Good mate ! Have fun with your rooted phone
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Hello everybody,
I got a new s4 mini from Poland, and I live in ISRAEL, some guy here opened the region locked problem somehow, when rooted the phone he triggered the knox 0X1.
today I installed CM10.2 on my phone (not with ClockworkMod but with Team Win Recovery Project), and I would like to go back to the original stock rom.
I think I've used backup, but after it I pressed on factory reset, and I can't find a way to restore it, does anyone know how? and if not, how can I install the stock rom again without triggering the region locking thing?
thank you for you help.
Eylam said:
Hello everybody,
I got a new s4 mini from Poland, and I live in ISRAEL, some guy here opened the region locked problem somehow, when rooted the phone he triggered the knox 0X1.
today I installed CM10.2 on my phone (not with ClockworkMod but with Team Win Recovery Project), and I would like to go back to the original stock rom.
I think I've used backup, but after it I pressed on factory reset, and I can't find a way to restore it, does anyone know how? and if not, how can I install the stock rom again without triggering the region locking thing?
thank you for you help.
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At TWRP there's menu for restore, if you see nothing under restore, that means no backups were made. Factory reset has nothing to do with restore a nandroid backup. It simply restore to the 'original state' of the current installed ROM.
If you already triggered KNOX, there's no going back. I have no idea what the 'guy' did, but rooting has nothing to do with region lock.
If you want stock ROM, you need to download the ROM file for you phone and use ODIN to flash it back.
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At TWRP there's menu for restore, if you see nothing under restore, that means no backups were made. Factory reset has nothing to do with restore a nandroid backup. It simply restore to the 'original state' of the current installed ROM.
If you already triggered KNOX, there's no going back. I have no idea what the 'guy' did, but rooting has nothing to do with region lock.
If you want stock ROM, you need to download the ROM file for you phone and use ODIN to flash it back.
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So no backup. I mentioned the Knox because I'm afraid to downgrade back to jelly bean4.2.2. Anyway, I can't find ROM stock file for Israel for i9195. Can I use something else? Thank you for you help.
Dear guys!
I'd like to back to the stock recovery, and unroot my phone, without reinstall the entrie ROM.
I previously unlocked with FreeGee, but after that I wiped everything, (so the FreeGee backup too), and now I can't get back my stock system.
Could anyone please provide me a proper method of unrooting, and putting back a stock recovery?
Maybe an ADB sideload might help me, this way I don't have to use CWM (which I want to change to stock).
Thanks