I am running CM10.1 and I want to go back to stock Kindle. I made a backup of my original stock Kindle ROM that was rooted in TWRP. Now is it possible to just restore that nandroid backup from TWRP and be back to my original Kindle software? My Kindle runs fine and I can get into TWRP no problem so I am not bricked at all.
Thanks.
Since I couldn't find any concrete posts confirming my question I will answer it. I went ahead and did a restore of my original Kindle OS and it worked perfectly.
jbeef86 said:
Since I couldn't find any concrete posts confirming my question I will answer it. I went ahead and did a restore of my original Kindle OS and it worked perfectly.
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would you be able to upload your stock kindle fire 2 backup?? I need to restore mine and I cant find the stock backup anywhere
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Backed up my Kindle after successful root.
Flashed Energy Rom
Flashed FFF1.4a
Created backup of Energy
Now when i try to restore to my original backup i just get a black screen and have to power down then restore my backup of Energy
Did upgrading the bootloader to 1.4a make it so i can't restore to my original backup? If so, can i just flash the original FFF bootloader to get access to it again?
tg32 said:
Backed up my Kindle after successful root.
Flashed Energy Rom
Flashed FFF1.4a
Created backup of Energy
Now when i try to restore to my original backup i just get a black screen and have to power down then restore my backup of Energy
Did upgrading the bootloader to 1.4a make it so i can't restore to my original backup? If so, can i just flash the original FFF bootloader to get access to it again?
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The bootloader has no effect on your backups and for safety reasons should be left alone. Not to mention, it is probably the most important piece of software that is on your Kindle as of now.
Chances are it's just a bad backup.
Seeing as everyone ignores my question in threads such as cm10 and rooting, I thought I'd make a seperate thread.
So my question is if it is proven that a CWM backup and restore works fully without any problems. If I create a backup now, flash a custom rom, then go back to CWM and choose restore, will it restore my backup without any problems and error messages that can lead to a bricked phone?
No one's replied probably because no one (who frequents these forums) have tried it yet!
I just tried it with success.
I did a CWM backup installed stock FW, installed CM10.1 again and did a restore.
everything is back as before.
Mitko said:
Seeing as everyone ignores my question in threads such as cm10 and rooting, I thought I'd make a seperate thread.
So my question is if it is proven that a CWM backup and restore works fully without any problems. If I create a backup now, flash a custom rom, then go back to CWM and choose restore, will it restore my backup without any problems and error messages that can lead to a bricked phone?
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ratelutz said:
I just tried it with success.
I did a CWM backup installed stock FW, installed CM10.1 again and did a restore.
everything is back as before.
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Awesome, great to hear. Thanks for testing and reporting. :victory:
Hello, I recently rooted my wifes Note 2 that was on the latest OTA 4.3. Was not easy BTW. I did a back up in recovery of boot, system, and data. I figured I was good to go and start trying out other roms.
The first one I flashed was Macks Allstar 5.0 rom. Everything was great. Then my wife informed me that she did not have all of her contacts backed up to google and some were only saved to her phone. So then I figure I could just restore the original backup and extract the contacts and be able to install them to any rom.
Thats when everything went wrong. Everytime I tried restoring the back up,it would crash and recovery would do like a reboot. After many attempts I figured id try another version of recovery. After flashing many earlier versions of twrp and trying to restore, I finally was able to complete a restore from version 2.6. I was ecstatic. But then my heart sank again when boot always hangs on samsung logo. And that is where I'm stuck. I am able to flash other roms no problem but cant restore my original backup.
Needless to say my wife is ready to kill me.
Please if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have searched throughout this forum and internet for hours and can not seem to find any help with this issue.
I am thankful to have been able to get this far with the help from the XDA community posts I never needed direct help even with prior phone rootings but this one has got me stumped. Thanks in advance
You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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You need to flash Phil's recovery version 6.0.7.9. If you cant restore your backup with Phil's then I'm thinking you might be sol. Make sure you know where you saved the backup to. It's either on the phone's internal sd or external sd card. Choose the correct location in Phil's recovery and if it isn't corrupt it should work. You may also want to copy your backup onto your pc just in case because that's your only backup and doing a full wipe or odin restore could permanently delete it. Good luck.
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Thank you for your reply. I am at work right now and left the phone with my wife with a working rom. I will try phils recovery when I get home. As far as backups, I have two copies. One on my SD card and the other on PC but if they're both fried I guess that negates my efforts in redundancy. It's hard to believe the backup got corrupt so quickly. I have another backup of the 2nd rom I flashed and that one wont install as well.
Is there something I am doing wrong? If the backup file is corrupt, is there a way to extract contacts seperately out of backup?
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
ColeTrain! said:
Method b.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2648855
My wife does that too. Sorry
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Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
alexandnen said:
Life of a married man. Haha!
Well, as my backup file was done with TWRP, I tried method B with TWRP recovery and it wont work so now I'm in the process of trying method A. Will update once I tried it.
I think my problem has to do with TWRP not playing friendly with 4.3 ROMS. If that is the case method A looks like it will work.:fingers-crossed:
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That's exactly right. Bootloader isn't playing well with TWRP recovery. Phil"s 6.0.7.9 seems to be compatible in most ROM vs bootloader situations. Don't use latest version of Phil's recovery as it doesn't work as well and most people recommend this as well.
If Phil's recovery won't flash your restore then Odin all the way back to stock unrooted LK8 ROM then root it with the Toolkit and flash TWRP from the toolkit at the same time. Then see if you can restore at that point.
Looks like this project has come to an end. My wife likes her new rom and doesn't want to let me work on her phone anymore. She was able to get most of her contacts back I will make sure she backs her contacts to google and I will try to convince her to install Titanium backup to backup all her app data.
Unfortunately all I have is a work issued iphone that I have no interest in jailbreaking. I really don't see the point.
I am still confident that I could have eventually restored her backup successfully with the help here.
Thank you tx_dbx_tx and coletrain for your help.
I flashed my device with CloudyG3 a few days ago and it didnt work properly, so I went back to stock rooted. Ive been trying to completely start from factory and restore my data and try flashing everything back, but I cant figure out how to do that. I want all my configurations to be the same but just be back at stock so I can re-flash. Any ideas on how to do this?
Read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
RapHaeL_4_4_4_ said:
Read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
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Thank you!
BruteRave said:
I flashed my device with CloudyG3 a few days ago and it didnt work properly, so I went back to stock rooted. Ive been trying to completely start from factory and restore my data and try flashing everything back, but I cant figure out how to do that. I want all my configurations to be the same but just be back at stock so I can re-flash. Any ideas on how to do this?
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Wait wait
Since ClodyG3 updated to UX4.0 i highly suggest what you do is do a Titanium Backup and then root your stock firmware and restore the titanium backup
Then you can remove root using KDZ if desired
Is there a good way to backup Fire Phone #1 (with Google Services enabled, etc.) and restore to a new one? I have a 64GB model coming and really don't have time to reinvest in setting everything up from scratch.
Of all the things I dislike about iPhone, their restore (from iCloud) works pretty well.
Thanks.
You could probably use safestrap recovery to full backup your old one and then restore just the data to the new one.
But I don't know for sure. I did it when I went from cm11 to slimkat
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You could probably use safestrap recovery to full backup your old one and then restore just the data to the new one.
But I don't know for sure. I did it when I went from cm11 to slimkat
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I just checked out Safestrap....does it backup data or just ROM? It seems it's a bootloader/ROM utility, but you said you used it for backup?