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Mixing backups?

Hy, I installed new kernel on MIUI rom, and it booted fine, then I deleted cache and dalvik and it didnt booted anymore... I made backup anyway, and reinstalled the ROM and kernel, and everything is working fine...
Can I make another backup of this working one, and then on PC change data.img and sd-ext.img files from old backup so that my data and apps come back?
I really cant loose my sms/mms....

Maybe but you may restore the problem. You would also need to make a new Md5
Or you could use Unyaffs to unpack your data.img and get the sms database and drop it in your new data partition
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If you just want your messages back, couldn't you just restore the broken
MIUI backup, flash over it with the exact same ROM version ? Kernel will
be the old one and maybe it will boot up again..
Just a tought.. could be wrong..
Grtz,
mattnmd

If you only want your messages you can do what rootSU said.
Did it today and all worked fine.
Get the mmssms.db file from data>com.android.providers.telephony > databases and via adb and your phone into recovery with the data partition mounted and cp the file to the same directory..you can backup your sms from the new installation via SMS Backup and Restore and then restore it to the "old" database..the sms will be added..
That's what happened with me..
Hope I helped!Good luck with it!

Replacement phone restore twrp backup

I had to have my note2 replaced I did a twrp backup placed it on new phone in the backup twrp folder but it is not recognized. Anyone have any possible solutions? Really all I'm after is game data that was backed up,and I'm not sure where to find that particular file in the backup thanks.

pretty sure u wouldnt wanna do a full nandroid restore of your partitions to another device... but as far as your game data goes.... you can use titanium backup to recover the apk and the game data by extracting from the nandroid backup file.

I've tried to do this before. It won't work.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda premium

Hey buddy. New device just start fresh. Safest way...

Hey,
I was on the same boat as u. I got it to work. I can remember the specifics at the moment but gist of it is that twrp creates a specific backup folder unique to each device. Open up an file browser and navigate over to where u have your backup. If theyre o. Your sd card it should be TWRP > BACKUPS > (Here u should find 2 folders with a bunch of random letters and numbers)
Those 2 folders are your backup folders. One was from your old device and the other is the folder twrp created for your new device.
When u reeboot into recovery, twrp wont recognize the old backup folder since it was unique to your old phone.
Long story short. Lol. Just go into the old folder from the file browser and copy the backup to the new back up folder.
After that, delete the old backup folder. Your backup should then show up when you boot into recovery.
As for which is the old and which is the new folder. My best bet is tbat the new folder is empty and the old folder has your backup.
Hope that helps.
Let me know if you need more help.

[Q] alternative way to make backup EFS (not EFS Pro)

Hi,
i try make backup may EFS partition AT&T Stock ICS (phone rooted, busybox installed). When i try EFS Professional v2.0 i stil have information "unable read PIT file". I make backup with GalaxSim Unlock 1.02. Now i have 3 files (down below). Do this is good EFS backup files?
Do i can from this files restore my EFS partition (IMEI etc.). If yes, what i must to do?
greetings

kamykkamyk_pl said:
Hi,
i try make backup may EFS partition AT&T Stock ICS (phone rooted, busybox installed). When i try EFS Professional v2.0 i stil have information "unable read PIT file". I make backup with GalaxSim Unlock 1.02. Now i have 3 files (down below). Do this is good EFS backup files?
Do i can from this files restore my EFS partition (IMEI etc.). If yes, what i must to do?
greetings
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Use this version of EFS pro, newer versions don't play nicely with our phones

If you make a standard nandroid backup, but skip the data backup, you can restore your EFS anytime.
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kamykkamyk_pl said:
Hi,
i try make backup may EFS partition AT&T Stock ICS (phone rooted, busybox installed). When i try EFS Professional v2.0 i stil have information "unable read PIT file". I make backup with GalaxSim Unlock 1.02. Now i have 3 files (down below). Do this is good EFS backup files?
Do i can from this files restore my EFS partition (IMEI etc.). If yes, what i must to do?
greetings
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Hi,
Of course you can use GalaxSim Unlock to restore your EFS backup. The backups made by other tools for this device will contaion the same data. By default, it will restore the EFS folder. If you check "advanced mode" in settings, you can chose to restore the whole partition.
Unfortunately, I've had a look at your data : you seem to have lost your stock EFS data (I suppose you IMEI might be wrong). Unfortunately if you don't have a backup made before you lost it, you can't do much to restore your imei.

spocky12 said:
Hi,
Of course you can use GalaxSim Unlock to restore your EFS backup. The backups made by other tools for this device will contaion the same data. By default, it will restore the EFS folder. If you check "advanced mode" in settings, you can chose to restore the whole partition.
Unfortunately, I've had a look at your data : you seem to have lost your stock EFS data (I suppose you IMEI might be wrong). Unfortunately if you don't have a backup made before you lost it, you can't do much to restore your imei.
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Hello,
i buy my I927 from Singapure in september 2013, they have original Stock 4.0.4 ROM and was unlocked. After buying i root device and now (3 days ago) i flash Omni Rom 4.4 (KiteKat). I backup my EFS partition before i falsh OMNI Rom, also my backup ist from original stock AT&T 4.0.4 ROM

[Q] Need HELP

Hi,
I am running Carbon Mod Nightly Rom, I was looking at the Volume Blaster Mod (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2563209) to raise the volume up on the external speaker. I edited the file system/etc/snd_soc_msm/snd_soc_msm_2x. Somehow I screwed the file up after editing. After I edited it and rebooted, it gets stuck at the Carbon Logo and doesn't go any further :crying:. I have a nandroid backup, but I didnt backup until after I edited the file (before reboot). So I'm wondering can I or how do I replace the edited file (snd_soc_msm_2x) with the original file. I have the original file on the SD card in the phone. I went into the TWRP Recovery and into file manager, but I could not locate the location of the edited file from within there (system/etc/snd_soc_msm/snd_soc_msm_2x). Can someone please help me restore this one file so that my phone will boot up or tell me how would be the best way of getting my phone up and working again ASAP. Oh, I have tried exploring the backup created with Nandroid Backup Manager, well I found the file thats corrupted and opened it with File manager, select all- then delete, then pasted the contents from the working file, and then try to save, and I get an error "Operation Failed". So any help would be greatly appreciated.!!
Thanks in Advance

If you cant see files in /system, you just need to mount it first. Otherwise, just dirty flash the same rom.

DocHoliday77 said:
If you cant see files in /system, you just need to mount it first. Otherwise, just dirty flash the same rom.
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Dirty Flash? I'm new to all this, so I need some help with the slang. I can explore the contents of the Nandroid backup, are there anyway possible to delete a file in the Nandroid backup and replace it with another file?? If I can do that, then I can replace the corrupted file and then restore from backup. I just dont want to reflash the clean ROM and then have to manually restore all my apps, sms and photos...
If I flash the backup Rom that has the corruted file, and before reboot, can I use the file manager to pull the clean file from the external card and replace the one that corrupted in the root folder. If I can do this, then it should boot normally. Otherwise if I boot with the corrupted file it gets hung after it processes all the apps. (Gets hung on Starting Apps).

I figured it out!!! What I did was I went into recovery, and selected the recovery nandroid backup file that was corrupted. Instead of restoring all the available options, I unchecked System. So it restored everything but the system data. The system data already installed was from the newly installed rom that was working, so by leaving the system unchecked it didnt install the corrupted system from backup! I hope I explained this where you can understand it.
Thanks for all the help DocHoliday77!! I'm just glad that worked and I dont have to manually install everything back over!!
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[Q] Default IMEI after Kies software upgrade

So I found myself wondering how can I make life difficult for myself... I did a software upgrade in Kies on my T805 and now I have a default IMEI...
I was on cm11 before doing the upgrade to 5.0.2
Has this happened to anyone or does anyone have any idea how to fix it?
Many thanks for any reply.

That shouldnt have happened but youre not the first person to state that cm has messed with the partitions. Id stick with stock based roms in future.
Download EFS professional then under the samsung tools tab select other tools then 'Repair NV data from internal file backup'
If youre lucky it will be restored.
Now some friendly advice, ALWAYS make a full backup via recovery before messing with anything custom on your device, especially make sure the EFS partition is backed up.

ashyx said:
That shouldnt have happened but youre not the first person to state that cm has messed with the partitions. Id stick with stock based roms in future.
Download EFS professional then under the samsung tools tab select other tools then 'Repair NV data from internal file backup'
If youre lucky it will be restored.
Now some friendly advice, ALWAYS make a full backup via recovery before messing with anything custom on your device, especially make sure the EFS partition is backed up.
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Thanks for the reply, sadly it restore a different default IMEI ending in /01 instead of /17.
I was 100% sure I had backed-up my efs, turns out I did but on my phone x(.
Any other suggestions?

Try this. Make a backup in recovery of the efs partition.
Boot into android then using a root file explorer open the efs folder then delete nv_data.bin and nv_data.bin.md5 then reboot.
See if this replaces the deleted files with the backup.

ashyx said:
Try this. Make a backup in recovery of the efs partition.
Boot into android then using a root file explorer open the efs folder then delete nv_data.bin and nv_data.bin.md5 then reboot.
See if this replaces the deleted files with the backup.
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It does but not with the correct imei. Thanks for the reply!

What IMEI does it give?

ashyx said:
What IMEI does it give?
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A default imei ending in / 17 instead of / 01

DieZz said:
A default imei ending in / 17 instead of / 01
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You may as well post it as its not a valid imei, it's a generic imei.
Is it 004999010640000?