[Q] My doubts with "Nandroid" backup and restore. - Galaxy Grand Duos i9082 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

I was just thinking, what if I made a nandroid backup and copied it to my PC, installed a new ROM, did a factory reset because the ROM maker recommended it (which will also delete the nandroid backup from my phone as in this great phone nandroid backup gets stored in the internal memory), and then found that the new ROM isn't working! I have a copy of that backup in my PC. Is there any way I can restore the backup from the PC????

Factory reset does not erase the internal memory, does it?

AayushPathak said:
I was just thinking, what if I made a nandroid backup and copied it to my PC, installed a new ROM, did a factory reset because the ROM maker recommended it (which will also delete the nandroid backup from my phone as in this great phone nandroid backup gets stored in the internal memory), and then found that the new ROM isn't working! I have a copy of that backup in my PC. Is there any way I can restore the backup from the PC????
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ur nandroid backup will be saved in ur SD card only and it wont be deleted while doing the factory reset....if urs saving in the phone memory try using ROM manager app and set the folder where to save ur backup...that way it will get saved in ur SD card....

Alldroidrider said:
ur nandroid backup will be saved in ur SD card only and it wont be deleted while doing the factory reset....if urs saving in the phone memory try using ROM manager app and set the folder where to save ur backup...that way it will get saved in ur SD card...
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The latest cwm by pawtip has the option for saving it in internel or external...and also for restoring.....
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AayushPathak said:
I was just thinking, what if I made a nandroid backup and copied it to my PC, installed a new ROM, did a factory reset because the ROM maker recommended it (which will also delete the nandroid backup from my phone as in this great phone nandroid backup gets stored in the internal memory), and then found that the new ROM isn't working! I have a copy of that backup in my PC. Is there any way I can restore the backup from the PC????
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Yes, you can do that with a backup already created....
but make sure you put the backup files in Clockworkmod folder itself as it was before ....
And make sure to use three same version of clockwork mod
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[Q] Flashing Roms

Since the is no sd card on this phone to save stuff on (i.e. pictures music, etc), when we flash a rom and have to do a wipe , do we lose all of our stuff?
Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
sn0warmy said:
Before you install a custom ROM, make a backup of your current ROM in Recovery. The phone uses built in storage instead of an SD card, but the process for backing up and restoring is the same.
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ok do a backup in CWM ? so when I flash after the new rom is on , my folders and files will still be on the built in storage ?
Create a CWM backup and backup the apps you want on titanium. My suggestion for titanium, after you wipe let the market automatically restore your apps and use titanium to restore your data from the apps you want. Most everything like pictures and what's on your internal storage should still be there after wipe, but I would throw them on your laptop or wherever just in case.
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The phone does have a "sdcard." Just think of it as a irremovable 16 GB sdcard.
Everything else is the same.
Making a backup is optional, you can do it if you want. Or not do it.
You can always restore yourself back to stock using the stock images provided by Google (google it if you wish to find it).

Not able to restore my nandroids properly anymore

So here's my problem guys (bear with me here ! , it takes a lil explanation ) :
i've had my arc for almost a year now, i'm using link2sd with a 2nd partition on my sdcard for linking my apps to help free up some internal memory , i also use CWM "back and restore" frequently and this is how i do it :
as a full nandroid backup would take nearly 1Gb of storage , i instead backup only the system and data files(less than 400Mb), manually calculate the md5sum for it, and then resore it when i need , and it has worked for me till recently , now when i restore the backup, i only get the system settings and the apps on my internal storage, no sdcard apps and no linked apps (previously it restored everything properly) , so my question is :
is it a Rom or kernel related issue ??. is there a way to fix it ?? or do i have to do a full backup from now on ??
btw i'm currently using JJ'Hybrid and arknight kernel 3.3 RC.
i know it's a long one guys , so thanx in advance .
You'll need to backup data from sd or sd-ext, which would need a full nandroid backup. I found the best compromise to save space is to backup, rename the backup to id it(eg aokp4),copy it to my pc, and only keep the newest one on my sd card.
sinkster said:
You'll need to backup data from sd or sd-ext, which would need a full nandroid backup. I found the best compromise to save space is to backup, rename the backup to id it(eg aokp4),copy it to my pc, and only keep the newest one on my sd card.
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yeah i know, but that doesn't answer my question , why was it working before and now it's not , thanx anyway

Quickest way to Wipe device ?

I'm using as custom room and got lots of crap on my "SD" card.
I want the device to run this custom rom (or any rom, it doesn't matter)
Clean, with Clean SD card. (But the leave the custom recovery)
How can I do that?
Settings > storage > Erase phone storage me thinks.
Clareyboy said:
Settings > storage > Erase phone storage me thinks.
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Yes, but will it leave nandroid and the recovery files?
It will not leave your nandroid backups. Recovery will stay installed.
Copy the clockworkmod folder onto your pc, wipe sd and then copy the folder back to your phone. Backups will be safe then.
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TToivanen said:
It will not leave your nandroid backups. Recovery will stay installed.
Copy the clockworkmod folder onto your pc, wipe sd and then copy the folder back to your phone. Backups will be safe then.
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Thanks!
Are you sure about the custom recovery?
Doesn't it need the files it created on the sd card?
I mean, where does it's files located?
Yes, I'm sure. Recovery is a partition like boot, it has nothing to do with sd card and it can not be wiped without using fastboot.
Your backups however are at /sdcard/clockworkmod/, so save them before wiping.

[Q] Nandroid Backup question

Hi, have made a backup of my current stock ROM and am thinking of trying the Slim Bean 4.3 ROM.
As we know I'll need to do a system wipe before flashing a 4.3 ROM which changes the file structure of the phone and the folder locations.
If I didn't get on with Slimbean would restoring my nandroid backup of stock restore everything as it was including where the folders original were??
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Take a separate backup of EFS just to be on the safe side. In fact take more than one, you don't want to lose your IMEI
Bulbous said:
Take a separate backup of EFS just to be on the safe side. In fact take more than one, you don't want to lose your IMEI
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Yeah, already got a few EFS backups after reading some of the horror stories on this forum
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After system wipe your internal sd card will be formated. So take internalsd and extsd cards backup separate. Nandroid backup will only create backup of you rom and application data. But not internal sd card.
And one thing Nandroid backup also takes efs backup, don't worry about it.
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MBariya said:
After system wipe your internal sd card will be formated. So take internalsd and extsd cards backup separate. Nandroid backup will only create backup of you rom and application data. But not internal sd card.
And one thing Nandroid backup also takes efs backup, don't worry about it.
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Wiping system doesn't affect /sdcard folder and this is normal. We can't confuse system with user partitions.

[Q] [Solved] Unable to write on internal memory card (not a joke please really help)

Hi all,
I have a big problem, i promised i searched before nut i didn't find anything useful about it.
I installed the Ditto Note 3 v5 on my device, and everything was fine, but after I installed agni kernel, the system went crazy, i did follow the exact procedure, or if i made a mistake i didn't on purpose.
Whatever i had a nandroid backup before installing agni kernel, but now i found my device impossible to write on internal storage, meanwhile the external is fine I can do anything i wish, but the the internal storage no way to create even a folder or a simple file.
I have done that with TWRP 2.7.0.2 as a recovery, and I am really in deeply **** (sorry for the word), because I heavily use my device in my work, I am a "soccorritore", that means like paramedic in USA in ambulance, so it is really the truth i am in deeply ****, because I have all my documents in the internal storage in the nandroid backup, but i don't know how to restore them.
The nandroid backup is 4.58GB, but when i install the nandroid backup the internal storage is 7.5GB left, before with all the data was 5.8GB left in internale storage, so it is missing 1.7GB of data.
PLEASE!
I really need help and as soon as possible, I do not care about myself but documents and people schedules
Hi there, I've also restored one time my Rom through TWRP and couldn't write on the internal Storage anymore. TWRP has a problem with that, use Philz Recovery in future.
So, do you have your documents etc. in some Apps saved or in your internal Storage?
Yes, i do have documents in backup data. The problem is not the rom, in worst cases I reinstall again a new one, but what about the documents?
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Well like I said/asked, if your documents are in some Apps, backup them using Titanium Backup on your SD Card. If your files are on the internal storage, you can simply flash a Firmware through Odin and nothing should happen to your data. Or just connect your device to your PC and copy all your files over to your PC.
Eric-Mod said:
Well like I said/asked, if your documents are in some Apps, backup them using Titanium Backup on your SD Card. If your files are on the internal storage, you can simply flash a Firmware through Odin and nothing should happen to your data. Or just connect your device to your PC and copy all your files over to your PC.
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The problem are not the backup applications, but the documents as I said, they are not in an application, they are in the nandroid backup created from TWRP recovery and the nandroid backup is an md5 format.
You are telling me that titanium backup can restore nandroid backups?
I even thought to use odin, if it can be useful.
No Titanium Backup can't restore backups, it just backups all your apps + data.
A Recovery doesn't backup your whole Internal Storage, it just backups your System Partition etc.
So my thought were, just flash a Firmware through Odin and everything should be alright I guess.
Oh man! I love you
I still like women but I think you know what I mean, I used odin and I restored the entire backup to the device, but still not able to write on the internal storage, but who cares I reflash e new rom, the most important is i can transfer the documents and the data to the external storage and to a computer. I learned a lesson today, I can't describe how do I feel now, and there are no words to describe how much I thank you

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