Will rooting a T989 delete anything in the phones memory or on both internal and external sd cards?
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itrustno1 said:
Will rooting a T989 delete anything in the phones memory or on both internal and external sd cards?
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Rooting won't delete anything, but you'll need to have a custom recovery (TWRP or CWM) to root device and once you have custom recovery it's really a good idea to also do a nandroid backup with it, that way if anything goes wrong with device you can restore it.
Im glad u mentioned that, exactly how do u perform a "nandroid backup"?
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I just bought a 32gb sd card for my phone. When I try to flash a Rom or do a nandroid backup it fails. Do I need to do anything special? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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dave2metz said:
I just bought a 32gb sd card for my phone. When I try to flash a Rom or do a nandroid backup it fails. Do I need to do anything special? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Make sure your backup is being sent to the sdcard and not internal memory ...cuz the internal memory may be full and therefore causes the back up to fail because there's no room....if your using rom manager go to the settings and it'll let you choose whether you want to do backups with internal or external.....this can also be done within recovery as well but I don't have the options memorized to dictate them to you
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Hi guys, just got my gs3 last week, coming from the evo 3d. I tried searching and couldn't find anything, but I'm sorry if this has been addressed already. Anyway, once I root, will I be able to backup and flash roms without an sd card? Im just confused because rooting doesnt require one, but I thought that doing data wipes/factory resets in recovery will also wipe the internal device storage. Clarification would be very much appreciated!!
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jsc15 said:
Hi guys, just got my gs3 last week, coming from the evo 3d. I tried searching and couldn't find anything, but I'm sorry if this has been addressed already. Anyway, once I root, will I be able to backup and flash roms without an sd card? Im just confused because rooting doesnt require one, but I thought that doing data wipes/factory resets in recovery will also wipe the internal device storage. Clarification would be very much appreciated!!
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You do not need an sd card.... Twrp or cwm will work without it... I suggest twrp... Which you can find over in the development thread....
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Right on, thanks!
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Naddict said:
You do not need an sd card.... Twrp or cwm will work without it... I suggest twrp... Which you can find over in the development thread....
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Hope this isn't too off topic, but I have a 32gig class 10 sd card from my htc evo and am seriously considering the S3 when I upgrade. Can I use this sd card or do I even need it with the S3?
cityneversleepz said:
Hope this isn't too off topic, but I have a 32gig class 10 sd card from my htc evo and am seriously considering the S3 when I upgrade. Can I use this sd card or do I even need it with the S3?
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Yes... You should be able to... I would wipe /re reformat it to be safe....
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I would grately appreciate if any Dev can make a flashable zip, like the one Darkside made for the s2
Or I'm wondering if I can still use the darkside one, b4 I flash a new ROM on my S3?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31278065
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Already done!
Check the OP of wildchlds XquiziT xD thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1875923
I wouldn't use one from a differnt phone, just to be safe.
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Thanks guys I was looking for this a long time.
DocHoliday77 said:
Already done!
Check the OP of wildchlds XquiziT xD thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1875923
I wouldn't use one from a differnt phone, just to be safe.
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I read the OP but it says its gonna wipe my internal SD card, such as data and media.
I got a bunch of movies on my Int. SD card, so do I have to move them to my SD card?
That or back them up to a pc. Superwipe wipes everything but external sd.
Sounds like you are looking for something more like the factory reset through cwm or twrp.
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DocHoliday77 said:
That or back them up to a pc. Superwipe wipes everything but external sd.
Sounds like you are looking for something more like the factory reset through cwm or twrp.
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I had the s2 but I always used the script from darkside, it didn't touch my SD card even the internal.
If u got time check it out and you'll see what I'm looking for.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487706
Just go into cwr and mounts and storage and format system, data, and cache.
It will accomplish the same thing
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Alright so I'm on JB, rooted, Kt kernel and I wanted to factory reset my phone to see if battery life will improve because I've heard it works for some.
My question is, is it better to backup through Kies, reset, and restore from kies backup or will I risk bringing back theb (maybe) source of problems by doing it that way?
Or suck it up and restore from a TWRP or CWM backup. The only reason I prefer the Kies backup is because I hardly have enough memory left on my SD card to hold a Nandroid backup.
Thoughts?
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I always hate dealing with kies but i get the issue of memory. That's why i like extra sd card space makes it easier for backups. I prefer cwm but its Ur call
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Will the CWM backup include all the pics, texts, etc.?
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Do a nandroid on external SD that's where I do mine. Also use titanium you can back it up to dropbox , box or Google.
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Nandroid on external sd. As far as the pictures go. I have mine default save to the sd. I normally do not format the external sd during restores, backups or rom swaps. So the pictures always remain.
However, one time I left the the sd card installed when I was returning to stock via oden. It wiped both internal and external. So now when oden is involved I pull the external. Just to be sure.
ExBrasil said:
Will the CWM backup include all the pics, texts, etc.?
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Pics a always remain
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So now to my understanding in TWRP the option to create image.zip is just creating a backup that I can flash right through Odin like a rom as opposed to the option to create a backup?
What can I do with that option to create a backup? Is that also an odin flashable zip?
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ExBrasil said:
So now to my understanding in TWRP the option to create image.zip is just creating a backup that I can flash right through Odin like a rom as opposed to the option to create a backup?
What can I do with that option to create a backup? Is that also an odin flashable zip?
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Usually Odin doesn't flash zips but it creates a flash able zip through cwm
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Yea I meant CWM. Thats the recovery I had installed that allowed me to create the image.zip
So basically that just creates the exact state that my phone is in and allows me to flash it via cwm to get right back to that state.
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ExBrasil said:
Yea I meant CWM. Thats the recovery I had installed that allowed me to create the image.zip
So basically that just creates the exact state that my phone is in and allows me to flash it via cwm to get right back to that state.
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Yep exactly just so u can revert in case of mistakes
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After installing twrp can I delete cwm files or will that mess things up. Thanks in advance.
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Yeah you can but transfer them to your comp just in case you want go back to cwm
Can I move it to my external SD. Or would that screw things up
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Ext sd is safe.
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