I don't see it anywhere, just info about the ZVA -> ZVC update. I've made too many modifications to my root partition to try to switch them all back and just want to flash ZVC...
fldash said:
I don't see it anywhere, just info about the ZVA -> ZVC update. I've made too many modifications to my root partition to try to switch them all back and just want to flash ZVC...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702422
Havnt seen one, Just unroot, flash, reroot or is your phone not able to un root?
As I said, too many changes to the system partition, there is no way it's going to flash the OTA even if I unroot. If I use the TOT everything gets wiped including sdcard space... Not ideal even if I take a Titanium Backup.
fldash said:
As I said, too many changes to the system partition, there is no way it's going to flash the OTA even if I unroot. If I use the TOT everything gets wiped including sdcard space... Not ideal even if I take a Titanium Backup.
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What about a nandroid backup and then tot then restoring from the nandroid with titanium backup. To be honest though I'm
not sure how exactly the nandroid titanium backup restore process works though as I haven't done it myself.
That may be an option but never used a nandroid to restore in Titanium Backup either...
Your best bet is to use the ZVC tot method. Here's what I did:
Backup apps & settings with Titanium Backup.
Copy the contents of internal SD card to a PC (or Dropbox, etc)
Photos, Titanium Backup files, anything else you want to save
Restore via the .tot method.
Root your phone with IOROOT.
Put the copied SD card contents back on the phone.
Reinstall Titanium Backup from Play Store.
Restore all your apps/settings via Titanium.
I didn't have any problems. You also don't need to have a custom recovery this way, either.
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Your best bet is to use the ZVC tot method. Here's what I did:
Backup apps & settings with Titanium Backup.
Copy the contents of internal SD card to a PC (or Dropbox, etc)
Photos, Titanium Backup files, anything else you want to save
Restore via the .tot method.
Root your phone with IOROOT.
Put the copied SD card contents back on the phone.
Reinstall Titanium Backup from Play Store.
Restore all your apps/settings via Titanium.
I didn't have any problems. You also don't need to have a custom recovery this way, either.
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This is the method I took as well. It seemed to be the easier approach rather than trying to undo all of the system partition modifications.
hotbbq said:
Your best bet is to use the ZVC tot method. Here's what I did:
Backup apps & settings with Titanium Backup.
Copy the contents of internal SD card to a PC (or Dropbox, etc)
Photos, Titanium Backup files, anything else you want to save
Restore via the .tot method.
Root your phone with IOROOT.
Put the copied SD card contents back on the phone.
Reinstall Titanium Backup from Play Store.
Restore all your apps/settings via Titanium.
I didn't have any problems. You also don't need to have a custom recovery this way, either.
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Can you do this using any current version of ROM or recovery? I'm on youdug's ZVA rooted version with TWRP 2.6.3.3 and some mods (camera and hotspot). Plus I have some frozen apps, etc. Don't know what that necessarily means as far as aboot, etc., but I would like to get on ZVC. Sorry for the newb questions.
Thanks.
esoh said:
Can you do this using any current version of ROM or recovery? I'm on youdug's ZVA rooted version with TWRP 2.6.3.3 and some mods (camera and hotspot). Plus I have some frozen apps, etc. Don't know what that necessarily means as far as aboot, etc., but I would like to get on ZVC. Sorry for the newb questions.
Thanks.
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I've used this guide with out any problems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
They have the files also.
One thing I have noticed, you don't have to power phone off after you get it set to com 41, while in download mode. Just pull the USB, and reconnect.
I've tot'ted at least 10 times without issue. I've even had a buddy use the same thing no problem. If you have a question just ask
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So what is the different between a nandroid backup and a backup using titanium backup? What is being saved with either? I hear using titanium back up is a "full" backup. What is titanium backup used for if you are already rooted...wouldn't you already have a custom recovery like amon ra or cwm?
If I do a nandroid back up on stock 2.2 rooted, can i do the same back up while I'm on a custom ROM? Where is this "backup" being saved to? Can i have multiple backups for different ROMS?
Nandroid is more like creating an image backup of your operating system, it backs up both your rom and apps. Titanium just backups app, their data and if you choose system settings.
Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
techdude54 said:
Nandroid is more like creating an image backup of your operating system, it backs up both your rom and apps. Titanium just backups app, their data and if you choose system settings.
Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
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In what situation would i use titanium back up with a rooted evo?
Titanium backs up your app and data from your phone. I am rooted and I use it when I need it, when I want to re install apps when I switch roms.
Using my HTC Evo phone which I'm using Xda app to post
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So what is the different between a nandroid backup and a backup using titanium backup? What is being saved with either? I hear using titanium back up is a "full" backup. What is titanium backup used for if you are already rooted...wouldn't you already have a custom recovery like amon ra or cwm?
If I do a nandroid back up on stock 2.2 rooted, can i do the same back up while I'm on a custom ROM? Where is this "backup" being saved to? Can i have multiple backups for different ROMS?
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Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)
Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
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Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)
Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
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okay that makes sense. So whenever i flash a new rom, do I need to download titanium back (or MybackupPro) again on the new rom to get the data back? I can't locate the saved file from my sd card?
evo4gfan said:
okay that makes sense. So whenever i flash a new rom, do I need to download titanium back (or MybackupPro) again on the new rom to get the data back? I can't locate the saved file from my sd card?
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Yes
Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
honeyBfly said:
Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)
Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
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I use Titanium Backup for backing up data and restoring it on a new ROM a lot. Before I flash a new ROM I always do a complete Titanium Backup and a nandroid backup. If the flash fails I restore from my nandroid backup and if the flash works I load my apps back with Titanium Backup (that way all my saved data on things like games is there and I don't have to start over).
I will caution against doing a restore of everything on a new ROM though (mostly a problem if you're going from something like a stock Evo based ROM to a AOSP ROM). I've had some issues when I restored a few system files (accounts database for example). If you stick with installable applications you shouldn't run into any trouble though (also I've had no problems restoring my call log and text message database).
When you are in Titanium Backup, when you hit menu and select more you can create a flashable .zip so that after flashing a new rom or resetting the device you don't have to log into the market to reinstall. Makes life a lot easier.
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When you are in Titanium Backup, when you hit menu and select more you can create a flashable .zip so that after flashing a new rom or resetting the device you don't have to log into the market to reinstall. Makes life a lot easier.
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I didn't know that, thanks for the tip.
ok so here's my situation....my EVO has a loose charging port and the power button is failing so i took it to sprint and they ordered me a new one...so i figured i would just nandroid when the new phone got here after re-rooting it and i would be good...but then i got to thinking that when i downgraded my hboot version from .97 to .76 i couldnt restore my previous backup because i switched versions...and i plan to root using the unrevoked method and i would assume they would install the lastest version of CWM witch would make my backup unusable right??...
Basically i just need to know if i would be able to restore my backup from my memory card right after i root it or if i need to jump through some hoops to do it...or if i just need to flash CM7 clean and start all over, which i would rather not do...so if anyone can give me an answer it would be much appreciated and i will give said person a kiss *muah*....hahaha
thanks in advance
I'm 99% sure that this would not work...nandroids have to be from the same phone, not just same phone specs/firmware
Even if your recovery would allow you to restore the backup, I wouldn't do it. You run the risk of restoring the wimax partition from the old phone on the new one, essentially borking your wimax. I could be wrong, though.
I would backup all of your user apps + data with Titanium Backup, skip the system stuff. Make sure you've synced everything to Google. Gather the rom you like & any addons, then run unrevoked. After it's done, flashing, restoring, and setting back up shouldn't take too long.
exactly what plainjane said!
Ok I guess I get that...but would I be able to advance restore just my data after flash my rom and kernel?...so I have my apps and data in less than 5 mins?
Sent from my nightly EVO
Vinchenzop said:
I'm 99% sure that this would not work...nandroids have to be from the same phone, not just same phone specs/firmware
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+1 I tried restoring one of my Nandroid backups on my GFs rooted EVO....no go.
thebeast614 said:
Ok I guess I get that...but would I be able to advance restore just my data after flash my rom and kernel?...so I have my apps and data in less than 5 mins?
Sent from my nightly EVO
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Just be careful but this should be fine. You may be better off using an app like MyBackup *root* which is free in the market to backup your apps and app data.
I have used it to move apps from rom to rom, and a new phone would be no different.
For apps...back them up via titanium backup, and you can restore them to a new/different phone
For contacts...open your contacts/people app..while looking at your contacts, press menu and choose "export to sd". This will create a file in your sd called 00001.vcf which contains your contact list and can be restored through contacts/people on any rom
Root your new phone, flash whichever rom you want...put your old sd card into your new phone...install titanium backup and reinstall your backed-up apps. Open contacts/people... press menu, import from sd card. Profit
Vinchenzop said:
For apps...back them up via titanium backup, and you can restore them to a new/different phone
For contacts...open your contacts/people app..while looking at your contacts, press menu and choose "export to sd". This will create a file in your sd called 00001.vcf which contains your contact list and can be restored through contacts/people on any rom
Root your new phone, flash whichever rom you want...put your old sd card into your new phone...install titanium backup and reinstall your backed-up apps. Open contacts/people... press menu, import from sd card. Profit
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+1 What Vinchenzop said.
Hi guys, I just got a phone replacement and I was wondering if I could take a TWRP backup form my old phone and install it onto my new phone? And if that isn't ok, is a Titanium backup ok?
Twrp backup, I wouldn't. Titanium backup I've done plenty of times. It has the potential to go wrong as well so keep a backup of where you're at beforehand
I've done it several times on my nexus 5,never done it on the G3. No issues on Twrp, just make sure you don't restore the EFS...
Probably wouldnt reccomend a twrp recovery. Titanium backup is fine.
No to twrp.
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Is it possible to open a nand on a computer and pull data from it? Like if i were to lose my phone, could i take a nand that's been backed up on my computer and pull the pictures off of it?
zcgofaster said:
Is it possible to open a nand on a computer and pull data from it? Like if i were to lose my phone, could i take a nand that's been backed up on my computer and pull the pictures off of it?
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Nandroid doesn't back up anything on the sdcard, internal or external. It only backs up your rom and apps and system settings. So any files you downloaded, pictures/videos you took, will be gone if you lose your phone and didn't back it up yourself either to another computer or to the cloud.
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Thanks for the help guys. I just did the Titanium backup and it all went well as far as i can tell. Still makes for an easy transition.
Please post questions in the Q&A thread
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Hey, I want to root my device, and for that I need to go back to 4.4, but I didn't want to lose all my stuff.
Is it possible to do a full nandroid backup (or atleast the /data partition) so I can restore it when I'm back at bump'd 5.0?
I discovered a adb command called "backup", not sure how it goes though
DarknessWarrior said:
Hey, I want to root my device, and for that I need to go back to 4.4, but I didn't want to lose all my stuff.
Is it possible to do a full nandroid backup (or atleast the /data partition) so I can restore it when I'm back at bump'd 5.0?
I discovered a adb command called "backup", not sure how it goes though
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You can save your installed apps and data with Helium (Pro) to the cloud or sdcard for instance. Copy pics/video`s and music to the pc and place it back after you flashed a rom later. A full backup cannot be done without root.
DarknessWarrior said:
Hey, I want to root my device, and for that I need to go back to 4.4, but I didn't want to lose all my stuff.
Is it possible to do a full nandroid backup (or atleast the /data partition) so I can restore it when I'm back at bump'd 5.0?
I discovered a adb command called "backup", not sure how it goes though
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http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...es-adb-backup-and-how-do-i-restore-part-of-it
http://lifehacker.com/the-most-useful-things-you-can-do-with-adb-and-fastboot-1590337225
I hope these help you.
thanl you both, I'll try those methods
Bricked LG k540
gee2012 said:
You can save your installed apps and data with Helium (Pro) to the cloud or sdcard for instance. Copy pics/video`s and music to the pc and place it back after you flashed a rom later. A full backup cannot be done without root.
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Sir i bricked my device LG K540/LG LS775 CRICKET USA and not backup but i took dump after brick the phone I have system.IMG file but and tried to remove the effected block using WINHEX but i dont know to make it flashable cause I am new to LG and nobody is helping me to provide the flashable system file ... When i turn on it with the lg logo it says Boot veryfication fail mismatch sig_lem can you help me out for LG device i am NOOB..
Please
Root my stylo 2 how
My phone has been having some weird problems after rooting (not at first). I want to go back to stock and try rooting again. My question is since I can't install a custom recovery is there anyway I can back my app data? If I back my phone up with Titanium backup will I be able to restore it when I root again?
Fma15 said:
My phone has been having some weird problems after rooting (not at first). I want to go back to stock and try rooting again. My question is since I can't install a custom recovery is there anyway I can back my app data? If I back my phone up with Titanium backup will I be able to restore it when I root again?
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If you root again yes you can use Titanium backup.
But try using LG Backup. It backs up settings, homescreen/lockscreen icons, apps. It's pretty good and it even backs up the Data of your apps, not just the apk itself =).
You can choose SD card, internal storage or LG cloud as storage location! It's great for non-rooted phones.