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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
im about to flash my first rom
i am rooted and on stock rom, but what is the best way to backup all apps, data, pics, contacts, etc.
i dont know what nandroid backup is and im not sure to what extent titanium backup will help me
thank you
acatabian said:
im about to flash my first rom
i am rooted and on stock rom, but what is the best way to backup all apps, data, pics, contacts, etc.
i dont know what nandroid backup is and im not sure to what extent titanium backup will help me
thank you
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Plug it in to your computer and copy it over. Your data and pictures will be fine, think of your 16 or 32 gbs of memory as a memory card. It will be safe.
As for being the first time you flash a custom rom I would recommend reading through instructions multiple times until you feel comfortable. Even look up videos on youtube.
and if anything goes wrong, am i able to just copy all those files back over and overwrite what happened?
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and if anything goes wrong, am i able to just copy all those files back over and overwrite what happened?
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Yes you can fix it if you mess up. But as long as you follow the instructions properly you will be fine. Not to mention that the community here is more than willing to help out
I have a couple questions if someone can answer them for me. First off, I have a boost galaxy s3, rooted. Right now I am on CWM, does anyone know if 4ext is compatible with this phone. I went to google play store under 4 ext and on the left it says it is, just want to verify before I install this.
Next question is a little more in depth.
I am in a dilemma. I had a s2 (rooted and on a custom rom)and had issues with the gps, so I upgraded to a s3. I did a nandroid backup and also tit backup of my important apps. After I did this, we pulled out the sd card and they did a factory reset on the s2. I have since rooted my s3 and installed tit backup, but when I go to restore, it says theres nothing to restore. I also went into es file explorer and the tit backup folder is empty. For whatever reason, I don't have the tit backup. I still have the nandroid backup I made on my s2, although I don't have the s2 phone anymore. The data on some of these apps is very important to me and I am crushed that I lost all that. Does anyone know if there is a way to pull apart the nandroid backup to get at this data so tit backup would be able to restore the data from these apps? I only have 2 or 3 of these apps data that I really need. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated.
You can retrieve information form a Nandroid Backup with Titanium Backup. That being said, I would advice against restoring Data. Unless it's from games. If you do restore Data, try to never restore System Data.
You can also check out Nandroid Manager.
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You can retrieve information form a Nandroid Backup with Titanium Backup. That being said, I would advice against restoring Data. Unless it's from games. If you do restore Data, try to never rest.
Thanks for the response. Will tit backup allow me to pull apart the nandroid backup and find the folder with a particular apps data then, if so, how do I go about doing that?? I looked at the options in tit backup and could not figure out a way to do this. Also, would it be easier to maybe use some program on my pc to do this instead of my phone??
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Either one should allow you to Extract Data from a Nandroid. In Titanium Backup you would navigate to : Menu - SPECIAL BACKUP ? RESTORE - Extract from Nandroid backup - Choose the backup. Then let it load up. Choose what you want to restore. Once again I would caution against restoring System Data.
There was a option in tit bu ofr extracting from nandroid bu and it flawlessly to restore my app data to those apps. Thanks for everyones suggestions and feedback.
First off, i'm not a noob to flashing roms, only on my SGS3. My other phone is a rooted HTC Inspire 4G running Jellytime 4.2. Ok, down to my problem. I've been on my stock rooted rom since i rooted it last year and have not attempted to play with roms until recently. So yeah, I backed up all my apps and system data before I flashed omni rom and superSU for the d2att SGS3 i747. After flashing and setting phone back up, i realized that ALL my backups were completely gone from titanium backup. It said the backups were never made What did i do wrong?? Was there a step i missed in order for my backups to transfer over to new rom on the SGS3? Is there a special way to set up titanium backup for the SGS3?? Thank god i still have my nandroid backup in rom manager. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
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First off, i'm not a noob to flashing roms, only on my SGS3. My other phone is a rooted HTC Inspire 4G running Jellytime 4.2. Ok, down to my problem. I've been on my stock rooted rom since i rooted it last year and have not attempted to play with roms until recently. So yeah, I backed up all my apps and system data before I flashed omni rom and superSU for the d2att SGS3 i747. After flashing and setting phone back up, i realized that ALL my backups were completely gone from titanium backup. It said the backups were never made What did i do wrong?? Was there a step i missed in order for my backups to transfer over to new rom on the SGS3? Is there a special way to set up titanium backup for the SGS3?? Thank god i still have my nandroid backup in rom manager. PLEASE HELP!!!!!
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In Titanium press menu button and select preferences. In the next menu select default back up location. You will have a button here that says 'detect'. If they exist on your phone or SD card this will find them. Have you searched in both sdcard/ and sdcard/0/? In the future you can set the default location to External SD which will save it incase of a need to full wipe. TiBu also does have a feature to restore from Nandroid.
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In Titanium press menu button and select preferences. In the next menu select default back up location. You will have a button here that says 'detect'. If they exist on your phone or SD card this will find them. Have you searched in both sdcard/ and sdcard/0/? In the future you can set the default location to External SD which will save it incase of a need to full wipe. TiBu also does have a feature to restore from Nandroid.
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If I set up titanium backup w/ dropbox for my backups, will that be better than sending my backups to SD card and risk losing them again?
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If I set up titanium backup w/ dropbox for my backups, will that be better than sending my backups to SD card and risk losing them again?
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I have never tried the Dropbox option, but in theory it should work. If it does work, it would be better to have it off device, and you should be able to schedule it to auto backup whenever you want.
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I have never tried the Dropbox option, but in theory it should work. If it does work, it would be better to have it off device, and you should be able to schedule it to auto backup whenever you want.
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sweet. Thanks for the help. Very much appreciated. I'm gonna try setting up dropbox w/ titanium. i'll let you know how it goes.
You did try the detect option mentioned above? Did you wipe internal storage?
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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