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[Q] Need help before installing custom ROM

Hi,
Anyone can tell me, what do you do before installing a new custom ROM so you can get back all your settings and apps (apps with all its settings/data)?
I have a Galaxy Nexus (GSM), fastbook unlocked, stock 4.0.4.
Last time, when I fastboot unlocked my GNex, and flashed the 4.0.4 factory image, I re-setting my phone manually, and installed all apps manually.
What do you do usually, to minimize all those re-setting and apps re-installation?
Thanks.

Download titanium backup app
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I like to use mybackup root
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neos_83 said:
Download titanium backup app
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neos_83 said:
Download titanium backup app
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Agreed. Getting titanium backup is a necessity
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Quick question

Is it possible to back up my phone before flashing a rom?
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mlock420 said:
Is it possible to back up my phone before flashing a rom?
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Yup - MyBackUp Pro OR Titanium Backup for data - Or a CWM backup of everything.

Yes it is. Referred to as a Nandroid. Reboot into your custom recovery CWM or TWRP, select back up, the destination of the back up to internal or external and run it. Hope that helps.
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What he said about nandroids. And I like to use Titanium Backup PRO to backup my apps and data. Also, there are many SMS backup apps that don't need root.
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Gapps isn't responding when restoring image on CW recovery please need help

When I restore my image the one that I backed up on CM recovery, my Samsung s4 reboots and turn on without no problem but when I put in my pin gapps pops up saying "unfortunately gapps have stop" and I click ok but it keeps poping up.
Please I need help
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Are you restoring old data from and old rom install to a new rom install?
If so, you can't do that. Use titanium backup or helium for backing up your apps and data
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It happens to me as well in my note 2 with cwm. I installed twrp instead. I haven't tried the restore yet though. Titanium backup was the best option for me
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No I was runing cm11 and I wanted to go back to stock android so I did a nandriod backup before I flash anything. Now running cm11 i reboot into Cwm recovery and restore my backup image on my s4 which was TouchWiz 4.4.2 and when it reboot on, I unlock the phone and the pop-up keep showing up like every 5 second. So I can't do nothing because of this pop-ups
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I will try to flash newer Gapps, if doesn't work I going wipe then restore
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You cant restore your TouchWiz data partition to a cm rom
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OK but I mean the nandriod backup is a image of my phone like how it was when I first root it, so if my phone go brick I can boot into recovery and restore my phone back to how it was before. So now I trying to restore my phone back to how it was before because I don't want to use cm11 until it is stable.
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So let me get this straight.
You are using a device not officially supported by the Paranoid Android team, post in the Paranoid Android forum section, to get help going back to stock from cm11?
You realize that there is an entire section of the forums dedicated to your device?
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Chee ok well sorry just wanted help
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geekytech said:
Chee ok well sorry just wanted help
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You can get immediate help by going to your device forum and reading or asking there.
The PA team only officially supports Nexus and oppo devices. We can't help you with your s4
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OK thanks for trying i will do that, it's because it was my first time using this app and I didn't know what I was doing
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Nandroid Restore Problem Challenge

Hi all, just have a quick question regarding my nandroid backup and restore. Every time I try to restore a nandroid backup of my phone, mostly everything works, however, Amazon App Store will stop allowing me to download any apps at all saying that there is a problem with the connection to the internet error (with 3g or wifi) and my swiftkey will popup in the notification drawer saying that there aren't anymore language packs and when trying to install the language packs back on, they don't download. either. WEIRD thing is, the Play Store still works properly. Only those two apps have issues. Any idea what is wrong with my nandroid backup or restore?
Phone Config:
Galaxy S 4 M919V (Wind Mobile)
Wind Stock 4.4.2 VLUFNB5 Factory Image/Kernel
Rooted with CF-Auto-Root-jfltetmo-jfltetmo-sghm919.tar
Recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-jfltecan
Knox counter tripped 0x1
Anyone see a problem with my config?
Troubleshooting done already
Changed recovery to philz_touch_6.26.6-jflte.tar, tried backup and restore... SAME problem.
Tried Uninstalling and Re-installing apps (with TiBu and Settings App Manager)... still same problem.
Any help would be appreciated.

Try wiping delvik and cache in recovery then reboot. Or you can also try to clear data and cache in those 2 apps and reboot.
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Tried that previously. Still no go. Weird..
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Could it be possible that my recoveries aren't completely compatible with my stock firmware? Possibly, a bad flash of recovery? or could it be that the bootloader is screwing something up since the knox bit is tripped? Even when trying to use skipsoft unified android toolkit for my s4, there are backup options that are disabled...
I'd like to get to the bottom of this because not having a proper backup of my system is kicking my ocd's a$$

Try flashing to completely stock and start over
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Try flashing to completely stock and start over
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Also attempted that and the same issue. Another thing is, Swiftkey is the actual paid version from app store, so the possibility of having a corrupt apk is slim to none.

Could it possibly be a problem with those specific apps (swiftkey and amazon app store) in which they dont nandroid backup properly or with these custom recoveries that dont backup everything needed for those 2 apps?
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I was just thinking...When you changed from TWRP to Philz, did you use Philz to recover your TWRP backup? From my understanding it isnt possible to use a different recovery to restore a backup.
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No i tried a backup of each recovery to restore in each recovery.
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Try deleting your google account and re-installing it.
system/accounts/google tap on your account and remove it.
turn off and do a bat pull
wait abt a min and power up and go to the google account and install selecting existing account and see if the play store will work for you.
good Luck!

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Try deleting your google account and re-installing it.
system/accounts/google tap on your account and remove it.
turn off and do a bat pull
wait abt a min and power up and go to the google account and install selecting existing account and see if the play store will work for you.
good Luck!
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My problem isn't Google Play, but thanks anyways...

adv1sory said:
No i tried a backup of each recovery to restore in each recovery.
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If you changed to Philz while you were already having the issue with the apps and turned around and made a backup, that backup would still have the issues. Lol. Try deleting the apk files and re download the apk
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Ya, i know. I started from scratch and attempted to backup and restore when done setting everything up and same weird problem. Could it be that I'm using a tmo cf-root file?
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Who is your carrier?
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Is it an international tmo file?
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My carrier is Wind Mobile and my phone is an M919V from wind. The tmo cf-root file im using is... CF-Auto-Root-jfltetmo-jfltetmo-sghm919.tar and the recovery im using is openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.1-jfltecan.tar.
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Try skimming through this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2303384&page=8
It lools like cf-root doesn't work on the m919v. It's just what I read but I only skimmed through. Also, you should try an older version of TWRP. I have 2.6 and have never had an issue
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Sorry, I posted the link twice lol
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Ill give TWRP 2.6 a shot. Have nothing to lose. My root isn't a problem so im not worried about that
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adv1sory said:
Ill give TWRP 2.6 a shot. Have nothing to lose. My root isn't a problem so im not worried about that
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I am having the same problem. Went back to a backup from AOSP and now this. Find out anything?

nnk61209 said:
I am having the same problem. Went back to a backup from AOSP and now this. Find out anything?
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Well, I ended up finding that CWM_6.0.4.7_Touch_GT-I9505 worked out for me using i9505 AOSP Pre-Release from Broodplank. No problems with backup or restore most of the time. I did encounter Swiftkey having the no languages installed problem, but it manages to install the languages again without error, so all is good.

[Q] Restoring Official Rom from CWM Backup

Dear All,
Whenever i take backup of officail rom 4.4.2 and restore it back from any other rom like CM11/Carbon/Liquid Smooth through CWM it gives error force close process.android.com repeatingly.
Any Solution for above will be appriciated. THANKS.

Any one please?
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fayezkhan555 said:
Any one please?
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try clearing dalvic and cache in recovery

Thanks for your reply, I already did that but same problem. Also did factory reset
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fayezkhan555 said:
Thanks for your reply, I already did that but same problem. Also did factory reset
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um, did you do it after flashing the backup or before? you need to to it afterwards

After backup had been restored
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