Please be patient with me as I am a sexagenarian who is struggling at the moment.
I am running a rooted Nexus 7 2013 using marshmallow version 6.0, build MRA58K.
I want to upgrade my Android to the latest version 6.x.
There is a System Update available prompt, which I cannot use since I am rooted.
I have used Wugfresh in the past to root as well as update while rooting, but as I rarely use the app, I get confused whren I use it and I am trying to fine an easier way. I think I might have messed something up with TWRK and really don't understand it.
Please help me define some steps in doing this. I am going to list my plans.
The mini usb plug on the Nexus 7 is not very stable, so I want to try this without having to plug into my laptop.
I have Titanium Backup and I want to take my backup data and copy it over to my Windows 1 laptop via Filedrop. I will “unfreeze” my frozen apps before this backup.
I will delete the backup files from my Nexus 7, as my space is tight and there is no SD card for the unit.
Then I was thinking of unrooting my Nexus 7. Any recommended ways to do this easily and safely?
I then plan to then use the conventional Android System Update.
After the update, then to root my device. Any recommendations of ways that I can do this without being plugged into my laptop would be very helpful.
After it is rooted, I plan to restore the titanium backup files that I have copied to my laptop, using Filedrop.
Problem is that I have never done this with titanium backup and don’t know how exactly to restore everything.
After that, I should be done.
PLEASE comment on my steps and please make recommendations.
Thanks in advance for your time and expertise
Jon
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I received a replacement galaxy nexus today from Amazon. I made a nandroid backup using CWM recovery on the old Galaxy Nexus phone. Pulled the sim card from the new phone, put it in the new phone to confirm it worked. I then tried to connect my old phone to the PC to copy over the nandroid, but now the computer will not mount the phone and i am unable to see anything on the phone. I tried putting a new sim card in the phone but the computer still does not see the phone. I have the galaxy nexus toolkit kit installed but it does not show it attached currently.
All i'm trying to do is copy the nandroid backup i created on the old phone to the new phone. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
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I received a replacement galaxy nexus today from Amazon. I made a nandroid backup using CWM recovery on the old Galaxy Nexus phone. Pulled the sim card from the new phone, put it in the new phone to confirm it worked. I then tried to connect my old phone to the PC to copy over the nandroid, but now the computer will not mount the phone and i am unable to see anything on the phone. I tried putting a new sim card in the phone but the computer still does not see the phone. I have the galaxy nexus toolkit kit installed but it does not show it attached currently.
All i'm trying to do is copy the nandroid backup i created on the old phone to the new phone. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
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Most likely you need to disable "USB fast charge" and the comp will recognize your phone again. As far as the restore, why not use TiBu?
Thank you so much, disabling fast charge did the trick.
I must confess that even though i have the Pro TiBu, I don't really understand all of what it can do. I was under the impression that it simply backed up the apps and system data. Does it also back up music etc similar to a CWM nandroid backup?
TurbineTester said:
Thank you so much, disabling fast charge did the trick.
I must confess that even though i have the Pro TiBu, I don't really understand all of what it can do. I was under the impression that it simply backed up the apps and system data. Does it also back up music etc similar to a CWM nandroid backup?
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You can use your nandroid.
I used to pop old nandroids from my DX onto it's refurbished brothers without problem.
Does the replacement phone have to be unlocked and rooted prior to installing the old phone's nandroid or will the nandroid carry over the unlock and root status? Thanks!
The new phone needs to be unlocked with a custom recovery if you want to restore the nandroid. Root will come with the nandroid.
On Mac OS X 10.7.4
I've found a lot on making backups with the clockworkmod and such once you're rooted, but what about before that? I want to back up everything and my S3 won't mount on my Mac using Android file transfer. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Roooting doesn't delete anything.
psykhotic said:
Roooting doesn't delete anything.
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Right, but should my phone get bricked or even if I don't root at all and my phone got stolen, I want to find a way to completely back up all my data.
I gave up trying to get my s3 to mount on my MBP and just used airdroid. There's also titanium backup.
What are you afraid of losing exactly?
psykhotic said:
I gave up trying to get my s3 to mount on my MBP and just used airdroid. There's also titanium backup.
What are you afraid of losing exactly?
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Anything...if my phone gets stolen i would want to be able to just do a restore with as little time wasted as possible.
If you want to completely back up your phone, you need to root it.
The only backup you have now is the simple backup from Google - contacts, apps (not data).
If you mess up while trying to root, you're screwed. If you mess up after root and you've backed up, if you can reach recovery, then you can restore. Those are your options.
Just read the guides, rooting is pretty safe. Then use titanium backup.
I rooted immediately but I'm assuming you can just copy all the files onto your computer through usb. Not pretty but should work.
Okay so here's what happened, from the beginning:
A long time ago, about a month after the release of the SGS3, I rooted my device. All I wanted was to uninstall bloatware, which I did.
I took some advice from a friend and installed some root-related apps (Titanium Backup, Rom Manager, BusyBox Free, Root Checker Basic, AnTuTu Benchmark, GooManager and TWRP) that I barely used.
Fast forward to today, about an hour or so ago. I had completely forgotten my phone is rooted because all I really did was remove bloatware. Suddenly the thought occurs to me, "I haven't checked for an update in a while!" Again, don't remember my phone is rooted. So I do the software update process, takes about 20 minutes to download the OTA update, then I click continue to install. The phone does its thing, shuts down down to install, starts coming back on, white text at the bottom scrolls with some jargon I am not familiar with, then I see something I recognize: ERROR! (something about md5 files or something rather) "****! I forgot my phone was rooted!" That's when the TWRP UI comes up....
All I can think to do is run the TWRP backup restore, which I backed up as part of the root process months ago. Well, that's complete now and my phone is back to 27 Oct 2012. Not TOO big a deal considering most, but not all, of my data is stored to some cloud (how does that work? I thought water and electronics didn't get along)<---JOKE!. So now I don't really know what to do. I am in the process of using SMS Backup+ to restore all my texts, and am trying to get my apps back up to date. After I get this all done, I still want to run the JellyBean update. As a safe bet, I would like to (if possible) un-root my phone, which requires me to re-install bloatware (?), yada yada yada, and basically return my GS3 back to factory settings so I can install JellyBean the legit way. I would then like to re-root my phone to remove (again) all the bloatware. So, I guess my question to whomever is far more qualified than me (probably 99% of xda forum users) is how can I safely go about doing this without losing (again) all my data? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you VERY much!
Ok. There are several problems here that need to be worked on.
First, I suggest that you get all your apps and data back up to date to "current" as opposed to Oct 27. Once you do that, then boot into TWRP and make a backup and save a copy to your PC as well. That way you will have a current restore point.
Next, the reason you are not able to take the OTA is two-fold. First you have Root and second you have a custom recovery.
**Former is easy to fix. All you need to do is get OTA Rootkeeper from the market and run it. Make a backup of SU and when you are ready to take the OTA, temp delete root through the app, take OTA and the restore Root through the app. Pretty easy.
**The latter issue is with regards to the custom recovery. You will need to find a flashable zip of the stock recovery and flash that (this is after you make your backups of course).
So now you will have an unrooted phone [technically if you use OTA Rootkeeper] with stock recovery. You should be able to take the OTA no problem, restore Root with OTA Rootkeeper and install Goomanager from the market to get TWRP recovery back.
Seem like a lot? Well it is. But then you could always look in the Dev section for a flashable version or mrRobinson's Root66 Odin package which is far esaier that above. Just read the OP.
Well, I am stuck at step one. Now my phone isn't reading my SD card, which is where I would be backing up to as my phone does not have enough free space on internal memory. So I guess I have a new problem that needs a solution, as well as all the other problems.
Still need help guys...
I still need help here. How am I supposed to back up my phone if it's not reading my MicroSD card? Better question, how can I get my phone to read the SD card?
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I still need help here. How am I supposed to back up my phone if it's not reading my MicroSD card? Better question, how can I get my phone to read the SD card?
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Try to format your micro sdcard on your pc
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My phone is reading the SD card in certain applications, but not in the ones that matter. Most of my music is on the SD card and there is no problem listening to any of it, but when I go to the storage settings on the phone it tells me to insert an SD card. Same thing when trying to use TWRP to try and back up my phone to the SD card. This is really frustrating...
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Try to format your micro sdcard on your pc
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That did the trick. Thanks sent your way.
Like the title says, I'm a newbie but this is my 2nd Nexus 7 2013. I dropped the first one after having rooted it and just now got another one (after 2 iPads and a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro). Im frustrated because I cant seem to locate the "sd card" from which to root it. The only choice in recovery mode is using ADB yet everything I read online is to load it using the sd card. I dont remember having this much problem when the tablet was using 4.4. By the way, It is using 5.1.1 and it is a 32gb tablet. I would love to enjoy my tablet but I'm not right now. I hope someone can enlighten me before I throw it out the window. Thanks
There is no actual SD card, whatever you're attempting to access is likely in the download folder . Read the many guides that are marked as sticky here before you brick your tablet
If you really wanted to you could do a full factory reset back to jelly bean (and more importantly the original kernel) from settings. And then use the towelroot app to root/unlock your device, and from there install a recovery.
Anything after Jelly Bean 4.3 will block the towel root functionality, so you have to install and use towelroot before the system updates when you first boot install. It would be best to sideload the app before downloading or even signing into google after you do a factory reset.
I did this successfully back in December of last year when I got my 32Gb Nexus 7. I would, just in case, do research beforehand though.
I have a N7 2013 that I bought about 4 years ago and I would like to wipe it and start clean. I rooted it as soon as I got the tablet and I'm not sure if the root method matters but it was so long ago I have no idea how I rooted it. It's not modded in any other way, just rooted with stock android 4.4.4
Anyway, the tablet is starting to act funny, crashing certain apps, and I would like to just wipe it and start over. If it were completely stock and unrooted I would just go into recovery and factory reset that way, but I wasn't sure if I can do this with the rooted tablet or if there is a different way. There are so many threads on different websites with different ways to do this and I just want to make sure I'm using the proper method so I don't mess anything up. I don't have anything on it that I am worried about losing, so I can jump right in and start wiping.
What I'm wondering is if there is a way to reset it and keep root, or do I have to unroot first, or just wipe it and re-root? If someone can point me towards a good thread to use that would be great. Any help is appreciated.
If it matters, it also has TWRP v2.7.0.0 installed. I believe that was put in as part of the rooting process.
Try using the Nexus Root Toolkit by Wugfresh it does everything you require and more
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766475