Any way to do this? I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but my PC has been out of commission for a while...
Yup, go to TWRP and format data.
Make sure you back up data first, before wiping data.
Stephen said:
Make sure you back up data first, before wiping data.
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Won't I lose the backup after I wipe? I don't have a computer to transfer the backup to..
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Must one factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik...all before restoring a nandroid backup? Sorry for the noob question...just wondering.
you dont have to.
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you dont have to.
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Advised? Or not make a difference at all??
No difference at all
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Maybe not a Factory Reset but clear cache partition and clear dalvik won't hurt if you do. Better safe than sorry.
If you are restoring from a different ROM I would.
Although if something goes wrong you can then Clear before Restore.
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a backup overwrites those partitions.
Awesome! Thanks guys!!
I do wipe dalvik/cache and reset to factory before restoring to NAND of a different ROM. I am not sure it if helps or not, but I figure there is nothing to lose and it definitely can't make things worse.
Dalvik and cache can be wiped anytime you want anyway... It gets recreated on next boot.
Anybody else having trouble with sync of Outlook calendar?? Or any calendar, for that matter, other than the weather? Only thing I get on mine is the weather. Have tried unchecking and refreshing and then rechecking and refreshing...nothing. Any suggestions?
If you watch the dialogues when restoring a nandroid you'll see that it formats everything automatically when you restore a backup. So, no. Just restore it.
Are we albe to make a Nandroid Backup with GW working or should we always Wipe the Data before making a Nandroid back up?? I know when ever flashing a New Rom we should wipe the data, but what about making a backup?? Thank you!!
darkstar765 said:
Are we albe to make a Nandroid Backup with GW working or should we always Wipe the Data before making a Nandroid back up?? I know when ever flashing a New Rom we should wipe the data, but what about making a backup?? Thank you!!
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I'm a bit confused with your question but nandroid backups data, it's one of the reason we use it. So w/e data you have on your phone, if it's not the same as the data in your nandroid, it will overwrite it upon restoring your backup.
BWolf56 said:
I'm a bit confused with your question but nandroid backups data, it's one of the reason we use it. So w/e data you have on your phone, if it's not the same as the data in your nandroid, it will overwrite it upon restoring your backup.
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Sorry, I mean just wiping the Google Wallet data as in resetting the app. My main question is if we do a Nandoid backup w/ Google Wallet working and data not wiped will it break our secure element or is it safe to do a nandoid back up?
darkstar765 said:
Sorry, I mean just wiping the Google Wallet data as in resetting the app. My main question is if we do a Nandoid backup w/ Google Wallet working and data not wiped will it break our secure element or is it safe to do a nandoid back up?
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I never tested it myself but my guess is that if you backed up the working data, restoring your nandroid should be fine.
I'd like to flash cloudy g3 but I'm not sure how to restore data into it, I have a nandroid backup with twrp, I used the preset backup and compressed the file on a sd card. Please help.
AryG15 said:
I'd like to flash cloudy g3 but I'm not sure how to restore data into it, I have a nandroid backup with twrp, I used the preset backup and compressed the file on a sd card. Please help.
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by restore data you mean to restore data from stock rom? I don't think that would be possible every time you flash a new rom you have to do a fully wipe, or you'll get a bootloop.
I mean as in all my app data and photos etc
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by restore data you mean to restore data from stock rom? I don't think that would be possible every time you flash a new rom you have to do a fully wipe, or you'll get a bootloop.
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I mean as in app data and photos and stuff
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I mean as in app data and photos and stuff
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you cannot restore any data from /data partition (a.k.a. app data, etc) because it will cause a bootloop if you're coming from another rom. Internal storage and external sdcard data can be restored if you have a backup on your computer. In fact it wouldn't even be wiped by twrp in the first place.
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I mean as in all my app data and photos etc
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Internal memory won't be formatted. So your data will stay intact. For backuping and restoring apps you can use titanium backup. It would restore the data completely.
What do you mean?
I don't get what you mean by internal memory won't go
I have a nandroid backup of my phone from earlier in the day i am trying to restore. It finishs no problem says its restore but when i reboot it goes back to factory settings??
I have rooted the phone and also s off just done tonight.
Any ideas this is driving me crazy i really really dont want to have to set up the whole phone again!!!
Are you talking about data backup? If so let me tell that doing a data backup in TWRP will be nontheless, as long as data partition is still encrypted. In that case TWRP won't be able to decrypt it, due to proprietary encryption used by HTC, and the restored backup is no data backup as a matter of fact. Will say at the moment it is not possible to backup/restore the encrypted data partition.
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So nandroid backups are pointless at the moment then?
angerfist2009 said:
So nandroid backups are pointless at the moment then?
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for user data yes. Try Titanium backup or just store everything on your external storage and use google backup to restore to the best of its ability. I've actually found google backup restores to be fairly decent lately. Much better than the old HTC backups.
TWRP can still be useful for system backups. If you make system edits, you can simply restore with TWRP and not have to touch data at all. For example, if you modify build.prop or use xposed or some other system mod, and want to return to stock system, you can just restore your system backup. Of course, you may need to then remove anything that your mod did to the data partition manually.
So the backup still works but when you restore, it'll land you back at out of the box stock? And I started a backup and it said 27gb! Is that right?! I know it gets bigger everytime with each new phone, but 20gb larger than m9 backup is nuts.
System is 3.x GB and data is 24.xx GB. Should I just uncheck data and only backup system and boot?
Just want to be 100% sure before I wipe stock rom
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So the backup still works but when you restore, it'll land you back at out of the box stock? And I started a backup and it said 27gb! Is that right?! I know it gets bigger everytime with each new phone, but 20gb larger than m9 backup is nuts.
System is 3.x GB and data is 24.xx GB. Should I just uncheck data and only backup system and boot?
Just want to be 100% sure before I wipe stock rom
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Restore system with no data wipe will leave you with your data intact.
Twrp can't see anything on the data partition, so it tries to backup the whole thing, which on my phone was about 25 GB. Unfortunately, this backup is useless. If you restore it, your system will not boot with a warning that your data is not encrypted and you need to wipe data to fix. Which kind of defeats the point of the data backup.
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Restore system with no data wipe will leave you with your data intact.
Twrp can't see anything on the data partition, so it tries to backup the whole thing, which on my phone was about 25 GB. Unfortunately, this backup is useless. If you restore it, your system will not boot with a warning that your data is not encrypted and you need to wipe data to fix. Which kind of defeats the point of the data backup.
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So if I flash a rom and it doesn't boot, am I out of luck getting back to anything bootable? I'm on the Verizon model so I don't have many options yet.
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So if I flash a rom and it doesn't boot, am I out of luck getting back to anything bootable? I'm on the Verizon model so I don't have many options yet.
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Well. I think there is an ruu for Verizon, so you should be able to get back to full stock by flashing it. But you will lose everything on you internal storage so make sure to back everything up prior to doing anything. At the moment, internal storage is inaccessible on a device that can't boot into system.
I personally am not keeping anything of importance on my internal storage right now knowing that everytime I flash something I could be forced to wipe.
Twrp system backup should work to get you back to where you are too, without wiping any of your personal data.
Having said all of this. I'm really not that familiar with Verizon specifically. So take all of these above as general device information.
Remember, it's just data partition that there are issues with. If you have a good system backup you should always be able to restore to a bootable state. But you may have to format data in order to do so.
When wiping, try topjohnwu's wipe script in the dev section to wipe app data, but not userdata first. If it doesn't work, then full wipe
I nothing valuable on internal so I think I'll try it. Thanks for the help
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Hi guys,
I seem to have this problem where my nandroid backup from TWRP won't boot. I can only get it to boot after flashing the Rom over again after the store (this doesn't erase the data and all my file are still there, I just have to make sure I'm flashing the same Rom version as was part of the backup to avoid issues . But I was wondering if there is something else I should be doing here. I've used TWRP in the past and was just able to back up and restore no problem.
When I back up I make sure my system partition is mounted and I usually backup the default selections (boot/data/system, EFS) . My feeling is somehow the boot partition gets corrupted and won't allow the phone to continue booting, but I'm not sure why?
Any ideas? I'm using TWRP version 3.0.2-0. This happens when restoring nandroid for any rom (so far tried with oxygen/hydrogen/miui and cm14).
Thanks in advance.
I have question regarding TWRP. I always had a phone with an external SD card. This will be my first phone with no external memory. When I install a new ROM I always wiped internal, factory reset and cleared cache. Now can't do that anymore cause that will wipe my internal card and lose my nandroid backup. What are you guys wiping right before you install a ROM?
borijess said:
I have question regarding TWRP. I always had a phone with an external SD card. This will be my first phone with no external memory. When I install a new ROM I always wiped internal, factory reset and cleared cache. Now can't do that anymore cause that will wipe my internal card and lose my nandroid backup. What are you guys wiping right before you install a ROM?
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Standard factory reset on TWRP will erase data, cache and Calvin cache without wiping internal SD card. That's what most people use.
piotrus22 said:
Hi guys,
I seem to have this problem where my nandroid backup from TWRP won't boot. I can only get it to boot after flashing the Rom over again after the store (this doesn't erase the data and all my file are still there, I just have to make sure I'm flashing the same Rom version as was part of the backup to avoid issues . But I was wondering if there is something else I should be doing here. I've used TWRP in the past and was just able to back up and restore no problem.
When I back up I make sure my system partition is mounted and I usually backup the default selections (boot/data/system, EFS) . My feeling is somehow the boot partition gets corrupted and won't allow the phone to continue booting, but I'm not sure why?
Any ideas? I'm using TWRP version 3.0.2-0. This happens when restoring nandroid for any rom (so far tried with oxygen/hydrogen/miui and cm14).
Thanks in advance.
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I don't have any solution for you but I can certainly concur. I've seen this behaviour as well but not as consistently as what you are describing. About 1/3rd of the time my restores don't work as you mentioned and I have to dirty flash the rom to get it to boot. Sometimes the restore even errors out while restoring the System partition in which case I just dirty flash. This is like my 9th or so Android device since Samsung released the SGS1 in whatever year that was and this is the first phone I've ever had this problem with. On previous phones it would happen rarely but nothing like it does on the OP3.
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borijess said:
I have question regarding TWRP. I always had a phone with an external SD card. This will be my first phone with no external memory. When I install a new ROM I always wiped internal, factory reset and cleared cache. Now can't do that anymore cause that will wipe my internal card and lose my nandroid backup. What are you guys wiping right before you install a ROM?
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You can either not wipe internal storage (that is what I do usually) or you can buy an OTG adapter. I think TWRP supports it for our device. You can always copy off your backups via USB then wipe internal then copy your backups back too I think.
Did you for once try wiping the complete device after backing up nans on external storage and thn trying restoring? That would make a difference
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Did you for once try wiping the complete device after backing up nans on external storage and thn trying restoring? That would make a difference
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What?
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What?
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I think he is asking to do below procedure -
1.Copy your nandroid backup and other imp stuff to computer
2.boot into TWRP
3.wipe all partitions including internal storage
4.copy nandroid backup to phone
5.restore backup through TWRP
Did you mount system to restore backup?
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Did you mount system to restore backup?
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Yep of course.
JumboMan said:
I think he is asking to do below procedure -
1.Copy your nandroid backup and other imp stuff to computer
2.boot into TWRP
3.wipe all partitions including internal storage
4.copy nandroid backup to phone
5.restore backup through TWRP
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OK. Have not tried this, why would this work and fix my problem? Do I only have to do it once and then all subsequent restores would be fine? Is it a problem with my TWRP? Phone?
piotrus22 said:
OK. Have not tried this, why would this work and fix my problem? Do I only have to do it once and then all subsequent restores would be fine? Is it a problem with my TWRP? Phone?
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its one time procedure. Subsequent restore will be fine.
May be different versions of TWRP will help you with this problem
is this issue had been resolved? because i have also the same problem.. whats the fix for this?
piotrus22 said:
OK. Have not tried this, why would this work and fix my problem? Do I only have to do it once and then all subsequent restores would be fine? Is it a problem with my TWRP? Phone?
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How did you fix your problem? I cant restore my backup also..
it says restore complete but stock in boot logo after... any fix?
toto_vanir said:
How did you fix your problem? I cant restore my backup also..
it says restore complete but stock in boot logo after... any fix?
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Hey man. No I never fixed it. Just flash your Rom over it and it should boot fine.