I read in another thread that when you flash your ROM, registry changes that you may have previoulsy made, DO NOT get wiped out, they stay, and this may cause some errors between different ROMS. Is this true? If so, how do you restore your registry to its "default" state of the new ROM?
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Hi There I know this is probably a stupid question but when you flash your rom (assuming it all works OK!) does it affect programs installed?
I would like to flash to a version with GPS but Can't be bothered to start installing software from scratch!
Depends what you're flashing. You can flash various discrete parts of the phone, eg JUST the radio, JUST the extended rom etc, but flashing the OS will effectively wipe out your device. You can recognise an OS flash because it'll be quite large, say > 30mb.
Best advice if you must flash, is take a full backup first, do the flash, and then restore your backup. This is not always wise or effective because new flashes can have new registry settings etc which get FUBARd when you write over them with your backup, but it might work. And if not, you can always revert to your original rom, and then your backup WILL work.
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Cool, Thanks!
So this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294718 which is lvsw's rom for gps functionality which is 47 meg will be a whole new OS because it is big?
To reiterate...
Will a rom flash to enable GPS mean that I have to install all of my programs from scratch?
Thanks!
wingnutLP said:
To reiterate...
Will a rom flash to enable GPS mean that I have to install all of my programs from scratch?
Thanks!
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Yes, unless you use a backup program that specifically supports restore after a ROM upgrage, such as Sprite Backup. I haven't tried it myself but there are detailed instructions on the Sprite website that involve a series of steps: backup, run a program, save a file, upgrade to new ROM, copy files back, restore backup, etc etc. I don't know if it is actually worth the effort.
I am leaning towards upgrading and reinstalling from scratch; the only PITA is recreating connections and mail accounts, most of the rest should be handled via ActiveSync.
I will admit although I am a seasoned mac user and program specialist im totally lost with my fairly new Touch Diamond,Sprint, I have don many hacks and mods and i really like the phone. I would like to try different roms but i will only do so if i can totally back up the phone, I mean so i can just restore to the exact same way it is now Is this possible? Sorry for the possibly lame question. Thanks,
mike
Hey mjb94,
i'm not quite sure if I got you right... Do you want to backup your phones progs, data, steeings, etc. to male sure you can reset the phone to the last state? For this you can use "backup manager". Or do you want to backup everything including OS, Radio, SPL? For this case I don't have a solution - But maybe it's possible if theres an app that is capable of generating romimages from your Diamond?
To restore back to how you have it now you would need to do 3 things:
1. Restore original Radio - available here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470306
2. Restore Stock Sprint ROM - available here:
ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Diamond/Stock ROMs/
3. Restore the Stock SPL - avaiolable here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2324837&postcount=20
First, I have to thank the XDA forums helping me come over from my long WinMo background. Mad Props...
Being new to Android and my nexus one, I'm feeling the ROM flashing bug and want to try out a couple of different ROMS but don't want to have to add all of my accounts each time since I use crazy long, nearly impossible to type, passwords.
Is there some way to restore some of the configuration of my N1 between different ROM flashes?
Sorry if this has been covered, but I can't find it. It looks like the data is backed up in my nandroid backups, but I can't seem to find out how to only restore configuration.
Thanks
Rick
Take a look at Titanium Backup.
It works really well.
You need to be rooted and superuser in order to use it.
To find out more about adding superuser to a stock ROM, check out this thread at Modaco.
Edit:
Nandroid backups are really "just" disk images afaik.
There's no way that I know of to extract information from them.
brgds
Royan
Ok, thanks. I am running the backup right now and will give it a try tonight. Worse case, I just restore the nandroid backup and try again.
I've always wondered, what stuff is safe and not safe to restore in Titanium Backup. I've done a full restore when switching between like roms, but I'm guessing that wouldn't be a good idea if you were going from cyanogen to a senseUI rom.
I have flashed a couple roms to my phone I take all the right steps flashing back to stock rom first and all. But any rom I flash after a day my phone starts vibrating and resets it self. Can some one help.
You need to post more info....what rom, what are you restoring after flashing, what are you doing when the problem occurs..
I was flashing cognition 2.3b6, even happens with regular froyo rom. When it resets I'm not doing anything. Just vibrates and resets.
Obviously something is causing your soft reboots.....this can be caused by many things but should not occur unless something is being modified such framework or you are restoring something from 2.1 that is not compatible with 2.2
After you flash to 2.2, what steps do you take, ie do you use titanium backup to restore apps and/or data? Are you applying any mods such as custom battery?
No I don't use nothing besides the rom. I even formatted my card.
Confused then....i have flashed many different roms including cog and have not had problems unless I do something that causes it
I would try a different rom....axura is great, the i9000 ports are nice as well.
Sorry I cannot help more
Before you flash, try wiping the dalvik cache. See if that helps.
Swyping...please read slowly!
don't know how to do that is that the same as the user catch.
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don't know how to do that is that the same as the user catch.
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In CWM, under advanced. Take a gander.
Hi, I used to try flashable mods and then restored whole nandroid backup if I didn't like them or if they didn't work. But backup is some days older because I do not backup before every single mod, so I always lost some messages and settings etc (due to my laziness). To overcome this, I thought that because mods are flashed to modify system, why not restore only system? So, I tried and found out that restoring only system saves my data from being lost because the data is not touched. Since then, I prefer to restore only system whenever I want to "undo" a mod.
But the question is: Am I doing something wrong? I don't have technical knowledge and I am not a developer, so I thought I should ask the community if this practice is safe.
no its just fine.. you just need to make sure the system files are the same from the current rom as well.. as in no major difference XXLT4 -> LTA.. this may work but also may lead to a boot loop.