So I was updating my rom from 1.5 to a 2.1 rom. Everything was cool except I didn't work Titanium back up right and didn't have any of the apps I had before and there was one in particular I really wanted and didn't see in the market. So.... I decided to go back to the old rom until I got titanium straight and could get my apps. I booted into recovery, wiped, then for some stupid reason, instead of hitting the command to go back to the backed up rom, I hit back up. So I backed up a wiped phone. Is there anyway I can find that original back up now?
Thanks for any helpful replies.
I believe each back up is given a unique name with date and time. Just go back to recovery and look for your old back up.
they are all stamped with time and date. so just restore the one that's older
Mod. edit: not dev related, moved to q&a
That is correct. In the ../nandroid folder there will be a folder that, I believe, is a unique identifier for your phone. Inside that folder there will be a folder for each of your backups. When you use the menus to restore it should ask you which one you want to use. The oldest should be at the top and the newest should be at the bottom.
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Ok, so i flashed the latest bets of cognition to my captivate and everything is working great! i love the new rom, however, i have more of an embarrassing mistake than a complaint or problem with the software. I forgot to backup my contacts and my apps. The apps are really no big deal, just a little time installing them all again and setting them up to my liking and a bit of a lesson learned, on the other hand the few hundred phone numbers and email addresses are a bit tougher to get back.
Now, I used rom-manager (which is an amazing app!) to load cognition, and made a back up file before doing so, I had to use it once when i first tried to install the new rom and messed part of it up and went back to a completely stock phone. I downloaded rom-manager again, ran the back up file and viola was back to where i started. I tried again and bam everything was running beautifully. Now heres my problem, I tried to go back to the back up file once again so i could retrieve all of my contacts and use titanium on my apps but after its successfully (or so the phone tells me) loaded back on the phone will not go passed the at&t world phone loading screen. I was able to get to the 3 button recovery menu and put cognition back on with out a hitch.
So long story short, is there any way to get back to my backed up settings, am I doing something wrong? or am i doomed to pounding the pavement to get all my contacts back? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!
I apologize in advance if this should be in the captivate development thread
Hey guys, new here but I have been lurking for a while.
On Androidforums I have a longer thread detailing what I did, if you want details pm me, I can't post a link yet as I am a noob on this forum.
To make a long story short:
1. I had stock eclair, then rooted with "ryans oclf" and used the lagfix.
2. I decided to try a version of cognition (unhelpfuls kernal). So I backed up my current "rom" using rom managers (which was the stock kernal).
3. Realized that I didn't back anything up so I tried to revert to my backup.
4. relized that I didn't undo the lag fix, and because of this my stock eclair wouldn't restore via rom manger's update.zip file
5. was forced to get cognition running again
6. extraded the files from the .img nandroid bacups from my stock eclair (which is a PITA since the .img files aren't regular mountable .img files - took about an hour of searching)
7. Found the sql databases to restore my text messages and contacts from my stock eclair to this new cognition.
NOW, after a long intro, my question:
The .img files I extracted contained a file named linux.ex2. I assume that this file is where ryans oclf must have been storing the stuff that is causing the restore to fail (it actually completes, but never boots)
Is there any way I can manually repair this nandroid backup? I would like to so that I have a nandroid backup of my stock eclair rom.
BTW, I am pretty good at this kind of thing, but I am not a computer programmer.
I don't have a lot of background info directly related to andorid phones but I am learning quick. I am a Senior in electrical and computer engineering so I do have a light background in programming. luckily I knew enough about sql and command prompts and such to get as far as I did with recovering my contacts/text messages.
If what I want to do is possible I would love to give it a shot. Any help/tips/ideas from you guys would be awesome!
Thanks
-Chad
To me it sounds like your screwed. You did a double bummer.. (backup with LF on, restore a backup with LF ON on your already LF ON rom).
Will see if any other more experienced with backup can help you out, but my answer to you is to go stock and redo sorry.
yeah, well I am willing to try a few different things. I forgot to mention that right before I installed cognition the first time, I did remove the lag fix, I just undid the lagfix before I made the backup.
I have been using cognition for about a week now. I don't really mind it as it seems to work just fine, as It is in fact faster.
Last night after posting my post here I removed the voodoo lag fix and then I made a backup of my current installation of cognition.... So if I have any issues trying to do this I at least have a working/functioning cognition rom.
BTW: I have an unrelated question that is slightly related. If I have to use the odin one click restore at some point, does it clear my internal sd card as well? I see that it says it will clear user data, but doesn't specifically make a clear separation of the internal SD card on the captivate and the 2 gb they setup for the android partition.
A far faster method would be to Odin back to stock, root, then take a nandroid backup right away, then flash back to what ever rom you want. Time consuming, yes, but faster and easier than trying to mod a backup.
OK, when I first started into this stuff, I tried to follow all the guidance that has been given before flashing my first ROM. I did a ROM Manager backup of my ROM the way I got it from AT&T. I did not write down my ID # or anything else. I'm assuming the backup has all the information that came with it. My question is how to re-load that original ROM. I've flashed quite a few ROMs now using the Odin one-click to go back to stock and Master Clear and never had a problem. I'm running P9 right now (w/ no problems) and decided to try something else. After seeing some of the threads on here about your original phone IDs, I wanted to try and recover that info by restoring the original backup. I did that straight from P9, but now I just get locked up on the DG boot screens. I'm going to One Click it again but I'm wondering how I can restore back to my original with the backup that I have. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks
My apolopies if this is already posted somewhere but I can't find it
You will get assistance in the Q&A section, this is not a ROM development related issue.
If you backed up correctly you would restore factory settings in recovery mode.
The best thing to do is to always save your original backup zip in clockwork to your SD card in case it gets overwritten.
As I'm reading about installing HC, Froyo or CM7 on eMMC, I'm curious about "saving" my current stock eclair rom in case I want to put it back...
If I make a CWM Recovery microSD, boot off that, do a backup... Can I just restore that if I want to get back to the way it is now? (assuming I just install something like Froyo to eMMC)
There are a few threads for stock recovery (check search). That will put it back like it was when you took it out if the box.
It's easier than trying to capture the partitions and data when someone else has already fine to all the trouble if doing it.
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Thank you, I understand there are a few threads over in the developer section on how to get back to "out of the box" type stock, and I have read them and they all talk about using the done by someone else "images" or "roms."
They don't seem to apply as I've setup eclair pretty much the way I want to... so I am not looking for how to get back to "stock like out of the box"... but rather to the eclair as I have it setup now.
i.e. if I want to got back to eclair, I don't want to have to reconfigure everything all over again.
KidJoe,
Yes, you can do the backup like that, save it on your PC or something and restore later when you need it. I did that before.
Slu3
slu3 said:
KidJoe,
Yes, you can do the backup like that, save it on your PC or something and restore later when you need it. I did that before.
Slu3
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Thank you for the confirmation.
So, around April-ish last year I rooted my At&t galaxy note 3 and installed safestrap, then alliance rom. I wanted to find a ROM I liked, then just sort of stick with that so I didn't have to monitor development updates about my phone and all that. The only problem with the ROM was that it had a memory leak so bad that I had to reboot about 3 times a day or else the memory would get all used up and the phone would freeze. For some reason, I didn't think it would bother me that much- the phone boots quickly and I was so fed up by then I didn't want to try anything else. I figured that if I ever did want to go back to stock (and I do now), that I had my stock ROM backed up to one of the extra slots that safestrap gives you. Well, I looked- turns out I don't. I checked my external hard drive and found a backup folder with "TWRP" in it, and in it a folder called stock -1970 -04- 02. I placed that folder in the corresponding TWRP folder on my phone's extsdcard, but safestrap doesn't see it in the restore screen. Does it have to be a zip? I totally forgot all this stuff; I haven't messed with my phone in half a year.
If that doesn't work, I'd really be cool with wiping everything and flashing a stock ROM build. I don't know where to find one though, and it should be mentioned that my Alliance ROM build has "MJ5" in it somewhere, if that means anything.
I've rambled a bit, but hopefully someone can point me to my best options.
Thanks!
Use Odin to flash the file with "home" in it from this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2838117
It will load the latest stock firmware. You can re-root with towelroot.com
The "home" file doesn't wipe anything so your apps will be intact. If you want a full wipe and install use the other 4 files in that thread.
Thanks
Worked like a charm, thanks!