Related
From CY6.1 rc1 to rc2 what do I need to do to restore everything like I was restoring a backup?
You don't have to wipe anything except cache and dalvik-cache which will not affect you. Thus, you will not lose anything you currently have...
Just go in the recovery, manually wipe cache and dalvik-cache, flash the RC2 zip file and reboot, you're good to go.
Thanks for reply. I know how to flash roms. I'm trying to get an answer about apps and settings and such. I apologize for not elaborating.
pukemon said:
Thanks for reply. I know how to flash roms. I'm trying to get an answer about apps and settings and such. I apologize for not elaborating.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
..as gravufo said: "Thus, you will not lose anything you currently have..."
Just to be sure. Sounds too easy and you know the saying.
go into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik and do not do full wipe.
Then flash cy6.1 RC 2 and reboot and I'm set? If its that easy ill poop my pants. And then send you guys a picture. Just kidding.
It´s just that easy.
(Nandroid before...is never bad to have)
I know lotsa four letter words if it doesn't work out.
I updated from stable 6.0 but i never wiped cache. Does it matter?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
Appreciate the fast replies guys. I just realized I wiped rc2 last night when I was cleaning up excess and stuff. So I guess ill wait. The gamble of a headache is not worth it for the small differences. I wish gingerbread would hurry up. I'm eager to see if it allows custom/assignable ringtones. My Nokia e71 is sorely missed for that feature.
It is not a gamble, and there won't be any headaches. Just flash the RC2 zip. Don't wipe anything, even the cache, just so you can feel safe.
Of course, make a full backup to appease your fears, but that won't matter.
Just flash the RC2 on top of your system.
I did it this morning while still laying in bed with only 70% battery left and not plugged into the wall. And I didn't even make a nandroid backup.
+1, just flash...
I mean even if you don't wipe cache and dalvik-cache it won't matter...it's just a preventive measure and even if you DO wipe them, you won't even notice since you DO NOT lose anything
I flash new nightlies every day and you can trust me on this one
Ok all you pushy Smarty pants. Do I need to worry about Google apps or just flash rc2?
Very simple answer that most managed to miss.
If you want to back up all data and apps, use titanium backup.(buy it, its worth it) if you ever lose everything or move to a different rom, this will bring your apps, data and settings along to a new rom, or after a wipe
If you want to make a back up of your rom, in case something goes wrong, do a nandroid backup from recovery. And yes nandroid before you flash ANYTHING. You never know what could go wrong.
pukemon said:
Ok all you pushy Smarty pants. Do I need to worry about Google apps or just flash rc2?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, you do not need to worry about Google apps...think of RC2 as an update, not a different ROM...When you update your stock from from an OTA, do you lose anything? Nope. That is exactly the same thing here.
Put the RC2.zip in your sdcard
Reboot in recovery
Wipe cache and dalvik-cache (you will NOT lose anything)
Flash zip from sdcard
Reboot
Voilà
gravufo said:
No, you do not need to worry about Google apps...think of RC2 as an update, not a different ROM...When you update your stock from from an OTA, do you lose anything? Nope. That is exactly the same thing here.
Put the RC2.zip in your sdcard
Reboot in recovery
Wipe cache and dalvik-cache (you will NOT lose anything)
Flash zip from sdcard
Reboot
Voilà
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So you don't have to reflash gapps? A couple if days ago I went from a 6.1 nightly to RC2 - I didn't wipe anything, but when it booted I did not have gapps (everything else remained)... I then flashed gapps and they returned, but I had to reconfigure everything related to gapps (notifications etc). This has dissuaded me from flashing the new nightlies because I do not want to set up gapps every time...
What went wrong?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
NPuter said:
So you don't have to reflash gapps? A couple if days ago I went from a 6.1 nightly to RC2 - I didn't wipe anything, but when it booted I did not have gapps (everything else remained)... I then flashed gapps and they returned, but I had to reconfigure everything related to gapps (notifications etc). This has dissuaded me from flashing the new nightlies because I do not want to set up gapps every time...
What went wrong?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, I did hear about people losing their Gapps when flashing a few of the latest nightlies (right before RC2), but it never happened to me...Maybe it depends on where you had them installed before? I installed the updates from the market, so they ended up in /data/ and not in /system...since flashing overwrites /system I guess that could be the reason?
Dunno...Worst case, you just reflash the Gapps and restore the settings through Titanium Backup
NPuter said:
So you don't have to reflash gapps? A couple if days ago I went from a 6.1 nightly to RC2 - I didn't wipe anything, but when it booted I did not have gapps (everything else remained)... I then flashed gapps and they returned, but I had to reconfigure everything related to gapps (notifications etc). This has dissuaded me from flashing the new nightlies because I do not want to set up gapps every time...
What went wrong?
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Fairly sure if you flash Gapps at the same time as the latest rom, you don't have that problem.
well just tried flash 6.1 N1 stable over 6.1 RC1. didn't work. did it this way, that way and another and still didn't work. wiped sd card and tried a couple times fresh and guess what? NOTHING. sigh.
pukemon said:
well just tried flash 6.1 N1 stable over. didn't work. did it this way, that way and another and still didn't work. wiped sd card and tried a couple times fresh and guess what? NOTHING. sigh.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
can you give details? Why didn't it work? What's the error message? How were you proceeding?
never got an error message. got the cyanogen icon bootloop everytime. waited about 20 mins after the whole sd card wipe and fresh install and nothing still.
Hi, I am going to sell my Milestone soon and need to prepare it for that.
Basically, I want to keep the current rom (CM) and the updates / scripts I flashed through Androidiani OR.
But, I obviously want to remove my data, google account, and purchased apps.
How do I achieve that? Thanks!
Just flash the non service 2.2.1 sbf of your region from and-developers.
Edit : i didnt read properly. Just wipe data in AOR.
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
sileshn said:
Just flash the non service 2.2.1 sbf of your region from and-developers.
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the instant reply, but how will that help?
I want to leave the custom rom (CyanogenMod) on the phone (including all the updates flashed via OR).
Won't your suggestion just restore it to factory default?
xploited said:
Thanks for the instant reply, but how will that help?
I want to leave the custom rom (CyanogenMod) on the phone (including all the updates flashed via OR).
Won't your suggestion just restore it to factory default?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes. But your CM7 will stay. Take a nandroid and try wiping all in AOR.
To make things more clear, CM7 makes changes to your system partition. All your apps and google details are stored in the data partition. So wiping your data will not effect the system partition.
In case you were using apps2ext, make sure you format your ext partition as well.
Sent from my Milestone using Tapatalk
Thanks, will try that.
I am running cm9 a2 on my touch pad and would like to know how I would go about flashing the latest nightly which now include everything in alpha 2. I gather you can't flash from from rom manager. Also where do I get the latest nightlies? Any help would be appreciated.
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk
ruthienu said:
I am running cm9 a2 on my touch pad and would like to know how I would go about flashing the latest nightly which now include everything in alpha 2. I gather you can't flash from from rom manager. Also where do I get the latest nightlies? Any help would be appreciated.
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do a search in the dev forum for 'nightlies'. In the thread you'll find the download link, I think it's 'terrachata'. Install the file with cwm. (install zip > choose zip from sdcard). Do a wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache beforehand . If coming from cm9 alpha 2, no need to wipe/delete data, factory reset.
ruthienu said:
I am running cm9 a2 on my touch pad and would like to know how I would go about flashing the latest nightly which now include everything in alpha 2. I gather you can't flash from from rom manager. Also where do I get the latest nightlies? Any help would be appreciated.
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://techerrata.com/browse/nightly_kangs/tenderloin
Absolutely no need to wipe anything.
I've flashed each nightly "over the top" of the previous version without any problem.
You can use Rom Manager to flash. Just tell it to use the existing version of CWM when it asks and check the version you have manually installed either 2 or 3 and away you go.
Then you can install all zip updates and mods the same way.
Check out buildprop-supreme-rohan-v1.1 for some cool tweaks including 120dpi screen settings.
Absolutely no need to wipe anything.
I've flashed each nightly "over the top" of the previous version without any problem.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
With any android system, you should ALWAYS wipe at least cache and dalvik after flashing a rom update. It only takes 5 seconds, and can help you avoid big issues.
You can use Rom Manager to flash.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
DON'T use Rom Manager to flash roms, it's just a bad idea. Many devices have been bricked because of that app. Just boot into recovery, install the zip, and wipe cache and dalvik. It only takes an extra 30 seconds to do it through recovery, and will make it so you don't have any issues.
sitlet said:
With any android system, you should ALWAYS wipe at least cache and dalvik after flashing a rom update. It only takes 5 seconds, and can help you avoid big issues.
DON'T use Rom Manager to flash roms, it's just a bad idea. Many devices have been bricked because of that app. Just boot into recovery, install the zip, and wipe cache and dalvik. It only takes an extra 30 seconds to do it through recovery, and will make it so you don't have any issues.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Valid /\
Sent from my PG06100 using Tapatalk
Thanks for all the great advice! It would be nice to have a thread about the stability of the latest nightlies before you do a flash. How do you do a nandroid backup before an update? Does it take a lot of space? How do you do a restore if all doesn't go well?
Sent from my cm_tenderloin using Tapatalk
It would be nice to have a thread about the stability of the latest nightlies before you do a flash.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
There's one in the dev section.
How do you do a nandroid backup before an update?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Boot into recovery, and before doing anything else, go to Backup and Restore, then hit Backup. Backups will probably take about 600mb or so, more if you have a lot of apps on there. You only need to keep one backup on the device, and you can copy the backup off the memory onto a computer if you want to save space.
How do you do a restore if all doesn't go well?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The same way you would flash a rom. Boot into recovery, wipe data/cache/dalvik, then go to backup and restore, and hit restore.
I hate being a NOOB about this...I know there is a changelog that you can find here: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#q,status:merged+branch:ics,n,z
My question is does anyone know where I can find a less complex or more simple explanation (for us noobs that doesn't understand computerish sometimes! ) of what changes they have made to the nightlies?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Sorry again for the very noob question!
alias4ever said:
I hate being a NOOB about this...I know there is a changelog that you can find here: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#q,status:merged+branch:ics,n,z
My question is does anyone know where I can find a less complex or more simple explanation (for us noobs that doesn't understand computerish sometimes! ) of what changes they have made to the nightlies?
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Sorry again for the very noob question!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The nightlies are basically compiled each night from the cm9 source. Its an automated process so the changes are what was changed in the cm source in the last 24 hours. Usually its nothing major, if its something big you'll probably see an alpha posted on rootzwiki.
Sent from my DROID3 using Tapatalk
I'm interested in moving my backup from my touchpad to my computer to save space, however, my "backups" folder is empty...
As I'm writing this I'm realizing that I may have preformed a backup before doing a factory settings/data reset/wipe so would that be erased when I did the wipe/reset?
I know now that if coming from another version of CM9 their is no need to wipe the factory data/settings, instead just wipe the other two (forget what their called)
Should be in a folder called ClockworkMod
After updating nightlies
What should I expect to have to re install?
gapps?
dpi fix?
any launcher settings?
what typically breaks/resets and has to be re-configured?
DPI fix is all.
Any changes you make to your build.prop file will be erased on an update from one nightly to the next (or CM9 to another nightly). Anything else - apps, gapps, settings, etc), should not change.
Personally, I've become used to the 160DPI default, which works quite nicely on the latest nightly. Yes, there isn't as much screen space, but I don't mind. I don't have THAT many things I need on the screen at once - one widget, half a dozen or so app shortcuts, that's about it for my main home screen. So 160 works pretty well, especially for office docs and kindle reading.
160 v 120, what do they actually look like when compared? I know that running 160 has the portrait app grid view off kilter (landscape looks fine)
120 I find ends up with a row and at least one column off of the screen, so you can't use them. 160 doesn't have that issue unless you go portrait.
Hey everyone...
ive already tried to get some quick help already but i really need my phone tonight LOL.
iam running cm9 rom with the latest cm9 stable kernal, now i wanted to flash the hydrocore kernal to see if battery would improve, but it seemed fine but then choppy afew hours later so i changed back to cm9 kernal. Anyway after it rebooted it stayed on the paranoid android bootscreen! where you see the picture loading. i then tried to wipe the cache and dalvik and its still stuck. someone mentioned to do a wipe but i was unsure if he meant to a full wipe? as ive not wiped the factory reset, just the two caches! ive also flashed both kernals back and forth and im still stuck.
Its a simple issue iam sure but could someone help me, im unsure if i should do a full wipe including factory reset or just flash the cm9 rom again. if so can i have instructions step by step...
thank you.
islandmixed, you are on a safe kernel so there is no harm in performing a wipe data/factory reset.
:good:
YLNdroid said:
islandmixed, you are on a safe kernel so there is no harm in performing a wipe data/factory reset.
:good:
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hi, yes i know but iam wondering is that my only option to do a full wipe? as i really do not want to restore my whole apps again. just wondering if wiping the data will solve it.
islandmixed said:
hi, yes i know but iam wondering is that my only option to do a full wipe? as i really do not want to restore my whole apps again. just wondering if wiping the data will solve it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Do a nandroid backup and then pull all apps from it, without restoring whole backup.
Sent from my GT-N7000
jeetu1981 said:
Do a nandroid backup and then pull all apps from it, without restoring whole backup.
Sent from my GT-N7000
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A full wipe worked, it rebooted. since iam weiry about restoring my apps again via mybackup pro i might just check all my apps installed from google and install them one by one and then that way i wont have to worry about anything going wrong. i do have a backup from TB and mybackup but someone said it can cause issues when restoring to a cm9 rom!
Thanks for the help. iam back again at the start HEHE.
islandmixed said:
A full wipe worked, it rebooted. since iam weiry about restoring my apps again via mybackup pro i might just check all my apps installed from google and install them one by one and then that way i wont have to worry about anything going wrong. i do have a backup from TB and mybackup but someone said it can cause issues when restoring to a cm9 rom!
Thanks for the help. iam back again at the start HEHE.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Restoring apps downloaded from play store does not cause any issue, its the stock samsung apps that wont work
Sent from my GT-N7000
jeetu1981 said:
Restoring apps downloaded from play store does not cause any issue, its the stock samsung apps that wont work
Sent from my GT-N7000
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh I got it now. But why would any stock apps install? If the new rom will have its own stock apps. I didn't even know TB backed up stock apps. That makes it confusing to me
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
islandmixed said:
Oh I got it now. But why would any stock apps install? If the new rom will have its own stock apps. I didn't even know TB backed up stock apps. That makes it confusing to me
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
TB dont backup automatically, if you didnt backup stock then no confusion, restore all.
Sent from my GT-N7000
jeetu1981 said:
TB dont backup automatically, if you didnt backup stock then no confusion, restore all.
Sent from my GT-N7000
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You know when I wiped data would it have wiped off the gapps? I'm sure I had more rom apps with this....hmmmm
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
wipe data is totally wiping what's in your phone.. including what's inside the system/apps, build props and framework...
you may need to flash back your g.apps if you want to get all of them and selectively selecting which to install back(rather than just restoring it from TB)
TB does not restore all what you have made a backup to.
letters_to_cleo said:
wipe data is totally wiping what's in your phone.. including what's inside the system/apps, build props and framework...
you may need to flash back your g.apps if you want to get all of them and selectively selecting which to install back(rather than just restoring it from TB)
TB does not restore all what you have made a backup to.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I restored apps with mybackup pro so I know it never backed up gapps so it deffo must have been wiped then? Now that I'm back on my rom can I just flash it in cwm? No wipes or anything. Cheers
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
islandmixed said:
I restored apps with mybackup pro so I know it never backed up gapps so it deffo must have been wiped then? Now that I'm back on my rom can I just flash it in cwm? No wipes or anything. Cheers
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes you can flash Gapps in CWM without wiping.
sahilarora2003 said:
Yes you can flash Gapps in CWM without wiping.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey
I just checked in es explorer and I have like 25 system apps like gmail playstore Google search browser torch paranoid android backup and a list of others so are these gapps? Just want to be sure incase my phone boot loops again.
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
islandmixed said:
Hey
I just checked in es explorer and I have like 25 system apps like gmail playstore Google search browser torch paranoid android backup and a list of others so are these gapps? Just want to be sure incase my phone boot loops again.
Thanks
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes these are gapps except paranoid android backup.
Swyped From My AOKP JB.
sahilarora2003 said:
Yes these are gapps except paranoid android backup.
Swyped From My AOKP JB.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Okay then I guess the factory reset only deleted user apps then. I was told it deletes system apps which is why I thought it deleted gapps.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
Hi guys,
I am thinking of moving from the stock HTC software on my One to CyanogenMod, and i was wondering a few things:
1. How can i move all my stuff?
2. Will there be any issues installing as currently I am rooted?
3. How hard is it to install?
4. How hard is it to move back to Sense 5
Any help is appreciated!
sam_hoddi said:
Hi guys,
I am thinking of moving from the stock HTC software on my One to CyanogenMod, and i was wondering a few things:
1. How can i move all my stuff?
2. Will there be any issues installing as currently I am rooted?
3. How hard is it to install?
4. How hard is it to move back to Sense 5
Any help is appreciated!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
1) With a full wipe before flashing the rom.
2) No... You must be rooted and unlocked (bootloader) for install it.
3) Easy, if you will read the instruction
4) The same of 3
Guich said:
1) With a full wipe before flashing the rom.
2) No... You must be rooted and unlocked (bootloader) for install it.
3) Easy, if you will read the instruction
4) The same of 3
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wont a full wipe get rid of all my stuff?
sam_hoddi said:
Wont a full wipe get rid of all my stuff?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, sorry, my fault.
Just copy the sd into your pc.
For contact and sms, do a backup from the app or backup with Google account
Guich said:
Yeah, sorry, my fault.
Just copy the sd into your pc.
For contact and sms, do a backup from the app or backup with Google account
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Will titanium backup, backup everything?
sam_hoddi said:
Will titanium backup, backup everything?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I don't use it, but you can.
And warning at don't do the backup of system app
Guich said:
I don't use it, but you can.
And warning at don't do the backup of system app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So hopefully its as simple as
1. Make titanium backup (without system apps, of course)
2. Flash CyanogenMod
3.Install titanium backup on CyanogenMod
4.Restore
sam_hoddi said:
So hopefully its as simple as
1. Make titanium backup (without system apps, of course)
2. Flash CyanogenMod
3.Install titanium backup on CyanogenMod
4.Restore
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah
sam_hoddi said:
Hi guys,
I am thinking of moving from the stock HTC software on my One to CyanogenMod, and i was wondering a few things:
1. How can i move all my stuff?
2. Will there be any issues installing as currently I am rooted?
3. How hard is it to install?
4. How hard is it to move back to Sense 5
Any help is appreciated!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Also with ROM manager you can back up you're current ROM and the later restore it of you do not like CyanogenMod
Sent from my SCH-I545 using xda app-developers app
Also if you use twrp, probably cwm too, a full wipe does not wipe /data/media. Unless of course you format the sdcard.
Sent from my HTC One using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
Hey sam, i am complete newbie and let me tell you, even for me it was super easy. the installation was a breeze.
i had done a full wipe and my contacts were already backed up with Google. So they synced perfectly. i just lost messages. but titanium should do it for you.
go ahead. the CM is really really fast. i am loving phone now. have installed Nova on it and its complete lag-free.
As others said, full wipe Only wipe the system files no file on the SD will be touched. I also suggest do a back up in recovery just in case.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4
Don't forget to flash the gapps file, or you're gonna have some problems