So I obviously know from all the threads of roms around here, cyanogen mod, decrapified and revolt that it can be done, but are there any lists of instructions to say, backup my phone so i have an image of it and can switch back? I have clockwork mod but I read that the revolution isn't supported. Thanks for reading
Reboot into recovery, scroll down to backup and restore, hit backup, give it about 5 minutes and your done.
I'm Revolting and Home-Less, how about you?
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So I've never had problems backing up my Nexus one in the past using clockwork mod, but the past day, I've been trying to back it up so that I can try out Rodriguezstyle's new MIUI mod, but the backup keeps getting stuck on "Backing up sd-ext"
In particular, it says its getting stuck on "apparently this looks like a link?"
look down vertically for the thing I'm getting stuck on.
However, when I've pulled out my battery and reset into the recovery, I've found that the backup I was trying to make has actually been logged. I've been too scared to actually try to restore that backup to see if it's worked, because honestly I don't have any other recent backup and I don't want to mess anything up.
Any help would be appreciated! I might try to flash another recovery and backup that way...
I'm running RodriguezStyle's 2.9.2 MIUI ROM along with wildmonk's kernel and the most recent version of ClockworkMod Recovery if anybody's asking.
apparently I can't write out the exact file that it's stuck on...it thinks that it is a link...
ok here goes: "[email protected]@[email protected]"
Have you tried to fix permissions?
Yup I've tried that multiple times, rebooted, and it still didn't work.
You using cwm 3.0? It's known to cause problems like that. Happened to me before that's why I switch to amon ra
crazylilazn said:
So I've never had problems backing up my Nexus one in the past using clockwork mod, but the past day, I've been trying to back it up so that I can try out Rodriguezstyle's new MIUI mod, but the backup keeps getting stuck on "Backing up sd-ext"
In particular, it says its getting stuck on "apparently this looks like a link?"
look down vertically for the thing I'm getting stuck on.
However, when I've pulled out my battery and reset into the recovery, I've found that the backup I was trying to make has actually been logged. I've been too scared to actually try to restore that backup to see if it's worked, because honestly I don't have any other recent backup and I don't want to mess anything up.
Any help would be appreciated! I might try to flash another recovery and backup that way...
I'm running RodriguezStyle's 2.9.2 MIUI ROM along with wildmonk's kernel and the most recent version of ClockworkMod Recovery if anybody's asking.
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Did you find any solution? I have the same issue after trying to restore from CWMrecovery. I have changed to Amon_RA so I will never come back to CWMr...
But I would like to recover to backup...
Clockwork recovery versions 3.x and higher have been known to mess up ext partitions. You may need to reformat your card and switch to an earlier version of Clockwork (or maybe try Amon Ra).
OK, I'm rooted and want to make a nandroid backup. I recently upgrade from a Droid Eris where I would just boot into recovery and there was a menu item labeled backup. It would make an image file that I could restore to if I mucked everything up.
I've installed ClockworkMod and Bionic Recovery Bootstrap and even used the recovery menu to install 5.7.893 but I don't see a backup option.
Please be kind and instruct me.
Just go to backup and restore? And wrong section.
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Look again, it should be there. If not download Rom manager and re-flash clockwork
OK I finally found a how-to and it now shows the additional menu items in recovery
Complete Guide
So today my phone was on and everything was fine, then while I was charging it, went away from it a few minutes then came back it was on the boot menu. It now can not get past the boot menu ever.
I have ClockWork Mod recovery installed, and CM7.1 stable.
I did a "backup" via the ClockWork Mod Recovery of the system.
I am also quite tempted to get the CM9 RC2 installed. But screw it if it any kind of unstable. CM7.1 stable is unstable enough.
What should I do? I would prefer it if I did not lose all my stuff (like app notes etc).
Can I like just put my phone into Download Mode, place the CM9 RC2 on the root folder, then do the good old
cyanogenmodWiki Full Update Guide method via recovery
without losing anything?
tottycs said:
So today my phone was on and everything was fine, then while I was charging it, went away from it a few minutes then came back it was on the boot menu. It now can not get past the boot menu ever.
I have ClockWork Mod recovery installed, and CM7.1 stable.
I did a "backup" via the ClockWork Mod Recovery of the system.
I am also quite tempted to get the CM9 RC2 installed. But screw it if it any kind of unstable. CM7.1 stable is unstable enough.
What should I do? I would prefer it if I did not lose all my stuff (like app notes etc).
Can I like just put my phone into Download Mode, place the CM9 RC2 on the root folder, then do the good old
cyanogenmodWiki Full Update Guide method via recovery
without losing anything?
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If you have done a "backup" from CWM before the failure just restore that.
From CWM menu try to do a dalvic and cache clean up. also clear init.d and nstool settings and try to reboot
If you want to be more adventurus and loose your contacts, sms, settings...and other stuff from CWM do full wipe and cache and dalvic and then install your favorite rom.
I tried to installthe Gnexus port rom jr03l 4.1.1 rc 10. I was on TAJB'S Jellybean rom with devil kernel. I tried to install the rom as per the instructions given. I did a nandroid backup of the current rom before attempting to do so. The flash failed as the phone rebooted into recovery after a few minutes. I tried to restore from my nandroid backup. That failed too and it came up with a message of "no free space". I rebooted the phone and the phone automatically tried to flash the gnexus port rom again. It failed rebooted and got stuck on the devil kernel screen.
After about 20 mins, i took the battery out and rebooted into recovery. I really dont know where to go from here. I need to backup my efs folder too somehow.
I have a flash zip of the gnexus port rom, the tajb rom and a cm9 nightly in my internal sd card. I also have a nandroid backup of my cm9 rom.
Any help will be greatlyy appreciated!!!
Please help me.
Hey
Just flash any firmware (Official is preferred)..root it and do a restore of the backup u have..
Done
Hey do a factory reset then try to restore your backup
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Ok guys first of all I am sorry I am a noob when it comes to "flashing" and "custom roms" and "backups" and I have been searching the forum and can't find a simple straight answer or instructions on how to install a custom rom on my LG Thrill step by step. So I am sorry for this thread id there is already on for it. I even googled it and I keep getting different answers and I am more confused then ever. Some say use clockworkmod and some say it won't work for the thrill...I also don't know how to make a backup of my current rom which is the GB 2.3.5 upgrade v20p my phone is rooted and I have titanium back up pro installed. Can't I just make a backup on titanium back up? or is this a different type of back up? Anyway I am looking for a straight forward step by step guide on installing a custom rom on my Thrill from start to finish. Any help would be great Thank you and sorry if this has been answered a million times and if this is the wrong place for this post
ZombieWarez said:
Ok guys first of all I am sorry I am a noob when it comes to "flashing" and "custom roms" and "backups" and I have been searching the forum and can't find a simple straight answer or instructions on how to install a custom rom on my LG Thrill step by step. So I am sorry for this thread id there is already on for it. I even googled it and I keep getting different answers and I am more confused then ever. Some say use clockworkmod and some say it won't work for the thrill...I also don't know how to make a backup of my current rom which is the GB 2.3.5 upgrade v20p my phone is rooted and I have titanium back up pro installed. Can't I just make a backup on titanium back up? or is this a different type of back up? Anyway I am looking for a straight forward step by step guide on installing a custom rom on my Thrill from start to finish. Any help would be great Thank you and sorry if this has been answered a million times and if this is the wrong place for this post
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Clockworkmod Recovery works just fine.
Clockworkmod ROM manager doesn't work as it should. So, you're rooted, so all you need to do is install CWM recovery. After that, just put the ROM you want on your SD, boot into CWM recovery, and choose install zip from sd. Its always best to wipe data and clear caches before or after flashing. Also wipe dalvik cache under the advanced menu.
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Markyzz said:
Clockworkmod Recovery works just fine.
Clockworkmod ROM manager doesn't work as it should. So, you're rooted, so all you need to do is install CWM recovery. After that, just put the ROM you want on your SD, boot into CWM recovery, and choose install zip from sd. Its always best to wipe data and clear caches before or after flashing. Also wipe dalvik cache under the advanced menu.
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Looked for clockworkmod recovery on the android market and can't find it. I saw all the other apps that cloclworkmod makes and still nothing they do how ever have recovery apps for specific phones like Droid X and Droid 3. How do I wipe the data and caches? I did wipe the dalvik cache using titanium backup though
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Hi all
First post. There's a bit of detail here as I'm not sure if there's something that might be relevant to the question that I'll be asking.
I had my phone rooted for a year or two now, "happily" sitting on stock Gingerbread. Over the weekend, I decided to take the plunge and install CyanogenMod 10.2
Prior to starting, I went in to ClockWorkMod Recovery and made a Nandroid backup. (CWM was installed when I rooted the phone, it was version 2.5.1.0)
I also used TitaniumBackup to back up all of my contacts and SMS messages (wasn't bothered with anything else).
I downloaded CM 10.2 from the website and gapps-jb-2013013 to go with it. I read around how to do the update and armed with the laptop for googling, I began:
Wiped everything and began flashing CM.
It failed. Got an Error 0 when trying to install the package.
Googled furiously, tried editing a line in the CM zip file (something to do with detecting the model of my phone), then flashing it from the external SD card. Still nothing. Copied original CM zip file back to the external SD card. Eventually got fed up and rebooted phone to recovery thinking I was beaten and I'd have to restore to stock
But then I notice that CWM has changed. Now I have the gears/orange/hat logo, it's reporting that it's version 6.x
So it seems that it updated CWM. I'm wondering if that might have been causing the problems...
So I now try to re-flash CyanogenMod. It flashes. Flash gapps too: It works - Hooray! Try rebooting -> bootloop (although at least now it's a cyanogenmod bootloop )
Can't power off phone, so I remove the battery, give it the old DOS 15 seconds, battery back in and boot to recovery again.
Wiped partitions again, reflashed CyanogenMod and gapps and this time it works. Hooray again! Reboot phone and in no time it's asking about google accounts and such. AWESOME (albeit slightly nervewracking)
So I have CM 10.2 running and Play Store runs and I can download apps. I pull down Titanium, restore my contacts to test it out.
Crash. (Something about acore process has stopped ...)
Reboot. acore still crashing.
OK, no panic. It's probably broken, but the since I've just flashed it and have nothing on there other than ROM and gapps, I can do it again.
Did. Went fine. New Nandroid Backup as a precaution.
So, Titanium won't extract contacts. Wasn't going to chance it with SMS messages, so held off on installing it again.
Googled some more, read about AppExtractor which can talks directly to Nandroid backups.
Installed AppExtractor, tried restoring contacts - blanks the 3 contacts I had started manually creating and leaves me with nothing.
Rebooted just in case. Still nothing
Tried it again just in case it would prefer an empty contacts location. Still Nothing.
Decided that because I now have a Nandroid backup of CM, I'll go back to stock, export SMS and contacts out to some sort of neutral format, then come back to CM (with newly acquired Nandroid backup) and import. Should be straightforward.
And as if you couldn't guess: It wasn't.
CWM (6.x) refuses to restore the stock rom (I've also tried using a backup that I made about 6 months ago, no luck there either).
So the situation is now: Phone running fine on CM 10.2.1 (only one spontaneous reboot and subsequent bootloop), but can't restore old Nandroid backups (taken with CWM 2.5.1.0 speedmod).
I've tried e-mailing the author of AppExtractor but haven't heard anything back.
Finally, to the questions (thanks for your patience)
Any thoughts on why I can't go back to the old stock rom? Is there no backward compatibility?
And: Any way to restore SMS messages and contacts from the old stock rom to the new CM rom (if AppExtractor doesn't work).
Thanks in advance
Scouser27
Of course you can't restore contacts, TW format and AOSP are not compatible. Also nandroid done with CWM 2xxx isn'restorable with CWM 5xxx or 6xxx.
Also forget Titanium Backup for any system apps or files. Not gonna work with Cyanogenmod. Every OP warns about that.
The best way is to flash your old GB with odin, then SpeedMod kernel, restore your nandroid, export contacts to SD card (in contacts app in menu) and backup SMS with app "SMS backup & restore" by Ritesh Sahu.
I have described all here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444308
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
Partial answer
Found a partial answer to the first question in the FAQ of this post:
Link
So it would seem that the only way back would be to get the stock Gingerbread (I have a copy of a file that appears to be the rooted Samsung Kernel)
[Additional thanks to tetakpatak for his reply whilst I was posting this - it seems that the article I linked above is the same one quoted in tetakpataks reply]
Realistically though, I'm not sure I could be bothered with going back to stock.
So now to the recovery of contacts and SMS messages.
Thanks again
Scouser27
scouser27 said:
Scouser27
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Don't worry. I hope you know which GB did you use before. At least you must know which SpeedMod kernel did you have so if you now just flash a fairy similar GB like you used before and the same SpeedMod kernel, you will be able to restore your nandroid backup so you will have all your data back.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
tetakpatak said:
Don't worry. I hope you know which GB did you use before. At least you must know which SpeedMod kernel did you have so if you now just flash a fairy similar GB like you used before and the same SpeedMod kernel, you will be able to restore your nandroid backup so you will have all your data back.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
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Thanks for the suggestions and apologies for the delay in replying.
I don't know the Gingerbread version - didn't think I'd be going back to it!
I appreciate you taking the time to follow up on this, but I'm going to park this issue and learn a simple lesson. BACK UP EVERYTHING and do it more than one way!!
Thanks again for the help and suggestions