[Q] Can someone do a nandroid backup? - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was wondering if someone could do a nandroid backup and send it to me so I can restore my device? I don't care what ROM/Kernal you use, if there are no apps on it, I just need something to bring my device to life.

I would like to ask first,
What happened to your phone that led to the current situation? Perhaps there might be a workaround.
Plus nandroids are around 150-200MB big.
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A nandroid back up will include that persons personal data, I don't think anyone will do this for you!

why dont you restore your phone with odin ?

If you can restore a nandroid backup you have to use CWM or other restore software.
Can you boot into CWM? If so you can flash a new rom.
Otherwise use heimdal/odin to restore youre phone

Okay, here's the story. I was given the i9000 and it was stuck in the bootloop process, wouldn't go past the Galaxy S screen, the previous owner had never tried to root it or anything special. I tried to simply do a factory reset, no go. I tried loading multiple stock roms via odin, tried loading multiple custom roms via odin, heimdall, CWM. Tried all of the correct bootloaders, every other quick fix. Only twice did the phone actually boot up, only to quickly reboot into another boot loop. I can get root via a special CWM kernal, but I can't get much else. I am just thinking that if I can try a nandroid restore via QtAdb or one of the CWM's I have I can maybe restore it. I don't want anyones personal data, so if anyone has a stock nandroid I'll take it.

guys, i also need someone else nandroid backup.

usefull thanks

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[Q] Can I make my own image for restoring with odin?

I've searched the forums but haven't been able to find an answer to this question. I've found how to backup and such with titanium and clockwork but what I haven't been able to figure out is if there is a way to make an exact image of my phone as is, that could be restored with something like odin. I've backed up using clockwork and used the on phone restore process, but what if that doesn't work Is it possible to use that backup somehow to restore my phone with odin? Are there instructions for doing this?
I know I can download a ROM and restore using odin, but I would like to be able to restore to my own rom. I have a perfectly working GPS etc. on my phone as is and before trying the Froyo release I would like to make sure I can bring it back exactly to where it is now if things go bad.
Thanks
I'm not sure if you can, but doing a nandroid backup, copying it to your computer, copying back and restoring with rom manager if things go sour?

[Q] Issues with nandroid restore

Hey guys,
I've been using nandroid since my magic days. With my magic, I've had no problems whatsoever always wiping and doing a restore of my old nandroid backups. However, it does not seem to be the case with my captivate for some reasons.
Here are a few methods I've tried:
1) Factory wipe/data reset using clockwork recovery and restore nandroid (which I did with my magic.. not sure why they don't work)
2) Flash to 2.1 stock and do nandroid restore.
3) Flash to the ROM after a wipe that I want to restore to then do nandroid restore.
All three methods allow me to complete nandroid restore but upon reboot it's just non-stop FC city.
Can anyone guide me? Thank you
Nothing to see here, move along.
Thanks bud you are sooo helpful.
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koreancanuck said:
Hey guys,
I've been using nandroid since my magic days. With my magic, I've had no problems whatsoever always wiping and doing a restore of my old nandroid backups. However, it does not seem to be the case with my captivate for some reasons.
Here are a few methods I've tried:
1) Factory wipe/data reset using clockwork recovery and restore nandroid (which I did with my magic.. not sure why they don't work)
2) Flash to 2.1 stock and do nandroid restore.
3) Flash to the ROM after a wipe that I want to restore to then do nandroid restore.
All three methods allow me to complete nandroid restore but upon reboot it's just non-stop FC city.
Can anyone guide me?
I am not sure but do you only have one backup you are trying to use? Could be an issue with backup. Is three any lag fix in the equation? It sucks but if three worst of it is you can flash the rom but not restore your apps then I guess consider your self lucky
Captivate
Cog 2.4
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Yep. I disable my lagfixes before doing restores. To be honest it's not that big of a hassle since I can just use tibu pro and do one click restore for apps and restore my settings as well. And nandroid takes so much longer on captivate than magic D: Still it would be nice to always go back..
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[Q] Can't use Clockworkmod to switch between ROMS

I've been trying to switch in between backed-up ROMS using Clockworkmod without success. I have to use ODIN to flash back to STOCK Eclair, and root it before I can flash another fresh ROM using Clockworkmod.
None of the backups I make work when restored, and goes into the AT&T-screen-reboot-loop.
I don't want to use ODIN because it's froze during the flash & bricked 2 phones that I've had to send back for warranty replacement. NOT GOOD!
I know that in the market Clockworkmod states that you must use a "compatible" ROM, but I've never seen a ROM in XDA that specifically state's it's compatible (I've installed Cognition & Perception's latests.)
I've read about having to remove any lag-fixes before installing, but if it's built into the ROM how is this done?
Even if I have to flash back to a backed-up stock ROM before re-flashing a new ROM that'd be fine, but this has never worked. No ROM I back-up with Clockworkmod has ever been restored successfully, making me use ODIN, which twice has bricked my phone.
Is there a solution?
Nope, odin is it. You can try to flash the rom you have a backup of over your current then try the backup but you are playing with fire.
How did you manage to brick two phones with odin? That program is used by everyone who flashes for the most part, and although I have heard of issues the over whelming consensus its that it its easy and reliable
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mcord11758 said:
How did you manage to brick two phones with odin? That program is used by everyone who flashes for the most part, and although I have heard of issues the over whelming consensus its that it its easy and reliable.p
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How? I dunno! lol
ODIN basically freezes and won't progress while doing the actual flash. I've used ODIN before w/o problems, but twice now it's frozen in the middle of the flash & bricked the phone. The phone was 100% dead (didn't try a jig as some suggested yet though.) Won't power on, go into download mode/recovery. Nothing.
I was really hoping to avoid using ODIN. Crap!
metalgeek said:
I've been trying to switch in between backed-up ROMS using Clockworkmod without success. I have to use ODIN to flash back to STOCK Eclair, and root it before I can flash another fresh ROM using Clockworkmod.
None of the backups I make work when restored, and goes into the AT&T-screen-reboot-loop.
I don't want to use ODIN because it's froze during the flash & bricked 2 phones that I've had to send back for warranty replacement. NOT GOOD!
I know that in the market Clockworkmod states that you must use a "compatible" ROM, but I've never seen a ROM in XDA that specifically state's it's compatible (I've installed Cognition & Perception's latests.)
I've read about having to remove any lag-fixes before installing, but if it's built into the ROM how is this done?
Even if I have to flash back to a backed-up stock ROM before re-flashing a new ROM that'd be fine, but this has never worked. No ROM I back-up with Clockworkmod has ever been restored successfully, making me use ODIN, which twice has bricked my phone.
Is there a solution?
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What others have said is it possibly is related to CWM and our file system. Something along the lines of if you are flashing a ROM over another ROM and the kernels, modem, etc being different will cause the boot loop. That seems to be what has happened to me. It is always recommended by Dev's (even though it is not always necessary) to go back to stock and flash your Rom. Remember though, once you have your update.zip for CWM on your phone you do not need to root. Just do 3 button combo or ADB command to get to recovery mode.

Restoring from nandroid

I tried restoring from a nandroid backup I made and after the restore, I could only get as far as the i9000 boot screen. I went into recovery to try and flash a ROM, but CMW recovery could not mount my partitions (partitions got messed up by nandroid?) The only quick way I could think of was to use odin and refalsh and repartition.
I restored my nandroid from within CWM recovery. Is there something I am missing in the restore process? Obviously something went wrong.
asicman said:
I tried restoring from a nandroid backup I made and after the restore, I could only get as far as the i9000 boot screen. I went into recovery to try and flash a ROM, but CMW recovery could not mount my partitions (partitions got messed up by nandroid?) The only quick way I could think of was to use odin and refalsh and repartition.
I restored my nandroid from within CWM recovery. Is there something I am missing in the restore process? Obviously something went wrong.
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Hey man, sounds like you tried to restore one system over another,
Forexample, stock over cm7? and that messes up the partitions as you see!
Try to install the rom you are trying to restore before you start restoring!
Should work then!
Hope this helps
I did indeed try to restore a ROM which was very different from the installed ROM. I will keep your suggestion in mind the next time I do a restore.
Just to confirm : yes, you need to flash the base ROM you're trying to restore.
I played with ICS over the weekend and got back by flashing a stock - well stock+ - JVZ and restoring nandroid.
Did the same thing, stupid as I am,
the big problem is that none of the computers I've tried with is detecting my phone right now.
I get in to CWM but and to download mode but that ain't helping me since i can't use Odin to flash back to stock rom.
Any ideas?

[Q] Proper way to make Nandroid Backup and Restore

Hi all,
I'm just curious on what is the right way to make Nandroid backup on the International Note? *I'm used to my AT&T Galaxy Note that only uses 1 CWM version - so I have no clue with the N7000*
So I already know that I have to use the Abyss Kernel to flash in between Custom ROMs.
How about making Nandroid Backup and Restore?
Should I flash Abyss first, then reboot to recovery (from advanced, not restarting the phone) then make the back up or restore from there?
Or should I use the CWM version of the ROM that I last flash that I want to backup (e.g. Alliance ROM)?
Will it affect restoring from different CWM versions?
Thanks!
keplenk said:
Hi all,
I'm just curious on what is the right way to make Nandroid backup on the International Note? *I'm used to my AT&T Galaxy Note that only uses 1 CWM version - so I have no clue with the N7000*
So I already know that I have to use the Abyss Kernel to flash in between Custom ROMs.
How about making Nandroid Backup and Restore?
Should I flash Abyss first, then reboot to recovery (from advanced, not restarting the phone) then make the back up or restore from there?
Or should I use the CWM version of the ROM that I last flash that I want to backup (e.g. Alliance ROM)?
Will it affect restoring from different CWM versions?
Thanks!
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Somehow it will affect, and i am not sure you can restore from diff roms.
nandroid backup procedure is same(going in cwm recovery and do backup)
shivg86 said:
Somehow it will affect, and i am not sure you can restore from diff roms.
nandroid backup procedure is same(going in cwm recovery and do backup)
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Oh ouch .. that is really a good point. So Nandroid does NOT back up CWM?
If it does not, I guess .. I can only restore from nandroid using only one ROM with the same CWM it used.
Hi keplenk =)
I backup and/or restore almost every day. I'm not a cwm-r or android expert at all, just talking from my own experiences.
In the beginning, many months ago, when I just had bought my N7000 I flashed/restored/backup/wiped from all kind of kernels and cwm recovery versions, and it happened that I wasn't able to restore my backups. It was kind of very frustrating from time to time to loose a well tweaked and configured rom. But I was lucky I didn't emmc brick. That I realize today.
Then I changed my cwm-r habits. And I would for backups recommend you just enter cwm-r from whatever rom you are using and make a backup (nandroid). It will backup your kernel and cwm-r too.
To restore I would say it's a good idea to flash Abyss4.2, then REBOOT recovery to full wipe and then restore rom. Make sure you really installed Abyss4.2 and REBOOTED recovery before you wipe because else there could be a risk you end up with a nasty emmc hardbrick depending on if you are on a safe kernel or not. Many people would probably say it's not necessary to wipe, and maybe it isn't. But by the time I didn't it happened once in a while that I got problem with restore, not often at all though, but still it happened a few times. Since I started using this method with wipe, restore has worked fine without any problems hundreds of times (yes, I flash/backup/restore a lot xD, haha).
But once again, I'm just speaking from my own experiences nandroid backup/restore... I don't say it's the proper or best way to do it. It works fine for me though.
Happy Flashing =)
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