Hi all
After smashing the screen on my Note i am getting a new one on the insurance, well i am when they decide to deliver it!!!
just want to know if it will be ok to root and restore my backup from the old phone?
i was running criskelo v9.1 at the time with speedmod kernal i think
big time
Are you talking nandroid restore? If so choose advanced restore and restore system and data only this will restore the rom and your apps anything else might cause issues, like restoring old imei and stuff.
Or you could extract certain things from the nandroid using titanium backup or similar app
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i was using cwm for my backs/restores before and i desperately need my notes and phones off the old backup.
wouldnt the imei coarse problems?
you will get all your notes back with the data restore.
It might be safe to restore the whole nandroid but i wouldnt advise it, Personally ive never tried so hopefully someone who has can confirm ?
your imei from your old not wont replace the new one, But it could modify it and leave you with the samsung generic one.
thanks for the help, hopefully i should have the phone by saturday and get testing....
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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.
Hey. Is a nandroid backup all encompassing (kernel and all that too?) or what? I plan to test some stuff out and previously went all out the past 4 or 5 times thinking that restoring from a nandroid will create some problem if I am using that as my default rom. Can I safely flash to a new Tom and install a different kernal then restore the nandroid I have now and be back with pershoot (the kernal I am on now with cm6)?
Lastly can I keep multiple nandroids of various rom/kernals (assuming I understand it correctly from my previous question) and go between them without having problems arise (assuming the backups themselves are stable)?
Thanks in advance, xda is awesome!
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it is an image of EXACTLY what is on your phone at that time... so, rom, kernel, apps, text messages, call logs, ect.... literally everything...
you can keep images of as many different roms and kernals as your sd card will hold...
if you flash a new rom and kernel then restore back to an older nandroid you will revert back to that entire rom and kernel... however you can throw a new kernel on that old nandroid if you restore it...
it literally is as straight forward as it seems...
Yeah I keep many nand backups around. I actually rename them and move them to my computer, labeled in folders, for future use. And I just keep a current backup on the card. But it doesn't matter, keep as many as you like.
What I don't like is losing any recent info I've acquired since my last backup. I wish there were some way to extract the user data and merge that into a nand backup. For example I'll try out different themes or status bars, and wanna switch back via nand restore. But then I lose any texts, call logs, I got that day since yesterday's backup.
You have Call log backup, SMS Backup and APN backup - exactly for that. Search the market. And Titanium can backup app data, if needed.
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it is an image of EXACTLY what is on your phone at that time... so, rom, kernel, apps, text messages, call logs, ect.... literally everything...
you can keep images of as many different roms and kernals as your sd card will hold...
if you flash a new rom and kernel then restore back to an older nandroid you will revert back to that entire rom and kernel... however you can throw a new kernel on that old nandroid if you restore it...
it literally is as straight forward as it seems...
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Very cool. Going to have much fun with this tonight. Ty for the info guys!
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RogerPodacter said:
Yeah I keep many nand backups around. I actually rename them and move them to my computer, labeled in folders, for future use. And I just keep a current backup on the card. But it doesn't matter, keep as many as you like.
What I don't like is losing any recent info I've acquired since my last backup. I wish there were some way to extract the user data and merge that into a nand backup. For example I'll try out different themes or status bars, and wanna switch back via nand restore. But then I lose any texts, call logs, I got that day since yesterday's backup.
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sms backup and restore app and call log back and restore app from the market does it just fine for me.
JHaste said:
it is an image of EXACTLY what is on your phone at that time... so, rom, kernel, apps, text messages, call logs, ect.... literally everything...
you can keep images of as many different roms and kernals as your sd card will hold...
if you flash a new rom and kernel then restore back to an older nandroid you will revert back to that entire rom and kernel... however you can throw a new kernel on that old nandroid if you restore it...
it literally is as straight forward as it seems...
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i think the firmware is not included
Hi all,
A question regarding backups:
I am currently on CM7 MIUI.US and am thinking of switching back to GB roms. If I do a backup on CWM now, and flashing stock GB + roms over, and if I so happen to not like the ROM and wishes to go back to MIUI, I can simply do a restore on my old backup is that correct?
Now backing up, do I need to do a factory reset? I am okay with cache + dalvik wipes, but factory resetting will reset all the customisation done on my MIUI rom and it is a nasty thing to do all over again (dragging and sorting all the apps into respective folders )
And I would have to use TiB to do all the restoration of my apps! and I would have to choose what apps to backup etc etc..
Thanks for any answers xda folks!
well you can maker a nandroid backup in CWM this is like an ISO image of the whole ROM, whether you will have issues restoring it on GB roms i dont know.
You could make a backup using the MIUI backup (which backs up settings and screen layouts and so on) but this would only be able to restore on MIUI ROM (if you decide to go back)
I would make a backup using MIUI, and make a backup using Ti Backup (if you have the paid version its all automated, No need to press DONE after each app has backed up)
Hope this helps.
EDIT: you could make a nandroid backup too, what the hell, if your flashing anyway, Im just not 100% sure it will work.
Yea i was asking if backing up nandroid will help when i want to revert.. But thanks for the heads up on the miui backup! And yeah I have tib pro so restoring isn't a pain, the tough part is the choosing of the apps to restore..
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truewt said:
Yea i was asking if backing up nandroid will help when i want to revert.. But thanks for the heads up on the miui backup! And yeah I have tib pro so restoring isn't a pain, the tough part is the choosing of the apps to restore..
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Well restoring a nandroid backup of a MIUI ROM and restoring it on a Different ROM MAY cause problems (ive never tried this)
Restore all your apps !! if you need to choose you obviously have too many and dont use them.
Delete the junk, Keep the good save yourself some space too !!
(im also an app collector lol)
There are those files from like 162939594 years ago that I use TiB to backup and never restored
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Hello guys,
I bought SGS1 a while ago and changed some roms it was annoying losing my apps then my friend told me to use titanium backup it was more annyong cuz i had to backup one program at a time
then i heard about Nandroid Backup , so my question is:
if i change ROM lets say from MIUI to Darky or something and i used Nandroid Backup, all my apps will be there after i restore?
Your phone will shift back exactly where it was when you nandroid backed up ! And any progress from their will be lost !
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BHuvan goyal said:
Your phone will shift back exactly where it was when you nandroid backed up ! And any progress from their will be lost !
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So if I change rom from miui to brand new one and then i restore it will go back to miui? or it will just put my apps from miui on the brand new rom?
Its backup whole rom with apps...tge best possible solution is u have to use titanium backup pro it make a complete backup of apps....i thinkn u r using some free version pf titanium thats why i makes problem.
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Titanium Backup offers the option to backup all your apps at the same time, in case you didn't know. This may be only for the paid version though, I'm not sure. But considering it's the most useful app I've come across, it's definitely worth the money.
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Disc0nectoR said:
So if I change rom from miui to brand new one and then i restore it will go back to miui? or it will just put my apps from miui on the brand new rom?
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Actually if you try to restore a nandroid backup after switching to cm7/miui, your phone simply wont work as the file systems are completely different.
To go back to a Samsung ROM from miui you would need to flash a stock Samsung ROM via odin, and THEN restore the nandroid.
Anyway, beyond that remember the following...
Titanium backs up apps and app data, use after changing ROMs to regain apps.
Nandroid takes a snapshot of the entire ROM, use in case of problems to repair your phone.
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rschenck said:
Actually if you try to restore a nandroid backup after switching to cm7/miui, your phone simply wont work as the file systems are completely different.
To go back to a Samsung ROM from miui you would need to flash a stock Samsung ROM via odin, and THEN restore the nandroid.
Anyway, beyond that remember the following...
Titanium backs up apps and app data, use after changing ROMs to regain apps.
Nandroid takes a snapshot of the entire ROM, use in case of problems to repair your phone.
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Correctly said rschenck!!
Basically if you are on CM7 and want to give a try to MIUI just make a NANDROID backup for full ROM backup and try MIUI ,if you don't like it then flash back CM7 first and then restore the NANDROID backup!!
when it comes to Titaniuim backup , it backs up your app data,freezes them and the apps you want (only in pro version) on any ROM and restore back after flashing any other ROM, if you are on free version then you must select manually which apps to backup that's a pain in the ass !!
Use these according to your requirements....and dont ever restore one rom's nandroid with another as the Kernels,Filesystems,Modems,Bootloaders are entirely different and that could mess up your phone !!
i would prefer NANDROID over Titanuim !!
Thanks guys for this wonderful explanation...just one more query:
I'm currently using samsung Stock rom, CF root kernel, with lagfix(ext4), and some "framework" tweaks..and am thinking of trying CyanogenMod. So if i do a Nandroid backup now, and later decide to come back from cyanogenmod, can i just use Odin to get to ANY Stock rom so that the partitions, file systems, modem etc get back to a similar old format, OR do i need this exact Stock rom version, Kernel, lagfix etc before i can restore the nandroid?
is "kernel" included in a Nandroid backup? also, are Types of filesystems included (or "Lagfix" has to be repeated)?
I got the dreaded boot loop after having either 1.0 or 1.1 extreme on it for what feels like almost a year now. I was able to make a complete backup while in twrp using the freezer method. Here is my question., just received my replacment from tmobile. (they sent me another 505 ugh) I was thinking I would root the new phone than go into twrp and restore my OLD backup then boot in to phone and then run backups for my contacts, mms, database for call restrict list etc. Then backout and put the newer extreme rom on an import my contacts, mms, database stuff. My question is what will happen if the backup I have is a 10h and I install it on a 10n. I can't remember for the life of me what it was, like I said it has been a year almost. I thought about trying to restore some stuff from TB backup using the nandroid but my research states not to to this. I figure loading original and backup with MMS backup and update contact to google etc. then install new rom would be better. Just dont want to hose myself if it is a 10H. anyone know what whould happen? Thanks for all your help in advance. I'm just scared sh**less to hose the refurb they sent.
Dont know exactly, but you may brick it. Proceed carefully. By the way, if you restore remember you CANT restore the EFS folder.