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[Q] How to do full system dump?

Hi,
I will be getting a HTC One shortly to replace my Galaxy S2. It will be from my local Canadian carrier SaskTel. I plan on flashing CM10 or else the full Google Edition conversion (bootloader, recover and all). What I want to know is how do I do a FULL backup of my stock system? Will a nandroid suffice? I'm new to the HTC world. I'm used to the recovery being part of the kernel. Does nandroid back up the recover partition?
Thank you.

eradicator006 said:
Hi,
I will be getting a HTC One shortly to replace my Galaxy S2. It will be from my local Canadian carrier SaskTel. I plan on flashing CM10 or else the full Google Edition conversion (bootloader, recover and all). What I want to know is how do I do a FULL backup of my stock system? Will a nandroid suffice? I'm new to the HTC world. I'm used to the recovery being part of the kernel. Does nandroid back up the recover partition?
Thank you.
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A nandroid backup is enough. But if you are talking about backing up radio, kernel and recovery on your phone I have no idea how to do that. All I know is you can look around for them in the xda forum. But if it's just the ROM you're talking about, a nandroid backup will do.

Rex2369 said:
A nandroid backup is enough. But if you are talking about backing up radio, kernel and recovery on your phone I have no idea how to do that. All I know is you can look around for them in the xda forum. But if it's just the ROM you're talking about, a nandroid backup will do.
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Yeah I want to back up everything. In one of the dev threads there's a RUU zip of all of the partitions and radio for the Google Edition. I want to do the same with my stock phone once I get it. There has to be a way to do it because they did it with the GE variant.
Looking through this zip file it looks like they are dd image files. I'm familiar with dd in linux and mac. Does anybody have a list of which block devices correspond to which partition? Also, how do you backup the radio?

eradicator006 said:
Yeah I want to back up everything. In one of the dev threads there's a RUU zip of all of the partitions and radio for the Google Edition. I want to do the same with my stock phone once I get it. There has to be a way to do it because they did it with the GE variant.
Looking through this zip file it looks like they are dd image files. I'm familiar with dd in linux and mac. Does anybody have a list of which block devices correspond to which partition? Also, how do you backup the radio?
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I'm very interested in doing that on my friends STOCK Rogers phone also! Since I messed with mine and am no longer stock

[Q] Stuck, in many ways

Hi,
I have the non-Taiwan Butterfly S. I unlocked it via HTC Dev, and installed Clockwork Recovery.
This week, the 4.2 update was released for Singapore. It seems to have been in two parts, one which was a minor upgrade (235MB), and after that was applied, I got the option of the larger, 4.3, 700MB, OTA.
Applying the OTA seems to have left me, at boot time, with a blank screen (there is some backlight visible, after the HTC splash). I read tonight that OTA should not be used with custom recoveries, so I have (using fastboot) been able to flash the stock recovery.
I can now go into Fastboot, HBoot, and even Recovery. But I think I may no longer have an actual "system".
How can I flash either a custom ROM, or investigate the situation?
And also, after I see the Recovery screen (the battery icon), what can I do there?
Thanks,

ghane0 said:
Hi,
I have the non-Taiwan Butterfly S. I unlocked it via HTC Dev, and installed Clockwork Recovery.
This week, the 4.2 update was released for Singapore. It seems to have been in two parts, one which was a minor upgrade (235MB), and after that was applied, I got the option of the larger, 4.3, 700MB, OTA.
Applying the OTA seems to have left me, at boot time, with a blank screen (there is some backlight visible, after the HTC splash). I read tonight that OTA should not be used with custom recoveries, so I have (using fastboot) been able to flash the stock recovery.
I can now go into Fastboot, HBoot, and even Recovery. But I think I may no longer have an actual "system".
How can I flash either a custom ROM, or investigate the situation?
And also, after I see the Recovery screen (the battery icon), what can I do there?
Thanks,
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What I would do is get TWRP Recovery (Just a matter of personal preference you can get clockwormod too) do a full wipe, clear the cache, dalvik cache and install a custom ROM hope I helped somehow

Do you still have the OTA zipfile on your device? It should be possible to force the stock recovery to install it, I just don't know how exactly. If you manage to achieve that, it should fix any corrupted files or inconsistent state, unless something went completely wrong.
Also, did the CWM recovery actually succeed to install the smaller OTA? I find that somewhat weird, but then again, I haven't tried to install OTAs using CWM, only TWRP and that did fail early.
If it was a 901S, I'd suggest installing the stock ROM from scratch, but since your phone is 901E (as far as I understand) and my stock ZIPs are for 901S, that's not guaranteed to work. Still, you might try to do that, but make sure to make a backup of the current state first, just in case it only gets worse. If it does work, it's probably going to be the easiest way out.
Another option would be to get someone else with the 901E to post a backup of their /system, I could turn that into a ZIP, which would solve your problem.

koniiiik said:
Do you still have the OTA zipfile on your device? It should be possible to force the stock recovery to install it, I just don't know how exactly. If you manage to achieve that, it should fix any corrupted files or inconsistent state, unless something went completely wrong.
Also, did the CWM recovery actually succeed to install the smaller OTA? I find that somewhat weird, but then again, I haven't tried to install OTAs using CWM, only TWRP and that did fail early.
If it was a 901S, I'd suggest installing the stock ROM from scratch, but since your phone is 901E (as far as I understand) and my stock ZIPs are for 901S, that's not guaranteed to work. Still, you might try to do that, but make sure to make a backup of the current state first, just in case it only gets worse. If it does work, it's probably going to be the easiest way out.
Another option would be to get someone else with the 901E to post a backup of their /system, I could turn that into a ZIP, which would solve your problem.
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It is a 901s he said non Taiwan
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seyidaga said:
What I would do is get TWRP Recovery (Just a matter of personal preference you can get clockwormod too) do a full wipe, clear the cache, dalvik cache and install a custom ROM hope I helped somehow
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I have downloaded the Maximus ROM. I am open to doing this, but I cannot figure out how to use the stock recovery (there seem to be no controls).

koniiiik said:
Do you still have the OTA zipfile on your device? It should be possible to force the stock recovery to install it, I just don't know how exactly. If you manage to achieve that, it should fix any corrupted files or inconsistent state, unless something went completely wrong.
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I think so, too, but at this stage, I am willing to go clean-slate and restart with a stock, factory, look.
koniiiik said:
If it was a 901S, I'd suggest installing the stock ROM from scratch
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I have downloaded the stock zip from your website. How do i flash that in stock recovery?
I have access to fastboot from my laptop, I can see the device.
Thanks,

daorderdillon said:
It is a 901s he said non Taiwan
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Oh, okay, I think I'm getting lost in which area has which version of the phone. Never mind then and thanks for the correction.
ghane0 said:
I think so, too, but at this stage, I am willing to go clean-slate and restart with a stock, factory, look.
I have downloaded the stock zip from your website. How do i flash that in stock recovery?
I have access to fastboot from my laptop, I can see the device.
Thanks,
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Well, to install custom ROMs, you'll have to use either TWRP or CWM, I don't know about a way to do that using stock recovery.

Ok, I did this:
Installed CWM Recovery
Flashed the Stock zip from koniiiik's archive
Rebooted successfully. Lots and lots of force closes, Everything from android.core to ...
Used Rom Manager to restore a backup made a month ago
Rebooted. All OK now
Flashed Stock Recovery (again, thanks koniiiik)
Booted. Checked OTA. Got a small update (1.x)
Applied. Rebooted, Checked OTA again
Got the 4.3 package. Applied.
All is well
Between Step #3 and #4, I got my entire backlog of SMS delivered, which I lost in the next step. But that is a small price to pay.
Thanks to all of you helped,

ghane0 said:
Used Rom Manager to restore a backup made a month ago
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Would you mind uploading somewhere the /system part of that backup? I'd be interested in comparing it to the builds I have at hand.

Backup of /system, nearly stock
I say nearly stock, because it was taken after HTC Unlock, Clockwork Recovery was installed, and root flashed
koniiiik said:
Would you mind uploading somewhere the /system part of that backup? I'd be interested in comparing it to the builds I have at hand.
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I have three files in the directory:
system.ext4.tar (0B)
system.ext4.tar.a (954MB)
system.ext4.tar.b (500MB)
Is the split to avoid files greater than 1GB?
Will upload starting a few hours. Dropbox will do?

ghane0 said:
I say nearly stock, because it was taken after HTC Unlock, Clockwork Recovery was installed, and root flashed
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Don't worry about that, of these three, only root affects /system and it should be not too difficult to revert.
ghane0 said:
Is the split to avoid files greater than 1GB?
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Most likely – FAT filesystems, depending on inode size and other factors, only support file sizes up to a certain limit. Sometimes it's 2 GB, sometimes 4 GB, sometimes probably as little as 1 GB.
ghane0 said:
Will upload starting a few hours. Dropbox will do?
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That would be most helpful. Thanks.

Dropbox is back up, I have sent you a link.
Thanks

[Q] What is the order of things I should do to install a custom ROM?

Hey guys, I'm planning to get an HTC One on AT&T in 2 months when I'm eligible for an upgrade and will install a custom ROM (I'm going for Pacman) as soon as I get the phone. I just wanted to know the basic steps I need to do. Don't bother writing me an in-depth guide; I just want to know the order of things I have to do. I'll look up the specifics for each step myself.
For example:
Get root access
Unlock bootloader
Install custom recovery
Backup everything with Titanium
Etc.
(I just made that list up off the top of my head :silly: I know it is missing things and out of order)

AceofSpades117 said:
Hey guys, I'm planning to get an HTC One on AT&T in 2 months when I'm eligible for an upgrade and will install a custom ROM (I'm going for Pacman) as soon as I get the phone. I just wanted to know the basic steps I need to do. Don't bother writing me an in-depth guide; I just want to know the order of things I have to do. I'll look up the specifics for each step myself.
For example:
Get root access
Unlock bootloader
Install custom recovery
Backup everything with Titanium
Etc.
(I just made that list up off the top of my head :silly: I know it is missing things and out of order)
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unlock your bootloader
flash(install) custom recovery
make nandroid backup of your stock ROM
backup your apps & settings with Titanium
flash away your desired ROM
restore your apps & settings via Titanium
happy flashing :good:

kamilmirza said:
unlock your bootloader
flash(install) custom recovery
make nandroid backup of your stock ROM
backup your apps & settings with Titanium
flash away your desired ROM
restore your apps & settings via Titanium
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Does this mean I don't have to root? And do I need to do anything with S-off or S-on?
Also, since I'm planning on flashing the ROM as soon as I get the phone (meaning there will be no apps that didn't come with the phone and the settings will stay default) do I even need to backup with Titanium?

AceofSpades117 said:
Does this mean I don't have to root? And do I need to do anything with S-off or S-on?
Also, since I'm planning on flashing the ROM as soon as I get the phone (meaning there will be no apps that didn't come with the phone and the settings will stay default) do I even need to backup with Titanium?
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your custom rom will be 'rooted', so no, there's nothing extra to do.
the nandroid backup you take is like a snapshot of your stock rom. can be handy if you ever need to go back to stock for repair etc.
in the circumstances you provided, I probably wouldn't backup the stock apps with Titanium, but there might be some carrier specific stuff you want to keep.
most roms don't need s-off. check and see in the individual rom threads, so s-off is not a mandatory thing to do.
good luck.

cr1960 said:
your custom rom will be 'rooted', so no, there's nothing extra to do.
the nandroid backup you take is like a snapshot of your stock rom. can be handy if you ever need to go back to stock for repair etc.
in the circumstances you provided, I probably wouldn't backup the stock apps with Titanium, but there might be some carrier specific stuff you want to keep.
most roms don't need s-off. check and see in the individual rom threads, so s-off is not a mandatory thing to do.
good luck.
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In this video, the guy says that the phone needs to be rooted before installing the ROM around 0:48. I found this video from this forum post by the OP of both the m7ul and m7att Pacman threads. Should I root the phone? I'm not sure what to do now.

AceofSpades117 said:
Hey guys, I'm planning to get an HTC One on AT&T in 2 months when I'm eligible for an upgrade and will install a custom ROM (I'm going for Pacman) as soon as I get the phone. I just wanted to know the basic steps I need to do. Don't bother writing me an in-depth guide; I just want to know the order of things I have to do. I'll look up the specifics for each step myself.
For example:
Get root access
Unlock bootloader
Install custom recovery
Backup everything with Titanium
Etc.
(I just made that list up off the top of my head :silly: I know it is missing things and out of order)
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Backup your info before the unlocking of the bootloader.
And, if your upgrade is in two months, I would suggest waiting for the m8. It should be out by March /April and will pack all the features on the m7 plus more. And it will probably be at the same price.
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AceofSpades117 said:
In this video, the guy says that the phone needs to be rooted before installing the ROM around 0:48. I found this video from this forum post by the OP of both the m7ul and m7att Pacman threads. Should I root the phone? I'm not sure what to do now.
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You should most definitely root. You should root before the installation of a custom rom because some functions may not work. Since you seem like a beginner, I would suggest using an One - Click. Method called "Kingo Root". This is by far the fastest and easiest method I've come across. Just Google it
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AceofSpades117 said:
In this video, the guy says that the phone needs to be rooted before installing the ROM around 0:48. I found this video from this forum post by the OP of both the m7ul and m7att Pacman threads. Should I root the phone? I'm not sure what to do now.
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it's not necessary/essential.
like I said earlier, the root comes with the rom.
I have had like 8 different devices and never rooted as part of unlocking. never. never had a problem either.
unlock bootloader - install custom recovery (I recommend twrp) - flash custom rom.

[Q] RUU

Hi, I did a lot of things with my One Mini 2 and I actually really don't know what to do anymore... So much options and yet there always seems to be a problem. Let me explain everything.
What I did:
-flashed a custom rom, then went back to a stock rom of this forum
-flashed the dt2w kernel, it messed up my phone so I then flashed the liberty one, which worked
But with the liberty one I had some memory problems, for exemple I couldn't take screenshots... That's why I decided that I wanted to put my phone just as it was when I bought it, I really hope that's possible, by that I mean having official firmwares etc, therefore being able to do official upgrades from my phone (is that what OTA is?).
I looked on internet and it looks like what I need is RUU, as it includes everything (from what I understood)... I know a lot of threads were made about this, but quite a few months ago, so that's why I'm making a new one, and to make things clear.
Also, I downloaded an official kernel from htcdev.com, but each time I tried flashing it with TWRP, it "failed".
So, if you guys have an answer, solution or, in best case, the actual RUU, that would be great.
Thanx

Linkalex1 said:
Hi, I did a lot of things with my One Mini 2 and I actually really don't know what to do anymore... So much options and yet there always seems to be a problem. Let me explain everything.
What I did:
-flashed a custom rom, then went back to a stock rom of this forum
-flashed the dt2w kernel, it messed up my phone so I then flashed the liberty one, which worked
But with the liberty one I had some memory problems, for exemple I couldn't take screenshots... That's why I decided that I wanted to put my phone just as it was when I bought it, I really hope that's possible, by that I mean having official firmwares etc, therefore being able to do official upgrades from my phone (is that what OTA is?).
I looked on internet and it looks like what I need is RUU, as it includes everything (from what I understood)... I know a lot of threads were made about this, but quite a few months ago, so that's why I'm making a new one, and to make things clear.
Also, I downloaded an official kernel from htcdev.com, but each time I tried flashing it with TWRP, it "failed".
So, if you guys have an answer, solution or, in best case, the actual RUU, that would be great.
Thanx
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Still no RUU's avaiable as HTC wont release them. your best option is to use TWRP backup and restore.
Original stock backup

Thank you, but my backup kind of disappeared... I saw your post where there was the "HTC Original Backup.zip", I tried to flash but again it failed... Am I supposed to flash it as a backup?

Linkalex1 said:
Thank you, but my backup kind of disappeared... I saw your post where there was the "HTC Original Backup.zip", I tried to flash but again it failed... Am I supposed to flash it as a backup?
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You need to send it as it is to your phone and use TWRP > restore. choose file and done.

Thanx so much for answering... I uses the backup you told me to. Although I had to use the "install" option instead of the backup one, it now works perfectly! But how do I know if my phone is "official"? Are the upgrades going to be made straight from the phone?

Linkalex1 said:
Thanx so much for answering... I uses the backup you told me to. Although I had to use the "install" option instead of the backup one, it now works perfectly! But how do I know if my phone is "official"? Are the upgrades going to be made straight from the phone?
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Yes OTA updates should work just fine. just look for updates in settings>about >software update.
you may have one for polaris office.

Hi, I just want to check this too before I screw up wife's phone..
She has CM12 on her phone now as I replaced recovery as well as unlocking bootloader. Now she wants it back to stock as too many things crash on her. I get that I can install your backup but what worries me is that other posts have said you need the stock recovery to allow for OTA updates to work and the link to this no longer works.
She MUST have OTA updates or my balls will be removed, so can you please confirm this, but also explain why.
Thanks (on behalf of my testicles and unborn children!)
(Oh, and she wants it unrooted ant the bootloader relocked)

arm1e said:
Hi, I just want to check this too before I screw up wife's phone..
She has CM12 on her phone now as I replaced recovery as well as unlocking bootloader. Now she wants it back to stock as too many things crash on her. I get that I can install your backup but what worries me is that other posts have said you need the stock recovery to allow for OTA updates to work and the link to this no longer works.
She MUST have OTA updates or my balls will be removed, so can you please confirm this, but also explain why.
Thanks (on behalf of my testicles and unborn children!)
(Oh, and she wants it unrooted ant the bootloader relocked)
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Stock Recovery
To unroot just lock bootloader:
fastboot oem lock

Rooting and choosing ROM

Hi, I'm using this phone for a year and a half. It's starting to slow down so I'm planning to wipe it. While doing this, I'll root it (I'm still on stock ROM with locked bootloader).
As our phone is not quite supported with OTA (only security updates, no more bug fixes or new features), I'm wondering if jumping to a custom ROM is not the best way to keep my phone running well.
I haven't checked for the custom ROM scene for at least a couple years.
What ROMs are well supported/bugless/useable as daily driver?
I'm not sure of what features that's aren't in stock will be useful to me (I'll just add Magisk and a couple modules)
Should I stay on stock ROM, switch to LineageOS, or another ROM? Before jumping in, what can I backup as I'm not root yet?
Thanks a lot

well, this all depends on personal preference, I'd recommend you try out various ROMs and get the one for you but if I was to choose a ROM or two that matches what you've said that has to be the pixel experience Rom. It's minimalistic and gives you the stock android experience. it also is updated on a regular basis.
as for the backup, it's recommended that you do it before everything else, the image file and whatnot. I'd tell you to research on how you would go back to stock if forbid something bad happens(download the right Software for flashing back. But if you already know this just do a regular twrp backup and you'll be fine)

frankaces said:
well, this all depends on personal preference, I'd recommend you try out various ROMs and get the one for you but if I was to choose a ROM or two that matches what you've said that has to be the pixel experience Rom. It's minimalistic and gives you the stock android experience. it also is updated on a regular basis.
as for the backup, it's recommended that you do it before everything else, the image file and whatnot. I'd tell you to research on how you would go back to stock if forbid something bad happens(download the right Software for flashing back. But if you already know this just do a regular twrp backup and you'll be fine)
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Hi, thanks for your reply. I'll look at this ROM then.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in order to install TWRP, I need to unlock my bootloader. To do so, all my data will be wiped out. Sure I can backup photos, videos, text messages, but not apps or no full TWRP backups.

Bump !
Thanks

Thibault1171 said:
Bump !
Thanks
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yes the only way is with unlocked bootloader and yout date will be wiped
there are special tools to backup to pc or use otg usb to copy it using xiaomi migrate
but yeah ....
that is why smart people root first

KevMetal said:
yes the only way is with unlocked bootloader and yout date will be wiped
there are special tools to backup to pc or use otg usb to copy it using xiaomi migrate
but yeah ....
that is why smart people root first
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Hi, sorry didn't saw your reply earlier.
I didn't root first because according to my memory, I had a delay before being able to unlock bootloader after purchase
What do you mean by "Xiaomi migrate"? = Mi mover? If so I'm not sure I can use it to backup my phone. Or I must use a second phone as storage

Thibault1171 said:
Hi, sorry didn't saw your reply earlier.
I didn't root first because according to my memory, I had a delay before being able to unlock bootloader after purchase
What do you mean by "Xiaomi migrate"? = Mi mover? If so I'm not sure I can use it to backup my phone. Or I must use a second phone as storage
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you can use external otg or cloud to save the data ..

Hi, thanks for your help.
I finally installed back stock rom+magisk using this guide
Just have to use this trick between OTA
I tried to install twice Pixel Experience and getting bootloop using this guide
Is their a way to install TWRP with stock rom and be able to use OTA, or is it better to start it when needed using fastboot?
Thanks

Thibault1171 said:
Hi, thanks for your help.
I finally installed back stock rom+magisk using this guide
Just have to use this trick between OTA
I tried to install twice Pixel Experience and getting bootloop using this guide
Is their a way to install TWRP with stock rom and be able to use OTA, or is it better to start it when needed using fastboot?
Thanks
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for OTA purposes I would just use it through fastboot