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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?

Help for my captivate please!!

Hey guys,
Thanx for looking in this. So, I have a rooted cappy att on a stock 2.2 ota update version of firmware and yesterday I did a nandroid backup for the first time after reading proper instructions. So, after that when my phone booted up it was somehow missing the contacts icon which was no where to be found. So I started my titanium backup pro and tried restoring the contacts app, but it just froze. So, I finally decided to do a nandroid restore. I went into clockwork and restore and started it. So, after it booted up it would just show me LogsProvider error in a loop. So now somehow I managed to go into titanium and then found the LogsProvider and did a restore of that app+data amd it stopped putting the errors. But now, it will get me errors for whatever app I try to access. Till now it has shown me errors in gmail, browser, tw launcher. But xda runs perfect!
Changes that I did for getting the cwm was it wont take me to that green screen for backup no matter how many times I clicked the reinstall packages. So I went into rom manager and flashed a older version of cwm which was 2.5.1.1 instead of the 2.5.1.2 and now I could go into the green and do a backup and this was all before the restore.
So, this is it. I am now booting in with errors and my contacts are gone, cannot open messages. Basically, SCREWED!
Help me out buddies, it would be really appreciated! Thanx in advance.
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[Q] nandroid restore of different versions

Hello everybody! I made a cm9 b14 nandroid backup a week ago to try out the new miui mintberry, now if i try to restore the backup i have some problems like no statusbar and random recovery reboots. So I came back to miui and now i m considering doing a nandroid backup of miui mintberry in order to try the new cm9 b15, i wanted to ask you what could have caused the problems described so to avaid them if (after doing the miui backup and flashing the new rom) i will want to go back to miui in the next days. Another question is: do i loose all the saved passwords (gmail wattsapp facebook freesms..) by doing a nandroid backup or they are stored with all the data?
I hope my questions are clear
Thank you in advance!
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Upp..please spmeone help me to understand what i did wrong..
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Hi, I'm running CyanogenMod 7.1 now, and I have ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.6.
But I want to restore and Clockwork won't see my backup because it was done in a newer different version 5.0.2.7.
How can I restore my backup ?

to restore your nandroid backup its best to first install the rom you took the back up off.. factory reset your phone and then do a fresh install of the rom you backed up.. after flashing restore the backup..
you won't have any FCs or anything with this method.

[Q] Recommended CWM

Hi,
I wipe my device yesterday to make a fresh install because my o2x has gotten laggy for the past few weeks, I made a titanium backup + CWM backup.
Sadly, some of my apps Data was not backed up for some reason, although the app is able to be restored by titanium, but no previous data backup. The most important apps for me, the LG Memo app and color notes which both i use to record memo. Now lost.
Then i tried to restore from CWM which supposed to be last resort, and it failed to restore halfway through the SYSTEM partition. So now i am totally lost.
This is my second time in a few months cwm failed to make a proper backup (i rarely use it anyway), and the sad thing is i will not know that it is a bad backup until i tried to restore it to see it fails.
So my question is, is there a recommended version of CWM i should use? I flashed my cwm from rom manager, i think it is version 4.0.2.0.
Secondly, is there a way to extract and restore my app + data from raw cwm backup?
Thanks.

Current cwm version is 5.0.2.8. I have installed it directly and never experienced a problem.
I think that you can manually extract your app and push it to your phone.

It's not much of the app itself, but the DATA that is associated with the app. Like i said, the LG Memo i can just get back by reinstalling the rom, but the memos i saved for the past year or so is what i want to get back.

I am daily user of cwm instaled thry RomMenager and it works perfectly. You can try application Appextractor to extract app from your cwm backup

You can also try restoring your /data partition only. CWM has an option to selectively restore parts of your backup. That way you can get your info back.
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DrummerMuppet said:
You can also try restoring your /data partition only. CWM has an option to selectively restore parts of your backup. That way you can get your info back.
Sent using some sticks and gum, just as McGyver would
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I tried that... it ends up with bootloop.
@all
Thanks for all your help. I manage to restore the cwm backup after updating my cwm. It got stuck at boot but then i tried reinstalling the Spica's HP custom kernel.. everything's back again. Lucky~

[Q] ClockworkMod Installed by CM 10.2; cant restore stock.

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:
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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