Complete backup with Nandroid - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

How to backup everything with Nandroid?
Actually I am asking as I did a backup recently but while restoring some of my apps went missing (like email), why did that happen?
I am not too familiar with /preload but what I have read have made me understand that it includes some of the apps so might this be the case that the apps in /preload weren't backed up? If yes how to include them to back up with android, please tell (I did some search but didn't found any answer).
Any advice/help would be really appreciated.
Thanks

Indian Devil said:
How to backup everything with Nandroid?
Actually I am asking as I did a backup recently but while restoring some of my apps went missing (like email), why did that happen?
I am not too familiar with /preload but what I have read have made me understand that it includes some of the apps so might this be the case that the apps in /preload weren't backed up? If yes how to include them to back up with android, please tell (I did some search but didn't found any answer).
Any advice/help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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If you are using Philz kernel go to recovery, select "backup & restore". In there go to settings or misc (can't remember what its called) and make sure "Preload" is selected. Then backup your rom.
To reinstall make sure you are using a kernel that supports this backup so easiest way is just restore from philz kernel.

Thanks mate worked well.
Coming fro i9000 I wasn't aware of the /preload thing and also I thought that Nandroid would backup everything by default. Shouldn't that (backing up of preload) be ticked by default in the kernel?
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Indian Devil said:
Thanks mate worked well.
Coming fro i9000 I wasn't aware of the /preload thing and also I thought that Nandroid would backup everything by default. Shouldn't that (backing up of preload) be ticked by default in the kernel?
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You would think so but it's not
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[Q] Retaining calendar dates, texts and apps post flashing

Hi Guys,
I have flashed my Note for the first time, I've gone for Rocket Rom V21.
all is working fine, however I had to do a wipe for the rom to work, so I'm missing all the text messages, app/settings, and calendar dates.
I do have a backup from yesterday done with CWM.
My question is, how can I apply or retain all of the above on my newly flashed rom?
Thanks
I think that the backup you made is localised to your ROM. So you may be unable to use the backed up data in the new ROM. Or you might have to modify/move somethings. Best of luck
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novastorm17 said:
I think that the backup you made is localised to your ROM. So you may be unable to use the backed up data in the new ROM. Or you might have to modify/move somethings. Best of luck
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Well I have restored my backup sucessfully just to check it, because people always reccomend having a backup of your working system if you are going to flash new roms.
The backup is functioning perfectly with all my texts and calendar dates in tact.
So I have an opportunity to back up these items, so what would you reccomend to do this?
Should I be using Titanium backup?
Titanium Backup will backup all Apps and Settings. I believe the newer versions of titanium Backup can extract backed up files from nandroid (CWM) backups.
if you wipe then it wipes the internal memory (dont confuse this with the 11gb storage space) you need to back up the messages with an app that will allow you to do this
if you have root then i use mybackup root if you dont have root then there are plenty of apps onthe market that will backup and restore your messages
I suggest you restore the previous ROM; install Titanium Backup and execute a backup of "all user apps + system data"; flash again your favorite ROM, then restore the apps + data you want.
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[Q] Nandroid Help

Hi
I messed up my phone today trying to revert back using a nandroid backup i had.
Problem is, when i restored it, my captivate would get to the splash screen and just go on forever. I thought maybe it will take awhile but no, it keeps going and ive left it for so long.
Im running Team ICSSGS along with IcyGlitch B5.
I can get into the OS after i format everything but i wanted to get back into my phone with all my apps still there.
Any help please?
Thanks
Copy Glitch V14 B6 to your SD card, then try a fresh restore, followed by flashing B6 before you reboot.
Say, what is Nandroid
Never did Nandroids. Just backed all my apps, account and Wi-Fi settings by TiBu. Then copied /sdcard/TitaniumBackup into computer.
Does Nandroid knows the filesystem to format etc? And if apps were on SDCard - will it really restore them?
pc103, i tried that several times to no avail.
i finally installed appextractor and used that and did pretty much what i needed. not all my user data is there but thats ok, saves me from having to redownload everything.
bravomail said:
Does Nandroid knows the filesystem to format etc? And if apps were on SDCard - will it really restore them?
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Good details are at What exactly is a nandroid backup?
Jay3161 said:
pc103, i tried that several times to no avail.
i finally installed appextractor and used that and did pretty much what i needed. not all my user data is there but thats ok, saves me from having to redownload everything.
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Check out the smbk functions in Super Manager. They let you choose between [sys] / [user] apks +/- data when restoring. That and Super Backup makes an easier reload when Nandroid's not an option.
bravomail said:
Never did Nandroids. Just backed all my apps, account and Wi-Fi settings by TiBu. Then copied /sdcard/TitaniumBackup into computer.
Does Nandroid knows the filesystem to format etc? And if apps were on SDCard - will it really restore them?
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As a longtime TIBU user I have run into trouble. I was using ROMs in the i9000 [Saurom, Continuum, Apex] family but also Native I897 ROMs [ Serenity, SaruromKK4]. Never a complaint due to TIBU. But moving over to CM9 and 4.0.4 IMM30B I have found that a full restore breaks things. Both the media player and messaging stop working [some installs]. I have had to be selective, and ...
Nandroid? pc103 links to info that shows Nandroid will not replace TIBU.. Perhaps TIBU has more control/functionality than my FULL restore approach.
I'm almost positive nandroid does recognize the file system- I think that is the point of nandroid basically, to take a snapshot of your entire phone including file systems and cache- but I ran into issues restoring apps with TiBu after a nandroid backup/restore between two rom versions, and it seemed to be due to a different format of file system. I'm no expert however...
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whats the best way to copy ny stuff to Note2?

I just got a Note2 and I was wonderinf if I can backup my files with titanium in Note1 then copy tge tiranium backup folder to note2 and restore tgere??
Im guessing the filesystem is differebt so it nay not be that easy.
Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1373728
For a second there I thought that was a link to answer my q
It is that easy, just don't backup system apps or data, only backup user apps and data and then restore on the note 2.
I've had backups from years ago and they've worked with every device I've had
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azzledazzle said:
It is that easy, just don't backup system apps or data, only backup user apps and data and then restore on the note 2.
I've had backups from years ago and they've worked with every device I've had
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Thanks man
Dropbox can be your best friend in that situation too.
Also, sync with Google too, like your contacts and stuff.

restoring with titanium backup (solved)

hi guys,
I have done a factory reset but before that i backed up my apps on my sd card, after reinstalling titanium i cant find any of the backed up apps after hitting the restore button. Any solution to this maybe?
got it now, needed to set the backup folder!
Please mark the thread as solved.
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i cant seem to find that option, where is it please?
dj341 said:
i cant seem to find that option, where is it please?
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Just edit the title and mark it as solved.
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You can even restore the apps from within CWM Recovery!
Just make sure you create the appropriate .ZIP on Titanium Backup (Batch / Recovery Mode / Create "Update.zip" from app+data backups)
Cheers!
Rayan

Enormous NAND backup sizes

So since sdcard is now part of /data, when I make a NAND backup the size is almost 4GB, since I have a bunch of music stored locally from Google Music. Is there anyway to get TWRP to ignore the sdcard directory when backing up (since it doesn't get wiped anyway) so that each backup I make isn't ginormous? I'm already down to only 15GB left on this phone. I know I could have it just not backup the data partition, but then restoring from a backup would only restore the OS and not the apps and configuration I previously had (which is kinda the whole point of a backup, since otherwise I could just fresh install a new ROM).
cant you just copy them over to your computer? and keep one on the phone for safety?
Just created a nandroid backup with CWM touch, mine came out as 2.1GB, not sure why your backup is so large
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Mine are usually around 1.5GB. But I don't keep music and videos on mine.
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Since the /sdcard data is sharing with the same partition as the /data doing a nandroid backup would depend on how much space is consumed by your sdcard.
So I guess nothing I can do, then? Thanks anyway.
Does this mean a Nandroid backup of the One would backup photos and media too?
dnydny said:
Does this mean a Nandroid backup of the One would backup photos and media too?
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Yes!
Problem is that Google Music cache is in /data/data folder, so Twrp backs it up. Solution is to create a folder on /sdcard and symlink the Google Music cache folder to it. Twrp won't back it up because it doesn't follow symlinks nor does it backup /sdcard. There are several posts on the subject, just search.
Riyal said:
Yes!
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I don't believe it does, I don't think Nandroid would perform backup functions differently on different devices but coming from the SGN I - I can tell you that all Nandroid backups are basically settings and OS files as well as Apps / App Data. For the most part, when you do a Wipe / Format on your phone, it is only removing the OS files and installed Apps. It does not backup your photos / videos as it never really removes that data to begin with and so you should see your stuff there even after installing a fresh copy of the ROM. If you go into advanced functions in CWM and format your card, then you will wipe the entire device off.
IIRC CWM started taking nandroid backups very differently from a few versions ago, there's now a "blobs" folder in the backup folder and that is the one that grows exponentially in size. I believe that was done to only make incremental backups easy but the downsize is grows massive.
I cannot give you a guaranteed answer if deleting the blobs folder is safe or not but I have deleted it in the past and eventually resorted to just keeping the most recent backup by deleting all backups / blobs and then doing a fresh backup.
click compression and mines 1 gig
A nandroid backup also backs up the data directories and your downloaded Goggle Music songs are in that data directory. Therefore whenever your do a nandroid backup, the songs will be backed up as well, increasing your final size...
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encrypshun said:
I don't believe it does, I don't think Nandroid would perform backup functions differently on different devices
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The recovery may very well perform nandroids differently on "data/media" services such as the htc one. Check out http://teamw.in/DataMedia
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I'll try the symlink trick, thanks.
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is there an app that lets you browse nandroid contents so you can confirm what has been backed up?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2044414
Ok just to answer my own question.
I just took a nandroid backup of One of my phones and restored it to my other one.
Music and Gallary did not come across.
If anyone else wants me to verify anything I'm more than happy to as I have both phones in front of me and all my settings and profiles are there, just no media.

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