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[Q] A newbie Q: is CMW a nandroid backup?

Very sorry for newbie Q. I've been using Android for one month now. Though I've rooted, and install CWM, it seems that my knowledge is fragmented. For instance, I installed ROM Manager and ClockWorkMod. Both have backup/restore option. Is Nandrloid backup similar to this? Or CWM is the nandroid backup?
Coz I'm thinking about flashing the baseband and it says i need to do nandroid backup.
thanks

The backup feature in CWM is called a nandroid backup
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Yup, you are right! It's the same thing.
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Two more questions:
1. I read from a few threads that restore function of CWM may not necessarily working. How do we know when we do the back up that it'll work when we need to restore?
2. The CWM that i downloaded is 3.0.8. I read somewhere that the newest is 3.2 something. How can i upgrade to that? It seems that 3.2 can solve this restore failure.
thanks

If you look in the CWM 3.2.0.0 thread, you'll notice there is a zip file, in that is the recovery image and a batch file that will install it for you.

fifi139 said:
Two more questions:
1. I read from a few threads that restore function of CWM may not necessarily working. How do we know when we do the back up that it'll work when we need to restore?
2. The CWM that i downloaded is 3.0.8. I read somewhere that the newest is 3.2 something. How can i upgrade to that? It seems that 3.2 can solve this restore failure.
thanks
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I did trust CWM with backup of my system before i tried cyanmod ROM... I have three backups on my SD card and CWM restores fine, but system wont boot. So i had to build my phone all new again.
Dont trust CWM

After rebuilding you could have have restored the data backup (not system and boot) and you'd have been OK.

but the need to still rebuild still equates to CWM backups are useless.

baste07 said:
but the need to still rebuild still equates to CWM backups are useless.
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That's only true for the original ROM, for custom ROM it's a perfect solution, you just have to flash the ROM again after the restore.
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Vidroid said:
That's only true for the original ROM, for custom ROM it's a perfect solution, you just have to flash the ROM again after the restore.
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now, i'm confused. So, it's not enough that we restore but we need to flash it again? Like in nvflash or smartflash? Then what is it that we restore?
Also, I just flashed CMW 3.2. Do i need to create a new backup since currently my back up is from CMW 3.0.8?

By flash the ROM again, I meant run the zip file with the custom ROM on from Cwm. You will then have all your data and settings back.
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Vidroid said:
By flash the ROM again, I meant run the zip file with the custom ROM on from Cwm. You will then have all your data and settings back.
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So, if i want to go back to stock rom, i run the zip with stock rom from CWM? thanks.

Do you really have a zip file with stock rom? I don't think so.
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One could be made though, I suppose.

Sorry I'm confused now
CWM backups don't work? is that why I can't see them when I open CW Rom Manager? I can see them on the SD card but not in the program...
If these backups do not work, is there another way of making backups that work? I don't want to be left with a bricked phone if I try out some ROMS...
I saw a youtube video that showed how to use NVflash, but it was for the G2X and incredibly complicated, battery was taken out, and the phone was plugged in/out of the pc several times, etc... Is theres something similar for the O2X?
Cheers

Vidroid said:
Do you really have a zip file with stock rom? I don't think so.
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Yes, it's the link below. Unless I'm mistaken. But not sure if it's compatible with my country.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1035041
edit: the link is BIN file not zip. So, with stock ROM, nandroid backup is useless then?

[Q] Getting it all 'back' just in case ....

Hello all,
I have rooted my galaxy note,have recovery working and think i am ready to tweak my machine.
I have created a backup from recovery so am i correct to think that after flashing,lets say,custom kernal,i can get it all back to where i am now by restoring this backup made from recovery?
And same goes for flashing and trying ROCKETROM?
Love this forum by the way,keep it up!

you get back the exact status of which the backup was made from.
you can easily check out different roms and get back to your old system by restoring from the backup (dont forget to geht them specific names as they are named by date+time)

two_handed said:
you get back the exact status of which the backup was made from. i am not sure about the kernel though - i think it remains the same.
you can easily check out different roms and get back to your old system by restoring from the backup (dont forget to geht them specific names as they are named by date+time)
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Now how's that for a quick reply,thanx two_handed,making different backups while trying different stuff is a good one!

The kernel will be over-written by your restore.
If you flash a new kernel and then restore your previous backup, you will lose the new kernel and return to your original setup.

nobnut said:
The kernel will be over-written by your restore.
If you flash a new kernel and then restore your previous backup, you will lose the new kernel and return to your original setup.
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Ahh,tx nobnut,with that i have both my questions answered
Gonna try out sum stuff right away!!

There is just one thing to bear in mind.
Some kernels use different recoveries than 'stock' (e.g. Chainfire's modified recovery). If you use one of these, your restore might not work.
Don't worry. If you flash the Chainfire kernel again using the CWM app or Mobile ODIN, you can then restore your backup.

nobnut said:
There is just one thing to bear in mind.
Some kernels use different recoveries than 'stock' (e.g. Chainfire's modified recovery). If you use one of these, your restore might not work.
Don't worry. If you flash the Chainfire kernel again using the CWM app or Mobile ODIN, you can then restore your backup.
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Okay,so besides my recovery backup i should have this kernal by hand to make sure i have the right recovery once i need to restore?
CF-Root-SGN_XX_AUT_KKA-v5.0-CWM5.zip
Thats actualy the first one i was going to flash using recovery

kriskras said:
Okay,so besides my recovery backup i should have this kernal by hand to make sure i have the right recovery once i need to restore?
CF-Root-SGN_XX_AUT_KKA-v5.0-CWM5.zip
Thats actualy the first one i was going to flash using recovery
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If that's the one you used, yes
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Okay,took me a while but i flashed latest rocketrom that includes a different recovery,not cwm. Does that mean i can not use it to restore my stock,rooted backup?
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Whats the "different" recovery? Red pill? If yes, red pill backups are normally compatible with cwm recoverys and vice versa.
What about just giving it a try?
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;-) eventually I did,hehe. Thanx for the info!
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A custom ROM! A custom ROM! My phone for a custom ROM!.!

Okay, I have no idea why, but my phone doesn't seem to like any ROM except for the stock. Every ROM, every update I've tried, has just gone and bricked my phone. I'm a newbie as far as development goes, but I do know my way around flashing, applying updates from SD and stuff. And I'm careful not to mess with files designed for the other ace. I also follow instructions to the letter. I'm as scared of bricks as anyone else.
So I was wondering whether any of you could help me out here. Do tell me if it's better to stick with the stock ROM though. Awaiting a reply.
Cheers
EDIT:
Okay, I downloaded this iDroid ROM from here
My phone's kernel version says 2.6.35.7([email protected] #201209221033), but there's absolutely no change. Any ideas on what to do now? Still waiting for a reply. :-\
Still struggling to find a proper non-stock ROM that works on my phone X-(

kittuboy said:
Okay, I have no idea why, but my phone doesn't seem to like any ROM except for the stock. Every ROM, every update I've tried, has just gone and bricked my phone. I'm a newbie as far as development goes, but I do know my way around flashing, applying updates from SD and stuff. And I'm careful not to mess with files designed for the other ace. I also follow instructions to the letter. I'm as scared of bricks as anyone else.
So I was wondering whether any of you could help me out here. Do tell me if it's better to stick with the stock ROM though. Awaiting a reply.
Cheers
EDIT:
Okay, I downloaded this iDroid ROM from here
My phone's kernel version says 2.6.35.7([email protected] #201209221033), but there's absolutely no change. Any ideas on what to do now? Still waiting for a reply. :-\
Still struggling to find a proper non-stock ROM that works on my phone X-(
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Well firstly ask why yourself why you want to flash a particular custom ROM? Does it have features you need etc? If not then stock is fine and there are many ways alter the appearance of your phone without flashing a new custom ROM via apps in the play store.
As always prior to flashing a custom ROM make sure you have all the tools and knowledge to flash back to stock if anything goes wrong. OK so by the sounds of it you have installed RB,s kernel but have not installed IDroid ROM, tell us how you tried to flash and that will give us more of an idea where you are going wrong.
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Viprdxd said:
Well firstly ask why yourself why you want to flash a particular custom ROM? Does it have features you need etc? If not then stock is fine and there are many ways alter the appearance of your phone without flashing a new custom ROM via apps in the play store.
As always prior to flashing a custom ROM make sure you have all the tools and knowledge to flash back to stock if anything goes wrong. OK so by the sounds of it you have installed RB,s kernel but have not installed IDroid ROM, tell us how you tried to flash and that will give us more of an idea where you are going wrong.
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Why the custom ROM: I was told by a friend (who uses a Galaxy Y) to use one, so as to make the phone less laggy. And I like to have my devices looking a little different from what everyone uses. Pardon me
EDIT: And yes, I do have the firmware required to flash back, as well as Odin. I've flashed before, so you could say I'm not a total waste there And I seem to have trouble understanding the difference between ROM and kernel.... could you please explain it to me? At least I'll know where I'm going wrong.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976674
[PORTED][ROM]Jelly Blast V3.0.4 [29/11/2012]try flashing this from.
It is good method I hope u know then to
1.download the from from the link.
2.install it using cwm recovery.
3.then press wipe data/reset.
4.then go to the advanced menu and clean the dalvik cache.
5.reboot and enjoy
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vkv.5991 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976674
[PORTED][ROM]Jelly Blast V3.0.4 [29/11/2012]try flashing this from.
It is good method I hope u know then to
1.download the from from the link.
2.install it using cwm recovery.
3.then press wipe data/reset.
4.then go to the advanced menu and clean the dalvik cache.
5.reboot and enjoy
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Booted. First off the bat, crashed MMS app. Within seconds, crashed phone app. :crying: And where did my status bar go off to?? :crying::crying: Disappointed, am going to try RazoDroid! :crying:

kittuboy said:
Booted. First off the bat, crashed MMS app. Within seconds, crashed phone app. :crying: And where did my status bar go off to?? :crying::crying:
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On which firmware you are?
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Try fixing permissions in cwm
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Did you ROM wipe. Before you install custom ROMs?
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kittuboy said:
Booted. First off the bat, crashed MMS app. Within seconds, crashed phone app. :crying: And where did my status bar go off to?? :crying::crying: Disappointed, am going to try RazoDroid! :crying:
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Kitt explain to us how you are doing your flashes and let us know what firmware your running. To advise we need as much info as you can give.
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The standard procedure I follow:
1. Download the flashable zip to my phone SD card.
2. Reboot into stock recovery, enter clockworkmod through its zip file
3. Backup just in case, install the zip through cwm or stock recovery, whichever the dev advises
4. Reboot

Update: managed to get RazoDroid working. Firmware XXLD2, Rafael Baugis kernel (obviously, duh ) and no problems so far!

Just because you're probably not following the instructions correctly doesn't mean it's the developer's fault, and that you should be 'disappointed'.

True. I do my best to follow instructions, but I may have overlooked something somewhere. And no, I'm not blaming any devs, not intentionally anyway, because I don't have any rights to.... At the end of the day, I did manage to make something work, and now I'm happy with it, so all I can say is peace out
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Problems with ViperROM 1.0.3 - Reboots; No Apps; No Service

This should be a reply to the main topic in the Dev section, but it's my first post. This is the only place I can post...
I'm new to Android, I've been an iPhone user since the beginning. I remember going through the steps to jailbreak and unlock the 1st iPhone by hand via command line. And I've been jailbraking iPhones ever since. Before that I was flashing ROMs to my Windows Phones and modding Xbox's. Now I'm ready for Android, but I'm stumped:
The HTC One is my first Android phone. It's the Sprint phone so I'm attempting to flash with ViperROM 1.0.3. I'm unlocked running TWRP and have followed the tips I've found to a 't'. But every time I flash, ViperROM boots, takes about 3 mins, Reboots, begins Upgrading Apps (a random number of apps each time, once 37, once 83, once 232) then finishes at the lockscreen. Unlock and the HTC setup begins. The keyboard disappears (from existence, from the shade notifier it want me to pick a keyboard, but won't let me), I never get network service, and after a few minutes the phone reboots. Once it reboots it comes to a black screen with on the notification bar with the battery and time. Then reboots again after a while. Never stops.
What I'm I doing wrong!? I'm wiping everything clean before I install, I've checked the MD5 of the ZIP, I've re-downloaded the ROM, nothing is working. What am I missing?

Maybe you should start with viper 1.0 and see how that one goes
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pelon90005 said:
Maybe you should start with viper 1.0 and see how that one goes
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I've figured out the problem, but no solution yet.
It's TWRP. For some reason it is not mounting /system. Not found a way to get it to mount /system on boot. You can mount it via 'Mount' from within TWRP and install viper without any problem, but when it reboots it's still not mounting /system
I tried using a plain stock ROM had the exact same problems. The OS can't see /system.
Any one know how to fix TWRP so it mounts /system? I've already tried overriding it with CWD then reinstalling TWRP. Didn't work. And CWD isn't HTC One Compatible, yet.

When you rooted did you do this step?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236849
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pelon90005 said:
When you rooted did you do this step?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236849
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I hadn't! Thanks.
But now that I have still not working.

EliLuc said:
I hadn't! Thanks.
But now that I have still not working.
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I suggest that you reinstall the recovery. Here's the link to recovery and the directions to install. http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/171
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volk9029 said:
I suggest that you reinstall the recovery. Here's the link to recovery and the directions to install.
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I had tried that already, even from that very link.
Went ahead and reinstalled again anyway, for kicks. Still no change.

Did you try using this method..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236814
and then this...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236849
and finally your Rom of choice.
This is what I used and had no issues.
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hcyplr29 said:
Did you try using this method..
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and then this...
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and finally your Rom of choice.
This is what I used and had no issues.
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Yes. I did. That's how I started the process. And yes, I've tried Vipers's R/W root.

If that doesn't work I would relock it, install the RUU and start over. Seems your recovery install went wonky. Maybe your download was corrupted.?? Be patient, you'll get it bud.
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hcyplr29 said:
If that doesn't work I would relock it, install the RUU and start over. Seems your recovery install went wonky. Maybe your download was corrupted.?? Be patient, you'll get it bud.
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Thank you for the help! It's very appreciated! Sucks to be the noob. Is hard needed to learn everything as you go on a new platform. But love figuring it out!
Now, I did try last night to flash a stock RUU (used this RUU: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2250904)
I re-locked the bootloader and then used Hasoons all in one tool to flash it. It failed. Where can I find a good RUU to flash?
Also, this post seems to best explain my /system mount problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2194471

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I re-locked the bootloader and then used Boomers all in one tool to flash it. It failed.
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I haven't seen or heard of this tool. The only noobproof one i know of is hasoons. Also the RUU that you used is it the Sprint_HTC_One_m7wls_1.29.651.7_RUU.zip?? Thats the one I used and make sure you unzip it and run the exe.

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I haven't seen or heard of this tool. The only noobproof one i know of is hasoons. Also the RUU that you used is it the Sprint_HTC_One_m7wls_1.29.651.7_RUU.zip?? Thats the one I used and make sure you unzip it and run the exe.
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Sorry, not boomer, it was Hasoon. I'm away from my computer and could only remember there were two O's in his name. :silly:
It might have been that RUU, I'll try that method when I get back home this evening. Thanks. I hadn't unzipped or run it via exe the one I got before

good luck. and make sure your bootloader is locked before you do it.

See my post on incremental updates in this forum or basically use TWRPs sideload adb feature in advanced . You need the Hassoon2000 all in one toolkit for the HTC One. Watch wwjoshdew on YouTube he covers it. Press Shift in the all in one root toolkit folder and select Run command prompt here. Once you do that put the phone in adb sideload mode, wipe all caches and then sideload the zip file with Viper 1.0.3 to your phone no need to change the name of thefile. TWRP will rename this to sideload.zip for you and begin to reflash your new ROM. When it is complete it will reboot to system. Make sure you make a Nandroid and never ever do a factory wipe in TWRP as I found out the hard way. It WILL erase your backups.lol
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Did you do the advanced wipe from TWRP before flashing the ROM?

I got my phone working again, at the least, by running the RUU.
I'll attempt to install vipersROM again this weekend and see if re flashing the TWRP works.
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Did you do the advanced wipe from TWRP before flashing the ROM?
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Yes, I did. But installing the ROM wasn't the problem as I was able to mount /system from within TWRP. Wouldn't mount though when booting the ROM.

*Update*
Ran that RUU and re-flashed to stock on Monday night and ran stock for the rest of the week.
Yesterday I tried it all again and all went well with out an issue. (Flashed viperROM 1.0.4). Aside from one re-flash this morning after I tried installing some AirPlay app that halted the phone and kept it from starting up. But after a quick re flash without a wipe, that fixed that quickly.
It was a bad recovery flash. So, in the future if anyone has this problem and finds this post and skips to the end for an answer:
I used Hassoon2000 All-In-One Toolkit for HTC One
- Re-Lock Bootloader
- Re-flash to Stock via the correct RUU (extract the *.ZIP and run setup.exe. In this specific situation: Sprint_HTC_One_m7wls_1.29.651.7_RUU.zip)
- Unlock Bootloader
- Flash Recovary (i.e.: TWRP)
- Then one of the following to Flash a ROM:
+ Sideload a compatible ROM via ADB (In this specific situation: viperROM for the Sprint HTC One)
+ Upload ROM to Phone via DroidExplorer and Install directly from TWRP

Glad to see you got it figured out. :good:

Hi!
just reviving the thread, had the same issue you see, but on phone there's no imei.
pls help!

Has anyone got AdAway to work?

Everytime I run AdAway it hang on the applying host file and most of the time will reboot the phone. Running stock rom with captain throwbacks unsecured boot. I have also tried flashing a symlink in recovery which flashes fine and then change adaway setting to the new location. It still locks up the phone. I'm now s-off & even after symlink and changed location or default location it still locks the phone. I have also tried the 2.8.1 unofficial version on xda also hang on the phone. I don't know what else to try at this point.

I'm using it on mine. Works fine after s-off
I'm on stock rom that's rooted. Not sure what is up with yours.
My adaway version is 2.3

If you are not s off the system write protection will not let u modify the system
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Before I s-off I did flash Unsecured boot.img and applied this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51560297&postcount=20
Maybe that has something to do with it.
So now that I'm s-off can I just restore my nandroid of stock rom and try it again? Bloat kept reinstalling itself before I applied the boot.img & patch.

Sim-X said:
Before I s-off I did flash Unsecured boot.img and applied this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=51560297&postcount=20
Maybe that has something to do with it.
So now that I'm s-off can I just restore my nandroid of stock rom and try it again? Bloat kept reinstalling itself before I applied the boot.img & patch.
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Yup. Shouldn't have any issue if you nandroid back if you've got s-off. Make sure you restore everything.

exSD said:
Yup. Shouldn't have any issue if you nandroid back if you've got s-off. Make sure you restore everything.
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I will prob just do a clean install of badseed instead of restore stock backup. Are you using badseed? Was gonna wait a while to flash it but I'm not really a fan of stock either and I was reading badseed has some bugs in it such as not being able to sign into google account.

I am having the same issue on BadSeed 1.2 with S OFF
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I might have to hold off if you are having the same issue. It always worked find on my m7. I wonder why it works for some and not others?

Sim-X said:
I will prob just do a clean install of badseed instead of restore stock backup. Are you using badseed? Was gonna wait a while to flash it but I'm not really a fan of stock either and I was reading badseed has some bugs in it such as not being able to sign into google account.
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no I'm on stock ROM. There isn't a ROM yet worth flashing over to. The stock ROM is pretty great IMO.

exSD said:
no I'm on stock ROM. There isn't a ROM yet worth flashing over to. The stock ROM is pretty great IMO.
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Yea I was going to wait a while before switching from stock. So now that I have s-off if I restore my nandroid backup will I still need to reflash a new boot image or apply a kernal patch or if I uninstall bloat will it make it past a reboot?