If I am on 4.1 and use titainium to backup my data and apps, save those bachups to my pc, then unroot and ruu so I can get the 4.3 OTA. Can I restore my apps once I reroot without problems.
Yes.
Also as a side note. Use HTC backup as well. It will backup your home screens and app drawer. What I am doing is:
Flash new sense ROM
Log into Google and nothing else
download Titanium backup and restore apps
Log into HTC account and dropbox through Accounts & sync
Change backup to HTC and restore from HTC backup
Has made life so much easier than what I used to do on other phones. Phone is quickly back to just how I like it.
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Today I rooted my fiance's phone and put ICS on it. I made a nandroid of the stock ROM before I wiped it and put ICS on it. I didn't realize that most of her contacts were stored on the phone and were unsynced with her gmail.
Using Titanium Pro I can access her contact storage and restore it, but the AOKP handles contacts differently than stock, and won't restore the contacts. I also can't get the nandroid image to restore properly to try and export the contacts.
What should I do?
Update: I tried restoring the stock ROM and ran into a host of new problems that resulted in a bootloop so bad that it wouldn't get past the AT&T screen.
I can't stress how impossibly simple it is when you just sync them with google. You don't even have to think about backing up/restoring them EVER. Instead of just restoring the stock nandroid, you must flash back to stock first because you need the kernels to match when restoring a stock rom.
You also need the partition layout to match what is mapped in the kernel and framework...
korockinout13 said:
I can't stress how impossibly simple it is when you just sync them with google. You don't even have to think about backing up/restoring them EVER. Instead of just restoring the stock nandroid, you must flash back to stock first because you need the kernels to match when restoring a stock rom.
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Trust me, I know. It's my FIANCE'S phone, not mine. It didn't even occur to me to backup the contacts, because it wouldn't ever occur to me to keep them stored internally and not on Google's servers.
I used Titanium's ability to pull contacts from a nandroid and restored data only. It got almost all the contacts back.
I'm not restoring everything back to stock, not worth the pitfalls and potential bricking.
There isn't one chance of bricking if you don't flash bootloaders...
There are tools available to uncompress the nandroid images and grab the contacts database. Then just push it to the the proper place on the new rom, reboot and you're done.
Sent from my Captivate
Edit: There's also this if you don't have access to a computer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.goddchen.android.nandroidbrowser
Thanks for all the replies everyone. I got it all fixed up.
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Basically I'm using ICS333 which is great and to do I was trying to make some changes to the stock contacts apps. Anyway, I did a nandroid backup via CWM 5.5 so that I can restore if anything went wrong and sure enough I flashed something meant for JB. I went to restore my backup and afterwards rebooted... except now it is stuck in a loop when it reaches the ICS loading screen.
The only way to make it boot in ICS now is to wipe all personal data... which makes the backup meaningless.
In all honesty, the only thing I really want to keep is my whatsapp and texts. I'm currently trying to restore individual bits of the backup to see what causes the problem but can I extract data from a Nandroid backup?
This day gets better, now my home button doesn't work!
Ultraman1966 said:
can I extract data from a Nandroid backup?
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yes, download a nandroid browser from play store, and try My Android solutions (link below) for a suitable remedy
For for the tips, I used Titanium backup to retrieve some of the info but didn't to junk the rest. Less crap on the phone means it runs like butter again!
Hi am relatively new to this. Planning to root my HTC one and install a custom rom. Is there a way to fully backup the phone(including contacts,messages,apps,pictures,music,settings,preferences etc) essentially make a clone of the phone so i can restore between custom rom updates? I mean since custom roms are updated so often i dont want each time i upgrade to setup the phone from scratch. I want the Android Revolutuion HD rom and i dont think its upgradeable over the air. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Yes once you install recovery there is an option to do a full nandroid backup. You can than restore said backup - but before you restore your backup, you must wipe system/data/cache
Edit: I think I misunderstood first. You want titanium backup probably to restore data. You shouldnt backup settings and system data only app data
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So since scrosler once again has stopped development on CleanROM, I'm thinking of switching over to ARHD, but I am curious about restoring just the data from a nandriod made from CleanROM on ARHD. Will there be any major issues (don't want to lose all my txts and such)? Thanks!
You can back them up (texts and contacts etc etc) and they would restore with no issue Game data should have no issue as well if you use Titanium.
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So since scrosler once again has stopped development on CleanROM, I'm thinking of switching over to ARHD, but I am curious about restoring just the data from a nandriod made from CleanROM on ARHD. Will there be any major issues (don't want to lose all my txts and such)? Thanks!
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you can use AppExtracter to restore apps, sms and contacts from nandroid backups.
or, you can use an app like Super Backup Pro to backup Apps+app data, sms, contacts, calender and bookmarks. and restore them on your new rom.
I advice titanium backup if we're root
I have been running Sense ROMs on my m7 since I got it, but yesterday I decided to make the conversion to GPE. That went smoothly, and before I wiped everything I used the HTC Messaging app to make a backup of my text messages. Now that I'm on GPE I'm realizing that HTC has a proprietary backup, and I can't restore directly from it. Short of flashing back to a Sense based ROM, restoring the messages, then using a different app to create a compatible backup, is there any way I can restore these messages onto the GPE ROM without going through all the trouble of re-flashing? I believe the backup HTC created is an .hbk file. I've tried a few SMS restore apps from the Play Store, but none have been able to restore from this file so far.
Thanks!
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I have been running Sense ROMs on my m7 since I got it, but yesterday I decided to make the conversion to GPE. That went smoothly, and before I wiped everything I used the HTC Messaging app to make a backup of my text messages. Now that I'm on GPE I'm realizing that HTC has a proprietary backup, and I can't restore directly from it. Short of flashing back to a Sense based ROM, restoring the messages, then using a different app to create a compatible backup, is there any way I can restore these messages onto the GPE ROM without going through all the trouble of re-flashing? I believe the backup HTC created is an .hbk file. I've tried a few SMS restore apps from the Play Store, but none have been able to restore from this file so far.
Thanks!
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Simple answer is no. You will have to restore them in Sense and then restore them. Mind you this may not completely work as they use completely different systems. It could also corrupt the restore and cause bigger issues with the messaging app. It is never advised to restore any system data like this.