Are there any online tools or apps or anything to run nandroids with our phones? Be nice if that worked since we don't have access to TWRP (and still keep the warranty).
Here it is. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620255
Have you tried using safestrap's nandroid option? I haven't tested it yet, so idk if it works properly.
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Hyperthetically if someone (not me) deleted all the root files using root explorer, would they all be replaced after a stock rom was installed using odin or is the only way to get root files like efs back a nand backup?
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I am not at all sure, but from what I can see online it seems that the /efs folder (and thus the holy IMEI number) are NOT restored by flashing roms or reloading general backups. That is likely the reason why it is strongly suggested to take a copy of your efs folder and save it somewhere secure before doing ANYTHING copacetic to your phone.
You (oh sorry, I mean your "friend") may be better off flashing to stock and then searching here for ways to change/set your IMEI number. Perhaps that will work.
Good luck.
Ok what I'm trying to ask is if I start playing with mods like root file mods that edit system files like the battery icon mod. Will a flash to stock rom on odin restore it back to normal or will the system files be forever changed? I think that is abit clearer.
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I would keep a back of all those files just to be safe
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I agree . But I'm more interested in the actual answer. Is the bootloader even stored in the root. And would it even be possible to restore everything just by pasting a backup of those files back?
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You can't **** up your bootloader with root explorer. You can destroy your efs though. As long as this is backed up everything else is restorable.
Thanks. So how would one go about backing up their boot loader or is that a mute point since the phone won't boot without one anyway? And if your bootloader did get screwed say from a bad flash and you couldn't get into download mode is that whats considered a hard brick and would a jig allow you to fix this?
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After looking into trying a custom rom for my rooted thrill I decided to try out CyanogenMod 7.2.0 just to test the waters because it was my first time flashing a rom on my thrill. I had some issues but was finally able to flash CyanogenMod rom on my thrill. I liked it a lot and it seemed to be working fine but it was plugged into the charger cause it was late at night. The next morning I unplugged it and went to work... Normally my stock thrill will last me my whole shift which is 8 hours plus travel time. By the time I get off of work my phone still in the green. Anyway by around first brake I noticed the battery was half gone this was in only three in a half hours by 4 hours it was in the red pretty much dead... Any ideas or suggestions? Btw I am back to stock gb but still was to try a custom rom and I really liked CyanogenMod 7.2.0
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Try using the latest nightly. It seemed a lot better with battery drain. Also once you've flashed the nightly, charge to 100%, go to recovery and under advanced menu, wipe battery stats. Let the phone run till it dies and see if that helps.
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I'm kinda afraid to retry and flash another rom on my phone...The first time I did it and tried to recover my stock rom I backed up it said it wasn't there or it did not exist. So I had to reinstall the original att gb rom and lost everything. Do I have to make a new backup of my rom every time I flash?
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No, but you will want to store it on your external SD card or transfer your stock backup to the PC to be safe. When you wipe before flashing you may wipe the area your backups are contained. Once you have them in a safe place you can flash without worry. If anything happens you can mount your SD card through recovery and transfer a backup then restore it. Get comfortable with making backups before flashing and what to do when a problem does occur. Panic can lead to bad mistakes.
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No, but you will want to store it on your external SD card or transfer your stock backup to the PC to be safe. When you wipe before flashing you may wipe the area your backups are contained. Once you have them in a safe place you can flash without worry. If anything happens you can mount your SD card through recovery and transfer a backup then restore it. Get comfortable with making backups before flashing and what to do when a problem does occur. Panic can lead to bad mistakes.
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Yeah that's exactly what I did and now I am flashing at a more comfortable level. And I did find my original backup and was able to flash my thrill back to where I had it. For some reason it won't show up in recovery mode, the only way I was able to flash it was through cwm. Now I'm running promethius Project Rom v1.5 with no idea kernel. I have flashed other kernels also. I want to flash another rom but hate setting everything up again lol like home screens, launchers, widgets, and reinstalling all my apps I have on my sd card.
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Check out titanium backup and ROM toolbox Pro (its worth paying for). Those two apps will get your old apps restored and restore the data (titanium backup) and give you all the tools you may need to tweak your ROM and customise it. ROM toolbox has root browser, ROM manager, CPU control, scripter and tons of others in one app. With those two apps you can have everything back how it was (besides home screens, which some launchers do allow you to make a backup) and anything else you need to get it running how you like.
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ima.monstaaa said:
Check out titanium backup and ROM toolbox Pro (its worth paying for). Those two apps will get your old apps restored and restore the data (titanium backup) and give you all the tools you may need to tweak your ROM and customise it. ROM toolbox has root browser, ROM manager, CPU control, scripter and tons of others in one app. With those two apps you can have everything back how it was (besides home screens, which some launchers do allow you to make a backup) and anything else you need to get it running how you like.
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I have titanium backup pro and the launcher I like using does have a backup feature. Although I think I might stick with promethius because it seems like it has the least issues.
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I preferred Prometheus over all the other ROMs. Its fast, stable and you get to keep your 3D features.
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So at present I have a HTC one on HTC_001 soffed hboot 1.54 using 'rumrunner'. I have CWM recovery and have made 4 nandroid backups, which I can see have backed up, by when I click on restore from backup I see the corresponding backups. But I would like to take these off of my phone to put on pc but for some reason I cannot view them through pc usb mass storage. Now I would like to try twrp to see if I can make a stock backup on there before I install rom's firmware etc. Can someone help let me know what's what. Thanks
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I do believe CWM has usb connectivity in recovery mode, but don't quote me on that.
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Dont worry all find jus bought Rom managee
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Is there away I can root this phone without having to factory reset it? I was kinda spoiled by Odin when I was with the galaxy line. Just one click flash and done. I was hoping HTC had something similar but I haven't found it yet.
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Nope.
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Is there away I can root this phone without having to factory reset it? I was kinda spoiled by Odin when I was with the galaxy line. Just one click flash and done. I was hoping HTC had something similar but I haven't found it yet.
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in order to root it, you have to start by unlocking your bootloader through htcdev. this wipes your phone, there's no way I know to get around it.
you could back up all your stuff first. Helium (carbon) is the only app I know of that can backup your app+data, sms, etc without root:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
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in order to root it, you have to start by unlocking your bootloader through htcdev. this wipes your phone, there's no way I know to get around it.
you could back up all your stuff first. Helium (carbon) is the only app I know of that can backup your app+data, sms, etc without root:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
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Thanks man. I'm going check that app out now.
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HTC Backup also does a surprisingly good job of backing everything up and restoring it after a reset.
I second the HTC Backup. Link it to Drive or Dropbox and let it do a full backup. When you are setting up the phone again, log back into HTC Backup and choose to restore a previous backup. It will re-install 98% of your apps and will restore lots of settings like wifi routers that you've saved and even restore your Sense homescreen, including widgets.
So I got tired of low memory so I backed up my stock slot and wiped then installed alliance rom on stock slot and now my backups are gone in twrp bit in root browser they're still under twrp backups any idea how to make them show up in recovery?
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So I got tired of low memory so I backed up my stock slot and wiped then installed alliance rom on stock slot and now my backups are gone in twrp bit in root browser they're still under twrp backups any idea how to make them show up in recovery?
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Do you have an external sd?
No
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No
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I would've suggested trying to copy the backup you see in root browser to the external sd, you mentioned you installed to stock slot and wiped and every now and then ss does that, sometimes it erases your internal sd and maybe what you see in root browser are the "corpse" of the backup you made. Try to get an ex sd will save you a lot of headache in the future.