Me and my wife use the exact same model phone and both are rooted. Hers has had a few issues that have made it unusable at times. Mine works as it should. Question is, can I use my backup on her phone to restore a 'good known working' system? and then just modify it for her stuff. I'm assuming she would keep her phone number and all that (I get a little foggy when it comes to all imei/sim stuff).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
yes you can, but only do NOT restore EFS and is all good.
Make a nandroid backup first.
onolox said:
yes you can, but only do NOT restore EFS and is all good.
Make a nandroid backup first.
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Thanks for the info.
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please dont scold me. im a noob
i think nandroid backup is backing up my phone stuff?
if my n1 bricks in case can i unbrick it by restoring the backup
if i make a new backup will the previously made backup get deleted.
can i delete backups because it uses lot of space
thanks appreciate your help
yrdito said:
please dont scold me. im a noob
i think nandroid backup is backing up my phone stuff?
if my n1 bricks in case can i unbrick it by restoring the backup
if i make a new backup will the previously made backup get deleted.
can i delete backups because it uses lot of space
thanks appreciate your help
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Nandroid backs up the entire phone state.
If you brick your phone then nothing can help, hence the name. If you have any problems that fall short of bricking then you can restore the backup to revert the phone.
You give every new backup a unique name and you can have as many as you want.
Delete any that you want to, just don't delete your original ROM backup.
Or you can just put some of your backups on your computer so you always have one just in case. You can always put it back and restore it if needed.
Can I just restore the twrp generated nandroid on a replacement nexus 6?
not recommended, but you can try; just be prepared to restore it from scratch if it locks up..
NiNJAwitaRaZR said:
Can I just restore the twrp generated nandroid on a replacement nexus 6?
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Do NOT do this. A nandroid contains files that are device specific. You could end up needing a new replacement.
The replacment is another nexus 6 and I'm talking about the backup that twrp makes.
NiNJAwitaRaZR said:
The replacment is another nexus 6 and I'm talking about the backup that twrp makes.
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I know what you are talking about. Apparently you do not know just what the nandroid does or what its purpose is. A nandroid is a back up off the partitions on your device and some contain files made per device.
Just save yourself the head ache and set it up fresh. Doesnt take too long.
K thank you for the info
ok, all you people saying no, ive done this a few times with absolutely no issues after. BUT, it has to be done right, or you will have issues. just be sure that you create a nandroid on the new n6 first. then delete that new nandroid and stick the old nandroid in that same exact spot, within that folder. if the nandroid is from a phone thats not a n6, then make sure that only data is backed up and restored, nothing else.
simms22 said:
ok, all you people saying no, ive done this a few times with absolutely no issues after. BUT, it has to be done right, or you will have issues. just be sure that you create a nandroid on the new n6 first. then delete that new nandroid and stick the old nandroid in that same exact spot, within that folder. if the nandroid is from a phone thats not a n6, then make sure that only data is backed up and restored, nothing else.
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Then you are running a very big risk of messing your imei and baseband up permanently. Nandroid backups include all partitions. They should only be restored on the device it was pulled from. Too many people trying to take the easy way out and being lazy. This leads to people doing warranty returns which to be honest unless you always remained stock and never modded then you should never use.
I'd done this to my one plus one but restore only boot , system and data partitions none other , no problem.. But thus is Nexus 6 , I don't want to take risk.
zelendel said:
Then you are running a very big risk of messing your imei and baseband up permanently. Nandroid backups include all partitions. They should only be restored on the device it was pulled from. Too many people trying to take the easy way out and being lazy. This leads to people doing warranty returns which to be honest unless you always remained stock and never modded then you should never use.
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wrong.. nandroid backup have whatever partition you included in the backup. DO NOT BACKUP YOUR IMEI!
simms22 said:
wrong.. nandroid backup have whatever partition you included in the backup. DO NOT BACKUP YOUR IMEI!
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Before telling someone they are wrong. Let alone me. You have to take into account how normal people will do it. Now just from your statement people will be expecting an IMEI partition. When they dont see one they will do a full nandroid and then guess what happens? You have to remember that people understanding what they are doing is not the people that need help with something like this. No one that has any real clue would restore a nandroid from one device to another. Hell most dont even bother with nandroids anymore. They are more noob tools then anything else.
Is there any method that I can back up the device completely so that I can venture into other roms including imei in case of losing
TWRP does a full backup. It does NOT backup your user files though on the SD Card. Just make sure that after you make the full backup that you go to the SD Card and copy off the TWRP Folder to a PC or if you have a Duo Thumb drive like me, plug it in and set it as the save location when you are backing up with TWRP.
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TWRP does a full backup. It does NOT backup your user files though on the SD Card. Just make sure that after you make the full backup that you go to the SD Card and copy off the TWRP Folder to a PC or if you have a Duo Thumb drive like me, plug it in and set it as the save location when you are backing up with TWRP.
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but backup twrp does not work with imei
jakson7474 said:
but backup twrp does not work with imei
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Works
Efs backup (it's imei partition)
jakson7474 said:
but backup twrp does not work with imei
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Ah I see these guys have the imei issue. I'm only day 3 with the G5S Plus lol. didn't have these issues with the Turbo
drtweak said:
Ah I see these guys have the imei issue. I'm only day 3 with the G5S Plus lol. didn't have these issues with the Turbo
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They lose their imei cuz they don't know what they are doing and follow a lot of bad advice given by others that don't know what they are doing - classic case of blind leading the blind. I've run almost every rom, restored stock a couple times, never lost imei.
Phazmos said:
They lose their imei cuz they don't know what they are doing and follow a lot of bad advice given by others that don't know what they are doing - classic case of blind leading the blind. I've run almost every rom, restored stock a couple times, never lost imei.
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Same?
Idk,why people lost them imei
Hey everyone thanks to @BIOKNOX who recently helped me get my Note 9 working again, I want to make a complete software backup. A complete IMAGE of the current software so just in case something goes wrong, I could have somewhere to come back to. So I need help with that. I use twrp will that work? Is their a better software? Will Twrp work the way i want it to? Thank you in advance
BlackJackN9 said:
Hey everyone thanks to @BIOKNOX who recently helped me get my Note 9 working again, I want to make a complete software backup. A complete IMAGE of the current software so just in case something goes wrong, I could have somewhere to come back to. So I need help with that. I use twrp will that work? Is their a better software? Will Twrp work the way i want it to? Thank you in advance
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Since you're using TWRP then that's the best. Make a backup of all partitions. If there is a problem while restoring try to restore one by one, maybe some cannot be restored, can't say nothing here. But a nandroid TWRP backup is the way to go, yes.
koragg97 said:
Since you're using TWRP then that's the best. Make a backup of all partitions. If there is a problem while restoring try to restore one by one, maybe some cannot be restored, can't say nothing here. But a nandroid TWRP backup is the way to go, yes.
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You made me really happy then really sad. xD
anyways thanks
ill try them both.
koragg97 said:
Since you're using TWRP then that's the best. Make a backup of all partitions. If there is a problem while restoring try to restore one by one, maybe some cannot be restored, can't say nothing here. But a nandroid TWRP backup is the way to go, yes.
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Hey, I backed up the file in steps, cause I did not had a big SD card at hand. The problem I am facing is I cannot backup system image. How can I backup that file? Is it important? Btw all back ups are done using twrp and I just realised that I could have just backed everything up in the phone storage and then copied it all as one file on to my laptop.
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Hey, I backed up the file in steps, cause I did not had a big SD card at hand. The problem I am facing is I cannot backup system image. How can I backup that file? Is it important? Btw all back ups are done using twrp and I just realised that I could have just backed everything up in the phone storage and then copied it all as one file on to my laptop.
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I haven't had any experience with TWRP or such things on phones newer than the Galaxy S5. I don't see a point to root or tinker with my Note 9 as it's perfect stock so can't really test if i can backup the system image myself. All things are important in a backup, is it grayed out or something? I'd always do a full 1 backup though, not in parts. Seems easier to restore later.
I recently installed Project Elixer custom rom on my Poco M2 device, everything worked fine. However, calls and sms are not working, I tried a lot of things but no good. So, I decided to go for other custom rom like PixelPlusUI, but when I went to twrp and tried to install it, shows me error -> ERROR 1: unable to extract rom.zip, I tried other roms and versions too. but same issue, so I guess this is something wrong with my system instead of roms. I am really stuck without sms and calls pls help me
For the sms and calls problem...
Did you make an IMEI Backup? Because is the most common way of lossing mobile services, if you did make a backup, just restore it in TWRP, if not, you're screwed, is impossible to restore the IMEI completely without any backup.
DznDani said:
For the sms and calls problem...
Did you make an IMEI Backup? Because is the most common way of lossing mobile services, if you did make a backup, just restore it in TWRP, if not, you're screwed, is impossible to restore the IMEI completely without any backup.
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I followed this guide
devchaudhary78 said:
I followed this guide
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So did you make the full backup? When everything was working? Like SMS and Calls
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So did you make the full backup? When everything was working? Like SMS and Calls
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DznDani said:
So did you make the full backup? When everything was working? Like SMS and Calls
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Hey there, thanks for helping me.
I want to give you an update.
What happened is that I took the backup when my phone was working fine, however my pc got resetted and I lost that eventually.
After reading your post I was totally scared that I nuked the phone.
And the info was correct, w/o backup, if IMEI is gone we are screwed.
However, a friend of mine helped me and told that the issue is not with IMEI, so I somehow managed to boot back into original rom.
Thanks a lot
devchaudhary78 said:
Hey there, thanks for helping me.
I want to give you an update.
What happened is that I took the backup when my phone was working fine, however my pc got resetted and I lost that eventually.
After reading your post I was totally scared that I nuked the phone.
And the info was correct, w/o backup, if IMEI is gone we are screwed.
However, a friend of mine helped me and told that the issue is not with IMEI, so I somehow managed to boot back into original rom.
Thanks a lot
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Great!