Well... What is it?
it is basically an image of your phone at it's current state, sort of like a save. You can then go back to that save whenever you want to by using your computer and fastboot.
1. How do you do the nandroid backup?
2. What is fastboot?
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sorry for the really stupid question, if i make a nandroid back, what does that do exactly? does that hold all the data and apps and everything? so like if I switch roms, it makes it exactly the same as before?
or does it wipe the rom and everything?
nandroid backs up the complete phone. Apps, contacts, android OS... everything. If you restore a nandroid backup, it will put the phone in the state it was in when the backup was created. If you are rooted and you haven't made a nandroid backup yet.. DO IT!
And how exactly do you do a nandroid backup?
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atty101 said:
And how exactly do you do a nandroid backup?
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1. when you go into your recovery manually, and it takes to you to the clockwork recovery, its because you (the clockwork app) replaced the original recovery, with its own
2. In clockwork app, hitting the "back up rom" feature, will automatically boot into recovery, and automatically run the nandroid back up for you.
3. Nandroid makes an exact copy of your current running rom. Apps, settings, and data, even placement of all your apps and wall paper. Think of it as a ghost image for a pc, but for your phone.
Wish I could post the link for my source, but can't because I'm a new user
Source: Android Central Forum Thread "nandroid back up titanium back up...?"
So, I have a regular U8800 with Oxygen and ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.6.
My question is: what does Nandroid backup? If I manage to null my IMEI, will a restore bring it back? And if I brick it in some way, but manage to get into Recovery, will it restore everything?
I want to install the Aurora ROM, but if I mess up something, I want to know if Recovery can keep me somewhat safe.
a nandroid backup is protecticting you from any soft brick. By that I mean any software faults. For example if you accidentally delete something from your system a restore will make your phone identical as before. If you flash aurora and you want to revert to your backup this will make your phone look identical as before. I don't think that it is protecting you from a null IMEI though. If you want to be sure and to backup your phone completely you can follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374511
Ok, I will do that as soon as I get home. Thanks!
Long story short, my car charger 'melted' my main board on my N4. Sent in to LG for repair and they replaced it, free of charge. However, I lost everything since the memory is on the mainboard.
I have since re-rooted my phone and decided to go with TWRP instead of CWM that I had previously.
My questions are this:
I have an older CWM backup saved on my computer. Is there a way for me to 'explore' the backup with a Window program so I don't have to re-flash the whole image on the phone in order to save whatever data (pictures videos etc) and extract them somehow?
If not, can I flash a CWM backup onto the phone via TWRP? Are they compatible? Is there any harm in flashing an old CWM (4.2.2) onto a TWRP (4.3) to get my data back and then repeat the process?
usafle said:
Long story short, my car charger 'melted' my main board on my N4. Sent in to LG for repair and they replaced it, free of charge. However, I lost everything since the memory is on the mainboard.
I have since re-rooted my phone and decided to go with TWRP instead of CWM that I had previously.
My questions are this:
I have an older CWM backup saved on my computer. Is there a way for me to 'explore' the backup with a Window program so I don't have to re-flash the whole image on the phone in order to save whatever data (pictures videos etc) and extract them somehow?
If not, can I flash a CWM backup onto the phone via TWRP? Are they compatible? Is there any harm in flashing an old CWM (4.2.2) onto a TWRP (4.3) to get my data back and then repeat the process?
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No, there is no problem in :
Flashing CWM, restoring the backup, then flashing TWRP, and create a backup.
Another way would be extracting the data from the backup, which would be a pain in the back, and it's not worth it.
Google for "diskinternals". There should be a program for windows that allows you to open/read linux files/partitions.
Good luck.
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So from what I am understanding a "CWM" backup won't load in TWRP? I would have to flash CWM recovery to load the backup and then rinse and repeat to get TWRP back on the device...
I'll Google that diskinternal - thanks
Well we can close this. I used Nandroid manager to browse the CWM backup - as suggested by a friend. Unfortunately, I did not choose to back up my SDCard when I did the backup. So now, everything is lost for good.
Lesson learned.
Hello guys!
I was updating from 4.4.4 to lollypop via OTA, then I realized that even if I run the stock ROM, I am still unlocked + root, meaning that the OTA won't run.
I did a complete nandroid backup via Wugs Nexus Toolkit, including data.
Then I wiped and flashed the new 5.0 via Nexus Toolkit, but when I tried to restore only the data it didn't work.
I decided to go back to 4.4.4. and do things properly, but now I'm not able to restore anything.
I am not bothered with the apps and stuff, but I had plenty of pictures which I forgot to backup, and I want to restore them. I even tried to access the nandroid backup files, but no success!
I was accustomed with the old CMW, where you had the .img files, but I got no clue on what to do here!
I add the picture of the nandroid backup folder on my PC ( I think the data files are splitted, but I cannot open them in any case, not even with 7zip).
The nandroid was executed via Nexus Toolkit, but I guess it has been done through TRWP.
Long story short:
1) how can I access the pictures inside the nandroid backup?
2) how can I restore a nandroid backup that keeps failing?
theraizen said:
1) how can I access the pictures inside the nandroid backup?
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Maybe CWM does things differently, I don't know, but with TWRP, a Nandoid backup doesn't back up your SD card partition, so if you wiped everything, all your pics are gone. Sorry.
Yeah, I guess so.. Managed to recover something with DISK DIGGER (its an app, free on the store). Just wanted to write it here, so if anyone has the same issue can recover this way!
Hello everyone. I now have the TWRP Nougat back up on my computer and want to restore it on my phone but how do I do it? I replaced the BACKUPS folder with the downloaded one and it can't find anything to restore..
Edit: I now realized that I need to flash the restore point, right?
oliake said:
Hello everyone. I now have the TWRP Nougat back up on my computer and want to restore it on my phone but how do I do it? I replaced the BACKUPS folder with the downloaded one and it can't find anything to restore..
Edit: I now realized that I need to flash the restore point, right?
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Go to twrp, do any small backup(boot), connect to pc, copy from pc your old backup.
F.e.:
Sdcard/twrp/backups/serialNo/2017...... name of backup/here shuld be files.
dzidexx said:
Go to twrp, do any small backup(boot), connect to pc, copy from pc your old backup.
F.e.:
Sdcard/twrp/backups/serialNo/2017...... name of backup/here shuld be files.
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Thank you!!