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Backup Recovery image

Hi I have read posts about backup using Nandroid on 32a for system and data. so how about if i want to backup the original recovery img before flashing it to cyanogen's or RA's?
Thanks in adv.

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thx in adv

if im understanding correctly all you want is the original recovery, you can download it as the .img file then just save it to your computer and install it like ra/cyan if you ever want to go back to it
you wouldn't necessarily need to make a backup of it just like you don't need a backup of the original android software you can download the ota releases and install them like a rom
the reason it has the back up is to keep your last working rom in case you install one with problems
I hope that helped I tried to answer the question a few different ways for you

One-Click-Root method.
The application, "Recovery Flasher" can do exactly what you desire. Although, if you're currently operating on the 1.6 firmware; you'll need to "back track" to 1.5 and go about the rooting process normally.

[Q] Evo stuck at load screen.

So, I'm a bit new around here and to rooting and flashing roms. I recently have been flashing rooms directly from rom manager. Everything was fine for weeks until I recentely tried flashing a rom by RVU. Now I'm stuck in the stock evo 4 g load screen and it keeps loading over and over. Any suggestions ? Is there away back into the boot loader ?

Turrubiates said:
So, I'm a bit new around here and to rooting and flashing roms. I recently have been flashing rooms directly from rom manager. Everything was fine for weeks until I recentely tried flashing a rom by RVU. Now I'm stuck in the stock evo 4 g load screen and it keeps loading over and over. Any suggestions ? Is there away back into the boot loader ?
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To get back to the bootloader, you'd need to pull the battery (won't hurt anything) and put it back in. Then hold the power button and volume down. That will get you to the bootloader
What do you mean you tried flashing a rom by RVU? I'm confused. RUU is rom utility update, or rom update utility, or something ike that. But if you ran an RUU it would put you back to completely stock.
If I were you, and in your situation, I'd pull the battery, boot to bootloader, and see if you can still get to your recovery. If you can, I'd try wiping everything then either restoring a nandroid backup if you have one, or a fresh install of a ROM. If you don't have recovery, post back and we'll see what needs to happen to get you back up again.

Well, the rom I flashed was created by team RVU....at least that's what it said. So, I made it as far as recovery. But by wipe you mean a wipe back to stock? I'm in as far as my clockwork mod recovery screen. Kinda lost now !!

Turrubiates said:
Well, the rom I flashed was created by team RVU....at least that's what it said. So, I made it as far as recovery. But by wipe you mean a wipe back to stock? I'm in as far as my clockwork mod recovery screen. Kinda lost now !!
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Okay I gotchya now, although I don't think I've been informed of RVU before, I'll have to check it out. Anyways, thats good that you can still get to recovery. So you have never used it before? Just did everything from ROM manager before huh? I'm not familiar with clockwork recovery, as I use Amon, I'm trying to remember the little differences. First, you don't have any nandroid backups do you? Prob not if you're not familiar with clockwork and had never created a nandroid backup before! I'm not sure if backups made with ROM manager can be restored using CWM, doubtful though. So by wipe, I mean wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe davlik cache. You will need to have a ROM on your sd card, so that you can install it from recovery. In order to wipe the dalvik cache using clockwork, i believe it is under the advanced section. Not sure though. Once you have everything wiped, and the ROM of your choice on the main directory of your sd card, choose 'flash zip from sd card' or 'install zip from sd card" or something to that nature, then find the ROM and flash it. If all goes well, you should be able to boot up after that. If you do indeed happen to have a nandroid backup, choose to restore that.

Yup, everything I've done has been through rom manager. Anywho, I peeked around inside some files. Inside my install zip from sd. I found a file labeled nandroid. Could that be the backup that your referring too ? If so, would i still have to wipe my phone ?

Turrubiates said:
Yup, everything I've done has been through rom manager. Anywho, I peeked around inside some files. Inside my install zip from sd. I found a file labeled nandroid. Could that be the backup that your referring too ? If so, would i still have to wipe my phone ?
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Nandroid folder is for amon RA backups. Clockwork backups are in the clockwork/backup folder.
Have you backed up your previous install? If so wipe all factory reset then restore a backup. Otherwise wipe all and flash a new rom.
This is why you do research and learn how to properly use your phone and any custom recovery before you reach this step. This is why manufacturers have crappy warranty policies because people ruin their phones by being stupid.
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Rem3Dy said:
Nandroid folder is for amon RA backups. Clockwork backups are in the clockwork/backup folder.
Have you backed up your previous install? If so wipe all factory reset then restore a backup. Otherwise wipe all and flash a new rom.
This is why you do research and learn how to properly use your phone and any custom recovery before you reach this step. This is why manufacturers have crappy warranty policies because people ruin their phones by being stupid.
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Thank for lending a hand. Instead of trial and error, I simply started a thread. Oh, and thanks for reminding me I'm stupid!!!

Backups on Phillz Recovery

Im having 2 issues with phillys recovery n not sure wut im doin wrong. I did a backup and when I restored it gapps forceclosed and phone wouldnt let me do anything. Secondly ive tried doing he create custom rom. It flashs fine but wont pass bootloader s4 screen. Need help. Would love to be able to make a flashable rom with my ultra slim rom n possibly have my xposed tweets built in.
TeamBlaze

Got backup to work. But still unable to get custom rom aka update.zip to get past bootloader. Anyone kno how to fix this.
TeamBlaze

If you're talking about the update.zip made from Titanium, it is NOT a custom ROM.
It is simply a backup of your applications (and some settings) you can use to flash after flashing a ROM to 're-load' all your stuff.
If you get your current ROM configured the way you like it you can then create a nandroid to restore it later if that is what you want. And without any info on what version of Android you're on, what ROM you're on, or what version of the recovery you're on there is no way to tell you where to go from here.

leaderbuilder said:
If you're talking about the update.zip made from Titanium, it is NOT a custom ROM.
It is simply a backup of your applications (and some settings) you can use to flash after flashing a ROM to 're-load' all your stuff.
If you get your current ROM configured the way you like it you can then create a nandroid to restore it later if that is what you want. And without any info on what version of Android you're on, what ROM you're on, or what version of the recovery you're on there is no way to tell you where to go from here.
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No. From philz touch recovery. In the custom backups you can selete create a custom rom from backup and I can't get tht to flash right after makin. Clean install n everything.
TeamBlaze

yotaking said:
No. From philz touch recovery. In the custom backups you can selete create a custom rom from backup and I can't get tht to flash right after makin. Clean install n everything.
TeamBlaze
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Never tried that (make ROM from recovery in philz) myself.
I just make and restore loads of backups using Philz and TWRP. I consider a full backup (complete image(s) of all phone partitions) to be my ROM(s).
I would bet that with what you're doing that if, after you flash your custom made zip (and before rebooting) you stayed in recovery and then flashed (install zip) of the same recovery, rebooted back to recovery and flashed the kernel it may work.
Rebooting the recovery (or a battery pull) often clears out hangs.

Did you tried enabling se linux context from backup settings?
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do you have 4.3 compatability checked off?

same issue
yotaking said:
Im having 2 issues with phillys recovery n not sure wut im doin wrong. I did a backup and when I restored it gapps forceclosed and phone wouldnt let me do anything. Secondly ive tried doing he create custom rom. It flashs fine but wont pass bootloader s4 screen. Need help. Would love to be able to make a flashable rom with my ultra slim rom n possibly have my xposed tweets built in.
TeamBlaze
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I had similair issues with philz. idid a very improtnact nandroid backup and when iwent ot restore it didnt work. I definately like TWRp the best. Best UI and never any issues for me.

androidaddicted said:
I had similair issues with philz. idid a very improtnact nandroid backup and when iwent ot restore it didnt work. I definately like TWRp the best. Best UI and never any issues for me.
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I like twrp as well but dnt wrk on 4.3
TeamBlaze

dewrust said:
do you have 4.3 compatability checked off?
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Conito11 said:
Did you tried enabling se linux context from backup settings?
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Imma look into these
TeamBlaze

Doesn't work to flash into custom recovery

Hi guys, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505, which is rooted of course. I am tired of the interface and want something fresh, but before that I need to get through that damn nandroid backup. When I launch my phone into recovery, I have no option to take that backup, which I knew I wouldn't have. I also tried download CWM, and launch that into the custom recovery mod, but that didn't work either, it just sent me into the default recovery. Then I looked around, and found this TWRP or TRWP or something, and tried that, but the same thing happened. I looked a little more and someone had said that you could flash into an .img file through adb emulator, which I of course tried. When I did that, this happened: dropbox.com/s/5e1ae2npir9n8v3/2014-09-14%2022.50.03.png. (Couldn't post as link, since I don't have many posts, and please don't remove it So, obviously, my question is as following; Do you know anything else I could try? I really want to take a backup of my phone before flashing any roms, and I believe I even need a custom recovery mod to do so anyway . Help is appreciated, thanks

iPixels said:
Hi guys, I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 I9505, which is rooted of course. I am tired of the interface and want something fresh, but before that I need to get through that damn nandroid backup. When I launch my phone into recovery, I have no option to take that backup, which I knew I wouldn't have. I also tried download CWM, and launch that into the custom recovery mod, but that didn't work either, it just sent me into the default recovery. Then I looked around, and found this TWRP or TRWP or something, and tried that, but the same thing happened. I looked a little more and someone had said that you could flash into an .img file through adb emulator, which I of course tried. When I did that, this happened: dropbox.com/s/5e1ae2npir9n8v3/2014-09-14%2022.50.03.png. (Couldn't post as link, since I don't have many posts, and please don't remove it So, obviously, my question is as following; Do you know anything else I could try? I really want to take a backup of my phone before flashing any roms, and I believe I even need a custom recovery mod to do so anyway . Help is appreciated, thanks
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Hi mate ,
Try flashing a custom recovery with odin....
I like philz touch
download here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2281367
instructions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2201860
with philz you just choose backup restore options ( these is for the nandroid backup) from there you select internal sd or external sd.... after a few minutes ....you just made a nandroid

The alternatives did not work
Thank you for your answer. I tried PhilZ touch, but that did not work either for some reason. I tried the zip first, flashing it from my recovery, but when it finished, I was sent directly to the desktop screen, and nothing happened. Same when I flashed through Odin. Or am I just stupid and that was the point, and there's something out there I was missing?
EDIT: It worked afterall, just restarted the phone and launched into recovery. Dumb me. Thank you man, I appreciate it!

thx

iPixels said:
Thank you for your answer. I tried PhilZ touch, but that did not work either for some reason. I tried the zip first, flashing it from my recovery, but when it finished, I was sent directly to the desktop screen, and nothing happened. Same when I flashed through Odin. Or am I just stupid and that was the point, and there's something out there I was missing?
EDIT: It worked afterall, just restarted the phone and launched into recovery. Dumb me. Thank you man, I appreciate it!
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great mate!! :good:

There's something really satisfying about...

...rebooting to recovery and making a nandroid backup.
I plan to add an audio mod to my phone (Extreme Beats or whatever) and it's so nice to just reboot to recovery from the modified boot menu, make a nandroid in a proper version of TWRP and then flash whatever I want and move on, knowing that I'll be able to revert should I need to.

SubliminalME said:
...rebooting to recovery and making a nandroid backup.
I plan to add an audio mod to my phone (Extreme Beats or whatever) and it's so nice to just reboot to recovery from the modified boot menu, make a nandroid in a proper version of TWRP and then flash whatever I want and move on, knowing that I'll be able to revert should I need to.
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Indeed.
Just remember a nandroid for our phone is a limited backup. There are partitions that only a firmware restore can fix making it a 2 step job.
Also persist is only, IS ONLY on phone not in firmware & only Philz can back that up!

aviwdoowks said:
Indeed.
Just remember a nandroid for our phone is a limited backup. There are partitions that only a firmware restore can fix making it a 2 step job.
Also persist is only, IS ONLY on phone not in firmware & only Philz can back that up!
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Interesting. I didn't know this...is there a thread or article you can link me to where I can learn more?

SubliminalME said:
Interesting. I didn't know this...is there a thread or article you can link me to where I can learn more?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/xt10xx-philz-touch-t2612149
The same RAZR HD thread is where I last backed up persist