Hello,
My MT3G phone stopped working so Tmo replaced it for another MT3G (same, not 1.2 or anything) which is of course not rooted and has 1.6 firmware so it is harder to root.
I do have a Nandroid backup of the old rooted MT3G. Can I just restore that to the new phone to get it rooted (and get all the apps back) or would that brick it and I have to root the new phone from scratch?
TIA!
sapiro said:
Hello,
My MT3G phone stopped working so Tmo replaced it for another MT3G (same, not 1.2 or anything) which is of course not rooted and has 1.6 firmware so it is harder to root.
I do have a Nandroid backup of the old rooted MT3G. Can I just restore that to the new phone to get it rooted (and get all the apps back) or would that brick it and I have to root the new phone from scratch?
TIA!
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After you root the new device and flash the exact same recovery then all you need to do is copy the old devices nandroid directory to your desktop. Open the Nandroid folder on your desktop and you should see a folder that starts with H******.
Do a nandroid backup of your CURRENT settings on the new phone.
You should do this for two reasons.
1) So that you have a backup in cashis doesn't work for you... but it should.
2) So you can get your new device name. (H*******) You can also obtain this by fastboot devices or adb shell devices
Rename the old devices H****** folder with the new one and do your restore.
It would be wise to backup both nandroid backups to your computer just in case. Make sure not to confuse either of them.
Rename the nandroid
so that means that I have to root the new phone before restoring the nandroid backup from the old phone?
Restoring the nandroid backup from the old phone will not root the new phone?
sapiro said:
so that means that I have to root the new phone before restoring the nandroid backup from the old phone?
Restoring the nandroid backup from the old phone will not root the new phone?
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How else can you nandroid restore?
You MUST have root already.
silly me
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Hi all,
I own an G1 which is currently running JACxRom-1.4r3. I've made a nandroid backup and then upgraded to JACxRom-1.5r4.
Before that I hoped, that I can restore my sms, settings and so on with nandroid.
But after trying, I realized that a full nandroid restore will also restore the old custom rom.
(Which it does perfectly , but unfortunately this is not what I need right now..)
Therefore I wanted to ask, if I there's a way to restore selectively with nandroid?
My idea was to only restore the data-, cache- and userdata-img files (from nandroid) via fastboot,
hoping that this would leave the freshly installed rom intact. Is this possible?
Cheers, Kleo
Not in recovery but if you go into your sd card..
Nandroid >
then it should have 2 folders with letters not forming any words.
The first 1 on the left is the last back up and the next one on the right is the older nandroid.
For example.
I was running Cyans rom.
Nandroid.
Wipe and flash to soul life.
Nandroid.
On the sd card of mine it will have two folders
The first one is Soul life
and the second one is Cyan.
But I have had trouble after doing this, Nandroid couldn't be preformed but all you do to fix that is remove the nandroid folder off your sd card/place it on your desktop so when you do a nandroid it will create a new folder that's not buggy.
I moved my nandroid files onto my PC and moved back to the phone and now I can't restore my nandroid backup flashing from the recovery screen, what the heck am I doing wrong
can I just adb push the backup?
Chad
make sure the path to your backup is correct then try re flashing the recovery image. either that or your backup got corrupted when you copied it. this has happened to me a few times..
thedudejdog said:
make sure the path to your backup is correct then try re flashing the recovery image. either that or your backup got corrupted when you copied it. this has happened to me a few times..
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yeah...definitely not doing that again (removing the backups from phone)
oh well starting off again w/ an untouched 2.2 MoDaCo...and now taskiller for w/e reason is killing my 3g/mobile connection every time I use the widget, never had that issue before.
Chad
Did you copy the Nandroid folder into the SD root? I've copied the Nandroid folder to the computer plenty of times and transfered back over to the phone with no problems.
I am trying to restore a safestrap nandroid from me old Verizon S5 running Stock rooted NCG to a new one running NE9.
When I try to do the restore on the new S5, safestrap doesn't show the file as an option to restore from.
It's in the TWRP backup folder and I can see it with the safestrap file manager.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any help is extremely appreciated.
I may be wrong, but im pretty sure you cant restore a backup from a different kernel. Things tend to mess up.
warpedmind0u812 said:
I may be wrong, but im pretty sure you cant restore a backup from a different kernel. Things tend to mess up.
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So do i need to update my old phone to NE9 first?
If so can i do that without loosing root or any of my data?
If Im understanding the way you wrote in th op, you would need to downgrade the kernel on your new phone from NE9 to NCG to restore the backup.
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If Im understanding the way you wrote in th op, you would need to downgrade the kernel on your new phone from NE9 to NCG to restore the backup.
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Now I've made both NE9 and NCG backups and neither show up on the new phone.
Copy your old backups to your PC and delete them from your phone, folder and all. Make a new backup and delete the files, not the directories and then copy your old backup to the new backup folder then restore the old one. SS makes a differen named folder for each different device. This is why it dosen't show up.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Copy your old backups to your PC and delete them from your phone, folder and all. Make a new backup and delete the files, not the directories and then copy your old backup to the new backup folder then restore the old one. SS makes a differen named folder for each different device. This is why it dosen't show up.
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Thank you VERY VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New phone is exactly like my old now.
You're help is so very appreciated.
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?
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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!
rooted and rommed a friend's note 3 to jasmine, and before we did it we upgraded titanium backup to the pro edition via marketplace, without realizing that it had deleted all three backups that were all in separate locations, one in the default location, one on the SD card and one in the phone's internal storage.
before I did anything to the phone rom wise I made a nandroid backup via twrp and I cannot boot it into an emulator successfully AND get the texts from it through installing titanium backup, creating a backup and copying it off, didn't work out.
so now what I need is a way to load up a nandroid backup without corrupting the backup. every time I try to restore the backup into the phone it bootloops, only thing I can think of that would interfere with it is the kernals, NC2/4. jasmine is currently running on NC2 and the stock firmware with the texts on it uses NC4, when I tried reflashing NC4 to the device after reintalling the backup it bootlooped, and vice versa with NC2.
thoughts/suggestions? sol on the texts?
thanks.
Never tried this but worth a shot. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.bkrestore
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I'll give it a go.
followed the steps found at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-s/general/extract-restore-sms-mms-contacts-call-t1370349
and had no success, doing the same via root explorer and nandroid manager to get the original files from the backup, nothing was restored.
I'm assuming that they're just gone after that?
rom manager text restore found nothing, quite a few were backed up though so who knows. not a good thing to lose them all.