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Flashing new roms

I was having some problem with my current rom and wanted to flash a new rom on my phone. I dont want to go through the process of installing all the apps from scratch.
Is there a way I can backup all the apps and once the rom has been installed I can just do a ONE CLICK install of all the apps?
Sorry for posting it again. I posted it at the wrong place before this.

ayush20m said:
I was having some problem with my current rom and wanted to flash a new rom on my phone. I dont want to go through the process of installing all the apps from scratch.
Is there a way I can backup all the apps and once the rom has been installed I can just do a ONE CLICK install of all the apps?
Sorry for posting it again. I posted it at the wrong place before this.
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dont know if this will help, but i'm new to flashing roms also and everytime i tried a new rom out i had to also download all my apps, and then media back to sd card, there is a video on youtube "must have app for g1/mytouch" by "EmoGamer" The "APP" is called "Backup for Root Users"
what i do, is open the "APP" check mark "APK'S"
choose backup.
I'm using MyTouch (32b)
Amon RA - v1.6.2G
Boot into Recovery (Home + Power)
Choose Wipe, "Data/Factory Reset, Dalvik-cache, SD:ext partition"
Press Back Once
Go To "Partition sdcard"
Choose "Repair SD:ext" (Home to confirm)
Then Flash your rom and reboot.
When you gain access to the "Market" Download the same "App (Backup for Root Users)
and then "Check Mark" everything that you did for the Back-Up & Hit Restore.
That's It!!!
BTW, depending on the speed of the ROM that you flashed and how much was back'd up it can take awhile, the last ROM i flashed did the recovery fast, but almost 30mins for all the apps to load into the "App Drawer" on home screen...
Sorry if this is so long, but hope it helps. I'm gonna check this part of the forums and see if there is anything about the Nandroid backup and i will be also posting something there to possibly help noobz like myself in restoring all from previous Nandroid back'd up ROM.

Stock to Nero v3.... Simplified! UPDATED: 1/9/2011

For all those saying that my instructions are redundant.
Please follow all instructions!
I understand that Nero v3 wipes your data and caches for you, but there has been many cases where it has not done that, and users have really messed up their phones. Please take the extra 30 seconds and wipe it manually to be safe.
As far as the Voodoo step. I undertand that when deleting the "disable-voodoo" file, that it will automatically enable Voodoo for you on the next reboot. However, there are also cases where this didn't happen. Please check to ensure.
My instructions may seem redundant to users who have done this a lot.....but this isn't for those users. Please follow the steps exactly to help avoid ANY problems, don't just assume everything works automatically like it's supposed to. Might as well take the extra 2 minutes to do all of my steps, then 2 hours arguing with T-Mobile as to why they won't exchange your bricked/modded phone.
STOCK 2.1 to NERO V3....SIMPLE AND SAFE!
First of all, thank you Team Whiskey for Nero v3. To everyone wanting Nero v3, but are tired of seeing all the confusing and long tutorials:
1. Ensure your phone is rooted (Google z4root if your not).
2. Download ROM Manager
3. Flash the 2.5.1.2 ClockworkMod Recovery
4. Download Nero v3 from a computer, and Drag-n-Drop the .zip file onto your Vibrant SD card.
5. Restart your phone in CWM Recovery via ROM Manager
6. Click "clear cache", and "wipe data", click Advanced, click "clear Davlik cache", click "install from SD", click "install a .zip from SD", then install the Nero v3 .zip
7. Reboot, WAIT 15 MINUTES WITHOUT TOUCHING YOUR PHONE...REBOOT AGAIN... and you should be good.
8. To enable voodoo, open SD card from phone, delete "disable_voodoo" under the voodoo folder, reboot to recovery (NOT FROM ROM MANAGER, BUT FROM THE HOME SCREEN USING THE POWER BUTTON, THEN SELECTING RECOVERY) (SHOULD BE A RED RECOVERY), goto voodoo lagfix, press enable, then reboot....REBOOT WILL TAKE AROUND 10 MINUTES, DO NOT TOUCH YOUR PHONE!
FOLLOW STEPS CLOSELY
P.S. Don't Forget the THANKS button.

Looks nice, concise, & noob friendly (I should know).
Kudos.
Nero 4 using XDA app (j/k)

thanks!
this video helped me too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33I-aNCypVM

troby86 said:
6. Click "clear cache", and "wipe data", click Advanced, click "clear Davlik cache"
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I didn't do this part when I flashed NeroV3 because the instructions I read didn't mention that. Did I cause myself a problem that I just don't know about yet?

trunkstar1 said:
I didn't do this part when I flashed NeroV3 because the instructions I read didn't mention that. Did I cause myself a problem that I just don't know about yet?
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If the install worked you should be fine. This is just a good precaution.

troby86 said:
If the install worked you should be fine. This is just a good precaution.
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Should I do that now? What does that even do?

troby86 said:
First of all, thank you Team Whiskey for Nero v3. To everyone wanting Nero v3, but are tired of seeing all the confusing and long tutorials:
1. Ensure your phone is rooted (Google z4root if your not).
2. Download ROM Manager
3. Flash the 2.5.1.2 ClockworkMod Recovery
4. Download Nero v3 from a computer, and Drag-n-Drop the .zip file onto your Vibrant SD card.
5. Restart your phone in CWM Recovery via ROM Manager
6. Click "clear cache", and "wipe data", click Advanced, click "clear Davlik cache", click "install from SD", click "install a .zip from SD", then install the Nero v3 .zip
7. Reboot, WAIT 15 MINUTES WITHOUT TOUCHING YOUR PHONE...REBOOT AGAIN... and you should be good.
8. To enable voodoo, open SD card from phone, delete "disable_voodoo" under the voodoo folder, reboot to recovery (NOT FROM ROM MANAGER, BUT FROM LAUNCHER) (SHOULD BE A RED RECOVERY), goto voodoo lagfix, press enable, then reboot....REBOOT WILL TAKE AROUND 10 MINUTES, DO NOT TOUCH YOUR PHONE!
FOLLOW STEPS CLOSELY
P.S. Don't Forget the THANKS button.
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Boot to recovery from power button/phone options,to get to red recovery.

amandadam said:
Boot to recovery from power button,to get to red recovery.
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Glad you mentioned that, I need to ask, what's the difference between the green recovery and the red recovery?

trunkstar1 said:
Glad you mentioned that, I need to ask, what's the difference between the green recovery and the red recovery?
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The green is the default CWM recovery, the red includes the Voodoo lag fix options

Just removing the file turned on voodoo for me.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

So glad this thread was made. Its retard easy to flash this rom and get voodoo to work (it was my first and I have this opinion, which should speak volumes), I really can't believe the amount of people in the thread that just couldnt figure it out.

What do you recommend for backup/restore of apps and data? Will EVERYTHING get restored? I spent a lot of time configuring my home screen with folders and apps. Can that be restored?
Lastly, if I decide to go back to stock JI6 and my original setup, is there a relatively easy way to do that?
Thanks.

Titanium backup will backup all your apps and such, but to get your home screen back I'm pretty sure you just have to do it manually. I know that sgs tools lets you backup your home screens but I'm not sure if it will work across roms or not, you could try it, at worse it will give you an error message and just make your home screens all blank (well really at worse you have to reflash).

Titanium managed to back up my homescreen settings, both for TouchWiz and for Launcher Pro.
EVERYTHING (all my text messages, internet history, bookmarks, etc.) was exactly like before, but in Nero instead of stock.

trunkstar1 said:
Should I do that now? What does that even do?
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Nero v3 already forces wiping data and cache. The instructions are redundant, no need to worry about it.

cyberbillp said:
Just removing the file turned on voodoo for me.
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That's really all "enable Voodoo" in green CWM recovery does. The step is redundant as well.

The fastest way is after you flash the Nero V3.zip and reboot, hold down the volume and power buttons to go back into the recovery menu before anything even loads. Enable voodoo here, as theres little data it will need to convert to voodoo. Then once you boot into android, everything it writes from here on out will be ext4. If you load up android first, it'll have to go back and rewrite all the data you just created to the new file system, taking longer.

For all those saying that my instructions are redundant.
Please follow all instructions!
I understand that Nero v3 wipes your data and caches for you, but there has been many cases where it has not done that, and users have really messed up their phones. Please take the extra 30 seconds and wipe it manually to be safe.
As far as the Voodoo step. I undertand that when deleting the "disable-voodoo" file, that it will automatically enable Voodoo for you on the next reboot. However, there are also cases where this didn't happen. Please check to ensure.
My instructions may seem redundant to users who have done this a lot.....but this isn't for those users. Please follow the steps exactly to help avoid ANY problems, don't just assume everything works automatically like it's supposed to. Might as well take the extra 2 minutes to do all of my steps, then 2 hours arguing with T-Mobile as to why they won't exchange your bricked/modded phone.

everything was easy and i did it no problem EXCEPT when i'm in cwm recovery trying to install zip, nero doesn't appear which is weird especially since i know its on the root of sd card. even when i use phone to check files nero appears, just not in recovery. any ideas how to find a solution?

erhan82 said:
everything was easy and i did it no problem EXCEPT when i'm in cwm recovery trying to install zip, nero doesn't appear which is weird especially since i know its on the root of sd card. even when i use phone to check files nero appears, just not in recovery. any ideas how to find a solution?
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If you have a lot of stuff in the root then you'll need to scroll pasted the bottom. Like just keep scrolling down and once you see the ++go back++ then you're at the bottom. I just had this issue flashing nero v4.1.

I must have done something wrong...

On stock 2.1 from a brand new phone. Wanting to get a Bionix-V 1.2 rom installed to start with. (unless someone points out a more popular/stable/better rom to start with)
So I thought I was following the guide right but I cant figure out what.
NOOB GUIDE is what I was following. Here is where I think i messed up or got lost.
3 – Rom Manager / Clockwork Recovery
Now that you have your apps, system data & home settings saved, go to the Market to download Rom Manager (there is a paid and a free version, either will work, but I always suggest supporting developers if you can). We are going to use Rom Manager to install an alternate recovery, called Clockwork Recovery. This is what allows you to make a backup of your entire system (called a nandroid backup).
Once you download and install Rom Manager, open it, give it Root Access (Check to always remember if it's not already selected). At the top, click "Flash Clockwork Recovery" and after it has finished click to Reboot Into Recovery.
If this is your first time, you are very likely at the stock vibrant recovery (purple text)... click on Re-install packages. Your phone will reboot and should come back to the Clockwork Recovery (green text).
If at stock, click reinstall packages again (likely worked the first time).
Great, now you have a custom recovery. Scroll down (by using the volume buttons) and select (by using the power button) to backup your system. This will take about 5 minutes to complete. Once done, you have a complete snapshot of your phone that you should always be able to come back to.
I strongly encourage reading Koush's thread, you can find it here.
His installation instructions have more detail:
Installation instructions:
1.Download ROM Manager from the Market.
2.Flash Recovery.
3.Choose Vibrant as your phone.
4.Accept the Superuser prompt.
5.On the very FIRST boot of Clockwork, you may need to manually select "reinstall packages" if Clockwork does not start. You should only ever have to do this once. It will be automatic from then on.
6.Watch the backup go!
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The thing is when I try to reboot into Clockwork it still looks the same, nothing happens when i tell Rom Manager to backup, it just restarts to what looks like the original recovery screen. It looks something like this..
Android system recovery <2e>
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
Vol Up - up
Vol Down - down
Power - Selec item
Reboot system now
reinstall packages
delete all user data
delete cache data
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Since this is my first flash I might just be overly paranoid but if this is not right I dont want to mess up my brand new phone by just plowing ahead without being sure.
Thanks for any help... yet again.

Try selecting reinstall packages. And then again a second time.
Tap volume down then push lock/power to select.

Try reinstalling packages.
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TY, guess I must not have told it to reinstall enough times.

Took me 3x reinstall packages before I actually got into cwm. You will know when you get tehre.

Caliga if you need more help or have questions send me an email I'm PMing u my email address.

OK, so something has gone wrong. At first I thought it was all ok but now the more apps i try to open the more nothing seems to work. Going to try to go back to stock and see if i can start over but I cant seem to get this phone to go to the clockwork recovery menu. Every time i restart the phone and hold the keys it still boots like normal. guess its time for more research.

Had the same issue with my new Vibrant. Look for the 3e recovery fix listed in here. Solved my issues.
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^ he was on eclair (2e), the 3e recovery is not an issue here.

caliga4221 said:
OK, so something has gone wrong. At first I thought it was all ok but now the more apps i try to open the more nothing seems to work. Going to try to go back to stock and see if i can start over but I cant seem to get this phone to go to the clockwork recovery menu. Every time i restart the phone and hold the keys it still boots like normal. guess its time for more research.
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Apps don't work probably because you did not do a correct wipe when you flashed. Try: Wipe Data/Factory Reset - then Flash the ROM - then Wipe cache - then go to advanced and wipe Devil Cache - then Fix permissions from the same menu, go back and reboot.

roumenjr said:
Apps don't work probably because you did not do a correct wipe when you flashed. Try: Wipe Data/Factory Reset - then Flash the ROM - then Wipe cache - then go to advanced and wipe Devil Cache - then Fix permissions from the same menu, go back and reboot.
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lol Devil cache.
Were you able to flash bionix? From CWM You just select install zip from sd, and select your file.

ferhanmm said:
lol Devil cache.
Were you able to flash bionix? From CWM You just select install zip from sd, and select your file.
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Ups, typo........ Dalvik Cache. I'm glad I made you laugh ferhanmm, i'm actually cracking up myself as I type. I must have been thinking of my boss when I posted....or maybe my wife!
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Sorry for delayed response. Towns wifi went down last night and someone just now got around to resetting it.
@ferhanmm: I did get bionix on but it was acting very flaky, system ended up getting stuck in what i thought was a brick but someone in my other thread helped me get it working again and now i have a fully working trigger rom.
Everything is up and going again now I would like to get a theme for it, but really the only thing i dont like is all the green icons. About to do some research and see if I can just replace icons somehow.

[Q] Is there any way to remove MIUI from my phone?

I have MIUI on my phone, but I don't really want it anymore. Is there any way that I can get my phone back to how it was?

Wipe and flash a new ROM. If you need to ask how, don't. It sounds like you need to do some serious reading first.
If you've managed to root, wipe, and flash MIUI, you should be capable for re-wiping and flashing something else.

CasperMcLovin said:
I have MIUI on my phone, but I don't really want it anymore. Is there any way that I can get my phone back to how it was?
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.. how did you even get MIUI up in the first place?? Read read read man...
Sent from my HTC Glacier Sense 3.5 using xda premium

Maybe he/she bought the phone with it that way. In which case, do nothing until you read read read.

They are right. You need to read for your own good.
That said, do you have a custom recovery? I would assume so. Before you do anything, make a backup in recovery.
Next, go to the development section for this device and find a ROM you really like. Learn about the differences between AOSP, Sense, and MIUI ROMs.
When you have chosen and downloaded a ROM, reboot into recovery again. Wipe cache, system, boot, and data partitions. Finally do a wipe data/factory reset. At this point all you have on your device are the bootloader and recovery.
Go to install zip from SD card and search for the ROM you downloaded. Install it. Reboot and wait. First boot always takes longer.
If boot is unsuccessful, boot back into recovery, wipe, and flash the backup you made.
Understand that I am merely trying to be helpful. I make no guarantees, but wrote these instructions to be nice. If your phone bricks, bursts into flames or implodes and creates a singularity that engulfs the planet, I am in no way responsible.
Got it?
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

CasperMcLovin said:
Is there any way that I can get my phone back to how it was?
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Install new ROM via CWM. it's easy, just try. I think VU 2.39 is the best choice for you.

CasperMcLovin said:
I have MIUI on my phone, but I don't really want it anymore. Is there any way that I can get my phone back to how it was?
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Yes. I just went from MIUI to Febs ICS beta 5.0.
I downloaded the ICS beta (you can pick whatever ROM you want from the Android mytouch dev section). Mounted my phone for USB storage, transferred the ICS Beta.zip to the phone then unmounted it.
Then in MIUI when you hold the power button down, it should give you the option to reboot into recovery or you can use ClockworkMod to do it.
I did option A) rebooted into recovery through power off feature in the MIUI. Then you go down to backup, make a backup. Then you wipe cache and wipe data. Go to advanced and I believe you can wipe dalvik(sp?) cache under the advanced setting.
Then you go to install from sdcard and then scroll down to your zip.file.
Then boom let it install. then when it says install complete you press the back button, click reboot and BAM you will be off MIUI and on whatever ROM you chose.
I would take everyone's advice on here to go read everything you can. I made this post hoping you have some knowledge of flashing and all that jazz. Let me know if you need any help.

What were you running before MIUI?

eqjunkie829 said:
Maybe he/she bought the phone with it that way. In which case, do nothing until you read read read.
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I have the same problem and I have tried multiple times wiping and flashing a new rom but somehow it seem to come back up. please me and I got it from unlockr.com

1percentcorvette said:
Yes. I just went from MIUI to Febs ICS beta 5.0.
I downloaded the ICS beta (you can pick whatever ROM you want from the Android mytouch dev section). Mounted my phone for USB storage, transferred the ICS Beta.zip to the phone then unmounted it.
Then in MIUI when you hold the power button down, it should give you the option to reboot into recovery or you can use ClockworkMod to do it.
I did option A) rebooted into recovery through power off feature in the MIUI. Then you go down to backup, make a backup. Then you wipe cache and wipe data. Go to advanced and I believe you can wipe dalvik(sp?) cache under the advanced setting.
Then you go to install from sdcard and then scroll down to your zip.file.
Then boom let it install. then when it says install complete you press the back button, click reboot and BAM you will be off MIUI and on whatever ROM you chose.
I would take everyone's advice on here to go read everything you can. I made this post hoping you have some knowledge of flashing and all that jazz. Let me know if you need any help.
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You missed a step. Go to mounts and storage and format /system.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.

no wifi

reflashed flex reaper did not ask for google info and wifi not turning on

would any one be able to give some direction or is this forum no longer supported pls respond,,need help

@bgkingd340..... Surely your next step should be to do a "complete" wipe and then re-flash the rom. I am not aware of anyone, who has had any problem with flashing this rom, who has not found this works.

metpolds said:
@bgkingd340..... Surely your next step should be to do a "complete" wipe and then re-flash the rom. I am not aware of anyone, who has had any problem with flashing this rom, who has not found this works.
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I am so grateful for your response , what would a complete wipe consist off ,,i assume going in through cwm?

@bgkingd340..... First off let me say that I am not an expert nor a developer, I think of myself as more of a "tinkerer". So while I am happy to give you my read on this I am certain that better qualified people will be able to assist you along the right path. When I talk about "complete wipe" I am referring to Civato's post here.....
"If you got problems please before posting them do the following.
Perform a REAL format....
here's how to on cwm:
go to in recovery enter "Backup and Restore" and click on "Toggle backup and restore of internal storage (/data/media)"
should say enabled....
then go into "Mounts and Storage" and "format /data"
this will REALLY format data and you will loose all you have in the in the internal memory."
This is the link to the xda post..... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1517181
I am presuming that you have CWM installed and can get into it at switch on by keeping "Power Button" pressed at the same time as pressing "Volume DOWN".
So to recap, (1) Have CWM installed
(2) Through reading the above link you should appreciate the need to install an ICS bootloader.
(3) Re-install the ROM.
If you use the complete wipe process you will lose ALL your data so before you start you should consider using CWM to make a backup of your data.
I am currently using Civato's "RE-FLEXxx-ShellSHOCK-Rev6.2-Public.zip" ROM which can be found at this link..... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1969887
This ROM contains a program called "onandroid" which is used by running it on a terminal emulator on your tablet and enables you to make a complete nandroid backup without having to reboot into recovery.
I hope some of the above information might help and I trust I haven't muddied the waters even further!
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