I did a Nandroid backup a while ago but when I do a restore it restores it almost back to defaults. None of my installed apps are there. No customisations on the desktop etc (Like Circlelauncher). I was using Revolver 0.2.1 at the time. I made sure I flashed back to that firmware before doing the restore.
I don't know why it's not restoring everything like it should. When I did the backup I just chose the default backup option (Not advanced or anything) and likewise for the restore.
Any ideas?
I give up. Going to give the nvflash backup and restore method a go.
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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.
So if I have a full TitaniumBackup of my phone, and I flash from stock to CM7 or Iced Glacier, can I restore any of my backup without causing problems? Or am I stuck rebuilding all of my settings and reinstalling the apps fresh from the market?
Do I need to check the box in TB that says to try to restore to incompatible ROM versions?
IG is Froyo, so it's less complex.
You can safely restore User apps and data with TB, but be very very careful with system app data. Even the green colored items may cause trouble, as you are CHANGING the ROM environment and may misprovision something.
Nandroid backups are complete system images, useful for returning to a known state, with this caveat:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=951035
HTC Glacier running CM7 #33
I did a complete TI backup of my phone before flashing IG. I was able to successfully restore all of it after wiping the phone during the flash, without any issues.
I initially tried to flash with no wipes and had some stability/app problems. I went back, re-flashed, wiped, and just restored my TI backup with great success.
for example, if i back up my VI rom through the recovery and flash a new rom to test it out ( lets say skytouch 4g ) and go back to vi, when i restore my nandroid, will its restore my phone to the way it was before backing up? (apps, data, settings, texts ect.)
Everything is backed up.
When you restore it will all be there. Interestingly, Titanium Backup can pull apps from a nandroid to restore them to a new ROM. Careful though, as that can be more trouble than it's worth.
NovaxxBite said:
for example, if i back up my VI rom through the recovery and flash a new rom to test it out ( lets say skytouch 4g ) and go back to vi, when i restore my nandroid, will its restore my phone to the way it was before backing up? (apps, data, settings, texts ect.)
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Yes. the nandroid backup contains all partitions. The restore allows you to set the phone back to it's state when the backup was taken. I recommend performing nandroid backups at regular intervals as a best practice for easy recovery just incase something happens to your config.
So I am currently on Paranoid Android and wish to switch to another ROM (most likely AOKP or PACman just to try). In TWRP recovery, what would I select to just back up my app data and NOT my ROM, and after that is possible, what must I restore to get it back and in what order of flashing alon with my new ROM and GAPPS???:silly:
You can go into TWRP and backup and choose what partitions you want to backup. However, I'd suggest you backup everything and don't try to restore the data to another ROM.
I use Titanium to backup all app data as well as MMS history, WiFi networks etc then do a full backup in TWRP. Then wipe everything and flash the new ROM. Then boot up and reconfigure accounts and restore apps + data with titanium.
It may be a little more effort but this way you can always roll back to the previous setup if anything goes wrong and you're less likely to run into any weird issues from moving data around between ROMs.
Or you could try something like app2zip off the play store to make a flashable zip of only selected apps and data which is probably safer than the whole partition. If you do a full backup first you can always rollback if something goes wrong.
When using Titanium Backup, when I hit run backup, where does it go and how do I restore it after I flash my new ROM. Or do I do the update.zip option and flash that when I'm doing my new ROM?
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When using Titanium Backup, when I hit run backup, where does it go and how do I restore it after I flash my new ROM. Or do I do the update.zip option and flash that when I'm doing my new ROM?
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It goes into a folder on /sdcard called TitaniumBackup. When you flash a new rom, you will need to redownload titanium backup. When you redownload it, it will find the backups and you can click on the app to restore it.
Theres no need to use the update.zip method. Do it like this ^
I made a nandroid backup using TWRP 2.7.0.0 of a CM11 M6 install. When I try to restore it, all the apps show up but there's no data for any of them. They all act as if it's the first time I've run them. Also, all my "Accounts" have disappeared so when it first boots, I've to log into Google & Cyanogenmod again. But system settings and wifi are all there.
What I've tried:
- Tried to update to TWRP 2.7.1.0 and restore again, but no joy.
- I tried to restore the backup I made before I updated to CM11 of a CM10.2 (I think) install and that fails with no error message while restoring /data.
- Restoring app data using Titanium Backup from a nandroid backup. It crashes halfway through, though.
What I'm going to try:
- Restoring again, wiping cache/dalvik, installing same rom + gapps over the restore.
- Restoring app data from the nandroid backup using Nandroid Manager.
- Restoring apps + data from my Titanium Backup backup from about a week ago. It's not up to date so I was hoping to avoid using it.
Any other ideas? What could be causing it?
It looks like this did the trick: - Restoring again, wiping cache/dalvik, installing same rom + gapps over the restore.
I got the advice from this xda thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616143
Now I've to wait and see whether it's stable. Doing a TB backup now. I'll make an ADB one after this one, as well as another nandroid one, though I've had nothing but trouble with the last four-five nandroid backup/restores I've done.