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[Q] Safely upgrading to stock 1.2

I am currently running the latest auto-nootered version, 1.1 I think. I would like to upgrade to the stock version 1.2, but I don't want to lose any purchased content I have on the device. I have never attempted a restore to stock after auto-nooter. I am fine with not being rooted and not having access to the full market at this point, but just want to keep all my content safe from being wiped in the whole process. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

If you're referring to content purchased from B&N, it's a non-issue as you can always redownload for free.
If you're referring to Android Market purchases - if you lose Market access with the update you'll lose the ability to redownload and/or update those apps.

Back up your data, etc to an external SD card and optionally a computer too. Later, restore what needs to be. I stopped running from the internal long ago because CM7 runs so well (now since that wasn't always the case) from my external Sandisk SD 16GB class 4. This way, I never need to root the internal and I get updates as they come while benefiting from it's dual booting nature. Much less hassle this way. Not sure what the advantage is the other way around anymore. The Nookdevs site outlines step by step how to easily go back to stock. That info has probably even been reposted here.

I went the same route as the above guy. I've never Rooted my Stock and have been running Froyo and now CM7 from a 4gb Class 6 SD(It's what I had lying around) and it's worked really well.
Strangly even though I've never rooted I couldn't get it to update and had to Reset my Nook anyway, but since my CM7 is on my SD I didn't have to reinstall anything. All my B&N stuff just synced back after I updated. Although I had to manually tap Download on alot of them.
I also Recommend Nookdevs. Here are some links:
http://nookdevs.com/Portal:NookColor
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
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epakrat75 said:
Back up your data, etc to an external SD card and optionally a computer too. Later, restore what needs to be. I stopped running from the internal long ago because CM7 runs so well (now since that wasn't always the case) from my external Sandisk SD 16GB class 4. This way, I never need to root the internal and I get updates as they come while benefiting from it's dual booting nature. Much less hassle this way. Not sure what the advantage is the other way around anymore. The Nookdevs site outlines step by step how to easily go back to stock. That info has probably even been reposted here.
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I am currently running dualboot on emmc. Thinking of going back to stock and moving a backup of cm7 onto SD and running it form there.
Any tutorial to point me on how to take a backup made in clockwork to rnning that on sd?

Canadoc said:
I am currently running dualboot on emmc. Thinking of going back to stock and moving a backup of cm7 onto SD and running it form there.
Any tutorial to point me on how to take a backup made in clockwork to rnning that on sd?
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This is just me thinking on the Fly but if you just make a CWR Backup and then use the "CM7 Size Agnostic SD Image" from the Dev forums, it should flash it to the SD instead but I'm not positive. Won't hurt to try though.
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japzone said:
This is just me thinking on the Fly but if you just make a CWR Backup and then use the "CM7 Size Agnostic SD Image" from the Dev forums, it should flash it to the SD instead but I'm not positive. Won't hurt to try though.
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would it matter that my clcokwork backup has th the boot partition backed up which includes the various boot files for both sets of partitions?

Canadoc said:
would it matter that my clcokwork backup has th the boot partition backed up which includes the various boot files for both sets of partitions?
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I think you really just need your system and data partitions. Flash it using the previously mentioned dev thread. Then move your EMMC files to the sdcard partition.
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[Q] Is it possible to recover SD space lost to a flash?

Let's say I had a 16gb Nexus 7 that I upgraded at various points with official Nexus 7 updates, and that after one of these updates, my device went from 16gb to 8gb - is there a way to mount the device as a drive & recover the space?

uncletupelo said:
Let's say I had a 16gb Nexus 7 that I upgraded at various points with official Nexus 7 updates, and that after one of these updates, my device went from 16gb to 8gb - is there a way to mount the device as a drive & recover the space?
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all the existing firmware/software upgrades should recognise your storage space, so things like you described should never have happened. no one yet at least to my knowledge has had a problem recognising the storage space of their device after an update.

uncletupelo said:
Let's say I had a 16gb Nexus 7 that I upgraded at various points with official Nexus 7 updates, and that after one of these updates, my device went from 16gb to 8gb - is there a way to mount the device as a drive & recover the space?
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Did you root/ have any custom recoveries put on your device?

There was already a thread about that. If I remember well, the solution was to do a factory reset from recovery.
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Thanks for the replies.
I did the factory reset from recovery & flashed & reflashed this thing ten times today & the space hasn't come back.
I just figured there had to be a way to mount the device as a drive (using linux maybe?) and get a look at the partitions to see if I can tell what's going on.

[Q] How to keep data when upgrading from 16GB to 32GB

Good day, I have a Nexus 7 16GB, I just got a 32GB and I want all data in my old one transferred to the new one. Can it be done without root? I'm on stock rom .Thanks in advance!

Brickoy said:
Good day, I have a Nexus 7 16GB, I just got a 32GB and I want all data in my old one transferred to the new one. Can it be done without root? I'm on stock rom .Thanks in advance!
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You can use Helium from the app store to backup up your apps and data. You don't need root for it to work.

Thanks for the tip, I'm using Helium now and bought the premium key immediately. Thanks!

Connect over USB. Copy some important files to your PC and turn sync on (settings, backup and restore, check both boxes). After 24h you can be sure your backup has been completed. Just turn sync on on your new tablet and the apps will be restored automatically. Via USB you can copy important files. No need to purchase apps...
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[Q] copying nandroid backup to another N7?

Hi
So I have a 16GB N7. Am getting a 32GB N7 with 3g. Would it be possible to take a nandroid backup of my present N7 and move it over to the new N7?
Thanks in advance!

No. They are 2 completely different ROMs. You can backup all your apps with TB (Titanium Backup) and transfer that over. Never try to load a Nandroid t from one device to another unless it is the exact same model. Even then things can go wrong, but it is less likely to happen.
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[Q] The best backup solution for phone to PC?

About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?

mathmango said:
About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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1- make sure your ? is on.
2- connect your ?to ? with cable.
3- copy & past / drag & move.

Will that back up my app data settings and game progress as well as my passwords and accounts?

mathmango said:
About to start flashing a custom rom (Aryamod) after more than a year on rooted,xposed Stock 4.3 on my N9005. As you can imagine I filled my 32 GB model to the brim and now I don't know how to back-up all my data on my phone straight to my PC. Something like a recovery image of my entire phone to my PC if ever I screw up flashing. Titanium might be an option but I only have the free version and again I don't have enough space on my phone to back up all my data. Any suggestions?
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When you say you have 'filled' the phone, are you talking Internal or do you mean you filled a 32GB external SD Card?
With TWRP you can easily set your backup (nandoid - i.e. everything) to an extSDCard and then simply copy that zip file to your PC. Later you can Restore only the Data if you want.
Titanium also lets you set your backups to the extSDCard.
If you mean you filled your extSDCard you have multiple options - take out the card and put it in a caddy and then a card reader and simply copy everything to PC. Buy a new and larger card. 64GB hi-speed ones work very well and even 128GB ones are down in price.

Journyman16 said:
When you say you have 'filled' the phone, are you talking Internal or do you mean you filled a 32GB external SD Card?
With TWRP you can easily set your backup (nandoid - i.e. everything) to an extSDCard and then simply copy that zip file to your PC. Later you can Restore only the Data if you want.
Titanium also lets you set your backups to the extSDCard.
If you mean you filled your extSDCard you have multiple options - take out the card and put it in a caddy and then a card reader and simply copy everything to PC. Buy a new and larger card. 64GB hi-speed ones work very well and even 128GB ones are down in price.
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I meant I filled my 32 (well, 26 GB) internal and only have a 16 gb external.