Hi. I'd like to completely image my wildfire before rooting so that I have an image of it before I did anything. Just in case. Is it possible with soft root or unrevoked?
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Hi. I used androot to get a soft root. Any way to backup rom?
You could use adb to extract the whole tree, but it won't preserve permissions so will be useless.
Short answer: no. Do a proper root.
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Yes, but the thing is that I want the ROM preserved completely as-is, with no custom recovery or anything. Say, something got broken in hardware, so to get the phone serviced I'd need to flash the stock ROM back on. I heard they don't even check the recovery, but if someone did I'd be in trouble.
On my Linux, I used "dd if=/dev/sda of=/root/hddimg" to get the byte-for-byte copy of my HDD. Will that work in Android as well?
EDIT: Of course I didn't mean /dev/sda, the ROM device is another one, right?
i don't think you can with soft root, you can dl titanium backup and save all your apps and settings on your sd card, but that won't backup your entire rom. i would just do a full root, im not that clumsy enough to kill my phone
you can also use the ruu to go back to your stock rom, but use the right one in case you lose root
I'm looking for a way of backing up my Vodafone Rom so when I install a sim free one I can restore all settings if I ever need to send if off for warranty, it won't void it.
Anything I can do???
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This doesn't make sense.
You can't ROOT a device, surely, without flashing the ROM?
So... ROOTING the device, by flashing the ROM, and THEN you want to backup the entire device? This sounds useless, as as soon as you ROOT the device, you've overwritten the original ROM! So how can you backup the Original ROM if you've overwritten it?
Which came first? The Chicken (ROM) or the Egg (Root)?
I didn't flash a ROM to get a root. I used Universal androot which does soft root on wildfire as well. Soft root means just getting root without modifying the system files permanently (ie. Changes disappear at reboot). Secondly, full root like unrevoked only write-unlocks the phone and flashes custom recover y. What I want is to have full backup of the phone WITHOUT the custom recovery so that when I flash it, it is the actual stock ROM. I know this is quite hard to do but I'm sure it is doable one way or another.
Can someone please link me to a thread on step by step Rooting
and backing up my entire device
its my first android phone and took me a long time to install apps n games n contacts a backup would help me a lot.
kindly help thank u
realxception said:
Can someone please link me to a thread on step by step Rooting
and backing up my entire device
its my first android phone and took me a long time to install apps n games n contacts a backup would help me a lot.
kindly help thank u
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if you did a search of the forum or looked around the wildfire threads you'd easily find it... anyway here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788776
to backup your rom you need to do a nandroid backup, to backup apps and data dl titanium backup
I know about nandroid. Don't you have to flash a custom recovery to use it? If so, then the original aim of preserving the ROM completely the way it is becomes broken, right?
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I know about nandroid. Don't you have to flash a custom recovery to use it? If so, then the original aim of preserving the ROM completely the way it is becomes broken, right?
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Nandroid backs up your original rom, there is no other way to back up without root... unless you use a ruu to return to stock
Aren't RUUs a bit risky to use?
Yes if you use the wrong one. But rooting and flashing a custom rom is not , very simple and not hard
Wildfire is also my first android phone but I easily learnt by reading and searching around the forum.
Hello all.
I want to root my HTC Legend (Yes, I know there are 1000 post about this on the forum, but please, keep reading because I couldn't find a solution for what I exactly want...)
I have a HTC Legend with the original ROM that Vodafone installs in it. I'm running Froyo 2.2 and my kernel version is 2.6.32.17-g732a780. The Boot-loader version I'm using is HBOOT-1.00.0000.
As I stated before, I want to either root or soft root my phone. For some reason that I still can't understand, it looks like The Legend is more difficult to root than other HTC models... The point of rooting my phone is to be able to make a full backup using Titanium Backup Tool BEFORE making any changes to my existing room (Yes, I want to change the ROM). I've been reading a lot of post where in order to change the ROM I have to first downgrade the phone to Android 1.3 to be able to root it but, What about if I want to make a full backup BEFORE the downgrade? Is there a way to create a full backup with no root permissions? Titanium Backup only works if the phone is rooted...
If I can create a full backup of my phone the way it is right now, I don't mind to downgrade in order to root it and flash it... but I don't want to experiment not having a full backup stored in a safe place...
So far, I've tried Universal Androot 1.6.2 beta 5 with no luck on both: root and soft root. I get the error message: "Failed! No Fu Goo"
I'd really appreciate any help on this matter either by solving the problem or by offering a different approach for what I want.
Thanks in advance to all of you for your time and attention.
What you need is a tool called rvisionary from modaco. With this tool you can achive temp root aka soft root. And then back up with titanium backup. Everything you need to know and the tools requiered can be found here. You have to follow instructions for Already OTA updated with HBOOT 1.01, if you want to root it.
Thanks a lot for your input qzem!
I'll try what you are telling me there and let you know how it went.
No problem . I hope you'll succeed!
Thank for useful answer
Hello there..!!
Can any1 plz help me recover my deleted files from the internal memory of Moto G. I accidently deleted a folder named emulator from the device and in result i lost all my data.Can any one plz tell me how to recover those files WITHOUT ROOTING my phone. I have tried many software but say to root my device first, but i dont want to do this cz it will void my handset warranty..?? Its urgent PLZ HELP...!!!!!
I think you have to root in order to do that.
Seems like you have deleted /storage/emulated, right?
I don't know any method that can save your data without rooting, next time be more careful about deleting things you don't know about.
Sorry for your loss bro. I hope someone comes up with an idea to save your data, but I don't think it's gonna happen without rooting.
edit: You can try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2774016 to root without unlocking the bootloader (no warranty void) if you have 4.4.2
Hi to everyone
ok, Im a begginer in this area of rooting and this kind of stuffs but recently the idea of rooting my device came to my mind ( Tablet lenovo A1000L-f) which is been 1 year since i bought this device... but lets get it to my doubt and questions about rooting.
. I want to root my device ( with kingo root) and maybe install a different ROM because my tablet is very slow and sometimes it crash and i have to make a hard reset and yes i would like to use apps that only rooted devices can use1
. i have heard that once you root your device the warrantly is void and there is the chance of make of my tablet a brick so, i want to know how could i back up my system ( the original from factory before root) in case anything goes wrong just unistall the rooted system and install back the original image from factory
i would be very...very thankful if anyone could help and excuse me for any foolish, i have said above! :silly:
I'm completely ignorant when it comes to rooting, but I've just finished up my warranty and I'm looking to root & bootload my phone.
I have the Exynos model of the Galaxy S8+, can someone please give me the necessary links to properly inform myself and complete the operation?
PS: I want someone to tell me if this will wipe my phone, because I really want to avoid that, I have so much data and I can't go through the process of redownloading and sorting it all out. Is there a recovery option to avoid losing my data? Please inform me on that, too,
Thank you in advance!
AshPrince said:
I'm completely ignorant when it comes to rooting, but I've just finished up my warranty and I'm looking to root & bootload my phone.
I have the Exynos model of the Galaxy S8+, can someone please give me the necessary links to properly inform myself and complete the operation?
PS: I want someone to tell me if this will wipe my phone, because I really want to avoid that, I have so much data and I can't go through the process of redownloading and sorting it all out. Is there a recovery option to avoid losing my data? Please inform me on that, too,
Thank you in advance!
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1. There are many threads on rooting one of the better ones is:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...w-to/guide-root-install-twrp-samsung-t3747535
2. If you install TWRP you will have to format the data partition. You will lose all you apps and data in the process.
3. I don't have a recommended backup method myself ( except for twrp ) but you can use something like Google backup service or use smart switch.( PC app ).