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Can I do a selective Nandroid restore?

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.

[Q] Anyone have a fresh Bell cwm nandroid backup?

I was wondering if anyone had a fresh Bell cwm nandroid backup? I made one before i upgraded to the telstra firmware, but for some reason my sd card was formatted and i lost the backup. I just wanted to have the ability to restore to the Bell software if an ota update comes out.

Can anyone help me out?

Nandroid restore

Hey guys,
Hopefully you can help me, I've successfully rooted installed cwm and done a nandroid back up, I updated to the 2.3.5 update, I want to restore my files back to how they were with the 2.2 system, when I go to restore, should I restore boot, system, data, cache and sd-ext? I was under the impression this will reinstall the 2.2 rom
Thanks.

DON'T DO IT!
Use titanium backup: menu > more > extract from nandroid backup.
If you try use CWM, you will be stuck at bootlogo.
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Qqqxxxzzz said:
DON'T DO IT!
Use titanium backup: menu > more > extract from nandroid backup.
If you try use CWM, you will be stuck at bootlogo.
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Is there a free piece of software that can do that? I have titanium back up on my phone, but this is not my phone im doing this on.

Titanium backup is free in play market
Edit: I forgot you need pro key
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hey guys, I got a question about nandroid backup and since I have a huawei this seems to be the right thread
I'm about to get a new sd card class 10 to replace my current slower one..I want to know: if I make a nandroid backup with my clockwork recovery then I transfer it to the new sd card and plug it in my phone can I restore it from recovery? the recovery and the phone are the same, I will change just my sd card with the new one..it's too boring to reinstall everything so I'd like to know if I can do it this way

yes
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Thank you! I asked because I tried in the past to put a custom rom this way but the backup wasn't mine..the cook of the rom shared his nandroid backup to let you have the rom already set up..but it was a mess because after the nandroid was restored the recovery automatically formatted the user data on the sd and when the phone boots was a disaster..maybe because the versions of the recoveries were different or because the phone was different..

need texts from twrp backup.

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.

Backup & Restore Apps & Data Before & After flashing rom.

Hey guys,
I'm going to flash a custom rom for the first time on my Galaxy s5. I installed TWRP, backed up my efs and modem, and will soon before flashing new rom will make a nandroid backup also.
What I want is to be able to backup my apps and data to later restore on the newly flashed rom.
Can you guys please point me to a trustable app to be able to do this and also remind me of anything I didn't do.
FYI, I am currently on stock touchwiz non rooted.
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Titanium Backup

+1 for Titanium Backup......
Just be careful about restoring app data if the android OS version of the custom rom is different to the original firmware (this *has* been known to cause app instability)....
Backing up your efs folder before you start flashing roms is a good idea, but I'd advise making an 'off device' copy of that backup......just in case.
http://i.imgur.com/rVnFwJM.jpg

massehullah said:
Hey guys,
I'm going to flash a custom rom for the first time on my Galaxy s5. I installed TWRP, backed up my efs and modem, and will soon before flashing new rom will make a nandroid backup also.
What I want is to be able to backup my apps and data to later restore on the newly flashed rom.
Can you guys please point me to a trustable app to be able to do this and also remind me of anything I didn't do.
FYI, I am currently on stock touchwiz non rooted.
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I just realized that you stated 'non-rooted'. Titanium needs root, but try helium.

Thanks a lot for replying, after a while I found out that I can back up app data and settings with Google account and all I needed was to backup apps. I used "App backup & Restore".
I used TWRP to backup efs and modem.
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Can you tell me what happens if I backup the data partition of my stock rom using TWRP and restore it later on the new rom.
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You should never really restore anything system related on a new/different phone, only user apps/data. You can really screw things up.
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Data backups are mostly used to restore the same rom after something goes wrong. It might be ok, but be prepared to wipe and reflash if needed.
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Think of a nandroid as a restore point on a PC.

Uh I see. Thanks for clearing it up. Now I know things about TWRP's backup.
But one more thing, if, assume I flashed a custom rom and something went wrong, and I lost my efs and modem partition, it is corrupted, should I resort complete nandroid backup or just the efs and modem partitions on that custom rom?
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