Hello,
Unfortunately my i9505 fall on the ground couple of days ago. Good news: no damage at the case.
Bad news my GPS not work until this.
On upcoming Monday I receive a new i9505 from my provider.
I have a lot of modding done to my actual i9505 and would like to install an backup of it to the new one.
Which points I have to pay attention to while doing a backup. Is it possible because if the imei, efs?
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Thats a good question, you can also restore the backup via titanium backup? But that will restore only the apk+data
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This kind of crap belongs in the general section NOT THE DEV SECTION!!! Try harder next time
Recovery is part of the dev section. So don't piss on me.
It's a problem which should be answered by an recovery dev.
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5p1k31337 said:
Recovery is part of the dev section. So don't piss on me.
It's a problem which should be answered by an recovery dev.
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No! Development section is for development not answering help questions that's why it's called development.
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Oh come on.. just help the guy if you know the answer..
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You can certainly restore a nandroid backup made with CWM onto a new phone, provided you use the same version of CWM to do the restore. And it will probably work with PhilZ as well (given it's CWM based). Can't speak for TWRP as I've never used it. You may end up with issues if you don't backup everything (preload, etc - not EFS tho); I've heard of instances where people have forgotten to backup preload on other devices & the restore has failed.
So yeah, it should work. That way you shouldn't have to worry about backing up apps/settings with Ti or contacts/call logs/SMS because the nandroid/similar backup is essentially an image of the phone at the time the backup is made (minus the external SD tho; back that stuff up separately if necessary). I'd still be backing up apps/settings in Ti though just in case restoring nandroid/whatever doesn't work; that will save you some time if you do end up having to do everything from scratch again with the new phone.
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Sorry, I am new and maybe this is a silly question. Can I flash a new rom without loosing my apps and their settings and my games and their saves ? Like backing-up all these.
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If you are rooted use titanium backup from market, but the fact you asked this indicated you need to study more before you start flashing roms
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hahaha. Thank you very much for your quick answer ! Maybe you are right. The fact is that I already flashed my phone 2-3 times but never interested in backing-up. On the other hand now, I have spent a lot of time with it and I do not want to loose my apps. Is there something specific I should do with titanium back-up ? or I just back-up with this app and then, after I flash, I restore ? ( sorry haven' t used it before )
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Yeah you just backup before flashing, restore after. Bear in mind I don't think it is compatible between cm7/miui and samsung - based roms.
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Well restoring app data can cause problems, but that is depending on what rom you are flashing to and from, and like any app you need to learn to use it I recommend paid version as it allows you to batch restore and backup
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I am going to flash an oficial rom. 2.3.4 Don' t know which yet.
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Darth_kospo said:
I am going to flash an oficial rom. 2.3.4 Don' t know which yet.
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And what rom are you on now?
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The greek official rom. 2.2
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You may have problems with app data but I'm really not sure, you will know if you do because you will get a lot of fc of apps
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thank you slaphead20 and jaju123 very much ! I will try to save anything I can with titanium. flashing is much more important for me.
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Some games store their save files on the SD card (data or similar). So if you flash a new ROM, all you need to do is reinstall the game and you can start where you left.
Thank you !
ive never had any problems backing up and restoriing ONLY user downloaded apps between cm7, stock and miui using titanium. the only thing which would cause you problems would be restoring system apps..
if you wish to backup messages also and use them with other firmwares u could also use GoSMS, which has a backup function
This is the third time this has happened now. I flash a ROM on my N7 then i look to restore a backup and it says file not found. But I've made a backup! How the hell can i fix this?
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Is the backup made in 4.1.2 and the new rom is 4.2 (or the other way around) ?
If yes, then I'm sorry to inform you that the path where the backup reside is different in 4.1.2 and 4.2 ... so there are some steps required to use the respective files. More than that, switching in between 4.1.2 and 4.2 will require you to alter the mounting points.
No I'm on 4.2 and did a backup of stock using cwm. Now cwm cant find my backup
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No I'm on 4.2 and did a backup of stock using cwm. Now cwm cant find my backup
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What version of CWM.. This is a known bug on a older version. I would suggest you check that maybe even re-download and flash cwm again. Get it from cwm web site not the one in rom manager self install....
Good Luck
I got the latest one, i will flash the stock image again. Third time lucky! Thanks for your help
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Just tried again. no backups found. but when looking in my SD i have a backup. What should i mount to be able to restore?
Hello everyone! Hope you're having a great day today!
The question I'm asking is really simple and can be answered just by yes or no, but explanation will be appreciated.
The question is that when I backup in the recovery (TWRP) to flash a custom KERNEL, do I have to backup the whole system and data and boot.img?
I'm asking this because not only backing only boot.img is faster, but saves a lot of space on my phone, which is important to me.
Thanks
Boot.img is the kernel, no need to backup the whole system.
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Boot.img is the kernel, no need to backup the whole system.
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Thanks. I just wanted to make sure.
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I always do a clean backup, that is, after unlocking the bootloader and root.
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What do you mean that you don't have to flash the whole system??
How would you restore the ROM
If the system apps aren't backed up?
Not flaming you,
But I would like to know if that's possible b/c
A whole ROM backup with 78 user apps
Takes up a lot of space on my phone
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I have one backup of my whole system. Then I go from there flashing other roms and such
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Boot.img is the kernel, no need to backup the whole system.
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Boot.IMG is the kernel + ramdisk. Just wanted to clarify that.
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Boot.IMG is the kernel + ramdisk. Just wanted to clarify that.
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Yeah I know that but I want that since the kernel I want to flash (Franco) had its own ramdisk. Thanks though
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What do you mean that you don't have to flash the whole system??
How would you restore the ROM
If the system apps aren't backed up?
Not flaming you,
But I would like to know if that's possible b/c
A whole ROM backup with 78 user apps
Takes up a lot of space on my phone
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What I was saying is that if I wanted to ONLY change the kernel, if I can backup the boot.IMG only which is basically kernel +ramdisk.
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I am also trying to understand the backups before installing ROMs and kernels. What if I don't have enough space on my nexus 4 (16gb) to create an entire backup (with user apps, stock rom, ect.)? Say I used all of the space installing my apps and there isn't enough space left for a copy of it (the backup)?
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I am also trying to understand the backups before installing ROMs and kernels. What if I don't have enough space on my nexus 4 (16gb) to create an entire backup (with user apps, stock rom, ect.)? Say I used all of the space installing my apps and there isn't enough space left for a copy of it (the backup)?
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I think the backup will fail in that case...
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I think the backup will fail in that case...
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Is there anyway to back it up directly to a computer rather than onto the N4's internal memory? Maybe keep the boot.IMG backup in the internal memory. That way it could be installed easily if something went wrong. All the user data/apps and stock rom would then be stored on the computer. Can that be done?
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I found out how to backup the user data to the computer: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34744848&postcount=4
One last question - Is it possible to delete previous backups that were stored directly on the device?
If I'm rooted and I have two users on my tablet and I install a ROM where I have to wipe cache and system, will the second user lose all data from apps and games like the primary user?
Thank you..
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Anyone?
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I have not got the device, it might be worth going to the Nexus 7 forums and search if a similar question has been asked there...
However if you are just flashing the ROM ontop without wiping the device, then the data should be there... Best thing to do is Nandroid Backup and then test and find out yourself . If it has weird outcomes then restore
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I have not got the device, it might be worth going to the Nexus 7 forums and search if a similar question has been asked there...
However if you are just flashing the ROM ontop without wiping the device, then the data should be there... Best thing to do is Nandroid Backup and then test and find out yourself . If it has weird outcomes then restore
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I will definitely do a nandroid but the second user its not rooted. I have titanium backup installed but it only works for the rooted user. Thanks for the suggestion about going to nexus 7 forum. I will try that...
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I will definitely do a nandroid but the second user its not rooted. I have titanium backup installed but it only works for the rooted user. Thanks for the suggestion about going to nexus 7 forum. I will try that...
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Please report back with your findings, TiBackup only backs up my main account and i'm curious
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Please report back with your findings, TiBackup only backs up my main account and i'm curious
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I'm going to do more research before I take the plunge since my second user will kill me if I lose his game data
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I dont have any roms in my internal storage
I cant mount USB from recovery mode(using twrp)
I dont have any roms installed in my phone.
how can I install roms again?
I'm assuming you ignored every piece of advice ever and don't have a nandroid backup on the phone to restore from?
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darkrom said:
I'm assuming you ignored every piece of advice ever and don't have a nandroid backup on the phone to restore from?
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yes i ignored every advice.
i did nandroid but i deleted my whole internal storage accidentally using twrp wipes.
You can push rom with "adb push" or flash factory rom with fastboot
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omrij said:
You can push rom with "adb push" or flash factory rom with fastboot
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found a different way to fix it but thanks anyways.
a mod can close this now.
P00t said:
found a different way to fix it but thanks anyways.
a mod can close this now.
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Can you tell us how you fixed you so anyone in the future with the same problem can easily refer to this thread instead of creating another thread just to ask the same question.