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[Q] Factory restore

I need a .img of the original rom, where can i find? Thanks

Aran83 said:
I need a .img of the original rom, where can i find? Thanks
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You cant, every NST is unique and using an image from another NST will cause trouble for both you and the NST it came from.

Thanks, nook is bricked but I can read the main partition, which .img I install?
Sorry for my english.

Aran83 said:
Thanks, nook is bricked but I can read the main partition, which .img I install?
Sorry for my english.
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There's no img you can install.
You can try booting n2T-Recovery (v0.2) from a SD card and see if that helps. (Do not write that image to your NST!)
If not, send me a PM and I'll try to help you out

Something else you can try:
1) Flash noogie.img to an sd card.
2) Hook up your nook to a pc via usb once it has booted, and you should see all the partitions exported there.
3) In one of those partitions (recovery maybe? I'm struggling to remember), there's a factory.zip, which you can then install using the "Install from zip" feature of clockwork mod.
If you go this route, you'll have to reflash your sd card with clockwork mod after you've extracted the factory.zip using noogie.
Seems like kind of a pain, but I just recovered my device using this.

Remains in the screen ROOTED FOREVER and i can't do anything

I think, for michaelwill's method, you need to have linux running. I suggest you to try ros87's suggestion.

if I use backup from nook of my friend?

Aran83 said:
if I use backup from nook of my friend?
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That is not a good idea, since each NookTouch has a unique information to register. If you are thinking of full restore from your friend's image (1.8GB image), it will overwrite your unique information. In that case, you and your friend's devices cannot register to BnN (or just one device). People says the info is stored in /rom. If you want to know more, you need to dig more. Otherwise try factory reset suggested by ros.

herofmm said:
That is not a good idea, since each NookTouch has a unique information to register. If you are thinking of full restore from your friend's image (1.8GB image), it will overwrite your unique information. In that case, you and your friend's devices cannot register to BnN (or just one device). People says the info is stored in /rom. If you want to know more, you need to dig more. Otherwise try factory reset suggested by ros.
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Correct!
Using a image from another NST is a very very bad idea!
There are a lot of stuff that's unique to your NST stored in /rom and in rombackup.zip on the Factory partition.
This includes:
Serial Number
Main Board Serial
Product ID
Manufacturing date
SHA hash of Private Key
Public Key in modulus form
WiFi Calibration file
Some unique binary file for your eInk screen
MAC Address
Battery Type
Duplicating the serial will make you or your friend unable to register with B&N
Duplicating / Faking the private/public key pair, will most likely make you unable to register with B&N (I'm currently testing this)
Duplicating a WiFi calibration can cause degraded WiFi performance
Duplicating that EPD vcom file (eInk screen).. well who knows
Duplicating the MAC will cause network troubles if used on the same network.
The wrong Battery Type (I've seen three different so far) can cause charging troubles, and will cause incorrect charge indication.
Don't go there!

NookRestore.img
Try writing NookRestore.img to an mSD card. (You can get a copy at my website: NootRoot)

Hard reset
I had issues rooting my NST and got stuck in a boot loop. After digging and digging through forums I finally discovered the secret to a hard reset. The instructions said to hold the power and the two bottom side buttons down together for over 20 seconds. That worked! My NST was back to when I pulled it out of the box. I then proceeded to re rooting. (my mistake was I did not upgrade the OS before rooting). My bad. Hope this helps someone recover from a stuck boot loop.
Good luck.

chucktate said:
My NST was back to when I pulled it out of the box.
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No it wasn't, Factory Reset doesn't remove root files or system apps installed by root tools, it only clears custom apps and settings.
While you might think it's back to stock, there are still leftover files and changes in /boot and /system

ros87 said:
Correct!
Using a image from another NST is a very very bad idea!
There are a lot of stuff that's unique to your NST stored in /rom and in rombackup.zip on the Factory partition.
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Hi, I've just found a way around this - it is possible to restore somebody else's .img file, provided you've backup up your rombackup.zip. Then after, using Noogie, you can overwrite rombackup.zip and the contents of it which are on a different partition. The only danger is that you would potentially overwrite battery type config file, as Nook has couple of them. I gave it a try on mine and it seems fine.

sokoow said:
Hi, I've just found a way around this - it is possible to restore somebody else's .img file, provided you've backup up your rombackup.zip. Then after, using Noogie, you can overwrite rombackup.zip and the contents of it which are on a different partition. The only danger is that you would potentially overwrite battery type config file, as Nook has couple of them. I gave it a try on mine and it seems fine.
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That is correct.
Problem is that most people who end up in a state where Factory Restore doesn't work has usually managed to overwrite their partition tables and part of the /rom partition.
And at this point it is too late to backup rombackup.zip as it's usually fragmented and cannot be recovered by ext2 file recovery tools.
So.. do a full backup before you do anything to your NST

I found if you restore with holding the two lower buttons it will remove all rooted files.

Googie2149 said:
I found if you restore with holding the two lower buttons it will remove all rooted files.
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Read post 13 by ros87!
ros87 said:
No it wasn't, Factory Reset doesn't remove root files or system apps installed by root tools, it only clears custom apps and settings.
While you might think it's back to stock, there are still leftover files and changes in /boot and /system
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Go to my website, download nookRestore.img and write it to an mSD card, Erase and De register, Power Off, then insert mSD then power up, then follow on screen instructions!

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Torimu.Joji said:
I'll update the website and post links to XDA.
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Thank you sir!
By posting proper links you help ensure that people get the most recent software and information

[Q] Backup from TWRP with USB

I've managed to softbrick my nexus 10 by trying to disable extra services (was getting about 1.5 hours battery life with media services running the processor 100% all the time). It worked wonderfully (no negative side effects, went back to 10+ hours with the screen on, or days on standby) until I reboot it and now it won't load past the moving colors (Android 4.4.3, unlocked and all that).
I have TWRP, I was hoping to backup everything possible via usb, but it seems it's incapable of doing so. ADB backup can't be done using TWRP since there's no unlock function (reaaal useful there, recovery mode that doesn't support backups) and adb pull fails if I try to pull everything since there are files and folders with invalid file names (who puts ":" in folder names? they should be shot), and I don't know specifically what to pull, I was just going to get everything put back what I found was missing that I needed. There's no room to do a backup onto the device, and since the N10 has to sd/microsd, well... Useless options are useless.
Is there anyway to just do a proper backup with TWRP over USB? Or is the "recovery" mode as useless as I think it is when it comes to backups? (I'm aware I can get the tablet back to working order if I disregard the data on it, this is a question about backing things up before doing so)
Edit: Also, I have a pro version of SkipSoft ToolKit, but unless you can actually load into the OS the toolkit can't do anything at all.
Just really frustrated with the lack of doing something as basic as copying files from one place to another. Been messing with this all morning.

Diet6 said:
I've managed to softbrick my nexus 10 by trying to disable extra services (was getting about 1.5 hours battery life with media services running the processor 100% all the time). It worked wonderfully (no negative side effects, went back to 10+ hours with the screen on, or days on standby) until I reboot it and now it won't load past the moving colors (Android 4.4.3, unlocked and all that).
I have TWRP, I was hoping to backup everything possible via usb, but it seems it's incapable of doing so. ADB backup can't be done using TWRP since there's no unlock function (reaaal useful there, recovery mode that doesn't support backups) and adb pull fails if I try to pull everything since there are files and folders with invalid file names (who puts ":" in folder names? they should be shot), and I don't know specifically what to pull, I was just going to get everything put back what I found was missing that I needed. There's no room to do a backup onto the device, and since the N10 has to sd/microsd, well... Useless options are useless.
Is there anyway to just do a proper backup with TWRP over USB? Or is the "recovery" mode as useless as I think it is when it comes to backups? (I'm aware I can get the tablet back to working order if I disregard the data on it, this is a question about backing things up before doing so)
Edit: Also, I have a pro version of SkipSoft ToolKit, but unless you can actually load into the OS the toolkit can't do anything at all.
Just really frustrated with the lack of doing something as basic as copying files from one place to another. Been messing with this all morning.
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Do you still need help? What about mtp mounting? You can pull * for a whole folder
Why not adb sideload a new rom?

I don't think I can MTP mount a Nexus 10, at least not in recovery mode. What I ended up doing was buying a OTG usb drive and making a backup to that. Problem was it split the tar over 4 files, which corrupted them (or at least made them not work with 7zip or tartool) fortunately I was able to get them to work with cygwin enough to get the files I wanted. I didn't want to sideload a new rom until I had backed up certain application data just in case it removed it.
All in all, had to buy a OTG usb drive (I would have just bought a cable but all the stores around here had was this "Dane 16gb OTG drive". So 20 bucks later I had the files I needed. Still annoyed that you can't do a ADB backup from fastboot or recovery mode, it seems like those would be the best places because no system files are in use, but who knows maybe the developers know something I don't.
In summary:
TWRP recovery cannot confirm a ADB backup over USB. ADB backups can only be done from the operating system.
TWRP recovery mode can only backup to OTG (if your device supports it, Nexus 10 does), but if the backup is larger than 2gb it will split the file and you will need some form of linux to extract it.
ADB cannot copy every file in recovery mode over USB due to certain file names being invalid for NTFS (this is probably not a problem on other file system types), this is problematic since the "pull" command has no skip option, it just fails when it hits one of these files.

Well you can easily flash latest rwrp that does well on my Linux mount internal storage but another solution is just flashing a rom with abd sideload and the'the back up from pc the content
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Or that will just un brick your tablet

Diet6 said:
Still annoyed that you can't do a ADB backup from fastboot or recovery mode
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adb doesn't work in fastboot mode, only recovery or Android itself.
Diet6 said:
In summary:
TWRP recovery cannot confirm a ADB backup over USB. ADB backups can only be done from the operating system.
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Maybe because /data (not talking about /data/media) wasn't mounted?
Diet6 said:
TWRP recovery mode can only backup to OTG
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Huh?
Diet6 said:
ADB cannot copy every file in recovery mode over USB due to certain file names being invalid for NTFS (this is probably not a problem on other file system types), this is problematic since the "pull" command has no skip option, it just fails when it hits one of these files.
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That's NTFS' problem, not TWRP's.

beekay201 said:
1. adb doesn't work in fastboot mode, only recovery or Android itself.
2. Maybe because /data (not talking about /data/media) wasn't mounted?
3. Huh?
4. That's NTFS' problem, not TWRP's.
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1. I was just covering that you can't actually do a ADB backup unless you have access to android OS, in case anyone else came across this. (I didn't know when I started, and it took awhile to find it said concretely anywhere)
2. I made sure everything was mounted, the issue is when you send a backup command over ADB it says the "Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation" message in terminal which you can't do from recovery mode on the device, thus you cannot do a ADB backup command over TWRP (or other recovery modes I'd imagine).
3. I should have been more specific. TWRP can do a backup to the device itself (built in storage), SD card (if your device has one and you mount it), or a OTG (on the go) device via usb directly to media like a flash drive. It cannot issue a backup over USB to a computer.
4. Completely agree it's a NTFS issue, but it could be mostly avoided by allowing files that error to be skipped or renamed rather than terminating the process. (I understand that's on the android devs since pull is made by them, and I doubt they would care to improve the command for a file system I doubt they use). Again I mostly included that so if anyone else is trying to figure it out they can stop looking for "a way" and just accept it can't be done.
Ultimately Khaon is right in that sideloading a rom would have unbricked it and I could have done the ADB backup then, I just wasn't sure how that might affect the app data storage so I was looking for a way to back it up before doing that.

Diet6 said:
1. I was just covering that you can't actually do a ADB backup unless you have access to android OS, in case anyone else came across this. (I didn't know when I started, and it took awhile to find it said concretely anywhere)
2. I made sure everything was mounted, the issue is when you send a backup command over ADB it says the "Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation" message in terminal which you can't do from recovery mode on the device, thus you cannot do a ADB backup command over TWRP (or other recovery modes I'd imagine).
3. I should have been more specific. TWRP can do a backup to the device itself (built in storage), SD card (if your device has one and you mount it), or a OTG (on the go) device via usb directly to media like a flash drive. It cannot issue a backup over USB to a computer.
4. Completely agree it's a NTFS issue, but it could be mostly avoided by allowing files that error to be skipped or renamed rather than terminating the process. (I understand that's on the android devs since pull is made by them, and I doubt they would care to improve the command for a file system I doubt they use). Again I mostly included that so if anyone else is trying to figure it out they can stop looking for "a way" and just accept it can't be done.
Ultimately Khaon is right in that sideloading a rom would have unbricked it and I could have done the ADB backup then, I just wasn't sure how that might affect the app data storage so I was looking for a way to back it up before doing that.
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I'd just 'tar' what I wanted on the device and then pull that with adb.

Yeah, I just had no idea what I wanted. I'm not 100% familiar with how the system stores application data, I figured if I copy everything than anything I "miss" after I formated it I'll be able to just research where it was and dig in the backup and pull it out.

Yeah adb sideload a rom will only affect system partition thus your data would not have been modified in any way. So you are done with your issue?
Sent from my Xiaomi MI2s

Khaon said:
Yeah adb sideload a rom will only affect system partition thus your data would not have been modified in any way. So you are done with your issue?
Sent from my Xiaomi MI2s
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Yes, sorry for the slow reply. I've completed my update, just wanted to follow up on everything I did incase the information is useful for anyone else new to this like I am.

My photos have been lost!help me

i have G2 16GB.it is not rooted.how can i recover my photos?i really need them . i have checked many programmes on my computer but they can not recognize my internal storage as a drive

jak-jak said:
i have G2 16GB.it is not rooted.how can i recover my photos?i really need them . i have checked many programmes on my computer but they can not recognize my internal storage as a drive
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Please provide more information. How did your photos disappear? Saying they're 'lost' isn't very informative.
To have your internal storage recognised, make sure before connecting your G2 to the PC you go Settings > PC Connection > Set USB connection method and set it to "Media Sync (MTP)". This will set up USB connectivity for transferring images, music, videos and documents.

Unless you give us any extra information about how the files got deleted, there isn't specific help we can give you.
so far what I can tell you:
if files got deleted by mistake... well, its easy then.
I suggest rooting your device - ioroot
Than install Undeleter
Try this and post us the outcome.

d00lz said:
Please provide more information. How did your photos disappear? Saying they're 'lost' isn't very informative.
To have your internal storage recognised, make sure before connecting your G2 to the PC you go Settings > PC Connection > Set USB connection method and set it to "Media Sync (MTP)". This will set up USB connectivity for transferring images, music, videos and documents.
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i wanted to copy a file form my phone into my computer.after that i unplug usb and again plug usb. i saw that all of my files are gone .
i can transfer data from phone to PC , but recovery's programe can not detect my device to recovery

paviol said:
Unless you give us any extra information about how the files got deleted, there isn't specific help we can give you.
so far what I can tell you:
if files got deleted by mistake... well, its easy then.
I suggest rooting your device - ioroot
Than install Undeleter
Try this and post us the outcome.
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it wasn't by mistake,data deleted accidentally with unpluging usb cable .
is there any way instead of rooting?

Two things from my experience. First one has to be sure to select the correct mode for the USB connection and there may well be ".nomedia" files in directories where images are stored which would prevent say Gallery from seeing them.

gospodinwizard said:
Two things from my experience. First one has to be sure to select the correct mode for the USB connection and there may well be ".nomedia" files in directories where images are stored which would prevent say Gallery from seeing them.
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for example remo programe for recovery can not detect my phone to recovery my images.

If you know some linux knowledge you can use testdisk. But you need to be rooted. DONT INSTALL AND DOWNLOAD ON THE PHONE any recovery programs . Because it overrite your old data. And all datas will be unrecoverable. Ioroot fine works (it just installs su and supersu.apk on system partition so it wont hurt your data.) Here is more info....
more info
If you want to download it as text it is here. from management.
Sorry for bad English..

jak-jak said:
i have G2 16GB.it is not rooted.how can i recover my photos?i really need them . i have checked many programmes on my computer but they can not recognize my internal storage as a drive
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Sorry i couldnt quote for first post so I want to quote for you receving notification.
With this tutorial you will have a img or whatever you want which is including your data partition bytes by bytes. So you probably recover your pics and so other. 2 monts ago i used and all data had recoveried. I think so it will work for you..

makgun said:
Sorry i couldnt quote for first post so I want to quote for you receving notification.
With this tutorial you will have a img or whatever you want which is including your data partition bytes by bytes. So you probably recover your pics and so other. 2 monts ago i used and all data had recoveried. I think so it will work for you..
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you mean that there is no way to recover without rooting?
is there any way to get help from pc's recovery programe?

jak-jak said:
i have G2 16GB.it is not rooted.how can i recover my photos?i really need them . i have checked many programmes on my computer but they can not recognize my internal storage as a drive
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I just said to you if you root your phone, you will probably recover your files but if you dont have root acces you can recover your some folders maybe it will be hurt. So you need to think which one is important "varranty of the phone or recoverable data". But maybe you recover some folders, not all via usb otg. It wont overwrite your old data so if you dont wanna be root (i really dont understand you why you dont wanna be root ) you must use some app on play store and recover your pics and others.. ))

[Q] Mac User - Android File Transfer not recognizing S7 edge

I must be doing something stupid, but no matter what combination of options I user in Developer Options and USB transfer type, AFT does not recognize the device and asked to restart or reattach. What am I missing? Thanks in advance. p.s. I made the switch from an iPhone and have forgotten most of the Android stuff I knew several years ago.

jsamuels said:
I must be doing something stupid, but no matter what combination of options I user in Developer Options and USB transfer type, AFT does not recognize the device and asked to restart or reattach. What am I missing? Thanks in advance. p.s. I made the switch from an iPhone and have forgotten most of the Android stuff I knew several years ago.
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It unfortunately does not work.
Download Smart Switch from here: http://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/assets/downloads/SmartSwitch_Mac_setup.dmg
Once it has been downloaded, it will tell you to unlock your phone and connect it.
Once that has been done, click the down arrow beside "Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge"; You will see a folder beside Internal Memory, so click on that folder, and from here, it will look similar to Android File Transfer.
You should be able to drag and drop files into the folders, create new folders, move sh*t around, etc.

Thanks. I'll give it a shot. When I first used the other day I didn't see the file transfer capability, only the basic backup and restore functions.

jsamuels said:
Thanks. I'll give it a shot. When I first used the other day I didn't see the file transfer capability, only the basic backup and restore functions.
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Yeah unfortunately this is the only way I found to do it on a Mac.
Mac and Android don't really go well together

Worked perfectly. Too bad AFT doesn't work. I assume Google will update to support this phone. Again, thanks.

But Smart Switch is painfully slow in file transfer. There has got to be a way to get AFT working again. Mine just stopped, and when connecting the device, USB debugging on or off, the phone does not ask me if I want to allow the file transfer. I think mine stopped working after installing SideSync, and I never had Kies installed so that solution does not apply. This should not be rocket science!

I need to setup 75 Galaxy Tab A6 Tablets all the same

For work I need to have 75 Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 Tablets all programmed the exact same way. They all need the same wifi, passwords, apps and everything. I would rather not have to program them one by one. What would you guys recommend to do this the fastest easiest way? Any help would be appreciated.

cspez said:
For work I need to have 75 Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 Tablets all programmed the exact same way. They all need the same wifi, passwords, apps and everything. I would rather not have to program them one by one. What would you guys recommend to do this the fastest easiest way? Any help would be appreciated.
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Set up a Google Account on the first one and install everything and turn on "backup" for the account. Then use that same account on the other 74 and let google "restore" the apps and data to them. Not the only way but a fairly easy one.

cspez said:
For work I need to have 75 Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 Tablets all programmed the exact same way. They all need the same wifi, passwords, apps and everything. I would rather not have to program them one by one. What would you guys recommend to do this the fastest easiest way? Any help would be appreciated.
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Hello,
Did you get any solution?

The best way is to install TWRP make a backup and restore this backup to ur tablets one by one using a usb key i do 3 to 4 at the same time,
It's not that long seriously
If you need more infos let me know

IET_DEMO said:
The best way is to install TWRP make a backup and restore this backup to ur tablets one by one using a usb key i do 3 to 4 at the same time,
It's not that long seriously
If you need more infos let me know
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Thank you, but with the TWRP, I am able to restore only the same device from which i took the backup.

Jasmin74 said:
Thank you, but with the TWRP, I am able to restore only the same device from which i took the backup.
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First of all:
I like to use an ssd usb key to put my backups on, because they are pretty fast(for mass production)
When you create your backup, ONLY use /SYSTEM and /DATA partition.
What i do for mass production with twrp is I setup my first tablet with all the settings i want then i backup this tablet.
Then for the next tablet, you note the serialno with this adb shell command: getprop ro.serialno
Then you go in the backup folder you just did -> /TWRP/BACKUPS/SERIALNO and you change the serialno with the one you just noted from your new tablet.
it should look like this(16 alphanumeric serial no):52XXXXXXXXXXX4e1.
I have a small .bat file that does this manipulation for me.
Then boot your new tablet in twrp, go in Restore and select your usb storage or internal depending on where your backup is stored.
Boom it appears!
This method is good only if your flashing on the SAME exact model of tablet, so be careful.
I used this method for more then 500 devices as of now.
Let me know how it goes.

yes, it works!
IET_DEMO said:
First of all:
I like to use an ssd usb key to put my backups on, because they are pretty fast(for mass production)
When you create your backup, ONLY use /SYSTEM and /DATA partition.
What i do for mass production with twrp is I setup my first tablet with all the settings i want then i backup this tablet.
Then for the next tablet, you note the serialno with this adb shell command: getprop ro.serialno
Then you go in the backup folder you just did -> /TWRP/BACKUPS/SERIALNO and you change the serialno with the one you just noted from your new tablet.
it should look like this(16 alphanumeric serial no):52XXXXXXXXXXX4e1.
I have a small .bat file that does this manipulation for me.
Then boot your new tablet in twrp, go in Restore and select your usb storage or internal depending on where your backup is stored.
Boom it appears!
This method is good only if your flashing on the SAME exact model of tablet, so be careful.
I used this method for more then 500 devices as of now.
Let me know how it goes.
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Yes, it works well. thank you for your help.