As the title says, is there any way for me to migrate to miui from stock 4.4.3 without any kind of data loss?
A detailed reply would be beneficial.
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You can backup your data from your sdcard and do a nandroid backup, but this will not work with different roms. At least this is my experience. I went from miui to cyanogenmod and it wont accept my backup.
But try titaniumbackup instead if you have rooted your device.
CCody said:
You can backup your data from your sdcard and do a nandroid backup, but this will not work with different roms. At least this is my experience. I went from miui to cyanogenmod and it wont accept my backup.
But try titaniumbackup instead if you have rooted your device.
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I would try but I don't want to risk losing everything.
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AndroidReborn said:
I would try but I don't want to risk losing everything.
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Thats totally okay. Do you just want to backup your sdcard storage or the app data? You can restore your app data with titanium backup, but you have to install all your apps manually.
When switching between different roms, backup app datas doesnt make that much sense though
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Hey guys, I am about to flash another custom ROM, and I was wondering, once I backup my app data with Titanium backup, where should I put it so that when I flash another ROM, it doesn't get wiped? Other than on my computer, I was wondering if there was a way to do this without having to transfer all of my data to it
Flashing a ROM doesn't delete data. What does is clearing data or a factory reset. Some Roms you have to. But in the case of Paranoid Android (my favorite, great hybrid tabui switcher and based on cm10) you don't have to.
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Stevenator21 said:
Flashing a ROM doesn't delete data. What does is clearing data or a factory reset. Some Roms you have to. But in the case of Paranoid Android (my favorite, great hybrid tabui switcher and based on cm10) you don't have to.
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Factory reset still does not clear the SD card partition, nothing will touch that unless you do it on purpose (or screw up)
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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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jaestreetss said:
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)?
lazer155 said:
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
springy said:
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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tntsjp said:
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 am planning on using WugFresh's tool to root my Nexus 7 32 gig. Do the backup and restore tools put back all the apps and data or do the apps have to be reinstalled? I just want to be sure I don't lose anything and it would be really nice if I could root and have everything right like it is on the device.
Thanks in advance!
Just use the tool to backup if you don't know how to backup manually.
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ya did that
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Just use the tool to backup if you don't know how to backup manually.
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Ya I did that and found out it doesn't backup most of your data Lost a lot of saved game data.
can you guys tell me how I can do a full backup with this phone without rooting it? im looking to do a backup like I can on my iphone and be able to restore everything from pics to apps to settings and messages, would prefer to be able to do it over a cloud with a email but its not mandatory.
im looking to do a backup in a sense where if I lose my device I can just get a new phone and be able to restore completely.
thanks
come at me bro said:
can you guys tell me how I can do a full backup with this phone without rooting it? im looking to do a backup like I can on my iphone and be able to restore everything from pics to apps to settings and messages, would prefer to be able to do it over a cloud with a email but its not mandatory.
im looking to do a backup in a sense where if I lose my device I can just get a new phone and be able to restore completely.
thanks
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Kies 3 should provide a usable PC-oriented backup, also for some Google programs a backup can be done on Google servers and now there is a Samsung Cloud option.
That being said I believe none of the options above is as good as having a rooted device and Titanium Backup
You could try Helium.
I think the Samsung cloud option is the best way
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so will samung cloud work as well as icloud does in terms of backing up and restoring A FULL BACKUP
I don't think it backs up the memory card
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Use MyPhoneExplorer pc-app. You can backup pretty much everything. This + Kies, you cannot lose much
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Helium also did the trick to me fine
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