So I have A little bit of a problem here, I want to make a nandroid backup so that I can safely install a Marshmallow ROM, now my problem is this: my memory is almost completely full. So I cannot make the backup on my phone using CWM recovery. I read about the way to make nandroids directly to a PC, but is it possible to restore those too/open the backup to view the files? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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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.
Hey Guys,
I want to update to 4.3 now with the Tools offered here, but this time on my Phone are a lot of data that I want keep save.
So what is the best method to backup and restore them? Shall I use TWRP and save all of it? Or shall I use other Stuff.
I also have Titanium Free Version. But this will not save my Data I asume?
best wishes,
Ehnoah said:
Hey Guys,
I want to update to 4.3 now with the Tools offered here, but this time on my Phone are a lot of data that I want keep save.
So what is the best method to backup and restore them? Shall I use TWRP and save all of it? Or shall I use other Stuff.
I also have Titanium Free Version. But this will not save my Data I asume?
best wishes,
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Hi,
TWRP offer "nandroid backup" which is a phone backup solution, it work best to restore everything if you system data goes wrong and unable to start your phone. It also means you cannot selectively restore certain apps that you want with TWRP alone.
You can either use Helium (formerly Carbon) or Titanium Backup to backup your user apps. It will save your data so no worries here. For Titanium Backup to work, you need root. Helium works fine without root, but you need to install the desktop client.
Hope it helps.
Thanks for this tipp:
so if I make Nandroid Backup and Flash new Rom (4.3) and restore a nandroid Backup it go down again to 4.2.2 or it recover just apps / Images etc. to it?
Ehnoah said:
Thanks for this tipp:
so if I make Nandroid Backup and Flash new Rom (4.3) and restore a nandroid Backup it go down again to 4.2.2 or it recover just apps / Images etc. to it?
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Nandroid backup works like a system snapshot, so yes it will go back to 4.2.2 in ur case. Pictures & musics in /sdcard (/data/media) is untouched, they won't be backed up when nandroid or wiped when you do factory reset. It's an isolated zone for custom recovery.
Hello guys!
I was updating from 4.4.4 to lollypop via OTA, then I realized that even if I run the stock ROM, I am still unlocked + root, meaning that the OTA won't run.
I did a complete nandroid backup via Wugs Nexus Toolkit, including data.
Then I wiped and flashed the new 5.0 via Nexus Toolkit, but when I tried to restore only the data it didn't work.
I decided to go back to 4.4.4. and do things properly, but now I'm not able to restore anything.
I am not bothered with the apps and stuff, but I had plenty of pictures which I forgot to backup, and I want to restore them. I even tried to access the nandroid backup files, but no success!
I was accustomed with the old CMW, where you had the .img files, but I got no clue on what to do here!
I add the picture of the nandroid backup folder on my PC ( I think the data files are splitted, but I cannot open them in any case, not even with 7zip).
The nandroid was executed via Nexus Toolkit, but I guess it has been done through TRWP.
Long story short:
1) how can I access the pictures inside the nandroid backup?
2) how can I restore a nandroid backup that keeps failing?
theraizen said:
1) how can I access the pictures inside the nandroid backup?
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Maybe CWM does things differently, I don't know, but with TWRP, a Nandoid backup doesn't back up your SD card partition, so if you wiped everything, all your pics are gone. Sorry.
Yeah, I guess so.. Managed to recover something with DISK DIGGER (its an app, free on the store). Just wanted to write it here, so if anyone has the same issue can recover this way!
I did a full wipe through TWRP to restore a backup and now TWRP is not seeing my backup. I am not sure how to make it so it can see my backup! My computer can also no longer detect my phone's file storage. I have a copy of the backup on my computer. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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I did a full wipe through TWRP to restore a backup and now TWRP is not seeing my backup. I am not sure how to make it so it can see my backup! My computer can also no longer detect my phone's file storage. I have a copy of the backup on my computer. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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if thats the case, the only way forward is to flash stock kdz file for your variant.. happen to me last time, lost everything on the phone
Hi there!
I just came out of a bootloop due to trying hard to get encryption working on my rooted Edge+.
I had a backup I did through Phillz Custom Recovery.
But to my surprise, the backup didin´t save my files. Although the phone was successfully restored, my files (photos, videos, ringtones etc) were missing.
So my question is: what is the best approach to backup (and quickly restore if needed) a rooted Edge+ with arter97´s kernel e Phillz custom recovery?
I think it´s possible to backup through adb... but is it possible to restore from adb directly through the custom recovery?
Imho, a perfect backup solution would backup the phone directly to my PC (so no space would be used on the phone) and it would be possible to restore to the phone from the PC as well.
What about Titanium Backup? Would it enable me to backup the entire phone and restore it easily in the future?
If there are any guides around that work with the Edge+, I couldn´t find searching... I did find information about backing up through ADB, but none of them were sure about what gets restored. In fact, I have found conflicting info (people saying that things were backed up but couldn't restore some apps).
Any opinions, ideas, suggestions? What would be the best approach?
Thanks in advance!