I have a question. When installing custom roms I know that it's recommended to backup the device before in TWRP, but my question is which parts should I backup so I can restore my phone to it's previous state if something goes wrong.
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So, I have a regular U8800 with Oxygen and ClockworkMod Recovery 5.0.2.6.
My question is: what does Nandroid backup? If I manage to null my IMEI, will a restore bring it back? And if I brick it in some way, but manage to get into Recovery, will it restore everything?
I want to install the Aurora ROM, but if I mess up something, I want to know if Recovery can keep me somewhat safe.
a nandroid backup is protecticting you from any soft brick. By that I mean any software faults. For example if you accidentally delete something from your system a restore will make your phone identical as before. If you flash aurora and you want to revert to your backup this will make your phone look identical as before. I don't think that it is protecting you from a null IMEI though. If you want to be sure and to backup your phone completely you can follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1374511
Ok, I will do that as soon as I get home. Thanks!
I'd like to know if it's possible to backup all my partitions including my EFS partition before I start hacking away at the phone?
I found the thread about it but it says to flash it via custom recovery, but in order to get that custom recovery, I have to use AutoRec, which modifies the very partitions I'm trying to preserve, so I'm a bit of a dilemma here.
I'm just looking for a way to make sure I don't completely brick the phone and in the same time have a 'clean-slate' button at my disposal which restores stock everything, including partitions, roms, recoveries and any other modification.
Cheers.
There is no way to backup entire partitions without root but you can backup photos/music you would need a recovery to backup these partitions or a rooted adb but recovery is the best and easiest way
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!
I have a twrp backup with all of the partitions backed up. I came from an S5, and when I would brick it or something, I would just boot into twrp and restore from the nandroid I previously made. But, now with the Oneplus 5, when I go to restore with a nandroid, it doesn't let me restore the data partition. I searched for solutions before posting this. The closest solution I found was to use titanium backup pro or similar app, to restore the data. Am I doing something or missing something? I thought when you made a nandroid backup it was just a copy of every aspect of your phone, which could be restored at any point?
You should have read the recovery thread. It says it can't restore OxygenOS data backups right now.
It actually says it will lead to a bootloop if you do. Maybe they disabled that option temporarily.
You can try this.
Hey there,
Probably noob question, but since our device depends on these dual boot slots...
I want to try some ROMs but I want to fully backup my current ROM exactly as it is. Is it possible? Say I use twrp to create a full backup, then when I get tired of trying other roms, how's the restore process? Did anyone try this? Thanks
try doing a fastboot copy of all the partitions
There's no restore process: your just flash the official fastboot ROM back and optionally relock. That's it.
I think i did not explain very well. I'm using resurrection remix right now.
My goal is to backup my phone current state. All the apps, definitions...everything. So i can try other ROMS, and when i'm done experimenting, i want to restore to my resurrection remix.
I don't want to go through the process of configuring everything all over again
Just make a backup in TWRP and restore it after, simple as that