Afternoon All,
I have just got myself a T-Mobile G2 Touch a.k.a htc Hero. After reading numerous pages about Android and custom ROMs (it's starting to become one big blur ), I'm eager to try this out (did a similar thing with previous phone on Vodafone to cure a GPS problem).
Before I do anything, I would like to clarify a couple of points. The first is about doing a Nandroid backup. What's the easiest way do do this? I assume the Nandroid backup creates a copy of the phone image on the SD card which can then be downloaded to the PC for safe keeping. How easy is it to restore a Nandroid backup?
If I try a custom ROM and decide I don't like it / it crashes etc, is it just a case of getting a new ROM (or my Nandroid backup) and uploading it to the phone?
My phone has the following:
Firmware Version 1.5 (Is this Android v1.5?)
Baseband Version 63.18.55.06FU_6.35.07.08
Kernel Version 2.6.27-0078c992
Build Number 2.73.110.26 CL#69351
Software Version 1.0.0.A6288
Finally, is it possible to completely brick the phone or are you usually able to recover it from the SD card and recovery console (home + power key / back + power key)? I thinking about possible corrupt ROMs / failed uploads.
Thanks,
Hi,
I am also quite new to the forum so dont just take my word for it but i recently rooted my phone.
So as for the nandroid backup if you use amon-ra recovery then making a back up is simple. All you do is when the phone is off click (home + power) then select make backup and click nand back up.
As to whether you can completely brick your phone, I am pretty sure the answer is yes. As to if you can recover from it, it depends how badly you messed up.
Heros are very hard to brick
Generally you can always recover.
The one big thing that is very hard to recover from is flashing the wrong sort of radio to the phone.
Always check that what your flashing is for either the GSM Hero or the CDMA (sprint) Hero
Restoring nandroid backups are simple and don't take but a few minutes.
Have the file on your sd card, select restore from your recovery menu and then your laughing.
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I did the hold Home button then power on.
When I do this I see the T-Mobile (UK) logo, then a black screen with a big triangle with an exclamation mark in it, with a picture of a phone next to it. So I press home and power again and I get this:
"Android system recovery utility"
Use trackball to highlight;
Click to select.
reboot system now [Home+Back]
apply sdcard:update.zip [Alt+S]
wipe data/factory reset [Alt+W]
___________________________"
And that's all I get, nothing about creating a nandroid backup.
on the same page at the bottom it says -
"E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command"
Please help, I've looked everywhere on this site. No-one seems to mention it anywhere. I need to do a backup before applying the new ROM. Thanks.
P.S. I'm a mega newbie, previously a winmo user.
Have you flashed Cyanogens recovery image to your phone? If not, you won't get the Nandroid backup option.
Regards,
Dave
Oh thanks for the info on that, really appreciate it. How do I put that Cyanogen update on a hero? There aren't any step by step procedures to follow. (I've searched). The only one I can find says "Cyanogen on HTC Hero possible?" and the last post in that thread says to sit tight. But I know that people are doing the Nandroid backup.
Also when I have looked for the NANDROID Backup procedures for Noobs, they never mention anything about a cyanogen flash, they just mention Home+power on.
try searching for Modaco's 'flash recovery image top your hero permanently'
or go to android.modaco.com and find it in the forums there, cos there are step by step instructions there.
Here are two videos that will help you, I have the same phone as you and they worked a treat:
1.) Rooting your phone - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neE5zA687hE&feature=related
2.) Loading a Rom - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knWWB9Y9-28&feature=related
Thank you both ever so much. Managed to follow the video and managed a backup. Happy, happy times. Will do the ROM upgrade in a bit
hello
can i jus ask my main concern to do a nandroid backup is to restore my system back to an unrooted stock htc hero rom
if i have to flash cyanogen reovery console stuff before making a nandroid backup then when I need to restore my system to the original unrooted stock state will the flash recovery image (or console?) from where I make the nandroid backup - will that continue to exist on the phone?
in which case if i need to send my fone back for repairs/warranty will this give away that Ive been messsing arnd wid the fone?
can this flash recovery console/apk file installation be removed?
I have a rooted ATRIX. I am on Korea Telecom (In Korea) and there are no sbf backups available in the big thread.
However, I would like to try ROMing, but I'm afraid of toasting my Atrix with no way to get out. Therefore, I'd like to know a way to make a Complete backup of my phone so that I can recover when I inevitably screw up my phone with my endless tinkering.
Thanks for any help.
Do a backup in clockwork mod recovery or other custom recovery.
^ THAT.
boot into recovery>backup and restore>Backup>Choose where to backup>....done.
Wow. So easy. Thanks for the heads up guys. Just to make it clear, though. If I softbrick my phone, this backup will put me right back to where I was?
Yeah even if you somehow bork your recovery you can flash it back on with fastboot and restore that backup. It's stored on the sd so should be unaffected by anything you do really but keep a copy on a pc or w/e just in case.
I've taken my S-ON HTC Incredible S from Sasktel (Android 2.3.X) and go it to S-OFF. I then installed Clockwork Recovery. I did a NANDroid backup to SD Card, made a backup of that just in case onto my computer.
I'm now debating between installing Cyanogen or Virtuous Quattro CFW for ICS.
The question at hand involves some information I cannot verify. I've read it is unsafe to recovery from a NANDroid backup on a different kernel version. I'm assuming the kernel has been upgraded from Android 2.3.X to Android 4.X. So when I flash the Virtuous Quattro it will effectively make my NANDroid backup useless?
If this is true then I have no good recovery protection in case this bricks my phone.
Just looking for some advice before I press the big red button.
Well I updated to CM7 nightly and then did the NANDroid restore. The phone went back to stock no problem.
I'm still concerned about trying out ICS and breaking my ability to get back to stock.
I suppose this has been a stupid question since there has been no reply.
Google search yields a good degree of random results. Some say it is safe, others say unsafe. My understanding is NANDroid is a complete backup. So I could flash anything to my device, just so long I can still boot ClockWork Recovery, I can always go back to my stock android 2.3.X ROM.
Is this possible? The full details are I had my phone stolen, and got a new one with android 4.0.4 on it. I have on my computer a copy of my latest backup of my old cognition gingerbread rom. Can I just use CWM to recover to my old rom, or do i need to first downgrade to a gingerbread rom, and then recover?
Thankyou very much for assistance
Edit: Also, I don't actually want to use the old rom, I just need the contacts it saved, afterwards I'll wipe everything and install a clean ICS mod. In case there's any way of doing this without having to revert
You'll probably need to restore the backup with a version of CWM close to the one the backup was made with, you can often have problems restoring if you're using a CWM version a lot (say 12 mths or more) newer than the one you made the backup with.
So I'd probably go GB/with a rooted GB kernel first, restore the backup & go from there. I mean, it could work first try with an ICS kernel that's running a recent CWM build, but there's a fair chance it won't.
Edit - And be really careful with stock 4.0.4, don't do a wipe while you're running that.
Wow. I just... wow.
Ok, so I did the stupid thing and just tried to restore my old backup without doing proper downgrading first and it ended up soft bricking my machine, couldn't get recovery mode up, but I got into download mode. So I downloaded my country's stock gingerbread rom from samsung's site and flashed it with odin just to see what happens, and somehow my old rom was working again, and I have all my contacts and data. saved everything up to google, upgraded to ICS, import.
Everything went better than expected.
Thanks for the help
Told you Important thing is you managed to fix it yourself without asking silly questions in Q&A. Not many people seem to be able to do that these days.
Well done. I'm glad you got it sorted
Edit -You're welcome
Hi, after about 19 months of using MIUI suddenly my phone can not detect or read SIM Card anymore!
IMEI is ok, but phone also reboots after turning On Bluetooth and trying to find devices. I think it is hardware.
I need get back to stock ROM, so I can claim phone on warranty.
My stock ROM was ICS Orange branded I9100BVLPB. (hotfile is down so I can't download it)
I've done root with fake recovery method (using temporal cwm-touch-6.0.1.2), I also did a backup with it.
After flashing MIUI my recovery is - CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4
I've noticed that backup from fake recovery is different from normal backups I've done after flashing MIUI, backup folder is very small (18MB) but there is a blobs folder, which is big (2GB).
Is it possible to restore this backup with my CWM 5.5.04??
What else can I do to return to stock ROM?
Please, help.
Will a restore of that backup work ? No idea. Try it and find out (I've always avoided stuff like 'fake backups' & used the real thing). As to where you can get a stock rom, try AndroidFirmwares.net or Samsung-Updates. If they don't have what you need, you'll have to wait until Samfirmware have what you want back up (they're putting stuff up on Terra starting with more recent firmwares first, older stuff might be a while).
If you can't find what you need on those sites, use a different firmware for your carrier/country. Many people mistakenly believe when you send a phone in for a warranty claim it must have the firmware that was on the phone when you bought it installed. Not true (I mean, people do OTA updates from carriers, right ?).