ok guys, here we are again.. you're wanting to backup your phone for if you want to try a test rom, or just to have a backup in case something goes wrong. this tut will show you how! I will also explain how to restore your phone to a backup you've previously made. it is also possible to backup/restore using rom manager but this is the harder way.. not too hard once you figure it out, but thats all opinion
Pre Requirements:
1.) be rooted
2.) have clockwork recovery installed
3.) not a necessity, but it DEFINITELY helps to have the engineering build installed at least once
BACKUP STEPS:
1.) boot into clockwork recovery mode
2.) scroll down to nandroid and select
3.) click backup
4.) it will now automatically backup your ENTIRE PHONE.. this includes your contacts, messages, emails, everything you have on the phone prior to booting into recovery. you will see a yellow bar at the bottom that shows progress
5.) REBOOT!
6.) there is no step 6... you're done
RESTORE STEPS:
1.)boot into clockwork recovery mode
2.) scroll down to nandroid and select
3.) scroll down to restore and select
4.) scroll to your desired restore nandroid and select
5.) scroll to yes and select
6.) it will now auto restore your backup and everything in it. when done it will tell you DONE!
7.) reboot and you're done!
well there ya go guys, one (two?) more tut(s) done and have fun be safe and remember to wipe if you're ever scared you have a boot loop
I actually do have a specific question about these nandroid backups. If I backup, then flash a "updated" ROM (update to an existing one already installed), and THEN do a restore, does the restore take me back to the previous version of the ROM? I've never used the nandroid backups as I usually never have a need to.
the restore takes your phone back to exactly how it was when you performed the backup
Gotcha, so if you backup, wipe, and then update a ROM, you cannot expect to be able to use your nandroid backup to restore anything you had previously, unless you wanted to go back to the ROMs previous version... gotcha.
where are these backups stored?
I think it's /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/[BackupDate]/
is it safe to remove them from the sdcard & store for safekeeping until needed & replace in same location?
yep, sure is!
Is it necessary to perform a wipe before restoring, if you currently have a different ROM than what is being restored? Or does nandroid wipe for you?
romis138 said:
Is it necessary to perform a wipe before restoring, if you currently have a different ROM than what is being restored? Or does nandroid wipe for you?
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no, nandroid doesnt wipe for you. i suggest always wiping if you're changing roms
hi im kinda new to this, but I rooted my slide using the tuts from droiddog.com and here. Got mostly everything working but when I try to backup my current rom clockwork crashes and it doesn't take me to recovery and just reboots the phone. Ive tried clearing the download cashe and downloading an older recovery but nothing seems to work. I basically cant boot into recovery to make backups or flash any roms. any suggestions on what else I could try.
I gave this explination of a nandroid to a friend of mine today. It will act like a time machine and put your device back exactly as it was when you did the backup. Now if you need an explination like that, you realy should not be messing with your phone that way.
freeze
hi
i have a problem. when i try to restore my backup. everything looks fine. but when restoring finish and reboot my phone screen is freezing on htc logo. what can i do?
sorry for my bad english!
Just wait it takes a while to boot sometimes, treat it like you would treat a new ROM being flashed.
i need to wipe data/factory reset or?
ok
i wipe data.. restore backup from nandroid.. reboot phone and i waiting almost 30 min and screen still show only htc logo..
I have copied the nandroid backups on my SD card
but in recovery mode, it is not showing any nandroid backup file ?
warewolf4586 said:
I have copied the nandroid backups on my SD card
but in recovery mode, it is not showing any nandroid backup file ?
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is it in the sd\clockworkmod\backup folder??
Hello,
I have a question about Nandroid backups using CWM...I read on some forum that...the backup and the installed version of CWM recovery should match to make it work..I.e If I took the backup using CWM version 5.0.0.0 I have to use the same CWM recovery version to restore the ROM and I can not restore nandroid backup using the later version lets say 5.0.1.5 of CWM...is it true?
Thanks..
I kinda doubt that. Itd be much more likely that a nandroid created by 5.0 couldnt be used by an earlier version. I doubt that is true either, just more likely than the other way around.
Nothing wrong with waiting for better confirmation than mine, but if it were an issue I think wed have heard a lot more about it by now.
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I flashed the following KA6, and I didn't realize it would wipe my apps and contacts. I took a nanroid backup using CWM beforehand, and I'm trying to boot into CWM to restore my backup. However whenever I tell CWM to reboot into recovery or to restore the backup, the phone reboots into the standard Samsung Andriod e3 recovery, which does not allow me to restore my backup.
How can I get CWM to boot up so I can do a restore?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919760
I figured it out.
I'm having the same problem. How did you fix it?
I have flashed, deleted the clockwork recovery files, re-flashed, rebooted, etc, etc.
I can only get the standard blue recovery mode. I run reinstall packages and all it does is quickly shows it's attempting to install the clockwork update.zip file but just boots back into the blue standard recovery mode. Yes I have confirmed the update.zip file is there. I have removed it, reflashed, rebooted, etc. Running reinstall packages takes me into a constant loop.
This really sux.
Anyone got ideas on what my problem might be?
Thanks
Getting the same, and when I go check on my rom backups of my default OS there are no roms to be found after it says it created them successfully.
I erased any existing update.zip, then I told clockworkmod to reinstall, boot into recovery, in the blue menu I selected reinstall package, it rebooted into blue recovery again, and I selected reinstall package for the second time and then it finally rebooted into clockworkmod.
If this doesn't work you can try to follow this guide to get clockworkmod working again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925400
In the mist of my experimenting trying to get this to work, I did use the app Quickboot which is on the phone already to boot the phone into download mode. Then I did a hard reset (hold power button for 10 seconds), and tried the whole process I described in the previous post. I would guess this is not necessary, but it's just what I did.
Not sure if this is the right place. So after trying to install a theme. My tab is stuck at boot. i tried to factory restore and cache wipe. Neither worked. Need help. thanks.
edit:looks like i posted in the wrong place so. Gonna make another thread in the right area.
i made the samething but i made backup before installing the theme , so i restored it back
Did you make any backup before? Just restore it..
-If you made a Nandroid backup (wich you always should do before flashing "anything") just restore it, and your fixed.
-If you didnt made a backup, just reflash your original or custom rom in CWM, after clearing "System cashe/Dalvic Cashe and Wipe date/factory reset".
-After you reflashed your custom/original rom, MAKE A NANDROID BACKUP! and at the first boot save it to your desktop just to be safe.
I've installed a new ROM that has TWRP, however I need to reinstall my CWM backup to recover my old SMS and Call logs and my "safe" Original Rom.
I see that TWRP not restore CWM backups (didn't knew that), so I was trying to install again an old ROM that use CWM, but is not allowing me to enter in Fastbootmode once everytime I try t do that the TWRP starts......
What can I do to restore my Safe Backup?
Help!!!!!!!!
Hello, I made a TWRP backup of a good Xiaomi Mi3TD and proceeded to restore that backup on a completely identical Mi3TD but after the restore completes and I restart the phone, it enters into APX mode and I have to flash it with NVFLASH to get it working again but the restore I made will be gone.
What could be causing this? I backed up all the possible partitions and also restored all of them. TWRP doesn't throw any errors when restoring the backup. Please help me.