Hi folks,
I had a HD2 which I made run Android. The touch screen died on it at the weekend but thankfully it had hardware buttons. I was able to run a CWM backup and have a copy of it.
Normally I'd get a new HD2 and restore the backup to it, but they are out of stock so I now have a Desire HD. Unfortunately this means I can't restore the CWM backup.
Has anyone ever put anything together on how to recover as much as possible manually in situations like this? I imagine it has to happen to quite a few people..
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How do I creat a backup my factory Rom on my G Tablet Before Modification?
New to Android Systems.
Not afraid to mdoifiy systems. Been hacking Windows & Apple systems for years.
Looking to learn Android and symbian systems...
Unless I have not been extensive enough in my searching (possible), I was not able to find a 'how to' on backing up the g-tab right out of the box. Many of the articles/how-to's/rants say to backup, backup, backup! I was unable to find out how to. I saw on the video posted by ehunyadi, Installing Clockworkmod and TnT Lite 4.20 on Viewsonic gTablet, it shows the option to restore/backup in clockwork. Am I correct in assuming that once you select this, you will have the option to select 'backup' and as long as you have an SD card in, it will back up the files into that card? Will using a flash drive/external drive in the USB port work as well?
Backing up is nothing new to me, just never used an android I don't want to get this step wrong or else I am screwed on the rest lol. Again, sorry if this is stated in one of the sticky notes.
tposey and tpoland,
Two resources:
1. People who install ClockWorkMod (CWM) .8 can use that to make a
backup at the recovery level.
2. Many people with G-Tablets use "Titanium Backup" which is proven
to work well and have many advantages.
I heard of other programs, but the above two have been enough for me.
Rev
P. S. -- Not a backup, but if your G-Tablet gets messed up, "NVFlash"
is the way to restore to an original image.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
But this is NOT a backup, rather a start-over! Careful.
Thanks rev. Ill look up Titanium Backup and how-to guides for that.
The combination of clockwork and titanium is the best. Clockwork makes a backup of everything. Rom, settings, data, apps, so you can flash back to a stable setup. Titanium backs up apps, app data and user data so that at any time you can recover those. Its most helpful when flashing new roms. You can wipe data/cash and install a new rom and then you only have to install titanium again and use it to restore your apps and data. Very handy when moving between roms. You can also set it up to do auto backup your apps and data so if your tab decides to randomly sh!t the bed your pretty well covered as you can mount internal storage to your PC in recover and pull your titanium backup folder off before any serious reformat.
Hope that helps
Hi all !
if i restore nand backup from another phone on my phone + restore my orgininal EFS folder does it mean my phone will work perfectly without any surprise ????
thanks a lot
dahikino
totally not recommended. you could be coming from different android version, or even if same version, different manufacturers may have different setup.
if you feel adventurous, you can try just reinstalling the "data" portion though, that is where your installed apps are placed. but be warned it also contains some previous system settings which may not be compatible with sgs3.
better alternative is to install Titanium backup, it has function to read from nandroid backups so you can pick and choose what you want to extract from there.
First of all this is the wrong section to post this, go to the q&a section instead.
If the other phone was not the same exact model of phone then DO NOT restore the nandroid. Like the other commenter mentioned you can use titanium backup to save and restore apps or even use it to extract the apps from the nandroid.
Hi all,
I remember my first Froyo rom on my GS1 was provided as a nandroid package..
Questions go in the Q/A section
Fyi, nandroid doesn't touch the EFS partition or the bootloaders, or radio, just the system, data, cache and boot (kernel) partitions.
You *can* restore another person's nandroid onto your phone, but its really not a good idea (someone shipped roms as nandroids for a bit...), and you shouldn't need to touch the EFS unless something goes wrong, and a rom should never touch the EFS.
Edit: As people above say, don't restore a nandroid from another model of phone onto your device, if you want to move data from phone to phone like that use titanium backup or the like.
i want to copy a nand backup from a S3 orange 16GB onto my phone S3 SFR 32GB, because i have no solution for a "NO SMS,NO CALL BUT INTERNET WORKING" problem
changing rom, modem,etc.. etc... so many things without solved it
thanks
dahikino
dahikino said:
i want to copy a nand backup from a S3 orange 16GB onto my phone S3 SFR 32GB, because i have no solution for a "NO SMS,NO CALL BUT INTERNET WORKING" problem
changing rom, modem,etc.. etc... so many things without solved it
thanks
dahikino
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Well in that case at your risk by Nand i hope you mean a CWM Nandroid recovery .
Its often best to have the same version of recovery to restore backup if first attempt fails ..
Be far simpler to flash a stock SGS3 Orange rom via Odin .
jje.
my phone crashed during a billiard game and now the screen shattered, it's fine cause i have warranty but i don't know if they'll change the screen or replace the phone so i need to know everything is backed up.
i have a backup with titanium, and cmw and i know they both save the backup in the sdcard but does they can restore the information to a new phone? i just need to put the sdcard in the new one and titanium will restore the information?
second question, i have a lot of reminders in the "notes" widget that i can not remember, can i run the phone in a virtual machine in the computer even just once to see what i wrote there? i really need those notes.
thank you very much, sorry on my English and all have a good day and a great weekend
Yes. You should be able to restore your CWM backup to your new phone. You won't need your Ti backup as the CWM backup is a 'snapshot' of your phone at the time you took the backup.
the thing is the CMW backup is a bit old, can i restore the TI in a new phone?
what about getting the notes back?(i need them before the phone will be fixed)
OK. Think about what a CWM backup is & what happens when you restore one.
When you restore a CWM backup your phone (all of it; app settings, etc) will be restored exactly as they were when you took the backup.
The Ti Backup might restore OK to a different phone, never heard of anyone on here trying it, so you're only going to find that out when you try it.
As long as the version of CWM you use to do the restore isn't too far away from the version you used to take the backup, it should restore OK. If it doesn't, you might have to flash a kernel with the same CWM version you used to make the backup (to make a certainty of the restore working).\\
You can use ADB to pull stuff off a phone with a broken screen. Lots of tutorials about same on here/elsewhere (search).
dvirginz said:
the thing is the CMW backup is a bit old, can i restore the TI in a new phone?
what about getting the notes back?(i need them before the phone will be fixed)
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thank you very much, new question, can i somehow backup (a cmw backup) the phone without the screen?
do you know in which folder the notes widget and the info of what i wrote is in the sdcard?
i've opened the phone on the coputer, but no folder contains the info for the notes widget, where the phone contains it?
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7629/13531407120489.png
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edit:someone knows something like that to the S2? it will help me a lot with backing up and reading the notes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHaszOMi0
i managed to get the notes via kies but can't open them, someone know a way to open .smm files in the pc? can't find nothing on google
Hi, on my HTC Nexus One, I recently made a leap from GingerBread with Cyanogen Mod 7.1 to JellyBean 4.2.1 with Cyanogen Mod 10.1.
I started with an Amon-RA nandroid backup, and later on, I had to use BlackRose in order to change partition sizes.
I thought I backed up all my applications, but it turns out that I lost valuable data during the switch.
Now I'm afraid to load the prev. nandroid into the current configuration due to the modified partition sizes (I also do not know what were the prev. partition sizes).
So I was wondering if there's any way I could load the nandroid backup onto a virtual AVD machine, in order to extract my data files?
(*) If there's a better way to read data from a nandroid backup - I would love to hear about it.
Thanks for reading.
Bump.. ideas anyone?
Alternatively - can someone say what's the original Nexus One partition sizes, so I would do the whole round-trip to the old backup and back again?
Hi everyone,
Couldn't find the help or questions section, things have changed here hehe.
Anyway, I did a nandroid backup three years ago and don't know what rom it was but most probably it was the stock gingerbread, the time & the size of it very much indicates that it was stock gingerbread only on obsolete LG Optimus one (p500). Though I've bought a new phone but I need that urgently but now no rom is working the way it used to.
Suddenly I remembered that I have a backup in another sd card. But the recovery doesn't recognize that when I tap restore. I realized it's maybe coz backup is not a zip file, instead in a folder there are yaffs files, boot file etc. Around 6-7 files and the total folder size is 400+mb. I created a zip file but still it says nothing to recover.
I used CWM v5xxx and TWRP v2xxx for this purpose.
Are nandroid backups stored like this only? And how can I restore then?
I'll be really grateful if you help.
Thanks