What would everyone think of Roms being packaged as CWM backups so the people who struggle with the technical side of rom cooking but have lots of ideas could just upload a backup for people to restore in CWM?
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It's definitely doable, but it will be a big file to download and transfer.
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It's definitely doable, but it will be a big file to download and transfer.
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Not too big. Modded Rom without no game or extra app, it is only about 200Mb After we compress with winrar, that size will be smaller. However, I'm not sure if everything can work well
Just a little idea to make things easy for un professional devs
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Forgive me, I know this has been discussed by search turned up a lot of fruitless stuff to wade through.
Real simple: Is there a way to backup my phone 100% before trying a new ROM?
I'm not so much worried about contacts, etc... as I sync with Exchange at work. More about saving all customizations, apps, etc.... when I want to try a new ROM release. (I know I"ll have to re-setup all that on the new release... just want to be protected if I decide to go back to the previous ROM).
Thanks!!!
That's what a nand backup does
Backup - nand
Ahhhh..... always wondered about that, but my quick google-search came up empty.
So I don't need something like the app "ROM Manager", though it sounds like it'll make life easier.
Gervin said:
Ahhhh..... always wondered about that, but my quick google-search came up empty.
So I don't need something like the app "ROM Manager", though it sounds like it'll make life easier.
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Nope NAND is all you need.
One tip thought after to do a NAND backup and after to get a file manager installed rename the the backup to something you'll recognize. The way it work though the original name is a time stamp yyyyddmm-tttt. If that makes any sense. Just remember there can't be any spaces in the new name.
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VERY true lol! Name them or else you might forget which is which like me and mess up your phone lol
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I try not to keep too many nands in my sdcard because they are like 200+ mbs each.
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I try not to keep too many nands in my sdcard because they are like 200+ mbs each.
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They do take up a lot of space. I move em to my harddrive on my pc and keep the one I use most on the SD.
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All I do is nand the ROMs that work well and like. For example my goto everything works rom is Evil Eris 3.0. And and of course a keep ROMs that I know work backed up just in case. Also before changing ROMs do a wipe then restore. I find that sometimes there's a few apps that get left when switching.
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That's too funny lol, Eris lightning is my goto Rom I keep on the phone also good Rom huh?
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I'd like to run Eris lightening but because of all the red theming i have issues. I'm working with conap to change all the pngs to offer different theming. My issue is I'm red/ green color blind. Lol
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If you rename your nandroid don't put any spaces. Just numbers/letters. And don't use rom manager.
Can nand restore apps back to the sd card? I am running the kaos rom...
I kinda have the same question... is there an easy way to backup all my apps (even the droid store ones) than restore them when installing a new rom?
btw what's the best app manager? I'm using linda atm
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I'd like to run Eris lightening but because of all the red theming i have issues. I'm working with conap to change all the pngs to offer different theming. My issue is I'm red/ green color blind. Lol
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That's awesome that he's helping you out with that. What color/colors are you going for? I'd love to use Eris lightning with a different a color theme :wink::wink:
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One tip thought after to do a NAND backup and after to get a file manager installed rename the the backup to something you'll recognize. The way it work though the original name is a time stamp yyyyddmm-tttt. If that makes any sense. Just remember there can't be any spaces in the new name.
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No spaces in the name huh?? That's probably why the half dozen nandroids I made and renamed didn't work...learn something new every day.
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macnolias said:
I kinda have the same question... is there an easy way to backup all my apps (even the droid store ones) than restore them when installing a new rom?
btw what's the best app manager? I'm using linda atm
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Download Titanium from the market. It allows you to backup all of your apps, data within those apps, and system data (settings, etc.). You can run a batch to backup everything and even schedule it to do backups at certain dates and times.
When you flash the new rom, go back to the market and install Titanium again. Do a batch restore and it'll install your apps and all like you had it.
Also if you use ADW or Launcher Pro you can back up your home screens and restore them so they'll be set up just like before. Note - you'll have to manually add widgets back.
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I did come across titanium backup while doing searches and it's good to have some reassurance. oh and should I do a COMPLETE batch in the settings part or mostly do the ones in green?
This queston must have been asked 1,000,000 times but there's no simple way of updating roms from v29 to v30 to ect.?
I do complete batches.
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Is there any way to get the saved data back from games after installing a custom ROM on games like dead space I was more then half way thru it and now I have to start from the beginning
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Is there any way to get the saved data back from games after installing a custom ROM on games like dead space I was more then half way thru it and now I have to start from the beginning
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If you created a backup via twrp or titanium it's quite easy to get back your saves. They're usually stored along with other data in /data/data/name.of.app
If you restore that, they will more than likely come back. If you're restoring from TWRP, then it's nothing more than a tar file which you can open in WinRAR, 7-zip, or any other qualified archiver. I'm not sure if the newest TWRP (1.1?) stores backups in this way since it does them a bit different and aren't compatible with previous versions, but it is worth a try!
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Is there any way to get the saved data back from games after installing a custom ROM on games like dead space I was more then half way thru it and now I have to start from the beginning
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I use titanium backup to save my games and apps... and I usually play gamelofts games so I restore the app plus data that way you dont start from the beginning...
hope it helps... .
Dangit I didn't backup my apps before I did it guess I'm SOL thanks for the info tho guys
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Ok I just tried another game and I still have my saved data from it that's kinda weird I wonder why some of them still have the saves but others dont
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I have used titanium backup and mybackup pro and my games usually fail the license check and need to be re downloaded.
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Ok I just tried another game and I still have my saved data from it that's kinda weird I wonder why some of them still have the saves but others dont
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Some games store their data on your microSD card.
Oh I see thanks man
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I currently created a rom thats a mix of two roms put together and tweaked to my liking and battery life. I dont plan on distributing it because its not my work but i would like to make it into a .zip in case anything happens. How would I go about doing so? I tried fruit cake but it didnt seem to work at all. The two roms I have combined are iscrewed and turkbey.
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I currently created a rom thats a mix of two roms put together and tweaked to my liking and battery life. I dont plan on distributing it because its not my work but i would like to make it into a .zip in case anything happens. How would I go about doing so? I tried fruit cake but it didnt seem to work at all. The two roms I have combined are iscrewed and turkbey.
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Look at how the updater-script of various ROMs you use is written - that's the main thing you might need to change.
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I currently created a rom thats a mix of two roms put together and tweaked to my liking and battery life. I dont plan on distributing it because its not my work but i would like to make it into a .zip in case anything happens. How would I go about doing so? I tried fruit cake but it didnt seem to work at all. The two roms I have combined are iscrewed and turkbey.
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You can download my ROM and just delete my system folder and add yours. Do same for all files. Most of my roms use data for install off apps.. If you don't want that you have to delete data lines in updater script. Make sure you use NotePad++ not regular NotePad to edit scripts. Then sign zip.. If not know how just put zip on your phone and use signapktik app in market. If you already have turkbey or other ROM zip... Just do the same with there's
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You can download my ROM and just delete my system folder and add yours. Do same for all files. Most of my roms use data for install off apps.. If you don't want that you have to delete data lines in updater script. Make sure you use NotePad++ not regular NotePad to edit scripts. Then sign zip.. If not know how just put zip on your phone and use signapktik app in market. If you already have turkbey or other ROM zip... Just do the same with there's
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I looked for that app but could not find it...
justin860 said:
I looked for that app but could not find it...
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.stericson.signapktic&hl=en
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I looked for that app but could not find it...
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Signing is not necessary if you are using a base zip that already has one.
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I'm just going to use a base.zip and then put my system files into that one and see how it works. Worse case scenario I'll use my jig
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Signing is not necessary if you are using a base zip that already has one.
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Sometimes it breaks the signature, sometimes it doesn't when changing files.
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Sometimes it breaks the signature, sometimes it doesn't when changing files.
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Don't know what you have seen but I have used tons of basic zip files to work with. Never messed anything up. Especially since you don't need signed zips with cwm.
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Don't know what you have seen but I have used tons of basic zip files to work with. Never messed anything up. Especially since you don't need signed zips with cwm.
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It doesn't always happen, but I've had it happen lots of times when moving big amounts of data like a whole system file.
Either way not worth arguing about.
Just giving a helpful answer for all scenarios.
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I'm trying to free up some space how do I delete old ones I looked through my folders and could not locate them
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/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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/sdcard/external-sd/clockworkmod/backup
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/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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/sdcard/external-sd/clockworkmod/backup
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+1
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/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
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/sdcard/external-sd/clockworkmod/backup
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Yea you could also use the CWM app to manage/delete them.
Root explorer ftw
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You can also use rom manager
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trell959 said:
You can also use rom manager
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You are an evil, evil person.
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You are an evil, evil person.
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Why do so many people hate Rom manager? I love it and am just used to it since my cappy. I knkw it doesnt do everything with our SGS2 as it does for my cappy like reboot to recovery for nandroid backups correctly (except for using it for that purpose for cm7 works perfectly). But i like to use it for renaming nandroids and such. Easy to use and has never failed me. Wish it could be updated to fully work correctly at some point. Would be nice to get all our roms available on it/through it. Well to each his/her own i guess. I still use it to download gapps and such as well for cm7.
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Alucardis666 said:
Yea you could also use the CWM app to manage/delete them.
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Does that app work for any other kernel other than Siyah?
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You are an evil, evil person.
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Lol.. seems like a lot of ppl really hate ROM Manager.
I either use ES File Explorer, or just connect to the pc and do my cleanup as necessary. I also rename the folders, so it's easier to identify which is what. Just remember if you do decide to rename your folders, no spaces , else you'll get md5 issues and wouldn't be able to restore from the backup you made.
A more interesting question is why a thread like this even needs to exist. I wondered the same thing the op did. Then I used root explorer to search and found the folder on my own. Search being the key word.
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Lol.. seems like a lot of ppl really hate ROM Manager.
I either use ES File Explorer, or just connect to the pc and do my cleanup as necessary. I also rename the folders, so it's easier to identify which is what. Just remember if you do decide to rename your folders, no spaces , else you'll get md5 issues and wouldn't be able to restore from the backup you made.
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+1 on using pc moved a bunch of unnamed rom and ics'ed out version1 through 8 backups to a folder on my laptop. Never done anything with them but they're there .
I am no way affiliated with this application or its creator. Just sharing an awesome app that is useful to the flashaholics.
I am also not responsible for anything stupid you do to your own device.
GooglePlayStore/App2Zip
This app is great! Creates a flashable .zip file of all apps you want to backup and flash it in recovery after you flash a new Rom.
If you're getting errors after a restore you may need to boot back into recovery wipe dalvik-cache and fix permissions.
I know there are other apps that creates backups of apps but I think this method is a lot faster.
Have Fun!
This is great! I am going to be flashing this week, and this is the longest process.
Thanks for sharing.
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Maybe this can solve my lazy issue of not wanting to flash a new Rom because I'm too lazy to reinstall all my apps, hmmmm...good find double0.
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Just don't erase data
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Just don't erase data
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Even if I don't, some Rom scripts are written to erase data, I can modify that so that it won't, but with my past experience of not wiping data across roms caused one of two things:
1. Really buggy, laggy horrible system or.
2. Down right bootloop.
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I am no way affiliated with this application or its creator. Just sharing an awesome app that is useful to the flashaholics.
I am also not responsible for anything stupid you do to your own device.
GooglePlayStore/App2Zip
This app is great! Creates a flashable .zip file of all apps you want to backup and flash it in recovery after you flash a new Rom.
If you're getting errors after a restore you may need to boot back into recovery wipe dalvik-cache and fix permissions.
I know there are other apps that creates backups of apps but I think this method is a lot faster.
Have Fun!
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See, the way I always install roms.. I unzip the rom, copy all the apk's from my /data/app folder, paste that into the unzipped rom, make sure it has a line in the updater script to copy the data/app folder over, or add it.. make any other tweaks I want, rezip and flash. Restoring the data for apps with titanium backup is really fast, so this usually cuts down the whole process by a lot.
Of course before I flash any rom I always unzip it and see what they have done, figure it out.. I have a program do a file comparison to stock so I can see all the files they modified.. so.. yea..
Of course your app may cut down on the process even more, good find
I'm too lazy to do all of that, lol. Plus I've never been a fan of tb, no idea why but I just don't like it.
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Titanium is not reliable.
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Titanium is not reliable.
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How so?
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I've used but when I go to restore it restores around 65% of em
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I've used but when I go to restore it restores around 65% of em
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That's usually cause the system already has the app installed, which option did you use that happened?
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I used MyBackupRoot before this app. It restored a lot faster than TB. I still have MBuR just incase something gets botched.
GoBackup is not a bad alternative either. I've had some issues where SMS's don't restore properly with TB... So i've been using gobackup as a secondary.
GoBackup is currently free on the market.