Is it possible to update your prl and/or profile through CWM? It would be much more convient than flashing multiple roms.
I guess not? Anyone?
I would like this function also.
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I have my nandroid of stock that I go to about one a month to check for updates. It's real quick and easy make a back up of whatever ROM I'm on, restore stock, check for updates, backup stock again, restore ROM I was on before. All done in less than an hour if I was in a hurry
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Unfortunately you have to be on a semi stock rom to flash the prl.
I nandroided curent rom,flashed joker stock, updated prl and then restored my nandroid rom of choice.
Kinda pita but that is the way it is.
exactly, pita but what can you do ;-)
I'm glad this came up again as it reminded me that I need to make a maintenance ROM for just this reason.
That would be perfect! Simple lightweight and cwm flashable. Access to the debug mode in a 5 minute flash would be awesome.
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Hey guys,
Was having too many issues with GNex so I traded in for a rezound but hate all the bloat on it. Decided I'd finally stick my neck out there and try my noob hand at rooting and customizing it.
So, got my rezound unlocked and rooted and before i try anything, how do I ensure I don't brick the phone?
Searched around for a real dumbed down guide to backup and recovery but I'm at a kindergarten level with this stuff. For example, it took me about 4 hours to figure out how to unlock and root the phone and HTC gives you directions on unlocking.
Have titanium backup, and rom manager. I read there's 2 ways to create a recovery file - cwm and amon-ra, read about nandroid backup but don't know what these things mean or how they function.
Can anyone give me a quick tutorial in backing up the phone in case I eff it up?
Any help would be much appreciated, I apologize if this is too basic a question.
Thanks
No apologies! You have to start somewhere so it's all good. I would start with these two very helpful threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418653
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1418659
I would recommend using the Amon_Ra recovery from THIS post.
Since you are coming from a Gnex...is it safe to assume you know how to flash a custom recovery with the boot.img?
It's not safe to say I know how to do anything yet haha. I liked the non cluttered feel of the gnex so I didn't mess with it and I never did anything with my og Droid. Never flashed anything so I'm about as noob as they come. I unlocked and rooted this phone and that's my experience to this point. Again all help is good
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Thanks for the links btw. Slowly figuring this stuff out. Got amon ra recovery now... What does that do exactly? Just trying to ensure I can get back to where.I am in case I mess up my phone. Should I do a nandroid backup? Not sure what that means either but I see some threads about how to do it.
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biond said:
Thanks for the links btw. Slowly figuring this stuff out. Got amon ra recovery now... What does that do exactly? Just trying to ensure I can get back to where.I am in case I mess up my phone. Should I do a nandroid backup? Not sure what that means either but I see some threads about how to do it.
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A nandroid is an image of your phone in its current state. So yes, you should do a nandroid back up now before you flash a ROM so if something goes wrong you can restore it back to how it is now.
Then if you're going to flash a kernel after you flash a ROM you should probably make one before flashing the kernel as well in case something goes wrong.
Then when you have the phone the way you like it with a custom ROM/kernel you can make a nandroid at that point as well so you have that handy in case of anything going wrong somewhere down the line or if you just want to get back to that setup after trying out a different ROM. Then you just restore that instead of having to flash the other ROM/kernel again. If you want you can make nandroids of all your custom ROM configurations so you can switch them whenever you want. Of course you should keep an eye out in the threads of the ROMs in case of updates, and sometimes you need to wipe and flash the new version if there is an update.
Here's a few links with some good info:
Beginner's Guide to Rooting Android Devices
Quick INTRO TO ROOTING for those new to rooting
[HOW-TO] ADB for Dummies(How-To Learner's Guide)
If you've never flashed anything before and are planning on customizing this thing; welcome to the family of rezound.
welcome! The ReZound in my opinion is a great phone.
Alright, got myself some good information from you all. Nandroid backup done and saved on my PC so now I'm good to ROM? Eager to rid myself of the enormous amount of bloat the rezound comes with.
One more thing to add for you to know about your original backup, or subsequent ones- that wasn't brought up here.. (smarter folks shoot this down if I'm wrong).. Someone stated above that once you have your nandroid you're always ready to go back to that original backup with a simple flash. This is not the case if he's gone to another rom that uses a different kernel right? It seems some devs have found ways to work the kernel install into the rom install/flash, and others haven't.. Until there's a standard- there's never a guarantee that restoring that original nandroid will bring you back to your original kernel correct? You may have to d/l and install the boot.img after the restore.
That's part of my issue now. I keep ready about flashing roms and kernels but they all assume some level of proficiency when it's something I've never tried. I'm thinking of starting with clean Rom 1.5 but I want to keep some apps like nfl. I just can't find the bare bones explanation of what to do with the file and how to get my data back after i flash that Rom (a process I am foreign to). I download the zip to my PC.... Then what?
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You may also want to get the stock rooted kernel, and keep it with the nandroid. If, and when you want to restore, place your nandroid, and kernel on your sd card. Boot into Amon ra, and restore, then flash the kernel in fastboot. Not the best description, but I hope that helps....
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I'm running ineffabalis with their stock rooted kernel right now mainly because I want to wait until the kernel update process is a little more streamlined and the kernels themselves are a little more ironed out. That said, the complete newb sticky guide over in the dev section has a process that seems easy enough.. Basically involves a simple fastboot command from dos. It's written for ziggys but should translate to other kernels as well.
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I figured I would try out some of these custom roms and so far it's not a good experience lol, so I have safestrap..enabled it and flashed the rom. When I go back to toggle it to go back to stock it gives a error when it restores data or something like that.
I made a backup so if I can just go back to stock .181 and then I'll restore that backup.
Any help on what I need to do? I finally got it to boot into Gummy but the data was not connecting, just trying to go back to where I was with the stock OS.
Thanks in advance
try matt l groffs droid razr utilty,you can find it on xda,i had done something wrong when i rooted my razr so when .181 came out the ota kept failing until i downloaded the utility,it returned my phone to stock .173 then i got the update to .181.you can also root with the utility,good luck!
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I figured I would try out some of these custom roms and so far it's not a good experience lol, so I have safestrap..enabled it and flashed the rom. When I go back to toggle it to go back to stock it gives a error when it restores data or something like that.
I made a backup so if I can just go back to stock .181 and then I'll restore that backup.
Any help on what I need to do? I finally got it to boot into Gummy but the data was not connecting, just trying to go back to where I was with the stock OS.
Thanks in advance
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I'm not exactly sure this will work, but try quickly toggling to the unsafe system and restoring the backup. If that doesn't work you'll have to fastboot back to .181 with Matllgroff's Utility or RSD Lite.
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I got Gummy to finally grab internet but can't get it to toggle back to non safe or whatever you call it. I'm not apposed to going back to stock via RSD but just wished there were a less time consuming process lol
collins521 said:
I got Gummy to finally grab internet but can't get it to toggle back to non safe or whatever you call it. I'm not apposed to going back to stock via RSD but just wished there were a less time consuming process lol
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I'm not sure you know what I mean.
Step 1. Boot into Safestrap
Step 2. Go in to "safe boot menu"
Step 3. Select "Quick Toggle Safe System Dangerous"
Step 4. Restore your nandroid backup.
The downside of this is that you'll have to reinstall Gummy next time if you want to use it again.
Hope I helped.
Ya reinstalling isn't a big deal, when I said I finally got Gummy to grab internet I mean it finally connected to the web
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Is this common? Happened to me last nite and could never get y data to restore so I could disable safestrap. Had to use Matts 1.7 utility http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/t...y-17-for-ics-and-those-who-want-to-go-to-ics/ to get back to ICS 6.16.211. Wish I would have found this post first.
Thanks!
Let's say I make a Nandroid backup of what I have right now: Nils One xxx rom. Next I flash Joelz venasaur rom and decide that I like Nils rom better. Would it be safe to restore from the nandroid backup I just made or would it be better to reflash?
Edit: spelled powerful wrong, apologies.
Perfectly safe to restore the nandroid, That's what they are for. Just make sure to wipe first.
well
providing you have s-off its ok to go to any ics rom you please as long as you nandroid, but form ics to gb you have to have the corresponding hboot, you can also do patched version but i really dont recommend it.
However , if your s-on you can go from sense 4 roms to others , you wont go past the boot up screen , and vice versa.
i could never get nandroid back ups to work on my droid x...it has worked flawlessly everytime on my rezound...not sure why but i suspect it has something to do with the work arounds regarding root and the bootstrap method for getting into a custom recovery...either way they never worked well so much so that i thought it was a load of ****, that is until i started flashing roms on my rezound...same thing with titanium back up...i spend too much time getting my apps back to my liking, so i may give TB another shot since i could never get those back ups to work either...
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Perfectly safe to restore the nandroid, That's what they are for. Just make sure to wipe first.
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The nandroid process wipes the partition before restoring so that isn't needed
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jmichaels1982 said:
providing you have s-off its ok to go to any ics rom you please as long as you nandroid, but form ics to gb you have to have the corresponding hboot, you can also do patched version but i really dont recommend it.
However , if your s-on you can go from sense 4 roms to others , you wont go past the boot up screen , and vice versa.
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If you're s-on, you need to manually flash the kernel (boot.img) or use the helper script when going between roms with different kernels, Nandroid can't restore it on an s-on phone...
Thanks guys, question has been answered!
Hey guys,
Wanted to get a sure answer.
Whats the safest way to restore back to the stock firmware fro CM10 (or any rom in general).
There are two answers that i seem to have come across.
Answer 1:
Just download the stock firmware. Extract tar. Load onto PDA, check auto reset the flash reset and then start. Boom done! Everything reverts to stock, modem, firmware, kernel, etc.
Answer 2:
YOU MUST first flash stock kernel. So flash that first via odin then open odin again and flash the rom. If you don't flash the stock kernel first and then just flash the stock firmware, you'll have some issues.
As you can see, both are a bit contradicting. Whats the right method?
You missed one.
Make a nandroid of your stock ROM. then once you're done checking out CM or whatever else, just restore that. A lot less headache.
Docavelli said:
You missed one.
Make a nandroid of your stock ROM. then once you're done checking out CM or whatever else, just restore that. A lot less headache.
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Yep, nandroid is much much faster. In fact I went to lunch today and restored my CM10 nandroid to show a friend. 10 minutes later I was back to my Samsung ROM. Its much easier than flashing stock, then re-rooting, then loading all your apps and data back on.
I had heard that nandroid restores between stock/CM9/CM10 were causing bugs, or something of the sort.
If it really is working that easily, I might have to give these CM9/CM10 builds a try. I just didn't want to play around with it for a bit and then be forced to set up my stock configuration all again, because I do have a need for a certain level of stability.
Edit: Ah, I was thinking of our Verizon version however. I think it might require an Odin flash back to stock, then you can restore a stock nandroid backup.
While I can't guarantee you won't have problems, I can say that I haven't had any issues while restoring nandroids.
*your experience may differ.
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What version of CWM or TWRP is working fine for nandroid backup and restore, specially for Tmo version?
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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