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Quick question, when restoring a Nandroid backup, does it restore the phone exactly as it was when you perform the backup - as in all passwords, programs, settings ect.
I love flashing roms, but sometimes readding all my wifi, passwords, email, forums etc can be a pain.
Thanks!
Marc
Yes it saves everything and restores it back to that previous state with everything intact. Before flashing anything, it's good practice to make a NAND backup; if anything goes wrong you can restore it.
Yes it does. It has for me anyways.
GBeris 2.3.2
And save a copy of a recent backup on your computer somewhere just in case...
Excellent! I've been backing up everytime I've flashed a new rom, but never had to do a restore. Good to know incase I want to do fast swapping of ROMS.
Thanks!
I had this same question but mine is a little different. Say I did a backup while having GSB on here. Then I flashed a different rom. Then I did a restore. Does it switch me back to GSB or just add all my settings to the new rom?
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tombepa said:
I had this same question but mine is a little different. Say I did a backup while having GSB on here. Then I flashed a different rom. Then I did a restore. Does it switch me back to GSB or just add all my settings to the new rom?
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Nandroid backup and restore is just like Norton Ghost on a Windows PC. You will get back GSB just as you left it if you Nandroid Restore a backup made while the phone was running GSB, with this caveat:
- the Nandroid backup and restore in Amon's Recovery does not back up the /cache partition, so the first launch will take a while as the Dalvik cache is rebuilt
- Amon's also does not backup or restore the .android_secure folder on your SD card, where the Froyo/GB ROMs install apps when you move them from internal to the SD card. So, if you had apps on SD on GSB, installed a new ROM and formatted the card, the Nandroid Restore (I believe) will not bring those apps back.
Just to add to what doogald said, ROM Manager with ClockWork Mod Recovery (it launches from Amon RA, so you don't have to flash anything and you still can use Amon RA all you want) does backup the Dalvik-Cache and I believe I believe it backs up the .android_secure folder as well.
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Something to keep in mind is that the amon-ra recovery is stable, and works very well. clockworks recovery works, but something to keep in mind is it sometimes bricks the eris. I don't know why. IF you don't care on way or the other clockwork recovery gets installed with the one click method of rooting.
Nand backups work great. If you like to switch roms a lot. I'd suggest to keep one rom as your goto rom, and remans it with a file manager keep it apha numeric, and no spaces in the filename. when you switch roms take a few seconds to wipe the phone, and then restore. This usually makes it the restore function as it was before things changed.
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IF you don't care on way or the other clockwork recovery gets installed with the one click method of rooting.
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Just in case any new rooters get confused, I think you meant that Amon RA Recovery gets installed with the one click method of rooting.
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Just in case any new rooters get confused, I think you meant that Amon RA Recovery gets installed with the one click method of rooting.
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"New rooters" I just laughed out loud there. Nah, I think everyone that's going to be here is here. Our numbers only get smaller from here.
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"New rooters" I just laughed out loud there. Nah, I think everyone that's going to be here is here. Our numbers only get smaller from here.
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Actually there are new rooters all the time posting questions in general and q&a since they often don't have write access to the development area yet. They often say they just rooted.
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Actually there are new rooters all the time posting questions in general and q&a since they often don't have write access to the development area yet. They often say they just rooted.
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Hmmph. I stand corrected then. Or rather, I sit corrected.
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Hmmph. I stand corrected then. Or rather, I sit corrected.
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LOL! 10 char.....
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"New rooters" I just laughed out loud there. Nah, I think everyone that's going to be here is here. Our numbers only get smaller from here.
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Hahaha i just rooted back in december but didnt start using xda till recently so im still a noob
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"New rooters" I just laughed out loud there. Nah, I think everyone that's going to be here is here. Our numbers only get smaller from here.
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I'm taking the plunge this week. My phone is still OTA 2.1 baby!
The other thing I will say is that folks should stop *****ing about FCs with the new ROMs. I get them now running all the latest 2.1 apps if I don't power down the phone every night.(Don't know how that compares to rebooting?)
I would make sure you use the amon ra recovery since in my experience its been more stable.
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I just rooted my phone at the end of February and then did my buddy's Eris two nights ago
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hello everyone I have a question, when I made my nandroid backup of my stock rom and the one i'm using now before applying a patch and one after the patch but made the first 2 by mistake to the internal memory of the phone now I want to move them to my PC but i can't find them with root browser(or explorer ) I can see them in CWM when I go in to recovery but I'm not sure were there getting store also being that I made the backups so close together the time stamps on them are really similar and I can't tell which one is the stock and the backup of the new rom is there a way to find out which one is the stock one without having to do a restore
thank you in advances for the help
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hello everyone I have a question, when I made my nandroid backup of my stock rom and the one i'm using now before applying a patch and one after the patch but made the first 2 by mistake to the internal memory of the phone now I want to move them to my PC but i can't find them with root browser(or explorer ) I can see them in CWM when I go in to recovery but I'm not sure were there getting store also being that I made the backups so close together the time stamps on them are really similar and I can't tell which one is the stock and the backup of the new rom is there a way to find out which one is the stock one without having to do a restore
thank you in advances for the help
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Your nandroid backups should be located under... clockworkmod/backup/"YYYY-MM-DD.HH.MM.SS"
Your backup(s) should be in a folder with the format above as in date and time.
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Newer one is on the bottom and older over on top.
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Merio90 said:
Your nandroid backups should be located under... clockworkmod/backup/"YYYY-MM-DD.HH.MM.SS"
Your backup(s) should be in a folder with the format above as in date and time.
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thank you for your quike replay, I only see 2 of them and when i go in to CWM if go to restro from internal memory it show 2 but if I go to the sd card it show 1 all with difrent time stamps did I do sometiing wrong?
gozes said:
thank you for your quike replay, I only see 2 of them and when i go in to CWM if go to restro from internal memory it show 2 but if I go to the sd card it show 1 all with difrent time stamps did I do sometiing wrong?
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If there are multipe folders under "backups" with different time and dates then those will be all the nandroid backups you have made so far with the most recent one being the one with the newest date and time while the old backups are the ones with the older dates. What do you plan on doing? are you trying to restore to stock 2.1?
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If there are multipe folders under "backups" with different time and dates then those will be all the nandroid backups you have made so far with the most recent one being the one with the newest date and time while the old backups are the ones with the older dates. What do you plan on doing? are you trying to restore to stock 2.1?
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I just want to have them in hand because I'm going to work on my gf phone(also a t959) in case anything goes wrong(I'm not expecting any issue but one never knows) I can send here back to 2.1 while I look for solution
gozes said:
I just want to have them in hand because I'm going to work on my gf phone(also a t959) in case anything goes wrong(I'm not expecting any issue but one never knows) I can send here back to 2.1 while I look for solution
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Not exactly sure if your phones nandroids will work with your gf's phone. I recommend you create a seperate nandroid on her device just to be safe. Thats if that phone is rooted otherwise disregard what i have said.
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Not exactly sure if your phones nandroids will work with your gf's phone. I recommend you create a seperate nandroid on her device just to be safe. Thats if that phone is rooted otherwise disregard what i have said.
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I will do that but what difference does it make that fact that is root it or not?
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I will do that but what difference does it make that fact that is root it or not?
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Well if her phone is not rooted there is no way to create or restore the nandroid backup since you do not have CWM installed. Unless you know of some other way to create and restore the backups.
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Merio90 said:
Well if her phone is not rooted there is no way to create or restore the nandroid backup since you do not have CWM installed. Unless you know of some other way to create and restore the backups.
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well on mine(that was not root it) I just use CWM zip that was rename to update.zip boot in to recovery reinstall packeges and that will take me in to CWM but it will no be install on the phone but you can still backup and flash from it with out the need for root there a video about it if you whant to see it
gozes said:
well on mine(that was not root it) I just use CWM zip that was rename to update.zip boot in to recovery reinstall packeges and that will take me in to CWM but it will no be install on the phone but you can still backup and flash from it with out the need for root there a video about it if you whant to see it
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Oh i see now. I Forgot about that. Excellent point but technically you are rooted. That update.zip you flashed in stock recovery (reinstall packages) edited some of the system files on your phone in the process and gave you superuser rights or "root" access. So you are rooted just so you know.
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Oh i see now. I Forgot about that. Excellent point but technically you are rooted. That update.zip you flashed in stock recovery (reinstall packages) edited some of the system files on your phone in the process and gave you superuser rights or "root" access. So you are rooted just so you know.
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that good to know but the funny part is that it maybe root it but does not show on the phone no ninja or paired android. Btw will superoneclick(i know other ways to get root but that is by far the fastest and I just one to get that part done quick so I can move to backup and flash ) work on 2.2... I told her not to upgrade but she did not lisen to me :-(
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Hi, I recently installed Android 4.0.4 to my Galaxy S2. The reason I am asking these questions is because all/most of the documentation written for them seems to be written for a Galaxy S2 with 4.0.3 or below.
Basically, the latest update was bad, made the system look ugly, makes phone signal drop, battery drain, some texts drop, and Silent mode seems to be no different from vibrate mode in that it still vibrates. What I want to do is root my Galaxy S2, backup all of the apps, SMS, MMS, Call logs and their data (So that when I restore the phone, I don't have to start games like Asphalt 6 and Cut The Rope over again) and then install CM9 + Google Apps and restore the apps and their data. Is there an easy way of doing this that's suitable for a first time rooter and flasher?
Thanks so much for any help, Jack
Running an unbranded, sim free Galaxy S2 bought from Amazon.
On giffgaff network.
In the UK, so I'm not using LTE or anything like that
Root using method 1 from guide in my signature. Then backup all with Titanium Backup.
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Stileth said:
Root using method 1 from guide in my signature. Then backup all with Titanium Backup.
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Ok, I read through it and it seems like it's not too complicated, but when it says "Internal SD Card" does that mean my MicroSD card or something different?
Thanks, Jack
Edit: Also, where do I download the files that it mentions?
No, internal SD card is your internal storage. Your microSD is external as you can take it out
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No, internal SD card is your internal storage. Your microSD is external as you can take it out
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Ok, thanks
Also, because the forum wouldn't me add the edit in time, where do I download the files that the guide mentions.
Sorry for asking all these (possibly stupid) questions, I'm just nervous
As for backing up apps and games etc....titanium backup. I was advised to use the pro version, will never turn my back on it. As for the rom and root it depends what kernel wnd rom you want to use. My signature has links to a reliable kernel and rom thats based on CM, AOKP and a few others rolled into one, magic config link is also usefull to maximize battery life
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Ok, also, is anything likely to go wrong during the rooting process? I'm trying to backup via Kies before doing anything, and Kies keeps failing and telling me to reconnect. I've tried restarting the PC and phone, and it keeps doing it, some I'm wondering whether I should bother backing up with Kies at all.
Thanks, Jack
jackfifield said:
Ok, I read through it and it seems like it's not too complicated, but when it says "Internal SD Card" does that mean my MicroSD card or something different?
Thanks, Jack
Edit: Also, where do I download the files that it mentions?
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it's your internal storage (Phone), not the microSD card...
jackfifield said:
Ok, also, is anything likely to go wrong during the rooting process? I'm trying to backup via Kies before doing anything, and Kies keeps failing and telling me to reconnect. I've tried restarting the PC and phone, and it keeps doing it, some I'm wondering whether I should bother backing up with Kies at all.
Thanks, Jack
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Only thing that will happen when rooting (providing you use a kernel that is trusted, some have emmc cap erase bug, messes things up, luckily i aint had that before) your get a yellow triangle when booting your phone, this can be removed using triangle away app which resets your binary to say it hasnt been tampered with. Aslong as you follow instructions fully, you should be fine as for kies, odin hates it, disable kies or uninstall it from your pc. Backups are always better with titanium, your probably find that your apps are backed up to google but may need to restart games etc where as titanium saves everything so you start from where you left things
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Only thing that will happen when rooting (providing you use a kernel that is trusted, some have emmc cap erase bug, messes things up, luckily i aint had that before) your get a yellow triangle when booting your phone, this can be removed using triangle away app which resets your binary to say it hasnt been tampered with. Aslong as you follow instructions fully, you should be fine as for kies, odin hates it, disable kies or uninstall it from your pc. Backups are always better with titanium, your probably find that your apps are backed up to google but may need to restart games etc where as titanium saves everything so you start from where you left things
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Ok, so I decided that I'm going to use Method 1 in Stileth's signature ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746794 ) would this apply for that? How dangerous is that method. Also, I can't backup with Titanium before rooting, which was my main concern, as I wanted a backup in case anything went wrong whilst rooting.
Thanks, Jack
jackfifield said:
Ok, so I decided that I'm going to use Method 1 in Stileth's signature ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746794 ) would this apply for that? How dangerous is that method. Also, I can't backup with Titanium before rooting, which was my main concern, as I wanted a backup in case anything went wrong whilst rooting.
Thanks, Jack
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Personally i used this link the 1st time i rooted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399&highlight=litening+rom i cant see any problems with the link you sent though so shud be fine, seeing as you cant do a backup at the moment, i think your going to end up needing to restart all your games etc after rooting and installing a custom rom (if your doing that aswell) i would strongly advise to make a nandroid backup before you do anything though, most links will advise you to do that aswell. atleast if anything does go wrong you can reflash your phone back to its original state.
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Personally i used this link the 1st time i rooted http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399&highlight=litening+rom i cant see any problems with the link you sent though so shud be fine, seeing as you cant do a backup at the moment, i think your going to end up needing to restart all your games etc after rooting and installing a custom rom (if your doing that aswell) i would strongly advise to make a nandroid backup before you do anything though, most links will advise you to do that aswell. atleast if anything does go wrong you can reflash your phone back to its original state.
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But surely I can backup if I root first, then install Titanium, backup, then install CM9?
Or am I confusing myself?
jackfifield said:
But surely I can backup if I root first, then install Titanium, backup, then install CM9?
Or am I confusing myself?
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the nandroid backup is just a safety thing so if anything does go wrong during root, you can flash straight back. rooting wont disturb any of your settings or games etc so once rooted your be fine to use titanium for a full back up before using a custom rom
Ok, thanks
Also, I just realised the files I needed were at the bottom of the guide.
As I said, noob.
Thanks, Jack
jackfifield said:
Ok, thanks
Also, I just realised the files I needed were at the bottom of the guide.
As I said, noob.
Thanks, Jack
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haha we all started as noobs at 1 point, flashing gets easier all the time, aslong as you read posts fully and follow instuctions fully, you shouldn't run into any major problems, if you do there is always someone on here that will be able to help and 90% of the time the answer is already somewhere on the forum
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haha we all started as noobs at 1 point, flashing gets easier all the time, aslong as you read posts fully and follow instuctions fully, you shouldn't run into any major problems, if you do there is always someone on here that will be able to help and 90% of the time the answer is already somewhere on the forum
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Ok, quick question, what will Titanium do with the apps on my SD card. Do they need to be backed up, or are they safe since they're on the SD card? Or does Titanium back them up anyway?
jackfifield said:
Ok, quick question, what will Titanium do with the apps on my SD card. Do they need to be backed up, or are they safe since they're on the SD card? Or does Titanium back them up anyway?
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once you start using titanium it will back up everything, everywhere. you can change filters to only back up what you want, it will do automated backups if you set it all up (the pro version is definitely advised as you can also freeze or remove system apps to improve battery etc but do not rush into that as if you remove or freeze something then it could have effects on other parts of the phone but there are a few useful guides on that side of things) when cahnging roms though, do not back up anything written in red on titanium (those are system things, if you restore red items on new roms, it will interfere with the new system settings and cause force closes etc, again there are guides about for titanium aswell but it is easy to use
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once you start using titanium it will back up everything, everywhere. you can change filters to only back up what you want, it will do automated backups if you set it all up (the pro version is definitely advised as you can also freeze or remove system apps to improve battery etc but do not rush into that as if you remove or freeze something then it could have effects on other parts of the phone but there are a few useful guides on that side of things) when cahnging roms though, do not back up anything written in red on titanium (those are system things, if you restore red items on new roms, it will interfere with the new system settings and cause force closes etc, again there are guides about for titanium aswell but it is easy to use
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Ok, whilst I will probably buy Titanium backup at a later date, is the paid version needed for what I'm doing right now. I say that because I literally do not have enough money in my bank account for it (I'm 14 )
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Ok, whilst I will probably buy Titanium backup at a later date, is the paid version needed for what I'm doing right now. I say that because I literally do not have enough money in my bank account for it (I'm 14 )
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as far as i remember the free version will let you back things up and restore them, the pro version lets you do the freezes etc. it took me a while before i went to the pro version
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as far as i remember the free version will let you back things up and restore them, the pro version lets you do the freezes etc. it took me a while before i went to the pro version
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Ok, that's good
Also, in other news, I'm now should be rooted!
Anyway I can test it? I think I remember a root testing app, actually, so I'll try that
Woohoo!
Hey everyone!
I have run into a little snag with my Galaxy Note... I just rooted and flashed CWM Touch Recovery to it last night by following the thread listed here. I have a Canadian version of ICS on the Rogers network. So this evening, i decided to try to run a backup within CWM, and I ran into a small problem. As the backup ran, it went through a good majority of the process, then once it got about half way through the "data" portion of the backup, an error popped up telling me there was a problem with the backing up of the data. My question is, is it necessary for that portion to complete for the image to be viable? Is the data portion just my apps? And would the rest of the image still be ok, if i want to use it? Because if the image is still whole, minus the apps, i can live with that. I don't have a problem reinstalling everything.
CWM version is 5.5.0.4 and I am using Rogers stock ICS OTA updated ROM.
***Edit I got a back up done thru the "back up to internal sd card", instead of the "backup" option.
I held out using cwm for longer than most simply because I was used to it and have it on a number of other android devices....After finally making the jump to TWRP, I would highly recommend it.
It does basically the same job with a nice GUI...and it's super fast! Backups and flashing are a breeze.
Give it a try...you can always flash back...but you won't
If the backup had an error pop up I would not use that. Delete it and either a) try again or b) flash twrp and make your backup there. You can also give your backup a name with twrp. Quite a nice, understated feature.
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Ok, thanks guys. I managed to get it to do a backup with the second option in CWM. So once I start playing with things, I can go back if need be.
Kev
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CWM backup fails if you have more than 4gb of photos, music, video. You possibly reached that limit.
The pictures and music and such wasn't the issue. I guess it turned out my sd card was just a hair over the needed space availability. Thanks
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I held out using cwm for longer than most simply because I was used to it and have it on a number of other android devices....After finally making the jump to TWRP, I would highly recommend it.
It does basically the same job with a nice GUI...and it's super fast! Backups and flashing are a breeze.
Give it a try...you can always flash back...but you won't
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I had the exact same experience if I had known how TWRP worked I would never have even started using CWM
Hello everyone! Noob here :victory:
I've just been opened up to the world of rooting, and I'm a bit scared to be honest
I've had my GS3 for about 4 months now? I recently started playing games on my GS3 using emulators and I was getting frustrated with the bad touch controls so I went looking for a controller of some sort. I came across the GameKlip which is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. It requires your phone to be rooted to use an application, so I went researching and I'm kind of lost now, haha.
I vaguely understand the process after reading up a bit about it and watching a few YouTube videos. I don't really know where to start though. For example, the YouTube videos I watched are valid for GS3 v4.1.1, but not the baseband version I have (19300XXDLID). Does this matter? Or does the baseband have to match? I was taking a look at this guide, would it be a good place to start/follow? Is it current for v4.1.1, baseband 19300XXDLID? I just don't want to muck something up and end up bricking my phone somehow, heh.
Thanks for reading!
EDIT: Or would I be better using the toolkit rather than the guide?
Follow the guide you mentioned first in your post mate, using cf-root. You should be good to go then. And follow the instructions carefully. Rooting is very easy with Odin. Enjoy
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Thank you for your help and encouragement. I've successfully rooted my phone now :victory:
I'm just in the process of making a NANDroid backup now. I was wondering how long this usually takes? It's been a good 10 minutes now, maybe more and it's at 'Backing up data...' Is that normal?
DionysusDreams said:
Thank you for your help and encouragement. I've successfully rooted my phone now :victory:
I'm just in the process of making a NANDroid backup now. I was wondering how long this usually takes? It's been a good 10 minutes now, maybe more and it's at 'Backing up data...' Is that normal?
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Just wait, it backup all your ROM, apps and data
Me normally backup around 30 minutes lol
Else another option, use titanium backup
Backup system + user app data
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XeactorZ said:
Just wait, it backup all your ROM, apps and data
Me normally backup around 30 minutes lol
Else another option, use titanium backup
Backup system + user app data
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wow...backup until 30 minutes.so long.
DionysusDreams said:
Thank you for your help and encouragement. I've successfully rooted my phone now :victory:
I'm just in the process of making a NANDroid backup now. I was wondering how long this usually takes? It's been a good 10 minutes now, maybe more and it's at 'Backing up data...' Is that normal?
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Dont forget to do also an EFS backup.
Thats very very important!
It failed to backup and I think the issue is that I have too many apps. So I've backed up my system + user apps with Titanium then I'll go and delete them all and try again with the NANDroid backup. Hopefully it'll work then. (I also have to backup to the internal SD as I don't have another one, this wouldn't be causing the problem would it?)
An EFS backup? How would I go about doing that?
EDIT: I've backed up my EFS using this tool.
EDIT2: And now I've just finished backing up using NANDroid, woo