Dear community,
actually I am not quite sure if i should change from stock ROM Android 4.0.4 to a custom ROM like KA10.2 Xperia [4.0.4]SSpeed or [4.0.4]MooDeD ICS 90.6. I recently updated from stock 2.3.7 to stock 4.0.4 and luckily all my apps, userdata, configuration etc. were restored perfectly (nice). I know this wont work for a custom ROM (because unlocking bootloader needs to wipe data).
Without root I am not able to use Titanium Backup and I am not sure if MyBackup is able to backup the data for all Apps? At the moment I have 152 Apps installed and for me its very important to save the gameprogress from Dead Space, Modern Combat 3, GTA III Uncut and so on.
What can I do to backup everything like in Titanium backup? I also want to backup all data from "face unlock" because I optimized it so much (with beard, without beard, with cap and without, differnt hairstyles etc.), how can I do that ?
I think your only option is adb backup then. But it's not too stable...
I just did this the other day.
I used the stock Backup & restore app. It creates .smec-fullbackup in your sdcard and can save all your apks, texts, contacts, browser, etc. The only issue I had going to KA10.2 was that it did not have the Backup & restore app. I was able to pull it from my nandroid of stock ICS. I believe it was called Backup-wizard.apk.
edit: I am unsure about the face unlock stuff. I was able to backup some apks and restore them with my save data.
krazyazy said:
I just did this the other day.
I used the stock Backup & restore app. It creates .smec-fullbackup in your sdcard and can save all your apks, texts, contacts, browser, etc. The only issue I had going to KA10.2 was that it did not have the Backup & restore app. I was able to pull it from my nandroid of stock ICS. I believe it was called Backup-wizard.apk.
edit: I am unsure about the face unlock stuff. I was able to backup some apks and restore them with my save data.
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OK at the moment I am sure the ROM I will chose is [4.0.4]MooDeD ICS 90.6. I created a backup with the integrated backup tool. Does anyone know if stock backup app is integrated in this ROM? Otherwise, krazyazy can you upload this .apk anyway ?^^
You can stay with stock ROM and root if you want. Flash ICS Advanced Kernel using fastboot, turn on, wait, turn off, Flash original ROM Kernel with fastboot (if you extract the kernel) or with flashtool and voilá! Root on stock!
I use stock ROM and Advanced ICS Kernel Its nice!
Acceleracer said:
OK at the moment I am sure the ROM I will chose is [4.0.4]MooDeD ICS 90.6. I created a backup with the integrated backup tool. Does anyone know if stock backup app is integrated in this ROM? Otherwise, krazyazy can you upload this .apk anyway ?^^
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The apk is attached.
brunodmjr said:
You can stay with stock ROM and root if you want. Flash ICS Advanced Kernel using fastboot, turn on, wait, turn off, Flash original ROM Kernel with fastboot (if you extract the kernel) or with flashtool and voilá! Root on stock!
I use stock ROM and Advanced ICS Kernel Its nice!
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I think the actual issue is with unlocking the device, because the op states that they don't have root and mentions that unlocking will wipe data.
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Hi Guys,
I am running the the latest Axura ROM (2.2.5.7 I believe) and have now purchased the premium versions of the following Apps: ROM Manager, Titanium Back Up & Launcher Pro.
With all this awesome capability, what should I do in the way of a back up to restore my phone if something ever happens? Basically my goal is to be able to go into recovery and restore my phone totally if I FUBAR it.
Please keep in mind I just entered this world as of Sunday starting with Rooting and then ROM flashing : D
Thank you for all your help now and in the past!
From another post I made:
The way I have things set up for backups, and this is just for my personal convenience, is as follows...
I have a stock JFD ODIN rom to flash in case anything goes wrong. (A lot of people here will tell you to flash this whenever flashing a new rom. It is safer, and cleaner to do it this way, but not absolutely necessary)
I make a nandroid of my last stable rom (I only keep one at a time cause the files are huge) and keep a backup of that on my PC.
I backup all my apps and a few other things (call logs, bookmarks, sms) through Titanium backup. If you get the pro version, you can load it up after flashing a new rom and have it automatically restore all your apps in one click (system settings can be dangerous to restore when going from rom to rom, so be careful with those.) I also keep a backup of this on my PC.
I will also occasionally backup both of the sd cards to the PC.
Maybe overkill, but you probably wont ever lose anything forever.
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Well I just backed up my ROM through ROM manager... I have another one in there too dated Saturday (when I first flashed) which I assume is my stock vibrant ROM...?
I do have the Pro version of Titanium... how would I back up everything for a one click set-up?...If I did that should I just delete my ROM back up in ROM manager? Trying to avoid unnecessary redundancy and the wasting of precious space on my phone : P
Go into Titanium and click on Backup and restore and than click on menu and then batch and then select backup all user apps. then run batch file. You also have the choice to back up system data as well. I would not recommend deleting any of your backups in Rom Manager. Just backup all of your apps(and system data if you wish) and you are good to go.
Thanks all!
tenbeau said:
I would not recommend deleting any of your backups in Rom Manager.
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Why is that? Nandroid backups are very large, and if you're playing it safe and making a nandroid each time before flashing a rom, you will run out of space very quickly. You should always keep at least one (for me its my most recent, stable, daily driver), but it certainly is NOT necessary to keep all of them.
Hi, i've got myself a new SGS2 a month ago (first android phone) and i rooted it with CF-ROOT yesterday.
Im running Android 2.3.3 with KF3 kernel, and my question is if i can try out CyanogenMod by using "Restore" in CWM, and go back to my own stock ROM when i please ? Will all of my settings and apps save when i'll jump back to stock ? i did a backup already (backup of apps and data aswell separately) and wanted to make sure before doing anything. Oh and, when i'll install CyanogenMod, will i be able to restore my apps AND all data (photos, videos, random files) on it ?
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Hi, i've got myself a new SGS2 a month ago (first android phone) and i rooted it with CF-ROOT yesterday.
Im running Android 2.3.3 with KF3 kernel, and my question is if i can try out CyanogenMod by using "Restore" in CWM, and go back to my own stock ROM when i please ? Will all of my settings and apps save when i'll jump back to stock ? i did a backup already (backup of apps and data aswell separately) and wanted to make sure before doing anything. Oh and, when i'll install CyanogenMod, will i be able to restore my apps AND all data (photos, videos, random files) on it ?
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Yes it is possible to switch between the stock rom and cyanogen.
That's how I use it.
I have a backup of my stock rom and another with cyanogen on it.
Normally I use the stock rom. After a few new nightlies I make a new backup of my stock rom and restore my cyanogen rom. Then I update cyanogen to see what changed and if it is ready to be used as my daily rom. If it's not I perform a backup of my updated cyanogen and restore my stock rom.
And so on until Cyanogen is good enough.
Things like photos, video, music etc should be fine (which doesn't mean a backup isn't a good idea some people lost their pictures at the beginning.)
You could backup/restore your apps with Titanium Backup. But I wouldn't recommend it. It's better to start from a nice and clean source without old rubbish.
Nebucatnetzer said:
Yes it is possible to switch between the stock rom and cyanogen.
That's how I use it.
I have a backup of my stock rom and another with cyanogen on it.
Normally I use the stock rom. After a few new nightlies I make a new backup of my stock rom and restore my cyanogen rom. Then I update cyanogen to see what changed and if it is ready to be used as my daily rom. If it's not I perform a backup of my updated cyanogen and restore my stock rom.
And so on until Cyanogen is good enough.
Things like photos, video, music etc should be fine (which doesn't mean a backup isn't a good idea some people lost their pictures at the beginning.)
You could backup/restore your apps with Titanium Backup. But I wouldn't recommend it. It's better to start from a nice and clean source without old rubbish.
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just remember your original kernel and ROM.. other than that everything should be fine. Always backup your backup lol
I'm thinking of using a custom rom for my P7500 and wanted to know if I would be able to go back to a stock rom if I needed to?
okizen said:
I'm thinking of using a custom rom for my P7500 and wanted to know if I would be able to go back to a stock rom if I needed to?
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Yes you can.
Do a little reading up on going back to stock in this forum. Even though the nessesary stock rom etc are on here, it is always easier to make your own backup and restore from it.
Good luck and happy flashing.
before making any custom changes do a nandroid backup of the whole phone in recovery and then back up your apps and data using Titanium.
Also useful to copy a backup to your PC.
You can flash away and install custom roms, kernels and themes. Most should be fixable by going back to your backup. Having your data etc. backed up to your PC also allows you to re-flash stock and restore the whole system should that be desirable or necessary.
Google backs up your data also if you allow it and you can ensure contacts and calender stuff by synchronization with an online account.
This may sound paranoid, but a thorough backup allows you greater freedom to experiment and play with various custom options up to the point you find the set up you like best.
Thanx for the info guys.
I have been searching for an answer for this question for a couple of days now but have yet to find one, so I decided to go ahead and make a thread for it. What I am wondering, is how to create a backup of all my user data, apps, and app data that I can restore on different roms? I am currently stock rooted, however I have downloaded and wish to flash ARHD Rom, but I don't want to have to re install everything from scratch I just want to be able to click "restore" and have all my apps and data back.
Any Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Guys.
Pure+ said:
I have been searching for an answer for this question for a couple of days now but have yet to find one, so I decided to go ahead and make a thread for it. What I am wondering, is how to create a backup of all my user data, apps, and app data that I can restore on different roms? I am currently stock rooted, however I have downloaded and wish to flash ARHD Rom, but I don't want to have to re install everything from scratch I just want to be able to click "restore" and have all my apps and data back.
Any Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Guys.
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Because you are not rooted go this route. You do not require root.
1. Use the Helium app and copy the folder it creates onto your computer, it's called "CARBON." This will copy all apps and app data.
2. Use HTC Backup from the app store and backup everything onto dropbox. This will also backup your apps + data. It will be on a cloud storage so no need to push anything to anywhere.
3. Go into your SMS and hit the menu button. Backup all user text messaging. Copy to computer.
now you can report everything to anything.
After you are on your new ROM.
1. Run HTC Backup (comes with rom) and restore everything.
2. Use Helium to restore any missing apps.
3. Restore SMS.
Done.
SlimJ87D said:
Because you are not rooted go this route. You do not require root.
1. Use the Helium app and copy the folder it creates onto your computer, it's called "CARBON." This will copy all apps and app data.
2. Use HTC Backup from the app store and backup everything onto dropbox. This will also backup your apps + data. It will be on a cloud storage so no need to push anything to anywhere.
3. Go into your SMS and hit the menu button. Backup all user text messaging. Copy to computer.
now you can report everything to anything.
After you are on your new ROM.
1. Run HTC Backup (comes with rom) and restore everything.
2. Use Helium to restore any missing apps.
3. Restore SMS.
Done.
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I am rooted, what I'm really wondering now is if I can restore the data portion of my nandroid backup after flashing the new rom or if that will result in a bunch of FC's?
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I am rooted, what I'm really wondering now is if I can restore the data portion of my nandroid backup after flashing the new rom or if that will result in a bunch of FC's?
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Use Titanium Backup and it can grab apps from a nandroid backup and restore them. navigate for this feature through the options menu.
http://www.guidingtech.com/13501/restore-apps-nandroid-titanium-backup/
Yes, you can flash a clean Rom then restore your data file from a previous backup. the only problem with that is that whatever problems you may have had before, may be present still. Otherwise, it doesn't hurt anything. In fact, both CWM and TWRP allow advanced restore where you can select portions of your back up to restore..one a time. In my opinion, it allows you to see, if a backup fails to restore, where exactly it is having trouble, be it in system, boot, data..etc. I literally just did this, restoring a data backup onto a clean Rom, and so far no issues. I understand what you mean by not wanting to set everything back up. System settings, widgets and app placements. You had the perfect setup and it took you forever to get it that way. Titanium backup and Rom Toolbox don't always restore these things like they claim to do.
Edit: I am finding the hard way with this phone, that unlike my old LG Mytouch, when you flash a firmware upgrade, non OTA push I mean, it doesn't stick to system. It's saved to data. So if you flash a data file from a backup with an older version, your back to that version. With my old phone, we could swap Roms after an update all day, and the baseband and firmware updates would stick every time.
i want to root my desire X, i want to know what all i need to do in order to take a full system backup to restore it again (if ever required for updates etc.), & also which Recovery is best for JB, i don't want to install any custom rom, i need root to run some apps....
RishiChhikkara said:
i want to root my desire X, i want to know what all i need to do in order to take a full system backup to restore it again (if ever required for updates etc.), & also which Recovery is best for JB, i don't want to install any custom rom, i need root to run some apps....
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1. Sync your Account to Google.
2. Install the 30 days trial of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackup&hl=en then after Rooting you can use Titanium Backup Free or Pro.
TWRP is good for JB.
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1. Sync your Account to Google.
2. Install the 30 days trial of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackup&hl=en then after Rooting you can use Titanium Backup Free or Pro.
TWRP is good for JB.
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thanks for helping, it worked, one more question, do I need to take a complete backup (data+ system+ boot) everytime I flash a zip so that if anything goes wrong, I can restore, & also how can I remove a zip which I flashed, for eg. I flashed Xperia launcher, but its buggy, how can I remove it? I tried uninstalling it with Titanium backup but it shows up again after restart..
RishiChhikkara said:
thanks for helping, it worked, one more question, do I need to take a complete backup (data+ system+ boot) everytime I flash a zip so that if anything goes wrong, I can restore, & also how can I remove a zip which I flashed, for eg. I flashed Xperia launcher, but its buggy, how can I remove it? I tried uninstalling it with Titanium backup but it shows up again after restart..
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Its good to take Backups!
To remove Flashed Zips, Edit the Updater Script in the zip file and add the rm or rmdir command for the files that were added.
Check which all files were added and where. Remove them manually or use the updater script method I said above.