[Q] Rom to rom - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I made Nandroid backup on stock rooted rom touchwiz and another backup om CM10. can I go back and forth between both roms with just restoring my backup??
so on Cm10 restore touchwiz backup, and done
and on touchwiz, restore the cm10 backup, and done
will that work

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Yes you can, just remember your data won't be up to date, but that is minor problem....nearest thing to dual boot at the moment, I do this myself

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CWM Backups Exchange

Does anyone have a CWM backup they made on a stock phone before flashing a P-ROM or theme?
I forgot to make a backup. But figure any backup from a similar Atrix should work.
Trading nandroid backups is dangerous..I have heard.
Nandroid backups are only good to restore to the SAME sbf that you are running, since they don't do a full system backup. If you do a CWM restore onto a different rom version than the one you backed up with, it will cause issues.
As far as trading nandroid backups............ain't gonna happen.
Nandroid backups contain personal information, such as account info and passwords and SHOULD NOT BE SHARED WITH ANYONE for that reason.
If you want to go back to stock, flash the sbf
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(Q) regarding rom

Hello,
I am currenty running 2.3.4 kph fw. So i wanted to know that is there any way that when i flash a custom rom i can have all my data back e.g themes,apps,settings and sms etc? How to do this? Last time i made app backup with titanium and then updated to 2.3.4 and when restored it didnt work..
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Why didnt titanium backup work?
Dont know but restoring with that just messed up everything and i had to reflash the rom
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yes, only install CWM and you make a NANdroid Backup, ... flash whit the new room and reinstalling the recovery CWM, and give in advanced-backup-restore here only select data...
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carvajaljn said:
yes, only install CWM and you make a NANdroid Backup, ... flash whit the new room and reinstalling the recovery CWM, and give in advanced-backup-restore here only select data...
sorry for my bad english
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Does it restore only the apps?
hassaan123 said:
Dont know but restoring with that just messed up everything and i had to reflash the rom
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I have been using it for long. But never had any problem. Don't get what problem you had!
Jeah, install CWM recovery and use NANDROID backup(like adiles sayed) for RESTORING(its the BEST WAY). But if you want only restore you APPS, then you can use TITANIUM BACKUP. It works very well!
CHEERS!
What exactly does nan droid backup restore??
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Nandroid is a complete backup of your system. But with advanced restore you can also only restore the phone settings.
I wouldn't advise you to restore settings from a Froyo ROM to a Gingerbread one though.
Same goes with Titanium Backup. When you upgrade to GB, just reinstall the Apps from market and only restore Appdata with Titanium.
When changing from a stock gb rom to a custom gb rom is it safe to do a complete nandroid backup? Or i should only backup the app data with titanium?
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adiles said:
Does it restore only the apps?
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yes, apps, paswords, notes, all DATA.... and for the sms use backups restore sms download from market
hassaan123 said:
When changing from a stock gb rom to a custom gb rom is it safe to do a complete nandroid backup? Or i should only backup the app data with titanium?
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Both the things are completely different.
Nadroid backup is used backup complete rom(system, recovery, apps, data, cache, settings).
Whereas titanium backup can only backup apps & data.
You can only restore with titanium backup after you have a working rom & titanium backup installed.
Whereas with nandroid you can restore if you have cwm recovery working.
Hit thanks if I helped!!!
Considering this thread I can't see why you were able to troll in the GingerReal thread when you don't even know as much as this.
Hatshipuh said:
Considering this thread I can't see why you were able to troll in the GingerReal thread when you don't even know as much as this.
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Positive trolling here sir LOL
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Switching ROMs

Just wondering......
I'm on simply honey 5.1 and have been updating with it's no wipe script. I'm curious in trying MIUI and Cm7. I just wanna know if I could restore with a cwm backup, and get ask my apps back without having to do a titanium backup.
thanks!
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I believe you can but you if you go to CM7 or MIUI, you will have to odin back to stock if you want to revert to anything else. But from there you won't be able to just restore your CWM backup because CWM does not backup the kernel. Best thing to do then is to flash any GB rom to get back to GB kernel. Then you can restore your CWM backup.
Anyone correct me if this is not the case.
But wool all of my market apps still be installed thru the cwm restore? Even if the ROM I switch to wipes?
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Yeah the CWM backup backs up your current config exactly as it is (*except the kernel). So if you end up restoring, it should be right back to the way it was when you backed up.

Best way to backup and restore my data ?

Hi all,
I think it's time for me to clean my s3, I have the latest ELKC rom, but the device is too laggy and overall experience is not as good as before.
What is the best way to backup and restore the device that after a factory reset and reflash the rom I can get clean system files and all my data and configurations back as it was ?
I know thet there is 2 major ways to do so. one is with CWM and the other one with Titanium Backup.
If i'll do CWM backup and afterwards, do only data restore, will that do the trick ?
Thanks
Titanium backup is best. At least you can choose what to restore.
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[q] restore apps from nandroid backup

Hi everyone,
I had upgraded my Galaxy Gio from stock rom to custom rom (CM 7.2 based), and now I want to restore just a few apps + data (for e.g. Memo) and Contacts (from stock rom) from my Nandroid backup, so I want it should be on the current custom rom.
How far I tried to do so, I could'nt get it done. I tried with NANDROID MANAGER, I installed it and tried to restore some apps + their data, (the apps was in previous rom in System/Apps so Nandroid Manager automatically wanted to install it in system/apps), ok, the program showed as it's installed with no broblems, BUT after reboot as it required, NOTHING HAPPENED, so I looked in system/apps and data/data with root explorer, those apps & data were there, but it was not installed.....
I also tried to restore the Contacts from Nandroid (Contacts Storage), and I ended up with erasing all contacts I had currently on the phone (anyway that wasn't a problem, cause i had an regular backup of it).
So I would like to understand what the problem is, and how is it possible to have my previous memos and contacts restored to my current rom?!
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ISSUE?!
Thanks in advance.
If this were me I would make a nandroid of current ROM, wipe clean, restore nandroid of old ROM, use titanium backup (preferred but there are others) to backup apps and data (I use a different app for contacts and SMS/call log but I believe titanium can do this too) then I would wipe clean, restore nandroid, restore what is needed from titanium
May sound like a lot but should be finished in less than a half hour with all
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demkantor said:
If this were me I would make a nandroid of current ROM, wipe clean, restore nandroid of old ROM, use titanium backup (preferred but there are others) to backup apps and data (I use a different app for contacts and SMS/call log but I believe titanium can do this too) then I would wipe clean, restore nandroid, restore what is needed from titanium
May sound like a lot but should be finished in less than a half hour with all
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Thank you for replying.
But I had read some posts that if the current rom is EXT4 based and stock rom is RFS based, then CWM wouldn't restore the backup normally (because the sd card has to be rfs format - something like this if I understood). So i'm a little bit afraid to do that cause I don't want to get stuck on boot....
Any sugestion for that??
Thanks in advance.
Well sd-card is always formatted as fat/ntfs irrespective of the rom....
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Like in the post above you will never have an SD formatted in rfs, but there are some recoveries that have issues restoring backups depending on the format the backup was made in but this doesn't appear to be your case (like if a backup was made in yaffs2 but recovery uses tar) so I really don't think this should be an issue for you. Having said that I have never used your phone before and if you're very concerned you should find another who has to ask. But I'm still 99% sure you're safe to do this
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