Hey guys I was wondering if anyone could send me a nandroid with the latest updates to me.. I am on ics and want to try to get back using this method. Anyone have any advice to add? Please tell me if you can send a backup
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What do you mean by "latest update"?
Also it may be...difficult to get a nandroid backup, since (someone correct me if I'm wrong), it backs up everything about that person's phone, including some of their personal information. You'd have to get someone who basically had a wipe, fresh install, then immediate nandroid without activating the google stuff...
But I could be wrong.
Do you not want to flash back or something using what we have available?
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What do you mean by "latest update"?
Also it may be...difficult to get a nandroid backup, since (someone correct me if I'm wrong), it backs up everything about that person's phone, including some of their personal information. You'd have to get someone who basically had a wipe, fresh install, then immediate nandroid without activating the google stuff...
But I could be wrong.
Do you not want to flash back or something using what we have available?
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I'm kinda iffy about that, and I want to test something : my nandroid I made has an issue where the "system" part doesn't copy right or is corrupted so I wish to flash another to see if its just my recovery or if I messed up the backup. I know I could use fruitcake....however its sometimes fun to be the odd one out ^…^ I'm kinda praying that someone nandroids after a restore ( I don't know exactly how much info they hold but I know it doesn't back up apps or the app data, it also doesn't save contacts... its a copy of the OS ....I think)
Latest update like the newest ota update
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I know what you might be thinking, he is asking a dumb question. Just hear me out. I obtained root using superoneclick 2.2. I then flashed the terra silent kernal to get CWM, I rebooted through CWM without backing anything up, yeah I know I made a mistake and I am upset about it, but to add insult to injury I preformed factory reset out of panic after that. Fortunately my device did not brick, but all the apps that were not bloatware were gone, some that were bloatware were gone like google play. I lost superuser as well. I thought that I would have to reroot, I tried that, but superoneclick said I was already rooted, I continued with the root anyways, it made no signifigant difference, I then found a way to download the superuser apk off of the internet, but it would not install. I then downloaded romtoolbox lite and ran root browser, I then came across the superuser apk and install in successfully and thus have superuser permissions. I had backed up my nand through CWM before successfully reinstalling superuser. But after I reinstalled it successfully and obtained root, I backed it up again. My question is, is it safe to flash custom roms like CM7 onto my device? As far as I know everything that I have reinstalled that were bloatware seem to be working ok. The only thing that does not work is the sound (not the speakers or the audio jack, the sound that can go into silent mode.) although I think that it may be due to the voodoo sound files that come with the terra silent kernel. If you need me to give you more information, I will try my best to provide it, but I am quite new to this sort of thing and I would rather just have my friend who has more expirience than I do at this look over it for me and what not, however he has only worked with htc as far as I know and it has been a while since he has done that. So, I will be more than happy to try and provide more info if needed. I am just skeptical on the matter since my device has been through alot.
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Which player do you have? But yeah you can flash custom Roms on you player with CWM.
Here's a quick video on it around the 2 min mark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajKlCbemAs
Doing a factory reset erases all apps you've downloaded and not bloatware. That's why you back up before so you can restore your apps or settings later I use Titanium Back up https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&hl=en with the key. It's definetly worth it and normally the backups are a lot smaller and you get to choose what you want to back up and restore.
Also, if you want Superuser, you can get it on the playstore.
I have superuser, but I did not backup tgrough CWM before I rebooted through CWM. My friend I mentioned in my earlier posts saud that it would work. I have a 4.0 US and I think when I preformed factory reset, it only got what was on the custom kernel I had on instead of the stock. I got superuser through blackmart alpha b/c google play was removed from my device.
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well yeah, as long as the ROM is for 4.0 you should be good.
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You can get playstore here http://goo.im/gapps/
You sure? Because I rebooted through cwm without backing up my nandvthe first time I opened it, will that cause problems even though I gained root and have superuser working? I also preformed factiry reset with terra silent kernel installed. What will that do?
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Also google search box bloatware keeps failing (I think trying to root when my device was already rooted did that. How do I get rid of it?
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You sure? Because I rebooted through cwm without backing up my nandvthe first time I opened it, will that cause problems even though I gained root and have superuser working? I also preformed factiry reset with terra silent kernel installed. What will that do?
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Here's a video that talks about roms and kernels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF01lhfUwfk&feature=youtube_gdata_player but really kernels aren't bad only if you flashed one that isn't compatible to your player which.if you do it could brick it.
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So it should be ok to install custom roms even though I rebooted w/o backing up my nand and then preforming factory reset with a custom kernel installed? I will probably have my friend show me how to flash custom roms, but is there a stock kernel I could flash back to through odin? Also does the kernel reponsible for managing bloatware? Because that would explain why some of my apps like google play were gone. I just do not want to make anymore stupid errors that could ruin my player, as I worked for every penny to buy it.
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So it should be ok to install custom roms even though I rebooted w/o backing up my nand and then preforming factory reset with a custom kernel installed? I will probably have my friend show me how to flash custom roms, but is there a stock kernel I could flash back to through odin? Also does the kernel reponsible for managing bloatware? Because that would explain why some of my apps like google play were gone. I just do not want to make anymore stupid errors that could ruin my player, as I worked for every penny to buy it.
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You should be ok even if you don't do a back up. Stock kernel and rom should be around the forums and bloatware is affected by the rom. Maybe you erased a system app and didn't reboot? that's usually why I get those messages. But seriously its hard to brick your player it could happen but as long as your careful you should be good. If your friends how to do it then he should show you that way you have a better understanding. And doing backups are mainly for after you flash something because you're most likely going to do a factory reset (erase user apps not preinatalled apps from rom) and so you can restore user apps with saved settings and progress. You could go without, but you're going to have to start from scratch which sucks! Byt good luck!
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My friend looked my device over and told me that I would be ok. And that rebooting unistalls all google based app or something like that (He also told me that he should have told me that before I even accessed CWM. My googlesearchbox app kept failing and since I just use google as my browser homepage, I just deleted it using a no bloatware app. My friend said that rebooting through CWM without backing anything up and then preforming factory reset with a custom kernel installed would not do anything that could potentially ruin my player, I will soon have him show me how to use CWM to flash a custom rom and all that jazz
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Haha ok if anything Google and this forum can most likely solve your problems! Good luck
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I all that happened when I rebooted through CWM without backing up my nand and then rebooting and then after that did was delete all of my google based apps (including bloatwarle) as well as all the apps I installed myself?
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Yeah that's what factory reset does
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I backed up my system and my apps through titanium, does that mean that everything (including all the data on my sdcard) is backed up?
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I also deleted the googlesearchbox apk.
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It's saved on your internal memory which wont be erased but yeah once it's backed up as long as you backed up both apps with data you're fullyy backed up. your sd card is only touched to read and install you rom anything there is no touched.
So if I was to flash a custom rom, all the stuff on my sd card would be safe? And is it ok that I deleted the googlesearchbox apk?
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Everything on your micro sd are safe. And it's ok to erase google search, I erase it too
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Ok, so I tried to install google Play again by installing the apk, but it needed something else too, since the app was crashing alot, I could not get rid of it, I then saw that my internet browser was gone off of the bottom bar, I then tried to preform factory reset, I was terrified, but but I restored a backup nand through CWM. My question is, since I restored a backup, everything should be ok? And how do I get Google Play back?
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The link for google apps from the link should be like your android version so if you have gingerbread look for the ones with GB. When you restore it will put it back to the state it was when you backed it up.
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When I need to flash a new ROM do I need to wipe my phone everyday I want to?
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Everytime I want to*
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You have to wipe your phone to install a new rom, but, I believe the files on your *SDCard* are safe.
Basically you can keep your music/movies if they are in the SDCARD directory or subdirectory, but, you will have to reinstall all applications and things of that nature..
There are various solutions for backing up apps/settings and restoring them later. Although, I'm not sure which specific method is the most popular. I know a lot of people use Titanium Backup.
I'm still kind of new at this though, so I can't tell you which option is best.
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I forget the name of the 4 areas you need to wipe when flashing a rom, but, you want to avoid wiping SDcard or doing a complete wipe obviously.
Even though our phones don't have an SD card slot, they still use an internal SD card where our user data goes and it is on a separate partition.
Although one thing to keep in mind is that anytime you unlock your bootloader it will wipe all data on the phone.
Hopefully this isn't too confusing, I probably should have just let someone else post, but, I need 10 posts so I can tell people how great their roms are, lol.
Ok thanks, can anyone make sure of this? Is the back up feature on the TWRP and the back up feature on titanium back up do bascially the same thing? Or are they different?
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Ok thanks, can anyone make sure of this? Is the back up feature on the TWRP and the back up feature on titanium back up do bascially the same thing? Or are they different?
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My understanding is that twrp can backup the whole structure of the Rom like system, data, boot.img, and tibu backs up apps settings and data, could be more
Haha this is a question that I've been wondering about since I flashed twrp recovery
Excuse me if I'm being a total noob here, but I'm trying to learn!
I had an ICS rom on my phone for ages and it was great but i decided to upgrade to cm10 as i wanted to test out jelly bean. Unfortunately i did the install wrong and broke the phones wifi but i know why and i can fix that. What i need to do is restore from my original nandroid backup.
Jellybean seems to have everything stored in a 0 folder. I understand why, because of user profiles but, i assume where ive tried to reinstall the rom a few times, now i have four 0 folders inside each other and have absolutely no idea how to fix it. And when I try to do a nandroid restore its looking for the backup in the /data folder and although im rooted no file explorer will let me copy files into it. I've tried everything including android commander but the only thing that will even let me view files in the /data folder is the file explorer that comes with cm10 and it won't let me copy any files into it.
So basically, is there any way I can restore from my nandroid backup so I can fix the WiFi and try cm10 again?
Thanks in advance. Sorry for being noobish!
Cm10 is very unstable and always having pribkems with either Wifi, Data, or Bluetooth so dont worry about that.
My advice is to Flash back to Stock Official Firmware through Odin on your PC and then root it again.
Then once rooted you will be to start flashing other Jellybean Roms.
There is a large selection of Jellybean Roms on here mate.
Hope this helps
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Follow my thread here for more help mate
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32980580
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A thousand thank yous! I totally forgot about Odin. I'm now back to stock and everything's fixed. I think I'll keep it like this for now.
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A thousand thank yous! I totally forgot about Odin. I'm now back to stock and everything's fixed. I think I'll keep it like this for now.
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Hey no problem.
This site is about learning and teaching.
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wipe system
wipe data (no exceptions)
wipe cache
Flash Rom
Reboot
I'm working now to flash rom to the slick rom jb however the wipe data/cache/system has me frightened a bit....been trying to find something to backup this information. Ive gotta be missing something. I to lg's website and downloaded the drivers and lg mobile tool and in the tool I cant find my version of phone to backup? i have titantium backup installed but absolutely no idea how to use it effectively or at all actually....
teach me oh rom guru's?
Do you know what a nandroid backup is?
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Do you know what a nandroid backup is?
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not a clue but i think i got it
however i always like to learn to whats a nandroid backup?
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Do you know what a nandroid backup is?
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Its a backup that will restore you phone to exactly the way it was when the backup was made. The ROM, apps, settings, everything.
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Oh and it's done through the backup option in the recovery.
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A nandroid is kinda like making an image of a PC using Ghost (if that helps at all).
You should make a nandroid when:
- You love your build/configuration
- You getting ready to flash a new ROM
- You gonna do anything unfamiliar
It is your way back to a working and configured device.
Ex...
I want to flash romX. Boot into recovery, make a nandroid. Do my wipes. Flash romX. Reboot. Play with new from. Find out I hate romX or its missing a feature I love. Fine. Reboot into recovery restore my nandroid. I am now back where I started...with my phone as it was before I started.
Ti (titanium backup) is a great tool. Yes, it's confusing.
1) buy the pro version...it's worth it
2) don't restore system apps (someone else can perhaps correct me or explain this one)
3) if you move from one aosp rom to another you can restore your user apps and data...this can save you a lot of time.
Oh yeah....ALWAYS keep a good nandroid copy on your computer. If your really frell things up and wipe everything or if the files get corrupt...you will be happy you have it.
Don't feel bad, there has been some weird twist and turns on the dev of this device. It was much easier on my old EVO4G. THE LGOG has confused me several times as well.
Good luck.
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You sir/ma'am are awesome
As well as those above
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DraginMagik said:
A nandroid is kinda like making an image of a PC using Ghost (if that helps at all).
You should make a nandroid when:
- You love your build/configuration
- You getting ready to flash a new ROM
- You gonna do anything unfamiliar
It is your way back to a working and configured device.
Ex...
I want to flash romX. Boot into recovery, make a nandroid. Do my wipes. Flash romX. Reboot. Play with new from. Find out I hate romX or its missing a feature I love. Fine. Reboot into recovery restore my nandroid. I am now back where I started...with my phone as it was before I started.
Ti (titanium backup) is a great tool. Yes, it's confusing.
1) buy the pro version...it's worth it
2) don't restore system apps (someone else can perhaps correct me or explain things one)
3) if you move from one aosp rom to another you can restore your user apps and data...this can save you a lot of time.
Oh yeah....ALWAYS keep a good nandroid copy on your computer. If your really frell things up and wipe everything or if the files get corrupt...you will be happy you have it.
Don't feel bad, there has been some weird twist and turns on the dev of this device. It was much easier on my old EVO4G. THE LGOG has confused me several times as well.
Good luck.
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edit: got it!