I'm curious about this. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
Lets say that I'm on stock 2.2, rooted. I do a nandroid backup. Then I allow the upgrade for 2.2.2. Of course I lose root.
Will a nandroid restore, restore root, or will I have to root again?
A full nandroid restore will restore everything - the system and data - and you will be right back where you were, on 2.2 and rooted.
maltloaf said:
A full nandroid restore will restore everything - the system and data - and you will be right back where you were, on 2.2 and rooted.
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Ahh, okay.
So to confirm that I understand you correctly...
...the 2.2.2 update won't hold after the nandroid restore? I'll be back to 2.2, as it was before the (2.2.2) update?
If you just wanna backup and restore your apps, use Titanium Backup (it's free on the Market).
Nandroid backs up your entire phone. When you restore a nandroid backup your phone will be exactly like it was when you made the backup. Restoring a nandroid backup is used to recover from a crash or to revert to a previous ROM.
After a ROM change I will set up my accounts, root if needed and do any other basic setup stuff and then, before installing any apps, do a nandroid backup. I can then go back to a "fresh install" if I want to. I also do a nandroid each weekly to capture the state of my phone.
Backing up apps and restoring them across different ROMs may or may not work for you. When I have tried this with Titanium Backup I had many force closes and ended up reinstalling everything from the market. Others have had success. I have read the MyBackup pro does better, but most suggest that you just backup and restore data not the app itself.
I have not tried backing up my apps to Google, which you can do in later versions of Android. Go to Privacy in the setting menu and then to Backup and restore. There are boxes for data backup and automatic restore you can check. maybe someone who has used this can comment on how well it works.
If your nandroid backups hang up at "backing up firstboot" get the latest version of StreakMod Recovery.
marvin02 said:
Backing up apps and restoring them across different ROMs may or may not work for you. When I have tried this with Titanium Backup I had many force closes and ended up reinstalling everything from the market. Others have had success. I have read the MyBackup pro does better, but most suggest that you just backup and restore data not the app itself.
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After installing a fresh ROM and rooting my device, the first thing I do is install Busybox. Then, with Titanium Backup I do Restore Apps Only, then reboot my device. I never get any FC's with this restore process.
Thanks!
Thank you everyone. I appreciate the info.
I've used Titanium BU, and have busybox installed too.
It was just a matter of if after an update (OTA), and restore with Nandroid, would root still be in place.
I totally understand what you guys are saying now.
I've also been using MyBackup to see how it compares to Titanium. So far so good.
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I prefer mybackup root to titanium. It's far more user friendly and more automated (in the free version). As for nandroids, I always take a backup before doing any system changes (hacks or rom updates) so I can roll back to a known good system if needs be.
BTW - it is a good idea to copy your ROM backups to another device, just in case your SD card dies. I copy mine to one of my desktop computers and to a USB drive. I usually back up my entire SD card, except my music folders, every couple of weeks.
Where does Nandroid put the backups so I can rename them and save off phone?
mine (from Streakmod recovery) are in /sdcard/rom_backup
StreakMod recovery puts the backups on the SD Card in a folder named rom_backup.
Each backup is in a sub-folder of it's own and uses a date-time format for the folder name. I rename the folders with a meaningful name by just pre-pending to the name. So my last backup is named BB351-2011-06-18-02.41.04. The following files are created:
.android_secure.img
boot.img
cache.img
data.img
firstboot.img
recovery.img
system.img
nandroid.md5
the md5 file is a text file that contains the md5 sums for the other files. This file is used to verify the other files when they are restored.
hello, im going to install a new ROM and i want to backup and restore my Apps and my apps data with my contacts.
will doing adb backup with this line: adb backup –apk –shared –all –f /backup/mybackup.ab
Will this backup things like system setting and system files from the ROM im on at the moment??? or just my personal things?
so to sum it up, i do not want system files from this ROM on my next am i doing this correctly?
Thanks for the help for who ever post's
anyone?
bunchies said:
hello, im going to install a new ROM and i want to backup and restore my Apps and my apps data with my contacts.
will doing adb backup with this line: adb backup –apk –shared –all –f /backup/mybackup.ab
Will this backup things like system setting and system files from the ROM im on at the moment??? or just my personal things?
so to sum it up, i do not want system files from this ROM on my next am i doing this correctly?
Thanks for the help for who ever post's
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I'm not sure, but I have always used Titanium backup, you can see this guide: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34040-guide-titaniumbackup-tutorial/
to back up all my apps. However, I don't have the pro version, so once i restore all my apps using titanium backup, I use an app called Super backup to restore all of my contacts, call logs, messages, etc.
Hope this helps, and as always, dont forget to backup a nandroid just in case something goes wrong
Cheers, hope this helps
Hello All,
I am trying to figure out how I can manage the Android ID using Titanium Backup. Based on the menu in Titanium Backup, it should be possible to backup the existing Android ID and generate new Android IDs for my phone. The generate new ID feature works, but I cannot figure out how to Backup the existing Android ID using Titanium Backup.
Does anybody have any experience with it?
Hi,
I did a backup using Titanium BU (v6.1.5.2) before installing the new rom. however, when i tried to restore my apps after installing the new rom i did not find my latest backup files. only few apps from older backup were there. when i checked the titanium backup folder i found that the titanium back up app created only the .properties files when creating the latest backup.
i am lost here, please can someone help me explain why TBU only created .properties file and did not give any error message.
i was moving from CM10.2/SGT7 4.3 to omni 4.4 rom. The rom was installed properly but i can not restore any of my apps with the settings/saved data.
i do have the apks of the apps but how to install them with the settings/saved data.
please help.
thanks.
ahsenz said:
Hi,
I did a backup using Titanium BU (v6.1.5.2) before installing the new rom. however, when i tried to restore my apps after installing the new rom i did not find my latest backup files. only few apps from older backup were there. when i checked the titanium backup folder i found that the titanium back up app created only the .properties files when creating the latest backup.
i am lost here, please can someone help me explain why TBU only created .properties file and did not give any error message.
i was moving from CM10.2/SGT7 4.3 to omni 4.4 rom. The rom was installed properly but i can not restore any of my apps with the settings/saved data.
i do have the apks of the apps but how to install them with the settings/saved data.
please help.
thanks.
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The move from those ROMs probably wouldn't have worked anyways...but I imagine that the titanium backup is on your device...the new ROMs are just looking in the wrong place for it...or you didn't have USB debugging on and your superuser might need updating..I'm not sure. This is all guess work on my part
Previously, extracting an android id from a nandroid backup was simple with Nandroid Manager. However, something has changed in Marshmallow, and it no longer works. I need to put the android id of my Nandroid backup into my current Android Marshmallow build otherwise a restore of my Spotify backup won't work (Spotify uses the android id), meaning I will have to download 18gb of offline music again. I could backup my current OS and restore my nandroid to get the android id but before that, I was wondering if there is a more simple way? Cheers in advance.