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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Dfballa said:
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
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Hey I was wondering if any titanium backups that I make on my sd-card are able to be restored on any custom ROM or not. For example I'm using Peetrs ROM right now. Could I back up app/system data, flash a different ROM, and then restore and regain everything I had? I know this may be a dumb question but I'm a novice when it come to swapping between ROMs.
I don't imagine it'll do any harm. You'd only need root permission which you should have already. Also you are not overwriting the kernel or anything hardware related, and as long as the backups coincide with the version of android you're using you should be fine. Just do a nandroid backup if anything.
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Restoring apps and data shouldn't hurt anything. Someone else may chime in, but restoring "system apps" could possibly interfere. I never had a problem when restoring when upgrading versions of the same ROM (i.e. v19 to v20 of "peetr_'s)
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Restoring apps and data shouldn't hurt anything. Someone else may chime in, but restoring "system apps" could possibly interfere. I never had a problem when restoring when upgrading versions of the same ROM (i.e. v19 to v20 of "peetr_'s)
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Well I made the update from Peetr_s v19 to 20 using the original method in question without any problems. But I guess I meant that maybe since different roms use different launchers there may somehow a confliction there.. I suppose since I have the backups flashing whatever I want shouldnt hurt since I can always revert back to what I have right?
Exactly. The worst that could happen is a repeated force close if something. And if you have a backup (CWM or TWRP), restoring would make it as if it never happened
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I tried a 2.3.4 backup on a 2.3.5 phone and the radios including wifi stopped working.
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Flash the sv2 ril and libs from peetrs thread.
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And modules as well I believe. The 2.3.4 ones are being used so it won't work the radio.
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!
I am in need of freeing up space on my device. Out of the 16Gb I only have 2.xGb available now. I do have at least 2 backups on my phone, and 2 helium backups. Looking at the math, they should not take up that much room:
Stock.zip 1.7G
slim.zip 1.6G
Helium1 642MB
Helium2 733MB
= 4.65G
So that really doesn't make any sense to me. I reviewed my apps and I had a lot of google play cached, but I deleted all of that data through app management. So I can't figure what is taking up all of this space.
1. if I delete my backups from the device, which I have transferred to my computer, and then paste them back in, will they work? Will they work if I format the phone?
2. In reality I would have no problem formatting the phone to wipe everything and flash a rom again via OTG cable through CWM. However, I am at a loss as to what selection(s) in CWM I make to fix my problem.
1) there is actually only 11-12G actually available to the user, on all DNA's, on all ROMs
2) you can move back ups around. i keep a copy of mine in dropbox and on my computer, but never on my phone.
3) you have to have apps, app cache, music, pics, ect to have such little space. you need to look at your /data partition and your /sdcard partition when calculating space.
4) wth is helium?
Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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Helium used to be carbon backup. But I'll look at my directories and review the space used
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Ok. So I was able to free up a bunch of space and removed a single backup, leaving stock.zip on board in case of crashing and need of assistance with Verizon though 99% unlikely to happen. I was having major issues finding where helium stored its data because it is blocked from the user. But luckily the Storage option in >Settings>Storage in slimbean is much greater in depth than I'm used to. So I was able to detect where a lot of my data was coming from which was various sources, but some were helium/Carbon, and also old DL files of CM that were sitting around.
But for the sake of knowing, If I did want to wipe everything through CWM and format, would I choose everything? or just a single option.
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well its been a while since i've used CMW, and im on TWRP. but it depends on how far down you want to format. if you want to just do a regular wipe, and reload a new rom then the usual wipe is your /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik, and /boot. im not sure what CWM calls them, but those are the usual partitions. just make sure you have a new rom ready or a backup. if you wanted to reformat even FURTHER than that, you could flash the stock rocovery and do a fac reset. but thats only if you are have major issue across all roms.
OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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i think one of the main factors was that it works with some ROMs OTA functions, especially Viper roms, which are very popular. myself, i just wanted to try it out lol
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OK. Thanks for the response. I'm going to research why so many people tend to prefer twrp now.
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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If u came from a Rom that was on 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 to a Rom that is 4.2.2 then check the /sdcard directory.. not sdcard0. I think its also in data/media. Not sdcard/data/media but striaght data/media. Use a root file manager and if u still have files in there, then delete everything except the 0/ folder. Happened to me a couple times and I freed up around 2-4 gb everytime
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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I looked into that and saw what you were referring to. My only concern is that data/media is where my stock.zip recovery is saved. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to remove that from my device yet. Also, do I need any of the CWM stuff found in data/media still? I am not referring to data/media/0.
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Update: I'm glad I checked. I performed a backup of my current rom and CWM placed it in /data/media/clockworkmod. So this is an active directory that CWM is using for my backups. So I don't believe I'll be deleting the /data/media/clockworkmod directory. But will then anything else be impacted if deleted?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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Oh if you still have your backups there then dont delete that cwm folder.. but try and delete anything else that seems useless. What Rom are you on now?
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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On slimbean. The remaining 4.1 files are from stock. All roms i have used are 4.2.
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Alright I'm pretty sure its the data/media/android folder that has a pretty good chunk of memory. Try and delete that. It wont mess up your current setup because your android folder is on the sdcard 0
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Also if you took pictures, downloaded stuff, or have music when you were on stock, then dont touch folders like dcim, download, music, pictures, ect. I personally move all my files when I switch between 4.1 to 4.2 fro. Sdcard to sdcard0. If you want to do that use a computer to make sure it transfered right because I used es filemanager once and it said it transfered but instead all of it was lost. I think someone made a .zip file that could transfer everything but I can't remember
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Sounds good. In regards to the pictures. I believe you posted about that somewhere else before, or someone else did. I saw the issues. I use dropbox and don't have any music on my device other than google music cache. So I cleared a lot of that stuff up. thanks for your help.
I used the thread here to root T-mobile HTC-one. I have been trying to remove several things from the phone Lookout, KidMode and google talk; however I couldn't do any of them. I tried using Titanium backup and no bloat for the removal, but they are still there. Any help appreciated.
Aroha,
I'm new to all this too, but from what I've read here, T-MaBell has it wired to reinstall the bloat when it detects it's gone or something like that.
To get around it, ya gotta flash a new kernel and/or ROM.
TiBa let's you freeze the bloatware so I guess that's the best it can get unless you start getting into deeper water.
Good luck
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I used the thread here to root T-mobile HTC-one. I have been trying to remove several things from the phone Lookout, KidMode and google talk; however I couldn't do any of them. I tried using Titanium backup and no bloat for the removal, but they are still there. Any help appreciated.
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I had the same problem on myTouch 4G ages ago. Any app that you remove that came with the phone will be reloaded when you reboot your phone. I think it has to do with the stock ROM and the way it set.
You can disable lookout and other crap in Application settings in settings. It will be on your phone but it will be completely idle
for example; once someone decrypts the phone, when i make my rom and host, when u download it, you can actually take anything you want out of the zip, thats what i do when i make a stock not root rom, i make another rom for myself, i remove everything else i dont want, change to boot animation, then i use that for my personal rom..
what you need for your rom, is a kernal with read and write access...
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for example; once someone decrypts the phone, when i make my rom and host, when u download it, you can actually take anything you want out of the zip, thats what i do when i make a stock not root rom, i make another rom for myself, i remove everything else i dont want, change to boot animation, then i use that for my personal rom..
what you need for your rom, is a kernal with read and write access...
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Is that what S-Off is for, gives me a write/read access. I will just flash a custom ROM, I think that should take care of it.
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Is that what S-Off is for, gives me a write/read access. I will just flash a custom ROM, I think that should take care of it.
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All u need is root and a kernel..
Why not just disable it?
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mdiaz33685 said:
All u need is root and a kernel..
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Can't seem to edit but...just disable what you don't want and it disappears from your apps. What's the difference other than a tiny amount of storage space?
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You can also remove them from the recovery. if you have TWRP you can reboot into recovery and use the file manager to delete them from system/apps The system dir is write protected while the phone is running.