I'm going to make a flashable zip file with TiBackup that will contain all my apps and data from those apps. No sys apps of course.
When I want to flash that file, do I flash it right after I flash the rom while I'm still in Recovery, or right after the first boot?
boki9999 said:
I'm going to make a flashable zip file with TiBackup that will contain all my apps and data from those apps. No sys apps of course.
When I want to flash that file, do I flash it right after I flash the rom while I'm still in Recovery, or right after the first boot?
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Either, makes no difference.
Where can I get stock Sammy keyboard from ICS roms?
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hey guys can you guys help me install this rom on my phone its aready rooted Eugene's Ginger Clone 2.2 gingerbread clone... please!!!
download
move to sdcard/
go to recovery
make backup
flash rom (install zip from sd)
reboot
First install his rom then connect your phone to your computer and mount. Then put the rom in the internel SD card the one without avatar. Don't rename the file. Then boot into recovery and reinstall packages twice. Then you will be in clockwork wipe factory reset and cache. Then go to install zip from SD card, then choose zip from SD card and find the rom. Don't forget to backup your apparently.
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s15274n said:
download
move to sdcard/
go to recovery
make backup
flash rom (install zip from sd)
reboot
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What is the point of making a backup? I mean, you can always go to stock using odin and the JFD tar and pit.
Is backup just to save all your personal files, pics, music, etc?
SamsungVibrant said:
What is the point of making a backup? I mean, you can always go to stock using odin and the JFD tar and pit.
Is backup just to save all your personal files, pics, music, etc?
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just in case.....it cant hurt to make backups....besides...some people **** up an Odin restore(believe it or not).....a nandroid is always a great idea when flashing anything
do u extract the zip? when im done downloading it?
mcuevas23 said:
do u extract the zip? when im done downloading it?
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dont extract ANYTHING!!!
put the zip on the root of your internal sd card (the 16gb)
reboot into clockwork mod and select install zip from sd card...the rest is self explanitory
does it need busy box
s15274n said:
download
move to sdcard/
go to recovery
make backup
flash rom (install zip from sd)
reboot
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I have heard this over and over. I only have one question that I could not find anywhere. Do you need to rename the "Ginger_Clone_Final_R2.zip" to update.zip? Everytime I reboot into recovery and try and get ti to install, I get the same message over and over; something to the effect of package not found. Thanks
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What is the point of making a backup? I mean, you can always go to stock using odin and the JFD tar and pit.
Is backup just to save all your personal files, pics, music, etc?
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My backups are saved on my sd card things like music pics app backups and homescreen backups
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Blaqhawk said:
I have heard this over and over. I only have one question that I could not find anywhere. Do you need to rename the "Ginger_Clone_Final_R2.zip" to update.zip? Everytime I reboot into recovery and try and get ti to install, I get the same message over and over; something to the effect of package not found. Thanks
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you don't rename it. maybe your choosing the update zip from sd. it should be choose zip file from sd card then you choose the custom rom you're flashing.
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iynfynity said:
you don't rename it. maybe your choosing the update zip from sd. it should be choose zip file from sd card then you choose the custom rom you're flashing.
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Yea, thanks. I thought that was what I am supposed to do. I don't have that option though. When I reboot into recovery (through ROM Manager or on my own) I only have the STOCK recovery options. For some reason, the Clockworkmod options are not showing up. I noticed this about a month ago. I will have to try and figure that out first. Thanks again.
Blaqhawk said:
Yea, thanks. I thought that was what I am supposed to do. I don't have that option though. When I reboot into recovery (through ROM Manager or on my own) I only have the STOCK recovery options. For some reason, the Clockworkmod options are not showing up. I noticed this about a month ago. I will have to try and figure that out first. Thanks again.
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Have you flashed clockwork recovery from rom manager? If so, when you get into stock recovery just hit reinstall packages to get to cwm. You may have to do that twice to get it to work. If it still doesnt work try reflashing cwm from rom manager.
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bstromberg said:
Have you flashed clockwork recovery from rom manager? If so, when you get into stock recovery just hit reinstall packages to get to cwm. You may have to do that twice to get it to work. If it still doesnt work try reflashing cwm from rom manager.
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I had been doing everything right. I had to roll back to CWM version 2.5 (I think it is about 3 or 4 versions earlier than the current one). No wonder they have been making so many updates over the past few days. Well at any rate, I wanted to ensure I wasn't doing anything wrong. i have done it before, but for whatever reason (now known to be CWM) it just wasn't working. I got it fixed and now have 2.3. I will install my apps including Titanium Backup and report any problems. I hope there are none; from what it sounds like, I will probably not have any, but only time will tell. Thanks for posting and confirming that I was not losing my mind.
-Adam
I just got custom recovery done. Now some doubts
1)I tried to take a NAND backup but get a "Run nandroid-mobile.sh via adb!" error. I do see that a nandroid folder with the image files are created, so is it partial and whether the error is common, or is it something I have to take care about. I have a 2GB SD card.
Update: I did a backup again and got the same error. Checked the SD card and the new backup is also the same size i.e abt 298MB with the following(boot.img, cache.img, data.img and system.img)
2)Once i have the backup, if i need to revert back incase i upgraded my current firmware to a newer one, i just need to restore the backup via custom recovery ..rite?
3)In most of the forums its written that we have to copy the flash_image and the recovery-RA-GNM-thunderg-1.1.0 files which is a zip file and its also said not to unzip it to the SD card and copy it as it is(zip files), if so the commands doesnt work cos they are file specific and not zip specific, which gave me an error telling such files are not there. So i extracted the img and put in the SD card and executed the commands and i got into Custom recovery and i can still do. So can i remove those files or is it still needed??
4)I have downloaded my stock ROM incase anything happens. Now if i have flashed my phone with a custom-ROM, will it delete the contacts, messages, installed apps?
5) If 4), then which is the safest way to back them up so that when i flash another ROM i just need to restore them ?
6) Basically what is the diff between flashing my stock rom and a restore from custom recovery(which would be my stock settings i believe)?
Thanks in advance guys. You're doing a great job.
1. Don't know. It seems to have no effect on restore.
2. You will have recovery intact after u flash a custom ROM. so u need to boot into the recovery via the home+voldown+power trigger, and restore it.
3.You should have
a. flash_image with NO extension (i.e. not zip. unzip the zip to get flash_image)
b. the custom recovery.img (i.e. unzip the custom recovery.zip. dont change name.)
c. the custom ROM.zip (this one, don't unzip.)
4. Remember : When u flash, everything gets wiped (mine had some exceptions, but ignore it. Just pretend it is a factory reset.)
5. Titanium Backup FTW
6. Not sure, but i guess you keep all the settings/apps when u do a NAND restore. a flash will nuke the memory.
dongimin2 said:
1. Don't know. It seems to have no effect on restore.
5. Titanium Backup FTW
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Can you tell me how to do a complete backup with titanium and then how to restore it? The only way i could was to schedule one which created individual files inside the titanium directory. So you're telling that i can copy this backup to PC and later copy to SD when i want to restore and it will restore the whole thing?
2. You will have recovery intact after u flash a custom ROM. so u need to boot into the recovery via the home+voldown+power trigger, and restore it.
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Ok so how do i get this recovery? this is the NAND backup one rite, i am getting confused to which recovery i sud go abt. Sorry Noob here
3.You should have
a. flash_image with NO extension (i.e. not zip. unzip the zip to get flash_image)
b. the custom recovery.img (i.e. unzip the custom recovery.zip. dont change name.)
c. the custom ROM.zip (this one, don't unzip.)
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Awesome, just as i thought it would be.
4. Remember : When u flash, everything gets wiped (mine had some exceptions, but ignore it. Just pretend it is a factory reset.)
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Ok so i backup the whole thing before i flash. So which backup should i do, the titanium one or the custom recovery one? what do u suggest? (this answer will clear my doubts regarding the backup thingy)
6. Not sure, but i guess you keep all the settings/apps when u do a NAND restore. a flash will nuke the memory.
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Oh ok, gotcha
Thanks a lot for being patient enuf .
Can we reorganize the applications inside the 'Gapps_ ics_ xxxxxx.signed zip'?
I mean can we eliminate or add some more applications inside of CWM flashable zip file, instead of working with TitaniumBackup to restore our own favorite applications after every wipe Rom Flash ?
I mean just deleting or adding some xxxxx .apk files...
Do you think it works ?
You could probably just make your own gapps zip with titanium so you could always flash the ones you want
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I did not know TB has such feature though I have been using it for a long time..
I use it w/ batch feature to restore my apps after every flash.
I will try to find out how to create CWM flashable zip file contains my favorite apps.
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I found 'create update zip' under settings.
I created zip file from user apps but the file created is only 3 mb though I have araund 100 apps installed and backedup by TB.
it seems it made only for itself not all the other backedup apps..
Am I wrong ?
How to all together apps?
Titanium can only make an update.zip which flashes Titanium.
Feel free to use 7zip to add or remove apks directly from the gapps zip.
Michealtbh said:
Titanium can only make an update.zip which flashes Titanium.
Feel free to use 7zip to add or remove apks directly from the gapps zip.
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Sorry for the confusion, I guess I just assumed that with all of TB features "create update.zip" would do more than just flash itself. Guess I should try a feature before suggesting it - duh
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In titanium backup : setting/more/create 'update.zip'
What is it? Am I right to think when I rooted my sg2 I loaded a 'update.zip' of the stock ROM, if I now create this 'update.zip' of my phone, will it restore everything (apps, data, etc etc of my phone as it currently is when the file is created?
So it's a backup of my phone in all aspects, that I can restore at anytime.
Please let me know.
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Nope. The update.zip just flashes the TB app either into system/app or data/app after you flash a clean rom.
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*boy*racer* said:
Nope. The update.zip just flashes the TB app either into system/app or data/app after you flash a clean rom.
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That may have been true in past but in latest versions of TB there is also an option in batch menu/recovery section for you to create a update.zip for your apps/app data which can be flashed in recovery. You will also need ZipSigner from market I think so they will work with CWM.
Is there any way to delete a mod without having to restore a backup or having to flash the whole rom again ?
this is the mod i wish to uninstall btw: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1997919
PD: OP has not provided any cwm flashable zip file to uninstall, is there any workaround to delete all rom-related files ?
The only way I could think of is to open the mods zip and see what files it replaces, then just replace all of them in your phone with stock ones.
Just make sure to backup and wipe caches incase of problems.
shadowofdarkness said:
The only way I could think of is to open the mods zip and see what files it replaces, then just replace all of them in your phone with stock ones.
Just make sure to backup and wipe caches incase of problems.
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Wanted something more fast and easy, but guess that will do, thanks anyway !
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