Hay I am a total rookie at this game at the moment and have a ton of questions regarding flashing custom roms and stuff...
Bust first I would like to know how to backup my stock rom safely so that I can revert after flashing to a custom rom....
I have a rooted Samsung galaxy ace duos... Counting on u guys... Thanks...
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kr.ravish said:
Hay I am a total rookie at this game at the moment and have a ton of questions regarding flashing custom roms and stuff...
Bust first I would like to know how to backup my stock rom safely so that I can revert after flashing to a custom rom....
I have a rooted Samsung galaxy ace duos... Counting on u guys... Thanks...
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Try installing Titanium Backup
If you want to backup everything do a nandroid backup before flashing a new rom so you can revert back. Use titanium backup to restore your apps after flashing a new rom. Do not restore any system data (any entry in red) after flashing a new rom and if you run into problems with a particular app after restoring uninstall the app and try restoring just the app again (without data).
Before flashing you should, of course, know how to Odin back to stock just in case.
Thanks.... Pls tell me the procedure for nandroid backup and odin restoration...
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Hi. I've been wanting to root my phone. Is there a way to back up my apps before I wipe it and install the rooted rom so that I can restore them once I've rooted my phone? If not. What other options might I have? Thanks. Adam
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Yes give titanium backup a try it backups all user apps with the data really useful when changing roms you get it at the Android market
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adam1741 said:
Hi. I've been wanting to root my phone. Is there a way to back up my apps before I wipe it and install the rooted rom so that I can restore them once I've rooted my phone? If not. What other options might I have? Thanks. Adam
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You don't need to restore your apps after rooting your phone because rooting doesn't wipe anything.
You need a rooted phone and a clockworkmod or cfroot recovery to install any custom ROMs. For restoring apps, you can use Titanium backup. It's free and the paid version is even better.
Also, dont forget to take a nandroid backup before flashing a new ROM!
Okay thanks. But if I flash a rom does that not wipe the phone?
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adam1741 said:
Okay thanks. But if I flash a rom does that not wipe the phone?
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Yes flashing a new ROM needs wipe. It wipes your user apps/contacts/settings/messages, etc etc.
There are easy ways to get all of them back after rom installation.
A simple export,import could be used to restore ur contacts/messages, etc.
Titanium can restore your apps (with app data)
Your pics, videos, and other files will not be deletd on a ROM flashing !!
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Okay thanks. But if I flash a rom does that not wipe the phone?
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Yes if its a wipe rom no if its non wipe .Depends upon what sort of rom stock rom custom rom root kernel is not a rom /full firmware .
A Yes always backup you can not recover non backed up items .
Apps backup is Titanium Pro .
.and should not wipe anything .
CF Root and CWM should not wipe anything .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
jje
Okay thanks. Which rom is best for battery speed and stability?
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adam1741 said:
Okay thanks. Which rom is best for battery speed and stability?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131993
List is incomplete. Read ROM threads, and from user comments, you will know which ROM is best for you.
Thank you for your help I appreciate it.
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If I create a full backup from the recovery menu, and then install cyanogen, will I be able to return back to the stock rom using the backup?
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I would recomend getting hold of a stock rom for your phone and flashing through Odin
Where can I get the samsung galaxy s2 2.3.3 official stock rom?
quick question: does flashing roms remove all the installed apps?
Thanks alot...
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You can get all firmwares from here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
And yes you will loose all your installed apps
Thanks... Does these firmwires include apps from samsung?
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Yes when you apply the original firmware the phone goes back to the way it was when you first bought it with all Samsung apps.
Thanks alot, am downloading the stock JPKG5 firmwire and kernal now.
One last question, what is the purpose of creating a backup from the recovery menu?
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I personally use it to back up custom roms i like so when i try new ones that get released and i have problems with them i can always go back to the last rom i used which was stable
Ok, can't it be used to restore the stock rom back from cyanogen?
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Its to backup a rom as simple as that .
original rom no cannot back that up as it does not have cwm recovery .
You can restore a good working rom in a very short time instead of a clean install .
Its rom settings and apps at the point of backup .
jje
i had rooted my galaxy note 2 (GT N7100). Flashed paranoid android custom rom.
now i have restored my stock rom backup (which i had made before flashing)
but now samsung stock apps like "readers hub", "Game hub" etc. are not working. apps say "Rooting detected" and clos.
and in settings->device status it says "modified".
so according to me the phone is not completely restored to stock rom.
can u help me out? cuz i want complete stock rom.(the original rom i got when i bought the phone.)
Thanks in advance....!!!
Maybe you had first rooted your stock ROM before making a backup. Make sure to flash a new stock image, not a backup you made previously. Look in the Galaxy Note 2 forum for more details.
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Maybe you had first rooted your stock ROM before making a backup. Make sure to flash a new stock image, not a backup you made previously. Look in the Galaxy Note 2 forum for more details.
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thanx for ur rply.
i checked in note 2 forums. but nothing found to restore stock rom.
do i need to download stock rom. and use odin on windows?
do i need to do any additional steps.??
That's it. Download stock ROM Odin flashable images, flash via Odin.
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Thnx a lott
I flashed stock firmware through ogdin
Now samsung stock apps (readers hub, learning hub) are workin correctly
But the status is still "modified"
How can I fix it?
Do I need to reset binary counter? If yes, how to?
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Search for 'Triangle Away' by Chainfire. I'm not too acquainted with Samsung devices as I've never owned one, so I can't help you with this. But you'll find a lot of guides and everything you need.
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hi, i have a noob question, i dont know so much about repartitioning and other things, my question is, when upgrading a rom it does at normal procces (wipe data and install zip) . im taljking about for example ,i'm now in shostock 3 , it is android 4.1 and if i would back to cm9 , could i do that?. i have a nandroid backup of cm9, can i just restore this backup and i wont have problems without matter the rom i'm coming?, sorry for my english and thanks for the understanding.:good:
I'm not familiar with CM9, but the only issue would be if the ClockworkMod Recovery in the SHOstock3 kernel is compatible with the backup made with thebackup made with CM9. I'm thinking it might not be because the Jebo kernel in SHOstock3 backs up a pre-load partition.
Do You think then that is better flash again cm9 instead of the backup?
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Do You think then that is better flash again cm9 instead of the backup?
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Doesn't matter if it doesn't work just flash fresh. Not gonna brick your phone or anything.
As most of the people among us flash latest custom roms.. for which we need to go for for odin flash & as we know it is an irritating process.. thus can we just restore stock firmware via cwm rather than the odin flash, so as to perform a custom rom flash??
(i personally restored stock rom but i found stock kernel hasn't restored thus i dont know, weather it gonna work or not..)
replies appriciated cos if this process works for sucessful custom rom flash then it will be helpful for lots of newbies like me
Recovery is part of the ramdisk, which is included with the kernel.
You can't modify something while it's running.
sorry but i was talking about, that can we replace odin process with restoring stock firmware via cwm??
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nayser said:
sorry but i was talking about, that can we replace odin process with restoring stock firmware via cwm??
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GermainZ already answered your question but apparently you don't know the difference between using Odin n CWM for flashing.