If I were to restore a nandroid backup that I made prior to the OTA would it cause problems?
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Is it safe to restore old rom after rom upgrate with sprite backup 5.0 or 5.1?Saw the sprite with rom upgrate restore funtion,anyone here can guide how to use the correct funtion..thanks..
No, isn't safe. After a new upgrade always you must set up your device from the beginning. I know, it requires time but it's the safest way.
Thanks Bill....
Ok, so immediately after rooting I created a nandroid backup. So, if I flash a rom (or anything else for that matter) and something goes wrong, I can restore my "stock" backup. im new to odin and curious to why I'd have to use it to flash the vibrant stock rom if I already have my nandroid stock backup? From what I gather, if I change the kernal, using odin will restore it back to stock, and nandroid will only restore system and data, but not change back the kernal. Is this correct or am I missing something vital that I don't know about odin. Sorry if this sounds confusing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
mentalex2 said:
Ok, so immediately after rooting I created a nandroid backup. So, if I flash a rom (or anything else for that matter) and something goes wrong, I can restore my "stock" backup. im new to odin and curious to why I'd have to use it to flash the vibrant stock rom if I already have my nandroid stock backup? From what I gather, if I change the kernal, using odin will restore it back to stock, and nandroid will only restore system and data, but not change back the kernal. Is this correct or am I missing something vital that I don't know about odin. Sorry if this sounds confusing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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You are correct. As long as you don't need to restore a kernel you can use nandroid to restore to stock. And if you ever use your nandroid backup there is a stock nandroid backup posted in the development forum. I don't like using odin unless I absolutely have to (such as in a situation where I can't get into clockwork recovery or something)
Now that things are perfect and stock, how do I back this all up?
Stock recovery does not have backup function. I also can not use
Titanium, since I am not rooted (YET). I want to make a nandroid type
backup so that after I re-root, next time there is an OTA update, I can just
restore back to where it is now, accept the OTA, then re-root again.
I NEED this stock state saved somehow like a nandroid, but I can't
nandroid backup until I install root/clockwork. How can I back up my total
system state now? And when I do re-root, what version of clockwork mod/root
do I use so that ALL my backups work and are compatible, so I don't run into
this nightmare again. Thanks for all your help.
Hi guys,
Can I perform downgrade simply by just restoring backup of 4.1.2, created with latest CWM?
Or do I need to do it via Odin?
I rather do it from backup to save my time on restoring phone with all apps and customisation...
Please could you advise?
Thank you
Yes, factory reset and format internal media before you restore. I did the exact same thing (back to 4.3) last night after trying 4.4 for an hour, too many things don't work in Kitkat.
Make sure your 4.1.2 was at least EMG4 or later to avoid efs problems.
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bednim said:
Hi guys,
Can I perform downgrade simply by just restoring backup of 4.1.2, created with latest CWM?
Or do I need to do it via Odin?
I rather do it from backup to save my time on restoring phone with all apps and customisation...
Please could you advise?
Thank you
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Backup is the easiest thing to restore from as it replaces everything on your current rom including the rom itself. BUT i wouldnt advise that as it may cause IMEI problems encountered when downgrading from 4.3 to lower due to the format of the efs being changed(which is modem related). Your phone would no longer receive calls etc.
Ive personally experienced this by flashing a 4.1.2 rom over a 4.3. As for a restore i am very sure it will not cause a problem but it can. In any case you can backup your efs partition by various programs and then restore by nandroid. If any problem occurs then restore your efs partition or upgrade to 4.3 again and flash MG4 modem.
thanks a lot for your responses guys!
I have formated cache and dalvik, formated data and system and hit restore afterwards.
Worked a treat!
Downgraded to EMC2. No problems with IMEI or phone calls.
Everything works fine.
I tried removing some bloatware, nothing as major as the Coolboy script but some of the Samsung and Sprint crap. I made a backup before hand. Afterwards things were acting a little wonky so I figured I'll just restore my back up but it failed in TWRP. I'm rooted on stock 4.3, any suggestions?
It might be the version of twrp you are using had this issue with a build on the s4, i would try to download a older version and flash it and see if it will restore it. Might not you might be stuck then you'll have to backup with titanium then reflash your rom and restore with titanium. In future my advice would be to also backup everything thru titanium then remove what you want and if need be you can restore the apps you removed thru titanium.