Best backup app for non rooted? - Nexus 10 Themes and Apps

What is the best backup app for my non rooted Nexus 10?
Thanks in advance!
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You can actually backup your device with TWRP and it will do a complete backup of your device, even if you aren't rooted. However, I'm not sure if you can restore it if you are unrooted. What you do is flash the recovery through fastboot, which requires adb on your computer. It's a little complicated, but that's how I backed up my device before I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it.

For backing up just apps I think my backup can do it non rooted. But that may only be the premium version
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I'd say this one is one of the best: App Backup & Restore

omgi0wn said:
You can actually backup your device with TWRP and it will do a complete backup of your device, even if you aren't rooted. However, I'm not sure if you can restore it if you are unrooted. What you do is flash the recovery through fastboot, which requires adb on your computer. It's a little complicated, but that's how I backed up my device before I unlocked the bootloader and rooted it.
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Can you flash TWRP though if you bootloader is locked? I am guessing that since the OP is not rooted, he/she probably doesnt have the tablet unlocked either. And with a bootloader unlock it wipes all data, so it wont help if TWRP or CWM cant be flashed with a locked bootloader.

lKBZl said:
I'd say this one is one of the best: App Backup & Restore
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yes, i tryed this before,really cool!:good:

use Carbon Backup
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup&feature=search_result

EniGmA1987 said:
Can you flash TWRP though if you bootloader is locked? I am guessing that since the OP is not rooted, he/she probably doesnt have the tablet unlocked either. And with a bootloader unlock it wipes all data, so it wont help if TWRP or CWM cant be flashed with a locked bootloader.
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Actually you can. You just boot recovery rather than flashing it. I wanted to unlock and root my device but I had already set it up and had it for a few weeks. I booted into recovery through fastboot and backed up my device. Then I transfered the backup folder as well as the rest of my internal storage to my computer so it wouldn't be deleted when i unlocked my bootloader. Then I unlocked, booted recovery again, restored my backup, and then rooted and I was now unlocked and rooted without losing anything
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Carbon (backup not the twitter one)
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SK17i: NAND backup?

With my HTC Desire, I used to make NAND backups all the time.
Is this possible with the Mini Pro too? I have rooted but not unlocked bootloader.
Grtz
no way to do this?
I also used to have an HTC Desire. I just installed a custom kernel with ClockworkMod Recovery, and there is the "backup and restore". I never used this function but it is there if you manage to get CWM on your device.
swimon said:
no way to do this?
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I don't think you can get into recovery without unlocking your bootloader.
And since you need to get into recovery to do a nandroid backup, I think you're out of luck until you unlock your bootloader...
There is cwm for locked bl in dev section thread by nobodyatall. I have tested it back then when my phone not unlocked yet and confirmed can go into recovery and do backup (restoring not tested tho as i unlocked my bl soon after that so for that part i cant say it is working or not)
Cheers..
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feed3 said:
There is cwm for locked bl in dev section thread by nobodyatall. I have tested it back then when my phone not unlocked yet and confirmed can go into recovery and do backup (restoring not tested tho as i unlocked my bl soon after that so for that part i cant say it is working or not)
Cheers..
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Thanks.
Apparently there's even an app which automates the install of this 'recovery'...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437840
So yeah, sorry about my ignorance

Help - Recovery not working and me no smart

I am very new to this and did something as my friend said, really stupid. I rooted my Evo LTE with the one click root method. This installed TWRP Recovery. After a few days I found a ROM I wanted to install. I installed ROM manager and along with this it installed Clockworkmod. I tried to install the rom from the zip I put on the root but clockwork opens up as my recovery instead of TWRP and does not run any commands. So after trying to get clockwordmod to work and couldn't... I decided to unroot phone and just re-root (yes very stupid). So after unrooting via SuperUser, I tried to install the RUU and it would'nt install as bootloader/recovery not work. I have no clue what to do
Are you running the ruu on your pc? It's not something you flash on your phone.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
cwm recovery dont work on the evo LTE.. u have to flash the twrp 2.2.0 recovery.. yea the ruu is like a tool.. plug ya phone in and run it.. very easy
metalfan78 said:
Are you running the ruu on your pc? It's not something you flash on your phone.
"We're coming from a pure power source"
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I am trying to install the RUU through my PC. But keeps getting error message that it failed right after trying to send to bootloader
evo401 said:
cwm recovery dont work on the evo LTE.. u have to flash the twrp 2.2.0 recovery.. yea the ruu is like a tool.. plug ya phone in and run it.. very easy
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I've been trying that and it keeps failing...
You have to relock your bootloader to run an ruu.
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Try to flash TWRP again. If your able to do this then running a ruu is not nessary. As stated before clockworkmod recovery has problems on the Evo LTE.
onsumper serving
Robert542 said:
Try to flash TWRP again. If your able to do this then running a ruu is not nessary. As stated before clockworkmod recovery has problems on the Evo LTE.
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Thank you thank you, I was able to relock the bootloader last night. Tonight I will try and reflash TWRP. This has been a good learning experience so far. At least i didn't brick the phone As the phone is no longer rooted do i need to root it as part of my flashing TWRP? The one click root method installs TWRP as part of the whole process.
rparis said:
Thank you thank you, I was able to relock the bootloader last night. Tonight I will try and reflash TWRP. This has been a good learning experience so far. At least i didn't brick the phone As the phone is no longer rooted do i need to root it as part of my flashing TWRP? The one click root method installs TWRP as part of the whole process.
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You do not need to be rooted to flash a recovery but your bootloader needs to be unlocked. If your unlocking your bootloader using htcdev method then you don't need to be rooted. If your unlocking your bootloader using lazypanda method then you need root or temp root before you can run lazypanda.
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Robert542 said:
You do not need to be rooted to flash a recovery but your bootloader needs to be unlocked. If your unlocking your bootloader using htcdev method then you don't need to be rooted. If your unlocking your bootloader using lazypanda method then you need root or temp root before you can run lazypanda.
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I got the phone all fixed, locked the bootloader then went through all the steps of unlocking, installing custom recovery and rooting with a custom ROM. Thank you for all your help, this was a grea learning experience and thank god i didn't brick my phone in the process
rparis said:
I got the phone all fixed, locked the bootloader then went through all the steps of unlocking, installing custom recovery and rooting with a custom ROM. Thank you for all your help, this was a grea learning experience and thank god i didn't brick my phone in the process
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Glad everything worked out for you.
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i was using this method, roter froze at installing recovery, and now i think my phone is bricked. it wont power on and i cant access bootloader

Can't root after relock and unroot

Has anyone else ever done this and can't reroot? Regaw method doesn't work either. No root method seems to work.
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Is your bootloader unlocked? If you're running into trouble unlocking using regawmod method, try going to HTC dev site and doing the unlock bootloader process that way manually. I was running into the same thing until yesterday when I did that method. If you get unlock, just install twrp recovery using goomanager app (settings, then run/install openscript) and then flash supersu
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Go here and click on select your device then go to All other supported models follow the instructions and you'll have an unlocked bootloader. Then you have to flash twrp recovery, and after that flash the rom of your choice
-Cupper- said:
Go here and click on select your device then go to All other supported models follow the instructions and you'll have an unlocked bootloader. Then you have to flash twrp recovery, and after that flash the rom of your choice
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Yeah I eventually got it. Regawmod wouldn't reboot the phone into bootloader although it said it did. I manually put it in to bootloader,
then it would continue, only to stop at installing root. I copied the root file to sd, then went into recovery and installed that way.
PITA!
-Cupper- said:
Go here and click on select your device then go to All other supported models follow the instructions and you'll have an unlocked bootloader. Then you have to flash twrp recovery, and after that flash the rom of your choice
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Uhh isn't that exactly what I suggested?? Just without the fancy links?
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way to check if bootloader is unlocked?

i used CASUAL to root my phone and it had and error midway through, and i rebooted and i am rooted. i just have no idea if my bootloader is unlocked or how to check that.
try booting into recovery and see if your device is on TWRP or stock ASR?
droidstyle said:
try booting into recovery and see if your device is on TWRP or stock ASR?
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I still have stock recovery. should I assume it's not unlocked? and if so. how do I go about unlocking it if I'm already rooted?
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[Q] Cannot Download OTA

I have an AT&T HOX+ running stock. It's unlocked via HTC and rooted. I cannot download any OTAs. I learned the hard way that you cannot download OTAs if you have any stock apps disabled so I've re-enabled them. Now it goes through the motions and finds the update, but when I connect to Wifi all I see is a blank message as seen in the attached screenshot.
Nilpo said:
I have an AT&T HOX+ running stock. It's unlocked via HTC and rooted. I cannot download any OTAs. I learned the hard way that you cannot download OTAs if you have any stock apps disabled so I've re-enabled them. Now it goes through the motions and finds the update, but when I connect to Wifi all I see is a blank message as seen in the attached screenshot.
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Maybe Unroot and try.......
You must first flash the stock recovery and then relock bootloader using the command "fastboot oem lock" in fastboot. The stock recovery.img can be flashed using the fastboot command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" where "recovery.img" is replaced with whatever your recovery name is and .img. Make sure you flash the recovery before relocking. Root should not mess up the update although you will lose root after the update. I updated while the device was still rooted!
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[email protected] said:
Maybe Unroot and try.......
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Is there a way to unroot without losing data? I haven't found one yet.
ryandroid226 said:
You must first flash the stock recovery and then relock bootloader using the command "fastboot oem lock" in fastboot. The stock recovery.img can be flashed using the fastboot command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" where "recovery.img" is replaced with whatever your recovery name is and .img. Make sure you flash the recovery before relocking. Root should not mess up the update although you will lose root after the update. I updated while the device was still rooted!
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So there's no way to update and run a custom recovery? If I have to relock the bootloader, I can't unlock again without factory wiping.
Why can't HTC just get the bluetooth right from the start? How did they even release a phone when BT doesn't work?
Nilpo said:
Is there a way to unroot without losing data? I haven't found one yet.
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It's not the unrooting that will cause you to lose any data or other content on your device. It is the re-unlocking of the bootloader or the running of a RUU. AFAIK, there is no way to keep your device contents while you update the radio and hboot. The only option is to backup contents of SD, backup apps using Google or TiBU, and backup sms and call log. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is how it goes. With that being said, it is not mandatory that you upgrade the radio/hboot in order to install a ROM that is sense 5/JB 4.2.2. There are already ROM's out there for AT&T built on this base
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Nilpo said:
Is there a way to unroot without losing data? I haven't found one yet.
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Yeah u can unroot using SuperSU App itself from the setting choose Full Unroot........
Unintsall all the root Apps too since it unnecessary to have then without root.......
Flash the Stock recovery and relock the bootloader and then check for updates.....:good:
ryandroid226 said:
It's not the unrooting that will cause you to lose any data or other content on your device. It is the re-unlocking of the bootloader or the running of a RUU. AFAIK, there is no way to keep your device contents while you update the radio and hboot. The only option is to backup contents of SD, backup apps using Google or TiBU, and backup sms and call log. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is how it goes. With that being said, it is not mandatory that you upgrade the radio/hboot in order to install a ROM that is sense 5/JB 4.2.2. There are already ROM's out there for AT&T built on this base
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If I unroot and install the OTA, and then unlock the bootloader again, with it keep the updated firmware or drop back to factory?
If I'm going through all this trouble, maybe I should be looking at a custom ROM. Any suggestions for a Sense 5 one built on AT&T? I haven't seen one for this phone.
Nilpo said:
If I unroot and install the OTA, and then unlock the bootloader again, with it keep the updated firmware or drop back to factory?
If I'm going through all this trouble, maybe I should be looking at a custom ROM. Any suggestions for a Sense 5 one built on AT&T? I haven't seen one for this phone.
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The unlocking will wipe ur Storage.....but u ll have the update of 4.2.2..
there are few Custom ROMS with Sense 5 u can go through this Forum
Nilpo said:
If I unroot and install the OTA, and then unlock the bootloader again, with it keep the updated firmware or drop back to factory?
If I'm going through all this trouble, maybe I should be looking at a custom ROM. Any suggestions for a Sense 5 one built on AT&T? I haven't seen one for this phone.
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If you update via the OTA then your factory firmware WILL be updated. Maybe you can request that a dev make a ROM that is stock and rooted sense5/JB 4.2.2, you might grab the interest of someone.. That way you could have a "stock" image of the ROM and avoid the radio/hboot upgrade. Otherwise, you will just have to go through the update process, wiping your device. IMO, backing everything up is not too painstaking and it is a good practice to do this periodically anyways. Just my .02!
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Backing up isn't too difficult on JB. I've done it manually as well as with Helium and other apps throughout the rooting/experimenting process. It's been my experience that those app backups don't restore properly and I'm left starting over anyway. The issues could be app specific, but I honestly don't remember which apps didn't work now.
Of course, I suppose it's all a small price to pay to have a phone that actually works when I connect my BT headset.
Where does one find the stock recovery?
I hope this isn't silly, but I've been running custom recovery forever and I'm blanking as to where to locate/d-load the stock recovery.
thanks!
mrbillishere said:
Where does one find the stock recovery?
I hope this isn't silly, but I've been running custom recovery forever and I'm blanking as to where to locate/d-load the stock recovery.
thanks!
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Not sill at all. I have an image that I believe is the stock recovery, but how can I be sure?
Nilpo said:
Not sill at all. I have an image that I believe is the stock recovery, but how can I be sure?
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OK, well after dusting off the cobwebs and reading some threads for the Intl version I learned this... the stock firmware will also contain the radios and stock recovery. So now I'm looking for the correct firmware to match my phone's CID and Modelid. The command to dump these variables out is 'fastboot getvar all'
My AT&T OneX+ reported this:
(bootloader) modelid: PM6310000
(bootloader) cidnum: CWS__001
There's a txt file in the firmware.zip that will contain a list of the applicable CID numbers the firmware can apply to. Evidently since our phones are S-on an entry in the list must correspond to the device's reported CID.
So now I'm searching for an updated firmware.zip
You can find the stock rom here as found in this thread.

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