[Q] Is it possible to clone one Evo 3D to another? - HTC EVO 3D

I've been extremely satisfied with the HTC Evo 3D and so I bought a used backup one to have on hand just in case my primary one is every lost or destroyed.
My question is this: If I have two EVO 3D's and make a full backup on one, can I technically restore it on the second phone? Or must a partial back-up be done to avoid any kind of system level conflicts? I have 4EXT as well as Titanium backup. I could easily back up all apps and then restore them on the second phone, but I'm not so sure about whether or not system data is possible. What I'd like to do is use 4EXT and just make a complete copy of the entire primary phone and restore it on the second phone. Assuming I have them configured the same, would it be possible? If not, what's the best way to go about doing this? Thanks!

cytherian said:
I've been extremely satisfied with the HTC Evo 3D and so I bought a used backup one to have on hand just in case my primary one is every lost or destroyed.
My question is this: If I have two EVO 3D's and make a full backup on one, can I technically restore it on the second phone? Or must a partial back-up be done to avoid any kind of system level conflicts? I have 4EXT as well as Titanium backup. I could easily back up all apps and then restore them on the second phone, but I'm not so sure about whether or not system data is possible. What I'd like to do is use 4EXT and just make a complete copy of the entire primary phone and restore it on the second phone. Assuming I have them configured the same, would it be possible? If not, what's the best way to go about doing this? Thanks!
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It's absolutely possible. I just did it a week ago after I shattered the screen on my 3D and picked up another on Craigslist. Just use 4ext and do a full backup, then restore it onto the other phone once it's rooted and recovery is flashed. Make sure the correct hboot is flashed that the ROM in the backup requires also.

gonk24 said:
It's absolutely possible. I just did it a week ago after I shattered the screen on my 3D and picked up another on Craigslist. Just use 4ext and do a full backup, then restore it onto the other phone once it's rooted and recovery is flashed. Make sure the correct hboot is flashed that the ROM in the backup requires also.
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Thanks for your reply. It's weird because I'd read in a number of places where some said it's not possible while others said that it is.
1) The same phone
2) The same hboot version
3) The same recovery (CW backup to CW backup; RA backup to RA backup)
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I just double checked and realized that my HBoot is different. I have S-OFF with only one. There's also the matter of the EXT4 partition.... which I'm guessing won't be a problem if I move over my SD card, but may be an issue for trying to copy it to another SD card. I'm thinking I should just do a Titanium backup of the apps with data, and then just restore them instead and manually recreate the desktop. Using a separate app to backup call logs and SMS messages. Google does the rest with calendar and contacts.

cytherian said:
Thanks for your reply. It's weird because I'd read in a number of places where some said it's not possible while others said that it is.
I just double checked and realized that my HBoot is different. I have S-OFF with only one. There's also the matter of the EXT4 partition.... which I'm guessing won't be a problem if I move over my SD card, but may be an issue for trying to copy it to another SD card. I'm thinking I should just do a Titanium backup of the apps with data, and then just restore them instead and manually recreate the desktop. Using a separate app to backup call logs and SMS messages. Google does the rest with calendar and contacts.
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Get your 2nd one S-off and change that Hboot. Soooooooo easy to do, no reason not to. Way more work to back up and restore with Titanium and then still be S-on.
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gonk24 said:
Get your 2nd one S-off and change that Hboot. Soooooooo easy to do, no reason not to. Way more work to back up and restore with Titanium and then still be S-on.
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I found a few more posts about this very thing in other locations and the consensus has been that it's not a good idea and possible to cause firmware corruption. I went the route of backing up all apps+user-data and restoring. Most everything worked but some apps were faulty and required re-installation. That didn't help my confidence.
Anyway, it wasn't too bad of a hassle and I've gotten my phone pretty much "cloned". I may try the complete clone process with a beat up Evo 3D I have coming, to see if I can indeed do it with a phone having the exact same firmware and Hboot.

If you want to lose your WIMAX keys do it...

cytherian said:
I found a few more posts about this very thing in other locations and the consensus has been that it's not a good idea and possible to cause firmware corruption. I went the route of backing up all apps+user-data and restoring. Most everything worked but some apps were faulty and required re-installation. That didn't help my confidence.
Anyway, it wasn't too bad of a hassle and I've gotten my phone pretty much "cloned". I may try the complete clone process with a beat up Evo 3D I have coming, to see if I can indeed do it with a phone having the exact same firmware and Hboot.
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Glad you got it worked out. As far as corrupting firmware, not so sure about that. Firmware isn't backed up or restored through a nandroid. It's a separate flash.
1. Run the RUU to latest stock (includes firmware)
2. S-off
3. Flash recovery
4. Flash Hboot
5. Restore backup from recovery
Mine worked without a hitch and everything runs flawlessly. Wimax keys, no idea though. The ROM I run has no Wimax and neither does my area.
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gonk24 said:
Glad you got it worked out. As far as corrupting firmware, not so sure about that. Firmware isn't backed up or restored through a nandroid. It's a separate flash.
1. Run the RUU to latest stock (includes firmware)
2. S-off
3. Flash recovery
4. Flash Hboot
5. Restore backup from recovery
Mine worked without a hitch and everything runs flawlessly. Wimax keys, no idea though. The ROM I run has no Wimax and neither does my area.
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Maybe that's what has tripped up other people, not flashing to a RUU before hand. I'll keep it in mind though. While the manual method works, there's always some settings with some apps that are lost, like contacts losing ringtone references. At least this way you're guaranteed a complete copy. And yeah, I don't use WIMAX so I'm not worried about it.
The HTC Evo 3D still works really well for me. I suspect I'll be keeping it for at least another year. Unlike the HTC Hero that became very dated after 2 years, the Evo 3D still keeps up pretty well due to 4G support. 4G LTE is faster, when you can get it, but it's not a compelling enough difference IMHO.

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[Q] twrp nand backup

Noob ? I just downloaded twrp when I go to recovery what should I back up there's so many options I really don't know which one to pick. Should i pick all of them and compress or some and compress .please be specific.
LOL... it depends on what youre trying to do?
Mostly, youre going to use recovery to flash zip files... kernals, roms, tweaks etc mostly come in the form of zips, so you'll see one option to install a zip file....
Another thing to do, is wipe your phone before a flash, again done with recovery...You'll go to the WIPE menu, and wipe cache, dalvik, (do it a few times to be sure) and do a data wipe before flashing ROMs, this will ensure a flawless install
Lastly you use nandroid to "backup" the current state of your phone, you do this BEFORE flashing a rom... its like a failsafe, if something F's up during your flash, you can restore this "nandroid" backup to restore you phone to its exact state prior to your flash...
So, nandroid back ups, restoring, flashing zips, and wiping are your basic uses of recovery
getmoneygreen said:
Noob ? I just downloaded twrp when I go to recovery what should I back up there's so many options I really don't know which one to pick. Should i pick all of them and compress or some and compress .please be specific.
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Stick with the ones that are already "x'd" off. The only option that I'd suggest adding is Wimax. That will back up your wimax partition, which contains your RSA keys, which are essential to 4g working (lose your RSA keys, lose your 4g forever, so it's good to keep them backed up). Compressing the backup is optional. It will save a considerable amount of space if you choose to compress them, however the backups will take quite a bit longer to complete. I made two backups that were not compressed, and saved them to my computer, because they were over 1GB each, which is absurd. I now compress all of my backups, and all seems well.
Thank you soo much you guys helped me out a lot
If you don't mind me asking, what were the original TWRP recovery options that were selected. When I did my first Nand backup after S-off and rooting I selected all the options to be safe. Then when I went to go make another back up everything was still selected and I know I do not need all those options. Thanks.
PdawG43 said:
If you don't mind me asking, what were the original TWRP recovery options that were selected. When I did my first Nand backup after S-off and rooting I selected all the options to be safe. Then when I went to go make another back up everything was still selected and I know I do not need all those options. Thanks.
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To answer your question If I'm correct from top to bottom the first two and also include the Wimax and the compress files .so that's four X's.that's what I have
I did a Nand backup having the first 3 and then Wimax and then when I tried to flash to that backup my phone went black and shut off (thought it had bricked on me) was able to get it to reboot by doing volume down + power button. Am I missing something? Or am I just being dumb when it comes to flashing from a Nand backup?
Are you still having problems with the nand back ups pdawg
So we should wipe data to factory settings before doing the back?
Also, where does titanium backup come into play?
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I haven't had time to try it again yet. Though later tonight I will try again when I flash viper rom 1.3
I checked everything under the sun in nandroid menu, so when I go to nandroid options then restore i choose the one I want to restore, it flashes then when I reboot it just sits on the HTC EVO screnn forever! almost 20 min so far. is anybody else having this issue? am I doing something wrong? I did pull the battery once and rebooted but still nothing. I backed up a couple of nice set ups I would like to have back. any ideas would be great
jajuan said:
So we should wipe data to factory settings before doing the back?
Also, where does titanium backup come into play?
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To answer your question about Titanium. This app will back up all your apps--apps only, not your entire system.
This is useful when you flash a new rom because that new rom will not include all the apps you had (obviously). Instead of fishing for each one in the market, simply re-download Titanium and use it to restore your apps (and data if you like). I really don't use Tatanium as much as I used to. This is because I don't download a crapload of apps and when I install a new rom it doesn't take me very long to re-download the ones I like from the market.
BUT, if you have an app that you can't get through the market, then Titanium is vital to restoring it.
Hope this helps.

Back up to an temp root Amaze 4G

Hi... My question is kinda tricky, first thing is I never really like permanent roots for various reasons, and that is why I go for Temp... You see if I mess up a phone I would have to worry too much I guess, anyway, my Amaze 4G will be replaced soon by a new Amaze 4G so... If I temp root, do a full bar k up to my ad card with titanium lite app, and I temp root the new Amaze and do a back up restore... Will I get all my apps, text messages, saved games, laucher, folder, apps configurations and pretty much will turn my new phone exactly the same way the old one was?... With a temp root? Is this possible? And if I reset the phone and the root is gone so will be my entire back up data on the new phone? Cannot even think on how horrible will be installing all that....
ReverseSorrow said:
Hi... My question is kinda tricky, first thing is I never really like permanent roots for various reasons, and that is why I go for Temp... You see if I mess up a phone I would have to worry too much I guess, anyway, my Amaze 4G will be replaced soon by a new Amaze 4G so... If I temp root, do a full bar k up to my ad card with titanium lite app, and I temp root the new Amaze and do a back up restore... Will I get all my apps, text messages, saved games, laucher, folder, apps configurations and pretty much will turn my new phone exactly the same way the old one was?... With a temp root? Is this possible? And if I reset the phone and the root is gone so will be my entire back up data on the new phone? Cannot even think on how horrible will be installing all that....
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Yes - No - No - No.
You can backup certain things such as sms, call log, contacts, etc with MyBackup. You must have root to have Titanium. I can't recall clearly if temp root is sufficient. If you have a locked bootloader ANY changes made to the /system (that is anything different than the stock rom and bloatware) will be reverted/restored by a reboot. This is currently unavoidable. And you can not backup the root files on your root device and restore them to an unrooted phone. This is because they would need to be restored to /system/app and /system/bin directories. Anything with /system would need an unlocked bootloader for the changes to stick. Without an unlocked bootloader the only changes that you can make is in /cache and /data partitions of your device. Anything else will be like it never happened after a reboot.
ReverseSorrow said:
Hi... My question is kinda tricky, first thing is I never really like permanent roots for various reasons, and that is why I go for Temp... You see if I mess up a phone I would have to worry too much I guess, anyway, my Amaze 4G will be replaced soon by a new Amaze 4G so... If I temp root, do a full bar k up to my ad card with titanium lite app, and I temp root the new Amaze and do a back up restore... Will I get all my apps, text messages, saved games, laucher, folder, apps configurations and pretty much will turn my new phone exactly the same way the old one was?... With a temp root? Is this possible? And if I reset the phone and the root is gone so will be my entire back up data on the new phone? Cannot even think on how horrible will be installing all that....
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You can use Titanium Backup with temp-root. I restored all my data using it.
I suggest you not to mess up with system settings, though. It's tricky because restoring system apps won't stick after you loose temp-root (after reboot or after system hicup whichever comes first). But many system settings are backed up and restored with system apps/lib files. Or you can try it and find out if it works. Let us know the result.
A word of caution. Temp-root is really temp-root. I lost temp-root often even before rebooting causing bunch of errors and headaches. So I had to restore apps/data in small chunks to be safe.
I don't know why you're so much against rooting, but if that's because you bricked your phone before, you may want to go with MyBackup as Binary says. Even with Temp-rooting, you'd need to know what you're doing.
Thank you so much guys, I will back everything up, get my new phone, temp root it and restore the back up from the first Amaze 4G... God I hope it goes well...... And yeah, I bricked a PSP back then, I cry for a week, I just don't want to go thru that ever again lol
ReverseSorrow said:
Thank you so much guys, I will back everything up, get my new phone, temp root it and restore the back up from the first Amaze 4G... God I hope it goes well...... And yeah, I bricked a PSP back then, I cry for a week, I just don't want to go thru that ever again lol
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I really don't think that we can brick this phone. The best way to brick an HTC device is to flash a bad bootloader and radio combo or to tamper with the bootloader itself. Since we need S-OFF to flash a radio then that makes this phone pretty safe to root and currently we don't have a method to obtain S-OFF at this time. Another way to brick your phone is to flash a custom kernel that has permanent undesired effects like I experienced last year. So in conclusion, if you just want to have a custom rom installed, remove bloat, etc then you're better off going full root.

For anybody looking to backup before HTC DevUnlock

I hadn't seen mention of this in the EVO LTE forum, but here's a way to backup everything before the HTCDev unlock that wipes your phone.
I was waiting for some way of doing this since you can't run Titanium Backup before getting root, and getting root (with current HBOOTs) wipes your phone. Found this in the generic Android hacking section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1844032
I never knew there was an ADB Backup command. I've posted questions before and nobody mentioned it.
Since the phone prompts for an encryption password, it probably does do a deep copy of all the app settings.
I haven't actually done the restore from this yet - I'll be rooting this weekend then try the restore.
(Also backed up in MyBackup Pro just in case, for the little good that does.)
It's a huge Windows .BAT file that presents a menu of choices. It DOES take a while. Set a path, then choose a backup option.
I'm trying several different backup options under different backup names to see what restores the best.
If this works as advertised, it should save me days of re setting everything up and many rounds of annoyances about apps that no longer remember their settings.
OTOH, If this doesn't work, don't blame me
Dont you still need root to gain access to app data and the system files?
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I would assume this uses fastboot root for anything that can't be accessed but fastboot has access to practically everything, there's even a fastboot command to flash splash screens lol
Again, I haven't tried the restore yet, but it looks to me like it requests the system to do it, which asks your permission first, so I'm assuming it gets everything.
I ran it with the phone booted up and it didn't complain. I guess I'll find out when I unlock and try to restore.
I may play with this later, seems like something handy for my guide
Sorry, I'm still too tired to understand what the hell is going on half the time, you're talking about adb and I'm taking about fastboot lol
pbarrett said:
Again, I haven't tried the restore yet, but it looks to me like it requests the system to do it, which asks your permission first, so I'm assuming it gets everything.
I ran it with the phone booted up and it didn't complain. I guess I'll find out when I unlock and try to restore.
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Wouldn't think the restore would mess anything up, but I'm paranoid as $h1t with this phone.
Ask me about my ability to annoy complete strangers!
Nah its just a couple of image files, the worst thing that could happen is a bad flash that you can easily recover from in recovery
Hmm.
Well restoring a backup that didn't include system data *does* restore the app settings.
Now I'm trying restoring a backup that did include system data (the one marked as "unsafe" in the menu).
I'm hoping it'll restore my home screens, WiFi credentials, etc. The backup with system data took maybe 2 hours.
I'll check the restore in the morning...
(Oh well, either way, now that I'm rooted I can ditch all this and just go with Titanium from now on. Yay.)
Results:
Restoring a backup without system data did get all my app data/settings back.
Restoring a backup that included system data also had the side benefit of restoring the boot screen without the red tamper warning even though I'm S-ON. LOL.
I wonder if modifying a backup file then restoring it could be exploited...
This type of backup also includes all the SD contents. You might want to manage media files yourself instead.
Neither type restored home-screens. In fact, after restoring the one with system data, I had no icons or widgets whatsoever.
Even when I also told MyBackupPro to restore homescreens I got nothing. Oh well.
pbarrett said:
Results:
Restoring a backup without system data did get all my app data/settings back.
Restoring a backup that included system data also had the side benefit of restoring the boot screen without the red tamper warning even though I'm S-ON. LOL.
I wonder if modifying a backup file then restoring it could be exploited...
This type of backup also includes all the SD contents. You might want to manage media files yourself instead.
Neither type restored home-screens. In fact, after restoring the one with system data, I had no icons or widgets whatsoever.
Even when I also told MyBackupPro to restore homescreens I got nothing. Oh well.
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Very interesting...You could be on to something there with exploiting a backup. May want to drop the lazy panda devs a line and see if it could be used to downgrade the hboot in some way. When you restored the system partition did you lose root?
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Nope - I was wondering if that would happen, but it's still rooted & su, busybox, etc are still there.
It restores the screen as a side effect of copying the entire system state. As a restore you get the system state in tact as it was before the phone gets tampered. An interesting exercise would be to see if you can use the back up function to flash a system state with superuser privledges
Gaining root with fastboot...I like it. Are the backups locked to the device or can they be shared and restored on others?
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I would assume they aren't but they may have access to back up misc info related to only that phone. I haven't had a chance to poke around with this program yet
pbarrett said:
Neither type restored home-screens. In fact, after restoring the one with system data, I had no icons or widgets whatsoever.
Even when I also told MyBackupPro to restore homescreens I got nothing. Oh well.
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That's one of the many reasons why I use Apex. It allows you to back up and restore your home screens and settings. I also find that the multitasking is much improved if the sense launcher isn't running.
premo15 said:
Very interesting...You could be on to something there with exploiting a backup. May want to drop the lazy panda devs a line and see if it could be used to downgrade the hboot in some way. When you restored the system partition did you lose root?
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Anybody know if it is actually possible to exploit hboot using this adb method or something similar. Has a hboot been exploited vin the past through adb
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It has been but only on early versions of Android, the odds of an exploit found like that again isn't at all likely. We just like to think out loud
I can't get this working. I run UBT.bat and it just flashes on my screen and closes.

A lil help please...

Hey everyone!
I have run into a little snag with my Galaxy Note... I just rooted and flashed CWM Touch Recovery to it last night by following the thread listed here. I have a Canadian version of ICS on the Rogers network. So this evening, i decided to try to run a backup within CWM, and I ran into a small problem. As the backup ran, it went through a good majority of the process, then once it got about half way through the "data" portion of the backup, an error popped up telling me there was a problem with the backing up of the data. My question is, is it necessary for that portion to complete for the image to be viable? Is the data portion just my apps? And would the rest of the image still be ok, if i want to use it? Because if the image is still whole, minus the apps, i can live with that. I don't have a problem reinstalling everything.
CWM version is 5.5.0.4 and I am using Rogers stock ICS OTA updated ROM.
***Edit I got a back up done thru the "back up to internal sd card", instead of the "backup" option.
I held out using cwm for longer than most simply because I was used to it and have it on a number of other android devices....After finally making the jump to TWRP, I would highly recommend it.
It does basically the same job with a nice GUI...and it's super fast! Backups and flashing are a breeze.
Give it a try...you can always flash back...but you won't
If the backup had an error pop up I would not use that. Delete it and either a) try again or b) flash twrp and make your backup there. You can also give your backup a name with twrp. Quite a nice, understated feature.
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Ok, thanks guys. I managed to get it to do a backup with the second option in CWM. So once I start playing with things, I can go back if need be.
Kev
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CWM backup fails if you have more than 4gb of photos, music, video. You possibly reached that limit.
The pictures and music and such wasn't the issue. I guess it turned out my sd card was just a hair over the needed space availability. Thanks
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crutzulee said:
I held out using cwm for longer than most simply because I was used to it and have it on a number of other android devices....After finally making the jump to TWRP, I would highly recommend it.
It does basically the same job with a nice GUI...and it's super fast! Backups and flashing are a breeze.
Give it a try...you can always flash back...but you won't
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I had the exact same experience if I had known how TWRP worked I would never have even started using CWM

[Q] Really need help

So, I've had quite a long night trying to accomplish what seems to be such an easy task for every one else. My main goal for tonight was to root my HTC One and install a custom ROM, preferably ARHD 4.3. This was unfortunately not the case. This is my first time handling anything along the lines of rooting a phone or doing anything like that.
I started off by unlocking the bootloader and then moving on to install TRWP as my custom recovery image. Once I rooted my device after that, I started looking up custom ROM's only to find out that I would need to install firmwares before I installed the ROM's, which required me to pretty much re-do every thing above.
Here's where the problems began to happen. I had to try and get my S-On to go to S-Off and I got errors everywhere. Either I got an error trying to do one guide via terminal command inside of an app on the device, or my model number didn't show up on available methods. I don't even know, all I know is I never got to actually succeed with getting my thing to S-Off, therefore I never could do any firmware installs.
I then read that the Google Edition 4.3 only needed the radio to be installed via firmware so I thought hey, I bet this ROM is perfect for me. But, then I read that you still need the firmware upgrade to be stable.
My actual question because I'm just overall sick of this and it's beginning to scare me that I've ruined my phone and I'll never get it to how it used to be;
I just want to go back to how my phone was. Factory settings across the board. However, I have no idea how to do this and the 2 backups I had in TRWP aren't showing in the recovery, however they are showing in the ES file manager within the Google Edition 4.3 ROM.
Please help, this is starting to freak me out. I had to pay $600 for this phone off contract and I made a dumb ass decision tonight.:crying:
You don't have to install firmware for any custom rom and you may never have to.
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Nick281051 said:
You don't have to install firmware for any custom rom and you may never have to.
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Really? What exactly is firmware and why is it not needed? On the ARHD custom ROM threads, it says at the bottom that it is not needed, but recommended. I also read people's comments saying if the firmwares aren't installed, then you lose stability for your custom ROM's. Is that true and if so how?
I currently have the Google Edition 4.3 ROM and it seems to be workng fine without the Radio firmware. I just don't know what is needed and what isn't. But, my device has the bootloader unlocked, TRWP installed, fully rooted and Google Edition ROM 4.3 installed.
Am I okay?
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Really? What exactly is firmware and why is it not needed? On the ARHD custom ROM threads, it says at the bottom that it is not needed, but recommended. I also read people's comments saying if the firmwares aren't installed, then you lose stability for your custom ROM's. Is that true and if so how?
I currently have the Google Edition 4.3 ROM and it seems to be workng fine without the Radio firmware. I just don't know what is needed and what isn't. But, my device has the bootloader unlocked, TRWP installed, fully rooted and Google Edition ROM 4.3 installed.
Am I okay?
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You are FINE, that's the same set up I have basically. Unlocked BL, Root, TWRP and sinless GE rom from the International forums. I have never touched s-off or any firmwares/radios.
I've run nearly every sense and GE rom in the One forum and never had an issue.
In theory I suppose the upgraded firmware could be better but I haven't heard of any real benefits of doing it. And have had no issues without it so it seems kinda pointless.
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FanDroid09 said:
You are FINE, that's the same set up I have basically. Unlocked BL, Root, TWRP and sinless GE rom from the International forums. I have never touched s-off or any firmwares/radios.
I've run nearly every sense and GE rom in the One forum and never had an issue.
In theory I suppose the upgraded firmware could be better but I haven't heard of any real benefits of doing it. And have had no issues without it so it seems kinda pointless.
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Oh wow, thanks a ton for the reply. That made me feel a ton better. I've been panicking about this.
Leather Sock said:
Oh wow, thanks a ton for the reply. That made me feel a ton better. I've been panicking about this.
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No problem... I was worried to when the firmware update came out and devs started putting little disclaimers in their posts about recommending it. I'd be willing to bet that there are more people in these forums with s-on and stock firmware flashing away without issues.
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FanDroid09 said:
No problem... I was worried to when the firmware update came out and devs started putting little disclaimers in their posts about recommending it. I'd be willing to bet that there are more people in these forums with s-on and stock firmware flashing away without issues.
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My only concern right now is that I have a tad bit lower free space now that I've made backups and flashed my ROM and such. The stock HTC One comes with 32GB but you get about 27GB~ to use. Before I did anything I'm fairly certain I had roughly 25-26GB of free space. Now I have 20GB. Could this be from the backups taking up a lot of space? I have 3.
Leather Sock said:
My only concern right now is that I have a tad bit lower free space now that I've made backups and flashed my ROM and such. The stock HTC One comes with 32GB but you get about 27GB~ to use. Before I did anything I'm fairly certain I had roughly 25-26GB of free space. Now I have 20GB. Could this be from the backups taking up a lot of space? I have 3.
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ummmm... yes if the backups are stored on phone
backups backup everything on the phone... so you saved 5gb in copies 3 times...you're lucky they are compressed
You should really have just one copy saved on a safe pc or flash drive
ghostlogic said:
ummmm... yes if the backups are stored on phone
backups backup everything on the phone... so you saved 5gb in copies 3 times...you're lucky they are compressed
You should really have just one copy saved on a safe pc or flash drive
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Well, when I tried to put the backups on my phone by copying and pasting them, it only pasted some of the stuff inside of it and not all of it. It was weird but it didn't let me paste all of the inside contents onto my computer.
Leather Sock said:
Well, when I tried to put the backups on my phone by copying and pasting them, it only pasted some of the stuff inside of it and not all of it. It was weird but it didn't let me paste all of the inside contents onto my computer.
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That's strange I've transfered backups before without issue. I would try again, it may have just been an anomaly.
I would recommend keeping at least a stock as possible backup on your phone to be safe.
Personally I keep 3 backups: a stock AT&T one, an InsertCoin Sense edition, and a SinlessROM Google edition.
The resulting space is enough for me, if your worried about space your only option is to keep the other two on your PC, not really a way around it.
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That's strange I've transfered backups before without issue. I would try again, it may have just been an anomaly.
I would recommend keeping at least a stock as possible backup on your phone to be safe.
Personally I keep 3 backups: a stock AT&T one, an InsertCoin Sense edition, and a SinlessROM Google edition.
The resulting space is enough for me, if your worried about space your only option is to keep the other two on your PC, not really a way around it.
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Well, I have a backup that is only an unlocked bootloader + root with the stock AT&T ROM, however I don't see any possible way of putting it onto my computer since I can't access the file from my computer. Originally the backups were in the TRWM folder in the internal storage on my computer, but then they stopped showing up in the backups through TRWP so I had to move them to /data/media/TRWP instead of 0/data/media/TRWP or whatever.
I'm not sure if that makes sense because it barely does to me either.
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Well, I have a backup that is only an unlocked bootloader + root with the stock AT&T ROM, however I don't see any possible way of putting it onto my computer since I can't access the file from my computer. Originally the backups were in the TRWM folder in the internal storage on my computer, but then they stopped showing up in the backups through TRWP so I had to move them to /data/media/TRWP instead of 0/data/media/TRWP or whatever.
I'm not sure if that makes sense because it barely does to me either.
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Ya I know there are issues with storage going from 4.1 to 4.2. I'd recommend getting a good file explorer from the play store (I recommend es file explorer) use that to find your backups... Just search "backup" using the search function if you need to. Then copy the backups somewhere you can see them with your computer like to the root of your storage. From there copy to your computer.
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Just like fandroid I have a copy of a Stock GPe 4.3 and an Stock AT&T version backup on a usb drive that i keep safe and as for the firmware and s-off/s-on at first i had a little trouble with getting s-off but i tried it 3 or so more times then on the the 2nd or 3rd time (I can't remember) it worked and i got the new firmware and it has been all good for me.

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