Hi everyone,
Couldn't find the help or questions section, things have changed here hehe.
Anyway, I did a nandroid backup three years ago and don't know what rom it was but most probably it was the stock gingerbread, the time & the size of it very much indicates that it was stock gingerbread only on obsolete LG Optimus one (p500). Though I've bought a new phone but I need that urgently but now no rom is working the way it used to.
Suddenly I remembered that I have a backup in another sd card. But the recovery doesn't recognize that when I tap restore. I realized it's maybe coz backup is not a zip file, instead in a folder there are yaffs files, boot file etc. Around 6-7 files and the total folder size is 400+mb. I created a zip file but still it says nothing to recover.
I used CWM v5xxx and TWRP v2xxx for this purpose.
Are nandroid backups stored like this only? And how can I restore then?
I'll be really grateful if you help.
Thanks
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Hi all,
After putting off rooting and flashing my P500 for a couple months, I finally decided it was time to try this whole custom ROM, rooting stuff.
Got through the whole process without a hitch, made my nandroid backups and saved a copy of the contents of my SD card (with nandroid backups) onto my computer.
Now here's the question/issue:
How do I restore my previous apps, sms, settings etc from the backups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
djfr4nk said:
Hi all,
After putting off rooting and flashing my P500 for a couple months, I finally decided it was time to try this whole custom ROM, rooting stuff.
Got through the whole process without a hitch, made my nandroid backups and saved a copy of the contents of my SD card (with nandroid backups) onto my computer.
Now here's the question/issue:
How do I restore my previous apps, sms, settings etc from the backups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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nandroid backups are usseless if ur migating to a new rom.u cant take anythin from it except the whole.it is usefull to get back the privious state if anything goes wrong with ur new rom.
now how to restore.....apps are avilable in market to back up app,(titanium....but if u back up and reintall certain apps to the new rom problems may arise),sms and even vpn settings.just serch in the market
Hi all !
if i restore nand backup from another phone on my phone + restore my orgininal EFS folder does it mean my phone will work perfectly without any surprise ????
thanks a lot
dahikino
totally not recommended. you could be coming from different android version, or even if same version, different manufacturers may have different setup.
if you feel adventurous, you can try just reinstalling the "data" portion though, that is where your installed apps are placed. but be warned it also contains some previous system settings which may not be compatible with sgs3.
better alternative is to install Titanium backup, it has function to read from nandroid backups so you can pick and choose what you want to extract from there.
First of all this is the wrong section to post this, go to the q&a section instead.
If the other phone was not the same exact model of phone then DO NOT restore the nandroid. Like the other commenter mentioned you can use titanium backup to save and restore apps or even use it to extract the apps from the nandroid.
Hi all,
I remember my first Froyo rom on my GS1 was provided as a nandroid package..
Questions go in the Q/A section
Fyi, nandroid doesn't touch the EFS partition or the bootloaders, or radio, just the system, data, cache and boot (kernel) partitions.
You *can* restore another person's nandroid onto your phone, but its really not a good idea (someone shipped roms as nandroids for a bit...), and you shouldn't need to touch the EFS unless something goes wrong, and a rom should never touch the EFS.
Edit: As people above say, don't restore a nandroid from another model of phone onto your device, if you want to move data from phone to phone like that use titanium backup or the like.
i want to copy a nand backup from a S3 orange 16GB onto my phone S3 SFR 32GB, because i have no solution for a "NO SMS,NO CALL BUT INTERNET WORKING" problem
changing rom, modem,etc.. etc... so many things without solved it
thanks
dahikino
dahikino said:
i want to copy a nand backup from a S3 orange 16GB onto my phone S3 SFR 32GB, because i have no solution for a "NO SMS,NO CALL BUT INTERNET WORKING" problem
changing rom, modem,etc.. etc... so many things without solved it
thanks
dahikino
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Well in that case at your risk by Nand i hope you mean a CWM Nandroid recovery .
Its often best to have the same version of recovery to restore backup if first attempt fails ..
Be far simpler to flash a stock SGS3 Orange rom via Odin .
jje.
This is the deal: I made a restore point, CWM f**ked it up, I can't use it from some reason but I can still open the data.ext4.tar file in windows with winrar.
what I eventually want is to fully restore everything that is stored in that restore point.
if I would to extract that archive manually, where would I put it?
that corrupted restore point (CWM says so whenever I try to use that restore point "data is corrupt" or something)
is from today, I am using a working restore point from 2 months ago.
I saw that regardless of which restore point I am using, the contents of the path;
/mnt/sdcard
do not change - meaning - all my apps' data is still saved and unharmed
the only thing missing is my new apps themselves.
I need to extract the names of all the apps that I had in that restore point,
then the names of the apps that I currently have from the working restore point made 2 months ago.
then I need to compare between them and find the orphan records - these would be the missing apps that I need to reinstall
this is where you come in - I need help in extracting this information from that .tar file,
I don't know what to make if it's folders structure - please help me fix everything that CWM destroyed for me.
Your help would be super appreciated I promise you that!
Hi guys,
Only recently did I recover my phone from a soft brick and since then; learning and living everything XDA and Android I decided to flash CyanogenMod on my phone. Loving it! Aside from the terrible Trebuchet launcher. I since downloaded all my apps and the like, flashed Philz recovery. Anyway, the following is everything I have backed up on my computer and all the files I have. Have I forgotten anything?
I am asking if you can actually read this and make sense of what I'm asking, do I have everything in case I end up screwing my phone I have everything needed? The user Darke5tShad0w was extremely helpful and he drilled it in my to backup the efs file for my S3 but I am unsure if I actually have backed that up, however there is an actual efs backup on my phone's internal memory in a folder named clockwork mod, I'm unsure though if I do in fact have a backup of the efs.
Phone - Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-i9300)
CyanogenMod 11
Philz Touch 6.48.4
On computer / Backups
cminstaller
# S3
clockworkmod
backup
.efs_backup
(bunch of folders and disc image files – all the same really)
.recovery_version
Odin
Odin3
Stock Backup
Backup
clockworkmod
backup
2014-09-20.01.15.48_JSS15J.I9300XXUGMK6
philz-touch_6.sav
Stock Recovery
International-GT-i9300-StockRecovery.tar
Stock ROM
I9300XXUGMK6_I9300OXAGMK6_I9300XXUGMK6_HOME.tar.md 5
SS_DL.dll
philz_touch_6.48.4-i9300 (zip)
TitainumBackup
update.zip
Sorry, I know it's difficult to read but I've tried to get all the information across and attempted to make it readible. Italics are folders while bold is like the root folder containing what I need.
Reason for all the stock files is in ever the case I need to restore to my last rendition of TouchWhiz, install Touchwhizz and reinstall the stock recovery.
Would it be worth doing a nandroid backup of my current CyanogenMod settings and what have you? Would the process be the same? In case I ever softbrick, wouldn't just using the Installer be enough.
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Sorry, I know it's difficult to read but I've tried to get all the information across and attempted to make it readible. Italics are folders while bold is like the root folder containing what I need.
Reason for all the stock files is in ever the case I need to restore to my last rendition of TouchWhiz, install Touchwhizz and reinstall the stock recovery.
Would it be worth doing a nandroid backup of my current CyanogenMod settings and what have you? Would the process be the same? In case I ever softbrick, wouldn't just using the Installer be enough.
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Hello again.
If you did it all through philz like was said in the other thread and it didn't fail when you did it you should be sorted.
If you want to make doubly sure another app like ktool to create another efs backup.
Remember to keep a copy on your computer or somewhere else.
And yes it would be a good idea to do a nandroid backup now you have cm up and running.
Hey guys, I'm trying to restore one of my backups from my old HTC One M8 as I recently got a replacement one through warranty. I finished rooting it and made a stock backup using TWRP but now I can't seem to see/find the backup folder. I know it's taking up space and If I want to restore from that backup I can through recovery but I cant seem to find the folder when looking at my storage on my computer. Because of this it is impossible (at least I think it is) for me to put my old backup in that folder and restore from there so I can have all my data again. I also keep on getting this message whenever launching TWRP about my SD card not being writeable yet whenever I click yes to install the patch my phone reboots and when I go back to TWRP I get the same message. I can send screenshots later if you guys would like but I really need some help here. Thanks everyone, and feel free to move this thread if it's in the wrong section, I'm new to this site.
MTP is crap and you should use adb pull for transfering files,
if you are making the backup in the internal storage you can do:
adb pull /data/media/0/TWRP /Users/????/Desktop/
replace ??? with your account name in windows