Hi,
The TeamWin site send me to xdadevelopers to ask questions about TWRP. So if I´m wrong at this place please help at least with informations where to ask.
I have a rooted Galaxy S5 (Stock rom, Android 4.4.2) with xposed and TWRP 2.8.7.9 running.
Now the phone has some hardware problems and if it crashes I think about buying a new S5 as it has all my important features.
For some reasons it is important for me to have the new phone also working with Android 4.4.2 but all the new phones come with 5.x or newer.
Now I think i could be a possibility to root the new one, install TWRP and restore a full backup of my old S5 with the 4.4.2.
As I have no idea how complete the TWRP backup is nor if there are some parts in the new phone that can´t be overwritten by the backup I am looking for experts that can help with informations if that way is absolutly rubbish or if it can work.
Do I have to look for hardware differences between old and new phone (Processor for ex.)?
Any other idea?
Thanks a lot for helping in any way
twrea
No it doesn't work like that. The bootloader was updated. Also there a files that a nandroid backs up that are device dependent and will mess up any other device.
The best you will want to do is only back up user apps and data. Nothing else.
Thanks a lot for the fast reply even with this message:crying:
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Cannot seem to find the answer for this specific device. Will have the ATT USA version of the HOX+ and want to know:
What is the Best Back Up App to get before rooting or anything like that, something that can be found in the Play store? Obviously would want it to backup the basics like calender, contacts, email accounts, etc. Also though, need a backup app that will backup installed App Data like say my game progress for Dead Trigger. I'm reading that once you root your device all App Data is erased to scratch, would hate to invest hours into an app only to have to start all over once Rooted when it does become available for ATT USA version.
Then once i am Rooted, what is the best Rooted Backup App to install that will backup everything above and anything else i would need before unlocking Bootloader and flashing roms?
Seems there's unroot backups and rooted backups but hundreds on the Play store and hate to find out the hard way which ones actually work and do what i need and which ones don't.
Appreciate any help on this and hope soon there will be stickies in this thread explaining such things to Androids Newbs like me so once this device is released tomorrow you guys don't get countless threads started like mine. Thank you
Is this right?
Upon doing more research online please correct me if i'm wrong here. From my understanding this is the process needed to flash a custom rom:
1. Root your device. Rooting actually does not delete any data or files but virtually "unlocks" (almost like jailbreaking Ios) your device for further access/tweaking abilities.
2. Now that i am rooted i can install titanium backup (is this the best rooted backup, see it mentioned by you guys a lot here) and this rooted backup app will backup virtually everything on my device including app data.
3. Once rooted, i can now install custom recovery (what exactly is this and what does it do?). I'm guessing custom recovery is needed for unlocking the bootloader incase there is a problem custom recovery will recover your device (hints the name custom recovery)?
4. Now i have my device rooted, everything including app data backed up with titanium backup, custom recovery installed, now i can unlock bootloader. Once i unlock bootloader i will then need to restore my device with titanium backup. Now my phone is basically fully unlocked (fully jailbroken) and can now flash any custom rom available for my specific device (ATT HOX+ USA model)?
I see something mentioned about ADB but do not understand what this does or is used for? It seems it is another way of backing up the phone but if so, where is the backup file saved and used for exactly?
Just trying to figure this all out guys, please be easy on me. Trust me i've been researching and just trying to put all the pieces to this android puzzle together here, newb to android and first android device (very excited and just want to do it all right and not have issues of course).
If i'm missing any steps or have them out of order please let me know. I understand there is no root yet for this specific device but just saying if everything was available the steps i laid out is what i would do?
Thank you in advance for your patience and help, greatly appreciate the community here and all you guys do for us.
Sorry one more thing. Once i am rooted, unlocked bootloader, flashing custom roms having a great time. What exactly do the warranty people look for if i need to send my device in for replacement under warranty?
Do they void it if my device is rooted, or unlocked bootloader, or both?
If so, is root and or bootloader unlock reversible if i needed to return my device under warranty for say a hardware issue?
I'm sure i can flash the stock rom back so the warranty people won't see a custom one on the device but do they look for Root or Bootloader?
Just trying to cover all my bases here, thank you.
Hello all,
I like the original Samsung stock roms and I want to keep all the options offered by Samsung, spcecially the OTA updates and I don't need root access for my device. :laugh:
However, for my backup/recovery needs, I tried the ClockWork Mod Recovery Touch 6.0.1.2 via Odin and I really appreciated it ! I tried the backup/restore option and it really worked like a charm for me !
Unfortunately, the GS 3 reported that the OS has been modified and no updates are now available. I perfectly understand that but I thought that the recovery affects just the boot section, not the entire OS...
There is a way to keep both CWM and Samsung updates working ?
Thank you very much for your help.
supertack said:
Hello all,
I like the original Samsung stock roms and I want to keep all the options offered by Samsung, spcecially the OTA updates and I don't need root access for my device. :laugh:
However, for my backup/recovery needs, I tried the ClockWork Mod Recovery Touch 6.0.1.2 via Odin and I really appreciated it ! I tried the backup/restore option and it really worked like a charm for me !
Unfortunately, the GS 3 reported that the OS has been modified and no updates are now available. I perfectly understand that but I thought that the recovery affects just the boot section, not the entire OS...
There is a way to keep both CWM and Samsung updates working ?
Thank you very much for your help.
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You rooted your phone to be able to flash the CWM recovery, the need for root is almost implied in your comment
And for the answer, that would be: NO
I've read some post throughout XDA of some users saying they rooted their devices and the status stayed in Official, keep in mind that the device recovery is part of android itself, not something related to the hardware (otherwise, it probably couldnt be modified in the first place), any changes to this WILL be detected by the S3, so this is most likely some stupid lie
I would suggest using an app called MyBackup Pro by Rerware... it's around 3$ on the store and it can even backup the ORDER OF THE ICONS on the app drawer, that for me, is plain awesome, it also does what titanium backup and other backup apps do, locally and remotely
as for the OS, ODIN does a pretty good job to flash firmwares of any kind, after that, just DL mybackup and restore everything
of course, having backup and restore in cwm is much more comfortable, but to avoid the hassle of having to revert and possibly wiping everything to get an OTA update, might as well dont do it and keep it legitimate, in fact, odin can flash official sammy firmwares too
Hi,
i want to build a Custom-Rom for my new Huawei G620s. I don't like EMUI and the other Huawei stuff. In past i had a Galaxy allways running with CM and it was perfekt, but i crashed the display.
I dont find any full-functional Cutomrom for my G620s so i want to make my one, first only with removing Huaweistuff and replace the Launcher and some apps/pics/sounds
My Problem is i nowhere can find the actuall Recovery-Image B256 (latest Version), where can i get this Stock-Rom?
How can I make a full, i mean really full and flashable Image of my actuall Rom? I want to bavkup my actuall system, then do a factory reset, dump that rom and recover my actuall systrm so that i can work on Rom and use my Phone at the same time.
My Phone is rooted, Bootloader is unlocked and CWM is installed, adb is working, as OS i have Windows 7 and Linux Mint.
Hope you untetstand what exactly i want to do, for samsung it was really easy to find Stockroms and flash them with odin but for my Huawei i can't find really helpful infos :/
All i found here is not exactly what i am looking for.....don't understand how to backup really everything from the phone and recover it later. And in almost every Tutorial there is "get the Stockrom to work with" but i have no idea where to find the actuall for my Device.
Hope you can help me and sorry for my bad english
Hi y’all,
Firstly, I’m a newbie. I did some forum reading / reviewing before posting this and I hope I’m posting to correct section (take it easy on newbie ). So anyways, my question is as follows:
I have a N910CQ purchased from Turkey (currently running android 5.1.1). I want to root it but keep stock ROM for two reasons: 1) I am used to touchwiz based stock ROM and I am generally satisfied with it except the bloat ware, and 2) I want to run Cerberus on it... and actually 3) all roms I came by have certain features missing (i.e. camera / pen / fingerprint sensor does not work etc).
But after doing much research (and trial and error for the last 2 days), it seems it is not possible to root a N910CQ device running 5.1.1 android and keep stock rom on it. You can either: 1) root it and flash a 5.0.1 stock rom (and when you later try to upgrade to 5.1.1 you’ll get an error message basically telling you that unauthorized modification was made to OS and therefore you’re no longer entitled to OTA upgrade) OR 2) you’ll have to flash a 5.1.1 rom other than stock rom (such as Team Eos Rom – which has many flaws). But, so far, it seems impossible to root N910CQ and flash 5.1.1 rom.
Do any of you have any recommendations? Thank you.
anybody? any clue???
It looks like your best option would be to install TWRP recovery and use it to flash a custom kernel that auto roots your device such as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/development/n910c-kernel-5-1-1-stock-tw-permissive-t3206548 The important thing to note is your Build Number as there are many different builds of 5.1.1. You want to make sure the kernel supports the specific build you have installed otherwise you'll soft brick and need to recover either with a nandroid backup or via Odin and the full firmware/OS tar file. Use TWRP to make the nandroid backup before installing any mod so you can easily restore if you run into issues.
es0tericcha0s said:
It looks like your best option would be to install TWRP recovery and use it to flash a custom kernel that auto roots your device such as this http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4/development/n910c-kernel-5-1-1-stock-tw-permissive-t3206548 The important thing to note is your Build Number as there are many different builds of 5.1.1. You want to make sure the kernel supports the specific build you have installed otherwise you'll soft brick and need to recover either with a nandroid backup or via Odin and the full firmware/OS tar file. Use TWRP to make the nandroid backup before installing any mod so you can easily restore if you run into issues.
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I did this (except I flashed using Odin) and it totally worked. Thank you!
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Just for the record though: this kernel triggered "Security Notice Unauthorized Actions Error" and so I had to change it. I'm using SpaceX now, no errors, works smoothly: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347823851
Cool. I prefer TWRP so I can make backups in case something goes wrong, but whatever works.
Long story short I modded my stock rom and only made a backup after I removed a bunch of system apps I knew were safe. Well youtube stopped working and my children like to watch you tube and Nabi release an update to patch their system to fix the youtube issue but I can not flash due to missing system files. Looking for stock unupdated or even updated rom for the nabi big tab 20 and help would be great. TWRP is the only recovery that I am aware of for this tablet.
Thanks in Advanced!
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Still Needing That Stock Rom?
I kinda did the same thing. So I just bought another Big Tab 20 to flash TWRP and backup the stock rom. I must mention at some point the Twrp Backups did not restore properly on the previous device. Dont know what happened. Im scared as hell to do this because it seems like theres no turning back to stock and this one cost me a cool $100.
Where I may find the stock rom or TWRP backup for this tablet?
I bricked this, just doing root and rename launcher and chrome apk in system folder, after this I get a bootloop.
And I need pinout a nabi connector, don`t have a usb cable..
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Hello,
I just got this Nabi BIG TAB HD - Model on device is bgtab-nv20a.
I am able to access recovery and select to wipe it, however when booting into Android it will ask for you to connect to the internet, regardless if you do it or not, a message will appear not allowing me to proceed, the error will be that it cannot connect to the FUHU server or that it cannot perform update and therefore cannot continue.
I am looking for either a way of rooting and flashing a custom ROM or simply get it to boot with the already installed Android system.
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Hello,
I just got this Nabi BIG TAB HD - Model on device is bgtab-nv20a.
I am able to access recovery and select to wipe it, however when booting into Android it will ask for you to connect to the internet, regardless if you do it or not, a message will appear not allowing me to proceed, the error will be that it cannot connect to the FUHU server or that it cannot perform update and therefore cannot continue.
I am looking for either a way of rooting and flashing a custom ROM or simply get it to boot with the already installed Android system.
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If you can find a custom mom for this device please let me know lmfao. There's some extreme hardware packed under this really old device.