LS,
Is it possible to backup the entire system, i.e. rooted os, apps and data, into a kdz (or similar) file?
Idea is to wipe phone before sending it back for repairs out of privacy and security reasons. Then when phone is back from repairs simply go into download mode and flash kdz file.
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Please help, I am in big trouble. Accidentally my phone has been locked by wrong pattern attempts. Also, internet data is not ON. Now, it is asking for gmail Id and password...tried every possible way to unlock the mobile without data loss but hard luck. Now, there is only one option to factory reset my mobile. I will loss all my important data. What I did is, I had made backup file from recovery from the same locked mobile. After that I has done factory reset. again when I restored the .backup file from android recovery, my phone get locked because the .backup file has taken the backup of lock also. Can you please tell me, how to extract all the data from that .backup file, so that I can save them to my mobile again.
@Karan said:
Please help, I am in big trouble. Accidentally my phone has been locked by wrong pattern attempts. Also, internet data is not ON. Now, it is asking for gmail Id and password...tried every possible way to unlock the mobile without data loss but hard luck. Now, there is only one option to factory reset my mobile. I will loss all my important data. What I did is, I had made backup file from recovery from the same locked mobile. After that I has done factory reset. again when I restored the .backup file from android recovery, my phone get locked because the .backup file has taken the backup of lock also. Can you please tell me, how to extract all the data from that .backup file, so that I can save them to my mobile again.
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From Which Recovery You Made BAckup In locked cndition
Chaudhary Abdul said:
From Which Recovery You Made BAckup In locked cndition
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I've booted in recovery <3e> to make a backup.
@Karan said:
I've booted in recovery <3e> to make a backup.
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Ok When u go to restore your backup it directly start whole backup restoring or asking to slect which data you want to restore from backup
Sorry for bad english
When I go to restore the backup it directly start whole backup restoring. Not even ask for any option for selection.
Hi guys,
I've got 60 phones to setup, and that's just the biginning. I looked for some solutions to mass deploy them, the fastest way possible. I of course already know titanium backup and applications like that, but i would prefer not to root phone...
I was pretty confident about a nandroid backup : flashing the recovery of the phone is really quick, and i would just have to backup on card or on usb on the go on the master phone, and to restore the backup on all the phone remaining. But it didn't worked as expected, it happens that on each phone, twrp is generating backup in a folder named something like "420khg66g6cca200" and which is different on each phone, and when you put the card in another phone, this one doesn't see the main backup.
I of course tried to sneak arround and generate a backup on the second phone, which i replaced with the content of the first one, but the phone doesn't even boot anymore.
I used twrp because i dind't find another recovery avaiable for the phone, which is by the way a samsung Xcover 3 also known as SM-G388F.
I tried to backup only system, system image, and data and to restore it and the phones is stuck on boot screens.
I tried to backup again with boot partition, same thing happen'd. There's something i don't understand tho, there's some warning about /system partition which can't be mounted when i look around on the recovery of the slave phone.
I'm on stock rom, no root. I looked for similar post (really), but there's mostly guys which make backup / restore on the same phone, and i didn't find my answer.
My questions are : is there someone's who did this before ? Why the phone doesn't boot anymore ? Is there something that's making the backup unrecoverable on another phone ?
In this case, is there anyway to bypass that ?
Thank you by advance.
So...
We've done more tests, and when we only select the data partition, it does what we want.
So what I've done to deploy 50 phone :
- Prepared my "master" phone with all my apps and parameters
- Gone in TWRP to backup, saved the folder inside TWRP/BACKUPS/cde0654364576****/ (the generated folder), so saved the folder inside UNTOUCHED on my computer (for unknow reason, if i use it once to restore a phone, i can't use it again on another phone, so keep a copy somewhere)
- Boot to twrp on the slave phone, generate a backup to also generate the name folder
- Boot on system phone, delete what's inside the folder, and copy / past the previously generated backup from the master phone
- Boot again in twrp end restore. Reboot and that's done, you're slave phone should be the same as the master.
If someone find this thread, don't hesitate to ask more details.
Something that I've been curious about- if I decide to factory reset my device due to some issue/bug found in an update or something, would using the LG Backup tool to backup and then restore after the reset be safe?
I just don't know if the backup tool touches system data and if a restore would just bring back any non-app related issues?
factory reset does not format. You dont have to use Lg backup.
Hi! I have a Leeco Le Max 2 X829, and as there aren´t any official stock ROM I wanna save a 100% stock Backup of my X829 with 16S USA ROM. I mean ROM + Recovery, just as it is unpacked(without downloaded Apps and my data).
Could I make it booting in temporaly TWRP with fastboot and doing NAND backup choosing:
- Boot
- Recovery
- System
- Data...
Any other option? All options that TWRP show? thanks!
Yes. EFS too
Turn on phone with power+volume keys.
Fastboot boot TWRP.img
unrafa said:
Yes. EFS too
Turn on phone with power+volume keys.
Fastboot boot TWRP.img
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Then must I choose all options in TWRP backup?
One more thing... I Will be in a booted Recovery, so original Recovery is going to be still, then the one saved in the backup Will be the booted one ore the stock one? Thanks!
If you just want a factory setup without your apps and data I would say just backup the system image in twrp, backing up data definitely uncheck .
Only system is bit to less...
I would keep the us version.
eUI is not that bad and until we all get the update to android 7 ... it s probably the best and most stable rom running.
Why change it, when the other opportunities are leading to an less smooth running phone ?
To me all the cooked roms have disadvantages.
I need to have a fully working phone/ camera /fingerprint sensor...
without option to go back to the US rom I wouldn't change a thing!
castuis said:
If you just want a factory setup without your apps and data I would say just backup the system image in twrp, backing up data definitely uncheck .
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Mmm, then all options least Data? Thanks!
Don't listen to them. Back up everything. Who cares about a few space? Besides data is probably empty or with a few stock tools. Just backup all for your complete image. EFS contains IMEI and other stuff. It is important to have it. You can Back up everything, and then move it to a computer or somewhere else
It will have stock recovery backed up to TWRP and it's better if you backup as image, that way it saves the partition structures too.
Only first backup as image,to have perfect copy, the next backups you do is better do them as normal backups compressed (not image).
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Don't listen to them. Back up everything. Who cares about a few space? Besides data is probably empty or with a few stock tools. Just backup all for your complete image. EFS contains IMEI and other stuff. It is important to have it. You can Back up everything, and then move it to a computer or somewhere else
It will have stock recovery backed up to TWRP and it's better if you backup as image, that way it saves the partition structures too.
Only first backup as image,to have perfect copy, the next backups you do is better do them as normal backups compressed (not image).
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Hi, I have done and it made a lot of .win archives, is that right? thanks
Yes those are md5 or Sha sums, drag the whole TWRP folder to computer and you are good to go, don't change any name of any folder inside TWRP folder or TWRP will never detect that backup.
I don't know why but once I copied all except 73shf38 folder, and it turned out that folder with those numbers matter, and I couldn't restore without the exact name
Hello, trying to found out what the difference between these three application are.
I've googled about a bit but no one really has explained what the difference between the three.
Goal; to return to stock ROM for a Samsung s6 edge (but could be any Samsung device)
Smart switch; Will restore most upto date firmware but will delete everything on your phone, requires some information (S/N)
Odin (hence sammobile/updato); Allows you to flash the stock rom but won't delete any internal data
TWRP backup; A custom backup that will restore you to your ROM and settings, won't delete internal data. Most reliable and convenient.
Is this right? I've also read that smart switch doesn't support many devices or the reinstalling stock firmware is only on limited devices
I'm basically trying to find a way to restore my device like how iPhones have the restore function on iTunes for when things go south or you've modded yourself to oblivion.
BlackTangerine said:
Hello, trying to found out what the difference between these three application are.
I've googled about a bit but no one really has explained what the difference between the three.
Goal; to return to stock ROM for a Samsung s6 edge (but could be any Samsung device)
Smart switch; Will restore most upto date firmware but will delete everything on your phone, requires some information (S/N)
Odin (hence sammobile/updato); Allows you to flash the stock rom but won't delete any internal data
TWRP backup; A custom backup that will restore you to your ROM and settings, won't delete internal data. Most reliable and convenient.
Is this right? I've also read that smart switch doesn't support many devices or the reinstalling stock firmware is only on limited devices
I'm basically trying to find a way to restore my device like how iPhones have the restore function on iTunes for when things go south or you've modded yourself to oblivion.
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You are pretty much correct.
Smart switch - mainly for backing up and restoring data. Can do emergency firmware recovery if things have gone wrong. But doesn't always work and won't always detect some phones.
Odin - to flash any stock firmware obtained from sammobile/updato. If you download a firmware and it comes as one file (AP) then you will lose all data. If it comes in 5 files (BL,AP,CP,CSC,home_CSC) you must flash home_CSC and data will not be wiped
TWRP - a twrp backup is a full nandroid backup (all partitions will be backed up) you would have to flash twrp through Odin first then make a full backuo then restore but it will restore to how your phone is now. Exactly the same. So in your case not recommended to use twrp. Also flashing twrp will void knox warranty 0x1.
So your easiest and safest thing to do in your case is to download your stock firmware from www.updato.com
Flash the firmware through Odin. If you want to keep data then flash home_csc. If you want a full wipe then use .CSC
I'd always recommend backing up data first. For pictures Google photos is a good idea. Or just use google/Samsung account to backup all data.
Then after flashing you can just restore.