Hello there,
I wanted to make a backup of the stock ROM before rooting.
I did some research and found couple of solution with root and without but none of them are solid and specific.
Question:
How to backup stock ROM or make a clone and restore without any root or unlocking the boot loader?
Want specific answer and solution.
Thank you!
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I am wanting to snatch a full backup of the completely stock unrooted factory shipped ROM before playing around with root and other wonderful goodies provided here in the forum. I am familiar with ADB and have it set up on my system. I was wonder how this may be accomplished. Whether I should use ADB to pull the backup or use another route. Essentially, before I root, I want the whole system in its entirety backed up.
Please, anyone with some knowledge on how to do this, I would greatly appreciate your input in this thread!
Thanks so much for your involvement.
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stedounel said:
I am wanting to snatch a full backup of the completely stock unrooted factory shipped ROM before playing around with root and other wonderful goodies provided here in the forum. I am familiar with ADB and have it set up on my system. I was wonder how this may be accomplished. Whether I should use ADB to pull the backup or use another route. Essentially, before I root, I want the whole system in its entirety backed up.
Please, anyone with some knowledge on how to do this, I would greatly appreciate your input in this thread!
Thanks so much for your involvement.
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I think it's going to be hard to make a good full backup without having root. I would suggest rooting using mrRobinson's method, installing the CWM recovery 5.8.4.5 from clockworkmod.com (listed in mrRobinson's thread) and then making a nandroid backup.
You might also want to make a complete clone of all your block devices. There's some instructions here if you want to try that.
you could always use odin to restore the stock rom back to 100% original state (minus any counter trips).
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.
Hi.
I'd like to root my phone as described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2066390
However, I'd like to create a backup first to ensure I can revert back to the current unrooted state of the phone.
One method to create a backup of an unrooted phone is described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989317&highlight=backup
Is there anyone who has tried this (or another method to make a full backup) who can attest that this is indeed
a reliable method to create a backup that can be restored to make any experiments with rooting the phone
undetectable after restoring the pre-rooted state?
thanks in advance for any feedback & kind regards, Niek
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:
good afternoon everybody!
I have a question: as I find a ROM that I'd like to try, is it possible to
root my device
flash the desired rom in it
and in the end unroot it back with the new rom on-board, to keep the system "closed"/ protected
if yes, does it make any sense?
thnx