ok guys, here we are again.. you're wanting to backup your phone for if you want to try a test rom, or just to have a backup in case something goes wrong. this tut will show you how! I will also explain how to restore your phone to a backup you've previously made. it is also possible to backup/restore using rom manager but this is the harder way.. not too hard once you figure it out, but thats all opinion
Pre Requirements:
1.) be rooted
2.) have clockwork recovery installed
3.) not a necessity, but it DEFINITELY helps to have the engineering build installed at least once
BACKUP STEPS:
1.) boot into clockwork recovery mode
2.) scroll down to nandroid and select
3.) click backup
4.) it will now automatically backup your ENTIRE PHONE.. this includes your contacts, messages, emails, everything you have on the phone prior to booting into recovery. you will see a yellow bar at the bottom that shows progress
5.) REBOOT!
6.) there is no step 6... you're done
RESTORE STEPS:
1.)boot into clockwork recovery mode
2.) scroll down to nandroid and select
3.) scroll down to restore and select
4.) scroll to your desired restore nandroid and select
5.) scroll to yes and select
6.) it will now auto restore your backup and everything in it. when done it will tell you DONE!
7.) reboot and you're done!
well there ya go guys, one (two?) more tut(s) done and have fun be safe and remember to wipe if you're ever scared you have a boot loop
I actually do have a specific question about these nandroid backups. If I backup, then flash a "updated" ROM (update to an existing one already installed), and THEN do a restore, does the restore take me back to the previous version of the ROM? I've never used the nandroid backups as I usually never have a need to.
the restore takes your phone back to exactly how it was when you performed the backup
Gotcha, so if you backup, wipe, and then update a ROM, you cannot expect to be able to use your nandroid backup to restore anything you had previously, unless you wanted to go back to the ROMs previous version... gotcha.
where are these backups stored?
I think it's /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/[BackupDate]/
is it safe to remove them from the sdcard & store for safekeeping until needed & replace in same location?
yep, sure is!
Is it necessary to perform a wipe before restoring, if you currently have a different ROM than what is being restored? Or does nandroid wipe for you?
romis138 said:
Is it necessary to perform a wipe before restoring, if you currently have a different ROM than what is being restored? Or does nandroid wipe for you?
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no, nandroid doesnt wipe for you. i suggest always wiping if you're changing roms
hi im kinda new to this, but I rooted my slide using the tuts from droiddog.com and here. Got mostly everything working but when I try to backup my current rom clockwork crashes and it doesn't take me to recovery and just reboots the phone. Ive tried clearing the download cashe and downloading an older recovery but nothing seems to work. I basically cant boot into recovery to make backups or flash any roms. any suggestions on what else I could try.
I gave this explination of a nandroid to a friend of mine today. It will act like a time machine and put your device back exactly as it was when you did the backup. Now if you need an explination like that, you realy should not be messing with your phone that way.
freeze
hi
i have a problem. when i try to restore my backup. everything looks fine. but when restoring finish and reboot my phone screen is freezing on htc logo. what can i do?
sorry for my bad english!
Just wait it takes a while to boot sometimes, treat it like you would treat a new ROM being flashed.
i need to wipe data/factory reset or?
ok
i wipe data.. restore backup from nandroid.. reboot phone and i waiting almost 30 min and screen still show only htc logo..
I have copied the nandroid backups on my SD card
but in recovery mode, it is not showing any nandroid backup file ?
warewolf4586 said:
I have copied the nandroid backups on my SD card
but in recovery mode, it is not showing any nandroid backup file ?
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is it in the sd\clockworkmod\backup folder??
Hello,
I have a question about Nandroid backups using CWM...I read on some forum that...the backup and the installed version of CWM recovery should match to make it work..I.e If I took the backup using CWM version 5.0.0.0 I have to use the same CWM recovery version to restore the ROM and I can not restore nandroid backup using the later version lets say 5.0.1.5 of CWM...is it true?
Thanks..
I kinda doubt that. Itd be much more likely that a nandroid created by 5.0 couldnt be used by an earlier version. I doubt that is true either, just more likely than the other way around.
Nothing wrong with waiting for better confirmation than mine, but if it were an issue I think wed have heard a lot more about it by now.
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I'll try and keep this short and to the point, any other info you require to help me out i'll add.
My Z5c is running 32.4.A.1.54, unlocked bootloader and rooted using rootkernel which adds TWRP.
Straight after rooting and after initial setup of the phone I started TWRP and created a backup, all available partitions were selected and the back completed. I then copied it to my PC.
Anyway, no the problem. I was messing with the phone and then after every boot of the phone i kept getting some app crashes. No problem i thought i'll just restore my backup in TWRP. I selected to restore the system and data partion ONLY, then wiped cache & dalvik and rebooted.
It didn't reboot, just the sony logo then a loop back to the sony logo and then into TWRP again. What did I do wrong?
So i decided to restore all partitions except the TA one and that resulted in the same problem. So recover i just flashed stock with flashtool and all is well.
My question is regarding TWRP and restoring a backup. Which partitions do you have to restore? All of them? What is safe to omit when doing a restore?
andybog said:
I'll try and keep this short and to the point, any other info you require to help me out i'll add.
My Z5c is running 32.4.A.1.54, unlocked bootloader and rooted using rootkernel which adds TWRP.
Straight after rooting and after initial setup of the phone I started TWRP and created a backup, all available partitions were selected and the back completed. I then copied it to my PC.
Anyway, no the problem. I was messing with the phone and then after every boot of the phone i kept getting some app crashes. No problem i thought i'll just restore my backup in TWRP. I selected to restore the system and data partion ONLY, then wiped cache & dalvik and rebooted.
It didn't reboot, just the sony logo then a loop back to the sony logo and then into TWRP again. What did I do wrong?
So i decided to restore all partitions except the TA one and that resulted in the same problem. So recover i just flashed stock with flashtool and all is well.
My question is regarding TWRP and restoring a backup. Which partitions do you have to restore? All of them? What is safe to omit when doing a restore?
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The old TWRP in rootkernel had a backup problem if i remember correctly. Use a newer TWRP.
Thanks, i'll use 'your' TWRP from here.
Hello guys. I am curious does nandroid backup works for the miui rom? I tried two things. First i made a nandroid backup with default settings of twrp (boot, system and data) and when i restored it the phone didnt boot to the rom only stucked at boot animation and took me after to fastboot mode.
After i tried to search on the forum how to make a proper backup, so i tried to change the backup options with boot, system image, vendor image and data. A guy mentioned it works like that. So i made the backup and aftet i restored. Everything worked great rom boot normaly but when i tried to put a finger print lock, the sensor wasn't working i don't know why.
P.S i removed all screen lock protections before backup.
The only thing that made it work again, the finger print sensor, was after i made a factory reset, leading me to lose all my data.
So am asking you guys is it possible to make a proper nandroid backup of miui rom? Anybody can share his knowledge with me?
i would like to know this as well
after a successfull backup of a custom rom via twrp when i am trying to resore from the backup and after full restoring when it finally boots up it is stuck in the bootlogo and a force reboot wont solve the problem i think its a decreption issue might be although i may be wrong,any one knows how to deal with that?is twrp supports backup restore for poco f1????there is also an another issue rebooting into twrp freeze twrp a couple of minutes and then its working!any one knows how to deal with that too?
As the title says I always get a bootloop into recovery when the restore process finishes.
I tried everything, flashing the same rom as in the backup before restoring, however it never boots normally.
As I am on a stock MIUI 13 I flashed the stock image and then restored the backup, still a bootloop into recovery.
No matter what I do I am unable to restore my TWRP backup, so every time I want to try a new ROM I end up reinstalling everything from scratch.
Is it because my data is encrypted, or dynamic partitions? This never happened with any of my previous phones, is it possible to restore a backup on Mi10?
alfaholic said:
As the title says I always get a bootloop into recovery when the restore process finishes.
I tried everything, flashing the same rom as in the backup before restoring, however it never boots normally.
As I am on a stock MIUI 13 I flashed the stock image and then restored the backup, still a bootloop into recovery.
No matter what I do I am unable to restore my TWRP backup, so every time I want to try a new ROM I end up reinstalling everything from scratch.
Is it because my data is encrypted, or dynamic partitions? This never happened with any of my previous phones, is it possible to restore a backup on Mi10?
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Backups and restore on the TWRP with some phone models does not work correctly either because it does not decrypt or is too old compared to the rom or you try to restore an older rom version on a more recent rom and sometimes the reverse also does not work (because of the system).
Try a more recent Twrp (just in case) but anyway the restoration will not be done with a more recent Twrp.
If you are on MIUI micloud works relatively well but obviously you can only restore the data not the system.
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alfaholic said:
As the title says I always get a bootloop into recovery when the restore process finishes.
I tried everything, flashing the same rom as in the backup before restoring, however it never boots normally.
As I am on a stock MIUI 13 I flashed the stock image and then restored the backup, still a bootloop into recovery.
No matter what I do I am unable to restore my TWRP backup, so every time I want to try a new ROM I end up reinstalling everything from scratch.
Is it because my data is encrypted, or dynamic partitions? This never happened with any of my previous phones, is it possible to restore a backup on Mi10?
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try flashing miui 12 rom first, then restore twrp back up (format data also before restoring)
and chose the latest version of twrp for android 11 or 12 (depends on your Rom)
maybe it will work