When you restore to a nandroid backup, will it also restore any fixes flashed via clockwordmod?
i.e. If I was using a Rom that required the Turbonium Audio fix, did a backup, Then wiped everything, then recovered that nandroid back, would the audio fix be preserved.
I guess I'm just wondering truly how much nandroid backs up, is it literally EVEERTHING on your phone at that time?
I'm almost 99% sure literally everything as I had the same concern a while back about the audio fix when I restored and it was fine.
From my experience, yes, everything is intact from the last time you did a backup.
I actually have 4 different ROM's backed up through CWM. I keep them in my backups so I can restore from CWM anytime I want.
One for CM7
One for CM7 (custom version)
One for RCMix 5.3 (Gingerbread and Sense)
One for MIUI (Gingerbread)
I haven't had any problems restoring any of them from ROM Manager, I just make a backup when I'm finished, deleting the old one and replacing it with the new one. I keep my backups very organized and up to date.
My ROM changes with my mood and they all have pro's and con's...
Hi, I'm LWFB and I'm a flash-aholic.
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Right now I've got 6 back ups of different ROMs, including a stock ROM. This seems somewhat high to me, but perhaps you guys keep more?
I use to backup every time before I flashed a ROM, and probably had a stockpile of like 4-5 backups. Then I realized those backups are worthless to me. Titanium Backup makes a backup of my apps and all other data is synced to some other system in one form or another.
The only reason I was making backups was because I thought I might need to revert back to one in the case of a bad flash. In reality, if I have a bad flash...the first thing I'm going to do is use Odin to restore to JF6 and try the flash again, NOT restore my Nandroid backup.
Once I had that realization, I saved quite a bit of time in my ROM flashing "procedures" since I didn't have to wait for a Nandroid backup to complete, and then move it off the phone to a desktop.
^ what he said
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I think the nandriod backup is mostly best used for phones like the evo. With us, we have roms and builds and kernals and modems from galaxy s devices all over the world. Sometimes clockwork doesn't save all that to the backup, so going stock is the best thing to do before reverting back.
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I've just come to that realization after a bad flash with Axura. The ROM is great, but I tried Nandroiding and doing CWM recovery and neither time did my back up work. This has happened before and I'm sure as hell glad I bought Titanium Backup. I don't regret that one bit; same goes for ROM Manager Premium.
I back up the last 3 I used .....but save some apks from earlier ROMS. I used to have all of them but there is no point in having earlier Beta ROMS that were flashed months ago and since improved. They are ususally available online anyway.
This doesntl count the original Stock ROM and 1 click Odin.....Always need that one
boborone said:
^ what he said
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I think the nandriod backup is mostly best used for phones like the evo. With us, we have roms and builds and kernals and modems from galaxy s devices all over the world. Sometimes clockwork doesn't save all that to the backup, so going stock is the best thing to do before reverting back.
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^^this^^
So I can't answer that poll because there is no zero option. I've never had a nandroid backup work.
So right now I'm using CWM to do my nandroid backups. I make one after I make any major updates or changes - call me a worry wort. I also use Titanium Backup.
With doing this, obviously it takes up a bit of room so I offload them to my computer. The issue here is if I do something detrimental and need to restore, I don't know of a way to get the backup files back onto the internal memory since you can't access them via CWM, if that makes sense.
I guess I can simply keep just the latest backup saved on the phone itself but I'm wondering if there's another method that I'm not aware of. Is there a way to get files copied to the internal memory if you can't fully boot into the OS?
Oh and one other question: Does a nandroid backup include every single item? Basically is it a 100% clone of the device or are some thing left out? Basically if I tried a completely different rom and then decided to go back to an entirely different rom, would I simply be able to restore it and be up and running? The last restore I did seems to indicate it does but that was going from different versions of the same rom.
nandroid is a clone of ur system.
diablo009 said:
nandroid is a clone of ur system.
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Ok that's what I figured; read something a bit ago which seemed to say something else.
So if I want to test a few completely different rom setups and make a nandroid backup of each one, I could essentially swap between them whenever I want by simply restoring them and I'll get back to the exact state as I was at the time they were made? Menus and all?
So apparently a kernel change will not get reverted via nandroid. Anything else? Just tried Entropy's daily driver and apparently it's a no go for me. Restored via nandroid and still freezes during 'X' boot animation.
I was running Infusion 1.1 and made sure to reset the VC O/C back to stock and reboot before updating...
Hi,
There are two phones, both are HTC Wildfires believed to be identical (case colour is different though but I don't think it also marks any differences in their guts). On one of them I have once installed a CyanogenMOD firmware without making a backup of the default Sense first, and Cyanogen turned out to be a complete disaster on Wildfire. So I want to get back to Sense on that device, but no backup.
Luckily, I have a backup made with the Clockwork ROM Manager on the second phone which works fine (I tried to restore from it already after installing Cyanogen on that device and everything went flawlessly). Can I copy that backup to the first phone and then restore it to get Sense back on it? Is there a predictable possibility of bricking the phone in the process?
There is a similar discussion on this forum where people agree everything should be fine, but it's about the Nandroid backups, not the Clockwork ones. I wonder if anybody has tried that with Clockwork ROM Manager as well.
Thank you.
Clockworkmod backups and nandroid backups are one and the same, so if it works one way, it should work the other.
Good luck!
Sweet! Thank you.
Hello,
My girlfriend and I both have a Nexus S 9020a. Both are rooted, both are running SlimBean but with different radios and different kernels.
Her phone is starting to act up a bit, and since I did a fresh wipe recently I'm in a position where I can create a fresh Nandroid backup with all of the apps we both use. (Swiftkey, Nova Launcher, etc). If I create this backup through the recovery console, can she use it to restore her phone and essentially make a duplicate of mine?
Failing that, what's the Android equivalent of reformatting to freshen up her Android without reflashing a different rom? Clear Cache+Dalvik?
I think you would get an.MD5 mismatch with CWM and would not be able to restore. With TWRP you have the option to skip MD5 check but restoring on our phones with TWRP is kinda bugy and for me does not restore any data. Does that sound right forum? I would just take the extra few min and wipe/restore traditionaly with hers.
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You could also restore data only from her phone using cwm. It's under advanced restore in the backup and restore menu.
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Restoring from another phone is not a good idea. Will lead to many device specific issues. Just take the time, do a complete wipe. and she will love you for it.
Many thanks for the replies, guys. I did end up doing a clean wipe and starting her off from scratch. She's very happy with it.
BTW, both of us are now running the latest version of SlimBean with Bedalus Marmite V5 kernel, and are enjoying some absolutely amazing battery life. Very good stuff. Highly recommended for the aging Nexus S.
I just flashed the new Avatar Rom and after playing aroung with it for a while decided to go back to Embryo 6.2 which i did from a backup. Is it as clean when you install from a backup as it is doing a complete wipe and starting from scratch. Just curious.
restoring a backup puts the phone to pretty much whatever state u had it in, so if it was a dd running well, that's what u get.
I personally don't use ROM backups, and when I switch ROMs its to switch DD's, just my two cents
Thanks, it might be my imagination but when i installed the backup it seems a little slower than before. It may be my imagination. I guess I will let it run for another day before I start from scratch.
I found that my results differed when I did a full wipe before restoring (better) and when I restored without doing so (worse).
Others have reported different results though.