just wondering if i was to resotre a nandroid backup of my first g2x onto my refurb would it trick the lg updater into thinking its a p999dw and not a dwp... would it cause chaos on my phone... just a thought...
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hello, latly i installed a custom recovery, and flashed a preview cm7 rom for my lg vortex. while i was playing around with it, my nandroid backup got deleted off the sdcard. i tried to get it back using A LOT of various recovery software, but i had no luck. so now i am wondering if someone with an lg vortex is willing to share their nandroid backup, or can someone help me recover it!? and i also need the stock recovery .img, cuz i forgot to back that up before installing the custom recovery! Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
If i were you i would not get someone else's nandroid. The reason being that a nandroid backs up EVERYTHING, including phone radio data and and the phones unique network signatures. If you fashion a backup from another phone the software will work, but i dont believe you will be able to make calls or have any network connection.
I know this because my buddy with an evo flashed a backup he had from his original phone into a replacement, and really screwed things up...
You may just have to flash stock software by other means, and each manufacturer has a way to do this. Check the forums for the vortex and there should be a solution.
Thanks for the heads up on that! and what about the original recovery.img? is it possible for someone to give it to me, or is everyone's recovery unique also?
I'm currently on stock rom with it rooted. I wanted to know if i do a back-up of a fresh install of the stock rom and I start to delete files off my phone. If I happen to delete the wrong file, can I restore with the back-up, will those delete files be there again?
If you have a custom recovery installed that supports backups then create a backup with it and delete whatever you are trying to. If **** gets bad then just use the recovery option to restore and you should be back to where you started
Did you do a Nandroid backup, through CWM, or a Titanium type backup ?
A nandroid one will restore the phone to the point in time of the backup. Any changes since it will be lost during restore.
Titanium, or similar, will allow a finer granuality of files/apps/data..
If you play at swapping ROMs and want to revert a nandroid backup is a MUST.
Kernel backup?
This may be a strange question. I just got a T Mobile Sensation yesterday and already rooted, s-off, and did a Nandroid Backup. I previously had a Samsung Captivate and flashed it all the time. This is my second Android device and first HTC device, on the Captivate Nandroid only backed up the ROM without touching the kernel making flashing back and forth between ROMS a PITA. Is the same true with HTC Sensation, will Nandroid also backup the kernel?
Please don't flame me, I used search and found this thread so I am attempting to find answers without starting new threads on topics already discussed.
Thanks.
gol_n_dal said:
If you play at swapping ROMs and want to revert a nandroid backup is a MUST.
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Does that mean that with a Vodafone NL branded phone (no RUU available for download at this moment), I can S-Off, Root and use nandroid backup to create an image I can always return to?
I want to get rid of the VF crapware as well as the quicker updates. In other words: a stock HTC (not vodafone) ROM.
In case of a hardware defect (unrelated to flashing other ROMs*), I want to be able to get back to VF branded, so the guys at HTC (who know what S/N belongs to Vodafone) won't see anything weird.
Thanks
*: If I mess up, I am willing to pay for it. But if it's unrelated, I don't want HTC to be able to start whining about software changes by me.
I backed up my rooted Inspire and I swap different backups of different roms but the question i had was if my phone was lost would i be able to just restore a rom to a new phone or would i have issues becuase i did not have the original microsd card. In other words do you have to also backup your microsd card separately to a computer just incase you had your phone lost or stolen to restore a backup image?
Wouldn't work, or at least I don't think it would work as you described it. The new Inspire (or old one other then the one you lost) would also have to be rooted. If it wasn't rooted you wouldn't be able to get in cwr to restore the back-up.
If your phone is stolen you can get a new one root it and install your backups from cmw onto that phone no problems.
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ok thanks, hopefully i wont need to
So, I need to send my Skyrocket in for a warranty return due to a screen problem. Can I make a NANDroid backup of my phone before wiping it, then flash it on my new Skyrocket once I get it without screwing something up?
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Getting a replacement S3 from asurion. Wanted to know if I can restore my current backup nandroid rom to the replacement device when I receive it. Should be fine since they are the same device no?
Thanks!