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[Q] Nandroid or CWM

I typically use CWM to back up my phone before flashing a new ROM.
I have been reading about Nandroid and dont see an advantage to using that over CWM, however most the devs say to use Nandroid to back up your phone.
Is there a reason/advantage to use Nandroid over CWM that I'm not seeing?

Technically, Nandroid does a little bit better job of backing up absolutely everything, and it would be a good idea to have at least one full, nice backup of your phone for if things go horribly, horribly wrong.
That being said, I just use CWM to backup everything every time I'm going to flash a new ROM, and I never have problems. (I'm a habitual ROM changer) You should be ready to flash CWM with Odin in case your recovery gets corrupted, but I don't see any reason not to trust it.

I thought nandroid backup was backup in cwm. I learn new things everyday. Maybe that's my md5 mismatch problem when I try to restore a backup.
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GooSe275 said:
I typically use CWM to back up my phone before flashing a new ROM.
I have been reading about Nandroid and dont see an advantage to using that over CWM, however most the devs say to use Nandroid to back up your phone.
Is there a reason/advantage to use Nandroid over CWM that I'm not seeing?
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Using CWM to back up your phone is a nandroid backup. Are you referring to using Rom Manager to backup your roms? If so, it is still creating a nandroid backup. View the screen as your back up begins and you will see that it is creating a nandroid backup.

Im asking myself the same question ... I use this backup methode: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390771
- Is it also creating a nondroid backup ?
- When I look at my backupfiles, how can I check it ?
- as this backup does not seem to backup all files ... is there another backup doing a real image or at least
Pls see the jpg of the .zip I made from the CWM backup dir on SD card...

gggg said:
Im asking myself the same question ... I use this backup methode: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390771
- Is it also creating a nondroid backup ?
- When I look at my backupfiles, how can I check it ?
- as this backup does not seem to backup all files ... is there another backup doing a real image or at least
Pls see the jpg of the .zip I made from the CWM backup dir on SD card...
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That certainly looks like an official nandroid backup to me.
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Backups
Just a word of caution that some of the other Senior Devs I have talked to about this say to stay away from using Rom Manager for things if you can. It is better and safer to boot into recovery and do things via CWM or TWRP or whatever your Recovery of choice is...
I know Rom Manager might be good for somethings but trusting your backup to anything other than CWM is not something I would do.
Also, Nandroid Backup and the Backup setting in CWM is the same thing.

Keep in mind it won't backup internal storage. "emmc"
Boot
Recovery
System
Data
Cache
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i have little Linux knowledge ... is there a way to copy all the missing directories / partition ... eg. using ADB / busybox ???

Clockwork mod

I have the latest cwm but it won't let me backup my ROM. It says can't mount backup path any ideas how to fix it?
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Question regarding backups

Hi
Yesterday i wanted to check out a new Rom. So i did a Backup in cwm 5. I flashed the new Rom, After wipeing and factory Reset. Off course i did not touch fat32.
When i restored my backup it looked like a complete fresh install.
Can anyone explain what happened???

Really...no ideas at all?
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Could you explain fresh install? I mean fresh install of your old rom or the new one.
I'm really still new to flashing but i think if you do a nand backup you backup your entire old rom.
Still one tested advice, next time backup your apps with titanium backup,copy backup on pc, wipe all, install rom, format sd card,after that restore apps using titanium backup, i think thats as clean and tidy as it gets.You don't need to format sd card but its cleaner that way.
Hope it helped.
P.S: Some roms (especially ICS and JB) need the partition to be formatted as ext (extended) partition still idk if a rom will automatically format the partition, my bro nedded to manually reformat using cwm, i didn't really follow the process when i was adding my ics rom but i didn't need to repartition, at least not manually.

By fresh install i mean like if you just flashed a rom without doing any configuration or installing anything.
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patmast3r said:
By fresh install i mean like if you just flashed a rom without doing any configuration or installing anything.
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Well it is a new rom, what you backed up as far as i understand is your old rom with settings, so it's just normall for the new rom to be fresh installed.

[Q] How do you make a nandroid backup?

I recently flashed Proton's ICS kernel because I wanted to watch videos, and it came with TWRP instead of CWM. How do I make a nandroid backup with TWRP?
And is there anyway I can switch to CWM from TWRP?
And another question, How do I view the system files?

Just go to backup on the main screen but that TWRP backup only really works if you are using TWRP to restore that backup. If you want CWM thrn easiest way is to vhnge the kernel to something else
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fabricatedhero said:
Just go to backup on the main screen but that TWRP backup only really works if you are using TWRP to restore that backup. If you want CWM thrn easiest way is to vhnge the kernel to something else
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What do I check though? There are six options.
System
Data
Boot
Recovery
Cache
.android_secure

I checked everything especially system and data...doesnt really hurt anything it just makes the backup a larger file since more data is being backedup
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it depends...
when you do a backup in recovery mode....
"sometimes" it means that you are not sure about you are flashing right now...
so when you do a restore.... it will back to ur "previews rom" and apps etc...
BUT! BUT! when you are sure to ur chosen rom..
Do a titanium backup... before flashing you ROMS.
this backup can restore your apps ( just install the apps and restore )
like action games.. your save gameplays your high scores etc...
Suggest that you do it BOTH.

Problems with CWM backups, again...

Hi all, I'm on CM10.2 and decided to try another ROM...
I did a CWM backup and now I can't restore because CWM doesn't show my backup, that's really annoying because I can see the clockwork/backup folder in Root Explorer app.
Any idea to get CWM restore my backup correctly??

Narciso Neto said:
Hi all, I'm on CM10.2 and decided to try another ROM...
I did a CWM backup and now I can't restore because CWM doesn't show my backup, that's really annoying because I can see the clockwork/backup folder in Root Explorer app.
Any idea to get CWM restore my backup correctly??
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try restore with cwm app or rom toolbox pro

Narciso Neto said:
Hi all, I'm on CM10.2 and decided to try another ROM...
I did a CWM backup and now I can't restore because CWM doesn't show my backup, that's really annoying because I can see the clockwork/backup folder in Root Explorer app.
Any idea to get CWM restore my backup correctly??
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I had that problem before. Not sure about the original CWM recovery, but Philz version has a config setting that allows you to change the path to storage between /data/media and /data/media/0. The path changed in 4.2.x due to multiuser capability. Once you change it, you should be able to see your backups. Or, another option is just to copy your clockworkmod folder manually.

Thnx for all, but I already deleted my backup folder and setup my data all again...