Is it possible to backup roms and restore them with clockwork recovery? I just rooted and installed cw probably a weekago. I downloaded and flashed "energy rom" I didn't like it because imo it had slightly less battery life so i tried to restore my backup of the stock rom but instead of it working right after it got stuck at the htc logo boot screen. I had to download stock which found out I needed a computer to even get stock back. So my question about can I backup and restore at least stock rom without needing to use that ruu file?
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you can always restore your backups via recovery, as long as your backed up before you flashed whatever you do not want anymore. be sure to back up before you flash anything your not sure of.
Ok thanks for the reply. I know you can restore backups i've done it on my myTouch 4G and g2x. Problem was that I didn't like the rom I flashed tried to go back to stock from my backup and i got stuck at the htc bootscreen.
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And since to get stock back I needed to download the ruu file on my computer so i wasn't sure if that was the only way.
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You can always wipe and reflash whatever rom you choose without any back ups also.
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Hi guys,
I installed the Android Revolution rom for my HTC Desire HD this morning, just to test it. Works great, but, I want to remove it and get back to my original HTC rom. However, when I try to restore the backup with the Rom Manager the phone will boot and get stuck at the HTC bootloader (the HTC image). Also I tried different options when I did a hard reset, but nothing seems to work.
Do you have any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Dirk
There have been some problems with the latest version of Clockworkmod recovery. If this is what you have been using it it may be worth trying a previous version of it and then trying your backup restore again.
Thnx for the reply!
I used Rom Manager for backup and restore. From the author Clockworkmod. Is that the same?
Why not flash a stock rom and push it to sdcard to flash?
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I am looking for a stock but can't find it. I was hoping there was a nice way to just remove the custom rom and restore my old backup.
Look for instructions on how to flash Odin.
Odin is only for Samsung?
did a search didnt find anything...
I hear ppl backup and restore there using cwm what does that do ? why does it actually restore?
When you back up using CWM you are doing what is called a nanadroid back up. When you run the back up it creates a complete image of your phone in its current state so all system and data apps, personal settings widgets on your home screen etc are all backed up. So if you flash a new rom and you don't like it rather than starting from scratch you can just restore your nandroid and your phone will be back to the state it was before you flashed the new rom
I would recomend doing a nadroid back up before you flash anything in recovery, some people might say this is required but in my personal experince it can't hurt.
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thanks i guess ill just back up after i get alll my settings like ringtones, settings, apps downloaded etc.
why would i do it b4 i flash anything in cwm?
(I would recomend doing a nadroid back up before you flash anything in recovery, some people might say this is required but in my personal experince it can't hurt.)
If you flash something in cwm that you were not supposed to, like a theme not designed for your rom, it can cause the phone not boot. If you did a nandroid you can just restore and everything will be back to how it was before you flashed
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please
cjward23 said:
If you flash something in cwm that you were not supposed to, like a theme not designed for your rom, it can cause the phone not boot. If you did a nandroid you can just restore and everything will be back to how it was before you flashed
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how can i restore it?? fullwipe>wipecache>restore, or what?
When restoring nandroid, you Don't have to wipe anything, just restore
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http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059485
it is a really simple thing.. I just did it for the first time and it feels easy and nice to have your whole system backed up on your sd card
Just want to make sure if the nandroid backup & restore is really working on Sensation with latest CWM since I have made a bunch of backups and I am heavily messing around with the phone for the past 48 hours lol... Just to be sure this backups are going to actually work in case I screw the phone...
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Yes.... Works great.
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Do remember that clockwork /nandroid restore will not restore the kernel. If you flashed a rom that's using a custom kernel, you will need to flash the stock kernel before trying to restore your backup or you will get stuck in a boot-loop.
Thank you both! Just wanted to confirm!
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how do i flash back to the original kernel?
Question. What was the total file size of the Backup (stock ROM)?
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stanleynhan said:
how do i flash back to the original kernel?
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Yes, I'd love to know this along with how to get a copy of the original kernel....or is the kernel in the .zip files on the regional oem rom thread?
not working for me
You can find the stock kernel in the second post in the Android Revolution HD thread over in the development section.
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You can find the stock kernel in the second post in the Android Revolution HD thread over in the development section.
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Nice find... Will keep a backup just in case... Thank you!
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Paging Dr B said:
Do remember that clockwork /nandroid restore will not restore the kernel. If you flashed a rom that's using a custom kernel, you will need to flash the stock kernel before trying to restore your backup or you will get stuck in a boot-loop.
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isnt the boot.img the kernel and init stuff? i was under the assumption it was backed up when you do a nandroid on most devices (like HTC). the RFS file system samsung uses on their devices prevented us from backing up and restoring a boot.img file so we have to always have a kernel in case of the good ol boot loop
so to go back to stock kernel, i install it to the sd card then flash it in recovery right?
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so to go back to stock kernel, i install it to the sd card then flash it in recovery right?
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Yeap... That's how you flash a kernel, but not needed if what you want to do is restore from a nandroid backup... To restore just select the nandroid backup you want to restore. No need to flash any kernel prior restoring from nandroid.
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since when do you have to reflash a stock kernel in order to flash your backup? I have tried every rom out here for the sensation didn't like any of them and reflashed my backup of stock with no issues....
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Do remember that clockwork /nandroid restore will not restore the kernel. If you flashed a rom that's using a custom kernel, you will need to flash the stock kernel before trying to restore your backup or you will get stuck in a boot-loop.
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This is not true. Nandroid contains the kernel image.
You would only have to flash a different kernel AFTER you restore, if you don't want to use the one that you backed up.
To the point, nandroid restore works perfect with 4.0.1.5 CWM. I confirm.
Getting mixed signals here guys. Does nandroid backup / restore the kernel?
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Getting mixed signals here guys. Does nandroid backup / restore the kernel?
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Yes... Restore everything exactly when you back it up... Kernel and everything exactly.
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Nandroid is just the CWM backup? Or am I missing something?
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Nandroid is just the CWM backup? Or am I missing something?
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Yes... Is called nandroid...
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Do you mean 4EXT recovery? ext4 is the name of a filesystem type.
If you do, then I am pretty sure that the NANDROID backups created by 4EXT are absolutely identical to those created with CWM, so you should be fine.
This especially, seeing as 4EXT backups still go into /sdcard/clockworkmod/backups
So - make sure when you copy your CWM backup back onto the phone, it goes into that folder, or 4EXT won't be able to find it to do the restore.
Of course you can
yes i mean 4EXT. Now i know thanks a lot.
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I recently tried to put my phone back to the stock Vodafone ROM that I backed up in CWM when I first rooted and the MD5 failed, so 4EXT wouldn't flash it. I'm going to have to read up on another method to get it back to stock incase it needs to go back as it's getting a bit unreliable lately. Sometimes people are trying to call me and getting a 'not available' message even though I am at home and my phone displays a full signal.
I upgraded the SD since though so I am blaming the transfer of the file between the two, NOT 4EXT.
I just flashed arhd on my sensation and it worked fine, until I flashed some mods from the site which caused to hang on logo screen...
What seems to be the problem??
Thanks!
Might be best to reflash the Rom again. Before installing mods make nandroid backups first from 4ext so in case something goes wrong, you can boot into recovery and restore your backup.
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also some mods requires specific firmware version