If I make a backup in recovery, can I restore from any rom after?
For instance I made a backup when I was running Infused 1.6 Froyo. Now I am currently running CM7 (which I love by the way), but down the road if I want to go back to a froyo rom, and my backup at that...can I just hit restore and itll be right back to where I made the backup?
thanks
joho5 said:
If I make a backup in recovery, can I restore from any rom after?
For instance I made a backup when I was running Infused 1.6 Froyo. Now I am currently running CM7 (which I love by the way), but down the road if I want to go back to a froyo rom, and my backup at that...can I just hit restore and itll be right back to where I made the backup?
thanks
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If you want to restore a backup you should restore from the same color CWM. So if your on CM7, you need to go back to whatever color you backed up with because Froyo is either red or green, CM7 is blue.
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My phone is rooted, backedup with clockwork and I even used sprite backup to backup the phone just in case. I plan on flashing my phone for the first time with the Epic Experience rom since it seems to be the most popular.
I'm pretty happy with my phone's current state except the battery life once in a while. So after flashing with a custom rom how do I revert back and restore my phone to the "EXACT" way it is now?
Make a nandroid backup in clockwork, then you can go back whenever you like.
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Restore nandroid backup and flash stock kernel. You will most likely have to flash a non stock kernel for a custom rom, and even if you dont HAVE to, you will probably want to.
So to go back to stock, flash back to a stock kernel, and then restore the nandroid backup.
are the steps to creating nandroid backup the same on the epic as others? I can't locate a tutorial for the epic specific
dannieboiz said:
are the steps to creating nandroid backup the same on the epic as others? I can't locate a tutorial for the epic specific
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yeah its pretty self explanatory, boot into clockworkmod > backup. or you can choose backup current rom an rom manager if you use it. thats your nandroid system backup
that's just confusing. So basically, a nandroid backup is the backup creating using clockwork? lol if so, that was the first thing I did after I installed clockwork.
I did a Nandroid backup a while back on 2.1 and effed my phone, so I tried to restore and they never worked. I ended up SBFing back to stock. Did all 3 of my backups just screw up? Also, if I decide to install a custom ROM and then later want to go back to 2.2 OTA will a Nandroid do that, or will I need to SBF and then load the Nandroid?
So I got through the entire ROM installation process, checked out EaglesBlood, then backed up and took a look at CM7. Now I'm wanting to go back to EaglesBlood.
My question is this: Can I just choose restore while I'm in recovery mode and get everything back (including the EaglesBlood ROM) or do I need to do a wipe and then reinstall EaglesBlood before I restore my settings?
Thanks!
lyansaine said:
So I got through the entire ROM installation process, checked out EaglesBlood, then backed up and took a look at CM7. Now I'm wanting to go back to EaglesBlood.
My question is this: Can I just choose restore while I'm in recovery mode and get everything back (including the EaglesBlood ROM) or do I need to do a wipe and then reinstall EaglesBlood before I restore my settings?
Thanks!
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alright lemme get this straight, did you do a nandroid backup eagles blood?
if you did you have to wipe system/ data and wipe cache then restore backup
Yeah, sorry, I worded that strangely.
I did a nandroid backup of EaglesBlood. Now I'm wondering if I can do a nandroid restore without flashing EaglesBlood again, or if I have to flash EaglesBlood and THEN do the nandroid restore.
Thanks!
Hey all, sorry if this has been asked, but if I run a full back up in recovery, then try another ROM after doing a full wipe, and dislike it, when I restore the old backup, will it return my device to exactly the same point (accounts, apps, text etc) as when I backed it up?
Or will I have to reenter all account information again?
Cheers!
Restore will put the device back to exactly as it was at the point the backup was made.
From my understanding a nandroid will backup everything and restore it back to that point except for the kernel. So say you were OCed in the backup and not currently when you restore you'll get everything back but you'll still need to re-flash the kernel to OC again. Good luck!
Awesome,
Thanks very much for the info!!
nandroid is a life saver. I flash roms all the time just to try them out because I can always go back.
ok since we getting more roms and have hellraiser over there opening the door. i have ALOT of nandroid back ups.
now having never had to actually use one of these i wanted to know somethings.
is a nandroid like a Rom, i just have to flash over another rom, or from stock and boom i have that Rom back with all my apps and info.
or do i need to load up the rom then nandroid on top of that for it work??
just have never had a use, but i would like to go back to some of my prior setups.
A nandroid is a system restore basically. If you fubar something and can get into recovery you can restore that nandroid to exactly where the phone was before. You don't need to flash anything just be able to get into recovery.
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Thanks am, flashing one now just to see....
the2rrell said:
ok since we getting more roms and have hellraiser over there opening the door. i have ALOT of nandroid back ups.
now having never had to actually use one of these i wanted to know somethings.
is a nandroid like a Rom, i just have to flash over another rom, or from stock and boom i have that Rom back with all my apps and info.
or do i need to load up the rom then nandroid on top of that for it work??
just have never had a use, but i would like to go back to some of my prior setups.
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A nandroid will reflash system, data, cache - everything. The only thing a Nandroid won't flash is a kernel if you're doing a major change (e.g. Froyo to Gingerbread or either of those to CM7 - while it's also GB, it requires special kernels.)
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A nandroid will reflash system, data, cache - everything. The only thing a Nandroid won't flash is a kernel if you're doing a major change (e.g. Froyo to Gingerbread or either of those to CM7 - while it's also GB, it requires special kernels.)
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ok with that said, you should flash the Kernel before the nandroid to make sure there is a compatible kernel there for the nandroid to use??
basically match up froyo roms and kernels and visa versa for BG before i decide to flash a Nandroid?
the2rrell said:
ok with that said, you should flash the Kernel before the nandroid to make sure there is a compatible kernel there for the nandroid to use??
basically match up froyo roms and kernels and visa versa for BG before i decide to flash a Nandroid?
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Yup, that would be a good idea - since if you restore the nandroid on an incompatible kernel, you'll have the phone be very unhappy. (Will refuse to boot.)
Much thanks E.........appreciate the time bruh.
this can be closed.
I completely failed here E, i tried to restore a nandroid. i loaded the Infusion GB Kernel then proceeded to restore the nandroid and just get boot loops no matter how i do it.
any thoughts??
Hmm I think I need to look at this later in the week. Starting to sound like Nandroid might be broken in red CWM.
i got it, but i had to load the Kernel - Rom - then do the nandroid. but that kinda of defeats the purpose in my eyes....lol
but yea, if you find something that would be cool to know E.