I had to swap out my a 2 yet again and I'm wondering if it is possible to use the bootstrap backup I made from my old a2 on this new one?
Did you use the Atrix2 Bootstrap to make the backup? If so I would say you SHOULD be safe but you might be making another trip. Only one way to find out and that is to do it. Just make sure it was the our bootstrap and NO other one.
On a second note what ever problems you were having might be in the backup also so that may be one thing to consider also.
lfaber06 said:
I had to swap out my a 2 yet again and I'm wondering if it is possible to use the bootstrap backup I made from my old a2 on this new one?
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Try it and let us know
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Hey guys, quick question. Does the nandroid backup, backup your apps as well? If not, what does it backup?
yes it backs everything up
thorracing1 said:
yes it backs everything up
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thats good to know.. would hate to have to install all those apps again
uggghhhh my roomie just flashed to modacos rom on my phone withouT doing a nandroid backup.....
will the backup from someone elses phone get me back to stock?
sorry for the noobish question
phelony said:
uggghhhh my roomie just flashed to modacos rom on my phone withouT doing a nandroid backup.....
will the backup from someone elses phone get me back to stock?
sorry for the noobish question
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You can always flash the stock Sprint RUU but then you will have to root again, but it will bring your phone to exactly like the day you took it out of the box.
Noob here too. I did a Nandroid backup before I flashed MoDaCo's rom and after. If I wanted to go back to the Way it was before I rom'ed it would I just flash the first backup? Also, where do you find the Sprint RUU?
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Noob here too. I did a Nandroid backup before I flashed MoDaCo's rom and after. If I wanted to go back to the Way it was before I rom'ed it would I just flash the first backup? Also, where do you find the Sprint RUU?
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yes, to go back to before you had the rom, you would restore the nandroid backup you did before you rom'ed
I had 2 Nandroid backups from different dates and when I went to restore my latest one it kept grabbing the older one, maybe because it was first in the list. I deleted the older one and it restored the correct one. Anybody else experience this or am I just doing something wrong?
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I had 2 Nandroid backups from different dates and when I went to restore my latest one it kept grabbing the older one, maybe because it was first in the list. I deleted the older one and it restored the correct one. Anybody else experience this or am I just doing something wrong?
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Just take the one you don't want and copy it to your laptop or desktop.
goku14238 said:
Just take the one you don't want and copy it to your laptop or desktop.
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Yes, I'll do that in the future.
I thought that nandroid restore would automatically use the folder with the latest date but obviously not. Just a heads up to others.
This is a little off topic, but can you restore a nandroid backup on a different phone?
I've got some dust under the screen and i'm going to try and get the phone replaced (only been 2 weeks) and it would be nice if i could just restore from a nandroid backup of the old phone.
It backs up your apps if you are not running AppsToSD.
Nandroid does NOT back up anything at all off the SD card, including the EXT2 partition where your apps are located using AppsToSD.
cool, good to know, I don't run apps to sd anyone so i think im good there
could someone shed some light on this? i know what it is, i just dont know where to get it, or how to use it with my inspire.
dethpikil said:
could someone shed some light on this? i know what it is, i just dont know where to get it, or how to use it with my inspire.
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A nandroid backup is a full backup of your phone, made using ClockWorkMod.
And it is a beautiful thing!
dethpikil said:
could someone shed some light on this? i know what it is, i just dont know where to get it, or how to use it with my inspire.
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The equivilent of making an image of your phone to restore to if needed (or wanted) much like on a computer.
oh, well when i installed my revolution hd rom, i made a backup in clockword. so youre saying that i did indeed make a nand backup? i already have it and know how to use it? ll i just didnt know thats what i was doing?
dethpikil said:
oh, well when i installed my revolution hd rom, i made a backup in clockword. so youre saying that i did indeed make a nand backup? i already have it and know how to use it? ll i just didnt know thats what i was doing?
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You should learn how to get to recovery by means of ADB and by the phone itself without the use of Rom Manager. Invaluable tools!
I know we have no way of getting back to stock since we don't have an FXZ yet but why couldn't we use the stock Android recovery upon boot then use our nandroid backup from the ATRIX 2 bootstrap incase someone is stuck on a bootloop or messes their phone up? Would this work?
It sounds plausible, we just need someone that is still within their 30 day return time that has the nerve to try it. They would have to do a nandroid then purposely soft-brick and hope and pray I guess.
Well I dont remember being able to do this on my OG Atrix but today I was messing around and powered my phone off. I was wanting to get to the boot option screen so I could boot into stock recovery. Well I did and got the usual green man with a triangle. Then I proceeded to push the same buttons that got me to the boot option screen and then the stock recovery menu showed up just like CWM recovery. Was we able to do this on the OG Atrix because I dont remember?
In the Droid razor forums they have a way to boot cwm on power up. Ill post the link later. Why couldn't we port that to our phones?
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lfaber06 said:
In the Droid razor forums they have a way to boot cwm on power up. Ill post the link later. Why couldn't we port that to our phones?
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If what I have just done will work we can do the same thing upon boot without having to port anything.
We should be able to flash any zip located on the sd card upon boot via the stock android recovery.
Hoping someone with a lil more knowledge of this stuff will chime in here
The stock recovery wont work for a few reasons the biggest is you cant backup and restore. We need cwm no question about it. we need this on our phones.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1385283
I have been talking to hashcode about porting his safestrap method from the droid 3 to our a2's. That would work even better because then we'd be able to restore to stock w/o an fxz or sbf.
Why can't you restore with the stock recovery? We can create backups through our bootstrap so that isnt a problem and it works just fine. But we have no option at boot which is the problem. Look at my last pic. That is my nandroid backup through our bootstrap.
I'm Uploading a video to youtube of what we need.. Hold tight. And I thought you couldn't use backups created from other recoveries?
http://youtu.be/H3fIdf5fQ70
So this is the droid 3 safestrap from hashcode working on my A2. I have been able to make backups that are actually 300mb more then the bootstrap cwm backups. I have Not tried restoring backups using it. I have replaced my phone 4 times now with best buy I don't want to try again.. I have sent hashcode some files he requested to hopefully port this over to the A2.
Check it out!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1315982&highlight=safestrap
I'm not trying to spam the board here it just looks like this would really work for us.
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And I thought you couldn't use backups created from other recoveries?
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THAT is what I don't know?
Yes I'm familiar with hashcodes safestrap and if he can get it ported to our A2 then that would be exactly what we would need. I was thinking hard about asking him for help myself. So I'm glad you did
I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous, as in making paperweights with phones
LoL
DONE SOME DIGGING AROUND AND I've ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION. NO IT WON'T WORK. STILL LEARNING EVERYDAY :/
JRW 28 said:
THAT is what I don't know?
Yes I'm familiar with hashcodes safestrap and if he can get it ported to our A2 then that would be exactly what we would need. I was thinking hard about asking him for help myself. So I'm glad you did
I know just enough about this stuff to be dangerous, as in making paperweights with phones
LoL
DONE SOME DIGGING AROUND AND I've ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION. NO IT WON'T WORK. STILL LEARNING EVERYDAY :/
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Was bout to say I'd give it a shot for you guys was exchanging my phone today but guys you got it figured out anything changes before end of day lemme know
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JRW 28 said:
If what I have just done will work we can do the same thing upon boot without having to port anything.
We should be able to flash any zip located on the sd card upon boot via the stock android recovery.
Hoping someone with a lil more knowledge of this stuff will chime in here
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349439
I'm trying to get a replacement of my GS3 tomorrow since the GPS is acting weird. I backed up apps and system data using TiBu and also made a nandroid when I was still on root66. Then I odin'ed back to stock and did factory reset (by the way, that did get rid of the unlocked padlock //relief) so I'm good to go.
The question is, once I get the new phone and odin root66, can I restore the nandroid on the new phone? If not, can I restore any system data from TiBu?
I did search this in the forums and saw a few similar questions. but 2 posts said no and 1 said yes. so I'm confused.
simollie said:
I'm trying to get a replacement of my GS3 tomorrow since the GPS is acting weird. I backed up apps and system data using TiBu and also made a nandroid when I was still on root66. Then I odin'ed back to stock and did factory reset (by the way, that did get rid of the unlocked padlock //relief) so I'm good to go.
The question is, once I get the new phone and odin root66, can I restore the nandroid on the new phone? If not, can I restore any system data from TiBu?
I did search this in the forums and saw a few similar questions. but 2 posts said no and 1 said yes. so I'm confused.
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yes you can restore your old nandroid on the new phone..
Smok3d said:
yes you can restore your old nandroid on the new phone..
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But depending on the recovery you are using you may need to put it in the correct id folder. I know amon RA uses specific id labled folders for each device (even the same model).
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Smok3d said:
yes you can restore your old nandroid on the new phone..
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Yes, you can do it (I've done it) but it's not really a great idea.
You are much much better off to spend the time & reinstall everything fresh.
I thought I read somewhere recently that because backups capture phone specific data on Samsung models that you are unable to move a backup from one phone to another without overwriting some valuable individual phone information. I've done it across multiple other model phones and tablets but hear it is Samsung specifically that has issues.
Someone with prior knowledge and/or links to discussion please chime in.
Thanks everyone. I'll err on the safe side and setup everything from scratch.
So my AT&T One X has touchscreen problems (apparently it's a very common issue) and a new one is on the way. I want to have my new phone setup as quickly as possible with the exact same settings as my current phone, so what is the easiest way to go about this?
I want to have my homescreen the exact way too.
I am running the stock ROM and the phone is not rooted. I'm thinking of using My Backup Pro but if there are other ways I would appreciate it.
Try doing on online nandroid: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620255
I've never tried it myself, but it's worth a shot
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Try doing on online nandroid: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620255
I've never tried it myself, but it's worth a shot
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Thanks for the suggestion but I don't want to go through the hassle of rooting my phone (tried it once before didn't work)
PixelPerfect3 said:
Thanks for the suggestion but I don't want to go through the hassle of rooting my phone (tried it once before didn't work)
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You're going to have a rough go with this without root, and a cumbersome one, I'm guessing.
EDIT: Btw, a normal nandroid and restore would be the best option in my opinion. You'd make a nandroid as you normally would, then just transfer the backup folder to the SD of the new device and restore. Nothing else would be required; it'd put everything exactly as it was on the old device.
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utkaar099 said:
Try doing on online nandroid: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620255
I've never tried it myself, but it's worth a shot
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Clockworkmod is unsupported so this would be a bad example
Op, doing this without root is near impossible
You could do an adb backup to backup your apps and data but that's it
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