Just a quickie...
Done a nandroid backup from within 4EXT recovery of my phone, which is stock 2.3.4, as I'm tempted to give one of the ICS custom roms a go.
These require flashing the ICS firmware before installing the custom ROM.
If I go back via the nandroid restore from recovery, does this restore the firmware or would that need re-flashing first?
No, it does not.
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chrisw99 said:
Just a quickie...
Done a nandroid backup from within 4EXT recovery of my phone, which is stock 2.3.4, as I'm tempted to give one of the ICS custom roms a go.
These require flashing the ICS firmware before installing the custom ROM.
If I go back via the nandroid restore from recovery, does this restore the firmware or would that need re-flashing first?
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No it will not restore firmware, but if you keep a library of firmware on your SD card you can install as you need from recovery. Rename the PG58IMG files with a reference to the firmware so you don't get muddled up, then rename to PG158IMG as you need.
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i need some help, ive done a nandroid back up via clockwork recovery. ive installed a custom rom with a custom kernal. if i do the nandroid backup will that restore the htc stock kernel?
Yes. Nandroid backup will restore everything backuped.
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I need to unroot so i can update 2.3.4 and want to just unroot Thanks
Just run the RUU
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idavid_ said:
Just run the RUU
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How can we unroot without having to replace the system image?
Just an FYI to everyone, it's not root that will stop the OTA from updating on its own, it's a custom recovery. The OTA requires your phone to have the stock recovery. If you installed ClockworkMod Recovery, then you have to get back to stock using the RUU. That can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201773
If you only acheived S-OFF with the Revolutionary tool and never installed a custom recovery, then you can go ahead and apply the OTA update and not worry about losing S-OFF. You can then load a custom recovery and gain root access by following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16808547
I hope this helps out anyone that has questions.
And I know this process works, because I had to do it to apply the update.
Jimmah555 said:
Just an FYI to everyone, it's not root that will stop the OTA from updating on its own, it's a custom recovery. The OTA requires your phone to have the stock recovery. If you installed ClockworkMod Recovery, then you have to get back to stock using the RUU. That can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1201773
If you only acheived S-OFF with the Revolutionary tool and never installed a custom recovery, then you can go ahead and apply the OTA update and not worry about losing S-OFF. You can then load a custom recovery and gain root access by following the instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16808547
I hope this helps out anyone that has questions.
And I know this process works, because I had to do it to apply the update.
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Thanks. Will going back to stock with that RUU guide cause the loss of SMS etc?
f3nd3r said:
Thanks. Will going back to stock with that RUU guide cause the loss of SMS etc?
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Yes unless u backup
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ikhzter said:
Yes unless u backup
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Thanks. That's what I had thought. How do I backup SMS/MMS with Titanium Backup? Also, does it restore the MMS attachments?
I have now flashed the stock recovery. The OTA boots in to the stock recovery and begins installing, however it gets about halfway and then stops with a red triangle and exclamation mark displaying on the screen.
f3nd3r said:
I have now flashed the stock recovery. The OTA boots in to the stock recovery and begins installing, however it gets about halfway and then stops with a red triangle and exclamation mark displaying on the screen.
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I am experiencing the same issue after I did the RUU and flash it back to stock.
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earzkick said:
I am experiencing the same issue after I did the RUU and flash it back to stock.
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I got it to work by doing a nandroid restore back to a point before I rooted. Going to now try and restore the data.img from a more recent nandroid backup.
EDIT: The restore of data.img worked. So just to recap; I flashed back to a nandroid backup I took before I had rooted so that I had my ROM in an unrooted state. Then I flashed a stock recovery. Once I had done this, the OTA update applied without any problems. I then flashed CWM recovery and restored data.img from a recent backup. Doing this has restored all of my SMS/MMS, Apps+Data.
f3nd3r said:
I got it to work by doing a nandroid restore back to a point before I rooted. Going to now try and restore the data.img from a more recent nandroid backup.
EDIT: The restore of data.img worked. So just to recap; I flashed back to a nandroid backup I took before I had rooted so that I had my ROM in an unrooted state. Then I flashed a stock recovery. Once I had done this, the OTA update applied without any problems. I then flashed CWM recovery and restored data.img from a recent backup. Doing this has restored all of my SMS/MMS, Apps+Data.
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I ran the RUU and did the update and it worked. Then I used your method of flashing CWM recovery and restoring data.img from a recent backup. Worked like a charm! Thanks. Now just gotta do the boot animations over again.
hi i flashed a custom rom on my device from xda. it formatted my phone. now when i want to remove it my original rom's backup is missing. what can i do? please help....
it is wildfire s htc marvel canada bell
what did you use to back up your file? did you use a nandroid back up? if you want to get your rom back to official you can try to find a official rom on htc website or other website and try to flash it using ODIN.
iqtedar said:
hi i flashed a custom rom on my device from xda. it formatted my phone. now when i want to remove it my original rom's backup is missing. what can i do? please help....
it is wildfire s htc marvel canada bell
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You'll just have to reflash your original rom.
trich025 said:
what did you use to back up your file? did you use a nandroid back up? if you want to get your rom back to official you can try to find a official rom on htc website or other website and try to flash it using ODIN.
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but which website and how? i did nandroid backup but my phone got factory reset....
Go into clockwork mod and go to backup and restore then select restore then choose the backup it will have a date on it once you choose yes walk away for about 20 minutes and come back to restart your phone
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find this file "recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.4-ancora.tar.md5" and install it using odin so you can get back your recovery and reflash your nandroid back up, hope that can help get back your nandroid back up working if you have questions just ask
Im a little ashamed but I have never restored from a backup before in recovery. Do you have to wipe and all that prior to restoring or just hit restore?
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joho5 said:
Im a little ashamed but I have never restored from a backup before in recovery. Do you have to wipe and all that prior to restoring or just hit restore?
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I believe the restore wipes automatically...I could be wrong though. I haven't had to restore a rom in months.
It does. Restore formats the partitions then restores to them.
restoring stock rom without backup
Speaking of restoring through recovery, Is it possible to restore my phone to stock rom without the back up? If not, then RUU to stock 1.85 is the only way right? I installed a new rom yesterday, and I decided to wipe everything including SD so I basically erased my stock rom backup.
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Speaking of restoring through recovery, Is it possible to restore my phone to stock rom without the back up? If not, then RUU to stock 1.85 is the only way right? I installed a new rom yesterday, and I decided to wipe everything including SD so I basically erased my stock rom backup.
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The best thing for you to do now is restore via the RUU to stock.
Once you have that done you can go ahead and flash other ROM's
Good Luck!:good:
BIGMOH said:
The best thing for you to do now is restore via the RUU to stock.
Once you have that done you can go ahead and flash other ROM's
Good Luck!:good:
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Right on! I am just curious just in case I need to send my phone back for warranty.. thanks!
Hey xda.M using htc one c2.I am currently on jb and unlocked bootloader.I managed to get a nandroid ics backup from internet with same cid.I want to ask if i can just restore that backup using twrp recovery?Will it brick my phone?And can i later again flash ics ruu while i am on ics to get a stock phone.