I decided to try out the cornerstone aosp so I made a nandroid backup, did the usual stuff and tried it out. Once I was done messing around, I wanted to restore my nandroid but after I do it doesn't boot. Nothing I try works so I end up wiping everything and installing fresh. Second time its happened where restoring wouldn't work. Anyone else have this issue? Also could u take that backup and put it as a zip file, place it on ur SD card and flash it through recovery? Would probably get the same result though
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its not an issue nandroid does not restore your kernel. You need to restore your nanadroid then reflash the rom that you were using when you took the nandroid
mrevankyle said:
its not an issue nandroid does not restore your kernel. You need to restore your nanadroid then reflash the rom that you were using when you took the nandroid
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So I need to just restore then flash the rom that the restore was based off of? Thats easy enough. But I thought there was only one kernal across ics for the tf101 atm
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asop and asus based slightly different not sure if its the kernel though so there are some issues there
mrevankyle said:
asop and asus based slightly different not sure if its the kernel though so there are some issues there
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Ah alright. Well I'll give that a shot maybe tomorrow, thanks
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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?
stanleynhan said:
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....
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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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?
jir591 said:
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?
Arsenal23 said:
Nandroid is just the CWM backup? Or am I missing something?
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Yes... Is called nandroid...
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Hi,
Soooo.. I flashed CM7 for the first time ever..... woo hoo. but now all my apps, and everything from the stock are gone. Is there a way to load everything from stock onto the CM7? I tried doing a restore from NVFLASH but that just brought back the stock so how do I just keep everything the same but running the CM7.
Thanks guys
johnnyp500 said:
Hi,
Soooo.. I flashed CM7 for the first time ever..... woo hoo. but now all my apps, and everything from the stock are gone. Is there a way to load everything from stock onto the CM7? I tried doing a restore from NVFLASH but that just brought back the stock so how do I just keep everything the same but running the CM7.
Thanks guys
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Well, if you had made a nandroid before you flashed, and could restore it (not sure when you did with NVflash), you would have everything back on your last ROM (you did not specify what ROM you were on).
You could then try just wiping dalvek and cache and formatting /system and flashing the ROM over it. That works OK most of the time. as you are clearing out the System partition but retaining your date (make sure you flash gapps also).
Another option is to wipe everything, and then flash the ROM, gapps, and then date only with advanced recovery.
Depending on what ROM you are coming from, that could carryover some issues - but most of the time it works OK.
If you did not have a backup of your data, then you will have to rebuild it from scratch in any case, so you might just as well do it on a clean install of CM7.
Well I did make a backup but when I restore its not cm 7 anymore so using nv flash how can I restore all the apps and messages, etc onto the cm7?
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johnnyp500 said:
Well I did make a backup but when I restore its not cm 7 anymore so using nv flash how can I restore all the apps and messages, etc onto the cm7?
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Have you tried titanium backup? Restore your old Rom with the apps. Back them up using TI to the external sd card. Do the usual stuff to load a new rom and restore your apps using TI. That's how I do it.
Some also like google restore, but I like having a hard copy for myself.
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Have you tried titanium backup? Restore your old Rom with the apps. Back them up using TI to the external sd card. Do the usual stuff to load a new rom and restore your apps using TI. That's how I do it.
Some also like google restore, but I like having a hard copy for myself.
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I downloaded titanium backup but it says the device is not rooted. I have the nvflash CWM on there but I assume its still not rooted. Now that I have the NVFLASH CWM and i can boot into recovery how do I root the G2X with the latest gingerbread update?
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I downloaded titanium backup but it says the device is not rooted. I have the nvflash CWM on there but I assume its still not rooted. Now that I have the NVFLASH CWM and i can boot into recovery how do I root the G2X with the latest gingerbread update?
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Restore your original stock rom with all the apps. Root using the one-click-method. Install TI. Backup your apps to the sd card. Now flash your favorite rom. Install TI on the new rom. Restore your apps from the TI backup you made on your sd card.
It should work.
Although on CM7 I had a couple of issues restoring certain apps. I think it has something to do with how CM7 names different partitions.
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Restore your original stock rom with all the apps. Root using the one-click-method. Install TI. Backup your apps to the sd card. Now flash your favorite rom. Install TI on the new rom. Restore your apps from the TI backup you made on your sd card.
It should work.
Although on CM7 I had a couple of issues restoring certain apps. I think it has something to do with how CM7 names different partitions.
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The problem is one-click method doesnt work on 2.3.3.
johnnyp500 said:
The problem is one-click method doesnt work on 2.3.3.
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Install a rooted version of 2.3.3 from the dev section.
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Install a rooted version of 2.3.3 from the dev section.
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Yea but then I have to wipe the device before I install it which brings me back to how not having all my apps backed up on titanium
Sounds like your options are wipe or stay stock.
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I might have an idea but you'll have to do the research.
Boot into CWM and connect USB to your computer. You may be able to copy your /data/app folder to your computer using ADB commands, then restore them the same way. Might work, might not. Never done it that way. And this will probably only backup the apps, not the data (savegames, etc.).
As I said earlier, you can restore data only with recovery/advanced restore.
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gaww said:
As I said earlier, you can restore data only with recovery/advanced restore.
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Yes, restoring /data only from the advanced restore menu in CWM may work. But I think that will restore all system data as well which may cause FC frenzy. Definitely worth a shot!
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I might have an idea but you'll have to do the research.
Boot into CWM and connect USB to your computer. You may be able to copy your /data/app folder to your computer using ADB commands, then restore them the same way. Might work, might not. Never done it that way. And this will probably only backup the apps, not the data (savegames, etc.).
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I think ill just wait until gingerbreak or superoneclick are available on the update then I'll root it, back up with titanium, and restore after i flash cm7.
btw. If I do a wipe, and then go d/l the apps i paid for again will it recognize that ive already paid for em or would i have to pay again?
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Yes, restoring /data only from the advanced restore menu in CWM may work. But I think that will restore all system data as well which may cause FC frenzy. Definitely worth a shot!
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So far only issue is turning it off. Everything else works.
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I think ill just wait until gingerbreak or superoneclick are available on the update then I'll root it, back up with titanium, and restore after i flash cm7.
btw. If I do a wipe, and then go d/l the apps i paid for again will it recognize that ive already paid for em or would i have to pay again?
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All of your purchases are remembered. As long as you sign in with the same google account you bought them with you can download them again for free.
G2X CM7
Well so I took screen shots of all my screens and app drawer and just downloaded all my apps again. Then I restored the SMS from the SMS Backup and now everything is the same just running CM7. First time Ive flashed a rom woo hoo.
us my backup from the market. back up everything, then wipe, flash new rom, then download my backup from market, then restore your stuff.
I have a quick question. Say I soft brick my phone, if I restore it by flashing the fastboot (sbf) files through RSD Lite, reroot and install Atrix 2 Bootstrap again, can I restore a back up of the Supercharged V3 ROM without any issues? Thanks in Advance!!
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I have a quick question. Say I soft brick my phone, if I restore it by flashing the fastboot (sbf) files through RSD Lite, reroot and install Atrix 2 Bootstrap again, can I restore a back up of the Supercharged V3 ROM without any issues? Thanks in Advance!!
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You could, but I would reflash if I was you, just because I think you might get some FCs if you don't.
Have have restored a Nandroid backup using bootstrap with no FC's.
lilhaiti said:
Have have restored a Nandroid backup using bootstrap with no FC's.
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Do you mind repeating yourself? Not quite catching what you're saying/
lilhaiti said:
Have have restored a Nandroid backup using bootstrap with no FC's.
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I have used it several times to restore backups. Never had any force closes with any of them.
Sorry...I meant to say "I have"
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It appears that some are confused, and not understanding what I was saying...
Since you are using lfaber06's ROM, I would not recommend that you try and restore that one with a backup right after doing an fxz restore, with some of the things that his ROM does, the safest bet is to reflash, rather than restore the ROM itself, then once you are at the right version of his ROM, restore your backup over top of that instead.
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It appears that some are confused, and not understanding what I was saying...
Since you are using lfaber06's ROM, I would not recommend that you try and restore that one with a backup right after doing an fxz restore, with some of the things that his ROM does, the safest bet is to reflash, rather than restore the ROM itself, then once you are at the right version of his ROM, restore your backup over top of that instead.
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Agreed, It would be in your best interest to flash the rom before restoring the backup. It can cause oddities the reason is that there are a few partitions that our CWM does not backup or restore (Like /Preinstall and /Osh) this in turn leads to init.d scripts not running properly. (The supercharged part of the rom) I usually just install the stock deodexed rom then perform my restore.
I shall keep that in mind.
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I was running a ROM versed on ulcb3 and using the entropy DD kernel. I just restored a nandroid backup to an L2 based ROM that was packaged with infusion-GB A2. I wiped prior to restore in cwm.
My settings now tells me I'm using the b3 baseband, and I can't tell what kernel I'm on. does a nandroid backup restore the modern and the kernel? I'm guessing kernel yes, modem no. Can anyone confirm?
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You have to flash the kernel you were using with the backup. I wipe data, flash the kernel that is supposed to be with my restore then ill do my nandroid restore. You then have to flash the modem that you want. Doing restores on the infuse is a little tricky at first.
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On a similar note.... when switching between roms that are both nandroided, full wipe, cache, and dalvic are still necessary? I figured a nandroid restore would rebuild the whole phone to the snapshot that was taken at the time of backup......
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chipstien said:
On a similar note.... when switching between roms that are both nandroided, full wipe, cache, and dalvic are still necessary? I figured a nandroid restore would rebuild the whole phone to the snapshot that was taken at the time of backup......
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I do a full wipe. It only takes 20 seconds extra.
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Ya for some odd reason when i attempt to use the nandroid back up & restore future i get bootloops on the samsung screen upon restoring, i don't get it. On my HTC i can do it without any problems. Do i have to flash the appropriate kernel for the ROM when i want to revert to it?
slicingtaco said:
Ya for some odd reason when i attempt to use the nandroid back up & restore future i get bootloops on the samsung screen upon restoring, i don't get it. On my HTC i can do it without any problems. Do i have to flash the appropriate kernel for the ROM when i want to revert to it?
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Never had luck with the nan backup...I use Zen tool kit for the infuse...to do a full back up...works great...
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slicingtaco said:
Ya for some odd reason when i attempt to use the nandroid back up & restore future i get bootloops on the samsung screen upon restoring, i don't get it. On my HTC i can do it without any problems. Do i have to flash the appropriate kernel for the ROM when i want to revert to it?
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When restoring a nandroid, you should only restore the data in the advanced restore option. Make sure to do wipes prior to flashing a new ROM.
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I'm having issues backing up my Verizon S3. It is rooted with an unlocked bootloader (not sure if that helps), and I'm just trying to backup the stock ROM. I am seeing that the backups I create are only 22 MB in size (clearly not right). I've tried making the backups through ROM Manager as well as CWM, with the same results. There's no failure in making the backup, but when I go to restore it, I'm getting the message "error while restoring /system". When I boot my phone after this, it gets stuck on the Samsung screen. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong with the backups? Really trying to avoid having to use Odin to put the phone back to stock. Thanks!
Thats because the latest cwm uses a blobs folder to store most of the backup. This process allows back up and restore to complete much faster.
Interesting...so how do I get the data from these files to restore?
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it should restore like you did it normally...i missed part of your post about failing to restore. Which version of cwm are you using? 6.0.1 is recomended and works for everthing currently flashable on our device.
Oh duh...I'm trying to restore to a different device. I need to copy over the blob folder too...that's where I screwed up. Thanks!
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bobmundo said:
Oh duh...I'm trying to restore to a different device. I need to copy over the blob folder too...that's where I screwed up. Thanks!
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Yea thats an important detail left out lol...glad you figured it out!