Currently on CM6 , if I plan to flash back to 2.1 , and after the process , does my phone remain rooted ?
Nope. It's back to the way it came from the factory.
So that's mean if I want to flash back to CM6 again later , I got to do the whole complete process again ( from root until install open recovery ) ?
Yes. I personally don't see why people choose to inflict this pain on themselves. The *only* times I would consider flashing an sbf are
Returning phone to Motorola/carrier for service
Soft brick (phone won't boot *AND* you cannot get into OpenRecovery)
Install or remove xt720modsbf
The rest is just stupid, wasteful superstition.
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Yes. I personally don't see why people choose to inflict this pain on themselves. The *only* times I would consider flashing an sbf are
Returning phone to Motorola/carrier for service
Soft brick (phone won't boot *AND* you cannot get into OpenRecovery)
Install or remove xt720modsbf
The rest is just stupid, wasteful superstition.
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Unless you flash xt720mod, which might be better for cm9. Except for that, I agree that so far, I've never seen any gain from flashing to stock.
Or maybe I'm way out of left field.
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Mioze7Ae said:
Yes. I personally don't see why people choose to inflict this pain on themselves. The *only* times I would consider flashing an sbf are
Returning phone to Motorola/carrier for service
Soft brick (phone won't boot *AND* you cannot get into OpenRecovery)
Install or remove xt720modsbf
The rest is just stupid, wasteful superstition.
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So, when for exemple you want to upgrade from cm7.2 to cm9 you simply apply update and wipe ? or do you restore 2.1 nandroid first ?
Zachary57 said:
So, when for exemple you want to upgrade from cm7.2 to cm9 you simply apply update and wipe ? or do you restore 2.1 nandroid first ?
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Just apply update and wipe (sometimes the other way around). Restoring 2.1 nandroid is pointless unless you want to actually use it.
Mioze7Ae said:
Just apply update and wipe (sometimes the other way around). Restoring 2.1 nandroid is pointless unless you want to actually use it.
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What about this ? If I want to switch from cm6 to cm7 (android 2.3) , I just simply have to flash it over open recovery , and then do the 3 wipes ? There isn't the need to flash to stock before flash to other custom rom ? If I'm going to switch back to cm6 after some moment of "tasting" , still the same , just flash cm6 rom without back to stock ? Thanks =)
nikctsh said:
What about this ? If I want to switch from cm6 to cm7 (android 2.3) , I just simply have to flash it over open recovery , and then do the 3 wipes ? There isn't the need to flash to stock before flash to other custom rom ? If I'm going to switch back to cm6 after some moment of "tasting" , still the same , just flash cm6 rom without back to stock ? Thanks =)
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Yes. I do this all the time. But I only wipe once.
More specifically, before flashing a "sampling rom":
nandroid > backup > system, data, SD data
factory reset
install sampling rom
To come back
nandroid > restore > all
wipe cache partition
wipe dalvik-cache
SD card utilities > convert to ext4 (or ext3, I prefer ext4)
reboot
Mioze7Ae said:
Yes. I do this all the time. But I only wipe once.
More specifically, before flashing a "sampling rom":
nandroid > backup > system, data, SD data
factory reset
install sampling rom
To come back
nandroid > restore > all
wipe cache partition
wipe dalvik-cache
SD card utilities > convert to ext4 (or ext3, I prefer ext4)
reboot
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Does this mean I can have all data recovered after restore all backup to come back to CM6 ? Including all those apps stored in my ext2 using link2sd ? Wow , that's really sweet , because I just want to "taste" other roms and I'll come back to CM6 after a moment for sure
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What is the proper way to restore a nandroid backup of Infused 1.5.3 (Froyo) from any of the Gingerbread ROMs out there now?
Whenever I try it I end up with a bootloop and have to start from scratch.
MisterEdF said:
start from scratch.
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I think I have seen a post where entropy has done it though.
I just start from scratch
00mred00 said:
I think I have seen a post where entropy has done it though.
I just start from scratch
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I haven't done it yet, but the following should work:
Flash a Froyo kernel
Restore the Nandroid
do NOT reflash whatever ROM was included - Nandroid backs up /system
If that doesn't work, something's broken in CWM.
Entropy512 said:
I haven't done it yet, but the following should work:
Flash a Froyo kernel
Restore the Nandroid
do NOT reflash whatever ROM was included - Nandroid backs up /system
If that doesn't work, something's broken in CWM.
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Ensure that your nandroid is on sd-ext, because I think internal sd gets wiped?
+1, return to stock froyo, then restore nandroid. That should be it.
Entropy512 said:
I haven't done it yet, but the following should work:
Flash a Froyo kernel
Restore the Nandroid
do NOT reflash whatever ROM was included - Nandroid backs up /system
If that doesn't work, something's broken in CWM.
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Ahhh, flashing the Froyo kernel first makes sense. Never did that, Next time I go back I will try that.
This is what I did
-> From GTG's GB V2.0.2, went to stock ( root+3e recovery) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092021
-> Then install V1.5.3 froyo in CWM. Wipe data/factory reset for safe side. Just the Apps get deleted.. Data on Internal SD is not wiped.
sasa111 said:
This is what I did
-> From GTG's GB V2.0.2, went to stock ( root+3e recovery) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092021
-> Then install V1.5.3 froyo in CWM. Wipe data/factory reset for safe side. Just the Apps get deleted.. Data on Internal SD is not wiped.
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That is the complete opposite result of using a nandroid backup. The purpose of a nandroid backup is to be able to go back to a "frozen point of time" without having to configure everything all over again.
sasa111 said:
This is what I did
-> From GTG's GB V2.0.2, went to stock ( root+3e recovery) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1092021
-> Then install V1.5.3 froyo in CWM. Wipe data/factory reset for safe side. Just the Apps get deleted.. Data on Internal SD is not wiped.
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Please read threads more carefully before you post. The process you describe has NOTHING to do with a Nandroid restore.
MisterEdF said:
Ahhh, flashing the Froyo kernel first makes sense. Never did that, Next time I go back I will try that.
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I am going to try it later today! The whole Odin back to stock reroot thing is getting old
I've been playing around with a Nexus S 4G that I have lying around and never used, and I've ran into a few problems, but you've all been helpful. I rooted all my old EVO 4G's without any problem, but the other day I rooted my NS4G using a one click/simple root and downloaded ClockWorkMod etc. But now for some reason It seems like I've almost lost my root? Is that possible? I still have the little unlocked symbol when booting up.
I've searched this forum and Google and haven't found anything, which could possibly be because I don't know what to look for. I've never had this happen :/
Currently running the stock 2.3.7
Nobody? I just need a little help.
Did you flash a superuser.zip after you installed clockworkmod?
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Did you flash a superuser.zip after you installed clockworkmod?
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I thought I had... But no lol
Thank you. Sorry for pretty much making a useless thread :/
Its the Q&A forum ask away! Lol
Did flashing it work for you though?
SeeNah said:
Its the Q&A forum ask away! Lol
Did flashing it work for you though?
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Yes, it did. Thank you!
Now I just need to re figure out how to backup my stock rom on rom manager. I need to do that if I'm going to flash a custom rom onto my NS4G correct? I've never actually gone that far with my phones lol.
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Yes, it did. Thank you!
Now I just need to re figure out how to backup my stock rom on rom manager. I need to do that if I'm going to flash a custom rom onto my NS4G correct? I've never actually gone that far with my phones lol.
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Okay lol hold on so just go make sure you
1. Unlocked the bootloader right?
2. Flashed a custom recovery (clockworkmod)?
3. Flashed superuser for root access?
4. Now you have a stock rooted ROM?
If you have/did all that then yeah you could backup your stock rooted ROM, you don't need to back it up but its helpful just incase you mess something you could always restore it to start all over
And you could backup any ROM you install incase you didn't know, just remember when you install different ROMS make sure to do a proper full wipe which includes data/factory reset/wiping DALVIK cache, and formatting system and boot in the "mount" option in CWM. And now I think your good lol
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Okay lol hold on so just go make sure you
1. Unlocked the bootloader right?
2. Flashed a custom recovery (clockworkmod)?
3. Flashed superuser for root access?
4. Now you have a stock rooted ROM?
If you have/did all that then yeah you could backup your stock rooted ROM, you don't need to back it up but its helpful just incase you mess something you could always restore it to start all over
And you could backup any ROM you install incase you didn't know, just remember when you install different ROMS make sure to do a proper full wipe which includes data/factory reset/wiping DALVIK cache, and formatting system and boot in the "mount" option in CWM. And now I think your good lol
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Unlocked Bootloader? If I boot in fastboot it says Unlocked. Is this what you mean?
I have ClockWorkMod, but I haven't done anything with it.
I have superuser from the root
and I was working with a stock ROM the whole time....
I think I'm ok lol
So I'll back up my ROM, and flash a Nightly CM9? And back that up as well? Just perform a factory data reset before doing so, right?
Slap-Yourself :) said:
Unlocked Bootloader? If I boot in fastboot it says Unlocked. Is this what you mean?
I have ClockWorkMod, but I haven't done anything with it.
I have superuser from the root
and I was working with a stock ROM the whole time....
I think I'm ok lol
So I'll back up my ROM, and flash a Nightly CM9? And back that up as well? Just perform a factory data reset before doing so, right?
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Yeah if it says unlocked your good to go. The super user.zip you first flashed won't be needed once you flash different ROMS, it was only needed for stock because you didn't install a ROM you just unlocked the boot loader and super user just gave you root access that didn't come with stock.
Yeah backup your stock ROM JUST in case you encounter a boot loop so you can just restore and start over, you don't need to back up CM9 that's completely your choice if you want . Its convenient though if you like CM9 but still like to flash other ROMS that way you can just go back if you miss CM9 without doing the whole setup process.
And a full wipe is
Data/factory reset
Then wipe dalvik under "advanced"
Then wipe system and boot under the "mount" option in CWM
stellar said:
Yeah if it says unlocked your good to go. The super user.zip you first flashed won't be needed once you flash different ROMS, it was only needed for stock because you didn't install a ROM you just unlocked the boot loader and super user just gave you root access that didn't come with stock.
Yeah backup your stock ROM JUST in case you encounter a boot loop so you can just restore and start over, you don't need to back up CM9 that's completely your choice if you want . Its convenient though if you like CM9 but still like to flash other ROMS that way you can just go back if you miss CM9 without doing the whole setup process.
And a full wipe is
Data/factory reset
Then wipe dalvik under "advanced"
Then wipe system and boot under the "mount" option in CWM
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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to post links to videos or not. But I'm in love with some of the features this guy has on his NS4G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdyAm3CgHc
He said it was a nightly etc.
The hidden status bar and bottom menu hidden is amazing. I also like the inverted G-Mail and Facebook. Is this all separate from the Nightly ROM?
I thought I could flash a theme to the stock ICS leak. But apparently that doesn't work because it's not de-odexed. Is there a way to de-odex the stock ROM on my phone? If not, is there a way to undo my theme flash (I forgot to make a backup ). Or, can I go back to stock ICS by just flashing the Odin one click ICS leak?
If you're not worried about losing anything try factory reset. Sometimes themes will stick, if it does just flash through Odin and your good to go.
Sent from a Galaxy Device
Infekxion said:
If you're not worried about losing anything try factory reset. Sometimes themes will stick, if it does just flash through Odin and your good to go.
Sent from a Galaxy Device
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Yeah, I tried the factory reset. It didn't do anything. I'm not worried about losing data though. I have everything backed up with Titanium. So, I can flash directly from Odin without clearing cache, etc through CWM?
Themes do not work on odexed . Period. Flash one of the custom . Deodexed ics roms if u wsnt a theme
If u flash the collective ics rom . You will not loose data or anything. Just download and flash. It will sort out your issue. And give u a good rom check it out here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=1548469
Its the 4.0.3 ics rom at the bottom of the op
silver03wrx said:
If u flash the collective ics rom . You will not loose data or anything. Just download and flash. It will sort out your issue. And give u a good rom check it out here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=1548469
Its the 4.0.3 ics rom at the bottom of the op
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I'm a little confused. Do I just flash it in CWM without wiping anything, or do I follow these instructions?
1. Make a nandroid backup, it is always a good idea
2. Have your apps backed-up with titanium
3. Downloadrom, and place onsd card
4. Shutdown, and boot to cwm recovery
5. Wipe data, wipe cache
6. Select mounts/storage, and choose format system
7. Flash rom
8. Fix permissions
9. Reboot.
10. Enjoy
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Sathed said:
I'm a little confused. Do I just flash it in CWM without wiping anything, or do I follow these instructions?
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Follow his 10 steps then restore your apps using titanium as step 11.
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For my ics rom. Wipe NOTHIng. Just flash it
I was just wondering what steps I need to take in order to install an updated version of my rom. Currently I use the aokp jb version 4. Want to update to the new milestone. Can someone help me out with the procedure? Will I lose any data?
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dan798 said:
I was just wondering what steps I need to take in order to install an updated version of my rom. Currently I use the aokp jb version 4. Want to update to the new milestone. Can someone help me out with the procedure? Will I lose any data?
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
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. First thing you should do is a nand backup in recovery (so you have something to go back to if all else fails)
. backup your SD card
. move your nand backup and sd card backup to your computer (that way if your sd gets corrupted you can reformat and push your backups to your device)
. you can also backup your apps + data with something like titanium backup (although now at least in JB if you have chosen this option Google will restore your apps, does not always work for me though so beware)
! Note that Tibu is quite controversial some people love it and swear by it and some people claim that it creates lots of issues, if you decide to use it, only use it to backup/restore user apps and not system apps. I personally use the pro version since it can sync backups to my Box and Dropbox account.
in addition to all of this I backup my sms, call log and custom launcher settings (but that's just me i'm a bit paranoid and I love redundancy)
When you're staying with the same rom you typically don't have to factory reset/clean install (unless of course the dev recommends it), just wipe cache and dalvik in recovery and flash your new rom.zip (don't forget to fastboot flash the boot.img if you're on the latest hboot) in recovery.
If you do not factory reset/clean install you will not loose data fingers-crossed. if you start encountering a lot of weirdness after a dirty flash well you will have to factory reset/clean install. I like to clean install most of the time so that I don't have to try to troubleshoot a bunch of stuff when s**T goes wrong plus it's easier to get support for obvious reasons.
In this particular case Milestone release of AOKP (milestone is a "stable" release and this is the first one) I would ABSOLUTELY do a clean install and I believe Rohan requires it because of kernel changes and the likes.
Hope all this makes sense and I did not forget anything.
Crappyvate said:
. First thing you should do is a nand backup in recovery (so you have something to go back to if all else fails)
. backup your SD card
. move your nand backup and sd card backup to your computer (that way if your sd gets corrupted you can reformat and push your backups to your device)
. you can also backup your apps + data with something like titanium backup (although now at least in JB if you have chosen this option Google will restore your apps, does not always work for me though so beware)
! Note that Tibu is quite controversial some people love it and swear by it and some people claim that it creates lots of issues, if you decide to use it, only use it to backup/restore user apps and not system apps. I personally use the pro version since it can sync backups to my Box and Dropbox account.
in addition to all of this I backup my sms, call log and custom launcher settings (but that's just me i'm a bit paranoid and I love redundancy)
When you're staying with the same rom you typically don't have to factory reset/clean install (unless of course the dev recommends it), just wipe cache and dalvik in recovery and flash your new rom.zip (don't forget to fastboot flash the boot.img if you're on the latest hboot) in recovery.
If you do not factory reset/clean install you will not loose data fingers-crossed. if you start encountering a lot of weirdness after a dirty flash well you will have to factory reset/clean install. I like to clean install most of the time so that I don't have to try to troubleshoot a bunch of stuff when s**T goes wrong plus it's easier to get support for obvious reasons.
In this particular case Milestone release of AOKP (milestone is a "stable" release and this is the first one) I would ABSOLUTELY do a clean install and I believe Rohan requires it because of kernel changes and the likes.
Hope all this makes sense and I did not forget anything.
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Sounds excellent!! Yes this helps a ton, I was not sure of what I needed to wipe if anything. Thanks!
dan798 said:
Sounds excellent!! Yes this helps a ton, I was not sure of what I needed to wipe if anything. Thanks!
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no problem..
Could you define a clean install and the steps?
RC196 said:
Could you define a clean install and the steps?
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Clean install: The partitions are empty
Proper steps
Wipe System
Factory Reset
Wipe Cache (Optional, Factory reset should have done it already)
Wipe Dalvik Cache (optional, I usually dont wipe and problems dont occur)
RC196 said:
Could you define a clean install and the steps?
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1.boot into recovery (twrp)
2. go into wipe menu and hit factory reset (DO NOT FACTORY RESET in FASTBOOT) this will wipe everything so backup first (see above post
3. flash the boot.img taken from your rom.zip of choice (this is if you are on latest version of HBOOT)
4. flash your rom.zip
5. reboot in system
Crappyvate said:
1.boot into recovery (twrp)
2. go into wipe menu and hit factory reset (DO NOT FACTORY RESET in FASTBOOT) this will wipe everything so backup first (see above post
3. flash the boot.img taken from your rom.zip of choice (this is if you are on latest version of HBOOT)
4. flash your rom.zip
5. reboot in system
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Before I did any flashing, I made a backup of my phone of the latest HTC Sense. It was only unlocked and not rooted. That back up is still there. If I wanted I could wipe and restore this backup correct? I would not have to flash anything right?
RC196 said:
Before I did any flashing, I made a backup of my phone of the latest HTC Sense. It was only unlocked and not rooted. That back up is still there. If I wanted I could wipe and restore this backup correct? I would not have to flash anything right?
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You will have to flash the boot.IMG from your backup and then restore the backup if you want to revert back to it
Sent from my HTC One XL
absolutelygrim said:
You will have to flash the boot.IMG from your backup and then restore the backup if you want to revert back to it
Sent from my HTC One XL
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How would I get that boot image from the backup on my phone?
RC196 said:
How would I get that boot image from the backup on my phone?
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You have to extract the boot.IMG to your computer and flash it with fastboot. Then restore the backup
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This is what is in the backup folder in TWRP.
RC196 said:
This is what is in the backup folder in TWRP.
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You can get the boot.IMG from the ruu zip or a 2.20 stock rooted Rom, which is in the one x pinup sticky in the android development section
Edit: boot.emmc.win is the boot.IMG. just rename it to boot.IMG and flash it from fastboot
Sent from my HTC One XL
absolutelygrim said:
You can get the boot.IMG from the ruu zip or a 2.20 stock rooted Rom, which is in the one x pinup sticky in the android development section
Edit: boot.emmc.win is the boot.IMG. just rename it to boot.IMG and flash it from fastboot
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Oh OK thanks. So I actually didn't screw this part up LOL.:laugh:
absolutelygrim said:
You can get the boot.IMG from the ruu zip or a 2.20 stock rooted Rom, which is in the one x pinup sticky in the android development section
Edit: boot.emmc.win is the boot.IMG. just rename it to boot.IMG and flash it from fastboot
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yep just rename boot.emmc as boot.img and now you can use this on one xl http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1963896
makes it a lot friendlier, you don't need to extract the boot.img from the rom.zip, the app does for you and also you don't need a computer, you can do it all from your device
Hi, I use this rom in my Galaxy S Advance, and I just wanna update it into new verion which is released. I know that can be noob and dumb question but I really duuno if should I again wipe device all the time when I want install update, or should I normally put install zip into sd card and then just run it form bot w/o any wipe? Isn't system crash then?
still looking for answer
eXez said:
still looking for answer
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That depends on the rom. If you change Addroid versions e.g.
4.2.2->4.4.2 = FULL WIPE
update to a newer release of the same rom / android version e.g. 4.4.2 build 03/31 --> 4.4.2 04/25 = wiping cache + dalvik will work in most cases. Just make a full backup before you flash a new rom.zip
LS.xD said:
update to a newer release of the same rom / android version e.g. 4.4.2 build 03/31 --> 4.4.2 04/25 = wiping cache + dalvik will work in most cases. Just make a full backup before you flash a new rom.zip
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yes, I've got android 4.42, but i just wanna update to new release, cause i didn't do that about 2 months. So which app can u suggest to make backup? I've never used a backup apps before. Really thx for help
eXez said:
yes, I've got android 4.42, but i just wanna update to new release, cause i didn't do that about 2 months. So which app can u suggest to make backup? I've never used a backup apps before. Really thx for help
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Use your custom recovery to perform a backup Two months is pretty long and probably will cause issues cause CM11 is under heavy development
I chose "super backup" app to make backup. I wish it won't crash in restoring process Again Thx for help
eXez said:
I chose "super backup" app to make backup. I wish it won't crash in restoring process Again Thx for help
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i REALLY suggest making a nandroid backup via recovery instead of backing up just your apps and data. If you brick the installation, phone is fine again in 3 minutes via restoring the nandroid backup. Its fu... easy. Just go to TWRP or CWM or whatever you use and press backup to sd. Thats all. Restore? Just press restore from sd