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{Q}Formatted the /system folder

i got into the ClockworkMod, and try to flash another New rom on my device,
and i formatted the sys directory...
can anyone tell me the solution?
i know this is a stupid as using CMD to format C:\ in Windows... but .. can anyone help?:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

BunThomas said:
i got into the ClockworkMod, and try to flash another New rom on my device,
and i formatted the sys directory...
can anyone tell me the solution?
i know this is a stupid as using CMD to format C:\ in Windows... but .. can anyone help?:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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what phone model/ can you enter recovery/download again/ do you have a rom/stock for you phone ?
well you have to reflash it

Hi,
If you want to flash a new rom, you should do a factory reset first. Here your /system gets formatted anyway, as far as I know. So don't worry.
Just go back to recovery and flash your rom.
If you don't like it, you can always restore your backup, that you have made.
Cheers!
Sent by my SGS i9000 running CM10 ;->

thanks
l4m3 said:
Hi,
If you want to flash a new rom, you should do a factory reset first. Here your /system gets formatted anyway, as far as I know. So don't worry.
Just go back to recovery and flash your rom.
If you don't like it, you can always restore your backup, that you have made.
Cheers!
Sent by my SGS i9000 running CM10 ;->
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i was a rookie~ so i know nothing about rom-
after reading some resources like books or xda etc,
i have futher knowledge of flashing rom.
thanks a lot for all your help.

Now you have two options go to clockwork mod and flash your custom Rom or you can flash n n nandroid backup if you have or using odin restore stock Rom..
we all should be polite enough to press thanks for anyone who helped US.

AJ88 said:
Now you have two options go to clockwork mod and flash your custom Rom or you can flash n n nandroid backup if you have or using odin restore stock Rom..
we all should be polite enough to press thanks for anyone who helped US.
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ya u are correct, thanks them!

Corrupt internal SD Card

Hi Folks.
Ok here is my situation, I have a rooted and unlocked TF700.
I flashed Zeus 4 and all worked well, then flashed (after full wipe) PARANOIDANDROID 2.15 and again everything was great,
Yesterday I flashed Baked Bean 4 (again after a full wipe) and apart from some SD issues all seemed ok,
I then decided to restore my TWRP backup of Zeus as I needed to use my 64gig msd card.
After a full wipe and restore Zeus started up but the dpi was messed up (160) I think (way small)
I was seeing loads of FC's and file manager showed my internal SD as being empty. Rebooted to recovery and tried the "Format Data" option
It failed right away with this message "E: Unable to format data."
I have tried flashing the stock .26 rom via TWRP and I have the same issue, dpi set to 160 and internal sd not mounted.
It seems my Internal sd is corrupt
What is the procedure to reformat it via ADB or fastboot? (I have searched but the results I found relate to other devices and I dont want to simply follow instructions that might cause further harm to my TF700)
I have followed the NVflash brick proof procedure and have all relevant files backed up (I did this before flashing the last 2 roms)
Please can some one point me in the right direction
Thanks a lot
Jules

I always wipe cache, system, internal, davic and then do a factory reset.
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When you said that you tried to flash the stock .26 you meant installing not restoring a backup, right? What rom you have on your device right now?

Pretoriano80 said:
When you said that you tried to flash the stock .26 you meant installing not restoring a backup, right. What rom you have on your device right now?
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Yip extracted the zip from the zip file and copied it to my ext sd and flashed it via TWRP
I have an unusable Zeus4,
Im about to try a full wipe again and then flash .26 again
EDIT
After flashing .26 and selecting reboot I get the "No OS installed! Are you sure you wish to reboot?" message

Looks like the system partition is corrupted, but i'm not sure. I think you should come here on IRC and maybe someone with more experience will help you - - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=asus-transformer

Thanks so much Pretoriano80!
With his help on IRC I was able to solve the problem,
In the end I had to return to complete stock, It seems CM10 caused some problems,
You are a a legend dude Thanks!!
:good:

ZaJules said:
Thanks so much Pretoriano80!
With his help on IRC I was able to solve the problem,
In the end I had to return to complete stock, It seems CM10 caused some problems,
You are a a legend dude Thanks!!
:good:
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This same thing happened to me with my Prime when I was getting ready to send it off for RMA because of a broken HDMI port. Since I was unlocked I was advised to restore to stock before sending it in. However, before I got the chance to do that I started getting the "E: Unable to format data." error that you were. I ended up erasing all partitions from fastboot and putting a note in the box that it wouldn't boot after an OTA. I managed to get away with it and wasn't charged for fixing it
For future reference it would be really helpful to know how you fixed this. Did you do something like what is in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803343.
Did you ever figure out how CM10 messed up your Infinity? I was running CM9 on my Prime when I got this error. Thanks!

It's hard to say if it was CM10 (or any other custom rom) or TWRP to mess the things up but we managed to get back to stock by replacing the twrp with CWM recovery and installing a modified .30 update package. Was a tricky one but we didn't had to mess with the partitions and that's good.

Pretoriano80 said:
It's hard to say if it was CM10 (or any other custom rom) or TWRP to mess the things up but we managed to get back to stock by replacing the twrp with CWM recovery and installing a modified .30 update package. Was a tricky one but we didn't had to mess with the partitions and that's good.
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Why did you switch to CWM? Do you have any thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of TWRP vs CWM?

paddycr said:
Why did you switch to CWM? Do you have any thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of TWRP vs CWM?
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Switched to CWM just to make sure it wasn't twrp recovery that somehow was failing to flash the partitions correctly. Tbh so far both do their job and both share the same limitation so far, meaning both fail to restore the boot partition (kernel) so in order to restore successfully (from a nandroid backup) you need to flash the right kernel after restoring is done. Otherwise i like TWRP better and never had issues with it, but i miss the advanced option from CWM, the one that let you format each partition individually.

Pretoriano80 said:
Switched to CWM just to make sure it wasn't twrp recovery that somehow was failing to flash the partitions correctly. Tbh so far both do their job and both share the same limitation so far, meaning both fail to restore the boot partition (kernel) so in order to restore successfully (from a nandroid backup) you need to flash the right kernel after restoring is done. Otherwise i like TWRP better and never had issues with it, but i miss the advanced option from CWM, the one that let you format each partition individually.
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I'm not certain what you're referring to here. I've restored many times from different TWRP backups (for each custom rom that successfully boots and is half-decent, I make and keep a backup in case I want to jump around and try new things) and I've never had any issues. I am still on the .26 firmware update because I plan to do the nvflash thing. Are you saying that between Zeus v4 (ICS) and various Jelly Bean roms I've been on the same kernel? I gues I just haven't checked.
Anyway, I really love the TWRP recovery and use it with Xoom and Nexus 7 as well. It's so easy to use and always has been reliable.

okantomi said:
I'm not certain what you're referring to here. I've restored many times from different TWRP backups (for each custom rom that successfully boots and is half-decent, I make and keep a backup in case I want to jump around and try new things) and I've never had any issues. I am still on the .26 firmware update because I plan to do the nvflash thing. Are you saying that between Zeus v4 (ICS) and various Jelly Bean roms I've been on the same kernel? I gues I just haven't checked.
Anyway, I really love the TWRP recovery and use it with Xoom and Nexus 7 as well. It's so easy to use and always has been reliable.
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For me moving between various roms by just restoring a backup never worked like it should. Let's say i'm on CM10 and i want to restore from a stock rom backup, the restore process is done, after reboot the device gets stuck to the first Asus screen and will stay there. Now if i get back to recovery and flash an update. zip containing the stock kernel the device will boot just fine, so definitely the boot image doesn't get restored in my case (with . 26 bootloader ).
Edit: @okantomi: You are using the internal storage or a MicroSD for backup / restoring? I'm really curious how this could work for some and not work for others, i mean same device, same recovery, same bootloader version...

Pretoriano80 said:
For me moving between various roms by just restoring a backup never worked like it should. Let's say i'm on CM10 and i want to restore from a stock rom backup, the restore process is done, after reboot the device gets stuck to the first Asus screen and will stay there. Now if i get back to recovery and flash an update. zip containing the stock kernel the device will boot just fine, so definitely the boot image doesn't get restored in my case (with . 26 bootloader ).
Edit: @okantomi: You are using the internal storage or a MicroSD for backup / restoring? I'm really curious how this could work for some and not work for others, i mean same device, same recovery, same bootloader version...
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Ok, I only flash a new zip from the internal storage...made myself a "Flashworthy" folder which I keep stocked with newest versions of roms/gapps. I save my TWRP backups to my external microsdcard, as well as my TiBu backups. I have never had a problem restoring from TWRP this way, honestly.

okantomi said:
Ok, I only flash a new zip from the internal storage...made myself a "Flashworthy" folder which I keep stocked with newest versions of roms/gapps. I save my TWRP backups to my external microsdcard, as well as my TiBu backups. I have never had a problem restoring from TWRP this way, honestly.
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Well, in this case i really have no clue why restoring works for some users but not for all.Dees_Troy, the dev behind Twrp recovery told me that .26 bootloader is to blame for the recovery failing to restore the boot partition, but looks like you have that bootloader version and restoring works good for you... interesting.

Pretoriano80 said:
Well, in this case i really have no clue why restoring works for some users but not for all.Dees_Troy, the dev behind Twrp recovery told me that .26 bootloader is to blame for the recovery failing to restore the boot partition, but looks like you have that bootloader version and restoring works good for you... interesting.
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It is a mystery. Is there any other info that might be relevant to see why the difference in results? I ask because I would like to understand this device better, as well as potentially help others.

okantomi said:
It is a mystery. Is there any other info that might be relevant to see why the difference in results? I ask because I would like to understand this device better, as well as potentially help others.
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I don't know, maybe the twrp version and the backup options, like if you are using compression or not, which partitions do you backup (boot, system, data, recovery, cache)...

Pretoriano80 said:
I don't know, maybe the twrp version and the backup options, like if you are using compression or not, which partitions do you backup (boot, system, data, recovery, cache)...
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I'm using TWRP 2.2.2.1, I back up boot, system and data only, and I don't use compression.

Nandroid Question and SD Card Question

Question - Haven't found a clear answer
I'm new to flashing and because of this, I'm constantly flashing Roms over the past couple weeks messing around.
I've determined Viper to be my daily driver so far, but I'd really like to be able to just flash a backup on rather than reinstalling everything and reconfiguring it the way I like.
1) If I do a backup with Clockwordmod on my current system, then say, Flash Baked on my phone, do I need to flash the boot.img back on the phone from Viper (I use Flash GUI) before I flash the Nandroid of Viper back on my phone? Or does the backup (nandroid) do this?
2) If I format my SD Card parition, will I lose anything like my CWM installation? (or the ability to flash)
Sorry guys, this would help me a lot.
Thanks

bigystyle84 said:
Question - Haven't found a clear answer
I'm new to flashing and because of this, I'm constantly flashing Roms over the past couple weeks messing around.
I've determined Viper to be my daily driver so far, but I'd really like to be able to just flash a backup on rather than reinstalling everything and reconfiguring it the way I like.
1) If I do a backup with Clockwordmod on my current system, then say, Flash Baked on my phone, do I need to flash the boot.img back on the phone from Viper (I use Flash GUI) before I flash the Nandroid of Viper back on my phone? Or does the backup (nandroid) do this?
2) If I format my SD Card parition, will I lose anything like my CWM installation? (or the ability to flash)
Sorry guys, this would help me a lot.
Thanks
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For a start dump CWM and get TWRP. Any backup you do will need you flash the boot.img that goes with it and ya do it the way you said. No need format the sd card.

Darknites said:
For a start dump CWM and get TWRP. Any backup you do will need you flash the boot.img that goes with it and ya do it the way you said. No need format the sd card.
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Thanks
Question 1 is answered and is what I thought but wanted to be sure!
Question 2:
Just to be more clear, I bought the phone 2nd handed (it was mint) but the SD portion is full of folders, pics, etc that the previous owner had. Rather than going through everything and deleting, I was wondering if simply formating the SD partition would hurt anything or cause anything to be reinstalled for flashing?
I've had 0 problems with CWM with flashing 8-9 Roms so far. Is there any particular reason for switching?
Thanks for the reply, Learning lots of good info.

bigystyle84 said:
Thanks
Just to be more clear, I bought the phone 2nd handed (it was mint) but the SD portion is full of folders, pics, etc that the previous owner had. Rather than going through everything and deleting, I was wondering if simply formating the SD partition would hurt anything or cause anything to be reinstalled for flashing?
I've had 0 problems with CWM with flashing 8-9 Roms so far. Is there any particular reason for switching?
Thanks for the reply, Learning lots of good info.
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Flashing is fine but you can't mount sd as mass storage and have you ever tried turning your phone off? The way I clean the sd is to do it before flashing a new rom and I don't format it but just delete everything there.

Darknites said:
Flashing is fine but you can't mount sd as mass storage and have you ever tried turning your phone off? The way I clean the sd is to do it before flashing a new rom and I don't format it but just delete everything there.
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Thanks
I've got it figured out.

Since you brought the topic up, one last question.
I got CWM installed before coming to XDA and have noticed most recommend TWRP here.
Is it simply because its touch based? Or is there anything in particular that it does better? I've had no issues at all with CWM and don't mind using the volume rocker/power button.

bigystyle84 said:
Since you brought the topic up, one last question.
I got CWM installed before coming to XDA and have noticed most recommend TWRP here.
Is it simply because its touch based? Or is there anything in particular that it does better? I've had no issues at all with CWM and don't mind using the volume rocker/power button.
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Its got bugs like not being able to turn your phone off and if you mess up somewhere it will bootloop to the recovery and can mount sd as mass storage. Ya it does have touch but you can get touch version of CMW too.

Darknites said:
Its got bugs like not being able to turn your phone off and if you mess up somewhere it will bootloop to the recovery and can mount sd as mass storage. Ya it does have touch but you can get touch version of CMW too.
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I see
I've noticed one in a while when I shut down it does go into Recovery, but it doesn't always do it. (more often shut down works than not)
Thanks

bigystyle84 said:
I see
I've noticed one in a while when I shut down it does go into Recovery, but it doesn't always do it. (more often shut down works than not)
Thanks
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Ya you wont have that issue with TWRP.

Darknites said:
Any backup you do will need you flash the boot.img that goes with it and ya do it the way you said.
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Hi, and if hboot its 1.06, the same rule apply? tks

zecabra said:
Hi, and if hboot its 1.06, the same rule apply? tks
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Nope TWRP can flash that for you so no need for messing.
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tf700 lagging & cant install cromix

hi everyone.
i need some help
i got the tf700 a few days ago and it was very laggy wich was wierd because the specs are for a work horse.
so i rooted and unlocked it and tried cm 10 wich i got on my galaxy s 3 but it was still a it laggy it ran moother but till not as it should.
after that i tried to install cromix but i am stuck on the boot animation .
if some one can help me i would relly appreciate it.
thanks in advanced.

danielbr14 said:
hi everyone.
i need some help
i got the tf700 a few days ago and it was very laggy wich was wierd because the specs are for a work horse.
so i rooted and unlocked it and tried cm 10 wich i got on my galaxy s 3 but it was still a it laggy it ran moother but till not as it should.
after that i tried to install cromix but i am stuck on the boot animation .
if some one can help me i would relly appreciate it.
thanks in advanced.
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You need to do a full wipe in order to switch from cm10 to cromi-X. Boot into TWRP, select wipe, then advance wipe, select everything to wipe except for external sdcard. Finally reinstall cromi-X

buhohitr said:
You need to do a full wipe in order to switch from cm10 to cromi-X. Boot into TWRP, select wipe, then advance wipe, select everything to wipe except for external sdcard. Finally reinstall cromi-X
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i did that but it still didn't work.
and do you know why m tf700 is lagging ?

danielbr14 said:
i did that but it still didn't work.
and do you know why m tf700 is lagging ?
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do that again, but this time do the format also (next to the advance wipe button). Cromi-X should give you no lags. cm10 is using the new 4.2 launcher which cause lags.

buhohitr said:
do that again, but this time do the format also (next to the advance wipe button). Cromi-X should give you no lags. cm10 is using the new 4.2 launcher which cause lags.
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1 i dobt want to format because i got backups of the other roms
2 i just want to make sure i am dong this right . wipe the data and then flash the cromi setup ?

danielbr14 said:
1 i dobt want to format because i got backups of the other roms
2 i just want to make sure i am dong this right . wipe the data and then flash the cromi setup ?
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Yes also make sure you select _that stock kernel to start out, and in the future, you should move your backup to the external sdcard, cause situation like this may required you to format the internal.
edit; did you ever used data2sd setup??

buhohitr said:
Yes also make sure you select _that stock kernel to start out, and in the future, you should move your backup to the external sdcard, cause situation like this may required you to format the internal.
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ok thank let e try that and i will get back to you.

danielbr14 said:
ok thank let e try that and i will get back to you.
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Worst come to worst, can you restore your old setup from nandroid backup...well if you do have one!

buhohitr said:
Yes also make sure you select _that stock kernel to start out, and in the future, you should move your backup to the external sdcard, cause situation like this may required you to format the internal.
edit; did you ever used data2sd setup??
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well i did waht you said and it till tuck on the boot animaation

danielbr14 said:
well i did waht you said and it till tuck on the boot animaation
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Did you leave it enough time to bootup like 15 min? and if not working, try to power off then power back on again. BTW do you have a nandroid backup of the old setup to restore?

buhohitr said:
Did you leave it enough time to bootup like 15 min? and if not working, try to power off then power back on again. BTW do you have a nandroid backup of the old setup to restore?
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iam not ure what is nandroid bacup
but i got a cm backup and i had the stock rom but i did a mistake and deleted it.
and i also tried to reinstall the stock on but i think my gapps dont match it so it is stuck on the boot animation too.
bt for the cromix installation i gave it only 5 min i didnt know i hould give it time .
so first i will give it time to install.

buhohitr said:
Did you leave it enough time to bootup like 15 min? and if not working, try to power off then power back on again. BTW do you have a nandroid backup of the old setup to restore?
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well i gave it 15 min and it is still stuck on th animation boot

danielbr14 said:
well i gave it 15 min and it is still stuck on th animation boot
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Something is corrupted, you probably have to do a full wipe then reinstall. CM10 is tricky, a full wipe required to switch between cm10 and other rom in order for it to work correctly.

buhohitr said:
Something is corrupted, you probably have to do a full wipe then reinstall. CM10 is tricky, a full wipe required to switch between cm10 and other rom in order for it to work correctly.
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ok i will move the back up and try to do a dull wipe intallation

danielbr14 said:
ok i will move the back up and try to do a dull wipe intallation
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BTW cwm or twrp backup is nandroid backup!

buhohitr said:
BTW cwm or twrp backup is nandroid backup!
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OK after a clean wipe it did work and i am searching to see if it is smoother .
for now it does look better.
but if you can help me to see how i can get the toc one back i just like to have this opton.
but thank you for helping me today and yesterday.

buhohitr said:
BTW cwm or twrp backup is nandroid backup!
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can you help me get the tock ics back because i think it is the smoothest and i would like to have the option to use it .

danielbr14 said:
can you help me get the tock ics back because i think it is the smoothest and i would like to have the option to use it .
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Are you asking to get back Stock ICS .30 version(4.03)?? or you meant JB .25 version(4.1.1)? the latest is JB 4.2.1

buhohitr said:
Are you asking to get back Stock ICS .30 version(4.03)?? or you meant JB .25 version(4.1.1)? the latest is JB 4.2.1
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both but i think i will be better with the ics so i ould upgrade if i needed.
but any way i dont have the tablet right now o it doesnt metter but if you can just show me the way on how to get the tock ics back it will be great.
thanks you for every thing

danielbr14 said:
both but i think i will be better with the ics so i ould upgrade if i needed.
but any way i dont have the tablet right now o it doesnt metter but if you can just show me the way on how to get the tock ics back it will be great.
thanks you for every thing
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download full Asus firmware, unzip the file then copy the unzipped file to your sdcard, Boot to twrp and flash the zip file. After this you will have 100% stock rom with NO ROOT AND NO CUSTOM RECOVERY. You have to do the root and reinstall TWRP. I think the CROMI 3.4.7 JB 4.1.1 rom would definitely better that ICS stock or 4.1.1 stock.

[Q] Updateing cyanogenmod

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