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restore from backup

Ok so imnot really enjoying my experience of rooting so far and want to go back.
As soon as I rooted I made a backup using ROM manager then flashed to LBC Mod. If I want to go back to that backup do I need to go back to my original ROM or can I just restore from that backup from the new ROM I flashed?

Hmm I have ask same type of thread and waiting for repy :/
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steste01 said:
Ok so imnot really enjoying my experience of rooting so far and want to go back.
As soon as I rooted I made a backup using ROM manager then flashed to LBC Mod. If I want to go back to that backup do I need to go back to my original ROM or can I just restore from that backup from the new ROM I flashed?
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1) If I understand correctly you got S-off
2) then root
3) Then used Rom manager to perform a backup.
4) then you flashed LBC ROm
you know want to return to step 3) ?
You can either use ROM manager to restore the device to your previous backup or you could boot into recovery (CWM) and again use the restore option to restore your backup that you took earlier.

ben_pyett said:
1) If I understand correctly you got S-off
2) then root
3) Then used Rom manager to perform a backup.
4) then you flashed LBC ROm
you know want to return to step 3) ?
You can either use ROM manager to restore the device to your previous backup or you could boot into recovery (CWM) and again use the restore option to restore your backup that you took earlier.
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Yeah i want to go back to my backup. SO i can just to that restore right now and it will restore my original ROM?
Thanks for your help. I know it can be annoying with so many newbie questions.

steste01 said:
Yeah i want to go back to my backup. SO i can just to that restore right now and it will restore my original ROM?
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Yes it will.
Although, may I ask what you were not liking about the rooting experience and the LBC ROM?

ben_pyett said:
Yes it will.
Although, may I ask what you were not liking about the rooting experience and the LBC ROM?
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I have the same problem.
After you restore it, can we update it normally since we have broke the guarantee by you know... rooting 'em
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deatH00Stalker said:
I have the same problem.
After you restore it, can we update it normally since we have broke the guarantee by you know... rooting 'em
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what do you mean by update normally, android market or ota updates?
I'd personally avoid ota updates after getting soff and root.
And again can I ask what it was about the custom experience, that you didn't like?
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deatH00Stalker said:
After you restore it, can we update it normally since we have broke the guarantee by you know... rooting 'em
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I don't think there should be any problem doing an OTA update if you're on stock with root but you may loose root.

Well I bought this phone 2 monts ago and the it was in firmware version v10g_00 which is te latest till now.. so I have no expirience in updating, pluging in to comp and update it an so on...
so sorry if I looked so newbie
Anyway, yes it is about the ota update... where you choose the update notification and then update it via computer
and my question is can a backuped phone updates again like ... lets say updating it to gingerbread (that's what I'm facing)
Sorry for the interruption
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How do I get all my apps after flashing CM7

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.

jcbofkc said:
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?

johnnyp500 said:
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.

jcbofkc said:
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.

jcbofkc said:
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!

r4d14n7 said:
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?

r4d14n7 said:
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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johnnyp500 said:
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.

[Q] Restoring CWM nandroid backups

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!!

farshad525hou said:
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.

jimbridgman said:
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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restoring from a backup

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.

JCon0320 said:
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!

Problem restoring nandroid backups?

Helllo everyone, I have problem in restoring nandroid backups generated by CWM 5.0.2.0
When I restore backup, I get boot loops and cleaning up dalvik cache and cache wont help. First i thought it maybe a random error but it has happened even after lot of tries. I dont have a faulty sd card.
The backup i was trying to restore was of oxygen 2.3.2 with a theme installed + some apps
Can anyone suggest a a solution?

If you are getting bootloops then sorry to say the backup is not a healthy one, you need to reflash ROM. I also had problems with themes installed, now I made a backup keeping everything stock with apps.

Oxygen has inbuilt app2sd script. This causes problems many times. I would recommend restoring the system first, boot it up den restore both data and sdext.

sarus_b said:
Helllo everyone, I have problem in restoring nandroid backups generated by CWM 5.0.2.0
When I restore backup, I get boot loops and cleaning up dalvik cache and cache wont help. First i thought it maybe a random error but it has happened even after lot of tries. I dont have a faulty sd card.
The backup i was trying to restore was of oxygen 2.3.2 with a theme installed + some apps
Can anyone suggest a a solution?
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Switch to twrp or amonra(if I'm not mistaken amonra can restore cwm backups).
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if Im not mistaken, we can flash a recovery within a recovery right?

sarus_b said:
if Im not mistaken, we can flash a recovery within a recovery right?
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Yes, just download xxx.zip and flash, no problems, also they are very stable if you are wondering...
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You could have an error, like bad block, in your internal memory. To rule that out, install some other ROM fresh & see if you get errors.
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If the backup isn't restoring, then you should try restoring the backup, then reflashing the rom. I would recommend switching to amon ra recovery or twrp since they don't have that problem and imho they're better.

It seems the theme I installed had some problems since they replace system files such as framework-res.apk , settings.apk etc.
I flashed clean oxygen, installed lot of apps, created and restored the backup and it seems to work flawlessly now.
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You could have an error, like bad block, in your internal memory. To rule that out, install some other ROM fresh & see if you get errors.
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Thats not the case, if it was i would have phone's PCB replaced by now.
bluespoon4 said:
If the backup isn't restoring, then you should try restoring the backup, then reflashing the rom. I would recommend switching to amon ra recovery or twrp since they don't have that problem and imho they're better.
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This solution may also work i think.