I backed up my rooted Inspire and I swap different backups of different roms but the question i had was if my phone was lost would i be able to just restore a rom to a new phone or would i have issues becuase i did not have the original microsd card. In other words do you have to also backup your microsd card separately to a computer just incase you had your phone lost or stolen to restore a backup image?
Wouldn't work, or at least I don't think it would work as you described it. The new Inspire (or old one other then the one you lost) would also have to be rooted. If it wasn't rooted you wouldn't be able to get in cwr to restore the back-up.
If your phone is stolen you can get a new one root it and install your backups from cmw onto that phone no problems.
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so my power plugin/usb port is broken i can no longer charge my phone, my sd card still works and has a recent back up on it, im wondering after i root my new inspire if it will be as simple as installing clockworkmod and restoring the backup from my sd card, im wondering if this is possible with a brand new inspire mine is 6 months old, or if there is any changes to the inspire that i should be aware of, i also use a custom 4EXT recovery, will i have to install that again before restore, any knowledge and help would be greatly appreciated, thank you
Yes. Just root your new phone, install 4ext recovery and restore backup.
greentrees89 said:
so my power plugin/usb port is broken i can no longer charge my phone, my sd card still works and has a recent back up on it, im wondering after i root my new inspire if it will be as simple as installing clockworkmod and restoring the backup from my sd card, im wondering if this is possible with a brand new inspire mine is 6 months old, or if there is any changes to the inspire that i should be aware of, i also use a custom 4EXT recovery, will i have to install that again before restore, any knowledge and help would be greatly appreciated, thank you
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CWM recovery restores the data partition as a mirror image of the original (including device specific information) and this can be a problem should the Inspire you replaced ever get back into circulation as a refurb. I wouldn't worry too much about that, but just to be safe, when I did this with my own damaged Inspire, I did a full CWM restore to the new phone, but then did a Titanium backup of the apps and settings, then wiped and restored the TB backup to the fresh Inspire. This ensures that any device specific info gets cleared. Yeah, I'm a little anal, but what the heck.
I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (rooted stock 4.0.4). I decided I would test out Clockworkmod touch recovery before doing anything too serious with it. So, I made a backup, rebooted, deleted an app, went back to recovery, and restored my backup. But, while it was restoring my data, it suddenly stopped and said "Error while restoring /data!" I rebooted and, after waiting through a really long boot, it booted into a semi-reset version of my phone. All of the apps claim to be installed but will not start.
So, thinking it could be a touch recovery issue, I flashed an older version of clockworkmod recovery and tried restoring after clearing my data, cache, factory reset, and Dalvik cache. Still, the exact same thing happened. I also tried restoring older backups, but the exact same thing happened.
What is going on, and what should I do? Thank you for your time.
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I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (rooted stock 4.0.4). I decided I would test out Clockworkmod touch recovery before doing anything too serious with it. So, I made a backup, rebooted, deleted an app, went back to recovery, and restored my backup. But, while it was restoring my data, it suddenly stopped and said "Error while restoring /data!" I rebooted and, after waiting through a really long boot, it booted into a semi-reset version of my phone. All of the apps claim to be installed but will not start.
So, thinking it could be a touch recovery issue, I flashed an older version of clockworkmod recovery and tried restoring after clearing my data, cache, factory reset, and Dalvik cache. Still, the exact same thing happened. I also tried restoring older backups, but the exact same thing happened.
What is going on, and what should I do? Thank you for your time.
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There may have been a corruption in your data backup. Just delete that backup and make a new one.
Nope, I tried all three of my backups and had the same problem with all three. Plus, I can't simply make a new backup. I tried restoring to the backup and lost my stuff because it didn't finish restoring my data.
I'm having some issues with cwm too. Sometimes when I'm trying toi recover, it says "md5 mismatch", maybe its a linked problem?
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So, I think I figured it out. Apparently, I only get this error when my backup contains more than a certain number of apps (or possibly the /data is over a certain size). Granted, I do have over 350 apps, but why is CWM Recovery messing up while trying to restore a big backup? It really should not affect it, but it seems to. So, I will be backing up with Titanium for my apps, and making nandroid backups only when I have under about 350 apps installed. If anybody else has any insight, please share it with me. Thanks.
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Okay, I think I finally figured it out. The reason it was not restoring properly was because I had about 350 user apps installed. My guess is that, while restoring, the recovery (CWM recovery in my case) puts the /data onto the RAM, and the RAM is not large enough to hold that much at once. I deleted a lot of apps, backed up in CWM recovery, and restored back to the backup, and everything worked flawlessly. I am surprised that no one has ever had this problem. So, in the future, I am making Titanium backups of all my apps, batch uninstalling a bunch of them from within Titanium (so that I have under 300 at the most), and then making a backup. Then, I can flash a new ROM, recover, or whatever and finally use Titanium to put all my apps and data back. I just thought I would post this in case anyone else ever finds this problem. It was really frustrating for me, but the insufficient RAM theory seems to explain it. Post your thoughts on the matter.
Eric_Eric_Eric said:
I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (rooted stock 4.0.4). I decided I would test out Clockworkmod touch recovery before doing anything too serious with it. So, I made a backup, rebooted, deleted an app, went back to recovery, and restored my backup. But, while it was restoring my data, it suddenly stopped and said "Error while restoring /data!" I rebooted and, after waiting through a really long boot, it booted into a semi-reset version of my phone. All of the apps claim to be installed but will not start.
So, thinking it could be a touch recovery issue, I flashed an older version of clockworkmod recovery and tried restoring after clearing my data, cache, factory reset, and Dalvik cache. Still, the exact same thing happened. I also tried restoring older backups, but the exact same thing happened.
What is going on, and what should I do? Thank you for your time.
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its better to use titanium backup application for you.user friendly and worthy..
hello,
i am new here and my english is not so good but i will try to explain beacause i need help
yesterday my s3 get a bootloop after it freeze
i have not make a backup allready before. my s3 is rooted but original ROM.
it works great but yesterday i cant start it again. i think about my data and make a backup. after this i make a reset full wipe and restore the data an so on..
but i restore the bootloop!
what is the f... mistake there?
when i will see the explorer with bakup i have system boot data cache... i think the mistake is in DATA.zip?
what should i do i will never lost my data! short messages and so on, its warranty?
ok maybe i have a solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35367320
any problems with this? a guy is trying to fix his phone (exact model) and believes a stock wiped backup will help...basically can he even use my backup with his, or is my backup somehow linked to my phone?
It should work if it is the same model as they have the same system.