Does back up recover everything. Like a clock work recovery. New phone with old SIM and old memory card. What will restore? Will give me back all my apps or is that on the USB of old phone? Can I even use clock work with new phone? Or must it be unlocked?
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When I have done a nandroid restore I usually get all the apps that were there when I backed it up. It also saves the user settings for the apps and anything the way you customized it (like wallpaper, widgets, launcher, etc.). It doesn't affect internal or external sd card.
You need to have CWM in the first place to restore the backup though. And I don't know about using a backup from another phone...especially if its not the same model.
In order to restore you must first root, have CWM, and make a nandroid backup. You can't restore anything until you have a backup to restore from.
U CANNOT restore a nandroif backul from a completely different phone to a new one, unless they are the same model (eg skyrocket to skyrocket)
If its same phone but not rooted can i
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If its same phone but not rooted can i
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Exactly the same yes. Just flash cwm first in odin.
Hi, can you backup using TWRP on the ATT One X to do a Nandroid backup to your computer?
The One X has so little space, and I don't want to be saving it on my phone.
Thank you!
I don't think so mate, pretty sure you can only back it up to the phone.
There's nothing stopping you from copying it to the PC afterwards though and then deleting it.
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I guess you could make the backup then place it on your computer. You would need to find the nandroid at sdcard>TWRP>backups>randomcharacters>(backupname)
Never tried so I'm not sure if you can successfully restore it later but makes sense
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This is probably as simple as S-off on new phone and restoring old phone's NANDROID backup to new device, but I wanted to make sure I am not missing anything.
So I decided that instead of having to **** with the cover contacts on my existing phone, I would pay t-mobile the $5 to trade in my current 4g for a new 4g in hopes that it won't have the unresponsive touch screen problem due to aftermarket battery.
I want to have the exact same configuration on the new phone as the old phone did and wondering what would be the recommended approach of accomplishing this? I have a custom Kernel, custom rom, and titanium backup pro currently, with 4 ext recovery. What do the pros suggest to make sure it is a flawless transition between phones?
TIA for your suggestions, because even though I have successfully rooted many phones, I have never tried to "clone" a phone before.
S-off
Root
Install custom recovery ( 4ext)
Format all partitions except sdcard
Superwipe (just in case)
Restore nandroid
Enjoy
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S-off
Root
Install custom recovery ( 4ext)
Format all partitions except sdcard
Superwipe (just in case)
Restore nandroid
Enjoy
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Thanks!...I would have probably forgotten the format/superwipe steps.
Is it possible to root the stock ICS rom (1.27 hboot) without wiping all of the phone's data? I was going to root my wife's sensation and install a custom rom, but she's been using it for almost a year on the stock un-rooted rom and she'd like to backup all of her apps as well as their data with titanium backup before hand so they can be restored on the new rom. All of the rooting methods I've seen all require a factory reset or wipe so I was just wondering if there was a method to achieve this that I have overlooked. Sure am glad I unlocked and rooted mine way back before the ICS update, heh.
I back up with titanium backup pro, you can do a batch restore of the apps and data with that. Also you can save files to computer and restore from there. What exactly is she not wanting to lose.? If it's files just put them on the computer and then restore from there, if it's applications titanium backup will take care of that. Hope this helps
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I back up with titanium backup pro, you can do a batch restore of the apps and data with that. Also you can save files to computer and restore from there. What exactly is she not wanting to lose.? If it's files just put them on the computer and then restore from there, if it's applications titanium backup will take care of that. Hope this helps
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I know all of that, that's what I want to do. The problem is that Titanium backup requires root. How can I backup her apps and data if I have to wipe the phone to get root in the first place? I just need a way to at least temporarily gain root so that I can run titanium and create the backups. Then I can unlock, s-off, flash a custom rom, install titanium and restore the backups. All of the methods of rooting that I've been able to find require a factory reset/wipe so all of the data and apps would be gone, making it pointless to run a backup.
Oh I understand now, try my backup from market it does not require root. Sorry I misunderstood. Hope this solves your problems.my back up will do the job. Simply search in market for My backup.
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Oh I understand now, try my backup from market it does not require root. Sorry I misunderstood. Hope this solves your problems.my back up will do the job. Simply search in market for My backup.
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Without root, my backup will only backup apps, no data.
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Without root, my backup will only backup apps, no data.
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If you don't want loss of data and want to root the pure stock phone.. Then my soff is the way.. Check the link guide in my signature
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Hello everybody. I need some clearance. My final goal in the Scheme of things is to Back up all my data, install the newest version of Cyanogen Mod, Restore Cyanogen so that i get all my apps and data back, and then eventually restore everything to stock so I can trade in he phone, and then repeat the process with a new phone. Can anybody tell me some of the first things I should do, to nudge me in the right direction?
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Back it up on Google.
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Also, read more. Some of the things you want to do can't be done in the order you want, and restoring a Nandroid from a different device is a great way to brick.
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It's also not a good idea to restore app data (via something like Titanium Backup) between different ROMs.
There's an app called. Scandisk that will b/u your internal sd to your ext sd. User data only I believe.
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There's an app called. Scandisk that will b/u your internal sd to your ext sd. User data only I believe.
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You can also just plug it into a computer and copy it off to your hard drive.
But to the OP, I would heed the warnings about restoring a nandroid backup on a different phone.
I'm not sure I follow the logic of installing a custom ROM only to restore to stock and trade the device in.
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You can also just plug it into a computer and copy it off to your hard drive.
But to the OP, I would heed the warnings about restoring a nandroid backup on a different phone.
I'm not sure I follow the logic of installing a custom ROM only to restore to stock and trade the device in.
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I think the OP wants to get a ROM running on their current phone then Nandroid it and restore the Nandroid on a different phone. Even on the exact same model of phones, restoring a different phone's Nandroid is an excellent way to get yourself a very expensive paperweight.
To clarify my logic, i wanted to turn in my phone in about a year, so I have a year to mess around on Cyanogen Mod, then when my phone contract expires down the way, upgrade my phone.
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Use Google and tibu and you should have everything backed up while you play around with your phone. heed the advice on not updating app data, apps are ok, with Tibu.
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To clarify my logic, i wanted to turn in my phone in about a year, so I have a year to mess around on Cyanogen Mod, then when my phone contract expires down the way, upgrade my phone.
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What provider are you with? I don't know of any that make you trade in old phones.
That said, I would definitely not try restoring a nandroid from one phone to another, even if it's the same model.
Even restoring data from a Titanium Backup would be dicey. The best I'd do would be to restore apps only (or better yet, just download them again on the new phone). It doesn't take that long to set things back up on a new phone.
Restoring Nandroid from one phone to another of the same model is fine. It works on Android phones since the beginning of time, as long as the backup includes only /system, /boot and /data. In that case it's also a non-damaging action, since on Skyrocket, like on HTC phones, there is no Samsung weirdness of holding a recovery in the kernel, but recovery is a separate partition - and you can still boot to recovery, even if you restored a corrupted backup, so no need even for Odin.
I don't restore system data from Tibu period, even if it's just dumping it right back onto the same ROM. I've had too many problems in the past with it corrupting something or another, or causing countless FC's that fixing permissions doesn't solve, requiring a clean wipe and reflash.
I've never had a problem flashing app data, just so long as you go through the list of apps carefully and make sure that absolutely nothing system or stock (including stock email, calendar, browser, etc) is being saved. Restore user apps and user app data ONLY with Tibu and you're pretty safe.
I'm with AT&T. By trade in, I ment selling it back to AT&T for some cash value back. And I can be mistaken, but don't they also place your old sim card into your new phone?
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Yea, they usually use the same SIM. You want to trade it in in a year and you're worrying about this s..t now? You'll probably brick it before then.
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Yeah. Mid January of 2014. That's when. And thanks for the good luck :/
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Yeah. Mid January of 2014. That's when. And thanks for the good luck :/
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So you've got a year to read up and learn how to not brick your phone doing it, then? There are stickies at the top of each forum. Combined, they explain how to do about 95-97% of what the typical XDA user will do with their Skyrocket. Before you can do what you want to do, you have to understand why parts of it are impossible to do in the order you want to do them, and why other parts are risky to the point that you might, if you're not careful, screw up any chance of resale.
Thanks TJ. I'll take you up on that.
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