After updating, will I be able to restore my backups of ICS?
Also, can I just flash Carbon or CM10.1 over the stock rooted 4.04 rom, or will I have to RSD the update first?
You should be able to just go straight to any aftermarket ROM from ICS.
There is a caveat with GPS, beware of it (well-documented in the threads).
If you have taken a full backup of ICS (IE system and boot and data) then you should be good to restore ICS. I've done it several times... I have backups from many different states
Related
Okay i have a stock nadroid backup, I flashed the latest CM7.1 stable. I had all kinds of freeze problems, So i decided to restore my stock backup.
Noticed a problem, NFC on my phone is not working with stock, If i restore the CM7.1 backup it works, But in stock it says error.
i wiped data/cache/dalvik and formatted system/boot/cache and data also.
I even tried flashing a 2.3.4 stock ROM and updating to 2.3.6, Still the NFC doesnt work , Any ideas of what i can do?
Looks like you've done pretty much everything ;;; how about trying any other roms (other than stock and CM), and see what happens???
Hello,
Im using the TeamRogue's recovery (1.3.0) and I made a backup using this, before trying out a rom.
Now i wanted to go back to my backup, so i restored it, however it is stuck at the asus eee pad screen (boot screen).
I've seen more people with this problem and some say wiping the cache after the restore fixes it. Or when using the Super Wipe script, reboot after wipe and then restore.
Now after a lot of tries and wipes i finally got it booting fine.
However, me as stupid as I am, I tried another rom, so now I got the same problem, however only this time i can't get it to work.
Any help appreciated!
Kind regards,
ps. sorry for the grammar mistakes
What ROM were you on when you made a backup and what ROM did you try out?
If you went to an ICS base ROM and went back to a HC base ROM, you must get a HC kernel back, you can achieved this by flashing the HC ROM after your backup is done restoring.
I was on ICS and i flashed a ICS rom.
I also know about the kernel thing, ive flashed to my 3.2 backup to with no problem.
It just hangs on boot, has to be with \boot partition
Saw a few reports of this in the Team Rouge thread.
Same way to fix, nandroid restore and once it's done. immediate flash the ROM the backup is based upon. (No wipe if you want to save your data).
I had this happened to me going once going to an older ICS backup.
So.. to make this clear, i made a backup of the stock ICS.
So, i have to restore my backup and then flash a stock ICS rom or will EOS or some kind work to?
pretty much it is because eos is asop and stock is stock and some things that are different between the two are not restored when you restore a nandroid
Do this at your own risk. Bootloader can stay unlocked for either obviously.
I could not go back and forth from CM10 to custom stock rom nandroids. But I found a way. One extra step:
If you have your custom stock rom nandroid (like Bean that usually has the messed up date of 1970s), CM10 and cwr 6.0.1 with an unlocked bootloader on your phone, go to recovery, nandroid your current rom (date gets corrected on cm10), wipe data, cache, system and dalvik, then flash a FRESH copy of custom rom with kexec (beanbuild8 for example), then flash your stock custom rom nandroid.
It's one extra flash but solved my problem.
To go back to CM10, all you need to do is go to recovery and flash the cm10 nandroid.
Hope this helps someone.
If i clean flash a new Rom but restore the data part from a backup i did earlier from another rom from recovery will it work? Im using TWRP recovery.
ive always had mixed results on this. if youre going from a TW ROM to an AOSP or AOKP rom, likely not. If you use TiB and backup your apps and their respective data, and restore them via the same method, that 99.9999% of the time works
Hi,
I'm running CM 10.2, and using TWRP 2.7.1.2 Recovery.
I think that when I was "cleaning" my phone prior to installing ROMs, I was a little too thorough, since based upon my poor 3G/4G performance/coverage, I guess that my PRL list is pretty minimal.
I gather that the procedure to fix this is roughly:
Make a Nandroid backup from Recovery
install a stock ROM
update to latest PRL
Restore the Nandroid backup
But I don't understand some of the fine details. In particular:
When preparing the Nandroid backup, what options does one use?
What sort of "wipe" if any, does one perform at this point prior to installing the stock ROM
HOW does one install the stock ROM image asanti_c_sprint-user-4.1.2-9.8.2Q-122_XT897_FFW-5-6-release-keys-cid9.xml.zip ?! It looks a little different than custom ROMs
After updating the PRL, what sort of "wipe" should I perform prior to recovering from my Nandroid backup? I'd like to be thorough, but not so thorough that I wipe out the PRL update. Where does that PRL list reside?
Does the Nandroid backup include the ROM images which I flashed? (CM 10.2 and the corresponding GAPPS) If not, then in what order does one flash ROM images and recover my Nandroid backup?
TIA ...
1. Doesn't matter, whatever you feel you need to restore. At a minimum backup system. Backup data if you want your data saved...
2. None, if you use RSD Lite to reinstall stock it will wipe ALL. Everything will be back to stock (including recovery).
3. RSD Lite.
4. PRL List should not be wipe-able from recovery, AFAIK. Factory reset should be fine.
5. The backup will include whatever was currently running on your phone - CM, gapps, any installed applications, etc. Simply restore your backup, no order of operations here. Of course you'll need to reflash TWRP in order to restore your backup (again, flashing with RSD Lite resets the ENTIRE phone, including custom recovery).
If you had taken a backup of the stock setup, you could skip the whole RSD Lite crap and just restore your stock setup, download the PRL, and restore your CM setup. For future reference, step #1 after getting custom recovery is always always ALWAYS take a backup of your working stock setup before making any other changes.
Thanks for your detailed response. As a Mac user, I believe that RSD Lite isn't a viable option for me. I do have another Motorola Photon Q phone with the stock ICS image, but don't know whether that is helpful in this case.
I guess that I need a strategy using adb, fastboot and TWRP. Thanks ...
Sent from my XT897 using Tapatalk
jae_63 said:
Thanks for your detailed response. As a Mac user, I believe that RSD Lite isn't a viable option for me. I do have another Motorola Photon Q phone with the stock ICS image, but don't know whether that is helpful in this case.
I guess that I need a strategy using adb, fastboot and TWRP. Thanks ...
Sent from my XT897 using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The stock backup from that other Q would work. Just do a factory wipe and restore 'system' only from that other Q.