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[Q] Need some clarification on a couple of things regarding my rooted Mesmerize

Ok, I've got to ask this, even though I know it could probably be pieced together with just the right posts from the forum here. But I've got several mental issues, one of those being comprehending at times, and also I have a bad problem with wording sometimes. So if I can't find all the information I need in a single place (maybe two lol), then the chances of me screwing something up are immensely increased. So please just bear with me, and lemme see if I can spit this out as simply as possible.
I've just rooted my USCC Mesmerize with SuperOneClick, so now I need to know some things. Forgive me if they seem out of order at all, but just gonna ask as they come to my mind.
I wanted to install the Voodoo kernel. Do I have to flash a custom ROM before I can do this, or can I do it just by rooting the phone and having all the OEM software untouched?
I'm pretty sure that no matter what I choose to do next, that I first need to do a full back-up of my phone in case of error. I saw the post mentioning the install of Titanium Backup and then ROM Manager. Before I go and install anything, I just wanna make sure that it IS one of those 2 apps that I'm supposed to use to make that initial back-up. And if not, what app would it be?
I know that CWM has to be installed sometime also. Also in the same post I mentioned above, the OP stated "In ROM Manager I did "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" and chose the Fascinate option and was told that it downloaded the latest ClockworkMod Recovery.". So what I now need to clarify is this. Does ROM Manager just download the newest ClockworkMod Recovery files and then I have to install them manually via the forum sticky, or does it download AND install them completely for me?
And I've seen/heard a lot all night as I've been researching about Nandroid back-ups. But am unclear at this point as to which app is responsible for making those. Not sure if it's one I've already mentioned above, or a totally different one I may have missed. So help there would also be much appreciated.
At this moment, I think those are all the questions I really need a little more clarity on. Other than that, I think I can handle it by myself for the time being. And thank you again for bearing with me as I learn my way around a little bit more. I chose this forum out of all the others I stumbled across last night due to the level of professionalism I've seen so far here. I just wish the other Dev forum I've been a member of for a long time had the same level of professionalism that I've seen here so far lol.

lets try this again...
1. first thing you need to do is flash cwm on your phone...follow the directions on the page...link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=850898
2. figure out what Rom you wanna flash...link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=890
3. finally...flash the voodoo kernel onto your phone and make sure to get the one for the mesmerize...link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=871915
4. as far as backing up you can use titanium or flash your mesmerize back to stock...link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881064
all this worked well for me and i hope it works just as well or better for you!

I hate to say this, but you confused the hell out of me and I've written a lot of how-to's on every one of these subjects.
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1. Install RomManager from the marketplace. Then, in RomManager, install ClockworkMod Reocvery. However, you need to follow the steps in the CWM thread to get it to work correctly.
2. After you have clockworkmod recovery working, do a Nandroid backup. You can do this from RomManager and should. Titanium backups are for apps and such.
3. After you backup immediately flash the Voodoo kernel for the Mesmerize with Voodoo Sound. It's great! But more importantly, it flashes a 'permanent' recovery onto your phone so you can boot straight into a functional recovery and not have to use ODIN.
4. Find ROMs you like and install them. Make sure you always wipe your data before a ROM flash. When you want to go back to your stock ROM, just restore your backup from the recovery.
Note, after you install the Voodoo kernel it will take a while to boot because it is converting your phone's filesystem. Once you have Voodoo enabled you should not flash another kernel unless you turn off the Voodoo lagfix. This can be done in recovery menu it provides.

Request for Nexus S Clockwork Recovery to have Back Up/Restore efs

I've no idea who is responsible for clockworkMod Recovery??
But I'd like to put a request in for a new feature.
Back Up efs & Restore efs
I know this isn't a major issue, but it would of been a life saver for those who flashed NexusSence 0.3 a week or so back. Plus we'll never know when we might end up in the same position. This same issue has occurred before on other phones and will probably occurre again.
Now I know you can back your efs up manually, but it would be so much easier and nicer to have this function available through ClockworkMod Recovery, or even through ROM Manager. That's if it can be done.
Now who do I ask? If someone reading this knows the Dev or Dev's that keep ClockworkMod or ROM Manager updated can they please pass this request on to them, or at least point me in the right direction so that I can request it myself.
Thanks
Marc

[Q] Making a Nandroid backup this easy?

Is it this easy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inLWqtN0J24

You boot into cwm select backup/restore then backup and let it do its thing. Yes its that easy

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You boot into cwm select backup/restore then backup and let it do its thing. Yes its that easy
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Wow.. thank you. it is easy....

I found the mechanics the hardest thing.
I want to be able to go into the bootloader from power up.
Took a bit of reading to find out I need to press both Power up and down turn on the device.
Then we have 3 buttons, volume up and down moves up and down the menu but to select something the power button does not work.

Those directions are for cwm recovery. If your trying to use it and do not have cwm recovery installed your wasting your time.

Got CWM Recovery
Done my Nandroid back up....
Just waiting for ROMs, I do not want to break LTE and I am on Rogers most ROMs say for AT&T but I think the hardware is the same both devices.
Though mind you now I done my Nandroid backup all I need to do is try them.
They do not work or I am not happy, go into CWM Recovery wipe the phone, cache, restore the original ROM, then down load Titanium from the Market I am good to go.
Would really like Cyanogen mod but I read so far our devices Galaxy S2 LTE/Skyrocket are not supported.

Its not.but.there is a cm7 rom in development section. It was a port for the tmobile galaxy s2
But it does work. Just has a problem with landscape orientation

[Request] CWM Recovery for SM-G386F

Hello,
does anybody have the possibility to compile CWM Recovery for our Phones (Galaxy Core LTE SM-G386F)?
I do not exactly now what is neccessary but I can serve with any dumps of the original firmware or partition table.
It is a pain in the axx not having the possibility to restore a nandroid backup or at least creating a full flashable Odin image.
Thank you very much in advance

It's been a year since You started this topic but chance are You still interested and also this topic is one of the first in google when looking for recovery for G386F.
So here it is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...nt/cwm-6-0-3-2-recovery-g386f-ported-t3265542

Thank you, actually this is still of great interest for me as these are my parent's phones which I need to maintain and it is time now to do a proper software overhaul because of lagging etc.
Cheers
Miki4

[Completed] Questions about backup / restore feature on twrp recovery nandroid

Hi guys,
I've got 60 phones to setup, and that's just the biginning. I looked for some solutions to mass deploy them, the fastest way possible. I of course already know titanium backup and applications like that, but i would prefer not to root phone...
I was pretty confident about a nandroid backup : flashing the recovery of the phone is really quick, and i would just have to backup on card or on usb on the go on the master phone, and to restore the backup on all the phone remaining. But it didn't worked as expected, it happens that on each phone, twrp is generating backup in a folder named something like "420khg66g6cca200" and which is different on each phone, and when you put the card in another phone, this one doesn't see the main backup.
I of course tried to sneak arround and generate a backup on the second phone, which i replaced with the content of the first one, but the phone doesn't even boot anymore.
I used twrp because i dind't find another recovery avaiable for the phone, which is by the way a samsung Xcover 3 also known as SM-G388F.
I tried to backup only system, system image, and data and to restore it and the phones is stuck on boot screens.
I tried to backup again with boot partition, same thing happen'd. There's something i don't understand tho, there's some warning about /system partition which can't be mounted when i look around on the recovery of the slave phone.
I'm on stock rom, no root. I looked for similar post (really), but there's mostly guys which make backup / restore on the same phone, and i didn't find my answer.
My questions are : is there someone's who did this before ? Why the phone doesn't boot anymore ? Is there something that's making the backup unrecoverable on another phone ?
In this case, is there anyway to bypass that ?
Thank you by advance.

chnateag said:
Hi guys,
I've got 60 phones to setup, and that's just the biginning. I looked for some solutions to mass deploy them, the fastest way possible. I of course already know titanium backup and applications like that, but i would prefer not to root phone...
I was pretty confident about a nandroid backup : flashing the recovery of the phone is really quick, and i would just have to backup on card or on usb on the go on the master phone, and to restore the backup on all the phone remaining. But it didn't worked as expected, it happens that on each phone, twrp is generating backup in a folder named something like "420khg66g6cca200" and which is different on each phone, and when you put the card in another phone, this one doesn't see the main backup.
I of course tried to sneak arround and generate a backup on the second phone, which i replaced with the content of the first one, but the phone doesn't even boot anymore.
I used twrp because i dind't find another recovery avaiable for the phone, which is by the way a samsung Xcover 3 also known as SM-G388F.
I tried to backup only system, system image, and data and to restore it and the phones is stuck on boot screens.
I tried to backup again with boot partition, same thing happen'd. There's something i don't understand tho, there's some warning about /system partition which can't be mounted when i look around on the recovery of the slave phone.
I'm on stock rom, no root. I looked for similar post (really), but there's mostly guys which make backup / restore on the same phone, and i didn't find my answer.
My questions are : is there someone's who did this before ? Why the phone doesn't boot anymore ? Is there something that's making the backup unrecoverable on another phone ?
In this case, is there anyway to bypass that ?
Thank you by advance.
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ok, sorry for the wrong category.