Hi all,
After a very hard week that began with a bad firmware installed on my device and continued with 4 days of recovering all tha apps and the date on my device including the xbmc database.
I would like to avoid that for the next time, how do i make a full backup of my device? i want to backup everything: firmware, apps, settings, data, e-v-e-r-y t-h-i-n-g.
is there a way to create an .img file of my device and in case of need just use odin to recover ?
my t-r42 is noot rooted and i want to make the backup before rooting.
thanks,
Boris.
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Hey Guys, I'm a little bit of a noob here. I have had my captivate for about 6 months now and I started to get a little frustrated with the way the Captivate was set up compared to my old HTC Hero. I didn't have to root the Hero and could do anything with it I wanted. With the captivate it was another story. I rooted the new Captivate and it has been a wild ride. I follow the forums to see what is available after having Super User installed. I have to say I went a little crazy into the exploration of what i can and cant do. I learned what I cant do the hard way and spent almost 3 day's having problems with odin3 one touch flasher. Once i got everything back running to factory settings I decided to just set up the phone the way I like it and updated the config. for example I added the root access and updated the settings.db file to allow 3rd party apk installs. I than also deleted the wealth of useless crap At&T Preloaded onto the OS such as the apps and the 20 AT&T contacts. Fortunately now my phone and layout is exactly to where I want it. Unfortunately now I am afraid to perform other root mods on the phone and have to re flash the original factory settings on it and have to set it up all over again. I am not much of a programmer but do know end user support very well and was hoping that there would be a way to create a backup of the root directory so that in case I brick my phone (happend twice when I tried to replace the launcher program) I can just flash my backup so that I don't have to install apps, configure settings, and adjust the layout all over again? I was thinking of creating an update.zip would do it that i could keep on my sd card and flash it from recovery.
Can Somebody please Help!!!
Thanks,
Jay
Generally speaking, unless you use the same ROM, it is a bad idea to restore system settings.
Check out Titanium Backup from the Market. It works really well at backing up apps, data, and system data. Be sure to get the donate version so you don't have to manually install every single app (huge time/effort saver). It won't give you an update.zip file, but if you reinstall it and point it at it's backup folder, it can restore all of your data with minimal effort.
If you are prone to bricking your phone, back it up to an external SD card by entering "/<external sd>/Titanium Backup" as the backup path, replacing <external sd> with the real path (it's different on 2.1 and 2.2 ROMs).
Good luck.
Thanks, I actually already have Titanium Backup lite and i backed it up using the batch Backup all user apps + System Data but have no idea how to restore these backups if my phone bricks. I dont necessarily want to flash the phone to try it out. Any chance you know of where i can find out a little bit more information on how to restore backups with this app?
I also have the ClockworkMod Recovery where i have backed up my phone to an SD card. It says during the process Backing up system, data, datadata and than generates an md5sum. After this the phone boots back up and I was wondering if recovering using ClockworkMod is the same as flashing an update.zip rom but instead of using the stock version? Also this app seems a lot easier to use at there is an option to reboot into recovery and select roms
Hey guys,
so, I have already flashed my ROM from stock to something else. That was a year ago.
But this ROM got old, ICS is out, and I want it.
Is there a way to save all my data? I have some games, that have progress that I dont want to loose.
I have contacts that I dont want to loose. Messages and pictures that I still need.
What is the right procedure for me to upgrade ROM to newer one? I'm upgrading to Fallout v2 if that matters.
Thank you for answers
Regards, Anze
You need to read up about Nandroid backups that you take from recovery (cwm or 4ext) these are extremely useful if you wish to revert the device after you've flashed a new one rom as they take a snapshot of the devices partitions.
You should ensure that you take one of these before flashing a new rom.
I'd recommend that you sync your contacts with google (in the cloud) that way they'll always return to your device following a clean install
Otherwise the best application is titanium backup which enables you to make backups of your applications and there associated data, which is useful to reinstall your applications after a rom upgrade.
You may also wish to restore data with apps together selectively after flashing a new rom due to possible data incompatibilities with versions resulting in FC. If so, within TB you could try PREFERENCES > RESTORATION SETTINGS > MIGRATE SYSTEM DATA or leave out data only restoring the app.
Hi all,
Before my old tablet was returned to the store, I had made a nandroid backup of all my files. This is the same backup I tried to flash over my new tablet, which made s*** hit the fan, hard.
That being said, I've got my tablet working, rockin, and rollin. But I do have some important files that I'd like to extract from that nandroid backup. Whats the best way of going about doing this?
In specific, I know that CWM allows me to perform a selective restore, where I can choose which partition to restore individually. Would this method be advisable?
In particular, I'm trying to get some of the settings files for some of my apps, for example, FuelLogPro. It had all of my saved fill-ups for the past few months and that's data I'd rather keep (although I won't be crying if I lose it).
Any advice?
Thanks,
Opethfan89
You have this app : Rom Toolbox lite which works well
Try it, really simply and free.
Hi,
I have 30 Kindle Fires that I would like to upgrade to Jelly Bean. I rooted one of them and installed TWRP. After I complete all the changes to the system (installing apps, configuring wifi, etc), I will make a TWRP backup.
If I root the others and install TWRP, can use the restore function to install a copy of the backup on all the others?
Dont listen to what they say. Doing this is not the best idea as nandroids back up alot of device spicific stuff and should never be restored onto another device. This could cause huge issues like IMEI clashes.
I have looked several reviews and descriptions of Titanium Backup but I cannot find a definitive answer to the ability of a backup to rollback everything to a particular point of time.
I am looking for backup software that will do a complete back up of my Android cell phone to a PC or card so that a restore will roll back the entire system to the point in time when the backup was done. I would like everything that was present on the cell phone at the time of the backup including system files to be restored and everything that was not present at the time of the backup to be deleted including any changed system files and any and all updates. Ideally it would be like Ghost or AMOEI Backerupper software for the PC where an image file is created during backup and the restore uses that image to do the restore wiping out what is presently on the phone. There actually does not have to be an image file nor does everything have to be deleted but the result of the restore would have to be as if there was an image file, i.e., everything the same way it was at the time of the backup.
Can Titanium Backup do that? If not is there an app or software that will do that.
kenwood850 said:
I have looked several reviews and descriptions of Titanium Backup but I cannot find a definitive answer to the ability of a backup to rollback everything to a particular point of time.
I am looking for backup software that will do a complete back up of my Android cell phone to a PC or card so that a restore will roll back the entire system to the point in time when the backup was done. I would like everything that was present on the cell phone at the time of the backup including system files to be restored and everything that was not present at the time of the backup to be deleted including any changed system files and any and all updates. Ideally it would be like Ghost or AMOEI Backerupper software for the PC where an image file is created during backup and the restore uses that image to do the restore wiping out what is presently on the phone. There actually does not have to be an image file nor does everything have to be deleted but the result of the restore would have to be as if there was an image file, i.e., everything the same way it was at the time of the backup.
Can Titanium Backup do that? If not is there an app or software that will do that.
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Assuming I correctly understand your requirements the goal is easily achieved by a so-called Nandroid backup via TWRP.
Oswald Boelcke said:
Assuming I correctly understand your requirements the goal is easily achieved by a so-called Nandroid backup via TWRP.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will have to look into that further. The warnings about possibly "bricking" your phone did not make that my first choice. I suspect however that risk would come regardless of the actual software used to accomplish what I want. It must be the nature of the beast.
kenwood850 said:
Thanks for the suggestion. I will have to look into that further. The warnings about possibly "bricking" your phone did not make that my first choice. I suspect however that risk would come regardless of the actual software used to accomplish what I want. It must be the nature of the beast.
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Whenever you commence to modify your stock system (i.e. rooting, flashing of custom ROMs or recovery) there's always the possibility to brick a device. But by my experience, it only occurs if the installation procedure isn't followed. And actually, so far I haven't heard about anybody who bricked a device by flashing TWRP through ODIN. With TWRP, people have occasionally issues in flashing ROMs afterwards but this is more related to a "bad" TWRP version. Pending on the device the "latest" version of TWRP isn't always the best (e.g. for my Samsung GT-i9305). Other have sometimes the problem that TWRP doesn't "stick" after flashing because they didn't initiate the first boot after installation into TWRP, and in turn the device replaced the custom recovery by the stock one during reboot.