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I am planning to remove ATT junk from my Captivate phone. I have rooted it already. But I want to create a full backup before I start major surgery work on it because I am still testing the phone and within 30days period.
If I find it not a good experience, I may want to return it. And all I want to do at the time is restore from this backup, unroot and return.
Is there a way to achieve this easily on Captivate? Coming from G1, which was easy to hack into. In fact I even wrote a script for it at some point of time.
Also, there are tonnes of ROMs on this forum. Which one is considered the most stable 2.2 ROM?
Rom manager
Flash clockwork
Backup
Your good to go
mcord11758 said:
Rom manager
Flash clockwork
Backup
Your good to go
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That would mean that I need to undo more stuff (remove recovery and rom manager) if I want to return. I heard something about a temporary recovery from Koush which goes away with a reboot. Does that have a backup built into it? Or are u talking about the same thing?
dl this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=464425&d=1292362952
Place on internal sd
Boot recovery using 3 button
ReInstall packages
Repeat
Backup and restore
Backup all
mcord11758 said:
dl this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=464425&d=1292362952
Place on internal sd
Boot recovery using 3 button
ReInstall packages
Repeat
Backup and restore
Backup all
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what is that?...:-D
devsk said:
what is that?...:-D
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Update.zip that gives you clockwork recovery. Do not need to be rooted to use this. Can backup and flash roms
Everything always sems so easy when your already know what you're talking about. But to Idiots and newbies its all strange phrases with no links attached and unknown abbreviations tha only frustrate I wish people would just explaiin just wtf it is they are talking about.
That link for clock work recovery does work and when you press the backup button in Rom manager, The phone will reboot in to recovery mode where you will then select the option to reinstall packages. Then you will be taken to a menu in which you can select to "back up and Restore" your current "Rom"(Stock, unrooted, rooted whatver), just select it and wait a few minutes and then you are backed up!
THen just select reboot.
"Man i didn't realize it how complicated it really is just to make something simple for someone to understand" - a lazy/smart person
Also Rom Manager in the market is great if you are rooted, Makes getting clockwork easy and flashing a breeze Great program, but if you are flashing kernels beware you must backup your kernel separately from your rom because Rom Manager doesn't recognize .zip files by certain kernel flashers SGS kernel Im Prety sure of that I'll hope someone corrects me on that or edit When i find out.
"Just Sayin"
If you've rooted and flashed on a G1 then you should be good. It's not that hard.
matmanchu5 said:
Also Rom Manager in the market is great if you are rooted, Makes getting clockwork easy and flashing a breeze Great program, but if you are flashing kernels beware you must backup your kernel separately from your rom because Rom Manager doesn't recognize .zip files by certain kernel flashers SGS kernel Im Prety sure of that I'll hope someone corrects me on that or edit When i find out.
"Just Sayin"
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Rom manager is a good tool for people getting started, all it is though is a user interface for clockwork recovery. Once you learn how to use clockwork rom manager is relatively useless. Especially when on roms with custom recovery.
You are correct rom manager does not backup kernel or modem. You can not restore a backup of stock over a custom rom without flashing stock kernel and modem
matmanchu5 said:
Everything always sems so easy when your already know what you're talking about. But to Idiots and newbies its all strange phrases with no links attached and unknown abbreviations tha only frustrate I wish people would just explaiin just wtf it is they are talking about.
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Amen, brother!
Hi, this.question might be silly, but still.....
I am planning to flash Lewa Os on my rooted Karbonn a11. I have taken a Nandroid backup.
If, at some point i want to return to my stock os, Can i just restore the backup, or do i need to use flashtool, and connect my phone without the battery etc etc..
PLEASE HELP
I am completely unfamiliar with that tablet but as long as you have recovery and can do a complete wipe and the partitions stay the same then your fine with a restore.
But you cant take my word for it!
Lgrootnoob said:
I am completely unfamiliar with that tablet but as long as you have recovery and can do a complete wipe and the partitions stay the same then your fine with a restore.
But you cant take my word for it!
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Karbonn a11, is a phone, by an Indian company, running Android 4.0.4
but thanks for your help....
Hey!!!
Stop creating dump threads and wait for the answers at the development thread
dont you know xda rules
if no then watch
Hi all, I'm newly registered here, however, I have been coming here to XDA for over two years now as unregistered to browse and become more knowledgeable regarding rooting, unlocking and ROMing my phones. I would like to use the Casual Root/Unlock/Recovery AIO Toolkit and finally have more freedom over my locked down Verizon Galaxy S3. I am currently running MF1 and I'm completely 100 percent stock. I've downloaded Casual, have all the Samsung drivers installed and am anxious to pull the trigger. I just want to confirm I'm on the right page and do diligence first. After I run Casual and Root, unlock the bootloader and install TWRP, would it be wise to immediately boot into recovery and then backup the rooted MF1 firmware and then back up my imei by copying the efs folder to the SD card and my PC? Is this method correct for backing up the imei or is there a specific program for it? I have searched through many custom ROM's and I am planning on flashing Beanstown106's Jelly 'Beans' Build 19 ROM, as I love the fact it's AOSP themed but has a lot of features from Touchwiz. Does this ROM happen to back up the imei automatically by chance? I've already backed up my contacts and important information, so are there many things I'm missing or am I on the right track? Before flashing Jelly 'Beans', would I need to wipe the cache / davlik at all? Or is that only when coming from a different ROM? Any help wouwould be greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance for your time!
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Hi all, I'm newly registered here, however, I have been coming here to XDA for over two years now as unregistered to browse and become more knowledgeable regarding rooting, unlocking and ROMing my phones. I would like to use the Casual Root/Unlock/Recovery AIO Toolkit and finally have more freedom over my locked down Verizon Galaxy S3. I am currently running MF1 and I'm completely 100 percent stock. I've downloaded Casual, have all the Samsung drivers installed and am anxious to pull the trigger. I just want to confirm I'm on the right page and do diligence first. After I run Casual and Root, unlock the bootloader and install TWRP, would it be wise to immediately boot into recovery and then backup the rooted MF1 firmware and then back up my imei by copying the efs folder to the SD card and my PC? Is this method correct for backing up the imei or is there a specific program for it? I have searched through many custom ROM's and I am planning on flashing Beanstown106's Jelly 'Beans' Build 19 ROM, as I love the fact it's AOSP themed but has a lot of features from Touchwiz. Does this ROM happen to back up the imei automatically by chance? I've already backed up my contacts and important information, so are there many things I'm missing or am I on the right track? Before flashing Jelly 'Beans', would I need to wipe the cache / davlik at all? Or is that only when coming from a different ROM? Any help wouwould be greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance for your time!
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To backup your imei/eri check the synergy rom thread. They have a zip to back them up. It's in the attachments. It only takes a few seconds but will save you a world of headache. If you want my opinion that's the first thing you should do once you root, unlock and have your custom recovery. Store that zip on your SD card, PC and cloud(Dropbox, Copy, Box, Mediafire, etc).
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TheAfroSamurai said:
To backup your imei/eri check the synergy rom thread. They have a zip to back them up. It's in the attachments. It only takes a few seconds but will save you a world of headache. If you want my opinion that's the first thing you should do once you root, unlock and have your custom recovery. Store that zip on your SD card, PC and cloud(Dropbox, Copy, Box, Mediafire, etc).
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I greatly appreciate your insight and input TheAfroSamurai. I will check that thread out and get that zip to backup the imei / eri.
K20Z1 said:
I greatly appreciate your insight and input TheAfroSamurai. I will check that thread out and get that zip to backup the imei / eri.
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Here you go : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1281376&d=1345868740
Once you get root and unlock the bootloader, backing up your EMEI is recommended (I did not until I flashed my first ROM). There is a great
thread that the previous poster may have pointed you too (if so, sorry for the repost): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255
Previously you were pointed to the Synergy method (B). But A is very easy too, requiring you to have a terminal emulation app on your phone (I have Rom Toolbox Pro, which has a terminal emulator). Type in the two commands as instructed and it reboots. I then did B and hopefully I am doubly covered.
After that, flash your preferred ROM (lots of really good ones, I use BoneStock 3.4) and you are ready to go.
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Here you go : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1281376&d=1345868740
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Ahh, thanks very much for the link, even easier to find.
Nomad1600 said:
Once you get root and unlock the bootloader, backing up your EMEI is recommended (I did not until I flashed my first ROM). There is a great
thread that the previous poster may have pointed you too (if so, sorry for the repost): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255
Previously you were pointed to the Synergy method (B). But A is very easy too, requiring you to have a terminal emulation app on your phone (I have Rom Toolbox Pro, which has a terminal emulator). Type in the two commands as instructed and it reboots. I then did B and hopefully I am doubly covered.
After that, flash your preferred ROM (lots of really good ones, I use BoneStock 3.4) and you are ready to go.
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I greatly appreciate your help and advice as well, it's nice to know of other possible options backing up the imei. Something else I just thought of, once I root, unlock and get recovery using Casual, should I expect to see a message from Verizon stating that the software running is not official and to visit one of their stores? I have seen others mentioning this, but I'm not sure if and why that pops up. If it does, does it continue to pop up or stay on the screen at all? Or is it something that you can dismiss and you don't see it again?
Do you guys know if terminal emulator comes already installed on the Jelly beans rom by chance? Because that seems the easiest way to do it just by typing in those two commands. However, I would still download that .zip tool from Synergy as backup. Or would that not be needed at all if I was to use terminal emulator?
TheAfroSamurai said:
To backup your imei/eri check the synergy rom thread. They have a zip to back them up. It's in the attachments. It only takes a few seconds but will save you a world of headache. If you want my opinion that's the first thing you should do once you root, unlock and have your custom recovery. Store that zip on your SD card, PC and cloud(Dropbox, Copy, Box, Mediafire, etc).
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After using casual, do I just place that zip on my sdcard pc and cloud and then run it if and only when the imei is lost? Or run it prior to placing it on the SD card and such? Sorry for all the newb questions.
K20Z1 said:
After using casual, do I just place that zip on my sdcard pc and cloud and then run it if and only when the imei is lost? Or run it prior to placing it on the SD card and such? Sorry for all the newb questions.
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After you finish casual place the zip on your external sd card. If you haven't flashed a custom rom with boot to recovery menu you'll have to get to your recovery the hard way. Power down phone, hold vol up and home button at the same time you press power. Keep holding home and vol up key and let power button go. Phone should boot to your custom recovery, either CWM or TRWP depending on what you choose to use. Next go to install and navigate to the Synergy zip and choose install just like flashing a rom, kernel,etc. It will place a Synergy folder on your external sd. That folder will contain the backup zip you'll need in case you lose your IMEI/ERI. Make at least a couple backups of that.
Awesome! I really appreciate the help and quick responses. So once I've done that, if my imei should become lost, I would open that synergy folder and use the backup to restore the imei?
K20Z1 said:
Awesome! I really appreciate the help and quick responses. So once I've done that, if my imei should become lost, I would open that synergy folder and use the backup to restore the imei?
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If you should ever need to just flash the zip in the Synergy folder, hopefully you won't ever need to. Once I got mine restored I haven't had to yet...fingers crossed.
Ok, perfect. That really sums it all up for me. Yea, hopefully you won't ever need it.
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Hi all, I'm newly registered here, however, I have been coming here to XDA for over two years now as unregistered to browse and become more knowledgeable regarding rooting, unlocking and ROMing my phones. I would like to use the Casual Root/Unlock/Recovery AIO Toolkit and finally have more freedom over my locked down Verizon Galaxy S3. I am currently running MF1 and I'm completely 100 percent stock. I've downloaded Casual, have all the Samsung drivers installed and am anxious to pull the trigger. I just want to confirm I'm on the right page and do diligence first. After I run Casual and Root, unlock the bootloader and install TWRP, would it be wise to immediately boot into recovery and then backup the rooted MF1 firmware and then back up my imei by copying the efs folder to the SD card and my PC? Is this method correct for backing up the imei or is there a specific program for it? I have searched through many custom ROM's and I am planning on flashing Beanstown106's Jelly 'Beans' Build 19 ROM, as I love the fact it's AOSP themed but has a lot of features from Touchwiz. Does this ROM happen to back up the imei automatically by chance? I've already backed up my contacts and important information, so are there many things I'm missing or am I on the right track? Before flashing Jelly 'Beans', would I need to wipe the cache / davlik at all? Or is that only when coming from a different ROM? Any help wouwould be greatly appreciated and many thanks in advance for your time!
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Man i was right there with you. Not quite two years, but maybe two months of reading, researching, watching vids, etc. I downloaded the casual too because i am not great with adb commands, etc. I will tell you from personal experience exactly what my opinion is of what you should do. Someone else more experience may have a better way but now that i have become a serial flashaholic hindsight is always 20/20.
1. Find the stock firmware for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 any version whether is be VRBMF1 or older and download Odin. That way if anything happens short of a hard brick you can ALWAYS Odin back to stock if you are completely out of options.
2. Run CASUAL to (a) Root (b) Unlock the Bootloader and (c) download TWRP ; I have used Clockword Mod and TWRP and I personally found TWRP much easier to use
3. First thing I would do is download the Synergy HWkeys backup zip and flash it while you are still stock rooted to backup the imei. Thank God i haven't lost the imei before i backed mine up but that way you have plan b and plan c, etc.
4. Make a TWRP Nandroid backup of your stock rom that way you can always restore back up stock.
After you do that you are good to flash away my brotha. And a note too, remember that for most roms you need to flash gapps separately. I freaked my first flash and thought i broke my phone because i had no google apps but that was noob stuff on my end.
I hope this helps but all these roms and everything are really cool. the reason i came to android in the first place. and i dont donate as much as i should but you gotta give it up to these developers. anyways. later man
happy flashing
Synergy backup works. I recently lost mine and had to restore it. It was super easy to do, but I wasn't sure at first if it was going to work. Couldn't tell you what caused it because I am super careful to download all the correct files to flash Roms. Also all AOSP Roms require you to download the GAPPS for whatever version of android it is running. All TW based Roms already have the GAPPS included in the ROM zip file. Just be careful when switching back and forth between AOSP and TW Roms. A good practice is to wipe everything 3 times to make sure you got everything. Sometimes also there are residual files and/or folders left over from AOSP Roms when switching back to TW so I have a practice of wiping internal storage before I switch back to TW. Just move whatever files you want to save to your external SD card. I switch Roms often so I usually don't have to move very much. I also don't restore apps or data from titanium backup. This most likely can cause problems if you're restoring data from a different ROM.
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Hello everyone,
I am pretty much a big NOOB. I bought a Panasonic T11 a few weeks back. And I rooted it using VROOT, currently I have Kinguser. Replaced Android Keyboard with Google Keyboard in the System Rom using Titanium Backup Pro, and also make 2 software's into system applications. Everything's working fine, its just that it has been a learning experience(I just discovered how to get to recovery mode on this phone today!) and I have a few questions.
1>>I don't have a Stock Rom backup.
I made a backup of my ROM using Android System Recovery <e3> after I Rooted and did the above changes. What are the potential problems I may face in the future?
2>> There are no CWM Recovery or any custom Roms available for this phone.:crying:
The T11 came with an almost stock android. Only thing they did was add Wechat, Cam Scanner, and Cam Card to the ROM. Besides that everything is just stock android, which is a good thing for me:good:
I want to try and flash the Rom from other devices with the same processor(MSM8625Q), is this a good idea?
Thanks.
eliezer.kt said:
Hello everyone,
I am pretty much a big NOOB. I bought a Panasonic T11 a few weeks back. And I rooted it using VROOT, currently I have Kinguser. Replaced Android Keyboard with Google Keyboard in the System Rom using Titanium Backup Pro, and also make 2 software's into system applications. Everything's working fine, its just that it has been a learning experience(I just discovered how to get to recovery mode on this phone today!) and I have a few questions.
1>>I don't have a Stock Rom backup.
I made a backup of my ROM using Android System Recovery <e3> after I Rooted and did the above changes. What are the potential problems I may face in the future?
2>> There are no CWM Recovery or any custom Roms available for this phone.:crying:
The T11 came with an almost stock android. Only thing they did was add Wechat, Cam Scanner, and Cam Card to the ROM. Besides that everything is just stock android, which is a good thing for me:good:
I want to try and flash the Rom from other devices with the same processor(MSM8625Q), is this a good idea?
Thanks.
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as for your recovery question, Android System <e3> does not make backup, it lets users (or service centers) manually update a phone if it needs an update or has something corrupt. you can also factory reset if someone has stolen it and wants to use it themselves (but thieves will never know that ). A custom recovery is say a way to have a way back if something goes wrong, say you flashed a rom but it only bootloops, you would use your backup and it would take you back to the way it was with all the apps you had before, do you need a custom recovery? yes and no, its nice to have one so you can get back. you dont need one but i dont think your changes will be a problem in the future.
for your second question: Nay, that is a Bad idea, if you were to try to flash that it would brick your phone. you can only flash roms if the device is almost identical, it has to have the same resolution/cpu/gpu/screen size i dont remember the order.
welcome to xda mate
Thanks for the quick reply.. It's was really informative. I just checked the backup zip created my the android e3 and all it had was the system folder
So to make it short. I need a custom recovery mod to back up my ROM or to flash a custom ROM. But, there are no custom recovery for my phone so what are my options?
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eliezer.kt said:
Thanks for the quick reply.. It's was really informative. I just checked the backup zip created my the android e3 and all it had was the system folder
So to make it short. I need a custom recovery mod to back up my ROM or to flash a custom ROM. But, there are no custom recovery for my phone so what are my options?
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You could request someone on your device forum to build a custom recovery for you. Also, for starters you must visit the thread in my signature to get some great tips to take advantage of your rooted phone without doing anything too risky.
eliezer.kt said:
Thanks for the quick reply.. It's was really informative. I just checked the backup zip created my the android e3 and all it had was the system folder
So to make it short. I need a custom recovery mod to back up my ROM or to flash a custom ROM. But, there are no custom recovery for my phone so what are my options?
Sent from my Panasonic T11 using XDA Free mobile app
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like Atishay Jain said you could ask someone to make a custom recovery and from there someone might make a rom (probably no time soon) you could make your own rom once you get a recovery working. i would not use that same backup from the default recovery, and yeah pretty much custom recovery are the only way to flash roms for you.
Will try that.. Thanks
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I got this tablet early (Christmas gift) and proceeded to root using vampirefo's rooting method. It worked and all was good until I noticed one of my games was part of the system. I go to delete it with lucky patcher as usual. My next book ended up in a boot loop and I ended up deleting the sys/data partitions hoping to reflash my backup. Well that didn't work and now I've got a tablet with no os installed.
Can someone please link/email a full android 5.0 os for this tablet? I've looked for one to no avail and vampirefo has killed his project sadly .
Btw, thank you vampirefo for your rooting method, it works
Do you still need the rom? Because I can get you a TWRP nandroid backup, but I don't know if you still need it.
I would greatly appreciate a full rom for this.
I have yet to find one or buy a new tablet.
OK, I can get you a nandroid backup tomorrow, but I have one quick question: You said you used vampirefo's rooting method, did you remove encryption on your tablet?
Here's the nandroid backup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/62evsgqvpc2vt0e/Ares85.1nandroid.zip?dl=1 It's already rooted with busybox installed. Just extract the zip onto your SD card (or internal storage if you have encryption disabled) and restore through TWRP.
Sorry that I haven't gotten back to you. I am downloading now and yes I did disable encryption. I hope to have my tablet working again with your backup. Will thank you once I'm successful
[email protected] said:
Sorry that I haven't gotten back to you. I am downloading now and yes I did disable encryption. I hope to have my tablet working again with your backup. Will thank you once I'm successful
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Have you restored the backup yet?
I tried but I was unable to format a system partition large enough for the system image. I ended up buying a new tablet, fully backed up and rooted now
Thanks for the help though Star
[email protected] said:
I tried but I was unable to format a system partition large enough for the system image. I ended up buying a new tablet, fully backed up and rooted now
Thanks for the help though Star
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OK, well you're welcome anyways. Sorry it didn't work for you.
I am having the same issue....how can I install this through TWRP when I have no ADB and am stuck in DNX mode....I know I really goofed this one up