So my screen broke (the digitizer only) so im able to see the screen, and the phone boots perfectly, I want to know if anyone knows a way i can Backup the whole system or program data at least? I cant access Titanium, cant access ROM Manager, and well since there is no Clockwork Flash or whatnot, i cant do a backup to SD =/
EDIT: Ok. im brainstorming, I just flashed NVFlash, I used external, so ill back up from there, and try to restore on the other phone. ADB is enabled now, so if anyone knows their way around ADB, maybe pull all the files and push into the new phone? Any ideas? Thanks Guys.
Sadly, from playing around, I Reset my phone and could not back up the data, just files. oh well. =/
SOLVED MYSELF. LOL
So in case anyone runs through this problem, this i what i did to recover the files/and backup!
Recover Files:
1. Install NVFlash internal
2. Open Clockwork and MOUNT, and you should be able to recover photos/music, etc.
Recover Everything else:
1. Re-do NVFlash external
2. Open Clockwork and BACKUP (it backs up to SD CARD), and then just RESTORE from the new phone.
Nevermind..
Hi, I'm a bit confused about the various backup tools in Android. (I've got a rooted Galaxy S3 with a old custom rom, which I'm planning to wipe everything and switch to CyanogenMod.)
Is there a way to take an complete "image" (like Clonezilla, etc) of my phone, so that if I mess things up, I can restore my phone to the exact state of the backup?
Here is what I've researched on the net, which I'm confused about:
- If I go to CWM recovery and do a backup there (is it a "nandroid" backup?) then I think it gets the "Operating System" part of the phone, but doesnt include the internal SD Card storage? (which is a problem because most apps store their data there, and won't recover properly if it's been wiped?)
- Titanium backup can backup my apps, SMS, contacts etc, but it won't do the "Operating System", so it won't backup my ROM?
- There's also the ADB backup command, is it more complete that the other two methods? I tried it on my Ubuntu 14 machine and I'm not sure it's working properly, though. It ran for a while and just stopped with no progress indicators or any other feedback on its success. Do I need to be in "Fastboot mode" or "recovery mode" to do it? Or just the regular phone mode?
So anyway, is there any sort of all-in-one backup I can do, so that if I mess up my factory reset + upgrade to CyanogenMod, I can restore my phone perfectly to its original condition?
Unlike a PC, where I can test restore to a Virtual Machine or spare computer, I don't have any spare phones to experiment with, so I'm a bit afraid of messing up. Is there any way of verifying that my backup is valid?
Thanks!
Any program that does partition/disk loning can do that, provided the phone/device can be put into appropriate mode and has device drivers installed on connected computer. I, actually, just put a prerooted firmware on my second phone, because nothing else works.
To answer your question, before I put new firmware on, I backed up total original state of the phone using a program called HDD Raw Copy Tool. See it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59608776&postcount=3
Thanks, that's very interesting.
I'm not sure about the "drivers" for my Galaxy S3 that would enable me to see it's storage like a harddrive, though. Is it just the regular MTP / Mass Storage Device drivers? Or something special?
Is there a linux solution? I guess I would use DD, but not sure how to access the phone's complete storage...
Windows 7 installed (rather swiftly) drivers upon first connecting. My guesses are either those were generic USB drivers or the previously installed phone drivers were utilized. I simply mention drivers in advance, in case they become an issue. Either way, the phone shows as a standard USB storage drive in Windows, albeit unreadable by the system (because of EXT filesystem).
DD will probably work, as the phone would simply be a hard/flash drive at that point.
I have rooted my s6 with auto root which I found from xda and then I tried to install xposed framework from recovery mode but it say update from external storage is disabled. And is there any way to recover data?? I unrooted my phone it dint start, so I did a data wipe /factory reset from recovery and lost all my data is there any possible way to get the data back. It included few word files which where important to me. And also photos and stuff
Please help me.
Hey everyone,
I've recently had to reflash my phone twice because touch would stop responding in system (it would work in recovery). I am wondering if it's possible to create a nandroid backup of my whole system + settings & data, so if it happens again that I can just restore it to that backup? It gets frustrating to install all the apps all over again and to change settings.
Basically, I want to save/backup the current state of my phone so I can restore it later with the same data it has right now.
hello,
i have a problem with MI4. I have forgotten pattern lock code .
When i turn on phone in TWRP mode to reset factory settings, i discovered possibility of backup data, system, etc.
i connect flash drive by OTG cable, and successfully done it.
I made factory settings reset, open TWRP again, and want to bring copy back, but when I choose pendrive, phone not see any files to bring them back
Do you know maybe a reason? How to fix it?
Is there any specific folder path in which files should be?
Ps. There is also strange things. When I choose file manager and sdcard there are all my files before reset. Don`t understand it at all.
How can I move them, for example, to flash drive?