nexus 1,
first time flashing went back to stock to stop getting ota updates all the time and to prepare for gingerbread, did nandroid backup and copied whole of sd card to p.c.
the problem is I lost a lot of things including a lot of work related texts I need, I do not have option to restore nandroid in recovery mode.Think I lost root in process.
What I would like is to go back to what I had originally maybe backup things a little better and then go back to stock, but how do I do this with no root?
Am hoping there is a way round this without rooting.
Flashing scared me rooting scares me even more.....
thank all pro.i'm testing
I backed up my rooted Inspire and I swap different backups of different roms but the question i had was if my phone was lost would i be able to just restore a rom to a new phone or would i have issues becuase i did not have the original microsd card. In other words do you have to also backup your microsd card separately to a computer just incase you had your phone lost or stolen to restore a backup image?
Wouldn't work, or at least I don't think it would work as you described it. The new Inspire (or old one other then the one you lost) would also have to be rooted. If it wasn't rooted you wouldn't be able to get in cwr to restore the back-up.
If your phone is stolen you can get a new one root it and install your backups from cmw onto that phone no problems.
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got it
ok thanks, hopefully i wont need to
First off, I am unfamiliar with any ADB terms used on these forums.
What I did:
I rooted my Tab 2 (GT-P5113) using Odin and everythng worked out fine. Then I wanted to install a custom rom so I used Titanium Backup to back up my information. The directory com.titaniumbackup was on my SD card, but contained no files. I would think it may have cancelled the backup without me knowing.
I then did a NANDroid backup but I have no idea what happened to it. I then downloaded and succesfully installed CleanRom, but now I realized rooting isn't really what I thought, and is much more complicated, so I removed the cleanrom.zip from my SD. The CleanRom however is still on my system.
Is there ANY type of factory reset that will give me how my tablet was before? Unrooted?
atmon said:
I then did a NANDroid backup but I have no idea what happened to it. I then downloaded and succesfully installed CleanRom, but now I realized rooting isn't really what I thought, and is much more complicated, so I removed the cleanrom.zip from my SD. The CleanRom however is still on my system.
Is there ANY type of factory reset that will give me how my tablet was before? Unrooted?
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If you go back to the backup/restore section where you made the backup and click on restore you should be able to restore your device with the backup it made. Unzipping the clean ROM should not have deleted the backup. The backup file will have the date you created it. From that point you should have the stock ROM. Then from there you can use Odin to unroot device by following the post in the development area of this forum.
Hope that helps - Let me know
I had to get a replacement galaxy s3 through Asurion because the power button broke on my phone. I have a nandroid backup of my old phone however the new replacement phone has the locked bootloader so I guess I can't install CWM? How can I restore my nandroid backup to the new phone?
Assuming you have 4.3 installed on your new phone, try safestrap in the development section but I think it only works for 4.3 tw roms. If you still have your old phone, either replace your power switch or find someone to do it for you.
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I tried to install TWRP on my old phone to do a backup from that but it looks like it bricked my phone. It won't even light up when I connect it to the charger now....
I was able to use safestrap and install the ROM I was using and I have a GOBackup backup of my apps and data. However it looks like it didn't backup any of the application data, specifically Google Authenticator. So now it looks like I'm screwed and locked out half my accounts.. Is there any way to unpack the tar from the CWM backup to retrieve app settings?
Nevermind, I figured out how to extract the tar and pulled the Authenticator database out and restored it on the new phone. Setting up and customizing everything else from scratch is going to be a PITA though.
hi, i am new to the samsung phones, i rooted my device. is there any way to update the firmware without losing any data and apps ?? currently i am at G955FXXU1AQDG indian rom and a new update G955FXXU1AQE5 is available. i downloaded that rom from sam-mobile. can someone tell me how to do it
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hi, i am new to the samsung phones, i rooted my device. is there any way to update the firmware without losing any data and apps ?? currently i am at G955FXXU1AQDG indian rom and a new update G955FXXU1AQE5 is available. i downloaded that rom from sam-mobile. can someone tell me how to do it
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AFAIK you can't. A rooted phone can't accept the OTA. You would need to Odin the stock firmware, update and then root again.
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AFAIK you can't. A rooted phone can't accept the OTA. You would need to Odin the stock firmware, update and then root again.
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its a long process:crying:
online22naveen said:
hi, i am new to the samsung phones, i rooted my device. is there any way to update the firmware without losing any data and apps ?? currently i am at G955FXXU1AQDG indian rom and a new update G955FXXU1AQE5 is available. i downloaded that rom from sam-mobile. can someone tell me how to do it
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If you want to stick with the rooted stock ROM, my suggestion would be to backup your phone to the Samsung Cloud, then Odin the new ROM, then restore from the Samsung Cloud. You will get most of your stuff back, including screen layouts, widgets and apps.
If you use one of the fine ROMs by one of the XDA developers - they eventually usually come up with new versions that include the lastest bases, and many times, not every time, you can dirty flash it over your existing ROM and not have to restore much if anything. Of course, your experience may be different so make a nanroid backup via TWRP first.
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If you want to stick with the rooted stock ROM, my suggestion would be to backup your phone to the Samsung Cloud, then Odin the new ROM, then restore from the Samsung Cloud. You will get most of your stuff back, including screen layouts, widgets and apps.
If you use one of the fine ROMs by one of the XDA developers - they eventually usually come up with new versions that include the lastest bases, and many times, not every time, you can dirty flash it over your existing ROM and not have to restore much if anything. Of course, your experience may be different so make a nanroid backup via TWRP first.
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thanks for the help, i will stick to the stock rom and restore apps from titanium would be better i guess.
I updated my rooted S8+ by making a nandroid backup with TWRP first and then flashing the updated ROM (which will totally wipe your device and remove root).
After that I flashed the TWRP recovery again, formatted through TWRP, and then flashed no verity/Magisk etc. I booted into the system normally once just to be on the safe side and check that everything was looking good.
Lastly, I went back to TWRP and used my nandroid backup and the restore function to bring back just the Data partition and my phone was completely restored. All apps, settings, wallpapers, text messages etc etc where restored with 0 issues exactly how I left them.
Keep in mind that the data partition will not back up user data on the internal memory like pictures, videos and some downloads. You'll want to copy the contents of your internal memory to a PC or external memory and then copy them back and merge them with the new folders at the end. :good:
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I updated my rooted S8+ by making a nandroid backup with TWRP first and then flashing the updated ROM (which will totally wipe your device and remove root).
After that I flashed the TWRP recovery again, formatted through TWRP, and then flashed no verity/Magisk etc. I booted into the system normally once just to be on the safe side and check that everything was looking good.
Lastly, I went back to TWRP and used my nandroid backup and the restore function to bring back just the Data partition and my phone was completely restored. All apps, settings, wallpapers, text messages etc etc where restored with 0 issues exactly how I left them.
Keep in mind that the data partition will not back up user data on the internal memory like pictures, videos and some downloads. You'll want to copy the contents of your internal memory to a PC or external memory and then copy them back and merge them with the new folders at the end. :good:
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thanks for help...i will do the same.