any problems with this? a guy is trying to fix his phone (exact model) and believes a stock wiped backup will help...basically can he even use my backup with his, or is my backup somehow linked to my phone?
It should work if it is the same model as they have the same system.
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hello, latly i installed a custom recovery, and flashed a preview cm7 rom for my lg vortex. while i was playing around with it, my nandroid backup got deleted off the sdcard. i tried to get it back using A LOT of various recovery software, but i had no luck. so now i am wondering if someone with an lg vortex is willing to share their nandroid backup, or can someone help me recover it!? and i also need the stock recovery .img, cuz i forgot to back that up before installing the custom recovery! Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
If i were you i would not get someone else's nandroid. The reason being that a nandroid backs up EVERYTHING, including phone radio data and and the phones unique network signatures. If you fashion a backup from another phone the software will work, but i dont believe you will be able to make calls or have any network connection.
I know this because my buddy with an evo flashed a backup he had from his original phone into a replacement, and really screwed things up...
You may just have to flash stock software by other means, and each manufacturer has a way to do this. Check the forums for the vortex and there should be a solution.
Thanks for the heads up on that! and what about the original recovery.img? is it possible for someone to give it to me, or is everyone's recovery unique also?
I recently added a data plan on my SGS4G and can't get a data connection. I asked about this in another Q thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19353990#post19353990
but so far nothing has worked. I suspect that ultimately I will need to revert to out of the box virgin state to verify if its a software or hardware problem. However, after that test I want to be able to go back to my current state.
I've done both a CWM backup and a Titanium backup.
What are the steps I need to go back to vanilla state and then to the backed up state? Do I need both types of backups?
Well if you did a nandroid backup from CWM, everything is backed up, meaning your rom, modem, and all important files for your phone to operate. Titanium backup backs up all of your apps plus data for those apps, letting you restore them after a reset or a rom flash. Those two backups should cover your current phone state, nandroid restoring phone sensitive files and titanium restoring apps and user data. Be careful when restoring of different firmwares and such, that could cause a brick.
And to "reset" your device you can factory reset in CWM or in settings.
I'm not responsible for anything that happens, just providing some info.
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I am a total noob at rooting phones and I accidentally soft-bricked my Samsung Repp SCH-R680 in CWM by trying to erase all user data.
I thought I had a backup, but apparently it installed the backup to the phone and not the sd card, so when I wiped user data, I wiped my backup and all R680 system files.
I was wondering if someone could send me a stock nandroid backup of either their R680 or point me to any available online so I can get my phone functioning again.
My family is without a phone until I fix this.
I've recently wiped my phone and am trying to restore my files. Since the backup isn't compatible i went back to my old rom. However, when i restored, a few apps were missing. I was using Sony's backup and its like they did not recognise my app. What can i do to restore it?
Hi,
Can you tell us more,please
We need to know which device ? rooted or not ? More infos.
Thanks in advance
Hey all,
I restored a backup of my old phone made in TWRP – a full backup, including Boot, System, Data, Cache & EFS – onto a new D850 I got. Both the old phone and the new one were able to connect to AT&T before this.
Now the new phone, with the restored backup from the old one, displays a network searching icon indefinitely upon reboot.
Any thoughts as to how to fix this?
- Andi
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Hey all,
I restored a backup of my old phone made in TWRP – a full backup, including Boot, System, Data, Cache & EFS – onto a new D850 I got. Both the old phone and the new one were able to connect to AT&T before this.
Now the new phone, with the restored backup from the old one, displays a network searching icon indefinitely upon reboot.
Any thoughts as to how to fix this?
- Andi
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Why did you restore a EFS back from your old phone to your new one? Unless you backed up the EFS from your new phone there may not be a way to fix this. EFS Is different for each phone you should never restore an EFS from a different device.
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My *guess* is that I should not have overwritten the new phone's EFS with the old phone's? I think I backed up the EFS of the new phone before doing so; will restoring it fix my issue? If not, how screwed am I?
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My *guess* is that I should not have overwritten the new phone's EFS with the old phone's? I think I backed up the EFS of the new phone before doing so; will restoring it fix my issue? If not, how screwed am I?
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See if you have a backup of the new phones EFS try that and report back. If not it's pretty much a WiFi only device.
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I restored the new phone's original EFS, and all is well.
FWIW, my reasoning behind flashing everything from the old phone to the new was that is what it said to do in every guide I read about transferring from old to new. I didn't realize EFS was supposed to be excluded; I didn't realize the EFS from one phone would be incompatible with another
In any case, crisis averted – thanks for the confirmations along the way
phnord said:
I restored the new phone's original EFS, and all is well.
FWIW, my reasoning behind flashing everything from the old phone to the new was that is what it said to do in every guide I read about transferring from old to new. I didn't realize EFS was supposed to be excluded; I didn't realize the EFS from one phone would be incompatible with another
In any case, crisis averted – thanks for the confirmations along the way
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It's not that the EFS is not compatible. But the EFS stores info like IMEI etc. you can't have two phones with the same imei. Each EFS is different. When restoring you don't have to restore every thing though. I'm glad you had a backup! As without that it pretty much would had been an wifi only device. Your very welcome .
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