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Restore TWRP Backup?

Hi, just have a quick question that's been bugging me for a while now. If I have made a full backup using TWRP and I want to restore it, should I:
Fully wipe system and caches and then restore; or just restore right over my current ROM?

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Restore takes care of wiping for you.

Piggybacking off the OP, sometimes when I try to restore my TWRP backup it fails, and then the only way I've found to get it working again is to do a boot loader factory reset, and then essentially start from scratch or load an older working backup. No problem, just a minor annoyance. Is there something I'm doing wrong or any advice someone can give me?
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Hydromea said:
Hi, just have a quick question that's been bugging me for a while now. If I have made a full backup using TWRP and I want to restore it, should I:
Fully wipe system and caches and then restore; or just restore right over my current ROM?
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I always wipe everything before a restore, just in case
Better safe than sorry

Restoring a back up !
When restoring a back up from any recovery wipe everything just as if you were installing a new rom. Factory reset, cache, dalvik cache, system just to be safe. Factory reset wipes data and all cache but not system and if you do a factory reset and then try to wipe I think dalvik again you get an error but no harm done it just will not do it again. I usually do them all and then do the superwipe zip and that willl give you a good piece of mind that it is properly wiped. Also, I have noticed that using the external sd card seems to work best for installing roms or backing up and restoring back ups or anything else like mods or themes. Here is the superwipe zip in case anyone needs it.

Hydromea said:
Hi, just have a quick question that's been bugging me for a while now. If I have made a full backup using TWRP and I want to restore it, should I:
Fully wipe system and caches and then restore; or just restore right over my current ROM?
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I've done both, but I like not having reinstall all my apps, and reset all my ringtone, and that goes with a full wipe. so when ever i can i flash over. Just make sure your slashing the same rom over the old one.

You shouldn't worry about losing ANYTHING on a backup when you do a factory reset, because the backup houses all of the data and settings anyway.
All you do is Factory Reset, Nandroid>Restore, and your old backup will flash everything the way it was when you did a backup in the first place. Factory Reset is always wise, especially when you're fiddling with different ROM's based on different kernels or systems (AOSP/Sense).

XNine said:
You shouldn't worry about losing ANYTHING on a backup when you do a factory reset, because the backup houses all of the data and settings anyway.
All you do is Factory Reset, Nandroid>Restore, and your old backup will flash everything the way it was when you did a backup in the first place. Factory Reset is always wise, especially when you're fiddling with different ROM's based on different kernels or systems (AOSP/Sense).
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Ahh, this is true I recant my statement. I was mistakenly thinking about flashing a new ROM over an older version, not a buck-up. I feel stupid.

when restoring a nandroid if you've got the new HBoot I think you have to restore boot.img separately via fastboot. Is that right?

gunnyman said:
when restoring a nandroid if you've got the new HBoot I think you have to restore boot.img separately via fastboot. Is that right?
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Nope. I just flashed a bunch of roms yesterday and did restores with no issue. I think if your using the stock rooted 2.2 you are correct, but any other rom a restore works fine.

Not Restoring = Bad Idea
Hydromea said:
Hi, just have a quick question that's been bugging me for a while now. If I have made a full backup using TWRP and I want to restore it, should I:
Fully wipe system and caches and then restore; or just restore right over my current ROM?
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I have made the mistake of not wiping everything (excluding sd card) when changing ROMs or when restoring from a backup. This may be a little different because it was when I was switching to a new ROM on my brother's phone, but I tried to take the lazy way out and not restore everything. I really didn't feel like redownloading everything. I soon learned that this was a mistake, and his "phone" app suddenly disappeared. He was also unable to send or receive texts. This soon made the process even longer than I wished it to be because I needed to go back and restore everything again and get it back to normal.

Error While Restoring using twrp
I took a back up of everything using TWRP and then when i tried to restored its giving me error while restoring system E:Unable to extract tar archive . Please help

Are you trying to restore a backup from a different version of TWRP? For example, currently running 2.7.0.8 but backup was originally made using 2.3.3.1?
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error on backup restore twrp
hi i have a nexus 4 running 6.0.1 reserection remix, however when i do a backup on twrp then transfer
it to my pc its fine, but when i restore it it not going as a zip and its giving me this error, could not find meta-inf/com/google/android/update-binary' in the zip file. error installing zip file/sdcard/twrp/backups/01c237769c62991c.zip please help, thanks
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WOW! After a good 3/4 days of frustration, thinking I had ruined my device, I finally got my TWRP backup to restore.
It's my first time using this software and the restoration process is truly amazing. I mean, my test messages were still there, even my browser history and last page loaded up in chrome were still there. I'm blown away.
The strange thing is that It didn't work when all 3 partitions were selected. When I tried it this way (as per the many step by step instructions that I read) my phone would load up a black screen with just the notification bar visible. I'd see my voicemail, sms, wifi and battery icons at the top, but absolutely nothing else except for a myriad of pop ups that read 'Unfortunately [app name] has stopped working'.
So I bit the bullet and did some trial and error with the partitions.
Turns out that when I only selected 2 of the 3 (I believe they were 'Boot', 'Data' and deselected 'System') everything loaded up just as it was before the backup, except there were only the stock apps available and no google services at all. .....Very odd.
So I did the boot to recovery method before turning the phone off (vol. up - Home - Power) which restarted the phone and strangely brought back EVERYTHING as mentioned at the start of this post.
You can probably understand my confusion here and while I'm VERY happy that it all worked out, I don't understand why it worked with only 2 of the partitions but not with the recommended 3 of them?
Can anyone shed any light on this?
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hi i have a nexus 4 running 6.0.1 reserection remix, however when i do a backup on twrp then transfer
it to my pc its fine, but when i restore it it not going as a zip and its giving me this error, could not find meta-inf/com/google/android/update-binary' in the zip file. error installing zip file/sdcard/twrp/backups/01c237769c62991c.zip please help, thanks
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Hmmm. I'm definitely no pro at this stuff, in fact i'm very new when it comes to using TWRP, but this is what happened with me.
First of all, the backup that I did was simply a folder of files, not zip.
Transferred that do my PC, wiped my phone with TWRP and replaced the backup folder back into the TWRP/Backup folder. However, after reading up on how to restore on about 10 different android sites/forums, only 1 post shared the most vital piece of information.
You folder has to be in the 'serial' number folder that's located in the 'Backup' folder for TWRP.
When I put my backup folder just into the TWRP/Backup folder, the Restore section would only see the folder itself but the partitions were not available/listed for selection.
Once I placed my Backup folder into the TWRP/Backup/e1oog75 (that alphanumeric name is just a random example made for visual clarity) folder, my partitions were visible and available for selection right away.
Hopefully this helps somewhat.

Restoring Data From Nandroid Backup.

Earlier, I was on the Elix-R ROM. I was going to upgrade to the newest version of it and made a nandroid backup but forgot to make a TiBu of all my apps. Would it be safe and possible for me to restore all of my app data from the nandroid backup by doing an advanced restore of my data?

you were upgrading the rom that you were using.. why would you wipe data?? if you are upgrading a rom, you never have to wipe anything. all you do is flash the updated rom(and gapps) on top of what youre running without wiping anything.

simms22 said:
you were upgrading the rom that you were using.. why would you wipe data?? if you are upgrading a rom, you never have to wipe anything. all you do is flash the updated rom(and gapps) on top of what youre running without wiping anything.
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I always prefer doing clean flashes of all of the ROMs I run.

absoluterebirth said:
I always prefer doing clean flashes of all of the ROMs I run.
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cool, your choice it is
i dont remember the last time i actually wiped my n5, if i ever did. lol

simms22 said:
cool, your choice it is
i dont remember the last time i actually wiped my n5, if i ever did. lol
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also, another question: should making a TiBu and then erasing the system to flash a new ROM affect the backup of apps or no?

You could practice restoring your nandroid backup, then 'dirty' flashing the ROM upgrade straight over the top.
Once you get used to it, dirty flashing isn't so bad. Saves a ton of time. Plus you have the nandroid just in case .
In answer to your query though, you can extract apps and app data using the appropriately named Nandroid Manager. I used it before on a now sold Nexus 7 when it decided to not boot up but could get to recovery and make a backup.

absoluterebirth said:
Earlier, I was on the Elix-R ROM. I was going to upgrade to the newest version of it and made a nandroid backup but forgot to make a TiBu of all my apps. Would it be safe and possible for me to restore all of my app data from the nandroid backup by doing an advanced restore of my data?
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Yes. Its the same as having never wiped in the first place
absoluterebirth said:
also, another question: should making a TiBu and then erasing the system to flash a new ROM affect the backup of apps or no?
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Eh? I don't understand the problem
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[Q] Updateing cyanogenmod

Hi, I use this rom in my Galaxy S Advance, and I just wanna update it into new verion which is released. I know that can be noob and dumb question but I really duuno if should I again wipe device all the time when I want install update, or should I normally put install zip into sd card and then just run it form bot w/o any wipe? Isn't system crash then?

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eXez said:
still looking for answer
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That depends on the rom. If you change Addroid versions e.g.
4.2.2->4.4.2 = FULL WIPE
update to a newer release of the same rom / android version e.g. 4.4.2 build 03/31 --> 4.4.2 04/25 = wiping cache + dalvik will work in most cases. Just make a full backup before you flash a new rom.zip

LS.xD said:
update to a newer release of the same rom / android version e.g. 4.4.2 build 03/31 --> 4.4.2 04/25 = wiping cache + dalvik will work in most cases. Just make a full backup before you flash a new rom.zip
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yes, I've got android 4.42, but i just wanna update to new release, cause i didn't do that about 2 months. So which app can u suggest to make backup? I've never used a backup apps before. Really thx for help

eXez said:
yes, I've got android 4.42, but i just wanna update to new release, cause i didn't do that about 2 months. So which app can u suggest to make backup? I've never used a backup apps before. Really thx for help
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Use your custom recovery to perform a backup Two months is pretty long and probably will cause issues cause CM11 is under heavy development

I chose "super backup" app to make backup. I wish it won't crash in restoring process Again Thx for help

eXez said:
I chose "super backup" app to make backup. I wish it won't crash in restoring process Again Thx for help
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i REALLY suggest making a nandroid backup via recovery instead of backing up just your apps and data. If you brick the installation, phone is fine again in 3 minutes via restoring the nandroid backup. Its fu... easy. Just go to TWRP or CWM or whatever you use and press backup to sd. Thats all. Restore? Just press restore from sd

[Q] Wifi and Camera broken after 4.4.3 update

I have root, s-off, using TWRP recovery. I backed up everything on my external SD card with TWRP, ran (what I think is) RUU to get a clean install and was able to update to 4.4.3. After update, I put TWRP back on, and restored all my apps, still have s-off and root. A couple of things didn't restore (like Tasker), but I chalked that up to them probably being on the internal storage and then erased.
Everything else seemed to be working fine, but my WiFi will not turn on, and the default Sense camera opens to a completely black screen.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ian

istrasci said:
I have root, s-off, using TWRP recovery. I backed up everything on my external SD card with TWRP, ran (what I think is) RUU to get a clean install and was able to update to 4.4.3. After update, I put TWRP back on, and restored all my apps, still have s-off and root. A couple of things didn't restore (like Tasker), but I chalked that up to them probably being on the internal storage and then erased.
Everything else seemed to be working fine, but my WiFi will not turn on, and the default Sense camera opens to a completely black screen.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ian
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To be correct, you are running a 4.4.3 ROM with 4.4.3 firmware right? Also when you try to enable wifi from the status bar does it simply endlessly show its trying to turn it on?
Perhaps a viable option would be to try a factory reset via TWRP, I sometimes encounter issues when doing that after a firmware update. Actually my 4.4.3 was so messed up because of restoring apps that I was forced to go back to my 4.4.2 ROM. Soo as I said, since you have a backup I'd just at least give factory reset a try and if it doesn't fix it then you can restore your backup again.

Try another kernel, I had the same issues
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bighleo114312 said:
Try another kernel, I had the same issues
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I'm kinda new to all this flashing/recovery stuff. How exactly do I use another kernel?

istrasci said:
I have root, s-off, using TWRP recovery. I backed up everything on my external SD card with TWRP, ran (what I think is) RUU to get a clean install and was able to update to 4.4.3. After update, I put TWRP back on, and restored all my apps, still have s-off and root. A couple of things didn't restore (like Tasker), but I chalked that up to them probably being on the internal storage and then erased.
Everything else seemed to be working fine, but my WiFi will not turn on, and the default Sense camera opens to a completely black screen.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ian
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How did you restore your apps?

jsaxon2 said:
How did you restore your apps?
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Through TWRP. I put it back on after the update and restored the apps and data (not the system) from the backup I'd made previously.

You could try and flash the stock rom from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2874699 through twrp and see if it works for you. Don't wipe anything, just try flashing on top of what you have. Might work.

jsaxon2 said:
You could try and flash the stock rom from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2874699 through twrp and see if it works for you. Don't wipe anything, just try flashing on top of what you have. Might work.
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Do I do that through TWRP or through the bootloader?. Sorry, again I'm still new at this.

istrasci said:
Do I do that through TWRP or through the bootloader?. Sorry, again I'm still new at this.
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Your posts didn't really make clear what exactly you did: From which rom you took the TWRP nandroid, which rom you restored it back to, what you mean by "you think you ran a RUU", what exactly from the nandroid you restored in TWRP....
Did you restore all of /data? If you did, you restored way more than just your apps and may have compatability issues.
Restoring /data IMHO is not a good idea after doing a firmware upgrade and flashing a corresponding rom.
A better strategy would be to backup just your apps and their data in TiBu and only restore those after you flashed the new firmware and the new rom.
Here's what I would do:
Factory reset in TWRP
Reflash the rom
Reinstall your apps (this time from scratch, next time you'll have a TiBu backup).

Recovery unable to mount /sdcard

Hello!
I am sorry if this is the incorrect place to post, but I have a very annoying issue with my OnePlus One!
A few days ago I took the OTA update from Android 4.4.4 all the way to 5.1.1. However, there are quite a few bugs with this version, and the "Material UI" is seriously getting on my nerves so I would like to revert back to my previous version. This should be doable because I performed a Nandroid backup with TWRP before updating the phone. My backup is saved on a USB stick which I connect to the phone via a USB OTG cable, which is perfectly mountable in the Recovery.
My phone is rooted and WAS running TWRP Recovery before I upgraded to Lollipop, this replaced TWRP with Cyanogens stock. When I re-rooted my phone I had to reinstall a custom recovery. For some reason, ADB installing TWRP was just not working (No errors, it just didnt install no matter what) so I opted to try a CWM recovery which did the trick.
Now my issue is that my recovery is unable to mount /sdcard which prevents it from performing backups or restores.
I could really use some help here.

Did you update your backup (TWRP?) as well? What version of it are you on?

JeffDC said:
Did you update your backup (TWRP?) as well? What version of it are you on?
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I am not sure what you mean by updating the backup. The backup is backed up and left in the state it was when I took it, that is to say Android 4.4.4 and the version of TWRP (The date I installed TWRP the first time) is mid February 2015.
The phones recovery right now is PhilzRecovery which as far as I understand is CWM. Latest version.

Try installing twrp from the CWM recovery.. And before restoring the phone from nandroid try installing the clean stock rom at 4.4.4 and then do the nandroid restore.
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ashuthosh.heda said:
Try installing twrp from the CWM recovery.. And before restoring the phone from nandroid try installing the clean stock rom at 4.4.4 and then do the nandroid restore.
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And to do this, I would just drop the .img for TWRP into my phones storage and chose it from inside the recovery? Would this really work? It might be my inexperience, but it sounds somewhat risky.

NodCom said:
And to do this, I would just drop the .img for TWRP into my phones storage and chose it from inside the recovery? Would this really work? It might be my inexperience, but it sounds somewhat risky.
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Don't know if CWM recovery supports installing img. Twrp supports img flashing. Check the features of CWM recovery and proceed.
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Don't know if CWM recovery supports installing img. Twrp supports img flashing. Check the features of CWM recovery and proceed.
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Well... I am not sure how I just managed this, but I was tinkering about inside my TWRP application and tried the "Install TWRP recovery" setting a second time (I tried it before making this thread, the first time it failed), it actually was successful because it booted into TWRP. From here I selected the TWRP-backup I kept and it installed it successfully (With one note, that it during the installation said something among the lines of "Restoring backup without deleting /data/media" or something like that. The phone rebooted itself after it finished updating, and the old Cyanogen/OPO bootanimation plays. But at login (My device is encrypted since long) it tells me my password is incorrect?!
How could this to happen? I've only ever used a single password (numbers only) for my phone encryption. This is very odd.

NodCom said:
Well... I am not sure how I just managed this, but I was tinkering about inside my TWRP application and tried the "Install TWRP recovery" setting a second time (I tried it before making this thread, the first time it failed), it actually was successful because it booted into TWRP. From here I selected the TWRP-backup I kept and it installed it successfully (With one note, that it during the installation said something among the lines of "Restoring backup without deleting /data/media" or something like that. The phone rebooted itself after it finished updating, and the old Cyanogen/OPO bootanimation plays. But at login (My device is encrypted since long) it tells me my password is incorrect?!
How could this to happen? I've only ever used a single password (numbers only) for my phone encryption. This is very odd.
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I guess it's a side effect of restoring up a backup of 4.4.4 on lollipop. Try factory reset from twrp and then flash the backup. I would still suggest to first install the stock firmware of 4.4.4 and flash it and then do a restore of 4.4.4.
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Also make sure you are using the most recent version of TWRP, as it provides better 'outs' and reliability for newer OP OS versions.