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[mod] [x-post] Hide / Rebind Option Menu

Mod is listed under the international version of the one x, but i wanted to repost it over here so the rest of us aware of this awesome mod.
Original Thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582506\
Basically it gets rid of the option bar at the bottom of the screen on non-ICS apps/games and makes the multitask/tast switch button, the new options menu.
Long pressing the home button becomes the new switcher.

Ahem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645290

pretty sure the general section dwellers just don't come in here, and when they do they don't search.. lol

_MetalHead_ said:
Ahem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645290
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But I dont want the extended power menu.

Is this even safe? This is for the international version and while they are similar, they are not the same. Someone already softbricked his phone trying to use the odexed version of this mod. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652566

_MetalHead_ said:
Is this even safe? This is for the international version and while they are similar, they are not the same. Someone already softbricked his phone trying to use the odexed version of this mod. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652566
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Yup...I still need help if someone has experience with fixing these things and not losing data on ones phone (currently adb is not letting me push my backup-ed files)

can't search for something i didnt know existed

Berserk87 said:
can't search for something i didnt know existed
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Why did you assume this worked for the stateside One X? I checked and trust me, it doesn't.

ErikWithNoC said:
Yup...I still need help if someone has experience with fixing these things and not losing data on ones phone (currently adb is not letting me push my backup-ed files)
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Flashing an RUU does not erase files on /sdcard... I'm assuming you have them backed up in Titanium Backup? So this method should work for you.

zonk7ate9 said:
Flashing an RUU does not erase files on /sdcard... I'm assuming you have them backed up in Titanium Backup? So this method should work for you.
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I flashed the RUU and my music and photos are still there, but I lost all my apps because there stored somewhere else on the device (thanks HTC), at least that's what I thought.

ErikWithNoC said:
I flashed the RUU and my music and photos are still there, but I lost all my apps because there stored somewhere else on the device (thanks HTC), at least that's what I thought.
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That's what Zonk7 meant. Of course it wiped your apps. In order to be able to use most apps while SD card is mounted as USB drive, the apps are not stored in the SD card.
Hence the comment about Titanium backup.
Simply restore your apps after you RUU from the titanium backup you have in your SD card.

the mod should work for us Rogers users though, shouldn't it?

lilhyper said:
That's what Zonk7 meant. Of course it wiped your apps. In order to be able to use most apps while SD card is mounted as USB drive, the apps are not stored in the SD card.
Hence the comment about Titanium backup.
Simply restore your apps after you RUU from the titanium backup you have in your SD card.
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Yeah I know, but I didn't make a backup with Titanium. I know I should have, but I didn't think about it at the time and I'm just concerned with space.

_MetalHead_ said:
Ahem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645290
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designgears said:
pretty sure the general section dwellers just don't come in here, and when they do they don't search.. lol
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Well the one you link to says it doesnt work yet. So maybe the general section dwellers did search and the forum police got it wrong this time lol jk
imma let someone else try it first though lol

[Q] Flash CWM 5 over CWM 6

I currently have CWM 6 installed, but prefer the older version's backup method and file structure (don't like the Blob thing). Can I flash CWM 5 over 6? Thanks!

Youy could, but I dont recommend it. I dont have CWM installed so I cant tell you exactly how, but in the advanced options I am to understand there is an option to disabled the segmented backups, which would eliminate the blobs folder and each backup would then be in its own folder.

apacseven said:
Youy could, but I dont recommend it. I dont have CWM installed so I cant tell you exactly how, but in the advanced options I am to understand there is an option to disabled the segmented backups, which would eliminate the blobs folder and each backup would then be in its own folder.
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Thanks for your response. I looked at the various menu options and couldn't find that option. Can you be more specific? Thanks!

STraver said:
Thanks for your response. I looked at the various menu options and couldn't find that option. Can you be more specific? Thanks!
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The best I can do since I dont use CWM myself and dont really feel like installing it just to check (sorry) is quote the person that pointed out to me that it can be disabled. Hope this helps.
Legato Bluesummers said:
You guys realize you can stop making blob backups and go back to normal tar right? Under back up go to advanced settings or whatever its called and choose the other option. Now you won't make back ups in blobs,but now you do them the old way. One folder for the whole back up, about 1-2 GB in size. Blobs are just nice as the backup takes under 5 min. Doing it the old way takes a bit longer.
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FWIW I use and prefer TWRP (team win recovery project). I switched to it because I was frustrated with the very problem you are having, and gave TWRP a shot and never looked back. I make backups quite frequently and I needed the option of deleting individual backups at will. You can install it with ez recovery. Give it a shot sometime.

apacseven said:
The best I can do since I dont use CWM myself and dont really feel like installing it just to check (sorry) is quote the person that pointed out to me that it can be disabled. Hope this helps.
FWIW I use and prefer TWRP (team win recovery project). I switched to it because I was frustrated with the very problem you are having, and gave TWRP a shot and never looked back. I make backups quite frequently and I needed the option of deleting individual backups at will. You can install it with ez recovery. Give it a shot sometime.
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Okay thanks. I can't find the option they're talking about. Thanks for your help.

Iirc if you chose backup to external sd card wont it put each backup in its own dated dir inside the clockworkmod dir?
Sent from my CleanRom'd Galaxy SIII

x714x said:
Iirc if you chose backup to external sd card wont it put each backup in its own dated dir inside the clockworkmod dir?
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Thats what it was doing when I stopped using it, but each folder was only 20mb. The rest of the data was going into the blobs folder.

nandroid backups

Currently running beans 13. I have 5 different back ups on my phone and I would like to get rid of a few of them. However, out of the 5, 2 of them I have no idea what rom or setup they are. One, I know is stock rooted and I would like to keep that one. Can I just go into recovery and flash each one to see what it is? I don't want to screw anything up. I just want to know which backups are which
Thanks in advance

Yes, you can do that. Or you could connect your phone to your computer and browse the files with a program like 7zip to see if you can tell what each is without having to flash each one.

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Currently running beans 13. I have 5 different back ups on my phone and I would like to get rid of a few of them. However, out of the 5, 2 of them I have no idea what rom or setup they are. One, I know is stock rooted and I would like to keep that one. Can I just go into recovery and flash each one to see what it is? I don't want to screw anything up. I just want to know which backups are which
Thanks in advance
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I am also running Beans b13 and loving it. Im not really sure but might be some way to look and get the details on the nandroid. Im thinking you can find it in my files and long click then select details. Hope this helps

No issues with switching back and forth between saved files.
I think you can also rename your files.
Also if you save your backups as beans13_date, it should be easy to know which files you can remove or keep.

soohyunk83 said:
No issues with switching back and forth between saved files.
I think you can also rename your files.
Also if you save your backups as beans13_date, it should be easy to know which files you can remove or keep.
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Don't rename the nandroid. It will change the md5 and you will not be able to restore to it. I just save a simple text file on my phone with the last 4 digits of the nandroid and what ROM it was.
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Eric021 said:
Don't rename the nandroid. It will change the md5 and you will not be able to restore to it.
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I've always renamed mine (especially since there's a bug that gives it a name with a 1970 date), and never had a problem with md5 or restoring.

Same here. I just add the name of the rom at the end.
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Restore backup from other Nexus 5?

I received my Nexus 5 a week ago, and after setting it all up how I like it, I noticed dead pixels. I ordered a replacement which has arrived today. and I'm wondering if I can make a TWRP backup on my old phone, and then restore it on the new one? Both have the same SKU number - LG-D821.AAU3WH.

iPWNtehNOOB said:
I received my Nexus 5 a week ago, and after setting it all up how I like it, I noticed dead pixels. I ordered a replacement which has arrived today. and I'm wondering if I can make a TWRP backup on my old phone, and then restore it on the new one? Both have the same SKU number - LG-D821.AAU3WH.
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Yes but DO NOT BACKUP OR RESTORE EFS!!!!!!

Absolutely. The trick to this is to make a quick backup on the new phone (backup cache, or something small) so that it creates a folder with your new device's serial number. TWRP looks in /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/<DEVICE's SERIAL NUMBER>/ to find backups.
So, once TWRP has created a folder for the new device's serial number, you can transfer over the backup files from the previous device. You'll need to ADB PULL the directory to a computer from the old device, then PUSH them back to the new one.
It works like a charm. My wife dropped her first N5 during a walk in a park and shattered the screen -- when her new one came, we made it a perfect "clone" of the first this way.
Good luck!

rootSU said:
Yes but DO NOT BACKUP OR RESTORE EFS!!!!!!
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bcgaynor82 said:
Absolutely. The trick to this is to make a quick backup on the new phone (backup cache, or something small) so that it creates a folder with your new device's serial number. TWRP looks in /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/<DEVICE's SERIAL NUMBER>/ to find backups.
So, once TWRP has created a folder for the new device's serial number, you can transfer over the backup files from the previous device. You'll need to ADB PULL the directory to a computer from the old device, then PUSH them back to the new one.
It works like a charm. My wife dropped her first N5 during a walk in a park and shattered the screen -- when her new one came, we made it a perfect "clone" of the first this way.
Good luck!
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Excellent, thanks gents! So backup and restore EVERYTHING but EFS, or just Data?

iPWNtehNOOB said:
Excellent, thanks gents! So backup and restore EVERYTHING but EFS, or just Data?
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You'll need to restore /system and /data if you want it exactly the same. I do not know what modifications / differences between the /system on your old and new phone are, so if in doubt, do both.

You should also do a backup of the EFS partition of the new phone since it's fresh, and keep it in a handy place. You never know when you might need it.

Further information from Dees_troy.

isn't EFS something samsung specific? can't find it on my N4

prulleman said:
isn't EFS something samsung specific? can't find it on my N4
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Nope. Here is a thread for N5.

Primokorn said:
Nope. Here is a thread for N5.
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ok thanks didn't know that. good info awaiting my N5

prulleman said:
ok thanks didn't know that. good info awaiting my N5
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One of the first things you should do after root
TWRP has also a built-in feature as you may know.

prulleman said:
isn't EFS something samsung specific? can't find it on my N4
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They all have efs but only some phones implement it as a dedicated partition or mounted filesystem.
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[Q] How to create a backup of the entire phone to restore it later?

Hi, I currently have my nexus 5 in 4.4.4, and I'd like to try Android L, but I want to know if there's a way to create a full backup of my phone, like an image, so I can go back to 4.4.4 with everything as I left it, including apps, contacts, images, and all that, my phone is rooted, so I guess there's a a way, but, would it be possible to restore it if I'm already in Android L? thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
Hi, I currently have my nexus 5 in 4.4.4, and I'd like to try Android L, but I want to know if there's a way to create a full backup of my phone, like an image, so I can go back to 4.4.4 with everything as I left it, including apps, contacts, images, and all that, my phone is rooted, so I guess there's a a way, but, would it be possible to restore it if I'm already in Android L? thanks!
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Take a nandroid backup then copy your sdcard to your computer

rootSU said:
Take a nandroid backup then copy your sdcard to your computer
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Is this going to work if I want to use it from Android L to restore it? thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
Is this going to work if I want to use it from Android L to restore it? thanks!
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Your best bet would be to take a nandroid backup (which will go to sdcard) then connect in recovery and adb pull the entire /sdcard (which is /data/media/0) to your pc. Then whne you want to go back, adb push it back.
Click the link in my signature. In there you'll find a thread about adb and fastboot if you're unsure about adb push and pull commands.

rootSU said:
Your best bet would be to take a nandroid backup (which will go to sdcard) then connect in recovery and adb pull the entire /sdcard (which is /data/media/0) to your pc. Then whne you want to go back, adb push it back.
Click the link in my signature. In there you'll find a thread about adb and fastboot if you're unsure about adb push and pull commands.
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I'll take a look at it, I appreciate the help, thanks!

No probs.
The good thing about adb is you can push and pull files to your device, even if you cant get into Android.

rootSU said:
No probs.
The good thing about adb is you can push and pull files to your device, even if you cant get into Android.
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That's great! and I have used adb before, mostly with rooting and development, but not a lot with backups and all that, I'll give it a try, thanks!:good:

U can use cwm too
kanhaiya

Kanhaiya1.kk said:
U can use cwm too
kanhaiya
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That would be the "nandroid" part of the solution I suggested. This will not backup the sdcard though

Yes u ri8
Bt i suggested an easy way.. & with the help of some apps like titanium backup or my backup he can restore all things..
kanhaiya

Another way you can do is install Gdrivesync and sync your /sdcard partition to your Google Drive account. It won't replace the files on the phone but this will enable you to be able to recover lost downloads. You can set it up to have it automatically sync every x hours and it's nice too because if you accidently want to install the latest update but it wipes your whole phone including any backups, at least you can get your data again and just have to set up your apps.

If by "easy" you mean "incomplete ", you're right
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rootSU said:
If by "easy" you mean "incomplete ", you're right
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Hey, I was doing some research, but all the tutorials that I find talks about GooManager, CWM or TWRP. I thought there was a way to create the nandroid backup manually, if not, which of these would you recommend? after that I would pull the entire sdcard I guess right? thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
Hey, I was doing some research, but all the tutorials that I find talks about GooManager, CWM or TWRP. I thought there was a way to create the nandroid backup manually, if not, which of these would you recommend? after that I would pull the entire sdcard I guess right? thanks!
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You can investigate adb backup. Never used it myself so not sure what it includes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-phone-backup-unlock-root-t1420351

rootSU said:
If by "easy" you mean "incomplete ", you're right
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rootSU said:
You can investigate adb backup. Never used it myself so not sure what it includes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-phone-backup-unlock-root-t1420351
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I'll check on that one; just wondering, have you ever used any of those that I mentioned? if so, which one would you recommend? Thanks!

saman0suke1 said:
I'll check on that one; just wondering, have you ever used any of those that I mentioned? if so, which one would you recommend? Thanks!
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The only thing that has worked consistently for me is to grab what you want off the /sdcard and copy it to a pc. Then a nandroid of the rest of the phone. I've had mixed results with adb backup and backup apps.
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