TWRP Backup and Restore (Boot, System, Data) - General Questions and Answers

Hello,
This may sound like a rookie question, but here goes. :angel:
TWRP highlights Boot, System, and Data by default.
I backed up after flashing Stock ROM (Android 5.1) for ZP952, then Custom ROM (CM12.1).
What I want to know is, must I flash both the Stock and Custom ROMs, before restoring backup?
Or, could I safely restore backup with just the Stock ROM in place?

Such a small question.
Can nobody answer?

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Flashing Question

I'm currently rooted running a MIUI ROM. My question is, if I want to flash to a different ROM, what do I need to do prior to flashing? Can I just flash directly over using CWM or do I need to revert back to stock first?
Thanks
If it was an update to the same rom then you could probably just flash over depending on the chef's instructions.
But a different rom, I would definite wipe data/factory reset it first.
Of course I would backup apps/data, and a nandroid backup too
SysAdmNj said:
If it was an update to the same rom then you could probably just flash over depending on the chef's instructions.
But a different rom, I would definite wipe data/factory reset it first.
Of course I would backup apps/data, and a nandroid backup too
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Thanks for the reply, so would I need to unroot and reroot and all that stuff over again, or can I just choose the factory rest option from the boot menu?
There's no need to return to stock, just wipe data/cache from the CWM menu.
If I have a backup of of an existing ROM, and a Titanium backups of all apps and app date, why would I need a Nandroid backup too?

[Q] Flashing a new Rom help

If i clean flash a new Rom but restore the data part from a backup i did earlier from another rom from recovery will it work? Im using TWRP recovery.
ive always had mixed results on this. if youre going from a TW ROM to an AOSP or AOKP rom, likely not. If you use TiB and backup your apps and their respective data, and restore them via the same method, that 99.9999% of the time works

stock recovery+Titanium Backup or custom recovery

Is there a necessity to install a custom recovery when I'm running on stock rom? (never changing to custom)
If I factory reset my phone and try to restore everything, only titanium backup is needed right? the system apps are the same so titanium backup would restore them. In this case is a custom recovery necessary?
I'm on android 4.4 and rooted but bootloader is locked. I understand the differences of titanium backup and custom recovery but I wanna know if custom recovery is needed on devices with stock rom+titanium backup
Curry bbang said:
Is there a necessity to install a custom recovery when I'm running on stock rom? (never changing to custom)
If I factory reset my phone and try to restore everything, only titanium backup is needed right? the system apps are the same so titanium backup would restore them. In this case is a custom recovery necessary?
I'm on android 4.4 and rooted but bootloader is locked. I understand the differences of titanium backup and custom recovery but I wanna know if custom recovery is needed on devices with stock rom+titanium backup
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If you are rooted then yes its always a good idea to have custom recovery so you can make a nandroid backup of your stock setup, then if later you have issues that you can't get straight you can restore the nandroid and be back to normal, nandroid backups are backups of your entire device, titanium backup only backs up user data(apps you've installed, app data, contacts, pics, videos, music and things like that).
Titanium backup does not back up your boot, modem, system or recovery partitions and those are the important parts, the stuff titanium backup only saves non essential stuff.
If you don't install custom recovery and you have issues then your only option would be factory reset or reflashing stock firmware, these would wipe any data that you want to keep.

ho to backup original ROM

I still have the original ROM. I have rooted it.
Before installing Malaysk's ROM i wish to backup the original
I know i can use Nandroid to backup. BUT should i choose TWRP or clockwordmod Backup?
And does the recovery of the unit support restore from this kind of backups?
Nomader0 said:
I still have the original ROM. I have rooted it.
Before installing Malaysk's ROM i wish to backup the original
I know i can use Nandroid to backup. BUT should i choose TWRP or Cyanogen Backup?
And does the recovery of the unit support restore from this kind of backups?
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How would you install a custom recovery like TWRP? Is there a specific one to our devices?
That is exactly my question..
while with nandroid backup you can backupe yourn ROM in two formats (TWRP and clockwordmod), my question is how do you restrore from these backup files since we can not install TWRP or clockwordmod..
My qustion is whether the factory recovery can restore from these backups

Query regarding Nandroid backup

Hello,
I'm currently running stock oos, rooted.
I need to know if I wish to flash a custom rom now and take a nandroid backup from twrp of the current rom , what all partitions do I take a backup of.
Also, if I wish to come back to oos, do I need to flash oos twice in recovery and then restore the backup taken earlier for oos, or just wipe data and restore backup without flashing oos twice.
Thanks in advance!

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