hey guys, is there any way i can restore all apps and data after upgrading from latest stable oxygen to android p beta (and a wipe that follows the upgrade)? not sure if oneplus switch backup function does the job or what about TWRP backup? my device is not rooted btw.
thanks!
DId you take a backup in TWRP before flashing to P?
If you did you may be able to boot into TWRP and restore just Data and reboot, you should still be on P but have all your apps and data available.
There was no wipe the last time I upgraded from stock to p beta. It upgraded it just fine.
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Hello,
I'm new here. And I think I've learn a lot of things reading through all the useful posts.
I have a moto g 3rd gen. XT1541 2GB reteu ( really its my wife's phone), currently running its original stock 5.1.1.
I want to try some custom ROM based on 7.1, but my wife wants to be able to go back to the actual state, in case she don't like the new OS (worst battery life, mainly). So I think about 2 options:
Option 1:
- Factory reset
- Unlock bootloader
- Boot twrp with fastboot (not install at this time)
- Perform a complete nandroid backup of the system to SD.
- Install twrp.
- Then install Lineage OS 14.1
So in this case: Could be possible to restore the nandroid backup later? Will it be safe? remember its a nandroid backup of LP 5.1.1
Option 2:
- Factory reset
- Install twrp with fastboot
- install Lineage OS 14.1
In case of need... Could I go back to 5.1.1 by installing a factory image with fastboot? Any risk?
Thank you in advance.
angel6700 said:
Hello,
I'm new here. And I think I've learn a lot of things reading through all the useful posts.
I have a moto g 3rd gen. XT1541 2GB reteu ( really its my wife's phone), currently running its original stock 5.1.1.
I want to try some custom ROM based on 7.1, but my wife wants to be able to go back to the actual state, in case she don't like the new OS (worst battery life, mainly). So I think about 2 options:
Option 1:
- Factory reset
- Unlock bootloader
- Boot twrp with fastboot (not install at this time)
- Perform a complete nandroid backup of the system to SD.
- Install twrp.
- Then install Lineage OS 14.1
So in this case: Could be possible to restore the nandroid backup later? Will it be safe? remember its a nandroid backup of LP 5.1.1
Option 2:
- Factory reset
- Install twrp with fastboot
- install Lineage OS 14.1
In case of need... Could I go back to 5.1.1 by installing a factory image with fastboot? Any risk?
Thank you in advance.
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Hi,
Both the options you mentioned should work without any problems.
For Option 1)
I'd really recommend this option. Its the safe way to go. Also you should have no problem restoring LP 5.1.1 backup after installing any ROM.
For Option 2)
Yes it will work without any problems too, but installing factory image via fastboot is a tedious process.
So just to make things easier go with option 1.
Thank-you for your help.
So I'll say with option 1, and keep the backup in a safe place, just in case...
Anyway, first thing is to manually copy all important data, before unlocking the bootloader. I think the process deletes everything.
Now, is time to play
Thanks again.
To be on the safe side when you do the backup in twrp select also the system image option. It makes a bigger backup but for stock rom backup I always do it. For custom rom it's not needed. Just my humble opinion.
Cheers!
Hi,
With my playing around with AOSP on the 3a, I've found TWRP to be reasonably reliable to restoring me to a functional phone after I blew something up. What I haven't tested is rolling back from Android 10 builds to a Android 9 backup via TWRP.
I'm wanting to try out Android 10 AOSP builds using the RattlesnakeOS AWS Stack scripts but I don't actually know if my Pie backups taken with TWRP will restore correctly. Especially since the partition layout is changed with Android 10.
My intuition tells me I can do this to roll back to an Android 9 TWRP backup.
1. Flash an Android 9 factory image from Google via fastboot. This will allow a downgrade as it will repartition the phone back to the Pie partitioning layout
2. Boot TWRP and restore my Android 9 backup. System, Data.
3. reboot.
Does this sound reasonable? Basically I have a free weekend and I'm very bored and feel like blowing up my phone all day
Hi all, may I know if i can restore a TWRP backup made in android PIE from my phone which was upgraded to android 10?
Unfortunately you cannot There is a Pie downgrade file on here floating around you will have to use.
Hello community!
Hope you are doing awesome, I am trying to install specifically the update from the 18 th of May (latest while doing this post) so when I downloaded it I go to TWRP and this is what I done
1)Place my pin and decrypt the device
2) Perform a format Data > Yes
3) Wipe cache, dalvik, internal
4) Restart to Recovery
5) Install the update all seems to be fine and reboot to system
The Phone boots to Poco screen and then vibrates and then gets me back to TWRP. I manage one time to get it worked and got in the config page from the customer rom a UI unresponsive message and is unable to connect to my Wifi so I have to use the Data 4G to make it work and I rolledback to April version of Arrow OS that seems to be the one working now.
The Miui stock that I am using to install the customer Rom is surya_global_images_V12.0.8.0.QJGMIXM_20210222.0000.00_10.0_global
Could you please provide some hints and tips what I am doing wrong so I can get this updates up to date? Because I love the Arrow OS Rom and I want to keep the firmware updated correclty on my side.
Thank you!
I am very interested, too. Got the same problem. After latest OTA-Update I'm stuck in a recovery bootloop as well.
Sadly even the attempt to flash back an older version or a MIUI Stock rom is failing for me now. Always recovery bootloop, even after a successfull flash without errors (and format data of course) .
Is the stock rom or an older arrow os version working for you, after the 18th May update?
@koelbche I was able to make a stock based on the stock fw shown on my post. then I installed old version of arrow OS April update and it was restarting bootloop.
I had to delete data, factory reset and select de wipe options so super clean flash and manage to boot it up.
I am waiting for any updates from others that manage to install the updates because I was not able to do it.
Flash ArrowOS custom recovery for ota update to work. After update you can flash recovery back to TWRP for root and backup, your choice.
I was able to make it worked in another post.
All I have to do was to update the version of the stock with Oss vendor (I think) and then all worked like a charm!.
Thanks for the replies though
Hello! I've been rooting and installing custom ROMs for years but it's been a long while since I last did it, I got a oneplus 8 global (IN2015) late last year, unlocked the bootloader as soon as I got it out of the box since I knew eventually I would want to flash some stuff. but I have kept it stock this long. Running latest Oxygen 11 android 11
Since I want to start flashing some kernels or roms I wanted to ask about making a backup since I've never had a phone without sd card slot where I would usually store backups.
Can I still use titanium backup to keep all of my apps/data/photos/videos and the state they are in, store it in my pc , then go about flashing a custom Rom and then bring my titanium backup back into the phone and restore everything?
since I'll be installing custom roms based on android 11 I believe it will be fine with no conflicts? or does it matter that my apps were installed in Oxygen OS?
that's what I used to do with older phones anyway. is there a way to flash a rom while having the titanium backup still in storage since most roms require full whipe when clean installing them?
Recently twrp added official support for OP8 and when I open the official app it recognizes my phone as instant noodle but when I click search for phone it says it can't connect to the server? should I flash official twrp from the app or via fastboot? which I'm also quite rusty with.
any tips for a step by step would be appreciated
Hello, I was in the same boat as you since I came to the OP 8 from a Galaxy S4. Titanium backup should work for what you want to do, as long as the custom rom is also based on A11 (disclaimer: I haven't tried it; I'm running rooted stock OOS 11 with a custom kernel). If the rom you want to install requires a data partition format, you can't keep the backups there during the flashing process. If it only needs a data wipe / factory reset, everything in the sdcard directory (also known as /data/media) should be preserved.
I'd say just flash TWRP in fastboot. Flash it to both recovery slots, and read up on how flashing works with A/B slot devices if you aren't familiar, since you'll need to know about it when flashing roms also. It's a big difference from what I was used to with older devices.
Thanks for the reply, yeah I was thinking of just going with a custom kernel since I have so much stuff going on the phone I find it really a chore to backup, but still might want to try it.
What kernel are you using and how are you liking it ?