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[TWRP] Backup and Restore with TWRP

My OP6 has the TWRP 3.2.2 installed, with OOS 5.1.9 and Magisk. I would like to try out the new HAVOC rom, so i have done a full TWRP backup of all the partitions of the phone, and another one with only the BOOT, SYSTEM and DATA partitions.
But I have many doubts about the reliability of the TWRP restore: I read several posts related to bootloop and failures. I would like to avoid having to reinstall the whole phone from scratch.
Has anyone successfully full backed up and restored on the OP6 with TWRP? If so, which partitions did you backup?
The alternative would be to use Titanium backup, but the restore procedure would be much more complex.

I want answers about this as well. What partitions do we backup? What's the process to restore? I tried backing up everything then restoring it and i got a blank screen when I was suppose to see the boot animation.

Marlenio said:
My OP6 has the TWRP 3.2.2 installed, with OOS 5.1.9 and Magisk. I would like to try out the new HAVOC rom, so i have done a full TWRP backup of all the partitions of the phone, and another one with only the BOOT, SYSTEM and DATA partitions.
But I have many doubts about the reliability of the TWRP restore: I read several posts related to bootloop and failures. I would like to avoid having to reinstall the whole phone from scratch.
Has anyone successfully full backed up and restored on the OP6 with TWRP? If so, which partitions did you backup?
The alternative would be to use Titanium backup, but the restore procedure would be much more complex.
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Our TWRP is very buggy i tried to restore whole backup using twrp and it failed showing error. But somewhere i got solution in xda.
Backup only data, system and boot and restore it will work.
But for safety always keep one extra full backup of all things like efs,modem, data, system, boot, vendor. Because sometime if something goes wrong u have rescue operation always there

Since this device is super easy to unbrick if needed I personally only keep a data backup of each ROM I use on my flash drive.
So I don't need to do a full setup when flashing a different rom.
Otherwise if something crazy happens and the device gets bricked, it's fixable with a PC.
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How do I backup / restore using TWRP on the OP7P?

Hi - I did a TWRP System/Data/Boot backup of my OP7P about a month ago, and decided this weekend that I needed to go back to that image.
When I did a TWRP restore, everything looked fine, but after rebooting ... I was stuck in Fastboot Mode (just like in this thread). Fortunately, I was able to get my OP7P again, but I was panicking for a while!
Since that TWRP backup / restore didn't work, I wanted to find out what I did wrong.
How do I properly do a TWRP backup / restore on the OP7P without bricking my phone?
Thanks!

Take note of the statement on the TWRP thread: "For the Backups use always "system_image" and "vendor_image" instead of "system" and "vendor"."
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...nt/recovery-unofficial-twrp-recovery-t3931322
I also believe there is some trick to the Slot A/B thing. Like you need to flash to both slots? Never had to restore a TWRP backup on this device yet. So I'm just passing on what I can remember reading.

Could someone please give a little detailed reply / help.
I tried to update from 10.3.1 to 10.3.2.
After update I lost wifi.
Fortunately I made a twrp backup
Unfortunately the restore failed (stuck at restore boot).
First I have to revitalize with guac recov tool.
Later I want to restore backup - how?

Yup, fastboot loop after twrp restore as well.

Ist there really no option to restore?
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It happened to me too recently. Actually I'm on Beta5 on my 7Tpro McLaren and want to try a rollback to stable release due to some problems (black crush and bad dark levels), just to know if they are software related because I have no memory about how it was when on Stable ROM.
Now I'm unlocked, rooted (Magisk) thanks to All in ONE Tool. Recovery is stock because I'm not confident on flashing TWRP. Differently from my old OP5T there are two partitions and I don't know how to handle them.
Furthermore, when I boot TWRP it doesn't find all partition. For example it says data partition is 0MB.
Any suggestion?
Thanks guys!

franzkekko said:
It happened to me too recently. Actually I'm on Beta5 on my 7Tpro McLaren and want to try a rollback to stable release due to some problems (black crush and bad dark levels), just to know if they are software related because I have no memory about how it was when on Stable ROM.
Now I'm unlocked, rooted (Magisk) thanks to All in ONE Tool. Recovery is stock because I'm not confident on flashing TWRP. Differently from my old OP5T there are two partitions and I don't know how to handle them.
Furthermore, when I boot TWRP it doesn't find all partition. For example it says data partition is 0MB.
Any suggestion?
Thanks guys!
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I am able to backup and restore on my OP7T HD1910 with TWRP now. If anyone needs some advice/help feel free to message me and I'll try and help you out. It took me a lot of testing to figure out and it's not easiest thing to do or the quickest but it is possible!

which partitions should i backup from TWRP to perfectly restore current rom?

hello all. i am a poco x2 user. i am using twrp (3.4.2b-0624) and 12,0.1 stable. now i often change my rom to custom roms. so i need to restore back my best setup rom. which partitions only should i backup from twrp? so that i perfectly restore my previous rom? previously i used htc m9, oneplus3t, those devices were ok with twrp backup and restore rom such as data+system partitions. but, with poco x2, i can see that the system partition is not there in twrp .besides there is SUPER partition.and i found that its huge in size and cannot copy /restore again.. please i need some proper understanding about this new thing in android 10. thanks in advance

We don't have so far TWRP for Poco X2 that is able to do proper backup. And then to restore they is another thing. You have to have hope and wait for official TWRP

arifn82 said:
hello all. i am a poco x2 user. i am using twrp (3.4.2b-0624) and 12,0.1 stable. now i often change my rom to custom roms. so i need to restore back my best setup rom. which partitions only should i backup from twrp? so that i perfectly restore my previous rom? previously i used htc m9, oneplus3t, those devices were ok with twrp backup and restore rom such as data+system partitions. but, with poco x2, i can see that the system partition is not there in twrp .besides there is SUPER partition.and i found that its huge in size and cannot copy /restore again.. please i need some proper understanding about this new thing in android 10. thanks in advance
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Use migrate app to quickly restore your apps and data.. nandroid backup is dead in Android 10.

The TWRP has some bugs. You won't be able to use the restore function to restore the rom. It's better to download the fastboot rom or the recovery rom for the device. Better to be safe than to panic later when TWRP restore won't work.

tuskan_supa said:
Use migrate app to quickly restore your apps and data.. nandroid backup is dead in Android 10.
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hey i tried using migrate app to restore data from my apps because TWRP isnt an official release on my device yet and when i went to install the backup zip i got "update process ended with error 7" How did you get yours to work?

BootLoop after TWRP restore

Hello,
On Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra with TWRP 3.4.2b-0623 wzsx150, i did a full backup (all partitions) then after some moding and all on phone. decided to restore the full backup trought TWRP
the phone goes on bootloop and didnt want to start.
i already fixed the phone by flashing rom again, but i'm wondering why a TWRP full restore give a bootloop ? any help to understand to avoid this next time
thanks a lot

This is late but this happened to me before aswell. You have to flash the rom which you've done the backup on and then just restore the data partition.

Does your device keep in a frozen black screen?

Psych0t1c20 said:
This is late but this happened to me before aswell. You have to flash the rom which you've done the backup on and then just restore the data partition.
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i did it with same rom, but i think the issue is from me restoring all partition, i think i need to choose only ones needed

Rovyo said:
i did it with same rom, but i think the issue is from me restoring all partition, i think i need to choose only ones needed
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If you are restoring to the same device of the backup, just restore it and then wipe data.
Reboot and it will work perfectly.

VD171 said:
If you are restoring to the same device of the backup, just restore it and then wipe data.
Reboot and it will work perfectly.
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exactly what i have did, but i checked all partitions when i did the restore i think i need to uncheck some of them in order to avoid the bootloop

Unable to wipe system partition on Redmi Note 9 Pro

Hi everybody!
I'm trying to wipe the system partition on my redmi note 9 pro to install a costum rom ( Pixel Experience).
However I'm just not able to do that because there just isn't the option: when I try to wipe all data there isn't the system partition.
I tried both with Twrp and Orange Fox.
the error I encounter is unable to update logical partition "/system_ext".
Do you know how to fix this? Fortunately my device still works, I managed not to brick it somehow. But I would really like to install the Pixel Experience
Thank you for your time, hope you'll respond soon!

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psychotanc said:
Hi everybody!
I'm trying to wipe the system partition on my redmi note 9 pro to install a costum rom ( Pixel Experience).
However I'm just not able to do that because there just isn't the option: when I try to wipe all data there isn't the system partition.
I tried both with Twrp and Orange Fox.
the error I encounter is unable to update logical partition "/system_ext".
Do you know how to fix this? Fortunately my device still works, I managed not to brick it somehow. But I would really like to install the Pixel Experience
Thank you for your time, hope you'll respond soon!
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for what purpose do you want to wipe this partition?? there is no need to do that.
What should I wipe in TWRP?
If you are switching ROMs (changing from one ROM to a completely different one) then you should perform a factory reset. A factory reset wipes data and cache...
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WoKoschekk said:
for what purpose do you want to wipe this partition?? there is no need to do that.
What should I wipe in TWRP?
If you are switching ROMs (changing from one ROM to a completely different one) then you should perform a factory reset. A factory reset wipes data and cache...
twrp.me
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Actually he DO NEED to wipe system partition before installing a new system. And I got the same problem

FlavioHuster said:
Actually he DO NEED to wipe system partition before installing a new system. And I got the same problem
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No, you flash a complete image of /system and it doesn't matter if there is any data stored on it. Everything gets overwritten.

WoKoschekk said:
No, you flash a complete image of /system and it doesn't matter if there is any data stored on it. Everything gets overwritten.
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Didn't know about it. So every time I want to install a new ROM I just flash it? And thanks for the answer!

FlavioHuster said:
Didn't know about it. So every time I want to install a new ROM I just flash it? And thanks for the answer!
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Yes, that's right. Just wipe /data when flashing a new ROM.