This is a noob question, but I have a bit of experience under my belt just so you don't have to worry too much about using "confusing" terminology.
I have rooted/ROMed many devices in the past and have heard guides talking about doing a Nandroid backup. My question is how exactly does it work? Say for example: I am on the stock ROM (rooted of course) and I do a Nandroid backup while on stock. If go to say Cyanogen and I don't like it can I just restore from my nandroid backup like I would flash any other ROM to go back to stock. And if that will get me back to stock does it also preserve all of the user data that was in that ROM when it was backed up?
Any other information about about nandroid backups would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
From my understanding, the backup backs up all the stuff on your phone EXCEPT for what's on the SD card.
The idea is that you do a back up. Then install a new rom that you want to try out. BUt you don't like it, so you just restore the backup and woolah! your old phone is back along with all your settings, data, etc.
I'm not sure why it's called a nandroid backup, but from what I gather, you can do it with clockworkmod, just boot into recovery. And use the backup and restore option.
That was my understanding as well. I just wasn't sure on the situation with the user data (or the backup in general really). So all it takes is a nandrid backup to revert back to (rooted) stock?
A Android backup takes all the files on your device and saves them as a data.img,system.I mg,cache.I mg,user data,and recovery.img. It is also restorable through fastboot. It can also get you out of a tough spot. Say you are messing with a new theme and it causes your device not to boot up or causes unwanted problems. You can restore a backup to a time when your device was working correctly.
saintmagician said:
From my understanding, the backup backs up all the stuff on your phone EXCEPT for what's on the SD card.
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this is true unless you do a nandroid+android_secure backup. this also backs up your external app data
dunngh said:
This is a noob question, but I have a bit of experience under my belt just so you don't have to worry too much about using "confusing" terminology.
I have rooted/ROMed many devices in the past and have heard guides talking about doing a Nandroid backup. My question is how exactly does it work? Say for example: I am on the stock ROM (rooted of course) and I do a Nandroid backup while on stock. If go to say Cyanogen and I don't like it can I just restore from my nandroid backup like I would flash any other ROM to go back to stock. And if that will get me back to stock does it also preserve all of the user data that was in that ROM when it was backed up?
Any other information about about nandroid backups would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Yes you're correct. You can restore but just remember some app might have ext data in sdcard. If you don't delete it, when you restore you'll get the same as before
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rootfan said:
A Android backup takes all the files on your device and saves them as a data.img,system.I mg,cache.I mg,user data,and recovery.img. It is also restorable through fastboot. It can also get you out of a tough spot. Say you are messing with a new theme and it causes your device not to boot up or causes unwanted problems. You can restore a backup to a time when your device was working correctly.
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So if you want to restore say just your data can you just delete the images you do not wish to restore from the backup folder and it will just keep the ones you have? Or won't it work at all if you start deleting images?
rfp101 said:
So if you want to restore say just your data can you just delete the images you do not wish to restore from the backup folder and it will just keep the ones you have? Or won't it work at all if you start deleting images?
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i wouldnt tamper with a nandroid backup, but if you have clockwordmod recovery, that is possible. clockwordmod recovery gives you the option to restore one of those images (but only one at a time).
does a nandroid backup include your kernel?
Pender1 said:
does a nandroid backup include your kernel?
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It does! It's a compelete "snapshot" of your phone with all apps/settings etc.
Does it also backup the stuff which has been stored on the external ext2-Partition, which is mounted to enlarge the space for apps?
Same with restore of this nandroid-backup. Will it also place the backup again to the same space?
As I know there's a (symbolic) link put into /data which might get problems.
dunngh said:
This is a noob question, but I have a bit of experience under my belt just so you don't have to worry too much about using "confusing" terminology.
I have rooted/ROMed many devices in the past and have heard guides talking about doing a Nandroid backup. My question is how exactly does it work? Say for example: I am on the stock ROM (rooted of course) and I do a Nandroid backup while on stock. If go to say Cyanogen and I don't like it can I just restore from my nandroid backup like I would flash any other ROM to go back to stock. And if that will get me back to stock does it also preserve all of the user data that was in that ROM when it was backed up?
Any other information about about nandroid backups would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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its back up all yore staff and programs so if u will back to the backup it eill be exactly the same as beafore
If you install another ROM with different kernel and then you want to go back to nandroid backup, does it work ?
Nandroid backups
I was wondering if the framework is saved as well. I recently updated to the ICS firmware and am wondering if I restore with a backup from the old GB firmware will that be restored as well or will it still stay on the ICS? From my understanding ICS firmware will run previous versions
will nandroid backup (made from cwm) un-brick your phone if say, you installed a custom rom via cwm and it bricked it?
dunngh said:
This is a noob question, but I have a bit of experience under my belt just so you don't have to worry too much about using "confusing" terminology.
I have rooted/ROMed many devices in the past and have heard guides talking about doing a Nandroid backup. My question is how exactly does it work? Say for example: I am on the stock ROM (rooted of course) and I do a Nandroid backup while on stock. If go to say Cyanogen and I don't like it can I just restore from my nandroid backup like I would flash any other ROM to go back to stock. And if that will get me back to stock does it also preserve all of the user data that was in that ROM when it was backed up?
Any other information about about nandroid backups would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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Yes,It restores all data and apps nandroid backup is a mirror copy of your phone.after restoring you will get your previous stock ROM.
cheebs42 said:
I was wondering if the framework is saved as well. I recently updated to the ICS firmware and am wondering if I restore with a backup from the old GB firmware will that be restored as well or will it still stay on the ICS? From my understanding ICS firmware will run previous versions
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Interesting question. Anyone?
Snake X said:
will nandroid backup (made from cwm) un-brick your phone if say, you installed a custom rom via cwm and it bricked it?
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im not sure, i think nandroid backup will unbrick your phone as long as you can boot to recovery. atleast when i installed a roms pach it didnt fully boot, got stuck at bootanimation, no loop, just froze, then i got it back with nandroid backup
I have the latest CWM 5.xxx, but there is no Nandroid backup option.
but only those below';
- backup and restore and under it
- backup
- restore
- advanced restore
- backup to internal sd card
- advanced restore from internal sdcard
Where is NANDROID Backup?
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I have the latest CWM 5.xxx, but there is no Nandroid backup option.
but only those below';
- backup and restore and under it
- backup
- restore
- advanced restore
- backup to internal sd card
- advanced restore from internal sdcard
Where is NANDROID Backup?
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all the options with the word backup are.
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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
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!
Hi,
Back when I had a Galaxy S3 backing up and restoring a backup was pretty straight forward. Now with the OnePlus 7 Pro I have taken a TWRP Backup, but I have not once been able to restore one.
How do you guys back up and restore? I'd like to test some custom ROMs, but would also like to return to stock old with my config, apps and data from a backup if no custom ROMs fits my needs.
Thanks.
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Hi,
Back when I had a Galaxy S3 backing up and restoring a backup was pretty straight forward. Now with the OnePlus 7 Pro I have taken a TWRP Backup, but I have not once been able to restore one.
How do you guys back up and restore? I'd like to test some custom ROMs, but would also like to return to stock old with my config, apps and data from a backup if no custom ROMs fits my needs.
Thanks.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...nt/recovery-unofficial-twrp-recovery-t3932943
Scroll down on that link and read tips, hope this helps, cheers
What issues are you having while restoring backups?
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?