I don't know if this is a dumb question guys but i just want to know what is the best method or procedure to backup a phone? I mean if ever i may factory reset my phone and i want to backup my apps, phone settings, pictures, videos, files etc with just a single click or two, somewhat like that. Then restore everything with just a single click also. Thanks
A NANDroid Backup what requires Android is got rooted and ADB is successfully installed is the best method, IMO.
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I'm getting ready to root my phone, but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is what is the best way to make an image of my stock rom on the AT&T Nexus S before using a tool that's going to delete all my data?
I would really like to make a full system image so that if anything goes wrong, I can flash it back to where it is before the root takes place. Is this possible? Is there a guide out there that I just haven't seen?
Thanks
VillainousVivi said:
I'm getting ready to root my phone, but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is what is the best way to make an image of my stock rom on the AT&T Nexus S before using a tool that's going to delete all my data?
I would really like to make a full system image so that if anything goes wrong, I can flash it back to where it is before the root takes place. Is this possible? Is there a guide out there that I just haven't seen?
Thanks
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i hate saying this, but its true. this should go into the Q&A section, not into development. anyways, i think that you need root for that. but if there is a way, i think that it would be through adb.
Not a problem, if a mod can move it, that'd be great. I thought that a backup before making modifications would fall under the realm of development. After all, without a good backup, I wouldn't want to make too many changes
VillainousVivi said:
Not a problem, if a mod can move it, that'd be great. I thought that a backup before making modifications would fall under the realm of development. After all, without a good backup, I wouldn't want to make too many changes
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what you want is to perform a nandroid backup, and you can do that through a custom recovery. you either need to unlock your bootloader for that(which wipes your phone and sd storage) or you can search how to root without unlocking the bootloader, root it, and use rom manager to flash a recovery/perform a nandroid backup without wiping but getting root.
Just use my back up pro to back up whatever that app will allow. Then copy over all your SDCard contents to your computer....Google takes care of contacts and apps....
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Hi,
I have a problem that I'm hoping you guys can help me with:
I bought my Nexus 5 from the US Play Store but I live in Europe, which is why my LTE isn't working.
Now I have a friend who has the opposite situation, living in the States but having a European N5.
Now our idea was to simply switch phones, but we don't know how to do with while keeping all the data.
Is there any way to backup EVERYTHING into a file which each of us could flash so it would be like the both of us had the same phone as before, only with working LTE?
Thanks in advance.
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Yes, if you can root both phones without unlocking the bootloader (unlocking wipes phones), flash a custom recovery then do a nandroid backup (EXCLUDING EFS) then copy /sdcard to your pc.
OR use carbon (Although I cannot guarantee its everything).
Although it is much easier and safer to start fresh.
All guides etc are in the link in my signature, except - if you want root without unlocking bootloader, you'll have to try your luck with the towelroot app.
Anyway read up and you may figure it out but if you're a stranger to rooting, I wouldn't recommend it.
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Yes, if you can root both phones without unlocking the bootloader (unlocking wipes phones), flash a custom recovery then do a nandroid backup (EXCLUDING EFS) then copy /sdcard to your pc.
OR use carbon (Although I cannot guarantee its everything).
Although it is much easier and safer to start fresh.
All guides etc are in the link in my signature, except - if you want root without unlocking bootloader, you'll have to try your luck with the towelroot app.
Anyway read up and you may figure it out but if you're a stranger to rooting, I wouldn't recommend it.
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Yeah sorry for the title, couldn't think of any description.
In fact both our phones are rooted and have a custom recovery, I wasn't sure about the nandroid backup process though.
Thanks a lot for your help.
kaeptn1 said:
Yeah sorry for the title, couldn't think of any description.
In fact both our phones are rooted and have a custom recovery, I wasn't sure about the nandroid backup process though.
Thanks a lot for your help.
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Nandroid from recovery will backup everything except sdcard. So do a nandroid backup to sdcard and copy To PC
Just ensure you DO NOT backup or restore efs.
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My phone went through the boot loop and I had to factory reset and lose everything this morning. OK, my bad for not backing up, though I did back up some things like photos.
I want to ensure my other phone doesn't have this issue -- and the only 'full backup' I'm aware of (nandroid) requires the unlocked bootloader which this phone does not have. So what is the best way for me to back up this phone PRIOR to unlocking bootloader and forcing a factory refresh?
I know I can back up photos and other stuff relatively easy, but these things I had to restore on my phone manually:
Texts (Use SMS Backup and Restore, I know, but hadn't run it recently)
Custom Ringtones (Not sure how to do this other than manually)
Application Data (since some apps do store the data locally)
Is there anything proactive I can do or any magical non-root stock supported app to back up this phone 'just in case'?
Thanks.
requires the unlocked bootloader which this phone does not have
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Well you can unlock it yourself. To do nandroid backup you need custom recovery. To get custom recovery you need unlocked bootloader.
Helium, by ClockWorkMod, will do what you want, I think, and doesn't require root (although it will use it if available). It's in the Google Play Store. I'm not sure what the down side of rooting is, though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-phone-backup-unlock-root-t1420351
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My phone went through the boot loop and I had to factory reset and lose everything this morning. OK, my bad for not backing up, though I did back up some things like photos.
I want to ensure my other phone doesn't have this issue -- and the only 'full backup' I'm aware of (nandroid) requires the unlocked bootloader which this phone does not have. So what is the best way for me to back up this phone PRIOR to unlocking bootloader and forcing a factory refresh?
I know I can back up photos and other stuff relatively easy, but these things I had to restore on my phone manually:
Texts (Use SMS Backup and Restore, I know, but hadn't run it recently)
Custom Ringtones (Not sure how to do this other than manually)
Application Data (since some apps do store the data locally)
Is there anything proactive I can do or any magical non-root stock supported app to back up this phone 'just in case'?
Thanks.
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Hi.
Had the same problem as you until i unlocked, i did a full backup using this method.
http://omegavesko.github.io/SimpleADBBackup/
With this method you don't have to unlock or root for just making a backup, i am restoring my backup from before unlocking and rooting as i write this so i hope it did its job.
The backupfile was 8 gb so it must have produced something
I will give you a report as soon as it have restored everything.
Best regards
Mackis
Mackis said:
Hi.
Had the same problem as you until i unlocked, i did a full backup using this method.
http://omegavesko.github.io/SimpleADBBackup/
With this method you don't have to unlock or root for just making a backup, i am restoring my backup from before unlocking and rooting as i write this so i hope it did its job.
The backupfile was 8 gb so it must have produced something
I will give you a report as soon as it have restored everything.
Best regards
Mackis
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Ok, so the backup was rolling during the night, but i can warn others that my method described above did not work. Maybe i did something wrong but no pictures, no music and no apps did get restored after the backup.
The positive is that im now unlocked, rooted and installed twrp now checking for wich kernel and image to use, i have to read up a bit before next step.
Best regards
Mackis
I was looking at doing a complete backup. (I already have a backup but not like a 'full' one that I can do whilst rooted.) However I'm not sure if it is worth my time, as I have my phone numbers, pictures, passwords, 2FA keys etc, already backed up.
If I were to unfortunately completely break my phone, to the point that I have to use another one for a while. If I have to borrow a phone (Money can't always be just on the hip to buy a new phone) I can't exactly root a phone that I'm only borrowing, does this mean that I can't recover my backup until I have a rooted device? Or do I lose part of the backup?
as long as i know the titanium backup need a root device to work, so if ur phone not rooted i guess it's impossible to recover with titanium backup, but m newbie too maybe the senior in here have another opinion... ^^
Hi all,
I just got my Pixel 7 Pro few hours ago and I'm followed the instruction to copy my app and data from my Pixel 4. But it seems that some apps are not restored and some are restored but no data.
Is there anyone who can recommend a tool to backup data on my Pixel 4 and then restore them on Pixel 7 Pro (I would like to avoid to root it)? I should be able to find the APK to re-install some of the apps.
I tried Helium (Carbon) (I used it many years ago) but some apps cannot be backup (Helium says "not allowed").
Thanks a lot,
Axello
If the apps you are trying to restore are 32bit apps they will not restore, or work any longer.
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If the apps you are trying to restore are 32bit apps they will not restore, or work any longer.
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Thanks Jaseman.
Since I moved from my Pixel 4, I assumed my apps are not 32-bit.
I'm more interested to find a way to backup the data from my Pixel 4 to restore in my Pixel 7 Pro. Any idea?
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Thanks Jaseman.
Since I moved from my Pixel 4, I assumed my apps are not 32-bit.
I'm more interested to find a way to backup the data from my Pixel 4 to restore in my Pixel 7 Pro. Any idea?
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Is there anyone who can recommend a tool to backup data on my Pixel 4 and then restore them on Pixel 7 Pro (I would like to avoid to root it)? I should be able to find the APK to re-install some of the apps.
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Thanks a lot,
Axello
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Usually, as a rule of thumb, you need to be able to root both devices in order to transfer the data part of backups....
I could be wrong here; but isn't there ways to install apps through adb and/or backup and restore through adb? Maybe someone else out there can help....
You could always unlock bootloader, root, transfer apk's and data, then unroot and even re-lock bootloader (I do NOT recommend doing this last part as many people have bricked their device doing so unnecessarily...)...
If you do go that route, a lot of people are using Swift Backup with almost complete success and/or I saw a couple of people still using Migrate....
I personally haven't had issues with Swift, but I transferred most everything through the cord; but on the select times I used them for apps that didn't come from the Play Store, it worked perfectly...
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Usually, as a rule of thumb, you need to be able to root both devices in order to transfer the data part of backups....
I could be wrong here; but isn't there ways to install apps through adb and/or backup and restore through adb? Maybe someone else out there can help....
You could always unlock bootloader, root, transfer apk's and data, then unroot and even re-lock bootloader (I do NOT recommend doing this last part as many people have bricked their device doing so unnecessarily...)...
If you do go that route, a lot of people are using Swift Backup with almost complete success and/or I saw a couple of people still using Migrate....
I personally haven't had issues with Swift, but I transferred most everything through the cord; but on the select times I used them for apps that didn't come from the Play Store, it worked perfectly...
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Thanks Simplepinoi177,
I have never root my phones and I'm worried to do something wrong and break it.
I'll see if I need to setup these so one by one except if there is anyone else with another suggestion.
Axello
Is root easy/safe?
Would Google updates still be pushed on the phone without issue?
I think I saw some post about root, I'll go read them but I'm still concern I am not knowledgeable enough to do it...
axello said:
Is root easy/safe?
Would Google updates still be pushed on the phone without issue?
I think I saw some post about root, I'll go read them but I'm still concern I am not knowledgeable enough to do it...
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I would say that basic rooting is relatively safe; in most cases if all else fails, you can simply load up bootloader mode and flash the stock factory image to restore your phone. Unless you are installing custom ROMs, kernels, or modded Magisk or some modules, you should be safe as attempting to apply those things (instead of merely just having root access) is what has a higher risk of bricking/bootloops where you can't access recovery or bootloader mode.
But I just realized that you are attempting to transfer data from a Pixel 4. In order to root the Pixel 4 to get access to the app data, you would have to unlock the bootloader which factory resets the phone -- so the point is rendered moot and goes against the whole point.
So, I guess I don't have anything else to suggest as having root access seems to be the only real way of accessing and transferring/backing-up app data.
Again, you might ask someone more knowledgeable if it's possible to use the adb commands to backup and restore apps with their data....
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I would say that basic rooting is relatively safe; in most cases if all else fails, you can simply load up bootloader mode and flash the stock factory image to restore your phone. Unless you are installing custom ROMs, kernels, or modded Magisk or some modules, you should be safe as attempting to apply those things (instead of merely just having root access) is what has a higher risk of bricking/bootloops where you can't access recovery or bootloader mode.
But I just realized that you are attempting to transfer data from a Pixel 4. In order to root the Pixel 4 to get access to the app data, you would have to unlock the bootloader which factory resets the phone -- so the point is rendered moot and goes against the whole point.
So, I guess I don't have anything else to suggest as having root access seems to be the only real way of accessing and transferring/backing-up app data.
Again, you might ask someone more knowledgeable if it's possible to use the adb commands to backup and restore apps with their data....
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Thanks a lot for your help, greatly appreciated.
Yes, maybe there is not much choice then. One of the problem is an app that didn't get the data transferred and I cannot login anymore (company has bankrupted)