Hey guys!
So yesterday, I installed the app 'Android Control Center'. I messed around with a few settings and ended up in a bootloop. I do not have anything backed up in Titanium backup. So I made a nandroid backup in the hope that id be able to restore my apps out of that by using nandroid manager, but all of my app data were not extracted from the nandroid. So now im planning to restore the nandroid backup and use TWRPs file manager to remove that apk and its data. Are there any other things I should do to fix this problem? Will this work??
Guys, any help is appreciated!!!
Hardly believe that app can cause your system into bootloop... anyway, if you want to try.
Titanium Backup can restore apps from Nandroid backup, preferably CWM tar backup. However, this function is currently having issues with Android 4.3, so if you want to reflash the ROM, pick ROM with 4.2.2.
I believe TWRP backup should also works, but I haven't try it before. If you need to use TWRP, do it without compression & encryption.
IMO your problem can be a simple fix by remove the faulty app and reflash the ROM.
just reflash your rom via recovery, dont wipe, you wont lose any data
Alright thanks for the response. I copied my TWRP backup to my PC, extracted it and now I'm trying to copy the data folder from my TWRP backup to my ROM's data folder. Hopefully, this will work.
PS - I removed the app and i reflashed the rom but that didn't seem to fix the problem.
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So my Nexus was acting really slow (I'm on 4.2.1), so I decided to backup via CWM and then factory reset, and do an Advanced Restore to restore my data. I backed up and did factory reset, but when I went to restore my backup, it couldn't be found. Apparently 4.2 moved the default CWM location to search "data/media/" and I didn't have my backups there (obviously). So I moved the clockworkmod folder from /sdcard/ to data/media/ and tried to restore. It gave me an MD5 mismatch, so I researched that, found a solution, and did restore. Unfortunately, that bricked my Nexus 7 so I had to restore via the ToolKit.
My question is…is there any possible way I can restore my data to my now factory-fresh (4.2.1) Nexus 7 from the backup I made? I have the backup and the blobs.
Bump, the same thing just happened to me and I dont want to create a new thread. Is there any way to restore a 4.1.2 backup from a device running 4.2.1? Thanks in advance
EDIT: I solved it by booting into CWM and then pushing the rom, full wiping and installing again
So I am currently on Paranoid Android and wish to switch to another ROM (most likely AOKP or PACman just to try). In TWRP recovery, what would I select to just back up my app data and NOT my ROM, and after that is possible, what must I restore to get it back and in what order of flashing alon with my new ROM and GAPPS???:silly:
You can go into TWRP and backup and choose what partitions you want to backup. However, I'd suggest you backup everything and don't try to restore the data to another ROM.
I use Titanium to backup all app data as well as MMS history, WiFi networks etc then do a full backup in TWRP. Then wipe everything and flash the new ROM. Then boot up and reconfigure accounts and restore apps + data with titanium.
It may be a little more effort but this way you can always roll back to the previous setup if anything goes wrong and you're less likely to run into any weird issues from moving data around between ROMs.
Or you could try something like app2zip off the play store to make a flashable zip of only selected apps and data which is probably safer than the whole partition. If you do a full backup first you can always rollback if something goes wrong.
When using Titanium Backup, when I hit run backup, where does it go and how do I restore it after I flash my new ROM. Or do I do the update.zip option and flash that when I'm doing my new ROM?
GraysonB said:
When using Titanium Backup, when I hit run backup, where does it go and how do I restore it after I flash my new ROM. Or do I do the update.zip option and flash that when I'm doing my new ROM?
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It goes into a folder on /sdcard called TitaniumBackup. When you flash a new rom, you will need to redownload titanium backup. When you redownload it, it will find the backups and you can click on the app to restore it.
Theres no need to use the update.zip method. Do it like this ^
Quick background:
I was running stock Android 4.2.1 with a custom kernel & recovery (TWRP) and decided to install CM's latest rom. I forgot to make a backup before installing the new rom and, because I didn't want to lose all of my app data, I did not do a factory reset after installing the CM rom. This caused me to end up in a broken state with Android being stuck at the boot animation. To prevent myself from breaking anything else, I made a backup of this broken state using TWRP. I then proceeded to factory reset which got Android working again.
Question:
I have some app data (read: game saves) in the broken TWRP backup that I would like to recover. Is there a way to pull app data from the TWRP backup that I can use to restore the app using Titanium, TWRP, or something else?
Thanks in advance!
Titanium Backup > Menu > Extract apps/data from Nandroid Backup.
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Titanium Backup > Menu > Extract apps/data from Nandroid Backup.
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Thanks for the reply! I just tried doing that and the backup is detected, but no apps/app data show up. The list is blank.
Is there anything else I should try or is my data just gone?
eurasianboy1112 said:
Thanks for the reply! I just tried doing that and the backup is detected, but no apps/app data show up. The list is blank.
Is there anything else I should try or is my data just gone?
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Was the backup compressed?
Hello guys!
I was updating from 4.4.4 to lollypop via OTA, then I realized that even if I run the stock ROM, I am still unlocked + root, meaning that the OTA won't run.
I did a complete nandroid backup via Wugs Nexus Toolkit, including data.
Then I wiped and flashed the new 5.0 via Nexus Toolkit, but when I tried to restore only the data it didn't work.
I decided to go back to 4.4.4. and do things properly, but now I'm not able to restore anything.
I am not bothered with the apps and stuff, but I had plenty of pictures which I forgot to backup, and I want to restore them. I even tried to access the nandroid backup files, but no success!
I was accustomed with the old CMW, where you had the .img files, but I got no clue on what to do here!
I add the picture of the nandroid backup folder on my PC ( I think the data files are splitted, but I cannot open them in any case, not even with 7zip).
The nandroid was executed via Nexus Toolkit, but I guess it has been done through TRWP.
Long story short:
1) how can I access the pictures inside the nandroid backup?
2) how can I restore a nandroid backup that keeps failing?
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1) how can I access the pictures inside the nandroid backup?
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Maybe CWM does things differently, I don't know, but with TWRP, a Nandoid backup doesn't back up your SD card partition, so if you wiped everything, all your pics are gone. Sorry.
Yeah, I guess so.. Managed to recover something with DISK DIGGER (its an app, free on the store). Just wanted to write it here, so if anyone has the same issue can recover this way!
Hello,
some time ago I tried backing up my 6T via TWRP by backing up ALL partitions. But restoring them somethimes just didn't work or completely bricked the phone (also bootloader and kinda fastboot).
So did I something wrong (like backing up and restoring something I shouldn't) or is that the case for 6T's. How to take a full Nandroid?
I'd really appreciate help!
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Shirotaku
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In my experience. You can only restore on the same rom if you're going to backup everything. So if I'm on 9.0.12 and make a backup. I can't restore that when I'm on anything other then whatever rom I was on when I created that restore point. So basically. If you're on 9.0.12 and want to restore your 9.0.12 then I would wipe everything install a fresh 9.0.12 and then use my backup. I use twrp to make a backup when I'm on a fresh new rom or after I got my phone how I like it. Then in the future if I ever mess it up with xposed or something or it doesn't boot I can just use that twrp backup before I have to go to the last resort which is using the msm tool and making my phone how it was out of the box. Then have to reroot re get twrp ect..
There is an app called migrate which will save all your app data ect.. And put it in a flash able zip. So if you want to flash a new rom you can use the migrate app first to backup all your app data and then flash the new rom and your migrate.zip. Then you'll be on a new rom with all your app data back. Just re-download your apps or you can also choose to backup the app itself a long with the data in migrate. Hope this helps.
You can find more information here
https://twrp.me/faq/whattobackup.html
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In my experience. You can only restore on the same rom if you're going to backup everything. So if I'm on 9.0.12 and make a backup. I can't restore that when I'm on anything other then whatever rom I was on when I created that restore point. So basically. If you're on 9.0.12 and want to restore your 9.0.12 then I would wipe everything install a fresh 9.0.12 and then use my backup. I use twrp to make a backup when I'm on a fresh new rom or after I got my phone how I like it. Then in the future if I ever mess it up with xposed or something or it doesn't boot I can just use that twrp backup before I have to go to the last resort which is using the msm tool and making my phone how it was out of the box. Then have to reroot re get twrp ect..
There is an app called migrate which will save all your app data ect.. And put it in a flash able zip. So if you want to flash a new rom you can use the migrate app first to backup all your app data and then flash the new rom and your migrate.zip. Then you'll be on a new rom with all your app data back. Just re-download your apps or you can also choose to backup the app itself a long with the data in migrate. Hope this helps.
You can find more information here
https://twrp.me/faq/whattobackup.html
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Thx, I'll try this next time
I restore whatever I want on whatever rom anytime. I restore overtop oos, over customs, just data, just boot just system, just vendor... Doesn't matter. All works fine no matter how one does it . I could be on stock tmo, boot to twrp and restore any of my backups..
Does it make a difference if I have a passcode on my phone or not?