Guest billybiro Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Hi Guys, I've recently upgraded to an Acer Liquid Metal after having used my San Francisco for the last year. So far, I really like the Acer Liquid Metal, but I really want to try some of the custom ROMS available for it (mostly to get rid of most of the useless stock apps that are shipped as part of the Acer's stock ROM: urFooz WTF is that garbage?) What I'd like to do, if possible, is to completely back-up the stock phone (stock ROM, stock recovery - everything) prior to installing custom recovery partition and custom ROMs. This would be to ensure I could go back to a complete stock condition should I ever need to return the phone under warranty. Is this possible? And what is the simplest way to achieve this (assuming it's possible) ? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spicysomtam Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) You need to replace the default recovery with one of the of custom ones. Then boot into the recovery and do a nandriod backup. Make sure u have an sdcard installed to take the backup. Edited November 20, 2011 by spicysomtam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest billybiro Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 You need to replace the default recovery with one of the of custom ones. Then boot into the recovery and do a nandriod backup. Make sure u have an sdcard installed to take the backup. Thanks for the info. I'm familiar with this procedure, having done it wth my San Fran previously, but I understand that the way to flash a new recovery onto the Acer is slightly different than the San Fran? I'll read the forum for the info. Do you know if it's possible to re-flash back the standard stock recovery (after restoring a Nandroid backup of the stock ROM) if I needed to put the phone back to the exact same state that it was when I first received it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chrisund123 Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Basically, you push the recovery with "adb flash recovery" command - you don't have to worry about that too much though, as vache's excellent work basically does it all or you - check out the sticky. As you are familiar with the installation of custom ROMs I won't teach you to suck eggs, but to revert to stock you can flash a standard .bin using the Acer download tool, which will install the stock recovery, along with a stock Rom. I doubt you'll look back though, I've just upgraded the missus from Blade to an MT, with custom ROM of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest billybiro Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Basically, you push the recovery with "adb flash recovery" command - you don't have to worry about that too much though, as vache's excellent work basically does it all or you - check out the sticky. As you are familiar with the installation of custom ROMs I won't teach you to suck eggs, but to revert to stock you can flash a standard .bin using the Acer download tool, which will install the stock recovery, along with a stock Rom. I doubt you'll look back though, I've just upgraded the missus from Blade to an MT, with custom ROM of course! Ah.. Brilliant. Thanks very much for your reply. It all makes sense now. So everything needed for "revert everything to stock" are those "BIN" files as listed in the stickied topic "Acer Liquid Metal BIN Collection"? Great.... Thanks again for the info. Now the tricky part is deciding which ROM I want to flash!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chrisund123 Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) Yup, the .bin files contain everything to turn the phone back to stock - recovery, OS, everything - very easy to do. As flashing the bin upgrades the radio too (i think?) it's a good idea to make sure you are on the latest official version before flashing a custom ROM. I put gingerounay on the missus MT, she hasn't whined too much about it so that's high praise in my book! :D Edited November 20, 2011 by Chrisund123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest billybiro Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Yup, the .bin files contain everything to turn the phone back to stock - recovery, OS, everything - very easy to do. As flashing the bin upgrades the radio too (i think?) it's a good idea to make sure you are on the latest official version before flashing a custom ROM. I put gingerounay on the missus MT, she hasn't whined too much about it so that's high praise in my book! :D No problems. I've only just got my MT from Expansys due to it's excellent price at the moment (£139.99 inc. delivery is a bargain for this phone) and it's come already running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and (I believe) the latest firmware from Acer (My Android's Settings > About Phone > Build number shows "Acer_LiquidMT_4.000.13_EMEA_GEN1". Thanks again for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chrisund123 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Yup that's the latest version, get flashing! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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