Backup before root & Rooting

[Guest Ntt4]

Hi all,

Seeing as HTC are accepting hardware based errors with devices, What is the best way to backup your apps and settings and texts,etc before unlocking the boot loader (Which does a factory reset) ?

Thanks

Edited February 13, 2010 by Ntt4

[Guest xkonni]

Hi all,

Seeing as HTC are accepting hardware based errors with devices, What is the best way to backup your apps and settings and texts,etc before unlocking the boot loader (Which does a factory reset) ?

Thanks

you can do a nandroid backup and/or use titanium backup.

google backs up most settings/apps but restore does not work on every custom rom.

texts are in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db - you back it up and restore later.

[Guest Ntt4]

you can do a nandroid backup and/or use titanium backup.

google backs up most settings/apps but restore does not work on every custom rom.

texts are in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db - you back it up and restore later.

I don't have root yet so I can't use Nandroid.

Does titanium require root to backup ?

Doesn't work without root :D

Thanks

Can I pull the mmssms.db without root ?

(Im guessing I can :D)

No I cant :lol:

Any other ideas ??

Edited February 13, 2010 by Ntt4

[Guest xkonni]

I don't have root yet so I can't use Nandroid.

Does titanium require root to backup ?

Thanks

Can I pull the mmssms.db without root ?

(Im guessing I can :D)

ah true... no nandroid yet... i don't know about titanium, never used it myself.

you can read /data without root...

Edited February 13, 2010 by xkonni

[Guest Ntt4]

ah true... no nandroid yet... i don't know about titanium, never used it myself.

you can read /data without root...

I'm getting permission denied when trying to pull the database :/

[Guest xkonni]

I'm getting permission denied when trying to pull the database :/

ok... looks like i was wrong... damn... sorry, i really thought /data was readable, but no, its not... just double checked it ;/

[Guest Ntt4]

ok... looks like i was wrong... damn... sorry, i really thought /data was readable, but no, its not... just double checked it ;/

Thanks anyway :D

I'm going to try backing everything up with Astro and Mybackup (Free) and then see how I go :D

[Guest Ntt4]

Sorry for the double post.

If I unlock the boot loader, and then use the himem superboot image, can I flash Cyan's rom without any problems ?

Thanks

[Guest xkonni]

Sorry for the double post.

If I unlock the boot loader, and then use the himem superboot image, can I flash Cyan's rom without any problems ?

Thanks

unlock and flash amon_ra recovery.

if you want cm anyway, no need to flash superboot before. thats for root on otherwise stock devices.

[Guest Ntt4]

Thats Great, So I just flash Cyan on top of the Stock rom that is on my nexus at the moment ?

Ah, I need to wipe, install CM and then flash the google pack.

Sorry if you have already answered this while im editing this post.

Thanks for all the help

Edited February 13, 2010 by Ntt4