Guest Mythrix Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 I always thought that you could somehow restore just the userdata from a nandroid backup, but now that I tested nandroid restore I found out that it also restores the old ROM image. Googled around, but doesn't seem to be a way to restore just the userdata. I'd love not having to set up everything from scratch when trying new ROM images. Not a huge problem, but it'd be nice. Does anyone know of a way to backup and restore just apps and userdata, so I can restore them when trying out new ROM images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goa200 Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 (edited) open the folder nandroid. find the recovery you wanna use take the data.img and put it in sdk/tools open up adb type fastboot -i 0x0502 flash userdata data.img OR download titanium backup from market, which probably will be easier Edited February 15, 2010 by goa200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chingy1788 Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 I would use titanium backup when flashing user data with data.img, there might be incompatabilities between the old data.img and the new system.img Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mythrix Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 I did try to flash just the userdata, but got a "data too large" error. I would use titanium backup when flashing user data with data.img, there might be incompatabilities between the old data.img and the new system.img Hmm, yeah, I was a bit worried about that too. I considered moving the nandroid backups around (ie take a new backup, then move the old userdata there and then do a restore...) But I guess I'll try out Titanium backup. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mythrix Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 (edited) I considered moving the nandroid backups around (ie take a new backup, then move the old userdata there and then do a restore...) Okay, I ended up trying this after all, and can confirm that it does *not* work. :D (Nothing serious, just got a restore KO, failed restore attempt.) Oh, there's a nandroid.md5 file in the backup directory, I guess it's a checksum... Oh well. *sigh* Edited February 15, 2010 by Mythrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mythrix Posted February 15, 2010 Report Share Posted February 15, 2010 Titanium backup seemed to work yeah. Although lots of widgets got "Error loading widget", but almost all my other settings were restored. Nice. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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