Guest JamieGrossman Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 (edited) I'm currently on mocado 3.2, and really really want to upgrade to 4.0 WIP because my phone is now just so sluggish (on radio 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.09.26.. when I tried updating to the latest one my phone went crazy). After looking through the main thread, it seems people get the most success if they wipe everything.. completely. I don't understand how people are keeping their most important of data intact, specifically contacts, photos, text's.. basically all user data. I've seen MyBackUp Pro thrown around, and also Titanium Backup, but I don't know I'm just a bit confused about what the best way really is. Coincidently, Titanium Backup keeps crashing now anyway for some reason, so I think I'd like to wipe anyway and start fresh without losing my data because I've had so many problems by updating without wiping.. I mean I guess that must be the problem. Cheers! Edited June 19, 2010 by JamieGrossman
Guest Dan Mullen Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 I'm currently on mocado 3.2, and really really want to upgrade to 4.0 WIP because my phone is now just so sluggish (on radio 63.18.55.06JU_6.35.09.26.. when I tried updating to the latest one my phone went crazy). After looking through the main thread, it seems people get the most success if they wipe everything.. completely. I don't understand how people are keeping their most important of data intact, specifically contacts, photos, text's.. basically all user data. I've seen MyBackUp Pro thrown around, and also Titanium Backup, but I don't know I'm just a bit confused about what the best way really is. Coincidently, Titanium Backup keeps crashing now anyway for some reason, so I think I'd like to wipe anyway and start fresh without losing my data because I've had so many problems by updating without wiping.. I mean I guess that must be the problem. Cheers! Titanium Backup is the only backup tool I use - works great, although you may find the odd issue backing up/restoring apps between different Android versions, i.e. 1.5 and 2.1. If your phone is sluggish it's likely to be down to an app you have installed that's taking up resources. I doubt you would notice a speed increase moving to MCR 4.0 - if anything I would expect it to perform not quite as well as a 1.5 ROM.
Guest JamieGrossman Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 Titanium Backup is the only backup tool I use - works great, although you may find the odd issue backing up/restoring apps between different Android versions, i.e. 1.5 and 2.1. If your phone is sluggish it's likely to be down to an app you have installed that's taking up resources. I doubt you would notice a speed increase moving to MCR 4.0 - if anything I would expect it to perform not quite as well as a 1.5 ROM. Hmm, I see where you're coming from. Well, for that reason I'd like to start fresh.. 'appless', just keeping all of my personal data in tact. Is there a way to do this? Perhaps backup all of my data and stuff with MyBackupPro, wipe EVERYTHING, update to the latest radio, apply MCR 4.0, put data back on and be good to go? Knowing my luck things are not as simple as this ;)
Guest Dan Mullen Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 Hmm, I see where you're coming from. Well, for that reason I'd like to start fresh.. 'appless', just keeping all of my personal data in tact. Is there a way to do this? Perhaps backup all of my data and stuff with MyBackupPro, wipe EVERYTHING, update to the latest radio, apply MCR 4.0, put data back on and be good to go? Knowing my luck things are not as simple as this ;) I'm on MCR 3.2 but when I dabbled with a couple of 2.1 ROMs last month, that's pretty much what I did. Backed up everything using Titanium Backup, did a nandroid backup then copied my SD card contents to my PC, just in case. Then I wiped everything - data, cache and ext partition. Applied the new ROM then tried to restore everything from Titanium. Most apps restored fine, a few were problematic due to moving to a 2.1 ROM. Before you do that, it might be worth trying to figure out which app is eating up most resources. Without knowing that, you'll probably reintroduce the lag when you put it on after flashing the new ROM.
Guest JamieGrossman Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 I'm on MCR 3.2 but when I dabbled with a couple of 2.1 ROMs last month, that's pretty much what I did. Backed up everything using Titanium Backup, did a nandroid backup then copied my SD card contents to my PC, just in case. Then I wiped everything - data, cache and ext partition. Applied the new ROM then tried to restore everything from Titanium. Most apps restored fine, a few were problematic due to moving to a 2.1 ROM. Before you do that, it might be worth trying to figure out which app is eating up most resources. Without knowing that, you'll probably reintroduce the lag when you put it on after flashing the new ROM. Will do! I'll start uninstalling right away until I see an improvement. Out of curiosity, when you do a nandroid of your phone + ext partitions, do you have to partition the SD card after wiping it before doing the restore of the ext partition?
Guest Dan Mullen Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 Will do! I'll start uninstalling right away until I see an improvement. Out of curiosity, when you do a nandroid of your phone + ext partitions, do you have to partition the SD card after wiping it before doing the restore of the ext partition? Before you restore a nandroid+ext, the SD card has to be partitioned properly. However, wiping the ext partition won't delete the partition itself. Unless you delete the partitions, you won't need to recreate them.
Guest sjoerdos92 Posted June 19, 2010 Report Posted June 19, 2010 Uhm.... contacts: Google contacts sync photo's: saved to sd-card i assume apps: Titanium backup, or just reinstall (or automatically reinstalled when using a cyanogenmod based rom)
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