The correct way to restore the backup is by using fastboot. i.e. put your phone into fastboot mode and run "fastboot flash userdata data.img" from your computer. It does work, 100% without exception. Especially if you verify the correctness of the backup by unyaffs'ing it before you actually *need* it.
1) No, as a user of a google experience device, YOU WERE licensed to use those apps and therefore what you were doing was perfectly LEGAL. 2) Not necessarily. Your provider will provide the OTA update using standard unencrypted HTTP (signed so that it will only be installable on the particular hardware they sell), so you can simply download it to your computer first (or grab the ADP1 image from htc), pull out the required binaries, shove them into the mod-firmware-update.zip, resign it, and flash away. You can write a 10 line script to fully automate this whole process, which results in a googleified mod-firmware- update.zip file, which is PERFECTLY LEGAL for YOU TO USE, but most definitely you may not DISTRIBUTE IT. 3) See above. 4) If you have 150 apps, they are on your sdcard, which will NOT be affected by a wipe anyways. The only parts that will be lost are the actual program DATA folders, which, as I have explained above, you can easily make a backup of. FYI: if you just want to backup the /data partition, then as root ON YOUR PHONE, run this; "tar -pcf /sdcard/databackup.tar /data" And when it is time to restore,... simply untar it into /data. Guaranteed. Unless you don't follow the instructions. Re: AXMLPrinter2.jar... I seem to have missed that tip... there is so much crap over there to sift through. Got a link? On Oct 1, 11:34 am, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lbcoder, > > Thanks very much for your assistance. Unfortunately, I have used > nandroid and other methods(backup apps), but the restore process never > quite works for me (more details below). > > Here is what I meant by bringing up my 150 apps: > 1) The old way--apparently illegal--was to flash a new ROM image, > usually with no wipe. It took 15-20 minutes tops, and my apps would > work just fine. > > 2) The new way is to flash back to a stock ROM, get it updated (so you > can have the latest versions of Google software, like Market), backup > the Google stuff, flash the ROM you actually want, and restore the > Google stuff. This step will take quite a while by itself. > > 3. The nandroid restore has not worked for me while going through some > of the processes described immediately above. Apparently, I am not > alone--a quick Google search shows that people who have had nandroid > restore problems were basically told to wipe and start over. > > 4. This potentially leaves me with the problem of having 150 apps to > start over with. Not a nice prospect. > > 5. My parenthetical comment "(Try that on your stock G1 ;) )" was > indeed a jab at stock ROMs. > > An another note, I hope my tip about AXMLPrinter2.jar on the xda > forums was useful for you. It really does a great job with the > Manifest files. > > --Ed > > On Sep 30, 12:31 pm, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Read his WHOLE response. Unless he is schizophrenic, the two > > statements are assumed to be related. My questioning the relevance of > > the 150 apps is with regards to backups, i.e. assuming that a > > statement should somehow be bound by logic to the rest of the thought > > being expressed. > > > On Sep 30, 9:48 am, Cédric Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 20:19, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I agree that this is the way you would have to do it. I am > > > > disappointed because I have over 150 apps on my cyanogen-modded phone, > > > > including 50 paid apps. (Try that on your stock G1 ;) ) > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 15:29, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't see the relevance of talking about your "150 apps". Whether > > > > the firmware includes google apps or not has no relation to backing up > > > > your installed apps. > > > > He just talked about his 150 apps to show why he needed a modded ROM. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
