I recently unrooted my phone because i was told by sprint that it was physically and evo 4g, but it was running a nexus operating system and he couldn't get it to activate unless the root was off. I purchased this phone off craigslist and had no idea what it was rooted with or how, but after unrooting i have tons of problems. It takes over 5 minutes for the phone to boot up which is my main problem and i cant install OTA updates for some reason. i was thinking might as well just re-root it. While browsing on the sd card i saw a folder called clockwork. After reading up and learning more and more about rooting im thinking this is a backup file that i can restore something from, or i could be wrong. I dont need the functionality of a root, but itd be nice if i could have up to date software, whether its rooted or not.
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Root Problems after unroot. Whats clockwork file?
- Thread starter milkdudse
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the clockwork mod folder is where the nandroid backups are kept at. a nandroid backup is a complete snapshot of the phone at a certain point in time. everything is saved in the backup. however, you need to be rooted and have a custom recovery to use it.
ha never thought of that. yeah that was dumb.
Would this do me any good backing up from that?
nope you need to have a custom recovery.