Root Rooted, now need to back up, wipe and restore

[FFandPM]

I just rooted my phone because the texting and phone stopped working on the stock phone.... found out I needed to root it to keep all of my old POP emails on the phone, so I did it... now....

What software should I use, and what step by step directions should I follow to back up my data, reset the phone, put my data back on?

I appreciate any help!

 

[iTzKPanda]

You can follow these steps Dragonslayer told me:

Better yet, I'll try to explain the flashing process as best as I can here.

Items needed:

Mobile Odin from the play store

EL26 kernel/recovery found here: http://db.tt/NrWmc164

Download the rom and gapps from the official xda thread or the thread I have posted in this forum

Instructions:

Open up mobile odin and let it detect your rom, kernel, recovery etc
Tap on the kernel tab, and where ever you downloaded the EL26 kernel/recovery to (internal or external) select it, and navigate to to EL26.

Scroll to the bottom and select flash firmware.

Your phone will reboot, once the splash screen comes up, hold down volume down and power at the same time until a blue screen comes up which is now your custom recovery.

From here, select backup using your volume rocker and power button. You'll always want to make a back up before flashing anything.

Once the backup is finished. Go back to the main screen in the recovery, navigate down to factory reset and select it.

Once the phone is reset, now select wipe cache in the same menu, once that's done, go back to your main screen again.

Navigate to advanced and from here you'll see an option to "wipe dalvik cache" select it and go back to your main screen once it's wiped.

And from here, you'll select & install zip from sd card& navigate to wherever you downloaded the rom and gapps to, first choose the rom and let it install (could take a couple minutes to install.) once it's finished, then choose to install the gapps using the same method.

Choose to reboot system.
Reboot takes up to 5 minutes.
And you've successfully flashed a rom

DS

If you don't plan on flashing a ROM, just ignore the last 2 paragraphs.

 

[jimcraig]

Not to be a jerk. But you should learned how and done allbof those things before you rooted. Are you sure you are rooted? Every guide should show you how to backup and wipe BEFORE you root.

 

[FFandPM]

I looked through the post Dragon Slayer wrote (theone your reply came from). What is the difference between what he writes and a program like Titatnium? Obviously, I am new here....

If I am reading it right, I can use Titanium to back up everything to my external micro card, reboot and wipe, then restore from Titanium?

Looking over the reply you sent, Panda, it looks complicated to download another program I don't really understand. I kinda understand the process for a program like Titanium.

 

[iTzKPanda]

Well, I suppose you could just do what you suggested and download Titanium Backup and just resetting it.
When you backup using Titanium, only the app data will be stored, not the app itself.

 

[DragonSlayer95]

The difference between titanium and my post

Titanium allows you to back up any and all apps along with its data, user and system, as well as restoring.

My post, creating a nandroid from recovery is making a clone if you want to call it that of your entire system. Say like if you flashed a rom and you got stuck in boot loops or you did something to really screw up your device. As long as you can get into recovery, you can restore that nandroid and it's like you never did anything to your device.

This brings me to my next point, what if you make a backup via titanium, flash a rom and get stuck in boot loops? Well then that means your gonna have to Odin completely back to stock and reroot all over again.

This is why we nandroid in recovery, not titanium.

If you follow my post step by step, it's very easy to load on a recovery and make a nandroid. I highly recommend that instead of using titanium as an alternative.

@jimcraig

When I did the write up guide for FI27 E4GT, the method doesn't allow us to nandroid before we root, only way to is after root since we have to flash a recovery via mobile Odin, and we all know that required root access