Root [Sprint/Cricket] Made nandroid with cwm, switched to twrp, cant restore...

[beyeond]

I made a nandroid backup with cwm, and then switched to twrp before installing my first rom. Im not happy with it but unfortunately cannot restore apparently without reverting to cwm but i can't figure out how to do that...can anyone help?



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[MusicJunkie]

I made a nandroid backup with cwm, and then switched to twrp before installing my first rom. Im not happy with it but unfortunately cannot restore apparently without reverting to cwm but i can't figure out how to do that...can anyone help?



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Yea, the nandroids aren't compatible with each other for our phone. YOu can download ROM Manager from the Play Store and download CWM Recovery via that app. It should automatically see what phone you have but just make sure you download and install the correct one

 

[NYCHitman1]

Truthfully, I wouldn't waste time with CWM. I hear too many horror stories with that recovery for me to ever use it. Like MJ said, TWRP/CWM backups are incompatible with eachother. I like TWRP better due to the compression of the partitions, but that's just personal preference.

 

[beyeond]

Truthfully, I wouldn't waste time with CWM. I hear too many horror stories with that recovery for me to ever use it.

Thanks for the input...that is the reason I switched to twrp before flashing the rom.

Like MJ said, TWRP/CWM backups are incompatible with eachother. I like TWRP better due to the compression of the partitions, but that's just personal preference.

This I didn't know and it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to restore a backup made with cwm using twrp. Like I said I had never even flashed a rom before.

For anyone wondering, I re-flashed clockworkmod using rom manager and restored the backup. Rom manager is free on Google play.

 

[MusicJunkie]

Thanks for the input...that is the reason I switched to twrp before flashing the rom.





This I didn't know and it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to restore a backup made with cwm using twrp. Like I said I had never even flashed a rom before.

For anyone wondering, I re-flashed clockworkmod using rom manager and restored the backup. Rom manager is free on Google play.

Since you restored your backup, now you can install TWRP and backup your current setting now and forget about CWM all together.

 

[OverByter]

Also be careful when updating your recovery, sometimes newer versions of the same recovery have the same problem. Any time you change or update your recovery instantly make a new nandroid. I know that when twrp went from 1.xx to 2.xx the nandroids weren't compatible.

 

[MusicJunkie]

Also be careful when updating your recovery, sometimes newer versions of the same recovery have the same problem. Any time you change or update your recovery instantly make a new nandroid. I know that when twrp went from 1.xx to 2.xx the nandroids weren't compatible.

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[beyeond]

Since you restored your backup, now you can install TWRP and backup your current setting now and forget about CWM all together.

Already done

Also be careful when updating your recovery, sometimes newer versions of the same recovery have the same problem. Any time you change or update your recovery instantly make a new nandroid. I know that when twrp went from 1.xx to 2.xx the nandroids weren't compatible.

Thanks for the tip!