This brings up a question I had about nandroids too. I installed Warmz and the next day I went to restore the backup I had for rls5 and when I reinstalled it I had to set up all of my screens again and basically reconfigure about 75% of the rom before I could use it. Most of my apps were restored but not all of them. Ringers changed, sms weren't restored, etc.
I was under the impression that a nandroid was like a snapshot of how it was before. Is this not the case?
I've been backing up and flashing roms for about 1.5 years but I rarely ever restore a backup. I'm on cw 2.6.0.1.
That's not normal. It could be that one of the image files was messed up, but likely it wouldn't have even restored if that was the case. Probably a stupid question, but are you sure you restored the right backup? I know I'll sometimes backup a ROM before I put much on it, then make another one later. Have you tried restoring a different backup to see if that works?
Here's one other thing to check - go to the nandroid backup directory using whatever file explorer you like, open the directory that the RLS5 backup, then reply back here with all of the img files you see, and their respective sizes. I trust you didn't change any of the files in there, before, correct?
and this would bring me to my next question.. how do you manipulate these backup files?? change name, delete, etc.. i started looking around a little but when i'm on that white screen i don't like messing around too much..
You don't edit them there. Either connect your phone via cable to the USB port on your computer, or use a file manager (ex: ES, or Astro) navigate to the Nandroid folder on your SD card, in there will be a folder with an alphanumeric name. Inside that, are all your nandroid backups. You can rename them (or delete, or copy and move to your PC) but do not use any spaces in the new name. Some folks like to leave them as they are named, they use GMT time...I prefer to name them somethng that helps me identify what it is. Ex: CalkulinsFinalWbatteryIcon. This tells me it is the Calkulins Rom that I had fully setup, and had added the battery icon mod.
Yep, that's how you do it. There are a few different ways to rename backups and make sure they'll continue to work:
1) Rename them whatever you want, but use no spaces or strange characters (alphanumeric with dashes and underscores should be fine). This should be fine, but do it at your own risk.
2) Leave them named what they are, and make a spreadsheet that lists the names of the backups along with a description of what it is. The benefit to this is that there is zero risk in breaking the backup, plus you can make a long description than you can put in a name.
3) Do what luigic81 suggested, and leave the name as it is, but add a brief description to the end of the name. If it is renamed incorrectly, all you have to do is remove the part you added to the end.
