Switching between CM10 and Stock

**Martinezma99** · 11-01-2012, 11:29 PM

OK, so I successfully installed CyanogenMod 10 on my Galaxy S3 using ROM manager. I love it!

1. Now, is there a way to switch back and forth between my CM10 and the original stock?

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**adamtalife** · 11-02-2012, 01:32 PM

Did you make a backup of your stock ROM?

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**Martinezma99** · 11-02-2012, 03:31 PM

I did. I was able to switch back to original stock but not back to CyanongenMod 10.

Should I technically be able to switch back and forth? Is it a possibility?

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**adamtalife** · 11-02-2012, 03:50 PM

Yea. If you save your backups to your sd card all you'll have to do is reboot to recovery, wipe, then restore whichever backup.

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**Martinezma99** · 11-02-2012, 07:06 PM

I think that was part of the problem. None of my backups are on the SD card. I haven't figured out how to save to SD card using ROM Manager. It always defaults to internal memory.

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**rdogger** · 11-04-2012, 10:56 AM

Don't use ROM Manager. Use CWM or TWRP, its better to get used to using them in case something goes wrong.

**Trigger73** · 11-04-2012, 12:10 PM

What he said

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**sqa4life** · 11-16-2012, 09:46 PM

I just loaded CM10 and love it.
Why would you want to switch back to stock? Just curious.

**Vol4Ever** · 12-01-2012, 06:57 PM

Just for sake of argument, say I wanted to maintain a few different ROMs. No idea if I'd even want to as I'm still 100% stock. This is just curiosity. How long does it take to do the wipe / restore procedure? Are most things kept intact (custom settings and saved games, for example), or do they all get reset during the switch process?

Thanks!

~Vol

**adamtalife** · 12-01-2012, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Vol4Ever

Just for sake of argument, say I wanted to maintain a few different ROMs. No idea if I'd even want to as I'm still 100% stock. This is just curiosity. How long does it take to do the wipe / restore procedure? Are most things kept intact (custom settings and saved games, for example), or do they all get reset during the switch process?

Thanks!

~Vol

If you have them backed up to your SD card then you can switch between ROMs in less than 5 minutes. But if you transfer them to your computer it might take about another 5 minutes to transfer all the data to your phone. The more data you have stored, the longer it takes. When you restore, everything is exactly as you left it.

I usually switch from time to time between different sense based ROMs and vanilla JB ROMs. Always come back to cleanROM though lol.

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