Update help...

[sratson]

Hi, I have a Sprint GNex currently on 4.0.4 with FD02 radio. I had rooted it when I got it to load a roam-only patch that never worked, but of course now I can't update it OTA.. I used to have a WebOS phone and rooted the **** out of it, but I am a bit leary messing with this since I have so much on it now I don't want to lose anything.. I have Titanium backup on it so I can back everything up, but I don't know if I do a full update if it will allow me to restore everything if it gets wiped out.
Can anyone help walk me through flashing the new OS so I don't lose anything?
Thanks...

 

[Golfdriver97]

Hi, I have a Sprint GNex currently on 4.0.4 with FD02 radio. I had rooted it when I got it to load a roam-only patch that never worked, but of course now I can't update it OTA.. I used to have a WebOS phone and rooted the **** out of it, but I am a bit leary messing with this since I have so much on it now I don't want to lose anything.. I have Titanium backup on it so I can back everything up, but I don't know if I do a full update if it will allow me to restore everything if it gets wiped out.
Can anyone help walk me through flashing the new OS so I don't lose anything?
Thanks...

Welcome to the forums. Do you have a custom recovery installed?

 

[sratson]

It was a while ago since I rooted it , but I used the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit to do it. Pretty sure it installed a custom recovery. How do I know for sure?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Reboot into recovery

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[sratson]

ClockworkMod Recovery V5.8.3.1

 

[Golfdriver97]

Ok. You can flash a custom ROM if you want.

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[Golfdriver97]

Aokp, CM and Slim are some good choices.

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[Golfdriver97]

http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=300295
[Guide] [Supplemental] How to flash in Custom Recovery (Clockwork Mod)

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[sratson]

Can I use the titanuim backup to restore all my data and apps after flashing so I don't lose anything?

 

[Golfdriver97]

You can try. I have always had mixed luck with that. I do know batch backups tend to fail, so do it one at a time.

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[Paul627g]

Could also try Helium which seems to work well on restoring apps/data

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