Switching between CM10 and Stock

[Martinezma99]

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]

Did you make a backup of your stock ROM?

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[Martinezma99]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Trigger73]

What he said

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[sqa4life]

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

 

[Vol4Ever]

Just for sake of argument, say I wanted to maintain a few different ROM's. 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]

Just for sake of argument, say I wanted to maintain a few different ROM's. 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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