Titanium backup or regular backup through recovery?

[passion4tech]

Which backup method is better titanium backup or regular backup through recovery aka nandroid backup ?

 

[Golfdriver97]

I would say a Nandroid, but it depends on what you are doing with the backup?

 

[passion4tech]

I would say a Nandroid, but it depends on what you are doing with the backup?

Well if I want to backup everything on my phone is nandroid the best?

 

[Golfdriver97]

Well if I want to backup everything on my phone is nandroid the best?

Yes. Then you also have a backup of the ROM itself.

 

[NEXUS_HTC_PS]

Yes. That will be the complete package(system data, app data and all). Titanium it's more for if you just want to keep your app data on sd. Now if you're switching roms, go titanium, then move the folder to the sd

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[passion4tech]

Yes. That will be the complete package(system data, app data and all). Titanium it's more for if you just want to keep your app data on sd. Now if you're switching roms, go titanium, then move the folder to the sd

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Yeah that makes sense. I will use nandroid backup when I want to stay on arhd and I will use titanium when I want to switch to different rom like gpe. Which backup should I use when I update android to android L?

 

[NEXUS_HTC_PS]

ARHD, if I'm not mistaken pushes out OTAs of its own zip you should not have to do anything except for make a new nand backup after the update is complete.

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[TarekElsakka]

Titanium is more flexible because you can always restore apps and data across different ROMs, whereas a Nandroid Backup is only good if you want to restore EVERYTHING (including system).

 

[whitelunchbag]

I haven't tried it, but apparently titanium backup can restore from a nandroid

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[whitelunchbag]

ARHD, if I'm not mistaken pushes out OTAs of its own zip you should not have to do anything except for make a new nand backup after the update is complete.

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No OTA for ARHD. Every release is a whole rom download

My M8 posted this

 

[NEXUS_HTC_PS]

No OTA for ARHD. Every release is a whole rom download

My M8 posted this

I stand corrected. Never tried ARHD. Only venom, and they had OTAs. After being on stock developer edition software/firmware, I don't think I'll ever flash again....there's always that maybe though.

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[passion4tech]

No OTA for ARHD. Every release is a whole rom download

My M8 posted this

So that means updating android while on arhd will wipe the phone to stock?

 

[NEXUS_HTC_PS]

Yes. If there is no ota option then it will wipe everything. I don't understand the whole OTA implementation of stock roms, but it seems to me that if the venom team can do it, Why hasn't the ARHD team done it?

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[whitelunchbag]

I stand corrected. Never tried ARHD. Only venom, and they had OTAs. After being on stock developer edition software/firmware, I don't think I'll ever flash again....there's always that maybe though.

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Yeah, it's my only problem with ARHD. I liked MaximusHD because of the OTA support but the dev only does it as a hobby, so his updates lagged behind other roms.

Viper was too far from stock for my liking

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[whitelunchbag]

So that means updating android while on arhd will wipe the phone to stock?

No, you can dirty flash ARHD unless the xda thread says to do a clean install.

V11 to V11.1 was a dirty flash

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[zetodavido]

I usually keep a nandroid backup handy (no apps or anything installed, like you got it fresh out of the box) as well as a flashable zip file of my titanium backups . I didn't even know you could flash your Titanium backed up apps in recovery until recently.

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[benny3]

Going from rom to rom you want to wipe. some roms are built off of different base and that can and will cause issues.

 

[passion4tech]

Going from rom to rom you want to wipe. some roms are built off of different base and that can and will cause issues.

So if I make a backup from a different rom and install the backup on a different rom that will cause issues?

 

[TarekElsakka]

I usually keep a nandroid backup handy (no apps or anything installed, like you got it fresh out of the box) as well as a flashable zip file of my titanium backups . I didn't even know you could flash your Titanium backed up apps in recovery until recently.

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Thanks for the info, I had no idea. would you be able to tell me how you compress the back up into a flashable zip file?

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[TarekElsakka]

So if I make a backup from a different rom and install the backup on a different rom that will cause issues?

If you use Titanium Backup and restore data on a ROM that has different firmware, there will be problems like FC errors. However, restoring user apps and such will be fine.

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