Unable to make nandroid backup - freezes at white HTC screen.

[DirkBelig]

Okey-doke. When you get a moment, I'd appreciate some pointers on moving forward. Thanks.

 

[azumak]

Well I can tell ya one thing I'm happy I found out about- Amon_RA and CWM nandroid images are NOT cross compatible. If you have a solid nandroid you made in CWM, don't restore it in Amon_RA. I was so close to doing that 'til I found a thread on it a week ago or so...

I can't really help with too much, but one thing I noticed that killed my phone's stability was restoring too much with Titanium Backup. HTC's Sense-only programs and widgets may try to start in CM7 on booting up and can cause all sorts of hell, as does restoring data from Sense-based ROMs. I learned that the hard way! It's a pain, but it's essentially why I've made CM7 (AOSP) my main ROM. Messing around with Sense isn't worth it to me, given the incompatibility with my preferred ROM.
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I'm no expert with Titanium Backup by any means, but if I were to go to a new ROM, I would batch restore almost all apps without data, except for ones that are architecture-specific, to AOSP or Sense or whatever. Then batch restore data, but only select ones that I need it for... Titanium Backup is complicated and I'm sure others can provide more helpful info, I try not to rely on it too much! Somehow, I've lost my market links for the majority of my apps in the past week, and TB could only restore a small amount of them. I have no clue what to do about it, haha.

 

[DirkBelig]

Before I make my next run at switching things up, I'm going to make a RA nandroid and ditch the CWM one. My question is which of the items on that checklist do I need to image?

As for Titanium, how best to reload all my apps? Use AppBrain to install and then selectively restore data for those apps, like user dictionaries and Angry Birds saves? How to do that? I couldn't find my SMS archives either.

 

[jimmybeam01]

well now im having the problem with the hanging htc evo screen, coming from cm7 rc4 i could not load my contacts... so i was gonna restore back to nandroid... and here i am. stuck. what do i do? why is this hanging up? im restoring with cwm, for me to use my phone i had to go back to cm7. which is cool. but my nandroid does not load. and i do need my contacts

 

[SmokeCrawler]

Before I make my next run at switching things up, I'm going to make a RA nandroid and ditch the CWM one. My question is which of the items on that checklist do I need to image?

As for Titanium, how best to reload all my apps? Use AppBrain to install and then selectively restore data for those apps, like user dictionaries and Angry Birds saves? How to do that? I couldn't find my SMS archives either.

The first 3 is all you need to back up, but I highly prefer selecting the wimax one as well. It will back up your wimax rsa keys which are critical for 4G.

Use AppBrain to install and then selectively restore data for those apps, like user dictionaries and Angry Birds saves? This would be the way I would go to keep things from loading that shouldn't get loaded. It might take some time but it would be worth it. Also, once you have everything from Titanium backup loaded that you need I would clear everything from it and start fresh with what you just need. This will keep things smoother in the future.

 

[CZ Eddie]

I got the white HTC screen also when trying to make a backup for the first time. Just installed the ROM Manager Premium tonight (latest version).
After removing battery and rebooting, I tried the backup again. This time I left the default filename (changed it the first time) and it worked perfectly.