Guide to using Mobile Odin

[Gam3r 4 Life]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but you said reroot with recovery. How is that done? Ive always used either debugfs or the Samsung GS3 ToolKit. Thanks

 

[thatguy96]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but you said reroot with recovery. How is that done? Ive always used either debugfs or the Samsung GS3 ToolKit. Thanks

The root is in the all root guide it's under the post is under the title of clockwork mod

 

[thatguy96]

another question has anyone used this method and worked??

Worked for me

 

[thatguy96]

Shabby I can make a twrp backup of this now eight and I can't go back to older backups of touch whiz correct?

 

[Shady545]

This method wiped my internal sd card =/

Just totally lost a shit load of important photos. I'm pretty pissed off right now.

Other than that thanks for the tar

 

[Shabbypenguin]

This method wiped my internal sd card =/

Just totally lost a shit load of important photos. I'm pretty pissed off right now.

Other than that thanks for the tar

dont really understand how, i flashed multiple times today with every option enabled to make sure nothing would go wrong so i could write it up.

did you use mobile odin free or pro?

what settings did you enable?

 

[Shady545]

Pro, exact same settings you have up top. Only thing I did different was the md5 check thing.

 

[airtioteclint]

Shabby I can make a twrp backup of this now eight and I can't go back to older backups of touch whiz correct?

Yes. Yes.

Edit: to be more clear. Yes you can make a backup in twrp. Yes you can restore any other backups you have, including older touchwiz.

This method wiped my internal sd card =/

Just totally lost a shit load of important photos. I'm pretty pissed off right now.

Other than that thanks for the tar

It also wiped my internal. But I was prepared for that. I moved everything important to my external.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

i dont understand i tested this all out and i didnt lose anything on my internal.. ill revise the guide to make sure to use some new instructions

 

[thatguy96]

i dont understand i tested this all out and i didnt lose anything on my internal.. ill revise the guide to make sure to use some new instructions

my internal did not get wiped...

 

[n4zty]

i didnt lose anything on internal either and i use all options except i cleared out the recovery section so it would replace my recovery....... you sure u dont have a folder on your sd card named 0 ??

 

[Shady545]

Yes, I am sure. It was completely wiped. Even checked the stats in the storage settings to confirm.

 

[morgankslade]

I did not check Wipe Data and cache. Is this correct?
I followed the screenshot. My SD and extSD intact. Nothing missing.

So using Mobile Odin method will allow me to restore backups through TWRP?
Should I do the NV Backup again now that Im on 4.1.2.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

I did not check Wipe Data and cache. Is this correct?
I followed the screenshot. My SD and extSD intact. Nothing missing.

So using Mobile Odin method will allow me to restore backups through TWRP?
Should I do the NV Backup again now that Im on 4.1.2.

what do you mean your backups?

 

[morgankslade]

Back up of Metropolis, Blackbean.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

restoring blackbean's data will likely cause you to bootloop, as for metropolis i dont think its a good idea but you may be able to get away with restoring teh data

 

[thatguy96]

restoring blackbean's data will likely cause you to bootloop, as for metropolis i dont think its a good idea but you may be able to get away with restoring teh data

this reminds me...if i go to another rom come back to 4.1.2 can i still go back to my backup of the other rom?
EDIT: never mind i realized that the backups morgankslade was referring to was pre 4.1.2 flash...i guess any backups i make now are fine...

 

[Shabbypenguin]

this reminds me...if i go to another rom come back to 4.1.2 can i still go back to my backup of the other rom?

im trying to wrap my head around this all... so help me understand.

you are on 4.1.2
you flash rom XY
decide to come back to 4.1.2 so you restore a backup of it?
or you want to leave 4.1.2 so you restore a backup of rom XY?

 

[jtw1216]

this reminds me...if i go to another rom come back to 4.1.2 can i still go back to my backup of the other rom?
EDIT: never mind i realized that the backups morgankslade was referring to was pre 4.1.2 flash...i guess any backups i make now are fine...

im trying to wrap my head around this all... so help me understand.

you are on 4.1.2
you flash rom XY
decide to come back to 4.1.2 so you restore a backup of it?
or you want to leave 4.1.2 so you restore a backup of rom XY?

LMAO, yes.

 

[jtw1216]

Hey shabby, quick question. Why is the odin tar 1gb & ldrifta's zip only 750mb?

 

[n4zty]

Hey shabby, quick question. Why is the odin tar 1gb & ldrifta's zip only 750mb?

Zip is compressed the tar not so much compressed

 

[jtw1216]

Zip is compressed the tar not so much compressed

ok, so a tar file is the full thing straight up as is. a zip compresses the full thing into a file easier to keep?

 

[n4zty]

Yea the tar is just a shell holding all the stuff inside while zip is made not only to hold all the data inside but also compress it.

 

[Shabbypenguin]

more than just that as well, inside teh tar is the IMG file which is a direct vtye for btye copy of the entire system partition. meanwhile metropolis 1.1.0 and ldrifta's rom are just teh files and compressed so they can be smaller

 

[c0ntrolfre4k15]

i flashed lj1, but after i flashed the lj1 i rooted, installed twrp recovery and restored my old backup of stock rooted touchwiz i had. so can i install this tar and go back to that backup from ics made with twrp?

oo and btw i also flashed an aokp rom and got a '0' folder and went back to the stock backup i had and the zero folder remained until i moved the files out of it and deleted the 0 folder, i dont know if that will make a difference in anything but i thought i'd let you know, just in case.