Root From MoDaCo 3.1 to Villain and back again?

[G8D]

If I make a Nandroid+EXT and a BART backup, wipe and then install Villain (or any other 2.1 ROM) is it completely roll backable by wiping and restoring either the Nandroid+EXT or the BART?

The wipe affects nothing?
Also, if I decide I like it, can I perform an EXT restore only and maintain my App2SD?

 

[Xyro]

You can't pick and choose with nandroid, so no you have to do it all at once. You could try not wiping the EXT partition when moving to Villain, but people always reccomend wiping in case it somehow affects the new ROM. I used titanium backup to install my apps to 2.1.

And yeah, if you make Nandroid + Ext everything except SD card files are saved and restorable.

 

[G8D]

You can't pick and choose with nandroid, so no you have to do it all at once. You could try not wiping the EXT partition when moving to Villain, but people always reccomend wiping in case it somehow affects the new ROM. I used titanium backup to install my apps to 2.1.

And yeah, if you make Nandroid + Ext everything except SD card files are saved and restorable.

I think I will Nandroid+EXT, wipe and test Villain.. If I like it I will restore my apps using Titanium (this keeps market data too, right?). Other wise I will rollback..

 

[Xyro]

Yeah titanium will restore market links along with the app it's self. But, if the app is already installed and you only want to restore the link, you either have to restore the backup anyway or buy the donate version.

Not all apps were restorable with titanium though, maybe 1 in 5 failed Must be because of the jump from 1.5 to 2.1. At least it works as a list of what you need to redownload from the market.

But yeah, that's exactly what I did

 

[G8D]

I guess I'll post again when things go wrong

 

[Xyro]

That's the spirit!

Good luck with Villain 3.2, it wont boot for me for some reason. So I'm still on 3.1 for now.

 

[G8D]

That's the spirit!

Good luck with Villain 3.2, it wont boot for me for some reason. So I'm still on 3.1 for now.

I'm wiping, so it should be ok.. I hope.
Should I format the EXT partition before flashing? Will the EXT backup restore it regardless as long as the partition exists?

 

[Xyro]

You mean should you format it to wipe the partition? I'd wipe it yeah, less chance of something going wrong. There's an option in the latest recovery image to just wipe the Ext only which is pretty handy. Just make sure you still have an ext partition if you decide to restore and all your apps will be safe too

 

[G8D]

You mean should you format it to wipe the partition? I'd wipe it yeah, less chance of something going wrong. There's an option in the latest recovery image to just wipe the Ext only which is pretty handy. Just make sure you still have an ext partition if you decide to restore and all your apps will be safe too

Flashed without EXT wipe, with the intention to revert.
This ROM definitely is not finished yet.. There are still orange aspects (an issued that was dealt with from 1.73 to 2.76..) plus navigation doesn't work (maps/naviagtion do not load within the navigator app).
Plus due to my lack of EXT wipe my apps won't install.

I will wipe EXT and run titanium now, and decide later whether I will keep it or not. I do love the helicopter

 

[Xyro]

Yeah it's far from perfect. But I guess thats what you get when you use a leaked ROM from an CDMA phone

I don't know about the orange bits, but for the nav thing have you tried this? In the wiki where you download Villain from it says:

• Can't get ?NavLauncher to launch anything and/or
• need more space in /system (for example for wavesecure):
  
  • update.zip

Maybe that'll fix it?

 

[G8D]

Yeah it's far from perfect. But I guess thats what you get when you use a leaked ROM from an CDMA phone

I don't know about the orange bits, but for the nav thing have you tried this? In the wiki where you download Villain from it says:

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Maybe that'll fix it?

Thanks! I'll give it a try..

Why can't titanium restore without having press install for every app?

 

[Xyro]

I know! Surely it wouldn't be too hard for the dev to make it click next automatically and save us like an hour of mindless clicking

 

[G8D]

I know! Surely it wouldn't be too hard for the dev to make it click next automatically and save us like an hour of mindless clicking

Soooo many parse errors :/

 

[Xyro]

Once you've gone through and reinstalled all the ones you can, from the menu you get titanium to filter the list to show only uninstalled apps. That way you can see the damage =/

 

[G8D]

How can I restore market data? It hasn't atm..

 

[Xyro]

It hasn't? :S Do all your backups have a smiley face with an M over it? That means the market link was backed up too.

 

[G8D]

It hasn't? :S Do all your backups have a smiley face with an M over it? That means the market link was backed up too.

They did, but now they are not in the market..

What restore option did you select?

 

[Xyro]

'Back up all user apps + system data' on MCR and then 'Restore all apps with data' on Villain.

 

[G8D]

'Back up all user apps + system data' on MCR and then 'Restore all apps with data' on Villain.

Ignore me
It just took a while/reboot to get them back in the Market

Navigator still isn't working, gonna try and reflash the supposed fix..

 

[G8D]

WiFi isn't working properly, it was but now it won't connect to my router.
I think I'll just follow 2.1 progress and go back to

Just as I was writing this I got an email from Android. "Welcome to Android, your new Nexus one phone has many cool features."

 

[G8D]

EXT failed to restore, I am now on MCR 3.1 with none of my EXT apps.

FAIL

 

[Xyro]

Do you have an Ext4 partition? And did an error come up when restoring?

 

[G8D]

Do you have an Ext4 partition? And did an error come up when restoring?

EXT2, no error when backing up or restoring.

 

[G8D]

New info:
The market is reading the apps as installed.. So they are definitely they, but they "cannot be launched"..

Help me

 

[Xyro]

Sounds like maybe the Ext partition is empty but all the links to apps on the internal memory are there. Maybe you could uninstall them in the market then reinstall? But then you'd lose your settings and everything....

What backups did you make in the end? Have you tried re-restoring them? What's the BART error you mentioned in the other post?