Root Nanodroid restore

[mthill2]

Before doing a nanodroid restore do you do a factory reset or wipe anything?

 

[Rxpert83]

Nope, just restore it.

 

[mthill2]

Thanks. Before I was doing a wipe and I think it was messing things up because it would not go past the white screen! Does it hurt to do the wipe or......??????

 

[Rxpert83]

Depends what your wiping...

If your doing superwipe or something like that where its wiping your boot that could possibly give you some problems.

Also, what recovery do you have?

 

[JustSomeDude]

Won't hurt at all to wipe before restoring, I usually do. It's an ongoing debate (see this thread for one), but I've seen a lot of mention of at least wiping your cache, as that is not one of the things you backup with a nandroid, so it won't be overridden.

Edit:
whoops, just saw your second post... you shouldn't hit a white screen when restoring a nandroid even after wiping -- I always wipe everything (including system and boot) before restoring a nandroid, and have never had a problem. I wonder if your nandroid is corrupted...

 

[ocnbrze]

I never wipe before restoring my nandroid backup. Never had any issues. When you restore a nandroid backup it will restore you're cache and dalvik cache. But it does not hurt anyways.

 

[mthill2]

Thanks for the help!!! Sense Roms just keep on sucking me back in from aosp

 

[JustSomeDude]

I never wipe before restoring my nandroid backup. Never had any issues. When you restore a nandroid backup it will restore you're cache and dalvik cache. But it does not hurt anyways.

Hey ocn, do you check "cache" in Amon Ra when do your nandroids? I was going off of the info in this guy's post here to form my opinions on this, so I'm curious about your take on it.

 

[ocnbrze]

Hey ocn, do you check "cache" in Amon Ra when do your nandroids? I was going off of the info in this guy's post here to form my opinions on this, so I'm curious about your take on it.

No I only keep the first three checked. I believe that it is system, data, and boot. The cache option is for those who have the card partitioned and have cache moved to the card.

 

[JustSomeDude]

No I only keep the first three checked. I believe that it is system, data, and boot. The cache option is for those who have the card partitioned and have cache moved to the card.

Ok thanks, that makes sense. I do the same, although I usually check wimax and recovery too (I'm overly cautious -- hence the always wiping a ton before doing any/everything ). I was just curious in terms of what akazabam said in that post I linked. Guess I'll read around a bit more to try and get a better grasp...http://androidforums.com/members/akazabam.html

 

[mthill2]

When performing a restore does the ROM and kernel need to still be on the root of your SD????

 

[dustwun77]

no, it is all in the nand you are restoring.

 

[ocnbrze]

When performing a restore does the ROM and kernel need to still be on the root of your SD????

once you flash the rom and kernel, those zip files are no longer needed. you can go ahead and delete them.

 

[mikem0269]

Just my 2c I wipe just like when I flash cashe dalvic cashe data and flash superwipe . It works for me with no issues so far so thats why I keep doing it that way.

 

[dustwun77]

That is how I do it too. I didn't know any better.

It is simple and easy to do and I just have gotten into the habit.

 

[ocnbrze]

Ok thanks, that makes sense. I do the same, although I usually check wimax and recovery too (I'm overly cautious -- hence the always wiping a ton before doing any/everything ). I was just curious in terms of what akazabam said in that post I linked. Guess I'll read around a bit more to try and get a better grasp...http://androidforums.com/members/akazabam.html

man i love akazabam's posts. he is so awesome. and thank you for bringing that post back from the past.

basically what he is saying is that it is not necessary to wipe before restoring nandroid backups as the recovery wipes the partitions before restoring the nandroid backup. so ideally you really do not need to wipe before restoring. but like akazabam says "it does not hurt" to do it and it just takes a few seconds.

 

[MizzouBrent]

Well I certainly trust akazabam, but I always wipe before restoring. But maybe I should rethink that.

 

[andygu3]

Before doing a nanodroid restore do you do a factory reset or wipe anything?

Agree with most but I've never done any sort of wipe with a restore. Even going from AOSP to a Sense rom or vice versa. Going back to the Hero days, just always went by what Darkstar originally stated that a wipe before a restore was not needed nor would it help/hurt anything