What is the easiest way to backup my MK808 Rom ?

[nick111]

This is a andriod Noob question, but MK808 related.
I wish to create a ROM backup of my device so I can try other Roms.

Does a working ClockWorkMod exist for the MK808 ?

I have tried the NAndroid backup, but found the process of restoring the backup not very clear; What do I do with ext4 files ?

I have used the APK Batch Installer Tool v1.4.1(XDA) which is very good at apk and related user data backup, but does not backup the Rom.

Any advise would be welcomed.
Thanks in advance.

[kozmo2k4]

Re: What is the easiest way to backup my MK808 Rom ?

Titanium Backup fro Play Store. The best few $ ever spent. Any (rooted) device, any OS version.

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[PeterPan]

Hi,

if I understand the question correct he is asking for backup the ROM.
This can not be done by Titanium.

Peter

[Finless]

Correct! And in fact even if I gave you CWM (CLockwork), you cannot backup the kernel since it is not in boot.img.

So in fact the ONLY way to backup the ROM 100% is using ADB and DD commands or linux and RKflash tool.

But since stock ROMs are available to flash back, there really is no purpose in trying to backup the ROM.

Bob

[nick111]

Thanks for the info and replay.

so a re-flash with a

adb restore -f <file path and name>.ab

would be my simplest method ?

Thanks

[kozmo2k4]

Hi,

if I understand the question correct he is asking for backup the ROM.
This can not be done by Titanium.

Peter

Just like Bob mentioned in the above ^^^ post: no kerne/full ROM backup/restore.
There is an app called Online Nandroid Backup that can do a NAND backup without booting into CWM/Recovery, however, as of right now we have no way to restore it...
With Titanium you can back ALL (system and user) apps and data, reflash ROM and then restore; as long as the system (app+data) you are restoring are the same.
In Titanium, you can specify/rename the back up folder, thus keeping multiple (versions/ROMs) backups organized.
So you can backup ROM-1 with TiB, name it BackUp1; then flash ROM-2, do another TiB backup, named BackUp2. If you wanna go to ROM-1, flash the ROm-1 and then restore BackUp1, reboot and you should be good to go. If you want to go to ROM-2, just flash the ROM-2, boot it and restore BackUp2, and so on....
Just my ¥1.73 in...
./B

[nick111]

Thanks for the responses, but I believe I have come closer to my solution.

I've managed to find a utility call romdump (original posted on XDA).
I installed and ran the utility on the MK808 and it produced the following files :

01/01/2013 17:06 16,777,216 boot.img
01/01/2013 17:06 275 checksum.md5
01/01/2013 17:06 17,334 config.gz
01/01/2013 17:06 16,777,216 recovery.img
01/01/2013 17:06 1,684 system.info.gz
01/01/2013 17:07 405,435,392 system.tar

How can I restore these files without CWM ?

Thanks for all the responses and any advice is welcomed.