[Tutorial] Nand BackUp

A nand back up backs up everything you have set on your current ROM.
Contrary to what you might think, you cannot nand back up your current ROM and restore onto a new ROM.

So say you have EvilEris and do a Nand BackUp of it, then wipe and flash WhiteWidow. You cannot restore your EvilEris BackUp onto WhiteWidow.

So in essence, a Nand BackUp is a fall back, a saftey net.

Now that you know more about Nand BackUps we can go through actually backing up your current ROM:

1-Boot into recovery
   Method 1 (recomended):Go to the Market and download QuickBoot.
      -Open QuickBoot and tap 'Recovery'
   Method 2: Power off phone, then hold Vol-Up+End
2-Use the trackball to select 'Backup/Restore'
3-Select 'Nand Backup'
4-Trackball to confirm

And you're backed up, hit Vol-Down to get back to the 'Main screen' then reboot the system.

Now to restore this to to:

1-Backup/Restore
2-Nand Restore
3-Trackball to confirm
4-Trackball for all questions.

Have you backed up yet?

You can't until you have root.


Sent from my FroyoEris

No have not done this yet.  Will do later this evening or tomorrow.

Correct but you are backing up a non rooted rom.

Sent from my FroyoEris

Boy, was that SIMPLE - Thanks JPC!

Can you rename your NANDS?

Ok thanks,

What's nand + ext?