Gadgetory

hi everybody it's joe from pocketnow.com today I've got just a short little tutorial video for you you'll see on the table in front of me is my google nexus one now what i did in a previous video is I loaded up a custom rom on this phone it is unlocked so I can do all kinds of cool stuff like that but now I want to go back in time I want to restore a backup that I made earlier to do that I have to boot up into recovery mode so i hold down the down volume button and the power button at the same time and I let go of the power button and you'll notice here is my bootloader and in just a minute it's going to flash with another little menu there you go and I'm going to use my down volume to select recovery and press power to select that's going to reboot the phone into recovery mode that'll take a minute so i'll be right back alright we are up in the end Royd system recovery this is the rod nexus one point seven and what we're going to do is we're going to go down and select backup and restore important part to remember about restoring a backup is you have to have backed up first if not you don't have anything to restore from so we're going to go ahead and select backup restore i know i've already restored I've already backed up before and I've already restored from this back up as well so we're just going to come down here and dune and restore in here we've got two different restore files that are kind of cryptically named we're going to choose the latter of the two alright so I selected that bottom option and now I have all of these different backups to choose from kind of has your date in it if you can look right here so you can zoom in okay that bottom one says that it's 20 100 Oh for 24 with some other stuff after it now i happen to know that it is 2010 and it is april the 24th and i've only done one back up to date so that's the one I want I'm going to go ahead and select that one it says hey are you sure you want to restore this press the trackball to confirm so I'll do that and it starts restoring now a restoration is going to take generally speaking about as long as your initial backup took sometimes a little bit longer in my case that was about eight minutes so I'm expecting it to take about the same here you do have the little buttons across the bottom the little dots here to show you the restore process so you don't have to watch dots I'll let it finish and I'll be right back okay just about five minutes after you'll notice down at the bottom it says my restore is complete and i'm back at my backup and restore menu i'm going to press the volume down button to go back to the main menu and then that's my root system recovery menu i'm going to select the first option which is reboot system now and it tells me that it's rebooting and it should come back up with my unlock nexus one boot screen which is what it's doing right now now just like installing a custom rom restoring from a backup is pretty first boot intensive so this first boot is going to take some amount of time you should plan on it being anywhere between 15 and 20 minutes the first time it's probably going to be less than that but don't be concerned if it does run into the 15 minute range that's entirely within the normal amount of times you could expect to wait I don't want you to wait that long so we'll be right back okay and just like that the boot has completed and I am at my stock nexus one boot screen or lock screen rather i'm running the cyanogenmod rom on it and can come over to the CM updater we'll just run a quick check and see if Steve Kondik is updated from 5.6 and one and it turns out no he has not put out any updates since the last time I did it but just that easy now i'm back at the ROM that I installed before the one that I have customized the one you can even see I've got my calendar on here I've got all of my widget set up the way that I want them to be even got a nice picture of my dad and my brother as my wallpaper so we're all good to go I tried out a new rom decided I wanted to go back and did that all in about half an hour's time I would highly recommend that you do this even if you don't plan on updating to new roms every so often whenever you do a major update or preferably before you do a major update like installing a whole bunch of apps or removing a whole bunch and especially before you update to a new rom or try an entirely different rom on your phone reboot up into that recovery console and then into your special recovery rom and run a nand backup i'd recommend doing it about every week or so it doesn't take too much time to run the backup it doesn't take too much time to restore from it take substantially less time to do either or both of those than it does to revert back to factory and custom configure everything on your phone again so this has been a android tip from joe at pocketnow.com