How to Do a Nandroid Backup on Galaxy S5! | Backup and Restore ROM

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You need to be rooted to do a Nandorid Backup, follow this guide first!

This guide will show you how to preform a Nandroid backup on your Galaxy S5. You MUST have ClockworkMod Recovery, Philz Touch Recovery, or TWRP on your Galaxy S5 to preform this type of backup.

What is a Nandroid Backup? This type of backup will backup just about everything. It will backup your phone's OS, apps, text messages, call logs, placement of apps, settings, ect.

NOTE: This will NOT backup your music, movies, pictures, etc  Backup it up manually!

1. Enter your phone in Recovery Mode. Power off your phone then press and hold the volume up, home button, and power button. 

2. Select "Backup and Restore". 

3. Select "backup". The backup will take about 10 minutes to complete. 

Once your backup is complete your done, but keep reading if you want to know how to restore your backup! 

Also the backup file is located under clockworkmod/backup or TWRP/backup. I would highly recommend you make multiple copies of this backup just in case. One to your computer and one to your external sd card. 

4. To restore your backup select "restore".

5. Select the correct backup you want to restore. 

6.  Select "Yes - Restore" and wait for about 10 minutes for the restoration process to complete. 

7.  Select "+++++Go Back+++++".

8. Then "Reboot now". 

Once your phone has finished rebooting your phone look exactly the same as your backup. 
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How To Do A Nandroid Backup on Galaxy S4! - Backup and Restore ROM

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This guide will show you how to preform a Nandroid backup on your Galaxy S4.  You MUST have ClockworkMod Recovery or TWRP on your Galaxy S4 to preform this type of backup. 

What is a Nandroid Backup? 

This type of backup will backup just about everything. It will backup your phone's OS, apps, text messages, call logs, placement of apps, settings, ect. 

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you do a Nandroid Backup before flashing a custom ROM!

NOTE: This will NOT backup your music, movies, pictures, etc  Backup it up manually! 

1. Enter your phone in Recovery Mode. Turn off your phone then press the volume up, home button, and power button. Once your phone vibrates ONLY let go of the power button. 

2. Select "Backup and restore". 

3. Select "backup". The backup will take about 10 minutes to complete. 

Once your backup is complete your done, but keep reading if you want to know how to restore your backup! 

4. To restore your backup select "restore".

5. Select the correct backup you want to restore. 

6. Select "Yes - Restore" and wait for about 10-15 minutes for the restoration process to complete. 

7. Select "+++++Go Back+++++".

8. Then "Reboot now". 

Once your phone has finished rebooting your phone look exactly the same as your backup. 

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How to Restore to Stock / Unroot Galaxy Nexus GSM i9250 to Jelly Bean! [Windows] [Odin]

This method will restore you Galaxy Nexus GSM i9250 phone back to 100% complete stock. It will unroot root your phone and get rid of ClockworkMod Recovery. Use this method if you are going to send it back to the manufacture or just want to get back to complete stock. 

Note: This will delete everything on your phone so BACKUP all important files to your computer.

Make sure you have Samsung Kies installed on your computer.

1. Enter you phone into "Download Mode". Power off your phone > Hold the volume down and power button at the same time. Keep holding until you see "Downloading..." on the screen.

2. Plug your phone into the computer

3. Download and unzip "Stock/Unroot Jelly Bean GNex GSM.zip" here:
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Download Stock:Unroot Jelly Bean GNex GSM
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4. Open Odin and you should see a yellow bar on the left side of the application. If you don't make sure you download Samsung Kies from the link above.

5. Click on "PIT" and find/select "I9250_partition-table-0915.pit"

6. Click on "Bootloader" and find/select "ONE.PT.YAKJU.JRO03C.tar.md5"

7. Make sure only "Auto Reboot" is checked marked on the left side for the check boxes

8. Click "Start" and wait for about 10 minutes for the process to complete. Once the process is complete you will be on the 100% complete stock Jelly Bean for your Galaxy Nexus GSM.

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How to Restore Galaxy Nexus i9250 to Stock Ice Cream Sandwich! [GSM] [Windows]

This guide will show you how to completely restore your phone back to a fresh stock. This method will completely prepare your phone so that you can send you phone to your carrier or to Samsung and they will never find out that you did anything to your phone.

This will delete EVERYTHING on phone!

Click Here on how to restore Galaxy Nexus i9250 GSM on Mac
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1. Plug your phone into your computer and now enter into download mode. (Power off your device, then hold down volume down and power button) 

2. Download and extract needed files here:

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Download Stock ICS GNex GSM.zip

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3. Open odin3 v1.85

4. Set your phone aside and in odin3 v1.85 you will see a yellow bar on the left of the program. (If you don't see a yellow bar that means you don't have correct drivers installed, please look in the "Downloads" section to get correct drivers.)

5. Click PDA and find the file: Stock ICS GNex.tar and click on start 

6. Wait around 5 minutes for the process to finishes. You phone will reboot and your done! 

7. Enjoy your freshly stocked ICS on your Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. 

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