[Paid Software Announcement and Discussion] samccfl99:
Backup problem in normal mode on sm-g900a

BACKUP PROBLEM IN NORMAL MODE ON SM-G900A

have v 0.15. am trying this out pre going to 5.0. i am currently on NG3/442 XDK. yes i did read only tested on OA1/OC4. ONLY TESTED BACKUP FUNCTION, WAS CURIOUS. did an IDS bu first as suggested. worked fine to both internal and sdcard. when i tried to do a NORMAL bu to sdcard, lines started to scroll and i do believe it seemed to take

less

time than the IDS bu did and when it rebooted it was really weird. weird means that my background was the same. no apps anywhere. the original date widget on top of home page, nothing on bottom. WELL. anyway of course i had made a backup in SS and just rebooted into SS (option was still under restart in power menu), advance wiped, restored and all was back to normal. so what happened? the only reason i tested this now is because i saw someone post that you could go from 442 to 5 and 5 to 442. well i did not really believe that so i just started by trying out the bu function. I must add that i did not uninstall SafeStrap for this test, if that matters. i know when i do go to 5 i will have to uninstall recovery and app.

i know this is still beta and i hope its ok to post this here about this function. i had been on 5.0 for a couple of days in FEB using the original SS method, but then went back to my beloved XDK until all was ready. it seems the Alliance 5.0 maybe be out this week or so, so of course i will be trying that. but if it does not at least compensate for some of Xposed, i might go back and wait.

when we are on 5.0 the bu should work normally, correct? but i do have a few questions. i am not all too familiar with all the partitions. as a matter of fact, i was surprised to see that many in the list. so i am assuming FF would be good (and of course now would have to use this app) to go from one 5.x rom to another and all other things Flashing. so say there were two rom backups in the folder. would it be sufficient to run a NORMAL backup to create them and then restore by picking a rom backup and then do a restore from it OR what type of backup would you need to do? the next question is less important? suppose one's phone got totally trashed. since i hear that installing 5.0 will change my kernel from NG3 to OA1 (correct?) i will still have the ability to go down to NCE, towel root, install FF and then get back to a backed up 5.x install? might not have this part straight, this would be the only way i would know how to do it.

whenever someone has time to answer these few questions, i would appreciate it. dont think there is much documentation out there at the moment since its still in beta. will be testing as soon as a rom comes out for LP. thanks for this great app, since SS no longer will function. what would we do without all the smart people in here who help us survive? i will surely donate and get the pro version when i go. no freeloader here...

LOGCAT OF GOOD IDS BU AT:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3szumpsumd4ou6/FF-BU IDS OK - lastlog.dat?dl=0

LOGCAT OF BAD NORMAL BU AT:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8whvn1qage2x7w/FF-BU NORMAL MODE PROBLEM - lastlog.dat?dl=0

THANKS AGAIN