[HTC 10 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Developm] Ganuke2kx:
Clarification

Hello...... I recently became the proud owner of a new HTC 10 last week. Since that day it arrived at my door from HTC I have been planning on and working toward having Sunshine applied on it, TWRP recovery, and gain root access via SuperSU.

Currently my HTC 10 has been " Sunshined " and is S-Off / Locked as well as having flashed the latest TWRP on it through adb. My next step...... while it is still unmodified system stock on firmware / software 1.19.605.22 ...... is to do a full backup ( nandroid ) through TWRP as a nice security blanket to have if needed at some point in time. I then plan to place onto my HTC 10 the 1.82 firmware / software from the relevant thread here at XDA...... and then do another backup ( nandroid ) of that state of my HTC 10 through TWRP.

I have read through this entire thread...... twice actually...... including the OP and 10 FAQ that followed. At points I felt pretty confident I would know how to do such a backup ( nandroid ) of my stock unmodified system HTC 10 without making any post here to ask additional questions. But then I got to page 60 and read the following :

...... and that is where my confidence faded. That is not meant to be an insult to the fellow XDA member who posted that ( if anyone were to recognize / remember that post...... including the posting member themself )...... but just saying reading the number of instances where the word " check " was used and most of what I thought I had stored in my brain of making a successful backup ( nandroid ) of my stock system unmodified HTC 10 got washed away.

So I just want to make sure I have my planned steps correct before going about making this first backup ( nandroid ) for my HTC 10...... as the first one ( and maybe the next one I plan to do after ruu 1.82 ) will likely be the most important to have done properly in case at some point in the future I screw something up on my phone and need to make use of one of those backups.

Ok with that said...... immediately after I flashed the latest TWRP and went into it I was greeted with the option to either click and " keep read only " ...... or ...... ' Swipe ' at the bottom to apply modifications. From what I read I thought the click to " keep read only " was the best choice for my HTC at this time and chose that one. ( Hopefully that was the right choice to have made...... but I am left wondering what the other option to ' Swipe ' to " apply modifications " would be chosen ?? )

So having initially chosen to ' Click ' to " keep ready only " ...... I assume I would now " just " navigate back into TWRP on my HTC 10 and proceed by :

1.) Selecting the " Backup " tab from the home screen in TWRP.

2.) Then on the next screen that appears in TWRP leave ' Name ' as " Auto Generate " ...... while then ticking to include in the backup ( nandroid ) System Image, Data, and Boot ( as I assume ' Recovery ' would just mean it backing up TWRP which I have on my computer the latest copy of to flash via adb later...... or is the ' Recovery ' inclusion meaning the stock HTC 10 recovery ? )

3.) And lastly choose to " Swipe to Backup. "

Am I missing anything to result in a successful stock system unmodified backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10 now as well as after I ruu 1.82 ?

Or am I missing any steps in this process ? Such as Do I first need to ' Select ' the " Wipe " tab from TWRP home screen to " Swipe to Factory Reset " or " Advanced Wipe " .... or " Format Data " before going about creating this initial backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10 ? Or Do I first / also need to ' Select ' the " Mount " tab from TWRP home screen to do anything there before going about creating this initial backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10 ? ( Presently within the ' Mount ' tab on the TWRP home screen ' System ' is unchecked while ' cache ' , ' Data ' , and ' Micro SDCard ' are checked. Additionally within the ' Mount ' tab " Mount System Partition read-only " is checked...... and at the bottom of the screen is a tab to ' Disable MTP. ' I just want to be sure there are no other steps I am missing in the process of making a successful to rely on initial backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10...... other than " just " going into the " Backup " tab from the TWRP home screen and checking the options to include " system Image " , " Data " , and " Boot " in the backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10.

Also I noticed within the ' Settings ' tab from the TWRP home screen within the " Time Zone " section it is checked for ' Central Time ' ( while I presently reside in the Eastern Time Zone. ) I assume this is the case maybe because the developer of TWRP reside in the Central time zone and leaving it at that will have no negative result in my initial HTC 10 backup ( nandroid. ) And while I am going over the " making sure " list...... also within the ' Settings ' tab of from the TWRP home screen within the " Screen " section it is checked to " Enable screen timeout " which is set at 60 seconds. I guess since that is a default selection within TWRP that it is safe to leave it at that ? ( I ask because my previous smartphone ( Samsung Galaxy S4 ) was rather qwirky for lack of a better word with certain settings when trying to do various tweaks on it...... such as various flash attempts freezing / failing when the screen was not set to its maximum timeout.

I should also mention that I plan to have this initial TWRP backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10 created onto the internal / phone storage...... as my inserted Micro SDcard is formated Fat32 so in reading through this thread I know such a TWRP backup ( nandroid ) would fail trying to create it onto my Micro SDcard in that format. ( The reason I intend to leave the Micro SDcard in the Fat32 format is I thiinnkk I read elsewhere on XDA that my plan to get the 1.82 ruu on my HTC 10 would need to be done on a Fat32 formatted MicroSD card and not NTFS or ExFAT. HHmmmm...... then again maybe I have that incorrect and can / should just now format my Micro SDcard to exFAT before doing this initial TWRP backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10...... I will have to read again in that relevant Verizon ruu thread. )

I have used a previous version of TWRP before on a smartphone I had...... but it has been a lloonngg time from then to now. I know this is one long ars post...... but I want to be sure I have my plans absolutely correct so at some point in the future I do Not have to come back in this thread prepared with a log file to attach to a post about my TWRP backup ( nandroid )...... or future recovery attempt from this backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10 failing...... and then being told if I was unclear about something I should have just searched the thread and asked questions I had before attempting to go about it all. Well...... as I said earlier I did the full reading of this thread twice..... and now am posting the questions.

Lastly...... thanks in advance to anyone responding with assistance / advice to what I may have wrong in my plan of a TWRP backup ( nandroid ) of my HTC 10 ...... or reassurance that I actually have it correct meaning that one particular post on page 60 didn't blow my mind as much as I thought it did.

Ganuke