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Re: Nandroid question

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Originally Posted by ace741 View Post
In response to your last paragraph, that is cause Nandroid requires root access correct? And the latest Sprint update disables from booting into Nandroid. That's Eek the cat btw!! He's hilarious!! Miss the good ole saturday morning cartoons. Thanks for you response. I'm on OMJ 1.4 and curious about trying a ROM with the latest sprint updates but very scared with all the issues I see people having. Knowing I can restore my ROM to the way I have it now makes me feel a little braver.
To clarify, I'm pretty new to all the stuff, and I don't know all the correct lingo.
When you rooted your phone with part 1, you changed an img file. I think it's the "hboot_0.79.0000.img" or the "boot.img" file but I'm not sure. Anyways, that is what allowed you to have root access. Then if you did the Full-Root you also changed the recovery.img. If you're rooted and you have the correct recovery.img, you have total control.

The OTA re-writes the files you changed in part 1 of rooting. So, you can no longer change part 1 and therefore can't get to part 2.
If you do the OTA, I don't know if you can do a Nandroid restore. I would assume "No." However, even if you did do a Nandroid restore, the files needed to have root access wouldn't be changed. You'd be stuck w/ whatever version of those files the OTA gave you.

Hope that's clear as mud.
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