How to Full Backup Your Android Smartphone Content and Data Without PC / Computer

Nandroid Backup is a name for full backup from your current Android smartphone ROM and content like app, data, and even the system. In simple meaning by creating a Nandroid backup, we like give our Android phone "a second life" :v , in case our Android phone is dead (we called it "soft brick") there is still one chance to revive it again by restore it from the nandroid backup. So it is highly recommended to create a nandroid backup when you are going to make big modification like change ROM or do a high risk operation from your Android smartphone.

However, to create a Nandroid backup Without a computer we must already have a custom recovery installed on our Android phone (TWRP or CWM recommended). We can install a custom recovery via Odin (need computer) or just flash it directly from our Android phone like one click through app called flashify (root needed).

Requirements:
* Custom recovery installed. TWRP or CWM recommended.
* a Lots of External SdCard empty space. It is recommended that you have empty space in your external sdcard bigger than your current used internal memory size.

Steps how to full backup your Android smartphone content

1. Go into recovery mode. Turn off your Android phone, and then press and hold simultaneously the POWER + HOME + VOLUME UP button and hold it for least 5 seconds, quickly release the buttons when the phone vibrate.
2. * If you are on CWM recovery: Go to "Backup and Restore" -> "Backup".
   Note that if you have move some of applications to the external memory, it will also be backed-up so the nandroid backup size may be bigger than expected.
   
   * If you are on TWRP: Go to "Backup". By this way we can choose what to be backed up is the system only, the data (application and data), etc.
   Oh and don't forget we can choose the storage location too by tap on "Select storage" to choose between internal memory or external memory (recommended).
3. * You can restore your Android phone through the "Backup and Restore" -> "Restore" menu, if you are On CWM.
   
   * If we are on TWRP recovery, we can restore our Android phone from the "Restore" menu, and we also can choose what to restore too.

The Nandroid backup file we made will be stored at "storage/extSdCard/clockworkmod/backup" for CWM and "storage/extSdCard/TWRP" for TWRP recovery (if you choose the external sdcard as backup location). Now you are free to modification your Android smartphone or make mistakes as much as you want :v . In case something terrible happen or your Android phone is soft bricked, just restore it from the nandroid backup you WAS made, right ? ;-) .

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Author : Daryadi

Just a simple man with simple hobbies like playing games, listening music, and read about new things. Enjoying blogging as hobby since 2014 and later caught interest playing with his first Android smartphone since 2015, he then combined the two hobbies on this blog and it is a great time killer for him.

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