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 ? ;-) .

What is Bootloop, Soft Brick, and Hard Brick on Your Android Device and How to Solve It

"Hey do your phone never got bootloop? Then you are not blessed one yet" :D . That's the word i hear often in the facebook group (in Indonesia) where the Android entusiast gathered. It means, bootloop is not something like you are going to die, but it's something you must face everyday if you declare yourself as an Android modder or entusiast. Bootloop on my Android phone is just like breathing in my life :D .

Actually, bootloop is just the most easy situation to handle on your Android device if you make a fail modification or hack on it. There are his big brother which worse called "soft brick" and "hard brick". And this is the difference between them:

Bootloop on Android

(source: forum.xda-developers.com)

The name said it all, a looping on booting process. Bootloop is happen if you make a fail modification or hack to your Android device, and after you restart your Android device it is just give you a boot animation on the screen forever.

You know boot animation right? Boot animation is like the gif image you see when you waiting for your Android device to live and enter homescreen. Example boot animation on Samsung Android device is the Samsung logo with white dot splash animation. Boot animation on CyanogenMod ROM is Cyanogen alien face with animation of white circle around it.

The boot animation process is usually take 1 to 5 minutes. But in bootloop state, it will take forever. Even if you waiting 1 hour, 3 hour, your device won't start.

Usually if you make a modification by flashing a zip file through recovery and the result is gave you a bootloop, it can be fixed by also flashing the uninstaller zip file provided by the mod author's to remove the modification from the device system. Example from the Xposed installation on Android Lollipop and up, it require us to install a zip file through the recovery and if the result is gave us a bootloop, to fix it just simply flash the uninstaller zip file which the developer provided

To fix bootloop is just simply restore from your Android device nandroid backup or flashing some uninstaller zip file where the mod authors provided.

Soft Brick on Android

(source: forum.xda-developers.com)

Softbrick on Android is a state where the device even not enter boot animation. The device just pass untill boot logo and then it will like that forever.

Different with boot animation, bootlogo is the static image of the Android device manufacturer logo and usually followed by text at the bottom "Powered by Android". Bootlogo is the first state ever your device will shown on the screen in the booting process. It give you sign that the device is still fixable by yourself if you make a fail modification. The ordered process of device booting is: Boot logo -> Boot animation -> Device live and enter homescreen.

To fix soft brick on your Android device is just simply restore from your nandroid backup. If that's not helped, you need to reinstall the firmware of your Android device with the stock firmware.

Hard Brick on Android

Hard Brick is the worst situation ever happen to your Android device if you make a fail modification / hack where the device is totally dead. It even not showing you the boot logo, the screen is just totally black.

Well, if your Android device got a hard brick don't desperate first. Try to restore from the nandroid backup, and if that not helped try to reinstall the firmware, and if that's not helped too maybe you should take your Android device to the service center or the repairman :D

Best practice when make a modification on an Android device to prepare the possibilities of bootloop, soft brick, or hard brick

If you are going to make modification on your Android device moreover it is a big modification like installing a custom ROM, it is very recommended to make a nandroid backup first.

Nandroid backup is like a snapshot of your Android device which containing whole device content, system, and even installed applications. The nandroid backup is made using custom recovery like CWM, TWRP, etc. So, if something wrong happen to your Android device after did some modification, simply just restore it back from the Nandroid backup you made. Nandroid backup is already save my Android smartphone from bad situations many times i couldn't remember.

Backup All Your Android Games and Applications to Your SD Card Using Titanium Backup APK

Do you like to change your Android device ROM? Or need to uninstall an application because you want try a new application or game because running out of space? Then Titanium Backup apk Android application is a must have Android application for you.

On the older post, I had share about the same kind backup application using Helium application APK. But i didn't satisfied with it because there are some application and game which failed to backed up by Helium. Read: How to Backup Android Phone Applications and Games Data using Helium APK.

Titanium Backup APK Android application is became "the ultimate root app" since several years ago. The main feature is we can backup our installed Android application and game APK and the data directly to phone storage or external SD card. It is very good especially if your phone does not have backup feature (i read there is some Sony phones which disabled backup feature).

Hey is backup Application is one of standard feature in Google Service which exist on the Android phone? That's right, but it need to upload the application's data to the Google server which will cost you time, energy (battery), and even money if you use it through mobile network. And moreover, if you uninstall the Android application or game then you need to re-download it first from Play Store before you can restore / download the Android application data.

Titanium Backup APK Android application can backup every Android application and game directly to phone storage or external SD card, we can change where the backup should be saved in the preferences. The advantage, that Titanium Backup also will backup the .apk file of the Android app or game. So we can restore the backed up Android application or game exactly just like when we backed it up from save data, setting, even to the smallest part will be backed up.

Titanium Backup APK Android application features

Just like I said above, backup Android application and game is just the main feature of Titanium Backup APK. There are dozens other features from this Android application like:

• Uninstall bloatware (system application)
• If we have updating an Android Application or game and we had backed up the older version, we can downgrade the application.
• Backup and restore phone important data like browser bookmarks, phone, sms, etc to and from a .xml file.
• Integrate system application update to ROM so it can conserve more free storage in your phone.
• Extract and restore application from a nandroid backup.
• And many more...

Of course all that flashy features need a ROOT present on your Android device. And also some additional feature can be unlocked by purchase the Titanium Backup Pro addon on the Play Store.

Titanium Backup APK Android application download link

• TITANIUM BACKUP v. 7.6.1.apk (7.4 MB)

Install TWRP v 3.0.0.0 Recovery Without PC or Computer Samsung Galaxy V SM-G313HZ

TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) is another one of the most used custom recovery for Android smartphone. This time i will share TWRP for samsung galaxy v SM-G313HZ, vivalto KST kernel (had OTA updated before), and can be installed without PC / computer (through recovery). For you who use another kernel (or have not update your device via OTA), maybe you can try this recovery too, but maybe i can not guarantee the success. So make a prepared backup, and do with your own risk. You also can use Flashify v 1.6.6 app to backup your current recovery and restore it later when you need.

Requirements:
- Rooted
- CWM recovery installed
- File TWRP 3.0.0.0 VIVALTO.zip (+- 8.4MB)
- Backup as needed
- Brain :v

TWRP recovery for Samsung Galaxy V device is made by Indonesian, one of member XDA forum cleverior.ipul. Why we need to choose install TWRP, although before we have installed CWM, it is just the same? You right, but after installed TWRP i just realized that there is so many benefit and advantage that i don't found on CWM recovery before, like TWRP is support touch, so we don't need to press the hardware key of our device many times that will cause to earlier key broken on our device.

Some features that i do not found on CWM recovery previously i installed:

• Touch support
• We can take screenshot by pressing key: volume down + power
• We can choose where we will save the backup (internal or external)
• We can choose what partitions we want to backup (is it backup just the system, the data, etc...)
• Nandroid backup size is smaller (because it don't backup internal, it's good as internal itself is part of device MEMORY). When create Nandroid backup using CWM i found the size is +3 GB, but when using TWRP it's just +-1 GB (can be smaller by check the "compress" option)
• File manager (in "Advance" menu")
• And many more...

Installation TWRP 3.0.0.0 Samsung Galaxy V without PC / computer

Download the flashable zip file of TWRP 3.0.0.0 above, place it on your external memory card. Just straight put your device into recovery mode, choose "Install zip" -> "Choose zip from sdcard", find and choose where you put the TWRP zip file, choose " Yes...". Reboot smartphone (or automatically reboot).

When we go to recovery mode with TWRP for the first time, there will be a warning wizard that is you want to use the TWRP for JUST THIS TIME or want to use it PERMANENTLY (replace your stock recovery). If we want to use it permanent (replace the previous recovery), we must accept the TWRP to change the system to make TWRP permanent on our device. Just read the first wizard...

Source and thread: XDA Forum