[Q] Does nandroid back up PDA and CSC?

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I have a T-Mobile UK Galaxy S and would like to back up the stock firmware before flashing anything new to it. It has:

Baseband: I9000XXJF3

PDA: I9000XXJF4
PHONE: I9000XXJF3
CSC: I9000TMUJE6

Obviously I can download I9000XXJF3 so I can get back to the correct baseband/PHONE. However, I've not seen any JF4 firmware files, and obviously the CSC is custom for T-Mobile's APN settings.

Therefore, if I make a nandroid backup and restore that onto I9000XXJF3, will it restore the PDA and CSC to those versions? I'm not sure how, exactly, what nandroid backs up correlates with those parts of the ROM (although I think it doesn't back up PHONE?).

Thanks!

I have the same versions as you and made a nandroid backup of my rom and then upgraded to other roms (currently SamSet 1.9b) but I can confirm Nandroid backs up CSC and PDA. To get it back to stock (including modem) I just flash back to I9000XXJF3 and restore Nandroid backup and then modem, PDA and CSC are the same as when I received the phone.

On a side note, any chance you could upload your csc folder (or at least the TMU folder) I don't know if mine got messed up before I backed up as customer.xml references files such as "/Customer/TMU/Messagetone/TMO Message tone.mp3" that don't exist?

Hm, where would I find these files? The csc folder doesn't contain them, and I don't see a /Customer/ directory off the root. Indeed, I've never seen a T-Mobile ringtone as an option anywhere, and if I search for "TMU" in Astro I can't find anything. It's also not listed in /system/CSCFiles.txt, which I assume is a list of files contained in the CSC, and only contains:

/system/csc/customer.xml
/system/csc/others.xml
/system/csc/sales_code.dat
/system/csc/feature.xml
/system/csc/contents.db
/system/app/VoiceSearch.apk
/system/SW_Configuration.xml
/system/CSCFiles.txt

I could pull out those files, and perhaps dropping those onto the device (with root) would give it I9000TMUJE6 CSC? I don't know how to make it into an update.zip.

Anyway, I did a factory reset followed immediately by a nandroid backup, which I've uploaded in case that's useful:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G033UEH5

I don't see a /Customer either on mine and the CSCFiles.txt doesn't list it but in CSC/customer.xml it references them... maybe they were going to put them in but never did?

As for creating the update.zip I did manage to make one but it didn't seem to apply (the CSC version changed to TMU but the bookmarks/settings etc didn't get applied) until I followed http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...30#post7338830 to change it to TMU.

To be honest though, I have never bothered doing it as no matter what I flash, MMS and 3G internet and everything works without me doing a thing. I just keep it incase I need to send it back for any reason.

Accidentally created new post instead of editing old one, sorry.

So... does nandroid backup everything?

I mean, if I do a backup (let's call it original).
Then I install a ROM with a different baseband/MODEM.
If I restore the backup... Will I have the original baseband/MODEM?

Thanks!