Nandroid & Titanium

[rfarrah]

... do you need to use BOTH?

 

[TheLynxy]

I use both simply because Titanium is good for restoring single apps+data, and at times I've found that invaluable.

 

[gmichaelow]

Yeah. Titanium backs up your apps and data to sd card. Which mean you can restore it from ROM to ROM.

Nandroid backs up everything above the radio level. Kernel, boot.img, /system, basically the whole ROM.

So say I was on ROM 1 and wanted to change to ROM 2. I'd do a Titanium, then a Nandroid (or the other way around, whichever's most convenient xD).

After I do my wipe and install ROM 2, I don't have my apps! But if I download Titanium from the market, it'll see my backups on my sd card and I can restore them.

Now say I don't like ROM 2. I can use my nandroid backup to change back to ROM 1, with all of ROM 1 intact.

Hope that helps =]

 

[jim1021]

Thanks a bunch for the use case. That is what I thought as well but I wasnt 100%.