Stock ROM and Backups

[azeem40]

Hello,
I have searched the forums a good while and could not find anything pertaining to my question. My question is, can you copy the backup file for a custom ROM, flash a kernel of the stock rom with CWM, and paste the backup file so you can recover the custom rom, or does flashing stock via odin keep the backup file?
Thanks.

 

[creepyncrawly]

I don't really understand your question, or what you are trying to do exactly, but let me try to answer at least partially.

can you copy the backup file for a custom ROM

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flash a kernel of the stock rom with CWM

I'm not aware of any stock distribution available in CWM flashable zip files. These are provided by Samsung, and are in Odin flashable tar files.

and paste the backup file so you can recover the custom rom

You can not restore a backup with the stock kernel, you must have a custom kernel for this.

does flashing stock via odin keep the backup file?

Flashing stock, or any firmware for that matter, will not touch the sd card where backup files are located, so you will still have the backup file after a flash.

 

[azeem40]

I don't really understand your question, or what you are trying to do exactly, but let me try to answer at least partially.



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I'm not aware of any stock distribution available in CWM flashable zip files. These are provided by Samsung, and are in Odin flashable tar files.



You can not restore a backup with the stock kernel, you must have a custom kernel for this.



Flashing stock, or any firmware for that matter, will not touch the sd card where backup files are located, so you will still have the backup file after a flash.

Thanks man. So my backup is recoverable whenever I get a CWM again?