Different backups available for rooted Vibrant (may apply to any Android phone)

1. Nandroid Backup:
The easiest and most reliable way to fully and 100% back up and restore your Android phone.
By fully back up, I don’t mean backing up just your address book or your emails, or your dog. I mean EVERYTHING that resides on your phone with the exception of the SD card – what it will create is essentially a full image of your phone’s current state that you can restore to at any time as if nothing happened. This image will be written to your SD card which you are then free to copy around and back up on your computer.
In fact, the nandroid backup is very similar to imaging your computer hard drive before you swap drives – the principle is the same.

•When you restore from a full image backup, you have to restore all or nothing. In other words, you will
not be able to get back *just* the photos.

How to take this backup: Go into ClockworkMod Recovery. Select the option "backup and restore" and then choose "Backup".  I am running StockKernel+Voodoo and I have redbend CWR recovery.

2. Neldar's SGS Kernel Flasher
It lets you take backups of the current kernel.
  How to take this backup:  Use the tool from the Market.

3. Titanium Backup

What can Titanium Backup back up ?
•All the applications you have installed, including protected ones,
•All the data and settings of these applications,
•Most (nearly all) of your phone's settings and data.
•NOTE: It will not backup the system applications from your ROM. Only their settings and data will be
backed up.
  How to take this backup:  Use the tool from the Market.

Backups are very important for your rooted phone. I take all three types of backups(I sleep better knowing I can restore my phone if I break it). I do it on a weekly basis or just before I flash a major update.

lockscreen fix will only work with DEODEXED rom

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Odex vs Deodex

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Theres plenty of debate over what is faster/better to use, im not going to take sides in this one. This is just information about what the differences in the two are, try for yourself.



Deodex basically takes the odex file and stuffs it into the apk as a classes.dex. First boot it dissembles the file into /dalvik-cache (i believe). Now there is basically 2 copies of the odex, one in the apk one in cache. This makes it "portable". This allows modders to work on the apks & easily change stuff. If you want themes or stuff like lockscreen fixes you MUST use Deodex.



Odex is how things come stock. It takes up less room but making modifications or taking apks from other roms is hard. You cannot use themes with this version!! To see odex in dcupdater you must go to menu -> configuration -> rom update settings -> display all roms & display experimental roms. Its marked experimental to avoid confusion because themes in dcupdater will not work with it.