The easiest backup for Android (pictures below)

For those of you who’ve recently rooted your Samsung Galaxy S2 Android smartphone, you will probably want to learn how to backup/restore ROMs on your phone using ClockworkMod Recovery. By backing up your rooted ROM, you will have an insurance in case something goes wrong in the future such as bricking your phone while installing a new kernel or ROM.

After rooting, we highly advise you to backup your rooted stock ROM as you will also need this to unroot if needed later on.

Here’s how to backup/restore ROM on your Galaxy S2:

Step 1. Power off your phone then reboot into ClockworkMod Recovery by holding down Volume Down, Home button, and Power button together and hit the Volume Up button when you see a screen with options.

Note – You may have to hit the Home button instead of Power button in these instructions depending on which version of ClockworkMod Recovery you have.

Step 2. Once in ClockworkMod Recovery, choose “Backup and Restore” and hit the Power button.

Step 3. Choose “Backup” and hit the Power button.

Step 4. When backup is done, it will be backed up to a folder with current date and time. You can always change this folder name to something more memorable like “rooted stock ROM”.

Step 5. To restore, simply hit “Restore” instead of “Backup” and choose the backup folder you want to restore.

Backup will backup everything including your ROM, kernel, contacts, apps, etc…etc… The only thing that won’t be backed up are the contents of your SD card.

Credits – MAX

Once you’ve made a backup of your current ROM, you will also want to learn how to backup and restore with Titanium Backup app as this method will allow you to quickly restore your apps when you install a new ROM on your Galaxy S2.  (The ClockworkMod method backups up your WHOLE system including the ROM itself so you need another method to restore your apps such as this Titanium Backup app when installing new ROMs.)

First, you will need a rooted Galaxy S2 of course.  Next, go ahead and download the free version of Titanium Backup app from Market.

Second, hit “RUN” next to “Backup all new apps & new verison”, this will backup all of your non-system apps such as ones you’ve installed off the Market.

Once that’s done, you can go hit the “Backup/Restore” tab, which will show you all the apps that’s backed up.  If there’s an app you want backed up but didn’t backup, you can manually back it up here.  I did that with the Memo app, which contains some important memos that my friend wanted to keep on his Galaxy S2 after moving to a new ROM.

After you install a new ROM, simply install Titanium Backup app again from the market, hit Menu->Batch then “Restore all apps with data” to restore all of your apps.

Credits – MAX