[dwitherell]

westgross, on 02 May 2013 - 10:47 AM, said:

This probably shows my ignorance but will I lose my contacts, email and apps I currently have installed on my Stratosphere SCH-1405 if I root and flash my phone?

Only if you wipe /data (which you probably should do to be honest).

[jcooler]

westgross, on 02 May 2013 - 10:47 AM, said:

This probably shows my ignorance but will I lose my contacts, email and apps I currently have installed on my Stratosphere SCH-1405 if I root and flash my phone?

I overcome this by using titanium backup to backup all apps, contacts, emails, sms etc. Also, if your contacts are "google contacts", instead of "phone contacts", they will be restored automatically, when you reconnect to your gmail account. the app "SMS Backup" is also another good app for backing up your text messages. It backs them up (and can restore) to your gmail account. They actually show up as a seperate mail folder on the gmail web interface.

Last words...go for it. Create a Titanium backup -> root/wipe/install new rom -> reinstall titanium backup -> restore from backup.

Do a quick google search. I remember finding some pretty detailed instructions on using Titanium backup for this purpose.

[bangdosa]

question: when i tell cwm to make a backup, it starts doing it but it goes and shuts down after. is that normal?

[Furcht]

I have never been able to actually get CWM to backup / restore properly so I just ignore that part of CWM.

[acejavelin]

CWM's nandroid backup on the Strat has always been flaky... even when it works to backup the restoration process is iffy at best, failing over 50% of the time. You are better off using Titanium Backup or Ultimate Backup to maintain backups.