I restored a backup using the Sprite Backup included with the Fuze. After restoring, the following icons are just folders: AT&T Mall, AT&T Music, Games & Apps, AT&T GPS, Tools, and Messaging. Does anyone know how I can get them back (short of a hard reset)?
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I had the same problem the first few times I did Sprite Backup's restore.
I'm not sure what I did this last two times, but the icons are working.
The last two times after using Clear Storage, I think I used Sprite Restore immediately after all letting all the AT&T bloatware install. I did not manually initiate any soft reset before using Sprite Restore, but I did allow the phone to reset when it said it needed to reset itself.
Maybe that will work for you, let me know if it works for you too!
Well, I ended up getting the icons off another Fuze, which worked. The .icon files had been deleted for the files in question for some reason. Very weird.
Is it best to do clear storage before doing a Sprite Restore? Or does it make any difference? This is my first experience using Sprite, and I was a little nervous about it. I did a lot of rearranging of programs, deleting at least the shortcuts to many AT&T programs, etc. I don't want to lose all of that, but I'm not sure how much Sprite Restore actually restores. The icon thing made me nervous.
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just upgraded to a 2i, unlocked to all networks, put my voda card in and can send and receive texts but not calls at all, any ideas? Tried an o2 card and its just the same,
thanx
I'm not sure what to make of this, sounds like something's seriously screwed. When I unsimlocked my 2i to copy the contacts off my old Virgin sim, I made a couple of test calls and it worked fine.
The only thing I can suggest really is that you try a hard reset and a Corporate install, then unsimlock right afterwards and give it another go. If you do do that, I'm not sure if making a full backup would help, because then when you restore it if you have a registry problem which is causing the error, it'll restore the conflict too.
The last time I did a hard reset, I wanted to keep all my text messages and contacts though, so I did do a full synchronisation with Outlook to save my contacts, and I used a really sweet programme called smsOrganizer to backup all of my MMSes and SMSes. It's not _the_ most intuitive of programs, and it does require a little manual file manipulation after the reset before you restore the files (obviously), but it worked just purfick for me
I can only really suggest a hard reset, because that's the only way I know for sure to eliminate any and all problems you have which are arising from pre-existing conflicts.
Hi all,
My wife's had some weird problem on her Treo 750 just out of the blue, and I wonder if anybody's run into the same problem.
A few days ago, after editing a calender appointment, she noticed all the dates in her calender were screwed up. Events that she didn't touch, and were in months ago all of a sudden got changed to future dates. She has ADB Weather on her today menu, and all the weather icons disppear. In Resco Explorer, all the icons also disappear browsing the phone.
I figure something's corrupted on her phone, so I did a hard reset and restored to a backup that was done before we had these problems (I schedule weekly updates with Sprite Backup). I thought it'd fix all the problems. Well, surprisingly, even after hard reset and restore, all the problems were still there.
So I restored an even earlier backup, and same thing.
Has anybody ever run into this problem? Thanks in advance ...
hard reset helps.. but don't use the back ups.. it may cause the problem again..
Yeah I'm sure doing a hard reset and build from scratch helps, but given how long time it takes, that's my last resort.
I keep 10 backup files dating back to 2.5 months ago, so obviously it dates back to before this problem crept up ... thus I don't understand why when I restore the backup files, including the old backup files, I still get the problems.
Im contemplating a hard reset and use Sprite backup. So my question is.. what WONT it bring back.. in terms of settings and programs and what not. I obviously dont care much about the storage card, but just everything else.. what will i lose.. call history.. sms... mail account settings, program settings.. UI stuff...
Thanks for ure help.
Anyone have any ideas?
Assuming you have the latest version, it "should" recover everything. But I put that in quotes because something flaky can always happen depending on any number of factors. However, it still beats the alternative of not backing up at all.
I can tell you that I had to do a restore of my Fuze a few days ago, using Sprite 6.5, and it worked flawlessly. Hope that helps.
By and large...sprite is able to backup and restore almost every setting inlcuding email and your email account settings. Just keep in mind that email settings backed up wont be transferable to another device. Just in case your planning on doing a restore on another device.
I just updtaed my rom to the official 6.1 build released recently here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=519698
I used Pim Backup before updating to save all my contacts and text messages.
When I did a restore, my phone ran incredibly slowly. I know that before, when I used PIM to restore from Windows 6.0 to 6.1 (this was when I was on a Cingular 8525), it took a very long time because 6.1 needed to nest all my text messages, but my fuze didn't seem to do this. It only kept the last 30 or so messages from my side of the conversation only, and the entire phone slowed down like crazy once I did the restore, especially if I do anything involving text messages, it was damn near unusable.
Is there anything I can do to restore the backup of all my contacts and text messages successfully and have them all intact the way they were before the update?
before you do a restore you should do the tweak to make texts go in regular order not threaded
then do the restore
all you need to do to speed the phone back up is to soft reset.
once you reset you do the tweak to go back to threaded and you will be fine
How many texts do you have? You may want to archive some of the older ones. It's probably worth looking at \cemail.vol just to see how big it is. I don't text much at all and don't use email; I have maybe 100 texts on my device. My cemail.vol (in the root of the device memory) is 292K. If you've got 10K+ texts or some crazy amount, my guess is that your cemail.vol file is huge-this could be your problem. I also have maybe 50 contacts, and my pim.vol is ~600K. If I were you, I'd just look at those two files, and maybe look at your available storage memory before and after restoring your pim data.
Edit: or just do what lbhocky19 said, lol.
lbhocky19 said:
before you do a restore you should do the tweak to make texts go in regular order not threaded
then do the restore
all you need to do to speed the phone back up is to soft reset.
once you reset you do the tweak to go back to threaded and you will be fine
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How do I do this tweak?
do you have advanced config? if not get that
its in the messaging section
By Advanced Config, do you mean a setting somewhere in my phone that I can set to advanced mode, or do you mean a program I need to download?
Umm, Hello? Anyone?
... umm, can anybody please help me?
Well... http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=advanced+config
..... you don't have to insult me, "Advanced Config" is a common term, I didn't expect a Google search to get it right on the first hit.
So, is this program basically the equivalent of the Att Tilt's Kaiser Tweak then?
I have a new problem with PIM Backup now however.....
I used Advanced Config to set the messages as regular order, then did the restore, and it APPEARED to work fine (didnt set them back to threaded yet). But then I tried restoring the second backup, and the progress bar has been stuck at 1% for a while now. I am assuming its going so slow because its trying to insert information while the database already has so much information in it.
Is there any way I can make this work faster? A way to restore both backup files at once or merge them into one or something like that?
The reason I have two is because after I made the initial backup, since I wasn't able to get it to restore correctly, I had to reset my device yesterday so I made a second backup that is just the 2-4 week period between then I last updated it and had to reset it, it contains far far fewer messages and logs than previously.
Sorry to post again but.... I have another problem.
The restore isn't working correctly.
I used Advanced Config to set mt messages as standard instead of threaded, and restored my PIM backup. After I set ti back to threaded, it would only show the other person's side of the conversation, not mine. Then once I got a text from that person and replied it started re-sorting the messages..... and then it would only show MY side of the conversation, not theirs!
Why is this happening? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
I changed phones just recently and I backed up all of my apps and contacts using Titanium Backup. Everything went smoothly when restoring, except my contacts aren't being restored. I rooted my old phone and I've been able to restore them every time I switched roms, however with my new phone, they're not. I have gone to the specific file (contact/calls storage) and tried to restore it, rebooted, and everything, but that still doesn't work. Could someone please help me with this? Thank you. If it helps, I'm on a Droid Eris running 2.1.
I just sync all my contacts to Google, just more painless like that. But in backing up contacts on the phone, I'd use MyBackupRoot and Titanium Backup for Apps.
Sent from a Limited Edition phone from a Premium app..
I didn't really mention this but I can't access my old phone to get my contacts. It's broken lol. I just have a backup from before it broke. Any ideas?
I'm having the same issue:
've made on my previous phone Samsung Galaxy S II a full backup with titanium backup. Now, I have One S (s4) and I want to restore my contacts. It doesn't work with old fashion way (by entering in titanium backup and restoring everything). Can you help me out with this? There is a way to find the contacts in the titanium backup folder and add them manually in the last case?
@SaturnUnleashed did you find out how to do it?
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but after searching around for a solution to this issue I came up with nothing useful. Unless you can restore to a phone with the exact same ROM the backup was made on, it cannot be restored.
Nobody (as far as I can tell) has found a solution to your problem, so unless you've sync'd your contacts with google I'm afraid they're lost forever.