Wondering if anyone encountered the below issues with Sprite Backup.
1st issue. I had done full restores from 2 minor versions of Sprite Backup 6.5.x.x which presents the same issue.
After a hard reset followed by restoration from the Sprite backup, everything looks pretty normal and functioning great. So I thought.
The lockscreen kicks in. As usual, I press the End button. I get a BLANK screen with all the 5 buttons lighted up ! Not the usual screen where one had to slide to unlock the lockscreen.
The same happens irregardless whether I am using the Manila lockscreen or S2U2.
2nd issue is with partial restore. Somehow, I had deleted the Tools folder in the Start Menu and decided to perform only a partial restore by selecting this particular folder from the backup. After reboot, HTC Sense got started but after a minute, it freezes.
For both the issues above, I ended up doing a hard reset again and faithfully install my cabs all over again.
Anyone have any idea or fix for 1st issue.
I have backed up many times with Sprite. No problems. Stock ROM 1.43(?) WWE
Same problem
Same problem as discussed above. Sprite version 6.5.5.6, ROM - Dutty 4.1.
Would appreciate any solutions to the issue.
Personally I would use PPCPimBackup it is free, easy to use, and WORKS great, I even transferred contacts from one WM system to another phone.
h***://***.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=1806
I believe I had resolved this issue all by myself.
There is a restore option setting in Sprite Backup which by default is enabled to do a "Merge" operation.
The blank/black screen with all buttons lighted up was caused by the Today timer which was at the 4-hr factory default setting.
I am not sure how the "merge" operation in Sprite Backup is carried out but had since changed the default setting to "replace".
Last fortnight, I had to do a hard rest and then full-restoration from Sprite backup file. Phone is working normally.
I just upgraded from Elegancia 10 to Elegancia V3. The 'replace' option works so much better. I had to enter all of my CHT quick links again with the 'merge' option. The 'replace' option restored them all perfectly. Neither option restored my 'People' contact images properly. No big deal...
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I don't know what the deal is, I had them this morning, and even after a restore, I don't have any of my Input methods anymore. They all show but when I select one it doesn't apply. I should have:
Block Recognizer
Compact QWERTY
Full QWERTY
Keyboard (it defaults to this every time)
Letter Recognizer
Phone Keyboard
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I have recently installed the new Landscape Full Manila update but I had these options even after that.
Anyone know how I can reinstall these options?! I hate that default keyboard!
It seems like they are all there still, like I can see options for them all, etc but it just wont change, also its like the small arrow by the keyboard isn't activated and I cant click it, I can change the default keyboard from small to large, but that's it!
ERRRR, what pisses me off is I backup ALL THE TIME, before every app install even, and when I do a restore, it still doesn't work, WTF good are backups then! Or does Spite Backup just suck and I should be using another?
This worrying about everything from one min to the next with this device is the only bad thing about it.
The only suggestion I have for you is to do a hard reset and restore using the most recent back up file until you find a back up file that works for you. I have used sprite back up many times before but this has never happened to me.
Are you using the stock Fuze ROM?
Yeah I'm using the stock ROM but I bypassed the bloatware and installed TF3D that was just released in the software thread, the full one with landscape mode.
I tried several backups and none worked, strange, not sure what caused this but I did find a work-around, its a small app called SIPChange, it was a shot in the dark but it worked for me, for anyone else with this issue, try it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=271008
This actually even fixed the little arrow issue I have that wasn't letting me select the Input method on the fly, I did notice it loads at every reset tho, I don't care as long as it works!
Thanks guys, I hope this thread will help anyone else with the issue.
Hi there
I updated my ROM today from the HTC website (1.90.421.1) and although everything seems to be working well, a very funny issue started. I've searched the forums for something on this but I couldn't find anything. If I open the keyboard the phone correctly switch to landscape mode, but if I close the keyboard the screen doesn't switch back to portrait mode - it stays in landscape mode (doesn't matter if I am in an application or only on TouchFLO). If I switch the screen off and on it correctly switches back to portrait mode. I've calibrated by G-sensor, and I have uninstalled all programs to see if this might solve the issue (it didn't). I've soft and hard reset but this also didn't fix the problem. Everything else seems to be working 100% - the screen just doesn't switch back to portrait when I close the keyboard.
Any ideas?
I would try another ROM.
I flash my TP just about every day. Not because I Have to!...(well,,, maybe just a little) But mainly just to see and feel all the new roms in here.
I am now using my own WinMo 6.5 I "Double clicked" together using Da_G's 6.5 Microwave Kitchen.
Give'em all a try
Hi everyone.
I managed to pinpoint the problem - it was when I restored my backup (Sprite). It seems as if the backup tried to restore the ROM as well, and that got things a bit tangled up. If I just flash the ROM, everything works great (especially the start-up speed improved a lot). I couldn't figure out how to just restore my contact list from the Sprite backup (I thought wrongly that Sprite would at least make that easy...). I rather typed in my contact list from scratch and installed all my programs again. It only took an hour or so and the performance increase was well worth it. If any of you know how to only restore your contact list from a Sprite backup it would be greatly appreciated if you could share that with me (for future ROM upgrades).
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Hi everyone.
I managed to pinpoint the problem - it was when I restored my backup (Sprite). It seems as if the backup tried to restore the ROM as well, and that got things a bit tangled up. If I just flash the ROM, everything works great (especially the start-up speed improved a lot). I couldn't figure out how to just restore my contact list from the Sprite backup (I thought wrongly that Sprite would at least make that easy...). I rather typed in my contact list from scratch and installed all my programs again. It only took an hour or so and the performance increase was well worth it. If any of you know how to only restore your contact list from a Sprite backup it would be greatly appreciated if you could share that with me (for future ROM upgrades).
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I had a similar problem after restoring a Sprite backup. I had to hard-reset and not use the backup. For future ROM upgrades I would say that if your only requirement is to restore contacts then a much simpler solution is just to sync with outlook before changing ROM and then sync again later...
Yep. Me too. Tried the "Level 1" restore when I flashed the new ROM.
I just had this same problem, when trying to restore a warranty exchange phone using Sprite. I'd rather not reinstall and reconfigure everything, but I guess i could. Does anyone know what part of the OS is responsible for the rotation after keyboard is closed? I'll just leave that out of the restore if I can figure out what it is.
Has anyone looked further into this issue? I too had to get a replacement Fuze and used Sprite to backup my data; not just contacts, but all the registry hacks and also installed software. It would be a real pain (more so than the landscape rotation issue) to reinstall and re-customize it all again. I'm not sure what cabs and reg edits I applied. So, it there is a simpler registry edit I can do to correct this, it would be great!
I also noticed that it doesn't always rotate to landscape when the keyboard is pulled out also.
Thanks!
Has anyone tried using SKTools to make a full system backup?? The size of the full backup should be somewhere around 30Mb+.
Anyway it takes quite a while to make a full backup of your whole system, and the weird thing is when i try to restore the full backup, it took significantly LESS time, it was really fast, so i was wondering if it actually restores everything because it was fast and that seems abnormal to me......the phone did restart twice but still, it was a quick restoration, so i'm not sure if it's normal.....
I've never tried this before so i don't know if my SKTools is having problems or not.....but a 30mb restoration shouldn't take less than 3 minutes to restore, it should take longer.
Plus, some of the programs aren't registered, if it's a full system backup it should restore their registrations right??
And lastly, the full backup is in the format of .asb.exe, and the file name is usually the date of when you made the backup, so e.g. 27012010.asb.exe
Well, when i click the file, it doesn't run, it has the same icon as the SKTools Backup option, so it should start with SKTools, afterall that's the app that made the backup, but it doesn't run. I had to launch SKTools and choose SKTools Backup, and then restore the backup. Is this suppose to happen??
Well, you should expect the restore to be a lot faster than the backup because all of the files are being written to main memory (hint: do a benchmark and compare main memory vs. storage card memory write speeds-it should be 10X or more faster).
Sometimes it's a little buggy; I did a few restores recently, and clicking on the .exe didn't open up sk tools-not sure why. Also, whenever I go to the backup tool and check boxes for things I want restored, and then select 'restore marked', it doesn't work. It will just sort flash into the wait-screen for a few seconds, then nothing gets restored. The only way the restores work for me is if I do a long press on the individual backup files in the backup tool and then select 'restore' individually.
It should be obvious if the restore worked or not, though. I mean, did it, lol? Was everything restored? Three minutes or so is plenty of time to restore your stuff, I would think. If it ran through the two soft resets, then I would say you are good to go. Only do the restores after a hard reset, and you can also skip customization to speed things up (do a soft reset immediately after the screen-alignment step, when the '3 seconds to customization' pop-up appears). All of the customization stuff gets stored in the backup file, so there's no point in going through it twice.
Sometimes it's a little buggy; I did a few restores recently, and clicking on the .exe didn't open up sk tools-not sure why. Also, whenever I go to the backup tool and check boxes for things I want restored, and then select 'restore marked', it doesn't work. It will just sort flash into the wait-screen for a few seconds, then nothing gets restored. The only way the restores work for me is if I do a long press on the individual backup files in the backup tool and then select 'restore' individually.
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ya that's what i do as well and i'm having the same problem as you do. At least now i'm sure it's not just my SKtools having this problem....
and yup i use SKtools to restore everything after a hard reset, most of the stuff seems to be restored fine, like my contacts and favourite people contacts are all setup, all the tabs i rearranged on touchflo3d are correct, mostly everything is but some registration for certain apps aren't. Ah well i guess i'll just take it that it restored properly, i can do the registration myself.....
thanks for ur reply btw, appreciate it
Hi everyone,
a couple of weeks ago I had to send my One S in for repair, as the soft keys (back/home/recent apps) were absolutely unresponsive (slightly off topic, but: this happened after I used the phone as a car GPS on a 13h road trip. Could this have caused it or was that just coincidence?).
Once I got it back, I re-rooted it and restored everything (system apps and data included) from a backup made shortly before I sent it in (using Titanium Backup). That, however, made my phone lose all push message capabilities, so I emptied the user and system app cache and deleted all user and system app data, which brought push capabilities back to life again. Yet, ever since then, the quick start icons (phone/sms/e-mail/camera) aren't showing up on my lock screen anymore and when I try changing background images in HTC's Personalization app, there are no images to chose from.
I'd like to try fixing this by restoring individual app data in Titanium Backup, but I wouldn't know which apps would be of interest here. Could anyone help me out with this?
Cheers,
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Let me tell you a story (you can skip if you want to):
Once upon a time I ****ed up the back layer of the touch screen during repair and desperately tried to use my phone with my PC, found some tools online that let me simulate my phone's screen via ADB. Didn't got that working, ADB was unable to recognize my phone. Ok. Then i taped together the touchscreen (one of the absurdest things i ever did), reconnected it to the phone and guess what. It worked. I booted into recovery mode first and it worked flawlessly. No issues whatsoever. "Wonderful" i thought to myself, booting into system mode eagerly. The boot animation went by without any crashes, graphical issues or anything one could think off, and i even was able to enter my pin. When i did that i was full of enthuisasm. But that didn't last long. The SystemUI began to crash constantly, the lockscreen hasn't even finished building and it crashed again. I was absolutely unable to use the device and utterly devasted. Then i absolutely knew: i. ****ed. up.
But that didn't keep my from trying things out and eventually i was able to get past the lockscreen (without a SIM card so no PIN required) without any crashes and back up at least Whatsapp and a few other apps. But then i made the mistake of turning the screen off which set me back to square one: constant SystemUI crashes. I tried again and again and again and finally, after hours of work i got in a second time. This time, i thought to myself, i gonna make things differently. I backed up everything with Titanium, thought of myself to be safe. Which i technically was, i got backups of everything now. Then i decided to re-flash the rom without a factory reset which didn't do anything. Luckily there is an unofficial build of the ROM i'm using (Resurrection Remix) and i clean flashed it. It worked. Flawlessly. I was thrilled. The phone i was ready to toss into the trash finally worked again. I set everything up, thought myself to be safe but boy was i wrong. Google made regular (i think daily) backups of my apps and contacts and all so i wanted to restore that first. But it required a Pattern which i don't have because i always had a 5x5 pattern and it gave me a 3x3 pattern. I didn't know what to do with it!
I continued setting up my phone after failing to restore that backup and then instantly continued to restore the backup i made with Titanium, It installed all the missing apps, apparently restored the data. Nice. But there are a few apps that don't like that restored data so they just didn't use it and started from scratch again (like SwiftKey). Also, some of my contacts are missing and i'm lowkey too lazy to like the existing ones to Whatsapp again.
Tl;dr: ****ed up phone, got it working again, some apps didn't accept the Titanium backup and now i want to restore the Google backup which requires a 3x3 pattern which i don't have because i always used a 5x5 pattern.
Well, the question is simply: Is there a way to unlock the Google Drive backup without that pattern or do i need to try my luck again accessing the old Data (made a TWRP backup before flashing the new ROM)? If i do need to try again, how do i disable the lock on my backups? Do i only need to change my pattern to a 3x3 one?