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[Q] New Rom TB has no backup. plz help.

I think I have done it. Played around 1 too many times. Ive been all over/up for the past few hours. I lashed to Phoenix 4.5 after having 4.0. I have Titanium Backup. Did the steps including Odin to stock, master reset. Rom installed, went to TB and selected batch restore apps plus data. It was a long day at work, and 730am here now. I cannot restore any apps I had previous. Its only showing me what I have on now... all not backed up. Is there any way to get my old apps back? I have tried looking around and honestly feel like Ive done it this time. Can I go back to another batch of my previous apps? TB worked for me before prior to flashing Phoenix 4.0, installing and recovering apps and data. I have restarted phone also. And I do believe I saw my old apps and clicked restore in batch and they were all gone, new ones being shown, the generic ones preloaded with this rom. Help?

ChiMedic said:
I think I have done it. Played around 1 too many times. Ive been all over/up for the past few hours. I lashed to Phoenix 4.5 after having 4.0. I have Titanium Backup. Did the steps including Odin to stock, master reset. Rom installed, went to TB and selected batch restore apps plus data. It was a long day at work, and 730am here now. I cannot restore any apps I had previous. Its only showing me what I have on now... all not backed up. Is there any way to get my old apps back? I have tried looking around and honestly feel like Ive done it this time. Can I go back to another batch of my previous apps? TB worked for me before prior to flashing Phoenix 4.0, installing and recovering apps and data. I have restarted phone also. And I do believe I saw my old apps and clicked restore in batch and they were all gone, new ones being shown, the generic ones preloaded with this rom. Help?
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Dude, did you move the folder from the SD to your laptop before Master Clear??

Gotta say I did not. That's a bummer to say the absolute least.Had a ton of stuff. Well, thanks for reply. It worked before, but didn't do master clear that time. My rom days are over. Don't have time. Thanks again.

Lost contacts, messages,call logs after installing Froyo 2.2[X10 Mini]

So I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and wanted to update it to Android 2.2 . I searched how to install xRecovery and succesfully installed Android Froyo 2.2 . I followed every instruction for the install but what I think destroyed me was Factory Reset on the xRecovery menu. After I selected it to back up my Android 2.1 it did succesfully so, I then pressed wiped all data BUT I had not backed up anything. Neither contacts nor messages nor calls. So after seeing on my succesfull that I didn't have those things I decided to restore my previous backup, thinking that all my data will return. Here it gets even worse! I selected Restore in the recovery menu and it restarted. But the phone was stuck at the SE logo and no matter if I restarted the phone, it would go there again. So I decided to get the Flashtool and restore my phone and now it has restored Android 2.1 and ALL the apps,notes,calendar events,contacts,messages,call logs are gone. And the worst is I did not even back up anything of these! I want them back so bad! Also xRecovery got uninstalled. Is there anything I can do or should I deal with the fact that I was an idiot and did all these crap?Please if you know a solution that can bring my data back post it now!
Thanks!

Please don't hesitate posting if you know anything about the subject.

I'm pretty sure you're screwed there mate, but for future reference, you should use Titanium Backup. It backs up all your apps, settings, contact information etc. As for messages and your call log, you can use an app called SMS backup, which will backup your call log and your SMS/MMS messages to your gmail account.

If you did a backup from xrecovery, you can restore everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) from your old 2.1 ROM incl. apps and calander and messages and whatever. You just need to reinstall xrecovery (I trust you know how as you've done it before) and go to the backup/restore menu and press restore and your previous backup should appear.
Try restoring it when you have the stock 2.1 ROM because I think sometimes going down doesn't work. Similar thing happened to me when I tried to restore my 2.1 ROM from 2.3 on my X10.

Panzerfaust101 said:
If you did a backup from xrecovery, you can restore everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) from your old 2.1 ROM incl. apps and calander and messages and whatever. You just need to reinstall xrecovery (I trust you know how as you've done it before) and go to the backup/restore menu and press restore and your previous backup should appear.
Try restoring it when you have the stock 2.1 ROM because I think sometimes going down doesn't work. Similar thing happened to me when I tried to restore my 2.1 ROM from 2.3 on my X10.
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Thanks for your answer mate Well as I said I reinstalled xRecovery after flashing via PC to my old Android 2.1 which I am in now but instead of making a full restore, I selected Advanced Restore and restored the data. As a result,not only did nothing restore to my phone but it got the default settings again,you know when you open it for the first time. So should I risk a full restore or the same thing will happen?

vipergio said:
Thanks for your answer mate Well as I said I reinstalled xRecovery after flashing via PC to my old Android 2.1 which I am in now but instead of making a full restore, I selected Advanced Restore and restored the data. As a result,not only did nothing restore to my phone but it got the default settings again,you know when you open it for the first time. So should I risk a full restore or the same thing will happen?
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Well, seeing that you know how to restore stock firmware w/ Flashtool, I see no harm in giving it a go. You can always go back if it goes wrong again

Panzerfaust101 said:
Well, seeing that you know how to restore stock firmware w/ Flashtool, I see no harm in giving it a go. You can always go back if it goes wrong again
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Okay I will try it now and I will tell you if it goes perfectly.
EDIT : Oh man it stuck again on the SE logo. Now I am reflashing it and after that xRecovery will be uninstalled. What the hell will I do now to get my data back?

vipergio said:
Okay I will try it now and I will tell you if it goes perfectly.
EDIT : Oh man it stuck again on the SE logo. Now I am reflashing it and after that xRecovery will be uninstalled. What the hell will I do now to get my data back?
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Oh dear. I'm not sure what else you can do because if that was the only backup you made, I don't think much can be done. Maybe someone else might be able to tell you how to reflash your data by unzipping the backup file or something, but I can't really do much unfortunately. Sorry about that
Take this as a lesson. Always (and I do mean ALWAYS) backup data and things when you have to flash a new ROM or anything. Titanium backup is perfect for apps (and free too) and for data, I recommend MyBackup Pro. I've got the paid version, but I think the free version can backup your messages and contacts and all that data. Also, I think Android has the option to backup your contacts as well and bear in mind that MyBackup Pro isn't 100% perfect (e.g. it doesn't work properly if you have no gmail account attached, as I found out when I tried flashing a new ROM to a friend's phone) and that you can never have too many backups (although you do tend to fill the SD card with backups if you do too many ). Another user may be able to help you with retrieving data if you're lucky, but otherwise, you might have to move on as life must keep going on

Panzerfaust101 said:
Oh dear. I'm not sure what else you can do because if that was the only backup you made, I don't think much can be done. Maybe someone else might be able to tell you how to reflash your data by unzipping the backup file or something, but I can't really do much unfortunately. Sorry about that
Take this as a lesson. Always (and I do mean ALWAYS) backup data and things when you have to flash a new ROM or anything. Titanium backup is perfect for apps (and free too) and for data, I recommend MyBackup Pro. I've got the paid version, but I think the free version can backup your messages and contacts and all that data. Also, I think Android has the option to backup your contacts as well and bear in mind that MyBackup Pro isn't 100% perfect (e.g. it doesn't work properly if you have no gmail account attached, as I found out when I tried flashing a new ROM to a friend's phone) and that you can never have too many backups (although you do tend to fill the SD card with backups if you do too many ). Another user may be able to help you with retrieving data if you're lucky, but otherwise, you might have to move on as life must keep going on
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Nevermind my friend. You helped me enough and thank you for this From now on, I will make sure I backup my files twice. As far as what will I do now, I will try to ask help to unzip my backup so I can get all my data again. Thank you very much,again. If anyone can help me reflash my data that would be grateful.

Question about 'Android ID'

So I was just about to backup my apps and data before flashing a rom, and Titanium Backup gave me the warning that my device's 'Android ID' has been changed and gave me the options to restore the old one/ask later/keep the current one.
I've never had this happen before. Does anyone know the best way to proceed, or if it's a big deal or not?

allprogrammed said:
So I was just about to backup my apps and data before flashing a rom, and Titanium Backup gave me the warning that my device's 'Android ID' has been changed and gave me the options to restore the old one/ask later/keep the current one.
I've never had this happen before. Does anyone know the best way to proceed, or if it's a big deal or not?
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I have only had this happen to me for this phone and allowed Titanium to change it and rebooted and saw nothing of this since. So I wouldn't think that it is a major concern. I never had any issues with my phone afterwards.:good:

Hey thanks for the reply. I ended up reverting to the old id. I had to buy Titanium pro to do it, but it's well worth it to be able to bypass all the permissions during a restore.

[Q] Bootloop After Using Titanium Backup

Hi Guys, my friend recently rooted my RAZR HD via TeamViewer but didn't install a custom ROM or a recovery. Before I did a factory reset to clean things up, I backed up everything to my SD card using Titanium. After finishing the backup, Titanium said I should reboot to finish the restoration. Every since then I've been bootlooped. Do any of you know of a solution to fix this?
Thanks,
Carter

I don't think Titanium asks for a reboot when doing any sort of back up. It will ask for a reboot when doing certain restorations. It doesn't ask you to reboot when restoring user apks but it does on system apk.
If I'm understanding your question right, you backed everything up but then you decided to restore everything. If you never installed a ROM then it is strange for it to boot loop. If hyou did install a ROM then it could have started to boot loop if you restored a system file that isn't compatible with the ROM.
What I would do is start from scratch. Factory reset the phone, re-root, re-install Titanium, and restore only the user apps and your SMS messages if you save them. It's a slight hassle but only about 1 hour worth of your time. By the time you begin trying debug everything to find the culprit you would have lost hours.

CMSchuld said:
Hi Guys, my friend recently rooted my RAZR HD via TeamViewer but didn't install a custom ROM or a recovery. Before I did a factory reset to clean things up, I backed up everything to my SD card using Titanium. After finishing the backup, Titanium said I should reboot to finish the restoration. Every since then I've been bootlooped. Do any of you know of a solution to fix this?
Thanks,
Carter
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I don't know if it will work in this situation but you might try wiping cache/dalvik cache in the recovery. That way you aren't starting from scratch. If this doesn't work, try the above suggestion instead.

Sorry for the late response. Did another factory reset and didn't use Titanium this time. Anyone know how to get my texts back though?

CMSchuld said:
Sorry for the late response. Did another factory reset and didn't use Titanium this time. Anyone know how to get my texts back though?
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If you saved everything in titanium backup... then you have a backup of your messages. Open Titanium, click the batch tab, scroll to the restore section, and then restore and only restore the message thing. It should be a green color and on the right it should say xml. It will restore all your texts and mms. Just don't get confused and restore the messenger app.
If you have a lot, then be patient and make a sandwich, it's a little slow.

[Q] Restore backup option in Setup

I did some searching, but I cannot find an answer. After installing a new ROM, during the phone setup there is an option to restore a backup of the phone. I am trying to figure out what backup this is. I have the backups set up in options and I have tried the htc backup, but during setup, the newest option is about 30 days old. I have backed up my phone much sooner than that. Just wondered what the backup is that setup is referring to.

peteangi said:
I did some searching, but I cannot find an answer. After installing a new ROM, during the phone setup there is an option to restore a backup of the phone. I am trying to figure out what backup this is. I have the backups set up in options and I have tried the htc backup, but during setup, the newest option is about 30 days old. I have backed up my phone much sooner than that. Just wondered what the backup is that setup is referring to.
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If you are using a custom recovery then that restore backup is referring to Nandroid backup.
Which is done through the recovery itself