I do a fair amount of flashing/restoring ROMs on my Aria... One thing I've noticed is whenever I restore a ROM, my contact list's custom ringtones, send-to-voicemail settings, etc., get reset.
Anyone know the reason? Or have a way to keep them backed up?
Im a little confused. So you back up your phone, for example in ROM Manager, then flash a new ROM and run your backup and none of those things are there, or just the contacts and other things you said above?
Where are your contacts saved to? SIM, Phone, Google, etc?
Contacts are all on an Exchange server. I do not sync to Gmail at all.
The contacts are all there, but the custom ringtones set for different contacts nor the "send to voicemail" state get restored.
Seems to happen on Liberated as well as CM...
I was having the same problem switching roms I would lose everything but that's because I did a complete wipe and factory reset. I learned that switching between similar roms like cm6.1 and cm6.2 u don't have to do the factory reset just wipe cache and all my stuff was still there. I've done a restore through rom manager wiped cache only and samething still had my stuff. Hope this helps
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Did you try backup CONTACTS with titanium backup?
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hey guys,
I want to install a rom on my HTC Desire Z. When i try to flash it, the program asks me to wipe cache and data. What does this mean and do? Does it remove EVERYTHING or just what's on my phone and not on the SD card? Also, will it remove my messages, whatsapp conversations and contacts?
Thanks,
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Wiping the cache and restore (restore to factory settings) will indeed delete everything on your phone, including sms, contacts etc. If you have synchronized your contacts via your google account, you can easily restore this data, after wiping and flashing a new rom. Before wiping you can also install and use a "sms backup to google account" tool.
It is necessary to wipe everything, before flashing a new rom. Otherwise the new rom will not work correctly.
Yes thats remove all settings and stored by user information on phone.
But not all is lost
Free app "sms backup & restore" will simple back up whole message tree on SD card.
What about contacts - u can export them to file, gmail acc or use any external program to save them.
I currently have a Nexus S that I bought from a previous buyer who is running cyanogen mod 7 on it. If I want to restore this phone to factory settings( basically just a wipe of my data) how do I do this. I tried just doing it through the privacy menu in settings but that didn't work.
bholloway said:
I currently have a Nexus S that I bought from a previous buyer who is running cyanogen mod 7 on it. If I want to restore this phone to factory settings( basically just a wipe of my data) how do I do this. I tried just doing it through the privacy menu in settings but that didn't work.
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You want to get rid of all of the data on the phone? Or do you want to get it back to a stock rom? Or both?
If you want to get it back to stock, go here and find the proper rom for your phone and flash it through clockwork recovery mod. If you want to wipe the sd card there is an option to do that in CWM.
No Cyanogen is fine, I just want all my data off it so that someone else can use the phone. So basically I want all my apps, email accounts, calenders etc gone.
bholloway said:
No Cyanogen is fine, I just want all my data off it so that someone else can use the phone. So basically I want all my apps, email accounts, calenders etc gone. Would deleting the data from the sd card do anything? I though it was all saved to the phones internal memory.
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Ok, if you go into CWM you can wipe data and cache. That'll get rid of all of the apps/info. You can also format the 'sdcard' there as well which will wipe all the personal info apps may have saved to the sdcard as well.
Never mind, I got it. Thanks for your help.
Still having wifi issues with ALexanders Miui for X10, and wanting to know any advice on the best way to save/restore apps so that I dont have to start fresh on every minor rom update... Thanks!
Titanium Backup is really good for that, backups app data and the apk to your SD for when you need 2 restore apps.
havent heard of that one,.. i think i'll look into it.. sorry, im not the OP but i was interested in it aswell.
Titanium Backup
Thanks, titanium backup looks the goods.
Can you usually restore apps okay when going to different roms?
Apps yes, it just installs the apk. Data, depending on which data and ROM yes. I've backuped everything when using ARHD and never had a problem restoring everything when I wipe and upgrade it. When I put on MIUI I didn't let it restore all the data, just a few things to get call logs, save games n stuff.
I have some general questions about how best to backup data across Sense and non-Sense based ROMS.
I'm using MIUI now and it took some doing to get my contacts up to where it was because it doesn't use Sense contacts. Do you guys just stick to Gmail contacts? I also tried copying all my contacts to my gmail account but then it wouldn't sync with Gmail because Sense apparently stores XML somewhere in the contact data which was causing errors during the sync process.
Secondly, is it possible for me to make a full backup so if anything doesn't work I can reboot into recovery and restore? I'm not sure if this is related but what is a nandroid backup?
I would copy all contacts to the SIM card, then just import them after a rom installation.
And yes, you can make a backup in TWRP recovery and then just restore it later if you want.
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I would copy all contacts to the SIM card, then just import them after a rom installation.
And yes, you can make a backup in TWRP recovery and then just restore it later if you want.
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Doesn't the SIM have a limit and can it store all the different fields and so on?
Hello,
I am trying to figure out a way to restore a backup I have under my Google Drive "Backups" section. Specifically, it's an SMS backup I took and forgot to use the restore option during the initial setup of my phone. I do not want to factory reset my phone as I've done a lot of modifications to it such as flashing, rooting, etc. I tried an app called SMS Backup and Restore but that didn't work as I'm assuming it's only for new backups you take using their app.
If you know of a way I can retrieve the SMS messages from my Google Drive backup without having to do a factory reset, that would be great.
Thanks!