Hello...
I'm having a couple issues with my EVO. I'm rooted but haven't flashed ANY custom ROMS. The only thing I done really root-wise is to flash a couple font packs and to backup everything with Titanium Pro.
Anyway, I have been having a problem where all the apps installed on my SD card will NOT launch. They don't even show up in the app drawer!! Occasionally, once every 5-10 reboots of the phone, the apps WILL show up but more often than not (and lately EVERY TIME I reboot) I can only access the apps installed on the internal phone memory.
It has been suggested to me to free up some space on my card and with the internal memory of my phone. I have an 8GB SD card that was down to 250MB of space. That is now been cleared out so that 1.2GB is free.
Now, HERE IS MY PROBLEM going forward...
I've been trying to clear out some apps installed on the phone because I only had about 42MB of memory left and received a warning on the phone that space was getting low. I was able to uninstall a few apps to free up space to 61MB, HOWEVER, I CANNOT SEEM TO UNINSTALL APPS ANYMORE!! No matter what method I try...using an app like "Easy Uninstaller" or going through the Manage Applications option on the phone, it is NOT working.
If I use Easy Uninstaller or the Manage Applications route, I see the progress bar of the supposed uninstall but it just HANGS...never finishes.
In addition, ODDLY, as I look at my phone next to me as I type, all the information in the "Manage Applications" mode is stuck on "computing..." If I click on an app name to bring me to the Force Stop/Uninstall/Clear Data/Move to SD card, etc screen, there is NO information about the app!! The Storage information Total, Application and Data are "stuck" on "Computing..." as is the "Cache" information.
I THOUGHT my problem was with the card or reading the card. All the data is INTACT in the card. I can access anything with a file explorer. I can even view gallery pictures that I have saved in folders I have created ON THE CARD. I just can't get to or launch the apps installed the card and NOW it appears that the information associated with apps installed ON THE PHONE is now banged up.
Has anyone seen this problem with uninstalling apps?? Seeing the "Computing..." information just hang and not go anywhere?? Any thoughts on a fix short of doing a hard reset of the phone and/or Nandroid restore?? I'm not averse to a Nandroid restore, however, I am NOT sure if my underlying problem causing these issues is WITHIN MY BACKUP FILES
THANKS!!
I would do a hard reset regardless. It will return your ROM to a pristine state in less time than it took to write that post and you'll soon find out if it fixed your problems.
If it doesn't i would back up files from SD, format and try again.
DirkGently1 said:
I would do a hard reset regardless. It will return your ROM to a pristine state in less time than it took to write that post and you'll soon find out if it fixed your problems.
If it doesn't i would back up files from SD, format and try again.
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I sure am glad you decided to edit your post to include a bit more helpful information rather than your original terse and not-so-warm statement which read:
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I would do a hard reset regardless. It will return your ROM to a pristine state in less time than it took to write that post
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I apologize if I wasn't clear in the fact that I knew I could easily and simply do a hard reset to, likely, eliminate my problems. In fact, I wrote:
Scudderb said:
Any thoughts on a fix short of doing a hard reset of the phone and/or Nandroid restore?? I'm not averse to a Nandroid restore, however, I am NOT sure if my underlying problem causing these issues is WITHIN MY BACKUP FILES
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See??
My GOAL with this post was to try to figure out WHY this was happening. My fear was, if I backed up, reformatted and tried again, that I might simply be transferring the problem BACK to my clean settings. I was HOPING with this post, which took "longer than a hard reset to type," that the information I provided might shed some light on what was causing the problems and that SOMEONE might suggest how to avoid in the future.
Yeah, so I wasn't quite looking for the obvious "start from scratch" answer...
DirkGently1 said:
I would do a hard reset regardless. It will return your ROM to a pristine state in less time than it took to write that post and you'll soon find out if it fixed your problems.
If it doesn't i would back up files from SD, format and try again.
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Read it again. I just told you what i would do. If you choose to do something different it's up to you.
We learn by doing!
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Read it again. I just told you what i would do. If you choose to do something different it's up to you.
We learn by doing!
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Big, BIG thanks for stating the OBVIOUS. By the way, way BEFORE you even replied, I flashed a recovery that put my system back to where I was before the problem. That option was neither difficult nor what I was seeking in posting my questions.
We learn NOTHING by "doing" what you suggested. We learn NOTHING by hitting "factory reset" on the phone or even doing what I did with flashing a recovery. One WOULD LEARN if told some of the reasons this might have occurred and ways to avoid in the future. Feel free to follow this thread so that you can learn as well.
Actually, you, yourself might need your own "hard reset"...or change your username to "Dirk-Not-So-Gently." I've never quite encountered such attitude with a suggestion so obvious and uninformative.
Ok...moving forward beyond the obvious, brain-dead "factory restore"/flash recovery option that I have already done. I was hoping someone might shed some light on this situation so that I and others might LEARN the reasons this occurred and avoid it in the future??
Thanks...
BTW..."Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result". You can keep your insanity and reset your phone every time without figuring out the the cause. Forgive me though, I'm gonna try and LEARN why this happened...
Have you fixed it yet? Let us know when you've done a hard reset of the phone and/or Nandroid restore.
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Have you fixed it yet? Let us know when you've done a hard reset of the phone and/or Nandroid restore.
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WOW...do we even READ before we post??
Scudderb said:
Big, BIG thanks for stating the OBVIOUS. By the way, way BEFORE you even replied, I flashed a recovery that put my system back to where I was before the problem. That option was neither difficult nor what I was seeking in posting my questions.
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I added a little emphasis...you must have overlooked or not read thoroughly. Shocker. I'm WAAAAAY beyond the need to reset/restore...did so even before your first reply.
It's OK...honestly...don't mean to waste your time and have you struggle to help me here. Let's just let someone else read this to see if they might have an idea about the CAUSES of the problems. You, yourself are on some sort of endless loop suggesting to reset reset reset restore without giving ANY assistance as to the CAUSE of the problem. It's OK...you can rest...no need to keep replying...nighty, night...
Download an uninstaller from the android market, if not get root explorer(check r/w) and go to /data/app and uninstall the desired app.
It looks like you need to do a master reset using Odin3, I am sure that will fix the problem if nothing else you have done has fixed it......
Eth3n said:
Download an uninstaller from the android market, if not get root explorer(check r/w) and go to /data/app and uninstall the desired app.
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Interestingly, ALL methods of uninstalling apps were not working..."Uninstaller," "Easy Uninstaller" and the typical Manage Applications options were what I tried. I didn't try to check r/w and also didn't try to uninstall through Titanium Pro but wound up flashing a nand recovery that brought me back a few days to BEFORE when my problem started. So I'm OK now.
What I'm TRYING to do, however, is to figure out WHY this was happening so that it doesn't happen again. Internal memory too low (got down to 9-10%)?? Internal memory corruption?? Cache issues?? Any ideas??
Misterjunky said:
It looks like you need to do a master reset using Odin3, I am sure that will fix the problem if nothing else you have done has fixed it......
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If you were suggesting a un-root and/or getting me back to stock, fortunately, I didn't have to do that!
As I mentioned above, I'm now trying to see if someone might know WHY this happened so that I can avoid it in the future. Thanks...
Scudderb said:
....I'm now trying to see if someone might know WHY this happened so that I can avoid it in the future. Thanks...
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User error. Try a Factory Reset.
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Have you fixed it yet? Let us know when you've done a hard reset of the phone and/or Nandroid restore.
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Just wanted to let anyone else having the problem that I was posting about that I was able to fix my problem!!
Whoever suggested the information above REALLY didn't know what he was talking about. The suggestion was QUITE unnecessary...and pretty OBVIOUS if you think about it?? I'm surprised the suggestion wasn't to go to the store and get a new phone. I'm sure happy I did some more research!!
Well, the problem resides in what was likely some corruptions in the .android_secure directory. I simply uninstalled the apps installed on the card, deleted the contents of the .android_secure directory and restored the apps and data using Titanium Backup! That's it!! Even if a Nandroid restore was done it would not have changed the corruption that would have remained in the directory.
So, hope what I asked, what I tried and what worked helps someone!!
Have you thought about going to the store and buying a new phone? I don't know if there's a way to recover from such a ruthless error.
DreamPCs said:
Have you thought about going to the store and buying a new phone? I don't know if there's a way to recover from such a ruthless error.
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Based on your suggestion I went ahead and bought TWO new phones...so I can call one phone to see if the other is working.
Wow, with a recommendation like yours, whoever said there weren't any geniuses on here...and funny ones too...were just proven wrong.
I'll let you know how my third phone turns out when I buy it...
DreamPCs said:
Have you thought about going to the store and buying a new phone? I don't know if there's a way to recover from such a ruthless error.
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Hey, I tried to donate to you for this great information but the link doesn't work...oh well, darn!!
Have you fixed it yet?
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If I restore all the settings labeled green I can't get a location fix with the Genie widget and I can't move apps to the SD card.
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If I restore all the settings labeled green I can't get a location fix with the Genie widget and I can't move apps to the SD card.
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What is it exactly that you want to restore??? Personally, I wouldn't (and didnt) restore ANYTHING from titanium. It takes like what 5 minutes to go through the settings menu and set stuff back up the way you had it?
Apps have to be coded to allow them to be moved to sdcard. It's up to the developers to add that option in. It's not because you are restoring stuff from titanium, but because you are trying to move something that doesn't have the ability to be moved yet.
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What is it exactly that you want to restore??? Personally, I wouldn't (and didnt) restore ANYTHING from titanium. It takes like what 5 minutes to go through the settings menu and set stuff back up the way you had it?
Apps have to be coded to allow them to be moved to sdcard. It's up to the developers to add that option in. It's not because you are restoring stuff from titanium, but because you are trying to move something that doesn't have the ability to be moved yet.
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You can force your phone to allow apps2sd with pm setInstallLocation=2
In anycase your response was not helpful but dismissive. My reasons to backup and restore are valid enough for me to ask and if you can't answer go find another post to respond to.
In any case I have by trial and error found that a number of settings restore just fine and I have put mot of my applications on the sdcard.
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You can force your phone to allow apps2sd with pm setInstallLocation=2
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Yes, I know all about this. Anything with a widget or service will not work, but will still goto SD (bad). And other apps may not work properly. YMMV, but personally I set that option on, moved a couple of big apps, tested them, then immediately turned it back off (pm setInstallLocation=0). I'm on my third wipe and things are running better then ever since doing it this way. I had apps that do not include a widget or service, were not protected, that should have run fine from there and did not.
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In anycase your response was not helpful but dismissive. My reasons to backup and restore are valid enough for me to ask and if you can't answer go find another post to respond to.
In any case I have by trial and error found that a number of settings restore just fine and I have put mot of my applications on the sdcard.
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I wasn't being "dismissive" by any means... I was simply curious as to what it was you wanted to restore as it helps to answer "what you can safely restore" if people know what it is that you want. My point about it taking 5 minutes was simply trying to point out you may actually save your self some time and frustration by doing it manually.
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I wasn't being "dismissive" by any means... I was simply curious as to what it was you wanted to restore as it helps to answer "what you can safely restore" if people know what it is that you want. My point about it taking 5 minutes was simply trying to point out you may actually save your self some time and frustration by doing it manually.
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Maybe you should read hat I wrote before just saying not to even try backing things up. Wow I wanted to keep my settings, text messages and call history and be able to toss my applications on the SD and get a location fix. Some setting carried over stops those from working and wanting to know what it is or why it is is a whole lot more intelligent than just throwing my hands up and saying "Well, I paid for an application I guess I shouldn't use it!"
This probably doesn't help but I personally don't like everything about titanium. It seems to restore too much. I still use it for apps but It's hard to identify what you are restoring when it comes to "data". mybackuppro does a better job of choosing what to back up and restored. very clear and concise, everything is labeled, (ie: sms, call log, mms, playlists, home screen icons etc etc). I know I know, its not help with titanium but maybe it'll help.
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Maybe you should read hat I wrote before just saying not to even try backing things up. Wow I wanted to keep my settings, text messages and call history and be able to toss my applications on the SD and get a location fix. Some setting carried over stops those from working and wanting to know what it is or why it is is a whole lot more intelligent than just throwing my hands up and saying "Well, I paid for an application I guess I shouldn't use it!"
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Okay pointless argument. Once again, I wasn't saying "dont even try!" I said "PERSONALLY, I didn't restore anything". That's because after my first install I did restore several things and it caused issues. I was giving you my personal advice on the matter. Sorry it didn't answer the question the way you wanted, but it wasn't by any means trying to put you or what you wanted to do down.
I also paid for titanium backup and use it and love it all the time. I think we are asking a bit much of it to backup stuff from a (assuming here) custom rom, then importing them onto a stock rom and have absolutely no issues.
Maybe I could have worded my initial response better, but it helps people to answer your questions if we know what you wanted to restore specifically rather then trying to answer what can and cannot be restored. Had you said how can I safely restore my texts, and call logs someone may have piped in and said "I restored X in titantium backup and had no issues!"
Again, wasn't flaming, telling you to give up, or anything. Only offering my personal experiences with this.
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If I restore all the settings labeled green I can't get a location fix with the Genie widget and I can't move apps to the SD card.
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This probably doesn't help but I personally don't like everything about titanium. It seems to restore too much. I still use it for apps but It's hard to identify what you are restoring when it comes to "data". mybackuppro does a better job of choosing what to back up and restored. very clear and concise, everything is labeled, (ie: sms, call log, mms, playlists, home screen icons etc etc). I know I know, its not help with titanium but maybe it'll help.
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I agree with polo79. While Titanium is fantastic at restoring apps and their data, It is not very concise on what data is restored. IMO, the most useful feature Titanium offers is it's ability to replace the Market links to the restored apps. While what you want to do probably is possible using Titanium, MyBackup Pro makes it much more clear cut on what you're restoring.
As far as restoring apps go (and I have many of those), after much trial and error, what I did was restore as much as I could using InstallLocation 0 until I ran out of room. Then I set it to 2 and went through and moved what I thought safe to sd. Then went back and installed more using Titanium using 0 again...well, you get the procedure.
And enough bickering. Gimpsta was only trying to help, but maybe a "no reply" here would have been best.
Well I went through and my results are I can restore all applications and the following datasets without issue to location or installing to sd:
[ACCOUNTS] Account and Sync Settings 2.2 - check.
Application widgets - blanks out desktop but can get location lock.
[Bookmarks] Browser 2.2 - check
[Calendar] Calendar Storage 2.2 - check
[USER DICT] com.amdroid.providers.userdictionary 2.2 - check
[CONTACTS/CALLS] Contacts Storge 2.2 - Check
[SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage 2.2 - check
I didn't try the rest because everything was working and I didn't need anything weird in the rest.
Hi, I'm testing froyo roms now, currently very pleased with performance
Tintanium backup is really a great app, I ditch all other backup programs after installing it.
I was able to restore to froyo, APNs, contacts, call history, wifi settings, sms.
cheers,
can somebody shed some light why i can't restore contacts from 2.1,
sms restored perfectly, but contacts say restored successful but i can't see them, only call log
tnx
don't know why, but here's how i got around it
can't tell you why, but i miight be able to show a way around it.
I had the same problem a couple of time. what i did is exporting my contacts to a "vcf"-file on sd card. after flashing the new rom i imported all contacts with now probs.
hope it will work for you to.
the tiny drawback is, you have to nandroid-backup your actual setup. restore the previous, export your contacts. restore the actual and import.
good luck
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anyone know what you need to backup when using titanium to back up my contacts ringtones i set for each contact?
I'm about to root my new NS and every guide I see reminds me that the internal storage ("SD card") will be wiped - I'm cool with that. But since I'm unrooted I can't use Titanium yet to back up my apps.
So my question is - once I root, what's the best way to get everything back without manually doing everything all over again?
fchipm said:
I'm about to root my new NS and every guide I see reminds me that the internal storage ("SD card") will be wiped - I'm cool with that. But since I'm unrooted I can't use Titanium yet to back up my apps.
So my question is - once I root, what's the best way to get everything back without manually doing everything all over again?
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I see a lot of people say appbrain lets them easily reinstall all their apps after a wipe. Apps, but not app data.
Not sure how that works, i haven't tried it myself. edit: little google search revealed this on how to do it:
Without root, there's no way you're going to save your data that's on the internal storage space.
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I see a lot of people say appbrain lets them easily reinstall all their apps after a wipe. Apps, but not app data.
Not sure how that works, i haven't tried it myself. edit: little google search revealed this on how to do it:
Without root, there's no way you're going to save your data that's on the internal storage space.
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Yeah I just read some more about it - apparently it's just not at all possible yet, or ever.
Oh well better get to rooting before I have TOO much to lose.
fchipm said:
Yeah I just read some more about it - apparently it's just not at all possible yet, or ever.
Oh well better get to rooting before I have TOO much to lose.
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Yeah, that's why I'm an early rooter on all my phones.
App developer's should be encouraged (or allowed by Google) to put their app data into someplace that the user can back up.
I wonder if the reason app data is put in a root-only read place of the device by default is part of the sand-boxing security.
Best backup before root
The only thing I really had to hunt for was to backup Angry Birds. Thankfully there's an app called Angry Cheaters that is both free and gives you save files for Angry Birds.
I just went through this process yesterday. Google actually saves most/all of your apps and will reinstall when you reenter you gmail address. It also restored my wifi passwords (in addition to obvious things like email/contacts). Just be careful if you have to wipe multiple times while exploring root that you let this process do its thing, it forgot a few apps that way. Thankfully appbrain had moved all of my previous apps to another list.
The only other thing I couldn't back up was some auto mileage data, so I just wrote that into notepad and called it a day.
Is there anything else you are specifically trying to get? I was really only focused on Angry Birds.
Hmmm here is a question/thought
If unlocking your bootloader whipes everything clean, would it be a possibility to run data harvesting apps on the device to get w.e data you lost back?
both on the "sd" and /data/data
I use an app called "rsync backup" ... it can generate a DSS key to install on your server of choice, and tell it to back up /mnt/sdcard/ ... the only thing it won't access on the USB Storage area is a folder called ".android_secure" ... but everything else copies just fine.
I routinely sync my phone with this app to my workstation at the office, and a system at home.
haha.. this is why i unlocked the bootloader/rooted my s right away, i didnt have any data to back up. makes it painless
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haha.. this is why i unlocked the bootloader/rooted my s right away, i didnt have any data to back up. makes it painless
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Kinda wish i did this, but oh well.
Still curious if my idea is even possible..anyone have any input?
That's a terrible title.
Anyways, I had to install Cyanogen from scratch the other day because my upgrade attempt failed. It's been a while since I've started fresh so I figured it was about time anyways. So, as I do in times like these, I have slowly been going through and restoring my apps and settings. There were a few that I did not get to last night, but started working on this morning.
And now I realize that Titanium Backup ran last night and since I it was only set to save one backup, I no longer have backups for the apps that I didn't get to last night! Usually TB doesn't start it's scheduled backups right away, in the past, I have had to go into the program and enable them again. I guess not anymore! So now I have many apps that don't have a good backup since they were not configured prior.
Did I loose anyone? I'm just a little flabbergasted right now and am a little pissed to be honest. One of the apps is a game that I actually spent REAL money on building up and now all progress is lost! I know it's just a game, but it was REAL money!
One more strange thing, I didn't bother restoring most apps last night anyways because usually it's just a log in and stuff is back to normal, so no big deal. But the ones that I did try to restore in TB, it didn't seem to work anyways. I still had to enter login information in for example.
It's all just kinda weird and I'm not sure what to make of this. My old ROM was Cyanogen 10 and the new one is the latest and greatest 11. I wonder if the backups are stored in a different place? But then why would TB appear to have found them and load the data? I don't know. This just doesn't make sense to me.
Any suggestions or ideas out there?
it sounds like you have old nandroids? there is an option in titanium backup that allows you to get app data from nandroid backups.
not sure if i answered your question, and you might already have knowledge of this, but if not it should solve your problem
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it sounds like you have old nandroids? there is an option in titanium backup that allows you to get app data from nandroid backups.
not sure if i answered your question, and you might already have knowledge of this, but if not it should solve your problem
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Ah, thanks, I never noticed that before. However, I apparently made the backup with ROM Manager. Dang it...so close!!!
So, if you have a nandroid can't you just restore that nandroid (and thereby get your data back), then do a titanium backup to capture the data you want, then go through the whole thing again but do it right this time? Wouldn't that work?
Oh yeah, and copy the TiBu data to your SD card or computer as a safeguard too.
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Ah, thanks, I never noticed that before. However, I apparently made the backup with ROM Manager. Dang it...so close!!!
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shouldn't matter... i've been able to pull from both twrp and cwm i'm pretty sure...
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So, if you have a nandroid can't you just restore that nandroid (and thereby get your data back), then do a titanium backup to capture the data you want, then go through the whole thing again but do it right this time? Wouldn't that work?
Oh yeah, and copy the TiBu data to your SD card or computer as a safeguard too.
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Unfortunately no. I get the MD5 checksum mismatch error. It appears that I ran out of space on my SD card and didn't realize it when I made the backup. Hence, it's not a complete backup.
I was able to combine the 5 tar files into one tar last night. However it did freeze up when I tried extracting. I will play with it some more tonight when I get home.
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Has anyone had issues with this backup tool? I have a 6.9 GB .ab file in my backup folder, so I'm 90% sure I did the backup correctly... But I can't get it to restore. I point the tool to the backup, it reads back the complete file extension correctly, I select "backup now" on the phone and let it run till it gets to the "thank you for using this tool, press any key to continue" and it closes itself out. There's nothing on the phone though. I've performed the restore twice, the second time I made sure the file extension was exactly how windows shows it in the event that the tool is case sensitive. Still nothing on the phone.
@tsiah: The script seems to be using the adb backup command. According to this thread (at the bottom) you need to set a desktop backup password:
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NOTE 06/12: There seems to be a bug in which backup and restore operations will fail unless a desktop backup password is set under Developer Options. It will not work with a blank password.
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The post itself is a little bit older, so you might have to search around if this is still the case.
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@tsiah: The script seems to be using the adb backup command. According to this thread (at the bottom) you need to set a desktop backup password:
The post itself is a little bit older, so you might have to search around if this is still the case.
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Great... That would have been nice to know before hand
So now I've wasted all this time trying to get it to work and it probably won't ever work at this point...
tsiah said:
Great... That would have been nice to know before hand
So now I've wasted all this time trying to get it to work and it probably won't ever work at this point...
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When you did the backup, didn't your phone ask you for a password to input?
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When you did the backup, didn't your phone ask you for a password to input?
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It says you can encrypt it with a password but that it's optional.
I've been messing around with this a little bit more. I set a password in developer options and attempted the restoration again. It runs for about 30 minutes, I get the toast "restore ended" (something to that effect) and nothing has changed.
Currently attempting to restore in safe mode. No idea if it'll take or not.
I lost a lot of photos that were attached to an app (you have to manually select the ones you want to save and save them to your library...wtf? good idea dev!) my wife is quite upset that the photos are gone and I'm about at my wits end trying to get this restoration to work.
What I can't understand is why the file is 6.9 GB, but there's no restoration taking place. Everyone that reported issues with the password not being set was getting a 0kb or maybe a few hundred mb as their file they pulled in the backup. I really don't think the backup failed...but why is the restore failing???
Attempting the restoration in safe mode made no difference.
Pretty bummed out.
I've been twisting the ear of someone over at VSCO cam. No idea if it will make a difference in future versions of the application but IMO they should inform you when you START using their app that you MUST manually save all the photos you want to keep...or, the logical thing that every other camera on the planet does, JUST SAVE THE DAMN PHOTOS!
VSCO stores pictures in some cache folder of their own. If you uninstall the app or have to factory reset a phone and you haven't selected and saved all your photos inside the app, you lose everything. They don't own MY pictures. I think that kind of blurs some...ethical? ...lines. Storing them in a folder that basically "belongs" to them? not cool VSCO. Not cool at all.
I'm pissed about this whole situation.
Sometimes I just want to tell all technology to bite my shiny metal ass...
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kalo0osh97 said:
Disadvantages:
If you have a mobile device you need to backup your messages and call logs separately.
Needs a Windows PC .
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add to this list that the restoration might not work, even if the backup seems to have worked properly...
I won't ever use this backup method again. It's way too time consuming and you can't depend on it.
I know this post is pretty ancient, but I just wanted to toss in that the beginnerguides domain appears to have expired and been picked up by a domain scalper, so the resources this thread mentions are no longer available Here's hoping they can be put up somewhere else, or that someone has a link to similar instructions!
microwiz said:
I know this post is pretty ancient, but I just wanted to toss in that the beginnerguides domain appears to have expired and been picked up by a domain scalper, so the resources this thread mentions are no longer available Here's hoping they can be put up somewhere else, or that someone has a link to similar instructions!
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very true ! will the author of the 1st post please respond !
kalo0osh97 said:
To download the toolkit and for more instructions on how you can use it, consider visiting How to Back up Almost Every Android Device
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the site seems to be empty....
I have tried to restore using beginner guide's toolkit but everytime i restore....a message pops up and says "restore started" after 3 seconds..."restore ended" ...but there is no changes to my actual phone files...nothing got restored. What is the problem with this toolkit ? I expected this to work several years ago and now it doesn't and I basically lost all my files and everything
Hello all,
I fell into a huge problem. I use a Nexus 5 16 GB variant with all sorts of games I can put inside of. Now I ran out of storage.
My smart ass told me search for culprits and I was ruthless on files as small as 50 MBs. . Now, then I saw a treasure trove of space which could be freed and that was in #/system/app. I deleted almost all of them and left behind some like Bluetooth.apk and NFC et al.
Now two things happened
1) I can no longer use the 'Explore Storage' in the Other category of Storage found i Settings app. It would say, Settings has Crashed.
2) I can no longer sync my contacts to Google as After asking to add account, it just asks again. Earlier I seamlessly used that feature.
I don't know what's broken more.
Please someone help.
Much thanks in advance.
Have you tried a full reset? Kinda of a risk... But worth it at times. My old phone I could delete all the system apps, then reset it and they'd all pop back up.
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Have you tried a full reset? Kinda of a risk... But worth it at times. My old phone I could delete all the system apps, then reset it and they'd all pop back up.
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I have the ROM with me. Flashing that will ( or might) restore every functionality. But the point is why it did happen and unbreak the broken without flashing.
Why would you think that deleting anything from a system folder is a good idea...?
Just flash the system.img again. That should restore at least a working system, though I'd guess that you'll have to do some manual rework to restore lost apps. Your data should still be intact.
Just guessing, to be honest. I'm still astonished that you did this...
Have you considered an OTG USB stick? The attached photo shows an additional 128GB of storage on the tip of my little finger. I can post the links if anyone is interested.
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Why would you think that deleting anything from a system folder is a good idea...?
Just flash the system.img again. That should restore at least a working system, though I'd guess that you'll have to do some manual rework to restore lost apps. Your data should still be intact.
Just guessing, to be honest. I'm still astonished that you did this...
Have you considered an OTG USB stick? The attached photo shows an additional 128GB of storage on the tip of my little finger. I can post the links if anyone is interested.
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I don't know why I did that. Maybe because I saw those apks lying there and thought to myself, what are they doing here. I deleted all of them.
The next part is more important now. I installed the same ROM on the same phone using multirom and then copied the whole system/app folder to my other ROMs broken app folder. And this helped remove the broken Settings functionality. But the Contacts functionality is still broken. Lastly I will flash the system image if I could not find the reason behind this. Thanks sir for the help.