[Q] Swapping Captivates - Captivate General

I know the contacts, call and text logs, apps, app settings and data, etc. will all be wrong but can I swap Captivates with a friend by simply swapping SIM cards? i.e. our phone number and plan and data plans move to each others phone.
If so, can all that other stuff be Titanum Backed up to the external sd and then restored on the proper phone?

Yeah, it will work just fine. The only thing that will change is your IMEI, this will only be an issue if you try to file a warranty or insurance claim.

Both Captivate accounts are on the AT&T network so I'm supposing the IMEI is not an issue except as you say for warranty purposes and whos name is on the account for that particular phone IMEI.
What about doing the Titanium Backup on each phone to the SD card then after swapping the SD cards doing a restore to the phone? Will Titanium Backup complain that the backup file doesn't match the phone?

rscheller said:
I know the contacts, call and text logs, apps, app settings and data, etc. will all be wrong but can I swap Captivates with a friend by simply swapping SIM cards? i.e. our phone number and plan and data plans move to each others phone.
If so, can all that other stuff be Titanum Backed up to the external sd and then restored on the proper phone?
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Not that it really matters, but why are you switching Captivates? What's the advantage of trading the same phone?

Well, they're not really the same phones since my friends phone is stock Eclair and mine is unofficial Froyo with root and lag fix.
My friend is very impressed with the speed of my phone compared to his but is afraid of bricking his phone and/or losing all his apps and data. So I thought rather than chance it with OS updates and such, maybe just a swap of SIM cards (and data and such) would let him try it for a few days to see if it's worth the chance.

If you have titanium backup folder on your external card no problem. I have 2 captivates that I swap back and forth ever so often and never have an issue with tibu restoring.

Since you are running different ROMs, do not back up and restore ANY system data with TiBu after the switch. I would just flash his phone for him. He will be able to restore all his apps and if he's using Google to sync he can easily get his data back. You're really complicating things by swapping phones.

Miami_Son said:
Since you are running different ROMs, do not back up and restore ANY system data with TiBu after the switch. I would just flash his phone for him. He will be able to restore all his apps and if he's using Google to sync he can easily get his data back. You're really complicating things by swapping phones.
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Just flash his phone to the official Froyo rom for him (after backing up everything that can be backed up and restored from 2.1 to 2.2), if it messes up, he can always go get another phone from AT&T as a warranty replacement... Rooting and the Lagfix isn't very risky so he really has nothing to worry about there, most of the big issues come with installing custom roms/recoveries...

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Fixing "android.process.media" Errors

Phone: HTC Inspire 4G
OS: Android 2.3.3
ROM: CyanogenMod 7
Through trail and error, running into many "android.process.media" errors, I was finally able to clean it all up and the errors are now gone!
This error seems to stem from a few factors. 1) Google Apps being downloaded by the phone once logged in and 2) running backup/restore programs (Titanium Backup). It seems that the OS has issues with identifying certain things, so when the phone is downloading them automatically, and while at the same time you're using an app restore method too, the kernels get messed up causing the errors to start. It corrupts the Media Card in the process of reinstalling apps manually when the phone on your Google account is already downloading them too. Only thing to do is let your Google account (market place) restore your apps first. Once done, install other apps. My best bet was to have a clean, reformatted MicroSD card and a fresh install of CM 7. No other way to do it.
This can also be avoided by unticking the box that asks if you want Google to reinstall your apps. Only shows up on a fresh install of CM7.
Now, because the MicroSD Card will be re-formatted, this is a great time to know that your phone won't lose the OS since its internally in the phones memory, but you will lose your contacts and other data again, but easily comes back one you sync your phone to Google Contacts. So anything you have on your SD Card, Back it up externally (preferably pictures, video, etc) But I will exercise a thought to anyone who keeps getting these "android.process.media" errors. Reinstall CyanogenMod 7 (CM7) and clean out Data and Cache, no backup. If you back up both, the CM7 backup will cause errors. A fresh install is preferred.
Sure you might have to sit there reinstalling everything and working your way around stuff, but a clean phone with fresh installs is better than a phone giving you errors. Took me a total of 5 hours to get this right.
Once you have things right, no error messages, back up your ROM and hold on to it.
Since doing this, My phones battery lasts 7-9 hours with no bloatware (carrier apps).
I am only sharing my solution to this problem. So if you are not sure on what to do and/or have bricked your phone, then I am not responsible.
Also, if you believe you might have corrupted your MicroSD Card, I would highly recommend buying the following tools: 1) Kodak SD Card Reader and 2) MicroSD Card Adapter. Cost: $22 at Radioshack. Worth having around because when I thought my SD Card was dead, this little tool was able to restore it and reformat it, especially when I couldn't reformat it from the phone or connected to the PC. Its probably because it piggybacks off the adapter. Worth the money.

sd card with 8107

So I take it if I were to add a 32g sdcard, I will lose everything and it will format back to stock, if I back up, I still can't use the backup on the new card to get everything back, my dev unlock, interop unlock will be gone as well, this is rediculous, my old bb could except whatever I through at it as a secondary drive, is there not something in the registry to make this secondary?
Well i see nobody hAs tried so i may very well try this later on, sorry to say im gonna lose everything on such a simple thing as an sdcard, to show how stupid this , i put that sdcard in my acer iconia a500 and BAM i have an additional 32g , didnt change anything else , will try on the wp7 i suppose
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So I take it if I were to add a 32g sdcard, I will lose everything and it will format back to stock, if I back up, I still can't use the backup on the new card to get everything back, my dev unlock, interop unlock will be gone as well, this is rediculous, my old bb could except whatever I through at it as a secondary drive, is there not something in the registry to make this secondary?
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Not quite sure what you mean format back to stock. Yes, you will lose everything stored on your current card, but I don't think any registry settings are changed. You will need to re-install apps, games, music, pictures, etc. Just time-consuming. Only things I think you'll lose permanently are SMS & email stored on your phone.

[Q] Titanium Backup mishap?

Hi all, been lurking for a while (mostly in the SGS3 Verizon forums though to keep updated on ROMs) and I'm not proud of this being my first post but I have a quick question that I couldn't find a definitive answer to. I got a replacement S3 in the mail today from Verizon as I had problems charging my old phone. Before switching over, I ran a normal batch backup in TiBu and then unrooted/factory reset my old phone so I could send it back tomorrow under warranty. I then rooted my replacement and after installing Titanium Backup again, went to restore all my apps. However, none were to be found.
I'm assuming this is because the backups were made in the internal storage of my old phone and not in the extSD card where I automatically assumed they were. So my question is, is there any way I can retrieve these backups now to restore all my apps/messages/etc. or are they lost forever? For now I'm going with I got screwed and I'm gonna have to reinstall everything the old-fashioned way and deal with the lost SMSs. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you and I truly am sorry if this was posted before or is in the wrong section (mods, feel free to move it if it is). The closest things I found were guides for using TiBu that suggested exporting the backups to the extSD card before switching phones which is why I feel like I'm in trouble.
tl;dr: Got a replacement phone, didn't export TiBu backups to extSD card, unrooted old phone. Is there any way I can get my backups back?

S8+ factory reset, wiped micro SD card

Hi all, I have had my S8+ for several months now, everything was fine until this morning when I woke up to unlock my phone, it unlocked as per normal. I enabled wifi and opened google chrome and checked the weather. The, the phone shutdown and within a few seconds the blue screen appeared with a message (erasing). It took a while for the phone to boot up and go through the initial setup like a brand new phone.
Now, all the data on the phone and my 32GB micro SD card are gone. I have tried half a dozen recovery software on my PC but none can see any files on the micro SD.
I have no idea what happened and why it has wiped the micro SD card. I have lost images and videos of the last few years, I know silly not to have them backed up.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Wow, that is a great disappointment losing all that personal info. I suspect you are running a recovery software app from a PC or a Mac? If you are not getting any meaningful results from the data restore apps, and you know those apps to be of good/high reputation, then I am wondering of your phone uses a type of 'wipe' function that performs a military/DOD sort of erase?
If that is the case, that stuff is likely gone forever. If that is not the case, hopefully you can find another app to try and restore your stuff.
Now, on the other note, that's an odd behavior for your phone to just reboot and do it's thing, wiping your system. Do you have any type of security going where it might have thought the phone had been stolen, and performed a wipe as protection for the owner. . . (you)?
Good luck.
I do have company email on my phone and I have agreed to their security policy which wipes all your data. This could be one of the reason, however could they erase data from SD card?
I had over 60GB of personal files on it and I thought the SD card will not get wiped in any case.
I have been reading around but can't find any solution. Stuffed to the max.
gunner007dc said:
You can check the phone's memory - sometimes it has a "SD RESTORE" folder if it backed up anything.
By chance is this a company phone, or had a company e-mail on it? Sometimes those e-mails require device administrator and can be remotely wiped.
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Good info.
gunner007dc said:
You can check the phone's memory - sometimes it has a "SD RESTORE" folder if it backed up anything.
By chance is this a company phone, or had a company e-mail on it? Sometimes those e-mails require device administrator and can be remotely wiped.
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Thanks, where would I find this folder? I have checked by can't find it.

Samsung Galaxy S7 Boot loop

Well, this is rather vexing.
I've been hard at work trying to backup / transfer data from my extremely old Samsung Galaxy S5 that seems to be coming to the end of it's useful lifespan. The S7 was next, but aside from running out of internal storage, I thought I still had time on that one (I wasn't experiencing a lot of slowdown or any crashes).
I went out for a couple hours (taking my newer phone), and when I came back, I saw my S7 on the insert the pin code screen. When I put the correct pin code in, the "unlocked padlock" stays on the screen for ages, before the phone restarts and I am shown the pin screen again (if I insert the wrong pin, it says so, so I am sure that I am not inserting the wrong pin).
So for the first time in my life, I am dealing with a spontaneous boot loop. This device has never been rooted, had a custom recovery installed or even the bootloader unlocked (it's the Exynos version, so presumably it would have been possible, but I decided that I wanted *one* unrooted device just in case, and given Knox, I decided that this was the device that will remain unmodded).
Anyway, that's for the story, but the question is, is there anything that I can try before the nuclear option (factory reset etc.).
Fortunately most of the photos are on the MicroSD. There are perhaps two or three apps that I would have liked to backup (they did not have a convenient built-in backup system) but I am just wondering if there is anything I might be able to do at this point? For instance, would wiping the cache be an option? Or is there anything I might be able to do with adb?
(Note: The device is running on Android 7)
Thanks.
Don't set security passwords for device access as you are the one most likely to be locked out.
If the boot loop wasn't caused by a hardware failure it's likely a app you loaded. Launchers and power management apps are prime candidates. Leave at least a couple gb of headroom on internal storage.
A factory reset is the easiest solution. Be careful what you load next time... take out the trash.
Use the SD card as a data drive, all critical data and everything you need for a reload goes here. No apps. Only apps, and the temporary download folder go on the internal memory.
The DCIM folder can be set to the SD card as well, but there can only be one DCIM folder and don't change its name. If a second backup folder is used on the SD card instead do not name it DCIM.
ApkExport can be used to make installable copies of apps for transfering them and added the data drive as well, no Playstore needed.
Do not use Kies or SmartSwitch when going between different type devices or OS versions. It can cause issues.
Cut/paste critical data, verify the data is readable and all there. Don't trust Kies or SmartSwitch with critical data.
Never clone data drives.
Never encrypt data drives.
Regularly redundantly backup the SD card data drive to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.
Thanks for the reply.
1. No app was recently installed (past couple of weeks)
2. Hardware failure? Maybe, but it is rather out of the blue. Phone has not displayed any unusual behaviour, it hasn't been taken out of the house for a week or so (it is really in the process of getting retired). And I would like to ascertain it.
3. I am aware I can just nuke the whole thing with a factory reset, but before taking that easy option and effectively lose some data I'd like to retrieve if possible, I would like to other options.
And rather than tips on what I should've done or can do next time (much of which I am already doing), I am looking for advice on anything I might be able to try -before- nuking the whole thing.
For instance, could the log-files (there are quite a few of them) provide hint in what went wrong? Any option of re-installing the OS without wiping the data partition? Since I am on a fairly old version of Android I may also have the option of doing a minor update. That kind of things. I am thinking that there might also be the possibility that the system files somehow got corrupted and perhaps a re-install or system update might be worth trying.
I am basically looking for options that will not, for the time being erase the data partition. If it comes down to it in the end, then fine, but that is the last option not the first.
It sounds like it got spontaneously corrupted. Perhaps a flash memory cell failure. If so it may or may not be "self healing" with a factory reset or a reflash.
If you have ADB access you may be able to fix it.
Otherwise your options are limited to what's on the boot menu.
Try doing a hard reboot (simulates pulling battery).
If you try booting it a bunch of times it may go into go safe mode. I've seen that behavior in Android 9.
That's extent of my skills, sorry.
The reason why I posted how to prevent data lose is because sometimes that's all you can do.
Internal memory data I consider expendable, the SD card data... potentially expendable.

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