I restored from a backup once before. Last night i was out and about and i had problems with my phone so i did a "In phone restore"
When i got home and try'ed to restore from Zune backup it appears to be gone.
Any ideas did forget a process Help me please!
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update
Vintage144 said:
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update
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Is it posible to move backups between PCs?
I mean if I backed up my phone in a pc at home. Can I restore it from
the pc at work if I just copy the files from that folder.
Everytime i hit the update it tells me my software is up to date. I dont get the screen where i get the option to restore.
Not sure what the string is could you tell me more about it cause i dont have appdata.
look in Folder Options and click the box to show hidden files, that will give you access to appdata
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I used restore.bat improperly and lost my premango backup. I have an HTC Arrive. I read that I need to install a custom rom to get Nodo back. Is there a tutorial for this. Also is there any roms available for Arrive?
Please use Zune to perform the rollback.
I got it to work. For some reason the restore point folder wasnt copying over to the user/appdata/local/microsoft/windowsphoneupdate. Once I got it in there the restore option showed up in zune beta.
I have also lost my backup for my arrive due to my computer crashing.... Please Help!! what can i do??
When I created my backup I moved it to a different location. Today I wanted to restore that. So I opened the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update% location and nothing was there, folder was empty. So I moved the folder [cryptic file name] containing the backup to that location. I opened zune and checked the folder and my backup was gone. Now there is a new cryptic folder there that is around 300 kb. What happened to my 8GB backup that i put there?
You should copy the backup file (that is copy, not move it) into the "windows phone update" folder AFTER you connect the phone and Zune syncs, then check for update to get to the backup restore option in Zune.
1. Connect phone, let Zune launch and sync
2. Copy files into the "windows phone update" folder
3. Go through the check for updates to get to the backup restore option in Zune.
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I lost my premango backup... that info does not pretain to my problem lol. Did I lose that backup?
Well, if you moved the backed-up backup and don't copy it and then Zune ate it when it tried to sync the phone, yes you lost it. That's how my response did pertain to your problem.. you should have copied the backup files, not move them. If you copied them over, you'd still have it in the alternate backup location and you wouldn't be asking if your backup is lost. If you'd have copied the files after Zune synced with your phone, it wouldn't have eaten your backup files when it started up.
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Floods7 said:
I lost my premango backup... that info does not pretain to my problem lol. Did I lose that backup?
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Are you shure you check in the correct folder ???
the correct one is C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Phone Update
Yah I am in the right place. I had that folder open when I launched Zune and literally watched it disappear.
What is my next move? Are there any roms that Zune will recognize as official and give me updates trough Zune?
Well, you've never stated what your phone is, but if you check the device specific forum, you will likely be able to find a stock ROM and instructions for how to flash.
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I am using an hd7 from tmobile. I know I can find a ROM but is Zune going to recognize it as official and allow me to update through Zune?
If it's a truly stock ROM, yes, hacked ROM, idk as I don't do hacked ROMs
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This is the link with the rom's for my mobile hd7.
Is this a stock rom? Or is this a hacked rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205761
Did you check your Recycle Bin by chance just in case a version is there? Just a thought
I Want to be able to do full backup that can restore from PC
just incase the worst happens.
Any Apps that can do this
I mean back up Everything Apps OS Password ect
I don't want to back up to Phone cause it takes up too much space.
Onknight said:
I Want to be able to do full backup that can restore from PC
just incase the worst happens.
Any Apps that can do this
I mean back up Everything Apps OS Password ect
I don't want to back up to Phone cause it takes up too much space.
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Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit has this feature. (Check my sig)
As long as you got custom recovery, with this toolkit you can do a nandroid backup then move the backup folder anywhere in your PC.
if you want to restore your backup, use the toolkit again then select the backup folder in your PC.
ej8989 said:
Wug's Nexus Root Toolkit has this feature. (Check my sig)
As long as you got custom recovery, with this toolkit you can do a nandroid backup then move the backup folder anywhere in your PC.
if you want to restore your backup, use the toolkit again then select the backup folder in your PC.
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I can't get it to connect
Onknight said:
I can't get it to connect
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Make sure:
-USB Debug mode is turned on.
-Drivers are properly installed
What do you mean by you can't get it to connect?
Hi,
my N5 has some presumably hardware related bug: It sometimes crashes and after reboot the battery is almost empty. So Google will now send me a replacement unit.
I wonder: is it possible to backup my old device with TWRP (nandroid backup) and restore this backup on my new device?
This way I would not have to reinstall everything from scratch and just make a perfect clone.
Has this been done before?
Travelawyer said:
Hi,
my N5 has some presumably hardware related bug: It sometimes crashes and after reboot the battery is almost empty. So Google will now send me a replacement unit.
I wonder: is it possible to backup my old device with TWRP (nandroid backup) and restore this backup on my new device?
This way I would not have to reinstall everything from scratch and just make a perfect clone.
Has this been done before?
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Possibly but make sure you back the new phone up, ESPECIALLY THE EFS!!! In fact, back up the EFS, put it in three other spots. lol
Travelawyer said:
Hi,
my N5 has some presumably hardware related bug: It sometimes crashes and after reboot the battery is almost empty. So Google will now send me a replacement unit.
I wonder: is it possible to backup my old device with TWRP (nandroid backup) and restore this backup on my new device?
This way I would not have to reinstall everything from scratch and just make a perfect clone.
Has this been done before?
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Yes you can do this. That being said, DO NOT BACK UP THE OLD N5'S EFS PARTITION. If you do back it up, DO NOT RESTORE IT ON THE NEW N5. It will render it useless if you plan on using it to connect to anything but WiFi. Also make sure to copy everything from /sdcard as Nandroid backups will not save your personal data. So manually backup all your pictures, songs, downloads, etc and move to a PC first.
tl;dr - yes just don't restore old EFS partition backup on new N5 and save your stuff
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Yes you can do this. That being said, DO NOT BACK UP THE OLD N5'S EFS PARTITION. If you do back it up, DO NOT RESTORE IT ON THE NEW N5. It will render it useless if you plan on using it to connect to anything but WiFi. Also make sure to copy everything from /sdcard as Nandroid backups will not save your personal data. So manually backup all your pictures, songs, downloads, etc and move to a PC first.
tl;dr - yes just don't restore old EFS partition backup on new N5 and save your stuff
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Thanks!
So I just backup
. system
. data
. cache
. boot
with TWRP and restore this on my new device.
Pictures are saved to the cloud anyways and all my music and audio books reside on my PC hard drive.
Travelawyer said:
Thanks!
So I just backup
. system
. data
. cache
. boot
with TWRP and restore this on my new device.
Pictures are saved to the cloud anyways and all my music and audio books reside on my PC hard drive.
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Correct, long as your personal data is backed up you are good to go. Just when you get your new N5 and put TWRP on it, do a quick backup of your boot partition. Shouldn't take too long and it'll auto generate the backup folder for you to drag & drop you old backup into. You can just delete it afterwards.
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Correct, long as your personal data is backed up you are good to go. Just when you get your new N5 and put TWRP on it, do a quick backup of your boot partition. Shouldn't take too long and it'll auto generate the backup folder for you to drag & drop you old backup into. You can just delete it afterwards.
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Problem:
I have created a backup on my nexus 5 but I cannot find it when connected to my PC. The "twrp"-folder is not there. Where is it?!
I can access "data/media/twrp" with a root browser on my nexus, but I cannot access this folder with my PC.
How can I transfer this backup now to my PC?
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Problem:
I have created a backup on my nexus 5 but I cannot find it when connected to my PC. The "twrp"-folder is not there. Where is it?!
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Should be in /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS
If not, you have a file permission issue or something.
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Problem:
I have created a backup on my nexus 5 but I cannot find it when connected to my PC. The "twrp"-folder is not there. Where is it?!
I can access "data/media/twrp" with a root browser on my nexus, but I cannot access this folder with my PC.
How can I transfer this backup now to my PC?
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Go to About Phone from Settings and click the build version until you enable developer settings and go in there and enable ADB. Plug it into PC and see if the drivers install properly. If they do you'll see the phone connected as "Internal Storage" from your "My Computer". As posted above it should be in the root of your SDcard in TWRP/backups
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Go to About Phone from Settings and click the build version until you enable developer settings and go in there and enable ADB. Plug it into PC and see if the drivers install properly. If they do you'll see the phone connected as "Internal Storage" from your "My Computer". As posted above it should be in the root of your SDcard in TWRP/backups
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There is no TWRP folder in my /scard, see here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/psv3fpcrgbls5j7/2014-12-05 23.20.01.png?dl=0
I found TWRP in the root file system under data/media/0/TWRP
But these folders don't appear under Windows.
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There is no TWRP folder in my /scard, see here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/psv3fpcrgbls5j7/2014-12-05 23.20.01.png?dl=0
I found TWRP in the root file system under data/media/0/TWRP
But these folders don't appear under Windows.
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See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57287175
Travelawyer said:
. cache
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Why backup and restore cache?
ANDROIDRAZRM said:
See: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57287175
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So I installed a terminal emulator and typed in:
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
And now TWRP miraculously appeared in my Windows explorer. Thanks a lot!
IMHO, you're just asking for any number of issues. New phone =fresh start. You should just set it up.... How long does it really take. ?
But, it's your device. ?
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Oh.... And likely your issues were not hardware, but better chance it was software. Why risk turning your new phone into the mess your old one was. ?
I had to factory reset my phone but when I went to install whatsapp it asked me a password to restore my backups but for some reason I can't get it right, after a bunch of tries (and having to wait 12 hours) it told me that if I get it wrong one more time the backups will be deleted.
So I used this script https://github.com/sidharthv96/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread to download my backup, which is now safely sitting on my PC in crypt15 format.
Now what can I do to try and get this database decrypted? I don't have the original key and my phone is not rooted, is there ANYTHING at all I could do?
The most ideal way would be a way to try all the passwords I can think of until I manage to decrypt it, if I try one more time the original backup will be deleted and I'd need to figure out how to upload it again but I don't even know if it can be done
Same here .. Have you found a way ?
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Same here .. Have you found a way ?
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Anyone found the solution?
Jackomel said:
I had to factory reset my phone but when I went to install whatsapp it asked me a password to restore my backups but for some reason I can't get it right, after a bunch of tries (and having to wait 12 hours) it told me that if I get it wrong one more time the backups will be deleted.
So I used this script https://github.com/sidharthv96/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread to download my backup, which is now safely sitting on my PC in crypt15 format.
Now what can I do to try and get this database decrypted? I don't have the original key and my phone is not rooted, is there ANYTHING at all I could do?
The most ideal way would be a way to try all the passwords I can think of until I manage to decrypt it, if I try one more time the original backup will be deleted and I'd need to figure out how to upload it again but I don't even know if it can be done
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same problem. anyone, please help us
Jackomel said:
I had to factory reset my phone but when I went to install whatsapp it asked me a password to restore my backups but for some reason I can't get it right, after a bunch of tries (and having to wait 12 hours) it told me that if I get it wrong one more time the backups will be deleted.
So I used this script https://github.com/sidharthv96/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread to download my backup, which is now safely sitting on my PC in crypt15 format.
Now what can I do to try and get this database decrypted? I don't have the original key and my phone is not rooted, is there ANYTHING at all I could do?
The most ideal way would be a way to try all the passwords I can think of until I manage to decrypt it, if I try one more time the original backup will be deleted and I'd need to figure out how to upload it again but I don't even know if it can be done
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same problem here did you get a solution
Jackomel said:
I had to factory reset my phone but when I went to install whatsapp it asked me a password to restore my backups but for some reason I can't get it right, after a bunch of tries (and having to wait 12 hours) it told me that if I get it wrong one more time the backups will be deleted.
So I used this script https://github.com/sidharthv96/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread to download my backup, which is now safely sitting on my PC in crypt15 format.
Now what can I do to try and get this database decrypted? I don't have the original key and my phone is not rooted, is there ANYTHING at all I could do?
The most ideal way would be a way to try all the passwords I can think of until I manage to decrypt it, if I try one more time the original backup will be deleted and I'd need to figure out how to upload it again but I don't even know if it can be done
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Greetings, similar situation, my WhatsApp, for some reason failed and asked me to restore from a backup, to which I proceeded to restore, then a message popped up indicating that something went wrong and that the restore could not be done and my WhatsApp started In zero conversations, I've run out of years of messages. Searching I found that I could uninstall and reinstall to force the restoration again, I did it, when the time comes to reactivate, I receive the SMS and the option to search for backup copies follows, I find both the local copies and the Google Drive one, I It asks for the E2E encryption key, (I know it) I put my password (not 64 digits), the process starts and at 44% it gets stuck, then it jumps again saying that the data cannot be recovered from that backup. Now I don't have much hope anymore, but if anyone knows how to get encrypted_backup.key on a non-rooted device, maybe I can use the tool: WhatsApp-Crypt14-Crypt15-Decrypter from ElDavoo to at least have my conversations decrypted on a PC for consultation. (My database is in Crypt15)
Thanks.
Jackomel said:
I had to factory reset my phone but when I went to install whatsapp it asked me a password to restore my backups but for some reason I can't get it right, after a bunch of tries (and having to wait 12 hours) it told me that if I get it wrong one more time the backups will be deleted.
So I used this script https://github.com/sidharthv96/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread to download my backup, which is now safely sitting on my PC in crypt15 format.
Now what can I do to try and get this database decrypted? I don't have the original key and my phone is not rooted, is there ANYTHING at all I could do?
The most ideal way would be a way to try all the passwords I can think of until I manage to decrypt it, if I try one more time the original backup will be deleted and I'd need to figure out how to upload it again but I don't even know if it can be done
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Any solution? is this effective? https://www.imyfone.com/whatsapp/decrypt-whatsapp-database-without-key/