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.
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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?
I had rooted my S Duos and faced some problem with boot loop.
I flashed new stock after resetting to factory mode and cache clearing. But now when I use clean Master to clean junk file it shows many previous apps like Lucky Patcher, Titanium Backup under obsolete apks menu as NOT INSTALLED. I have Super backup and had backed up my apps before rooting. Now I deleted those backups also but those apps not getting deleted.
I also think there might be Superuser app also available in memory which could be hidden.
Is there any way to clean those files without harming my msgs and contacts.
Thanks
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Dhyan Chand said:
I had rooted my S Duos and faced some problem with boot loop.
I flashed new stock after resetting to factory mode and cache clearing. But now when I use clean Master to clean junk file it shows many previous apps like Lucky Patcher, Titanium Backup under obsolete apks menu as NOT INSTALLED. I have Super backup and had backed up my apps before rooting. Now I deleted those backups also but those apps not getting deleted.
I also think there might be Superuser app also available in memory which could be hidden.
Is there any way to clean those files without harming my msgs and contacts.
Thanks
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backup messages and contacts
to backup contacts press menu button, select import-export and select export to external sd!
for messages backup use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
after these backups, enter recovery mode and select: wipe data/factory reset as well as wipe cache partition...finally reboot device
This is my first android phone and I don't have much clue. I'm on stock and non-rooted. I would like to do a factory reset, which mean I have to backup right ? How do I backup the contacts, sms, whatsapp messages, and app and restore back to what it is like before ?
Thank you.
If you're going to reset, Your Complete data will be gone including your Storage..
in This Case you Have make a backup of your data.
Copy your data from moto storage to ur PC that's the way!
If You want to backup you App data then Try helium data backup app. (google it).
Hey everybody,
i have bean looking for information about back up and wipe for oneplus one for hours now but i failed to get the answers that i need.
so my questions are:
What is th best way to back up everyrhing on my phone when i am flashing a new room, and by everything i mean apps and their data, pics , music, sms , call logs......etc
My second question, what are the different types of wipe do and what do i need to wipe when flashing a new rom and will it erase everything on my phone ncluding pics and music? and what is exactly considered as internal storage and what does it erase.
Thanks in advance.
monmon238 said:
Hey everybody,
i have bean looking for information about back up and wipe for oneplus one for hours now but i failed to get the answers that i need.
so my questions are:
What is th best way to back up everyrhing on my phone when i am flashing a new room, and by everything i mean apps and their data, pics , music, sms , call logs......etc
My second question, what are the different types of wipe do and what do i need to wipe when flashing a new rom and will it erase everything on my phone ncluding pics and music? and what is exactly considered as internal storage and what does it erase.
Thanks in advance.
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The best way to backup your apps is by using Titanium Backup. It'll backup all of your apps and their data, you need the pro version to backup call logs and messages but it's well worth it because the pro version also allows batch restore (without batch restore you need to individually press ok for each app that you're restoring). Titanium is by far the most important root app that's available. You don't need to backup your personal data (music, photos) on your internal storage because you don't wipe the internal storage when flashing a ROM.
When flashing a new ROM you need to perform what's called a full wipe, this is wiping system, data, cache, and dalvik cache. Using TWRP recovery (the best recovery) you enter the wipe menu from the main menu, then select advanced wipe, and then you can select the previously mentioned partitions to wipe. This does not wipe your internal storage (the user-accessible virtual sd card where all of your personal data resides), wiping the internal storage is never necessary when flashing a ROM.
If you're just updating the same ROM (flashing a newer version/build) you don't need to worry about wiping, you can just flash the zip and reboot. Only ever do this when updating the ROM you're currently using though, never when flashing a different ROM.
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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!