Yesterday my G2x was caught in a reboot cycle and I could do nothing but use a hard reset. I did not wipe any data however. My phone booted up like the day I bought it, but none of my apps are are in the app drawer. After media scanning, gallery found all my pictures and music app found all my music. I used a file explorer and saw that all my app data is still there too. Is there any way I can make android recognize these apps? There is some personally important data in those apps. My device was almost new and unrooted, but I would be willing to root.
Factory resets wipe user data and apps. You will have to reinstall them. Once reinstalled any data they had stored on your sd card should show up. In the future it would benefit you to use a program like titamium backup to keep your apps backed up.
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Hi, I've had a weird problem where Go SMS Pro seems to have disappeared from my phone. I clicked the icon for it on my LauncherPro dock last night only for it to tell me "could not launch the requested activity." I looked in my app drawer and lo and behold, Go SMS Pro was gone! I tried reinstalling it from the market but once it finished downloading nothing happened, and when I tried restoring it from titanium backup it made my phone reboot. Using root explorer, I found that the app still had data on my phone in several directories, but according to Android the app is not installed at all (so I can't uninstall to remove all that data and start fresh).
What I think may have caused the problem is that I used Apps2SD to move Go SMS Pro to my phone so that I could get the widget to work properly. Could something have been corrupted that way? Also I flashed Infused v1.5.0 yesterday, but I don't think that's the problem; I wiped data and cache, although maybe restoring the app+data from TiBu after flashing messed something up. I didn't have any problems until after I moved it with Apps2SD though.
Basically I want to be able to use Go SMS again (I prefer it to the stock messaging app), so I figure I have to delete all the old data from it from my phone. If anyone with a better working knowledge than me of Android's infrastructure could help me figure out which directories I need to delete data from if I want to be able to do a clean reinstall, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!
For anyone who has experienced significantly lower battery life after updating to the 2.3.3 GB update on a stock, unrooted Inspire, I may have a solution. I updated to the GB OEM and didn't bother to wipe or factory reset afterwards because I didn't want to lose my data. Nevertheless, I finally did a factory reset through the bootloader. And I formatted my SD card. I believe my BL is significantly better now.
It's possible the data of all the apps and system settings from FroYo might have played a problem with the new GB system. And especially the SD card not being formatted, could cause some issues.
I used MyBackup Pr to save all my apps and system data. And I used the built-in backup of various apps that have it to aid in data saving...like financial apps and such. Then after the reset, I installed MyBackup Pro and restored my apps and data and it will also restore the home screens back to exactly like they were. But it won't restore app data...like game saves or progress. You would need to start your games and other non-saved apps from the beginning again.
So far my BL has been better.
I chose not to restore "System settings" or "Contacts" or "Calender" data because I didn't want the leftover system settings interfering with the fresh system. The Calender restore will cause an FC in gapps and my Contacts are sync'd in Google.
If you do restore your Calender and do get FCs, go into All applications in the Applications settings menu and find the Calender Storage app and clear its data.
My phone is rooted, on jellybean (CyanogenMod 10). I always do a fresh wipe on my phone before installing a new rom and kernel. The weird issue I come across is sometimes after you finish the first setup steps, all the apps start restoring by themselves in Google Play, but other times I have to download System Tuner and restore all the apps I backed up. A few times also after wiping my phone and setting it up again, the apps complete settings were backed up and the login information is already filled out and my preferred settings.
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There's a feature built-in (available in the settings) where the apps & settings are backed up to Google's servers. I'm not sure exactly how much data is backed up, but, obviously, sideloaded apps & their data are not backed up. Personally, I've never flashed a new ROM & had my stuff magically restored before my eyes, but I suspect that if you waited long enough, the restore would take place.
The closest I've had is when I did a dirty flash & didn't clear my dalvik cache. Strange things can happen, then.
Yes in Google play there is a setting to restore apps automatically. For some reason it is intermittent on when it chooses to work. If your looking for a way to backup and restore your apps I would use titanium backup. It works great.
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Although I'm still trying to figure out the difference in a hard reset and a factory reset, I need to do one. So I'm wondering if there is any recommendation out there on the best way toi get my phone back to what I need.
Here is what I am doing - please let me know what I might be missing:
1) Installed appback, sms backup and restore, and call log backup and restore and ran them
2) rooted and installed titanium backup
3) backed up apps and a few system settings (wifi, desktop background, a couple of others) with TiBU
4) Also used several apps own backup utility (like nova launcher allows you to export your settings)
5) Plugged my phone in and copied everything from the "phone" and from the sd card to my computer
All my contacts are in gmail, so I don't have to worry about losing those.
Is there something else I should do here or am I ready for the reset?
The app data/settings from my old Lollipop phone are backed up on Google Drive.
I bought a new Nougat phone but did not realise that I had to restore app data/settings on the first startup, and so didn't do that.
The old backup still shows up on Google Drive. Is there a way to restore the settings of some specific apps to my new phone?
I'm afraid not. Google drive is for storing data as it is. You can at most download your app data/settings to your new phone. As for whether the app data/settings applies to the related apps on your new phone or not is not sure. Maybe you can try yourself to figure it out. Since its a new phone, when fails you can reset to factory settings without much data loss.