I've done several Hard resets over the last few days, testing themes and sounds and a few other things. I find it easier to hard reset than to remove each item line by line, and hope nothing is left behind.
I noticed that I will do a HR, and 45 apps will be restored. If I immediately do another one, 33 might be restored. Then in another hour,, 38 might be restored. This last time, Google Maps was not restored...which I thought strange...well it was restored but only with v 5.0. Earliear in the week in restored to v5.5. A couple of apps simply did not restore...1 won't let me install again, period.
Any trick to this restore thing that I'm unawaare of? Dont tell me to root....not goingthere yet. Is this the world famous...welcome to android?
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Hi all,
My wife's had some weird problem on her Treo 750 just out of the blue, and I wonder if anybody's run into the same problem.
A few days ago, after editing a calender appointment, she noticed all the dates in her calender were screwed up. Events that she didn't touch, and were in months ago all of a sudden got changed to future dates. She has ADB Weather on her today menu, and all the weather icons disppear. In Resco Explorer, all the icons also disappear browsing the phone.
I figure something's corrupted on her phone, so I did a hard reset and restored to a backup that was done before we had these problems (I schedule weekly updates with Sprite Backup). I thought it'd fix all the problems. Well, surprisingly, even after hard reset and restore, all the problems were still there.
So I restored an even earlier backup, and same thing.
Has anybody ever run into this problem? Thanks in advance ...
hard reset helps.. but don't use the back ups.. it may cause the problem again..
Yeah I'm sure doing a hard reset and build from scratch helps, but given how long time it takes, that's my last resort.
I keep 10 backup files dating back to 2.5 months ago, so obviously it dates back to before this problem crept up ... thus I don't understand why when I restore the backup files, including the old backup files, I still get the problems.
Hey everyone. First post here, so bare over with me
I have had my tattoo for almost a year before I finally stepped up and flashed it with froyo (Should have done that long ago). To make sure I had all my contacts I backed it up with Mybackup and it worked in the 1.6 days.
After the flash I installed gapps, Mybackup and thought the restoring was a piece of cake. But no, it reports when its about to restore that I have to login to my google account. The problem is that I am logged in, everything is running smooth.
I tried to reset and make the google sign in come when i start the phone. Thats worked very well until it needs to actually sign in. It just idles forever. It says 5 minutes tops on the phone, I left it for 1 hour with out any results.
Does anyone have a clue to what is wrong? If it cant be fixed, is there any way I can copy the contacts from the backup and on to the phone?
Thanks in advance!
-pasj
While it is easy enough to remove apps from the phone, these items remain in your purchase history in Zune. When you restore your phone through a hard reset immediately all these apps are reinstalled back to the phone all 78 of them. Some are trial versions of full products some are just games or apps that you thought would be good but were rubbish. I would have thought that you should be able to remove those items that you will never restore to your phone.
Has anybody found a solution to this? Short of creating a new account.
Well, it seems that this is not an issue. SO I'll live with the large list of inactive apps.
I've too been searching for a solution to this for a while now, have not found it yet. It's a matter of time before the wife finds all those adult apps I downloaded-and-erased
I was just about to post this. If someone tries ton of apps, this is a pain in the a$$.
When I got my device, I must of tried about 20 apps, about 3 of them I paid for (because they work for me) and a handful of games here and there( I still do this alot).
I did a hard reset for mango about 2 weeks ago. It installed about 32 apps, only 12 of them I owned (or wanted to keep). So this tied up my phone for almost 2 hours waiting for these to download (if I attempt to cancel it, it will just download it later), then manually uninstalling them
There has to be a way to delete an app so you never have to see it again.
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I was just about to post this. If someone tries ton of apps, this is a pain in the a$$.
When I got my device, I must of tried about 20 apps, about 3 of them I paid for (because they work for me) and a handful of games here and there( I still do this alot).
I did a hard reset for mango about 2 weeks ago. It installed about 32 apps, only 12 of them I owned (or wanted to keep). So this tied up my phone for almost 2 hours waiting for these to download (if I attempt to cancel it, it will just download it later), then manually uninstalling them
There has to be a way to delete an app so you never have to see it again.
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Did you hard reset through Zune? I hard reset after Mango, and it never reinstalled my apps again - though I did the hard reset using the Volume-Camera-Power method. I used the new myphone or whatever section in live.com to reinstall all of the apps i wanted back on it. I left it plugged into the wall adapter for power, and sat at the computer and told it which ones i wanted. never had to touch the phone.
add it here:
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions
and get ms to add it as an account feature. if enough people vote on it then it'll be there.
Hello all,
I've ran into a circle of issues. I'm rooted, have touch CWM (can't remember the exact version) and had SynergyROM installed. I downloaded PowerAMP. Some people may stop me there and tell me that's the problem. During the Aroma installation, I must have ticked the option that optimizes apps and causes a long first boot. After researching this issue, I have found is a bad thing to do. I don't know why I would have chosen that option but this is the end of the path that I've come to.
What happened was PowerAMP was stuck on installing. So I attempted to find it and cancel it or uninstall, but it was no where on my phone, not in the notification bar, and was stuck on installing in the market.
So, I go about my business on my phone and it suddenly shuts down. I start it up, and it boots normally until it gets to "Optimizing app 1 of 1". I let it sit for about 30 minutes before I pulled the battery. I performed a nandroid backup, rebooted, same issue. I researched the issue and found people reporting success after wiping the cache and dalvik cache, so i did so. Now it reported "Optimizing apps 1 of 250" and went fine until it got stuck at 250. I let it sit for an hour before I pulled the battery again. I wiped data/cache/dalvik and reflashed a clean SynergyROM, the phone was working perfect. Then attempted restoring the backup, but still got the same issue.
I found a new ROM like I had been planning on doing since my phone was wiped anyway, and download Nandroid Manager to extract the data from my apps as I had read in the past was possible. Upon exploring the backup, I noticed the month and date were correct, but the year was 1980. There is NO data, in the data/data area except com.android, com.samsung and com.verizon packages.
Am I missing something? Why is all the .apk information in the ext4.tar but NONE of my app data remains? Am I screwed? I had an older backup from January in which I found the same apps with older data and that restored fine. I have Expense Manager, for example, and I started using it in the last week of January. Once I setup my budget I backed up. Since then, I've entered in all of my income and expenses and was planning to backup before the PowerAMP issue. Everything was working smooth, no tweaks made to the ROM, no issues whatsoever until now. So I can only restore data from the old backup and not the latest one.
Thank you so much in advance.
P.S.: Extra question, but not nearly as important - I can't seem to find a consistent answer. When performing a nandroid recovery, from say, in this case SynergyROM, does it matter what ROM I've flashed? Doesn't the nandroid recovery basically wipe the slate clean and lay everything back out just like you would do when replacing carpet, or a bandaid? Just a curiosity.
EDIT: I just discovered Titanium PRO can extract. Bought it. Tried it. Expense Manager crashes. Now, unless Expense Manager is installed, it doesn't even show up in extraction.
I have another idea - is there a way to EDIT a nandroid backup? For instance, can I REMOVE PowerAMP from the nandroid backup and restore through CWM without having to go through all of this? If it was just one app I wouldn't care but..I have at least 15 different apps with a couple months worth of data :/ My fault for sure..but I still harbor faith in this community nonetheless.
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Psychotacon said:
Hello all,
I've ran into a circle of issues. I'm rooted, have touch CWM (can't remember the exact version) and had SynergyROM installed. I downloaded PowerAMP. Some people may stop me there and tell me that's the problem. During the Aroma installation, I must have ticked the option that optimizes apps and causes a long first boot. After researching this issue, I have found is a bad thing to do. I don't know why I would have chosen that option but this is the end of the path that I've come to.
What happened was PowerAMP was stuck on installing. So I attempted to find it and cancel it or uninstall, but it was no where on my phone, not in the notification bar, and was stuck on installing in the market.
So, I go about my business on my phone and it suddenly shuts down. I start it up, and it boots normally until it gets to "Optimizing app 1 of 1". I let it sit for about 30 minutes before I pulled the battery. I performed a nandroid backup, rebooted, same issue. I researched the issue and found people reporting success after wiping the cache and dalvik cache, so i did so. Now it reported "Optimizing apps 1 of 250" and went fine until it got stuck at 250. I let it sit for an hour before I pulled the battery again. I wiped data/cache/dalvik and reflashed a clean SynergyROM, the phone was working perfect. Then attempted restoring the backup, but still got the same issue.
I found a new ROM like I had been planning on doing since my phone was wiped anyway, and download Nandroid Manager to extract the data from my apps as I had read in the past was possible. Upon exploring the backup, I noticed the month and date were correct, but the year was 1980. There is NO data, in the data/data area except com.android, com.samsung and com.verizon packages.
Am I missing something? Why is all the .apk information in the ext4.tar but NONE of my app data remains? Am I screwed? I had an older backup from January in which I found the same apps with older data and that restored fine. I have Expense Manager, for example, and I started using it in the last week of January. Once I setup my budget I backed up. Since then, I've entered in all of my income and expenses and was planning to backup before the PowerAMP issue. Everything was working smooth, no tweaks made to the ROM, no issues whatsoever until now. So I can only restore data from the old backup and not the latest one.
Thank you so much in advance.
P.S.: Extra question, but not nearly as important - I can't seem to find a consistent answer. When performing a nandroid recovery, from say, in this case SynergyROM, does it matter what ROM I've flashed? Doesn't the nandroid recovery basically wipe the slate clean and lay everything back out just like you would do when replacing carpet, or a bandaid? Just a curiosity.
EDIT: I just discovered Titanium PRO can extract. Bought it. Tried it. Expense Manager crashes. Now, unless Expense Manager is installed, it doesn't even show up in extraction.
I have another idea - is there a way to EDIT a nandroid backup? For instance, can I REMOVE PowerAMP from the nandroid backup and restore through CWM without having to go through all of this? If it was just one app I wouldn't care but..I have at least 15 different apps with a couple months worth of data :/ My fault for sure..but I still harbor faith in this community nonetheless.
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EDIT 2: PROBLEM SOLVED! Woo hoo! For anyone with a similar issue, I suppose I was just too frustrated to realize all courses of action. So this is the sequence in which I got the data back:
1: Installed updated app straight from the market, made sure it was closed and not in memory
2: Opened Titanium PRO and selected the nandroid backup
3: Recovered DATA ONLY
4: Opened app
5: Danced.
Hopefully this helps anyone with this similar issue.
Hi. Advice / help please. Got a RAZR HD MAXX running "standard" CM12.1 build. Since installing, i've been using the built in "CyanogenMod Update" system to update the builds, doing a wipe before installing. The first few went fine, the "first boot" process offering to restore the data from my Google account, along with the apps I installed via the Play Store, as well as putting the apps into the correct place on my home screens. I then manually add back non Play Store apps and also app data not covered by the Google account (ie: apps that offer their own backup/restore facility).
The last couple of builds however have failed to restore correctly, offering me to restore data from a backup like "46 days ago" - WTF?!
Additionally the apps are restoring OK (well, the ones seemingly from 46 days ago, not including any I added recently), but my homescreen goes back to default without my apps being placed in their previous locations, as it had done before. In addition, all of this is a LOT slower than previously - the restore process takes 3-4 hours (this is over WiFi, not mobile data).
So, questions are:
(a) why is the backup being offered not a more recent one? Is there a way to see what Google has/force a backup before I start the upgrade? (I thought this was just automated?)
(b) why doesn't my homescreen get put back properly? (even back to whatever it was 46 days ago)
(c) why does it take take 3-4 hours for the restore to complete (apps and data back) when previously it was done in about 30 mins
Am I the only one seeing any of this? Is there a better way to do it? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance!