I'm thinking to do a factory reset - HTC Sensation 4G T-Mobile since my phone seems to be consuming more battery today.
<The reason was yesterday, I drained the battery until the phone died by itself. Recharged overnight until full this morning. Installed Fandango & Chase app. After that, somehow my phone's battery indicator (Batstat app) showed a fast discharging rate and my screen became unresponsive.>
So my question is, what are the correct steps to perform either before & after factory reset?
Below is my plan, please tell me if I do something wrong or miss some steps.
1. Backup contacts & calendar using HTC Sync
2. Backup apps using 'App Backup & Restore ' app
3. Backup sms using 'SMS Backup & Restore' app
4. Do Factory Reset
5. Restore contacts & calendar by syncing the phone using HTC Sync
6. Reinstall 'App Backup & Restore ' app and restore all apps
7. Reinstall 'SMS Backup & Restore' app and restore all sms
Is this the correct procedure?
The songs, photos & videos are stored safely in SD card, right? or do I need to back them up separately?
Is it true that Factory Reset won't affect the SD card?
Sorry for this noob questions.
Thanks for the help.
I think you pretty much covered it,and your SD card will be fine so all your music and photos will be there,also the sensation will automatically reinstall most if not all your apps once you sign into your gmail,sync and open the Market just wait a few minutes and bam you should be back in business,although if you have any apk's installed from SD you will need to manually reinstall those items.I have tested this when i did a factory data reset and this also worked when I switched out my device for a new one so I know it works.Hope this helps.
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Do you back up just the apps that came with the phone or the ones you installed as well?
WTFD4V1D said:
Do you back up just the apps that came with the phone or the ones you installed as well?
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Jst the ones you installed. The preinstalled apps will be installed during the factory reset.
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I have purchased from the market mybackup pro and it works really good
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platinumandroid said:
I think you pretty much covered it,and your SD card will be fine so all your music and photos will be there,also the sensation will automatically reinstall most if not all your apps once you sign into your gmail,sync and open the Market just wait a few minutes and bam you should be back in business,although if you have any apk's installed from SD you will need to manually reinstall those items.I have tested this when i did a factory data reset and this also worked when I switched out my device for a new one so I know it works.Hope this helps.
Cheers
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for some reason my app all disappeared after i restored my phone, i have enable my gmail and it is all synced, but for some reason they are not on there, i had to go back in the market and had to download them all again...i am so lucky i have a unlimited plan.
what am i doing wrong??
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Hi everyone. I just got a replacement cappy from AT&T and I want to complete wipe out everything from the memory. Ive done a reset and in start up with no apps, but all my music and pics are still there. I did the startup into recovery menu and chose to clear data, but again, my pics and music and other files are still there.
Can anyone tell me the best way to completely wipe everything off the phone so its like I just got it stock?
Hook up your captivate to your computer and delete everything off the internal SD card.
Have you tried
Settings, privacy, factory data reset.
Out you can use odin and use master clear
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Hook up your captivate to your computer and delete everything off the internal SD card.
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I wasnt sure if that was ok because I didnt know if there was any systems files that I had to worry about deleting. If not though, I think I will just do that.
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Have you tried
Settings, privacy, factory data reset.
Out you can use odin and use master clear
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I did do that, but all music, pics and videos are still on the memory.
If you hook up to your pc you will not see system files so you will not be able to delete them
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boot into recovery scrol down to delete all user data and select
recovery again and select clear cache
If u have a rooted phone u can reset ur phone to stock u it is called root manager if u have problems get at me
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And it in the market mybad
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Thanks everyone. I just ended up deleting all files from the phone once I mounted it to my PC. I appreciate all the responses.
has anyone got this thing to run? I just rooted and every time I open titanium it automatically force closes on me
works for me....does it have SU rights?
yes its got su, I've got busybox to open and setcpu
hmmm...i know i had to reboot to get SU to 'work right' for me...not sure if youve done that or not?
I've rebooted, but I'll try it again
Have you tried downloading the version of Busybox from Titanium itself? Open Titanium and click the "Problems" button to download it. It's been working perfectly fine for me.
I can't even open the app
What is the error you get? I also got it working. Rooted. Rebooted. Installed. Simple as that.
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I'm getting the same problem as OP. I'm not sure if it has to do with using a memory card from my G2 with existing Titanium backup info on there.
same problem
The titanium backup file must be on the phone hd and not on the external. TB is working fine for me, I just did a restore of my apps.
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Im having the same problem.. Installed Ti backup and every time I launch it, it force closes..
If you guys are coming from a CM7 Nexus One be careful restoring some system settings. After restoring my home button stopped working. Had to HR to fix.
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There was just an update that says to add more support for the G2x.
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try uninstalling, reboot and then reinstalling
Worked fine for me. I used it to freeze the annoying t-mobile apps.
another thing i have TB installed and on my SD i have all my data and apps but my TB i have doesnt recognize it whatsoever. and I even moved it from ym external SD. So what am I doing wrong, its only showing all the current apps i have
Move backup file from sd/ to extsd/ and it will run just fine
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Move backup file from sd/ to extsd/ and it will run just fine
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No, what I was saying was I put everything in TB from my Nexus on my 16gb card. So then when I installed TB again it only showed the current apps on my phone.
i copied over everything from my 16 gb card to the "SD", so basically eveything from the External to the Sd and it still isnt picking it up.
ugh why the hell does lg have to name their **** so crazy
having the same problem here just rooted. I know root works since Root explorer is working fine with no problems. After i load Titanium back it force closes right after it gets SU rights. Goose0121 What back up file are you talking about?
Hey guys,
I'm somewhat of a noob here but I'm having a problem. I've been using this rom on my G2x with no problems (more than the normal ones) for a few months. All of a sudden today, it restored all my preferences to default, made me go through the initial android set up screen, and I no longer have a data connection at all. It also deleted all my accounts (google, Facebook, etc). Upon restart each time, it keeps doing the same thing- deleting everything and resetting to default. All of my apps are still there and nothing seems wrong with them.
Also, I regularly make backups of my roms, but they are nowhere to be found (either with ROM manager or in recovery mode).
I haven't downloaded anything new recently and I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary.
Please help!! If I can't figure it out tonight or tomorrow I guess I'll have to reinstall the rom---which is fine, but I wonder if I'll get my data connection back...Do you guys think it'll work or should I figure out how to unroot my phone so I can send it back (don't really want to do this because I had problems rooting it originally).
Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much in advance.
First, go to setting then privacy and disable the backup and restore settings. Then use a file manager to explore your internal and external SD cards to find the clockworkmod folder and see if there are any backups there. You might need to move them to the external SD card in order for the recovery to find them
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Also, which guide did u follow to root and flash recovery?
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A couple of my apps un-updated and go keyboard malfunctioned totally as did todo list... Im asking if anyone knows what the hell happened?
EDIT: It happened after running out of battery. I think its an I9023
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Try to do a factory data reset in recovery, or if you don't mind losing files on SD card then you can do it from Settings > Backup & reset
Its not rooted, gonna wait til it breaks and root it after repair so i dont root it with worn parts. Anyways i got a duplicate youtube app now which cant be uninstalled.
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you dont have to be rooted to backup and reset found in settings
I have never made a backup and i got studf that i dont want to lose on it...
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you can backup with this app https://market.android.com/details?...DEsImNvbS5yZXJ3YXJlLmFuZHJvaWQuTXlCYWNrdXAiXQ.. then copy the folder on your sd card it (should be called reware) to your pc then go into settings hit backup and then reset and after that copy folder back to sd then download app again and hit restore
Hi All,
I recently flashed my At&t HTC One X with cygnamod 10.2 and it working fine. I took backup of my data via copying whole usb drive to computer as well as Nandroid backup. In earlier Anroid (AT&T - 4.1.1) there was notes app which is not there in cygnamod. I had some data on that app. Is there a way to restore that apps data?
Regards,
Vijay
From my experience, there is no way to restore the notes app data even if you restore everything. It will restore, but when you try to look at the notes it just says the notes are damaged and unrecoverable. It could just be a problem on my end though.
If the app is missing then there's no way to access the data, you need the app.
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Oh wow, I didn't even realize what he meant by that.
It was htc notes.I was able to find data on whole usb backup but it is up to Oct. I guess I have lost new data.
Regards,
Vijay
The problem with apps like HTC Notes is that they save the data in a proprietary format, which means you can only open the data using that app.
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