I have had the unfortunate experience in using samsung kies to backup my sgs2 bought in June '11 to upgrade the latest firmware too then realise the kies backup didn't work.
However, before I did the kies backup I copied the entire phone hhd to my pc, just incase.
When I realised the kies backup didnt work, I wasn't disheartened, as I have the info on my pc, right.. well no, as the files (data) I had copied, all of it won't go back to the sgs2 hhd (internal memory).
Can anyone advise?
Also, I now have the latest sgs2 firmware on my sgs2, I read the only way to backup the entire contents of the phone is to root it and use something such as titanium or nanroid.. yet I haven't got a clue what any of these are, or what customs ROM'S are.. is there a newbie site a read I can view to understand what the different ROMS do, and what will be better for my needs, also the most effective way to root my sgs2, as I don't want to brick it, I have read that you can root/unroot it using certain software, this would be good if there is one for the sgs2? as this would allow me to switch between the two, if anything went wrong etc or if I sold the phone.
Can anyone in layman's terms help, advise or guide me.
It would be appreciated, as my need to root is simply to do a full phone backup; once I've sorted out how to get all my data back to the sgs2 (
thanks
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ok as I have had little reply to my posting I went ahead and succesdfully rooted my sgs2.
Now I've completed a titanium backup, how can I verify that 'all' my phone's data has been backed up? as I don't later want to find that it didn't work or missed items.
I'm thinking of backup my phone to pc and then using restore to prove it, or is there an easier way?
Now that I'm rooted what ROM's are popular currently? I'm after faster web browsing, better battery life, and for google to sync my calander (completely).
The latter is a problem I've had for about a week; google won't sync my entire calander to droid. I've read a lot and it seems I'm not alone in this; yet I've tried all the work arounds, and still nothing.
Any advice?
Also, if I factory reset my device, will I have to root my sgs2 again? (I had done this prior to rooting and still didn't help google calander sync afterwards, it would only sync 1 month's worth of prior events).
Thanks in advance.
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I have owned my d incredible since June 2010. I rooted using the one touch enrevoked in Sept 2010. Just yesterday I tried to use my camera (i use the camera quite often) and it briefly shows the little white camera icon on the screen, but it quickly disappears to show only a completely black screen. No button or function will work beyond this point, other than if I hit the hone button. The home button takes me to the home screen. I have tried removing the battery, removing the SD card, even other apps like FD camera do not work. Nor does camcorder.
Does anyone have this problem? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Did u get to the bottom of this? I'm having exactly the same problem..
need info
Are you rooted? s-off? What rom? Have you tried to fix permissions?
Try a freshly formatted to fat32 sdcard.
If you have Rom Manager you can try the Evo camera, it is in Virtuos under Extra Goodies(is not ASOP, Sense Only afaik).
I always flash it if it's not in the rom already.
because it is all camera apps I am leaning towards the card, do any other apps FC saving to it? Voice Memo or what not. Does storing pics to internal fc it also?
It's rooted (unrevoked) and s-off (alpharev). It's a Telstra Rom ( group and sense). I rooted and s-off'd to remove all the Telstra crap. I'm tempted to do a factory restore, although that would mean reloading everything again apps, contacts, pics, txt msgs etc. Got a nand backup from s-off, will that renove the alpharev clockwork mod? Last resort would be to flash with that Telstra Rom, which should un s-off and unroot the phone. Although that feels like a sledgehammer to crack a nut solution.
Tried fix permissions, and can write to sdcard
You should do a lot more reading if you are worried about loosing stuff. Backing up is the first step of most things.
Here is what I use. I am sure there are better, this is just what I am running right now.
Do your own research. What I find as an acceptable risk in regards to access and security you may not.
For apps I use Titanium Backup then zip the folder and dropbox it weekly. I only restore the user installed apks and no data for compatibility between roms. As a fail over for TB there is AppBrain and I sync it daily.
Contacts I export them as a vcard and dropbox it, fail over is Google, FaceBook, and Evernote.
SMS I went with SMS Backup +, it pushes them up to gmail. I don't store them online anymore and use Text Secure to encrypt them locally.
Pictures I use Picasa to import and manage them on my pc and many of the online free places for fail over copies.
One other thing I recommend is use a fresh sd-card between roms.
Don't trust sd-cards!! Flash media is not a back-up, at best it is short term storage.
I have never lost unrevoked s-off or my clockwork recovery by flashing a rom, but I have never even looked at a telstra rom.
well, i unrooted my phone, removed s-off, reflahsed the stock rom, and i still have the same problem :-/
copied all the contents off the sd-card onto my PC, and just formatted the sdcard (via windows), and then copied all the contents back onto it
still same issue :-/
i dont think this is a hardware problem, definitely software, thin your right about the sdcard... any more ideas?
You sir, are a legend. decided to amount my card and try another one. camera now working.....
thank u!
Nope, gone again :-(
I'm planning to root my sister's Galaxy Ace but she wants to save every message, picture and contact she has on her phone. I searched it in google, but it seems that Kies only backs up the contacts and bookmarks. Can anyone help tell me what applications should I use to back up everything else?
In addition, can anyone point me to the most reliable guide in rooting Samsung Galaxy Ace?
Thanks!
I can see that nobody else has replied to your Q but wondered whether you had managed to find out from any other sources how to make a full back-up of the Ace as I want to do this myself too ???
As you say, Kies backs up almost nothing.
I can copy the micro-SD myself but I want to copy all the settings, etc. so that I can restore them to my replacement Ace (I want to take back to shop as it constantly freezes and switches off)
I still haven't found any solution to our problem yet. I hope someone's gonna pass this thread who is knowledgeable enough to help us.
You can download GO SMS Pro from the Android Market to backup your texts, contacts are usually backed up automatically with your Google account. With GO SMS, you choose Menu>Settings>GO SMS Services>Backup and Restore.
Photos are on the SD card, shouldn't need to worry about them.
Once rooted, you can make a nandroid backup with ROM Manager.
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Hey you just wanna root your device........you can do this with super one click.
No back up is necessary as it will not remove any file or setting of your use.
Now that people have had the device for a few days, I was hoping their to headstart could help potential switchers and as the SR doesn't have it's own forum yet so I'm asking here.
Newbie alert!!!!
I am wondering how easy it will be to move from the Gs2 to the skyrocket? Basically any recommended ways of moving my apps, texts, pictures, etc to the SdCARD and back from the SdCard to the new phone? Contacts are synced with Google Contacts so no problems there, my main concern is with paid apps, I'd rather not pay for them again.
Can I back up apps via TiBU and restore them on the Skyrocket? Or can I just reinstall them on the new phone?
End of Newbie question!!!!
Paid apps are in your google account as well, you will be able to reinstall all your paid apps through the market (without repaying) by just signing in to your same google account.
The only thing you need to backup is your pictures/music.
Here's what I did to migrate to my Skyrocket from my Captivate:
*Duh Alert* Have your original phone rooted and Titanium Pro installed.
Original Phone
1. Backup APK & Data with Titanium.
2. Locate where backup directory is on your phone. Mine was \sdcard\TitaniumBackup
3. Mount original phone and copy backup directory to your computer.
New Hotness
1. Root that bad boy. Search the site, its here.
2. Install Titanium Pro from market.
3. Back up 1 app, pick something silly. That will create the backup directory.
4. Mount the new hotness and copy your saved directory from your computer to the Skyrocket.
5. Restore apps. I did one at a time cuz I didn't want everything installed on the new phone.
95% of the apps and data restored properly.
Simplistic, yes....but it works. Go forth and multiply.
If you want the smoothest experience on your Skyrocket, do NOT use a backup tool to bring over apps, just reinstall them from the Market.
Copying apps and app date with a tool like Titanium does and WILL cause some issues.
crawlgsx said:
If you want the smoothest experience on your Skyrocket, do NOT use a backup tool to bring over apps, just reinstall them from the Market.
Copying apps and app date with a tool like Titanium does and WILL cause some issues.
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To partially agree with you I tried using MyBackUp Pro and almost everything failed. That's what I deserve for buying that one first back in the day. BUT....Titanium worked great. All of my paid apps were as good as gold.
Plus, if you want your saved data, wouldn't you have to use a backup tool?
gheck911 said:
To partially agree with you I tried using MyBackUp Pro and almost everything failed. That's what I deserve for buying that one first back in the day. BUT....Titanium worked great. All of my paid apps were as good as gold.
Plus, if you want your saved data, wouldn't you have to use a backup tool?
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If your just trying to backup like game saves then sometimes. A lot of times that data can be backed up by just mounting your sdcard to your computer and copying the files. Some games do save the data in funny locations so you do need (easier) to use something like Titanium, but you are always better off starting from as scratch as possible to avoid issues later.
Moving an app to save you from entering your login info for example, is just a bad idea. Most apps have no real data to backup, simple 2 second settings etc....
crawlgsx said:
If you want the smoothest experience on your Skyrocket, do NOT use a backup tool to bring over apps, just reinstall them from the Market.
Copying apps and app date with a tool like Titanium does and WILL cause some issues.
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i have found that most issues with TiBu are do to you trying to restore System Information......i used tibu to restore my apps on the Skyrockert. i just picked APPS only with out system data.
worked fine i have not seen a hickup on any device or install after a flash of new Rom.
the2rrell said:
i have found that most issues with TiBu are do to you trying to restore System Information......i used tibu to restore my apps on the Skyrockert. i just picked APPS only with out system data.
worked fine i have not seen a hickup on any device or install after a flash of new Rom.
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TiBu works great, usually, for restoring NON-System apps and their data.
Avoid restoring system apps/data.
Also, if you do happen to run into a problem with a particular restored app, all you need to do is uninstall/reinstall it and then use TiBu to restore the "data only" for that app.
This has always worked for me.
y?
Its basically the same phone, screen tiny bit bigger and it edges r round, and the. 3 faster CPU is not noticeable, and if u don't live in the handful of citys that have lte network what's the point by the time LTE gets fully activated skyrocket will be old phone something way better out, now if u didn't have the gs2 already if say hell ya but since u do wasted money IMO
I made backups of my nexus 4 apps using helium, ready to restore them to my new nexus 5.
Also used helium to make backups of the missus' apps on her galaxy s3, ready to restore them to my old nexus 4 (which she is having).
On both devices I cannot restore the backups, it says there are no backups on internal storage.
Of course now I have wiped the nexus 4 so I can't try again. What's going on?
I have seen posts from other people on this issue but I have been unable to find an actual answer. The various workarounds mentioned do not work.
I thought I might get by without rooting my new N5 this time but I did want to transfer all of my apps and data from my galaxy nexus. I gave helium a try and had exactly the same results as you had. Fortunately I hadn't wiped my galaxy nexus so I broke down and rooted the N5 and used titanium to do the transfer.
I was really surprised at how almost non-existent was the helium support community. It was a real wake-up call. I decided there was no way I could rely on this product. Support is too thin, even if it was working, to rely on it. Too bad because there is no other option for non-root full backup.
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I thought I might get by without rooting my new N5 this time but I did want to transfer all of my apps and data from my galaxy nexus. I gave helium a try and had exactly the same results as you had. Fortunately I hadn't wiped my galaxy nexus so I broke down and rooted the N5 and used titanium to do the transfer.
I was really surprised at how almost non-existent was the helium support community. It was a real wake-up call. I decided there was no way I could rely on this product. Support is too thin, even if it was working, to rely on it. Too bad because there is no other option for non-root full backup.
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Yeah, unfortunately I am not prepared to root at all so I have lucked out on that. A bit peeved that I have lost a lot of game data/progress now but it's not the end of the world, worse thing happen.
Though I will certainly not trust helium ever again...
I had similar problem when switching roms on my old phone. Something got into me and I thought I'd try Helium. Have you tried this:
1. Install the app from Play. When you backup you can usually restore when you want to immediately on the same phone.
2. Overwrite the backup of the freshly installed app with your original backup. Don't delete anything, just overwrite only backup file (the largest, I don't remember extension)
3. Restore.
You can also do backups without rooting using adb backup.
I saw that workaround somewhere around the net but when I tried it only came up with three apps to restore (out of around 30-ish) and none of those actually restored anything.
Also tried the web interface thing, which didn't work either.
I apologize in advance. I haven't had the time to search the forums, but what is the best way to back up everything on a Samsung s10+ that has NOT been rooted?
My wife decided to trade in her old s10+ for an iPhone (I know). I've been extremely busy and need to get this phone sent back, but I don't want to lose anything (calendar, contacts, sms/mms, app data (if possible), etc.--as much as I can save). I've already copied all of the files to my pc through USB.
Thanks in advance for the help!
A full backup is done by means of so-called Online-Nandroid-Backup what requires phone's Android is rooted and USB-debugging is enabled on phone.
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