When i was on GB or Froyo i remember every time i restored a rom either stock or custom, as soon as i logged into my google account my apps auto restored.
Now on ICS i see some custom roms do this and others do not and none of the stock roms do.
why is this?
its such as nice feature and it seems like something that is available from google itself and that some rom devs just enable it or disable it.
does anyone have any insight?
Also i downloaded Titanium Free version and i can not find Batch operations anywhere. did they change it to where you have to buy pro version to get batch operations now?
You have to check or uncheck it before signing in. If you download an app first it overrides the restore.
As far as titanium, I dunno. I support the devs and buy apps.
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no what I mean is some roms as soon as you sign in and choose yes to google backup service, the device starts downloading all of your apps from google play store automatically which is awesome.
most roms dont do that and none of the stock roms have done this since Froyo and SOME GB ones.
this must be some type of hidden default setting that some devs arent enabling by default in their roms which i cant understand why they wouldn't do it.
Before I sign in I uncheck auto sync and all that so the apps don't restore automatically. So I guess I wouldn't know which roms it happens or doesn't happen on.
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Also i downloaded Titanium Free version and i can not find Batch operations anywhere. did they change it to where you have to buy pro version to get batch operations now?
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It's still there, just select the checkmark in the top right corner, when you're in the Backup/Restore Screen.
Yea I've noticed the same thing. It's only worked for me so far when flashing CM9. I think I read someone else asked this same question regarding why it works when flashing CM9 but not AOKP.
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It's still there, just select the checkmark in the top right corner, when you're in the Backup/Restore Screen.
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thanks!
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Yea I've noticed the same thing. It's only worked for me so far when flashing CM9. I think I read someone else asked this same question regarding why it works when flashing CM9 but not AOKP.
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yea i think ive noticed it on CM9 builds as well.
i just dont understand why even stock builds in Froyo and some GB had this enabled by default but no Stock ICS does it and very limited and hit or miss 3rd party ICS roms do it.
it makes it so much easier when flashing roms when you sign in and all of your apps from the playstore just start downloading.
I am interested in whether or not this has been addressed further? Is there a way to enable auto restore for roms? If so then how? Btw happy new year and thank you to everyone who helps to keep this community going from contributors to devs, themers, and testers. It has been a tremendous help to me time and time again. Thank you
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Now that I am a pro, lol. I flashed cognition 4.3 and it's for sure way faster. Looks like stock rom, but is definitely way faster. Is there not much customization to be done on this rom? But imma start to read up on more roms. Thanks for teaching me how to flash!!
Edit: I know that froyo didn't require task killer, some people said that it even made their phone run bad. How about on cognition 4.3, does that need a task killer our does it run fine without one?
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You can switch between 5 lockscreens
There are a couple of themes around for Cog 4.x if you're keen on customizing, just make double sure it's compatible with your ROM......and do a nandroid backup in case it goes pear shaped.
Forget task killers unless you have a really specific need.
I flash my first ROM couple weeks back. Was really happy it went with no glitches or problems, but all thanks to the help from here!
Used the samsung's Task Manager to kill active Apps on FF 2.7
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The built in task killer works just fine.
Where do I find the lockscreens or themes at?
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Where do I find the lockscreens or themes at?
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The lock screens should already be there. Take a look at Settings> Display> Unlock Screen.
For themes go to Captivate Themes and Apps and look for themes that say "Compatible with (or tested on) Cog 4.x".
This should get you started- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921920
Welcome to the addiction.
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Used the samsung's Task Manager to kill active Apps on FF 2.7
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I strictly use SystemPanel Lite. Haven't used anything else since going to 2.2(LONG time ago)
Welcome to this group of flashers
KonaZXIII said:
The lock screens should already be there. Take a look at Settings> Display> Unlock Screen.
For themes go to Captivate Themes and Apps and look for themes that say "Compatible with (or tested on) Cog 4.x".
This should get you started- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921920
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Ah sweet thanks. When everything looks the same as before sometimes its hard to picks out what settings they added
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cog 4.3 is a great rom to start, its not far off of stock. 4.3 seems to be running great for me too compared to earlier versions.
Well nice to see my help and recommendation of rom worked out for you. Now just read, read, read, and when you think you've got a question, read some more. I started flashing my phone day 2 of having it this is my first smartphone, didn't post until 3 months later and that was to start helping other people. Have fun and be careful font do anything unless you know what it is, and make sure you know how to recover from a blunder.
Ha, congrats, I too flashed Serendipity, my first, a week ago and since have flashed a nice juicy paragon kernel. It's amazing the speed! I've tried a few launchers but none did I like as much as the stock one. Until I found W7 launcher on the market. But I cross back and forth btw the stock and W7, thats what I like about it is it's easy to get rid of if I like. Great work on the flash, great people here, helped me out immensely too.
I do have one question tho, that hasn't been explained to me and may help you also. Harveythedog mentioned a nandroid back up and I've searched but cant find out what this means and how to do it? Can someone explain this?
I've backed up with titbu, and backed up my apn's, and my efs folder to ext sd, but I'm not positive I've done a nandroid backup.
What is REALLY needed is a sticky here with a step by step on what to do once you've flashed a rom. There's plenty on HOW to do it and what steps to take prior, but I haven't found anything on exactly what should be done after. I think it would be really useful for noobs like me.
great work
Stop encouraging him "haha" just kidding welcome to the party.
A nandroid back up is done in clockwork recovery under backup and restore, it makes a back up of your system so if you were to do something that breaks the os you can restore a working rom from the backup.
Good job on the flash no matter how many roms.i.try i keep going back to cog its the best one out there lovin the.battery life and speed
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A nandroid back up is done in clockwork recovery under backup and restore, it makes a back up of your system so if you were to do something that breaks the os you can restore a working rom from the backup.
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Ok, so I've done that. Good news. Does it get backed up on the internal sd or ext sd? If int, should I move it to ext? And home comp? Thanks Studacris.
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Ok, so I've done that. Good news. Does it get backed up on the internal sd or ext sd? If int, should I move it to ext? And home comp? Thanks Studacris.
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It puts it on the internal sdcard. /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup to be more precise. Flashing doesn't wipe the sdcard partition only master clear does that, but you should be backing up the entire sdcard on your computer before flashing anyway, so that will be in there, but a good rule of thumb in computers in general: if its important to you back it up, and back up the backup. Data redundancy is an amazing thing
make sure you dont rename it ever clockwork has an issue with restoring if you do, even if you change it back to what it was, so just dont rename. the nandroid itself is just named by the date you created it I believe.
serendipity forevaaaaa
3 days into my first Rom flash as well - Serendipity (literally spent weeks researching, reading and understanding everything).
Gotta say no matter how much i messed with lagfixes... Kernels... Modems..... I could never get the cappy as smooth as this Rom. Kudos to the creators. And grats on your first (and in all likelihood by no means your last)
Hi all,
I'm an inspire noob running exist's 4.0.3 asopX version 26 and he recently said that he was going to update us to 4.0.4 for version 27. My question is can I back up what i have to the sd card, do a reset, then recover everything using 4.0.4? Or will i need to do a wipe and manually put stuff back on?
thanks
As Long as the recovery you are using is compatible with your backup, then you can restore it with any Rom you are running. Backups from CWM are not always compatible with 4EXT recovery and vice versa
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OK. Got it. Thanks a bunch
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I don't think glevitan understood your question correctly, or maybe I don't. I took it you want to back up your apps and such, not the ROM version itself. And to restore everything back on the 4.0.4 version. This has nothing to do with clockwork or 4EXT recovery.
If he releases the 4.0.4 ROM as an update and does not require a full wipe then just install it over top of the 4.0.3 ROM. Most of the time the DEV requires a full wipe though.
Usually it is best to do a full wipe and restore user data with a backup app like Titanium Backup. But you only want to backup and restore user apps. Restoring system data can really mess your ROM up severely. Google contacts will resync when signed in.
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I don't think glevitan understood your question correctly, or maybe I don't. I took it you want to back up your apps and such, not the ROM version itself. And to restore everything back on the 4.0.4 version. This has nothing to do with clockwork or 4EXT recovery.
If he releases the 4.0.4 ROM as an update and does not require a full wipe then just install it over top of the 4.0.3 ROM. Most of the time the DEV requires a full wipe though.
Usually it is best to do a full wipe and restore user data with a backup app like Titanium Backup. But you only want to backup and restore user apps. Restoring system data can really mess your ROM up severely. Google contacts will resync when signed in.
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haha Now that I see your reply I guess that I didn't get what he was asking...well, he will come back and get what he wants or will ask again...
I will say, no matter how inconsequential it seems, DO. NOT. RESTORE. SYSTEM. DATA. between major android versions. Let me refine that. I back up my playlists using Titanium Backup. I figured this was an insignificant thing and restored it when I moved from CoreDroid to aospX. Firstly, it didn't restore my playlists; secondly, I had to factory reset the phone < 1 day later.
That said, I WILL be restoring playlists and contacts going from AR26 -> AR27. I'll report either here or in the dev thread if it causes problems, but I have 6 g(mail | apps) accounts plus my FB account, and it takes me a considerable amount of time to get the duplicates regrouped.
Hope I helped. BTW, the free version of TiBU is pretty good, you just have to confirm every install. To me, it was worth it to get the pay version so that I could restore all my apps without confirming every one (right now I have 45-50, that's a lot of confirmations). It's also nice to be able to back out of a buggy new version of an app, or to be able to go back if you don't like the new version (I'm looking at you, FB.)
oh i see now. looks like i really lucked out cuz i flashed AR27 and his 4.0.4 then did a recovery. I thought it was a bit odd that it still said 4.0.3 so I came back here. Doh! okie dokie. I'm redoing a wipe and clean install and I'll just push all of my apps back from my google account.
Thanks for all the pointers about Tia Backup
edit: cant type
Another question, after installing exitZs new update I can't record sound. I'd post in his thread but I'm still a noob and need to get my post counter up. Thanks for any help
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Flash inspiremod that will fix it
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this works for a AOSP build?
where can i find it?
young440 said:
this works for a AOSP build?
where can i find it?
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Yep, actually is in the existz thread...look where you have attached files in the first post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460820
thanks for the reply.
i flashed and I still get the internal application error.
Check this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24419059
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Young, check here. Remember to thank the OP.
I really appreciate all the help guys but I've flashed both the InspireMod 0.5 and the one you both provided the link for. Unfortunately it still doesn't record sound. I am trying to send a message via MMS by recording it. But when I push record it gives me an error of Internal Application Error. I'll try downloading different apps to see how they work. Its just kinda odd the stock recorder doesn't work
Thank you all for your help.
young440 said:
I really appreciate all the help guys but I've flashed both the InspireMod 0.5 and the one you both provided the link for. Unfortunately it still doesn't record sound. I am trying to send a message via MMS by recording it. But when I push record it gives me an error of Internal Application Error. I'll try downloading different apps to see how they work. Its just kinda odd the stock recorder doesn't work
Thank you all for your help.
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Huh. I'd tell you to check with eXistz in #aospx, but he's away most of the time.... it's like he has one of those "life" things or something.
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Another question, after installing exitZs new update I can't record sound. I'd post in his thread but I'm still a noob and need to get my post counter up. Thanks for any help
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what are you using to attempt to record sound?
edit: nevermind, didnt read enough.
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Huh. I'd tell you to check with eXistz in #aospx, but he's away most of the time.... it's like he has one of those "life" things or something.
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Yeah I'd post in his development thread but I'm just a noob trying to rack up the posts.
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young440 said:
Yeah I'd post in his development thread but I'm just a noob trying to rack up the posts.
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You should have placed this in the ICS Q/A thread. Do NOT use the development thread for questions. thats why the restriction is in place, so people learn the ropes a bit before they are allowed in there. I would redownload and do a full wipe and reflash. And try to record your mms BEFORE you put all your apps and stuff back on there. Need a clean environment before you can dig deeper into this. Only thing you should put on after installing is inspiremod before doing your mms test. Id love to help test with ya, but i always remove the default mms apk from my phone :/
OK. Now I know. Which messaging app do you use?
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Well got another question lol I know I'm a noob to the whole rooting Droid phone's but I changed my rom to euroskank cm9 was wondering why there is a few things in settings I can't get into or there is nothing there, do I have to update the rom, and was wondering about themes for it. Thanks in advance
I was just wondering what the certain things are that you can't get into/select?
When I go into system settings I can't open dock or icon settings but the rom is a great looking rom . There is a few other options that are blank nothing important stuff like themes
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If it's greyed out it's not put into the ROM yet
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It's just things they haven't gotten around to putting in yet. Nothing to worry about.
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I have one more Q about the rom I don't have rom manager paid version, so updating the rom for the features they haven't put in yet will it update thru the settings under about phone or will I have to use Google for that. Is rom manager worth the buy that's the only way I know of or how to change the rom in the g2x
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I have one more Q about the rom I don't have rom manager paid version, so updating the rom for the features they haven't put in yet will it update thru the settings under about phone or will I have to use Google for that. Is rom manager worth the buy that's the only way I know of or how to change the rom in the g2x
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time for you to do some reading, if all your using is ROM manager, then you need to read up on NVFlash. without NVFlashing your phone, if you get stuck in a bootloop, you cant access recovery.
as for changing the ROM, just check these forums from time to time. I wouldnt reccomend automatic updates anyway because most updates in roms introduce new quirks and issues, and if you look at the thread in the forum before flashing it youll get a better idea of what those issues are.
I have flashed a new recovery have had one rom boot loop but have tried a couple like the cm9 but missing a few features I would like to have that are not in it, there so much stuff that's possible trying to find a set up I like lol
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Read read read and read some more. A little reading goes a long way! You nvflased your phone right? I don't even use rom manager. I boot into recovery each and every time I want to switch roms. As for updates just go to the Site or check out rootzwiki. That is where my buddy dj posts the roms. Here is euroskank Site http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/
Hopefully I don't get heat for this lol
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I don't see a thread about this in our forums. I think we need a thread to upload the latest versions of svoice so we can use it while running custom ROMs. I would put a download link but I need to put it in my drop box first. I'm busy at the moment of posting this though and only have a few seconds. So it would be helpful for someone to post the latest version.
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I agree 100%. I pulled the app from a ROM and tried to put install it into mine, and even messed with the permissions but cannot get it to speak back to me. Fully functional otherwise, just no voice.
Well it looks like no ones gonna pose this so moderators can delete it if they want. I'll figure out how to post an s voice app later. I only have the ICS version tho.
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I did a nandroid of my stock SGS III ROM but I can't find a way to pull the apk from it. Titanium says there is no data in the cwm backup. But there is. Oh well, I can live without it, or at least until someone else figures it out.
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I did a nandroid of my stock SGS III ROM but I can't find a way to pull the apk from it. Titanium says there is no data in the cwm backup. But there is. Oh well, I can live without it, or at least until someone else figures it out.
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Okay. I found the initial release s voice (Called voicetalk.apk) on the internet. Install this as a regular apk if you want (it works fine for me like that but a little buggy.) I've heard it works better if installed as a system app though. Let me know if its still buggy as a system app and I'll lull a jellybean version of this apk from an official jellybean toutchwiz rom if it doesn't work right.
https://hotfile.com/get/156330651/4fb826d1/bbfa392/voicetalk.apk
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Of cource the apps that rely on the toutchwiz frameworks will NOT be compatible. But I still find s voice somewhat useful.
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hello
i normally use the codefire 4.3 ROM, installed the karbonkitkat, and one thing that was a bit annoying was the fact that all my apps werent redownloaded? i had to through and individually install them...
anytime i re-rommed using another codefire nightly buid, all my apps were pulled down again...
or is there someting i can force to get all the apps downloaded as normal?
is this by design because its a different android version?
thanks
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Why don't you just use Titanium Backup to backup your apps? Restoring from TiBu is so much easier than restoring through the Play Store. Even if you don't want to do it that way usually at least you will have a backup for cases like this. In my honest opinion, every single unlocked/rooted phone should have Titanium installed, it's the single most important app for rooted devices.
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Hi.
If I don't want to use titanium, can you think of any reason why apps are not coming down post flash? Slimkat works, gummy not....
I have checked backup/restore options during setup...
I don't know. Why don't you want to use Titanium? It'd totally save your butt in situations like this.
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Hi.
If I don't want to use titanium, can you think of any reason why apps are not coming down post flash? Slimkat works, gummy not....
I have checked backup/restore options during setup...
Wouldn't have a clue, sorry.
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If I don't want to use titanium, can you think of any reason why apps are not coming down post flash? Slimkat works, gummy not....
I have checked backup/restore options during setup...
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What GApps are you using?
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