Hello,
my questions relates to this threat: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1782009 , but I can not post my question there because I am new.
I'm thinking about flashing the ROM by bruce2728 on my Sensation. I know i would lose all my data when doing this. But my question is: When the Cyanogenmod 10 is released official by the Cyanogenmodteam for my Sensation, could I flash it over the ROM by Bruce without losing my data?
Thank you for the answers.
You can try but make a nandroid backup first, because restoring data to another ROM will probably break it. Restore apps only with titanium should be okay, but you can't expect data for another build to work.
boomboomer said:
You can try but make a nandroid backup first, because restoring data to another ROM will probably break it. Restore apps only with titanium should be okay, but you can't expect data for another build to work.
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This is the correct asnwer.
You can always try it. But it may not work.
Making a full backup with Titanium, doing a full wipe, flashing a new ROM, and reinstalling all your apps and data takes about 20-30 minutes depending on how many apps you have and how many specific settings you need to redo on the new ROM (like notification bar power widgets and screen brightness and stuff like that)
So it's not an all day, hard to do process like the first time you rooted a phone. It's pretty simple and painless. Redoing apps and settings with Titanium is more boring than difficult. And even then it's a half hour process.
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I have been avidly reading about flashing my ATT Tilt with a new ROM, but I'd like to know if there are any tools to remove files from ROM without going through the (perceived) danger of re-flashing the ROM? For starters I would like to remove the bloatware.
On a related note, is it possible to to a hard reset with the soft reset procedure that does not install the ATT bloatware and then restore from backup? The thought of reinstalling all my software (dozens of apps) is a little frightening.
Thank you very much for entertaining a noobie question.
RK
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...I'd like to know if there are any tools to remove files from ROM without going through the (perceived) danger of re-flashing the ROM? For starters I would like to remove the bloatware.
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Check out this thread, specifically the question (and answer!) "How do I get all the crap (bloatware) off my Tilt without flashing it?"
-Brett.
but wait there's more
can I then restore from backup afterwards or will the bloatware come back with the restore?
you can skip the bloatware as long as you interupt the carrier add portion of the ROM load... Over and Over again if you like...
answer my own question
I just answered my own questoin by clearing storage and resetting to eliminate the ATT bloatware. I then restored from a sprite backup and was back to even less storage memory than before. I did another hard reset/soft reset and reloaded apps and settings without restoring from backup and I am back where I need to be.
I wish I had known about the IE cache clearing as well - that may have been my problem all along.
Hi all.
Sorry for a noob question.
I wonder about the correct restore procedure after flashing new ROMs...
Is it safe to restore everything (thinking of apps+data, system settings, desktop etc) using either Titanium or MyBackup? Or are there some burried negatives which should be paid attention to?
Thx.
If you're flashing a different ROM than before then you probably shouldn't recover the system data, just apps and user data
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Better restore just apps, NOT data, these can make you get AOS Bug..
OK, but what about for example setting up the desktop?
Setting up the desktop takes time every time you flash a new ROM. Is there a workaround...?
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Better restore just apps, NOT data, these can make you get AOS Bug..
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I never heard of AOS bug (might be a device-specific one & not related to the devices I have), but what would be the point of backing up your data if there was no way to restore it? It is perfectly OK to restore your apps and their data. It's also OK to restore system data if you're not switching ROMs.
I personally never had any problems migrating my apps + data back and forth between Froyo and Gingerbread ROMs.
After flashing between multiple ROMs yesterday, restoring all app+data, I never noticed any problems. Any search I do for an AOS bug comes back showing it caused by 2.3.3 or 2.3.4. So I imagine that if you're flashing ROMs and restoring on Froyo or below you won't have an issue.
pudgybunnyBry said:
After flashing between multiple ROMs yesterday, restoring all app+data, I never noticed any problems. Any search I do for an AOS bug comes back showing it caused by 2.3.3 or 2.3.4. So I imagine that if you're flashing ROMs and restoring on Froyo or below you won't have an issue.
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All right then... I will go with that it is safe to restore - at least if not switching ROMs... I think it will end up with some testing
Thx
Ok I have not done anything but root and unlock my infuse.
I am thinking about installing Infused 2.1.0.
I have not backed up anything, but there are apps that I want to keep that have been taken out of the stock.
If I restore missing apps with data, will that keep all of the apps I have? Im just wondering what the difference is between restore missing apps and back up all user apps?
Also, it is my understanding that the ROM extends the battery time. Is this true?
Sorry for being a pesky n00b
Michaela
emeralds5668 said:
Ok I have not done anything but root and unlock my infuse.
I am thinking about installing Infused 2.1.0.
I have not backed up anything, but there are apps that I want to keep that have been taken out of the stock.
If I restore missing apps with data, will that keep all of the apps I have? Im just wondering what the difference is between restore missing apps and back up all user apps?
Also, it is my understanding that the ROM extends the battery time. Is this true?
Sorry for being a pesky n00b
Michaela
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When you restore ,just restore apps. Don't restore data. The data might cause a conflict.
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When you restore ,just restore apps. Don't restore data. The data might cause a conflict.
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this isn't true - it isn't going to cause any conflicts with "missing apps" that are being freshly installed to your phone on a new ROM (i.e., not replacing another version of that app).
the only thing that you really need to avoid is restoring system data of any kind. that will cause conflicts with your phone, SMS, e-mail, etc. restoring "missing apps" should work just fine, even if you want to restore the data also.
as for battery life - yes, custom ROMs tend to get better battery life than stock froyo does.
good luck, and remember - you can always revert to stock froyo!
Hey guys,
I recently bought an HTC One S. I came from an HTC Amaze 4G, and thus I backed up everything in Titanium Backup *AND* SMS Backup and Restore.
Thank goodness I backed up my texts in SMS B&R.
When I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device, I went to install TB and restore missing apps and all system data.
I have never had this happen before, but when I rebooted the phone afterwards it said "Loading" on the HTC Sense screen and stayed there forever. It asked a few questions like Facebook login, etc. but still remained stuck on "Loading."
I eventually gave up and decided to take matters in my own hands. I figured that it's likely HTC Sense 3.6 data files were not compatible with 4.0 to a degree to cause issues, so I went into settings and cleared out the data for HTC Sense, and rebooted the phone.
When I rebooted the phone I was finally able to go into the messages app. Turns out I had a new text. NONE of my text message threads were there!!!
I am restoring them right now with SMS B&R.
I don't think this can be an ICS thing because on the Amaze I restored a TB backup the same exact way to a new ICS ROM and everything was fine. Has to be HTC Sense.
Anyhow, I just wanted to warn you guys. Don't trust a TB backup by itself from another device to the HTC One S. It may not work.
I see no reason to believe it won't work if coming from another phone with Sense 4.0, however I would be cautious and AT LEAST backup your text messages with SMS Backup and Restore.
It's still in the process of restoring. I am thinking that should surely work, but until it's done we won't know for certain. Will be certain to update this thread.
PS: I know some of you believe that you should never restore system data when going to a new device/rom (even though this is my 2nd post I've been lurking for quite a while :-D (as a guest)). I prefer to have all my stuff restored. If it causes a problem I am willing to go back and re-flash the rom
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you cant restore system data from one phone to another, Thats a recipe for disaster. Even restoring from one ROM to another is risky...
Only ever restore apps and app data, Not anything else.. Ive been using TB for about 2 years now.. Never had a single issue with it
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PS: I know some of you believe that you should never restore system data when going to a new device/rom (even though this is my 2nd post I've been lurking for quite a while :-D (as a guest)). I prefer to have all my stuff restored. If it causes a problem I am willing to go back and re-flash the rom
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@ azzledazzle, did u see this? )
yes i saw it, but i dont get why you like to restore system data...
there is nothing of use in it if you are restoring using the same ROM, the data will be in that ROM anyway.
If you are restoring on a new ROM, you cant restore the old data lol
you like to restore system data, yet if you have troubles you wipe and skip restoring data..
Why not just skip system data altogether ?
You sound like you have OCD or something
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yes i saw it, but i dont get why you like to restore system data...
there is nothing of use in it if you are restoring using the same ROM, the data will be in that ROM anyway.
If you are restoring on a new ROM, you cant restore the old data lol
you like to restore system data, yet if you have troubles you wipe and skip restoring data..
Why not just skip system data altogether ?
You sound like you have OCD or something
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System data saves the wallpaper, all icons, folders, etc. in the native launcher, alarms, etc. etc. which is not restored with apps. System data also saves the text messages, and restores them WAY faster than SMS Backup & Restore.
I've never had a problem restoring them until now. I tried one time not restoring system data, following the advice of someone on here who said it was pointless, and ended up losing system stuff. After that, never again do I restore without restoring system data.
From past 15-20 days I'm facing hanging problem. This happens when I switch on the data on or connects to wifi. As soon as I connects to wifi or data mobile starts hanging due to notifications of apps for eg. Whatsapp Gmail. Sometimes Mobile gets hang when you switch in between multiple apps. It doesn't really matter which rom I'm using. I tried 8-9 different roms since last 15-20 days. well let me give you some extra info about my moto G3. My current recovery is TWRP 3.0.2-r1 current rom is ported Stock nougat 7.1.1 by althafvly. Every time I flash new rom I restore backup from titanium backup app which is taken on previous rom. I take batch backup of almost 45-50 apps and restore them. Is this problem due to my backup process? It's been 1.5 years using this device. Flashing custom roms since 1 year. If anyone is facing same issue or you know the reason behind this, let me know in reply. Thanks for reading and sorry for my bad English.
Uh, if you are using TBP to restore stuff across different ROMs, you must have quite a confused build. At the very least, if you must use TBP across builds, restore the apps but NOT the data.
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Uh, if you are using TBP to restore stuff across different ROMs, you must have quite a confused build. At the very least, if you must use TBP across builds, restore the apps but NOT the data.
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Basically restore only apk and not apk+data.
Ok !! I got it. Is there any another way to restore apps + data without using TBP which creates such a confusing build?
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Basically restore only apk and not apk+data.
Ok !! I got it. Is there any another way to restore apps + data without using TBP which creates such a confusing build?
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There are lots of ways to restore apk+data, but that is the problem - the app data has stuff in it that (now) refers to many different roms. Unfortunately:
a) when you jump ROMs, or
b) when you are having a problem
You need to restore w/o data and restart the apps. You could try going to apps and clicking storage and clearing cache and data for each one, since maybe you have an idea as to a few that might be causing it. Trial and guess...
You could also nandroid what you have and then wipe and flash a new basic rom with no modifications and test there to see if prob goes away. No one that I have heard of is having the problem.
KrisM22 said:
There are lots of ways to restore apk+data, but that is the problem - the app data has stuff in it that (now) refers to many different roms. Unfortunately:
a) when you jump ROMs, or
b) when you are having a problem
You need to restore w/o data and restart the apps. You could try going to apps and clicking storage and clearing cache and data for each one, since maybe you have an idea as to a few that might be causing it. Trial and guess...
You could also nandroid what you have and then wipe and flash a new basic rom with no modifications and test there to see if prob goes away. No one that I have heard of is having the problem.
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Ok. Thank you very much for answer. Now i got the clear picture of impact of restoring app+data on new rom. I will try few different methods. And will let you know soon.