I have installed cm10 for my Skyrocket from official ICS update. I can not get my contacts which I backed up using titanium backup without screwing up the entire system requiring me to reset it. I suppose it is because it is not in the same format as ICS. Has anyone had this problem and can help me?
Nobody can help you here. Go to the skyrocket forums
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MitchReeves said:
I have installed cm10 for my Skyrocket from official ICS update. I can not get my contacts which I backed up using titanium backup without screwing up the entire system requiring me to reset it. I suppose it is because it is not in the same format as ICS. Has anyone had this problem and can help me?
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Have Google backup your contacts prior to installing cm10. When you try to restore your contacts with tibu are you restoring anything else? Tibu doesn't always work very well and I don't have it restore anything when flashing different roms.
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I had some similar challenges and jd's advice (above) was helpful.
Question: are you using the basic contacts in the stock system or an app?
When I went through this I found that restoring wholesale with Titanium was NOT the right way to go.
As mentioned above, if you are using stock then you should mostly just restore manually - through Google backup or Play, after flashing the new ROM. There isnt much you need to restore through Titanium. I used it to restore my launcher with its configuration and my email/contacts/calendar, which were not being managed by stock/google. But thats it.
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Hey guys,
I've been flashing Roms non-stop trying to find one that I like. The main problem I'm having with this is that I have to go back and redownload each app every time I flash a new rom.
I've heard people say that you should absolutely not use titanium back up, but they don't give reasons.
How do you guys do it? This is crazy...
Titanium backup is fine, just don't restore system data, ever. Restore MISSING apps with data and you'll be just fine.
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For those that are testing roms,how do you back up your installed apps/data to load to the new rom and get up and running quickly? I have 80+ apps that I really hate to have to reinstall or have progress reset every time I try a new rom. I have TB but have seen mixed reviews here on its results. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. I have already read the threads how to backup existing setup in case something goes wrong.
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For those that are testing roms,how do you back up your installed apps/data to load to the new rom and get up and running quickly? I have 80+ apps that I really hate to have to reinstall or have progress reset every time I try a new rom. I have TB but have seen mixed reviews here on its results. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. I have already read the threads how to backup existing setup in case something goes wrong.
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Make a CWM backup. Install new ROM, then go to Backup and Restore, go to advanced restore, then select the backup you made, and select restore data. That will bring back all of your apps/setting and such.
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Make a CWM backup. Install new ROM, then go to Backup and Restore, go to advanced restore, then select the backup you made, and select restore data. That will bring back all of your apps/setting and such.
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Exactly how I do it!
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Thank you. I thought cwm was only to put back to the way I started like a windows image file.
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Thank you. I thought cwm was only to put back to the way I started like a windows image file.
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I apologize, I misunderstood your question......
I used CWM when I went from stock rooted 2.3.5 to stock rooted 2.3.6 to restore all my apps. I'd imagine there could be some issues if you used CWM in the same manner when going from stock rom to say RebelROM so for that I'd use MyBackup. I prefer it over TB any day. So use MB to make your backup of your apps (apk's and data) before flashing the new rom, flash the new rom and then once you get MB on your phone again use it to restore the apps, apk's first then data after all the apk's have been restored.
Sorry for the confusion
I use Rom Toolbox...it works quite well
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For those that are testing roms,how do you back up your installed apps/data to load to the new rom and get up and running quickly? I have 80+ apps that I really hate to have to reinstall or have progress reset every time I try a new rom. I have TB but have seen mixed reviews here on its results. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. I have already read the threads how to backup existing setup in case something goes wrong.
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I just tested a theory i had and it worked flawlessly. I just flash supercharged v5 and before i did i just wiped cache and dalvix and formatted system, i did not do a factory data reset. I then flashed the rom and everything went flawlessly. I still have all my apps and data from before the flash.
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So here is what happened.
I had a stock 2.3.4 droid 2 global from Verizon with the .629 update.
Used Framaroot to root it.
I used Titanium Backup to backup my contacts being the idiot that I am not thinking it wouldn't work. I also thought I had the contacts backed up to google but it seems I didn't.
I flashed over to this custom ROM LiquidICS 1.6 unofficial droid 2 global version which I can't link to.
Now Titanium Backup isn't letting me restore the contacts that I backed up.
For whatever reason even though I used ClockworkMod to backup my current ROM it isn't in my SD card which really pisses me off because I confirmed it was there before flashing over to liquidics.
If anyone knows either a way to get the contact files from 2.3.4 working with 4.0.4 or knows of a place where I could find just the ROM of the stock 2.3.4 or a different custom ROM that would work with the contact files from 2.3.4 that would be great.
I would prefer not having to go find a flash drive or a CD to use to SBF back to 2.3.4. But if that is my only way to do it I will do so.
So please help.
Did you back them up through Verizon because if you did you can easily restore them from that.
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Jaggar345 said:
Did you back them up through Verizon because if you did you can easily restore them from that.
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I thought I had but, at least for now anyways, I keep getting various errors where backup assistant is just not working at all for me. So I was hoping for something besides that.
Here are the apps/files I have backed up in Titanium Backup
ContactsData 2.3.4
Contacts Sync 2.3.4
Contacts 4.0.4-e(displayed as contacts 2.3.4 (10) by the actual restore button)
I am really hoping there is a way to somehow get those files working with my current system. If not I have to decide if it is worth rolling back and then going back to my new ROM and setting everything up again. Honestly not sure if it is just to get the contacts back.
Did you try going to verizons website and see if your contacts are somewhere on there and cam be pushed back to your phone.
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Did you try going to verizons website and see if your contacts are somewhere on there and cam be pushed back to your phone.
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...Just like I said in my first post backup assistant is not working for me. As in both the website and the app.
I really doubt you will be able to use Blur's contact data on a non-Blur ROM.
(And your main mistake, as I see it, was using Phone Contacts instead of syncing contacts with your Google account.)
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I really doubt you will be able to use Blur's contact data on a non-Blur ROM.
(And your main mistake, as I see it, was using Phone Contacts instead of syncing contacts with your Google account.)
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So do you know where I can get a .ZIP of the Blur ROM?
And yea I know I messed up.
Try looking on RootzWiki; I remember someone posting a clockworkmod backup of stock 4.5.629.
I don't have one since I am still on 4.5.608 (and not planning to update — I like having the ability to downgrade if I want to).
I rooted and flashed BeanStalk and mistakenly relied on Kies to backup the SMS history. Now I'm left with a .bk file and having trouble finding an app that can read it. Google search didn't help and forum search is down right now. Any help? :fingers-crossed:
Go back to stock. Kies does not work on custom roms. On stock rom restore your data through Kies. Download Sms Backup&Restore from the playstore and use it to backup your sms. Flash Beanstalk again. Get set up...use the same app to restore your sms. Good luck!
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I was afraid of that.
If I back up her current recent texts as well, will I be able to restore both backups and have all of them put together seamlessly? Chronological, etc.
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I was afraid of that.
If I back up her current recent texts as well, will I be able to restore both backups and have all of them put together seamlessly? Chronological, etc.
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I would restore your data from kies first...then restore the recent texts. Should be ok. If they do restore out of order..a restart should fix that.
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Worked! Thanks.
Hey, I just installed my first ROM, and I cannot seem to get the dialer to work. Whenever I try to open it, it force closes, and "android.process.acore has stopped" keeps appearing. Any help? I wiped everything as shown in the thread, and I tried to restore my contacts using Titanium Backup, and I think that may have been the problem. No one else on the thread reports this problem, it seems. Everything else seems to work.
What Android version did you come from before HellKat? I think there's sometimes issues restoring things from previous versions of Android.
It may also be another app... I did a quick Google search and things like Facebook and Hotmail came up, removed and all was well again.
I came from stock 4.1.2 rooted, I'm guessing this means I can't restore JellyBean system data/apps, only from other KitKat ROMs?
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I came from stock 4.1.2 rooted, I'm guessing this means I can't restore JellyBean system data/apps, only from other KitKat ROMs?
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Before I continue, disclaimer, I'm not a dev or anything. I'm just trying to help with what I've picked up over my time here.
Hopefully you followed the nandroid step. Go back to your stock ROM and have Google backup your contacts. It's never let me down in restoring my contacts on a new ROM.
Sorry for the confusion, but yeah, it's a bad idea backing up system apps, especially with the changes to the dialer (among other things) in Kitkat. Games and other apps should be fine, though.
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Before I continue, disclaimer, I'm not a dev or anything. I'm just trying to help with what I've picked up over my time here.
Hopefully you followed the nandroid step. Go back to your stock ROM and have Google backup your contacts. It's never let me down in restoring my contacts on a new ROM.
Sorry for the confusion, but yeah, it's a bad idea backing up system apps, especially with the changes to the dialer (among other things) in Kitkat. Games and other apps should be fine, though.
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Yeah, I made a backup, so now I'm back to stock rooted. Thanks for the help, I'll keep that in mind when flashing back to HellKat.
What recovery are you using and what gapps package?
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