Device info (just in case it is needed):
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (toroplus)
ROM - Slim Bean
Kernel - Lean Kernel
App - Titanium Backup Pro (purchased key)
My problem:
I have A LOT of SMS/MMS messages on my phone. I like to restore ALL of them between ROM flashes. I usually use Appextractor, but now it is NOT working and does not restore my SMS/MMS. (I am not flashing from MIUI/CM to MIUI/CM so that isn't the issue.) I want to use Titanium backup as my go-to backup and restore app. The only problem is, restoring my SMS/MMS the traditional way (backing up the "app" icon with the sms // backing up to XML) takes WAY too long. Appextractor did this in seconds. Now, I would like to restore my SMS from my nandroid backup from within Titanium backup. I have tried enabling migrate system data, and restoring "Messaging" from the nandroid backup but it does not restore my SMS/MMS.
My question is: How can I successfully restore my SMS/MMS from a nandroid using titanium backup? I have emailed their support and have not gotten a reply in a few days. OR if you know why Appextractor (not the beta) has suddenly stopped working, that would be appreciated too.
PLEASE DO NOT:
I don't mean to sound like a ****, but I am not interested in hearing replies/comments like this:
Why do you have so much SMS/MMS?
Use "this app" to do it, it works! (UNLESS it can restore tens of thousands of SMS quickly, as Appextractor did)
Or suggest not keeping them. I am going to keep them, and would like to find a solution to this problem.
Thanks!
RESOLVED: (thanks to nobody on XDA)
Needed to restore Messaging data in Titanium and NOT messaging. Did not see the actual SMS/MMS before.
DRatJr said:
Device info (just in case it is needed):
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (toroplus)
ROM - Slim Bean
Kernel - Lean Kernel
App - Titanium Backup Pro (purchased key)
My problem:
I have A LOT of SMS/MMS messages on my phone. I like to restore ALL of them between ROM flashes. I usually use Appextractor, but now it is NOT working and does not restore my SMS/MMS. (I am not flashing from MIUI/CM to MIUI/CM so that isn't the issue.) I want to use Titanium backup as my go-to backup and restore app. The only problem is, restoring my SMS/MMS the traditional way (backing up the "app" icon with the sms // backing up to XML) takes WAY too long. Appextractor did this in seconds. Now, I would like to restore my SMS from my nandroid backup from within Titanium backup. I have tried enabling migrate system data, and restoring "Messaging" from the nandroid backup but it does not restore my SMS/MMS.
My question is: How can I successfully restore my SMS/MMS from a nandroid using titanium backup? I have emailed their support and have not gotten a reply in a few days. OR if you know why Appextractor (not the beta) has suddenly stopped working, that would be appreciated too.
PLEASE DO NOT:
I don't mean to sound like a ****, but I am not interested in hearing replies/comments like this:
Why do you have so much SMS/MMS?
Use "this app" to do it, it works! (UNLESS it can restore tens of thousands of SMS quickly, as Appextractor did)
Or suggest not keeping them. I am going to keep them, and would like to find a solution to this problem.
Thanks!
RESOLVED: (thanks to nobody on XDA)
Needed to restore Messaging data in Titanium and NOT messaging. Did not see the actual SMS/MMS before.
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how do I get this done? can you help me please
bajanbullet said:
how do I get this done? can you help me please
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Restore "Phone/Messaging Storage" with DATA only in Titanium backup. And make sure migrate system data is checked in preferences.
DRatJr said:
Restore "Phone/Messaging Storage" with DATA only in Titanium backup. And make sure migrate system data is checked in preferences.
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I found through trial and error why all the apk and nandroid extractors only work on certain parts of image,if you are trying to for example extract your text messages, only the application the phone has registered as the default application for texting is able to make mods. if you switch whatever extracting program you are using in settings to default sms program it will work as it did before kitkat. hope this helps......
P.S
make sure you remember to switch the default back to normal as soon as you are done and reboot your phone before you text anyone,
haydy1234 said:
I found through trial and error why all the apk and nandroid extractors only work on certain parts of image,if you are trying to for example extract your text messages, only the application the phone has registered as the default application for texting is able to make mods. if you switch whatever extracting program you are using in settings to default sms program it will work as it did before kitkat. hope this helps......
P.S
make sure you remember to switch the default back to normal as soon as you are done and reboot your phone before you text anyone,
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I made a nandroid using TWRP on my Moto X running 4.4.2. Now I am updated to 4.4.4 and want to extract my texts messages from my 4.4.2 nandroid. I selected the Phone/Messanging Storage for extraction, data only. Titanium B/U extracts the texts fine and the messanging app works fine UNTIL I reboot - after rebooting I can send texts but not receive them anymore.
Any thoughts on why Titanium B/U is messing with my 4.4.4 messanging app?
Wansanta said:
I made a nandroid using TWRP on my Moto X running 4.4.2. Now I am updated to 4.4.4 and want to extract my texts messages from my 4.4.2 nandroid. I selected the Phone/Messanging Storage for extraction, data only. Titanium B/U extracts the texts fine and the messanging app works fine UNTIL I reboot - after rebooting I can send texts but not receive them anymore.
Any thoughts on why Titanium B/U is messing with my 4.4.4 messanging app?
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They're in the format for whatever you exported them for. Soooo 4.4.2 in your case.
For example, restore the 4.4.2 Nandroid, export with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en , install 4.4.4, reimport with that too. Or restore 4.4.2 Nandroid, update to 4.4.4 'normally', then you got them in 4.4.4 format.
Luckz said:
They're in the format for whatever you exported them for. Soooo 4.4.2 in your case.
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The text restore fine, it is just that after I restore them I can't receive texts. I can send texts, just not receive them. So Titanium B/U is doing more than just restoring my texts, it is messing with the messanging app somehow. I suspect it may have something to do with the APN.
I have seen others post on other forums about having this problem.
Luckz said:
For example, restore the 4.4.2 Nandroid, export with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en , install 4.4.4, reimport with that too.
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FYI - when I used SMS B/U and Restore I could send and receive texts but it couldn't restore all of my texts, either.
Luckz said:
Or restore 4.4.2 Nandroid, update to 4.4.4 'normally', then you got them in 4.4.4 format.
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You mean return to 4.4.2, unroot and then take the 4.4.4 OTA? I am likely going to try that. Since my Bootloader is already 4.4.4 it should be fine. From what I recall being posted here in the past, the OTA installer will recognize that my bootloader is up to date and move on to the next item and not try to patch a 4.4.2 bootloader.
I will search the thread to make sure I am remembering this correctly, but IIRC the poster who first posted this was very knowledgeable.
I also could try doing it through the Motorola Device Manager.
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You mean return to 4.4.2, unroot and then take the 4.4.4 OTA? I am likely going to try that. Since my Bootloader is already 4.4.4 it should be fine. From what I recall being posted here in the past, the OTA installer will recognize that my bootloader is up to date and move on to the next item and not try to patch a 4.4.2 bootloader..
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Did this, ended up with the same problem.
Noob/idiot alert.....
I've just tried to restore my SMS's by TiBu, but I think I've f'd up a bit.
I ticked 'data only' in TiBu and restored 'phone/messaging storage', but it seems restoring from a HTC M7 Sense backup to an M7 5.1 GPE rom doesn't quite work. (I stupidly thought data would be compatible)
Now the phone just keeps popping up com.android.phone has stopped. no matter how many times I click it keeps popping up.
Unfortunately I didn't make a backup in TiBu before trying this out.
I'm sure I can fix it with a factory reset, or at worst a re-flash, but I'm away from my computer and wifi for a few more hours yet.
Is there a way I can un-do what I did, or fix this in some way, in the mean time?
** IGNORE **
I remembered I had a backup of the original rom, so I've just restored that for the mean time.
I manually upgraded my ROM to 10f so that I wouldn't get the notification anymore. After installing TB I tried to restore my apps and none of them would work! Batch restore just hung so I tried and individual restore and got a parse error, and it hit me....
I was using ART instead of Dalvik on my old ROM! swapped my runtime over to ART and TB works like it should now.
Just a heads up for anyone else who might run into this.
You can also let Google restore your apps automatically and then use TB to restore just the "data" for those apps that you need to rather than restoring "App and Data". This is a "safer" method of restoring apps IMHO because you won't run into incompatibility issues while still recovering your data for the apps.
I have always had issue with google restoring my apps. It either doesn't work at all, or it installs every app I've used in the past year or so, even the ones I've removed
I am trying to restore text messages from my Samsung account but it hangs up around 25% and then says restore failed, network failure etc.. My wifi is fine.
Any solutions?
I have this same issue. It noted that it backed up successfully but fails at 30% complete.
Everything else restores fine.
Use sms backup and restore from the play store, way easier and takes a lot less time.
Quickvic30 said:
Use sms backup and restore from the play store, way easier and takes a lot less time.
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True... But I need to restore the msgs backed up to the Samsung account first. Everything was wiped.
I'm having the same problem. Trying to restore from a Samsung account backup, failed at 24% of SMS. Hoping someone will have a solution. (Note: this happens after flashing a custom Rom. I made the backup with stock Rom. Don't know if this is related.)
The exact error message is:
Failed to restore data
A network error has occurred. Some data is missing. To prevent losing the missing data permanently, try restoring your data again before backing up.
I created an XML backup of my messages (SMS & MMS) in titanium backup. However, when I try to restore the file, I get an error, "Data restore failed for "Messages (SMS & MMS)"."
Interestingly, if I delete all my MMS messages and do another backup and then try to restore, it works. It seems that the MMS messages are somehow corrupting the data restore.
Does anyone have any ideas around this? I'm utilizing auto/indirect app processing mode, for the record. It seems like titanium is just having trouble reading it's own files if they contain MMS... not sure why that would be though.
Also for the record, I can't use SMS backup & restore (sorry!), I'm limited to titanium for what I'm trying to do.
[FWIW I'm trying to migrate from hangouts/project fi to native sms - see https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5s53vf/tool_export_and_convert_hangouts_smsmms_to/ which outputs a titanium compatible XML file. This file was what was originally giving me trouble restoring in titanium. However, I tried backup & restoring my own sms/mms messages to troubleshoot, which led me to the situation above, completely unrelated to this tool I'm using].
Sorry for the text blob, but I figured I'd give some more info in case anyone cared... Thanks in advance!!
I just started facing a similar issue. SMS/MMS backuped by "SMS Back up and Restore app" on one phone. Restoring on another phone fails. If I do not restore MMS, it works with no issue.
Did you find a solution?
Thanks,
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I created an XML backup of my messages (SMS & MMS) in titanium backup. However, when I try to restore the file, I get an error, "Data restore failed for "Messages (SMS & MMS)"."
Interestingly, if I delete all my MMS messages and do another backup and then try to restore, it works. It seems that the MMS messages are somehow corrupting the data restore.
Does anyone have any ideas around this? I'm utilizing auto/indirect app processing mode, for the record. It seems like titanium is just having trouble reading it's own files if they contain MMS... not sure why that would be though.
Also for the record, I can't use SMS backup & restore (sorry!), I'm limited to titanium for what I'm trying to do.
[FWIW I'm trying to migrate from hangouts/project fi to native sms - see https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5s53vf/tool_export_and_convert_hangouts_smsmms_to/ which outputs a titanium compatible XML file. This file was what was originally giving me trouble restoring in titanium. However, I tried backup & restoring my own sms/mms messages to troubleshoot, which led me to the situation above, completely unrelated to this tool I'm using].
Sorry for the text blob, but I figured I'd give some more info in case anyone cared... Thanks in advance!!
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It's been a while, but I managed to figure this out at least: For some reason if I long press on the xml file to restore in titanium, it works. If I just tap it, it doesn't. Trying long pressing... it worked for me. Can't guarantee it will still work this far in the future though, but worth a shot.
joseph230 said:
I just started facing a similar issue. SMS/MMS backuped by "SMS Back up and Restore app" on one phone. Restoring on another phone fails. If I do not restore MMS, it works with no issue.
Did you find a solution?
Thanks,
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Came from an unofficial LineageOS, then moved to the official one, before that I backed up apps+system data through titanium backup. I managed to restore everything (even contacts) successfully, except for messages. When I restore them (data only), and open the messaging app, I see all my messages for a second, then they eventually get deleted.
EDIT: I found someone who has the same issue, but I de-google'd mine. So i don't have hangouts. https://android.stackexchange.com/q...es-with-titanium-restores-then-deletes#126246