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[Q] How to migrate data to Nexus S

I need help
How I move my data in HTC Hero(GSM) such as SMS MMS Calendar to Nexus S

Calendar is synced in the cloud with google. but as far as SMS and MMS their are apps on the market that will do that for you.
App Data like game saves and app settings will be lost unless your hero is rooted and u can pull it off the /data/ portion

slowz3r said:
Calendar is synced in the cloud with google. but as far as SMS and MMS their are apps on the market that will do that for you.
App Data like game saves and app settings will be lost unless your hero is rooted and u can pull it off the /data/ portion
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App Data = Titanium Backup (Recommend.. you get Pro if you don't have it already)

zephiK said:
App Data = Titanium Backup (Recommend.. you get Pro if you don't have it already)
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That's if he's rooted
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

My Hero was rooted, but Nexus S didn't root,what best choice SMS+MMS backup app

SMS Backup + by Jan berkel is a good choice
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

There aren't really any good apps for restoring MMS from what I've searched. Most of the good ones say "MMS not supported" or "MMS restore not supported." Your best bet is using a root application such as Titanium Backup to restore all the MMS.

If you need to store sms in a safe place and don't need it on your phone you should hit the market and get sms backup. It wil take all your sms and store them to your gmail account in the event you need them.

Thank for SMS backup application name,I already backup&restore it.
I have one more question
which application that use for backup other data such as calendar,contact.
I want to use backup application, because I have some problem with calendar sync.
For this problem please look in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914930

[Reference] List of things that are safe to freeze

I thought it would be nice now that we have root to start on a list of things that are safe and not safe to freeze. For my examples below I used Bloat Freezer Free, but titanium backup should work just as well. Please post below if you have successfully frozen something or found something that caused issues. Also please include what happened if you found one that didn't work. I'll try to keep the list updated.
Disclaimer: Be really careful, you can brick your phone this way. I thought I had when I froze the two I have below as I couldn't do anything but click force close over and over. Luckily I found I had 1/10th of a second after each force close to interact with the screen and so I was able to defrost them.
Disclaimer 2: Obviously freezing CarDock for example will make the car dock not work.
Items marked with a * must have the corresponding service stopped first. (Settings -> Applications -> Running Services)
Update 1: Added some more I found and some from JRW, thanks for the list!
Code:
Safe:
Books
CarDock
com.motorola.android.syncml.service
Contacts Sync
Contacts Data*
DRM Protected Content Storage
EFEM
Email Authenticator
Email Engine
FixedEmail Authenticator
Flickr Authenticator
Help Center
Home screen tips
Homescreen - if you use a 3rd party launcher
InPocket
Kpi Logger Service
LastFM Authenticator
LinkedIn Authenticator
Messaging
MOTOBLUR Indexing Service
Motorola Dock Service
Motorola Storage Monitor
MS Exchange Service
Myspace Authenticator
News
News & Weather
Orkut Authenticator
Photobucket Authenticator
Picasa Authenticator
Qik Lite
Quick Tutorial
QuickSMS
Rich Clipboard
SIM Contacts
SIM Toolkit
Skyrock Authenticator
Social Messaging
Social Messaging Service
Social Networking
Social Sharing
Social Status
Sticky note
Suggestions
Suggestions Core RuleChecker Services
Suggestions Poll Scheduler Service
Swype
Talk
Toggle Widgets
TTS Service
Twitter Authenticator
Universal Inbox (both entries)
Video Editor Lite
Work Contacts
Yahoo Contacts
Yahoo! Mail Authenticator
Unsafe:
System Portal - loop of force close
Webtop - loop of force close

Thank you, that is very helpful to know.

Some that I have frozen with bloat freezer, as states earlier if you use the app don't freeze it and expect it to work. Also some of the ones I have frozen I am using another app to replace it. If it is a system app and is running make sure you shut it down before freezing or you WILL ha e to power the phone down because it will cause a force close!!
Books
DLNA
DLNA system service
fixed email authenticator
Flicker Authenticator
global unplug
help center
home screen tips
inpocket
messaging
MySpace Authenticator
News
news and weather
orkut authenticator
Photobucket authenticator
Picasa authenticator
Qik lite
quick tutorial
quick SMS
rich clipboard
SMS contacts
skyrocket authenticator
All of the social apps
sticky note
suggestions
swype
talk
Toggle Widgets
tts service
twitter authenticator
Video editor lite
weather

do we know which apps/services are related to the social networking app only?

My contacts stop working after I freeze Yahoo! Mail Authenticator. Contacts open, but it FCs when I click on a contact. I think this happened on the original Atrix, too.

Youre correct loderjm, you can not freeze anything with yahoo in it it ties into several other applications and will cause some force closes

Strange. all my yahoo stuff is frozen and I haven't had any problems whatsoever...

Koriflame do you use Google as your primary backup? I know in the OG ATRIX we ran into problems freezing anything with yahoo in it and I've tried as well on my A2 and ran into problems with contacts and text messaging when I froze yahoo. I was thinking since this phone had less blur then the OG ATRIX I'd be fine but I was wrong.

I don't recommend freezing Email Engine. After I froze it I noticed that every time I'd get a text, the texting app would crash and no notification of a text would be made. I wouldn't find out I got a text unless I happened to open my inbox and suddenly the text would show up. I unfroze it and the problem went away.

loderjm said:
My contacts stop working after I freeze Yahoo! Mail Authenticator. Contacts open, but it FCs when I click on a contact. I think this happened on the original Atrix, too.
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Corporate sync authenticator does this for me, no other authenticators do though. Make sure you don't have that frozen.
EDIT: I can confirm that freezing Yahoo Authenticator gives me the Contcats FC as well.

koriflame said:
Strange. all my yahoo stuff is frozen and I haven't had any problems whatsoever...
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Same here, no issues. Although I use Go! Contacts, I just pulled up the stock app, and it works fine as well.

With Yahoo contacts / authenticator frozen
I can open contacts but can't look at the details ^_^ it FC when i open A contact.

Atrixed2 said:
With Yahoo contacts / authenticator frozen
I can open contacts but can't look at the details ^_^ it FC when i open A contact.
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Most of the time freezing the Yahoo stuff will cause some force closes. Just unfreeze them and it should be back to normal. If not cycle the power and it should be then.

JRW 28 said:
Most of the time freezing the Yahoo stuff will cause some force closes. Just unfreeze them and it should be back to normal. If not cycle the power and it should be then.
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Its unfrozen I just want to add my name on the people that has FC upon freezing yahoo stuff hehehe

warning : don't freeze the "Homescreen" even if you use another launcher in new (android 2.3.6) firmware. I'm using ADW Launcher EX but when I try to freeze the "Homescreen" then it keeps FC... luckily I can roll it back.

Has anyone frozen Music Store,AT&T address book and Social location?
Thanks.

shinydesert said:
Has anyone frozen Music Store,AT&T address book and Social location?
Thanks.
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Yes, yes, and yes!

shinydesert said:
Has anyone frozen Music Store,AT&T address book and Social location?
Thanks.
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Freezing My Music 2.3.6 gets rid of the Music Store... and I froze all 7 of my stock "Social" apps.

Is it safe to uninstall ATT Address book and social location?
If i uninstall system apps,will it restore when i install deodex 2.3.6 or custom rom?
Thanks in advance
Sent from my MB865 using Tapatalk

kojitabe said:
Is it safe to uninstall ATT Address book and social location?
If i uninstall system apps,will it restore when i install deodex 2.3.6 or custom rom?
Thanks in advance
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Yes, the stock system apps are included in the custom roms (except the ones that can't be deodexed).. just make sure you wipe data in cwm before installing a new rom
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18 apps running at the back

ok, so basically, turned on my phone and just by curiosity tried to clear OUT RAM using the program monitor widget and it most of the time closes about 18 apps...
is there a ways to know what those apps are and if they are needed to be running in the background?
the second thing is,I'm trying to know which App i need and not, so i listed what i see from the apps list of FitDroidv2.0... can you tell me which of there i need and which i don't?
thanks...
Note: the list are on the attachment...

I have uninstalled the following system apps-
Calculator-Many better alternatives in market.
HTML Viewer- Already have opera and dolphin to view html.
News and Weather
Samsung Home- Use ADW and Go Launcher
Samsung keypad
Social hub
Email
Yahoo Finance
and a few more

chelsearulz5 said:
I have uninstalled the following system apps-
Calculator-Many better alternatives in market.
HTML Viewer- Already have opera and dolphin to view html.
News and Weather
Samsung Home- Use ADW and Go Launcher
Samsung keypad
Social hub
Email
Yahoo Finance
and a few more
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in this case, email is for gmail right? won't you have problems with market?

Those are just stock apps.....
They should not slow down the phone that much.....
You can always remove those apps using Root Explorer app....
Or you can disable them from starting at start up using a third party app....
I use "Android Assistant".....

No email and Gmail are seperate.I use titanium backup to uninstall all this bloatware
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how would i know what those 15-18 apps running?
is there a way to know?

reikableu said:
how would i know what those 15-18 apps running?
is there a way to know?
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Use a third-party Task Manager app..... :/
See the processes running in it....

[email protected] said:
Use a third-party Task Manager app..... :/
See the processes running in it....
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ill try that, thanks...

Contact pic syncing adventures

ROM: Android Revolution HD 6.4.0
Device: HTC Sensation 4g
Just wanted to put down my experiences and findings on the problems I've had with syncing my contact pics since I upgraded to an ICS ROM from my previous Gingerbread ROM.
Previous ROM: Android Revolution HD 3.6.13
With this ROM I had no problems with my contacts syncing Facebook pics and being used in 3rd party messaging applications. I use GoSMS and had no problems with the pics showing in the message list or when selecting a contact to message.
After upgrading to ARHD 6.4.0, based on ICS, my contact pictures were no longer showing in the GoSMS application message list, in message, or when selecting a contact to message. This was after doing a Superwipe and clearing all cache including Dalvik during the upgrade.
After upgrading the ROM I did not allow any of my applications to auto load and I did not restore them from my Titanium Backup that I had done before upgrading. I setup my Google account, went to the Market and made sure the Facebook app was up to date and setup that account. After allowing to sync I installed GoSMS and my other applications as I normally have when doing updates.
After setup and I couple of reboots I noticed some odd things. Facebook said it was synced and I saw the sync but my contact pics were missing in the GoSMS messaging app. After some testing I found that the pics showed in the stock Contacts and stock Messaging apps but not Go Contacts or GoSMS apps. I played around with removing all accounts and re-adding accounts multiple ways and even reset file permissions for the .png files in the /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files/ directory, still no luck.
I finally installed FriendCaster while testing and found that when I had it sync it actually would sync in such a way that the Go applications showed them in the Contacts and SMS applications. I had to uninstall the Facebook app because I also found that with it installed, even though I told it not to sync contacts, it did something to wipe the pics from the aforementioned applications again.
So finally, after uninstalling the official Facebook app and re-syncing the contacts with FriendCaster, I was able to get the contact pics to show up in the Go applications I use to replace my Contacts, Dialer, and Messaging apps. I would rather use the official Facebook app because FriendCaster is lacking some of the functionality I use, but for now for me it's an acceptable workaround and I wanted to share.
Applications:
-FriendCaster (Free)
-Go SMS Pro
-Go Contacts EX
-Go Dialer EX

I currently use the contacts from Facebook for HTC Sense for clear contact pictures as those from Facebook for Android are grainy. As Facebook for HTC Sense is removed in ICS and Facebook for Android sync and ICS don't work well together this results in the problems you named. Another workaround is Google Contact Sync, an application you have to run on your PC in which you can link Gmail and Facebook accounts and sync pictures.

I just delete the "files" folder under /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts - then reboot and sync. That at least works with FB for HTC Sense & Twitter for HTC Sense. Not sure about the rest.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium

i found this very usefull https://sites.google.com/site/nirosync/
and also http://goo.gl/EpRN8

Thx lads needed help too
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda premium

Enable Stock Email App in Lollipop 5.0

I know a lot of people really like the new gmail app. Visually speaking it is very nice but it does not have a combined view which did not work for me. I also liked using the two different widgets within the apps to differentiate my email account.
Here is a quick and easy method of enabling both the stock email and gmail app. You must have your system rooted. First install Uninstaller Pro (RU) to remove both the stock email app and gmail app. Next install both the stock email and gmail app from the play store. That's it. You are back to the setup you are used to.

well, it worked in the sense that I can open the stock email app again, but it won't connect to my hotmail account. I tried both the auto setup and the manual method, either it gives me server error or a username/password error.

I might be wrong here (haven't tested it because I don't use the stock email app), but wouldn't something like titanium backup also be able to uninstall the apps?