I'm trying to figure out ideally how to update my app/data/settings backup that exists on Google Servers. I'd even settle on deleting it and then generating a new one. Why? Because each time I flash a new rom or reset the phone the restore I get is from how my phone was configured months ago.
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There is a forum for questions. Use it
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There is a forum for questions. Use it
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No point now. He has already asked here. A Mod will move the thread if necessary. Ordinary members may ignore or post a helpful reply.
OP, have you tried uninstalling apps, deleting settings, etc. Then performing a factory reset? That may delete the backup and you wouldn't be restored the next time. But why not simply elect to not restore?
When you set up the rom at first boot, it ask you to use backup and restore... Just deselect that, its simple..if you go on settings-backup deselecting backup does also delete everything remotely
Your Google contacts, Chrome bookmarks, keep notes etc, are still safe anyway
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I've read about updates needing the system applications installed to work. I have a few questions:
Do all apps have to be installed (including games)?
I've uninstalled some apps to download again to install them as user apps to move to my SD card. Do I need to re-install these back to system apps? Or is the fact they're installed good enough?
Will a factory reset put everything back the way it should be so I can just do that?
Finally, why do you have to have it the way it was to enable updates?
Thanks in advance. I've read quite a few posts about having to have system apps installed, but not why or which ones.
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Posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370292 with no luck (replies).
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Please. Does anybody know? I want to customise my phone but don't know how far to go.
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Hey everyone, I hate to be the noob but I recently backed up using titanium backup, flash a rom, didn't like it, flashed back and went to restore using titanium backup and everything went fine apart from the fact that recent messages are missing and they are very important to me, can anyone help me recover them? Thanks in advance.
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TechMitchell said:
Hey everyone, I hate to be the noob but I recently backed up using titanium backup, flash a rom, didn't like it, flashed back and went to restore using titanium backup and everything went fine apart from the fact that recent messages are missing and they are very important to me, can anyone help me recover them? Thanks in advance.
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TB pro? Or free version?
When u open TB does it show that there us a backup for messages on the date u backed it up?
Also if u are gonna be a flasher, may I suggest using Google voice so that no matter what u have a backup to a backup
Good luck
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Yeah, the backup is from the 30 th but no messages since the 14 th are showing up? And there's no voice in my country so that is a no. Any idea why they're no showing up.?
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Oh wait, phone / messaging storage is only at the 15 th, why? I backed up on the 30th? Is there any way to get my messages back? They are very important to me.
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TechMitchell said:
Oh wait, phone / messaging storage is only at the 15 th, why? I backed up on the 30th? Is there any way to get my messages back? They are very important to me.
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Probably not unless u had them backup'd within a ROM backup.
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For future reference...always make a nandroid backup in recovery before wiping and flashing a new ROM. That way if you don't like the new ROM you just restore the nandroid. That's the only 100% way to not lose anything.
Is it possible to restore a nandroid backup from another device if it's the same model.
Ie backup my nexus 5 in twrp copy it to my friends nexus 5 storage and restore it twrp?
Cheers
I've done it before with other devices. Worked fine
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TWRP now gives the option to include the EFS partition in the nandroid backups....Make sure you do not restore an EFS partition from one device onto the other.
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I've tried this on my Xperia and it didn't work
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TWRP now gives the option to include the EFS partition in the nandroid backups....Make sure you do not restore an EFS partition from one device onto the other.
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Yeah i'm aware of that
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I've done it before with other devices. Worked fine
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Ben36 said:
I've tried this on my Xperia and it didn't work
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So which is it lol?
what if i just backup and restore the /data partition? that's guaranteed to work or is it better to restore /system with it also?
I've done this switching between mytouch4g, captivates, and gs2s. No problems at all...
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Yeah i'm aware of that
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OK, great...I hope you don't think I was being patronizing... My intent was more of a friendly FYI and I hope that's how it was received by you
Now that I have a little more time I can say that if it were your own phone you were doing this on, I'd say go ahead and try it. There are many threads here in the various nexus forums where people have said they've done it without any problem with their own devices (after a RMA for example).
If it doesn't work and causes problems you can always restore the factory images if need be.
However, since it's a friend's phone you want to restore the nandroid on to it's a little different.
Are you trying to just get the same apps and app data installed on your friends phone as you have on yours? Or is it something more than that?
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OK, great...I hope you don't think I was being patronizing... My intent was more of a friendly FYI and I hope that's how it was received by you
Now that I have a little more time I can say that if it were your own phone you were doing this on, I'd say go ahead and try it. There are many threads here in the various nexus forums where people have said they've done it without any problem with their own devices (after a RMA for example).
If it doesn't work and causes problems you can always restore the factory images if need be.
However, since it's a friend's phone you want to restore the nandroid on to it's a little different.
Are you trying to just get the same apps and app data installed on your friends phone as you have on yours? Or is it something more than that?
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Lol sorry didn't mean to sound like that, I sometimes forget that things like tone/facial expression etc are lost when writing. Good advice, appreciate your help!
It's a bit complicated but basically I'm buying the phone off him, so it's for my personal use so I have no problem troubleshooting if anything goes wrong.
I'll give or a shot then, thanks for all the answers
I have recently purchased a used Nexus 5 off Swappa and I am curious about unrooting the phone. The main reason I am curious about this is so I can receive the 4.4.3 update when it comes out. So I have 2 questions: 1) Do I need to unroot the phone in order for it to pick up the OTA update? 2) How do I go about unrooting the phone? I have read about many different ways and would like to know the best.
Thanks in advance!
Please go to Nexus 5 general forum. All your answers are in the sticky threads
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Keep the phone rooted and enjoy! And wait probably a couple days after the ota for a stock ROM or files to flash.
Ota's are for non nexus owners.
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I'm with kj. Roll with man. Only reason I'd unroot it is if the person that did it didn't do it right and your having connection issues etc. Enjoy ur new to u hammerhead
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If you want to unroot you will have to remove all of the necessary files, which can be a pain if you have other things such as busybox installed. And no, you will not be able to apply an OTA if you have modified the firmware (from my experience, having root will block installation via the stock recovery).
The easiest way to restore your phone completely and be ready to accept OTAs is to restore the phone using a factory image found here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?csw=1
Unzip the file and open the .bat file to automatically flash the images, keep in mind that it will wipe your sdcard and factory reset your phone.
Will flashing the ROM when it comes out delete all my data? I'm a bit new to all this.
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Will flashing the ROM when it comes out delete all my data? I'm a bit new to all this.
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if i am wrong someone please correct me.
the OTA update does not delete any of your data.
as another user said you can download the current stock image from google server and flash it. it will delete your data.
you can download and open the stock image and fastboot flash system.img and boot.img. this way you are ready for OTA update but will keep your data.
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Will flashing the ROM when it comes out delete all my data? I'm a bit new to all this.
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That's why you should read the sticky thread in general. They answer every question you've asked in this thread. Please don't expect us to spoon feed you. Members spent a lot of time making this information available so please do them a courtesy and read it.
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That's why you should read the sticky thread in general. They answer every question you've asked in this thread. Please don't expect us to spoon feed you. Members spent a lot of time making this information available so please do them a courtesy and read it.
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What this says ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The latest update keeps giving me error 504 from the play store which I've googled and done the things suggested for the error. Wipe cache and data of play store. Remove Google account and log it back in. But still nothing so i manually downloaded from apk mirror and even that way says not installed when trying to update.
Any one have any ideas?
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The latest update keeps giving me error 504 from the play store which I've googled and done the things suggested for the error. Wipe cache and data of play store. Remove Google account and log it back in. But still nothing so i manually downloaded from apk mirror and even that way says not installed when trying to update.
Any one have any ideas?
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I know its not exactly a solution but I uninstalled Chrome using Titanium backup and reinstalled from playstore and it updates perfectly well.
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I know its not exactly a solution but I uninstalled Chrome using Titanium backup and reinstalled from playstore and it updates perfectly well.
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Will it lose all its data (password saves) etc doing this?
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Will it lose all its data (password saves) etc doing this?
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I don't think so because they are saved to Google server and linked to your gmail. So you will get back on signing in.
Also if you want you can backup using Tbk then reinstall and restore data only.
Hopefully that will serve your purpose. [emoji111]
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Try logging into the account from a PC and click install from there. Sometimes it clears the error and triggers the update when you sync back up with your phone.
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Will it lose all its data (password saves) etc doing this?
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It shouldn't, the data is usually saved outside the application folder.
To be safe you can use Titanium Backup.
Seems weird because you'd think manually downloading and installing would work still
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I faced the same issue again and I simply turned off the merge tabs option and it updated flawlessly.
I know it is not related and might just be a coincidence.
But worth giving it a shot.
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Ok here's what i ended up doing.
Backed up app and data (ended up using ultimate backup app)
Root uninstalled. Rebooted. Re installed from the play store. It did lose saved info data. So restored data only from the backup and all is now fine.
Thanks for your help everyone!
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Is sync/bookmarks working in chrome again?
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Ok here's what i ended up doing.
Backed up app and data (ended up using ultimate backup app)
Root uninstalled. Rebooted. Re installed from the play store. It did lose saved info data. So restored data only from the backup and all is now fine.
Thanks for your help everyone!
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MatthewPresley said:
Is sync/bookmarks working in chrome again?
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What u mean again? It always has done for me
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Sorry, I just realized I posted this question on the wrong thread. I meant to ask this on the Android M thread.
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What u mean again? It always has done for me
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MatthewPresley said:
Sorry, I just realized I posted this question on the wrong thread. I meant to ask this on the Android M thread.
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I am on M tho
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