Hello,
I have recently run into a lot of trouble with a previous employer and had my gmail based work email deactivated. Within that account were emails which i need to file a lawsuit, Since the account has been deactivated I cannot access those emails and there's no way he would restore access. I have to file suit and without those emails I've pretty much got no case against him. I have a PRO license for Titanium Backup for Root and frequently backup my device before upgrading software versions. Is there a way to recover any of my emails from that previous account without account access from a Device Backup? PLEASE HELP!!! I searched the forum and found nothing on the topic
Thanks!
Jeff
I think that would work only if you stored emails locally on the tablet.
Have you tried turning WiFi off, then restoring Gmail or whatever app you used in TiBu?
Depending on your settings Gmail only syncs x number of days of your mail to the device. The rest is on their servers.
Did you make nandroids of your data, as in backing up whole partitions in recovery?
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I updated my FUZE to the new ROM. Before doing that I used Sprite to backup everything except for System Data (and my memory card).
After the update I used Sprite to restore everything. Among that was the contents of my imap email account. However when I went into the Inbox, there was no email account so I could not open or access of the old messages that I can scroll through on the email page. I tried to create an email account but it told me there was already an account with that name (it seems like there is, but I can't access it).
I did a master reboot to clear everything out and before I restored from Sprite, I created the email account again. But when I did the restore, the same thing happened as before.
I know I can deselect email in the restore options but doing that means that it doesn't restore any SMS/MMS messages which I want.
Where is the email account data? Somewhere in the registry? If so, where? After I do a restore, would it be safe for me to find that account data and delete it so I can create it for real? I don't want to keep any of that old email.
Thanks.
Well here's what you should do. Restore your Sprite backup.
Download and install "PIMBackup" and do a full backup with it.
Go into the registry and delete the email account from HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Inbox
Reboot
Check your Message app to see if the email account is gone. Set it back up.
Restore your stuff from PIMBackup. Ditch Sprite
Sprite backups are great but restore lots of stuff. Sprite has the ability to restore bugs and bad registry keys. PIMBackup JUST backs up the information therefore it is the best and even works across multiple flashes without screwing anything up. I actually set up an XML file to load on first boot using UC (most custom roms use this) that sets up my Email account automatically, then a simple PIMBackup restores everything back.
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Ditch Sprite
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Maybe a little excessive! but Player is right, Sprite is no good for restoring after flashing a new rom (use pimbackup).
Sprite is great for backing everything up, hard reset, restore - exactly the same so its great for trying new settings, software etc etc.
I didn't want to confuse anything here but I actually did use PIM (I've used it for regular backups and migration for over a year). I used it before using Sprite. But after doing a restore, my device became EXTREMELY slow, to the point where it took roughly 5-10 seconds to open up a single txt msg. So I did a master reset and then did a restore from Sprite (which is what brought me here).
If I restore from Sprite again (and it will give me that phantom email again), think I can just delete the reg key? Would it delete the contents of this invisible Inbox? Should it have any negative effects?
Thanks.
Can you delete the reg key - yep!
will this remove the contents of the ghost account - i dont think so, but the account wont exist, so you shouldnt be able to get to these messages
Any negative effects? - almost certainly! but not from removing the spurious reg key. Using sprite to backup, then changing the rom, then restoring sprite will almost always leave some annoying, odd or unusual behaviour. Simply because when you changed the rom, you changed (a few) what reg keys are required and what they are called (mail accounts generate a unique guid when you create them, which is where the ghost account has probably come from)
Restoring a pim backup avoids this, as it simply puts the database info back on - leaving windows to worry about reg keys etc - i'm not sure why it was so slow before, maybe trying again & a couple of soft reboots could help - or maybe the pim backup is screwy, try making a new one.
Good luck!
FWIW, when I updated the ROM I did as the HTC website instructions say and did not choose to backup any system data in Sprite (they say this avoids copying the registry).
So anyway, what will delete the contents of the ghost account?
Or maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way - maybe instead of deleting the contents of that ghost account, would I be able to create a new account through the registry? Or rename a (real/functional) account in the registry? (when I have the ghost account and try to create an account with the same name normally, it tells me the account exists...even though it kinda doesn't)
I think the problem I am having with PIM seems to be too many message. I say this because the number of messages goes up for a long time and that's when it takes forever to load messages. I found that it settles down after a few hours but even then it still takes about 2-3 seconds to open a single txt msg.
Thanks.
I am noticing that my text messaging has a bit of a lag when first going into the app, have been for a while. I'm assuming this is because I don't delete any of them, and I probably send/receive 75-125 a day. I know I can delete them all, but what Iwas looking for was a way to either archive them, or if that's not possible, to delete everything past a certain date. Is this possible?
Also, I would rather be able to have different ringtones for "unknown", "blocked/restricted", and just numbers that aren't in my contacts as opposed to just one ringtone for them all. Is there a solution to that, or was I just spoiled with my Treos?
Other than that, I love this phone. TIA
regarding the text lag, if you're talking about going into a text message from your favorites or something similar, I had the same issue, I hadn't deleted any text messages sense I got my XV6800 (1 year ago) and I transfered all the messages via PIM Backup to my TP2. I deleted all my messages and the lag was gone. I'd suggest backing up all your messages before trying this though, just in case that your 1000's messages isn't the issue.
I'll give that a try, thanks. I'm using the HTC backup app, and the "PIM only" backup function has inbox, contacts, etc., but no specific text message backup. I don't mind doing a complete backup, but will I be able to restore just the texts from the backup?
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I'll give that a try, thanks. I'm using the HTC backup app, and the "PIM only" backup function has inbox, contacts, etc., but no specific text message backup. I don't mind doing a complete backup, but will I be able to restore just the texts from the backup?
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If you don't mind having your info stored on the internet, you can sign up for a myphone account from Microsoft. Its a cab file you install on your phone to upload your PIM info including pics, vids, docs, and text messages. You can set it at increments or sync it manually. It saves it on a account online that you create which gives you up to 200 megs of online space for free. The good thing is that anything you delete, it puts it in an archive section of your account just in case you want to recover something you deleted since your last sync. You can get it here, and its free. The only catch is that you have to have an unlimited data plan or use Wifi. I don't know if you can use your PC's internet connection via activesync/Windows Mobile Device Center but you can give it a shot if you don't have an unlimited data plan. (And No I do not work for Microsoft...lol)
I am new to the android world (initially coming from WM)
I backuped everything on my device with Titanium backup and was wondering whether Titanium interferes with Exchange.
If I backup with Titanium and restaore everything, including my Exchange account, contacts, etc... are they going to be duplicated (This was typically the case on WM: restore contacts, etc... input the Exchange account and end up with all contacts, appointments, etc... duplicated after the device synced)
I guess Titanium is better done (Saving system parameters and data properly) but I just want to make sure before I regret it
Same question with SMS/MMS backup from Titanium and possible interference with myIQ (More tricky sicne I am not sure many people are using myIQ...)
Thanks for your help and advice
Don't use with Exchange, but it would shock me if there was an issue. Unless myIQ does some duplicate store for messages )most apps that replace stock SMS use the system SMS store), I can say there are zero issues with restoring these with TiBackup in my experience (and I've done it fairly often).
So last night I backed up my contacts to my google account because I knew I was getting a new phone.
So upon syncing with the google account today any phone number with an email linked to it had the email restored and not the number. As well as any contact that was part of a text conversation was completely not backed up.
I have recent (less than 20 days old) backups of BAMF roms made with Clockwork Rom Manager. I there any way I can dig through those files on my SD card and find the contacts storage data.
I also backed up every last thing Titanium backup would let me backup to google drive. I have thus far had no luck restoring with Titanium Backup.
I'm kind of completely lost here.
If you guys think you can help but you need more information then I will provide it as quickly as I can if I can dig the info up.
Much appreciated for your giving this some though.
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Found a program called AppExtract. It worked pretty well. Gave me back all my SMS/MMS and all my contacts from one of the backed up BAMF roms I mentioned.
I don't understand why I wasn't able to restore back into those very same roms with Clockwork though and just have all that info included. I suppose I'm missing some details here.
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So last night I backed up my contacts to my google account because I knew I was getting a new phone.
So upon syncing with the google account today any phone number with an email linked to it had the email restored and not the number. As well as any contact that was part of a text conversation was completely not backed up.
I have recent (less than 20 days old) backups of BAMF roms made with Clockwork Rom Manager. I there any way I can dig through those files on my SD card and find the contacts storage data.
I also backed up every last thing Titanium backup would let me backup to google drive. I have thus far had no luck restoring with Titanium Backup.
I'm kind of completely lost here.
If you guys think you can help but you need more information then I will provide it as quickly as I can if I can dig the info up.
Much appreciated for your giving this some though.
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Found a program called AppExtract. It worked pretty well. Gave me back all my SMS/MMS and all my contacts from one of the backed up BAMF roms I mentioned.
I don't understand why I wasn't able to restore back into those very same roms with Clockwork though and just have all that info included. I suppose I'm missing some details here.
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Not sure if I fully understand your question, but alternatively, I think you could've recovered your contacts through gmail online. Log into your gmail account, click on contacts, then more, then towards the bottom of that list is a restore option. You can then choose the parameters for your restore. As for SMS, most of the roms I've flashed recently have had SMS back up, but I haven't really used it.
Hello,
I am having a strange issue with Whatsapp backups. I did backup, but after restore from either google or local backup, it says that it simply can't restore messages.
In both cases, it's getting found. To force it to restore from local backups, I removed google account from google drive.
I had saved something like 7 local backups a month ago and 7, which was made about a few days ago.
I had 2 numbers, but all backups where made with one number. If I change number to the old one, it's not finding local backups at all.
Sounds like I was not lucky with some Whatsapp version, since all 14 local backups didn't work, which made either corrupted backups or backups with some faulty coding, encryption key or something.
I wonder, if someone had this issue.
I did manage to restore half a year old messages, luckly, I had it saved with different google account. So, some whatsapp version did make a correct backup.
Please help, I don't really want to loose my messages.
Here is offers solution to find key file and decrypt using phython, but it looks more complicated than rooting.
If I root, some sites are saying that the key encryption file can be found in /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key.
But I wonder, if I root, will I loose that key file at all? Should it be rooted already or it can be rooted after I have the issue?
Thank you.
PS. I wish if whatsapp would allow me to choose not to encrypt it and let me manage my security myself at my own risk, instead of getting stuck like this. Lets say, saving it in txt file and I would just put in into archave with password, like with RAR.
Rooting Android doesn't delete any existing files.
Thank you for something, at least...
have you found a solution?
I have the same problem.