I reset the device yesterday. Now I reset the device again for Google to ask to install all the apps that were installed before the first reset during the setup process. But it didn't even list S7's backup among my devices (pic attached). I had originally checked every option to backup all data to Google. What could be the problem? How can I get the S7 listed among my devices during setup process?
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Hello, at the store, the sales did not give me a chance to enter some information (I recall something like machine name, user name, etc). He just pressed skip or next several times to make the machine operable. Should I somehow reset the machine to pre-box opened state or enter the information under settings? I don't know if the system automatically created a default user folder, etc. Thanks.
hajime_android said:
Hello, at the store, the sales did not give me a chance to enter some information (I recall something like machine name, user name, etc). He just pressed skip or next several times to make the machine operable. Should I somehow reset the machine to pre-box opened state or enter the information under settings? I don't know if the system automatically created a default user folder, etc. Thanks.
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If you want, do factory reset from settings
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If you want, do factory reset from settings
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For your information, under General->Users, I have: You (Owner)
Am I supposed to change this to my name or create another user account?
If I don't do a factory reset, what else should I change?
hajime_android said:
For your information, under General->Users, I have: You (Owner)
Am I supposed to change this to my name or create another user account?
If I don't do a factory reset, what else should I change?
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If you don't do reset, change it if you want.
When you first time boot your tablet (or after factory reset) it asks you those Samsung / Google accounts and what ever it asks..
Now you have to manually set those accounts since they're skipped for first time. I think you can also use your device without setting those, but it might be somehow limited (Google play and Samsung store etc. If those accounts are not added to device).
OK. I did a factory reset. After that, I went to PlayStore. under All, I see all the apps that I had installed or currently installed on my Note 2. Do I have to manually select and install the apps that I also want to be on the PRO? Due to the write sdcard issue with KK, shall I buy a sdcard first before installing the apps? thanks
Yes if you did not select during setup to backup and restore your device on the cloud then you will have to manually install everything one by one. Another way to do it if you want to duplicate what you have on another android device is to use an application like App List Backup to backup a list of installed applications. You then copy the backup list file that the application stores on your device to your new device and use the application to assist you in installing what you want as a batch operation.
You can add the SD card later and if the applications need the SD card later they'll use it. Unless of course your'e the type to want to push applications to run on SD card . .
I have HTC one m8 with Factory Android Marshmallow. Im trying to check if the backup was taken through google.
I have the following settings,
"Settings > Backup & reset > Back up my data" ON
When going to "Settings > Backup & reset > Restore from HTC Backup", another screen opened "HTC Backup" and i press "Restore from backup". As a result a search starts to check all Saved backups. There is only one found with timestamp 12/9/2015 6:50PM.
I need to know if that is the accumulative backup since that time, does it contain all data i need?
I went to Account and Sync, and made sure that all options for google are enabled, and tried to manually sync all accounts but no change to available backups.
Please advice how to force backup and how to verify, i need to factory reset the phone
Hi and welcome to XDA Assist !
The HTC Backup function you use it backs-up what you have selected to the HTC servers , check the internet connection before or whether the backup function works only on wi-fi or not
The restore function refers to same HTC servers not google account
Backing-up to the Google servers is up to the google account that you may have and this must be enabled from settings/accounts/google . This will backup everything that has been marked there , if nothing has been marked then nothing has been backed-up , mark the desired options and perform a google sync from its settings (sync now)
The applications will be not be saved entirely , google servers will only link the installed apps to the playstore from your account and restored from playstore after factory reset and by adding your google account but WITHOUT their data , I mean , without their settings , just fresh apps , only the google play games will restore your progress if the play games sync has been made
Now , I know that you want to have everything restored as before and to achieve that you need either a nandroid backup which can be done from a custom recovery ( more complicated if you never did it but easy if you have time to read) , using Titanium Backup but you need root access or using Helium for non non rooted devices , from playstore , very easy and safe
Good luck !
Hi all, I'm trying to transfer all my apps and data from my previous (non-rooted) phone to my S7.
I used helium backup before, so I went ahead and backed up everything, but restoring fails. I then discovered that all Helium does is call the equivalent of "adb restore", so I decided to try the manual way. I performed a full backup ("adb backup -all") from my old phone, and it created a sizable 1.7Gb backup.db file, but when I went to restore it ("adb restore backup.db"), the S7 showed the prompt asking "A full backup of all data to a connected desktop computer has been requested", instead of the restore prompt. I noticed Helium gets the same prompt when trying to restore.
Anybody having the same issue, or any idea of what's going on?
My phone is a SM-G930F (UK Exynos) model, running Android 7.0.
My computer is running linux with adb version 1.0.36.
Any help is appreciated. I haven't rooted my S7 yet, and I'm debating if I should, but if I had root on the S7, would this be any easier? Keep in mind that the old phone (honor 5x) is not rooted, so titanium backup is not an option.
Thanks!
Tl;DR: it evenaually, magically started working
As it turns out, this device (and maybe others) shows the "Full backup" UI and asks permission to "BACK UP MY DATA" even when requested to restore, so, in fact, clicking "BACK UP MY DATA" restores it. Very intuitive. The issue must've been somewhere inside adb, but I was able to bypass it using the /system/bin/bu utility directly, as in:
Code:
cat backup.ab | adb shell /system/bin/bu restore
Unfortunately, after waiting several minutes for that to finish, none of my app data was there. Great.
Alright, let's have another look at Helium: since it uses some kind of UI automation, I can only guess it gets confused by the misleading UI, and so I discovered the option "Use key events instead of tap events" under settings. I don't know if that made any difference honestly, I just know that I tried again and it finally restored my apps. I then disabled it, and tried to re-restore something, and again it worked... sigh.
Basically, I still have no clue about what went wrong, but it eventually worked. I just wish Google provided a universal backup solution for all android devices, or even better, let us have root so I can use Titanium! After all I'm root on my PC, why do I have to jump through hoops to get the same on my phone?
Going through this ordeal reminded me of why I don't like upgrade to a new device very often.
hello i have a samsung s7 vodafone-Italy. I have a problem with connection with helium backup, i have a version 6 of android.
Well I install helium backup on smartphone, i have install some drivers (maybe not good??) i have installa application helium for chrome, and i try on windows 7 and windows 8.
I open helium on smartphone, connect cable, ask for PTP mode, i go to set up, i set PTP but smartphone ask me again select and enable PTP CAN YOU help me, i want to backup smartphone.
With samsung program i backup smartphone...and i have no problem, but is not usefull.
Best regards.
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As it turns out, this device (and maybe others) shows the "Full backup" UI and asks permission to "BACK UP MY DATA" even when requested to restore, so, in fact, clicking "BACK UP MY DATA" restores it. Very intuitive. The issue must've been somewhere inside adb, but I was able to bypass it using the /system/bin/bu utility directly, as in:
Code:
cat backup.ab | adb shell /system/bin/bu restore
Unfortunately, after waiting several minutes for that to finish, none of my app data was there. Great.
Alright, let's have another look at Helium: since it uses some kind of UI automation, I can only guess it gets confused by the misleading UI, and so I discovered the option "Use key events instead of tap events" under settings. I don't know if that made any difference honestly, I just know that I tried again and it finally restored my apps. I then disabled it, and tried to re-restore something, and again it worked... sigh.
Basically, I still have no clue about what went wrong, but it eventually worked. I just wish Google provided a universal backup solution for all android devices, or even better, let us have root so I can use Titanium! After all I'm root on my PC, why do I have to jump through hoops to get the same on my phone?
Going through this ordeal reminded me of why I don't like upgrade to a new device very often.
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Hello. today I uploaded a custom Rom with full wipe and lost access to the telegram application backup that I had made via totanium backup. Unfortunately, to log in to the telegram, I need a phone number and I forgot which I gave when registering. I have always restored titanium backup and the application works. today i lost that and i have been trying all day to recover these 3 files from my deleted memory. Is it possible at all?
Hi, have you signed in Google and backed up data from Android device to Google account before factory reset? If yes, you can do it easily as below:
1. Go to Settings on your Android phone.
2. Sign into the same Google account that you use to back up data, find Backup and reset option and enable Automatic restore. Then the backup files will be automatically synced to your phone.
Good luck to you.
[Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) Android OS 8.0]
Hi, I backed up my phone to both Samsung backup and to Google Drive. I did a factory reset but it never restored. I was about to leave on a cruise and was kind of SOL.
The Samsung backup seems to be toast. Unless it keeps old backups and there's a way to access then, that way won't work as it's overwritten the backup with the newly reset phone.
I also backed up to Google Drive. I can even look at the files in the drive and there are 2 files that start with "takeout" and if you open them you see android files inside.
I just don't know how to restore from these. The file has the date on it, which is 2022, which is before my cruise. (Why am I so late asking? Caught covy and then got long haul..)
All I really care about is my text messages. My contacts would be great too, but I may have that on my PC. If the Google Drive backup doesn't work out I did save a bunch of my phones data to my PC manually. I know much of the OS folders show 0 files, but in some cases if I dug through some of the folders I would find files. I just have no idea if one of them would be my text messages.
I don't really understand what it is that I'm not getting. The instructions say to just go to the backup and click on it to restore it. Uhh no, that isn't working. :/
Thanks, I really hope I'm not SOL here.
A Factory Reset ( AKA Hard Reset ) only affects user data ( included apps ) , means all those added to phone since its 1st startup gets deleted / removed. That always works well on all Android phones.
Wondering why you want to play back the bad backups made?
I really only need the text messages and the contacts if I don't actually have a csv (sp?) file of them.
For the backup, I told it not to save the photos or programs. I have a list of the apps I didn't uninstall, and the photos on my PC. I think the reset, plus no apps saved will fix things.
Can I just restore the texts? Or, is it possible that one of the files I saved has them?
Thanks
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A Factory Reset ( AKA Hard Reset ) only affects user data ( included apps ) , means all those added to phone since its 1st startup gets deleted / removed. That always works well on all Android phones.
Wondering why you want to play back the bad backups made?
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Do you know I would be able to do what I mentioned in the post above this one? Still stuck.
Thanks
Hi, sorry to post again but I'm hoping the forum tells you that I'm replying to your message as I can't DM you.
[Added info] As I said above, I didn't backup the apps, just the texts and such, so a reset and restore should help. Even if it doesn't at least I can save the texts and contact list.
I still haven't found a solution to this. The Google app shows a restore that's also after the reset, BUT, I also have what is clearly a restore from before the reset. I don't care what jankcraft magic I have to do. How can I restore to that restore point? I have a copy on my PC. Can I tell the phone that I'm transferring data from a different phone on to this phone? Same phone of course.
The file on Google Drive starts with the word takeout and then has the date and time and is in a zip.
Nobody is posting any response to this but you, and someone else who pointed me to this section of XDA.
[Minor Edit] The files are "takeout1" and takeout2" with the date and times after them. The "takeout2" is the one from after the reset. Takeout1 is from before. If I delete "takeout2" will Google Restore see "takeout1?"
I'm dying here.
Thanks
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