Hey guys,
I'm in the habit of factory resetting my phone every few months just to keep it clean of junk. Never use the backup option because I thought that it may reimport some junky files/bad settings along with all the other stuff so I start from scratch. Reinstall all apps manually, change all settings one by one, add email accounts manually just as if I was setting up a new phone.
Am I wrong in thinking that way or is the back up option totally safe from reimporting gunk back into the phone? It would certainly save me a ton of time if I used it as all my other stuff like Nova Launcher and Tasker profiles are all backed up and reimported in one step. Factory reset would be a quick thing to do.
Many thanks in advance!
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My Captivate is acting weird. The past week or so. When I press the power button the right side, screen will not turn on sometimes, and requires me to take battery out and put it back in. I might go exchange for a different one. All I have done to the phone is root it and removed few ATT stock bloatware. Will I run into any issues if I just go to Settings -> Privacy -> Factory Setting to restore my phone and erase personal data since it's rooted? Sorry first time android owner.
I believe if you do that your phone will still be rooted and the applications you got rid of will not be there either,
In order to restore your phone and unroot it, use odin3's on click restore application. search it, it's on XDA developers. I'd post the link but I can't because i'm a "new" user
Aside from the initial setup during the first boot of a clean rom install, is there a way in any ICS rom to force a Google settings restore?
By that I mean settings like wifi passwords and app settings, etc. Sure, theres Titanium backup but many times devs have said not to restore system settings this way.
Honestly, the only thing I really need it for is to restore wifi settings. I have a pretty long passphrase and being a bit of a crack flasher, it gets annoying to retype it over and over again
Hello,
I just got a Nexus 5 phone. Following the instructions in this forum, I was able to unlock the bootloader, get a TWRP Recovery and root the phone. Everything went fine. Then it was time to transfer my apps and data from my old Sony Xperia S. With Titanium Backup Pro on both devices, I made a backup of all apps + system data. Everything ok till that too. Then I restored this backup in Nexus 5. Everything seemed fine, all of the apps were in the app drawer, the ones I opened worked just fine.
But after the first reboot, I get an annoying "Unfortunately process com.android.phone has stopped working" when the home screen loads. No matter what option I choose (Ok or Report), this dialog box just pops up again and again. In the milliseconds between two of this dialog boxes, I can unlock the lockscreen and browse normally (apart from the annoying little box that pops up all the time, of course).
So, what's the best option in this case? Will the factory reset from Android itself solve it, do I need to use the Custom Recovery or can I just go straight to flashing the factory image?
Cheers,
never restore system apps or system data with titanium backup, or this will happen. you can try wiping data in your recovery, that should fix it, but it will wipe your phone clean.
You can't restore system data. You can't even do this from one rom to another let alone different phones
In titanium untick "system" in the edit filters screen.
Then go to the restore screen and select restore missing apps and data.
Then go through each one double checking there are no system apps there and if there are, untick them.
..and yes, you must factory reset now
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Guess that's what happens when you trust some Lifehacker article without enough knowledge. It was the system data, then. I unticked every app I hadn't installed by myself.
Concerning the Wipe option, I understand that by wiping the phone clean, that means even the apps that came pre-installed, correct? Chrome, Google Play, the Camera app, the phone app, etc?
No just your apps and your app data and system data
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Thanks a lot for the quick answers. :good:
I'll wipe the phone and get back here later to report if everything went well.
Cheers,
Updating, in case somebody goes through the same problem: the factory reset was extremely fast and solved everything. Funny thing is, when I got home and checked the phone, the angry little box wasn't showing anymore. Don't know what happened, but did the reset anyway to be sure.
Thanks again to rootSu and simms22. :good:
Just go settings /apps /all and clear data in contacts and contact storage
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Hello
After spending hours to disable unwanted notifications and all kind of ads in all the apps and phone settings, is there a way to back this setup up..
In case you have to restore the phone, it would be great and useful to have this done without going through all the settings again.
I do not like MI cloud and I disabled my account. Third party or maybe Google? but as I said more for the settings.
Thanks in advance
bimbobo said:
Hello
After spending hours to disable unwanted notifications and all kind of ads in all the apps and phone settings, is there a way to back this setup up..
In case you have to restore the phone, it would be great and useful to have this done without going through all the settings again.
I do not like MI cloud and I disabled my account. Third party or maybe Google? but as I said more for the settings.
Thanks in advance
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Google will back up your apps installed through PlayStore with their settings and will restore them. No phone settings though. Titanium Backup is another option (requires root). It can backup all system/private apps with their settings, though restoring system apps and their settings may be risky since their versions may differ from those in the ROM/Gapps that you flash.
Titanium is the go to for me.
Saving system settings on the other hand is not so simple, I've tryed several app solutions but always eventually run into problems.
Twrp is the only effective way to properly back up system settings in my experience.
Let me tell you a story (you can skip if you want to):
Once upon a time I ****ed up the back layer of the touch screen during repair and desperately tried to use my phone with my PC, found some tools online that let me simulate my phone's screen via ADB. Didn't got that working, ADB was unable to recognize my phone. Ok. Then i taped together the touchscreen (one of the absurdest things i ever did), reconnected it to the phone and guess what. It worked. I booted into recovery mode first and it worked flawlessly. No issues whatsoever. "Wonderful" i thought to myself, booting into system mode eagerly. The boot animation went by without any crashes, graphical issues or anything one could think off, and i even was able to enter my pin. When i did that i was full of enthuisasm. But that didn't last long. The SystemUI began to crash constantly, the lockscreen hasn't even finished building and it crashed again. I was absolutely unable to use the device and utterly devasted. Then i absolutely knew: i. ****ed. up.
But that didn't keep my from trying things out and eventually i was able to get past the lockscreen (without a SIM card so no PIN required) without any crashes and back up at least Whatsapp and a few other apps. But then i made the mistake of turning the screen off which set me back to square one: constant SystemUI crashes. I tried again and again and again and finally, after hours of work i got in a second time. This time, i thought to myself, i gonna make things differently. I backed up everything with Titanium, thought of myself to be safe. Which i technically was, i got backups of everything now. Then i decided to re-flash the rom without a factory reset which didn't do anything. Luckily there is an unofficial build of the ROM i'm using (Resurrection Remix) and i clean flashed it. It worked. Flawlessly. I was thrilled. The phone i was ready to toss into the trash finally worked again. I set everything up, thought myself to be safe but boy was i wrong. Google made regular (i think daily) backups of my apps and contacts and all so i wanted to restore that first. But it required a Pattern which i don't have because i always had a 5x5 pattern and it gave me a 3x3 pattern. I didn't know what to do with it!
I continued setting up my phone after failing to restore that backup and then instantly continued to restore the backup i made with Titanium, It installed all the missing apps, apparently restored the data. Nice. But there are a few apps that don't like that restored data so they just didn't use it and started from scratch again (like SwiftKey). Also, some of my contacts are missing and i'm lowkey too lazy to like the existing ones to Whatsapp again.
Tl;dr: ****ed up phone, got it working again, some apps didn't accept the Titanium backup and now i want to restore the Google backup which requires a 3x3 pattern which i don't have because i always used a 5x5 pattern.
Well, the question is simply: Is there a way to unlock the Google Drive backup without that pattern or do i need to try my luck again accessing the old Data (made a TWRP backup before flashing the new ROM)? If i do need to try again, how do i disable the lock on my backups? Do i only need to change my pattern to a 3x3 one?