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I've backed up a few times with My Backup Pro and flashed ROMs, restoring data via the same program. It seems, looking at it now, that I have somehow managed to duplicate my contacts multiple times. I now have a huge number of contacts, many of them identical and I keep getting link suggestions for all of them.
Any ideas how I can clean this mess up? I've searched and found a few related threads in other forums, but none of them were quite this problem and none of them seemed to have any solutions.
It seems I'm also having a similar problem with apps. It looks like my apps that were moved to the SD card originally are still there, but not being seen by the system. My Backup Pro restored all my apps to the phone, and those are the ones it's using. If I move all those apps to the SD card, now I think I'll have two versions of those apps.
Is there any way to run something that can check my phone for these kinds of duplicates and consolidate things a little? I'm getting worried that I'll end up filling my phone up with useless repeats of things until it's just a pile of bloated crap...
I had a similar problem with my google contacts duplicating themselves for some reason. If duplicates are google you can go to google.com/contacts to edit them. There is a "Find Duplicates" button on the right.
I actually just found this as well. I tried it and resynced my google account on the phone and it doesn't seem to have removed them. Is there something I have to do to force the phone to get rid of the duplicates as well?
Not the right place for it, but figured since I have a thread going already I might as well ask here. I'm trying to Fix Permissions in ROM Manager, as I figure those might be pretty messed up after everything as well. But, even though ROM Manager has Root Access, it tells me an error occurred while "trying to run privileged commands." I have the paid version, I'm not sure why this is happening. Thoughts?
EDIT: Didn't want to keep bumping this thing, but I found the app Contact Remover to be a big lifesaver in a few ways. Specifically, I had 75 blank contacts that were just sitting there for some reason. This app allowed me to select multiples and delete them easily, in a way the People app wouldn't! https://market.android.com/details?id=com.octabode.dcfd
Silas0220 said:
It seems I'm also having a similar problem with apps. It looks like my apps that were moved to the SD card originally are still there, but not being seen by the system. My Backup Pro restored all my apps to the phone, and those are the ones it's using. If I move all those apps to the SD card, now I think I'll have two versions of those apps.
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This is actually something I've been wondering about myself.
Most of my apps are on my SD, and I'm preparing to flash a new Rom, for the first time ever (aside from the rooting process, that is).
Seems I recall something similar occurring post-root, with apps I had on prior.
I'm thinking I should move them back on to the phone, do a new backup, then flash the new Rom, restore, and then move them back to the SD.
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I had the same problem as many with the missing gmail widget. Here is how I fixed it:
Apps / Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset
PLEASE NOTE this makes your tablet as if it was brand new outta box so please backup any data you don't wanna lose. Everything took me about 10 minutes to get setup again and the gmail widget is now listed under widgets and working once again. Market synced all my installed apps from market back automatically.
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I had the same problem as many with the missing gmail widget. Here is how I fixed it:
Apps / Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset
PLEASE NOTE this makes your tablet as if it was brand new outta box so please backup any data you don't wanna lose. Everything took me about 10 minutes to get setup again and the gmail widget is now listed under widgets and working once again. Market synced all my installed apps from market back automatically.
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Thank you!
thats unacceptable for those of us who actually use this device for more than just the programs included with the stock rom.
nfodiz said:
I had the same problem as many with the missing gmail widget. Here is how I fixed it:
Apps / Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset
PLEASE NOTE this makes your tablet as if it was brand new outta box so please backup any data you don't wanna lose. Everything took me about 10 minutes to get setup again and the gmail widget is now listed under widgets and working once again. Market synced all my installed apps from market back automatically.
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Does that action delete/ format your files in the TF? How about the files on my SD card?
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It wipes everything off the TF and what your left with is a brand new 3.1 installation. It didn't touch my microsd cards data. I know this is not an ideal solution for the power users out there but it may help out some until Asus issues a fix.
Deletes data off the internal storage, but not the sd card.
klau1 said:
thats unacceptable for those of us who actually use this device for more than just the programs included with the stock rom.
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it's called backing up your data and reinstalling your apps. It's a very common thing to do.
download app list backup from the market, that will give you market links for all of your installed apps, and you can download mybackup pro to backup some data.
and BTW, to everyone doing this, backup your internal memory becuase it will be erased as well to my understanding.
going to go ahead and do this when i get home tonight.
Fyi by default Google backs up your app data. So it should automatically redownload the apps you had and have all your settings. Unless of course you pirated them, at which point you're not allowed to complain
The backup/sync option is meant to only restore ones you purchased via the market, not free ones. Although honestly, it's restored a few of the free ones (not all) I've installed too, the last time I reset, so I'm not sure what to think any more.
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The backup/sync option is meant to only restore ones you purchased via the market, not free ones. Although honestly, it's restored a few of the free ones (not all) I've installed too, the last time I reset, so I'm not sure what to think any more.
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For me it restores my free ones as well (I have 2 paid apps and 50 free ones, it restores them all).
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The backup/sync option is meant to only restore ones you purchased via the market, not free ones. Although honestly, it's restored a few of the free ones (not all) I've installed too, the last time I reset, so I'm not sure what to think any more.
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it restores all free ones for me
magicpork said:
it restores all free ones for me
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same here - all of my apps were reinstalled once I did rebooted. The vast majority of them were free.
magicpork said:
it restores all free ones for me
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Note that it does not restore app data. You need root for that and Titanium Backup and if you have root there are other ways to get the widget back. Any save states (ie. completed levels in Angry Birds etc..) will be lost. Any settings and such as well. I'm not saying don't do it, but just getting that out there for those that don't know. 'Restore' is really the wrong word for this, it's just re-installing so you don't have to.
Sounds like they've changed their policy then if it's restoring all apps now. That's certainly welcome news.
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Note that it does not restore app data. You need root for that and Titanium Backup and if you have root there are other ways to get the widget back. Any save states (ie. completed levels in Angry Birds etc..) will be lost. Any settings and such as well. I'm not saying don't do it, but just getting that out there for those that don't know. 'Restore' is really the wrong word for this, it's just re-installing so you don't have to.
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Exactly why I said factory reset is an unacceptable solution.
Titanium backup or backup pro isn't a solution because it requires root to backup app data, but if you have root you could force install Gmail widget directly without factory reseting in the first place
It is an issue to factory restore things, because there is no way to back up app data without root.
For example, playing games on your tablet, there is no way to recover that saved file unless there is root
Thats why I believe, factory resetting is the last resort resolution and really isn't a fix..
And they always make rooting so difficult, but obtaining app data to restore later or just to backup is the best part of root
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Hey ladies and gentlemen.
Can someone tell me what is the best cleaning app?
And i mean advanced cleaning, not something like clean master and such.
SDmaid is great, but i think it doesn't clean everything.
Many thanks in advance advance and sorry if its wrong section.
By the way i have Xperia Neo running ICS stock rom rooted.
What do you want to clean? You can use the recovery mode to wipe cache and dalvik cache, advanced enough?
Or titanium backup to clear apps data and stuff.
Hope it helps .
I don't know if I have used any cleaning apps specifically. I find that normally just deleting unused applications is generally enough. Everything is sandboxes and fairly self contained. Also never underestimate the size of your image lib. Always good to backup your phone and archive off pictures at the end of each year.
So called cleaner apps are all a joke. I would avoid them. Just do some minor cleaning yourself every now and then.
Cleaner apps do the contradictory action don't download them...
If u want free RAM then use
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To cleanup the cache use recovery mode..
CCleaner. I got I for free from amazon appstore. It helps with cleaning,with a few clicks you can delete unneeded garbage.
Avoid cleaning apps
I strictly recommends you not to use cleaning apps they eat up more battery and RAM.:silly:
shadowcore said:
CCleaner. I got I for free from amazon appstore. It helps with cleaning,with a few clicks you can delete unneeded garbage.
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This. CCleaner is awesome. Check it out.
Khoga said:
This. CCleaner is awesome. Check it out.
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Those cleaning apps dont do anything other then place ads on your screen. All effects are placebo designed to make noobs think they are doing something great.
zelendel said:
Those cleaning apps dont do anything other then place ads on your screen. All effects are placebo designed to make noobs think they are doing something great.
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Actually, CCleaner has no ads, at least the version I have. Suffice to say, its a useful tool. Less menial work to do, especially when deleting many things at once.
shadowcore said:
Actually, CCleaner has no ads, at least the version I have. Suffice to say, its a useful tool. Less menial work to do, especially when deleting many things at once.
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Have you even looked at what it really does. These types of apps were put to the test years ago. They were found to be mostly pointless as they mainly cleaned up DB files what we're just redone on the next reboot.
And now with Android 5.0 they are even more pointless.
360Antivirus geek. Maybe.
I agree most clean up apps don't do much for you. I do like SD maid as it allows me to toggle whether or not certain apps run at start up, duplicate finder can also be useful at times.
Also use SD Maid to check its file's recommendations out occasionally. Interesting to see and optional to remove...
DuxAS92 said:
SDmaid is great, but i think it doesn't clean everything.
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It's tough to be both thorough and still on the safe side. If you send me a mail regarding what you think was missed i can look into it.
techacker007 said:
What do you want to clean? You can use the recovery mode to wipe cache and dalvik cache, advanced enough?
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Dalvik-Cache, the cache partition and app cache is not the same. AFAIK no recovery targets app caches except when doing a factory reset.
IgnitusBoyone said:
I don't know if I have used any cleaning apps specifically. I find that normally just deleting unused applications is generally enough. Everything is sandboxes and fairly self contained. Also never underestimate the size of your image lib. Always good to backup your phone and archive off pictures at the end of each year.
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The sandbox is pretty leaky though. Especially the sdcard is basically a huge free 4 all with developers thinking they are the most important app on the phone and stuffing files everywhere. Then there are also the cases where apps think their data should stick around because you "might" reinstall, who specifically make sure the data is not just deleted on uninstall.
If we put root into the mix, it's all fair game .
zelendel said:
So called cleaner apps are all a joke. I would avoid them. Just do some minor cleaning yourself every now and then.
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"Most" cleaner apps are a joke, but don't put them all in the same bucket . But i do i have to admit that the majority are a joke if not even missleading or straight scummy.
zelendel said:
Have you even looked at what it really does. These types of apps were put to the test years ago. They were found to be mostly pointless as they mainly cleaned up DB files what we're just redone on the next reboot.
And now with Android 5.0 they are even more pointless.
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All the "RAM cleaning stuff" has been pointless since 2.2/2.3. Not sure what you mean that Lollipop has changed further, while external sdcard restrictions have been forced since 3.0 (in reality 4.4) it doesn't completely solve most issues, especially on custom ROMs or rooted devices where the restrictions are often deactivated as they are pretty inconvinient.
I'm not sure what DB files you are talking about, care to elaborate?
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Also use SD Maid to check its file's recommendations out occasionally. Interesting to see and optional to remove...
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Interesting to see indeed, and pretty much how i think it should be used, but people want comfort and rather have the apps make the decision for them. Can't blame em though. Android has lots of room for improvement in that deparment, not easy to solve though. If they change the whole sdcard access system they could track file access of each app and use that data for security and uninstall purposes but i guess that would be difficult to do with the differences between each handsets storage solution. Also brings some performance penalties, and storage access already is one huge bottleneck on Android.
Thank you all for your answers.
I will just keep using SDmaid its best till now.
I dont want Clean master and DuSpeedBooster craps, thanks but no thanks.
Also CCleaner is pretty simple, i think sdmaid is doing better job.
I dont know how to use recovery mode, i never made it.
I am on ICS stock rom rooted, maybe its not even possible for me to go into recovery mode.
Yeah lolipop is great but my phone wont get it and i cant get new phone so Lolipop is nowhere near me.
Cheers
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Hello all,
I fell into a huge problem. I use a Nexus 5 16 GB variant with all sorts of games I can put inside of. Now I ran out of storage.
My smart ass told me search for culprits and I was ruthless on files as small as 50 MBs. . Now, then I saw a treasure trove of space which could be freed and that was in #/system/app. I deleted almost all of them and left behind some like Bluetooth.apk and NFC et al.
Now two things happened
1) I can no longer use the 'Explore Storage' in the Other category of Storage found i Settings app. It would say, Settings has Crashed.
2) I can no longer sync my contacts to Google as After asking to add account, it just asks again. Earlier I seamlessly used that feature.
I don't know what's broken more.
Please someone help.
Much thanks in advance.
Have you tried a full reset? Kinda of a risk... But worth it at times. My old phone I could delete all the system apps, then reset it and they'd all pop back up.
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Have you tried a full reset? Kinda of a risk... But worth it at times. My old phone I could delete all the system apps, then reset it and they'd all pop back up.
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I have the ROM with me. Flashing that will ( or might) restore every functionality. But the point is why it did happen and unbreak the broken without flashing.
Why would you think that deleting anything from a system folder is a good idea...?
Just flash the system.img again. That should restore at least a working system, though I'd guess that you'll have to do some manual rework to restore lost apps. Your data should still be intact.
Just guessing, to be honest. I'm still astonished that you did this...
Have you considered an OTG USB stick? The attached photo shows an additional 128GB of storage on the tip of my little finger. I can post the links if anyone is interested.
dahawthorne said:
Why would you think that deleting anything from a system folder is a good idea...?
Just flash the system.img again. That should restore at least a working system, though I'd guess that you'll have to do some manual rework to restore lost apps. Your data should still be intact.
Just guessing, to be honest. I'm still astonished that you did this...
Have you considered an OTG USB stick? The attached photo shows an additional 128GB of storage on the tip of my little finger. I can post the links if anyone is interested.
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I don't know why I did that. Maybe because I saw those apks lying there and thought to myself, what are they doing here. I deleted all of them.
The next part is more important now. I installed the same ROM on the same phone using multirom and then copied the whole system/app folder to my other ROMs broken app folder. And this helped remove the broken Settings functionality. But the Contacts functionality is still broken. Lastly I will flash the system image if I could not find the reason behind this. Thanks sir for the help.
An app that will remove a system app with "ALL" its files safely and permanently.
Dylan2232 said:
An app that will remove a system app with "ALL" its files safely and permanently.
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There are plenty of them on play store. I believe all I tried so far work good on rooted devices
Playstore SD Maid pro works very well...
Dylan2232 said:
An app that will remove a system app with "ALL" its files safely and permanently.
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Titanium Backup Pro is always a good go-to. Really, there are no shortages of apps that do what you want, though. Do you have other criteria?
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Titanium Backup Pro is always a good go-to. Really, there are no shortages of apps that do what you want, though. Do you have other criteria?
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That's about the only requirement...an app that will remove every single file that an app installed.
I factory reseted my phone yesterday and going through the memory, i noticed folders and files of apps that had already been uninstalled long ago, as well as ones that weren't but i assumed the factory reset would take care of it. So i am guessing some apps (all?) leave traces behind. Thats what i don't want.
Dylan2232 said:
That's about the only requirement...an app that will remove every single file that an app installed.
I factory reseted my phone yesterday and going through the memory, i noticed folders and files of apps that had already been uninstalled long ago, as well as ones that weren't but i assumed the factory reset would take care of it. So i am guessing some apps (all?) leave traces behind. Thats what i don't want.
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Yeah, almost every app will add some sort of files to folders. Places like /storage/internal/Android/ or /storage/internal/data/data/
If you go to App Info, or use Titanium Backup (TiBu), and clear data and cache THEN uninstall, you should get rid of the vast majority of folders and stuff the app(s) installed. SDMaid has CorpseFinder, which can find orphaned files.
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Titanium Backup Pro is always a good go-to. Really, there are no shortages of apps that do what you want, though. Do you have other criteria?
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mattgyver said:
Yeah, almost every app will add some sort of files to folders. Places like /storage/internal/Android/ or /storage/internal/data/data/
If you go to App Info, or use Titanium Backup (TiBu), and clear data and cache THEN uninstall, you should get rid of the vast majority of folders and stuff the app(s) installed. SDMaid has CorpseFinder, which can find orphaned files.
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Yeah, im a little OCD about this...im looking for zero trace. There's gotta be something out there that can do it. SD Maid, i dont see how it can get everything everytime because really, how can it know? Especially when the app developer doesn't want the files to be known.
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Yeah, im a little OCD about this...im looking for zero trace. There's gotta be something out there that can do it. SD Maid, i dont see how it can get everything everytime because really, how can it know? Especially when the app developer doesn't want the files to be known.
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Unfortunately, I doubt you'll find anything that's 100% ALWAYS going to scrub 100% of everything.
You can hedge your bets and reformat your internal storage every few weeks if you get paranoid about space and orphaned data.