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[Q] Switch the call logger?

The phone came with Smart Contacts as well as the stock LG Dialer. I prefer to use the stock one, but calls are being logged in Smart Contacts instead of the stock app. I tried deactivating Smart Contacts, but the logs still aren't showing up in the stock app. Any suggestions?

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I had to use titanium backup to remove it. Freezing it should work as well. I think I probably should have done that to most apps as my update is failing now. May have to sideload it, or something.
good luck!

Thanks man. It actually eventually resolved itself. A simple reboot worked wonders. It's just annoying that we have to jump through these hoops.
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Best way to restore back-ups, non-root?

Usually when I get a new phone, I root it, get TB on there and restore. Works great. However, I think I'll use my S7 without root for a while, so no TB.
I know about Helium, is that the best way to go? What's your plan for March 11th?

I would say Helium as well, if not rooting. (provided root is found)

Mybackup is good for restoring sms/mms without root, not sure how it does that but it works.

My routine is make a backup with Helium, use smart switch to move most things to the new phone, restore app data from Helium for anything that did not come over with Smart Switch.

nicholb said:
My routine is make a backup with Helium, use smart switch to move most things to the new phone, restore app data from Helium for anything that did not come over with Smart Switch.
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How did this work for you? I've always spent a day reinstalling apps, inputting passwords and losing data on the new phone because I don't want to screw anything up. Maybe I'm wasting my time.
My S7 arrived today, so I'll be moving everything tonight.

Just enable backup in the settings, force sync everything afterwards, then connect the USB cable and adapter that come with the S7 as described in the onscreen instructions.

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How did this work for you? I've always spent a day reinstalling apps, inputting passwords and losing data on the new phone because I don't want to screw anything up. Maybe I'm wasting my time.
My S7 arrived today, so I'll be moving everything tonight.
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It went fairly well. SmartSync copied over all the docs, pics, music, and many other things. I should have used the included adapter but WiFi direct was fast enough. The apps downloaded from the play store. Once that was done I ran the helium restore and got back most of my app data.
There are a few misses. Helium did not bring over my watch face libraries from either Watchmaker nor Pujie Black. I had to use methods in the app to transfer those. Usually Helium brings over the desktop, but this time it did not. I assume that was because I was going from Lollipop to Marshmallow. You do have to open your apps to re-login to them. A password manager is a big help with that. Some of the apps have new Marshmallow permission prompts when first opened so it is smart to just open all your core apps once you have everything transferred.

I use Titanium Backup, but potatoes potatoes.

FazeRN said:
I use Titanium Backup, but potatoes potatoes.
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As do I but won't do much without root.

Helium works really well
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move from S7E to S8+ NO ROOT

Which method work better in your opinion: Smart Switch vs Google Restore vs Samsung Restore. I just got so many settings and took me whole year to set this up.

Personally I use Helium to back up my apps and data that I need app data to transfer. It's almost as good as titanium for transferring app data.
I have never used the other restore options, I don't trust that they will transfer the apps AND data. I do use google to restore my contacts, etc, but not apps.

I'm looking more for transfer phone setting ie notification toggle, alarms, sound setup...

I started fresh, the switchover type things tend to cause rogue battery eating apps.

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I started fresh, the switchover type things tend to cause rogue battery eating apps.
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I couldn't agree more, its more or less a dirty flash to some degree.
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nosympathy said:
I started fresh, the switchover type things tend to cause rogue battery eating apps.
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Same with me. I like to always set up my new devices from scratch. I always have issues when restore shiee using a back up tool (duplicate contacts, battery draining apps, weird force closes, etc.)

General Problems with the Galaxy Watch4 so far....

Hello community,
I'm listing the problems I have faced/ still facing with the Samsung Galaxy Watch4. If you have a solution, please comment. If you have other watch problems, please mention them with solution, if available.
Much of the problems below started AFTER doing a factory reset.
1. If I make a call from the watch, the contact picture doesn't show up in the background. I don't think it was like this before doing a factory reset.
2. If I get a call on the watch, the contact picture is very blurry. This is after a factory reset. Before the reset, it was fine.
3. Galaxy Wear app on my phone frequently fails to sync watch's battery info on the app. Same is true of Smart Things app. I have noted some of my observations and potential solution here and here. But other things are mostly fine on the app.
4. Although this happened only a couple of times, it is still worth mentioning: organizing the apps inside the Apps section in Galaxy Wear app did not sync the changes to the App Drawer on the watch. All changes done simply vanished, and I had to redo everything again.
5. There is no built-in way to backup the watch faces downloaded from the Galaxy Store or Google Play Store. And without root, Android (including WearOS) doesn't support backing up app data. This is just very pathetic.
The watch faces (only the APKs, not the app data) can be manually backed up using a file manager app. But it must be sideloaded using ADB, something most users wouldn't be comfortable with.
Limitations/ Drawback
1. One can't unpair a watch without having to do a factory reset to pair again.
2. One should not delete the app data for Galaxy Watch4 Manager app on the phone. If you do, you'll have to factory reset the watch to pair it again with the phone.
3. One should not delete the app data for Google Play Services app on the phone. If you do, you'll have to factory reset the watch to pair it again with the phone.
4. Watch Faces (with very few exceptions) don't come up with import/ export of configurations. If a watch face is uninstalled, it must be setup all over again.
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To unpair a network reset would do it...
Try clearing the system cache for any type of glitch.

blackhawk said:
To unpair a network reset would do it...
Try clearing the system cache for any type of glitch.
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I meant if you unpair the watch from the Bluetooth devices section or do a network reset on the phone, you'll have to factory reset the watch to pair it again.
Clearing system cache didn't help with any of the problems reported above.
I think this battery related problem is caused by apps on the watch that need a companion app on the phone. I'm not sure about it yet.

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I meant if you unpair the watch from the Bluetooth devices section or do a network reset on the phone, you'll have to factory reset the watch to pair it again.
Clearing system cache didn't help with any of the problems reported above.
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That's very odd. It sounds like a default setting has been changed somehow. Lol, a factory reset is not a viable option. You're missing something.
Maybe a third party app.
Does Wearables have all it's many needed permissions?
Disable all global power management... destroyer of worlds.
Play with it, Android's wuv attention

blackhawk said:
That's very odd. It sounds like a default setting has been changed somehow. Lol, a factory reset is not a viable option. You're missing something.
Maybe a third party app.
Does Wearables have all it's many needed permissions?
Disable all global power management... destroyer of worlds.
Play with it, Android's wuv attention
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Someone said it is for security purposes, although it wasn't immediately clear how. Since it is designed to be that way, there should be good reasons for it, even if I haven't figured that out yet. It is not a permissions issue or optimization issue.
I have quite a few (about 30) watch faces, and the thought of factory reset scares me away. So I am careful about how I play with it.

TheMystic said:
Someone said it is for security purposes, although it wasn't immediately clear how. Since it is designed to be that way, there should be good reasons for it, even if I haven't figured that out yet. It is not a permissions issue or optimization issue.
I have quite a few (about 30) watch faces, and the thought of factory reset scares me away. So I am careful about how I play with it.
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Maybe uninstalling/reinstalling Wearables rather a reset. Sounds like another Samsung bug.
Lol, this N10+'s load is over 2 yo now. Androids should rarely need to be factory reset. One reason I like them so. Also why I avoid upgrades and updates once I have a fast, stable load.

TheMystic said:
Someone said it is for security purposes, although it wasn't immediately clear how. Since it is designed to be that way, there should be good reasons for it, even if I haven't figured that out yet. It is not a permissions issue or optimization issue.
I have quite a few (about 30) watch faces, and the thought of factory reset scares me away. So I am careful about how I play with it.
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If you have a Samsung account you can actually back up your watch and all its data just like a phone and when you set up the watch again you can choose to recover from the backup. Its in your watch settings on the wear app.

blackhawk said:
Maybe uninstalling/reinstalling Wearables rather a reset. Sounds like another Samsung bug.
Lol, this N10+'s load is over 2 yo now. Androids should rarely need to be factory reset. One reason I like them so. Also why I avoid upgrades and updates once I have a fast, stable load.
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The Galaxy Watch4 Manager app stores the pairing key. If you uninstall it or delete its app data, you'll have to factory reset the watch to pair with your phone (or any device) again.

D0PEY said:
If you have a Samsung account you can actually back up your watch and all its data just like a phone and when you set up the watch again you can choose to recover from the backup. Its in your watch settings on the wear app.
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That backup is a useless thing. It only backups up your Quick Settings layout and a handful of System Settings. It doesn't backup any of the downloaded watch faces. And it doesn't backup watch configurations either.

TheMystic said:
That backup is a useless thing. It only backups up your Quick Settings layout and a handful of System Settings. It doesn't backup any of the downloaded watch faces. And it doesn't backup watch configurations either.
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Well, that's bad design. I thought it did a full backup, must've imagined that. My apologies.

Seems like the faces and their data are stored in the apps themselves. I was checking on that the other day and I would download 10 faces and go check the info under storage for the app and it would keep getting bigger in size. So, my question is how do you back up the app but not have it backup the apk instead. I can't even locate the physical app anywhere on the phone to try and back it up. Are the super top secret hidden or something? I'm stock android and have no way to root my phone. Has to be a way to at least do that right? Anyone?

jimweda said:
Seems like the faces and their data are stored in the apps themselves. I was checking on that the other day and I would download 10 faces and go check the info under storage for the app and it would keep getting bigger in size. So, my question is how do you back up the app but not have it backup the apk instead. I can't even locate the physical app anywhere on the phone to try and back it up. Are the super top secret hidden or something? I'm stock android and have no way to root my phone. Has to be a way to at least do that right? Anyone?
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See if SmartSwitch can back it up. Do Not use SmartSwitch to backup critical data though. It can be used to back Homepage and apps as well. Otherwise you will need to reload them.
There maybe a way using adb.
Always redundantly backup critical data including contacts to at least two hdds (copy/paste folders) that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. Otherwise you will likely lose the data eventually.

blackhawk said:
See if SmartSwitch can back it up. Do Not use SmartSwitch to backup critical data though. It can be used to back Homepage and apps as well. Otherwise you will need to reload them.
There maybe a way using adb.
Always redundantly backup critical data including contacts to at least two hdds (copy/paste folders) that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. Otherwise you will likely lose the data eventually.
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I'll give it a shot. I have a small raid set up that I use only for my phone well, because it is small and not useful for much else. Thanks.

jimweda said:
I'll give it a shot. I have a small raid set up that I use only for my phone well, because it is small and not useful for much else. Thanks.
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I would use multiple hdds that are isolated from each other so a near lightning strike, fire, trojan, whatever can't wipe out all the copies at once.

Question Still no solution for recovering data with samsung cloud on Verizon?

I moved my Z4 to Verizon from T-mobile. A few months later the screen became black and unresponsive. Since I couldn't use the screen to initiate a data swap with SmartSwitch, I tried to restore my settings, home page layout etc. using the samsung cloud backup tool. Apparently that isn't an option on Verizon. I am able to locate the app by searching for it (but it doesn't appear in the app tray) but when I try to open it says it isn't available for this phone. Is anyone aware of a fix or am I just out of luck?

Conzo427 said:
I moved my Z4 to Verizon from T-mobile. A few months later the screen became black and unresponsive. Since I couldn't use the screen to initiate a data swap with SmartSwitch, I tried to restore my settings, home page layout etc. using the samsung cloud backup tool. Apparently that isn't an option on Verizon. I am able to locate the app by searching for it (but it doesn't appear in the app tray) but when I try to open it says it isn't available for this phone. Is anyone aware of a fix or am I just out of luck?
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It should be on your settings page

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TheMadScientist said:
It should be on your settings page
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