Hello there. Recently, I somehow managed to shatter the glass on the front of my Lumia 900 screen. Not sure how that happened, but that's beside the point. What is the point the replacement modle has arrived. Yay, except for the fact I can't seem to get any of my data onto the new phone.
I have been using Windows Phone Easy Backup for all my back up related needs (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20052393&postcount=1). I tried making a back up and restoring the new phone, but that doesn't seem to work.
I've tried everything I can think of. The closest I've gotton to actually getting my data on the new modle was by backing up both phones, then copying the old phone's backup data file and replacing the new phone's back up data file.
Zune would being to restore my phone, but then suddenly stop and claim that it can't restore the phone because the OS versions are inncompatible (Even though they're both running the same OS versions).
I'm stuck, I've tried this plus so many other things, but I just can't get it done. Is there anyway into tricking Zune into letting use a backup from my old phone on my new phone? Please, while I am willing to do a screen transplant, I have a feeling the insurance company might have an issue with that...
I still have the old phone with the data intact. It still works fine, just somewhat unsafe to use because the glass is starting to chip and fall off. Still, I still have access to my old phone and its data incase that helps any. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!
Device backups are encrypted with per-device keys. Nobody has yet managed to extract this key, so you can't take a backup of device A and restore it to device B, even if they're exactly the same model.
Aside from your media (pictures, music, etc.), your documents (if they aren't too big to email), and the various items that are stored online (contact lists, email, purchase history), you can't currently back up and restore data from a Lumia 900. If we were able to root it, you could use tools like Windows Phone Device Manager to back up apps, and SMSBackup to do exactly what it sounds like, but both of those require more privileges than a standard developer unlock provides.
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My son has a Nvidia Shield tablet, which has been recalled. The replacement tablet will arrive in a few days, and I hope to make the switch as seamless as possible. I am especially concerned about application data like game progress etc.
I have experienced earlier when switching phones, that not all apps/games data will be restored from the normal "Google account" auto backup.
What is the reccommended way to backup everything from the old tablet and restore to the new one, without loosing any data? The tablet is 100% stock, no root or anything like that.
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I have an two S7.
The old one is rooted. I am trying to transfer all data - especially app data to a new S7 and I have failed so far.
The new S7 is encrypted because it is company phone and company requires that. It is not rooted.
The old phone is not encrypted. It was not possible. I suspect because it is rooted.
That is the reason why I don't want to root the new phone.
I have tried Samsung Smart Switch, but of course it only transfers the apps, but not the data.
I have tried Helium. The backup went fine, but the new phone did not connect to the PC. It constantly said I should switch to PTP for USB debugging, although it was activated. I found that someone recommended to switch off screen lock. But this is impossible with the new phone now.
I have tried several times and gave up.
I have tried Holo Backup, but no backup was created.
I have tried Super Backup. Seemed to work fine. No app data transfered.
I have tried Samsung cloud. Seemed to work fine. No app data transfered.
Any suggestions please?
Thanks!
ingomhhf said:
Hello!
I have an two S7.
The old one is rooted. I am trying to transfer all data - especially app data to a new S7 and I have failed so far.
The new S7 is encrypted because it is company phone and company requires that. It is not rooted.
The old phone is not encrypted. It was not possible. I suspect because it is rooted.
That is the reason why I don't want to root the new phone.
I have tried Samsung Smart Switch, but of course it only transfers the apps, but not the data.
I have tried Helium. The backup went fine, but the new phone did not connect to the PC. It constantly said I should switch to PTP for USB debugging, although it was activated. I found that someone recommended to switch off screen lock. But this is impossible with the new phone now.
I have tried several times and gave up.
I have tried Holo Backup, but no backup was created.
I have tried Super Backup. Seemed to work fine. No app data transfered.
I have tried Samsung cloud. Seemed to work fine. No app data transfered.
Any suggestions please?
Thanks!
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You can do an ADB Backup and restore it on the new phone, it's what Helium does except it does it app by app instead of all at once (it will only backup apps for which backup is allowed but that's the max you can do without root). Another way is Google backup which should backup app data (same as ADB but easier)
I'm so used to rooted phones and Titanium Backup...has anyone found a decent replacement for non-rooted phones. I know that we won't be able to back up app data unless the phone is rooted, but I guess something to back up messages, call logs, etc. is better than nothing.
DickyG said:
I'm so used to rooted phones and Titanium Backup...has anyone found a decent replacement for non-rooted phones. I know that we won't be able to back up app data unless the phone is rooted, but I guess something to back up messages, call logs, etc. is better than nothing.
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This is what I just did to transfer my phone contents (Note 8) to my new A71 5g. Go to this link below. You can use this as a back up and to transfer from old phone to new phone using Smart Switch.
https://twigby.zendesk.com/hc/en-us...information-from-an-old-phone-to-a-new-phone-
Hope this hleps!
Thanks...I tried Smart Switch with varied results...sometimes the 2 phones connected, sometimes they didn't. I'm gonna try to connect them both to computer via USB. Still hoping for some genius to discover how to unlock bootloader and root this phone.
I've been pretty happy with MyBackup Pro (https://www.rerware.com). It's like $7 or something for the Pro version (the free version allows backup/restore on the same phone, but the 'gotcha' is that you need Pro to move between phones). It works on both rooted and non-rooted phones (the latter obviously being more limited), it allows for very granular backup tasks, it's flexible with download locations (internal, SD Card, there's even a desktop app to use your computer as a repo) and its SMS/MMS backup/restore is *much* faster than Titanium Backup.
Don't get me wrong, TB is still fantastic for freezing/thawing apps, but MBP has been solid for this task. 10/10 would recommend.
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I'm so used to rooted phones and Titanium Backup...has anyone found a decent replacement for non-rooted phones. I know that we won't be able to back up app data unless the phone is rooted, but I guess something to back up messages, call logs, etc. is better than nothing.
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I started using Titanium Pro in 2010-11 and recently Titanium Pro is not working on my phone. I have a S7 Edge. I am now thinking about getting a new phone and rooting it. I heard Titanium is not providing support like it used to and I am too looking for another app that does the same job that Titanium did
Hello. My Pixel 7 pro had some dust under the selfie camera, so I had to send it back to google for RMA, I then got a Samsung A03 as a loner phone, really low end, but I got a loaner and that was better than nothing, I then proceeded to erase my Pixel 7 pro as I knew everything was backed up by default as I had sync on in the settings under account and they said I had to do that so they could test the phone, now when I logged into the samsung phone after starting it, it did not restore my data, I just tought the phone was too low-end, but now I was looking to restore SMS messages and saw a bunch of internet post mentioned about google drive backup for phones and now when I look at google drive on my phone I see an option to start backup and I have never seen that before, so now I am wondering if I really did not do a backup on my Pixel phone and some data is lost or not.
Think that's sort of typical on Samsung's. Even when you turn off Google Google backup Transport it seems to retain the data it previously saved.
That said I don't trust it and back up everything redundantly to multiple drives. I don't use cloud in part because it's a huge resource hog.
In your case I be tempted to error on the side of caution and wait to restore the data on the original phone... and hope it works.
That's one reason I keep a backup phone, ready to go in case my primary phone needs service or whatever. In addition to backups to flash and hdds I also use my phone's unencrypted SD card as a data drive. All critical data goes there. That way I can do a full reload using just the card. Not having or properly using expandable storage is a handicap.
blackhawk said:
Think that's sort of typical on Samsung's. Even when you turn off Google Google backup Transport it seems to retain the data it previously saved.
That said I don't trust it and back up everything redundantly to multiple drives. I don't use cloud in part because it's a huge resource hog.
In your case I be tempted to error on the side of caution and wait to restore the data on the original phone... and hope it works.
That's one reason I keep a backup phone, ready to go in case my primary phone needs service or whatever. In addition to backups to flash and hdds I also use my phone's unencrypted SD card as a data drive. All critical data goes there. That way I can do a full reload using just the card. Not having or properly using expandable storage is a handicap.
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No I dont think you understand me, I am wondering if the data on my google phone is lost or not, when I switched from my Samsung Galaxy S10 to my Pixel 7 Pro all the data came back including the apps and so on, so I tought ok, when sync settings is turn on in account settings then I am all good and also tught that google had all thease backup things on automatically, but now when I switched to the loaner Samsung Galaxy A03 non of the data came back and even the apps did not restore, on all my other phone (they have been high end tho compared to this one) there was the nromal google menu when you started the phone for the first time and it logged in and presented me with my apps list and asked if I wanted to restore them.
Now the problems is that I see in google drive that there is a backup option that I Have never used before and did not know that it was there, so I am wondering if the data on my Pixel 7 Pro is lost like SMS, apps list and so on.
When I started the Samsung A03 there was an option to use the Samsung Smart transfer, but skipped that and now that I think of it, that might have been the method to transfer things, tho I have never used that on any of my other samsung phones that I have owned.
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No I dont think you understand me, I am wondering if the data on my google phone is lost or not, when I switched from my Samsung Galaxy S10 to my Pixel 7 Pro all the data came back including the apps and so on, so I tought ok, when sync settings is turn on in account settings then I am all good and also tught that google had all thease backup things on automatically, but now when I switched to the loaner Samsung Galaxy A03 non of the data came back and even the apps did not restore, on all my other phone (they have been high end tho compared to this one) there was the nromal google menu when you started the phone for the first time and it logged in and presented me with my apps list and asked if I wanted to restore them.
Now the problems is that I see in google drive that there is a backup option that I Have never used before and did not know that it was there, so I am wondering if the data on my Pixel 7 Pro is lost like SMS, apps list and so on.
When I started the Samsung A03 there was an option to use the Samsung Smart transfer, but skipped that and now that I think of it, that might have been the method to transfer things, tho I have never used that on any of my other samsung phones that I have owned.
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I do understand. I would avoid switching the data from phone to loaner phone with Google backup Transport if there's any doubt. SmartSwitch has it's own issues and can lose data. I don't trust either.
Try this...
blackhawk said:
I do understand. I would avoid switching the data from phone to loaner phone with Google backup Transport if there's any doubt. SmartSwitch has it's own issues and can lose data. I don't trust either.
Try this...
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ok, but my question is still there is my data lost from my Pixel 7 Pro as I did not use any specific backup funktion other than the standard account sync options on my google phone, but yes only time will tell when I get the phone back from repair.
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ok, but my question is still there is my data lost from my Pixel 7 Pro as I did not use any specific backup funktion other than the standard account sync options on my google phone, but yes only time will tell when I get the phone back from repair.
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It looks like some of the backup functions are limited to Pixel phones. Since I only use Samsung's I may not be aware of some of Google backup's advanced functions. Maybe they should of given you a Pixel loaner...
blackhawk said:
It looks like some of the backup functions are limited to Pixel phones. Since I only use Samsung's I may not be aware of some of Google backup's advanced functions. Maybe they should of given you a Pixel loaner...
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I was looking at this site https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6305834?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Android and that was what got me concerned that I had lost a lot of stuff as I had never seen that backup funktion before.
Yes they only had that Samsung phone in the electronic store that I went to.
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I was looking at this site https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6305834?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Android and that was what got me concerned that I had lost a lot of stuff as I had never seen that backup funktion before.
Yes they only had that Samsung phone in the electronic store that I went to.
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Time will tell. If you value your data in the future always backup critical data redundantly and regularly to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. OTG flashsticks can also be used but if they fail there's no tangible recovery option unlike hdds.
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Time will tell. If you value your data in the future always backup critical data redundantly and regularly to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. OTG flashsticks can also be used but if they fail there's no tangible recovery option unlike hdds.
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Yes time will tell, I will see when I get the phone back.
You can look to see if you still have a backup(s), by going to drive.google.com, click Storage on the left, and then Backups, in the upper right. This will show you a list of whats-what, at the given time point (backups expire after 2 months if the phone isn't (cloud) connected).
I use SMS-backup-and-restore (app), before I do ANY phone migration, or similar (any reset, root or wonky adb things that are iffy, on recovery), at least that saves all your SMS and call history, which you can restore to any phone, using the same (app).
Additionally, if you backup your pics (Gdrive, OneDrive, whatever...), and other non-replaceable data, then if the backup isn't usable, you have most of what you'd want, it's just a hassle to sift-sort.
There are tools to restore your installed apps (list, XML), but this is almost more of a hassle then just doing it, IME/IMHO.
On the A3 restore, was it running Android 13, BEFORE you went to restore? Down-level restores generally don't work. If this is the case, you should see your backup in the first suggestion, above, and it should be there, as long as you get your P7P back, before it expires (or you restore it to an equivalent or up-level device).
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You can look to see if you still have a backup(s), by going to drive.google.com, click Storage on the left, and then Backups, in the upper right. This will show you a list of whats-what, at the given time point (backups expire after 2 months if the phone isn't (cloud) connected).
I use SMS-backup-and-restore (app), before I do ANY phone migration, or similar (any reset, root or wonky adb things that are iffy, on recovery), at least that saves all your SMS and call history, which you can restore to any phone, using the same (app).
Additionally, if you backup your pics (Gdrive, OneDrive, whatever...), and other non-replaceable data, then if the backup isn't usable, you have most of what you'd want, it's just a hassle to sift-sort.
There are tools to restore your installed apps (list, XML), but this is almost more of a hassle then just doing it, IME/IMHO.
On the A3 restore, was it running Android 13, BEFORE you went to restore? Down-level restores generally don't work. If this is the case, you should see your backup in the first suggestion, above, and it should be there, as long as you get your P7P back, before it expires (or you restore it to an equivalent or up-level device).
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Ok yes I can see some backup in there, so I think I am all right, lets hope it worked.
The A03 was running android 13, so I dont know if it should work or not, I was not presneted with the normal android menu with all my apps and if I wanted to restore them, but that might be due to the phone having the samsung skin on it.
I will see once I get the phone back, it should only take 2 weeks max they said.