Hey everyone,
I was going to do a factory reset, so before that, I've decided to try out the Cloud Backup feature so that I could store my settings in the cloud and restore upon factory reset. However the backup seems to be taking forever. It's been sitting there for at least 3 hours and the bar is still at something like 10%. It says it's now backing up the apps (which are 113) and the number increases by 1 roughly every 10 minutes. This is driving me nuts.
I'm running the latest EMUI 8 on a P20, and I have attached a screenshot (although it's in Italian).
Did anybody else ever experience this?
Thank you!
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I've done several Hard resets over the last few days, testing themes and sounds and a few other things. I find it easier to hard reset than to remove each item line by line, and hope nothing is left behind.
I noticed that I will do a HR, and 45 apps will be restored. If I immediately do another one, 33 might be restored. Then in another hour,, 38 might be restored. This last time, Google Maps was not restored...which I thought strange...well it was restored but only with v 5.0. Earliear in the week in restored to v5.5. A couple of apps simply did not restore...1 won't let me install again, period.
Any trick to this restore thing that I'm unawaare of? Dont tell me to root....not goingthere yet. Is this the world famous...welcome to android?
TIA
Hello all,
I've ran into a circle of issues. I'm rooted, have touch CWM (can't remember the exact version) and had SynergyROM installed. I downloaded PowerAMP. Some people may stop me there and tell me that's the problem. During the Aroma installation, I must have ticked the option that optimizes apps and causes a long first boot. After researching this issue, I have found is a bad thing to do. I don't know why I would have chosen that option but this is the end of the path that I've come to.
What happened was PowerAMP was stuck on installing. So I attempted to find it and cancel it or uninstall, but it was no where on my phone, not in the notification bar, and was stuck on installing in the market.
So, I go about my business on my phone and it suddenly shuts down. I start it up, and it boots normally until it gets to "Optimizing app 1 of 1". I let it sit for about 30 minutes before I pulled the battery. I performed a nandroid backup, rebooted, same issue. I researched the issue and found people reporting success after wiping the cache and dalvik cache, so i did so. Now it reported "Optimizing apps 1 of 250" and went fine until it got stuck at 250. I let it sit for an hour before I pulled the battery again. I wiped data/cache/dalvik and reflashed a clean SynergyROM, the phone was working perfect. Then attempted restoring the backup, but still got the same issue.
I found a new ROM like I had been planning on doing since my phone was wiped anyway, and download Nandroid Manager to extract the data from my apps as I had read in the past was possible. Upon exploring the backup, I noticed the month and date were correct, but the year was 1980. There is NO data, in the data/data area except com.android, com.samsung and com.verizon packages.
Am I missing something? Why is all the .apk information in the ext4.tar but NONE of my app data remains? Am I screwed? I had an older backup from January in which I found the same apps with older data and that restored fine. I have Expense Manager, for example, and I started using it in the last week of January. Once I setup my budget I backed up. Since then, I've entered in all of my income and expenses and was planning to backup before the PowerAMP issue. Everything was working smooth, no tweaks made to the ROM, no issues whatsoever until now. So I can only restore data from the old backup and not the latest one.
Thank you so much in advance.
P.S.: Extra question, but not nearly as important - I can't seem to find a consistent answer. When performing a nandroid recovery, from say, in this case SynergyROM, does it matter what ROM I've flashed? Doesn't the nandroid recovery basically wipe the slate clean and lay everything back out just like you would do when replacing carpet, or a bandaid? Just a curiosity.
EDIT: I just discovered Titanium PRO can extract. Bought it. Tried it. Expense Manager crashes. Now, unless Expense Manager is installed, it doesn't even show up in extraction.
I have another idea - is there a way to EDIT a nandroid backup? For instance, can I REMOVE PowerAMP from the nandroid backup and restore through CWM without having to go through all of this? If it was just one app I wouldn't care but..I have at least 15 different apps with a couple months worth of data :/ My fault for sure..but I still harbor faith in this community nonetheless.
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Psychotacon said:
Hello all,
I've ran into a circle of issues. I'm rooted, have touch CWM (can't remember the exact version) and had SynergyROM installed. I downloaded PowerAMP. Some people may stop me there and tell me that's the problem. During the Aroma installation, I must have ticked the option that optimizes apps and causes a long first boot. After researching this issue, I have found is a bad thing to do. I don't know why I would have chosen that option but this is the end of the path that I've come to.
What happened was PowerAMP was stuck on installing. So I attempted to find it and cancel it or uninstall, but it was no where on my phone, not in the notification bar, and was stuck on installing in the market.
So, I go about my business on my phone and it suddenly shuts down. I start it up, and it boots normally until it gets to "Optimizing app 1 of 1". I let it sit for about 30 minutes before I pulled the battery. I performed a nandroid backup, rebooted, same issue. I researched the issue and found people reporting success after wiping the cache and dalvik cache, so i did so. Now it reported "Optimizing apps 1 of 250" and went fine until it got stuck at 250. I let it sit for an hour before I pulled the battery again. I wiped data/cache/dalvik and reflashed a clean SynergyROM, the phone was working perfect. Then attempted restoring the backup, but still got the same issue.
I found a new ROM like I had been planning on doing since my phone was wiped anyway, and download Nandroid Manager to extract the data from my apps as I had read in the past was possible. Upon exploring the backup, I noticed the month and date were correct, but the year was 1980. There is NO data, in the data/data area except com.android, com.samsung and com.verizon packages.
Am I missing something? Why is all the .apk information in the ext4.tar but NONE of my app data remains? Am I screwed? I had an older backup from January in which I found the same apps with older data and that restored fine. I have Expense Manager, for example, and I started using it in the last week of January. Once I setup my budget I backed up. Since then, I've entered in all of my income and expenses and was planning to backup before the PowerAMP issue. Everything was working smooth, no tweaks made to the ROM, no issues whatsoever until now. So I can only restore data from the old backup and not the latest one.
Thank you so much in advance.
P.S.: Extra question, but not nearly as important - I can't seem to find a consistent answer. When performing a nandroid recovery, from say, in this case SynergyROM, does it matter what ROM I've flashed? Doesn't the nandroid recovery basically wipe the slate clean and lay everything back out just like you would do when replacing carpet, or a bandaid? Just a curiosity.
EDIT: I just discovered Titanium PRO can extract. Bought it. Tried it. Expense Manager crashes. Now, unless Expense Manager is installed, it doesn't even show up in extraction.
I have another idea - is there a way to EDIT a nandroid backup? For instance, can I REMOVE PowerAMP from the nandroid backup and restore through CWM without having to go through all of this? If it was just one app I wouldn't care but..I have at least 15 different apps with a couple months worth of data :/ My fault for sure..but I still harbor faith in this community nonetheless.
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EDIT 2: PROBLEM SOLVED! Woo hoo! For anyone with a similar issue, I suppose I was just too frustrated to realize all courses of action. So this is the sequence in which I got the data back:
1: Installed updated app straight from the market, made sure it was closed and not in memory
2: Opened Titanium PRO and selected the nandroid backup
3: Recovered DATA ONLY
4: Opened app
5: Danced.
Hopefully this helps anyone with this similar issue.
Hi. Advice / help please. Got a RAZR HD MAXX running "standard" CM12.1 build. Since installing, i've been using the built in "CyanogenMod Update" system to update the builds, doing a wipe before installing. The first few went fine, the "first boot" process offering to restore the data from my Google account, along with the apps I installed via the Play Store, as well as putting the apps into the correct place on my home screens. I then manually add back non Play Store apps and also app data not covered by the Google account (ie: apps that offer their own backup/restore facility).
The last couple of builds however have failed to restore correctly, offering me to restore data from a backup like "46 days ago" - WTF?!
Additionally the apps are restoring OK (well, the ones seemingly from 46 days ago, not including any I added recently), but my homescreen goes back to default without my apps being placed in their previous locations, as it had done before. In addition, all of this is a LOT slower than previously - the restore process takes 3-4 hours (this is over WiFi, not mobile data).
So, questions are:
(a) why is the backup being offered not a more recent one? Is there a way to see what Google has/force a backup before I start the upgrade? (I thought this was just automated?)
(b) why doesn't my homescreen get put back properly? (even back to whatever it was 46 days ago)
(c) why does it take take 3-4 hours for the restore to complete (apps and data back) when previously it was done in about 30 mins
Am I the only one seeing any of this? Is there a better way to do it? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance!
Hi
I've got a pixel xl, and got my girlfriend a pixel. she had an Xperia Z3C, and wanted to keep her data. so during the startup we selected data transfer via cable, and it works, to a point.
It shows 3 minutes til completion, counts down nicely then pops up to 5 mins. (this 5 mins occurs about 50% on the progress bar)
then it sits for ever (til battery has drained) on "less than a minute remaining.
I'd like to transfer the data from a few of her apps, like steam, duolingo etc.
I've tried helium, but it wont touch those apps. Does anyone have any ideas on how to pull the data across? Z3c isn't rooted, and is running android 6, pixel is on 7.1.2
we've factory resetted, and even reset through recovery mode (as advised by google themselves as a troubleshooter)
wondering if anyone else has had this? Did you manage to fix/workaround? does it sound like a fault?
cheers
I got my new S22 Ultra a month ago..i installed whatsapp..it stucks during restoring chat history…but i overcome this problem by forcing stop the app during the restoring process ( a solution i found after reading many threads.. untill nw it works but um afraid one day everything is lost. Also it takes much time to save hundreds of stickers again)..then everthing is ok for a month till 30 september 2022.
Since 30 September 2022, My WhatsApp has been messing up pretty badly. Over the last five days I randomly (and this is true - no errant reboots, no app crashes, etc.) get the error message "Something went wrong with your chat history" on WhatsApp, which has a Restore option under the dialog box. This is practically useless as the progress bar never successfully completes, but even goes back at times.
This forces me to reinstall WhatsApp, and pray that I don't have to start with a new chat database again. Because it takes multiple attempts to get back on the app. And i can't restore hundreds of stickers. This plunges me into another time lag, as the app's verification put in progressively increasing wait times every time I reinstall.Why i got this message over last 5 days every morning???How can i solve it without taking the restore option as it took me 5 hours trying to restore chat history and stickers???I hope you response quickly..
I have tried many solutions: clearing cashe..turning airplane mode on and off..reset networks settings…turn the mobile on and off…unrestrict whatsapp from battery saver…remove the backup at google drive..close whatsapp from recent apps…during trying to solve the issue, i noticed one day that the error occurs during backup is being uploaded to google drive so i choose never to backup to google depending on the local backup but i unfortunatley woke up the next moring and the error occurs once it was searching for new messages.
Please help to retrieve a permanent solution specially as i found many people suffering from this for months in many threads...
Hi, you probably need to let the program fully restore the chat database... Can you leave restoring during night, for example, when your don't use the phone? Did you give the app the proper rights to access storage, etc?
Marcelocohenarg said:
Hi, you probably need to let the program fully restore the chat database... Can you leave restoring during night, for example, when your don't use the phone? Did you give the app the proper rights to access storage, etc?
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I tried but it always stucks at different points and if i leave it, it fails ending to an old group chat history... although when i force stop the app, the chat history is back completely.
switch to Telegram
Better yet switch to Signal.