I had a Pixel, it was working fine, until it bricked due to bad hardware. Got another Pixel, restored my Titanium Backup backups of all my apps.
FolderSync is supposed to sync the Titanium Backup backups to Google Drive, but it doesn't work. I set everything back up again, even reinstalled the app, and it still just doesn't do anything. It starts "syncing" but just sits on 0 files checked, 0 files synced for hours while chewing through battery.
Something is also wrong with emojis. I've used Emoji Switcher to get the iOS 10 emojis, as I hate the Google ones (did the same on my previous Pixel and my Samsung Galaxy S7 without issue). When there are multiple emojis they're too close together, when there's only one the right-hand side of the emoji gets cut off (about where the shoulder is on the shrug).
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Hey all, I just did a nandroid backup via Rom Manager and when I booted back into the phone, a number of my apps on my home screen have stock android icons. Some (like Rom Manager itself, oddly) won't even launch and don't show up in my apps drawer anymore. Others (Engadget, Pandora, Angry Birds, etc) seem to launch, but are "unable to connect."
This was just a backup! I wasn't restoring or anything, nothing ought to have changed. Any ideas?
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Hey all, I just did a nandroid backup via Rom Manager and when I booted back into the phone, a number of my apps on my home screen have stock android icons. Some (like Rom Manager itself, oddly) won't even launch and don't show up in my apps drawer anymore. Others (Engadget, Pandora, Angry Birds, etc) seem to launch, but are "unable to connect."
This was just a backup! I wasn't restoring or anything, nothing ought to have changed. Any ideas?
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Sounds like the data partition may have gotten a tad messed up. Are any system apps affected?
Try restoring from the nandroid, see what happens.
I'm actually in the process of doing that right now, we'll see how it goes. I have a nandroid from 5 days ago as well, so if this doesn't work I may just go for that. I wasn't expecting this! Lol.
Hmm, seems this actually likely had more to do with something else that happened around the same time - I accidentally unmounted my SD card. I THINK everything is okay now...
just make sure you dont have widgets and stuff installed to the sd card, cause that's what happens when you mount the card with widgets installed to it. no go.
Yeah, turns out it was just a bunch of apps that were on the SD card and the SD card hadn't mounted properly. It was a little worrying to see them all disappear! I just unmounted and remounted it and they were all fine, after a couple minutes.
Hi everyone,
a couple of weeks ago I had to send my One S in for repair, as the soft keys (back/home/recent apps) were absolutely unresponsive (slightly off topic, but: this happened after I used the phone as a car GPS on a 13h road trip. Could this have caused it or was that just coincidence?).
Once I got it back, I re-rooted it and restored everything (system apps and data included) from a backup made shortly before I sent it in (using Titanium Backup). That, however, made my phone lose all push message capabilities, so I emptied the user and system app cache and deleted all user and system app data, which brought push capabilities back to life again. Yet, ever since then, the quick start icons (phone/sms/e-mail/camera) aren't showing up on my lock screen anymore and when I try changing background images in HTC's Personalization app, there are no images to chose from.
I'd like to try fixing this by restoring individual app data in Titanium Backup, but I wouldn't know which apps would be of interest here. Could anyone help me out with this?
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All,
First time poster, frequent visitor of XDA Forums. I've come across an odd issue that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping some of you smarter than me folks can get me squared away.
I have a Galaxy S8+ from AT&T running Android 7.0 and Samsung Experience 8.1.
Problem:
I've recently noticed a delay or completely non-updating interface on my phone. It updates on occasion, but I can't determine what triggers an update. For example, I will pick up my phone from the desk and when I press the power button it shows the accurate time. When I unlock the device, the sense flip clock I use on the main home screen shows an earlier time (could be 30 minutes... could be a few hours). I don't believe it's just the Sense app because I noticed this issue where I checked a facebook messenger app that came and and when I closed the app, it still showed I had 1 notification. I went back in thinking I had another new message, but I didn't. So it was still hanging on to the notification. It happened a couple times with a text message as well. Most importantly, my calendar doesn't alert me prior to an appointment either, even though it's showing in my calendar and an alert is active. If I save an event, and exit, I can normally see the event appear on the on widget immediately as well... but that hasn't been happening. I have to press the widget to open it and confirm it is there (which it always is). Eventually it refreshes and shows up. But that delay is likely the reason why I'm not getting my alerts.
All of this did seem to happen after a recent update Samsung/AT&T pushed out but I don't know for sure. I tried clearing the cache from the boot menu but it doesn't seem there is wide success with that.
And perhaps I'm just not a good enough user, but everything isn't all backed up in the cloud so doing the factory reset to me is always a fairly large task as I have many things to manually transfer out and then back in. Not sure if there are great tools that help with this on a stock phone.
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try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
It seems that you have several bugs and if they all start happening after you have installed the latest update, then expect a patch coming soon.
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try disabling battery optimization for those apps.
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I have actually done that. Found very limited success. I'm also finding very few results on this topic. Surely it's not just me though.
And I'm dreading the idea of a hard reset as I have many things on my phones, not all of which is sync'd to the cloud so it's a task to back things up appropriate. Specifically regarding "encrypted" apps like my password keeper app etc.
It would be great if there was a software application that allowed you to backup whatever is necessary to not lose data, then wipe the phone and instead of just simply restoring the full phone (which is likely to create the same problem one had before the hard reset), you could simply dump back in app data as needed. It would also help diagnose if the problem lies in a specific app's data.
High level overview of issues...
I have the Ring Doorbell app. I get notifications after "live". Could be 5 minutes, could be 1 hour... or possibly not at all. I have the app setup on my wife's iPhone and she gets them immediately. If I restart the phone, I will get notified right away (it's like it runs the app again and then I get the notification). Keep in mind, this is AFTER i disabled the battery optimization feature for the Ring app.
I also notice it occasionally with texting. I won't have any text notification in the notification panel, nor will my messaging icon have a little red circle indicating a message is there. But if I open the app, a specification conversation will have a red circle indicating a new text is unread.
All of this is leading me to believe the Samsung UI itself is not updating and therefore notifications that actually have arrived (from whatever app), are not displaying because of the UI and not because of their own delay.
Because of this concern I have turned off battery optimization for "System UI", "Themes", and "TouchWiz Home". I have not seen any change however.
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I was able to determine by various other threads around the web (thought for sure I'd find it here, but I didn't) that the culprit might be the Google app. Supposedly it was fixed in some prior release, but it's not on my Galaxy S8+ w/ AT&T.
Once I disabled the Google app all the odd issues with notifications and clock interfaces and app icons not updating went away. The downside to disabling it is that I lose the Google Assistant functionality which stinks but otherwise there is no impact to using the phone. I re-enabled it at a later date and it worked fine for a few days and then started acting up again. Once I disabled it, the problems all disappeared. Clearly Google app is to blame.
Hope somebody can help me, this is driving me insane... I swear, I want to take this sh*** of a phone and smash it against the wall....
anyways, I have received long awaited Oreo. Updated, all OK. Pretty fast, nice new look like list view in recents etc. Then I found out that when I run Secure folder, it simply freezes. It displays Iris scan/pattern and for like 20 seconds, doesn't react to touches. I can see it working in the background, CPU monitor is changing numbers, but it simply doesn't allow me to draw pattern. When It does 20 seconds later, the pattern is drawn, and Sec Folder opened. Then it takes like 10 seconds to react to anything. and from then on - it works OK. Then I exist Sec folder - same thing! It stops reacting like 20 seconds, and after all is OK.
OK, I say, I have Plasmalite which does something on System level, I'll uninstall it. I uninstall Plasmalite, couple more apps that have anything to do with system (0pt navbar), AdHell2 etc. Later I found out Adhell2 doesn't work, nor does 0px navbar). So I try everything, even uninstall Secure folder, install again - same thing. I wipe cache partition, same thing.
OK, f*** it, I will do Factory reset.
so after factory reset it is much better. No delay on running Sec folder but Sec folder sometimes just closes when launched. not always, but often. it is either closed immediately after launch, or it works. some delays and STRANGE screen redrawing when moving pictures from gallery to Secure folder (like empty screen!!), but it kinda works.
I restore f***ing phone ,took me 2 days. I want to hide navbar, so I install Substratum, Andromeda, Immersive bar and some other navbar replacement app, and it kinda works. But! The Freeze problem on running Sec folder is BACK!
I uninstall everything, reboot phone, but still, there is delay on running Sec folder....
Is there anything I might try? I really can't spend another 2 days restoring my phone it is so boring and frustrating. Damn Samsung.
Thanx
D.
I solved the problem. For more information please contact me by e-mail [email protected]
I solved it too. The problem was restoring the (Samsung) backup. Once I did "clean" install and restored things selectively (w/o restoring data or eveything that was in the backup) everything was fine.
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?