I just bought an Xperia 5 in China. As it didn't come with Google services, I didn't get the option to restore from my old phone. There doesn't seem to be an option to do that except during Setup. If I do a factory reset then I will lose Google again, so that won't work.
The only option I can think of is to install a custom rom, is that even possible with this model? If so, could someone please point me in the right direction, I'm a bit of a noob
Thank you
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I rooted and installed TB on a friends infuse, he preceded to erase accounts and sync on accident while he was dumping some att stuff. At least that is what he says.
I tried restore from TB and it just hangs. So then I force closed tb.
any advice?
On his batch menu in tb "accounts and sync" has that black strikethrough through it.
I'm not quite sure what he did exactly, but before I gave him back the phone I made a backup in tb. But this isn't working, so I'm looking for a solution.
thanks for any help.
I'm fastboot , adb proficient, but Im no expert.
Having made the backup with TB of the apps. I would suggest using Odin to restore back to stock and then you can restore the apps back onto the phone with TB. Remember, just apps... not system data. There may be a more simple solution, but this should work.
yup, i'm thinking that to. I was just reading about odin. I tried just a factory reset and then rerooted but it doesn't show up.
thanks dude
seems like I would need the apk and one other file? if I could just get those copies if someone wanted to email them
I was contemplating the option of the files as well, but I don't know if uninstalling them, however he did it, removed anything else or just the apk. Even on that note, I'm not 100% certain if getting the apk from someone else would fix it, but I suppose it is worth a shot.
I didn't want to go as far as a custom recovery on a phone that this guys knows nothing about. That and I don't know anything about samsung.
looks like I'm going with Stock_Deodexed_Root_NoBloat.zip
or would GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick.zip be better? oops, I meant this one
Odin_UCKE3_v2.zip
I think the Ultimate Unbrick is a safe choice. It returns you completely to stock as well as removes root and the custom recovery(if you have it).
It's a decent option for anyone looking to revert back to where they started.
Obviously the stock+modded recovery and root is a nice option as well so that you don't have to do the steps separately, but that's up to you.
thanks for your help.
I don't think I'll ever get away from nexus phones after seeing what's behind this.
Hi everyone my partner had to re-root my fone last night and it seems the new root is not letting me get text messages i can send them but not recive them!!! is there any way to take my phone back to it 1st ever firmware???? kies does not work on my model.
PLEASE HELP!.. been to other sites no one seems willing to help im at my wits end with it not i need my phone as my sister texts me when she needs my help or is in trouble as she had surgery recently and im first port of contact. Would it be better if i re installed firmware that should be on it please please help............
midnight3dusk said:
Hi everyone my partner had to re-root my fone last night and it seems the new root is not letting me get text messages i can send them but not recive them!!! is there any way to take my phone back to it 1st ever firmware???? kies does not work on my model.
PLEASE HELP!.. been to other sites no one seems willing to help im at my wits end with it not i need my phone as my sister texts me when she needs my help or is in trouble as she had surgery recently and im first port of contact. Would it be better if i re installed firmware that should be on it please please help............
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you should be able to do a factory reset, that should solve your problem but you will lose all data and apps that you had installed In order to save your contacts, messages etc, its best to make backup first, you can download My Phone explorer to your PC and client to phone from google play store to backup everything before factory reset or flashing stock ROM
Factory reset is normally done by going into settings> privacy > factory reset. or it may be located in an another location in settings.
or you can follow this and flash a stock kernel to solve your problem
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.
xsenman said:
you should be able to do a factory reset, that should solve your problem but you will lose all data and apps that you had installed In order to save your contacts, messages etc, its best to make backup first, you can download My Phone explorer to your PC and client to phone from google play store to backup everything before factory reset or flashing stock ROM
Factory reset is normally done by going into settings> privacy > factory reset. or it may be located in an another location in settings.
or you can follow this and flash a stock kernel to solve your problem
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.
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I have everything backed to my google account will that be ok? Also my partner said yesterday he could not factory reset my fone yet when i looked tonight i found it in my settings under privacy setting. sp if i factory reset it is there anything i need to do or will the phone do it by itself (sounds stupid i know but im not great with phones) lol.
midnight3dusk said:
I have everything backed to my google account will that be ok? Also my partner said yesterday he could not factory reset my fone yet when i looked tonight i found it in my settings under privacy setting. sp if i factory reset it is there anything i need to do or will the phone do it by itself (sounds stupid i know but im not great with phones) lol.
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already replied to your PM, with same contents
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.
Hi there! I have a Stock kitkat d80020y, made root with stumproot but without custom recovery, it's running stock right now.
First of all let me tell that I have in my computer nandroid backup of it (TWRP & CWM) made with OnlineNandroid and one LGBackup made with system restore menu.
Here's the trouble:
I am about to sell my phone so i was backing up some stuff yesterday when i realized it was not syncing contacts with google, after researching a bit I deleted the "com.android.providers.settings" folder which it was situated into "data\data" and rebooted device.
Then, sync problems gone but some another problems came up, couldn't get into some settings just as language, swipe down settings didn't work neither, home button didn't work at all, etc; when tried to use that things, phone just did nothing or stayed one second and got back to home screen. Read something that factory reset would definitely solve my issue, well it did solved it at a glance, home button was functional again but, things like language submenus were still not working.
So then, I try to install an LG Backup using the system app, could restore settings and appeared to be solved, but after another factory reset, remember I'm about to sell it, the whole issues came up again.
As I have nandroid backup I've recently checked the clockworkmod folder and find the deleted folder.
Considering that i could manage to get that LGBackup installed again, could it be possible to paste "com.android.providers.settings" back into "\data\data" folder then?
Should that be the definitely fix? Or I'll have to reflash all nandroid even though I don't wanna take that risk because is just those problems, apparently related to that specific deleted folder, the other things of the phone are intact and work great.
In case of need reflashing, could you tell me about any easy tutorial on how to do it, including custom recovery installation for my stumprooted device?
I don't actually know how to ADB any android device, if you could also help me with the right tutorial and drivers for this phone so i have everything ready just in case of needing CMD to fix this device it would be great.
Hope I get some answers soon so i can quickly fix the device, any ideas are welcomed and will be utterly appreciated.
Sorry for the long text but i wanted to be as clear as i could.
Regards!
lautta10 said:
Hi there! I have a Stock kitkat d80020y, made root with stumproot but without custom recovery, it's running stock right now.
First of all let me tell that I have in my computer nandroid backup of it (TWRP & CWM) made with OnlineNandroid and one LGBackup made with system restore menu.
Here's the trouble:
I am about to sell my phone so i was backing up some stuff yesterday when i realized it was not syncing contacts with google, after researching a bit I deleted the "com.android.providers.settings" folder which it was situated into "data\data" and rebooted device.
Then, sync problems gone but some another problems came up, couldn't get into some settings just as language, swipe down settings didn't work neither, home button didn't work at all, etc; when tried to use that things, phone just did nothing or stayed one second and got back to home screen. Read something that factory reset would definitely solve my issue, well it did solved it at a glance, home button was functional again but, things like language submenus were still not working.
So then, I try to install an LG Backup using the system app, could restore settings and appeared to be solved, but after another factory reset, remember I'm about to sell it, the whole issues came up again.
As I have nandroid backup I've recently checked the clockworkmod folder and find the deleted folder.
Considering that i could manage to get that LGBackup installed again, could it be possible to paste "com.android.providers.settings" back into "\data\data" folder then?
Should that be the definitely fix? Or I'll have to reflash all nandroid even though I don't wanna take that risk because is just those problems, apparently related to that specific deleted folder, the other things of the phone are intact and work great.
In case of need reflashing, could you tell me about any easy tutorial on how to do it, including custom recovery installation for my stumprooted device?
I don't actually know how to ADB any android device, if you could also help me with the right tutorial and drivers for this phone so i have everything ready just in case of needing CMD to fix this device it would be great.
Hope I get some answers soon so i can quickly fix the device, any ideas are welcomed and will be utterly appreciated.
Sorry for the long text but i wanted to be as clear as i could.
Regards!
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Finally solved flashing stock again with a guide on htcmania forum, this guide is really great for spanish speaking guys like me and many others,(xda doesn't allow me put the link); theres also an english guide here on xda.
I used autorec to install recovery just in case you wanna know
See you!
Hello everyone.
Please help me if you can.
I decided to do a factory reset after I was having some weird problems with my galaxy S4 like volume goes up and down without control.
Now I have some applications that I can not download(or even see) at play store since they became "incompatible".
My question is if it's because I'm using a costume rom and if I restore my phone to it's original rom, should it help?
And if so, how to do it?
For the moment, I installed "clach of clans" from apk file and so far it's working. My concern is that when an update will come out, I won't be able to download it.
I attach a photo of my phone settings:
http://imgur.com/JVWmSxs
So long story short I wanted to return to stock rom, I installed a rom thinking it would just change the OS, but it wiped my whole device. Is there a way I can recover the data from this? (Primarily photos music) I've re-rooted the phone from and enabled debugging as programs from google suggested but the only one that could do anything only accessed my contacts, any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.