SPB Backup Freezes !(Help please)! - Touch CDMA General

Hi,
My SPB backup stops working after a while.
When I run it and start the backup it just seats there with the cube turning for ever and the completion bar doesn't move at all. Un-install and reinstall doesn't fix it. Even restoring a backup of the time it used to work doesn't fix it. But when I hard reset and everything from scratch fixes it (so I don't think it's any particular program I have installed). After I reinstalled it, it worked for about a month and then died again. This has happened twice so far. I'm tired of reinstalling everything from scratch.
Has anyone had any experienced this?
THanks,
2/16/2008
**********PROBLEM FIXED***********
SPB Softwarehouse just wrote to me with the Solution, and dew.man was correct. The solution is to :
uncheck the 'Stop processes before backup' option in Spb Backup-> Tools-> Advanced options to see if it solves the problem?
Thanks everyone.

SultanH said:
Hi,
My SPB backup stops working after a while.
When I run it and start the backup it just seats there with the cube turning for ever and the completion bar doesn't move at all. Un-install and reinstall doesn't fix it. Even restoring a backup of the time it used to work doesn't fix it. But when I hard reset and everything from scratch fixes it (so I don't think it's any particular program I have installed). After I reinstalled it, it worked for about a month and then died again. This has happened twice so far. I'm tired of reinstalling everything from scratch.
Has anyone had any experienced this?
THanks,
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mine has done the same thing or 3 days. i am going to have to go to another back up program

brock1909 said:
mine has done the same thing or 3 days. i am going to have to go to another back up program
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OH Good at least, now I know it's not just my device.
I sent a message to SPBSoftwarehouse, I'll let you know if I hear anything.

Me Too!!!!
I have the same problem. It squawks that it is unable to backup some file in Windows with a weird name and just hangs trying to copy it. I found that out when I left it run over night. I too have sent a request for assistance to spb but it has been over a week now and no response from them. I have since switched to another backup program for now.

Touch_Pete said:
I have the same problem. It squawks that it is unable to backup some file in Windows with a weird name and just hangs trying to copy it. I found that out when I left it run over night. I too have sent a request for assistance to spb but it has been over a week now and no response from them. I have since switched to another backup program for now.
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Which one are you using? is it similar in capability, power, and reliability to the SPB?
Thanks,

I had the same thing happen.
It stopped working after i decided to test out my latest backup. After i restored the device, it has not worked since. It was my first time restoring, before that it always made backups whenever i tried.
I never let it sit there all night, i'll give that a shot and see the file name it is stuck on.

There's a simple fix for this.
I don't remember the exact location off the top of my head, but when you're doing a backup, there's a setting/checkbox to stop all processes. Changing this from the default clears up the freezing, yet still yields reliable backups.

sprite backup is great, but dont really want to pay for it.
got the SPB one free, so would like fofr it to start working again...

dew.man said:
There's a simple fix for this.
I don't remember the exact location off the top of my head, but when you're doing a backup, there's a setting/checkbox to stop all processes. Changing this from the default clears up the freezing, yet still yields reliable backups.
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**********PROBLEM FIXED***********
SPB Softwarehouse just wrote to me with the Solution, and dew.man was correct. The solution is to :
uncheck the 'Stop processes before backup' option in Spb Backup-> Tools-> Advanced options to see if it solves the problem?
Thanks everyone.

Other Backup program
SultanH said:
Which one are you using? is it similar in capability, power, and reliability to the SPB?
Thanks,
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Using SKTools which includes a backup function. It appears to work without intervention and actually reboots the device twice during the process to ensure that it is in complete control of what is running (only itself). I never received a response from spb and my question would be - How reliable is a backup that allows other processes to run at the same time? Any file that the backup program does not have exclusive access to will either not backup or if it does will be corrupted (I am the second person on the backup team at a major Canadian University). So that option of not stopping processes before backup does not seem like a good one to me!

Touch_Pete said:
....my question would be - How reliable is a backup that allows other processes to run at the same time? Any file that the backup program does not have exclusive access to will either not backup or if it does will be corrupted .....!
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I see your point. I ran a backup and the error logs shows the same errors as when SPB was stopping the running programs. I will however pose that question to SPB and see what they say.
I will do a hard reset and restore just to see for myself. I'll pst the results.
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I just did the test. Hard Reset to stock Touch and restored the file and everything is there and all the programs I tested seem to work fine.

Haha I had the same problem, I must have unchecked the box once while I was playing around with my settings. I tried to use spb again yesterday and I was suprised that it didn't freeze. I had no idea it was because I had unchecked the box. I wish I had cam accross this post earlier however, would have saved me some greif.

I've used SpbBackup extensively while playing with custom roms, and found it very reliable.
You gotta remember that most of the processes running/file locks are OS related and you should not be using Spb between different OS versions anyway...

Mine recently started doing this to. Using SPB backup which used to work flawless. First, I cannot get it to do a scheduled backup. Everything is set for 2AM M-Sun but when I wake up in the morning I find that it did not back up or is frozen in the backup program.
Second, when I try to run a manual backup, it takes forever to start (and says backup process has not been restonding, do you want to cancel backup?).
I recently installed UltimateLauncher but nothing else I can think of (although I can constantly tinkering, etc.). It seems very sporatic, sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. I have checked to see that the "stop processes" box is checked.
Any ideas?

matthew232 said:
Mine recently started doing this to. Using SPB backup which used to work flawless. First, I cannot get it to do a scheduled backup. Everything is set for 2AM M-Sun but when I wake up in the morning I find that it did not back up or is frozen in the backup program.
Second, when I try to run a manual backup, it takes forever to start (and says backup process has not been restonding, do you want to cancel backup?).
I recently installed UltimateLauncher but nothing else I can think of (although I can constantly tinkering, etc.). It seems very sporatic, sometimes it will work, sometimes it won't. I have checked to see that the "stop processes" box is checked.
Any ideas?
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it has to be unchecked. (the program freezes when it tries to stop the processes)

Holy crap. you're right. In my mind I had it reversed even though I knew what that meant. I have unchecked it and will check to see if it backups up tonight. Sweet! thanks!

SultanH said:
2/16/2008
**********PROBLEM FIXED***********
SPB Softwarehouse just wrote to me with the Solution, and dew.man was correct. The solution is to :
uncheck the 'Stop processes before backup' option in Spb Backup-> Tools-> Advanced options to see if it solves the problem?
Thanks everyone.
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Thanks mate. I just got SPB Backup and it just kept freezing on me. This simply fixed it!

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Is it possible to ...

I don't really know how to really phase the question in a way where it makes sense but here it is. I hard reset my phone fairly often and it is always kind of a pain to go through every single thing and get it back to the way it was.
So is there any way that I can hard reset my phone. Set up everything perfectly to the way I want it then do something to where whenever I hard reset it will revert to that stage? Almost like making a rom (for someone that doesn't know crap) specifically for me so that when I hard reset my x1 all the things that I want are already on there?
thanks in advance for anyone that tries to help me
Try Sprite Backup
Or SPB Backup.
Backup software sucks. It only slows down the device after restore. The guy asks for a full image of the device.
orelsi said:
Backup software sucks. It only slows down the device after restore. The guy asks for a full image of the device.
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Never had that problem. Using spb backup some time now and it works perfect. But maybe the problem is you need a perfect install and make a backup then to get a perfect restore.
orelsi said:
Backup software sucks. It only slows down the device after restore. The guy asks for a full image of the device.
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Yeah, this actually is what I am looking for. If possible atleast.

all Internet browsers close after 2.2 UPDATE

i updated and of course, all internet browsers close as soon as a start using them. They open, let me go to a website or two, then close. I was super eager to test the full flash but i can barely get to the websites themselves without the browser closing suddenly. I updated the firmware, profile, prl, and everything. the phone was never rooted.
I'm about to do a hard reset but I figured i should check what you guys had to say first.
lenglain said:
i updated and of course, all internet browsers close as soon as a start using them. They open, let me go to a website or two, then close. I was super eager to test the full flash but i can barely get to the websites themselves without the browser closing suddenly. I updated the firmware, profile, prl, and everything. the phone was never rooted.
I'm about to do a hard reset but I figured i should check what you guys had to say first.
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Hard reset is the only thing that has helped so far. Just do it, it will make the system work better anyway.
Will a hard reset effect firmware/froyo.
I had the same issues with the camera. Reset all folders permission to read and write.
sorry for my ignorance but how I can do a hard reset? and it will fix the problem?
No, a hard reset basically wipes your data and cache(?) partitions. All apps and data are deleted. This will return you to just your normal firmware, without any customizations. Then you can reinstall apps. I think that's the main problem, some apps aren't dealing with the upgrade too well, and as a result, you get some weird errors. It won't change any versions of your software though.
I'm having the same problem.. If we move the apps to the SD card we shouldn't have to reinstall them, correct? And if we re-install apps, does the settings/info saved on them return or would we have to change those as well? I'm getting ready to do a hard reset too and I spent alot of time with these apps and I was worried about losing info/settings..
Also, I'm using Launcher Pro, will it revert back to Sense after the Hard Reset?
scalivurpr said:
sorry for my ignorance but how I can do a hard reset? and it will fix the problem?
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Search "how to hard reset the HTC EVO". It can either be done through the settings menu or you can physically do it using the power and volume rocker.
My dad was having similar issues. And said that going into settings while in the browser and changing enable plugins from "always on" to "on demand" helps
Also the person using launcher pro go into the launcher pro settings or preferabces and all the way on the bottom you can backup your settings/homescreen.
nicko786 said:
I'm having the same problem.. If we move the apps to the SD card we shouldn't have to reinstall them, correct? And if we re-install apps, does the settings/info saved on them return or would we have to change those as well? I'm getting ready to do a hard reset too and I spent alot of time with these apps and I was worried about losing info/settings..
Also, I'm using Launcher Pro, will it revert back to Sense after the Hard Reset?
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It will return back to sense. It will be like a brand new phone. Before you hard reset backup your launcher pro settings and homescreen. Hard reset if my internet fix didn't work. Reinstall all apps and launcherpro and then restore launcher pro settings and homescreens.
Is hard reset the only way to fix this?
No you can remove Adobe flash and reinstall it.. worked flawless for myself.
James
I hate to ask this sounding like a noob, but I'm at work and can't do much research, but what would be the best way to backup all those files? Just with the USB drive or is there a backup app I can download, etc.
Nevermind, I figured out how to backup Launcher Pro, but how about apps still?
cj10488 said:
No you can remove Adobe flash and reinstall it.. worked flawless for myself.
James
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and how does one obtain Flash 10.1? It's not in the market
i-l-l said:
and how does one obtain Flash 10.1? It's not in the market
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It should still be in the market, got it earlier for latest CM Nightly.
Yeah I don't see it either. I found Flash 10.1 beta on Appbrain, but it won't sync with my phone. I uninstalled and removed flash and my browser is still crashing.
Here is the APK. I had to uninstall it using titanium backup. was easier than going the ADB rm way
James
I had the same problem. Some are saying it's because of installing the half ass full flash version on 2.1 that came out a month ago.
I downloaded and reinstalled the apk and then it worked...for about 6 hours and then the browser starting crashing again.
The next time i uninstalled and then installed the flash 10.1 again, so far, so good.
When I get home I'm gonna try that and hope it works before I do a hard reset.
Nothing worked so I finally decided on the hard reset. I think one should do it anyway to get the best out of the update. Everything works fine now, glad to see that it remembers the apps I had already paid for. The whole thing seems to run smoother than ever, (I hated the baggy scrolling.) Southparkstudios works now, the entire video section of the new York times works now as well. Embedded YouTube videos work on Facebook they play without me having to leave the page/browser.
****ONE ISSUE***
Text fields act strange. I can't type status updates into the full Facebook site anymore, nothing happens when I tap the text field. That blows big time I hate using the Facebook apps I want the full site to work fully.
Similarly, I was never able to type into the text fields on the gmail full site. Now I can a little bit although Tue browser seems uber confused about whether it wants to deal with the text field or not. Any ideas why text fields (
Rich text fields) are such an issue?
I was hoping that yahoo games would work, especially yahoo pool but still no go.

How to properly do backups/retores with CWR

Ok so i started this thread as a result of what happen to me. He is my story, i was on Bionix Fusion 1.1 w/Voodoo and of course i had that backed up along with Bionix 1.9.1 w/Voodoo and JI6 w/One Click Lag Fix. I was having issues with a app (Beautiful Widgets) where i was trying to have the weather how up on the notification bar but it would not come up automatically unless you went into the app and selected "save & apply" every singe time, very anoying. I contacted the developer of the app and the last thing he asked was if i was running the stock launcher. Since Fusion uses Launcherpro i decided to restore my JI6 w/One Click Lag Fix. To my shock when i ran the restore i ended up on Android System Recovery and could not get pass that even if i tried using the other 2 restore points (Bionix Fusion 1.1 w/Voodoo, Bionix 1.9.1 w/Voodoo).
I posted my problem in the Q&A section hoping for a solution but of course i got nothing back, so i found a thread regarding someone being stuck on the Android System Recovery screen just like me. It was mentioned to use Eugenes Froyo that does not brick and then flash the stock JFD rom. After many attempts i finally got my phone up and running but little did i realize that my entire phone got wiped clean, meaning i lost all my songs (over 100) 2 .avi movies, a few wallpapers and all the different Roms and Mods i had installed. Basically my phone ended up just when i first bought it. I was very upset i lost everything but glad that i got my phone up and running again..
So what to do to avoid this? when doing a back up using CWR and if you are running Voodoo, MAKE SURE YOU DISABLE VOODOO BEFORE BACKING ANYTHING AND THEN SAME THING GOES FOR WHEN RESTORING, MAKE SURE VOODOO IS DISABLE. I believe this is a very important point to note but no one has ever mentioned it anywhere in the forum. Yes they advise to do backups before doing anything, they advise to disable Voodoo before flashing anything but never this. If i had known this i wouldn't have spent hours freaking out and wondering what was wrong and looking all over the place and waiting for someone to help me out.
Now i have to spend more time installing everything that i lost and getting my phone back to the way i had it before this happened. I hope this helps and that maybe it goes up in the sticky so people can easily find it.
I would like to thank jdkackley for bring up the fact that Voodoo needs to be disabled while backing and restoring.
P.S. i still can not get the weather to come up automatically on the notification bar, still in constant contact with the dev of Beautiful Widgets app.
I'm assuming you checked "Temperature Notification" in settings.... You didn't say. Are you restoring app + data each time you flash a new rom and not changing the settings of BW's?
I dont understand why you would need to keep going in and clicking save and apply... have you deleted the app, and the downloaded it again?
s15274n said:
I'm assuming you checked "Temperature Notification" in settings.... You didn't say. Are you restoring app + data each time you flash a new rom and not changing the settings of BW's?
I dont understand why you would need to keep going in and clicking save and apply... have you deleted the app, and the downloaded it again?
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Yes i did click the "Temperature Notification" and still nothing, every time i restart my phone i wait about 10 minutes and nothing so i have to go into the app and click save & apply, i have also un-installed and re-installed the app and same issues. Thank you for your insight, i still have not heard from the dev in regards to me running the app on the stock launcher so i just have to wait and see what he/she says.
But the main reason of the thread was because it has not been mentioned about how to properly backup/restore if you are running Voodoo.
Do you have any apps like a task manager or autostarts?
s15274n said:
Do you have any apps like a task manager or autostarts?
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only task manager i have is the one that came with the Fusion 1.1 rom nothing else and no auto starts.
EDIT: ok it seems to be working but i only get the temperature in the notification bar about 10-15 minutes after the phone is turned on and is finished with the boot sequence, i thought it should come on automatically. E-mailed the dev on this and waiting for a reply.
I just turned on the notification bar temp... rebooted.
It took about 4 minutes and the temp is showing up.
I have autostarts installed which prevents a lot of apps from opening on boot. Not sure if that helped with my better time. I also have BW set to refresh on wake (and the automatic refresh is like 8 hours or something long).
A great developer... I'm sure he can figure it out. You may want to ask if a logcat is needed... you may want to try an app like autostarts too (free for the 24 hour window, cant hurt).
s15274n said:
I just turned on the notification bar temp... rebooted.
It took about 4 minutes and the temp is showing up.
I have autostarts installed which prevents a lot of apps from opening on boot. Not sure if that helped with my better time. I also have BW set to refresh on wake (and the automatic refresh is like 8 hours or something long).
A great developer... I'm sure he can figure it out. You may want to ask if a logcat is needed... you may want to try an app like autostarts too (free for the 24 hour window, cant hurt).
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ok been keeping an eye on my phone since my last reboot 2:10 local time and it is now 2:25 local time and still nothing so i guess we can disregard my edit from last post. i will try the refresh on wake and see what happens.
EDIT: well my phone has been up for 7 minutes and still nothing, very aggravating. just have to wait on the dev.

[Q] `com.android.htcprofile` and `recovery` in Titanium Backup

At the bottom of my Titanium Backup application list I see two entries: `com.android.htcprofile` and `recovery`. Both are crossed out, as if they stand for uninstalled applications. They are not backed up, so there's no reason for them to appear in the list. Refreshing the list does not make these entries to go away.
What are these entries? What is the importance of having them in the list? Why does Titanium Backup display these entries in the list, even though Titanium Backup itself seems to understand that they are "uninstalled" and not backed up?
BUMP
I was wondering the same thing, I don't see Recovery anywhere in my list but I do see com.android.htcprofile
I'm having problems with my widgets disappearing on the stock Rom. Only on the stock homescreen not ADW. Was thinking this could be the cause possibly?
Mrdaviso said:
BUMP
I was wondering the same thing, I don't see Recovery anywhere in my list but I do see com.android.htcprofile
I'm having problems with my widgets disappearing on the stock Rom. Only on the stock homescreen not ADW. Was thinking this could be the cause possibly?
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If it was i am thinking it is.
HTC profile is a stock application much like blackberry has different applications. Same basic idea. When you are are home, and you have the "home profile" active it will not pull your work emails. If you are at work it pulls everything but lowers the volume not to disturb people around you.
and i do not have "recovery" on mine so i do not know what it does.
google doesn't even know the answer to your question, therefore, it must not have an answer.
option94 said:
google doesn't even know the answer to your question, therefore, it must not have an answer.
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stumpped the google? the world must be ending shortly.
Lol that's why I posted and my profiles/modes work just fine.
option94 said:
google doesn't even know the answer to your question, therefore, it must not have an answer.
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Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
Mrdaviso said:
Lol that's why I posted and my profiles/modes work just fine.
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
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Im just glad that you searched first. lol.
neidlinger said:
If it was i am thinking it is.
HTC profile is a stock application much like blackberry has different applications. Same basic idea. When you are are home, and you have the "home profile" active it will not pull your work emails. If you are at work it pulls everything but lowers the volume not to disturb people around you.
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Well, what I'd like to know is not what "HTC profile" does. The main question here is really about Titanium Backup: what exactly does that mean when Titanium Backup shows in its list an application that is crossed-out?
Normally, Titanium Backup shows a crossed-out application when you uninstall something. An uninstalled app is shown crossed-out until you refresh the list. After refresh it disappears. Sometimes, an uninstalled application might remain in the list if you previously backed it up. So, a persistent crossed-out entry normally means "it is uninstalled, but you still have a backup for it".
In my case I see `com.android.htcprofile` and `recovery` crossed-out in the list, but I have no backup for these applications. So, the question is why Titanium Backup keeps showing them in the list? What is Titanium Backup trying to tell me by keeping these crossed-out entries in its list?
Same here. DAMN, and I just did a system wipe, thinking I unistalled something by mistaki
I ended up at this thread when I Googled after encountering the same thing. I came across it because I was trying to free up some space. It is associated with a 4 MB+ text file which Titanium can't delete. I think the text file is the reason it's showing up.

Txt conversations not showing after update?

Hi all,
Updated to Stock ROM 3.14 and now my txt message converstions don't show in either converstation mode or traditional i.e when i tap 'reply' the previous messages are not showing.
Thiis was always sporadic in 1.66 (sometimes they show sometimes they don't, seemed to depend how you entered into the message client)
Any ideas?
I suggest you do a hard reset as with a official ROM or a custom ROM it is always good to do a hard reset after you flash just to be double sure e erything in the ROM was set correctly. Sometimes Win Mo needs a sweft kick in the a$$ lol.
T-Macgnolia said:
I suggest you do a hard reset as with a official ROM or a custom ROM it is always good to do a hard reset after you flash just to be double sure e erything in the ROM was set correctly. Sometimes Win Mo needs a sweft kick in the a$$ lol.
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Damn, yeah, i forgot about that. hmmm, i've got everything ijkstalled and stuff now, spose i could spb back up.. that would rememebr cookie monster settings also right?
jonbaker76 said:
Damn, yeah, i forgot about that. hmmm, i've got everything ijkstalled and stuff now, spose i could spb back up.. that would rememebr cookie monster settings also right?
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To be honest I really don't know if SPB Backup will backup you rCookies Home Tab settings or not as I have nevery used SPB Backup. But it is worth a try but just incase take and make a hand writtin list of what you have on your Cookies Home Tab and what settings you are using for it so you can set it back up like you had it. I only use Microsoft My Phone as it backes up whent I really need backed up and I do the rest the old fahion way as it keeps me well aquanted with how to use my HD2.
T-Macgnolia said:
I suggest you do a hard reset as with a official ROM or a custom ROM it is always good to do a hard reset after you flash just to be double sure e erything in the ROM was set correctly. Sometimes Win Mo needs a sweft kick in the a$$ lol.
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Ah man, i hard reset and tested the messaging again and it works fine. But when i restore the problem returns so it backed up the original bug!
I'm gonna have to start over, 3 hours i spent today playing with settings and finding my away around the new cookie monster editor
I hope you are right in that i should of just hard reset after the rom upgrade. I spose now I'm gonna have to test the messaging is still working after i change every setting as i go... a wasted evening... spose i could do it when at work tomorrow heee heee!
HOOORAR! It was this patch causing the grief!
first post on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640841&highlight=message&page=4
I'd already done the hard reset but my spb backup saved cookie monster and everything else so all cool
problem is now, i have the sent message notification problem again! Don't spose you have a fix for that? The above thread is all i could find on it and the original fix wont work for me as the .exe is incompatible with newer versions.
jonbaker76 said:
HOOORAR! It was this patch causing the grief!
first post on this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=640841&highlight=message&page=4
I'd already done the hard reset but my spb backup saved cookie monster and everything else so all cool
problem is now, i have the sent message notification problem again! Don't spose you have a fix for that? The above thread is all i could find on it and the original fix wont work for me as the .exe is incompatible with newer versions.
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Do you mean it is giving you a notification that it sent the text message everytime you send a message?.....
There is a check box in the settings to turn this off but for the life of me I can not find it right now, sorry man.
T-Macgnolia said:
Do you mean it is giving you a notification that it sent the text message everytime you send a message?.....
There is a check box in the settings to turn this off but for the life of me I can not find it right now, sorry man.
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if you check that thread i posted it explains you can't turn it off even when it's unchecked!
I don't get why there isn't more workarounds for this, or at least, why i can't locate any threads apart from that one

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