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I used titanium backup to backup the new Swipe before removing it. I went to restore it and there is a checkbox next to the item, instead of the other logo. Basically the restore feature is grayed out for most items I backed up? I went to the directory the backup uses and there is a compressed file for swipe. If I open it, I see some data, but no apk file.
Question 1st is how do I find the apk to restore this?
Question 2 is why can't I restore all backed up files via titanium (paid version)? Scares me to think I was safe using this product.
Use astro and hit the search button. Type swype with no spaces and search. You might find the apk that way.
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Well I just discovered something strange with most Apps backed up with titanium. If I click on a file that I backed up (say swipe from last update) and uninstalled via titanium, and I get a message that data was backed up, and but no apk present. Sure enough, if I click on the archived swipe file, I see a data file and folder and no apk. Why would titanium backup some files completely and partially with others?
Also, without doing a nand restore, which I really don't want to start from square one, how can I get the swipe apk from the last OTA? SwiftKey has been unreliable since their past two updates?
Thanks
Pull the APK from a stock rooted ROM's zip file.
TB usually won't backup /system apps because, y'know, they're in the non-writable system partition. Normally, they're still there, and normally, you don't mess with stuff in /system, nor should you copy stuff over from one ROM to another if it's a system app.
I somehow managed to delete one SMS thread. I have a backup from this morning but if I do a restore it will restore all my threads to that point. Is there a way to extract just one thread (conversation) and restore it to my SMS app?
Thanks!
Hi everyone, I've changed my rom because it was giving me some problems (WiFi doesn't work anymore even after the full wipe), so I've installed Kuyadroid. I remember there was an "hacked" apk of the Sony Ericsson Backup and Restore that worked with the roms. I had it in the previous rom and I did backup my sms, now I want to restore them and I don't find this apk. Any help?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982051
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982051
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Thank you so much, I saved the page in the bookmarks!
I've installed it but it says "can't read the selected backup file" when I try to restore it, why?
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I've installed it but it says "can't read the selected backup file" when I try to restore it, why?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11908011&postcount=4
"IF YOU GET ERROR ''CANT READ FILE'' WHILE RESTORING A BACKUP DOWNLOAD THIS
Installing update
1. Download DeskClock.apk above
2. Using root explorer, paste it in system/app
3. Set permissions to 777 (all boxes checked)
4. Now try restoring the file that previously said ''cant read file''; it should work now"
hey i am using xperia x8 2.1...when i was using 2.3 i created a backup file..den i switched to 2.1 and now when i try to restore my .sbf file cannot do it coz it says "cannot read the selected backup file"...i have to tried to use the following solution...
IF YOU GET ERROR ''CANT READ FILE'' WHILE RESTORING A BACKUP DOWNLOAD THIS
Installing update
1. Download DeskClock.apk above
2. Using root explorer, paste it in system/app
3. Set permissions to 777 (all boxes checked)
4. Now try restoring the file that previously said ''cant read file''; it should work now
Installing Backup & restore app
Goto system folder using root explorer and edit the below entry in build.prop
From
ro.product.manufacturer= "whatever name here''
To
ro.product.manufacturer= Sony Ericsson
Then download BACKUP & RESTORE here and install.
i have rooted my phone and done everything above.....
i did this but it was not helpful it is still showing the same message"cannot read the selected backup file"
plz help me out need my backup badly!!
I get back up and then update phone using PC companion with repair option. after that when I want to restore got this error "cannot read selected backup file".
the link for DeskClock.apk is missed, and I'm unable to move files or change permission in system/app/ using root browser lite ("Operation failed" error occurred ).
please help to figure out this problem.
many thanks in advance
backup one option at time
e.x:
one backup sms only
one backup bookmarks only
one backup contacts only
one...........
that I did on a gingerbread rom
and restored one at time again to official eclair
some apps may not restored because not compatible with eclair and maybe that the reason of error
try to not backup the apps with this method..
use astro file manager for the apps
Superuser_ said:
backup one option at time
e.x:
one backup sms only
one backup bookmarks only
one backup contacts only
one...........
that I did on a gingerbread rom
and restored one at time again to official eclair
some apps may not restored because not compatible with eclair and maybe that the reason of error
try to not backup the apps with this method..
use astro file manager for the apps
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unfortunately I have no access to my old data and the only thing I have is my latest backup with spf format.
any other suggestion?
always we keep a recovery backup..
The most important data is your contacts.. the other staff can you find manually
The only way is to flash again your previous custom rom install again backup and restore app and restore data with the app(maybe it will work on the rom you make the backup),and backup your data again but with other method..
Also look and this old thread
I think you can't restore the sbf file with other tool..but you can read it with a windows app(Google it)
The path of your sbf backup file is in: sd card/data/backup
Superuser_ said:
always we keep a recovery backup..
The most important data is your contacts.. the other staff can you find manually
The only way is to flash again your previous custom rom install again backup and restore app and restore data with the app(maybe it will work on the rom you make the backup),and backup your data again but with other method..
Also look and this old thread
I think you can't restore the sbf file with other tool..but you can read it with a windows app(Google it)
The path of your sbf backup file is in: sd card/data/backup
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Dont work with GingerDX - is locked by sony...
How run it?
I change ro.product.manufacturer= Sony Ericsson
but is dont work
I was using Nexus S i9020T, CM7 nightly (a few weeks old) and for some reason I wake up this morning and couldn't get past the CM7 "blue circle" screen booting. I had about a month old backup but I didn't want to lose any recent data so I made a Nandroid backup.
Normally, to restore SMS or MMS from an old backup, one can just restore the nandroid backup, use a third party SMS backup program to backup the data to sdcard or gmail, restore or install new rom, then restore the SMS from the third party backup software.
However, in my case, I had a nandroid with data on it that I wanted to keep but that wouldn't boot.
So I did some searching and others have had this problem before but I figured I'd put it here for others that may have the same problem. I am not taking credit for this I just found various pieces of info around the web.
The solution is to use a utility called unyaffs. Unyaffs will need cygwin.dll. Yaffs is the file system that CWM recovery nandroid backups are stored in. Windows cannot read or mount this file system AFAIK.
Instead of compiling unyaffs for windows and installing all of cygwin, just use the attached pre-compiled unyaffs.exe and cygwin.dll.
Here's the process:
To restore SMS/MMS from a nandroid backup using MS Windows:
place unyaffs.exe + cygwin.dll + data.img in a folder
open command prompt in this directory (shift+right click -> open comand window here)
type: unyaffs data.img
the contents of the data.img will be extracted to this folder. wait for extraction to complete
browse to \data\com.android.providers.telephony\databases in the extracted folders
copy mmssms.db, mmssms.db-shm, mmssms.db-wal to sdcard
use root explorer to copy these three files to \data\data\com.android.providers.telephony\databases
To restore contacts/call log from a nandroid backup:
repeat above process for \data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases
To restore launcher configuration (only for stock Gingerbread launcher):
repeat above process for \data\com.android.launcher\databases
Note: Be aware that replacing the existing files with those extracted from the backup will remove the existing data so if you're not 100% sure what you're doing, change the names to mmssms_OLD.db or otherwise back them up before pasting the files from the backup.
Edit: Just thought I'd add, I also came across an app called AppExtractor but, despite the good reviews, the SMS/MMS restore didn't work for me.
if you have titanium backup, it makes it a lot easier to restore specific items from Nandroid Backup
AllGamer said:
if you have titanium backup, it makes it a lot easier to restore specific items from Nandroid Backup
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Doesn't work for migrating from Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich for some reason?
I am going to give this one a try.
To the OP your a dead set legend! thank you
PS: Where the bloody hell is the thanks button on this forum? I can't find it
I will give it a try. Thanks.
where do i find data.img?
I'm on an SGS I9000 and made an SMS/MMS backup using titanium backup when I was on Gingerbread.
Now I've installed the "Onecosmic's ICS Port Android 4.0.3 RC3.1" and restoring the backup file using titanium (only data) makes my message app FC.
Jarmezrocks were you successful when restoring your SMS/MMS on ICS?
Does anyone knows how to restore them? From titanium backup I only have an *.apk.gz and *.properties files.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers
Excellent.. saved me a lot.. thanks for the tool
Great post. I wonder if there is a file extrator in Android like unyaffs?
I found out that you can restore SMS just by using Root Explorer.
The location is the same, just that the files are these ones:
mmssms.db
nwk_info.db
telephony.db
I tried and it worked only using RootExplorer and I extracted the files from data.ext4.rar
Does this need to be done using ADB? I have set a nandroid backup from a GB ROM and flashed ICS on the phone; however when I extract the data.img using unyaffs and browse to the mentioned directory, there are no db files whatsoever.
Could the nandroid backup be corrupted for some reason?
I am looking at the data\com.android.providers.contacts folder and I only see a lib folder with nothing on it.
Hidden system files are set to show BTW
I did this yesterday using Titanium Backup for my SMS/MMS
You need to go into Preferences and check the *Migrate system data [Experimental] option
Then you go to More - Extract from nandroid backup
There it is listed as Dialer Storage
You can probably do the Phone log this way to but I did look for it.
I would recommend you do a current backup of [SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage before you attempt this.
Does this restore the whole smsmms database like with the sms.db file on the iPhone? I hate it when MyBackupPro has to restore my texts and the dates are all messed up and i've lost all my MMS'. And it restores them one by one, instead of just putting it in there all at once. Took me like an hour to restore everything.
I have an app for you.
I'd much rather save myself from all this tedious long-winded work and just use apk extractor to restore everything.
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I have an app for you.
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Thanks! Wish i've learned about this sooner. Would have saved me a lot of time.
This method doesn't work for me :/
I followed it exactly step by step but when I'm done and go to the Messages app, it's empty.
The same happens if I try it with appextractor or titanium backup.
I made the nandroid backup on CM7, and want to restore the messages to CM9+AOKP on ZTE Blade.
Thanks
THANK YOU !!!!
That was so helpful. I was migrating from GB to Nyx ICS RC5.0 yesterday and the application I used (super backup) failed to restore the Contacts.
Another app I used did that but missed allot of details (and also was damn slow).
I used your technique and it did the trick!!!
All data is there the same as I left it on CM7.2
You're the king
Thanks
[EDIT] just a correction Super Backup was able to restore the contacts but with missing details
It failed to restore the SMS
The other APP (forgot the name) restored the SMS (after ages) but contact associated with the SMS were completely messed up.
perfect
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I did this yesterday using Titanium Backup for my SMS/MMS
You need to go into Preferences and check the *Migrate system data [Experimental] option
Then you go to More - Extract from nandroid backup
There it is listed as Dialer Storage
You can probably do the Phone log this way to but I did look for it.
I would recommend you do a current backup of [SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage before you attempt this.
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This worked perfectly for me, got all my sms messages back from my nandroid backup.
Thanks!
thanks!
RichAP said:
I did this yesterday using Titanium Backup for my SMS/MMS
You need to go into Preferences and check the *Migrate system data [Experimental] option
Then you go to More - Extract from nandroid backup
There it is listed as Dialer Storage
You can probably do the Phone log this way to but I did look for it.
I would recommend you do a current backup of [SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage before you attempt this.
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I did this today when I had to reformat my phone because of a bootloop. I'm using an HTC Desire on MildWild. Worked perfectly for me and was able to restore my messages. Loads of thanks to you!
Thank you! This worked perfectly for me!
Titanium Backup says can't remove system app failed to find apk or some such thing..
I've got root.. xposed..
Before I go trying random "System App Remover" apps.. it's crazy Titanium Backup doesn't work..
If I do just go deleting the APK files.. is that a "clean" uninstall ? or will there be a bunch of files & references left behind..
For the random stuff included in this rom like the modded Youtube & "OG Downloader" for 1 example
I would & have posted in the rom thread but it's long dead
This rom: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-a/development/rom-galaxy-tab-series-t3514996/page30
What you can do is:
You can download Link2SD from the Google Play Store! You will need root access which you already have and you select the application in Link2SD and you're done! Make sure to reboot after.