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Hey guys, ive only been a Wm user and a smart phone user for a month now.
I have many of the same issues with current rom and freezing and so forth.
I want to upgrade to the new released Tmobile rom released a few days ago.
When i start the file up, it indicates that all data will be removed. and phone whiped like brand new.
1. Will this delete all my contacts?
2. Will this delete all apps I have d/l from market?
3. Will this delete all setting and configurations for email and calendar?
4. Is there a simple app to back all of those up if they are removed on rom update, that I can then run after i do the update and have everything back in place how I had it before.?
5. (off topic) is there any sim cards out there that can store more then 250 contacts? in teh case of the sim, 250 numbers. I have 284 contacts with many of them having multiple numbers.
Thank you for your answers and any advice you can give me on how to transition to the new update without loosing my data or settings and lay out and programs.
It will wipe your phone just like you bought it. You can back up most things, except settings. Contacts can be backed up by two apps already on the phone, the tmo backup app and microsoft myphone. The apps from windows market can be re downloaded and the market will remember what apps you had. If you saved installed apps on your sd card they will still be they after the wipe. (Still need to reinstall them) I wiped my phone a couple of times and really the only thing I back are my contacts and my sms.
marmar82 said:
It will wipe your phone just like you bought it. You can back up most things, except settings. Contacts can be backed up by two apps already on the phone, the tmo backup app and microsoft myphone. The apps from windows market can be re downloaded and the market will remember what apps you had. If you saved installed apps on your sd card they will still be they after the wipe. (Still need to reinstall them) I wiped my phone a couple of times and really the only thing I back are my contacts and my sms.
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Thank you for the response, is there any program out there that will back up for example my email accounts? and twitter set up and those types of things?
marmar82 said:
If you saved installed apps on your sd card they will still be they after the wipe. (Still need to reinstall them)
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actually many apps dont need to be reinstalled.
Browse to the apps folder on the sd card (lets say samsapp)
Find the executable (samsapp.exe) and run it.
If the program runs and works fine, then all you need do is copy (as a shortcut) the executable to windows/start menu and voila, program can be run from start menu, or quicklinks, etc and didn't need to be reiinstalled.
So, here it goes.
First, I know how to backup the SD card. I'm an I.T. Analyst for a living, so I have the basics, +some, but not sure how to do this on MW...
Over the last 4-5 days of having this HD2, I have made LOTS of mods to it, CHT, reg edits, etc. As I did the reg edits I backed up the reg file every little while in case of catastrophic failure. Now I am at a stopping point (for the time being), so I want to backup.
I'd like to be able to back up everything as a whole. In other words, instead of backing up the SD Card to one place, then the restry export, then the contacts, etc; I'd like to be able to backup the whole ROM. That way, if something ever happened and I had to completely reinstall the OS, I could do it from this backup and not have to install apps and setting and edits individually.
Is there a way to do this? Please tell me there is (and mean it)!!! lol
VisualOddity said:
So, here it goes.
First, I know how to backup the SD card. I'm an I.T. Analyst for a living, so I have the basics, +some, but not sure how to do this on MW...
Over the last 4-5 days of having this HD2, I have made LOTS of mods to it, CHT, reg edits, etc. As I did the reg edits I backed up the reg file every little while in case of catastrophic failure. Now I am at a stopping point (for the time being), so I want to backup.
I'd like to be able to back up everything as a whole. In other words, instead of backing up the SD Card to one place, then the restry export, then the contacts, etc; I'd like to be able to backup the whole ROM. That way, if something ever happened and I had to completely reinstall the OS, I could do it from this backup and not have to install apps and setting and edits individually.
Is there a way to do this? Please tell me there is (and mean it)!!! lol
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No, there is not a way to backup your whole ROM ... And I mean it!!
But, there are ways to save all your settings and apps ...
The one I use is spb backup, it is something you have to pay for, but it is worth it, creates self installing backup files, so it even restores itself ...
It has a mod called "ROM Upgrade" that is supposed to restore apps and settings but not touch system files, it seems to work very well ...
I think they may have a trial version ...
watcher64 said:
No, there is not a way to backup your whole ROM ... And I mean it!!
But, there are ways to save all your settings and apps ...
The one I use is spb backup, it is something you have to pay for, but it is worth it, creates self installing backup files, so it even restores itself ...
It has a mod called "ROM Upgrade" that is supposed to restore apps and settings but not touch system files, it seems to work very well ...
I think they may have a trial version ...
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Awesome, thank you!
Any other options, preferably free one? lol
Sprite backup backs up all of your phone. all of it
Sprite Backup
Yes, Sprite Backup is all u need. It saved my life many times when I was forced to do hardresets. It used to come with HTC/O2 XDAs pre-installed but now you probably have to pay for it (unless you can find a installation CD for the afm PPC phones but then you'll be using an older version - which works fine for me so far).
SOLVED! (Kinda).
So thanks to Post number 2 it wasnt hard to get rid of this, All you have to do is:
1.Get to the market and download titanium Backup (you will probably have to click Force close 1000 times.)
2.Backup ALL APPS AND SYSTEM DATA (It is under "batch" when you press the windows key)
3.let it finish The backup
4.Connect to USB drive and make sure its on mass storage mode.
5.You should have a new folder in your root of you memory card, it should be named Titanium Backup, make sure this folder is full of files (These are the backups), if not, then you have to lookup why it doesn't back it up because I dont know.
6.Go to Windoes mobile.
7.Go to your android folder, Erase the data.img
8.Launch android, It would create a new Data.img and would take sometime, be patient.
9.Go to market, download Titanium backup, and restore all the files.
Done, now personally I cannot restore my market apps with titanium backup, but this thread can be outdated and the answer could be here if you have the same problem: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8165113
Problem:
Hey guys, so I dont know what happend that caused this, I woke up in the morning and took the phone out of the charger. I used it a little bit (All of this on android) and then I had to put it back in charge because it lost charge quickly. After about 10 minutes I took out the phone again and wanted to call someone, when I went to contacts it was all empty (SIM and Phone), I didn't have time so I made a battery pull, ran windows mobile, and called the person I needed. Next time that I launched android I get this error message that says "Sorry! The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly, Please try again." and the option I get is Force Close. Now when I press Force close, it just pops back up, and it goes on an infinite loop and never lets me close the notification. And between the time I press Force Close and the next one comes up, I try to check what works and what doesn't, the Phone application does not even launch, other then that everything else works normal (Sense is working, apps are working) But everythying is SLOOOOW.
Please do not tell me to Format my SD card and start over because I have a million apps and I don't want to lose them all (If you do it reminds me of the days that I had an iPhone and everytime I had a problem people from ModMyi would tell me to RESTORE.)
And if I have to Erase and format is it possible to keep all the apps somehow? Thanks for all the help!
P.S.
I have looked into all the other posts, non help, but from my research I have found that Flashing new ROMs will make no difference.
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Sorry, bad news. What you might try to do is a Titanium backup (free from market) and save all your apps, then do the format. I ran into this when trying to run android on very low battery power, and it hosed my sd card. I actually needed to download the deep formatting program from the SD card alliance to restore functionality.
You might be able to copy all your sd card files to your hard drive in your PC, reformat and re-install, then copy all your files back to your sd card and it might work. It really depends on if you can copy without the file errors. I'm suggesting doing this copying in windows, not android btw.
Good luck.
Thankks, I will have to check later in the evening (In about 4 hours). I will first try to see if I copy a new DATA.IMG it will fix it, if not then I will formatt and put the data img back.
Thanks.
I had this same problem but it was solved with a reboot.
Also, I believe copying over a new data.img will get rid of all your apps.
Solved
Solved! Look at the top I edited it with the info how
Do I seriously need to hit "Force close" 1000 times?! There must be another solution. This is really annoying. Android was working fine (except for poor battery life) on my HD2 until two days ago.
Is this likely to happen again? How can I prevent it.... once I've solved it this time?
I had something strange happen with the Messaging app, so I may as well list every step I took in case one of them was important.
TL;DR: I backed up "SMS Storage" from stock ROM with Ti Backup then restored it into CM6, but my old messages were still missing. Afterward I backed up and restored CM6 with nandroid and the old messages came back. fix_permissions was used in the middle for unrelated reasons.
I had stock G2 with perma-root and I wanted to try CM6. Without thinking about my apps or their data, I simply did a backup with ROM Manager, wiped and installed CM6. (All in one step. Man, I love ROM Manager!)
When I finally logged into CM6, Android started downloading all the apps I had before. It was then that I realized, "Fuuuuuuuuuck... all my settings and data are gone." I had older backups in Titanium Backup, but I wanted everything to be up to the minute. I also backed up my ADW settings and desktop configuration. Again, what a dream!
I restored my stock ROM backup and used Titanium Backup to backup everything one more time. Then I went through the download, wipe, install process again. It was already downloaded, and ROM Manager was smart enough not to download it again. Nice.
I waited yet again for Android to reinstall all my apps. A couple didn't download right, so I massaged them. I think they had updates with permission changes.
I restored my ADW settings and icons, and launched Titanium Backup. I used the restore screen and the Batch menu option. I clicked on RUN for "Restore All Apps" or whatever, which I knew would prompt me with a giant checkbox list. I unchecked everything and went down the list checking every user app. They were the ones with white text for the most part. If there was a Google system app that I was comfortable restoring, like the data for, say, Goggles, I checked that, too. I didn't check any of the truly system things.
The restore was a success and all my apps functioned beautifully.
I then opened the Messaging app and realized that all my old text messages were missing. Here's where the weirdness more-or-less starts.
I decide to go hunting in Ti Backup to see if I can find the data for the SMS app. I first restored the one with the Messaging app icon, and that managed to restore just my preferences. That made sense afterall, because it was called "[SMS/MMS PREFS] Messaging 2.2.1".
After that I tried restoring the one called "[SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage 2.2.1", thinking that this must be it. No help at all.
I sent a few text messages to one person creating new data.
GPS is broken in CM6, and someone suggested running fix_permissions from the terminal. I did so, and no help with GPS. (But did this maybe fix the SMS data?)
I realized that Swype was missing and someone posted instructions on how to restore it, but you need to be back at stock and pull the files from the stock ROM. (I also could have unzipped the stock rom image, I read later, but anyway...) I restored my old stock backup, ran the ADB commands to pull the files, then restored my CM6 backup I had made just minutes earlier. I use a combination of ADB and Root Explorer to get the files in the right spot and I have Swype again.
I open the first app I can think of to test Swype, and that's Messaging. Bam! All my old messages are back! And my few new ones are now gone!
What's up with that?
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I had something strange happen with the Messaging app, so I may as well list every step I took in case one of them was important.
TL;DR: I backed up "SMS Storage" from stock ROM with Ti Backup then restored it into CM6, but my old messages were still missing. Afterward I backed up and restored CM6 with nandroid and the old messages came back. fix_permissions was used in the middle for unrelated reasons.
I had stock G2 with perma-root and I wanted to try CM6. Without thinking about my apps or their data, I simply did a backup with ROM Manager, wiped and installed CM6. (All in one step. Man, I love ROM Manager!)
When I finally logged into CM6, Android started downloading all the apps I had before. It was then that I realized, "Fuuuuuuuuuck... all my settings and data are gone." I had older backups in Titanium Backup, but I wanted everything to be up to the minute. I also backed up my ADW settings and desktop configuration. Again, what a dream!
I restored my stock ROM backup and used Titanium Backup to backup everything one more time. Then I went through the download, wipe, install process again. It was already downloaded, and ROM Manager was smart enough not to download it again. Nice.
I waited yet again for Android to reinstall all my apps. A couple didn't download right, so I massaged them. I think they had updates with permission changes.
I restored my ADW settings and icons, and launched Titanium Backup. I used the restore screen and the Batch menu option. I clicked on RUN for "Restore All Apps" or whatever, which I knew would prompt me with a giant checkbox list. I unchecked everything and went down the list checking every user app. They were the ones with white text for the most part. If there was a Google system app that I was comfortable restoring, like the data for, say, Goggles, I checked that, too. I didn't check any of the truly system things.
The restore was a success and all my apps functioned beautifully.
I then opened the Messaging app and realized that all my old text messages were missing. Here's where the weirdness more-or-less starts.
I decide to go hunting in Ti Backup to see if I can find the data for the SMS app. I first restored the one with the Messaging app icon, and that managed to restore just my preferences. That made sense afterall, because it was called "[SMS/MMS PREFS] Messaging 2.2.1".
After that I tried restoring the one called "[SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage 2.2.1", thinking that this must be it. No help at all.
I sent a few text messages to one person creating new data.
GPS is broken in CM6, and someone suggested running fix_permissions from the terminal. I did so, and no help with GPS. (But did this maybe fix the SMS data?)
I realized that Swype was missing and someone posted instructions on how to restore it, but you need to be back at stock and pull the files from the stock ROM. (I also could have unzipped the stock rom image, I read later, but anyway...) I restored my old stock backup, ran the ADB commands to pull the files, then restored my CM6 backup I had made just minutes earlier. I use a combination of ADB and Root Explorer to get the files in the right spot and I have Swype again.
I open the first app I can think of to test Swype, and that's Messaging. Bam! All my old messages are back! And my few new ones are now gone!
What's up with that?
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Just a note, if android starts reinstalling all of your apps automatically again, that means that you have "back up data to google servers" checked in settings, which means that it will first reinstall your apps, then restore all of their settings and data.
I bought a Desire Z about two weeks before the 1.72.405.2 OTA update came along, and I allowed it to update (Yeah I know, this was after all my first Android device).
Anyway, lately my phones been running slowly and apps force closing, so I've decided to downgrade it and root it (psneuter method), and try some different ROM's.
What I was wondering is, what would be the best way without root, to backup as much of my data as possible, apps, sms, files, and also if possible a backup that I can use in case I scew it up, so I can get it back to the way it is now.
I have a copy of:-
RUU_Vision_HTC_WWE_1.34.405.5_Radio_12.28b.60.140e_26.03.02.26_M_release_155556_signed
which I believe is the stock ROM for this device, but as far as I know if it goes wrong I'll be unable to flash this as the update won't allow me to flash an earlier version..
Would I be able to mount and then backup the whole phone using adb or any other method.
I've been reading about it for a while now, and while I have lots of bits of information, I've been unable to find a good solution.
Thanks,
...John...
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I bought a Desire Z about two weeks before the 1.72.405.2 OTA update came along, and I allowed it to update (Yeah I know, this was after all my first Android device).
What I was wondering is, what would be the best way without root, to backup as much of my data as possible, apps, sms, files, and also if possible a backup that I can use in case I scew it up, so I can get it back to the way it is now.
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Without root, a good app to backup your other apps is astro file manager, its available free from the market, you just have to hit menu, tools and it'll back up all the apps on your sd card, in terms of files, just make sure their all on your sd card and they'll be fine
Not sure how to back up SmS but i know their are apps out their, a point you may have forgotten is to make sure you back up your contacts as they all get wiped and I made this mistake, the easiest way to do that is to make sure your contacts sync up with your google account so after rooting, you can just sync them back,
Hope i helped!
Use google to remember what apps you've downloaded from market. Once associated, when you flash a new rom, google will automatically redownload all your associated apps. For sms, i suggest you download GoSMS and use their internal backup feature. It will save to sd and be visible to your stock sms app as well on restore.
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Ya but too many times google starts restoring apps that I uninstalled months ago. Great idea but bad implementation imo.
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Sorry I haven't replied, was in work all day yesterday.
I have Astro File Manager, but I hadn't even considered it, thanks. I have my contacts sync'd with Google, so it seems that as long as I backup my files and sms everything else should be done automatically anyway.
Go SMS seems worth getting anyway, as the bog standard Android messages app is seriously dull. I'll give it a try.
I had wondered about Google Market restoring apps, but I thought it would only reinstall apps that were installed at the last sync.
If you install an app and it screws up your phone, and do a factory reset then Google will just reinstall the app that caused all the problems in the first place.
Definitely a good idea, but needs more work.
Anyway, thanks for all the info, I'll give it try tonight, when I get back from work.
...John...
I find SMS Backup & Restore to be the best app for this purpose and I wouldn't recommend the backup feature from the market, as you said it is likely to give problems.
Without root though, the backup choices are somewhat limited for apps and such.
I've been using Super Manager by gpc. It works pretty good, plus offers a ton of other features that can be used with or without root.
I've backed up what I could, although it's typical that as soon as it's all gone I realised things that I should have wrote down (I had been using the wallet/pocket app and although I backed up all my apps, I'm guesing it won't have backed up any of the passwords, logins, bank details, etc).
Anyway, I've downgraded and successfully rooted my phone (through gfree), I have CID: 11111111 and S-Off, but I haven't installed and ROM's yet as I read somewhere that you are supposed to wipe everything between ROM's, am I wiping the Davlik cache or doing a factory reset (I mean won't the factory reset just reset my stock ROM back to it's original condition).
I'm also wondering about finding custom ROMs, on my dell streak I had installed ROM Manager and could get a list of any that were available.
I first installed ROM Manager and used it to flash recovery, but this time I've installed CWM first, so would it be safe to install ROM Manager now, will it want to flash a recovery over the one I have already.
Or is it not advisable to use ROM Manager, as I have previously heard of a few problems it may cause.
Thanks ...John...
Rom manager shouldn't give any problems, but for custom roms it's best to take a look at the development forum. If you don't like that you can still use the list in rommanager, it might be just me who prefers downloading roms to my pc first.
But before you install any of them I recommend you make a nandroid backup from recovery just to be safe.
I think the issues were that some people, not all, found problems flashing some of the gingerbread roms via Rom manager. Better to save the Rom to SD and then flash it via CWM.
Right I've done a nandroid backup, and I've saved one to another mSD card which I can keep somewhere just in case (probably a bit over cautious, but...).
I thought that by saving apps to an sd card, they would run from the sd when I restarted my phone, even the ones that I had moved previously with the application manager in settings are not seen.
Still reinstalling the ones I want isn't really that bad.
Seriously, somebody needs to sort out the Markets app backups feature, when I was setting up the phone at first, I specifically chose to not automatically sync with Google and that I would do it manually when needed. Then I went in to the market to get a file manager and the download failed, it was only when I looked at what was going on I realised it was already downloading and reinstalling 96 apps. I looked around for a 'cancel all' option and there isn't any, so I had to cancel them all one by one and then uninstall the ones that had managed to install.
A simple checklist to select the apps you want would be great, oh, and a cancel all button would be a bonus.
Anyway, things are not as much fun when they're too easy.
Thanks ...John...