Hello,
I recently had to send my Nexus One away for repair where it was replaced by Google/HTC.
When using the new handset, I cannot seem to perform a wipe/restore without my old settings being recovered. The "Backup my settings" box is unticked, however every time a restore is performed, an old backup of my old handset is restored.
I have tried changing the wallpaper and uninstalling any apps then ticking the "Backup my settings" but this does not seem to be picked up by the Google backup servers as a restore will once again restore all my previous old settings, apps and wallpaper.
It seems that the Google servers will not allow any changes to the backup previously made with my old handset and I do not see anywhere in my Google Account to remove this data.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
NotableNebula
(Nexus One, 2.1 update 1, Stock ROM, locked bootloader)
So it seems the FroYo update has resolved my problem for me! Strange bug, glad it's gone!
NotableNebula
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In some cases after doing a wipe and installing a new cyanogenmod ROM, after signing in with my Google account, it automatically restores some system settings (notably my WiFi WPA keys) and automatically reinstalls most of my market apps. This time it didn't. Also, it doesn't seem to do so with the stock ROM.
What determines when this does or doesn't happen and is there any way to force a restore?
Thanks!
You could try going to settings-accounts-and sync all with your google account. Otherwise it may have been some weird fluke
Yeah, I tried that but it didn't do anything.
My theory is the first time you sign in with a new ROM google thinks it's a new phone. So it restores all of your applications automatically. But if you go back to a ROM you have used before it thinks everything is still on the phone so it doesn't push anything.
Thus a 3rd party back up app is needed if you flop ROMS alot.
I guess that makes sense. Although, the phone itself has a factory reset option, so you would think there would also be an option to restore certain settings on any clean phone. Something Google needs to work on. I have everything back anyway through Titanium Backup, but I'm reluctant to restore system settings like WiFi passwords. I'll just have to put them back manually, which isn't so bad thanks to lastpass...
Are you using a 2.3.4 rom? I thought I read that there were some issues with google restore and 2.3.4 but I could be wrong.
Yes, I'm on 2.3.4...
Hi
I updated from CM7-17 to CM7-18. Now Market doesn't start and all Contacts are gone. I installed gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip from recovery menu, but no luck.
I have the feeling that somehow my gmail login data got lost. Also after update I got a screen to log in to the SIM Network. Never saw this before.
Do I have to reset to factory defaults ? Hope not. Does not want to loose again all my games and stuff.
Thanks and best regards
paines
Update: Later i realised after updating boot.img to fxp018 too, that I have no set/select key. All would act as "back" buttons.
So I flashed boot.img from fxp017 and then also installed the updated.zip from fxp017. I then needed to enter my Gmail credentials, and now everything seems normal again.I guess there are some major issues in fxp018.
Hey guys, new owner of the Verizon Note 3.
Love the phone and everything is fast and great.
I'm on 4.3 MJE and rooted. Safestrap installed with no slots, just the stock. Wanted to be able to make backups and have the recovery option.
Just this morning my Note 3 stopped letting open the settings from any angle. From notification panel or anywhere else.
It immediately closes and shows the message "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped"
I tried rebooting to safestrap and wiping cache and dalvik cache.
no fix.
I have some system apps frozen with Titanium backup, but have defrosted the ones I very recently froze to see if that helped. And still not able to get into settings.
Any advice? I'm sure you all appreciate how much of a pain in the butt it is to factory reset or flash and start over! I hate reconfiguring my apps and settings! So if that can be avoided in any way I'd be soooo happy!
Thanks!
tw3ak.
tw3ak said:
Hey guys, new owner of the Verizon Note 3.
Love the phone and everything is fast and great.
I'm on 4.3 MJE and rooted. Safestrap installed with no slots, just the stock. Wanted to be able to make backups and have the recovery option.
Just this morning my Note 3 stopped letting open the settings from any angle. From notification panel or anywhere else.
It immediately closes and shows the message "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped"
I tried rebooting to safestrap and wiping cache and dalvik cache.
no fix.
I have some system apps frozen with Titanium backup, but have defrosted the ones I very recently froze to see if that helped. And still not able to get into settings.
Any advice? I'm sure you all appreciate how much of a pain in the butt it is to factory reset or flash and start over! I hate reconfiguring my apps and settings! So if that can be avoided in any way I'd be soooo happy!
Thanks!
tw3ak.
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I'm pretty sure you need to reboot after unfreezing; you didn't mention if you did that.
The best way to avoid this kind of situation is to make Nandroid backups before you start tw3aking. Sure they are huge, but look at your situation now. You can always delete them after some time after it is clear they are not needed, but you can't create them out of thin air when it is too late.
So, before you make things even worse with further experimentation, make a Nandroid right now of your semi-broken setup. If you break things even further trying to fix this current problem, at least you can go back to where you are right now. You might want to make an TiBu market app/data backup as well and get the TiBu backups onto external media in case you need to go all the way back to Odin.
Dump your logcat after the "Settings" crash. There will be further clues there (possibly undecipherable, but hey.) Post that up to pastebin.com for others to look at if you don't grok it. (but scrub any personal data in there first). If you don't already have USB debugging turned on, you can use a terminal emulator or a Logcat capture app.
# logcat -c (to clear the log)
( force the settings crash)
# logcat -v threadtime > /sdcard/my_logcat_after_settings_crash.txt
There is a chance that it is something simple, e.g. one of the sqlite databases in /data/data/com.android.settings is corrupted, but the various Activities that are launched from underneath "Settings" touch stuff all over the /data partition (e.g. /data/misc and elsewhere). From where you are right now, there is no way to know whether your problem is due to:
(1) a problem in /system
(2) a problem in /data
(1+2) both
your turn.
Restored nandroid backup
Thanks for all the tips!
With some reluctance I managed to move to a much older backup i forgot I made and the settings works fine again!
those backups are a life saver.
Thanks again.
tw3ak.
Glad you got it fixed.
I had something similar happen last night - I accidentally fat-fingered a language change, and every time I went back in to fix it (Settings -> Language & Input), Settings would crash. (This is on MJ7)
Took a while to manually figure out how to fix it (Doh, /data/property/persist.sys.language) without restoring a backup. I didn't mention it here right away because your symptoms sounded different - Settings was crashing for me only when I went in to the Language & Input sub-menu)
Try using SS 3.65 and not the newest version and see if that fixes the problem.
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Glad you got it fixed.
I had something similar happen last night - I accidentally fat-fingered a language change, and every time I went back in to fix it (Settings -> Language & Input), Settings would crash. (This is on MJ7)
Took a while to manually figure out how to fix it (Doh, /data/property/persist.sys.language) without restoring a backup. I didn't mention it here right away because your symptoms sounded different - Settings was crashing for me only when I went in to the Language & Input sub-menu)
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i have the same problem. setting was crashing everytime i went to language & input. can u help me to ix it?
Guys I am running stock 1.80.651.10 ROM on Sprint with the latest September security update. I did a factory reset and I manually updated the ROM to the latest version (I did the latter as instructed by HTC support). Under Settings, Backup & reset, the Backup account is still grey and shows "No account is currently storing backed up data". As a result, when I did a factory reset, Google didn't even give me the option to restore my account from a previous HTC 10 device backup. I have to setup everything from scratch again. I contacted HTC support and the rep told me this:
"The back up option is under maintenance at the moment. This is why you can't access to it. If you performed all those troubleshooting steps and they didn't work. What I recommend is that you try another backup options while we solve this problems for our customers."
This is obviously a software / firmware bug. Anyone else seeing this?
Same exact problem with mine and my wifes new HTC 10's.
It's a known bug. OMJ came up with a solution. Check his badboyz thread
Sprint HTC 10 running BadBoyz
I got a refurbished Nexus 6P from the Nexus Protect program. Now I'm trying to restore the new Nexus 6P from my old one. I go through the prompts on the screen and everything looks good until the final screen when it's actually restoring the device and I see the progress bar moving back and forth. After a short while, I just get an error message saying "couldn't finish restoring the backup". I tried it about 4 times now and I even tried restoring from the cloud to see if that would work.
Anybody know why it's not restoring?
Both my Nexus 6P's were updated to Nouget 7.1.1 but I was still getting the "couldn't finish restoring the backup" error message.
I finally got it FIXED, but I selected the option to restore back up from the cloud instead of restoring from nearby device. This is what I did:
On my old device, I went to settings>Back & reset>Backup my data and turned it off. You will get a warning message telling you that your backups will get deleted. Proceed.
Then I turned the Backup my data back on. I waited overnight to make sure that my new data was backed up again. (If you know of a way to verify that your data was backed up so that you can proceed with these steps then do it)
Then I factory reset my new device and proceeded with the restore procedure.
I took the steps to restore a backup from the cloud again and it worked!
It restored the location of all my app icons and my widgets on my home screens so I was very please.
I guess the backup was old or was backed up with an older version (before Nouget 7.1.1) so there were problems restoring it, but after deleting the old cloud backup and making your phone upload a new one it works! Hope this helps anyone running into the issues I was facing.