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Phone Backup & Restore ?

I saw this option on my brothers Desire today when he updated his phones firmware over WiFi, first time in my life I have seen that the phone updates himself Anyway, he has option in settings to make backup and the phone made backup of phonebook, apps, widgets, EVERYTHING and after the firmware was upgraded he got completely restored phone as it was, like nothing happened !! I have tried to find this backup option on my X10 and now I ask, is it possible that X10 does not have that option ???? Is that because of 1.6 vs 2.1 or HTC has made this great option ? If my brother hasnt bought Desire before me I would buy it over X10, thats for sure. Because there is nothing worse for me than get clean original state phone after update.
Tnx a lot

No one ? Can you at least tell me the name of the app that can do that ?
Cheers

hmmm wel i dont really know much about that so not much help there.. it could be possible that hes syncing it all perhaps?
theres a program called mybackup that backups alot of the things although i must say restoring apps afterwards is wierd (includes other backup/restore apps) because the app list dont show up in the market 'downloads' category.. so you would'nt even know if there was an update available! only way would be to install the actual apk yourself or via market installation!
hope it helps!!

Camera, sounds, and sd card not working after froyo update

Unrooted epic 4g, decided to follow through and download the froyo update and install. Installed clean but now camera, sound notofications and sd card aren't working...any ideas???

bubbag38 said:
Unrooted epic 4g, decided to follow through and download the froyo update and install. Installed clean but now camera, sound notofications and sd card aren't working...any ideas???
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I was having the same exact issues. I have an unrooted Epic. I had stock 2.1 and updated via the update.zip download. The only thing that fixed it was a factory reset AFTER the update. Camera, sound, and SD are working now. Hope this helps

+1 I was also getting no sound, camera, or memory card after the update and a hard reset fixed those issues

Appreciate the help, will be doing the reset shortly

Is there a way to back up texts before doing the reset so I get them back? or just forget about it and lose them? Windowns Mobile was so nice with the Microsoft My Phone feature. I miss that....

rustyt22 said:
Is there a way to back up texts before doing the reset so I get them back? or just forget about it and lose them? Windowns Mobile was so nice with the Microsoft My Phone feature. I miss that....
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Search the market I personally use one called SMS Backup n2manager which works fine.

sms backup on the android market - great app

sms backup n2manager of course
I am using "SMS Backup n2manager" and it works fine for me too (HTC Desire). It backed up my 1500 sms quickly. Recommended.

Gingerbread Help!

Hello all,
I just installed the gingerbread update for the droid x yesterday. I got to say I absolutely hate it! My music application doesn't seem to be working. My music files dont work at all. My phone doesn't run smoother whatsoever. I'm actually noticing a lot of lagging even when my phone is in maximum performance mode. On my texting app my keyboard doesnt work well. It also lags. I dont want to flash my phone but at the same time I want to go back to froyo. Is there anything I can do? If this isnt possible Id like to at least get my phone to work smoothly with GB. Any help would be greatly appreicated. Thanks in advance.

You can flash back to Froyo or you can try a factory reset on you GB config. I've seen some reports that it helps random issues experienced with the OTA GB.

I have the same symptoms. I don't really want to lose my application data, and I forgot to do a data backup before upgrading. Is there any application (like Titanium backup) that can save my settings without having root (unlike Titanium backup)? Is there any path for me that would preserve my app data? I have seen several postings that recommend SBF-ing back to Froyo and then using the rooted upgrade. If I follow this path, will I lose application data? It seems to me that the options are:
1) factory reset
2) SBF back to Froyo before updating with rooted Gingerbread
3) wait for root on OTA Gingerbread and do a Titanium backup
Option #1 is guaranteed to lose my data. Option #2 I'm not sure about. Option #3 is where I am now, and it's downright painful. My phone is barely functional at the moment.

Option 2 is option 1 taken a step further. If you don't wipe data, it may not boot. If all of your apps are from the market, they will just download again after it

I'm not worried about apps. I'm worried about the data. It will take forever to get three stars on every level of Angry Birds. It's not all about Angry Birds, but I think you get the idea. Does the data get backed up to Google as well? I don't think it would.

So, I have not gotten an answer to this. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can revert from the OTA update without losing my application data? For example, is there a way to mount the phone filesystem in Linux and copy the files?

wisekb said:
So, I have not gotten an answer to this. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can revert from the OTA update without losing my application data? For example, is there a way to mount the phone filesystem in Linux and copy the files?
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Copy /data/data to your sdcard.
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[Q] Best Out... ?

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...

j0hn0n1 said:
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...

Backup?

How to take a backup of sgs2? Plz somebody tell me I want to update it's software
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What do you want to backup?
you can use a application like MyBackup
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackup
Or if you have root you can use titanium backup
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup

I was updating its software. When I connected it to pc it asked me for update I accepted it. Then it said u need to take back up of it.
so what things should be backedup before upgration. M new to android. So would love to here it from experienced ppl
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99% of the time nothing will be lost with updating firmware/android.
if you have google sync on it will save your contacts and calendar. There is google backup it will restore the installed apps, not the data (don't know why).
so if something goes wrong you will loose your savedata, sms and bookmarks, nothing on your SD.
You can make a backup of sms with free apps like:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore (i use this one)
or paid apps like MyBackup

How to take google backup?
What is included in phone date just giver me examples
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I have some hd games on phones. Will that downloaded data remains
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shantanuparadkar said:
How to take google backup?
What is included in phone date just giver me examples
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It should include wifi access points, installed apps (not save data). go to
"settings > Privacy" you will find the option there
shantanuparadkar said:
I have some hd games on phones. Will that downloaded data remains
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everything on your Extern SD card will be remained, not sure of the internal SD space. i never did a wipe on the phone, even after updating through Kies

Thanks
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Kies asks you if you want to make a backup just before it starts flashing the new firmware. In my case everything was backed up: contacts, call log, sms, mails, settings, data partition, ... the whole backup is around 2GB. I think that should include everything. And for the worst case scenario, Google can backup your stuff, except the App Data (Savegames ...).

Best way to backup which makes a perfect image of what you had before is by using Clockworkmod recovery. However this recovers root. With this method, a restore will turn the phone back to 100% how it was before you flashed.
The next backup method is Titanium backup. It also requires root if you want it to back everything up. This backs up your data, settings and apps. However, if you want to restore, it restores by installing/copying the items back into the phone, which means sometimes the apps are not how they were before. Also, the free version requires you to manually click through each restore, which takes a long time if you have many apps.
The final method is through Kies, but I believe it just restores your settings, contacts and images. I don't think it backs up the apps.

I did an OTA FW update some days ago without any backup ... ok, a little risk ... everything was fine after the update, NO data lost, everything was still there, mails, savegames, contacts, etc..

Sleepycat3 said:
Best way to backup which makes a perfect image of what you had before is by using Clockworkmod recovery. However this recovers root. With this method, a restore will turn the phone back to 100% how it was before you flashed.
The next backup method is Titanium backup. It also requires root if you want it to back everything up. This backs up your data, settings and apps. However, if you want to restore, it restores by installing/copying the items back into the phone, which means sometimes the apps are not how they were before. Also, the free version requires you to manually click through each restore, which takes a long time if you have many apps.
The final method is through Kies, but I believe it just restores your settings, contacts and images. I don't think it backs up the apps.
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Thanx mate
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