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[Q] What is the best way to flash CM nightlies and restore apps+settings from azure?

I realize this is a bit of a noob question but I've tried to flash cm rc1 about 6 times now, and every time I've experienced problems trying to restore my apps and settings.
Every time I tried, I started by doing a nandroid backup and wiping before flashing rc1, and I could boot with no problems. However, the first time I did this, the first thing I did was flash gapps and then waited half an hour for most of my downloaded apps to be restored automatically, but none of my settings or contacts came back.
Tried reflashing rc1 again but this time didn't flash gapps yet, instead went to advanced restore options in nandroid and restored only my data, which did the trick, except when I flashed gapps after I got the error where at setup you're supposed to "touch android to begin" and it doesn't do anything. Thought I'd nearly bricked my phone cause I couldn't exit the screen or get into recovery! Eventually managed to restore azure.
Going to try now restoring from my titanium backups and THEN flashing gapps, so hoping this is the best way to do it.
EDIT: Oh yeah so here's actually the main problem/question: I have most of my apps on sd (froyo apps2sd) and have backups made from titanium and a nandroid backup obviously. I want to have all my current apps and settings restored to the rc so that everything is more or less exactly as it is the way I use it now. Is this possible? Or will titanium restore my apps to internal memory?

Okay, so after restoring from titanium and flashing gapps I STILL don't have half of my apps or any of my contacts! What am I doing wrong??
Is there a series of steps you guys follow when migrating everything from one rom to another?

Make sure to enable App2sd in the Cyanogen Application Settings before running the Titanium restore. Also check Titanium Backups's Settings (press Menu button). There is an option to enforce the same location (SD/Internal). Not sure if it helps though.
I am not running an English version so you might have to search for the options.
Your contacts should be stored on your google Account if you had syncing activated.
Check Settings -> Account & Sync (or something like this) and add your google account if it is not already there. After that click the option to sync contacts.
If your contacts wheren't synced try restoring with Titanium again. The files you are looking for are "com.android.providers.contacts-***.tar.gz" and "com.android.providers.contacts-***.properties" NOT ""com.android.contacts-***."
If nothing helps you could always restorer you nandroid backup -> Titanium backup all apps that are NOT moved to SD -> uninstall all apps that are not moved to SD to make some room and move every app on the sd card to your internal storage before running another Titanium backup to have all apps as internal-storage versions. While you are at it you can sync your contacts with your google account and export them to SD for two options to restore them later.

Batch backup system and user apps+data. Then verify that backup to see everything is backed up successfully. For contacts either sync to Google account or you can export your contacts to SD, which I prefer personally. Full wipe, install Titanium, restore. End of story.

Oi rajasetan, can titanium do quiet restore?
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Thanks denisman, I did actually follow all of those steps and still had problems.. titanium didn't restore my contacts and even though they were synced with google for some reason they never came back, so I took your advice and exported my contacts to sd and will try again. Strange that between google sync and full backup and full restore of apps through titanium I still couldn't restore all my previous settings. Doing a nandroid advanced restore of data was the best option, if only I could do so without getting the error when flashing gapps. Maybe I should flash gapps and THEN nandroid restore data?

rajasyaitan said:
Batch backup system and user apps+data. Then verify that backup to see everything is backed up successfully. For contacts either sync to Google account or you can export your contacts to SD, which I prefer personally. Full wipe, install Titanium, restore. End of story.
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That's how I've been doing it actually, although I don't have the paid version of titanium so I can't verify my backups. Will upgrade to paid version and try that, thanks.

Update:
Okay so this time I flashed gapps first and THEN used nandroid to restore just my data and that did the trick; contacts, settings and apps are all back the way they should be.
New issue though (I seem plagued by these)! Even though I have the exact same stuff installed, I have only 3mb free on internal memory (even after using adb shell to remove carhome, twitter and other system apps I didn't need) when I used to have 40mb free before. Is cm6.1 that much larger than azure or do I have unnecessary copies of files sitting around somewhere I can't see them?

In titanium settings you need to check "force install to same location", then any apps you used to have on your SD card will stay there.

What to remember when doing a factory reset/wipe?

So, my Froyoed Legend is more like Maple Syrup...it's SLOW. So after some investigation, I apparantly need a factory reset and clean wipe to get it smoothed. So what to remember before a wipe?
1. - Backup apps to AppBrain
2. - Backup SMS/MMS
3. - Backup phone logs
3. - Backup ADW.Launcher settings
4. - Backup any internal app setting
5. - Complete backup of SD card/pictures
6. - Backup contacts
6.1 - Manually move all phone contacts to Google Contacts like I did
Is there anything else to remember?
As to WHY so many people are having problems with Legend/Froyo I can only speculate. But my guess is that some old code might be left over, perhaps the integration with apps has left something from before the backup, perhaps some settings are left from before the backup and these are incompatible with Froyo?

[Q] Titanium Backup - contacts data

I have rooted my Droid X and installed Titanium Backup. I want to do a backup but am concerned with including the contact and calendar data. Since I am on an Exchange account and Gmail, I don't need to back up the actual data files. What are the names of the data files for contacts and calendar? There are several "Contacts...." and "Calendar..." files. One says storage, another data, which one do I exclude?

adevan said:
I have rooted my Droid X and installed Titanium Backup. I want to do a backup but am concerned with including the contact and calendar data. Since I am on an Exchange account and Gmail, I don't need to back up the actual data files. What are the names of the data files for contacts and calendar? There are several "Contacts...." and "Calendar..." files. One says storage, another data, which one do I exclude?
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i have found if i restore ANY data i have the syncing symbol on my notifications bar all the time, i do the batch Restore all missing apps and click app only from now on

If you have them syncd to your Gmail account, they are ALWAYS backed up. Menu, Settings, Accounts & Sync, check the "Contacts" check box and all of your contacts sync to Gmail.

I do understand that the are essentially backed up via sync with Gmail and/or corp exchange. That is why I don't want to backup that data with Titanium Backup. When I open Titanium Backup, I do the following.
Select Backup/Restore tab
Select Menu>Batch
Select Run Backup all system data
When I scroll down, I see the following Contacts files
Contacts 2.2.1
Contacts Storage 2.2.1
Contacts Sync 2.2.1
Contacts Sync Adapter 2.2.1
ContactsData 2.2.1
ContactsUnconnected 2.2.1
Which of those files should I deselect so if I need to do a restore I don't receive duplicate contacts?
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adevan said:
I do understand that the are essentially backed up via sync with Gmail and/or corp exchange. That is why I don't want to backup that data with Titanium Backup. When I open Titanium Backup, I do the following.
Select Backup/Restore tab
Select Menu>Batch
Select Run Backup all system data
When I scroll down, I see the following Contacts files
Contacts 2.2.1
Contacts Storage 2.2.1
Contacts Sync 2.2.1
Contacts Sync Adapter 2.2.1
ContactsData 2.2.1
ContactsUnconnected 2.2.1
Which of those files should I deselect so if I need to do a restore I don't receive duplicate contacts?
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all of them

Funnyface19 said:
i have found if i restore ANY data i have the syncing symbol on my notifications bar all the time, i do the batch Restore all missing apps and click app only from now on
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This has been fixed in the newer versions. (At least in my experience) the last restore I did with TiB I restored EVERYTHING and do not have the sync symbol stuck there anymore. This used to happen to me also but not as of late with the newer updates of Ti.
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I have gotten a replacement DroidX and this has happened to others as well. While other I had did not have this phenomenon. But after I reestablished root and installed Titanium Backup, i notice "ContactsUnconnected 2.2.1" is frozen. I unfreeze it, reboot, and it is frozen again. And I never froze it to begin with. And my previous DroidX did not have it frozen do I have yet another possessed DX? With a mind of it's own? Wanting to be a real Android (boy)?" (bad Pinochio" reference). What exactly DOES "ContactsUnconnected" do? Is it still an unknown variable as it has been since day one?
Many thanks in advance. (Please ignore my phone info on my profile if it still says WinMo. As I have not had a chance to update my info yet)

Giving my G2 away - How to "clean" the phone?!

I am giving away my phone to a friend, but how do I "clean" the phone?
Like, I want to erase/uinstall all the apps I've downloaded and installed, empty my messages, folders and camera files... Make it look like "new"..
Can I save my sms/text messages + contacts and their details on my PC or something? Or can I perhaps put them on my sim-card as I won't be giving away the sim-card?
I will be using another android phone, of course.

There are various programs on the market that perform sms backups/restores. I use SMS backup+ to backup my sms every few hours automatically to my gmail account under a label entitled "SMS." I think there is an option to restore SMS in that app too.
As for contacts, they should be backed up with your google account (email). Log into your google account on a computer and under contacts will be various groups. I've created a group specifically with phone numbers to appear under my contacts on android (Contacts [push menu]> display>click google account.and check the contact group you want on the phone).
By default, google will back up your contacts. Under settings, push accounts and sync, and manage your google account. There, the Sync contacts should be enabled and all of your contacts will sync to the google account (where you can edit the groups I've outlined above).
I would connect the phone to a computer, create a folder, and copy all of the contents of your SD card into that folder just in case. When you're ready to pass on the phone, wipe the sd card (on the computer or on the phone by settings>storage>erase sd card).
Reboot into recovery and wipe data, cache, etc. There might be a factory reset option as well. If you aren't rooted, I'm not sure, but there might be a key sequence that does the wipes for you. Try a google search for that.

elgy said:
I am giving away my phone to a friend, but how do I "clean" the phone?
Like, I want to erase/uinstall all the apps I've downloaded and installed, empty my messages, folders and camera files... Make it look like "new"..
Can I save my sms/text messages + contacts and their details on my PC or something? Or can I perhaps put them on my sim-card as I won't be giving away the sim-card?
I will be using another android phone, of course.
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market - smsbackup - works great here, puts all your sms on your sdcard. then email them to yourself.
then
settings - factory reset (wipes everything you ever did off the phone)
if you make a TiTanium Backup of the device first, you can just move everything from the sdcard to your new phone, or let google take care of the settings (online backup). either way, it's pretty painless.
what are you getting next ?
should take

If you're rooted you can data wipe from within CWM and format your sd card and also for backing up you can use mybackup very handy application. It'll backup your apps, sms, call logs, contacts and your media(camera pictures, videos)

Menu -> Settings -> Privacy -> Factory Data Reset

many fixes for android.process.acore stopped unexpectedly

My Samsung Galaxy Tab (Sprint) recently, unexpectedly started displaying this message. I did a google search and was amazed on how many fixes and issues they are for this type of issue. I will admit I have done most of them...which only slow down the messages versus constantly popping up. Many tablets and phones are or have experienced this issue. Many say it was an app, widget, a system bug or a virus that caused it. It is clearly that no clear answer is established or it all depends on what was the last thing you did before you got the message. Here are the "fixes" that I found. What I will do next is flash a rom instead. I have already done two hard resets- still pops up. Hope this helps someone out. I just cut and pasted the answers that people said it worked for them. Please add any that I may have left out.
possible fixes for "process android process acore has stopped unexpectedly" USE AT YOUR OWN RISK...
1) Using Settings go to your manage applications, you will find some Contacts (Contact Storage 2.2 or Contacts) you can also do this with Titanium Backup under “Backup/Restore” tab). Click clear cache/wipe data. This will clear all your contacts (all your data) so make sure these are backed up.
2) Install/use ClockWorkMod. First back up all your data TB is the choice. As I understand this will only be done once in the lifetime of the gtab. In CWM>advanced>choose “Partition SD Card”> choose 2048 for the first choice and 0 for the second choice. This will wipe your data so have it backed up beforehand.
3) Depending on your recovery, you should try wiping cache, dalvik cache, and fixing permissions.
4) If you can, go to /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/ and move or rename the folder databases. The system will immediately rebuild the database and rewrite it back to that location and your process.acore should stop. (you'll need something like root explorer to do so...though you could adb it from your computer) (THIS ONE DID NOT WORKED FOR ME)
5) clearing data in the email app
6) menu>applications>manage applications>all>internet>clear cache>clear data.
7) update firmware
8) format your SD card (THIS WILL DELETE YOUR DATA)
9) use one tap cache cleaner app- wiped out all cache
10) start deleting your downloaded apps until the error message stop popping up
11) turn on > reset > press all buttons while starting including reset > do this until you start without android.process.acore (I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE-not for tablet)
12) turned off the sync, deleted the data on the contact application
13) menu->settings-> do factory reset at bottom
repower login with new gmail login & passwordmenu->settings-> data sync ->wait for circles to right of contacts, etc to stop spinning>go to market->downloads and reinstall apps
14) (in settings->applications->manage applications), did a "clear data", "clear defaults", and "force stop" wherever applicable. Then I did a "clear data" and "force stop" to "package installer", "contacts", and "contacts storage" app. (MANY PEOPLE SAID THIS ONE DID THE TRICK)
15) Facebook contacts being synced with a gmail contact. If they aren't synced they are fine but syncd with a Facebook contact causes the error. (THIS WAS A POPULAR FIX)
16) Remove Google+ 2.0
17) Cleared cache of contacts and calendar with titanium backup (MUST BE ROOTED)
18) deleting the contacts DB directory (PEOPLE SAID THIS AFFECTED THEIR ABILITY TO USE EXCHANGE)
19) used titanium backup and wiped the three contacts files, then presto back to normal
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/
20) scan with an antivirus app

Just got this on my evo3d, I found that ONE of the causes is when using Titanium Backup, I backup my AOSP system data with TB, and restored it in a sense ROM, which conflicted. A factory reset did the trick, but so would cache cleaner I believe.

I did two factory reset and cleared all cache, no luck. Im using the tab now, message pops up about every two minutes or so. Very annoying.
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montecristo1 said:
I did two factory reset and cleared all cache, no luck. Im using the tab now, message pops up about every two minutes or so. Very annoying.
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did you restore from Titanium backup? try NOT restoring App/System DATA from TB.

lg e405 same problem
Hi
I have same problem, started today, after saving a contact I received via whatsapp.
I've read up about this and it seems like it can be fixed by clearing contacts cache...any concrete advice on this?
Thanks