I am using i-mate and i am taking a backup every time that the phone is on the cradle.
It comes very handy as I get a halt/hung/freeze once every 10-15 days and I need to restore.
I have the following questions:
1. Image links. I.e. the Photo album with the contact links to the images. How can ensure they are backup?
2. Can I restore the full backup using my SD card? It seems that sometimes I do not have my laptop with me and the cradle so I can restore. What do you usually do? (last night I picked up a girls phone and I lost it because of this! - fortunately she called!)
Any help would be appreciated
finikas said:
1. Image links. I.e. the Photo album with the contact links to the images. How can ensure they are backup?
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You've to backup the database IA_Photo_Contacts_Group to ensure you backup the links and also have to backup the folder where the photo's reside.
finikas said:
2. Can I restore the full backup using my SD card? It seems that sometimes I do not have my laptop with me and the cradle so I can restore. What do you usually do? (last night I picked up a girls phone and I lost it because of this! - fortunately she called!)
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It depends on the program you're using for the backup. If you're using active sync then that's not possible. But if you're using a program which resides on your XDA then it should be possible. With Sprite Backup is sure is possible. It is also possible with xBackup which is installed from the most of the Extended ROMs of different providers.
Mark
Thanks! everything is backup by the active sync bakup. the issue is that on restore it says that a number of files conflict and is recommending to skip all otherwise it does not proceed.
any ideas?
Hi!
I did an update for xperia x8 today. I made a back-up for calendar, contacts and so on. When the update was finished, i tried to run the backup file to restore the information (most importantly contacts) but it said the file (.sbf) couldn't be read.
I tried taking out the sd card and putting it back in, didn't work. Tried to find a converter or a sbf reader, hoping to at least be able to see the information. No luck.
Can you repair the file? (I guess it is corrupted or something, since i can open an older backup file.) Are there any programs that can read the file? (on the phone, or on pc)
Thanks!
I don't know how to help you with corrupt sbf, but I can give you a tip for the future.
Sync your calendar, contacts, etc with gmail! It's pretty easy and very good! When I format my phone, I only backup my messages, cuz contacts are already backed up @ gmail!
Hi Vixen666,
I'm in the same situation Did you found the solosion?
Thanks!
Hello all, i'm desperately in need of your help!!
1) The problem:
-my NAND (internal storage memory) runs out of space all of a sudden when I know for sure that it has plenty of free space since I install almost everything on my microSD. All my user setting/sms/contacts were reset and emptied. Every time I reboot/turn on my phone, it always make me go through the whole Initial Setup Wizard as if it was a brand new phone. Apparently since there's 0 space available on NAND, it simply cannot save my setting.
2) Back ground Info:
- my hd2 has been running coredroid 1.5 (or 1.6) perfectly on NAND for over 6+ months.
- I know NAND is still working because I'm still able to boot into android.
3) What I need:
- I need to figure out a way to recover my contacts and sms from NAND before I reformat it and reflash android. Please help me I've been searching on XDA and google for the past hours but no dice
thanks a million in advance!!!
just download sms backup app and add contacts with your google accout
nameless517 said:
just download sms backup app and add contacts with your google accout
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thanks for your response, but I dont think u understand my question. My contacts and SMS are emptied, so a regular backup app will not help me in this case. What I need is to somehow recover contacts and sms from internal storage.
Titanium backup can schedule the backup/restore
You guys are not understanding me, backup app can only backup the data that's currently there. but if the data has been deleted, these backup apps cannot recover them...
since they are gone, they have probably been removed. I don't think u can recover them..
computer memory and/or hard drives usually still retain the files that you deleted. it's possible to recover files after you format hard drive, so of course it's possible to recover files from a memory chip.
so I was looking at my TitaniumBackup folder, and I see these files:
com.android.providers.contacts-20110409-103323.properties
com.android.providers.contacts-20110409-103323.tar
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-20110409-103331
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-20110409-103331.tar
can one of the files above contain my contacts?
mythek88, first
P.S. and Titanium can backup to dropbox =)
sorry buddy...i dont think you can recover contacts and smss....they are converted into binary and stored is what i vaguely remember reading.
there is a undelete app for root users, if you are one... try this app. i cant promise it will bring back sometime, but sometime trying is all it takes...good luck
to avoid this situation, i typically sync everything with my gmail so i can always recover anytime....
Thank you for all the inputs, I've given up on trying to recover my data and have went ahead and reformat/repartition/reflashed my rom. Luckily I found an old backup of my contacts, so I only lost a handful of new numbers.
mythek88 said:
Thank you for all the inputs, I've given up on trying to recover my data and have went ahead and reformat/repartition/reflashed my rom. Luckily I found an old backup of my contacts, so I only lost a handful of new numbers.
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now...dont forget to sync it with some service
Restore SMS from mmssms.db with adb
Hi all,
Can anybody help me how to restore mmssms.db and also the contacts2.db? I read I can do it with adb, but as I tried, it sayd Permission Denied.
Can anybody write me a step-by-step guide how can I restore them for sure?
Thanks a lot.
Additionally, I tried Titanium, it doesn't see these files, so that is why is went for adb.
Please help!
Thanks a lot.
Hi guys, recently I flashed a Galaxy S5 Pack for the i9505, and i got stuck into bootloop. So, I wanted to recover my contacts/sms etc.. so I did a Nandroid Backup of the /data partition.
I extracted the data.ext4.tar (after doing the cat of the 4 files .a, .b, .c and .d) and i got the databases from the Phone, the SMS/MMS and other.
I did a wipe data, so I tried to restore the contacts by replacing the files from /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases, and setting the right permissons, but it gave me FC so I did a Wipe Data again. Same with messages.
Any hint?
Please, i need my messages and contacts back, they're too important!
Thanks,
SmartAssH3
For next time I advise you backup contacts to Google acount
For SMS use SMS backup or Titanium backup
Hi I have a Galaxy Note 3 and was trying to remove some bloatware while doing so I accidentally deleted calendar storage. Some people suggested I download the stock firmware and extract the apk but I'm not sure how to do so could someone please help me fix this I have done tons of googling and this is the last place I can turn to.
Backup data and restore your Nandroid backup or Just factory reset.