I recently flashed the same rom again because it was exhibiting some stange behaviour that was different to an identical phone with the same rom.
I removed the sim card, performed a task 29 wipe, believing that this wipes everything. I also pulled the sd card and placed it into an adapter and full formatted the card in my PC. Then after the flash I wiped the cache, delvik cache, user data and formatted the EXT partition that I created.
Once the new rom had fired up I went into my contacts and they were all there right down to the dedicated ringtone names for some contacts and the groups of contacts such as Family and Friends with contacts in each group. Has anyone else encountered this?
So, if Task 29 does not completely wipe the Nand memory, what does? Would a more thorough way be to flash a stock rom again then followed by the steps detailed above?
Any Tech heads care to enlighten me as how to completely start from scratch if you want to flash a new rom without leaving any data behind?
Cheers
Aren't contacts linked to your gmail account? like calendar. When you save an event, wipe your phone, relink your account you will find your events back as before.
I am not sure, maybe this is the cause because Google also saves contact's preferences.
Yea as post 2 says, chances are they were restored when you linked your Gmail account. But also isn't there a backup/restore option too? I seem to remember something like "do you want to backup this phone online " or similar during first boot last time I flashed,, I chose no, so not sure what it does.
I can confirm what Marvlesz refered.
My DesireHD ALWAYS pucks the same ringtone, on diferent roms (though always with a sense version) if the mp3/music file is on the same place in the SD.
Those settings are backed up to google
Yeah, I think your right, installed a rom on my other HD2 and unchecked the google account boxes and when I went into contacts it was empty and asked me if I wanted to set it up.
Thanks for the replies.
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right now, I am quite satisfied with wp7. although changing android roms with titanium backup is easy, is there a way to backup my wp7 rom? probably the whole nand, like nandroid for example? having to reactivate, resync, reunlock and reinstall is a troublesome process....in short, i just want to restore my phone the way it was if i go back to android... anyone?
I've asked this question too and no one responded. Have you found anything?
Unfortunately no. Maybe after the kitchen tools are released? IF they are ever released.... :/
Hey. It's kind of a late response, but I figured out that if I take out my SD card and boot WP7, it booted like it was a new install (no contacts, messages, account info, programs) but when I put my SD card back in, it booted normally. So, I guess all of the info is stored on the SD. So, I think it is possible to create a back up of the encrypted SD card with EASEUS partition manager, and that back up will hold an exact copy of what your phone used to be. So I assume that one could play around with Android roms, and then flash the same WP7 roms and restore the back up on the SD and be set. It's just a theory.
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Hey. It's kind of a late response, but I figured out that if I take out my SD card and boot WP7, it booted like it was a new install (no contacts, messages, account info, programs) but when I put my SD card back in, it booted normally. So, I guess all of the info is stored on the SD. So, I think it is possible to create a back up of the encrypted SD card with EASEUS partition manager, and that back up will hold an exact copy of what your phone used to be. So I assume that one could play around with Android roms, and then flash the same WP7 roms and restore the back up on the SD and be set. It's just a theory.
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Hmmmm...interesting point. I'll have to try that when NODO/MANGO or whatever is released and see what happens. Worst that can happen is I resync as I would have normally in the first place. Thanks for the info.
Hi all,
Since MS Myphone service is not working with WP7 for backing up the short messages, is there any way or a software to backup all contacts, SMS, and others. Most importantly SMS. How can I get a backup for SMS messages.??
Thanks a lot for any advice in advance..
Does anybody know where the sms are stored in file system? If we knew this maybe we could just backup those files via Touchxperience file explorer (Beta).
I posted in another thread about this, because I was also looking for a way to backup my messages. I didn't really find a "real" way. But what I found is, in my opinion, better than nothing. I like to keep my SMSs for sentimental reasons, so if you only want to be able to read them again in the future, I have a theory of how to do so. I took my SD card out of my HD2 and booted WP7, all of my contacts, messages, account info, was gone. I put the SD back in and it was all back to normal. So, I assume that if you back up your SD card with EASEUS partition manager (I think there is a tutorial on this in the dual booting android and wp7 thread) you can keep the backup on your computer and save it for later. I haven't actually tried this, but because nobody seems to be working on this, I thought it might be worth mentioning.
sur3nd1p1ty said:
I posted in another thread about this, because I was also looking for a way to backup my messages. I didn't really find a "real" way. But what I found is, in my opinion, better than nothing. I like to keep my SMSs for sentimental reasons, so if you only want to be able to read them again in the future, I have a theory of how to do so. I took my SD card out of my HD2 and booted WP7, all of my contacts, messages, account info, was gone. I put the SD back in and it was all back to normal. So, I assume that if you back up your SD card with EASEUS partition manager (I think there is a tutorial on this in the dual booting android and wp7 thread) you can keep the backup on your computer and save it for later. I haven't actually tried this, but because nobody seems to be working on this, I thought it might be worth mentioning.
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It's true.
Works fine for me. I use it to backup apps, however.
Good post. It never hurts to do a backup. But it doesn't help when you upgrade the build, all messages etc will be lost.
Edit; Looked at easeus partition manager and it seemed that the only way to copy a disk partition is to create a new partition on your hard disk, thus erasing the whole hard disk! How do you do it Domenukk?
Also I may be wrong about losing all data when upgrading eg to nodo. If this is possible to do a backup, after upgrading the ROM the backed up sdcard could be re-inserted, it might work! Dont know
Edit 2; found thread titled "[Q] Backing up or Imaging SD card partitions" which explains how to backup to hard disk using ease-us. Another poster suggests using a usb stick or external hard drive instead of precious internal one.
a while ago there were rumurs of Myphone for WP7
http://wmpoweruser.com/my-phone-for-windows-phone-7-pictured/
Has there been any updates?
Right now this is the only thing that is preventiong me from making my HD2 with WP7 my main phone.
you could use "copy and paste" to copy each sms message to Office, then put the file in Dropbox and retrieve on your laptop.
I have tried this and only the message gets copied, not the sender or date/time. you would have to add this for every text in Office
It is useful though for important stuff.
If you download apps via Zune to your phone, they are remembered when you change your ROM, though doesn't work for XApps.
Contacts- saved to sim or synched via windows live account.
Come on thebranded, dive in
hi, its going to be stored somewhere, i backup my programs data files, even after a reflash and upgrade i can use the backups to restore the data for the apps, works great for things like petrol usage, fitness programs etc
anyhow, the SMS files must be located somewhere on the card as well, why dont we get to gether, get a sms message and record the time stamp, turn off the phone and then search the phone looking for files edited at that time stamp
i thnk you can just use zune and sync it
faiz1120 said:
i thnk you can just use zune and sync it
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it doesnt backup sms messages
faiz1120 said:
i thnk you can just use zune and sync it
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You think or you try it yourself already? How to do it?
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You think or you try it yourself already? How to do it?
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as i said, it doesnt backup SMS messages. If you were about to update the device it would do it, but we cant, and we probably shouldnt even if we could.
i finally installed nand rom on my phone but completely forgot to back up my contacts that i had on the memory card android build.
all the files are still there on SD card, is there a way i can recover them and merge with nand rom?
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i finally installed nand rom on my phone but completely forgot to back up my contacts that i had on the memory card android build.
all the files are still there on SD card, is there a way i can recover them and merge with nand rom?
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by posting in the right section!
What he said,
But if you signed in with a Google mail account, (which is required to use the market) they should come back if you sign in again in your NAND rom.
i didnt sync anything to google account or backup.
thanx buddy!
Have you tried People -> Menu -> Import/Eport -> Import from SD card?
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by posting in the right section!
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umm if you have nothing to contribute dont post.... seems like you just wait to answer questions with your stupid line
wrong section
casemandan said:
umm if you have nothing to contribute dont post.... seems like you just wait to answer questions with your stupid line
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This post has NOTHING to do with development, and I agree with jose makalolot.
casemandan said:
umm if you have nothing to contribute dont post.... seems like you just wait to answer questions with your stupid line
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I thought what he had to contribute was both relevant and informative.
Users need to learn that posting in the wrong sections is not tolerated.
fuzzysig said:
i didnt sync anything to google account or backup.
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Google automatically backs up contacts etc unless you specifically tell it not to, If you did then that was pretty silly.
sorry i didnt post it here on purpose i thought i was browsing the general section at the time( had few windows open)
yes i tried to import from SD card but they are not saved in separate file.
i had the android system on SD card and installed the nand droid before i realized that i didnt really back up any of my data.
all the stuff is still on the card
the whole android system is there i just dont know where they are stored.
i also cant find an option to save to sim card . is there such a feature with this OS?
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sorry i didnt post it here on purpose i thought i was browsing the general section at the time( had few windows open)
yes i tried to import from SD card but they are not saved in separate file.
i had the android system on SD card and installed the nand droid before i realized that i didnt really back up any of my data.
all the stuff is still on the card
the whole android system is there i just dont know where they are stored.
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What I think you can do is to remove magldr flash wondows, boot the android from the sd vard and set it up to sync with gmail. Leave it like that for like 5 or 10 mins, and reflash magldr, and the nand rom, and set the new rom to sync with the same email as the nand one. Let it be for 5-10 mins and you got your contacts back.
Or you can backup your existing nand rom with clockwork recovery, and after doing the whole windows->sd android->sync contacts->imstalling magldr again->installing clockwork, you can recover your backed up rom, and just add the email that you used for the sd sync if different, let it sync the contacts, and you are set.
Its like 20 minz of work, and 18 of them minutes is just waiting.
Good luck.
Edit: sorry for the bad spelling.. was in a hurry and typing on the phone...
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where are they stored?
can i just copy the phonebook file from sd card to nand android system files?
i think gmail will back it up for ya~
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I not sure if this is the right area, if not, i apologize, feel free to move and/or flame. lol
Anyway, I'm running fr008 liberated froyo and all of a sudden my apps stopped showing up in the app drawer. the ones i had an icon for on the home screen would show up, but be the default little gear icon thing, on click, nothing would happen (market also because that icon and wouldnt work). I tried wiping dalvik cache, cache, and finally ended up just trying to restore nandroid. Wellll.... Now the market is gone totally, but the strange thing, is that the apps show up under settings->applications, but not in the drawer at all.
I searched on this site, but honestly...I'm not even sure what words to use, everytnhing just wasnt relevant to my search. I'll be happy to continue searching (and i'm still browsing through pages), but maybe someone has had this issue and can either help me out, or point me in the right direction. Thanks.
Try a different home app. LauncherPro is the best so far in my opinion.
Well, Ideally I would like to keep sense. that's why i had chosen the rom that i did instead of CM. I just don't understand why they were there working just fine, then all of a sudden they werent. Worse comes to worse I just flash cm7 and start over, i'm just giving it a couple days before i do that.
Astro also didn't show up, and i tried doing the .zip update method through clockwork, but i move the files over, then reset the phone, and they don't show up on the sdcard...So i reboot and check for the gapp.zip on the sdcard, and its no longer there. Wtf is going on?
**edit: for some reason the phone reset and the market showed up again. Obviously my apps are in my market account, but they still show up under settings->application. I still don't know *WHY* this happened, and i dont want to reload everything on it and lose the info i had, especially if its going to be a recurring thing.
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Well, Ideally I would like to keep sense. that's why i had chosen the rom that i did instead of CM. I just don't understand why they were there working just fine, then all of a sudden they werent. Worse comes to worse I just flash cm7 and start over, i'm just giving it a couple days before i do that.
Astro also didn't show up, and i tried doing the .zip update method through clockwork, but i move the files over, then reset the phone, and they don't show up on the sdcard...So i reboot and check for the gapp.zip on the sdcard, and its no longer there. Wtf is going on?
**edit: for some reason the phone reset and the market showed up again. Obviously my apps are in my market account, but they still show up under settings->application. I still don't know *WHY* this happened, and i dont want to reload everything on it and lose the info i had, especially if its going to be a recurring thing.
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This is a total WTF! Since you are running FR008, are you using DT A2Sd to store your apps on the SD card? If not, you may want to look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790786
Once you enable A2SD by creating a EXT partition on your SD card, you can use A2SD to check the apps that are installed.
Yeah, my sd card has the ext partition from when i had the stock rom (trying to use dt's a2sd with that, got fed up and flashed fr008, haha).
But I only had a couple apps on the SD card, and strangely enough, those were the only ones showing in my app drawer. (now they aren't...)
But I'll check that link and see whats going on with it, i'm just lost. haha.
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Yeah, my sd card has the ext partition from when i had the stock rom (trying to use dt's a2sd with that, got fed up and flashed fr008, haha).
But I only had a couple apps on the SD card, and strangely enough, those were the only ones showing in my app drawer. (now they aren't...)
But I'll check that link and see whats going on with it, i'm just lost. haha.
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If you had an EXT partition on the SD card when you flashed FR008 (which has DT A2SD built-in) will use it. Sounds like you may want to run the "a2sd check" command in the terminal emulator to see what's going on?
Hmm. I ran a2sd check:
it says "ext partition found, but not mounted, your rom may not be steup to run apps2sd. xxxxx
your partition may be ext4 but rom may not support ext4"
also, my apps are no longer showing up in market...i'm cursed. lol
a little update.
It seems my sd card was screwy. I swapped it for another one temporarily (copy/pasted the contents though, that didnt work, so i formatted it). The phone seems to work fine, but for some reason, my apps still show up in settings > applications. But no where else. I can't use astro to back them up, and I'm not sure what else i can possibly try (aside from wiping everything and installing a new rom, any suggestions on what rom, i'm thinking cm7, but i want sense ui still).
I'm just worried that its something *I* did and i dont want to do it again.
I had a similar issue before...and what I would do is:
1. Factory Wipe, Wipe Caches and Format both system and SDCard with an ext partition
2. Flash the ROM of your choice, then GAPPS
3. Start the process of setting everything up again.
It's the nature of the beast when using DT A2SD...when the card goes, so does everything on it, including your apps. It would be a great idea to back up everything on your phone (nandroid) then copy the nandroid backup (in the Clockworks folder on your SDCard) to a safe place (not on the SDCard) so that when this happens again you have a backup of your phone that doesn't die with the card. Don't worry this doesn't happen often, but a you see, it can happen.
Yeah, i sort of guessed it had to do with the sd card (had a small glitch about 3 days prior to this, with a program that was on the sd card). I just don't know why the apps that werent on the sd card went with the sd card, but showed up in settings -> applications still (though i could do nothing with them, and if i tried to "clear data" on them, it would fail). I flashed CM7 last night and started setting everything up again. I'm going to do the whole nandroid backup, and manual backup where i can pull the apks out of the backup, so i can have a script to reinstall everything quickly when I inevitably change roms again. lol (as you can see, i've been a member for some years now, started back with the titan/ppc6800)
anyway, if you didnt read all that above, i'll summarize:
THANKS.
i had the a similar problem my apps werent showing in my drawer and my widgets on my home screens kept saying problem loading widget so i wiped everything reinstalled my rom switched to adw ex and everything has been fine since
I just went from ACA sd to ACA NAND (cLK).
After the first boot, titanium backup perfectly restored all my contacts to NAND.
But after the second boot, there are only two contacts left...
I tried to restore again with titanium backup, but it failed. (only data, as well as data & app)
Is there any way to grab the file with my contacts from my sd android folder and put it into the NAND?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you!!!
You could use the sync option with Gmail or just backup your contacts to the sdcard with the implemented function when you open the menu when you are in your contacts.
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To be more specific, i'm away from home for the next 2 weeks.
Yesterday I went from ACA sd to ACA NAND.
Initially the sync / restore of all of my contacts via titanium backup went fine.
After rebooting, only 2 contacts were left.
I never did a sync with Google, maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but I don't want them to know everything...
So, left with no possibility to sync with my computer at home, BUT knowing, that all my contacts are still on my sd-card in the old android folder, I wonder, if there's a way to transfer them from their present location to the place where they should be in NAND...
Any ideas anybody?