Hi all,
I'm wondering what the best way to flash the stock rooted ROM would be, in terms of keeping all my settings/data? I'm currently on Houstonn's PA 4.4.2 and I'd like to get a some more battery life out of the phone if possible.
Would titanium backup + restore app data be the best method? I know that usually restoring system data is a big no-no, but is there any way to get some system data on there without having to re-do everything?
Thanks!
Bump, any advice please?
2 things. One, why does the system data matter? There's almost nothing in common between 4.4.2 AOSP and 4.2.2 LG UI, and anything useful is already synced via Google. Second, that's a big negative even if you wanted to. Unless you want to bootloop like a pro, do NOT restore system data on a different Android API version. It's a bad idea normally but especially here. I personally use TB and just restore user apps + data. :good:
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2 things. One, why does the system data matter? There's almost nothing in common between 4.4.2 AOSP and 4.2.2 LG UI, and anything useful is already synced via Google. Second, that's a big negative even if you wanted to. Unless you want to bootloop like a pro, do NOT restore system data on a different Android API version. It's a bad idea normally but especially here. I personally use TB and just restore user apps + data. :good:
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Thanks for the response! I was thinking system data just for the usual tedium of wifi passcodes, brightness calibration, homescreen setup, etc.
Greetings All,
I’ve run across a problem restoring all my S Health data since the update to Kit Kat. I wanted to do a factory reset after getting the 4.4.2 update last week, since I had something that was draining the battery…it was down to 50% at noon then 30% after I get home from work with very light use. I figured it might have been some app that I had installed that was draining the battery since I had the battery drain issue on 4.3 as well.
I have lots of S Health data stored since I got the phone last year and I didn’t want to lose it. The S Health app was doing the regular auto-backups. But, before doing the factory reset I did a manual backup from within the app. I did the factory reset and then went back to the S Heath app and signed in with my samsung account.
When I went to restore the data, I keep getting an error (screenshot attached) that says:
Restoration Failed
Restoration is not possible because current version is low
The S Health app shows to be on version 2.5.0.66, is this the right version on 4.4.2? Checking from within the app doesn’t show any updates available.
I don’t recall the app version before I did the factory reset, but I don’t remember it getting updated since I did the backup or after the factory reset.
Anyone else have a problem restoring the S Health data after the update to 4.4.2? I don’t remember having this error before on 4.3. I’ve restored the data on earlier versions of Jelly Bean a few times and didn’t have a problem.
I’ve talked to samsung about it, they had me clear the caches for the app, which didn’t help.
Has anyone else seen this error before and if so, did you find a way to restore the S Health data?
I have a backup of the phone in Kies from about a week ago, but I didn’t see anything about restoring the S Heath data, on the S memo data.
Thank you kindly,
Chris
I have same problem
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Same problem here. I tried just about everything and couldn't get it to restore. Eventually just gave up and restarted the auto backup, which cleared my previously backed up data. Oh well. Looks like Samsung messed up the ability to restore from backups made before the 4.4.2 update. I hate to say it, but it looks like you might be screwed unless Samsung fixes this and pushes an update out.
On another note, I had similar battery drain when I updated, which was why I also did a factory reset and lost my S Health data as well. The factory reset didn't fix the battery drain, but I disabled sync for some Google services that I don't use, and my battery life is significantly better. I'd try that if you are still suffering from bad battery life.
You might try pulling the app from an MK2 rom. Uninstalling the new one and installing old. Restore data and then update or install new apk. I don't use this app ... so I'm not sure. If it's still a problem maybe I will do some digging.
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I have the same problem also.
I tried a second factory reset and still can't get my data to restore.
Greetings,
I'm wondering if this is just a bug in 4.4.2 since I did the backup from 4.4.2 and attempted to restore from the same rom. The only difference is I did a factory reset before I attempted the restore. I'm wondering if I can root and flash back to a previous 4.3 rom and restore s-health, then backup using titanium, flash 4.4.2 then restore from titanium? I've not had any problems restoring the backups before on any of the previous stock roms. I'm also tempted to create another samsung account and try saving and restoring a backup of the S-Health data to test to see if the restore even works at all.
The error message is somewhat ambivalent on which is the lower version, the data or the app?
On a side note, does anyone know of a good pedometer app that at least has the ability to do a local backup of data? I really like having the history of my travels. I like the ability to just turn it on and have it logging in the background.
I may also give samsung support another go and/or post in the sprint s4 support forum to see if anyone's having the same problem.
Thank you kindly,
Chris
Any solutions?
How typical.
S-Note Documents from Samsung Note 10.1 with Android 4.1.2 don't transfer over to the Note 3 and Note 10.1 with S-Note and Android 4.3
Given yet another example, we know this is not even an isolated problem.
Samsung's software is intended to be nothing more than a tech demo without actual customer usability in mind.
Greetings,
No luck so far. I've pretty much given up hope of ever recovering the data. I've posted about the problem on the sprint community S4 forum. They were helpful, but ultimately no luck. One person says the version should be 2.5.5, but my phone only has 2.5.4 with no update showing up. I've talked with Samsung and they say that I do indeed have the current version.
What version of the SHealth app do you guys have? Did you get an update to it after the 4.4.2 update? In case this helps, I do see that the Kies 3 finally supports backing up the SHealth data now without having to rely on backing up to the "cloud" thru the SHealth app.
I've done a test backup and restore from the shealth app and it did work. I'm not sure what could have happened before, perhaps just a glitch that prevented the restore from occurring.
That's where I am at this point. I'm leery at this point to rely on the in app backup/restore process since I lost all the data going back to May of last year when I got the phone. I'm definitely going to rely on alternative backup methods. I've rooted and will use Titanium Backup to keep a good backup going forward.
It would be interesting to see if everyone has the same version of the SHealth app. Again, I'm on a sprint SPH-L720 NAE kit-kat.
That's all I have for now.
Thanks,
Chris
cbrand said:
Greetings,
No luck so far. I've pretty much given up hope of ever recovering the data. I've posted about the problem on the sprint community S4 forum. They were helpful, but ultimately no luck. One person says the version should be 2.5.5, but my phone only has 2.5.4 with no update showing up. I've talked with Samsung and they say that I do indeed have the current version.
What version of the SHealth app do you guys have? Did you get an update to it after the 4.4.2 update? In case this helps, I do see that the Kies 3 finally supports backing up the SHealth data now without having to rely on backing up to the "cloud" thru the SHealth app.
I've done a test backup and restore from the shealth app and it did work. I'm not sure what could have happened before, perhaps just a glitch that prevented the restore from occurring.
That's where I am at this point. I'm leery at this point to rely on the in app backup/restore process since I lost all the data going back to May of last year when I got the phone. I'm definitely going to rely on alternative backup methods. I've rooted and will use Titanium Backup to keep a good backup going forward.
It would be interesting to see if everyone has the same version of the SHealth app. Again, I'm on a sprint SPH-L720 NAE kit-kat.
That's all I have for now.
Thanks,
Chris
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BTW, do you have the Galaxy Gear?
I was wondering if it is syncing to the Walking Mate instead of the Exercise Mate.
klau1,
Nope, I don't have the galaxy gear.
Thanks,
Chris
Bummer. I found this thread because I'm having the same issue.
same problem for me upgrading rom... and now, I've bought S5. Same problem again with S Health 3.0!!!!
problem solvend update to S Health 3.1
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problem solvend update to S Health 3.1
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This worked for me as well. I went through the setup after pretty much writing off all the data I've been collecting the past few months and was very surprised when it informed me that an update was available (even though I couldn't find it in the samsung apps store). Updated to the latest version, then the restore worked perfectly!
I just reset my Verizon Galaxy S4 after some time running with the Android 4.4.2 update. I was using the online data backup option through my Samsung account. The stock android 4.4.2 ROM comes S Health version 2.5.4.154 in it. I attempted to restore my data from the Samsung cloud but it failed saying there was a "network error." I could not find the Samsung Galaxy App store after the update so I followed this a droid life guide called "download: Samsung Apps Store With Access to Photo Editor, Wallet, and Others for the Verizon Galaxy S3" and installed the latest Galaxy Apps apk right from Samsung. After getting Galaxy Apps installed I logged into my Samsung account opened the store and clicked on purchases which detected that S Health needed to update. So I update S Health to 3.5.1.0693 and open it and it says I need to update HealthService to the latest (2.0.0.009) which I did. After launching the app it asked me if I wanted to restore my data which I said yes and it proceeded act like it was restoring it. It turns out it just nuked my data rather than restore it. It seems like I am SOL, unless you can get a previous version of your backup from Samsung. Anybody have any ideas? It really sucks because it was more than a year of data.
Hey Guys,
I have a question.
i used to have the Galaxy Note 3 , rooted it and did alot with it. Now i have a Note 4 and i want to root it. But my problem is this :
When i am going to root it can i also update my firmware manually without making backup? cause i am gonna stay on Stock Touchwizz. I want to Root it and if For example Android 5.0 comes out i want to update it without losing data or without resetting the whole phone.
Cause without root you can just accept your update through OTA or through Kies without losing any data and you dont need to master reset the phone nor make any backup. I want this method rooted through ODIN also, and is it possible. Cause on my note 3 i always made a backup and than needed to flash the new firmware and than restore backup.
help me out with step by step method if it possible
I'm sorry, but otas aren't clean either my friend. Conuntless people experience weird battery drain, force closes etc following an ota.
With in days of the 5.0 update hitting note 4s, there will be hoards of people wanting too know how they can go back to 4.4.4... Mark my words.
The fact that it includes a move from dalvik to art is only going to make the whole process more troublesome than it usually is.
Just individually back up your data through the specific apps if they have the capability, and uses sms and call back up apps if you really need to keep that stuff too, and just clean install yourself for the smother experience
dannstarr said:
I'm sorry, but otas aren't clean either my friend. Conuntless people experience weird battery drain, force closes etc following an ota.
With in days of the 5.0 update hitting note 4s, there will be hoards of people wanting too know how they can go back to 4.4.4... Mark my words.
The fact that it includes a move from dalvik to art is only going to make the whole process more troublesome than it usually is.
Just individually back up your data through the specific apps if they have the capability, and uses sms and call back up apps if you really need to keep that stuff too, and just clean install yourself for the smother experience
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Thanks for the tip that it will be dalvik to art.
didnt knew about that.
So lets say for example if a 4.4.5 comes out and i am rooted on 4.4.4 stock samsung, is it possible to download the stock 4.4.5 and flash it through Odin without losing data?
normally i used to make backups through Titanium and restore it. But i am bit tired of flashing a new stock and than restore backup.
InVez said:
Hey Guys,
I have a question.
i used to have the Galaxy Note 3 , rooted it and did alot with it. Now i have a Note 4 and i want to root it. But my problem is this :
When i am going to root it can i also update my firmware manually without making backup? cause i am gonna stay on Stock Touchwizz. I want to Root it and if For example Android 5.0 comes out i want to update it without losing data or without resetting the whole phone.
Cause without root you can just accept your update through OTA or through Kies without losing any data and you dont need to master reset the phone nor make any backup. I want this method rooted through ODIN also, and is it possible. Cause on my note 3 i always made a backup and than needed to flash the new firmware and than restore backup.
help me out with step by step method if it possible
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If you root you still can upgrade your note to android 5.0 via odin but it will not eraser your data, only lost root acces. I have try in my tab long time ago , the day honeycomb upgrade to ics so you dont have to worry
Cheer.
Tl;dr version: The big question in my mind is: If I backup and app and its data from Lollipop, when I restore it to KitKat will it work fine?
The full story:
My wife's Nexus 7 got the Lollipop OTA a little while back and has been having a terrible time with the lag, etc. We've done all the suggested fixes short of doing a factory reset, which I want to try but have a problem to overcome....
My wife has a game which she has played for many many months which doesn't sync game progress to the cloud anywhere... Her sisters are quite competitive and constantly compare their each other's progress in this game.
She is having a miserable time with the Lollipop update, but wants this game data SO BAD that she is willing to suffer through the lag to keep it... but its driving me nuts...
I have a plan to move forward, but want to see if I can get some confirmation that my plan *should* work. I unlocked the bootloader on it in the past. it has since lost root, but I should be able to get it rooted again without hassle and without wiping data (correct?).
Plan A - Factory Reset Lollipop:
I should then be able to use either Titanium Backup or maybe Helium to back up that app's data. In fact, I may skip rooting and just use Helium with the desktop companion app. Then pull those backups to the cloud or onto the pc. Then do a factory reset on the device. Push back over the app's data backup then restore it. Does that plan seem correct? I've done similar in the past so I don't think I'll run into issues.
Plan B - Revert back to KitKat:
This is my secondary plan, and the one I have the most questions about...
After doing the above, if the tablet is still laggy, I'd like to revert it back to a factory image for KitKat since she was fine with that version until they release some bug fixes, etc. for lollipop. If I backup and app and its data from Lollipop, when I restore it to KitKat will it work fine? My concern is the difference between ART and Dalvik, etc. etc. I've seen a few places that talk about using backups when moving 'forward', but can't find a good answer on moving 'backward'.
Thanks,
Zeustopher
After a large headache (why doesn't anyone mention you gotta turn off secure startup in the tutorials for root to work?), I've finally gotten my S7 Edge (SM-G935P) rooted. I'm trying to start up FATE/Grand Order and FE: Heroes so I can link them to their accounts and save my data, but my root is being detected. I wanted to flash stock but if I do that, it'll erase my game data. What's the best way to "hide" root so that I can open these games and link them before flashing back to stock?
Alternatively, does flashing stock rom actually erase your apps/app data? Also, if I freeze an app (via that Titanium app), will it still be disabled after I flash stock? I've gotten mixed signals on both questions so I thought I'd ask the experts
Thanks for your help <3