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I've been a victim of karma.

Well... My G1 has been running Super D for about forever now and yesterday I decided to try ZX Donut Build 2.3 and it was fast! But some things I needed did not work(they work in v2.4).
As I use nandroid to get back to Super D somne of my apps were missing, I used a previous back up and the apps that were not included in the newer back up were there.
Later I forgot when you repartition your SD card it formats it
I'll edit this later in a rush.

Meh Nandroid basically is just good for data.
e.x. if you make a nandroid then go download some new apps or update some, then nan restore you won't have those apps. And some apps are protected funny, specifically paid apps, and some others I've came across.
Start using a bart restore it has been way better to me.
And yea yea yea we know you repartitioned your sd card and lost your back up, we know the story

Yes, I used to laugh at everyone who said "is there a way to recover my data on the sd card?!!?" Now I feel foolish and hate myself... Need I dare say my G1 is annoying me but, I know the next day I'm going to praise it.
Well There Is One Good Thing.... IT RUNS SUPER FAST on SUPER D!

Icebergxx said:
Meh Nandroid basically is just good for data.
e.x. if you make a nandroid then go download some new apps or update some, then nan restore you won't have those apps. And some apps are protected funny, specifically paid apps, and some others I've came across.
Start using a bart restore it has been way better to me.
And yea yea yea we know you repartitioned your sd card and lost your back up, we know the story
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So how does Bart work like, could you explain how to use the back ups and make them? I always seen it in Nandroid but didn't know what to do.

Blackman778g said:
So how does Bart work like, could you explain how to use the back ups and make them? I always seen it in Nandroid but didn't know what to do.
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Little late huh?
I'm not that specifi and informed on Android now days.
But as far as my end user self see's it
Nandroid backs up data
e.g. texts
app info
Bart basically does everything
It copies your partitons, your applications, etc etc.
Then there is a funny difference between a nandroid and bart between installed/updated applications that I don't remember.

When I regret deleting something, I restore it using "Recuva".
piriform.com/download
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Works on any of my HDD, not sure on SD cards tho. Give it a shot

Finally got to use Apps2SD!

Ahh....I feel like I can breathe freely! Damn that internal limitation was getting annoying! I wrote up what I did on my blog for those interested.
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bO7x6E
Yea! No longer limited to 5 or 6 apps! Although, the 4GB apps partition may be a bit extreme

damn new user limitations......sigh....been online longer than most people have been born....ah well, eventually it'll go away.....

JadedTech said:
Ahh....I feel like I can breathe freely! Damn that internal limitation was getting annoying! I wrote up what I did on my blog for those interested.
bit.ly/
bO7x6E
Yea! No longer limited to 5 or 6 apps! Although, the 4GB apps partition may be a bit extreme
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You never need over 600mb. Honestly, there's no way you need 500 apps+ (which still probably wouldn't fill up 600mb.)

Does anyone think that it would be ok to simply resize rather than wipe/reinstall/reformat to lower size?

I don't think you can. If you could, I wouldn't. Just backup all your data on sdcard, reformat it, then transfer it all back.
It's not too bad.

r3s-rt said:
I don't think you can. If you could, I wouldn't. Just backup all your data on sdcard, reformat it, then transfer it all back.
It's not too bad.
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Too late, already done
Worked out perfectly....took a hell of a long time but I'm happy and it works great! See sig for details now

JadedTech said:
Although, the 4GB apps partition may be a bit extreme
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ROFL I have 512mbs and over 100 apps on my phone.. You should attempt to download the marketplace 1 app at a time and see how many of the 150,000 apps you can fit onto your phone

Delete the helicopter movie!

Yeah its cool but it sucks up a lot of space on your internal memory. Its in the Samsung folder.
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Well its showing as only a 164 Mb mkv file on mine ...

mitchellvii said:
Yeah its cool but it sucks up a lot of space on your internal memory. Its in the Samsung folder.
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The stock screensaver app, which is just the ~6 minute promotional video for the Note 10.1, is 69.82 MB -- no harm is scrapping that too, right?

DRVB said:
Well its showing as only a 164 Mb mkv file on mine ...
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thats nothing to be concerned about. LOL if it was 500mb-1gb then yeah.
Plus I like that helicopter demo. great showcase of excellent 720p display.

uncreativeprofessional said:
The stock screensaver app, which is just the ~6 minute promotional video for the Note 10.1, is 69.82 MB -- no harm is scrapping that too, right?
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Can't imagine there is.
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mitchellvii said:
Can't imagine there is.
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if its included as part of system files or apps, deleting it could likely cause future ota update to fail.

demandarin said:
if its included as part of system files or apps, deleting it could likely cause future ota update to fail.
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Can you explain how such a thing could cause such a failure?

Its looking to update something that isn't there. When it doesn't find it, the update doesn't know what to do, so it fails.

EmerikL said:
Its looking to update something that isn't there. When it doesn't find it, the update doesn't know what to do, so it fails.
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argh really? I deleted a couple of apps that came with it like the nook thing and some other thing. is there an easy way to put back the stock apps?

demandarin said:
if its included as part of system files or apps, deleting it could likely cause future ota update to fail.
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He is correct about this. If you delete or remove anything system wise make sure you have a back up copy. Come time for an update and that file is not there, it will most likely fail. Make sure you take note of the file permissions also.
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uncreativeprofessional said:
The stock screensaver app, which is just the ~6 minute promotional video for the Note 10.1, is 69.82 MB -- no harm is scrapping that too, right?
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This was really simple to delete but what a mistake as I actually want to run it from time to time. If no one can give me a way to download it I will be forced to reset my device as new.
I don't really want to do this but I will if necessary. Live and learn.

SYSTEM Updates do not look after apps present BUT ONLY THE DEVICE SPECIFIC SERIAL NUMBER AND VERSION NUMBER !
System updates do NOT look after specific apps to be present or not.
After major complete updates all system apps disabled are reinstalled and have to be deactivated again .

troed said:
SYSTEM Updates do not look after apps present BUT ONLY THE DEVICE SPECIFIC SERIAL NUMBER AND VERSION NUMBER !
System updates do NOT look after specific apps to be present or not.
After major complete updates all system apps disabled are reinstalled and have to be deactivated again .
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I second that e-motion!

Mickeylittle said:
This was really simple to delete but what a mistake as I actually want to run it from time to time. If no one can give me a way to download it I will be forced to reset my device as new.
I don't really want to do this but I will if necessary. Live and learn.
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Hard (factory) reset won't bring any files back. An update however, or a reflash of original ROM will do the trick.
To all saying that removing system files will fail OTA: Stop posting stuff you know nothing about. It's better to shut up rather than guessing.

se1988 said:
Hard (factory) reset won't bring any files back. An update however, or a reflash of original ROM will do the trick.
To all saying that removing system files will fail OTA: Stop posting stuff you know nothing about. It's better to shut up rather than guessing.
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So if I hit reset and wipe everything it won't restore the tablet like it was when I got it out of the box? You're kidding right! Every other tablet / phone I've ever owned will do so.
I guess I'll just have to back up some data to test this out.

se1988 said:
Hard (factory) reset won't bring any files back. An update however, or a reflash of original ROM will do the trick.
To all saying that removing system files will fail OTA: Stop posting stuff you know nothing about. It's better to shut up rather than guessing.
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This has been a proven case with the transformer series. So I would say we know nothing about. We are just stating that it could. I don't believe anyone stated that it would for sure.

Mickeylittle said:
So if I hit reset and wipe everything it won't restore the tablet like it was when I got it out of the box? You're kidding right! Every other tablet / phone I've ever owned will do so.
I guess I'll just have to back up some data to test this out.
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It will restore the tablet, but it won't magically restore files you've deleted.
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crystalstylez said:
This has been a proven case with the transformer series. So I would say we know nothing about. We are just stating that it could. I don't believe anyone stated that it would for sure.
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ASUS and Samsung are two entirely different setups.

se1988 said:
It will restore the tablet, but it won't magically restore files you've deleted.
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ASUS and Samsung are two entirely different setups.
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of course I know that as I have the Galaxy Series Phone (II and III). Isn't it just insight and we just nearly stated that it may be an issue. Some insight is better than none. There is plenty of wrong information given around here. The whole point of the community is to try and help out..

se1988 said:
Hard (factory) reset won't bring any files back. An update however, or a reflash of original ROM will do the trick.
To all saying that removing system files will fail OTA: Stop posting stuff you know nothing about. It's better to shut up rather than guessing.
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Had the same thing happen with the rezound. If the bloatware was removed it failed to update. If it didn't have the stock recovery it failed to update. Again differences between OEMs as has been stated with Asus having done the something.
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Deleting the screensaver app should not cause the ota to fail. Otherwise Samsung wouldn't allow that action to be performed so easily without root. Put it this way... if you can go into manage apps and click uninstall chances are it's not system critical.
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Factory Reset Question.

I know I've already asked about Factory resetting, but I am just wondering what it does. My friend seems to think doing it could harm the phone, but I just thought it set it back to they way it was before I bought it. i.e. perfect condition.
It's just, I performed a factory reset on my phone because I was bothered about a virus. I then checked the box to back up my phone and it downloaded EVERYTHING. I did another reset to wipe it all, but forgot to uncheck the flipping back up box again and it did it again. I couldn't be bothered manually deleting all the apps, so I performed the reset again, and unchecked the box and got it right.
That won't do anything detrimental to my phone would it?
Sorry about my questions. Just not often I have a top end phone.

Nope. Just erases everything. So save whatever you don't want gone.
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Crisisx1 said:
Nope. Just erases everything. So save whatever you don't want gone.
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Okay cool.
And whilst am at it. If I downloaded an app that was a bit 'dodgy', and I uninstalled it, would a factory reset be necessary or once it's been deleted is my phone clean? I'm still unsure about viruses and Android, and concerned since I do banking on my phone.
I'm not sure whether to remove the 4Shared app from my phone.

jonnokenny said:
Okay cool.
And whilst am at it. If I downloaded an app that was a bit 'dodgy', and I uninstalled it, would a factory reset be necessary or once it's been deleted is my phone clean? I'm still unsure about viruses and Android, and concerned since I do banking on my phone.
I'm not sure whether to remove the 4Shared app from my phone.
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The app would be gone from your phone, a factory reset isn't needed.
But viruses act differently.
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What do you mean a virus?I have been using android phone for years and I never got virus,only thing I got is push notifications.

Panick_mg said:
What do you mean a virus?I have been using android phone for years and I never got virus,only thing I got is push notifications.
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A few apps, mostly Chinese, are called viruses but are actually mal-ware. They typically masquerade as a free version of a popular pay only app to lure smucks in. Google deletes them from the playstore whenever they find them but people can still side load them. Best defense is to not install any apps from Chinese developers or install an anti-virus app, I use Comodo.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodo.pimsecure&hl=en

Okay. The only reason I've kept on factory resetting is because I hastily setup my phone and kept resorting everything from my old phone. Stuff I didn't want or use anymore, so I ended up resetting my phone about 5 times lol. I took care on the last one and got it right, though. Was just worried about resetting a few times. Guess it's okay then.

kzoodroid said:
A few apps, mostly Chinese, are called viruses but are actually mal-ware. They typically masquerade as a free version of a popular pay only app to lure smucks in. Google deletes them from the playstore whenever they find them but people can still side load them. Best defense is to not install any apps from Chinese developers or install an anti-virus app, I use Comodo.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.comodo.pimsecure&hl=en
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Ok thanks good to know.

program/app to backup phone data before unlocking the bootloader?

Hey! This may sound like a noon question. Ive been rooting my phones for almost a decade and never cared about loosing all my data and apps during the process.
However, now I'm about more concerned about it, and was wondering if anyone could recommend me a free program or app to make a complete data and apps backup?
Thanks....

enzzo28 said:
Hey! This may sound like a noon question. Ive been rooting my phones for almost a decade and never cared about loosing all my data and apps during the process.
However, now I'm about more concerned about it, and was wondering if anyone could recommend me a free program or app to make a complete data and apps backup?
Thanks....
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Nothing that I can think of before unlocking the BL, which is why I do it as soon as I take the phone out of the box.

How about OnePlus switch app that is already present at the phone. You can do backups and restores from the app.
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klemono said:
How about OnePlus switch app that is already present at the phone. You can do backups and restores from the app.
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Thanks!
I thought it only worked to transfer data from phone to phone. But I was wrong, I just checked and realized I could make the backup and then transfer it to my pc...

Android Pie has a built-in backup option already. Under system>backup. Hope this helps.

TheKnux said:
Android Pie has a built-in backup option already. Under system>backup. Hope this helps.
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Thanks!
But unfortunately it doesn't backup all my apps

@enzzo28
OnePlus Switch does an amazing with back up data....

DrakenFX said:
@enzzo28
OnePlus Switch does an amazing with back up data....
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I'd never opened then app, until today...
Thanks for pointing it out!

enzzo28 said:
I'd never opened then app, until today...
Thanks for pointing it out!
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I never had an OnePlus till now , but OP Switch work as expected...

But getting the backup from internal storage to somewhere less volatile is difficult - large files, slow even over USB 3 connection. Oh for a microUSB card...