Hello everybody,
I hope this is not a double post. I searched for similar thread without success.
Suddenly this morning some of my icons from the tray are missing. To be precise it is messaging icon. Before that I had similar problem but with more missing icons.
I have JPY version installed (updated over KIES), and Voodoo lagfix.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Hey,
I've got the same problem today. Phone, Contacts and Messages are missing from tray/quickbar. Currently running JPU. Any help before I flash?
Greets
Just a guess:
i missed icons on the homescreen, after i moved a few apps to SD and connected the phone with usb... as the SD cards are locked, when you connect the phone to a pc using mass storage mode, all icons of moved apps disappear...
Maybe this helps.
All the best,
ww
@webwude,
Thanks for your assistance,
That is not my case. I never move apps to SD. It´s strange that it happend after scheduled backup (I set it on Wed, 03 AM) using Titanium. When I woke up this morning I found missing night clock and alarm and messed and missing icons.
Coould Titanium do it?
I don't use Titanium and I didn't move any app. I still can access my contacts ans messages via the menu but the icons are missing in the quickbar.
tsuka. said:
I don't use Titanium and I didn't move any app. I still can access my contacts ans messages via the menu but the icons are missing in the quickbar.
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You rooted your phone? Voodoo maybe?
No, no root. Just flash with Odin.
€: JPY running now and everything seems fine again
€2: Oh well, and I finally discovered how to change the apps in the tray/quickbar-thing after so long ...
Answer is here (last post):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-955087.html
After updating my Nexus 4 to 4.4 KitKat, I have lost all of my SMS messages and contacts. Is there any way for me to get them back? I am doing a full phone image right now, and I hope I can get something out of that. It would really suck to lose all of my texts and contacts.
This is what I did to update:
Reflashed system and boot as I had mocado toolkit installed
Sideloaded the OTA
Sideloaded SuperSU without rebooting first, got stuck in a bootloop
Sideloaded OTA again
Got a inconsistent system UID problem
Used "fix permissions" on twrp recovery
Realized that I had lost all of my texts and contacts
None of my other data is gone, even my internet usage graphs are still there. It seems that only my texts and contacts are missing.
Thanks,
alfonzo1955
Your sms are probably gone, but if you use Google to sync your contacts you can just sync it back. Just check google.com/contacts.
eksasol said:
Your sms are probably gone, but if you use Google to sync your contacts you can just sync it back. Just check google.com/contacts.
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The contacts were synced, thankfully. Hopefully my data recovery efforts will work. I really don't want to lose all those texts, so many memories down the drain.
alfonzo1955 said:
The contacts were synced, thankfully. Hopefully my data recovery efforts will work. I really don't want to lose all those texts, so many memories down the drain.
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Does it have your first date ask out?
eksasol said:
Does it have your first date ask out?
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Maybe ;D
And I think I managed to recover the sqlite database using extundelete after I imaged the device.
Can you please share how you managed to recover your text messages. I've the same problem after upgrading over to 4.4.
Thanks
yulasinio said:
Can you please share how you managed to recover your text messages. I've the same problem after upgrading over to 4.4.
Thanks
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I'm experiencing the same issue.
Yesterday I was notified of the 4.4 OTA update. I updating my JB Nexus 4 (stock) over WiFi and upon rebooting I realized with horror that I was missing all my SMS messages among other software issues.
I'm currently doing some research for sideloading the official 4.4 image over to my phone, as I think my SMS data is still on my phone (storage size didn't really drop after the update). I'm currently stuck on detecting my device via usb running adb devices, but troubleshooting that today. If anyone has a resource/guide for using the SDK for sideloading 4.4 that'd be helpful (Windows 7 PC). I'm searching around for one currently.
If you have any information please let us know. I'd like to restore my phone back to normal with my SMS data in tact and I'm looking to do this without rooting my phone.
If this helps at all, here's a list of the software bugs I'm experience:
No lockscreen
Home button does not work
Top swipe down does not reveal any thing and the settings button does not function
Having issues receiving incoming calls and SMSs
Powering down the phone, the only optiont hat displays is "Power Off", everthing else is missing
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Thanks
Haven't gotten any further with this.
I just tried sideloading the KRT16S update via adb. This appears to have installed successfully, but there's been no changes to my phone or SMS. In fact, upon successful install and reboot the phone is the same as if nothing was changed (e.g. no tutorial on KitKat). I'm thinking I may need to sideload another factory install.
yulasinio said:
Can you please share how you managed to recover your text messages. I've the same problem after upgrading over to 4.4.
Thanks
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The SQL datatbase file for SMS is located here /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
while call logs are located in the file /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db
check if you can find any data there.
By the way, Root Browser application can view these files
confused on why you took this route to upgrade and whats wrong with simply downloading a stock rooted rom and calling it a day. Plus there are quite a few sms backup apps that could save all your precious text messages. If you used google to search this stuff then there would of been no need to start this thread.
good luck and I hope all works out well for you and anyone else with the issue. also there is already a thread on how to get back your sms when upgrading to 4.4
playya said:
also there is already a thread on how to get back your sms when upgrading to 4.4
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I have searched the forum, but I couldn't find any thread on how to restore lost sms when upgrading to 4.4. Can you provide the link for that thread?
HARioV said:
I have searched the forum, but I couldn't find any thread on how to restore lost sms when upgrading to 4.4. Can you provide the link for that thread?
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not sure if you found it already but check here
alfonzo1955 said:
After updating my Nexus 4 to 4.4 KitKat, I have lost all of my SMS messages and contacts. Is there any way for me to get them back? I am doing a full phone image right now, and I hope I can get something out of that. It would really suck to lose all of my texts and contacts.
This is what I did to update:
Reflashed system and boot as I had mocado toolkit installed
Sideloaded the OTA
Sideloaded SuperSU without rebooting first, got stuck in a bootloop
Sideloaded OTA again
Got a inconsistent system UID problem
Used "fix permissions" on twrp recovery
Realized that I had lost all of my texts and contacts
None of my other data is gone, even my internet usage graphs are still there. It seems that only my texts and contacts are missing.
Thanks,
alfonzo1955
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I think you need to recovery tool to get contacts and SMS back.
Myjad Android Data Recovery would suit your case.
That's what I searched from Google:
Myjad Android SMS Recovery
- Directly recover deleted SMS text messages from Android devices.
- Retrieve lost messages for various reasons: restoring factory settings, deleting, rooting, etc.
- Recover SMS stored in SD cards inside Android devices.
- Preview & selectively recover message contents.
- Support multiple Android phones and tablets include Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, Motorola and more.
- Risk-free, read and recover only,no leaking for the confidential messages.
Myjad Android Contact Recovery
An expert of restoring contacts from android smartphones
- Directly recover lost contacts from Android devices.
- Retrieve deleted contacts for various reasons: restoring factory settings, deleting, rooting, etc.
- Recover contacts stored in both Android devices and SD cards.
- Preview & optionally recover contacts.
- Support multiple Android phones and tablets include Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, Huawei, Motorola etc.
- Read and recover only, 100% green and reliable, no worries for leaking private info.
Android system? I only found a tutorial on how to recover iOS text messages. Have a try to Google further, you may get some useful tips. Good luck!
Hi all,
Been a long time since iv posted in XDA forums it was way back when it was for xda's as since iv had a iphone but now have android.
Anyway to my question.....
I rooted my N3 yesterday and deleted a load of stock apps but may have inadvertainly deleted something i should have because now i cannot sync any calendars or contacts, iv gone into titanium backup and i still have google calendar and google contacts sync so i cannot understand why they are not working.... i did deleted pretty much everything with samsung on it so could that be it?
Iv done the usual reboot phone, delete account, etc but it still says sync error ' sync is currently experiencing problems'
So my question is, does anybody know the files i need to put back to make sync work again without the need for me to go back to stock and do it all again?
thanks
hi guys, I made a backup of my buddies phone with philz recovery. Then I flashed it but the contacts did not sync and i forgot to back those up. So I went to restore the back up and upon booting up all the apps crash. Like I cant do anything, all i get is a black screen with "has suddenly stopped working"
I have no idea whats going on. I flashed phone back to stock and rooted it and am trying to use nandroid manager to go to the Com.contacts folder and extract/copy it but to no prevail. The contacts in this case are very important.
What's going on? What can I do to get the contacts out? Or why the heck wont the backup work? It's like it got corrupted even though it did say it backed up just fine with no errors. Thanks!
You can use Titanium Backup to extract data from nandroids.......you have to pay for the app.....but it is one of the most useful apps a rooted phone user can get.
Sent from my rooted kn0x0 stocKK SM-G900F S5
Just thought id add a note here, the stock contacts app has the ability to backup/restore contacts, just go to your contacts and go to settings<contacts then there should be an import/backup option.
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after a long tedious day I managed to succeed... I got the backup onto my pc, combined the couple .a-e files into one, and went into where the contacts2.db is, I then copied that to phone, and used a file explorer with root, copied and pasted it in the old place and walla... I converted contacts to google account as to "device" only and now they are finally actually being maintained by google sync.
I know that you can just import/export a contact list and I should of done that in the first place as it'd of saved me literally hours of work... But I thought that google automatically synced the contacts and that it wasnt that you had to change them over to google.
At least I guess the contact issue is solved. I still have no idea why the backup was having the apps crash. so It's good i made one to extract the file from but on the otherhand. It's useless in the sense i cannot boot it up.
I tried replacing the Contacts app and contact storage from albe96 thread, but when i restarted my phone contacts and phone disappeared and i keep getting contact storage has stopped, i had to delete data from my contacts, and put back both stock apps, to recover from this.
Any of you know working way to get dialer (phone) from UX? Please guys i am on stock mm
Ragazzza said:
I tried replacing the Contacts app and contact storage from albe96 thread, but when i restarted my phone contacts and phone disappeared and i keep getting contact storage has stopped, i had to delete data from my contacts, and put back both stock apps, to recover from this.
Any of you know working way to get dialer (phone) from UX? Please guys i am on stock mm
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This pack by @or1m with several UX apps works fine on MM roms: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70821086&postcount=4405.
And, it has been updated already a few times.
Ragazzza said:
I tried replacing the Contacts app and contact storage from albe96 thread, but when i restarted my phone contacts and phone disappeared and i keep getting contact storage has stopped, i had to delete data from my contacts, and put back both stock apps, to recover from this.
Any of you know working way to get dialer (phone) from UX? Please guys i am on stock mm
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It's really hard to change these original system apps. Trying to do that often means factory reset just after.
Why not just try 3rd app, there are many on play store.
Good luck
Franck