I currently have 2 backups in TWRP, the first from a couple weeks ago of a CM14.1 installation, and the 2nd I just made today prior to updating my current AICP nightly build.
A while ago I restored the CM backup and remembered I hadn't backed up my texts from that period, so I download SMS Backup & Restore and go into Messaging just to check that the correct messages were there. Sure enough they were, and at a glance I could tell the contents of the first few conversations were definitely from a couple weeks ago when I had them, but I could only see for a split second because immediately upon opening the messaging app, all conversations flew up the screen and disappeared over the span of about a second as if they were being deleted spontaneously before displaying the "Once you start a new conversation, you'll see it listed here" empty inbox background.
I didn't know why but I didn't care at the time so I left it for another day. Well that day is today, as right after I made my backup before updating the AICP nightly I saw the old one and thought hey I'll try grabbing those old texts again. Same thing happened so I restored back to today's backup and rebooted, went into messaging, and the same exact thing happened, albeit I was able to see that the conversations were indeed from recently, up to earlier today, before they all disappeared.
WTF? I installed a couple other 3rd party messaging apps just to see if the SMS content was still in the database and the stock app was just messing up, but they showed empty inboxes as well. Weird thing is if I restore from the nandroid backup again, I'll reboot and sure as sh*t, there the messages are once again, for a sweet split second before whoosh, they're gone! Does anyone know why it does that? Is this a nougat thing or has anyone experienced this on earlier android versions as well? I don't care about the backup, I just want to archive my old messages, but they nuke themselves as soon as I boot into a restore.
Oh if it helps, it seems upon restoring, the adopted SD card storage is wiped as well, so apps that were previously on the SD card show a dead white link on my home screen. The portable storage section of the card is just fine though (I did the fastboot trick where you split the adopted storage 50/50 between internal and portable storage)
I've noticed the same thing. It is not just you. SMS database doesn't survive TWRP restores on N roms.
I've got another phone that would give endless "Phone has stopped" FC messages upon a TWRP restore when it was first brought up to 7.1. It needed a fix in the roms to get TWRP backups to work right with it. Just a wild guess, but could be something similar at work here.
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I am running Cyanogenmod 5.0.8 on a T-Mobile Mytouch3G (I tried upgrading twice to CM 6.0.0 but due to issues (lots of Force Quits due to running out of memory - I did not try swapping), went back to Android 2.1).
After running into the issue where creating a new folder would generate a Force Quit (ACore) message, I followed the advice here of running su -> fix_permissions which did solve that issue. However, it created the issue where the Phone Lock (i.e. slide to unlock) no longer appears. It also reset several passwords but that is manageable and also reset my Android Market list so it thinks my downloads were not installed, which was also manageable.
I have tried other lock programs (Lock 2.0, myLock) from Android Market but they don't always work.
I'd greatly appreciate suggestions on how to fix this problem.
Thank you
You can try reflashing CM without a wipe.
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I tried that but ended up having lots of issues with my phone so I restored my Nandroid backup. I may try flashing it again sometime in the near future.
I encountered further problems with my phone last week, especially with no missed call messages or flashing LEDs being displayed when I missed several calls one evening.
After using multiple backup utilities (just in case) to backup all of my call logs, SMS, MMS, Applications and Data, I dropped into Nandroid last night and did a full user data wipe along with the Cache and Battery Status. (It was a good thing I had used multiple utilities as the first program I tried couldn't find my backup after the install).
I then updated to CyanogenMod 6.0.0 and Gapps-tiny 09302010 and downloaded fresh copies of my applications (moving them to the SD Card where possible) and restored my backups. After completing that, I was pleased to note that the phone lock was restored along with the missed call LED and title bar notifications.
So, n00b to the forums here, at least as far as posting, but I've been lurking around and I'm pretty familiar with rooting and its processes (been doing it for about a year now).
Anyways, on to the issue:
I have a Droid X. I originally rooted it when I get it around Sept. of 2010. Hadn't touched it, all was swell. Wanted to get updated to .340, and I was on the old leaked Froyo. So I decided to start clean, did a Titanium Backup of all files (just in case) then did a data/cache wipe and did an SBF boot using RSD Lite to .340. After the boot, I had to re-activate and resync my phone and immediately thereafter I went ahead and re-rooted and put on MIUI. (The new version, found at the forum here. ) All seems well and good, got it booted up, loving the new interface. But when I go in to contacts, I only have 14, compared to my previous 200 or so.
Now yes, I do use Google backup for contact sync. So I went in to my google account on my laptop, and the blasted thing is only showing 14 contacts too! So apparently, at some point after the SBF and loading MIUI it got corrupted somehow. Maybe because I went straight in to downloading z4root and re-rooting and re-bootstrapping in to MIUI, I'm not sure. Regardless, I'm missing all my contacts. I did check My Verizon and they are all there, but the format My Verizon uses is not compatible with the MIUI interface.
So, here's my question. I really don't want to have to go through and add all 180+ missing contacts manually from My Verizon, OR have to go back to a stock ROM to sync from My Verizon. I do have a Titanium Backup copy of my contacts though. That being said, MIUI uses a different contact storage system than the OTA. Is there a way to translate those files to the MIUI interface? Or for that manner even get it on to MIUI? The rest of my app recovery through Titanium Backup has gone swimmingly, but when I try Recover the data portion of the Contact Storage, it just puts it on an endless loop and never recovers.
Any ideas?
So I posted a threat earlier about TWRP not restoring my backups. I thought I'd start a new one since this seems to be a unique issue. I try to resotre any backup in TWRP and it says failed and then I reboot to system anyways and It literally like half restores my rom (PA 4). Ill have all my apps downloaded and all my hangout convos still there, yet none of my system settings are the same and my homescreens are wiped. All my apps are present...yet I have no googled account registered yet. WTF?
Hi guys,
I have a problem as I post a thread. I have recently owned a note 4. Before changing phone, I decided to configure all the note 4 settings and apps, root, install twrp and SD fix. All worked fine. So i did a nandroid backup with the app "online nandroid backup". After that, I transfered my sim from my xiaomi Redmi 1 to the note 4, and I continued doing other things :
- 15th july: I put the sim to the note 4.
- 16th july: I messed up my phone because i accidentaly deleted the google framework odex file. So i wanted to restore the nandroid backup done by the app "online nandroid backup" when I finished configuring my note 4 but it failed. So I re flashed stock rom, re rooted and restored backup from titanium backup.
- 17th july: I installed an apk of nova launcher and configured it. Trust me, it is not the prime version I pay the developer me! I installed the apk from internet instead of the app itself from the play store because I never download from play store.
- 18th july: I found that because I also restored the system data with titanium backup, the private mode didn't work, so I factory reset my phone with twrp and I restored only user app and data backup. I did a nandroid backup after that.
- 19th july: I messed up (again) with tasker and so I hadn't notification sound. I decided to re flash the stock rom but didn't work. After that, I left my home without my phone for 2h and when I came back, I sSAW THE FIRST RANDOM REBOOT.
- 20th july: To solve the sound problem, I decided to restore the nandroid backup. It works: the sound came back! But I saw again a random reboot.
The random reboots appear only two or three times per week: indeed, I remembered the other random reboots appeared on the 25th of July and on the 27th July.
The random reboots are special I think because they appear at any time: it appeared when I use the phone or when I don't use it. Moreover we can see the Samsung logo at the minimum brightness and it is infinite: I need to remove the battery to make it restart.
To solve the problem, I first thought that it was a problem from restoring any backup from titanium backup. So I factory reseted the phone using twrp to keep root and internal storage. Then I reinstalled the apps with the official Google backup and restore tool. But as I can see, the random reboots are still here because on the 27th July, as I said, a random reboot appeared.
- 28th July (so today): I removed nova launcher, then shutdown my phone and pull out the battery. When I reinsert it, the phone takes a long time to switch on. Finally, it said system is not responding and reboot and the message re appeared, and reboot... I must remove the battery and reinsert it to restart the phone correctly: the message doesn't appeared. I tried removing the battery one more time to see if the message apprear when I pull out the battery but it didn't appear. However, there are no reboot since, but I think it is because it appeared tomorrow (27th july), and I have to wait to see if the reboots are still here, but I think yes because of this strange message. Or it may be a pure coincidence?
Please help me with all this strange events! I said all I know!
Finally I solved it by deleting nova launcher. And the pop up is only a simple coincidence!
I wiped my phone and installed a new rom for a couple hours, received one text during that time. Then I wiped again, installed a fresh AICP rom, and let Google Setup restore my most recent backup from the cloud. It only restored the one message, and I lost a couple years worth of messages.
Is there a way to restore my messages from the cloud backup, to a certain point-in-time?
Thanks!
Mike
resarfekim said:
I wiped my phone and installed a new rom for a couple hours, received one text during that time. Then I wiped again, installed a fresh AICP rom, and let Google Setup restore my most recent backup from the cloud. It only restored the one message, and I lost a couple years worth of messages.
Is there a way to restore my messages from the cloud backup, to a certain point-in-time?
Thanks!
Mike
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If you go back to stock and restore that backup you should get all your messages. I had the same issue on ROMs that sms was not restoring. Even though Google does a pretty descent job backing up I use sms backup and restore also. It's free and can backup anywhere (google drive,device,email etc.) That way you never have to worry again.