Im doing some backing up for a factory reset since im having some issues with the phone.
So I've pushed a lot of apps to the SD card, so theres info partly on my phone and partly on the sd card for these. Now, when I do the reset and use titanium to restore the apps/data, I imagine that it will remember that its both on the phone and sd card
But then, what I just do a normal apk install of an app I've pushed to sd? Apps fully install on the phone first, and then need user action to push to sd. Is it going to install the full app, or just the part that was on the phone before the reset?
I'm having trouble fully communicating what I'm thinking here, hopefully ya'll get the gist.
Slight tangent...after reading flipz's post about using titanium backup, what I'm getting out of it is that using it should be fine since I'm not changing the ROM I'm using, but the problems I'm having now (when hitting home or backing out of an app, the phone will spontaneously crash htc sense and the home screen will completely redraw as if i had rebooted) could be caused by an app i currently have, and restoring the settings might cause the problem all over again. Hope I'm reading that right.
TIA for any help!
currently ROM: fresh evo 3.1.0.1
current kernel: netarchy toastmod froyoized 3.7.6b
boo im hesitant to attempt without knowing what might happen
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Not sure where this question goes, I figure here but...
Last week I planned on trying out a few ROMS, I've been using Titanium flawlessly but with 48+ apps I decided to buy a license to bypass all the prompts.
And this is where the problems started. I still have not tried without the license file installed, I know I should.
I create a backup, verify the backup, flash a ROM and 1) flash install Titanium or 2) install from the market, start restore and the phone crashes back to the bootanimation, verify the backup now and every backup will have errors.
I posted this on the official Titanium forum and got not response.
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I've tried that both before backup and before restore.
when titanium restores it kills the process it is restoring. if you are restoring the whole system instead of just your user apps, what you are saying will occur.
I am not restoring any system files or even system settings.
Only user apps and data.
I removed the lic file. Next flash I'll try a backup/restore and see what happens.
Tha'ts the only difference.
email the dev. he is great at helping and is damn smart.
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HTC6800 said:
email the dev. he is great at helping and is damn smart.
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That was one of the issues. The license was sent from a noreply address and support is direct to a forum.
However I just checked my paypal and sent an email to the address I paypal'd the donation.
I deleted the lic file from the SDcard and even rebooted and Titanium still shows as registered.
I'll hope that's a good email address and wait for an email response.
Sounds like you are having a similar problem that I was having. Are you letting TB auto restore settings from your sd cards? I turned that off... Deleted the files from the sd card... And haven't seen that problem again. I used mostly default settings so id prefer to just have to remember to adjust the few settings I liked whether I did a reinstall. (also.. Now that I'm thinking about it.. I also adopted trying to flash tb and inse instead just install it from the market... ) give both a go.
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Do you have debugging mode on?....
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Sounds like you are having a similar problem that I was having. Are you letting TB auto restore settings from your sd cards?
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Not sure what you mean by that. It the same settings I've been using.
Again the only difference being the license file.
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Do you have debugging mode on?....
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Debugging has always been on since before using Titanium.
Now to make it really interesting.
I've been playing with ROMS the last few days, I'm cooking a ROM from the latest RUU so I'm done now.
I've backed up in Sense, with the lic. I restored in a clean install of Cyanogen.
I also made a backup in Cyanogen and restored to a clean install of Sense.
I had to install each program manually with prompts but no errors and everything worked. No missing SDCard of data not working. I left those problems out.
I have a clean backup made in a Sense ROM and will try to restore to my new Sense ROM.
I previously deleted the backups through Titanium and also deleted the folder on the SDCard.
I once formatted and restored my files to the card while all this was happening.
As of now the restore seems to be going well.
-edit: Restore is finished and everything is working. Not sure what went on unless Titanium just doesn’t like the Snap Kernel.
I had this same TB problem after getting the license file. In trying to figure out the issue, I discovered that I had somehow managed to lose full root (i.e. NAND re-locked, s-on), my radio reverted to like 1.39.x (and reflashing the latest would not stick), and my HBOOT version had changed to .79 (or whatever the original shipped version was -- as opposed to the .76 version from Toast's root part 2).
I seriously doubt that the TB license caused all of those problems (though I can't for the life of me figure out how on earth that happened), but for others experiencing similar problems, double check that you have full root.
Is it hanging on the restore? Go to prefererences and change the restore type to "indirect."
There is an update on market for tb that says it addresses some license problems.
I did not lose root, All root apps still worked and I was able to flash all ROMS, themes, etc.
Although I do belive the ROMS I was restoring to were 3.29 OTA based. My current is 3.29 RUU based.
Nothing was hanging for me, just a crash, not an app FC, and all backups then being corrupt.
It's worked great when I flashed my current ROM. I even went back and forth a couple times playing with Cyanogen.
I don't know what happened.
did you get a response back from email
Same thing happened to me. went from a rooted Stock with s-off to Myn TwoPointTwo and formatted new SD card with A2SD (SD-ext) partition and backups verify as all corrupted. Tried Traditional restore and some could not be parsed. Also the Data for some completely corrupt.
What is odd is that some older backups were fine but newer ones where not. Even tried re-copying from a backups from PC and Dropbox.
Finishing re-install then going to wipe backups and try again. Its a real pain to manual reinstall and setup.
I'm currently upgrading to 7.1 from 7.0.3 or something similar, and was wondering if I can do so without losing all my data and having to start from scratch again?
It's a pain to always re-install apps (even using TB) and readjust my apps and widgets in my home screens.
Try just wiping cache and dalvik.
First of all, make a backup of your current set up. Always back up first.
Then just load the new 7.1 on your sd card and install the zip from within Clockwork Mod. This is what I did and have had no problems yet. If you do run into any problems just ask here and we should be able to help you work it out.
I've been running ACS 1.2 Frozen for a while, with the Genocide kernel and LauncherPro. I've been planning to update to an EI22 ROM for a while, but before I started messing around I wanted to backup what I have now.
So I powered down, booted up into CWM (purple), and did a backup. Then when I restarted, all I got were FCs. The really aggravating thing is that LauncherPro FCs so I can't really get to anything else.
All I did was run a backup! Anyone else seen this? Got any ideas on how to get stability back?
Luckily the backup ran successfully, but if this is what I get just from RUNNING a backup, I don't have a lot of confidence that I'd be stable after RESTORING a backup.
Something happened, may have been related to journaling and the shut down. Did you have journaling enabled? You can do a factory data reset to clear the errors and try an advanced data restore from the nand but if the errors happened before the backup started then it is corrupted too. Do you have any other backups? Titanium? If you clear the errors enough to get into settings, clear data in your launcher and Google Service Framework, then any other app that is FCing.
I did have journaling enabled, yes. I wasn't getting any errors before the backup, but if the shutdown caused them, well I'm a bit stuck. No recent Titanium backups unfortunately.
Thanks for the things to try!
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I did have journaling enabled, yes. I wasn't getting any errors before the backup, but if the shutdown caused them, well I'm a bit stuck. No recent Titanium backups unfortunately.
Thanks for the things to try!
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At that point you got nothing to lose. If the restore has the FCs too then Factory Data reset will nuke the data errors, you will lose 3rd party apps, have to set up email again, and your contacts (stored on Google) will be restored as well as the list of apps downloaded from the market (eventually the list will be populated). But your phone will be usable again.
In case you havent tried it, wipe cache and dalvic from CWM. I would try that before wiping everything.
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So this is interesting -- it seems like something about my SD card has gotten busted in the backup.
I did a restore of the backup I made, it's identical to where I was at after the backup, but when I hit Home it asked me to choose LauncherPro or TWLauncher. Choosing TWLauncher at least gets me some functionality.
So I did that and noticed that NONE of the apps on my SD card show up anymore. A clue towards resolution without full wipe?
Yup, after more investigation I'm sure of it. Running the CWM backup broke all the apps stored on my SD card. I didn't make any changes other than running the backup, and after restarting all those apps no longer show up.
Backup your sd card on a computer, format it in the phone and restore. That should make it work again. Then you will have to reinstall the apps that were there. Sometimes launchers take more than 5 minutes to reload apps on the sd card. Did you wait long enough?
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Hi,
Im running an MTD version of CleanGb for months now. I'm not sure if its 1.05 or 1.1 (the zip file on the sd card simply says CleanGB-MTD-1.zip).
Here is the problem: recently my phone has been acting up, eating battery, slowing down, etc. When I tried to power cycle it I either get stuck in a SAMSUNG reboot loop, or it goes to the CWM screen. I pulled the SD card thinking it maybe corrupt but it still took two battery pulls to get it to boot. I put the sdCard back in and have not been able to boot now.
So I'm not sure if the card is bad or something in the system is corrupt. I have not been able to load the GMAIL via the app store for a month or two now.
Anyway I was thinking of upgrading my CleanGB to see if that wipes over the issue. If I manual copy the latest 1.1.2 zip to my SD card (stick it in a PC and copy to /downloads) can I boot to CWM and do an "install from SD card? Will this wipe out my existing apps/data? I know I need to do the wipe cache/dalvik thing. I'm just no looking forward to entering all my email accounts, facebook, re-install apps,.....
Thanks
Jim M.
Only way to not keep the issues your having is to start over.
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Edit : This was a little vague sorry.
You will want to download a new ROM if you like gingerbread i will suggest the Peoples ROM 2.2 you will want the MTD version as you are already on MTD. It should be the very first link in the thread Here: The Peoples ROM. Then use this process to install it.
WARNING: This will remove all data, including apps, text messages, contacts saved to the Phone and not Google. etc. So if you are fond of these titanium backup them but for the apps only restore the apps data that are absolutely necessary.
1. Reboot to recovery, either through the power menu option or powering off and holding the camera button, volume down, and Power button until the Sammy screen appears.
2. Once in recovery Wipe Data/Factory Reset.
3. Go into mounts and storage and Format /system
4. Go into advanced and Wipe Davlik Cache
5. Install Zip from SD card, then Choose Zip from SD card.
6. Find the "The-Peoples-ROM-2.2.zip" or whatever it is called.
7. Install it
8. When its finished Hit the back and reboot system now.
Once thats done go ahead and re-setup your phone.. you shouldnt run into any problems from here on out. Typically any problems you receive is from corrupt data.
Like I said, starting over is hopefully not the only option.
I actually got the phone to boot so I'm currently making a titatnium backup of everything to have just in case. I also stuck my sdcard into my PC and copied everything off it so I'm probably going to reformat the sdcard (in the phone) and then copy everything back.
Since GMAIL seems to be the only app with issues (not being able to download an update) updating to any new ROM should overwrite it.
The question still remains, if I update from cleanGB 1.05/1.1 to the latest will everything get wiped out or will only the system files get wiped?
thanks
Jim M.
jimmarako said:
Like I said, starting over is hopefully not the only option.
I actually got the phone to boot so I'm currently making a titatnium backup of everything to have just in case. I also stuck my sdcard into my PC and copied everything off it so I'm probably going to reformat the sdcard (in the phone) and then copy everything back.
Since GMAIL seems to be the only app with issues (not being able to download an update) updating to any new ROM should overwrite it.
The question still remains, if I update from cleanGB 1.05/1.1 to the latest will everything get wiped out or will only the system files get wiped?
thanks
Jim M.
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If you want to be free from any problems.. the only way to go is to wipe clean and start fresh... but if you MUST you can wipe cache and Davlik and flash it... i dont recommend it but if you like to run into odd problems go ahead.
It's the only way to be sure otherwise you are going to waste days of chasing your bugs.
And you pressed "yes this is a question"
Guess which subforum it belongs in.
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Sorry for posting in the wrong spot, I wasn't paying attention. I also see my last reply crossed paths with Uber's reply and edit update, so Uber,thanks for the info and suggestions. I've been working with computers for 30 years so I'm very familiar with the "format and re-install" option for fixing things. On the phone side I play around every 3 or 4 months so when something comes up I completely forget what I did last time, or the method has been updated 3 times.
So how do you power users handle this? I only have 47 apps installed according to app-store and if I lose my Angrybirds high score or my drawsomething count I'm not too heartbroken. But I have 3 email accounts, a dozen wi-fi networks entered, a Facebook account, A Google account, an Amazon account, ringtones, notification alerts, etc... To go back through and re-enter all this info is a real pain and takes time. I run Titanium backup but I think you can only safely restore app data, not system app data.
I've read some posts on these forums and I see people commenting "yeah i went to CM9 beta 3 last week, but came back to CleanGB for stability. I'm downloading peoples ROM right now to try for a bit but will switch to CM9 beta 4 as soon as its out". This means re-entering tons of passwords and setup info every week. Wither these guys have too much time or there is a better way.
Thanks again.
Jim M.
Use Titanium for your angry birds data. Google and Amazon are saved on their site. You can restore your wifi data to TPR from CleanGB. But you should set up your emails again because the FC09 version did not like older versions of data when I tried. Most everything else just restore apps not data. And us power users learn to delete apps we don't want and set up our emails pretty fast after the 20th wipe or so when making and testing a ROM...lol. I did CM9 clean the first time, contacts are on google anyway, and had it working pretty well in an hour then added apps as I needed them over a couple of days.
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It's a good opportunity to clean house on useless apps. I basically did the same thing Kenny did when I moved to CM9, and it's amazing how much crap you don't bother reinstalling.
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OK so today my wifi went out.... Just completely went out. I tried wiping the settings and reconnecting to the Wifi point and all it does is try and authenticate, then it drops. So with a few prior bugs like this in the past, I decided to do a combo Temp Files wipe with 4.3 Smelkus MOD recovery.
EVERYTHING GOT WIPED; Go launcher is non existent, Play Store is gone, apps just magically vanished. Going into App Settings, the Symlinks are there, but the app is missing from drawer. Even all the aroma options I turned on are gone. It's basic android with no gapps. This happened to me on first install and I had to wipe my memory card and reformat. I refuse to do this again. So I am going to try and nandroid back to before the wipe.
What caused this?
In my excitement, and retardedness, I forgot to nandroid after a successful install. So it likes like I have no other choice to set EVERYTHING back up again. I'm just thankful I'm smart enough to have recurring TB backups every other day. D
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OK so today my wifi went out.... Just completely went out. I tried wiping the settings and reconnecting to the Wifi point and all it does is try and authenticate, then it drops. So with a few prior bugs like this in the past, I decided to do a combo Temp Files wipe with 4.3 Smelkus MOD recovery.
EVERYTHING GOT WIPED; Go launcher is non existent, Play Store is gone, apps just magically vanished. Going into App Settings, the Symlinks are there, but the app is missing from drawer. Even all the aroma options I turned on are gone. It's basic android with no gapps. This happened to me on first install and I had to wipe my memory card and reformat. I refuse to do this again. So I am going to try and nandroid back to before the wipe.
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Im pretty sure I know what caused this. First...did you install a2sd?
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