I tried backing up my info using titianium but i cant ever get the data back after installing a new rom. Its been the biggest pain for me updating. What am i doing wrong?
htcthundr said:
I tried backing up my info using titianium but i cant ever get the data back after installing a new rom. Its been the biggest pain for me updating. What am i doing wrong?
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Could be any number of things honestly. My suggestion is to sync all of your contacts and info to google servers, then when you update/change roms you can sign in and all of your apps will redownload and your contacts will show up. This prevents the compatibility issues with restoring data from titanium backup. Honestly the only use I have for titanium is to freeze/remove bloatware and the like.
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htcthundr said:
I tried backing up my info using titianium but i cant ever get the data back after installing a new rom. Its been the biggest pain for me updating. What am i doing wrong?
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Use SMS Backup+ for messages and call log. You have to change the options for call log to be included. It won't backup MMS so just save those images. Convert your contacts to Google contacts instead of Phone Contacts.
I just updated to gingerbread. Im liking it.
Im trying to add my events from my prior calender to my new one. I tried restoring the data and app and then the data and nothing appears. This also goes for my contact list. What a pain. Let me know what im doing wrong.
The wallpaper is such a headache to get right. Is there anyway i dont have to use that green box so the image isnt distorted?
Thank you
htcthundr said:
I just updated to gingerbread. Im liking it.
Im trying to add my events from my prior calender to my new one. I tried restoring the data and app and then the data and nothing appears. This also goes for my contact list. What a pain. Let me know what im doing wrong.
The wallpaper is such a headache to get right. Is there anyway i dont have to use that green box so the image isnt distorted?
Thank you
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Your contacts aren't saved to your google account? Isn't calendar saved to google too?
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Agree with Josh.
Your contacts and calendar should be synced through Google. That should be the easiest thing when switching ROM's.
And I don't personally like Titanium, On a fresh ROM install I rather let it re-download the apps for a fresh install. Time consuming, but worth it.
nothing comes back the gmail account is checked under calendars.
I'm new to this, but I'm on my third rom. I had contacts uploaded via Backup Assistant and apps and data through Titanium Pro. I know this is a stupid question, but did you actually go into Titanium. backup/restore, and click run?
monteirof said:
I'm new to this, but I'm on my third rom. I had contacts uploaded via Backup Assistant and apps and data through Titanium Pro. I know this is a stupid question, but did you actually go into Titanium. backup/restore, and click run?
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yea it says it was completed. then nothing is changed after.
Greetz Gentleman...
droid rookie here.. learning a lot from this forum..
rocking XTRSense on my dinasaur of an android phohne, HTC Eris...
even with XTR its mad, mad sloooOOW..
Whats the best way to back up text messages?
I googled and saw there are several apps available for this..
1. what is the BEST and MOST secure way of backing up my text msgs?
i.e. sms backup requires you input your gmail L/P into the app... how do i know its not some russian commie that now has access to all my email/gmail accounts?
what do you guys use?
2. what does the creator of XTRSense RoM use to back up his txts?
let me know what you have for me gents!!
appreciate it!!
oNe
p.s. can ANYONE tell me why the FLIP android does not have multi-msg delete? man that was a sweet thang on the original moto razr's!!
I can't speak for zach but I use my backup root to backup and restore sms and mms messages as well as call logs.
Sent using my 666th Inc from remote regions of hell
CondemnedSoul said:
I can't speak for zach but I use my backup root to backup and restore sms and mms messages as well as call logs.
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crap, I guess I should have asked this as well..
lets say I lose my Eris, and have no way of getting another one..
am I up sh*tz creek then? (using ur method)
In other words is there a backup method to NOT only back up my sms/mms but also make it where they are accessible outside of the Droid Eris?
appreciate it main!
1. also am I the only one concerned with the gmail back up methods that require you to enter your google account credentials into an app in order to "back up". Sure they may mean no harm, but still....you neva know..
thoughts?
2. which of the gmail backup method apps have you used, and what was ur experience?
oNe
p.s. how's ur eris running? Mines a dinasaur using XTRSense... and here's the thing.. I have not contacts stored.. NOT a single app downloaded..shoot I don't even have a gmail account so I couldn't download apps even if I wanted to..
but in other words I am running my Eris BAREBONE STOCK..
less then 35 pictures,
0 contacts saved
0 apps installed
0 email accounts loaded
sh*T is mad slow.. part of the reason I don't do anything on it(i.e. web browsing, apps, contacts) is that its so slow I HATE IT..
don't get me wrong.. I've had it for about a year now... and the ORIGINAL vzw stock was STUPID DONKEY SLOW.. made me wanna shoot myself.. after a month or 2 of that.. I rooted and after a few diff rom's stuck with XTR as a stable and FAST rom..
but yeah, anways was jus curious as I thought I was like the only person in the world still using the ERIS....
SMSBackup+ uses X0Auth to connect to your Google account, so it never stores your password. You authorize the app to access your Gmail account from a web page one-time and then the app uses that permission from that point forward. If your phone is stolen, you can change your Google account password and that will lock the account from the phone.
You can also go to your Google account dashboard (which I believe is just https://www.google.com/dashboard ), hit the link that says "websites authorized to access the account", and de-authorize SMSBackup+ from there.
Any apps that backup SMS to the SD card are obviously not a great idea if the phone is lost or stolen.
There is always an app like MyBackupPro, which I believe that can be set to backup to an online account, encrypted.
SMSBackup+ : https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS56ZWdvZ2dsZXMuc21zc3luYyJd
Simple question for all you flashers out there. Setting up and linking my conacts between haxsync, Facebook and google takes hours these days, Is there a way to back up all these setting so I don't have to keep linking everytim I flash?
Are you a GSM user???I think you could copy all of your adress book to your sim card and just import them later.
wardo5757 said:
Simple question for all you flashers out there. Setting up and linking my conacts between haxsync, Facebook and google takes hours these days, Is there a way to back up all these setting so I don't have to keep linking everytim I flash?
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Get contapps in the market. Its the best. Not so easy to find.
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exporting to the sim doesnt work. 1. not enough room on the sim. 2. you really dont want to import your contacts when using google to back them up, you wind up with duplicates of everything. All I want is to back up the links between facebook, haxsync and google. I know it seems petty, but that **** takes HOURS to fix right again. Just for that reason alone makes me not want to flash ROMS, and i like flashing...
I downloaded Titanium last night and made a backup of contact/calls. I read somewhere that this backup will do what i want. I will let you guys know sometime today.
I will be waiting your feedback, cause anytime soon my contacts list will get too big and cause the same problem to me.
Just wanted to let you guys know that Titanium works perfectly to restore all of your links from Facebook, Haxsync and Google!!! I have been using Mybackup pro for years now and I can't believe what I've been missing in a back up utility.
Edit: i just want to add, if you don't want to back up all of you data and apk's, just back up contacts/calls, data and apk. this will bring you right back where you want to be.
Hello All,
I'm pretty experienced with Android and flashing new software and all that, but I am at my wits end this time. Last week I installed a ROM on my Sprint HTC One M7 that had hangouts as the default SMS app. I hate hangouts, so I installed a third party app. I only ended up having that ROM installed for a day or two before flashing a new one, and suddenly I couldn't receive SMS. I tried tons of things before finally ending up running the RUU to flash back to stock. Since hangouts is in the stock ROM, as soon as it booted, all of my texts popped up right there in hangouts, where they had been being diverted the whole time, despite SMS being turned off in Hangouts.
This time, I updated Hangouts, toggled SMS on and then off again, but all of my incoming texts were still going to Hangouts and not appearing in my stock SMS app at all. Finally, I flashed an updated stock rooted ROM, and no matter what I try, I cannot get Hangouts to stop handling my incoming texts. This is absolutely infuriating, because as aforementioned, I'd rather lobotomize myself with a chopstick than use Hangouts. Has anyone else encountered this? Please help me!
Thanks!
The_mamba said:
Hello All,
I'm pretty experienced with Android and flashing new software and all that, but I am at my wits end this time. Last week I installed a ROM on my Sprint HTC One M7 that had hangouts as the default SMS app. I hate hangouts, so I installed a third party app. I only ended up having that ROM installed for a day or two before flashing a new one, and suddenly I couldn't receive SMS. I tried tons of things before finally ending up running the RUU to flash back to stock. Since hangouts is in the stock ROM, as soon as it booted, all of my texts popped up right there in hangouts, where they had been being diverted the whole time, despite SMS being turned off in Hangouts.
This time, I updated Hangouts, toggled SMS on and then off again, but all of my incoming texts were still going to Hangouts and not appearing in my stock SMS app at all. Finally, I flashed an updated stock rooted ROM, and no matter what I try, I cannot get Hangouts to stop handling my incoming texts. This is absolutely infuriating, because as aforementioned, I'd rather lobotomize myself with a chopstick than use Hangouts. Has anyone else encountered this? Please help me!
Thanks!
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Go into the application manager, find Hangouts, and clear defaults. If you don't use it for anything else, you can always disable/delete it.
Planterz said:
Go into the application manager, find Hangouts, and clear defaults. If you don't use it for anything else, you can always disable/delete it.
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I appreciate the suggestion, but unfortunately this was one of the first things that I tried and it did not work. Hangouts currently has no defaults set and is disabled on my phone. There was a 48 hour period where Hangouts wasn't even installed on my phone but it was still handling incoming texts.
The_mamba said:
nd is disabled on my phone. There was a 48 hour period where Hangouts wasn't even installed on my phone but it was still handling incoming texts.
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That just doesn't sound possible.
Planterz said:
That just doesn't sound possible.
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I agree! I wouldn't be here if I wasn't stumped. I had something similar happen with Google voice back on ICS when I had an SGS2, but eventually I was able to disable it. This time I am at a loss for real.
The_mamba said:
I agree! I wouldn't be here if I wasn't stumped. I had something similar happen with Google voice back on ICS when I had an SGS2, but eventually I was able to disable it. This time I am at a loss for real.
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Duplicate installation, perhaps? I had this weird thing going on the other day where Titanium did an automatic restore after flashing a batch install of backups, and I had 2 iterations of Weather Bug (different versions). There have also been times where certain sideloaded apps had 2 iterations installed.
Try using a root file explorer and searching for for Hangouts. Maybe there's an .apk somewhere that still loads up even though it's not "installed" anymore.
Planterz said:
Duplicate installation, perhaps? I had this weird thing going on the other day where Titanium did an automatic restore after flashing a batch install of backups, and I had 2 iterations of Weather Bug (different versions). There have also been times where certain sideloaded apps had 2 iterations installed.
Try using a root file explorer and searching for for Hangouts. Maybe there's an .apk somewhere that still loads up even though it's not "installed" anymore.
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Gonna check right now just to rule it out but I don't have high hopes since I did a full wipe before installing the Lollipop ROM that didn't contain Hangouts at all. I appreciate the continued suggestions though.
The_mamba said:
I did a full wipe before installing the Lollipop ROM that didn't contain Hangouts at all.
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No Gapps packages, no batch restores? Maybe Google is doing it automatically when you first activate the phone. You're given the option to backup/restore your account, and if you do, the phone will start downloading apps that you had installed before.
Planterz said:
No Gapps packages, no batch restores? Maybe Google is doing it automatically when you first activate the phone. You're given the option to backup/restore your account, and if you do, the phone will start downloading apps that you had installed before.
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Hmmmmm, that's one thing I did not think about, is using the Google restore feature when fresh installing. I did flash GAapps with the Lollipop Build but immediately disabled Hangouts. I wonder if maybe the setting isn't being applied "behind the scenes" when I flash a new ROM and allow Google to automatically restore settings. I'll have to play with this a bit. Thanks again.
The_mamba said:
Hmmmmm, that's one thing I did not think about, is using the Google restore feature when fresh installing. I did flash GAapps with the Lollipop Build but immediately disabled Hangouts. I wonder if maybe the setting isn't being applied "behind the scenes" when I flash a new ROM and allow Google to automatically restore settings. I'll have to play with this a bit. Thanks again.
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That could be it. Installed, then disabled, then installed again automatically. If the restore is coming from a different source from Play Store, it's possible it's not making the same checks for existing installations, giving you a duplicate.
Planterz said:
That could be it. Installed, then disabled, then installed again automatically. If the restore is coming from a different source from Play Store, it's possible it's not making the same checks for existing installations, giving you a duplicate.
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Man, I am really about to pull my hair out with this whole thing. I just installed a new ROM deleted Hangouts from system/app using root explorer after denying the auto-restore for Google and I still couldn't receive texts. Rebooted. Sent myself a few more test texts before re-installing hangouts and lo and behold, Hangouts had been receiving the texts even while not installed on any android device that I own. If Hangouts was a building, I would have looted it and burned it to the ground about an hour ago.
The_mamba said:
Man, I am really about to pull my hair out with this whole thing. I just installed a new ROM deleted Hangouts from system/app using root explorer after denying the auto-restore for Google and I still couldn't receive texts. Rebooted. Sent myself a few more test texts before re-installing hangouts and lo and behold, Hangouts had been receiving the texts even while not installed on any android device that I own. If Hangouts was a building, I would have looted it and burned it to the ground about an hour ago.
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At this point, I've got nothin' left. Sorry.
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At this point, I've got nothin' left. Sorry.
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Yeah, I think I have managed to find some super strange bug or something, I don't know. Thanks anyway for your multiple attempts.
What phone/app are you sending the texts from?
The_mamba said:
Yeah, I think I have managed to find some super strange bug or something, I don't know. Thanks anyway for your multiple attempts.
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Did you figure it out yet?
Did you check under the main settings for default sms app? Also your not using Google restore option are you?
The_mamba said:
Yeah, I think I have managed to find some super strange bug or something, I don't know. Thanks anyway for your multiple attempts.
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I was wondering if you had any luck finding what causes all the text to go to hangouts. I can receive MMS through messenger but not SMS. I thought I was the only person with this annoying problem. I was about to order another device but there has to be a solution to this problem.
Drayspencer said:
I was wondering if you had any luck finding what causes all the text to go to hangouts. I can receive MMS through messenger but not SMS. I thought I was the only person with this annoying problem. I was about to order another device but there has to be a solution to this problem.
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Dray,
I did eventually solve it, though the problem persisted even after RUU. It turns out that the issue was with Google Voice. I don't use Google Voice, but I flashed a ROM that had SMS turned on in Google Voice by default. When I flashed a new ROM, sms was still being handled by Google Voice despite neither Voice nor Hangouts being installed on my phone. You should go into settings in Google Voice and make sure sms is turned off. If the app is not installed on your phone, download it and make sure it is turned off anyway, because as aforementioned it was affecting my sms even though Google Voice wasn't even installed. This should solve it.
The_mamba said:
Dray,
I did eventually solve it, though the problem persisted even after RUU. It turns out that the issue was with Google Voice. I don't use Google Voice, but I flashed a ROM that had SMS turned on in Google Voice by default. When I flashed a new ROM, sms was still being handled by Google Voice despite neither Voice nor Hangouts being installed on my phone. You should go into settings in Google Voice and make sure sms is turned off. If the app is not installed on your phone, download it and make sure it is turned off anyway, because as aforementioned it was affecting my sms even though Google Voice wasn't even installed. This should solve it.
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@The_mamba ....Thanks so much. I was beginning to think the worse had happened. Thanks for getting back to me and helping me solve this thing. :highfive: