This is very weird and I do not understand what is going on.
I have the paid version of TIBU.
This is my 1st time when I use it on this phone.
After I did an initial backup of all the apps I realized that every time I restart they are installed back.
I have no idea who does it.
When I did the initial setup wizard I enabled keep my phone backed up with google but I always did with all my androids and never happened so uninstalled apps were reinstalled back.
It drives me nuts.
Any idea?
I'm running UKB 1.3.0
I've got the answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2080825
jb_alphamale said:
This is very weird and I do not understand what is going on.
I have the paid version of TIBU.
This is my 1st time when I use it on this phone.
After I did an initial backup of all the apps I realized that every time I restart they are installed back.
I have no idea who does it.
When I did the initial setup wizard I enabled keep my phone backed up with google but I always did with all my androids and never happened so uninstalled apps were reinstalled back.
It drives me nuts.
Any idea?
I'm running UKB 1.3.0
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I am a subscriber to Slacker radio, which gives me the ability to cache stations on my phone so I can play them when not on wifi and not incur data use. However, when I update a rom, or change a rom, something changes and slacker thinks I am registering a new phone. They only allow this once in 30 days and I lose my cache ability. Is there a ID number that gets changed with rom change that I can alter (keep the same) so a subscription service doesn't think its a new phone??
Thanks,
Glenn
I have titanium backup and the pro key, and when I flash a new rom I have a zip to flash titanium as well. First time running it notify you that the android id has changed and asks you if you want to restore your old one. I do this every time, and I've never had to re-authorize any of my apps.
Thanks,
Once I get slacker to reset my account I will use that method. I have seen that screen before, but I don't see it everytime I restore from backup using Ti. I wonder if id changes each time rom update or change??
Yes, actually. Each time you wipe and reflash, your android ID changes. I have no idea how to view it, what it's actually called, or how to back it up and change it manually, but titanium backup pro will backup this ID and restore it upon reinstall after a wipe (I have the pro license, not sure if the basic license does this). For more info, see this giude.
I subscribe to Spotify (totally worth it) and experienced the same issue. Upon wipe, flash, and reboot, I'd have to re-download all my music. Once I restored my Android ID and restore my missing apps with data upon reflash (which I do often, because I get bored), everything is still there, just like I left it.
For the record, Titanium backup pro is the most expensive app I've purchased and worth every penny. If you don't own it, try the free version and see if it takes care of your issue. I'm fairly certain the Android ID is your problem.
Furthermore, if you flash a lot, use the Titanium backup schedule function to backup and delete apps so you're not doing massive, hour long operations before you want to flash the new hotness you just downloaded.
I also have the pro license and might have to check out spotify. I have all my playlists on slacker though lol and that would be a lot of work. I will check out schedule on ti as I usually just do the hour backup prior to flashing or nandroid backups lol.
Thanks for all the info!!
As the title states, I was wondering if anyone out there happens to know why restoring an app+data from Titanium Backup after a Factory Reset causes Push Messages (GCM I believe) to stop working. It seems fairly obvious that when restoring an app+app data from a previous installation, they get confused and the push messages aren't being delivered to the right place.
So far the only solution that I've found to the problem is to wipe the app's data, and restart from scratch.
I've done a lot of Google searching, and I have seen that there are a handful of other people who have had this same problem, but I have yet to see anyone come up with a working solution, though there have been a few things I've tried. This is my normal procedure I do when I upgrade/flash a new rom:
Code:
-Backup with Titanium Backup
-Backup with GO Backup
-Nandroid with TWRP
-Factory Reset
-Flash ROM
-Wipe Cache/Dalvik
-Boot
-Sign into Google Account
-Install Titanium Backup
-Restore previous Android ID
-Reboot
-Use Titanium Backup to restore Apps+AppData, as well as some system settings
-Reboot
At this point, some of my GCM push notifications don't work. The only way I can get them to work again is to wipe the app's data and start from scratch. I have tried the following things, none of which worked, but they might provide helpful information.
Code:
-Wiped the app data, restored the app data by itself again.
-Uninstalled the app, installed from Google Play, restored app data.
-Used Application Manager to disable notifications, then re-enabled.
-Went into the app's settings to disable notifications, then re-enabled.
-Cleared data on Google Services Framework
-Removed Google Account, cleared data on Google Services Framework, rebooted.
[B] (This actually had an even worse side effect of re-breaking GCM push
notifications for all of the apps I had fixed by hand)[/B]
At this point I'm at a loss, I'm not sure what else to try. It kind of looks like the Google Account/GSF is related to GCM. I don't remember exactly, but I think I tried restoring the previous GSF App+Data on my most recent flash, and it still didn't work.
Anyways, I'm kind of rambling, if anyone is able to provide any insight or help, it would be greatly appreciated!
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In case anyone is interested, here's some lists of the affected/unaffected apps.
It DOES affect the following:
Code:
Accuweather
American Express
Bejeweled
CBS Sports
Chase
Facebook
Messenger (FB)
Reddit News
Waze
XDA app
It does NOT affect the following:
Code:
Gmail
Google Now
Hangouts
PushBullet
Yahoo! Mail
try to restore only data on titanium backup, not restore app&data
Don't forget to hit THANKS button
I've tried that way, but it didn't work either
Bump for a new day D:
Would love help on this, I have the exact same problem...
I've had this problem for a long, long time (a year or two). If there's a solution, I haven't seen it yet.
Glad that I am not the only one.
Add me to the annoyance list.
I can't figure out how to get SSG2 to notify me, and that's not an app I want to clear data on as it will lose my level saves.
Voxer also has this problem.
Interestingly enough, the Risk style game LandRule has a way to refresh the Google sync services and it works perfectly.
Multiplayer->Notifications->Having trouble...->Refresh Registration.
Very handy tool to have available, need to find a way to spread to other apps!
Try removing and re-adding your Google account. After trying a few things, this either fixed it for me, or was just coincidental timing.
I do see that you tried this... but do it without clearing GSF data.
So glad I found this!
I had been researching why Voxer lost GCM notifications, with no luck and getting frustrated. Eventually stumbled across this thread and problem solved. Back story: two days ago I flashed a factory image and restored user apps & data from TiB. Never would have guessed that any thing to do with GCM "breaking". But sure enough after reading this, I cleared data in Voxer and all is well.
God bless XDA for all the little things like this. Couldn't own a phone without it.
We could really use some type of GCM interface to relink or whatever, if that's possible. Maybe even TiB would be a great vehicle for that?
OK I'm confused. So this problem is not solved?
Solved my particular problem with Voxer by clearing data. Problem with it breaking to begin with not solved.
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So, interesting update for folks in this thread.
My push notifications in SSG have finally been fixed with the latest update.
Now I don't know if it's because something in the update fixed it or because the act of updating from the Playstore re-synced with you/Google.
Will be interesting to check next time I flash a ROM and start from scratch. Will certainly be keeping an older version of the apk to update from if needed
Had the same issue. Lost all push notifications from Whatsapp and other gcm-enabled apps after flashing to CM11 and restoring apps+data with Titanium Backup. Finally tried using the Push Notifications Fixer (root version) app and all of a sudden, my Whatsapp notifications are coming in fine. Not sure if the app really fixed the issue or if it was just a coincidence..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142503
[APP][2.2+][ROOT][FREE][12-SEP-2013] Push Notifications Fixer v4.1
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Anybody else having luck with that app?
Doesn't do anything for me, tried activating service, changing to 5min and resetting to default but doesn't fix push notifications from Voxer, SSG2 or LandRule...
Anything I'm doing wrong?
I'm using the latest version of TiB and my push notifications never work after a restore. Ive been manually reinstalling any apps that send me notifications after trying everything else others in here have tried. Basically TiB is only saving my WiFis for me these days. Subscribed for a fix!
Has anyone tried backing up and restoring app data with nandroid backups and apps that handle them, instead of TiBu? OBackup, ROM Manager are a couple of apps I believe do this.
What I did is backup app+data but reinstalled from PlayStore and opened up app to where it asked you to login and then goto TiB and restored Data and it worked for me!
I wish best to luck to everyone!
Also having the same issue but I've restored so many apps that I don't know which ones, other than the obvious messengers and the like, use GCM and might have it broken. I did at least figure out that deleting the app data (or uninstalling/reinstalling from the Play Store in my case) fixes the problem on an app by app basis.
A thought occurred to me but I haven't tried it myself... Has anyone tried restoring an app while using SuperSU? I seem to recall Titanium prompting that normal SU isn't very good and should be changed for optimal results but I've always ignored it. Maybe it's affecting that part of the restore.
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Tested my own theory with Voxer and it didn't help.
for me "Push Notifications Fixer" didn't resolve the problem with Whatsapp and UppTalk. To re-enable notifications and not lose data I do this:
1) delete AppData
2) open the App
3) login
4) restore AppData
like badboytw suggested above...
I seem to have accidentally done something possibly using TB, but I'm not sure about that, on my phone (I never deleted/moved the icon it made on my home screen) because I had picked it up and then when I looked at it TB said "all done _______" or something to that effect. I didn't get to see what it said it had done, but now I have no contacts, no phone history... no I don't know what else.
Is there a way to check a log of TB activity so I can at least know what it did?
Also, when I went into the phone settings it said "Unavailable" for my Phone Storage and Internal Storage. After rebooting my phone storage is saying it has 7.33GB available so I think it was wiped (pretty sure it had a lot less space before)? When I try to go into Contacts > Phonebook it force closes and says "Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped.".
ADDED ON EDIT: I also notice that my lock screen doesn't have any app icons on it anymore. It used to.
I have contacts backed up from a little bit ago so I can add the half a dozen new ones, but I'd really like to know what it did. My messages are all still there so it didn't wipe that. Apps seem to all be there with current data.
Oh, I think I backed up my contacts to Google recently. I don't usually do that but I think I was asked if I wanted to and I said yes a little bit ago. No idea where to find them or how to restore from there... any tips? Otherwise I'll grab my backup from June.
Thanks!
Hi, I apologise if this is not in the right place but I'm out of ideas.
So yesterday my phone was overheating (not the first time) and I decided to do a reset of the phone to see if anything changed (could be because of something installed or something). The problem is that I backed up everything using Smart Switch - but that won't save the data from whatsapp...
So I did a direct backup to my google drive account (I have it set to do it daily) but something must have happened because despite showing that it had made a backup copy at 2:08 once I proceeded to reset and tried recovering that backup the most recent messages were gone-........I lost a whole day of communications
What's more strange is that the photos are still on my phone....it's really strange....
Can anyone help me or give any suggestions? I can't even check the date of that backup file in Google Drive, but from the looks of it it seems the recent one was faulty and it ended up getting the second more recent? I really don't know...
Thanks in advance
So your photos will stay on the device because it was downloaded from WhatsApp, if you sign in and sign out of the same device that you claim to have lost your messages on they should be recovered upon re-authentication provided you have not deleted the WhatsApp back up or reset the phone.