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Can anyone confirm that it will restore both apps AND data when making the switch from 2.2 to 2.3? I had problems restoring data on CM7 using Ti-Bu. Apps would restore fine, but apps+data would fail every time. I'm just wondering if I'm looking at the same scenario here, or if it was possibly failing on CM7 due to something beyond my current understanding (possibly that my data backups were made on comm rom, which is touchwiz based, and the data backups therefore wouldn't be compatible with AOSP?). Any help would be appreciated, thanks =)
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Don't think it's ever a good idea to restore data across any changes on the os.
But if your using the gb leak then you can't have had it for to long meaning you have little to lose by trying. Worst case your just reflashing costing you an extra hour at most.
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TiBu works fine with the GB leak. I restored apps w/data. Just not system data.
Thanks much guys, I haven't flashed it yet, I just wanted to get a little preliminary info first
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Hey guys... I've been having this issue with restoring a nand backup. After going thru the boot animation I'll get a "sorry android process system not responding" with the force close tab green and the wait tab white. The screen is unresponsive but the soft keys vibrate.
Someone suggested I wipe cache and dalvik before doing a backup. Did that but still get the error. The strange thing is this seems to only happen when I restore from DroidTh3ory's newest sense ROM. After I get the error I'll do a battery pull go into hboot and do a restore of DroidTh3ory's AO5P ROM and it will restore just fine.
I always do a full wipe and system format before restoring any ROM. I've upgraded to the newest cwm recovery.
Any ideas??
Thanks
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This happened to me once when the phones batt was really low, around 25%, plugged it in, flashed a diff backup and all was good again...
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sonami said:
This happened to me once when the phones batt was really low, around 25%, plugged it in, flashed a diff backup and all was good again...
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Yeah but I had a full charge this morning when I tried to restore the ROM. A little while ago I restored uber BAMF without a problem. It's just weird that it would seem to be ROM specific. It's happened with DT'S Mono. ROM twice. The only thing modified on the ROM was a theme. Guess I'll try reflashing again and do a backup and restore without the theme.
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Yeah but I had a full charge this morning when I tried to restore the ROM. A little while ago I restored uber BAMF without a problem. It's just weird that it would seem to be ROM specific. It's happened with DT'S Mono. ROM twice. The only thing modified on the ROM was a theme. Guess I'll try reflashing again and do a backup and restore without the theme.
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Right, but hiw much battery did you have when you made the backup? And even still, could just be a bad backup
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Can anyone help me out getting rid of blur in my phone or pointing me to a thread that has these instructions? Looking forward to having a blur-less DX2.....thanks
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Eclipse! New version will be coming out soon. Blurless and simply wonderful
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I've heard a lot about it.....the only thing is that I really don't wanna do a factory reset.....Im assuming there's no way around it eh?
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whiplash473 said:
I've heard a lot about it.....the only thing is that I really don't wanna do a factory reset.....Im assuming there's no way around it eh?
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Nope...if you start flashing roms and playing with this kinda stuff get used to factory resets...not trying to put you off but when you start getting into roms ect..the benefits outweigh having to redo your phone. Its a pain and it always seems like once you have your phone just the way you want it a new rom or something comes out. Just do a nandroid backup in recovery that way if you don't like it you can revert back to the way your phone was setup the way you had it. That way you always have a backup.
Try titanium backup. It'll let you backup your settings before you wrote your phone.
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Try titanium backup. It'll let you backup your settings before you wrote your phone.
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Don't listen to him. Never restore settings. This causes a lot of problems. You can do it for Apps, but not the Apps and their data. That sometimes causes problems too.
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dust. said:
Eclipse! New version will be coming out soon. Blurless and simply wonderful
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Eclipse is super clean and super fast.
Well there's very few things that im worried about losing but my calender (pure grid calender) is one that I don't wanna lose.....I emailed the dev and asked if there was a way to back it up so im waiting for an email back on that.....I have my apps backed up via titanium backup free and sticky notes I can just write down or something.....I ran minimal x immediately when it came out so I have some experience with Rom's but no where near calling myself a pro.....so with eclipse will I flash it the same way as I did with MinX?
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I use Pure Grid Calendar... have for over a year.. across the D1 and the X2 I have flashed my phone so many times I couldnt even begin to make up a number.... NEVER.. lost my calendar info. Its synched into google. Auto restores when you go thru setup after flashing the ROM
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Don't listen to him. Never restore settings. This causes a lot of problems. You can do it for Apps, but not the Apps and their data. That sometimes causes problems too.
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Bah, Hog wash.
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I use Pure Grid Calendar... have for over a year.. across the D1 and the X2 I have flashed my phone so many times I couldnt even begin to make up a number.... NEVER.. lost my calendar info. Its synched into google. Auto restores when you go thru setup after flashing the ROM
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Is that a setting in pure grid or something?
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no, pure grid, if you will remember, asks you on setup which calendar you want to use. By default, its set to the google one. SO, you set your phone up and the calendar syncs.. then you install pure grid again and it grabs the already synched google calendar.. thats all google.
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Bah, Hog wash.
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I agree. I 've been backing up my apps and their data with Titanium Backup since I started flashing roms and have had no problems...
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@xkape - yeah I haven't had to reinstall it in so long I just forgot I guess.....thanks tho
@dust - I haven't had any problems with TB so ill continue to use it.....might use nandroid as well just as a safeguard and cuz I've heard a lot about it
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dust. said:
I agree. I 've been backing up my apps and their data with Titanium Backup since I started flashing roms and have had no problems...
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Apps and data across updates to these rom has always been fine. Going across versions (froyo/gb etc) has been known to causes issues, as well as settings. The settings issue is widely accepted as a way to introduce bugs. You'd know this if you'd been flashing roms for longer than a few weeks.
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I don't want to start a whole thing here...yes titanium is a great program but i have run into problems with it not restoring properly and causing some problems. I always prefer to just do a fresh install if im backed into a corner, but Titanium works great but i ran into some issues with it not restoring settings/accounts causing FC and ghost email accounts that could not be removed. Maybe its just me i used it a couple of times and it worked but it just didn't seem like a clean restore for some reason. Again just giving opinion here not trying to start anything...**Opinion Only**
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@xkape - yeah I haven't had to reinstall it in so long I just forgot I guess.....thanks tho
@dust - I haven't had any problems with TB so ill continue to use it.....might use nandroid as well just as a safeguard and cuz I've heard a lot about it
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Nandroid is seriously best thing u could EVER do before flashing or at any point for that matter. If there is ever a point where u say damn I really like how my phone is righteous now. Wish I could get back here if something ever messes up. Then just go into recovery using system recovery app and make ur nandroid. I keep em on external sd card cuz there's more space for plenty of em. And then I use root explorer and rename or add on something to the name of the backup so I don't forget which one it is when im restoring it. When u male a nandroid it automatically puts the date and time of creation as the file name.
Trust me. Nandroid will save your butt on occasion if u flash ANYTHING. Its awesome to just press restore and presto your right back where u were.
Not a TB fan here... just a personal preferences...
Best way I've found to get back up quickly is... having the rom auto download your apps and when its done, go into recovery and do an advanced restore. Then choose data only. That's assuming you made a backup of course.
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Would it be too much to ask for someone to walk me thru flashing this?
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Check the stickies.. theres instructions for flashing stuff... also, just so you know, the Eclipse ROM is not one of the ROMs that auto downloads your apps. You will need to do that yourself then do the data resotre.. if you are going that route. If you are using TB, you can restore it all but.. I dont use it so I have no clue how to do that.
Just a quick comment, FWIW...
There was a time, when I was more of a noob than I am now, that I used to smirk at people who said they always wiped cache and data 2 or 3 times between loading different ROMs. I thought they were being a little anal - after all, a wipe's a wipe.
I've since learned differently. Recently I had a nasty FC problem that just wouldn't go away until I wiped data three times and then reflashed my ROM. Don't know why, but it works sometimes when nothing else will.
I thought it was anal too haha
I wipe 2 times before a flash.
Its weird how things work
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Just a quick comment, FWIW...
There was a time, when I was more of a noob than I am now, that I used to smirk at people who said they always wiped cache and data 2 or 3 times between loading different ROMs. I thought they were being a little anal - after all, a wipe's a wipe.
I've since learned differently. Recently I had a nasty FC problem that just wouldn't go away until I wiped data three times and then reflashed my ROM. Don't know why, but it works sometimes when nothing else will.
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Cvpcs wrote a great blog on wiping. I too have had nasty fc issues w/ our current recovery. You would think if it's not wiping correctly then 50 wipes would still produce the same bad wipe. I mean, the code doesn't change w/ each wipe we perform
Never had an issue with other recoveries on older phones. Properly written cwmr shouldn't need to wipe more than once b/c the code will only do what it's written to do. Improper coding leads to improper wiping. Just my $.02
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Cvpcs wrote a great blog on wiping. I too have had nasty fc issues w/ our current recovery. You would think if it's not wiping correctly then 50 wipes would still produce the same bad wipe. I mean, the code doesn't change w/ each wipe we perform
Never had an issue with other recoveries on older phones. Properly written cwmr shouldn't need to wipe more than once b/c the code will only do what it's written to do. Improper coding leads to improper wiping. Just my $.02
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Well its a hacked version of CWM so its not as developed and refined.
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IDMA.DROID.X2 said:
Well its a hacked version of CWM so its not as developed and refined.
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Right, but if one wipe fails to wipe correctly do you suppose the second will clean up what it missed? I don't think code has become self aware of mistakes.
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All I know is I always wipe data 3 times andncache/dalvik twice each.
And have never had 99% of the.problems I see others having after flashes such as FCs and all...unless it was a known bug everyone was experience.
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All I know is I always wipe data 3 times andncache/dalvik twice each.
And have never had 99% of the.problems I see others having after flashes such as FCs and all...unless it was a known bug everyone was experience.
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Too many don't wipe anything and clutter threads. :/
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True story xodus
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Right, but if one wipe fails to wipe correctly do you suppose the second will clean up what it missed? I don't think code has become self aware of mistakes.
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Maybe not, but there is less chance of irritation (pun intended).
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Here is more irritation : I ran 234update.zip from stock 233 recovery FOUR TIMES w/o leaving recovery. 1st: got a status (0) and stopped. 2nd correct status err and went faster. 3rd went fastest. 4th no more speedup.
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Maybe not, but there is less chance of irritation (pun intended).
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Glad I'm not the only one laughing at this entire thread of puns of whiping, being anal about doing it over and over and wiping again!
You guys are right though, everytime a wipe is done, seems the later ones are much faster.
Apparently the more you wipe, the cleaner you get, it get's easier it is to wipe again.
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Apparently the more you wipe, the cleaner you get, and the easier it is to wipe again.
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Yeah, that was my point. It's definetly a progressive action. Very strange. I wudda thought like XOdus, that the code would do exactly the same thing each time.
The puns are fun.
They get faster b/c there's nothing else to wipe from the directory. My final post here.
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The puns are fun.
They get faster b/c there's nothing else to wipe from the directory. My final post here.
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Of course. But all punning aside, the point he was making is that they get progressively faster, indicating that not all is cleared with earlier wipes. There's no denying that multiple wipes can clear up sticky problems. Even if the reason is "bad code", that's still strange.
CVPCS Blog entry:
http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-05/time_to_wipe_data/cache
I only wipe once with our recovery and only once have I had an issue. I simply reflashed the ROM and it went away.
I bet he wiped the second time though. So he wiped twice
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CVPCS Blog entry:
http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-05/time_to_wipe_data/cache
I only wipe once with our recovery and only once have I had an issue. I simply reflashed the ROM and it went away.
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I hear ya. The blog article makes perfect sense. Hard to argue with the logic expressed there. And yet... experience tells me otherwise. As I said in the OP, I resenctly had a persistent FC problem with a system file - may have been ProgramMenuSystem.apk, can't remember for sure. Re-loaded my nandroid (that was fine before). While anyone would fully expect that to reslove the problem, the problem continued. Wiped again and re-flashed same version of my ROM. Problem still there. Wiped three times and re-flashed ROM again. Problem gone and never re-appeared.
I cannot explain why wiping data three times eliminated the problem that persisted even after wiping and re-flashing. Yet it did. Go figure.
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I cannot explain why wiping data three times eliminated the problem that persisted even after wiping and re-flashing. Yet it did. Go figure.
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Technology can be the best and it's the worst crap ever at times, isn't it? Haha Ya think you have something figured out and logical then blam!
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Maybe not, but there is less chance of irritation (pun intended).
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I think the direction of said wipe also needs to be mentioned. Front to back or back to front?
I have had my X2 for 8 months and had been having problems with several apps force closing and the phone generally lagging quite a bit even using apps like Fast Reboot and Air Droid and task managers to clear the cache. It is still unrooted so I decided to just do a factory reset. After the reset, I have noticed a considerable difference in app loading and performance. It works like it did when it was new.
Any one have any suggestions as possible reasons why this would make it work better. I was simply experimenting with it, and it turned out working to my advantage.
I still have another year left before an upgrade, so I don't plan on rooting it before then. But are there any other things I can do or apps I can use to keep the performance like new without having to do another reset six months down the road.
I really love my X2 but with all of the trouble I had been having with apps and lagging, it was making me consider jumping ship to Apple. I just don't think I could deal with the small screen on an iPhone and the lack of customization.
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I really wouldn't try and load a bunch of stuff like you had mentioned. Alot of that is just more memory useage and tasks to run. There really nothing wrong with having all of that. But its still there and still runs a risk of slowing things down a tad. Once in a while, clear your cache files and it really shouldn't give you any trouble.
On the otherhand..... why not root it and open that thing up? There are several stable ROMs like Eclipse and CM7 that will really make your experience with the X2 better. You can 9 times out of 10 always go back to right out of the box so there's no need to worry about messing up something or "loosing your warranty." Root, flash and let her ride!!
it's more like, 99.999999%of time you can go back to stock
just need a decent pc, to run rsd lite or ezsbf, to get back, if you have any problem
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^^ Lol i was gonna say what SD said.
don't let me, stop you
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I really wouldn't try and load a bunch of stuff like you had mentioned. Alot of that is just more memory useage and tasks to run. There really nothing wrong with having all of that. But its still there and still runs a risk of slowing things down a tad. Once in a while, clear your cache files and it really shouldn't give you any trouble.
On the otherhand..... why not root it and open that thing up? There are several stable ROMs like Eclipse and CM7 that will really make your experience with the X2 better. You can 9 times out of 10 always go back to right out of the box so there's no need to worry about messing up something or "loosing your warranty." Root, flash and let her ride!!
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i agree with tally on this one!
also, how in the hell can you enjoy looking at blur with all those damned bloatware?
Even if you don't want to mess with roms and stuff you could always root to freeze bloatware.
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I rooted my phone over the weekend and was able to uninstall some of the bloatware. I flashed the cm7.2 rom from dragonzkiller and followed the steps exactly. However, when I rebooted, I was not able to restore my contacts or sign into any other account other than Gmail.
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Juice3250 said:
I rooted my phone over the weekend and was able to uninstall some of the bloatware. I flashed the cm7.2 rom from dragonzkiller and followed the steps exactly. However, when I rebooted, I was not able to restore my contacts or sign into any other account other than Gmail.
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Sounds like you didnt install the gapps file along with the ROM. That file contains all the Google stuff including the services to sync with Google. You can find the link to that file in the same CM7 thread.
I did install the gapps and it said it flashed successfully. If it was flashed successfully, should my contacts be available?
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I did install the gapps and it said it flashed successfully. If it was flashed successfully, should my contacts be available?
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If you flashed the ROM and the gapps, it should be fine. Are you sure you downloaded the gingerbread gapps and NOT the ICS or Jelly Bean?
Did you check to see if your contacts outside of Google was there before deleting anything?
You could also sign in to your gmail on a PC and click on contacts. If they are there you should be able to port them over.
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