I made a hash of rooting my phone after a number of posts said that backing up shouldn't be necessary (silly me). Once I had done the PG image flash I ended up with a version of Android that was missing all my games and the apps that I had previously installed. Data was still on the SD card but no sign of apks for the games. Not sure what other stuff might have been missing from 'out of the box' as it were but definitely Sims, NFS Shift and Spiderman 3D.
Before moving forward to try putting Leedroid on, I am considering trying to put one of the stock EU roms back over the top in the hope that it will give me access to the games, etc again so that I can do a backup and then try the whole rooting process all over again.
Could someone give me any idea of whether my games are gone forever or if I can salvage them somehow?
Your games and apps are gone. Before you flash any roms you really need to do a full wipe anyway so you're starting on a clean slate. A stock rom will have Spiderman in it though
We're comin from a pure power source.
-BA- said:
I made a hash of rooting my phone after a number of posts said that backing up shouldn't be necessary (silly me). Once I had done the PG image flash I ended up with a version of Android that was missing all my games and the apps that I had previously installed. Data was still on the SD card but no sign of apks for the games. Not sure what other stuff might have been missing from 'out of the box' as it were but definitely Sims, NFS Shift and Spiderman 3D.
Before moving forward to try putting Leedroid on, I am considering trying to put one of the stock EU roms back over the top in the hope that it will give me access to the games, etc again so that I can do a backup and then try the whole rooting process all over again.
Could someone give me any idea of whether my games are gone forever or if I can salvage them somehow?
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Your game data (savegames) is likely gone for good. The game file might still be in your sd card. When I installed warm 2.3 I noticed a folder on my sd that has all those Sprint apps. I think some other roms might make a folder like that too. Just find the folder with a file explorer and install the app you want.
-BA- said:
I made a hash of rooting my phone after a number of posts said that backing up shouldn't be necessary (silly me). Once I had done the PG image flash I ended up with a version of Android that was missing all my games and the apps that I had previously installed. Data was still on the SD card but no sign of apks for the games. Not sure what other stuff might have been missing from 'out of the box' as it were but definitely Sims, NFS Shift and Spiderman 3D.
Before moving forward to try putting Leedroid on, I am considering trying to put one of the stock EU roms back over the top in the hope that it will give me access to the games, etc again so that I can do a backup and then try the whole rooting process all over again.
Could someone give me any idea of whether my games are gone forever or if I can salvage them somehow?
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Short answer, if the apps were stored on the /data partition and the RUU erased the /data partition, they are probably gone forever.
Longer answer: To give a little technical background, there are specific partitions on most Android devices. The "data" partition is where many 3rd party apps are installed to, along with their settings and the Android OS settings.
A stock RUU will always erase the /data partition because as stock, the device comes with a blank data partition.
Some apps allow themselves to be installed to the sdcard. As such, these won't be erased when an RUU wipes the data partition. Some apps store their settings on the sdcard. These also won't be erased by an RUU.
Hope that helps fill in some of the gaps!
-BA- said:
I made a hash of rooting my phone after a number of posts said that backing up shouldn't be necessary (silly me). Once I had done the PG image flash I ended up with a version of Android that was missing all my games and the apps that I had previously installed. Data was still on the SD card but no sign of apks for the games. Not sure what other stuff might have been missing from 'out of the box' as it were but definitely Sims, NFS Shift and Spiderman 3D.
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anything you bought from android market is linked to your google account not the phone so you can restore it after a wipe, after changing phone or even install them on multiple phones if they are registered to the same account.
just log on market.android.com, go to your library and force a reinstall for every piece of software you are missing.
things bought on other markets depend on the specific market policy, check with them.
as for those three games they comes with htc stock roms, I got them with an OTA update IIRCW so the only way to get them its if the rom compiler has included them (which I dont know if its legal, but lets not go there) or with a stock rom.
Really appreciate the replies guys. I have got my hands on the apks via a rom that was linked on the forums. I had hardly played them so losing save games isn't worry at all for me. Sadly I am not sure what else it might have wiped, I know I lost texts but I did have a backup .xml of those so only lost a few days worth.
The market is definitely confused because when I log onto android.market.com it shows all the ones I have downloaded but if I go into the market app on the phone it only shows the ones I have downloaded since the b0rked root.
No great loss though I think I am almost ready to shove a stock rom on and then restore the games later. Trying to decide between Leedroid and mikrunny's.
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Hi,
I am new to Android and the Gtab. I am basically curious as to what the best way is to backup my Gtab. What software and the steps to take (what is the difference between cwm and nvflash?).
I actually like the stock rom but my biggest frustration is the lack of the market which I would like to have. Having that said, I would like to run something different on the Gtab which will support the market app and not the Gmarket app. I looked around the forums and I see lots of good tutorials but it confuses me on how I backup with my stock rom before I begin any of the tutorials to upgrade to a new rom. I feel like backing up is the biggest step and don't want to mess this up so that I can revert back if I do make a mistake down the road. I'm sure once you do this a couple of times it starts to make sense but I have not done it yet and want to make sure I understand everything before I move forward.
I am a beginner but want to be able to get more out of my Gtab. Please help.
It needs to be modded right out of the box, so how much could you have possibly gotten installed?
Ok, I'm kidding.
What are you trying to "backup"? If it's DOC's and Books, music, etc, either dump it all onto a secondary memory card, or dump your data to a PC using usb connection. As for settings like email, etc. I say skip the backup and just reinstall the stuff.
I keep all of the working installers I've found on my external SD card so if I need to wipe & start over, I just go through and click/install them again.
bnovak said:
It needs to be modded right out of the box, so how much could you have possibly gotten installed?
Ok, I'm kidding.
What are you trying to "backup"? If it's DOC's and Books, music, etc, either dump it all onto a secondary memory card, or dump your data to a PC using usb connection. As for settings like email, etc. I say skip the backup and just reinstall the stuff.
I keep all of the working installers I've found on my external SD card so if I need to wipe & start over, I just go through and click/install them again.
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Hi,
Thanks for the post. I think I may have not worded my question right. My fault since I am new. What I mean is what do I need to do to backup my current OS I suppose. For instance, it has android 2.2 correct? I upgraded OOTB to firmware 3588 which works well but no market. What do I need to do to back this OS up so that I can revert back to it in case of any problems? Sorry if I am still confusing you guys but like I said earlier, I am completely new and still learning the phraseology and such. Thanks!
jetguy35,
Most people get Titanium Backup and backup the apps and system with a batch file in that.
That takes care of apps.
If the whole tablet gets messed up you either NVFlash back to the bekit 1105 version
per the NVFlash recovery thread in developers, if its not too bad you reinstall the
current 3588 version from a download.
There are other ways some people suggest, but I don't recommend what I haven't used and don't know about.
Good Luck!!!
Rev
An app called Titanium Backup will allow you to back up your apps and their data.
To do a complete system backup, you'll need to get clockworkmod installed (bekit .8 version), once booted into clockworkmod there is a back up option which will back up all system files and apps.
Check this thread in the development section for installing clockworkmod:
[Sticky][Guide]Install ClockworkMod, A ROM, Flash Player, and the Market Fix
Insall clockwork mod .8 and boot to recovery and backup entire rom. ..then save a copy from internal to external sd card in case you need it.
Sent from my VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b5.1.1 using Tapatalk
personally (and I was in your shoes last week)
I would just go through the TNT Lite post and flash that ROM onto the tablet. If you go TNT 4.4.0 you DO NOT WANT CLOCKWORK.
It's really simple - plug in USB, copy the correct files to the tablet, push and hold pwr-volume up and give it a couple minutes.
I think the vanilla ROM is floating around so if you don't have a bunch of personalized files, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Anytime you flash it, you are going to have to add some of the programs back in anyway.
Roebeets TnT build is super fast and super stable. You won't know what hit you when you turn it on the first time.
bnovak,
That's a good idea, but not everyone is ready, or has the expertise or even wants
to move up to a ROM.
I have two tablets and one is running the experimental next generation TwoTabX ROM
that is on hold waiting for VS to do something -- and the other most of the time is
pure stock (so I can test stuff and get OTA updates etc.
When I go to work, doesn't matter which I take because both work well.
Stock is not bad!!! You should have seen the original software!!!
Rev
In a world of trouble now. been on sd 1.9.0 (initially on 318 official), everything was great for some time, then, after a month or two, phone started acting funny (frequent random reboots, hangs, could not start for hour or two when got into dell logo loop...), so i decided to do factory reset. did it and after that could not install any app or recover any titanium backuped apps. when installing any app, install process will continue endlessly, with progress bar always on start (but not freezed, bar is moving, but there is no progress). same thing with titanium backups - could not make any restore - also it starts, but no progress.
later tried new rom flash (sd 1.9.0), then 1.8.1, then 318, then simplestreak 1.2, then again 1.9.0, all with factory resets - could not fix my problem - could not install or make recovery.
hardware-wise all seems without malfunctions. been thinking that maybe internal sd is defective, made check from engineering menu and all seems ok with it.
got no more remedies, made around 50 reflash attempts today, no luck.
another idea that buggs me: could it be that app folder on internal memory is somehow not writable? what are normal permissions on internal memory folder structure?
looking forhelp - solutions or ideas. do you think that is hardware or software defective?
got some kind of warranty, but i'm not sure that i could enforce it...
Can you install apps normally though the market or sideloaded?
It could be that your backups are bad if you can install other stuff
Need a little clarification. Does your ROM after the flash run OK? If it no longer reboots on its own or hangup, doubt you have a problem with your internal SD.
I would recommend scrapping Titanium, I quit using it and started using MyBackUp Pro and haven't had any issues since when I recover apps.
You could do one of several things...
1)Use the QDL tool to get back to a stock ROM, then flash StreakMod and then StreakDroid 1.9.0 and see what happens.
2)Try replacing the internal SD with a 4GB class 10 which will improve performance and do away with the trouble if that were the problem
3)Use the QDL tool to get back to stock ROM and send it in for warranty if all else fails
TheManii said:
Can you install apps normally though the market or sideloaded?
It could be that your backups are bad if you can install other stuff
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No, i can't install via market. When i connect to market, it instantly start to download updates (Gmail, Maps etc.) and, when downloaded, it will start installing, and progress will endlessly be stuck on start...so basically same thing like manual install or Titanium recovery.
dmandic said:
No, i can't install via market. When i connect to market, it instantly start to download updates (Gmail, Maps etc.) and, when downloaded, it will start installing, and progress will endlessly be stuck on start...so basically same thing like manual install or Titanium recovery.
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Ok, you do understand that if you are allowing the market to install all the updates you had on your phone before, it could take a considerable amount of time, and may seem to get stuck. It doesn't download and install one by one, it begins downloading everything you had in your market account (something I hate about the market), so it may be trying to install 20 or 30 or 40 apps and updating others that are part of Android ALL at the same time. It could easily take an hour if you have a hundred apps or so on your phone.
Just a comment, not sure if you have taken that into consideration.
But I doubt you internal SD is bad, if it were, you wouldn't get as far as you get without some force closes, or maybe not even boot.
Your issue is software related in my opinion. But I could be wrong.
cdzo72 said:
Need a little clarification. Does your ROM after the flash run OK? If it no longer reboots on its own or hangup, doubt you have a problem with your internal SD.
I would recommend scrapping Titanium, I quit using it and started using MyBackUp Pro and haven't had any issues since when I recover apps.
You could do one of several things...
1)Use the QDL tool to get back to a stock ROM, then flash StreakMod and then StreakDroid 1.9.0 and see what happens.
2)Try replacing the internal SD with a 4GB class 10 which will improve performance and do away with the trouble if that were the problem
3)Use the QDL tool to get back to stock ROM and send it in for warranty if all else fails
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ROM(s) working (relatively) OK. Have some FCs on some ROMs, no frequent hangups and only some reboots. Didn't have any of them for a long time because i was trying to find some solution for apps install because without ability to install smartphone is useless.
I heard some bad things of Tutanium, but i was happy with it so far, and i think that it is not his fault.
1) tried that (318 and 351 stock), and others combinations, and always ended with same problem
2) and 3) if i try to replace internal sd, then i will void my warranty
if anything else fails, i'll try my warranty, but i don't know if i'll succedd, but i'll like it better to fix it on my own, if it is software problem, not hardware
Breaking News!
Interesting turn of events: out of pure despair, i tried to flash Streakdroid 2.0 (Gingerstreak).
Out of blue, i could again install apps! I played a little, and tried to flash SD 1.9, hoping that it would be "fixed" now. But, sadly, it isn't! I still cannot install apps on SD 1.9.0! I flashed SD 2.0 again, and found that on SD 2.0 i CAN again install apps (Titanium also works, although it is basically useless because most of backuped apps and settings don't work on GB).
Here is summary:
- on Froyo builds (318, 351 stock; SimpleStreak 1.2; 1.8.1, 1.9.0 SD) i CANNOT install apps (endless install loop) and restore Titanium backups
- on GB build (SD 2.0) i CAN install apps and restore Titanium backups
This is completely puzzling to me. I though that is probably hardware fault (internal sd or something else), but if on SD 2.0 everything works, and on Froyo builds not, it seems that is some kind of software error?
I suspect on some kind of folder permissions error. Does anybody know right permissions for internal system folder etc.?
I knew I might have problems when using Titanium Backup to restore my apps and data from my Captivate to my new SGS2. I did some research prior and could not find any information that said there would be a problem for sure, so I went ahead.
Now I am having a bunch of force closes... Messenging, e-mail, bunch of things not working at all. Suggestions?
Information: Rooted SGS2 running 2.3.4, build GB.UCKH7
I think the best thing to do now is a complete wipe... But I am not sure how to do that without messing up my phone since it is rooted. Also, even if I do wipe it, how do I restore my text messages, phone log, etc, without messing it up again? Is this even possible or should I give up?
FYI: I have never restored to a different phone before, only from Captivate to Captivate.
Thanks in advance.
It is not recommended to restore system apps going from one rom to another, so I can only assume coming from another phone is such a bad idea.
Restoring user apps is all you should do, but from another phone I don't know how that works exactly.
For messages, call logs, check the market for a few apps that will do that for you.
Did you try to restore your mms and phone log by restoring the apk? I do not think you can do that from one phone to a different phone.
You should backup and restore with something like "SMS Backup +" from Google Play.
EDIT// Damn I'm too slow
restoring from device to device is fine...however it would appear that you restored SYSTEM data
or
you restored all apps + data instead of MISSING apps+data....big difference.
Pirateghost said:
restoring from device to device is fine...however it would appear that you restored SYSTEM data
or
you restored all apps + data instead of MISSING apps+data....big difference.
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I selected the option "Backup all user apps + system data," which I already figured out was the WRONG option. Grrr.
What is the best way to fix this situation I am in? Since my phone is rooted, I am hesitant to use the menu systems to reset since that might mess up my phone.
I suppose installing a custom rom will fix the issue for sure, right? I was not sure I wanted to get into that with this phone.
Install a custom rom and be done with it.
If you like stock give that latest leak a try and enjoy ICS.
I'm with lilchris on this one. Just do a clean install of a custom rom then only restore user apps. In my experience restoring system data is just way more trouble then its worth. Google stores your critical information (contacts etc.) and everything else is not worth the pain.
LiLChris06 said:
Install a custom rom and be done with it.
If you like stock give that latest leak a try and enjoy ICS.
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Would you recommend stock or your ICS Rom? I actually prefer custom roms, I was just not sure I wanted to spend all the time putting one on... I guess I have to now!!!! Might as well get a custom one. I miss the custom one I had on my Captivate already!!!
As far as ICS roms go, how does yours rank? It looks pretty awesome.
Thanks.
Phone Bricker ICS Rom
Just installed Chris's Phone Bricker ICS Rom and it truly is AMAZING!!!! ICS has got to be the best Android Rom I have seen yet. I am loving it so much.
Thanks Christ, you are awesome. As soon as my phone finished downloading all my apps (which is did automatically!!! never had that happen with any prior Android Rom!), I will install the update you provided.
recovery just says something is wrong, look at log?
I tried a few versions (of the backup sets), same error.
What am I doing wrong? How do I fix it? :crying:
Log from recovery run...
Starting recovery on Thu Aug 16 21:58:52 2012
can't open /dev/tty0: No such file or directory
framebuffer: fd 3 (720 x 1280)
RA Revamped
Build : RA-VIGOR-v3.15-getitnowmarketing
Command: "/sbin/recovery"
ro.secure=0
ro.allow.mock.location=0
ro.debuggable=1
fuzzynco said:
recovery just says something is wrong, look at log?
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This happens all the time to people.
You can't simply restore a backup from another device because then your new device will actually appear as your old device on Google and Verizons servers, which will cause all sorts of problems if Verizon were to ever successfully restore your old phone and try and send it off to someone else. To avoid this problem, the recovery won't even let you restore a backup from another phone, even if its the exact same hardware.
Go to play.google.com, go to view your devices in the settings section. You should see two Rezounds. One will have been activated in the past, and one whenever you first turned on your replacement after receiving it and logging in with your account. So the one that was activated in the past is clearly your original Rezound that you've returned. You can give it a name, like "DEAD REZOUND" so that you know by looking at the name which Rezound Google thinks you're using.
There is a workaround that will let you restore the backup anyway if you want to search for it, but I highly recommend you don't. If you do, you can then go to play.google.com again, view your existing devices in the settings section, and you'll see that Google thinks your new phone is the same one you just sent back to Verizon. It should show "DEAD REZOUND" as being registered again today (or whatever day you successfully restored a backup from your old phone)
To sum up: Don't restore a backup from another Rezound. You pretty much have to start over again.
I kind of follow... RA is an image backup
so it would duplicate the serial and device specific data.
I could do a TiBu of the user apps and data (and the
new xml files of the call log and sms's), though.
Use an app to export the calendar data to an
.ics (iCal file) and the phone book to a .vcf
for import on the 'new' phone.
Since Google added some 800+ empty
phone book entries and messed up my phone
book, I don't sync with it. I export the whole
thing to a vcf.
So the missing /dev/tty0 device file
error from the restore is just AR not
letting me shot myself in the foot,
right?
I'll need to install my ROM, then
restore the user apps and data
from TiBu then rebuild my 'desktop'?
Is it worth doing the RUU for ICS
to get there? The new phone was
offered the upgrade OTA, but I think
it was wiped by the unlock prior to
S-Off process. Would I flash
the ICS RUU, then flash the ICS/JB
hboot, to get fastboot commands,
then reflash recovery?
I have seperate micro cards for
the 600mb RUU zip and the
ICS firmware/radio/hboot(JB)
zip.
I'm thinking since I have to rebuild
the desktop anyway, maybe doing
the ICS RUU first is a good idea.
fuzzynco said:
so it would duplicate the serial and device specific data.
I could do a TiBu of the user apps and data (and the
new xml files of the call log and sms's), though.
Use an app to export the calendar data to an
.ics (iCal file) and the phone book to a .vcf
for import on the 'new' phone.
Since Google added some 800+ empty
phone book entries and messed up my phone
book, I don't sync with it. I export the whole
thing to a vcf.
So the missing /dev/tty0 device file
error from the restore is just AR not
letting me shot myself in the foot,
right?
I'll need to install my ROM, then
restore the user apps and data
from TiBu then rebuild my 'desktop'?
Is it worth doing the RUU for ICS
to get there? The new phone was
offered the upgrade OTA, but I think
it was wiped by the unlock prior to
S-Off process. Would I flash
the ICS RUU, then flash the ICS/JB
hboot, to get fastboot commands,
then reflash recovery?
I have seperate micro cards for
the 600mb RUU zip and the
ICS firmware/radio/hboot(JB)
zip.
I'm thinking since I have to rebuild
the desktop anyway, maybe doing
the ICS RUU first is a good idea.
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In reply to the bolded part: Basically, yes. AR's nandroid places the backups in a folder with your phone's serial as the folder name. Attempting to restore any backup from a folder with any other name will fail to prevent the issues I mentioned above.
I do not and have not ever used Titanium Backup, so in regards to that, I can't be of any help.
If you have a linux machine, you can mount the data.img from any of your backups and then copy all the files from /data/app and data/data to your phone. This will restore most of your apps, and app data/settings. There will still be a few things you'll have to redo from scratch, and this may not work 100% for every app on your phone, but at least this way you don't have to redownload every single app and manually redo all your settings...
I did the RUU zip (it restarted itself, as expected), the firmware/radio/hboot(JB) zip
and then reflashed AR 3.15 from fastboot. Everything seems to be working now.
Do you know if the debloat script (freeze VZW apps) works for ICS OTA ROM?
fuzzynco said:
I did the RUU zip (it restarted itself, as expected), the firmware/radio/hboot(JB) zip
and then reflashed AR 3.15 from fastboot. Everything seems to be working now.
Do you know if the debloat script (freeze VZW apps) works for ICS OTA ROM?
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not sure...
I couldn't get ViperROM 1.0.3 to not crash (com.android.phone kept crashing).
Trying a couple of others that are prerooted and deboated. So far the ICS &
Sense 3.6 looks fine. Still have the 'social network' stuff to freeze though,
Could I do something like make a zip (from adb shell) of the user apps
/data/app & /data/data directories (to preserve the unix permissions).
and leave that on fat32 sd card? Then merge that into the zip for the
rom to be installed so the installer will reload them?
Would I need to add lines to the installer script to have it load /data (with
the subdirs ../app and ../data)?
hmms maybe better to make a seperate zip to preinstall my saved
/data subdirs? Can I copy the ROMs installer binary and build
a installer script to mount /data, then install the /data directory,
umount /data?
a.mcdear said:
This happens all the time to people.
You can't simply restore a backup from another device because then your new device will actually appear as your old device on Google and Verizons servers, which will cause all sorts of problems if Verizon were to ever successfully restore your old phone and try and send it off to someone else. To avoid this problem, the recovery won't even let you restore a backup from another phone, even if its the exact same hardware.
Go to play.google.com, go to view your devices in the settings section. You should see two Rezounds. One will have been activated in the past, and one whenever you first turned on your replacement after receiving it and logging in with your account. So the one that was activated in the past is clearly your original Rezound that you've returned. You can give it a name, like "DEAD REZOUND" so that you know by looking at the name which Rezound Google thinks you're using.
There is a workaround that will let you restore the backup anyway if you want to search for it, but I highly recommend you don't. If you do, you can then go to play.google.com again, view your existing devices in the settings section, and you'll see that Google thinks your new phone is the same one you just sent back to Verizon. It should show "DEAD REZOUND" as being registered again today (or whatever day you successfully restored a backup from your old phone)
To sum up: Don't restore a backup from another Rezound. You pretty much have to start over again.
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not really. im on my third rezound and i restored the same viper rom i had before.
this is what i did with AR
1. back up current rom
2. boot into rom
3. use root explorer and find the nandroids
4. noticed 2 folders in the same nanadroid folder ( light bulb)
5. move old back up to the location where the new one was.
6. boot into recovery and did a full wipe
7. restored old back up.
8 boot phone
9. BAM!
This app might work. I use it and it works great but I'm not sure if it restores data.
synisterwolf said:
not really. im on my third rezound and i restored the same viper rom i had before.
this is what i did with AR
1. back up current rom
2. boot into rom
3. use root explorer and find the nandroids
4. noticed 2 folders in the same nanadroid folder ( light bulb)
5. move old back up to the location where the new one was.
6. boot into recovery and did a full wipe
7. restored old back up.
8 boot phone
9. BAM!
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Yeah this works perfectly fine, but can cause the new phone to register on the network as if it were the old one. It is perfectly possible to restore a backup from another phone, and it works fine... its just a bad idea because if your old phone is ever "recovered" and turned back on, VZW might see two identical devices on the network, which will cause problems in the future.
a.mcdear said:
Yeah this works perfectly fine, but can cause the new phone to register on the network as if it were the old one. It is perfectly possible to restore a backup from another phone, and it works fine... its just a bad idea because if your old phone is ever "recovered" and turned back on, VZW might see two identical devices on the network, which will cause problems in the future.
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Good to know. Thanks
In my case, the backup is from a device that i bricked totally. couldnt get into download mode so im thinking they will just use it as parts
Sent from my iPhone...
Ok, so my phone is near-useless after updaring it to the stock ICS update.
First of all it turns out that ICS has a limit on how many apps you can have installed on the SD card, Gingerbread did not, end result is the phone rebooting every 5 minutes or so until I took out the SD card and manually removed some of the installed apps from it.
And now I have so little free space that I cannot install or update ANY apps, any attempts to clear space, even if I clear up to 100MB, is instantly for some reason wasted again to under 70MB free... (why it can't update apps under 1MB when it has 70MB free I'll never know).
I have just about had it, I am going to root it and install a rom that isn't garbage.
It was a big annoyance because I use the 3D and MHL features of my phone, and nearly NO rom supports the 3D feature, and many more don't support MHL or even 4G. But I finally found one called SmoothCriminal that appears to basically be a heavily tweaked Sprint stock rom which supports everything, so I am going to flash it to that. (Any opinions on this?)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951101
It was the ONLY one I found that has 3D support that isn't just a rooted stock Sprint rom with no chances whatsoever, I coulden't find any others.
So apparnetly, no matter WHAT root method I use, it will wipe the phone, and every attempt at gaining temp root access when I was on gingerbread so I can perform a backup failed.
I was reading this though:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420351
Apparently I can backup everything on ICS even without root.
I don't care about backing up the apk packages themselves, as I can just reinstall those (there is no way to do a mass-reinstall from the play store is there?), just their data and settings.
Would I be able to restore this backup once I have reflashed my phone with a rooted SmoothCriminal rom? Or is there a good chance they will be incompatible and cause me problems?
Any advice on this is appreciated.