Hi
Lets start like this. I have Motorola Atrix 4g, Till this point, more then a year, I've don't have any troubles with him. It's not rooted and have the official software 2.3.4. The phone gets Force Close on "com.motorola.home" app and what I've learn from 6-7h. In the web this problem is from Google search update. When I turn my Atrix on it stuck on Lock screen and I can't do anything (The tuchscreen is working, because when I call my phone I can answer it)
When I connect it to the PC I can open my SD Card and.. Copy paste files..
From what I've read in the web I need to Restore my smartphone.
Here it comes the little big problem: I don't have backup for my contacts or anything else... And because I've using Motorolas contacts, not the Google (HUGE MISTAKE ON MY SIDE) and now I will lose them
The Q is
Is it there a program for PC which can transfer my contacts from the SD Card and put them on the PC.
And yes of course if you have idea how to make the really big problem to go away I will be thankful for ever
So I can do nothing on the phone and need to get backup my contacts...
I hope I don't Bore you alot whit my big thread, but I thing is good to provide more information
I'm Really Really Really Really Sorry for my bad English I just now start to learning it...
tnx
reinstall the sbf of your firmware and do a full wipe in data, this is something that went wrong when you updated.(or unlock and give you phone some sweet love. lol)
OR, try to install a new launcher using ADB.
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Hi guys
Little help needed.. I've had the phone since Aug 09. Had loads of problems with it, but have now decided after nearly a year to update phone as I've lost all notification lights, the charging light, etc. etc. It's not a great phone at the moment!
Donwloaded latest ROM from the HTC site, plugged in phone, and it wouldn't work. Something about the abl, or acb? Wouldn't connect properly when searching etc.
Anyway round it, Tried disconnecting from net, but figure it needs the connection. But didn't work either way.
Is the latest Orange update the one to go for? Does it help the lousy signal, the frozen text messages?
When it says you lose all data, can someone clarify that for me please? Numbers, Sim card info, Phone numbers info, Pics, Music, Email set ups? etc. etc.?
Thanks
Which ROM have you tried?
If you haven't tried it yet, try the VillainROM 12 I think its pretty stable.
Hi, its the latest one for Orange on the HTC forum, but that's not the problem.
It's the fact I can't get the programme to take. It's that ab thing that keeps stopping me and the ROM just exits..
If your ROM is rooted then you shouldn't install the HTC official updates, instead look at the developers forum here and try ROMs from there. For example VillainROM 12 and many others are based on the latest official HTC update.
If your ROM is not rooted, I am not sure what the problem is. Assuming you don't want to root it, maybe you can get support either from HTC or from the shop you bought it at.
Have you got the latest HTC Sync installed?
Hi
Thanks for your replies.
No, not rooted, not anything, since I got it 12 months ago. Other than plugging into pc to transfer pics which always worked. HTC sync? Not aware of?
Never updated Rom ever, but its given me so much grief over the last year, I get maybe 2 web pages and then it freezes for ages and the green line sits for 10 mins before another page. Is that the nature of this phone? Would an update make a difference to that problem?
I downloaded few apps the other night and removed them and now all lights notifications and charging lights don't work. Typing is so laggy and painful to do. Texts won't scroll for minutes...
I just can't understand how everyone says this phone is so great?
I know its a year old now but its always been like this.
Any help much appreciated.
Install HTC Sync and you're problems should go away, though you may need to boot into fastboot and install the driver for that too for the update to work. I can describe that if necessary.
Thanks again ...
Fastboot? Lost me on that one
What does the Rom update erase?
Will try this tomorrow and see if I can get sync on there
You lose everything, but considering the problems you're having this may not be a bad thing. You can backup certain data without root access (such as texts i believe) but that is about it. Check out SMS Backup & Recovery for that. HTC Sync will do contacts (though you should really be using Google contacts by now rather than phone or sim).
Having said that you should lose nothing on your SD card, but I would format that after putting the new system on just in case (so backup to computer etc).
I'll explain fastboot if it's needed. Post back detailed error messages if you get any after installing HTC Sync.
Thank you for your help. I will attempt that when I'm at home, can't do at work.
Forgot to ask, have many others had the phone switching itself off problem? It still does this, and only when you remove battery will it switch on again. No idea why, but you can press every button and nothing doing till battery is removed. Love to know what causes that...
I'm a great ad for this phone huh.
Hi everyone. It's been two days since the process com.google.process.gapps has started crashing, "stopping unexpectedly" whenever i use the browser on my tab.
Reading the error report, it seems (not 100% sure about that) this is somehow related to the bookmarks sync with Chrome, but i can't find a way to disable this.
Has anyone exprerienced the same issue? Any known solution? Thanks
Go to settings > accounts and sync, click on your account then uncheck everything, then manually sync everything one by one to see what is causing the error.
Then go to manage apps and clear the cache of all the problem apps and re-sync them once you're done. It might take a few tries but it should take care of that error.
I'll try that as soon as possible, thanks!
browser sync was causing this for me
I believe that bookmarks sync no long works with galaxy tab. Google changed something on their end that should have worked fine(it still works on the xoom, transformer, etc.) but since samsung changed a bunch of stuff for no apparent reason, it is now broken. samsung is so stupid sometimes..
So you're basically suggesting that bookmarks sync should stay off to avoid problems like that?
well I don't really know. I never used bookmark sync in the first place. I'm just going by what is said in this article.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/br...gle-or-the-oems/17840?tag=mantle_skin;content
It turns out that at some point Google started making some changes to the backend systems that handle Google’s user account data. There’s nothing wrong with them doing this; it happens all the time. In fact, no other Android 3.1 tablets had any issues at all with the changes, and their bookmark sync continued to work without a blip on the radar.
Not Samsung, however... I did some digging around the internet, and it’s become somewhat well-known amongst Android developers that Samsung actually modifies core source code in the Android operating system that handles communicating with Google’s backend data services.
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Well, that's a pity. I had just started to think it was a useful tool to keep track of unread web pages between work, home and outside...
Let's hope Samsung somehow fixes that.
PS: disabling bookmarks sync actually stops the process from crashing, I think I've solved (if we could really say so...) the issue. Thanks to all!
Thanks, disabling auto sync for browser has stopped the error. Samsung developers need to fix this - I can't auto sync my gmail
What am I missing here?
Ok be prepared, this post may be rather long winded however I will try my best to prevent that. I have a Tmobile G2x I purchased on launch date. Ive not attempted to Root, change roms, or anything of the sort. (as much as I always wanted to, I always felt that my skills were not good enough to attempt these ideas no matter how easy they may seem. I just did not want to be the cause of screwing up my phone that I paid dearly for)
So I have a friend who claims to be the master (of disaster so it turns out) of rooting androids and such. He stops by my house just to hang out and eventualy convinces me to let him root my phone and install CM7. Within a few minutes the phone was rooted (super1click) and was running CM7 release candidate. (I really dont know what all these things truly are but I drilled him for answers once he jacked up my phone and left me with a half-bricked phone) So he installed Rom manager and convinced me to upgrade to the premium version via marketplace so I did. He was then showing me how easy it was to flash new roms at the touch of a few buttons. He put on some other rom which looked like CM7 but claimed to have extra tweaks. It worked fine. A few minutes later he put on some Faux Rom which gave a boot up screen like my old Nexus One did. (Multicolored X) It seemed to work fine as well. Then he said lets check out the nightly CM7 Rom so he put it on. (however I dont think it ever actually put CM7 back on.-still on Faux?) Thats when things got crazy.
Now I get the com.google.process.gapps force close message all the time. He tried to fix it for 4 hours and finally gave up. Here is what I know he/we tried: After searching the internet for hours we tried everyone elses ideas. Clearing calenders cashes, un syncing, etc. We did about 40 factory resets. We have tried to install my backup (which was from BEFORE he even touched my phone) and upon holding both volume rockers and plugging in USB (no battery installed) and it still does nothing. Windows recognizes device but phone screen stays black. Tried Debug mode while doing this as well. If we hold the volume down button and power the little install bar comes on the screen and it does its thing (whatever that is) and goes right back to the way it was. I keep getting the gapps message all the time. After factory reset I cant even type in my gmail address to start the initial setup of the phone. The force close keeps cutting me off. If I type fast, I can sync the account but I cant use market whatsoever. Tried installing Rom manager to re-flash but just sticks at starting download and gapps pops up again.
My son is starting school tomorrow and he has a medical condition. I NEED this phone to communicate with the school nurse via emails and such. As of now I can only text, call, or surf web all while dodging force closes. If ANYONE out there can please help me get my phone back to normal Id greatly appreciate it. Im sure its something easy but as I said before, Im not good at this thing and thats why I never attempted it myself. Your welcome to submit answers here or PM me your phone # if you want to walk me through it on the phone. (I have a landline phone to talk to you on) Thanks in advance for everyones time and Im sorry this ended up being so long.
Hello,
Based on your post, I would suggest that you search your phone's development forum on XDA for a compatable clockwork recovery mod which will install a custom recovery on your phone. The thread will give you instructions on how to do so and how to enter recovery mode.
You can then enter the 'Backup and Restore' part of the recovery and restore your backup manually without using ROM manager. If this doesn't work, I would suggest that you then download the ROM of your choice and install it from the clockwork recovery. Make sure you clear user data and wipe the cache before you install.
Any fix yet? This is really annoying me as I rely on my bookmarks tremendously.
try this:
Open stock browser and under settings choose clear cache and deletehistory
Hey all, sorry if this has been asked, but I have done searches and tried looking thru the forum and cant find an answer... So today after I got sick of my Droid X2 not working properly on stock for months now, I finally went ahead and tried rooting and installing CM7 and this time around (well on my second or third try tonight) I got it installed and working!! Well, working for the most part. So far I am super impressed and enjoying the rom! The one major issue is I cant seem to sync my contacts from Google. I have always been able to in the past on stock and what not, but not on CM7. I get like 3 contacts that were saved to my phone, but everything else is gone. Ive added my gmail account that they were associated with and synched and still no contacts. If anyone could help me out, it would be greatly appreciated!
*Also, just checked my calendar and its working fine... all my info has updated there, but still not my contacts...
This also happened on a friend of mine's x2 when I flashed cm7 for him. Not sure why?
I suspect it had something to do with google not sync the contacts properly before I flashed though, and nothing to do with the rom.
I felt so bad that he had lost all his contacts. I swore then to never flash rom's for anyone else, and I haven't. I just direct them to xda. If I can learn it, then they can too.
O catches my friends 30 to root and rom... did u correctly flash the Google apps thing for aosp roms? Try again with the flashing of Google apps.... but it's just a few numbers...
cyanogen
Edit: I charge my friends....
I had the same exact thing happen to me...
Thanks for all the help... I ended up just staying up for a few hours and re-adding it from Verizons backup assistant. I did a search for the CM7 rom in general (not just for the DX) and some others had the problem and used Verizon to get their contacts back. The sad thing though was there is a file you are able to download from Verizon and put it on your sd card to load your contacts... but I tried and tried and couldnt get it to work. I tried putting the file on the SD, then on the internal and nothing... So I just went thru one by one and added them in myself... heh.
Now my next issue is that my wifi drops out frequently. I have not had the chance to look it up, but was wondering if any of you have had this problem. I am hoping the file was not outdated, as the stuff I put on the phone I got back in January and February. Not sure if there have been updates since then, but I thought I would ask. If anyone has a fix I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks again everyone!
kalojado said:
Thanks for all the help... I ended up just staying up for a few hours and re-adding it from Verizons backup assistant. I did a search for the CM7 rom in general (not just for the DX) and some others had the problem and used Verizon to get their contacts back. The sad thing though was there is a file you are able to download from Verizon and put it on your sd card to load your contacts... but I tried and tried and couldnt get it to work. I tried putting the file on the SD, then on the internal and nothing... So I just went thru one by one and added them in myself... heh.
Now my next issue is that my wifi drops out frequently. I have not had the chance to look it up, but was wondering if any of you have had this problem. I am hoping the file was not outdated, as the stuff I put on the phone I got back in January and February. Not sure if there have been updates since then, but I thought I would ask. If anyone has a fix I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks again everyone!
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Look it up. Its out there.
cyanogen
Umm. Here u go wifi fix... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23029794
cyanogen
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Look it up. Its out there.
cyanogen
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I am... been looking thru the forums for the past hour. Sure I will figure it out...
The best way (in my experience) to keep contacts while going from ROM to ROM is to use the import/export feature in the contacts list.
Contacts -> menu button
Select import/export, then export to SD card.
This sends a vCard file to your SD card which you can keep there or backup to an external HDD or computer HDD.
To restore, follow the same instructions and select import from SD card. Select the file and watch all of your contacts come back
Verizon's backup assistant is crap IMO. It's too slow and confusing to navigate efficiently.
I want to start off with a pre-apology for not keeping up on this Android / Smartphone stuff.
Here's the deal:
Never really used my Droid X2 much until it started acting weird after I let a "friend" use it. I find out a little later, Said "friend" used my roommate's computer to help him "cleanup" his files and help secure the wifi. After realizing what might have happened I checked out the roomies PC. I have no idea what he did specifically, but now im trying to download device drivers, look at files through an explorer, etc. and I can't do any administration stuff. I tried using my restriction lock for outgoing calls cuz Skype is goin NUTZ now but I dunno if its actually working when I see the "calls disable" prompt pop up randomly like someones trying to use the line. I have all these program package installer apps running in the background as well as Motorola service apps that I've never downloaded myself.
After research I think he setup his own driver while using my phone and my roomies comp (i honestly was asleep & I trusted chillin wit the kidso I'm sure he saw my unlock code... TOTAL mistake) that has something to do with android SDK and writing code for it and then continuing his "project" (my Droid x2) remote from wherever he was after while somehow maintaining a good network connection either through my Droid or my roomies wifi, which I used everytime I'm home cuz it saved data.
I've learned, or read, a lot... but I don't understand the basics or the foundations here. And everytime I try to follow a step by step process, I'm somehow not permission denied
Plz help
Sent from my DROID X2
I'm not really clear on the issue. But if your friend messed something up on your phone and now you cant do anything on it, I would use this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1317707
Basically, you need to do a full factory reset on your phone. Thats the best I can do without knowing what exactly is wrong with your phone.
Im also not sure what your getting at but sbf and a factory reset will set anything back to right. And also most of that stuff you were talking about is part of the phone to begin with.
Rolling AOKP in the north.
Hello all, I'm new here in XDA. A friend of mine recently got a fighting mini N9300 and we've got some troubles with it. When the phone receives a call it automatically restarts itself. When it does, it doesn't recognise the SD card (and of course, any of the apps in it, including the Launcher I installed) so I have to manually deactivate and reactivate it in the settings menu.
I was wondering if there might be a solution for this, maybe a hard reset or a rom change. I've already seen the root guide here in XDA so I'm am going to give it a shot one of these days, so we can get rid of unnecesary apps and maybe assign more memory to the phone (if possible).
Any advice on how to make the phone run smooth and with no problems, it will be thanked. My friend just wants a phone that can make it through the day with a charge of battery, and will only install Whatsapp, Twitter and similar apps, not very demanding.
Greetings from Argentina and sorry if i had a spelling mistake.
Danilo