Alright...
I had the Shishir rom on my phone for many months and it worked very well. Tonight I dropped my phone (has happened many times before with no repercussions) while it was plugged in and the rom would no longer load on start up. The boot sequence would run all the way through and get stuck on the four colored X.
So I booted into CWM and made a backup because I had not previously backed up my contacts recently. I transferred this backup to my pc. I restored backup and now my phone works fine. However all of the contacts and messages are gone.
So I ask, I plead, is there any way to manually extract the contact database from the CWM backup image?
-drmorbo
Titanium backup
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
I tried it. Titanium sees the backup but says there is nothing in it...so was all the data corrupted the moment the phone fell and the backup is worthless or..?
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Somewhere along the line, I've wiped out all my SMS/MMS. Along that line, I...
Backed up the contents of the internet SD to my computer
Did a Titanium Backup backup
Did a ClockworkMod backup
Might any of these contain my messages and how can I restore them and them alone?
Thanks.
restore your ClockworkMod backup this will have your msgs in if you did a backup before you lost them.
When you have them back get sms backup and restore from the market then you can restore and back them up when you wish, ive been using it for ages and its always worked perfect.
Gah, the SMS aren't in the ClockworkMod backup.
I think they got wiped when I updated the OS via Kies. I had rooted after that, then done a ClockworkMod backup, but I think it was Kies to blame (its own backup did not work).
hi
last night while using my phone i decided to run clockwork and do a backup. backup was done and i restarted the phone when it got stuck at the lg logo(was stuck all night) and i could only use cwm. i tried to wipe everything and restore the backup but it didn't help. tried another rom and that one worked but that's not it.
the thing is i had all my contacts on the phone memory and never did a sync with gmail or kept a copy on my sim card(WHY AM I SO RETARDED?). is there a way to recover them from the nandroid backup which i still have?
thanks in advance!
Try to unpack the data.img from backup using unyaffs and copy /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts from the backup to your ROM. I personally use Titanium Backup for such things. You should try it too, it's the best tool for program management.
I've got TB pro, so i did a batch backup and decided before i flash any new roms again, that TB is working.
Backing up completes fine.
But it won't restore apps.
I updated to the latest TB pro, cleared my data and set app processing mode to AUTO, Indirect, but that didn't help either.
Any solutions?
Maybe TB can´t find the path for the backup? That happened to me when I flashed an ICS rom that changes the path of both internal and external SD.
I cant imagine how, i havent changed roms at all!
I literally just batch backed up all my apps, then uninstalled two apps and tried restore them but neither would restore
Got the same problem for a long time now..... Tried everything
If u made a zip file then extract it nomrally and install the apps
next time use nandroid backup.
Dont forget hitting thanks......
This is by far the most painful flash I have ever had to do. Let me explain...
I have the htc one m8 with the ViperOne software. Recently they released the Android L version so naturally I downloaded the new 4.0.0 Viper rom and upgraded my firmware. Since I have a lot of data I backed it up using HTC sync manager which has been flawless. I also made a TWRP backup. I then cleared my data and flashed the rom flawlessly. Once that was done I went to restore all my data (pictures, music, settings, wallpaper, etc) using Sync manager. However, everytime I plugged it in and went to restore my data, it would freeze at about 1-7% and I would have to close it. It wouldn't work.
Naturally I restored my phone from TWRP and went into Titanium backup and made a backup. It took awhile, but it was done. I flashed the rom again but instead when I went to restore things from Titanium backup, it wouldn't recognize my data. It just said "searching for application data." I even changed the detection settings, but nothing.
Once again, I restored my phone from TWRP and this time decided to back up Titanium backup to Google Drive. It took an hour but it worked. I flashed the rom again and went to download the Drive zip file to my SD card.
Think I'm homefree right?
Nope, God played his cruel trick on me and instead my computer froze everytime I tried to transfer the file to my SD card. Now my computer is constantly freezing, I can't get HTC sync manager to work without freezing, titanium backup won't recognize my backups no matter what I do. This has been painful.
So here I sit, wondering, what in God's name do I do?
Long Story Short: On a CM12(Nightly) Moto G(Falcon) that had to be thoroughly reformatted after an unexplained disaster, I'm trying to use a TWRP backup made earlier and ensconced on my computer to restore my phone. After using the backup function once to establish the filepath, I transfer the backup to the backups folder in TWRP and use the restore function. At first, it said that it was a f2fs backup or something, but after reformatting to match it just hangs when trying to restore the data folder(without a specific error), and throws a "Failed" message. Backup doesn't work, phone gets one step closer to being launched out the window. I've thoroughly reformatted everything, reflashed recovery, and double checked all the catches I know of(the backup is under 2.5 gb for instance).
I'm stumped. Should I give up at this point? Is the backup just gone(especially given that it's connected to how this all got started)? Is there nothing I can do with having captured all the folders onto my PC?
(Full story)
While fiddling around with Moto G 2013(falcon/xt1032) running CM12 Nightly this morning I decided I should take a backup with TWRP (which I had also specifically installed this morning because of rumors of it working with encryption). The moment after I rebooted from the (supposedly successful)backup, my phone got stuck in a nasty bootloop, would even reboot from attempting to start recovery half the time. After a lot of cursing and trial and error I successfully formatted everything and reinstalled TWRP, and that stopped.
I had even managed a mass evacuation of my files (simply dragging everything off with windows explorer) to my computer. This included that fateful backup that TWRP made, that didn't seem to be worse the wear. There are some things on here that I'd rather miss (especially since I just cleaned out my PC based backup program yesterday), so I'm trying to restore my phone from there.