[Q] Backup text messages before hspl possible?? - HTC Titan

Hello,I need your advice on this, I am planning to finally hspl my titan unbranded eu version , i am currently at stock mango 7.5 and I would like to upgrade to 7.8, before doing that upgrading procedure I need to clarify some issues...
First question is... regarding backing up all my text messages... I know in windows 8 finally microsoft add the posibility to do so, is that backup option also available in 7.8 Windows phones?? If this is the case then what makes sense in order to keep those text messages is to do an official upgrade to 7.8 and then ...... hspl! But then a second question comes in...Is it possible to do a hspl as we can do by now witn 7.5 mango on a 7.8 phone with official rom?
Thanks in advance!

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navarcito said:
Hello,I need your advice on this, I am planning to finally hspl my titan unbranded eu version , i am currently at stock mango 7.5 and I would like to upgrade to 7.8, before doing that upgrading procedure I need to clarify some issues...
First question is... regarding backing up all my text messages... I know in windows 8 finally microsoft add the posibility to do so, is that backup option also available in 7.8 Windows phones?? If this is the case then what makes sense in order to keep those text messages is to do an official upgrade to 7.8 and then ...... hspl! But then a second question comes in...Is it possible to do a hspl as we can do by now witn 7.5 mango on a 7.8 phone with official rom?
Thanks in advance!
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First of all - HSPL is roughly speaking just a custom bootloader. And it absolutely does not give a $hit about your current system type (7.0; 7,5 or 7.8). So if you are planning to update your phone officially to 7.8 - you may do it w/o hspl-ing your device. Also - if you plan to update to 7.8 and to continue using official rom - than you don't need any HSPL.
HSPL allows to flash custom (that means UNSIGNED by the vendor) roms. That's it. HSPL does not allow any operations with official rom - no access to file system or registry, no easy sideloading etc.
Concerning your question about backing up SMS - 7.8 official rom has no benefits comparing mango builds. So - updating before flashing HSPL is the same useless thing as updating after HSPL.
You can make real backups only on custom roms.

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AndrewSh said:
First of all - HSPL is roughly speaking just a custom bootloader. And it absolutely does not give a $hit about your current system type (7.0; 7,5 or 7.8). So if you are planning to update your phone officially to 7.8 - you may do it w/o hspl-ing your device. Also - if you plan to update to 7.8 and to continue using official rom - than you don't need any HSPL.
HSPL allows to flash custom (that means UNSIGNED by the vendor) roms. That's it. HSPL does not allow any operations with official rom - no access to file system or registry, no easy sideloading etc.
Concerning your question about backing up SMS - 7.8 official rom has no benefits comparing mango builds. So - updating before flashing HSPL is the same useless thing as updating after HSPL.
You can make real backups only on custom roms.
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Thank you so much AndrewSh for your kind and so quick answer, sorry for not being as clear as you did regarding HSPL, of course my final goal is instaling custom roms to do more than the official roms can do, as I did with my old win 6.1 mobile device.. Well it's pretty clear now that I will have to loose those sms if I want to install custom roms, since there is not even the possibility of backing them up with the official rom 7.8! So...the latter I will install custom rom the more messages I will loose! Strange since it seems Windows phone 8 has this feature already!
Well at least once I have my phone with a custom rom It would be possible to backup everything as we did with windows mobile 6.5!
Thanks for you time, and info!! very helpfull
Is there any rom with latest 7.8 you can suggest to me? Tried to find yours but I haven't found it!

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navarcito said:
Is there any rom with latest 7.8 you can suggest to me? Tried to find yours but I haven't found it!
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Actually I don't cook roms for public. Because I have some special personal preferences and priorities, which I implement to my roms. Besides - I hate to cook multilingual roms because I hate to waste my phone's memory with useless stuff. As a member of dev team I would offer Dynamics rom. But the new updated version is not ready yet. So to flash existing public version is useless because ultrashot will release the new one soon.
If you use English as a native - I can offer you my private rom to try (my rom is 0409 only). Also I use radio version 16 - more stable and faster working for me. Radio version is important thing when choosing the custom rom to flash. Because OEM parts of roms are dependent on radio version flashed.
So before I can help you to make a decision what to choose - I must know more about your phone:
1. What stock mango version is on your phone?
2. What radio version is currently on?
3. What is your preferred system lang?

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AndrewSh said:
Actually I don't cook roms for public. Because I have some special personal preferences and priorities, which I implement to my roms. Besides - I hate to cook multilingual roms because I hate to waste my phone's memory with useless stuff. As a member of dev team I would offer Dynamics rom. But the new updated version is not ready yet. So to flash existing public version is useless because ultrashot will release the new one soon.
If you use English as a native - I can offer you my private rom to try (my rom is 0409 only). Also I use radio version 16 - more stable and faster working for me. Radio version is important thing when choosing the custom rom to flash. Because OEM parts of roms are dependent on radio version flashed.
So before I can help you to make a decision what to choose - I must know more about your phone:
1. What stock mango version is on your phone?
2. What radio version is currently on?
3. What is your preferred system lang?
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Wow thanks AndrewSh ! Thanks for your offer, my native language is spanish, but english is a almost second nature to me, so no problem for the language!
Answering your question
1. 7.10.8773.98
2. 17.5006.08.27_17.08.50.06U
3. Spanish will be great, but English is not a problem for me, but I will need the spanish keyboard since there are letter like our "ñ" that are only available in our keyboard, and is very common use!
Of course other option is wait and install ultrashot's update when it is ready!
And I agree with you, radio is really important since I have been suffering some issues with voice quality, sometimes people says to me my voice sound as if I were speaking from really far away, and this is happening specially if I hold the phone in a very specific way..I have ordered a silicon cover to help avoiding my hand acting as another antenna in contact with the metal cover of the pone in order to solve this..but maybe radio 1.16 will be better!! who knows! No wifi, or bluetooth problems with actual radio soft.
thanks for your time AndrewSh!!

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