I am currently using the latest version of Cyanogen Mod. I have a backup of the stock rom 4.1.2. I am using Clocworkmod as a recovery tool. I do not know what type of backup it is. There was no nandroid.md5 in the backup folder when I tried to restore, so I created an empty file. The problem is that it restores everything except for the data. It shows an error What I'm left with is a brand new factory form Stock rom, with all my data lost. Please help
I think the backup is incomplete..I had this once before.
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maybe but when I check data/media/ I find there all my old files. Is there any way possible for me to retrieve just some data. What I really want is viber/ whatsapp. I am in the us right now and I need to use them but they're tied to my european numbers.
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Hello,
I was using WildChild custom rom for my WildfireS and created a SMS backup before flashing and moving to m1ndh4x8 ROM. In this ROM there is no backup/restore function though.
-How do I restore my messages? Can I upgrade the stock message app? Or is there any B&R app that can read the backup file? so far I tried many but non of them worked.
Thanks for your help.
maestro_mihagi said:
Hello,
I was using WildChild custom rom for my WildfireS and created a SMS backup before flashing and moving to m1ndh4x8 ROM. In this ROM there is no backup/restore function though.
-How do I restore my messages? Can I upgrade the stock message app? Or is there any B&R app that can read the backup file? so far I tried many but non of them worked.
Thanks for your help.
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Whats the file format of the backup u did is it a *.csv or a *.xml?
the file saved by the stock app doesn't have any extension. I tried to import it in excel but I can see only strange characters. I also tried to rename as *.xml and start the restore with SMS Backup and Restore but it says "Failed:Null".
Thanks for your interest.
maestro_mihagi said:
the file saved by the stock app doesn't have any extension. I tried to import it in excel but I can see only strange characters. I also tried to rename as *.xml and start the restore with SMS Backup and Restore but it says "Failed:Null".
Thanks for your interest.
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Hmmm
My stock sms does not contain resotring and backuping messages so i dont know if u want to be on the safe side the next time use super backup from the market
its backing up all ur sms contacs and the call log each one in a single file so u can easily restore
thanks, I restore the message in a very long way
1- i did a backup with CWM of the actual rom
2- I flashed the phone with the previous rom
3- I restored the sms backup with the stock messages app.
4- I made anotehr backup with SMSBackupandrestore
5- I restored the new ROM with the CWM backup
6- installed SMSB&R and imported my texts! Yeah..
Next time i will use directly third part software to do backup.
maestro_mihagi said:
thanks, I restore the message in a very long way
1- i did a backup with CWM of the actual rom
2- I flashed the phone with the previous rom
3- I restored the sms backup with the stock messages app.
4- I made anotehr backup with SMSBackupandrestore
5- I restored the new ROM with the CWM backup
6- installed SMSB&R and imported my texts! Yeah..
Next time i will use directly third part software to do backup.
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hahahah thats exactly what i had to do a few weeks ago but in my case i just lost one numer and had to do the whole procedure xD
Hi,
Just wondering if there is a solution for me here. I did a CWM backup before soft-bricking phone and now all is up and running again. I still have the clockworkmod folder on sdcard but no boot.img etc. I notice Titanium Backup is the paid version which offers the options mentioned here. Is there any chance of locating and recovering my sms from this cwm backup folder? TIA
I have a similar problem.
I have used stock message app for backup and tried to restore my messages after a factory reset of my HTC Sensation (stock rom). Backup file is 3MB big and I guess that is the "reason" why it keeps reporting that it is "Unable to restore messages".
The backup file is located on SD in the apropriate folder.
I tried with some old 768KB file and succeded. Sent 1 sms and did the new backup to be sure that folder is asociated with the app - everything is ok. Even though I have restored that 1 sms in order to test the restore function and the path to backup files. Everything works just fine.
Conclusion: The backup file I need is too big.
How to solve this issue?
Perhaps I could shrink it somehow or use another app to read the file? Any idea?
edit: I forgot to tell. Those messages are veeery important to me (business, love, contacts, etc...) so I'll try anything I can to restore them.
I guess I always ask some too dificult or stupid questions or am not being loved arround here
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pezzilla said:
I have a similar problem.
I have used stock message app for backup and tried to restore my messages after a factory reset of my HTC Sensation (stock rom). Backup file is 3MB big and I guess that is the "reason" why it keeps reporting that it is "Unable to restore messages".
The backup file is located on SD in the apropriate folder.
I tried with some old 768KB file and succeded. Sent 1 sms and did the new backup to be sure that folder is asociated with the app - everything is ok. Even though I have restored that 1 sms in order to test the restore function and the path to backup files. Everything works just fine.
Conclusion: The backup file I need is too big.
How to solve this issue?
Perhaps I could shrink it somehow or use another app to read the file? Any idea?
edit: I forgot to tell. Those messages are veeery important to me (business, love, contacts, etc...) so I'll try anything I can to restore them.
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Hi Pezilla
Did you resolve this issue? I did a factory reset of my HTC Sensation and have the exact same problem. File size is 2.3Mb. No problem restoring smaller files. I can't think how to reduce the size of the file because I don't know how to read it!!
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anbo1x said:
Hi Pezilla
Did you resolve this issue? I did a factory reset of my HTC Sensation and have the exact same problem. File size is 2.3Mb. No problem restoring smaller files. I can't think how to reduce the size of the file because I don't know how to read it!!
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Hi, I have a similar problem. I have an SMS backup file from my HTC Wildfire S. This backup file was created on the SD Card by my unrooted and unmodified phone. I then rooted the phone, and now run WildChild on it. I cannot restore my old SMS from the original backup file.
As mentioned above, I have a file with no extension.
How can I restore my SMS messages? What apps do I need and where will I get them. (Total Noob!!).
Thanks
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Hi, I have a similar problem. I have an SMS backup file from my HTC Wildfire S. This backup file was created on the SD Card by my unrooted and unmodified phone. I then rooted the phone, and now run WildChild on it. I cannot restore my old SMS from the original backup file.
As mentioned above, I have a file with no extension.
How can I restore my SMS messages? What apps do I need and where will I get them. (Total Noob!!).
Thanks
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I searched that issue very much, so sorry but no other application reads that stock sms backup You have to flash stock rom first, after that you can restore your sms.
Hello!
I have CWM Touch Recovery v6.0.3.1. A couple of hours ago, I made a NANDroid backup before flashin a new ROM. When I attempted to use NANDroid backup manager to restore my apps and data, the app said I had no apps in the backup. Upon reviewing the files CWM created, I discovered that it created several data.ext4.tar files. Is there a way to combine these so I can use the Nandroid backup manager to restore my apps. I've managed to restore call logs, text messages and wifi data but my apps are important too
Thanks in advance for the help ^-^
EDIT: I do realise I could probably use CWM for restoring but I want to restore specific apps and not the data. (I.e the recently updated hotmail app)
Plus, restoring with CWM flashes data that is incompatible with the new ROM.
full back up or partial back up
SeraphSephiroth said:
Hello!
I have CWM Touch Recovery v6.0.3.1. A couple of hours ago, I made a NANDroid backup before flashin a new ROM. When I attempted to use NANDroid backup manager to restore my apps and data, the app said I had no apps in the backup. Upon reviewing the files CWM created, I discovered that it created several data.ext4.tar files. Is there a way to combine these so I can use the Nandroid backup manager to restore my apps. I've managed to restore call logs, text messages and wifi data but my apps are important too
Thanks in advance for the help ^-^
EDIT: I do realise I could probably use CWM for restoring but I want to restore specific apps and not the data. (I.e the recently updated hotmail app)
Plus, restoring with CWM flashes data that is incompatible with the new ROM.
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As far as i know Nandroid backup is used to restore previously backed up ROM+installed applications+app data . If you jus want to back up some application, just use something like "Titanium Backup", it workes great.
:good: If it helped you, Just hit the THANKS :highfive:
Titanium, Backup (TiBu) has an option for extract from nandroid backup in its menu. why dont you try that if u have TiBu installed ..
Thank you but I solved my problen a while ago.
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SeraphSephiroth said:
Hello!
I have CWM Touch Recovery v6.0.3.1. A couple of hours ago, I made a NANDroid backup before flashin a new ROM. When I attempted to use NANDroid backup manager to restore my apps and data, the app said I had no apps in the backup. Upon reviewing the files CWM created, I discovered that it created several data.ext4.tar files. Is there a way to combine these so I can use the Nandroid backup manager to restore my apps. I've managed to restore call logs, text messages and wifi data but my apps are important too
Thanks in advance for the help ^-^
EDIT: I do realise I could probably use CWM for restoring but I want to restore specific apps and not the data. (I.e the recently updated hotmail app)
Plus, restoring with CWM flashes data that is incompatible with the new ROM.
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A nandroid backup is used to backup the system,boot,recovery... In case your phone is bricked but if yout want to backup apps just use an application like titanium backup
Dear fellows,
I hope this is a right place to ask my question here. If not please please tell me and head me over to an other thread where this has been discussed.
I've rooted the S4 mini successfully (thanks to arco68). Right after the rooting process and installing ARCO's CWM I backed up the stock 4.4.2 rom in any case. I did a factory reset and flashed CM 11 also successfully and everything was good. After a week I wanted to go back to stock. So I restored the backup I made previously. Everything went out good, but now the whole system is inconsistent and instable. I have problems with the WiFi, SD card problems and so on.
What am I did wrong? Any advise is very welcome
I will flash stock via Odin tomorrow and root it again. But I want to avoid this process in future
Thanks
Hi everyone,
I had upgraded my Galaxy Gio from stock rom to custom rom (CM 7.2 based), and now I want to restore just a few apps + data (for e.g. Memo) and Contacts (from stock rom) from my Nandroid backup, so I want it should be on the current custom rom.
How far I tried to do so, I could'nt get it done. I tried with NANDROID MANAGER, I installed it and tried to restore some apps + their data, (the apps was in previous rom in System/Apps so Nandroid Manager automatically wanted to install it in system/apps), ok, the program showed as it's installed with no broblems, BUT after reboot as it required, NOTHING HAPPENED, so I looked in system/apps and data/data with root explorer, those apps & data were there, but it was not installed.....
I also tried to restore the Contacts from Nandroid (Contacts Storage), and I ended up with erasing all contacts I had currently on the phone (anyway that wasn't a problem, cause i had an regular backup of it).
So I would like to understand what the problem is, and how is it possible to have my previous memos and contacts restored to my current rom?!
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ISSUE?!
Thanks in advance.
If this were me I would make a nandroid of current ROM, wipe clean, restore nandroid of old ROM, use titanium backup (preferred but there are others) to backup apps and data (I use a different app for contacts and SMS/call log but I believe titanium can do this too) then I would wipe clean, restore nandroid, restore what is needed from titanium
May sound like a lot but should be finished in less than a half hour with all
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demkantor said:
If this were me I would make a nandroid of current ROM, wipe clean, restore nandroid of old ROM, use titanium backup (preferred but there are others) to backup apps and data (I use a different app for contacts and SMS/call log but I believe titanium can do this too) then I would wipe clean, restore nandroid, restore what is needed from titanium
May sound like a lot but should be finished in less than a half hour with all
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Thank you for replying.
But I had read some posts that if the current rom is EXT4 based and stock rom is RFS based, then CWM wouldn't restore the backup normally (because the sd card has to be rfs format - something like this if I understood). So i'm a little bit afraid to do that cause I don't want to get stuck on boot....
Any sugestion for that??
Thanks in advance.
Well sd-card is always formatted as fat/ntfs irrespective of the rom....
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Like in the post above you will never have an SD formatted in rfs, but there are some recoveries that have issues restoring backups depending on the format the backup was made in but this doesn't appear to be your case (like if a backup was made in yaffs2 but recovery uses tar) so I really don't think this should be an issue for you. Having said that I have never used your phone before and if you're very concerned you should find another who has to ask. But I'm still 99% sure you're safe to do this
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Dear xda community,
recently a Galaxy S2 of a friend of mine got soft bricked. It was just stuck at the boot logo.
The device wasn't rooted or anything so I rooted it, created a Nandroid backup and flashed the latest version of a Custom ROM I recommend to use on the S2 (SentinelROM latest version).
Now he was on 4.1.2 when i created the Nandroid Backup, SentinelROM is based on 4.3. When I copy the mms databases from the nandroid backup to his data/data/com.android.providers.telophony/databases/ folder.
The SMS app will FC until I delete the Database files copied from the Nandroid backup again. Is there any way I can get his contacts and sms out of that nandroid backup on his current OS?
Thanks.
P.S. I will gladly provide additional information!
SMS and contact data are produced by system apps....restoring data from system apps into a newer version of the OS will ALWAYS cause force closes etc.
There *might* be a way around it....
You need to find the software / OS version he was running before and reinstall it....then import the data from the nandroid. Once you have done that.....
1) download 'SMS BACKUP AND RESTORE' from play store then use it to make a backup.....you should find a folder called SMS backup and restore when you search for it.
2) open the contacts, press menu and select import/export (or whatever it says) to create the file.....it should say something like vcf00001 when you search for it.
Move the backups to external storage, reflash the ROM and repeat steps 1 and 2 except (obviously) restore rather than backup.......
Or.......
Simply reflash the original OS, import the data and leave as is......
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keithross39 said:
SMS and contact data are produced by system apps....restoring data from system apps into a newer version of the OS will ALWAYS cause force closes etc.
There *might* be a way around it....
You need to find the software / OS version he was running before and reinstall it....then import the data from the nandroid. Once you have done that.....
1) download 'SMS BACKUP AND RESTORE' from play store then use it to make a backup.....you should find a folder called SMS backup and restore when you search for it.
2) open the contacts, press menu and select import/export (or whatever it says) to create the file.....it should say something like vcf00001 when you search for it.
Move the backups to external storage, reflash the ROM and repeat steps 1 and 2 except (obviously) restore rather than backup.......
Or.......
Simply reflash the original OS, import the data and leave as is......
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First of all, thanks for your detailed reply. Is it really enough to just restore the backup while on the same OS version (Jelly Bean 4.1.2) as when the backup was created? Could I flash a 4.1.2 ROM onto my Galaxy S, then restore the Nandroid /data backup I did and I'll have the contacts and sms from my friends S2 (where Nandroid backup was created on 4.1.2) on my Galaxy S i9000? Then I wouldn't need to reflash his S2
Thanks again and have a great day
As far as I know, it's the matching OS version that is critical here.....this simply will not work across different OS's......
The only other thing that *might* stop it working is if the data you are trying to restore is itself corrupted.......
As for restoring the data to the S.....
I did something similar with the vcf contacts file when I migrated the file from my Galaxy W to my S2.....
I can't speak for an SMS backup as I've never tried it....in theory it *could* work, as the backup is made by the app in a format it can recognise independently of the OS/phone, but I simply don't know.....
I would be surprised if data pulled from an S2 nandroid could be successfully applied to an S though.....
Make a nandroid of the working setup on the S and give it a try.....
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
BTW.....how are you pulling the data from the nandroid?
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
keithross39 said:
BTW.....how are you pulling the data from the nandroid?
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
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I will only restore the data partition from the nandroid so I'd say there's a high chance of success.
I'm pulling the data from the Nandroid by using this command:
cat data.ext4.tar data.ext4.tar.a data.ext4.tar.b > data-combined.tar
to create readable ".tar" files. Then I can browse the backup as much as I want. I can find the sms databases but no contacts database which worries me. I really hope they're just gonna be there once I restore the backup on my Galaxy S.
I'm a phone geek as well
Lol....that's my tapatalk signature........
Is it possible that the contact records are stored on the sim card?
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
keithross39 said:
Lol....that's my tapatalk signature........
Is it possible that the contact records are stored on the sim card?
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
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Some of them were. But most of them not.
Ah OK......well the easiest way forward I think will be just to reflash the S2 and restore the data.....
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
i use nandroid manager from play store to restore sms from 4.1.2 rom to 4.4.2 or 4.4.2 to 4.1.2. it work like a charm , i restore > 2000 sms each time.
thanks
Troubadour666 said:
i use nandroid manager from play store to restore sms from 4.1.2 rom to 4.4.2 or 4.4.2 to 4.1.2. it work like a charm , i restore > 2000 sms each time.
thanks
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Cheers fella.....I never knew that app existed.......saved it to my 'wishlist' for future reference......
My wife says I'm a phone geek....She's probably right
Hello everyone,
Can I ask how do I exclude all sensitive data when I perform nandroid backup of the system and data partition of my phone using the latest TWRP recovery v3.1.1-0?
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Hello everyone,
Can I ask how do I exclude all sensitive data when I perform nandroid backup of the system and data partition of my phone using the latest TWRP recovery v3.1.1-0?
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There really isn't a way... What I would do is backup system and data, then copy all data apps you want included to the sdcard. Then factory reset. (To remove sensitive info) Skip thru the setup wizard, enable unknown sources, then backdoor the apps. (Still with no google account tied to the phone)
Next make a new backup of system and data for whoever you're sharing this with...then restore your original backup so everything is back the way you had it.
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If you plan on sharing it. Don't. Nandroid backups also back up stuff that is device dependent. Many devices have been bricked because they restored a Nandroid from another device. Even if it is the same model.