Hi
I have Samsung Galaxy SII I-9100 with CyanogenMod now, but previously I had "brand" stock rom first, and then I install Jelly Bean clean version from Samsung, because my operator didn't release update.
Anyway - I had Jelly Bean and I wrote some Memos aka Notes in Memo app. I copied all files from Phone and from SD Card but I forget to do a normal backup.
I install new ROM based on KitKat without any Note or Memo app... I can't find my data with all memos in some cind of file.
Could you help me to get my Notes / Memos back via recovery or something???
Thanks in advance :angel:
Turisma said:
Hi
I have Samsung Galaxy SII I-9100 with CyanogenMod now, but previously I had "brand" stock rom first, and then I install Jelly Bean clean version from Samsung, because my operator didn't release update.
Anyway - I had Jelly Bean and I wrote some Memos aka Notes in Memo app. I copied all files from Phone and from SD Card but I forget to do a normal backup.
I install new ROM based on KitKat without any Note or Memo app... I can't find my data with all memos in some cind of file.
Could you help me to get my Notes / Memos back via recovery or something???
Thanks in advance :angel:
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have u made a nandroid backup?then u can install that if in kitkat and use nandroid manager to restore
OR make nand backup of kitkat temperory move to previous backup make backup of your memo and return to kitkat
Turisma said:
Hi
I have Samsung Galaxy SII I-9100 with CyanogenMod now, but previously I had "brand" stock rom first, and then I install Jelly Bean clean version from Samsung, because my operator didn't release update.
Anyway - I had Jelly Bean and I wrote some Memos aka Notes in Memo app. I copied all files from Phone and from SD Card but I forget to do a normal backup.
I install new ROM based on KitKat without any Note or Memo app... I can't find my data with all memos in some cind of file.
Could you help me to get my Notes / Memos back via recovery or something???
Thanks in advance :angel:
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If you have just copied files from Phone/SDCard, then there is no way to retrieve them back. The Memo app saves the notes in a proprietary format inside the application data folder. You should have taken a Nandroid backup before flashing any custom rom. That way we can try to restore data saved in the stock rom applications.
Thank you so much.
Unfortunately I just copy all data from Phone and SD card to PC.
I just don't need anything besides photos and other media files... and of course notes I forgot...
I saw on YouTube that it should be folder com.xxx.xxx.memos or notes and there should be database but I don't have it.
I tried some recovery data programs on PC to find deleted files... ehh
Anyway thanks!
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Afternoon, I know this will cross over a load of threads so I don't want anyone to spend a lot of time replying just a few bullet points.
I had my phone all how I liked it and then a new ROM was released the other week...........so I backup all apps and data with Titanium backup. Then I backup SMS separately (as Titanium doesn't do it) and I manually move all my photos onto my ExtSDcard.
I had the JellyBean Criskelo ROM 8 and Kitchen on my internal memory card.
Then I booted into recovery, Factory Reset, Wipe Cache, Wipe Davlik.
I installed the ROM and reboot the phone and all good, I install the Kitchen all good.......this is where I have problems...........
Then I re sync to Google and get my contacts back, but then I don't have Titanium to restore my apps, so I spend ages scouring the internet for a copy with batch restore (I have now bought this app but I think the same will apply).........
So I finally find Titanium and recover all the apps, then recover the SMS's and I'm back to how it was prior to the new ROM yet on a new ROM version........i.e. non of the new features of the new ROM.
What am I doing wrong, please amend the above as neccessary and thank you for your patience.
Jamie
Can you specify what are the new features you are not getting.. Your method seems to be okay..
You have been zooo==>ted
Well the Jelly Bean specific bits are disappearing, the folder animations, the little eyes.........
zoot1 said:
Can you specify what are the new features you are not getting.. Your method seems to be okay..
You have been zooo==>ted
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Hello everybody,
I'm New to these forums and i'm a TOTAL noob. About a week ago
I wanted excitedly to flash CyanogenMod 10 and succeeded.
I made a Nandroid backup to my internal SD card and copied it into my
computer. Now I have tried via CWM recovery to restore my
personal files, for example apps, contacts, messages, etc. and,
for some reason, it FAILS to recover them. And, not only that,
but I've started to hate CM10 also. It stinks. It has got only a small
part of things compared to Touchwis. I desperately tried to restore it
and found out something about "flashing a stock rom and doing a full wipe".
I'm starting to freak out because all my apps and contacts are
so close but i can't access them!!! And the good ol' Touchwis.
I just can't get it back. I regret tuhat I ever installed
the CyanogenMod. I have a Samsung Galaxy S 3
GT-i9300 phone. Please, van you help me?
Serveri said:
Hello everybody,
I'm New to these forums and i'm a TOTAL noob. About a week ago
I wanted excitedly to flash CyanogenMod 10 and succeeded.
I made a Nandroid backup to my internal SD card and copied it into my
computer. Now I have tried via CWM recovery to restore my
personal files, for example apps, contacts, messages, etc. and,
for some reason, it FAILS to recover them. And, not only that,
but I've started to hate CM10 also. It stinks. It has got only a small
part of things compared to Touchwis. I desperately tried to restore it
and found out something about "flashing a stock rom and doing a full wipe".
I'm starting to freak out because all my apps and contacts are
so close but i can't access them!!! And the good ol' Touchwis.
I just can't get it back. I regret tuhat I ever installed
the CyanogenMod. I have a Samsung Galaxy S 3
GT-i9300 phone. Please, van you help me?
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1)Your contacts should have been synced with your Gmail account. Sync Gmail and it should work.
2) you should have done a titanium backup for the apps! In any case just re download all the apps from the app store. Play store saves which apps you have downloaded since the first one.
3) should have used sms backup and restore for the messages. What format are the messages in?
4) as for stock, download the stock firmware from sammobile.com for your specific device. Copy it to internal sd. Wipe/factory reset. Cwm recovery it, wipe there if need be, clear cache and flash the zip for official.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
Hi All,
I'm new to cyanogenmod and just installed CM 10.1.3 (Android 4.2.2) following the heimdall/OSX guide but I'm having some problems to restore my data from the previous Samsung 4.3 installation.
I took a backup before installing cyanogenmod by using the Android SDK adb command
./adb backup -apk -shared -all -f backupname.ab
but that seems to have taken a full system backup as a single file and not possible to recover any of my files individually..
Unfortunately I didn't had my phone contacts to be synced with a gmail accounts as I wanted to keep them separate for synchronising with my email contacts but this doesn't seem to be an option with the current cyanogenmod version, you can't create a local contact on the phone but the any new contact you add must be part of an online account like gmail..
Giving the current circustances Is there an easy way I could restore all my files (app settings/contacts/photos) to my phone ? Can some one help me and tell me how ? My thught is to restore the previous 4.3 Android version from Samsung and root my phone to take single backups using Titanium backup but I don't know how well this will work ...
couple of more questions :
1) Is there an easy way to restore my phone Samsung ROM (and data) previously as it was before installing cyanogenmod with the adb backup file ?
2) Can you point me to a good howto in order to root my cyanogenmod (OSX preferable)
3) Once I have cyanogenmod configured will all my data, what' the best way to keep backups ? is the adb command usefull in that case ?
Sorry for the many questions.
Thanks in advance,
Nicolas.
1) Is there an easy way to restore my phone Samsung ROM (and data) previously as it was before installing cyanogenmod with the adb backup file ?
Its all in the Faqs and Guides
Return to stock for warranty thread
Thanks JJEgan, I'm also trying adbextractor for the recovery.
Any suggestions on point 2 & 3 ?
nicolasgr said:
Thanks JJEgan, I'm also trying adbextractor for the recovery.
Any suggestions on point 2 & 3 ?
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As above faqs and guides .
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......
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
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......
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk
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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
I recently installed CyanogenMod 11 on my Galaxy S3 SGH-T999L for T-Mobile (d2mtr).
It won't let me make phone calls or send messages with it. As soon as I start a call, it immediately says "Call Ended". All of my texts fail to send.
I would like to find a way to fix this, or get an original Android 4.3 Firmware (d2mtr) to flash back on it (preferably the original Firmware).
Another option would to restore a backup I made, but when I try to restore it, it says "MD5 Mismatch". I have tried to find backup and delete the unnecessary MD5 files (like I was told to do on other forums), but my but my backup is hidden in the files by ROM Manager.
I need help quick!!! Thanks in advance!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2308514
For your backups, they should be visible from any file explorer app in the clockworkmod folder (assuming you are using CWM since you mentioned Rom Manager - which sucks by the way and hasn't been useful in years).