Hey guys.
My fiancee broke the screen on her S4. Glass is fine, LCD and Digitizer are donezo. Grabbed a replacement phone from a VZW store under insurance today. Her phone was completely stock, no recovery, no nandroid, no titanium backups.
Mounts to PC fine as USB storage. Pulled the super important stuff (pics, files) off the obvious locations.
Is there a way to recover text messages, or even the entire SD card? I know I can do a adb pull to copy the entire SD card, but if I throw that onto her new phone will that restore her texts, any contacts that weren't backed up, etc?
Any advice is much appreciated.
Contacts are backed up via Google(if sync is turned on)
Text messages can be saved through messaging app to SIM....
HOPE this helps. GL
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Hi there, I know how to unlock and root my phone. Right now it is bone stock because I just got a refurb. (problem with charging port)
I have a few saved texts with the stock app and also have a backup sms app. I have a few very important texts that need to be saved for court purposes.
If I unlock and root, I know it will wipe my phone. Will the backup app and stock app definatley save my texts?
Thanks
I use my backup pro to save texts when flashing as it allows the option of saving online or sd card, I have never lost messages I needed to save using this.
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make sure you back them up to the external SD card and your computer just in case and u should be fine
Yeah I F'ed up once with the INC and the wife's T-Bolt. I used a app to save the text, but I didn't have the app to my sd card. I had a wife that was a little up set with me... LOL
I backed up texts from when I was stock on the stock sms app and it saved them to the actual SD card. Then when unlocked and rooted I was able to restore them back to the stock app. So I think you should be fine doing it with the stock app.
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SMS Backup and Restore has worked well for me. Just make sure you set the backup directory to your external SD card. It also gives you an option to email the backup file. Considering the importance of your texts, you probably want to put a copy on your computer to be extra cautious.
^^this. That app is awesome and what I've been using for quite some time now. Just change the directory to external SD card and ur golden, the app can be redownloaded on the new rom and SMS restored. Its fast too!
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I am coming from an OG EVE and I am uploading some apps with data that I would like to bring over to google drive.
Besides that what are you doing?
Are you just going to take your sd card out of the current phone and stick it in the new one? Good idea or bad?
I was thinking of just copying over my music/pictures and starting the sd card from scratch so I don't bring over all that garbage I have accumulated.
Thoughts on best practice here?
Good post. I too am a little new to transfer from old android phone to new android phone.
How exactly are people transferring phone numbers on the phone (not gmail) to the LTEvo? Are you just uploading everything to google and transferring?
As far as apps, I am putting faith in appbrain to just redownload all the apps?
This might be a noob question, but I will ask anyway. Once i set up my gmail account on the new phone? Will old evo not work w/ the same email? I read somewhere that you can only use one email with one phone.
I don't use google for contacts, so i exported everything to a VCF file on the sd card.
Most apps let you back up their settings, so I used that function. Not overly concerned about email. Once app is installed (k9 mail), and settings are imported, it's just a matter of refreshing to resync with the imap servers.
I do look forward to having root so I can run titaniumbackup to restore other apps/settings.
Id make sure all ur contacts r connected to Google or backed up somewhere so u don't end up re entering them all. As for my SD card. I'm backing it up then reformating it in the LTE. Gonna wait until I'm done setting it all up then restore some app data and pics/music. That's why I love Android a new phone and all u really need to do is log into Google and u have all ur stuff again
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Prep? Funny. It's a phone, not a house. Buy phone, swap sdcard, turn power on. Sync.
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I just got myself a new 64 GB microsd card for the new toy. Starting on a clean slate.
Must haves:
64 gb micro sd
Hd media link
Otterbox def
Car dock
I have all but the otter and the car dock but soon will have
I use Google Drive for all my docs, Dropbox for all my pictures and videos, and Play Music for all my music....I literally have nothing important stored on my OG Evo right now......the only thing that's gonna suck is I have to start from scratch on all my games. Though I have Titanium Backup that backs up my my entire phone data to my Box account so whenever I get a chance to root, I'll get all my game data back.... I really do not want to start all over on angry birds lol
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I recently updated to Omega 33.1 and on restart, th marching droid just kept marching. After about 15 mins I held Power to restart and system fired up normally and did the 'updating' thing for all the apps etc. All fine and I re-installed the 5x5 icon mod and a couple of others - Loud Mod and Increasing phone mod and all seemed fine... until I went to my Contacts and found the first one in my list started with E. No A's, B's or C's.
Plus it was back on my SIM contacts and the Phone contacts (which I had been using) were nowhere to be found.
Fine I thought, I have backups. But my Titanium Pro backups don't restore any Contacts. I have Nandroid backups - but I don't get Contacts from them either. I thought Nandroids backed up everything.
Anyone got any ideas where my Contacts should be? In the process of trying to restore them I've noticed my most recent alterations are also gone, including some folk I need t contact.
have you made sure that you didn't set the contacts filter to show only specific things?
Other than that, you should have access to all your contacts from your nandroid backups. It's supposed to be an image of your phone at the point of backup and nothing should change it.
The only filter I can see is to only show contacts with phones and it is off.
Worse now, I have been out and about and I have just checked and I no longer seem to have my SIM contacts. WTF??? I didn't do ANYTHING while out except a little bit of Sudoku while waiting.
Aren't your contacts backed up on your google account?
No, they weren't. After seeing several different debacles with online info and who owns it, I decided not to trust online places with my info.
However, the good news is I seem to have got them back. In ROM Toolbox there is an option for Advanced Restore and I chose a Nandroid from 14/11 and this time clicked off system, cache and boot and left ticked data AND SD Ext - I didn't know what SD Ext was before (and still don't) so I'd unticked it. I got my Contacts back! And no, SD Ext doesn't seem to mean the ext SD card - that has been fine all through this.
If anyone knows what that setting is in ROM Toolbox I'd love to know...
Oh - the Nandroid was originally Backed up in ROM Manager.
HI Guys- first post here. Hope you can help
Rooted my phone HTC desire HD last night and now trying to restore my sms- I used android app SMSbackup (I took a note of the name of the app before rooting). It turned out to be that there are 10's of SMS backup apps with this name. I could not remembr which one I used to back up my folders through to the SD card!! I don't recall a visual image of the logo.
I have the back up folders as I can see them on the SD card but so far all back up app I downloaded from PLAY could not recognise the sms files. I suspect that this is due to the fact they have been backed up in an db. format and not xml???
Can any one please advise how to go round this issue (e.g. is there db. converter to xml? is there a known sms back up app which reads db.? etc)
thanks in advance
Hi gang!
So, after a couple of years of happily(ish) using my S5, it's started to lag badly (even after wiping) and have started looking for a replacement.
It seems that this really is the only viable option for me, given that I really prefer having spare batteries especially when I'm traveling, and I really can't be bothered with having have to plug my phone in, even if it's to a portable back-up battery. It's also been nice to be able to just buy my own battery whenever the battery starts getting old and doesn't hold a charge as well as it did when new. :highfive:
Anyway, given that this phone doesn't have root yet, there are a few things I wanted to find out before I bite the bullet:
Folder locations: I've been using FolderMount to change the default save locations for some apps to SD card instead of internal storage. These apps do not allow you to change directories within the app, which is why I've been doing this. This has saved my ass whenever the phone itself became non-functional. Is there a way to do this without root on the G5? Or, at the very least, is there a way to manually copy these files from the device (i.e., browse ALL files on the device) to the SD card?
Folder locations (bonus round!): in particular, the data I care about is WhatsApp and Line backups. If any of you guys have specific experience being able to save these files to SD, I'd greatly appreciate any input!
Transfering messages, call log: I've been backing up and restoring SMS and Call Log using TiBu for years. While I also use SMS BackUp+ to also have an automatic fail safe, these apps don't handle group texts very well at all, ergo my reliance on TiBu. I noticed AT&T has an app called AT&T Mobile Transfer -- will this be able to transfer all of my texts/call log? Even if it's in the thousands of texts?
S Health data: Samsung has an S Health application that automatically backs up steps/heart rate data. Is there any way to transfer this data to an LG equivalent?
Those are all that I can think of right now, but any advice would be really appreciated, thanks! :good: