Hey People,
Trying to remove bloatware (ATT Address Book) I mistakingly uninstalled a contacts system app. I made a TI backup so I just pulled down the prop files and gz files for that apk and the apk itself, but no luck. Did a factory reset and still the same thing. I was wondering if anyone has a TWRP backup they'd like to share with me or is it someone I could wife system in TWRP and do a factory reset from the bootloader ?
did you ever get sorted out? I am in the same boat now. Can anyone help?
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So I rooted my phone today, got Titanium Backup and Root Manager. Before I started mass uninstalling the bloatware, I tested it first. I made a backup of Airhorn, then went into the system files and deleted the .apk. Then I restored it in Titanium Backup and viola, it's back. So i tried one of the bloatware programs, The Sims 3. I backed it up, then deleted the .apk in the datatmo/games/ea folder. I try to restore, and it says restore data only, Airhorn I could restore App+Data. Now the Sims 3 icon is still there, but gives me this error: There is a problem parsing the package.
So I can't restore it, and the icon is still there. Can i get the .apk file back and have a way to back it up so I can restore it in the case that I need to install it again? Or did I screw up?
Anyone? Please?
Hmmm well I do have both apks Sims 3 requires to run but would it be considered pirating if I posted a link? I'm fairly certain other phones would be able to run it.
Well I got the .apk, but now i have two shortcuts to the game and they both work, now I dunno what files to backup so i can delete them and back them up, whats the name of the two files?
Sims3_Samsung_Embed_Launcher.apk and The_Sims_3.apk
Thanks, all good now
Good greef same problem here. Someone please help me get the Sims back please.
what is the fix for this issue? I have the same problem.. too...
Seasoned user here, def no noob. New to SGSII though. Anyway...here is my info.
I cannot no matter what I try get my phone to restore my Mms .db file, via recovery (I have tried, recovery, titanium, placing the files and setting the permissions manually).
If I delete the existing .db file and paste my Mms .db file there and it shows up in the data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
permissions
x x
x x
and then reboot
Go back and the old file is back there? Seriously WTF I want to smash this thing!
Someone assist me please?
Going to reply to my own thread with a solution in case anyone else has the same dramas? I kinda needed to do this because i got a chicks number the other day and she was hell cute and she had text me and I had saved her number but had not sync'ed my phone so the only way to get it back was from her SMS that was in the phone that someone had stolen. However I had the nandroid backup from the evening after i met this chick.
All previous hopes via recovery and titanium were fruitless
Anyway, I couldn't do a nandroid restore because it was saying that my device was not an MTD device....naturally its SGSII, and its not CM9 based firmware I have flashed either. So what I did was break the clockwork recovery backup down and pulled the data ext4 tar file out and re-hashed it (MD5sum)
I saw pulled an existing ICS nandroid backup form my SGSII fresh.
I exchanged the data tar and added the new hash value into the nandroid.md5 file and repackaged it.
It passed the check and installed the data but far out out it screwed my phone. android.process.android.acore was going nuts, I doubt there was even an app left that didn't force close.
I then did a titanium backup of the complete re-install with the Mms restored (although I wasn't certain because I couldn't open the messaging app at all! - nor could i get into settings to clear data cache without a bazillion force closes) I did this on total hope that it would work.
I then nandroid backuped my phone again just incase even though the data partition had a see of bugs in it. I then wiped the phone reflashed back to stock and then installed titanium and then restored just the SMS and couple of other things while i was at it! Bam perfect! All texts 100% restored including the drafts as if it was my old phone last I saw of it that is
I am still getting the odd few android.acore FCs but I know its a data cache related issue (I had this a while ago)....but no application FCs what so ever.
I hope this information helps someone out
James
Has anyone had a problem with ASUS App Backup like this? I ran a backup last night just before downgrading to .15 so I could root the Prime, wiped data, then ran a restore. Appbackup (couldn't use Titanium as not rooted) says 'success' for all data, but nothing's actually restored.
I've tried clearing data as suggested in the app itself, along with uninstalling and reinstalling a load of stuff. Should I just accept it's all gone, or is there a way to look inside the backup file from something else and see what's in there?
I have the same exact problem. Glad I am not the only one!
Odd isn't it? I ended up getting most of what I needed from an old backup in the end. I didn't realise the backup file was too big - 300MBish backed up turned into a file almost a gig in size, I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
EATtablets said:
Has anyone had a problem with ASUS App Backup like this? I ran a backup last night just before downgrading to .15 so I could root the Prime, wiped data, then ran a restore. Appbackup (couldn't use Titanium as not rooted) says 'success' for all data, but nothing's actually restored.
I've tried clearing data as suggested in the app itself, along with uninstalling and reinstalling a load of stuff. Should I just accept it's all gone, or is there a way to look inside the backup file from something else and see what's in there?
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I can't restore any file. I originally thought it was my password but then I ran a small backup test.
Here is what I posted on some other sites:
I backed up my apps using Asus's App Backup Program.
But when I try to restore an app, it won't open file no matter what password I try to enter, which I never set a password to begin with.
I tested this issue by just backing up one app with no password set and then trying to restore and once again it won't open the file.
Thank
Rob
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF300T using Tapatalk 2!
detta123 said:
I have the same exact problem. Glad I am not the only one!
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Hi, I want to know if you ever happen to fix your issue with Asus' Backup App. I continue to have issues, even with doing simple one file backups. I can't open any file to restore.
I finally called Asus and opened case (case# 1866051) but they immediately wanted me to perform a 'wipe' first. I guess after that they will want to try a factory reset.
But I complained that I spent too much time setting my 300 for the look and settings that I like and that I need to backup everything first.
Of course, I can't backup using Asus' Backup app, since that is unable to restore. It is the issue!
So I need to find something else that will backup my settings so that I can't restore my unit to how it looks and is set.
I am rooted so I can using Titanium Backup. But I wish there was something else that I would not need root to use, that can backup my settings. Does anyone know if anything, that can do that without the need for root?
Also, I need to 'unroot' my device first before I start playing around with 'wipes and factory resets' I can't have that get in the way of all of this.
And in the end, if they offer to replace my 300, I need to send it back without any of the root stuff on it.
Please let me know if you've fixed your App Backup app and about any other backup programs that I can use that don't need root what will backup my settings.
Thanks!
Rob
Hi there,
Completely editing my question as I know the previous issue, googleservicesframework.apk is missing when I factory reset the phone, with that being said, is there a way to install the apk file inside the system folders so that when I factory reset the phone it will install automatically and not have to be done off my sdcard that keeps a backup of the file.
Since I have no idea how to unlock the bootloader on this Huawei Y330, if I use BusyBox and Nandroid Online Backup to make a copy of the stock rom, can I then install the file this way or can I install it with an application to browse to the location it is supposed to go, add it there and somehow keep it there (the backup file which is used for factory reset) for when I factory reset it.
Thanks!
Afternoon,
Initial issue has been sorted out and another issue has come up now I know what the issue is, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I'm new to this forum so i don't know wether i'm posting this in the right sub but i need help with restoring my phone's data. I stupidly used wondershare's "dr fone" to backup all my data on the computer which created a 15.9 gb .bak file. Problem is i didn't know that in order to restore this to your phone you had to have a subscription, before i wiped my phone. Now i am left with the aforementioned .bak file and i would like to know if there are any free pc applications that can restore all my data to the phone using this file. Thanks in advance.
Have you had a look at this thread?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/help-how-to-use-bak-file.2883318/
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Have you had a look at this thread?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/help-how-to-use-bak-file.2883318/
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Hi, thanks for replying. I just took a look. I tried a few other apps from google play since appbak was no longer on there, unfortunately none of them were able to use the file (I copied the .bak file from my pc to my phone's internal storage). I then found an old version of appbak through chrome and installed it but it also couldn't use the .bak file to restore my data. Eventually I tried restoring it through my phone's settings like a couple of people recommended but the only backup setting I could find was "Backup by Google One" (because my phone runs on Android One, which is focused on Google Services) and I could not use a local file to start restoring. At this point I might just try to restore my data manually but any further help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.