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Since upgrading the firmware to 2.1 (rooted). Now, I can't seem to make backup's of my SMS messages, call logs or anything other than the contact list.
So... Does anyone know how I would be able to do this? Perhaps suggest a free application?
Reason: I need to send my handset back, it's refusing to charge! My service provider sent me an replacement battery recently and it's not working, so now they're suggesting I return the handset for replacement.
Have you tried the new version of Backup & Restore here?
You could also try Mobile Backup II
Try Myphoneexplorer. It's the best application for this matter.
epinion said:
Try Myphoneexplorer. It's the best application for this matter.
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Indeed. The guy who wrote that application has been working with SE phones for years. Myphoneexplorer really helps one to transfer, or at the worst, backup all one's old messages. The only problem is he never seemed to get it to work with MMS, due to limitations in the SE hardware, but I suspect he'll get that working for Androids.
I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem- i back up and restore my sms using GOsms, and once it goes past 10,000 on the restore it totally messes up the modem on whatever rom im using. no data will work at all. i've tried many things to be sure that that is what's causing the problem and it seems to be. anyone else having that issue?
ssamuel82 said:
I was wondering if anyone else has had the same problem- i back up and restore my sms using GOsms, and once it goes past 10,000 on the restore it totally messes up the modem on whatever rom im using. no data will work at all. i've tried many things to be sure that that is what's causing the problem and it seems to be. anyone else having that issue?
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Never used GOsms so I can't comment on that, but I use SMS Backup & Restore and I love it. I've got about 10k messages as well and it never gives me any problems. You can also schedule automatic zero click backups.
10tonhammr said:
Never used GOsms so I can't comment on that, but I use SMS Backup & Restore and I love it. I've got about 10k messages as well and it never gives me any problems. You can also schedule automatic zero click backups.
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Second that. Never had a problem over multiple roms
Sent from my SGH-I777
10tonhammr said:
Never used GOsms so I can't comment on that, but I use SMS Backup & Restore and I love it. I've got about 10k messages as well and it never gives me any problems. You can also schedule automatic zero click backups.
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yes, use this you can backup your message
You guys message wayy to much
My question is, what the hell do you need to save your SMS's for anyway? Sure the conversations are great and nice.. But when you blow a new ROM on.. Why care about them?
People are just Weird! I had a friend want the new ICS on their Captivate so I put it on there and told him he will lose everything as I dont want to do the work to restore anything for him. And he was fine, did the upgrade for him and he was bummed he lost his SMS messages.. I laughed at him for his sadness..
WHY YOU NO DELETE YOUR SMS'S!!!!
So I've done an extensive search on Google (and this forum) without any reliable answers. My issue is that after flashing a new rom (after wiping data/factory reset) Spotify will automatically delete my offline playlist. Using Titanium or any other backup solution WILL not work with spotify. After restoring it will restore default settings of the app and log you out.
I have tried copying the Spotify folder from my phone to my computer, than pasting after flashing the rom, but this does not work.
Has anyone figured out a way to NOT have to re-download spotify playlist after flashing roms?
EDIT: See my 2nd post for info on solution.
enviii said:
So I've done an extensive search on Google (and this forum) without any reliable answers. My issue is that after flashing a new rom (after wiping data/factory reset) Spotify will automatically delete my offline playlist. Using Titanium or any other backup solution WILL not work with spotify. After restoring it will restore default settings of the app and log you out.
I have tried copying the Spotify folder from my phone to my computer, than pasting after flashing the rom, but this does not work.
Has anyone figured out a way to NOT have to re-download spotify playlist after flashing roms?
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I FIGURED IT OUT! Atleast by accident, I think.
I decided to buy Titanium Pro after getting tired of having to click through the accept for every app. So after flashing a new rom (after backing up Spotify) and opening up Titanium, it asked me to enable dev options and debug mode. So I did that. When I went back into titanium to restore my apps it notified me that my device id had changed and that it may cause problems with backing up or something along those lines. Titanium offered to change it back, and I did. I restored my apps, opened Spotify and was greeted by the playlist screen with the same offline playlist that I had before.
Long story short, use titanium to backup. After flashing, make sure to enable debug/dev options and restore your device id back to what it was on the previous rom and it SHOULD work. I take no responsibility of any issues caused by this.
Thank you! This has been annoying me for literally years!
To restore the Android ID manually with Titanium Backup (sometimes it won't warn you that the the ID has changed as you described) go to the menu button on the overview screen and select "Manage Android ID ..." then select "Restore Android ID from a backup", also "Settings Storage" should be backed up to allow this. I do not restore "Settings Storage" because this can cause issues if moving to a ROM with a different base e.g. moving from AOSP to AOKP/CM.
I wish I knew this was possible before downloading 5,000 songss
enviii said:
I FIGURED IT OUT! Atleast by accident, I think.
I decided to buy Titanium Pro after getting tired of having to click through the accept for every app. So after flashing a new rom (after backing up Spotify) and opening up Titanium, it asked me to enable dev options and debug mode. So I did that. When I went back into titanium to restore my apps it notified me that my device id had changed and that it may cause problems with backing up or something along those lines. Titanium offered to change it back, and I did. I restored my apps, opened Spotify and was greeted by the playlist screen with the same offline playlist that I had before.
Long story short, use titanium to backup. After flashing, make sure to enable debug/dev options and restore your device id back to what it was on the previous rom and it SHOULD work. I take no responsibility of any issues caused by this.
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Does this work when you reboot as well? I only just got a spotify premium account and had assumed that my tracks would stay downloaded when I rebooted my device. Was disapointed to discover that it wasnt.
hertsjoatmon said:
Does this work when you reboot as well? I only just got a spotify premium account and had assumed that my tracks would stay downloaded when I rebooted my device. Was disapointed to discover that it wasnt.
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Nope, rebooting is a different issue. Probably with the app itself. Try downloading a small playlist with like 1 song and rebooting and see if it happens again. If it does then there's probably an issue with the app/storage or something.
Will it really work?
enviii said:
I FIGURED IT OUT! Atleast by accident, I think.
I decided to buy Titanium Pro after getting tired of having to click through the accept for every app. So after flashing a new rom (after backing up Spotify) and opening up Titanium, it asked me to enable dev options and debug mode. So I did that. When I went back into titanium to restore my apps it notified me that my device id had changed and that it may cause problems with backing up or something along those lines. Titanium offered to change it back, and I did. I restored my apps, opened Spotify and was greeted by the playlist screen with the same offline playlist that I had before.
Long story short, use titanium to backup. After flashing, make sure to enable debug/dev options and restore your device id back to what it was on the previous rom and it SHOULD work. I take no responsibility of any issues caused by this.
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Spotify said that the Music is DRM secured. Therefore this post is a few(!) years old. I only want to make sure that this is working well yet with the newest version of Spotify Installed. Mine is 1.0.0.82
~JP
Junpei_Shibayama said:
Spotify said that the Music is DRM secured. Therefore this post is a few(!) years old. I only want to make sure that this is working well yet with the newest version of Spotify Installed. Mine is 1.0.0.82
~JP
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Did not work for me and i tried this method yesterday.
Bit of an old thread, but I did a nandroid of my new LG G3 and tried out a ROM that didnt work right, so I restored my back up and Spotify lost all of its cache even with the proper ID in place already. So no luck here in restoring my cache which was easy by just restoring the proper ID of the phone before, but obviously that isnt the case and I usually have a bunch of playlists actually downloaded for offline play and nothing after restoring my nandroid
I wonder, isn't there a way that works the opposite way?
Let me explain:
Instead of backing up and restoring the Android ID with TB, can't we edit some file in the Spotify offline folder on the phone to make it match a new Android ID?
Any experts out there?
enviii said:
So I've done an extensive search on Google (and this forum) without any reliable answers. My issue is that after flashing a new rom (after wiping data/factory reset) Spotify will automatically delete my offline playlist. Using Titanium or any other backup solution WILL not work with spotify. After restoring it will restore default settings of the app and log you out.
I have tried copying the Spotify folder from my phone to my computer, than pasting after flashing the rom, but this does not work.
Has anyone figured out a way to NOT have to re-download spotify playlist after flashing roms?
EDIT: See my 2nd post for info on solution.
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Lol sorry to be such a gravedigger but this still appears to be an issue and I don't want to pay for Titanium Pro. Anyone found a solution yet? It's 2016. XD
Kutzki said:
Lol sorry to be such a gravedigger but this still appears to be an issue and I don't want to pay for Titanium Pro. Anyone found a solution yet? It's 2016. XD
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I have try using titanium non pro. Its work with this metod (enable user debug)
Next week wil try after flash cm
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enviii said:
I FIGURED IT OUT! Atleast by accident, I think.
I decided to buy Titanium Pro after getting tired of having to click through the accept for every app. So after flashing a new rom (after backing up Spotify) and opening up Titanium, it asked me to enable dev options and debug mode. So I did that. When I went back into titanium to restore my apps it notified me that my device id had changed and that it may cause problems with backing up or something along those lines. Titanium offered to change it back, and I did. I restored my apps, opened Spotify and was greeted by the playlist screen with the same offline playlist that I had before.
Long story short, use titanium to backup. After flashing, make sure to enable debug/dev options and restore your device id back to what it was on the previous rom and it SHOULD work. I take no responsibility of any issues caused by this.
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Much appreciated.
enviii said:
I FIGURED IT OUT! Atleast by accident, I think.
I decided to buy Titanium Pro after getting tired of having to click through the accept for every app. So after flashing a new rom (after backing up Spotify) and opening up Titanium, it asked me to enable dev options and debug mode. So I did that. When I went back into titanium to restore my apps it notified me that my device id had changed and that it may cause problems with backing up or something along those lines. Titanium offered to change it back, and I did. I restored my apps, opened Spotify and was greeted by the playlist screen with the same offline playlist that I had before.
Long story short, use titanium to backup. After flashing, make sure to enable debug/dev options and restore your device id back to what it was on the previous rom and it SHOULD work. I take no responsibility of any issues caused by this.
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I appreciate your "mistake" very very much, cheers to you!. :highfive:
This absolutely works
Did it last night for a firend who unfortunately uses spotify, 1,700 offline tracks successfulyl restoreed after i had to wipe his device and flash it back to stock after he corrupted his external sdcard, running in adopted storage mode....damn, ive never used that and no i know why...what a mess when that goes wrong...i hope the days of low memory devices like the Moto G 4 Play are truly behind us, utter crap out of the box for usable app storage, no choice but to use adopted storage....
And why not throw in a rant....
Let me start by saying i dont do streaming media, for several reasons:
* Bandwidth - in some countries its a nightmare to do streaming without drama, even in 1st world Australia, we have issues with our (Liberal Party hobbled) NBN...
* Proprietary formats and encryption - youre locked to that provider. I dont get why you would let any company lead you down that garden path and pay for your media to be restricted, and especially in spotifies case, locked to the Android ID iof the device - meaning if you want to move it to another device, and dont want ot have to download it all again (11Gb in my friends case), you have to void your warranty on your new phone for one goddamn app, to root it to set the Android ID back the previous devices... Fricking American companies need ot realise that we dont all have fiber fricking network access...
* Utter wastefulness of resources in streaming overall, i do not get how people think its normal to watch something once, and if they want to watch it again, have to stream it all over again. Think of the absolute utter wastefulness of bandwidth globally, the electricity and other resources used in doing this. Humanity is doomed if this doenst register with you. Those for whom is doesnt register as indulgent wasteage should be the first ones made into Soylent Green....
We should be stamping this sh%t out, not embracing it
So while it does work, it raised more questions for me than it answered, and very decidedly cemented my hatred of streaming media.
I like to buy things once, download it once, and use it again as many times as i want. Every track i own came from a legitimate source, either ripped from a physical medium, or purchased in open format, and resides on my PC or an external drive that i can use across any device i own.
I will never give a damn cent to Netflix, Spotify or their kind
Death to streaming media....
Hi. As the title says i'm constantly being hit with this issue. Whenever i try to backup my phone via smart switch PC, it backups up everything except APPLICATION data.
Like, i have about 70 apps on my phone which hang around 10GB of space. It says there are no applications installed and won't back them up no matter what.
I've tried this with an older version of smart switch, as well with the latest one. I'm stuck and i don't know what to do.
Strange thing is that this worked last time i did this, few months ago. But i can't figure out what is wrong this time, as it's the same version of smart switch.
Anyone know any workarounds? Thanks in advance.
Has anyone ever experienced this particular issue? I'm still stuck and would like to back up my phone. If anyone can help me out, i'd appreciate it, thanks.
android2819 said:
Has anyone ever experienced this particular issue? I'm still stuck and would like to back up my phone. If anyone can help me out, i'd appreciate it, thanks.
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Just backup to hope or Samsung cloud? Both these backup app data. Or if your rooted backup with titanium backup or helium
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Just backup to hope or Samsung cloud? Both these backup app data. Or if your rooted backup with titanium backup or helium
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Sorry for late reply. I am not rooted, can i still backup everything to titanium/helium? Also i've never heard of hope before. I am mainly looking for a way to backup everything without being rooted. It used to work with Smart Switch but not lately. It's the app data that i want the most to back up.
android2819 said:
Sorry for late reply. I am not rooted, can i still backup everything to titanium/helium? Also i've never heard of hope before. I am mainly looking for a way to backup everything without being rooted. It used to work with Smart Switch but not lately. It's the app data that i want the most to back up.
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For titanium backup and helium root is required. And apologies I didn't mean hope I meant Google. Google account can back up app data I'm sure
since the bootloader is locked,
it seems theres no way to unlock the phone anymore.
I have used this pattern for more than 3 years
so it can not be wrong.
It got corrupted. Could be a single event upset in the data partition. If it reoccurs after a factory reset either the firmware has been corrupted or there's been a hardware failure.
Malware is also a possibility.
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It got corrupted. Could be a single event upset in the data partition. If it reoccurs after a factory reset either the firmware has been corrupted or there's been a hardware failure.
Malware is also a possibility.
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I haven't reset yet, trying to find ways to save data
but it's miui with locked bootloader
so it seems theres no way
sigh
ccaye said:
I haven't reset yet, trying to find ways to save data
but it's miui with locked bootloader
so it seems theres no way
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That's one reason I don't set device locks.
also tried to clear the data cache but with stock recovery
it seems no way to do it
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That's one reason I don't set device locks.
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yeah i agree
after search on google found out there are alot ppl exprienced same bug as i had
but on xda seems like no one had this before
it seems the bug happens on various brand
should just unlocked the bootloader once i have the phone
ccaye said:
yeah i agree
after search on google found out there are alot ppl exprienced same bug as i had
but on xda seems like no one had this before
it seems the bug happens on various brand
should just unlocked the bootloader once i have the phone
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That would make the phone less secure. You still would have the issue of file encryption to deal with.
Androids rarely crash but it happens.
A drop or near lighting strike can also destroy data. Redundantly and regularly backing up critical data is the only sure way to prevent data lose.
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That would make the phone less secure. You still would have the issue of file encryption to deal with.
Androids rarely crash but it happens.
A drop or near lighting strike can also destroy data. Redundantly and regularly backing up critical data is the only sure way to prevent data lose.
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true but i more worry about app's data
some apps just way too hard to back up and restore
i was going to try use EDL method to pull the file out
and reflash the phone then put the file back in
but i haven't try it
ccaye said:
true but i more worry about app's data
some apps just way too hard to back up and restore
i was going to try use EDL method to pull the file out
and reflash the phone then put the file back in
but i haven't try it
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If a data critical app doesn't allow for import/export of its data, I don't use it.
I use Poweramp and especially Color Note because of this. Text and Gmail are cloud backup. Less data critical apps don't concern me. I never install any social media, shopping or banking apps.
I make installable copies of all my app; no Playstore needed for a reload. Everything I need for a full reload is on my SD card, that in turn is redundantly backed up. Current load on this device will be 3 yo this June. I don't upgrade or update the firmware and rarely any of the apps.
The result is a very stable, fast Android that needs minimal maintenance.... more playtime, less downtime.