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Question for the Wizard GURU, Sprite Back-Up

I was over on the Cingular forum today and someone was posting about using Sprite Back up to restore information after a ROM upgrade. I have asked the question before and everyone told me it was not possible to do, I never tried because of this. Today someone posted that they did a restore after the ROM upgrade and it worked fine other than a couple SMS settings. Is this true? Would this not revert some of the ROM files back to old ones? Any help would be useful.

(Edited -- I didn't mean to be rude)
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The problems with restoring a full back-up after a Rom upgrade.
1. Full back-up includes the Registry. There can be (and almost always are) subtle changes to how and where things get stored in the registry.
2. Core components (such as filenames and locations) have been known to change from one version to the next.
So now you overwrite the new registry with an old outdated one.
Sure you might not notice problems immediately but they will come.

So, I was going through the Sprite Back Up program and in the advanced tab it allows you to select the items you want to back up, exclude the registry and so on. With this said and selecting only the programs you are currently running would this not allow you to restore your programs onto the device after a ROM upgrade? :?:

Almost all programs require the use of registry to store settings. If you don't export and restore the settings, what's the point of backup? Not to mention sometimes your restored program may not work at all unless it is a very simple program. Most of them have to register with system to be functional, i.e. today screen plugins.

http://forums.cingular.com/cng/board/message?board.id=cingular&message.id=9666&jump=true#M9666
This is information I have been looking for it goes into the sprite back up function of upgrading. I am very interested and think I will give this a go on Summinter's new ROM when it comes out. Does anyone see any downside to this?

Wow, sprite supporting Rom Upgrades is news to me!

spritebackup working thru rom upgrades
has anyone tested this to actually work... anyone have information on what they backed up and then reinstalled backup after rom upgrade and what actually worked and did not?
any info would be great... thanks
-James

Sprite Backup works for a restore after a ROM upgrade
I have used Sprite Backup 5.x to do a restore after a ROM upgrade and everything worked great with the exception of my Messaging settings.
The basic process is/was simple. Run a full backup on your data, including the registry and store to your MiniSD card as and EXE - sprite gives you the option to do this.
Before you do the upgrade, you need to go to the Sprite web site and download a file called "GetUpgradeData2005.exe" and put it on the Storage Card (miniSD)
After the ROM upgrade, run GetUpgradeData2005.exe and it will put a file on your device. I think that it puts it on the device, in main memory, so you need to move it to your Storage Card.
Go to the backup file that you want to restore from. As the backup file is an exe, you do not need to reinstall Sprite before doing this.
In the restore options, there is a checkbox for Device Upgrade. Check this. Then run restore. The restore process will ask you for this file that was created by the GetUpgradeData2005.exe. Select it and then the restore run.
The device will reboot once or twice (cant remember) and walla! You have the new ROM but with all your apps and stuff back.
Some caveats/warnings:
1) Don’t backup your storage card data for this backup/restore
2) After the restore, non of my pop3 and imap email accounts were recreated in Messaging – however, when I tried to recreate the accounts manually, using the same POP name for each account, it told me that the name was already in use. SO clearly, the data for the account was in the registry somewhere, but just did not restore 100%.
Being lazy, I just created the accounts with a different POP3 name and that’s it. I am sure that if I looked I would have found the settings in the registry, deleted them, and then recreated the accounts- but the name was not that important.
It should be noted that every night I downloaded all the mail from these accounts into my desktop Outlook, so that on a day to day basis, there were no messages stored in these accounts on the device, thus I don’t think there was any space taken up by not deleting the accounts from the registry – but I am not sure of this.
On the plus side, all my SMS messages were restored.
Hope this helps

Tonight I've decided to upgrade ROM to a newer version (i-Mate 2.16.9.1 -> O2 2.21.4.101) and I did a system backup with Sprite Backup. When I restored it back to Wizard I god a message that the restoration went successfully, but with some errors.
In log I saw many lines like:
Code:
Warning :Error creating value Default
Warning :Error creating value ThreadingModel
Warning :Error creating value ConnectsToPin
Warning :Error creating value Merit
Should I be "worried" for the system stability? So far nothing strange happened..but I haven't started all the programs installed.

how to backup sms/mms/emails

Hello
I'm using spbbackup; The thing is that i want to upgrade to wm6 but don't know how to backup my emails,sms,mms. Where are they stored? I want that after the upgrade to restore the sms ,mms,emails .
How can i do that?
Also, which ver of wm6 is better?

I can help you out on MMS and Contacts...
Apply this cab an you'll be fine!
myx4ever said:
Hello
I'm using spbbackup; The thing is that i want to upgrade to wm6 but don't know how to backup my emails,sms,mms. Where are they stored? I want that after the upgrade to restore the sms ,mms,emails .
How can i do that?
Also, which ver of wm6 is better?
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the contacts i can restore from my computer.
But the sms/mms/emails?
One more question. I applied an iphone theme (skin+ theme) and now i want to go back to the default Windows theme? How do i do that?

myx4ever said:
Hello
I'm using spbbackup; The thing is that i want to upgrade to wm6 but don't know how to backup my emails,sms,mms. Where are they stored? I want that after the upgrade to restore the sms ,mms,emails .
How can i do that?
Also, which ver of wm6 is better?
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SPB Backup will do this for you.
It allows you to do a complete backup & restore the parts you want to.
What you want to back up is listed under "PIM" with SPB Backup.
Handy tool to have!

You can also dowload the freeware smsOrganizer.

You can try FlexMail also It gives you all backup features you need. Sprite backup do the same thing as a backup application.
Regarding your WM5 theme, just go to settings/today/appearence and choose another theme from the list.
Good luck!

I use Sprite and Jeyo

Sprite can't successfully restore on WM6 MMS backed up on WM5.
Any hints?

dwny said:
SPB Backup will do this for you.
It allows you to do a complete backup & restore the parts you want to.
What you want to back up is listed under "PIM" with SPB Backup.
Handy tool to have!
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Hi, I am using SPB back up and under PIM data, I can only see contacts, appointments, call log and speed dial, There is no SMS or MMS, Am I missing something? I did a full back up and I am not sure why it's not backing up the SMS and MMS. Any help. Please let me know if there are any programs for backing up the MMS. Thanks
Abhay

TF3D backup before ROM updating

Hello and congratulation for your really good work...
I want to know if it's possible to backup the TF3D configuration or parameters before ROM upgrading because after flash my DIAMOND I cannot recover the favorites contacts, etc...
Thxs

kewl84 said:
Hello and congratulation for your really good work...
I want to know if it's possible to backup the TF3D configuration or parameters before ROM upgrading because after flash my DIAMOND I cannot recover the favorites contacts, etc...
Thxs
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use the version of sprite backup on HTCs site.
Backup system
Restore using ROM Upgrade mode Level 1 including database files. All your apps, all your settings and prefs will remain.

use spb backup its wonderfull
this softwer back all setting and phone contacts ,mails and messages and programs and tf3d setting after rom updating injoy it

Restoring from Sprite after 6.1 Upgrade

I have a full backup of my 6.0 machine and can't restore it after the wonderful 6.1 upgrade. I'm on an exchange server so emails and contacts are no big deal but I would like to restore my text messages. Can I move these over individually without doing a full restore? I can move the "messaging" folder from the sprite explorer but how do I get them on the tilt? Thanks in advance.

would like to know as well!

Can't be done. Sprite Backup cannot be used to restore from ROM to ROM.
You will need to flash back to WM6, restore your Sprite backup, and then use a program called PIM Backup to archive your text messages.
After flashing WM 6.1 again, run PIM Backup again and restore your text messages.

I thought the latest versions of Sprite and SPB backup could do some ROM to ROM stuff.
Although I personally wouldn't recomment it. UC + ProvXML + my xcopyce app + ActiveSync does everything I need.
Dave

DaveShaw said:
I thought the latest versions of Sprite and SPB backup could do some ROM to ROM stuff.
Although I personally wouldn't recomment it. UC + ProvXML + my xcopyce app + ActiveSync does everything I need.
Dave
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They can, but just as you said, it's not recommended. With all the unofficial builds that the ROMs here tend to be based on, it's just not wise to carry any programs over from flash to flash.

A friend of mine upgraded and used sprite (even though I told him not too), is there any way to pull JUST the contacts from the Sprite file??

You can do it. I went from WM6 to WM6.1 and used a backup I did from 6 to restore everything to 6.1.
The only tip I can give you is this.
Do not restore anything in the file system data unless its non application stuff you put there, pictures, skins, browser favourites etc.
My phone works fine I have all my old contacts, mails and pim entries from my old rom. I just re-installed my apps that were on my phone, not my storage card. Anything that runs when the phone is switched on I always install to the phone. I even restored my start menu and found that most of the games and apps I installed to the memory card run fine, they just sometimes require you to re-enter the registration details the first time you run them after restoring.
You are restoring data not programs so it should be fine.

i disabled sms threading in kaisertweak. tried to do restore using sprite again and all my sms messages show up but now i have a text message saying "account locked. company policy prohibits use of text messaging on this device. you ocannot send or recieve text messags."
also when the restore was done i got an error about sddeamon.exe

Thanks funem but when how do you specify which files to restore? When I start it makes sure I want to restore "everything." Also, I have the 10-day trial of the newest sprite but when i try and restore it says the program must be authorized to run. I emailed tech support because the trial says that it should be fully functional throughout the trial period. although its only a $10 upgrade, a free trial run just to get my text's back was all I was looking for.

When you start a restore it should take you to a tree view of the data backed up with checkboxes next to each available branch, just remove the ticks from the boxes where you dont want to restore data.

Can anyone tell me a List of things we need to install
after we have windows 6.1 on the Tilt
Like:
Adv config
Camera cab
KaiserTweak cab
do we still need all these or ........

Using Sprite Backup 1st time:
Here's another "Can anyone tell me?" question:
How long should it take Sprite Backup to run on it's first time?
I went to the program, clicked Backup, it did a reset and came up to the
Windows
Mobile
Version 6.1
screen and has been there for a long time.
How long does it take? Is it hung, or is it working?
Thanks!
EDIT:
I waited a long time, then did a soft reset and it came back and ran properly and reset.
All good, thanks anyway.

How come Sprite backup makes dual copies
of your menu items? After I had restored my Tilt using Sprite and I went to my Menu settings after it was complete..I had duplicate items....and I couldn't uncheck anything?? Calendar, Messages, WMP, ...etc ..etc..

babyface215 said:
of your menu items? After I had restored my Tilt using Sprite and I went to my Menu settings after it was complete..I had duplicate items....and I couldn't uncheck anything?? Calendar, Messages, WMP, ...etc ..etc..
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I have this same problem. can anyone please explain why? and what can i do to fix it without re installing everything.
thanks

[Q] LGLauncher

Hello,
Any one know how to save LGhome "LGLauncher" settings ?
Regards

What exactly do you want to save?

Yes, you can save data of LG Homescreen with Titanium Backup.

Ok thanks no other methods, I mean by saving parameters files ?.

you can save it with every backup program, if you do a nandroid backup the launcher is also saved isnt it?
also you can freeze it with "bloat freeze"
why you want to save lglauncher settings anyway?

I want to save these settings because I have made a lot of categories (id: internet, utils, files managers, ...) and when I change the rom I want to keep these categories.