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I am a Android noob.
Had my Hero a few weeks now.
Its rooted and running Fresh 1.1.
But I like to try out different roms.
If I flash to Modacos most recent release what happens to all my settings?
Also what happens to my installed apps? Do I need to reinstall them from the market?
Obviosly any other tips would be appreciated.
Thanks.
as far as flashing modacos rom no you shouldnt loose your settings it should just flash over fresh.
as your apps go im not really sure I rooted the day I got the phone and have been running apps2sd since. if you arent running apps2sd and are worried about it you could always do an adb pull on
/system/app
and
/system/app-private
just to get them backed up
but I belive that even if they are no longer installed then they should still show in market under my downloads
do a nandroid backup in case you loose all your apps then you can just restore to the way it was before the flash
wtphoto said:
as far as flashing modacos rom no you shouldnt loose your settings it should just flash over fresh.
as your apps go im not really sure I rooted the day I got the phone and have been running apps2sd since. if you arent running apps2sd and are worried about it you could always do an adb pull on
/system/app
and
/system/app-private
just to get them backed up
but I belive that even if they are no longer installed then they should still show in market under my downloads
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Actually user installed apps (apps from the Market) go to /data/app, if I remember correctly.
gu1dry said:
Actually user installed apps (apps from the Market) go to /data/app, if I remember correctly.
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see ive always been messed up with this one becuase I have found some that are in system/app and some that are in data/app
BTW gu1dry saw a screenie of the kitchen on twitter. lovin the look man
wtphoto said:
see ive always been messed up with this one becuase I have found some that are in system/app and some that are in data/app
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/system/app/ is for system apps & ROM included apps, while user installed apps from the Market go into /data/app/.
wtphoto said:
BTW gu1dry saw a screenie of the kitchen on twitter. lovin the look man
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I do what I can
Still waiting for a fully functioning prototype to test everything out & see if anything needs to be tweak before it's released to the masses...
Thanks for the help guys
Hi Guys
I tried searching before I posted this one - if not, I'm sorry
I have a stock unlocked Nexus One AT&T (EPE54B) with stock (unrooted) 2.1 installed
Since Google has started rolling out Froyo update for the Nexus this week, I am very much looking forward to it
A small question I had was if I update to Froyo (FRF85) over the air, do I lose the data on my phone? I have MyBackupPro installed - Will that help, or should I do something else?
Will it be the same if I install Froyo manually?
Cheers to all for reading this post
chetanthaker said:
Hi Guys
I tried searching before I posted this one - if not, I'm sorry
I have a stock unlocked Nexus One AT&T (EPE54B) with stock (unrooted) 2.1 installed
Since Google has started rolling out Froyo update for the Nexus this week, I am very much looking forward to it
A small question I had was if I update to Froyo (FRF85) over the air, do I lose the data on my phone? I have MyBackupPro installed - Will that help, or should I do something else?
Will it be the same if I install Froyo manually?
Cheers to all for reading this post
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You shouldn't lose data in either case, assuming you don't wipe when doing a manual install, but I would certainly use something like titanium backup just to be sure.
@MSigler
Thanks for the reply - But don't I need to root to get TitaniumBackup to work?
Wouldn't any app that does not need root back my stuff up 'reliably'?
Just a little paranoid about rooting my 2-month old Nexus.
chetanthaker said:
@MSigler
Thanks for the reply - But don't I need to root to get TitaniumBackup to work?
Wouldn't any app that does not need root back my stuff up 'reliably'?
Just a little paranoid about rooting my 2-month old Nexus.
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Astro File manager would back up all your apps, but will not backup your app data.
chetanthaker said:
@MSigler
Thanks for the reply - But don't I need to root to get TitaniumBackup to work?
Wouldn't any app that does not need root back my stuff up 'reliably'?
Just a little paranoid about rooting my 2-month old Nexus.
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D'oh! You're right. I keep forgetting not everyone is rooted.
You really aren't going to lose much with a stock rom though.
Any paid apps will show up in market under "Downloads" so you can download them again.
Your contacts and emails are synced through your google account.
Pictures and music are on your SD card, so they won't be effected at all.
Basically, if for some reason you have to wipe your phone data, you will lose your call log, your app settings (meaning you'll have to go back into the apps and set up your preferences and such), and your text messages.
You shouldn't lose anything at all, but that's the worst case.
I updated from unrooted EPE54B using the manual method and didn't lose a thing....
iboj007 said:
I updated from unrooted EPE54B using the manual method and didn't lose a thing....
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Yeah, you shouldn't lose any data, but I would feel like **** if I told him not to worry about it and he lost all his data, so I'm going with worst case.
MSigler said:
Yeah, you shouldn't lose any data, but I would feel like **** if I told him not to worry about it and he lost all his data, so I'm going with worst case.
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Thanks guys
I'll try updating my phone manually today (if I do not get an OTA update by today noon) - Will update my findings here
I guess this answers my question and we can consider this a closed topic.
Ok, i just updated my stock unrooted unlocked N1 2.1 to Froyo in less than 6 minutes.
Confirmed no data loss when you update.
Sweet!
I had the OCLF 2.0 lagfix installed for a while now... Today I decided to unroot my phone.... So I ran OCLF again. From bottom to top, I began reverting back to the previous unroot state. However, both the install and remove lagfix options was disabled (greyed out). It said no lagfix appeared to have been installed, even though it was. So I unrooted my phone. No issues but now, how do I know what file system is being used ? I want to go back to the official RFS filesystem, and not use EXT3. Also, I noticed that before rooting and lagfix, I had around 1.5 GB free space in my ROM. After lagfix, it was around 600 MB. It is the same now. Please advise... Thank you!
Prasad007 said:
I had the OCLF 2.0 lagfix installed for a while now... Today I decided to unroot my phone.... So I ran OCLF again. From bottom to top, I began reverting back to the previous unroot state. However, both the install and remove lagfix options was disabled (greyed out). It said no lagfix appeared to have been installed, even though it was. So I unrooted my phone. No issues but now, how do I know what file system is being used ? I want to go back to the official RFS filesystem, and not use EXT3. Also, I noticed that before rooting and lagfix, I had around 1.5 GB free space in my ROM. After lagf ix, it was around 600 MB. It is the same now. Please advise... Thank you!
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I am sure there is a solution but I ended up restoring from recovery a nandroid prior to that fix. The 1.0 fix on that app. Works fine I will stay away from 2.0 for now
mcord11758 said:
I am sure there is a solution but I ended up restoring from recovery a nandroid prior to that fix. The 1.0 fix on that app. Works fine I will stay away from 2.0 for now
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So you're suggesting I should just go ahead and do a factory reset ?
after the factory reset
if you have the 16GB version, you should see 13.8 GB free space
AllGamer said:
after the factory reset
if you have the 16GB version, you should see 13.8 GB free space
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I'm not talking about internal sdcard memory, but about the 2GB ROM. OCLF reserved ~700MB of my ROM to apply the lagfix. After that, I was unable to uninstall it. What I want is to:
1. Get rid of the lagfix
2. Recover lost memory
3. Revert to RFS filesystem from EXT3 (or whatever it is that OCLF uses..)
Bump... Please help!
U have to flash ur firmware thru odin again as that is the only way out. U cud try factory reset first.
Oclf dint install correctly, hence u have this issue.
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Prankey said:
U have to flash ur firmware thru odin again as that is the only way out. U cud try factory reset first.
Oclf dint install correctly, hence u have this issue.
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Thank you! Guess I'll do the factory reset when froyo arrives, just before updating to froyo...
You can root, then delete the /data/oclf folder manually to get your space back.
Finally, unroot again. 5 mins max.
Rawat said:
You can root, then delete the /data/oclf folder manually to get your space back.
Finally, unroot again. 5 mins max.
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Thanks! I'll try this now... Hope my phone won't get jacked by manually removing OCLF like that ? If it wasn't properly installed in the first place, wouldn't that mean there's still a chance I'm on the OCLF ext3 filesystem instead of stock RFS ? How can I definitively know what FS my phone is currently on, so as to know if the OCLF is still in effect or not ?
Do a few runs of quadrant. If it's under 1000, it's on RFS. If it's over 1500 (1700 really) you're on ext2
Rawat said:
Do a few runs of quadrant. If it's under 1000, it's on RFS. If it's over 1500 (1700 really) you're on ext2
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Well, the phone scored ~870 ( isn't that a bit TOO low ?) in quadrant. Guess I'm on RFS after all... Will go ahead and scrap the OCLF data now.. Thanks!
Rawat said:
You can root, then delete the /data/oclf folder manually to get your space back.
Finally, unroot again. 5 mins max.
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can't seem to find that folder... There is however /data/ext2 containing linux.ex2 file which is about 877MB in size. Is that the OCLF file ? Or am I missing something here ?
Yes, that's the one.
Rawat said:
Yes, that's the one.
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How can I know if the file is still being utilized or not ?
If the system is using RFS, it should be okay to delete the file. Worst case scenario is that you'll have to reflash your firmware, but i highly doubt it'l come to that.
Deleted. Thank you guys!
I recently flashed cm6 coming from aospMod because I had a problem with one of my nandroid restores not restoring properly. (Apps not running right, randomly closing) When I had cm6 running, I stopped receiving text messages. I flashed aospMod again and I still can't receive. I know the text messages are coming to my phone because I can see it connect to 1x real quick as usual. Would it be something with my nandroid restore? I think I have to go back to stock and reroot. And yes, I wiped and blah, blah, blah..thanks ahead of time.
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I recently flashed cm6 coming from aospMod because I had a problem with one of my nandroid restores not restoring properly. (Apps not running right, randomly closing) When I had cm6 running, I stopped receiving text messages. I flashed aospMod again and I still can't receive. I know the text messages are coming to my phone because I can see it connect to 1x real quick as usual. Would it be something with my nandroid restore? I think I have to go back to stock and reroot. And yes, I wiped and blah, blah, blah..thanks ahead of time.
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So you wiped/did a factory reset before loading CM6, flashed GApps, and still no texts?
Have you tried CM6.1.0? It's newer than CM6.
Did you load an alternate kernel? That may help.
I'd try starting from scratch. Do a full factory restore, load CM6.1.0, then load this kernel and flash Google Apps and see what happens. Just redid my phone this afternoon with that setup with no issues at all in regards to texts...but all phones are different I suppose...
I have had this happen to me....you will need to flash a sense rom and then CM....hopefully you have a nandroid from before that started, otherwise just flash your rom and kernel if you use a custom one and you should be GTG
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Vandelay007 said:
I have had this happen to me....you will need to flash a sense rom and then CM....hopefully you have a nandroid from before that started, otherwise just flash your rom and kernel if you use a custom one and you should be GTG
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Yeah, that is the best solution, unfortunately it's cumbersome
theimpaler747 said:
Yeah, that is the best solution, unfortunately it's cumbersome
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Yeah, I figured I'd have to flash a sense Rom and do a prl update or something. I'll try later and let you guys know.
Vandelay007 said:
I have had this happen to me....you will need to flash a sense rom and then CM....hopefully you have a nandroid from before that started, otherwise just flash your rom and kernel if you use a custom one and you should be GTG
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Ok, it worked! I flashed NFX-Hero and started receiving my messages. Back to aospMod 0.9.7 for me! Thanks vandelay.
You are welcome! I am glad you got it working!
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jasonlefever said:
Ok, it worked! I flashed NFX-Hero and started receiving my messages. Back to aospMod 0.9.7 for me! Thanks vandelay.
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Glad it's working now
Ok, so I have a rooted Nexus One with cyanogen 6.0rc3 on it. I recently tried to put cyanogen 6.1 on it so I could upgrade to 7.0. Then, I see the common glitch where there is no market so I revert back to my old rom which I made a backup for(using ROM Manager). So here comes the hard part, when it restores my ROM, have no apps, no nothing which I downloaded, and I tried to restore again, because ROM Manager reinstalled, but I didn't get anything. Can some tell me how to get my data and all my stuff back, please?!?!?!?! If I don't get help by the end of the month, my service gets cut off, so I really need help!!!! Please help guys, thanks in advance, you guys are the bomb!!!!
yellofello99 said:
If I don't get help by the end of the month, my service gets cut off, so I really need help!!!!
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What's that supposed to mean? You lose service because you don't have the data on your phone restored?
Are you using apps2sd?
I feel like you have no chance of restoring anything at the moment though.
If you have a custom recovery, just wipe and start again, or restore your backup... Make sure you have a gapps package that is compatible with your ROM...
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All your apps will be in the market under 'my apps' and as long as you have synched with Google servers all your data should be retrieveable by re-synching.
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yellofello99 said:
Ok, so I have a rooted Nexus One with cyanogen 6.0rc3 on it. I recently tried to put cyanogen 6.1 on it so I could upgrade to 7.0. Then, I see the common glitch where there is no market so I revert back to my old rom which I made a backup for(using ROM Manager). So here comes the hard part, when it restores my ROM, have no apps, no nothing which I downloaded, and I tried to restore again, because ROM Manager reinstalled, but I didn't get anything. Can some tell me how to get my data and all my stuff back, please?!?!?!?! If I don't get help by the end of the month, my service gets cut off, so I really need help!!!! Please help guys, thanks in advance, you guys are the bomb!!!!
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You don't need to go to cm6.1 to get to cm7. Even on 6.1 you need to do a full wipe anyway to eliminate any potential problems.
Also did you happen to use CWM 3.0?
danger-rat said:
If you have a custom recovery, just wipe and start again, or restore your backup... Make sure you have a gapps package that is compatible with your ROM...
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I tried to restore my backup, it doesn't work for some reason
sparkyryan said:
All your apps will be in the market under 'my apps' and as long as you have synched with Google servers all your data should be retrieveable by re-synching.
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I tried that, too, not all of my apps restored, and my data would be gone on them anyway
baseballfanz said:
You don't need to go to cm6.1 to get to cm7. Even on 6.1 you need to do a full wipe anyway to eliminate any potential problems.
Also did you happen to use CWM 3.0?
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I was using 3.0