This is my first question; so apologies f I'm not clear.
I've been messing around a little with my phone. I have root, Amon_Ra's Recovery and I'm currently using MoDaCo's Enhanced ROM. Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try CyanogenMod and see what that was like.
So I wiped my Nexus, flashed Cyanogen and booted up. After linking to my Google Account, I noticed that none of my settings or apps from the cloud had been synced and nothing I did allowed me to access them. (I think I remember seeing that there is no automatic option for this, so that might have been the reason.)
Next, I tried MoDaCo's Froyo ROM for rooted phones, as I'm really curious about it. Same problem, nothing was synced.
Rather worried, I restored my phone to the Original Shipping image (keeping Amon_Ra's recovery) and not only did nothing sync, but starting any update would restart the phone, load up the Recovery and then fail to update with a verification error.
Rather irritated, I wiped and then flashed to MoDaCo's ROM. Lo and behold, all my apps and settings were restored from Google's Cloud.
I am so unbelievably confused, it's not funny. If I made a backup using Nandroid, would that restore my apps and settings when I changed to a new ROM? Or am I way off base here?
(I'm rather new at this, so apologies in advance.)
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
The last cyan rom I used (5.0.6?) did not have cloud restoring of apps, I always thought this was a froyo feature/?
Nandroid does a complete backup of your system including apps, settings, rom etc... so technically yes it does restore your apps, just not from the cloud.
Thanks behelit, but I'm not interested in restoring the original ROM, just the Apps and settings should I change to a different ROM.
Anyone have an idea why I can't access cloud from Froyo or Original stock ROM? Maybe I'm doing something wrong...
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All,
I tried installing the new froyo, and wanted to start completely over. no settings, no apps, nothing. and rethink from the ground up what and why I want it....
The problem is I have used the google backup feature, and if I reinstall a rom, it will download everthing from my google backup account.
the question thus is, how do I delete all the info from the backup account, and ensure that the nexus does not get installed with anything after flashing the rom?
thanks in advance
Before installing, go to privacy settings and uncheck backup.
When you uncheck this, it should delete backups as well as disable them (that's what the popup says, anyway).
I've never tried this myself though.
as a charm, thanks
I cant get this to work. I did uncheck and it said it will erase but everytime I flash a Froyo custom rom, it downloads all my setting and backup again. Flash a non froyo rom works.
Anyone can help?
Okay i have a sprint cdma hero i sm running 2.1 sense. I started out wanting froyo i knew i had to root so i did with universal androot and then got rom manager i didn't partition sd card because i thought it wasn't needed i still dont know if it is? but anyway after that i rooted the phone then went into rom manager, made a clockwork backup then I did what i was suposed to too root it then it was about to boot up and instead of froyo it was back to sense and had restored to factory. I repeated the same thing multiple times and tried different roms it still didn't work. After all this i restored my phone and its back to normal but google "can't establish sever connection" so mail, market, talk and all that does not work! I dont know what to do. I have tried hard reset, clearing data, cache, force stop, adding another account, signing out of talk and going back in and nothing has worked. and now in my notification bar it says sign in error! with my google name and then if i touch that it will bring me to a sign in screen, i enter the password but nothing works. I dont know what i should do help! by the way I live in america, internet works, phone calls work, sms works just not google apps, I have sprint to. And if there is any way you could help me root and run froyo the easitest way please help. I am kind of new at all this.
Thanks again- Luke
Did you make a nandroid backup? If so, restore the phone. I am pretty new to this too but maybe you can try to flash the google apps, you can find the zip on here with a search.
Did you do "wipe all data" before installing? You have to do that.
Make sure you also "nandroid" and make a backup in case you need to restore.
Ok put the cm6 rom on your sd and also google gaps .
make a nanidroid back up then wipe your phone then flash the rom then the google gaps. Then reboot
i did make a clockwork mod backup and restored my phone to that that is how it is the way know i will try and get google apps and reinstall them and if that works i will do the cm6 rom but where should i get it and do i need to partition sd card? thanks
I have everything the way I like it currently with the stock ROM. Apps, widgets and other customized things
1. Is it possible to backup everything, then restore everything to the 2.2 ROM using Ti Backup? Restore all apps, widgets, wallpaper, etc?
2. Flashing the ROM to internal eMMC, can the NC be restored to stock via the 8x reboot method?
That's all I'm wondering for now, I'm sure there will be more.
Widgets cannot be restored due to a system limitation. Second, speaking from firsthand experience you don't want to take information backed up on 2.1 and restore it to 2.2. I did that with my evo and I thought the phone was dying...everything was force closing and I had to reflash the rom. It was probably my restoring of the system settings(idiot move) that caused the problems but I wouldn't take any chances.
Yea, just me being lazy...
What about the notification bar? I like that is on the bottom. Can that be changed on a vanilla Froyo install?
bump..........
Hmmm...to get the notification bar on the bottom will probably take some hella coding but it can be done. Obviously B&N did it, also Acer does it on their Liquid ROMs (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=903470) but don't count on it being done here.
EDIT: That link I posted was just an example. DO NOT flash it on your nook.
we dont really bump your own posts here...
Sup XDA... first time poster... on/off lurker... just a quick question i was messing with my captivate today trying to load 2.2 on it... kies wasn't working for me so i did a whole lotta messing around with the phone... in the process i backed up my stuff on TB... while trying to restore it, it restored from a previous upgrade i did in dec. i ended up losing most of my text messages, profiles i set up and important memos... anything i can do to restore it or am i screwed...?
I think i accidentally hit the back up user apps instead of user apps+data and restored user apps+data... could that be the reason...?
I don't think that TiBu backs up text messages. I use SMS backup+ on the market for that. It backs it up to my Gmail account. It does this automatically, and has the option to restore if I flash a new ROM.
I read somewhere that TiBu system data back ups can cause issues if you flash a new ROM and try to restore system data from a different ROM. So I have always been afraid of system data in TiBu.
If you back up the apps without the data, then the app will install, but it's a fresh install. That way anything you did in the app is lost. For example if you back up just the app Facebook, when you restore you are not signed in anymore. If you backup app + data, when you restore you are already signed in again. That could be how you lost memos from an app, but Text messages is another animal.
If you are playing with Kies, you should try the custom ROMs. They are extremely easy to install, there's lots of guides, and they run so much better than the 2.2 from Samsung/AT&T.
Don't really think you can do anything at this point to get your stuff back. You should do a nandroid backup before flashing new firmware, though. If the rom you flashed didn't work, or if you couldn't restore something with TB (or forgot to even do a TB backup), you can always roll your phone back to your previous firmware, complete with all your data.
quarlow said:
I don't think that TiBu backs up
If you are playing with Kies, you should try the custom ROMs. They are extremely easy to install, there's lots of guides, and they run so much better than the 2.2 from Samsung/AT&T.
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Agree a ROM is the way to go. Huge improvement over just using a bloated 2.2.
Hi all,
I wanted to give cyanogenmod a go as I really liked the security guard idea so I used the HTC sync manager to backup my contacts and messages and set about getting cyanogen installed.
All went to plan (pretty much) until I tried to retrieve my contacts etc. I didn't realize the Sync Manager was dependant on Sense which obviously isn't there anymore so the phone won't sync with the software.
What can I do?
I think I can revert to stock if I can find an image and then retrieve the contacts, is there then another way to back everything up?
I hope you can help because my phone's looking very empty and sorry for itself
Thanks
Sync your contacts with google and back up your messages with an app from the play store. I use SMS Backup and Restore.
Thanks, do I need to 'de-root' my phone or can I install a stock image? Would I get this image from HTC?
I went into bootloader and clockworkmod to try and restore the original rom from there, does cyanogen not make a backup of the previous rom?
No ROM makes a backup before it Flashs that is up to you to do yourself. You will have to flash a stock based ROM.
Thanks for the reply. I did a bit of reading before installing and CM seemed like a quick and easy option to get the job done and try an alternative ROM. I even said over on their forum that I had backed up using the Sync Manager and no one thought to mention that I wouldn't be able to restore any data. No one said make sure you take an image yourself because CM won't do it for you.
And to top it all off I'm not that happy with CM, the battery life is atrocious.
Ah regrets!