I just bought a Tmo tab (9SGH-T849) on CL. It appears that several stock apps are missing like contacts, mail, and files. Is there anyway to get these back?
running froyo 2.2
Can i flash with stock firmware?
Many Thanks.
Try a factory reset...
Tried that. stock contacts, email, and files apps still not there. I just noticed the superuser icon, so i guess the previous owner has rooted (told me he had not).
Really would like to have the stock contacts and email app.
Thanks
A factory reset only deletes all user data and apps, but it won't put back missing things. To get a factory restore, you will have to flash a stock rom. You don't have to be rooted or unlocked to do that. Read and take your time.
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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...
hi i recently rooted my phone using the SuperOneClick Method from the unlockr.com. i used nandroid to back up my current ROM, and then proceded to flash a custom ROM. after trying it out the ROM for a few hours i decided to revert back to my original stock ROM. now i am currently back on the stock ROM but everything is WRONG. most of stock apps are missing (browser, text messaging, ect..), the market cannot download apps, basically i can only make/receive calls and get gmail. most of the other apps are gone. i have tried to factory reset the phone, i tried reflashing the HTC FRF83 stock ROM that i was on before and nothing seems to work.
i figured what i did wrong. when the phone was creating the nandroid backup, my SD was running out of space. i dont think the backup was complete and when i flashed the backup the phone is missing key components.
can anybody help me? thanks.
Read Wiki, follow "Unroot / restore your Nexus" guide for FRG83.
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 need some help, i just upgraded from eclair to froyo thru Odin with build PDA DTJP5. I left all options blank i didnt do a reset or anything just a straight swap. I read somewhere on here that if you upgrade that way you wouldn't lose you contact, calendar, and sms info. Anyway did the upgrade and of course i cant find my contact, calendar or sms. All my app's are still there just no contacts and sms's
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Damijan
Also i have noticed that all fonts stayed the same and also the background picture which was was custom, also the my WiFi settings. So im not sure why some of it stayed and others have deleted. Could the file be sitting somewhere on the phone and when i did the update it didn't pick up the files?
Does anybody have any ideas? Or is this the one nobody knows on this forum?
are you sure that the rom you installed didn't make a wipe automatically?
It must of, i thought it wouldn't though because i just installed the stock rom and left all the options in Odin empty. So im not sure but i was wandering if maybe there was a way to find the file.
If I'm not wrong, in Odin you can't decide to or not to wipe system partition. That's a "feature" of the ROM. Some ROMs are in wipe/no wipe version. When updating the phone with KIES it automatically does wipe, but they are stock roms. So, i think, you are in the same case.
gioxoid said:
If I'm not wrong, in Odin you can't decide to or not to wipe system partition. That's a "feature" of the ROM. Some ROMs are in wipe/no wipe version. When updating the phone with KIES it automatically does wipe, but they are stock roms. So, i think, you are in the same case.
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I also think your Odin-flashed ROM has automatically wiped your data, or at least overwritten part of it. Try backing them up with Titanium Backup to see if the .tar.gz of the backup contains your data (for example, \com.android.providers.contacts-20120208-133114.tar.gz\com.android.providers.contacts-20120208-133114.tar\data\data\com.android.providers.contacts\.\databases\ should contain a big contacts2.db file on my ICS, mine is 2MB).
Is it big? Open it with an sqlite browser or a simple hex editor, if you can find contact names, emails or whatever was in the old contact list, you can try restoring the backup and rebooting.
Today I rooted my fiance's phone and put ICS on it. I made a nandroid of the stock ROM before I wiped it and put ICS on it. I didn't realize that most of her contacts were stored on the phone and were unsynced with her gmail.
Using Titanium Pro I can access her contact storage and restore it, but the AOKP handles contacts differently than stock, and won't restore the contacts. I also can't get the nandroid image to restore properly to try and export the contacts.
What should I do?
Update: I tried restoring the stock ROM and ran into a host of new problems that resulted in a bootloop so bad that it wouldn't get past the AT&T screen.
I can't stress how impossibly simple it is when you just sync them with google. You don't even have to think about backing up/restoring them EVER. Instead of just restoring the stock nandroid, you must flash back to stock first because you need the kernels to match when restoring a stock rom.
You also need the partition layout to match what is mapped in the kernel and framework...
korockinout13 said:
I can't stress how impossibly simple it is when you just sync them with google. You don't even have to think about backing up/restoring them EVER. Instead of just restoring the stock nandroid, you must flash back to stock first because you need the kernels to match when restoring a stock rom.
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Trust me, I know. It's my FIANCE'S phone, not mine. It didn't even occur to me to backup the contacts, because it wouldn't ever occur to me to keep them stored internally and not on Google's servers.
I used Titanium's ability to pull contacts from a nandroid and restored data only. It got almost all the contacts back.
I'm not restoring everything back to stock, not worth the pitfalls and potential bricking.
There isn't one chance of bricking if you don't flash bootloaders...
There are tools available to uncompress the nandroid images and grab the contacts database. Then just push it to the the proper place on the new rom, reboot and you're done.
Sent from my Captivate
Edit: There's also this if you don't have access to a computer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.goddchen.android.nandroidbrowser
Thanks for all the replies everyone. I got it all fixed up.
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