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[Q] Andromeda 2.0 Force Close Swype

I have flashed a few times before trying Andromeda 2.0. I was really impressed with the reviews I've seen for Andromeda so I wanted to try it out.
I flashed back to stock using ODIN. I then backed up my apps and user data via Titanium. I flashed to Andromeda and had no problems at all initially. I went to restore all my apps and user data and then rebooted the phone. Immediately I started having a flood of Force Closes. I reflashed the ROM and tried restoring only my apps... seemed to work fine, Then I restored my user data one at a time and everything was OK till I got to my contacts, then rebooted and started getting Force Closes. It seemed to me that it was Swype that was Force Closing constantly.
I reflashed the ROM again and haven't restored anything and I'm fine now. I had Phoenix Rising 3.5 on the phone before I went to Andromeda, is there anything known that Andromeda might not like as a setting or user data coming from Phoenix Rising and if so is there a way around this whilst keeping my user data and settings?
I really am impressed with this ROM and would choose it as a day to day ROM if I was able to get all my settings back. For now I'm going back to Phoenix Rising but if anyone has any thoughts I'd appreciate it. Also, if the Andromeda devs see this I'd be happy to help with any experimenting or debugging to try and help them improve the ROM further.
Thanks!

your problem is that you restored ALL APPS AND USER DATA
go into Tibu, menu, batch, and RESTORE MISSING APPS AND DATA

Pirateghost said:
your problem is that you restored ALL APPS AND USER DATA
go into Tibu, menu, batch, and RESTORE MISSING APPS AND DATA
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Thanks, I'm trying that now...
Edit: So I did that and I've got my apps back but none of my user data (contacts, call history etc) came back...

Ok. I've been plugging away at this all day... I'm not sure what's going wrong. If I do "Restore Missing" I get all my apps for sure, but I get none of my settings such as contacts, wireless access points etc. If I restore contacts I start to get force closes and yet I am unable to open my contacts... Any ideas?
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is there some reason you dont use google to sync your contacts so you dont have to worry about stuff like that?
i have an exchange account and a gmail, i never lose my contacts, and i dont have to restore them, just log in.
as far as using TiBu to restore those items, if they are green in the backup/restore section, they should be ok to restore data only...

Yeah google syncs my contacts but not all my phone contacts for some reason... It's odd that I couldn't get that to work. Andromeda is such am impressive ROM, but I had to switch back to Phoenix if I wanted to see my contacts... I'll give it a shot with another revision perhaps... Thanks for trying to help out.
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did you by chance find any fix for this? i am having the same issue.. did the restore missing apps + data and then went in and loaded my backup of contacts and sms and the other ones that were in green and after reboot, constantly getting the swype fc.. and i cant go into my contacts.. did you just have to re do the flash and reload the backup again? and just sync with google and not have your contacts?

Ultimately that's what I would have had to do but since I'm on call this weekend and need my work contacts that didn't sync through google I had to revert to Phoenix 4.0 for the time being. I read over on android central's forum there might be a solution but I haven't had a chance to get clarification and try it yet.
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thats kewl Earendil.. i would love to hear if you end up finding a fix for this.. ill keep searching as well just in case. .but synced mine for now.. think its just missing a few. .but wife has the ones i am missing in her phone (least hope she didnt delete ;P ) will continue to test and worste case, i like cog more and go back to it and i have it saved for that
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[Q] Titanium Backup Freezing

Anyone having Titanium Backup freeze on random apps during a batch restore? It's driving me nuts... Any help would be appreciated. I'm rooted and deodexed.

I had this issue, I suspect I should have waited longer during the batch but....I was impatient, restarted. The one it got stuck on I had to manually do that one and then the batch worked.

I've had this issue as well. It's been with specific games.
Zenonia 2, for instance. Every now and then, when restoring this game, it will freeze and I will have to kill Titanium and restart the batch. I know it's freezing/hanging because when I kill it and start the batch again, Zenonia 2 takes nowhere near as long to restore as I had waited for it to finish the first time.
I've been having the disappearing apps issue with a select few games (Zenonia 2 being one of them). I will reboot for something, and suddenly certain games will be gone from my app drawer. Reboot again and they will reappear (most of the time, sometimes not all of them). I wonder if it's related....

I also have this, mostly game related. However, it hung on the XDA one today.
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If you click on problems on the bottom of the app it will yell you how to fix the hanging issue
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If you click on problems on the bottom of the app it will yell you how to fix the hanging issue
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Good call.....this worked for me.

Sorry to bump a thread, but the suggestion did not work for me. Random apps still hang even after changing the application processing mode.
Are there any other suggestions I can try?

You can watch for what app hangs and do another backup and unchecked that app. Then go back and backup just that app.
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Usually when some of my apps "hang" I just assume it because its got a lot of data to back up.
I have a lot of apps in most cases, so when i run a backup, i usually walk away and do something else anyway. So I don't even notice.

I thought the same thing, but I just got a hang on an app that was 523kb (RSA SecureID in this case). A 523kb app shouldn't take 15 minutes to restore data (before I killed the process). I even get hangs manually restoring items one at a time.
It seems like there's something Titanium Backup doesn't like about our phones.

kasandoro said:
I thought the same thing, but I just got a hang on an app that was 523kb (RSA SecureID in this case). A 523kb app shouldn't take 15 minutes to restore data (before I killed the process). I even get hangs manually restoring items one at a time.
It seems like there's something Titanium Backup doesn't like about our phones.
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I don't even use TTB anymore...Ever since I got AppExtractor.
AppExtractor allows you to extract apps straight from a CWM Backup (Nandroid). It even lets you restore SMS/MMS, Contacts, and Settings from a CWM Backup.
So instead of making a CWM backup AND backing up with TTB, you just make one CWM backup and you're set.
"I use Titanium Backup to freeze my bloat/system apps :trollface:"
Yep, Appextractor does that too!
If you're getting Force Closes after restoring apps, press the Fix Permissions button within AppExtractor and there's a good chance of that fixing the problem.
There's just one catch.
The backup you pull from HAS to be done through ROM Manager.
If you use ROM manager anyway, you have nothing to worry about.
If you make the backup through ROM Manager but it still doesn't show up, you need to update CWR. Scroll to the top of ROM Manager, its the first option, just press it.

The best solution I found was to install from the market and then restore the data

eraursls1984 said:
The best solution I found was to install from the market and then restore the data
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That won't cut it for those people that have hundreds of downloaded apps

[Q] removing system apps

so like always I get my phone from verizon and there are just LOADS of apps that I don't want and will never use. the first thing I usually do is download my browser of choice (xscope) and then I will go into an application and click a link or an ad. you are prompted with a dialogue of which of the browsers you want to use to open I chose xscope and tick the box that says use this as default. I am then safe to un install the stock browser and not run into any problems. I also took out the ones I knew wouldn't interfere with anything like netflix, blockbuster, pre loaded game demos.
my question is , is it safe to remove these moto blur applications, I never use facebook on my phone, I don't twitter...they're wasting space and I'd rather just get rid of them, but my last phone was the moto droid 1 and it didn't have any of this blur bull****.
so are there any complications if I remove my facebook or twitter apps then I click someones facebook link and my phone explodes because it cant find the moto blur app? Also can I get rid of the backup stuff...and Im not sure why...but Gallery has been replaced with 'my pictures' and it has that ****ing red thing on the top which indicates it will upload these to my verizon account....uhhh no thank you....do I have to keep this or can I just install an old gallery and make that default?

I wouldn't remove them, just freeze them. Titanium backup pro is a great tool and really worth the money. There's a lot of apps that can be frozen and not cause issues, check the Android development for the Droid 4, there's a thread about which apps you can freeze. Removing them can cause instability with the phone, and no sbf files have been released

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I wouldn't remove them, just freeze them. Titanium backup pro is a great tool and really worth the money. There's a lot of apps that can be frozen and not cause issues, check the Android development for the Droid 4, there's a thread about which apps you can freeze. Removing them can cause instability with the phone, and no sbf files have been released
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yeep I ****ed up. I only uninstalled bloat bs like blur youtube facebook twitter, everything was seemingly working fine then I just tried to call my friend and my dialer force closes. I made backups of everything ... I was using system app remover and it has a option to backup or to disable . I backed up ..it pushed the odex files too but when I go to the folder in root explorer and install it will go through the process and then say file not installed....advice?

svrnmnd said:
yeep I ****ed up. I only uninstalled bloat bs like blur youtube facebook twitter, everything was seemingly working fine then I just tried to call my friend and my dialer force closes. I made backups of everything ... I was using system app remover and it has a option to backup or to disable . I backed up ..it pushed the odex files too but when I go to the folder in root explorer and install it will go through the process and then say file not installed....advice?
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scratch that I did a factory reset and the problem still persists. called up verizon they said they were going to give me a new phone since I just picked it up yesterday. only thing tho...can I unroot my phone and how? should I just un-install superuser? I doubt anyone at the store is going to know its rooted if I just un install that.

Please don't return your phone. You root you pay!
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Here's the list of apps I froze on my Droid 4. My battery life is amazing now. I was at over 50% after 20 hours on battery yesterday.

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Please don't return your phone. You root you pay!
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Can't I just unroot it? I know none of the retards at the store will be able to tell the difference...but I figured I would use the Droid 4 Utilities seen here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1492843 and just unroot it and give it back? you think it will work?

HELP!!! Apps keep reinstalling themselves

I just installed Marvel ROM yesterday, no idea if this has anything to do with my problem. After I installed the ROM it automatically downloaded all my Apps from the market. My phone had never done this before, but it was OK because I was on WiFi. Then I uninstalled a bunch of apps that I didn't want. While I was out at a bar last night, my phone downloaded all the apps that I deleted again and used up 50 MB of my data plan. This is not cool because I only have 300 MB I can use at 3G speed every month. Why did my phone just download those apps? I don't want them!

stefan0325 said:
I just installed Marvel ROM yesterday, no idea if this has anything to do with my problem. After I installed the ROM it automatically downloaded all my Apps from the market. My phone had never done this before, but it was OK because I was on WiFi. Then I uninstalled a bunch of apps that I didn't want. While I was out at a bar last night, my phone downloaded all the apps that I deleted again and used up 50 MB of my data plan. This is not cool because I only have 300 MB I can use at 3G speed every month. Why did my phone just download those apps? I don't want them!
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Just goto settings->Privacy and untick the backup my data and restore my data that all your problem will be solved. The OS is backing up your data on google account and restoring it when needed so just disable it.
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I don't have that option in my privacy settings. Only factory reset. Also, if i uninstall an app through the market i would expect a "smart phone" to be smart enough not to reinstall
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Apps Not Showing

I tried searching because I thought I'd seen the answer to my problem before but I came up empty so I apologize if this has been asked and I missed it.
I did a data wipe on my phone today to see if it'd clear up some issues I was having. After the wipe non of my apps from the play store are showing up, regardless of free or purchased, the only thing that comes up is the preloaded apps.
What's the trick to get the play store to refresh and load my apps?
I tried to restore the backup I made before the wipe but it fails to reload.

Wiping data will remove your downloaded apps. Open the Play Market, hit menu, "my apps" and you'll see a list of everything you currently have downloaded/installed. Swipe over and you'll find the list of everything you've purchased and downloaded recently (free or not).
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The Magician Type 0 said:
Wiping data will remove your downloaded apps. Open the Play Market, hit menu, "my apps" and you'll see a list of everything you currently have downloaded/installed. Swipe over and you'll find the list of everything you've purchased and downloaded recently (free or not).
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Thanks, I didn't realize it did that.
I thought there was a way to get it to reload most of the apps automatically but this will have to do.
I appreciate the help.