I'm looking to unlock my One and install a custom ROM onto it (such as Android Revolution or TrickDroid), but I heard that unlocking erases the content of the phone, and I know installing a custom ROM will definitely clear my phone.
So I want to know if there's a backup software that I can just plug in my phone, check all the things I want to backup (Txts, apps, musics, photos) and restore that after I flash a custom ROM. A lot of the games I play right now (Temple Run 2, Carmaggedon) have a great deal of progress in them, and if I just reinstall them then I will lose that progress.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rb3VzaGlrZHV0dGEuYmFja3VwIl0.
works for me
niekie73 said:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5rb3VzaGlrZHV0dGEuYmFja3VwIl0.
works for me
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Can you confirm that Helium works for you and how you got it to work please. I tried both on my HTC One X and my HTC One and could get it to work on neither of them. I read somewhere that this was because HTC phones will only connect through USB in MTP mode now where Helium needs to connect in the standard Disk Drive mode, which was removed in HTC's JB updates. Am I missing something here??
How I had to do it in the end was by using the tool in this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36499906 Some people found it didn't work but it worked perfectly for me
Couldn't get it to work on my stock HTC One. After installing Helium on the phone and desktop and with USB Debugging turned on HTC Sync pops up on the and shows me photos on the desktop. On the phone it keeps saying "Waiting for the Helium Desktop application to enable application backup on your Android." Cancel is the only choice. I can open the phone folders on the computer and see the folders. Wonder, do I just copy them across to a folder on the computer?
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Is there a way to flash a minimal ROM to the SE X1 such that the data (documents, pictures, music, etc) on the existing ROM does not get overwritten?
taz1973 said:
Is there a way to flash a minimal ROM to the SE X1 such that the data (documents, pictures, music, etc) on the existing ROM does not get overwritten?
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You have to backup these things, like putting it on your SD card or PC. No other way.
Seriously? There is no way of me getting to my data?
I am able to start the phone (get the "beta expired message" plastered all over the screen).
I can get into the bootloader and when I plug the phone to the PC I see a Microsoft USB sync device but cannot sync with it.
Is there a way to start active sync via an autorun file on the SD card?
Come on...there has got to be a way for me to get to the data on the phone.
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Seriously? There is no way of me getting to my data?
I am able to start the phone (get the "beta expired message" plastered all over the screen).
I can get into the bootloader and when I plug the phone to the PC I see a Microsoft USB sync device but cannot sync with it.
Is there a way to start active sync via an autorun file on the SD card?
Come on...there has got to be a way for me to get to the data on the phone.
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You cannot sync with it because your phone isn't on. As far as I know there is no other way then flashing or hard-resetting your device.
not that I heard of
the q sounds familiar, wasn't that already raised in another thread...?
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673925
Same OP btw
on topic: afaik there is no way getting your data from a beta expired device (except the data on the storage card). And you can't flash a ROM without erasing the data on the phone.
What ROM are/were you using?
Maybe try contacting the Chef to see if he has any ideas...
I was using the Energy ROM. I already contacted NRG and he was not very helpful.
When the phone boots up, I can see the custom background image. I can also, with some messing around, get to the slide show and I see that all my pictures are there.
However, I cannot get the phone to connect to my PC via activesync (possibly because activesync is disabled on the phone). I tried to blindly navigate the menus but no luck so far. On the other hand, I was able to connect the phone to my PC using bluetooth, but for some reason OBEX file transfer is not working therefore Bluetooth explorer does not work with the phone.
If I slide open and closed the screen, I can somewhat navigate through some screens. If I hit the START button, I can navigate through all the menus, but then nothing shows up because of the white screen.
This is really frustrating because all my files all there, but just a wee bit out of reach.
I toyed with the idea of flashing with the smallest ROM I could find and then dump the ROM back to the PC and then use recovery software to try and recover the files. I would need to experiment with a second X1 just to be sure that it could work.
At this point, any ideas are more than welcome, and anything other than "it can't be done" will definitely be appreciated.
Thanks,
T
I just got my captivate 1 month ago (first android). I rooted the phone and installed Cognition 2.3b6 right when i got it. I have never backed up the phone.
2 days ago the phone dropped from about 18 inches onto the bathroom floor. Cracking the interior of the screen. Origintally i could see the top half, the touchscreen hardly works. Now i can only see a faint blue color when i boot hte phone. It still works, i get alarms and feel it vibrate.
I understand that I might be able to do a nandroid backup (is it possible to do it blind?), but is that the correct thing to do? Will that change the deviceID of my replacement phone from AT&T (insurance replacement).
I would like to get the data backed up and transferred over asap so i can pack the old phone up and ship it off before the holidays.
Thank you guys!
adb pull /sdcard
Some one else might be able to help you with the specifics, but pull the /sdcard data from your phone.
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what?
I figured i need to probably copy it to the sd card. But from what i understand, some applications rely on DeviceID's and not the actual phone. Ergo, if you do a complete nandroid backup it will also copy over the DeviceID (from what i understand, correct me if i'm wrong).
Or is that something different than what you are suggesting?
Your data is stored in /sdcard. The external sdcard is /sdcard/external_sd for froyo, cant remember file path for 2.1. What else could you be wanting to transfer to the new phone?
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I've never done it before, I want to be able to transfer all data (ie, installed apps, cached notebooks for evernote, preferences, etc) to the other phone.
I have never done this before on an android phone and don't know the best way to tackle this using a cracked screen (can't even unlock the phone)
I think I can manage to do a nandroid backup ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEqbjUb4WxM ) but i'm concerned about the device id
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I've never done it before, I want to be able to transfer all data (ie, installed apps, cached notebooks for evernote, preferences, etc) to the other phone.
I have never done this before on an android phone and don't know the best way to tackle this using a cracked screen (can't even unlock the phone)
I think I can manage to do a nandroid backup ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEqbjUb4WxM ) but i'm concerned about the device id
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There are 2 way i can think of.
1- Like mentionned in prior post do a adb pull /sdcard
2- Boot into recovery and try to a backup from there blindly (following online pictures/video of the different menus and pressing the buttons accordingly).
I don't see the big deal about your deviceid. Many users have had a auto generated id with roms. It will be ported with the nandroid. Not sure just how wide spread the use of deviceid is used in apps.
Thanks I was really confused about the whole DeviceID thing. Figured it was best to play it safe.
I'll give it a try, i'm sure i can manage to do a nandroid backup on my phone
I'll keep you posted
There are ways of getting your device id back. First of all theres a market app that can backup the device id on your new phone and restore it back after you restore the backup http://www.appbrain.com/app/android-id-changer/adaptive.cogid Or you could search around the forums and/or google for ways of changind and backing up your device id, there are multiple ways of doing it. And don't forget about backing up your sdcard, like boborone said, do an adb pull /sdcard from the clockworkmod screen (adb works from recovery in case you didn't know).
Hell man, you can adb pull the whole phone if you want.
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Can you send the link to where i can find out how to do and adp full pull from the pc? The only instructions i'm seeing are for the android sdk (bit confused)
the sdk is downloaded to your pc, and then you run that command from a terminal/command prompt with the phone connected.
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the sdk is downloaded to your pc, and then you run that command from a terminal/command prompt with the phone connected.
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Do i need to have left the phone in USB debugging mode? I believe 3 days before the accident, i turned off USB debugging on purpose (for file transfers)
Check out my Screencast video...It may help you here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877652
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Do i need to have left the phone in USB debugging mode? I believe 3 days before the accident, i turned off USB debugging on purpose (for file transfers)
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I believe you can use adb from recovery screen.
connexion2005 said:
Check out my Screencast video...It may help you here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877652
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Thanks, the screencast helped, but i honestly think that 2 days before i did this, I turned off usb debugging (so i could use my phone as a hard drive)
I think that is why whenever i plug in my phone, it vibrates really hard and droid explorer doesn't find any devices. Suggestions?
Hello everyone!
So I just flashed my phone and put in the ViperONE ROM and my HTC sync manager won't work. Like my mac detects it and turns on the program but the program would freeze and I would not be able to do anything or click it. Secondly on the Sync Manager it shows my phone as "MTP device"?? What is that exactly?? Is that bad?? And lastly I tried to just transfer stuff via Android File Transfer, but that doesn't work either because the program says it can't detect my phone...
Please help.. Right now I can't transfer anything onto my phone
im on 4.4 stock, non rooted, i deleted some pictures in the gallery app by accident. is there anything i can do to get themh as back? all the apps such as disk digger are for rooted phones. i am extremely confused when it comes to rooting 4.4 and i know you have to revert back to 4.2.2 and im afraid that will overwrite that data. without usb mass storage mode, i cant do a scan on the computer. please help.
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im on 4.4 stock, non rooted, i deleted some pictures in the gallery app by accident. is there anything i can do to get themh as back? all the apps such as disk digger are for rooted phones. i am extremely confused when it comes to rooting 4.4 and i know you have to revert back to 4.2.2 and im afraid that will overwrite that data. without usb mass storage mode, i cant do a scan on the computer. please help.
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Chances are, they are probably gone forever. BUT, you could try these apps:
hxxps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bero.sdrescan
hxxps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.baloota.dumpster
I've seen reports of lost pictures coming back after a rescan. You could also check the .thumbnails folder to see if they are there, but they won't be the full-res photos from your camera folder. another spot to check is /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/cache. Do this on your computer or with a file browser on your phone such as Astro. Helium is a good app that doesn't require root to back up your stuff. I'd recommend using a backup program and set up an online storage solution using google+ or dropbox to automatically upload new photos you take.
A last resort, you could try using your PC to recover them as well using hxxp://www.recovering-deleted-files.net/android-data-recovery. I haven't used this myself and don't know if it's free or not, but there's a youtube video out there showing how it works. There's also another program called Recuva that you could try.
Best of luck. Let us know how it goes.
Hi everyone,
i have a problem with htc sync. When i connect my HTC with my PC (Win7) and start the HTC Sync Manager (3.1.37.2), then first the programm says: phone connected (loading data). After one minute it says: device unavailable. please reconnect your device [4]. I reinstall the newest driver, the newest HTC Sync Manager, restart both my HTC and my Computer, but nothing worked. Can someone help me? I have the newest ViperRom (7.0.2) with ElementalX Kernel (18.0).
Thanks for help
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Hi everyone,
i have a problem with htc sync. When i connect my HTC with my PC (Win7) and start the HTC Sync Manager (3.1.37.2), then first the programm says: phone connected (loading data). After one minute it says: device unavailable. please reconnect your device [4]. I reinstall the newest driver, the newest HTC Sync Manager, restart both my HTC and my Computer, but nothing worked. Can someone help me? I have the newest ViperRom (7.0.2) with ElementalX Kernel (18.0).
Thanks for help
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HTC Sync is Crap .. use windows Explorer to copy files too and from your phone
Airdroid is also nice for backing up your apps and SMS / contacts from your phone
clsA said:
HTC Sync is Crap .. use windows Explorer to copy files too and from your phone
Airdroid is also nice for backing up your apps and SMS / contacts from your phone
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thanks for your answer. The problem is: i want to have my itunes music on my htc one. and with the HTC Sync Manager i can do it without any problems, if the sync manager work
i tried other softwares, and with wondershare mobilego i usually can add my music from itunes to my android device, but unfortunately the program say, that i dont have itunes installed, but i have. With the Sync Manager, i dont have this problem. And the Sync Manager worked one year ago, but since i think 5 month, after an update from HTC Sync Manager, i have this problem. And i cant install an older version, because than the program says, that i have to install the newest version in order to backup my HTC etc.
thepate94227 said:
thanks for your answer. The problem is: i want to have my itunes music on my htc one. and with the HTC Sync Manager i can do it without any problems, if the sync manager work
i tried other softwares, and with wondershare mobilego i usually can add my music from itunes to my android device, but unfortunately the program say, that i dont have itunes installed, but i have. With the Sync Manager, i dont have this problem. And the Sync Manager worked one year ago, but since i think 5 month, after an update from HTC Sync Manager, i have this problem. And i cant install an older version, because than the program says, that i have to install the newest version in order to backup my HTC etc.
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Don't even get me started on itunes ...if you don't know where your music is located and you rely on these apps to find it for you, you need to spend some time learning computers.
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Don't even get me started on itunes ...if you don't know where your music is located and you rely on these apps to find it for you, you need to spend some time learning computers.
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I know exactly where my music is. But I don't want to copy all my music myself on my HTC one, Because my music is sorted by interpreters (windows explorer). I want to copy only some playlists on my HTC. And with the sync manager, this is not a problem. I dont want to create all the playlist on my own, i want to copy them on my HTC. I hope you understand what I mean My english is not very well