I have been running Sense ROMs on my m7 since I got it, but yesterday I decided to make the conversion to GPE. That went smoothly, and before I wiped everything I used the HTC Messaging app to make a backup of my text messages. Now that I'm on GPE I'm realizing that HTC has a proprietary backup, and I can't restore directly from it. Short of flashing back to a Sense based ROM, restoring the messages, then using a different app to create a compatible backup, is there any way I can restore these messages onto the GPE ROM without going through all the trouble of re-flashing? I believe the backup HTC created is an .hbk file. I've tried a few SMS restore apps from the Play Store, but none have been able to restore from this file so far.
Thanks!
Epos7 said:
I have been running Sense ROMs on my m7 since I got it, but yesterday I decided to make the conversion to GPE. That went smoothly, and before I wiped everything I used the HTC Messaging app to make a backup of my text messages. Now that I'm on GPE I'm realizing that HTC has a proprietary backup, and I can't restore directly from it. Short of flashing back to a Sense based ROM, restoring the messages, then using a different app to create a compatible backup, is there any way I can restore these messages onto the GPE ROM without going through all the trouble of re-flashing? I believe the backup HTC created is an .hbk file. I've tried a few SMS restore apps from the Play Store, but none have been able to restore from this file so far.
Thanks!
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Simple answer is no. You will have to restore them in Sense and then restore them. Mind you this may not completely work as they use completely different systems. It could also corrupt the restore and cause bigger issues with the messaging app. It is never advised to restore any system data like this.
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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.
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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.
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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So since scrosler once again has stopped development on CleanROM, I'm thinking of switching over to ARHD, but I am curious about restoring just the data from a nandriod made from CleanROM on ARHD. Will there be any major issues (don't want to lose all my txts and such)? Thanks!
You can back them up (texts and contacts etc etc) and they would restore with no issue Game data should have no issue as well if you use Titanium.
dark2099 said:
So since scrosler once again has stopped development on CleanROM, I'm thinking of switching over to ARHD, but I am curious about restoring just the data from a nandriod made from CleanROM on ARHD. Will there be any major issues (don't want to lose all my txts and such)? Thanks!
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you can use AppExtracter to restore apps, sms and contacts from nandroid backups.
or, you can use an app like Super Backup Pro to backup Apps+app data, sms, contacts, calender and bookmarks. and restore them on your new rom.
I advice titanium backup if we're root
If I am on 4.1 and use titainium to backup my data and apps, save those bachups to my pc, then unroot and ruu so I can get the 4.3 OTA. Can I restore my apps once I reroot without problems.
Yes.
Also as a side note. Use HTC backup as well. It will backup your home screens and app drawer. What I am doing is:
Flash new sense ROM
Log into Google and nothing else
download Titanium backup and restore apps
Log into HTC account and dropbox through Accounts & sync
Change backup to HTC and restore from HTC backup
Has made life so much easier than what I used to do on other phones. Phone is quickly back to just how I like it.