so the other day, my mother lost her phone in a parking lot and the phone was never turned in, but luckily I had made a backup of her phone with clockworkmod and kept it all on my computer just in case. Now, I got my brother to give her his old phone (One M7) to her, new sim set up, fresh rom installed (insertcoin lollipop) and all thats left now is restoring data.
I had purchased TiBu Pro a few years ago so I signed into google with my account and downloaded it. Then I copied the cwm backup to the phone. When I go to restore from nandroid in TiBu, nothing comes up. I went to check the backup location, but it wont let me pick and folder except the titanium backup folder in the root. Also, when I hit the scan for backup button, it says it found none, even if I tell it to scan the whole phone.
I ran into this problem about a year ago with another phone and got past it, but I don't remember how. I'll keep searching google for the meantime.
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So the other day i flashed the leaked version of froyo 2.2 to my captivate. Everything went fine and used it all day today. Well i wanted to recover my lost apps so i rooted it using the z4 root app. I tried to do a temp root first but the phone sat there for a while and didnt seem to be moving along with the process so i hit back and retried the permanent root option this time and just let it sit there. It got done with the rooting process and everything seemed to be fine. I opend titanium back up and tried to restore my previous back up from my rooted 2.1 phone. It wouldnt load the apps but i believe it loaded all the settings. It was saying they were 3rd party apps even though they came from the market. No big deal. I just lookked at the list and redownloaded the ones i wanted and restored the app settings individually. Got done with that and everything was working perfectly....until i shut the phone off and turned it back on. A messsage saying "android.phone stopped working...force close something or other" it would do that i hit close, the phone would vibrate a few times and it would pop back up. This made the phone unusable. But i decided id take the sim card out and turn it back on and everything is working fine. Im actually posting from the phone right now via wifi. Sorry to make this so long but i wanted to try and be as detailed as possible. Someone please help me out!
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So the other day i flashed the leaked version of froyo 2.2 to my captivate. Everything went fine and used it all day today. Well i wanted to recover my lost apps so i rooted it using the z4 root app. I tried to do a temp root first but the phone sat there for a while and didnt seem to be moving along with the process so i hit back and retried the permanent root option this time and just let it sit there. It got done with the rooting process and everything seemed to be fine. I opend titanium back up and tried to restore my previous back up from my rooted 2.1 phone. It wouldnt load the apps but i believe it loaded all the settings. It was saying they were 3rd party apps even though they came from the market. No big deal. I just lookked at the list and redownloaded the ones i wanted and restored the app settings individually. Got done with that and everything was working perfectly....until i shut the phone off and turned it back on. A messsage saying "android.phone stopped working...force close something or other" it would do that i hit close, the phone would vibrate a few times and it would pop back up. This made the phone unusable. But i decided id take the sim card out and turn it back on and everything is working fine. Im actually posting from the phone right now via wifi. Sorry to make this so long but i wanted to try and be as detailed as possible. Someone please help me out!
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It sounds like you restored system settings from Titanium Backup. Don't do that. It will cause a whole gang of fc's (including the one you saw, android.phone has stopped unexpectedly). Only restore your apps and app data from titanium backup. When you restore system data from TiBu, you usually have to reflash the rom to stop things from fc'ing.
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It sounds like you restored system settings from Titanium Backup. Don't do that. It will cause a whole gang of fc's (including the one you saw, android.phone has stopped unexpectedly). Only restore your apps and app data from titanium backup. When you restore system data from TiBu, you usually have to reflash the rom to stop things from fc'ing.
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Thays what i was kind of assuming. So i just have to redo the same process i did to flash 2.2 in the first place right?
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Well mostly the same, all except the part about restoring the wrong data. Just do missing apps this time.
I am about to wipe install Darky's new rom and would like a way to restore apps without having to reinstall each one individually.
What are the general feeling on resorting apps via titanium?
If I use titanium will the apps still receive automatic market updates?
Also can anyone recommend a good way of backing up contacts?
All advice is welcome!
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contacts i use googlemail...
for cleaner results just restore user no system apps.
if you go for darky 10 i wouldn't restore apps at all or just selected fresh install where ever you can...
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Had my SGS for three months on 3 in the UK.
In the first week I flashed the 2.2.1 update.
Brilliant phone, but then 2 days ago it suddenly went very wired, 1-3 buzzing, buzz pause buzz buzz buzz everything crashing and rebooting didn't help.
So I did a factory reset (reboot vol up + home + power) which of course wiped everything.... not even market worked.
I had a user folder with various essential files, including the titanium apk
Titanium restore all apps and data, sit back and wait around 20/30 minutes.
Phone restored EXACTLY as it was before, including placement of icons and everything down to the last detail.
A "Backup" generally in computing terms is like a parachute, you have no use at all for it until you need it, and then you'd better have one, and it better work.
Titanium backup worked, 100%, cannot fault it in any way whatsoever, if you only buy one apk, buy this.
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Sms backup plus which backed up all my calls and SMS and storing all my contacts to google/gmail and not sim card, and googe calendar probably helped a lot.
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I have titanium set to 7 backups, one a day per week, rolling.
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The only thing I am missing is a backup solution that backs up over the USB to a PC and which backs up absolutely everything on the phone, system and all.
As far as I know there is no ready made solution to this need?
Thanks Johnny, much appreciated mate!
So basically, when I upgrade to a new firmware, I can use titanium backup so I won't have to manually reinstall all my apps after a repartition/factory reset? What about settings such as wlan keys, or pictures associated with contacts?
taurui said:
So basically, when I upgrade to a new firmware, I can use titanium backup so I won't have to manually reinstall all my apps after a repartition/factory reset? What about settings such as wlan keys, or pictures associated with contacts?
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i would highly recomment not to restore system settings when upgrading to a new fw.
also titanium can't help if you f*ed up your system you should make a nandroid backup for that..
nandroid =safety
titanium=makes life easier but sometimes makes problems
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Ok, so there's no way to keep the contacts-pictures when upgrading to a new firmware without risking system stability? That sucks
So I desided it was a good day to flash to stable cm7. But as my phone had a specific problem nobody else has I first restored my original nandroid backup, back to sense. Then realised I didn't do a recent backup in titanium backup, so restored that backup, did a backup, then restored back to my original. Did a factory reset, cleared cache/dalvik, flashed cm7, g-apps, fixed permissions, rebooted. All seemed well. Everything was working except GPS. So I also desided to change my SD card to my new 32G. A few hours later I was at work, and checked my phone, NO INTERNET, gaahhhh. Went to SMS a friend to see if she had internet. Realised Google account didn't restore my contacts. No internet=no restoring then went to do a nandroid restore, and found out that clockwork mod recovery goes away after a factory reset(after I thought about it I realised I didn't even have my backups anyways...new SD card) So there I was stuck at work, with a basicly broken phone, and I was kinda stressed about it. Had to wait 5 hours before I could even get to my computer to fix it. I can't believe I freaked out so much over it.... Hi, my names Justin and I am addicted to my Smartphone.
Edit: BTW, not really sure why I wrote this long ass ramble/rant. But whatever at least my phone is awesome once more
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So I desided it was a good day to flash to stable cm7. But as my phone had a specific problem nobody else has I first restored my original nandroid backup, back to sense. Then realised I didn't do a recent backup in titanium backup, so restored that backup, did a backup, then restored back to my original. Did a factory reset, cleared cache/dalvik, flashed cm7, g-apps, fixed permissions, rebooted. All seemed well. Everything was working except GPS. So I also desided to change my SD card to my new 32G. A few hours later I was at work, and checked my phone, NO INTERNET, gaahhhh. Went to SMS a friend to see if she had internet. Realised Google account didn't restore my contacts. No internet=no restoring then went to do a nandroid restore, and found out that clockwork mod recovery goes away after a factory reset(after I thought about it I realised I didn't even have my backups anyways...new SD card) So there I was stuck at work, with a basicly broken phone, and I was kinda stressed about it. Had to wait 5 hours before I could even get to my computer to fix it. I can't believe I freaked out so much over it.... Hi, my names Justin and I am addicted to my Smartphone.
Edit: BTW, not really sure why I wrote this long ass ramble/rant. But whatever at least my phone is awesome once more
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Semi-happened to me once before... As always, keep your data safe
Ok. I'm rooted, running decrapified 1.1 My issue right now (one of 3) is that some times, ok a lot of times, I'll try to click an icon, or activate the phone or whatever and it will take a long time before anything happens. By long time, I mean at least 30 - 45 seconds. This is my second REVO, so I'm wondering if its just a device thing or if I have something that is jacking my system. I have restored apps via Titanium, but never system data. I'm at a loss here, and while its past time to return my phone, it, along with the other two major issues is getting to be a major pain in the arse.
Any thoughts anyone? Could something that I backed up in Titanium have a corrupt file or something?
I truly appreciate any and all help.
Thanks All
Here's something quick to try:
make a nandroid backup of your phone through Clockwork
from within clockwork, wipe data
reboot your phone and use the phone without restoring your data (link your market account, and sync your apps from market + contacts, but don't restore any backups)
If the phone works fine after that, it was just simply a data corruption issue. I've had that happen MANY times on my tester Revo.. things would just get wonky on it.
If the phone is still having problems after wiping data, come to the #lgrevolution IRC channel on freenode, I can help you on there.
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Here's something quick to try:
make a nandroid backup of your phone through Clockwork
from within clockwork, wipe data
reboot your phone and use the phone without restoring your data (link your market account, and sync your apps from market + contacts, but don't restore any backups)
If the phone works fine after that, it was just simply a data corruption issue. I've had that happen MANY times on my tester Revo.. things would just get wonky on it.
If the phone is still having problems after wiping data, come to the #lgrevolution IRC channel on freenode, I can help you on there.
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Thanks TheCubed!! I figured that would fix things, but it always helps to have a back up opinion. You are spot on. So far so good. I've deleted all old titanium backups so I don't run into this problem again..
I upgraded my S3 Mini from stock 4.1.2 to CyanogenMod 11. Thinking I was clever, I took a full backup of everything with both Titanium Pro as well as Online Nandroid Backup before flashing CM11.
Only... it looks like I wasn't so clever after all.
If I use Titanium to restore the Contacts Data only then the Contacts application crashes on launch, every time. Some reading suggests that Titanium doesn't always work nicely with system functions, and Contacts is considered a system function. To be fair to Titanium, it warned me before doing the restore that the backup was from a different ROM and might not work.
My contacts weren't synchronised with my Google account so I can't restore from there.
Is there any way to get the Contacts and Messages data restored? Are there third-party programs (for any of Android, Windows, Linux, or OS X, all of which I have available) which can read Titanium backups and export the data in a format that CM11 can use?
You can use this app. I use it on cm11 without any problem at all.
I tried that program, but I can't get it to import from the Titanium backup files. Perhaps I'm missing something in the options, but all I can see there is to transfer data between the phone, the SIM, Google, and Excel.
However, it looks like a useful program for the future, to save me this sort of headache the next time I mess about with phone ROMs; thanks for the suggestion.
Well, I'm getting somewhere, and this is something to keep my occupied on Christmas Day morning while waiting for the rest of the house to wake up...
I went back through Titanium's support documentation again and found something I'd missed earlier: the program has an option to "migrate system data", which is recommended when restoring to a different ROM.
I've got my messages and contact groups back, but I still don't have the individual contacts back. But, progress is progress, and I'll keep plugging away at it.
Worst case scenario, I'll just re-enter them all by hand but I'd rather avoid that if possible.
Reverting back to the pre-rooted stock 4.1.2 firmware from this forum, in the hope that Titanium would happily restore everything without needing the "migrate system data" option didn't work, sadly. The phone got stuck in a boot loop, and reflashing the PARAM file didn't fix it. So, it looks like I'm stuck with CM11. Serves me right for jumping straight in with both feet; no-one else to blame but myself.
However, it looks like the Titanium backup is in SQLite format, so all is not lost. I've managed to dump the data table successfully, so all I need to do now is parse it for importing. But that can wait for another day, as the rest of the house has finally woken up and it's time for breakfast and presents.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Well, I persevered and finally got the 4.1.2 rooted stock ROM back on the phone without it becoming stuck in a boot loop. Titanium was able to restore my contacts and messages successfully. Now to investigate a more sensible synchronisation/backup tool before messing with a custom ROM again, perhaps Phosimgo mentioned in the first reply.
Restore contacts with TitaniumBackUp after flashing CM
Loganberry said:
Well, I persevered and finally got the 4.1.2 rooted stock ROM back on the phone without it becoming stuck in a boot loop. Titanium was able to restore my contacts and messages successfully. Now to investigate a more sensible synchronisation/backup tool before messing with a custom ROM again, perhaps Phosimgo mentioned in the first reply.
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Seriously!?
I backed up all of my stuff with TitaniumBackUpPro and flashed from 4.1.2. to CM 11 and can't get my contacts restored either.
Your telling me in need to flash back to stock and export my contacts with a different app before flashing CM again?
How is that tool Phosimgo recomended?
I ended up using Super Backup. It worked flawlessly. For the future, my contacts are now backed up to my Google account.
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