Hi!
Got a question...well its about restoring SMSs.
Well...I did a backup on GMail via G-Backup Full, problem is i realized that this prog does not have any restore option I tried with SMS Backup+ but it does not work :S "restores 0 sms (xxx dumps)" while xxx being my amount of SMS starred in GMail.
Any idea?
I did a full nandroid having all my sms (now on another ROM) but switching back to the nandroid backup all my SMS are gone :S
Thanxs in advance.
Anyone?
I always forget to update my SMS backup and have to do this everytime I install new FWs.
This works in Linux:
download unyaffs.c and unyaffs.h from http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/downloads/list
type "gcc -o unyaffs unyaffs.c" from the directory you downloaded the files to
copy data.img to that folder
type "./unyaffs data.img"
It will then dump all data from the data partition on your HD
navigate to \DATA\data\com.android.providers.telephony\databases
copy mmssms.db (these are your SMS)
copy it back to the phone at the same location (\DATA\data\com.android.providers.telephony\databases)
check if the permissions are the same (not sure if they matter, I just use root explorer and set the same permissions for the file)
reboot and it's done
Thanxs! Wow
I just did the restore again....on handcent SMS if i go to delivery reports..there appear al the SMS i sent!
but...there are no sms on "inbox" xd
i recently lost my nexus one but i had a backup folder for titanium backup in my pc
now i just bought a captivate and when i try to restore my msgs ,it says tht restore complete, it shows nohting ie no msgs are restored
when i c the backup , it shows the data is there and wht time it was backed up last
how can i restore my msgs now ?
they just dont show up
rom : cognition 4.1.1
kernel : speedmods
You won't be able to restore system settings/data. Only app data.
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y is tht , cause its a new phone or wht ?
cause i used to restore alot with the n1 and my spica , and i think i transfered the msgs from 1 to the other btwn them
okay
if its cause if the different roms then can i do this ?
i had cyanogen rom on my nexus when i made tht backup
now if i put cm7 on the captivate , and restore the msgs
is there any software tht can help me restore the msgs on any other rom , after i shift from cm7 ??
PS - i have never really had to go to a different rom on the nexus 1 , i always had the cm rom , so dont know much
System data is specific to a particular phone and ROM. Restoring it, even if it is the same phone and ROM version, has been known to cause problems (app and/or system FCs). Since that backup was made on a different phone, the system aspect of it is useless and even some of your restored apps may not work.
It's actually because the location of the sms database is in a different spot on the galaxy s line, so I'm sure TB restored it to the same spot as on the N1, which is the wrong spot on the Galaxy S/Captivate. You can maybe try moving the database over yourself with adb, though I'd back up your current database first..
The sms/mms database on the nexus one is located at:
/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
On the Galaxy S it is in:
/dbdata/databases/com.android.providers.telephony/mmssms.db
What you would want to do is take a backup of your mmssms.db in /dbdata/..., move your old n1 database over to /dbdata/... from /data/data/... (overwriting the existing one) and then restarting your phone.
Titanium Backup restore after ROM install
I am having restore issues and would appreciate some help.
I installed Cognition 4.1.1 on my Captivate. First time through I did Ti Backup "Backup all user apps + system data", moved the Titanium Backup directory to my PC, ran Odin to restore I897UCJF6, but then couldn't do a Master clear due to PC connection difficulties. I continued without a Master Clear and was eventually successful. I restored my apps after installation with TiB "Restore Missing Apps with Data".
Not doing a Master Clear was tormenting me so I did the installation all over again, this time without doing the TiB backup again as I still had the first backup folder on my PC. I found the phone number for the Master Clear and did that in lieu of Odin Master Clear. It all worked...but
...now when I copy my Titanium Backup folder from my PC back to my phone and open TiB, it doesn't see and backups. I have two files in my /mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup directory...
TitaniumBackup_latest.apk 1.82 MB, and
TitaniumBackup.apk 1.73 MB.
When I install TiB from the Market, it is version 3.7.4. The first file appears to be the 3.7.2 app and the second is the 3.6.8 app.
Hope I didn't leave anything out. WHERE'S MY STUFF???
Your TitaniumBackup folder shouldn't only have those two backups. Those are just the install files for the Titanium Backup app itself. It should typically have EVERY app/data file inside that folder. (I have 756 files in my TitaniumBackup folder).
Go to the folder copy you left on your computer and see if the files are still there... If not, you're in bad luck I'm afraid.
Ah! I looked around and indeed found the "real" location I had used. I was looking in the folder where I had downloaded the app. The real location has lots of files. I will try again. Thanks for your help.
Hola,
I've just reinstalled a rom (darky 10.2.2) with wipe, installed TB, but it can't see my backups!
- the backup dir is 195MB large, it seemingly has no problem
- the backup folder is set properly for this directory
- on the TB main screen it has everything needed
Yet it can't see any of the backed up apps...
what could be the problem?
Just found a solution: create a backup, then rewrite the contents with the files from the old backup.
Got a problem, could anybody please make any sense?
I had 19k sms messages on my SGS+ and I backed them up with SMS Backup & Restore. Everything went fine. Now, after flashing my device to Ultragen v1.7 Rom, I am not able to restore my messages back. When I try to restore, it shows progress screen approx. to 125/15453 and then suddenly disappears. And I am like what the heck?
The same story with Titanium backup, it does not even starts to restoring xml file.
After that I was looking forward to restore sms&mms from nandroid backup, but the fact is, following tutorial about flashing Ultragen v1.7 ROM there was a stupid point of formating card, so my nandroid backup was destroyed.
What's wrong?
Problem solved. Restoring sms from .xml file completly in one row was not possible in one or another way. But restoring manually one by one each thread was possible via SMS Backup & Restore simply "viewing" backuped file and then restoring every thread.
Maybe this helps for somebody.
so i was making a backup via adb on my computer, after this when i reboot my device it gets stuck on bootscreen, so i restored to a diferent back up, which i was sure had the efs partition but when restoring it sends an error message saying there's no efs folder and finishes the restore.
i get to boot on that back up but i got not signal nor imei, i was sure i checked efs when making this backup because i already used it before and had no problem
it looks like somewhere along the way the efs folder got lost
is there a way to recover it?
please help im using an xt1095 victara with a lineage nightly 14.1 rom and twrp
visit this https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52648789#post52648789