I had been using SpbBackup with my Tilt but when I tried it on the Fuze, it took 40 minutes to backup...which seemed ridiculous.
Sprite wasn't much faster....was going so slow that I just reset it and quit.
And this is with a nearly empty device!!!
Is there something better out there for backup of the entire device?
Sprite Backup is very good. Completes the backup within a couple minutes and you can schedule automatic backups. The elite team includes it in their ROM.
Sprite has always worked the best for me, and I've tried SPB Backup, Resco Backup, and SkTools backup function. Backups only take a couple of minutes and I've had 100% success restoring by first hard resetting my device, then restoring my Sprite backup file from storage card.
SASHIMI
I know it's not entirely the same, but it does the trick and more. I use it to reinstall everything after I hard reset/flashed my device. It is an autoinstaller but has a backup function well, see here
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i use PIMbackup... i think it's PPMBackup or something like that. it works wonders, and it's lightning fast. If you need it, pm me, and i'll post it.
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i use PIMbackup... i think it's PPMBackup or something like that. it works wonders, and it's lightning fast. If you need it, pm me, and i'll post it.
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PIMBackup is amazing...i love it. as above it is lighting fast, and only backs up PIM Data. I guess for you it depends on what you would like to backup...
what do you have in your fuze???
mine takes at max 15min
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what do you have in your fuze???
mine takes at max 15min
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are u using PIM backup?? i have a stock touch pro, from the HTC factory (which i've since customized), and usually once the carriers get their hands on it, they strip it down. The Verizon version has been stripped QUITE a bit, where as the AT&T version is almost identical to the original release. I'm not sure if that's got anything to do w/ why your's takes up to 15 mins, but mine has never taken longer than a few minutes.
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what version of SPB Backup are you using?
I had similar problems with the older versions.
SPB Backup 2.0 is VERY fast on my hermes and my diamond. Rarely more than 5min to do a 45mb backup and about the same for a restore.
It has ROM upgrade modes as well, so it works a lot better than some others I've tried.
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are u using PIM backup?? i have a stock touch pro, from the HTC factory (which i've since customized), and usually once the carriers get their hands on it, they strip it down. The Verizon version has been stripped QUITE a bit, where as the AT&T version is almost identical to the original release. I'm not sure if that's got anything to do w/ why your's takes up to 15 mins, but mine has never taken longer than a few minutes.
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I'm using sprite backup, and that 15min accounts for the reboot times as well for a full restoration, not backup. You're right, backup itself only takes a couple of minutes.
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I updated my trinity with Lvsw's last version and restored my configuration from previous rom backup. It was big mistake! Now my trinity freezing on boot screen! Please help! Any idea....
hard reset ?
What is hard reset ? I pressed with stylus button on bottom and it behave same, I can't turn off and removed battery and after this it's still freezing on boot screen
press both soft keys in the same time and push the stylo in reset button and release.. after should appear a screen that ask u to format and you have to press green phone button.
Thank you very very much! Now it's alive
Freeze on boot screen too
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Thank you very very much! Now it's alive
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I've loaded .mUn. 1.25TE on my Trinity. I've had it once too, it was hanging on the new HTC logo. I've pressed the soft reset button for awhile and it was running again.
Yeah....and you've learned now to NEVER EVER reload a systembackup of a different previous ROM
Moaske said:
Yeah....and you've learned now to NEVER EVER reload a systembackup of a different previous ROM
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Right, with so quick ROM udates backup lost every sense
What I suggest you and what I have done, as I have a 4Go card, I have created a folder where I have all my cabs and all my serial numbers, in case i have to reinstall it.
It takes me about 30 minutes to have the same environement that I had, and I have lot of programs (wheather panel, spb plus, spb diary, battery status, skype, tomtom 6.03, .....)
I have also all the restoring setting for these programs in order to not always have to set all my options every time
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What I suggest you and what I have done, as I have a 4Go card, I have created a folder where I have all my cabs and all my serial numbers, in case i have to reinstall it.
It takes me about 30 minutes to have the same environement that I had, and I have lot of programs (wheather panel, spb plus, spb diary, battery status, skype, tomtom 6.03, .....)
I have also all the restoring setting for these programs in order to not always have to set all my options every time
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I have 1G SD card for while (wait for 4G) and I have same folder except restoring settings. Now I'll use backup for programs only. It's good idea. Thanks.
My phone seems to be crashing pretty randomly.
Only this morning did it fail to sound my 3 alarms. Luckily I got up just in time for work, but completely unaided by my phone, which was no longer responding and sounded my alarms after a reboot!
Its pretty vital that this thing works without crashing... something I'd previously asumed was possible with windows mobile.
Anyone got any tips on how to sort this out, I cba having to go by an alarm clock, my old Sony Eriksson had no problems being on 24/7 and giving me 5 different alarms every morning....
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Its pretty vital that this thing works without crashing... something I'd previously asumed was possible with windows mobile.
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i'd have thought the opposite really "Fixed" solutions like nokia & S-E to me usually operate better, cause they have less possibilities/parameters to deal with.
usually my phone (WM2003) and recently my kaiser on wm6 would have random crashes or freeze ups due to either too many programs installed or a specific program that just isn't "fitting in" with the rest.
i know that's a pretty vague answer, but that's probably where i'd start looking first. on my recent kaiser problems, once i reverted to a previous backup (i back up my device every month or so), things were fine again.
how exactly do you back it up? don't think mine came with any software for that...
I use SPB Backup, which seems to work (almost) fine on WM6 (it usually delivers one or two error messages upon completion but has restored backups fine on my kaiser). Sprite Backup is another popular one too, but I had some issues with it on WM2003 and I found SPB to be faster/more reliable.
Anyway, backup software is the best purchase i've ever made, after suffering many crashes & other random events on my XDA II. Usually i'll try to remember to back up every month, but will also do a backup before i make any iffy or major software installations or upgrades. It is also possible to do selective backups of course (PIM data, contacts, e-mails, etc).
Ok, this has happened to me several times and i have never figured out why this has happened.
today i went to school and since we were having a test i turned my tilt off. after the test i turned my phone on. the tilt went through the normal boot (but i didnt see the att animation). then it went to the phone setup/align screen stuff, this is when i relized im screwed. after that i reset (to avoid the reinstall of the att software).
so the over all damage done is, my registry seems to have been competely erased. all my settings are lost, but as far as i can see all my files are there.
has this happened to anyone else, or does anyone have an idea what caused this? the only thing i could remember that is a cause of worry is that my main phone memory was down to about 2.3mb.
if its possible to get registry back please help, but really the only thing i want to know is how to prevent this after i hard reset and start to rebuild
:-(
are you using a fancy rom or a boring one?
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are you using a fancy rom or a boring one?
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Boring normal ATT rom, i have just seen to many problems with others....
maybe try the new updated one?
saying this probably doesn't help u much, but i had the same thing happen to me too, except i didn't turn it off or anything special. I just rebooted and lost the registry like you did. I don't think its your free memory though, i had over 40mb free when it happened to mine.
Nothing you can do except backup nightly so you can be prepared for next time.
If you're using the AT&T ROMs, Sprite Backup is installed by default.
Hope this helps!
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Nothing you can do except backup nightly so you can be prepared for next time.
If you're using the AT&T ROMs, Sprite Backup is installed by default.
Hope this helps!
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is there a way to have sprite backup, backup directly to the computer when plugged in? so i dont use up all of the memory?
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is there a way to have sprite backup, backup directly to the computer when plugged in? so i dont use up all of the memory?
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Buy a MicroSD Card, they are relatively cheap, you can tell the backup program to only keep a certian number of back-ups (I keep 5). It also comes in handy if you want to try a new Rom.
You can also auto reset the device after the back-up it helps with stability.
I'm having problems again with my messaging system on my phone (Picture messages aren't coming through. Normal ones come through but pictures ones don't. Kinda weird and this happend before and the only thing I could do was a hardreset). I purchased sprite backup and plan on doing a hard reset now to fix things. My question is the way my phone is now it has sprite back up on it. When I do the hardreset will the sprite back up on my comp be smart enough to reload the phone with what it needs to do the restore? Any feedback on this would be awesome and thanks in advance. Also is anyone knows how to fix the messaging system on this phone (8925 aka tilt) without doing the restore thing that would be great also. Thanks!
sprite might back up the problem. So after you hard reset and reload the backup you may have just reloaded the problem as well.
I was worried about that. Maybe i'll just take the time to reinstall everything. I'd hate to go that route though...
OK, I've upgraded my Diamond from 1.37 to 1.93. I then used SKTools backup to restore everything from a backup before the upgrade. And now I have a few strange things. This is just what I've noted immediately, I haven't even tried anything else yet....
On the Home screen, after a soft reset or moving from any other TF3D screen to home, the clock runs from the current time to 12:59AM, the Home screen also shows my connection to T-Mobile, which is strange as I'm with O2, which is what it shows in the Phone screen.
The date is also wrong, showing Jan 1 2008. If you go into the date/time screen the date & time are correct.
Oh, and the Soft menus are a bit screwed as well...
I will try a hard reset without a restore and see what happens...
I think you should re-do your upgrade to 1.93.
I had similar problems with HTC's back-up software... after upgrade to 1.93 and running the back-up program... it showed that i still had 1.37 ROM!
I don't back-up my data anymore, I just use Outlook for my contacts.
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I think you should re-do your upgrade to 1.93.
I had similar problems with HTC's back-up software... after upgrade to 1.93 and running the back-up program... it showed that i still had 1.37 ROM!
I don't back-up my data anymore, I just use Outlook for my contacts.
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always hard reset when flashing a new rom
and restoring backup between two different roms is nto recommended at all. at that might be the cause of your problem
use pim backup to restore contacts, calendar, and inbox. backing up settings not recommended.
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karim099 said:
always hard reset when flashing a new rom
and restoring backup between two different roms is nto recommended at all. at that might be the cause of your problem
use pim backup to restore contacts, calendar, and inbox. backing up settings not recommended.
regards
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i tried using SPB back up and Sprite and in the end it was easier to do fresh CAB installs on the new flashed ROM. Less hassles trying to troubleshoot the problems.
Definitely, dont back up the systems data with a different ROM, you will run into trouble!
Anyone out there carried out a fully successful restore after a ROM upgrade?
If so, could you please give details, i.e. what ROM versions were involved, and which backup software was used.
Really itching to go to from .37 to .93, but really can't face all the re-prog. I did one full restore on the phone with Sprite, when I screwed up some settings beyond what I could be bothered to fix, and it worked flawlessly, so I suppose I could suck it and see with a .93, and if it's rubbish, revert to .37, but I'd still be interested in any feedback first.
karim099 said:
always hard reset when flashing a new rom
and restoring backup between two different roms is nto recommended at all. at that might be the cause of your problem
use pim backup to restore contacts, calendar, and inbox. backing up settings not recommended.
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you are soooo right! by restoring the backup from a previous ROM you brought in system setting and registries that no longer apply to the new ROM.
if restoring from the old system and register why bother flushing a new ROM?
i think that in order to correct the present situation all you have to do is a hard reset.
and yes, you can restore PIM.
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you are soooo right! by restoring the backup from a previous ROM you brought in system setting and registries that no longer apply to the new ROM.
if restoring from the old system and register why bother flushing a new ROM?
i think that in order to correct the present situation all you have to do is a hard reset.
and yes, you can restore PIM.
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i cant beleive u agreed on every idea i said neighbor
So the consensus of opinion is to clean install everything....
To avoid the hassle of continually updating ROMs, and the subsequent 'F' factor of re-progging every time, I'll probably wait a few months for the run of updates to fizzle out and we'll hopefully have something of a 'definitive' ROM.
Do any of the old hands have any thoughts or feelings as to how long it usually takes before ROMs for new devices become close to 'definitive'?
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So the consensus of opinion is to clean install everything....
To avoid the hassle of continually updating ROMs, and the subsequent 'F' factor of re-progging every time, I'll probably wait a few months for the run of updates to fizzle out and we'll hopefully have something of a 'definitive' ROM.
Do any of the old hands have any thoughts or feelings as to how long it usually takes before ROMs for new devices become close to 'definitive'?
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i think that rom developement will never stop.. it will slow down when the next gen device arrives... which was the case for the touch, its been few months only when the rom developement slowed down ( but still roms are being released)
However, htc barely releases official roms only if there is a big improvement.
an average of 2 to 3 updates for a device.
what will you say for chefs and rom enthusiasts which have their devices flashed for over 50 times till now?
i sometimes encounter that weird soft menus during start up, but they'd go away after the phone had fully booted up...
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Oh, and the Soft menus are a bit screwed as well...
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what will you say for chefs and rom enthusiasts which have their devices flashed for over 50 times till now?
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I know, perhaps I'm just lazy, but here's me cringing at the thought of doing just one
I think I'll wait a few months for HTC's next official release, and if there isn't one by about November I'll flash the .93
studz said:
I know, perhaps I'm just lazy, but here's me cringing at the thought of doing just one
I think I'll wait a few months for HTC's next official release, and if there isn't one by about November I'll flash the .93
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.93 is a must. it has a big performance increase.. and battery life improvement
you may want to try one of the coocked roms also u will fall in love with your device
karim099 said:
.93 is a must. it has a big performance increase.. and battery life improvement
you may want to try one of the cooked roms also u will fall in love with your device
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Fairly enamoured with it now to be honest, but I might be tempted to bite the bullet sooner rather than later. Too busy to go through the hassle right now though... how do you boys find the time??! Thanks for the insight into the advantages of .93
problem is from backup program
back up is for 1.37 rom. and now u want apply it in 1.93 !
If you are going to frequently flash your device you can use SASHIMI, from the development and hacking forum. It is basically an autoinstaller so you can set it up with all your cabs, registry entries, files, start menu etc and after a hard reset you run it and it copies it all across. Works better than restoring a backup from a different rom, and faster and more convenient than doing it all manually. It did take me about 10 hours to set it up with all my registry changes though, but it was a fun rainy day projects. Please post in the main SASHIMI thread if you have questions.
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Please post in the main SASHIMI thread if you have questions.
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Sounds like that could be the way forward bigruss... I'll look in on the tread and give you all a shout if I need help when the time comes. Thanks for the tip.
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i cant beleive u agreed on every idea i said neighbor
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believe it! isn't this wonderful? you are right and i agree. flags don't matter here.
studz said:
I know, perhaps I'm just lazy, but here's me cringing at the thought of doing just one
I think I'll wait a few months for HTC's next official release, and if there isn't one by about November I'll flash the .93
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i think this is going to make yr life a lot easier:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=392983
very strange indeed
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believe it! isn't this wonderful? you are right and i agree. flags don't matter here.
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hope one day flags wont matter anywhere
SASHIMI seems to be interesting... good find