I ran the tethered update on my phone and afterwards it started acting weird.
I couldn't send pictures, my contacts wouldn't back up, etc.
First problem, I didn't see the thread that had steps listed to take BEFORE the update. All I did was root it with universal androot and back up everything onto Titanium Backup.
I went to Cricket, they were no help. I did a factory reset, and reloaded everything from Titanium. Everything is fine, except for my text message history isn't showing up.
I looked at their wikipedia page and followed the instructions, but still-nothing.
Are my messages backed up onto my sd card with everything else? How do I retain them? I don't know what I'm doing...
I would say its not really a issue. Start new conversations.
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I was just using the web browser and my phone rebooted itself. It has a history of bad behavior. I think the sd card slot is flakey and I'm using a swap partition, so when it flakes out it crashes. I'm also using sd-ext for apps. I'm using a new sd card, so I don't think it's the card itself. The old one did this, too.
After it rebooted all my 3rd party apps were gone. I forgot about apps2sd for a second and decided to do a nandroid restore thinking that might help. I recently wiped the phone and had a backup after I installed some favorite apps.
When it cam back up all my apps were there and it looked good, except now no root apps work, and I can't use su in the terminal! It's like my phone unrooted itself.
Has anyone else ever heard of this happening before after a crash? Do I have to go through the root process all over again? Eh, I should probably just ditch the phone. It's not reliable any more.
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Any ideas about this? Should I just try to go through the rooting process again?
There are a few things you can check... Do you have a recovery menu still? If so, this is good! And we can go from there...Don't give up as of yet. I have bricked...like PERMA bricked my phone several times. I get my replacement and go again. haha.
Woosah! Woosah! ....but if you REALLY wanna get rid of it that bad, PM me and I'll make you an offer.
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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10tonhammr said:
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 just got the the phone for my mom and within seconds had root. Installed titianium backup and started to remove Bell/Moto bloat and in that process I deleted google com file in stead of the gmail app. Now the phone still works and I restored to factory which resolved some fc issues but the "text messaging" app still fc's I also removed the "messaging" app which I think is causing the fc for the text messaging app but when I try to restore it from titanium it gets stuck at restoring and never actually restores.
I'm thinking of just reflashing the firmware again and start over do to my stupidity but never owned moto devices so please guide tell me where I can get the stock bell firmware and how to flash it.
Also will I loose root?
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I'd just reflash another ROM and be done with it. Not sure why you're manually removing apps, most roms are de-bloated.
edit: you're on XT860??
Yes xt860
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plus i like stock she does not need much more then that i just need a link to stock update and the program used to update it.
My mom's Verizon SCH-i800 (7 inch Tab) was having some random freezing and error messages, so she asked me to do a factory reset. I synced up her Google account, did a backup with MyBackup (free version), made a backup on my computer of the SD card... Anyway, did the factory reset, everything's back, except the memos from the Stock memo app. After doing some more research, I have found that said memos are stored in the system folder, which is unaccessible without root. I have searched long and hard trying to find a way to root that tablet, but have been unable to (I tried with the root that works for p1000, but that doesn't work).
So, is there a way to get back the memos? They are most of my mom's critical work over the last 6 months or so, and are extremely important to her.
I guess I'm asking 2 things.
1) Is there a way to root the SCH-i800?
2) If so, is there a way to recover files after doing a factory wipe? (I have recovered files that had been wiped from the SD card before using EaseUS Data Recovery.
Any help would be much appreciated. I'm kinda desperate right now. Thanks!
(Oh, and I tried Samsung support, they were useless. Also, tablet's running 2.3.5, no modifications to the software, and she bought it from the Verizon store new less than a year ago).
THANKS!
--RAf
This is how I rooted my Verizon tablet. Hope it's what you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19992107&postcount=1
compuser84 said:
This is how I rooted my Verizon tablet. Hope it's what you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19992107&postcount=1
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Thanks! As it is, I am wary of doing another factory wipe, as that would make my chances of recovering the data be even less. I have seen roots for other devices that didn't require doing a factory wipe, any idea why this one does? Also, is there in general a way to recover data after a factory wipe?
Cheers,
-RAf
Unless you backed up the memos specifically using an app, they're gone. The memo app is stored on the system partition, not the memos themselves. If you have no backup, there is no way to recover them. They were nuked when you did the factory reset.
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Unless you backed up the memos specifically using an app, they're gone. The memo app is stored on the system partition, not the memos themselves. If you have no backup, there is no way to recover them. They were nuked when you did the factory reset.
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From what I have since researched, the memos themselves were stored in /data/data/com.sec.android.app.memo which I couldn't access due to not having root. So I guess they're gone /sigh.... Thanks anyway.
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.
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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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