So I gleefully put a new screen protector on the XDA2 and it went dead. I mean dead. Would not boot up.( XDA2 on Orange unlocked from horrid O2 at birth )
After much head scratching, not thinking the screen protector had anything to do with malfunction I upgraded to 1.72.187 secure in the knowledge I had a backup from 10th October. Wrong.
Ignoring the fact that Activsync said No connection I reflashed ROM with 1.72.187. XDA2 did not work.
Prayed & removed screen protector & it WORKED. Dont ask, no idea.
Rebuild put back all that O2 crap but Orange SIM works; it phones.
BUT no contacts no nothing.
Have tried to restore ALL DATA 3x from backup of 10th October. Why wont the data backed up under 1.03 restore under 1.72.187 ?
Says it works but get grey screen & have to hard reset.
NO restored data.
Shall I go back and reflash with 1.03 and THEN restore data ?
Am V pissed off.
Richard
Don't know what to say about the screen protector :? Spooky :shock:
I would think that given the vast differences in versions between 1.03 and 1.72, that doing a restore will cause problems. The operating system itself has had two service packs after 1.03.
Best bet is to leave 1.72 on and re-install all your applications, etc after a hard reset. However, if you have data that you need from the backup, then try going back to 1.03, restoring from backup, then synchronising/saving your important data (assuming you will then re-upgrade to 1.72).
the saga continues
O2 Data Support seemed somewhat irritated/amused that anyone should try and use xBackup at all. It was inferred that it was an industry joke
( "not our responsibility Sir...its from that Microsoft " ). Apparently the world apart from me use activsync to backup data & cut and paste to restore....progess ?
I indicated going back to the original supplied firmware. This was closely followed by
" No Sir, we no longer supply or are able to supply firmware Version 1.03, we only supply the current release "
I will send XDA2 off to Norwich to the PDA repair people and they can reinstall 1.03 & maybe reconstitute my Contacts ( forget the Appointments ) from the backup.
What a waste of time ( and money ).
Richard
Sometimes I think that the words O2 and support just don't belong in the same sentence .
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Good morning! So, before updating to the newest dopod rom on my qtek 9000, I figured I'd be wise and cover my bases by backing my email/sms/mms up via sprite AND spb just to make sure of a good back up method, and even tested restoring them without incident. Well... that's where the goodness left off. I was silly and hand taken the time to read up on the restore process, and after the rom update, when I ran a restore, even of just the emails, it manages to hose the entire system. So, looks like I'm gonna be tryin to flash back down to the old rom and restore the stuff... and figure some way to export it all, then import it into the new configuration. Anybody got any ideas?
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Good morning! So, before updating to the newest dopod rom on my qtek 9000, I figured I'd be wise and cover my bases by backing my email/sms/mms up via sprite AND spb just to make sure of a good back up method, and even tested restoring them without incident. Well... that's where the goodness left off. I was silly and hand taken the time to read up on the restore process, and after the rom update, when I ran a restore, even of just the emails, it manages to hose the entire system. So, looks like I'm gonna be tryin to flash back down to the old rom and restore the stuff... and figure some way to export it all, then import it into the new configuration. Anybody got any ideas?
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You may have missed the official tutorial on Device Upgrade mode - you MUST remove all POP3 accounts before backing up.
Hi, i know this maybe on other threads but i cant findit, yesturday my phone speaker stop working, my phone have warranty, AT&T send me a new 8525, but my problem is that i have to many things on my old phone that i dont remember all (diferent hacks and program fix that i spend long nights working) i whant to backup my rom with all the programs and setings to install it on my new phone, i have to send the old phone ASAP, please can someone help me. THANKS.
You can use Sprite Backup that has a feature of backing up ROM or Full backup. Or you can use SPB Backup. Both are good and will do your task.
And were can i download this programs?????
try spb image my friend
And were can i download this programs?????
OK my friends i locate this programs but they are to backup DATA on my PDA and i want to backup my ROM and create a RUU to install my rom on my new phone.
Sprite and SPB Backup both back up your settings, documents, programs (if they are in device memory) - all the data on your phone except the ROM. Dumping your ROM and then coming back and trying to create a RUU from it is going to be a pain the... well, it is unnecessarily difficult.
First, use one of the programs above and do a full backup. Then, when you get your phone back, flash the same ROM you are using now and then restore from your backup. You will achieve the same result with much less trouble.
Is there some reason you MUST back up your ROM? Is it one of a kind?
Ok but i cant find this programs that works with WM6, i download them but i am getting error when try to backup.
Hi all,
I've got my Rhodium and before I start experimenting with a lot of the stuff on here I wanted to backup my device in a working state.
I previously always used sprite backup which I got on a CD with my Kaiser for free.
I didn't get it for free with my Rhodium and it wouldn't let me install it on here cause it said invalid rom version.
Is there an alternative? I don't have any money as I'm off work sick following an operation so if there is a bit free of free software that does the same thing that would be awesome
Another thing I wanted to ask but din't think needed it's own thread.... On my Kaiser I had an action screen (using Hyper Dragon III) and I'd very much like to get that same action screen on my Rhodium if possible, does anyone know if it would work on this device and if so where I can get it on it's own?
Thanks all,
DJ
Try your local HTC support download - I can download Sprite 6.2.3.2324 from there
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Try your local HTC support download - I can download Sprite 6.2.3.2324 from there
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Cannot find - got a link, perchance?
It's only available free from the HK version of the support for the TP2... Same as only HK have an updated ROM for the TP2
Think HTC need to start dishing out these updates and software etc for everyone...
Oh... pooh
And yeah, if they offer for one area, they should offer for all. Common sense, that, to make (at the very least) a basic back-up tool available, say a "lite" version of a commercially available full product... HTC, you guys listening, perchance?
Well, i sent them an email asking about it, so will see what response i get...
If you need a copy of it, send me a PM
Well, I would rather purchase a new one if it does not comes with your phone or even if there is a free one out there :> besides your TP2 is not a cheap investment. Better treat it well, if not your phone will be mad Good luck.
I've already had to perform one hard reset, so back up software would be most helpful
I've used PIM backup which is free. Works well.
Does it back up all the TouchFlo and WAP/MMS/Internet settings on a WM6.1 phone as well?
There is a custom area where you can specify which files/folders you want to back up. So as long as you know the files you need, yes.
The reply I got from HTC basically said that they have an agreement on the sprite backup software that it would be available only for asian market. If this gets altered and becomes available for more markets, it would be available to download from the support area...
Not holding out much hope there then! Good job I use spb backup already then
Just a quick question, if I needed to do a hard reset of my device, and then restored the backup, what actually gets restored?! Would I need to reinstall all of the software etc all over again!? Just wondering, as my backup is over 100mb, and I don't have that much in my phone that I've stored, so guess that a lot of it is probably files I have installed!?
Cheers
Good question. I'd like to know the answer too, as I'd certainly pay a reasonable amount for back-up software that not only backed up my files, but backed up all my settings aincluding registry and wap, mms, and net settings as well (it's save me spending twenty minutes remembering where I'd left the details on my PC, then labouriously manually copying them into the PPC again!).
lovelldr said:
.... Just a quick question, if I needed to do a hard reset of my device, and then restored the backup, what actually gets restored?! Would I need to reinstall all of the software etc all over again!? Just wondering, as my backup is over 100mb, and I don't have that much in my phone that I've stored, so guess that a lot of it is probably files I have installed!?
Cheers
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Well, you will get back everything you backup (full backup), if your restore from the SBP Full Restore. (Make sure it is a good backup copy). If you have programs that installed on your microSD, you don't need to reinstall them. It will run perfectly after the restore. (cos I have done it many times)
Note; the only thing you need is just have to resync with your PC (like contacts, calendar, etc)
Good luck.
Greetings,
Am rooted, unREVOked, Clockwork recovery, s_off, froyo ROM and 2.XX radio and all of that working well. A couple of days ago my internal speaker blew, not sure why but is is all a buzz now and a replacement will be here in the morning. I am all clear and set with putting the old unit back to stock, but with a NANDROID backup, Titanium backup, and contacts backups all ready, can I just run unREVOked on the new one and do a NANDROID restore and all will be back, radio, s_off, and all ???? Or perhaps a good step by step so I do not break the new one ??? Thanks ;-)
no. you still have to run unrevoked, soff, and the 2.15 radio...after that, you can do anandroid restore
All done Grazi ;-)
I thought so,,,,all done flawlessly ;-)
Please report back
Sorry about your speaker ... I had to return 1 incredible over speaker issues myself.
I note that you ran S-OFF. I have avoided doing so for the exact reason that you are now experiencing ... blown speaker = warranty; S-OFF = no warranty; and one had NOTHING to do with the other.
There is some debate out there as to whether Verizon will figure out you ran S-OFF. Can you please report back and let us know if Verizon denies your warranty?
Thanks!
I would advise against restoring tha nandroid of the first device. There's a good chance that your old phone is going to be repaired and given out as a FRU. As such, both devices would share the same device id.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...05-warning-do-not-share-nandroid-backups.html
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Even if your apps aren't there, and no personal information has been entered on a fresh wipe.
If someone asks for a stock Nandroid backup, kindly tell them to get lost
contagous and I learned the hard way. I sent him a completely tweaked and clean nandroid, with none of my personal info or anything like that. He has been using it and it works great.
Until AppBrain fast web installer is used. See, it IDs your device by the Android_ID, which is unique to every phone, or is supposed to be.
Nandroid backups will record this device ID, and clone it onto another device. Well, when contagous installs an app using the web installer, I get it. Without a prompt or nothing.
While I can do the same thing, and it was fun sending him pron apps and sexy men wallpapers, it has a real potential for a security nitemare. I trust contagous, but let this serve as a warning to everyone. Its also not so simple as installing another ROM and factory reset. So far as I can tell, as long as you stay on the same build OS, you will keep the same ID. The only thing that changed my ID to something else was going back to 2.1.
So friends, don't let friends share nandroids. If you do, play it smart, and delete all but the system and boot images and recalculate the md5.
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najaboy said:
I would advise against restoring tha nandroid of the first device. There's a good chance that your old phone is going to be repaired and given out as a FRU. As such, both devices would share the same device id.
http://androidforums.com/all-things...05-warning-do-not-share-nandroid-backups.html
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While I do not intend to get into a debate about facts (facts are facts), the above is false.
I am on Incredible # 3. Each time I have nandroid restored on my new device. Each time I did so, I got a ton of FORCE CLOSES from Mobile Defender, which had to be uninstalled and reinstalled. Why? BECAUSE THE DEVICE ID WAS DIFFERENT.
If i log into Mobile Defender now, I see all 3 of my Incredibles all 3 with different device ID. Please understand, that's 3 phones, all of which used the same Nandroid, and all showing DIFFERENT Device IDs.
Ok steering my own thread, is that ok ????
Sort of still on the same tack but to address the above, I hope that the device ID thing being cloned by nandroid is false because I did not even think of it happening and I hope that I do not get whacked because of it. My old one was visually perfect so I hope they just replace the speaker, do a magic factory flash of some sort, which will hopefully S_ON the thing, and send it back out. An interesting thing is that I think some 3rd party company does the refurb because the box has a return label sending it to some other company, so maybe if they are not on the lookout then they will not check, just pass it thru like cattle on to the next customer. I will report back if VZW gives me any grief later on. If they do not honer warranty and charges me full price for the new one then they better send me my old one back and I will find the speaker myself from HTC and do an ESN swap with my old TP2.
On another note, steering my own thread yet again, when I did my restore I lost my pictures because I did not set the camera to store to SD card, but I assumed that they would be contained in the NANDROID backup, but they are not back in the new phone. I have serceral backups I could look thru but does anyone know how or what to use to open an .img file and which one they would be in ???? Thanks ;-)
Hello XDA-Community,
I am in a little bit of trouble with my HTC Desire and I was unable to find any documentation on here on via google to help me out so I am hoping anyone of you guys can give me a hand. Any input is very much appreciated, thank you beforehand!
So, the situation is as follows:
I have a branded T-Mobile HTC Desire (not a T-Mobile customer, though) with Froyo 2.2 stock running, I am a regular user and haven't messed with the software previously apart from installing apps as usual. Until today, where the mess started..
It is one of the old Desires with AMOLED, I think HBOOT version 0.93 or something?
I just want to say I am not bad with computers but I've only started to wrap my head around anything android-tech related as in rooting, flashing, etc. , which is why I'm here.
Now today I decided I want to go and first off, root my device so I can have a titanium backup and possibly tomorrow or sometime soon flash the oxygen rom because I hear I can have increased batterylife with that, which is my main concern (and app2sd for everything) with the HTC Desire.
So I read through lots of guides and arrived at using unrevoked³ to root the phone which worked fine. I then went and bought Titanium Backup Pro so I could make a backup of the entire thing and start flashing sooner or later.
Now I guess I made the first mistake right at that point when I did not make a backup immediately but first used TB to delete some T-Mobile bloatware which I dont use, I used the Filter option and then Remove Bloatware in the Settings to tag the apps in question ("TopApps" and "MobileTV", they are silly and just for customers anyway). TB said I have to restart the phone to remove them, which I did. I wanted to remove them before I did the backup because it was already complaining about low space after I put TB on (you know the desire and its space limitations..). And what good are useless apps in a backup, anyway?
Now, when it rebooted, at first everything looked fine, it starts up normally and goes on with loading all the stuff, I have a few widgets, GoLauncherEx, etc. which takes a bit to load at first start. But having loaded for about 1 minute after pressing the button, and when I can already see some of the UI elements properly in place (I can actually enter SIMcode and everything, or just wait at the code-login-form) - the phone just soft-resets itself and starts booting again. and again. and again. always up to the same point, I reckon.
I have tried getting the SDK and look into adb logcat while it boots (where I am an absolute noob, admittedly), and I was going to paste the entire thing here but my windows 7 "cmd" only has the last 300 lines of output selectable and I can't figure out how to "save" the rest of the log flying by when booting. It shows a lot of k9-mail errors in the log but I am not sure of that is the problem because I havent messed with k9 for months (using it as push mail client).
I am now unsure if the problem is because of TB or because of the removed bloatware, or what is going on. Right now, the phone is unusable.
I wonder if anyone can help me get the phone going again or how I could access the phone data to retrieve the phone's calendar entries and SMS, and possibly as much of the settings/data so I can just go and flash oxygen on it. I would, however, love to have a complete backup of the stock thing running, with TB and NANDroid backup, so I require a running phone I guess. I have previously synced the phonebook entries to MyPhoneExplorer on my desktop but it apparently didnt catch anything else.
I have attached the logcat output that I could capture in the txt file, if it helps with anything.
Thanks anyone for help really! Much appreciated!
Teaches you not to mess around without backing up first. You can get quite a bit of stuff to sync to your Google account like contacts and calendar entries. It also backs up other bits of data too.
From now on, it looks like you can only flash another rom or use an ruu, either way your data is gone like SMS and all that good stuff.
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Honestly, you probably won't be able to get your data if it doesn't even get passed the first lock screen cause you may have deleted something compulsory for it to boot.
Just flash a new rom or the stock rom if you want then after you've set it all up run a titanium backup batch to save everything. Then and ONLY then should you consider installing Oxygen because Oxygen will require a number of modifications to your desire.
thanks for reading through all of it, I didnt realize the post grew so long when I posted it last night.
I know it is a prime example for the backup sense, Meape.. :/
Aegishua, It does get past the first lock screen. if I enter the SIM Code (or just leave the SIM Out), I can actually interact with the phone for several seconds, it loads widgetlocker and requests the unlock pattern, but there's not enough time to actually do anything when I see the the home screen.
I was wondering if there is a possibility to, say freeze the bootup sequence via USB adb commands or something, like you would press Pause on a desktop PC during the POST screen (yeah I know, the comparison is a little off). So at that point I could at least have time to fetch stuff from the phone to the PC.
and I noticed, if it helps anything: when the backlight is off (display dimmed), shortly before the reset the backlight flashes a couple of times which it doesnt usually do at that point of booting.
oh, and a little question for the next probable step: aegishua, what do you mean only then? I was following this guide http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/gen...esire-wildfire-evo-incredible-with-unrevoked/ , and would I not just get the oxygen ROM and follow Pt.3 From Step 2 onwards? Since I cannot do Step 1 anymore (full TB). I.e. just put the rom on SDcard and wipe + flash? btw, the original Oxygen thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971904 ) does not say what Radio I need to flash (do I ?)- anyone care to point me in the right direction? Thanks again, I know I'm a noob at this.
Thanks a lot for any input guys
I will not be able to look at this thread for the next few hours but here's a quick update, I now started the phone without sdcard or SIM and it actually works! I mean, lots of apps are missing and icons and stuff, but the phone stays on regardless. I'm gonna go figure out whats wrong with the sdcard content, but first: backup time