To Backup or not To Backup? - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General

every time ive done a backup to me PC in the past, followed by a hard reset.
when i try to Restore the backed up file from the pc to the XDAllls
it wont exept it, says its not the same phone or something like that.

Check your region settings, I owned an Ipaq h6365 and had the same problem until I found out that a hard reset changed my region settings. Once I set it back to English (UK) it worked fine.

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hardreset and backups ;- )

Hey,
I want to mess around and most likely break things but i want to know i can recover from it ^_^
Soft reset = restart device yes?
Hard reset = ?? dose it have a backup rom in there or something what exactly dose this do
Can i backup and later restore the entire rom? as far as i can see i need to pay for something like this which seems to me like a very very basic feature...
Looking foward to putting my mind at rest so i can start breaking things =D
Cheers
Hello! Hard reset means that you reset your device to the manufacturer's default. Well, that means: after a hard reset:
- When you turn your device ON, it acts exactly as the first time you did it
- You won't loose the ROM
- You will loose everything you did after the first use. That means, for example: contacts, installed applications, pictures, sms, emails, installed applications, phone configuration, ect...
- What won't be deleted: contacts on SIM card, everything on Memory Card. I recommand you to save on your mem card: contacts, pictures, CAB files (so it's easy to re-install apps after hard reset), media files (music and video, but usually you won't put them on the device memory, so no problem there)
- Well, basically, after a hard reset, it's like you turn on your phone for the first time (except that your memory card won't be formated)
You can backup your contacts-email-contactspictures-sms using PIM backup. Just save the backup file in the memory card or on your PC. Then restore it after hard reseting your device. More informations here: http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-pim-backup-v2-8.html
I hope that helps you!
Thx for the reply ^_^
So if i go into file explorer and delete everything, a hard reset will fix that?
Just want to know if its just resetting settings and del personal data/programs, or if its reloading all the files into the rom from.. somewhere else.
Trying to get an idea of what i cant recover from, or if i download something suspect, can it do any lasting damage
osarus said:
So if i go into file explorer and delete everything, a hard reset will fix that?
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Well... no and yes.
No, you won't be able to delete everyting using File Explorer , and Yes a hard reset will clean up all your mess and "reinstall" Windows Mobile from scratch afterwards. It's more or less like formatting your PC's hard drive and then use the recovery partition or CD/DVD to rebuild everything up to the original state.
I would advise you to remove your memory card before hard reseting... just in case. Better safe than sorry.
MMMk i think i get how it works then ^_^
There is 1 rom and it just restricts access to origonal files and restores a copy of origonal settings? So its unlikely my curiosity will get the better of me by editing or deleting things, time for some fun =D
Thx for the replys!
"Sprite Backup" will not restore ROM (nor will any other backup software) - but Sprite will backup/restore *every* other setting, let you browse backup files, and makes self-restoring backups.

Cant Backup my Phone via Sprite Backup

For some reason, I create a custom backup and all runs fine and it even tells me at the end that the backup was successful. However when I notice the file size of the backed up file, its smaller that it should be and they always seem currupt. This has happened ever since Ive been on the TP2. It worked flawlessly on my original TP.
Any Advice?

[Q] Recovery not restoring data

hi, i need help restoring my backup in cwm 3.0.2.8.
The system partition restores fine but none of my apps or anything get restored. I've tried different versions of cwm and none of them have worked. I know i can just restore my apps with my backup or titanium but i shouldnt have to and i forgot to before i made the backup.
It doesnt even restore any if my contacts, texts, etc. It seems like its just restoring the rom with what ever mods and tweaks i had applied. This has happened with multiple roms so i reckon its a fault with cwm. Also when restoring just the data in cwm it doesnt say "Restore complete!"
Anybody got any suggestions?
Anybody got any suggestions?
How are you restoring your ROMs?
Your contacts should be backed up with your Google account.
They are backed up but cwm should restore everything. After i restore it asks me to login to my google account, select my time-zone, etc.
Im restoring from recovery.
It seems like cwm is crashing while restoring my data partition because the screen goes black whilst still showing the rom manager icon and it goes back to the inital screen of recovery like i just booted into it.
Have you checked your SDcard for errors?
There are hundreds of people who use ClockworkMod Recovery without issue. (excusing 3.0.2.5)
Could be something as simple as a couple of bad sectors on your card.
I recently formatted it before i made the backup, how would i check for any more errors?
Try HERE. Its in Russian. So you'd need to visit via Google or use Chrome.
I downloaded but i dont have a clue how to use it
Read through the manual.
Or you could follow this guide HERE, I'm pretty certain that the first tool would be more accurate.
I tried the russian one but i got access denied so im doing the windows method. If none of this works, is there a way to manually extract the files from the .img file? I mainly want the data from my apps because i hav around 300
How are you connecting your SDcard to your computer? I just ran a test using ,
Code:
flashnul G: -T
It worked fine, that was connected via USB cable with the card mounted as a drive.
No problems which I'm pretty pleased with, now just to transfer my data back.
I forgot to run CMD as admin, its running now
EDIT: I didnt get any errors
If the SDcard is fine. Then I'd reflash CWM Recovery.
I have. The only reason I flashed .2.8 was because of this problem. I have to send my phone to HTC on monday for repair so when I get I back (20 days later) Il start again from fresh. For now I'm gonna unroot and s-on etc etc... I hate sense.
Thanks a million for your help though!
Question: If HTC swap my phone with another, will my backup still work with the new one?
Off topic, I point blank refused to wait 21 days + for a repair. After some wrangling got an exchange. Sadly the exchange handset had severe case misalignment issues. Refused that also.
Yes your backup will still work. It doesn't matter what handset you use. The backup isn't tied to it.
Haha the speaker for calls doesn't work anymore so i hav to send it back. 20 days is gnna seem like forever lol. I'm gnna hav to look for my Nokia 3310. It's like 10 years old and its never failed me once.
As for my back up, when I do get my phone back i need to go through my apps and delete what I don't want.....or I could buy a bigger mem card and setup A2SD. Is there no way to browse inside the data.img file from the backup?

Abnormal Reset

Hi,
I've followed THIS guide to root my HTC 10 and it worked fine ... until I did something stupid , well to be fair, it's the first time I tried the encryption feature.
I've enabled encryption on my SD card, and then removed the default keyboard ... long story short, I restored a backup that I took following an optional step6 in the guide:
"Run TWRP in read only mode, do a backup"
Now, when I remove system apps using titanium backup, they come back after reboot, and I get this notification "this phone just recovered from an abnormal reset"
S is still ON, and Factory reset didn't work, what can I do? I don't have any info or data on the phone/sdcard and a complete wipe is ok.
Thanks.
Flashed janjan rom and everything seems to be ok now.

Qfil .bin Restoring Error. Need a little help to restore all my partitions

Hello guys,
I have a question, yesterday I made a copy of all the partitions of the phone, one by one ... in qfil, using the partition manager.
The thing is, I wanted to test things and save my setup before formatting.
When I finished testing things, I started flashing the partitions one by one again. When I finished, I turned on the phone and I got a screen that said:
"Could not decrypt (or something like that), memory will be erased." Then it started to format data alone. And the Rom appeared at boot with nothing of mine configured, nothing of the backup, just like a factory reset.
Can someone help me to know what has happened? Do I need to flash the dm-verity-forceencrytp when restoring with qfil?
All I want is to restore my backup of .bin files
Before restoring, I flashed the base kdz of my backup. I do not understand that it could have gone wrong, or it could have gone wrong, and the backup is done by another method, other than backing up each of the partitions.
have you found any solution for this ?. I have the same problem.

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