Hard reset - P3300, MDA Compact III General

Is there any need to remove the sim card and / or the storage card in order to hard reset my Artemis? Is there any risk of either becoming corrupted? I don't want to loose data on the storage card. Thanks

No problem.
Just for Hardreset, nothing matters. You can always do with SIM card and Storage card on it. Only for flashing new ROM you must take out SDHC storage card and SIM card too as you don't want to interrupt the flashing when a call comes.

OK, I've done the hard reset, and everything's fine except for one thing....
All of my text messages have gone. Now, I took great care to do a backup using HTC's Sprite Backup, I also copied all of the contents of the internal storage, and storage card 2, to my computer. I've done a full backup and restore using the Sprite Backup.
So, where does this Artemis store text messages, just in case I can still restore them from one of these backups? Thanks

Hi...
how can i do a hard-reset... i've tryed but when the screen becames black and its supose to press the "send" button... there's no "send" button.... just the message and black screen...
can you help me???

The send button is the green phone button.

SpikeUK said:
OK, I've done the hard reset, and everything's fine except for one thing....
All of my text messages have gone. Now, I took great care to do a backup using HTC's Sprite Backup, I also copied all of the contents of the internal storage, and storage card 2, to my computer. I've done a full backup and restore using the Sprite Backup.
So, where does this Artemis store text messages, just in case I can still restore them from one of these backups? Thanks
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I've only recently started using Sprite and made a couple of backups myself.
It restored all my texts. When you did your backup, were all the folders and sub folders ticked? All I can think of is perhaps a box in the sprite backup needed to be ticked to save text messages. I'm probably wrong and I'm sure sprite would have had everything auto ticked, at least, it was for me. Except for my storage card which was unticked. But the hard reset didn't affect my storage card and like yourself, I had already copied everything to a folder on my hard drive.

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Backup and restore

Hi Guys
I'm swapping my desire for a new phone tomorrow hopefully due to the firmware issue. I've set the phone to back up automatically to the SD card, when I go to T-mobile to swap handsets, will I be able to take the SD card out of the current phone, put it in the new phone and restore (and does this happen automatically?) What will be restored (ie contacts/settings/mail etc?)
Thanks in advance
I'm interested in if this is possible if i simply copy the memory stick contents to my pc and copy it to the new one, unless htc sync caters for that.
Someone can correct me, but it depends on what you used to backup stuff.
What did you use?
So far, I have chosen to backup through the phone settings onto the SD card, I was also going to copy the contents of the SD card onto a folder on my laptop before swapping them over.
Any suggestions?!
As far as i am aware, as soon as your new phone boots with yopur old SD card, it will pop up saying a backup has been found do you want to restore. Click yest and it will restore your settings.
Belizibub said:
As far as i am aware, as soon as your new phone boots with yopur old SD card, it will pop up saying a backup has been found do you want to restore. Click yest and it will restore your settings.
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Excellent, that is exactly what I was hoping. Does the phone update the backup when it reboots, or is there another way to make sure the data is an up to date as possible.
Still waiting for t-mobile to get a replacement in stock of course... zzzzzz...... LOL

[Q] major sd card issues

i have been having major issues with my evo. where to start, really...
i have virus rom 2.2 rooted, apps2sd, etc...
i've been having issues with my evo being recognized by my computer when plugged into the usb port. i never used to have issues and this is a seemingly random thing that has started to happen.
i wanted to load some music onto my sd card and popped it out of my evo to plug it into my computer. unfortunately, my power button has been sticking on the evo and for whatever reason i put the battery back in after taking out my sd card. the phone reset, then couldn't recognize any of my apps that had been stored on the sd card. i put the card back into my phone and reset again but it refuses to believe any of the apps are available. i've lost access to market, appbrain, etc., and cannot re-download. when i log into my google account to redownload appbrain it will not let me because the website says i still have it installed.
i hope i explained this well enough. i've never had any problem like this before. my phone has essentially become useless because i cannot access any programs on it. any suggestions how to recover? unfortunately my last nandroid backup was in december. i've used titanium and lookout to backup since, but both are now missing. if there's any way i can recover my data (pictures, web history, text history, call history, address book, etc...) and then do a wipe and repartition my sd card/get market back, i'm willing to do it, i just have no idea how. any help is appreciated.
bump in case anyone can help, thanks
So hold on...you can't access you SD card on your EVO but you can when you stick it into the computer...because if that's the case and you can see the files on your computer still, I would back up everything on you SD card and then format your card from the computer...I had this very problem a couple months ago...and I recommend to put apps that you want to access easily (browser, market, voice, mail, etc...) on your phone memory...that way you can still use them if it ever happens again...that's just my 2 cents...
But anyways I recommend formatting your card and reloading the files onto it...fixed it for me
Sent from my nightly EVO
the apps that were on my SD card are the only things that have gone missing from it. it is as though they never existed... i don't even know how the marketplace ever got saved onto my sd card, but it's gone.
The apps are on the SD ext.when you took out the SD and the phone rebooted,you apps weren't there......follow the post above you should he good.or you can pit the card in wipe everything and reflash the Rom.....
sent from a terminal in the NIGHTLANDS.......

[Q] Titanium Backup.zip question

When I save a Titanium Backup.zip, is that backing everything including the programs and data NOT on the SD card? In otherwords, if I want to make a back up of just the sd card contents if I want to change/upgrade my card, do I just copy the entire sd card to my PC and after formatting the new card just copy everything back? If I use the Titanium Backup.zip won't that wipe over everything and not just the sd card right?
rando991 said:
When I save a Titanium Backup.zip, is that backing everything including the programs and data NOT on the SD card? In otherwords, if I want to make a back up of just the sd card contents if I want to change/upgrade my card, do I just copy the entire sd card to my PC and after formatting the new card just copy everything back? If I use the Titanium Backup.zip won't that wipe over everything and not just the sd card right?
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Are you talking about creating an 'update.zip' from Titanium Backup? Assuming this is what you're referring to, though I've never done it, I think all it does is enables you to install TB from CWM directly. I wish most ROMs would just include TB, but since not everyone uses it I understand why they don't.
I don't think this makes a backup of anything really, but I could be wrong. If you want to back everything up, that's where you can nandroid. If you want to backup everything on your SD card, then the steps you stated about copying to a PC are probably your best bet.
Just backup your sd card on a PC, format the new card in the phone (for best compatibility). Then restore everything back onto it from the PC.
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Yeah, it starts out as an "Update.zip" but I choose the "Titanium Backup.zip" option. Huh! I did't know that it was only making a backup of Titanium Backup.
rando991 said:
Yeah, it starts out as an "Update.zip" but I choose the "Titanium Backup.zip" option. Huh! I did't know that it was only making a backup of Titanium Backup.
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I'm not 100% on that, but based on what I read in that option, that's what it sounds like to me. The purpose would be a way for you to restore all your apps if you're lacking a data connection when you flash something new or wipe anything. Chances are slim, but I reckon they're there. If you don't have a data connection, there is no way to download TB and use it to restore anything else...
EDIT: I guess one way to find out would be to make that zip and see how big the file is. If it's only a few megs, then it's just TB. If it's more than that, like over 80ish, then you know it's quite a bit more than just the one app.

Root Reset question

I rooted my phone, if I do a factory reset will it screw up my phone?
Sometimes FR doesnt delete your root access. Try, if it doesnt work, simply flash your original .kdz file and root counter will be reseted.
Ok, are you saying do it, the worst that happens is I lose root, then I just have to run stump again?
Root should survive a factory reset. But if it doesn't yeah just re-run your root app and all should be good.
I reset, root survived, but my titanium backup was wiped clean. Nothing was left. Did I do something wrong?
I always save by backup to the external sd card for this reason.
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I reset, root survived, but my titanium backup was wiped clean. Nothing was left. Did I do something wrong?
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No, you didn't do anything wrong.
The Titanium Backup app was located in your /data folder. Furthermore, the backup location for TB was probably in the stock location (internal sdcard). These are wiped when you perform a factory reset.
In future, if you want to, you can set the backup location to be the external sdcard. That way, if you perform a wipe, you can then reinstall TB and restore your backups from the external sdcard backup location which isn't touched by a factory reset.
EDIT: Another way would be to backup your TB backup folder to your PC before you wipe and then restore it afterwards.
Thanks. I'm use to flashing using recovery and my tb always stayed...thanks
Titanium Backup to External SD Card
I tried to set the external SD card as the location for the Ti BU, but could not do it until I changed the write permission as described in the following link. I think that there may be some apps like SD Fix that also work, but the manual method worked fine for me. Before doing this the Ti BU gave me some error about the external SD not being writable.
http://www.droidviews.com/restore-write-capability-to-external-sd-card-on-kitkat-manually/
If you do this Ti BU and other 3rd party apps can write to the SD card. It is much better to keep your Ti BU on the external SD and this keeps you from having to copy it over occasionally. Also frees up a pretty good chunk of space on your internal SD.
EDIT - I rebooted as it says to do at the end of the link above. I had already moved an old TiBU to the external SD. When I tried to run my incremental updates through TiBU I got some error about not enough disk space. had to reboot again and then everything worked fine.
Ok. Have sd, did sd fix, HOW DO I GET TIBU TO SEND BACKUPS TO THE MICROSD
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Ok. Have sd, did sd fix, HOW DO I GET TIBU TO SEND BACKUPS TO THE MICROSD
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Menu>preferences >Backup folder location. Once select go back until you reach storage and select external sd, once you're in there you'll want to create a new folder I named mine tbackup and then select it. If you get folder not writable message get out apply sd fix and try again.
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I press detect and it never does anything but locate the folder it's in
Ok, I used Root explorer to set permissions, and AFTER restart it seems to be working

Anyone else had SD card go corrupt and resulting issues? I'm stuck and need help gett

hey,
i hope this is a good place for this. let me know. I posted in Viper thread and TWRP. I'm desperately seeking answers because I'm stuck now with low functionality and trouble restoring system image... Read on...
i have Viper10 4.4.0, and i have a 128gb MicroSD card as internal storage. Well this card just bit the dust, i lost everything on it. That's ok cus it was backed up, but I am still having problems, so i am guessing the Viper ROM / system doesnt like that the card is gone. it's corrupted i suppose.*
Before i bought a replacement card, i tried using my camera. "please insert an SD card" - so it couldnt adapt to the card being gone? there were other similar things but thats a good example. So i bought another card, class 3, so its fast. i formatted it as internal storage, and still got the same message in the camera!
Another example is I cannot download anything in Chrome - whether I have no card, new card as internal storage, or new card as removable storage - none of those will work.
So i thought it must be time to restore TWRP that system image i made while back. i pasted my backup onto the SD card, went to TWRP to restore, and TWRP didn't even see any files on the card. So, i reformatted to removable storage, pasted, went to TWRP. did restore > my system backup. It said "select partition" but it didnt allow me to select anything, nor did it initially show anything selected. so the backup initiates but stops and complains "no partition selected."
can you advise me at all? is the system image restore what i need to do, and if so, what do i do about the partition selection?
Any other ways I can get back to stock?
thanks!
ben
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