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Why did Titanium Backup not restore calendar appoints?

(All better now...weird...steps detailed below.)
Ok,
I have been searching xda and google for a bit now. I just finished my first ever root and nand unlock. I even did a titanium backup before completing the procedure and have a copy on both the sd and my pc.
So I get everything all booted up...but my calendar appoints are not there, my sms's are gone as is my call log. When I went through the list of things to backup on Titanium there were lots of things for SMS/MMS and calendar...I backed them all up.
I did a batch install, when those things weren't there I went back and manually loaded the data for all things that said calendar and sms.
Still nothing.
What did I do wrong? If I start to try ROMs I need to have all that stuff back...all my data. I thought that is what Titanium Backup did.
Please let me know if that stuff still in my backup somewhere...how do I get it...or how do I avoid this in future???

Ok...my call log came back...but still no sms history
Also...I had to restore all my contacts from the SD card...but now they have no pics associated with them.
OH...and internet bookmarks are back to default?!?! Where are mine? (never mind...there they are...didn't refresh right away)
I must have missed something somewhere.

Email accounts?? Not there.

Try rebooting a couple of times and everything should come back. Also if you were synced to google calender every thing just needs to be synced once more.

that is pretty weird, your calendar should be automatically backed up by Google. try going to calendar.google.com do your appointments show up there?

Ok...seems it takes a few more steps than I was aware of...
Last night I went through all the red apps in Titanium Backup and manually restored data from there, but still didn't see any changes and screens were at stock layout.
This morning I powered the phone off while getting ready for that one hour of charging while phone off. When I rebooted on way to work...VIOLA!!!...every screen set up was back.
(I had read that widgets/shortcuts didn't get replaced on screens.) All my widgets and shortcuts and screen set ups were exactly as I had saved them. Dang.
As mentioned above it seems that another reboot was needed. (Not sure if the manual data restores helped or were redundant.)
But...I still had no email accounts set up. So just now I decided to try once more after three other google results say that it is supposed to restore email. I manually restored data from Accounts, Accounts and Sync, and the two Mail widgets.
Now I have my Email accounts BACK!!! Great thing, but spoiled by amount of work to get it...(since only two accounts could have just entered them in less time.)
Been testing out apps since my root and unlock last night and everything seems fine...the email accounts even just synced on own.
Crisis averted...well until tonight when I do all this again to flash the rooted stock HTC to see how that goes. Then fingers crossed I'll get to CM6 when camera issues worked out.

Hairongreenfire said:
that is pretty weird, your calendar should be automatically backed up by Google. try going to calendar.google.com do your appointments show up there?
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I am one of those paranoid old skoolrs....anything I can keep out of the cloud I am going to. So my calendar is only on my phone...not synced with anything else.
That is why I hoped that Titanium Backup would have it covered...turns out it might have...all the entries I can think of are back this morning.

[Q] After rooting - phone is always low on storage. please help!

Ok..
I am pulling my hair out on this.
I rooted the phone, unrevoked forever!, and now my phone is always reporting it is low on storage. I removed half the apps on the phone and can't get rid of the message.
I did do a nandroid recovery once to make sure the nandroid backup was good (could that screw up the storage totals)?
Under phone storage:
SD Card:
Total 7.6, avialable: 6.2
Internal Phone: Total: 6.6gb, available: 6.45
Phone Memory: Total: 748mb, available 628mb
Looking at the items listed under manage memory (when you click low storage) I estimage about 160mb or so of storage.
When I mount the drives on my computer, I am matching the numbers shown above for available (but the bar charts in windows showing how much memory is left are wrong - they are showing very little free storage).
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I am out of apps I can remove (and that does not seem like the issue anyways).
Any suggestions?

I had this happen over and over again over the life of the phone, including well before root (the first time within days of receipt).
Online, I could only find discussions where people blamed HTC's Mail application, which appears to increase in size, even when no new mail has been downloaded. Asinine, because we have PLENTY of storage?
However, 90% of my ROM installs, I haven't even bothered to set up HTC Mail, and still had it happen. A few times I went into Settings > Applications > Manage Applications, and cleared out data for com.htc.provider.settings or com.htc.socialnetwork.provider to clear the message.
The last time, yesterday, I deleted Facebook/Twitter data (official applications from the market), and deleted Google Earth. One of those cleared it.
I've sat around quiet about it because obviously this isn't widespread. HTC is aware of the issue... but considering I've run two sense and two vanilla ROMs based on leaked 2.2, I have a strange feeling I'm going to keep seeing it.
Let me know if you find anything that isn't a little more hearsay. I'll do the same. My next plan is to wait for Cyanogen and do apps2sd. Don't know why I linked the two, but that is the plan.

I did a complete wipe and a nandroid recovery of my base ROM. While syncing in Touchdown, the low storage message popped up (I sync a large amount of data - ~68mb of data currently). I went into touchdown and removed a few folders (shrinking the data file size) and the message went away.
I am guessing there is a bug when data file size (either one or the aggregate of all) hits a certain threshold the message pops up. For now, I am just syncing less data and will see if it appears again.

I freaked the first time I saw that. Then I saw I had 5 nandroid backups. I moved all but one into a file on my computer and TAHDAH! I had space again. Of course I'm still using the 2GB card that came with the phone, but check how many nandroid backups you have, or back ups from other apps.

[Q] High data usage by "Android OS" after update to 4.2.1

Hello All
I have a GNex "yakju" updated to Android 4.2.1 (stock, non-rooted). After the update, I have seen that Android OS started taking a big chunk out of my mobile data plan, around 40-50 MB per day. Previously, I'd hardly see any usage from this process.
I have started to investigate this behavior by using tPacketCapture. So far I've managed to see a lot of traffic to google servers (173.194.35.163) and the hourly exchange server sync, but it's encrypted and I don't know how to extract the TLS key from the phone (not sure if it's possible). In one hour there were about 3.3 MB of data transferred (I'm running on 2G to conserve battery), with no background applications.
Right now I'm rerunning the test with Auto Sync Data off, to see if it's not some malware, but it's highly unlikely (almost all my apps are from the play store) and will rerun the test with Backup to Google turned off.
Anyone got any insight on this? I could post the pcap file somewhere (I've scanned it and I'm pretty sure there's no unencrypted personal information in there), but I don't know if it helps.
P.S.: I've seen a lot of similar threads on here but they relate to other phones, and the majority of suppositions were hinting towards the bloatware of the stock ROMs

Turning off sync should do the trick.
But I do hope to hear from you.

So I turned off sync and it seems to do the trick (only ~200KB in one hour and all traffic was from a facebook app that does not obey sync rules - flipster). I don't like having sync off since it means no more notifications for new e-mails, facebook or contacts, and also these services were turned on before the 4.2.1 update.
I'm trying a new run with sync on but disabling everything that I don't care for (photos, google+, backup, currents, notes). Looks good for now (~56KB in 10 minutes). I'll see what happens.
Another odd thing I saw in the initial run - data came in chunks of packets roughly 7 seconds in between (a lot of packets, including SSL handshake, at 300 seconds, then a few packets, then a lot of packets again at 307 seconds, then at 314 etc.).
Monitoring, will post results ASAP

vladk2k said:
Hello All
I have a GNex "yakju" updated to Android 4.2.1 (stock, non-rooted). After the update, I have seen that Android OS started taking a big chunk out of my mobile data plan, around 40-50 MB per day. Previously, I'd hardly see any usage from this process.
I have started to investigate this behavior by using tPacketCapture. So far I've managed to see a lot of traffic to google servers (173.194.35.163) and the hourly exchange server sync, but it's encrypted and I don't know how to extract the TLS key from the phone (not sure if it's possible). In one hour there were about 3.3 MB of data transferred (I'm running on 2G to conserve battery), with no background applications.
Right now I'm rerunning the test with Auto Sync Data off, to see if it's not some malware, but it's highly unlikely (almost all my apps are from the play store) and will rerun the test with Backup to Google turned off.
Anyone got any insight on this? I could post the pcap file somewhere (I've scanned it and I'm pretty sure there's no unencrypted personal information in there), but I don't know if it helps.
P.S.: I've seen a lot of similar threads on here but they relate to other phones, and the majority of suppositions were hinting towards the bloatware of the stock ROMs
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Maybe you've already done this but have you tried going into the sync settings for you google account to see if any of the services are failing to sync? For me the browser sync had been continuously failed for 2 weeks before i realized it.

I did have some issues with calendar and Google Photos (I think) not syncing, but I thought it was because I cleared the cache of Google Framework Services in an attempt to get the update to 4.2.1 earlier. Not sure if it helps, since I don't remember seeing any sync errors these days. I've stopped Browser sync now, I'll see how my data usage changes.

vladk2k said:
Hello All
I have a GNex "yakju" updated to Android 4.2.1 (stock, non-rooted). After the update, I have seen that Android OS started taking a big chunk out of my mobile data plan, around 40-50 MB per day. Previously, I'd hardly see any usage from this process.
I have started to investigate this behavior by using tPacketCapture. So far I've managed to see a lot of traffic to google servers (173.194.35.163) and the hourly exchange server sync, but it's encrypted and I don't know how to extract the TLS key from the phone (not sure if it's possible). In one hour there were about 3.3 MB of data transferred (I'm running on 2G to conserve battery), with no background applications.
Right now I'm rerunning the test with Auto Sync Data off, to see if it's not some malware, but it's highly unlikely (almost all my apps are from the play store) and will rerun the test with Backup to Google turned off.
Anyone got any insight on this? I could post the pcap file somewhere (I've scanned it and I'm pretty sure there's no unencrypted personal information in there), but I don't know if it helps.
P.S.: I've seen a lot of similar threads on here but they relate to other phones, and the majority of suppositions were hinting towards the bloatware of the stock ROMs
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I faced the same problem, issue was somewhat with auto backup of data, sync of app data & people details in google account,
BUT the main culprit in my case was uTorrent application.
Even though there was no torrent added to it, i didn't even opened it,
it was using 1GB data daily on WiFi and in data usage it was coming under Android OS usage. I uninstalled it, everything went back to normal.
So try to look for such apps which eat up your data in background, it may not be an error of android OS as such.
Hope this helps, Press THANKS if it did help you
Enjoy

HTC one (M8) Apps disappearing but data is there

So for examaple i had Duel links (1.3gb), next day the app is not in my app list but all the data is in the phone. As in 1.3gb are still being used even though in the app store it says i need to install the app again???
Edit more details: A few months ago i was logging into snap chat and the battery drained to when it was at 8-0% all my apps lost their permissions but the app was still usable. After while whatsapp stop displaying names and only did numbers when in my phone book and all my numbers were missing (they were not stored in the V-card thing either) so i downloaded a program on my computer which would recover them. My phone didn't like that very much and it htc sense home stopped working. I was able to get it to work to recover my pictures and things but it had to go through a factory rest. Lost all contacts and app data.
The phone being only 16gb i downloaded dual links which got me to full capacity, I would then once a week deleat it to download tv shows etc... which worked fine for a few weeks. Then one day i turned on the phone, Dual links wasn't on my home screen, or in my app list, but the phone was still at full capacity. I went into "make more space" still nothing there, only the ".data" folder which was only at a few hundred MB's. So now i have a phone which is still holding onto that 1.3gb somewhere, in the "make more space" area the system is taking up 11gb but still all the numbers don't add up?

I think you should give more info what you were doing before and after, what app was maybe... Did your battery drain to 0% before that happened?

mefistoreyon said:
I think you should give more info what you were doing before and after, what app was maybe... Did your battery drain to 0% before that happened?
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Done!

Flashed my HTC 10 to root it, forgot to create a backup...

Hello,
FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm basically entirely a newbie, so I apologize in advance for my ignorance (hopefully I posted this in the right forum), and I acknowledge how many compounding dumb things I've done up until this point to attempt to resolve my problem.
...A few days ago my HTC 10 shut off unexpectedly when the charge was a little below 50% (not entirely unusual, I got it used and the battery isn't very good anymore). Upon resetting it, I found that it took a dump and erased all of my SMS history entirely off of my internal memory (everything else was still intact, contacts, videos, images, audio files, etc. which were also on my internal memory). So, for my first bout of stupidity, I saved about 50 full (18000+ character) notes as rough draft text messages (the contacts they were saved as rough drafts to be sent to were just strings of very long random numbers I made up, and I never sent any of them) and those were what I really cared about. I've done this in the past for even longer and have never had issues with it, but yeah, it was always a pretty dumb move on my part (I had more luck with that than evernote, but I digress..)
So, at this point what I now know that I should have probably done was put it into airport mode, turn off all data, and attempted to seek some data recovery professionals (I care A LOT about these notes). I didn't. I wanted to try to use some file recovery APPs to try to get them back, however most of them required my phone to be rooted in order to give them permission. I know that phone memory is usually written over pretty quickly, but I thought I was out of options.
I decided to root the phone using the "root-htc10-nougat-v278sr5.zip" recovery image and SuperSU. I didn't do my research and didn't know it would erase all of my internal memory, nor did I care much at the time as far as everything else on my phone went (I later realized I had some videos and photos I did want, but at the time I was pretty concerned about just the draft messages alone). However, the fact that it erased all of the memory makes me think it most likely wiped out any possible chance of me getting my old SMS stuff back. Well, none of the Apps or PC recovery tools I've tried have found any of the original lost data (probably overwritten now?) and I think I shot myself in the foot repeatedly.
...So here I am now, far too late, and wondering if there is any possible way that the data still might be there and if there is a powerful enough way to retrieve it? HTC 10 can't be opened as a mass storage device, which means I'm limited to android recovery software(?)
Lessons learned, but I figured I would ask if anyone knew of ANY possible ways to still recover the data?

Htc account on the 10 should back up call logs, sms , etc. Have you tried syncing it back to see if there's any backup to restore? If there isn't any back-up then im afraid there's no way to recover it. Just my 2 cents.

AndroidUser10 said:
Hello,
FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm basically entirely a newbie, so I apologize in advance for my ignorance (hopefully I posted this in the right forum), and I acknowledge how many compounding dumb things I've done up until this point to attempt to resolve my problem.
...A few days ago my HTC 10 shut off unexpectedly when the charge was a little below 50% (not entirely unusual, I got it used and the battery isn't very good anymore). Upon resetting it, I found that it took a dump and erased all of my SMS history entirely off of my internal memory (everything else was still intact, contacts, videos, images, audio files, etc. which were also on my internal memory). So, for my first bout of stupidity, I saved about 50 full (18000+ character) notes as rough draft text messages (the contacts they were saved as rough drafts to be sent to were just strings of very long random numbers I made up, and I never sent any of them) and those were what I really cared about. I've done this in the past for even longer and have never had issues with it, but yeah, it was always a pretty dumb move on my part (I had more luck with that than evernote, but I digress..)
So, at this point what I now know that I should have probably done was put it into airport mode, turn off all data, and attempted to seek some data recovery professionals (I care A LOT about these notes). I didn't. I wanted to try to use some file recovery APPs to try to get them back, however most of them required my phone to be rooted in order to give them permission. I know that phone memory is usually written over pretty quickly, but I thought I was out of options.
I decided to root the phone using the "root-htc10-nougat-v278sr5.zip" recovery image and SuperSU. I didn't do my research and didn't know it would erase all of my internal memory, nor did I care much at the time as far as everything else on my phone went (I later realized I had some videos and photos I did want, but at the time I was pretty concerned about just the draft messages alone). However, the fact that it erased all of the memory makes me think it most likely wiped out any possible chance of me getting my old SMS stuff back. Well, none of the Apps or PC recovery tools I've tried have found any of the original lost data (probably overwritten now?) and I think I shot myself in the foot repeatedly.
...So here I am now, far too late, and wondering if there is any possible way that the data still might be there and if there is a powerful enough way to retrieve it? HTC 10 can't be opened as a mass storage device, which means I'm limited to android recovery software(?)
Lessons learned, but I figured I would ask if anyone knew of ANY possible ways to still recover the data?
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If you chose to backup to google during your setup when you first got your phone, most of your data should be saved. Just setup your phone again after a factory reset or RUU or whatever, and restore the backup during the device setup.