Hello all,
I use a Sprint Touch Pro2 with Juicy's ROM.
Before each ROM upgrade, I run a Sprite Backup and then after I flash, reinstall Sprite Backup and then restore PIM data.
Is this possible via a script? Juicy's ROM is using XDA_UC. I would imagine a script would need to be able to register the software as well with my Authorization Code.
Any ideas?
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Hey i just messed up my wifi connection trying to enable ad-hoc on my desire. so i was thinking of flashing it with DJ Droid. so i wanted to know if i do so i have a nandroid backup with me will it restore all the applications and games after the flash and restore?
ronak_1078 said:
Hey i just messed up my wifi connection trying to enable ad-hoc on my desire. so i was thinking of flashing it with DJ Droid. so i wanted to know if i do so i have a nandroid backup with me will it restore all the applications and games after the flash and restore?
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Simple answer is NO.
The nandroid backup can only be done after you have rooted. So if you are not yet rooted you can't use it. Also, nandroid is not an app backup system. It will restore your phone to the state it was in directly before you did the backup. This means it will replace your rom, aswell as all other settings.
The only time to use nandroid is before flashing a new rom as a safeguard against the new rom not working or you not liking it.
If you want to backup your games and apps. I'd use titanium backup (requires root) or my backup pro.
what about clockswork backup one? does it backup the applications? and yeah its rooted
Nandroid is nandroid. It will do a complete backup- rom, apps, settings etc. If you use it, it will restore your phone to the old rom.
Think of it as windows system restore. It restores the phone to the state it was in directly before you did the backup. So everything you did after the backup will be undone.
clockswork=nandroid?
Clockworkmod recovery or any other custom recovery you choose has nandroid and it is all the same.
Maybe 3rd time lucky here...... Nandroid in whatever form is not an app. backup system. It is a total phone backup.
ok got it... lock the thread i am done
Ok, so I'm about to upgrade my ROM to the most current release.. I was wondering if there's a way to keep data from my games so I don't have to start over.. does backing up with titanium back up do this? If not, how do I go about achieving this?
Thanks
I'm not.positive this would work but what about making a nand backup and then restoring data. Just a thought.
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Yes, Titanium Backup will do this for you... When ever I flash a new rom and need to restore something, I always reinstall the app fresh from the market (or whatever source I aquired them from) and then use Titanium Backup to restore the data only. I feel comfortable doing that way instead of doing a blanket data restore through Clockwork.
I used MyBackup Root to backup up my applications before installing a new rom. I only backed up the data and not the .apk. Now that the new rom is loaded, I am restoring the applications and data as needed. However, I am running into instances where I get a message that says 'data not restored(Incompatible version)'. In one example, I am trying to restore data for Dolphin Browser HD. MyBackup backed up the data at version 4.4.0. The version on the Market is 4.4.1. Is there a way to get it to restore the data even though the minor version difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
do you have a nandroid of your old rom? if so just restore back backup the apks and data. then reflash the new rom and restore with mybackup root again
Good idea, but unfortunately, I did not do a Nandroid backup this time. I posted this question to the RerWare support site, and will post what the answer is.
To give everybody an update, RerWare was VERY helpful in debugging this, and it resulted in me testing this feature on a new build for them. It solved my problem. Thanks go to ReWare!!
Tonight I upgraded from stock android 2.1 to Syndicate 2.2 ROM. I thought that I had backed up my sms and calendar data with titanium backup, but apparently I did not.
How can I recover my sms and calendar data from the clockwork nandroid backup? Note that the original backup that contains the data I need is not an EXT4 backup. Any help would be much appreciated.
elevans said:
Tonight I upgraded from stock android 2.1 to Syndicate 2.2 ROM. I thought that I had backed up my sms and calendar data with titanium backup, but apparently I did not.
How can I recover my sms and calendar data from the clockwork nandroid backup? Note that the original backup that contains the data I need is not an EXT4 backup. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Did you try restoring the data in those apps from Titanium and rebooting?
You can try restore/advanced data only from CWM but if there is any incompatible data you may get fc's which will require you to clear data for those apps. If it is that important then it is worth a try. Your calendar should have been backed up in Google and should restore with your contacts though.
elevans said:
Tonight I upgraded from stock android 2.1 to Syndicate 2.2 ROM. I thought that I had backed up my sms and calendar data with titanium backup, but apparently I did not.
How can I recover my sms and calendar data from the clockwork nandroid backup? Note that the original backup that contains the data I need is not an EXT4 backup. Any help would be much appreciated.
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First you would need to unyaffs the data img file from the nandroid backup:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/136176-how-extract-files-nandroid-backup-windows.html
Then get the mmssms.db from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
and I'm guessing the calendar one is /data/data/com.android.providers.calendar/databases/calendar.db
This is theoretical because I haven't actually tried it. I've seen where the file isn't compatible with the sms software on a different rom. In that case, the titanium backups wouldn't work. For the future I would recommend using some sort of SMS backup software from the market. Good luck!
Thanks guys! I'll try both methods and report back.
To answer KG's question, on stock 2.1, the default calendar save option was to save appointments to my phone calendar and not the android calendar. I had the same issue with gmail, but remembered to backup the phone contacts before flashing. Titanium only backed up my 3rd party apps.
This was my first android ROM upgrade, so at least next time I know what not to do.
KG, your method did the trick. All my data is restored. I'm going to need to do another backup with mybackup root and reinstall the ROM, because some of the ROM software isn't there anymore, but at least my data isn't lost. Thanks for the help!
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KG, your method did the trick. All my data is restored. I'm going to need to do another backup with mybackup root and reinstall the ROM, because some of the ROM software isn't there anymore, but at least my data isn't lost. Thanks for the help!
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Glad I could help. When I do something like change ROMs I backup with everything I got, Nandroid, Titanium, Mybackup, export contacts to SD and anything else I can grab. Something has to have my missing data when I need it ;-)
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Hi,
I was on Pureness 14 with all patches and SP's installed with Trinity kernel. I tried taking backup of ROM via CWM but there was an error on sd-ext backup so I installed VANIR's kernel to take a backup of the ROM. But now am unable to get a clean restore from both Trinity and Vanir Rom's kernel.
I need to extract sms FROM THE PREVIOUS BACKUP. hAVE GONE THROUGH SOME JOURNALS AND WAS ABLE TO GET THE DATABASE FROM THE BACKUP BUT IT IS NOT RESTORING THE SMSes even with right permissions. Help needed badly. Need the contact detail sent via sms for a very urgent work.
How to i do the right thing?
I believe paid version of Titanium Backup can look around within the CWM backups and restore stuff from there.