Hey all,
I got a question concerning the Settings/Privacy/Backup Option.
When can I use it?
- Is it only for Software Updates and new ROMS (update.zip)
- or is it even possible to restore if I do a"Factory Data Reset"
Any advice concerning a BackUp App for an unrooted device since Titanium is for rooted devices only.
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Hello,
Thanks all for the great site, sorry to ask this if its all ready been asked but there is so much information here I just cannot make sense of it all and don't where to begin.
I am working on the Galaxy nexus GSM for an employee and we had to unlock and root it to get rSAP working with his car.
I found here a one click solution (cannot find it anymore) after installing the Android SDK and finally getting the Drivers right (not easy) it worked and I unlocked the phone and rooted it. rSAP works!!
Unfortunately this set the phone back to default.
Now the employee is constantly receiving the 4.0.2 update notification (cannot turn off?) what he cannot install (dead android guy every time)
So my question is, what is the best way I can update the phone to 4.0.2 without losing all the data, apps and settings and then make sure the update notification reminder is turned off?
Thanks for any help!
John
cracks26 said:
Hello,
Thanks all for the great site, sorry to ask this if its all ready been asked but there is so much information here I just cannot make sense of it all and don't where to begin.
I am working on the Galaxy nexus GSM for an employee and we had to unlock and root it to get rSAP working with his car.
I found here a one click solution (cannot find it anymore) after installing the Android SDK and finally getting the Drivers right (not easy) it worked and I unlocked the phone and rooted it. rSAP works!!
Unfortunately this set the phone back to default.
Now the employee is constantly receiving the 4.0.2 update notification (cannot turn off?) what he cannot install (dead android guy every time)
So my question is, what is the best way I can update the phone to 4.0.2 without losing all the data, apps and settings and then make sure the update notification reminder is turned off?
Thanks for any help!
John
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I would load the latest AOKP rom, you can find it on here. Then he won't get any update notifications and it has Google autorestore feature which means once he logs into the device his apps and settings will be restored. Would that help? AOKP rom will bring the device up to 4.0.3 by the way. You will still be able to use the ASDK to install drivers etc.
Hi, thanks for the lighting fast reply..
I tried a search but cannot find that ROM, could you maybe point in the right direction?
will installing that ROM delete everything?
Yeah it will because you should wipe data and cache before flashing in CWM recovery. Do a backup of everything with Titanium before wiping. I wouldn't bother backing up apps cos the autorestore will download them and install automatically once your user logs in.
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402341
Be sure to flash the GApps zip file straight after flashing the rom. You know what I mean?
Let me know how you get on. I also modded the Kernel, I am using Franco's and it is insane.
Hi Jd,
I really am a noob and do not think I can undertake such an action..
The instructions there are very minimal...
Let me put it is this way - Is there any way I can easily ensure that the update notification is turned off - without having to wipe the phone and start over?
Cheers for the help man!!
John
cracks26 said:
Hi Jd,
I really am a noob and do not think I can undertake such an action..
The instructions there are very minimal...
Let me put it is this way - Is there any way I can easily ensure that the update notification is turned off - without having to wipe the phone and start over?
Cheers for the help man!!
John
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Unfortunetly not afaik. Someone told me you can mess around with an updater-script file but like yourself I am pretty much a noob to so I don't know.
I would repost and have the topic as something like "disabling ota update notifications" and then link to this post. There is a good chance that someone here will know a solution. That is if there is one John, I have not heard of one though. Best of luck.
jd1001 said:
Yeah it will because you should wipe data and cache before flashing in CWM recovery. Do a backup of everything with Titanium before wiping. I wouldn't bother backing up apps cos the autorestore will download them and install automatically once your user logs in.
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402341
Be sure to flash the GApps zip file straight after flashing the rom. You know what I mean?
Let me know how you get on. I also modded the Kernel, I am using Franco's and it is insane.
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Wiping data does not wipe the phone completely.
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Wiping data does not wipe the phone completely.
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Never said it did
Erm, I would definitely not install a custom ROM onto someone else's phone, with or without their consent unless the phone owner was technologically-minded and knew their way around the phone! I would assume that since they offloaded their issue to someone else, they do not belong to that group.
What I would suggest is to keep it as stock as possible. Grab the factory 4.0.2 maguro image (ICL53F) from Google (http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html). Back up apps and app data & SMS (I wouldn't bother with system data, I've only had problems when restoring this afterwards) using Titanium Backup. If there's only minimal user installed apps without any useful data, just letting Google's servers restore missing apps should be fine in lieu of Titanium Backup. Make a nandroid (via CWM) in case something hits the fan when you're flashing.
Once you've done all of this, flash the factory image and reapply root. The phone should now be on 4.0.2 (removing annoying update notifications) and will still receive future OTAs instead of being stuck on a static version of a custom ROM(!!!). I have heard that CWM can cause troubles with OTA updates so I would remove it once you've completed all of this as it's likely the client won't need it anyway (drop reboot-from-recovery.p back into /system/ and it'll restore stock recovery). Oh yeah don't forget to install Titanium Backup (stop all other app downloads in the market for now), restore apps and SMS. Done.
If you don't know how to flash the factory image, follow this tut: http://androidtobe.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-installing-ics-402-from.html
HTH
Krijs said:
Erm, I would definitely not install a custom ROM onto someone else's phone, with or without their consent unless the phone owner was technologically-minded and knew their way around the phone! I would assume that since they offloaded their issue to someone else, they do not belong to that group.
What I would suggest is to keep it as stock as possible. Grab the factory 4.0.2 maguro image (ICL53F) from Google (http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html). Back up apps and app data & SMS (I wouldn't bother with system data, I've only had problems when restoring this afterwards) using Titanium Backup. If there's only minimal user installed apps without any useful data, just letting Google's servers restore missing apps should be fine in lieu of Titanium Backup. Make a nandroid (via CWM) in case something hits the fan when you're flashing.
Once you've done all of this, flash the factory image and reapply root. The phone should now be on 4.0.2 (removing annoying update notifications) and will still receive future OTAs instead of being stuck on a static version of a custom ROM(!!!). I have heard that CWM can cause troubles with OTA updates so I would remove it once you've completed all of this as it's likely the client won't need it anyway (drop reboot-from-recovery.p back into /system/ and it'll restore stock recovery). Oh yeah don't forget to install Titanium Backup (stop all other app downloads in the market for now), restore apps and SMS. Done.
If you don't know how to flash the factory image, follow this tut: http://androidtobe.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-installing-ics-402-from.html
HTH
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THAT is the best advice in this thread, keeps the phone stock and up-to-date so the only time he'd get an update notification is when 4.0.x is pushed out
The ONLY thing I'd say is if you don't wanna lose the data, when you get to step 6 of the guide linked to above leave the -w switch from the update line. So instead of typing:
fastboot -w update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
You'd type:
fastboot update image-yakju-icl53f.zip
Folks, I've looked around for a couple of days to find a way to OTA update without loosing my data, settings, customizations ...etc, but all guides shows a complete restore to revert to a blank vanilla start, so please guys just check my status below and tell me what is the best solution for this
my GNEX is 90% stock (stock rom, stock kernel, but only CMW and rooted) is it possible to restore the stock recovery, and unroot without factory reset? to be 100% stock for the OTA update.
if yes then please just hint me the way and i'll be good to go.
If you haven't modified any system files...yes.
AKA
You haven't used an adblocker.
You haven't removed any system apps.
You haven't used your root access...at all, really.
Why not use titanium to backup user apps...
Make a nandroid...
And transfer those files to your PC.
Factory reset.
Transfer Titanium back over...
And restore apps.
You'll only have system settings to change at that point.
Post 2 of the guide linked in my sig will help with this process.
As well as posts 1/3 on setting up and using ADB to pull the files off of your phone (MTP is slow and unreliable...but if you want to use it - go for it).
Many suggest wiping the tablet before upgrading firmware but does it really make a difference? If I do it anytime, will the device be back to the state it came in the box (with the possible exception of tripped Knox bit), in other words, is the original firmware and setup on some ROM chip or reserved area or will it be the latest version of firmware installed but cleaned of apps, accounts and settings?
Does it make any difference to wipe before installing an update if it can be easily done afterwards in case of issues without the tablet returning to an earlier version?
To the best of my understanding, and someone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, an Android device has several partitions in its filesystem. The operating system and other files that shipped with the device, such as stock apps, are kept on /system, and anything associated with user settings and user apps is kept in /data. As I understand it, factory reset simply wipes this /data partition. Any sort of firmware update overwrites the /system partition with the new version. Thus, if you do a factory reset, your tablet should be cleared of any apps and settings you installed and changed, and the firmware will still be the latest update you have installed.
To the second question, I know that you can wipe after an update without affecting the firmware version you have, however, I'm not sure exactly howy wiping fixes problems, so I will leave it to someone who knows a bit more to explain the pros/cons of wiping before/after updating your firmware.
Might be dumb question but how do I prevent Note installing all the apps I had on it before factory reset after it boots up again and I enter my Google account info?
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Might be dumb question but how do I prevent Note installing all the apps I had on it before factory reset after it boots up again and I enter my Google account info?
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When you're doing the whole Google account thing, don't check off the box to backup and restore. I checked the box yesterday when I was doing the KitKat flash, and it started downloading things onto it that I had on other devices...it was a mess. LOL So when I flashed a new ROM later in the evening, I made sure NOT to check off that box when setting up the Google account.
Hey folks,
So I want to update my Nexus 7 to Lollipop soon, but it's rooted and it runs PA 4.4. Yeah, I know how to backup and how to restore but on my Nexus 7 I use the multiuser function because the tablet is for the whole family. Last time when I tried to restore the data it failed, because Titanium didn't backup the data the right way and so I just could restore my own data and not the data from the family members. Now how should I backup rightly? Should I use Titanium?
I hope you can help me with my problem
AzN MusiQ
Nobody?
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I think since Lollipop is going to be such a big upgrade you might run into trouble if you try to back up system settings and then restore after going from KK to 5.0. I'm not sure what the answer is to HOW you do it, single user on all my devices. I'm just saying that I'd be pretty amazed if you didn't run into problems restoring system data in the update process.
Yeah, I think you're right but the important things, like app data I need to restore. It's a little bit frustrating when these data disappear. The system backup isn't the problem, because I adjust the settings anyway if I upgrade.
Okay so I managed to update my phone to MM without loosing any data (phone unlock, Whatsapp everything is present as it was).
So now the only question remains that, if I do a backup of everything in Smart Switch and then do a factory reset of my Note 4 then restore the backup, will I have everything as it is present? All my Whatsapp chats and everything working after factory reset?
Waiting for a good sincere reply.
Regards,
Zeekay.
Anyone?
From what I've personally experienced with Smart Switch it doesn't backup the app data for most apps only the app itself, with some exceptions for samsung apps like S Memo.
As Whatsapp isn't a seperate item on the backup list, I would have to say that it won't backup its data.