Hi guys
I recently factory restored my HTC Desire and the built-in backup prompted me to restore my settings, which I did, but for some reason my SMS messages were not restored.
I checked the SD card, and there is a backup there, but of course the files are encrypted. Is there any way to read these files, or to restore my messaging SMS?
Thanks in advance!
Am I right in saying that the backups's hashes are salted with the device serial #? If that's the case then decryption should be quite possible.
I have had the exact same problem today. Had to return my Desire as it was faulty for a straight swap (kept the same SIM and SD card). The SD card has restored all contacts and music, but SMS messages have not transferred over. I've looked at every possible option in the settings but can't seem to see how to do this.
I'd be grateful for any advice or info. Thankyou.
slightly old thread, but relevant to my problem....
have been playing around a lot with my desire over the past week, and managed to delete the wrong nandroid backup and lost all my sms. I have a sense auto backup form a day or so earlier, but cannot for the life of me get the phone to read these - there's no option to restore just backup.
So, tried factory reset from recovery, copied the 'old' backup to the sd, and booted. Nothing was restored. Have tried all sorts of combos to try and get the backup to be read, but no joy at all. Even completely wiping everything, flashing the original rom i was using (modaco 3.1) and restarting, but still sense doesnt see the backup.
I definitley remember it doing it once during all the crazy rom swopping of the last few days, and the sms, wifi key etc all restored, but I can't get it to do it again.
Any ideas about 'forcing' the restore? I know that the backup is handset specific (tied to the serial/imei?) but it should restore on any rom using sense yeh?
all help greatly appreciated
ta.
another small thought, there may be an app idea in here for anyone thats interested - reading the sense backup and applying it by force? i know quite a few people tend to backup their sd card regularly, so it could be useful as a last resort option.
I guess there's not much I can help you but to avoid this problem in the future you might want to use SMS backup (by Cristoph Studer, there are 2 others on the Market with the same name) - backs up your sms's to your Gmail account, works great. I love the Cloud!
I have used sms backup in the past, didn't bother this time as i had the nandroid backup. Kicking myself as I'm usually pretty careful about what files i'm getting rid of, and have got all my sms for about the last ten yrs (minus the 2 months i just lost) for blackmail purposes time to crank the delete button paranoia up a notch again
edit: solved tok everything off the sd card, made sure i had the backup set from the date range i wanted, wiped absolutely everything from recovery, reflashed the rom i was running when the backup was taken & rebooted. the backup was picked up fine, all settings, sms etc back with no problems.
the small trick to getting this to occur seems to be just let the phone sit for a minute when it reboots - i assume that if you go into the setup wizard before the sd card is correctly moutned and read that you bypass the restore. i had done the same procedure to try to get it to restore before and it didn't, the pause to allow the sd card to be read was the only thing i did differently.
I'm having the same issue, I want to restore a back-up from my SD card, but cannot see any way to do it. I've tried a factory reset, but still no luck.
Can a restore be forced? The 2.2 upgrade seems to have removed Settings>Privacy
Same problem here, Froyo won't restore my backup.
I tried to downgrade to Eclair, but the installation failed with "Error 140: wrong bootloader version".
I guess my backup is pretty useless now...
Frojo wont restore settings after hardreset
I asked HTC about this, and here's the answer:
Thanks for your question regarding backup of your device. The former feature backup to SD card is missing in this newer version. This is due to Google, which has developed backup feature in the software, changed the system in 2.2, then back out to their servers instead. This applies to the Google devices, such as NexusOne. When your device is the HTC brand, we have some backup features as before. However, you can take backup in the following way (as with older versions of Android): Contacts: You can save contacts via Outlook when they are created as telephone contacts. For this you need HTC Sync and Outlook on your computer. HTC Sync, see your device's SD card. To open the map, select Mount in the device, your device is displayed on the computer as an external disk drive. Then you find the program through your computer's Windows Explorer, and also integrates it on your computer. You can now sync. You can also download HTC Sync from our website under Support tab. If you use Google contacts they can be retrieved back when you set up your email again. If you have configured an Exchange server, you can also download contacts onto the device again. Calendar appointments: These are transferred in the same manner as contacts. Emails: These can be synchronized over again through your Exchange server, or if you have Google mail. Data files: These can be transmitted via computer Explorer when you select Mount as previously described. You can then transfer your files to a folder on your computer. SMS and MMS: Those you can not backup.
Blueyed1
Way to go HTC.... hurray
The more I learn about Google and HTC's way of handling my data I get more determined to Root my phone to get full access of my phone, and to control what data and in what way that data is transferred to either google or HTC.
When you compare to the way Apple is controlling it's sheep herd, Google is not any better when it comes to data gathering and data sniping.
Blueyed1 said:
SMS and MMS: Those you can not backup.
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DRMON said:
WTF????????????????????????????
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Backup not possible with previeus build in backup, that is..
Hi, I have recently flashed my Desire with Gingerbread and I'm having problems with syncing my contacts (people) with my google account.
Before I did the flash I backed up my contacts onto the SD card. I then did the flash and set up my phone with my gmail account. I then restored my contacts from the wrong file on my SD card (a much earlier backup). When I realised that it was the wrong file I erased my contacts and recovered the right file. Now google won't sync my contacts, it just says "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." I tried to remove the google account, but it won't let me as it is 'required by some applications'
Any suggestions on what i could do to fix this (apart from a full reset)
Import ALL your concats to googlemail directly, e.g. via webinterface. Then go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>All, scroll to contacs app, clean its data and cache. Then sync again. Should work.
Thanks that seemed to have worked
Don't forget to use the thanks button.
SwiftKeyed from CyanogenMod with Transparent XDA App
Ok I think I've done it right lol!
Ok I downloaded FB21 via pc then moved it to the SD card. I wiped all and used Calks format all.zip then flashed the ROM booted all was well with contacts and dialer. Never restored my app never installed an app. Then i signed into google via the market after my contacts sync that seems to be when the problem creeps up (problem being freezing and fcing of contacts and dialer on any ICS rom after my contacts are synced) Also note relative to problem is SMS GO pro cant pull in my contacts. Tried using it as a contacts replacement.
Hello so I'm running into a bit of an issue. I recently upgraded from Juggs 5.0 GB to Darkside Evolution ICS
I have flashed for quite some time and haven't had any major issues.
Today I noticed my google contacts were not fully synced. (I found out when I went to text someone and noticed their number wasn't in my phone anymore)
I did a titanium backup and an nand backup is there anyway to extract the contacts or sms/mms from the backups?
I looked it up and there doesn't seem to be an actual answer everyone just replies 'sync with google'
any help would be appreciated I really don't want to have to restore back to jugs exports my contacts to a vcf or whatever it is it saves contacts as and then re-flash it back
Restore your nandroid backup and then delete your contacts from your Google account .before doing so, copy all your contacts to your SIM card or SD card. Flash the ICS from again and add your contacts from the SIM or SD and Google should back them up correctly
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Why not just go to a computer and input your contacts directly to your gmail account. That way you won't have to worry about going back an forth on a SIM or any other storage device.
Background: Rooted phone w/stock image with injected root.
Applied latest OTA (UVDLJC), then recovered root using Voodoo OTA RootKeeper (worked just fine), but noticed contacts not displaying ... well ... any contacts at times. Leaving it up for a while, it would come up with an error (crashed). Rebooting the phone would make all contacts available, again, but only temporarily, then the app won't display them, and back to the crash.
Re-did the UVDLJC (thank you mrRobinson http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687), this time directly using the newly uploaded injected root image, but the contacts app still behaves the same way.
While the app is malfunctioning, all incoming calls have no contact identified.
I also installed GO Contacts, but the behavior is the same (not depicting, than crashing) - I assume because somehow this app is using the original contacts "under the hood"?!?
Any suggestions?!? Is there a specific area I could redo, to recover contacts?
TIA,
Stefan
Solution...
I've been mucking with my contacts, merging different sources, restoring backups, using external editors, etc. I've found that a reboot fixes edit changes. Once my contacts are correct then my messaging and call logs show names rather than numbers.
Try wiping Contacts and Contacts Storage.
wiping data, freeze-then-thaw via Titanium Backup Pro - to no avail
Aerowinder said:
Try wiping Contacts and Contacts Storage.
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Tried wiping data, to no avail. It just works for a while, then all of a sudden there are no contacts in the list, and the calls - of course - show no IDs/names. Only reboots seem to temporarily fix the problem, but the issue comes up again, shortly thereafter.
I wonder if there is a way to REINSTALL only the contacts app. I tried to freeze the contacts and contacts storage, then "thaw" them via Titanium Backup Pro, but that did not fix the issue, either. I assume that by removing them via TBPro, and then restoring them, it would end up - if the root cause if some sort of corruption in the app(s) - in the same place I am right now.