I had a failed Nandroid restore. I can see the following on my PC:
Android_Secure
boot
cache
data
nandroid.md5
recovery
system
All are .img files except for the nandroid. Is there a way to move my contacts back over to my phone? I'd appreciate any help as I have a lot of contacts. I'm currently running another ROM.
Google Contacts sync is looking pretty good right now, eh?
chrismgan said:
I had a failed Nandroid restore. I can see the following on my PC:
Android_Secure
boot
cache
data
nandroid.md5
recovery
system
All are .img files except for the nandroid. Is there a way to move my contacts back over to my phone? I'd appreciate any help as I have a lot of contacts. I'm currently running another ROM.
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back them up with google, thats what i have been doing and im able to swap android phones and keep my contacts
I thought I had done a Google backup, but then I realized that most of my contacts had been created to the phone and not Google. So I was only able to restore the handful that were backed up to Google. Now, back to my original question. Anyway that I can restore those .img files back to the phone?
I'd really appreciate any help.
chrismgan said:
I thought I had done a Google backup, but then I realized that most of my contacts had been created to the phone and not Google. So I was only able to restore the handful that were backed up to Google. Now, back to my original question. Anyway that I can restore those .img files back to the phone?
I'd really appreciate any help.
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So just to confirm, your nandroid is corrupt? If so then you are more or less SOL AFAIK. I don't know exactly if you can mine out contact information from the backup.
Yes it must be corrupt as it keeps erroring when I try to install.
chrismgan said:
I had a failed Nandroid restore. I can see the following on my PC:
Android_Secure
boot
cache
data
nandroid.md5
recovery
system
All are .img files except for the nandroid. Is there a way to move my contacts back over to my phone? I'd appreciate any help as I have a lot of contacts. I'm currently running another ROM.
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For future reference you can go to your contacts and hit menu/export contacts, and it will save them to your sdcard.
chrismgan said:
Yes it must be corrupt as it keeps erroring when I try to install.
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make sure your battery level is not too low when you try and restore nand. Also what recovery are you using?
iitreatedii said:
back them up with google, thats what i have been doing and im able to swap android phones and keep my contacts
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How the hell do u back your contacts up to Google?? Whenever I sync to Google from 'accounts and sync' nothing happens..and now i have successfully deleted all my contacts from my phone after clearing the Contacts app data cache, which i read might help...Luckily i have nandroids to pull the data from.. How exactly do i go about re-flashing the contact data back to the phone from the nandroid, so i can then back em up to Google/export them the the sdcard?? (without restoring the entire nandroid)
Idk if its my ROM or what..but its frustrating..
ssmcd said:
How the hell do u back your contacts up to Google?? Whenever I sync to Google from 'accounts and sync' nothing happens..and now i have successfully deleted all my contacts from my phone after clearing the Contacts app data cache, which i read might help...Luckily i have nandroids to pull the data from.. How exactly do i go about re-flashing the contact data back to the phone from the nandroid, so i can then back em up to Google/export them the the sdcard?? (without restoring the entire nandroid)
Idk if its my ROM or what..but its frustrating..
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What you can do is try to do the google sync again, hopefully it should work. Then go into you contacts, push menu, and should give you the option to copy and do an import/export of contacts.
Yeah, i'm doing a full nandroid restore now to get my contacts back, then ill back em up to the sd card, flash a new ROM, then restore em and hopefully Google sync will work then..hopefully
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I've used Titanium to do my back-ups on my old Galaxy Vibrant, so I have a general understanding of how it works. My question is this though, when I did back-ups in the past, they were saved to the SD card (I think), but the GNEX doesn't have an SD card. So if I do a back-up, won't the back-up I just made get erased when I wipe data before flashing a new ROM? Also, what about my pictures, will they get erased? I have hundreds of pictures on my phone, maybe even over 1000 TBH. I don't want to have to reload everything again. And last, does Titanium back-up your progress in games? I seem to remember that it does, but I don't remember for sure.
Any guides out there for doing Titanium back-ups on the Gnex? Why didn't those silly people just give us an sd card slot
ok even though it does not have a physically removable sd card it still does not get wiped when flashing roms and wiping the data cache partition. only if you do a factory data reset from the phone's settings. I've never needed to do that so dont worry i have 1000's of pics too. I'd back em up just in case on your laptop for safe measure though anyways. also when you backup th apps it does not save game progress unless you backup the app's data. then it should save preferences and progress and all that good stuff. Thank me if it helps!!
Ok, another thing I just thought of. After I flash the new ROM and enter my email, the phone is going to start automatically downloading all my apps, obviously I don't want to do that since I'm going to restore them with Titanium. How do I turn off the auto-downloading of apps?
After I flash the new ROM and enter my email, the phone is going to start automatically downloading all my apps
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No it won't. It only restores your apps if you decide to not turn off the "restore my apps and settings" option. It's on by default, simply turn it off after you've entered your Gmail account. It's the next or the second screen after you logged into your Gmail account.
Ok, now my phone doesn't want to mount when I connect it to my computer. It charges, it just won't mount. ftw....
Hotstuff5964 said:
Ok, now my phone doesn't want to mount when I connect it to my computer. It charges, it just won't mount. ftw....
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Not sure about the mount issue but I will tell you to definitely leave the auto restore on and let the market automatically download your apps after a wipe. You want to do this because it will automatically install the apps where as titanium will take forever and you have to manually tap install. Then once the apps are installed go to titanium and just backup so data only which is you game progress and preferences and such. I found this out the hard way lol
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In my experience, the restore and wipe cache (maybe wipe data too) only clean the system/ or /cache, and leave the sdcard/ untouched. So the data backup by Titanium back-ups should work rightly.
BTW, I have some problem about using Titanium back-ups. If I always want to keep the newest backup of both application and system data, are the any useful script?
Although there's a script could backup the new application that installed after last backup, but what about the new system app/data? Because sometimes I may have change ROM and it will add some new system app/data.
So far, I use the script that backup all the system/application data. But I wonder it may leave duplicate backup to some app, that's the condition I want to avoid.
Any idea?
I changed the ROM on my friend's phone (they got my retired Epic when I upgraded to a note), taking a backup before hand, and it turns out that they had a bunch of contacts stored in their phone rather than in Google.
After the verbal admonishment was done about using google to keep contacts for this exact situation, the question came up on how to recover the contacts. As stated, I've got the backup of the prior ROM, but when I tried to restore it (was on people's rom, changed to CM 9.1) the restoration fails when trying to format a partition rfs style.
So the issue is trying to dig the contacts out of the data in the backup directly so that it can be re-entered into the newly minted CM ROM (and google). Where do I look inside the backup to find contact data stored in the phone?
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I believe I found it in the following file:
data\data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases\contact2.db
But how do I get to the data properly? windows doesn't mention the database format.
tigerknight said:
I changed the ROM on my friend's phone (they got my retired Epic when I upgraded to a note), taking a backup before hand, and it turns out that they had a bunch of contacts stored in their phone rather than in Google.
After the verbal admonishment was done about using google to keep contacts for this exact situation, the question came up on how to recover the contacts. As stated, I've got the backup of the prior ROM, but when I tried to restore it (was on people's rom, changed to CM 9.1) the restoration fails when trying to format a partition rfs style.
So the issue is trying to dig the contacts out of the data in the backup directly so that it can be re-entered into the newly minted CM ROM (and google). Where do I look inside the backup to find contact data stored in the phone?
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I believe I found it in the following file:
data\data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases\contact2.db
But how do I get to the data properly? windows doesn't mention the database format.
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Try this... if saved to the phone, it should've stored it somewhere on the sd card (maybe???) Boot the phone, insert the sd card that was in use when saving the contacts... now open up the contacts application, hit the menu button, select import/export and select import from sd card... may work, may not work, idk, but definitely worth a try...
flastnoles11 said:
Try this... if saved to the phone, it should've stored it somewhere on the sd card (maybe???) Boot the phone, insert the sd card that was in use when saving the contacts... now open up the contacts application, hit the menu button, select import/export and select import from sd card... may work, may not work, idk, but definitely worth a try...
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Tried that already. It's looking for the contacts in vCard format - which this is not. From what I can find it appears to be sqlite - I just need a way to properly load/read the file so I can grab the contents.
Wish I could help you more, but that was the only thing I could think of....
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Actually, there is a method to restore that bml backup on mtd... it involves renaming the backup in a few spots, let me see if I can't find that post and I will post it here... then you should be able to restore the nandroid and recover the contacts..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420584
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430130
Either one of those methods will work to restore that bml nandroid on your mtd partition...
That happened to me once and I just backed up my current rom then restored that one and exported the contacts to the sd then restored my original rom and imported contacts. Doesn't take too long and may be the simplest way to do it.
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lilajrestnom said:
That happened to me once and I just backed up my current rom then restored that one and exported the contacts to the sd then restored my original rom and imported contacts. Doesn't take too long and may be the simplest way to do it.
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He already got it...
I'm having some android.process.acore problems after flashing this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031726
restoring things with sms backup, and Tibu.
It (android.process.acore) would crash when I delete or edit contacts, and sometime when I add contacts/syncing.
I wiped everything, and restored system settings and it seemed to have worked fine.
My question is can I back up certain files from the wiped/restored version and tibu it onto my recovery image?
I tried contacts, contact store, phone, phone util, google contact sync etc.
can anybody that really is familiar with system files help?
thanks!!
Short Rule: Never, NEVER, restore systems apps. This never bodes well.
Only system data I ever found with no issues: Contacts Storage, and Clock.
mikoal said:
I'm having some android.process.acore problems after flashing this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031726
restoring things with sms backup, and Tibu.
It (android.process.acore) would crash when I delete or edit contacts, and sometime when I add contacts/syncing.
I wiped everything, and restored system settings and it seemed to have worked fine.
My question is can I back up certain files from the wiped/restored version and tibu it onto my recovery image?
I tried contacts, contact store, phone, phone util, google contact sync etc.
can anybody that really is familiar with system files help?
thanks!!
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I just save APK's I need to push to system in a folder and do it all that way.
I couldn't restore the backup I made from my sdcard. I kept getting 'can't find backup.img' error or something. Anyway, I still have the ~2gb backup with files like "cache.ext4.tar", "data.ext4.tar", etc. I just want to get my contacts' phone numbers, and find out what theme I was using. I already reinstalled everything. Is this possible? If so, how?
I would also like to restore my firefox profile if possible.
Are you using the same recovery? Have you moved the backup? It should be in sdcard/twrp/backups/ "serial number"/name of backup. If its having trouble finding it, you can move it to internal storage. Put it in the backups folder for twrp on internal.
You can extract apps from a backup, but not contacts or accounts. If you keep your contacts synced to Google they will always come back when you log in.
Hi all,
I have both a TWRP and a Titanium backup from my phone at an earlier version of my ROM.
I've since done full data format and install so I have lost my MMS/SMS messages.
I did not use another utility to back them up at all.
Does anyone know where in the file system these are stored or how I might be able to restore them from my Ti or TWRP backups?
I've tried doing a TWRP restore to the earlier ROM version but messages was still empty. I've tried doing a full restore and individual restores of dialler storage in TiBU etc but so far have had no luck in restoring the messages.
Thanks in advance
kamold said:
Hi all,
I have both a TWRP and a Titanium backup from my phone at an earlier version of my ROM.
I've since done full data format and install so I have lost my MMS/SMS messages.
I did not use another utility to back them up at all.
Does anyone know where in the file system these are stored or how I might be able to restore them from my Ti or TWRP backups?
I've tried doing a TWRP restore to the earlier ROM version but messages was still empty. I've tried doing a full restore and individual restores of dialler storage in TiBU etc but so far have had no luck in restoring the messages.
Thanks in advance
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If you're using nougat, I believe the location is
/data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
Then it's the mmssms.db file you need.
When I do a clean flash, I always use the backup function that is built in to export messages to sd card.
squ89r97 said:
If you're using nougat, I believe the location is
/data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
Then it's the mmssms.db file you need.
When I do a clean flash, I always use the backup function that is built in to export messages to sd card.
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Thanks for that info That appears to be the correct location in my case.
Previous to Nougat seems to have been in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
I restored the whole com.android.providers.telephony folder from the backup as it also contains the pics from attachments. Initially after a the first bootup messages was still empty, so you need to reboot again and they will be restored.
I'll also make sure I backup messages using the inbuilt backup feature in future.