I had a black E4GT set up running Blazer 3.8 with EK02 modem. I just got a brand new white E4GT. I want to transfer all my apps and settings and such to the new phone. Can I do that by doing a Titanium backup on the black one and then copying the file over to the white one and doing the restore there? I plan on flashing the white one to Blazer 4.1 and FB27 modem first and then will do the restore. Will that work and is that the best way to do it? Shouldn't restore using CWM right? Thanks.
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I had a black E4GT set up running Blazer 3.8 with EK02 modem. I just got a brand new white E4GT. I want to transfer all my apps and settings and such to the new phone. Can I do that by doing a Titanium backup on the black one and then copying the file over to the white one and doing the restore there? I plan on flashing the white one to Blazer 4.1 and FB27 modem first and then will do the restore. Will that work and is that the best way to do it? Shouldn't restore using CWM right? Thanks.
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Could just swap the boards and do it that way, but you'll be as the same exact place (Blazer 3.8) on your new phone.
I would restore everything into a Blazer 3.8 fresh install and then work on upgrading to Blazer 4.1. Restoring apps using Titanium Backup from Gingerbread into ICS can lead to problems though and I would recommend against it.
-Daryel
I was going to the Blazer 4.1 version that is still GB. In that case, this should work right? Just wondering if somehow there are differences between the black and white ones that would mess things up in the restore. I usually also restore system settings because it's such a pain to re-set everything. Hoping that won't cause a problem.
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I was going to the Blazer 4.1 version that is still GB. In that case, this should work right? Just wondering if somehow there are differences between the black and white ones that would mess things up in the restore. I usually also restore system settings because it's such a pain to re-set everything. Hoping that won't cause a problem.
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Sorry, I assumed Blazer 4.1 was ICS. My fault.
The internals between black and white are completely the same. You should have pretty good luck with transferring settings from one phone to the other.
-Daryel
Worked pretty well. Restored system data too so kept almost all my settings, wifi points, etc. The one thing that's not working is the audible tones for the dial pad, screen selection and screen lock sounds. I've tried checking and unchecking the options but that's not working (it worked for haptics though). Is there any way to fix this without wiping everything? Is there a clear data for these settings? Thanks.
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Hello,
I just recently flashed the lated CM6 RC2. I cannot receive incoming calls now, It will ring once or twice then go straight to my voicemail. I also have no LED notifications any longer.
The kernel version I have is 2.6.32.15-cyanogenmod
I tried flashing the evo radio to see if that would fix it but no go.
Any ideas? Flash a new kernel? Start over completey?
Thanks guys!
I would try starting over make sure you wipe everything and then reflash. Also if yuo use titanium back up ... yuo have to watch out on a few things since ther phone app etc are diffrent in asop i believe.
As an additional note. All Questions liek this should go in the Q&A forum.
Ahh, I did use titanium back up.. I wonder if I restored the wrong data?
I forgot to mention the text messages/email works just fine.
Sorry for posting in the wrong area (frantic for a minute over here)
So you think I should just start over and not use titanium restore, is there a certain batch I shouldn't restore that could of caused this?
Thanks!
I would wipe/reflash and see if it works before doing the restore. are you coming from a 2.1 rom? if so when you doa batch restore look for anything 2.1 (such as googletalk_update 2.1, checkinservice 2.1 etc etc etc. I would also uncheck camera, phone, and contacts.)
Once you verify it works pre restore then you can either restore removing the above and see if it continues to work if so then yay problem solved if not then you are still restoring something to mess it up.
CM6 is not a sense based rom so when you back up on a sense based rom you often get the sense versions of things that CM6 has the aosp version for which can cause issues when you restore if not careful.
I was coming from RC1, obviously 2.2. I will give that a shot.
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I was coming from RC1, obviously 2.2. I will give that a shot.
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Personally, when I flash a new froyo rom, I just let the market place download all my apps. And I use Titanium to restore specific apps that I want data for. Like Messaging, and my call history, and some games. Stuff like that. But I only full restore apps that I don't get from the market place, like swype, and wifi tether if I want it.
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Personally, when I flash a new froyo rom, I just let the market place download all my apps. And I use Titanium to restore specific apps that I want data for. Like Messaging, and my call history, and some games. Stuff like that. But I only full restore apps that I don't get from the market place, like swype, and wifi tether if I want it.
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Ok, cool. Trying now.
Ok, After re-flashing It seems to be back to normal, but I still do not have the LED notifications I used to get for text/email or even charging.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Just try to full wipe and reinstall cm6 rc2 and see if that works
If not full wipe reinstall the cm6 but not the kernal yet tosee if it works fine with out the kernal
I am running the new cm6 rc2 with cm6 kernal v7.0
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Ok, I reinstalled everything with RC2 - I also installed the 7.0 kernel.. still no LED lights, weird... any suggestions?
Wow that is really wierd i have no clue it works very fine on mine i dont know to much i know its a lot of trouble but im guessing u could tryin everthing and install a rooted stock rom after the wipe and all and if the leds and all that work on the rooted stock then try the cm6 again if not the its thr phone but if it works on a rooted stock then try the cm6 again if no luck then ur sol
I really dont know anything else but ive messed aroung with tons of roms im tired of flashing i have found cm6 works best for me maybe someone that knoes a lil more can give more advice
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Im having the same problem here : /
Bump, Im using Snap 7.0. There is no led notifications option anywhere in the settings.
bump : ( anyone else?
Ok, so I've decided to pop my cherry and go to custom ROMs. I'm going to try Blazer first. I'm currently on Stock EK02 everything from the OTA. I rooted using Auto Root. No problems before or after rooting. Needed some advice on the order of operations. I'm thinking of allowing the EL29 OTA update to take place to update the modem and kernel. I'm assuming that the OTA will go through even though I'm rooted. Then, I was going to to flash Blazer. Are the Stock EL29 modem and kernel a good match for Blazer or is there a generally accepted better combination? I was thinking that Stock modem and kernel might be better optimized and tested by Sprint to work better on the network. Thanks!
U can download blazer it has a kernel with the ROM....all you have to do is flash the modem and then the ROM and your good no need to do the update and then have to root again and install clockwork which if you already have then will cause the update to fail....just more steps that can get messed up if you don't read
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The ota won't work. Manually flash the modem with cwm. I like the gunslinger kernel. The odex a deodexed cwm flash script improves performance also.
My personal setup is cal's 2.8.1 with gunslinger kernel and the odex script. I also am using a gingerbread launcher. I also went in and disabled the unneeded apks in /system/apps. I am running the EL26 modem because the phone was pissing me off while using streaming radio. It would fall back to 1x and not come back out. Oh yeah, I also did the tweaks for 4g quicker locking and connect with lower signal. On the 3g side, I zeroed out the multimedia addresses and proxies. I'm not over clocked. That may not be the best setup for everyone but its working good for me so far.
Thanks guys. I'm now thinking that since my call quality doesn't have any problems, I might just leave the modem as is on EK02. I'll just flash Blazer with the included kernel. Having EK02 modem won't cause a conflict right? Having not done this before, I should install CWM, then from CWM install "Calkulin's Format All" then install "Blazer". Do I need to reboot or clear any caches in between those two?
Going to test out Blazer for a bit and then Calk's and see which one I like better. Thanks.
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Thanks guys. I'm now thinking that since my call quality doesn't have any problems, I might just leave the modem as is on EK02. I'll just flash Blazer with the included kernel. Having EK02 modem won't cause a conflict right? Having not done this before, I should install CWM, then from CWM install "Calkulin's Format All" then install "Blazer". Do I need to reboot or clear any caches in between those two?
Going to test out Blazer for a bit and then Calk's and see which one I like better. Thanks.
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Hey Frank, once you have CWM installed make sure to do a BACKUP before you go flashing other roms. Trust me that this is a very important step! Also, since you are already rooted I would advise making a backup of your apps via Titanium Backup? This is not required but useful for restoring apps when flashing ROMs. In answer to your other question, it is not necessary to use Calk's format all, but is recommended. Otherwise, just use CWM to wipe data, cache, and dalvik-cache. Then choose install zip from sd card and flash away.
Calks format all will clear all caches for you... Make sure to go thank the man
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I was just in your shoes recently. I was on stock EK02 + root. Decided to use blazerROM as my choice of ROM. I didn't get the OTA update yet, so I went ahead and ODIN the pre-rooted EL29 stock update. I just wanted to see if EL29 had any issues. I ran it for half a day and decided to stick with it. I backed up my contacts and SMS messages and Titanium backup of all my apps. I added CWM via the auto-root script from sfhub. From there, I made a nandroid back up (it saves to your external SD if you have one) and went ahead and flashed calks format all. then flashed blazer right after (stayed in the same menu). Everything is running great so far with no major issues. Once everything was running properly, I just restored my user apps (not system!) via titanium backup, my SMS messages, and contact list.
I also did the same steps for my wife's phone, but put calks rom on hers.
You won't regret flashing. Better battery life, more features, bloatware removed, ect. I don't think i'll be on stock anymore since we get the updates here on XDA faster than sprint pushes them out anyway.
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I was just in your shoes recently. I was on stock EK02 + root. Decided to use blazerROM as my choice of ROM. I didn't get the OTA update yet, so I went ahead and ODIN the pre-rooted EL29 stock update. I just wanted to see if EL29 had any issues. I ran it for half a day and decided to stick with it. I backed up my contacts and SMS messages and Titanium backup of all my apps. I added CWM via the auto-root script from sfhub. From there, I made a nandroid back up (it saves to your external SD if you have one) and went ahead and flashed calks format all. then flashed blazer right after (stayed in the same menu). Everything is running great so far with no major issues. Once everything was running properly, I just restored my user apps (not system!) via titanium backup, my SMS messages, and contact list.
I also did the same steps for my wife's phone, but put calks rom on hers.
You won't regret flashing. Better battery life, more features, bloatware removed, ect. I don't think i'll be on stock anymore since we get the updates here on XDA faster than sprint pushes them out anyway.
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Thanks. I saw another one of your posts and was going to ask you to compare Blazer and Calks but I didn't want to be that guy! I'm just going to try them myself. That said, did you update your modem to EL29 before you moved to Blazer? I'm thinking of keeping EK02 since it works well for me and I've seen others say EL29 had problems.
@jasone4gt Thanks for the reminder on the back up. I've installed CWM, done the back up. Getting ready to flash Blazer now.
You can jump back and forth with modems, so no biggie. If you're satisfied without then you know what they say, if it ain't broke....
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tkemack said:
You can jump back and forth with modems, so no biggie. If you're satisfied without then you know what they say, if it ain't broke....
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Thanks everyone. Took the plunge and everything is great. Didn't update the modem. Installed CWM, did Nandroid and Titanium backups, flashed Calk's Erase All then flashed Blazer. Everything works great so far. It all looks great too. One minor thing. The signal strength indicator is grey color instead of blue like everything else. It's also blue in the screen cap in the second post. Is it supposed to be grey and do I have to flash a theme? Also, does anyone know what the screen density is? It looks a lot better than Stock.
Looking to do this as well. Can you tell me more about auto root? Completely new to the whole root and flash shindig.
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SuperSwagSauce said:
Looking to do this as well. Can you tell me more about auto root? Completely new to the whole root and flash shindig.
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It's actually pretty easy. Just follow the instructions in the first thread in development to Auto root. Do step 1, download the e4gtauto-sfx.exe file and then run that. Select A to Root then C to install CWM. I'm not sure if you need to reboot your phone between A & C but to be safe, you might want to. Download the Blazer ROM and Calk's Erase All and copy that to your phone. Then boot into CWM by holding Up volume and Power while turning the phone on. Do the Nandroid back up in CWM. Then install Calk's then Blazer. That's it. You're done. There are a bunch of videos to help if you need it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1268548
It depends on what version he's on.
EL13 and up, he'll have to use the Odin package, also by sfhub. Then he would use the package you mentioned to run option C for CWM
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It depends on what version he's on.
EL13 and up, he'll have to use the Odin package, also by sfhub. Then he would use the package you mentioned tobrun option C for CWM
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Yup, I thought I mentioned that in my post but getting old I guess. If you're on EK02 or earlier, then you follow my instructions. If you're on EL13 or later, you have to do Odin. I don't know how to do that though since I've never done it as I was on EK02.
Ok, run into a little problem. The hotspot hack worked fine right after flashing Blazer. I then did my restore from Titanium back up. Since that, the hot spot doesn't work. It says I'm not authorized. Did I restore something that undid the hack and is there a way to fix it besides doing a reset? Also, my signal strength indicator varied between grey and blue. Is that normal? And what is AOSP email? I installed it but it doesn't look any different than the Stock email. Thanks.
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Yup, I thought I mentioned that in my post but getting old I guess. If you're on EK02 or earlier, then you follow my instructions. If you're on EL13 or later, you have to do Odin. I don't know how to do that though since I've never done it as I was on EK02.
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Im on EL 29. Gonna use this how-to I think.
http:// epic4gtouchroot .com/epic-4g-touch-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s2-epic-4g-touch-newsph-d710/
Well, don't know if anyone cares but here are my thoughts on my experience. First off, I think Blazer looks a lot nicer than stock. I suppose you have to like blue. I still have no idea why but my signal strength indicator occasionally turns white. I think it's when either 4G or Wifi is on but it's minor. Sprint tethering works with both 4G and 3G. It seems like 4G disconnects every once in awhile. Sometimes it's the 4G (meaning Internet on the phone doesn't work either) and sometimes the PC hooked up loses Internet access. I mentioned in another thread, the tethering worked right after flashing but after I did a Titanium restore, it stopped working and I got an authorization error. Turns out turning off and on fixed that. I found out after reflashing that you can avoid this problem if you don't restore the data for Wifi Sharing and Wifi Sharing Manager apps. No problems with GPS (used maps and nav) or any other connectivity. Before reflashing, I tried out Madoggin's 13 homescreen from 12/4. I didn't use it long but it seemed to work fine. I just didn't like it because it installs a different theme (didn't like the notification icons) and it replaces the scrolling toggles on the status bar. In case you haven't discovered it, I found out that holding the toggles in Blazer will open up the settings page for that item, e.g. tap Wifi turns it on and off but hold Wifi and it'll open up Wifi settings. I still have no idea what AOSP email is. I installed it and it looked exactly like Stock. After reflashing, I didn't install AOSP email and it still didn't look any different. I guess the difference could be the notification because the one that comes with Blazer has a different envelope icon for new emails. Performance-wise, I haven't noticed anything really different. I thought Stock was a really smooth experience and Blazer seems no better or worse. Battery-wise, I have one data point. I have really bad signal at my office and I would lose 10% battery for every hour on Stock but with Blazer it was half that. Last thing which isn't related to Blazer per se but I had been looking forever for a music player widget. There was another post that mentioned that there is an app in the market called Galaxy S Music Widget that gives you the widget to control the default music player and it is awesome. I also tried Music Mod which I used with my old Streak. It seemed to work ok even though it says it's for Froyo only but it is a separate music player and doesn't work with the Samsung widget thingys on the lockscreen and the notification area. The upside is that it has a lot of different sized widgets. Hope that helps someone. In summary, Blazer's very cool and works great.
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Well, don't know if anyone cares but here are my thoughts on my experience. First off, I think Blazer looks a lot nicer than stock. I suppose you have to like blue. I still have no idea why but my signal strength indicator occasionally turns white. I think it's when either 4G or Wifi is on but it's minor.
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Blazer v3.8 fixes this.
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So, I have had a SGS2 since it came out, running rooted, had a few different ROMs and back to stock ROM for a while now with overclocked bullet Kernel. BUT, today I bought myself a brand spankin' new white beauty T989. Now, I have gotten my original SGS2 to my perfect liking, arrangement, apps, etc. So I want to transfer my old SGS2 exactly the way it is to my new SGS2. Question is- can this easily be done? or should I just root the new one, flash the kernel, and use titanium back-up to get-back all of my apps?
The way I was thinking of doing it was by doing a full backup of my old phone with Clockwork to the SD card and simply popping the SD card in the new SGS2 and restoring on the new phone with Clockwork.
That's what I was thinking also
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I would first do a clean factory reset on the new phone, and use Odin to install a CWM recovery and root first to make sure all is peachy, and THEN try to move over and restore the old nandroid. Should work! I'm not a pro though lol
-the ultimate black dragon-
masamichi7 said:
I would first do a clean factory reset on the new phone, and use Odin to install a CWM recovery and root first to make sure all is peachy, and THEN try to move over and restore the old nandroid. Should work! I'm not a pro though lol
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This is what I'm about to sit and do. I think if I make a back-up of stock first on the new one with CWM, then I should have nothing to lose in testing out if a transfer like this will work. My only concern is if there is device specific data in the back-up that would either cause issues or prevent it all together.
My guess would be.. Nandroid with CWM
EDIT: Oops.. sorry. Post have been answered while I was typing
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This is what I'm about to sit and do. I think if I make a back-up of stock first on the new one with CWM, then I should have nothing to lose in testing out if a transfer like this will work. My only concern is if there is device specific data in the back-up that would either cause issues or prevent it all together.
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If both phones are truly T989's, then you should have nothing to worry about. And make sure you go ahead and download 'just in case' files to recover with. Such as stock firmware
-the ultimate black dragon-
Be a peach and let us know how you make out with it for future reference! Thanks!
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Worked Like A Charm! I just did a regular nandroid backup on the original phone, then took out the SD card, put it in the new phone, regular Restore in CWM and voila! Its as if I just swapped out the black housing for a white one.
did you have any fc's on the new device?? In ur opinion would you recommend this.
I have 10 devices that I would like the same.
mauserruger said:
did you have any fc's on the new device?? In ur opinion would you recommend this.
I have 10 devices that I would like the same.
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I didn't have any force closes on the new device. It ran perfectly, used it for a few days then flashed a fresh custom ROM. Worked perfectly as if I were still on the original phone during the few days I used it. ..So yes, I would recommend this if you want to have your phone remain exactly as it was. Only to clone to the same model phone though!
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The way I was thinking of doing it was by doing a full backup of my old phone with Clockwork to the SD card and simply popping the SD card in the new SGS2 and restoring on the new phone with Clockwork.
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This is exactly what I did, worked perfect. Its been running this way for over a month now with no issues.
In theory if I restored my data to the green now, it would work right? Same base.
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das_webos_transformer said:
In theory if I restored my data to the green now, it would work right? Same base.
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Not sure, depends on what you backed up on.
From an Acer based rom such as Stock, Flex, Green, then POSSIBLY. Don't restore system Apps, only user apps and data.
From CM9 or jellybean/cm10, then I wouldn't advise it. It'll restore settings that don't exist in each other and will likely cause issues.
In general I don't recommend restoring data on a ROM other then what it was backed up on, even on the same base.
I'm on stock ics right now, I know different versions cause fc's, but same base....
The tab is a bit more than my transform...lol I only use it for phone things.
I'll post my results tonight.
UPDATE!
Worked flawlessly, as expected.
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I just installed CM9 to try and get the link to cell on my home phone to work. The Stock ICS would pair with my home phone but not connect up correctly. I was hoping the the raw build of CM9 might fix this bluetooth issue, but i guess not. Seems like the only way my phone will connect is under GB. How can i go back to GB without brickiing my phone? Can i use sfhub's one click odin to EL29? Do i have to wipe anything first??
EDIT: In addition, now i have a triangle on my phone, i want to use triangle away, but it does make me nervious. In any case, would i use this before going back to GB or after?
I was able to go back to GB using one click odin EL29. That worked just great! The problem is now when i tried to restore my apps from titainium backup it complains that my android id change? I dont know how to change it back since im not using the pro version? Is there a way to do this? I have an app for my work that requires restoring uses the same ID, otherwise i need to contact IT department again to get my mail working again
Hopefully you made a nand back up of your previous before you flashed cm9, I would just restore that.
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yeah that would have made sense, but i didnt. I figured that you cant really restore but i guess you could have. i didnt think i would have to go back
In tibu under preferences choose manage android ID and try restore id from backup see if you can restore it I think it saves your id to sd
Edit: not sure if that works without pro I've had pro version for over 2 yrs :shrug: but worth a try
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I didn't nandroid backup because I thought it was a waste of time since you can't really restore them on different roms. I just assumed that since everything was backed up with TB that I could just restore the apps and data. I had no ideas that the android ID would change. I'm not quite sure what that really is. I wouldn't think a factory reset would change it but I guess I was wrong.
At some point last night I was able to get the apps to show up in TB list. That's said the one app I need for work did restore but does not sync with our servers anymore. I can only guess it has something to do with the android ID. In order to see the apps again I redid ODIN el29, which changed my android ID yet again. I thought that was something that was burned into the phone somehow. TB is still asking if I want to restore not the original one but the 2nd one if that makes sense.
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