Well hey guys,
Basically the story goes like this. I nandroided before installing cm7 and before that I made a Titanium backup to dropbox and sd, i was in a rush so deleted the sd backup. Installed CM7 and restored apps only to find out I was missing like 200 or so, and they weren't in titanium, I tried restoring my nandroid but it seems boot.img is corrupted and in unyaffs it says bad file descriptor. It starts to extract some folder, but not the crucial app folder! And due to this weird error it always crashes CWM and so I cannot restore. I've tried all that I can find on the internet, unyaffs, ext2explore but I don't have linux. Do you guys reckon you could give me a few pointers? I've managed to recover a list of what was installed because they're in the data folder, but that takes time :/
Thanks!
Hello, bit of a long shot and probably a lot of work to do for one app but I had to recover my HOX yesterday and couldn’t restore to my last backup – apparently it didn’t complete properly or something like that.
I have lost the data for one app that I would really like to get back, I can find the data in the the unworking backups data folder but have been unable to get ti back on my phone.
I’v tried restoring just the data on CMW recovery but I just get MD5 miss match error.
Is there anyone that could help just for one app if I send the files extracted from the recovery or anyone that can advise of somehow of doing this.
I have tried manually copying and pasting the data into the data/data/ folder where the info is for the app but to no avail
Anyone?
You can try AppExtractor on the Play Store. Not to be confused with APK Extractor
Hello,
I'm currently running the 4.4 rooted deodexed stock Rom downloaded from the developers section. It worked fine for about a month after I installed it (using the recommended recovery, full wipe etc.), and then I ran into the 'process.android.acore stopped' process which rendered the phone unusable. Based on what I read online it seems that the only option was to perform a factory reset which is what I did.
Since that point, any application that needs to download (or upload) files, has been unable to do so. I first noticed it in WhatsApp where the images send to me showed up blurred and when I clicked and tried to download them I would get an error that the download failed. Sending an image would generate an error as well. Looking further I noticed that none of my email apps (outlook.com, Touchdown, Xfinity etc.) is able to download any attachments either.
I tried to wipe and reinstall the Rom, as well as formatting the SD Card and internal memory, but when I reinstall the apps I mentioned or restore them using Titanium I get the same behavior. The errors do not indicate what hte root cause is, but I assume it has something to do with storage on the phone being corrupted somehow.
Any suggestions on how this might be resolved would be appreciated.
Resolved by upgrading to the N1 ROM.
Team,
I just recently bought a Google Pixel and was attempting to transfer my contacts and messages and stuff from my HTC One M8 to my Google Pixel. However, my HTC One M8 was still on KitKat (4.4.2) and would not work with the transfer tool. So then I said let me take a TWRP backup of my phone before i start attempting to update it.
I attempted to download a rom to flash via TWRP but it did not work so I naturally tried to restore back to the TWRP backup I took.
Except now everytime I try to restore the backup I took all I get is extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
I have attempted to google all day with no luck.
Anyone dealt with this and have resolved it?
Thanks!
bef349 said:
Team,
I just recently bought a Google Pixel and was attempting to transfer my contacts and messages and stuff from my HTC One M8 to my Google Pixel. However, my HTC One M8 was still on KitKat (4.4.2) and would not work with the transfer tool. So then I said let me take a TWRP backup of my phone before i start attempting to update it.
I attempted to download a rom to flash via TWRP but it did not work so I naturally tried to restore back to the TWRP backup I took.
Except now everytime I try to restore the backup I took all I get is extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
I have attempted to google all day with no luck.
Anyone dealt with this and have resolved it?
Thanks!
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Did you try updating TWRP? I had something like this happen a few years ago with my S3 and updating my recovery fixed it.
xunholyx said:
Did you try updating TWRP? I had something like this happen a few years ago with my S3 and updating my recovery fixed it.
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yep, I had updated to twrp 3.0.2.0...still no luck
there has to be a way to fix this
so now even more weird. I downloaded Titanium Backup to try and extract from my TWRP backup, and nothing is there!
how the f is that possible!? does this mean my data is forever gone?
NoCall log, you should backup your calls with CALL LOG BACKUP & RESTORE apk from play store.Messages,you should backup with SMS BACKUP AND RESTORE apk from market(witch also can make a backup of all your sms/mms & call log!!!),so it's an one app for all.Both app make folders on your internal/sd memory that contain files selected by name and date,and you can just transfer this folders from M8 to Pixel and download those apps from playstore on your new Pixel phone,and restore calls/sms..About Titanium restore,isn't M8 ARM phone and Pixel is ARM64(or x86,I'm not sure)?so you can't restore those apps in TB cuz they're different versions with diferent screen DPI,and I suppose they won't work or TB gives you error cuz of that.You can only restore data from TB ,and it's very probable that some of those "restore' s" will give you problem due thing I sad in upper text and also cuz of big difference in Android versions(4.4>7.0+).
I hope you understand what I try to say,English is not my language,and I'm just trying to help you.I didn't by Pixel yet,I plan to,and this is what I would use in mind doing those transfers and restore procedure.
I had LGG4(ARM64),I transfered all my TB folder from M8(ARM),and when restoring ARM>ARM64 ,many of them force closed or mail function.But ONLY data restore allways worked on already installed app.
And about your error and problems on m8 with TWRP,yes try with some other and maybe older versions of TWRP(if m8 is on 4.4.4 ,then maybe latest recoveryes have problem to do backup and restore.In the end,try to flash stock RUU for your version on it,then TWRP+superuser,to try to fix all.BUT BEFORE Ruu Move all your TB and other data from internal memory/sd to computer or some other external drive-in case you lost or overwrite your data on phone.
Maybe someone will point you in right direction,maybe someone already had that problem.
Sent from my HTC One M8 [6.0 Gpe]
shawek said:
NoCall log, you should backup your calls with CALL LOG BACKUP & RESTORE apk from play store.Messages,you should backup with SMS BACKUP AND RESTORE apk from market(witch also can make a backup of all your sms/mms & call log!!!),so it's an one app for all.Both app make folders on your internal/sd memory that contain files selected by name and date,and you can just transfer this folders from M8 to Pixel and download those apps from playstore on your new Pixel phone,and restore calls/sms..About Titanium restore,isn't M8 ARM phone and Pixel is ARM64(or x86,I'm not sure)?so you can't restore those apps in TB cuz they're different versions with diferent screen DPI,and I suppose they won't work or TB gives you error cuz of that.You can only restore data from TB ,and it's very probable that some of those "restore' s" will give you problem due thing I sad in upper text and also cuz of big difference in Android versions(4.4>7.0+).
I hope you understand what I try to say,English is not my language,and I'm just trying to help you.I didn't by Pixel yet,I plan to,and this is what I would use in mind doing those transfers and restore procedure.
I had LGG4(ARM64),I transfered all my TB folder from M8(ARM),and when restoring ARM>ARM64 ,many of them force closed or mail function.But ONLY data restore allways worked on already installed app.
And about your error and problems on m8 with TWRP,yes try with some other and maybe older versions of TWRP(if m8 is on 4.4.4 ,then maybe latest recoveryes have problem to do backup and restore.In the end,try to flash stock RUU for your version on it,then TWRP+superuser,to try to fix all.BUT BEFORE Ruu Move all your TB and other data from internal memory/sd to computer or some other external drive-in case you lost or overwrite your data on phone.
Maybe someone will point you in right direction,maybe someone already had that problem.
Sent from my HTC One M8 [6.0 Gpe]
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Thank you for your reply; I wish I had asked before attempting.
Here is what I see from the bootloader screen in case it helps --
*** UNLOCKED ***
M8_WLV PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-VZW__001
HBOOT-3.18.0.0000
RADIO-1.09.20.0702
OpenDSP-v38.2.2-00542-M8974.0311
OS-2.21.605.2
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Aug 7 2014,20:26:27.26992
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I took the full backup of my M8 using some version like TWRP v2.8.0.? I tried to restore the backup and it kept throwing me that error. So I said, lets try to flash the latest version of TWRP and that is what I did. I attempted restoring through the latest TWRP but still I get the same error. I have also tried to extract the backup using Cygwin with no luck. Titanium Backup also does not see it as a valid backup.
I am still on Android 4.4.2 (I had a backup from 2014 I was able to restore to in the meantime and is rooted).
The only place the data from my M8 is, is in the TWRP backup file which refuses to restore. All data on the phone was formatted and overwritten as I tried to flash a newer rom on it with no success. I have not tried to restore the data to my pixel and will not do so. All I need to do is restore the M8 backup to the M8 and try the methods you listed but I cannot get past this TWRP error. Or, get the backup to extract properly without throwing errors so that I can get the appropriate .db files from within
I am sure there is a fix involved with TWRP or is my wishful thinking sore out of luck?
I had this problem and it took me two days to resolve it. I had a good backup and I know it was good because I had used it several times and it worked. But then after doing some system installs I got the error 255. I tried several things to fix it and nothing worked and I really did not want to lose my backup. What did work for me was to use TWRP wipe function to FORMAT the phone. Wiping or factory reset did not work. I lost the contents of my internal SD card but I was able to transfer most to my external SD card. You could also connect the phone with a cable to a computer and use the pull command in ADB to backup the contents f the internal SD card. Given the choice between losing the SD card and the data files I come to lose some of the SD card. Anyway, a FORMAT worked when nothing else did. I read that this error is caused by a lack of space. When I checked the log it seemed that the restore was failing with a particular file which misled me to thinking I had to remove the corrupt file, but since after the format I was able to restore without any problem, it would seem that there was no corrupt data. Hope this helps someone.
"Unable to install app. An existing package with the same signature already exists"
This is to help anyone who can't install a certain app from anywhere-playstore, adb, or simply installing an apk. I may have found this answer here but it is very hard to find and I just happened to remember it because of Titanium Backup. This is the ONLY thing that fixes the problem for me.
When you do a full wipe you may not be able to install one, or more apps.
Before spending hours trying everything to fix it, buy Titanium Backup and when you open it you may get the message "device ID has changed." Restore it and you will be able to install the app or apps that gave you the message in the header.