I use a rooted Galaxy S3 and had something really strange happen to me last night.
I had been using the data profiles in Titanium Backup Pro to run multiple accounts of a phone game. I was curious whether I could rename the data profiles and as part of my messing around I made a new data profile. My ideas didn't work, so I deleted this new, unused profile before leaving Titanium Backup. However, when I went to next play the game, I found that all my data profiles had been deleted. No matter which profile I switched to the game came up with the default starting screen as if I had never played.
As soon as I noticed this I copied the games folder from /data on my phone's internal storage to my laptop. I also copied a Titanium Backup folder of the game from early May that was on the SIM card.
Does anyone have any idea what I did that caused me to lose these data and if there might be any way to reverse it?
So one other thing that might be useful. I noticed that when I switch data profiles now it says that it has switched profiles and applied the change to 0 apps. In the past it said that the change applied to 1 app.
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I downloaded My Data Manager last month and looked at it a few days ago to see how I have used my data and such.
I noticed that there was a process called "com.sonyericsson.usbux" that had used 684mb of my data plan and 2.81gb of wifi. After some research, I found that "com.sonyericsson.usbux" is what makes it possible to connect your phone via USB to your computer. I have only connected the phone once in the 8 months I've had it so I used Titanium Backup to freeze it. I left it for a couple days and checked my usage again. To my surprise, "com.sonyericsson.usbux" had changed to "com.sonyericsson.unsupportedheadsetnotifier" with almost 1gb of data plan usage and 3.19gb of wifi usage.
After freezing "com.sonyericsson.unsupportedheadsetnotifier" since the only headset I use with the phone is the one that came with it, I waited another couple days. Of course, "com.sonyericsson.unsupportedheadsetnotifier" has now changed to something else and the usage count is still going up at an alarming rate.
I don't want to keep freezing apps hoping to get lucky and find what is sending all this data to who knows where. If I use a firewall app like DroidWall to block the bundle that includes usbux and unsupportedheadsetnotifier, my contacts, emails, etc. aren't able to sync.
I have no idea what else to do. Does anybody in the community have any ideas?
You could replace the .usbux by just using a widget on your homescreen, and uninstall the app instead of freezing. If you don't need the other apps that are using so much data, or if you can replace them, then you should also uninstall them. Since you're obviously rooted, you could do a nandroid backup before any of this, or just backup the apps in Titanium before uninstalling them, in case you're worried about messing something up. I've removed almost every single com.sonyericsson.* app and haven't had any issues as far as i can tell
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I dropped my phone and it is now completely unusable because the screen is damaged and does not respond. In fact when I turn it on it tells me the screen is unusable for touch input.
I do remember that I at one point in time went into the LG backup settings and configured it to automatically make backups and, if memory serves, I set it to keep 2 or 3 older backups.
Is there an online website where I can go view what backups are available and possible download / access my messages and photos?
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sillycat said:
I dropped my phone and it is now completely unusable because the screen is damaged and does not respond. In fact when I turn it on it tells me the screen is unusable for touch input.
I do remember that I at one point in time went into the LG backup settings and configured it to automatically make backups and, if memory serves, I set it to keep 2 or 3 older backups.
Is there an online website where I can go view what backups are available and possible download / access my messages and photos?
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I want to add that I don't recall registering a user name and password for the LG online backup service, so I don't know how this would work. On my previous phones (Samsung) I did have to register a password for their online service.
The only things that are backed up online (to your google account) are app data, wifi passwords and preferences.
No cloud backup available in LG Backup. Backups are stored either in the device or in the sd card.
USB OTG cable and an external mouse
I just found a way to control my phone by plugging in a USB OTG cable and a normal external mouse. Using this I can unlock the phone and control it as per normal, so I can backup what I want and check my existing settings.
About my question above: Evidently the default included LG backup doesn't do Cloud based backups. There are however numerous backup programs that does, including "LG Backup Plus" which appears to not be a default app on this phone, at least it is not on the Vodaphone derivative that we get in South Africa.
When we get it, will "Smart Swich" do the job, Kies doesn't seem to want to back me up.
Perhaps best just to start clean again?
When I first set up my Note 7 I used smart switch and within a week I did a factory reset because of some insane battery drain. I'm paranoid of that happening again and will probably just set it up, and load everything from the cloud after initial set-up completes.
So it's a cloud restore vs. a clean install. Just planning for the best way to go when I get my replacement.
Most of my stuff is already on SD card, when I moved my files from previous phone, so it's just settings and installed programs, so I may take few screen shots to help in the future settings, maybe do back up to cloud, but probably do manual restore. Google has option, where any new phone will have all your programs automatically reinstalled, but my kids have couple tablets registered on my account and I don't want their games on my phone (already been there). If I figure how to manually mark programs for reinstall, I may use that. Either way no big deal.
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Most of my stuff is already on SD card, when I moved my files from previous phone, so it's just settings and installed programs, so I may take few screen shots to help in the future settings, maybe do back up to cloud, but probably do manual restore. Google has option, where any new phone will have all your programs automatically reinstalled, but my kids have couple tablets registered on my account and I don't want their games on my phone (already been there). If I figure how to manually mark programs for reinstall, I may use that. Either way no big deal.
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When restoring the phone there should be an option for you to see & select apps you want to install on the new device.
You can also go to the play store, under my apps and remove ones you don't want associated with your account any longer, and I believe they'd disappear from the list of apps being installed on the new device.
I'm debating whether to do a clean install and not use the cloud or any other restore option. Don't want to bring in any "cruft" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
That was the reason I opted to manually download the apps once setup was completed. I was trying to limit any "cruft" myself and my phone ran a lot better the second time around. Probably had nothing to do with the fact that I did it this way hahaha
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When restoring the phone there should be an option for you to see & select apps you want to install on the new device.
You can also go to the play store, under my apps and remove ones you don't want associated with your account any longer, and I believe they'd disappear from the list of apps being installed on the new device.
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Sorry, I should have said easier, you're right you can delete them etc. but there has to be 400 to 500 of them on my account, probably want maybe 40-50 for now, so probably easier to manually download 50 than delete 350 to 450 LOL.
I will backup to Samsung cloud, but I have never used Samsung cloud before so I don't know how the reinstall works on the new device. In all my past devices I rooted them first thing after activating then used titanium and installed all my apps AND data (the data is the hard part to migrate) to my new device. This time I came from a Dev edition Note 4, rooted, but with no root (at the time) on the N7 I opted to try Helium. Helium was able to migrate almost (there were a few that didn't) all my apps and data from my N4, to my dropbox, then on my N7 I installed the apps and data from my dropbox using Helium. I let the texts and that kind of data stay with my N4 - I have probably 50K of various texts over the almost 2 years I had my N4. Didn't want all of that migrated over, started fresh on the N7. So I will be using Helium again. It will take probably a day to get things set up on my new N7 like it is on this current N7. Yes, it's a PITA, but there really isn't much choice. I could keep this N7, and according to samsungs website where you can check the IMEI to see if your phone is one of the effected ones with a battery issue, mine is not, but still I think I should do the swap if it is available. I am concerned if I don't that Verizon and/or Samsung could say they will no longer warranty or cover the phone since I didn't swap it out. Right now Verizon has no N7's to swap to (I called them last night, they don't have any), so I will wait until they do then switch over to the new N7 then.
So I used Helium when I moved from my last phone to my Note 7. It took me about a week and a half after that to get everything the way I want it and I rather not go through that again. When I use Helium it shows that about 1/3 of my programs can not have their data backed up, things like: skype, paypal, Nova Launcher, Samsung Pay, etc. I know if I root the phone I can use Titanium backup to do a full backup of all the apps and data but I don't want to risk putting a Sprint Rom on my phone and loosing everything and I don't I like loosing the ability to use some of the programs that won't work if the phone is rooted (like Samung Pay).
Is there an alternative program that will grab all these programs and their settings or is root my only option? And is there a temporary root option as I would only need it for one session on each phone (one to back up and once to restore)? I know this isn't the forum for the root question but it all goes together with getting my phone mirrored to my new one when it comes in.
So... Finally got my replacement Note 7 from Verizon meaning I had to turn my loaner Galaxy S7 in.
The Verizon employee I was working with skipped through the setup wizard (didn't input my Google Account information or anything), then proceeded to do use Smart Switch. I insisted he use the cord because it would be faster he denied it and used the store's wireless network instead. Because he used the wireless, Smart Switch estimated the transfer to take an hour and six minutes so he suggested we didn't bring over the apps which cut it down to 15 minutes. I didn't think this was a big deal at the time because I figured the apps would come back from the Play store anyways.
Later on, I signed into my Google account to realize that my old apps weren't queueing for download. Does anyone know another way around this without manually installing every app that was on the old phone? Maybe rerunning the setup wizard?
go to settings and go to google backups. or you can try re-restoring it. in the future, only use smart switch, and save it on your external SD. Then you will always have a backup on you no matter what. On top of that i use nova launcher so i make a back up of that as well and email it to myself. then i just restore it and my phone is always set up visually the way i had it.
you can always run the back up again whenever. also a good idea when your phone feels sluggish or has a lot of battery drainage to just factory reset, and restore the smart switch backup.
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go to settings and go to google backups. or you can try re-restoring it. in the future, only use smart switch, and save it on your external SD. Then you will always have a backup on you no matter what. On top of that i use nova launcher so i make a back up of that as well and email it to myself. then i just restore it and my phone is always set up visually the way i had it.
you can always run the back up again whenever. also a good idea when your phone feels sluggish or has a lot of battery drainage to just factory reset, and restore the smart switch backup.
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Thanks for your quick response. In settings, I see 'Google' and I see 'Backup and Reset'. Neither menus seem to have an option for 'Google Backups' or mention anything about restore EXCEPT automatically restore which is turned on and doesn't seem to be working.
Looks like I may have to backup Smart Switch to external sd, then reset and do the setup wizard again. I wasn't aware that you could backup to SD from smart switch so that's good to know.
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Looks like I may have to backup Smart Switch to external sd, then reset and do the setup wizard again. I wasn't aware that you could backup to SD from smart switch so that's good to know.
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Yeah it should be more visible but the option to do that is in the menu button on the top right of the screen, there's an option for "external sd" sorry that happened.
I had the same problem. I had to manually go through my apps and tell it to install each one..... the freaking guy that handled my swap went through and did the initial setup and crap on all my apps..... The bone head also started and accepted the terms on all the garbage Verizon apps before I could explain that I don't need use or want any of them.... he looked like I told him his cooking sucked when I told him if I could pay an extra 50 bucks to get my device WITHOUT any of their garbage apps I would....
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i have a problem where after some random event, my phone will crash and reboot and lose/corrupt some or all of its app data (ie settings of applications) and i will have to go and actually uninstall the app, reinstall and set it up again. sometimes it wont even work, for example it happened again and my viper tweaks, settings app, and htc weather settings were lost so i restored backups of the 2 former and it worked but i had to actually go in to each individual page to get the settings to actually update and set, but my htc weather will not save my settings even after a complete removal (even the copy in /system) and reinstall from the play store, any non default setting will not stick.
this has only happened 2 times, this is the first time on my 10 and it happened once before on my old m8 i was using until a few weeks ago, except i actually lost ALL of my app data and had to start from scratch because even trying to restore everything with titanium backup did not fix the errors and crashes. other than that, this has literally never happened to me once in my 8 years of using htc and android in general.
how can i possibly figure out what is going on?
daktah said:
i have a problem where after some random event, my phone will crash and reboot and lose/corrupt some or all of its app data (ie settings of applications) and i will have to go and actually uninstall the app, reinstall and set it up again. sometimes it wont even work, for example it happened again and my viper tweaks, settings app, and htc weather settings were lost so i restored backups of the 2 former and it worked but i had to actually go in to each individual page to get the settings to actually update and set, but my htc weather will not save my settings even after a complete removal (even the copy in /system) and reinstall from the play store, any non default setting will not stick.
this has only happened 2 times, this is the first time on my 10 and it happened once before on my old m8 i was using until a few weeks ago, except i actually lost ALL of my app data and had to start from scratch because even trying to restore everything with titanium backup did not fix the errors and crashes. other than that, this has literally never happened to me once in my 8 years of using htc and android in general.
how can i possibly figure out what is going on?
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May be a Hardware (corrupted eMMc) Issue.
well after it happened i went right into twrp and made it do a check and repair on /system and /data and neither one came up with any problems. you would think if it were a corruption issue it would come up with bad blocks, even if its on a hardware level.