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[Q] Any way to restore a backup of a non rooted HOX

Does anyone know of any way to restore a backup of a non-rooted HTC One X?
I had to send my cursed HOX off for it's third repair, so once again I'm back to an annoyingly factory clean phone. Before sending the phone off I backed up all external storage and used ADB to make a full backup.ab, also my phone is set to sync with Google.
On receiving my phone back, I get no option from Google Play to restore my previously installed apps and the backup.ab seems to be entirely useless, possibly due to a sense bug I've heard mentioned. It seems that I could potentially restore from the backup.ab using Titanium if I rooted but I really don't want to risk my warranty on a phone I've already had to send back three times.
Any help would be much appreciated...

Why is it useless? What's wrong with:
adb restore backups.ab

I try to restore with 'adb restore backup.ab' my phone asks me to confirm, it says backup restoring then about 2 hours later I get prompted to send a crash report to HTC. Nothing has changed and I get nothing in the way of even slightly useful output on either the PC or Android side to figure out what's going wrong.

Full backup and restore of stock ROM for service

Hi guys.
I've owned my M8 for a while, and have already sent it in for repair twice (first time: dropped and cracked screen, paid a hundred bucks because HTC Advantage doesn't apply in Singapore; second time: proximity sensor didn't work because of a bad repair job). Now, the Duo camera doesn't work (also likely a bad repair job), and I just feel like I want to send it in for service.
The problem is that HTC insists on factory resetting my phone every time I send it in for service, and even worse, most apps insist on storing their data in the internal flash memory. So I lose most of my stuff, especially WhatsApp conversations. HTC Backup just doesn't cut it as I've also got a couple of side-loaded apps which aren't backed up by it.
Are there any complete solutions for backing up which I can use so that after I get my phone back, I can restore it to as close as it was before sending it in?

SRSR333 said:
Hi guys.
I've owned my M8 for a while, and have already sent it in for repair twice (first time: dropped and cracked screen, paid a hundred bucks because HTC Advantage doesn't apply in Singapore; second time: proximity sensor didn't work because of a bad repair job). Now, the Duo camera doesn't work (also likely a bad repair job), and I just feel like I want to send it in for service.
The problem is that HTC insists on factory resetting my phone every time I send it in for service, and even worse, most apps insist on storing their data in the internal flash memory. So I lose most of my stuff, especially WhatsApp conversations. HTC Backup just doesn't cut it as I've also got a couple of side-loaded apps which aren't backed up by it.
Are there any complete solutions for backing up which I can use so that after I get my phone back, I can restore it to as close as it was before sending it in?
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Advice? Sure, I've got it.
Use an extSD. Do a nandroid ALWAYS when you do mods.
Sending it in for hardware problems?
Back it up before you send it in.
What I suggest to do EVERY TIME YOU DO A BACKUP is to save it to your extSD.
It will save you a ****ton of steps when you get it returned.
So.... Do the backup to extSD.
when you get the phone back and you start it up, DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT WILL CONNECT YOU TO THE INTERNET. DO NOT UPDATE>
Try firewater to s-off. (you haven't updated, it might work)
If needed, use Sunshine s-off.
Do all that rooting stuff.
Update firmware and flash the backup.
Enjoy your phone being just the way it was before you sent it for repairs.
(I may have missed something, but I think not. If I have, please feel free to correct me)

xunholyx said:
Advice? Sure, I've got it.
Use an extSD. Do a nandroid ALWAYS when you do mods.
Sending it in for hardware problems?
Back it up before you send it in.
What I suggest to do EVERY TIME YOU DO A BACKUP is to save it to your extSD.
It will save you a ****ton of steps when you get it returned.
So.... Do the backup to extSD.
when you get the phone back and you start it up, DO NOT DO ANYTHING THAT WILL CONNECT YOU TO THE INTERNET. DO NOT UPDATE>
Try firewater to s-off. (you haven't updated, it might work)
If needed, use Sunshine s-off.
Do all that rooting stuff.
Update firmware and flash the backup.
Enjoy your phone being just the way it was before you sent it for repairs.
(I may have missed something, but I think not. If I have, please feel free to correct me)
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Alright, thank you very much... But can you temporarily boot a custom recovery on the phone? i.e. use the 'boot recovery.img' command in ADB to get it done?

SRSR333 said:
Alright, thank you very much... But can you temporarily boot a custom recovery on the phone? i.e. use the 'boot recovery.img' command in ADB to get it done?
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When you flash a custom recovery and make a backup to the external sdcard it will be there when you get your phone back.
Before you send it in just flash your stock recovery the same way you would the custom recovery and do your factory data/reset .
When you get your phone back from repairs than re flash the custom recovery you used to make the backup and reboot to recovery and wipe data/factory reset again so you can restore your backup.of course make sure your backup is where it should be before you wipe just in case .

Need help restoring phone back to factory settings so I can sell it

After a whole bunch of hair pulling out I found out I have to do this to get my phone back to stock so I can sell it (got a new Note 4) . I can't just go back in Odin and restore because I upgraded to 4.4(I think, I was running CM12 at the time if I remember correctly) and now I have to use this method to get my phone to default settings. Can anyone team viewer me with this?We can talk on Skype or something. I can provide payment for your time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917

Some apps don't work after rooting issue

Hi all,
I ran into an issue while trying to root my Samsung Galaxy S III. I used a tutorial from Max Lee on Youtube (can't post link) to help me get through the process . There was a step that used Titanium Backup to check if you rooted your phone correctly. However when I downloaded Titanium Backup and tried to open it, I didn't see the superSU request window like it appeared in the tutorial. It was stuck on "asking for root rights..." I decided to reinstall Titanium Backup to see if it would help. After uninstalling it, I realized my Play Store would not load anything. I looked at some other apps and they wouldn't load either (Gmail, Hangouts, some games, etc). I tried logging out and back into my Google account but that didn't work either. A lot of my apps aren't working after attempting to root my phone and I'm not sure what the issue is.
I'm new to this sort of stuff and I couldn't really find an answer for my problem (at least not that I could find on Google). Sorry if this has been asked already! Could anyone tell me what I could do to get my phone back to it's original state at least? I'm kind of afraid to try and root again if I do get a fix for this. Also, factory reset is going to be my last option ;_;.
Samsung Galaxy S III SGH-T999 running Android version 4.1.2
Thanks!

If you can, back up your internal sdcard data. It's very likely you may have to do a factory reset which can erase it.
(BTW, when you get it going again, consider using the free unlock method in the General section. Once you update you can't do it free anymore)
OK, so first, only use what info you find in the T999 forums. Everything you need is here and it's hard to help fix things caused by info gained elsewhere.
Do you have a custom recovery installed? (Twrp or cwm) if so boot recovery and factory reset. This will wipe all apps and data (except internal sd...at least it shouldnt). With luck, this is all you need to do. Reboot and hopefully it'll be working so you can reinstall your stuff. If you have stock recovery, still do this, but it WILL wipe ALL user data).
If that doesn't work, the easiest and most reliable next step is to flash your current firmware build via Odin, and factory reset from settings or stock recovery. (wipes all data).
Then you can unlock and update if you so choose. You can find your firmware and instructions in my firmware thread stickied in the development section. (You'll probably want to use the root66 versions)
If you have any questions feel free to ask. Better safe than sorry. But keep in mind just about everything you could possibly need or want to know has been covered, so don't forget to search for your answers first.
If you still want root after all that, we have several extremely easy options.
Good luck!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T999 using Tapatalk

HELP! Factory reset while rebooting into recovery!

Hey guys,
I really need help. I was about to update my brother op3 from 3.2.4 to 3.2.8. When I was done I wanted to continue to flash to 4.0 but when I use the advanced reboot to boot into recovery it suddenly said "factory reset"!!!! Everything is gone even from the storage! I cant even backup from the backup file from twrp because it is gone! Can anyone please help me out? There are software to recovery this but I have to pay for all of them and they are not cheap!
Thank you in advance!

After a factory reset, even paid recovery tools aren't able to fully restore your data to their original state. At best, you'll get back a majority of the individual files you had on your phone prior to the wipe. The more you use the phone after wiping it, the more the old data is overwritten. At this point, I would just make the best out of this unfortunate event and clean flash whatever OS you were trying to update to. At least the phone will be de-cluttered at this point. You may even notice that the phone feels a little faster afterwards, and may even improve your battery life slightly.
If you had something really important on your phone that wasn't backed up, data recovery tools may be able to restore it, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Additionally, TWRP backups do not backup media files such as music, photos, personal documents, etc. Even if you were able to find a nandroid backup, you would only get back your OS, apps, and app data. Most of this can be restored by just downloading everything again.
In the future, I would recommend saving nandroid backups directly to a USB flash drive through USB OTG. Music and photos can also be backed up to the cloud through various free or paid services (Google Photos for example).

shujin51 said:
Hey guys,
I really need help. I was about to update my brother op3 from 3.2.4 to 3.2.8. When I was done I wanted to continue to flash to 4.0 but when I use the advanced reboot to boot into recovery it suddenly said "factory reset"!!!! Everything is gone even from the storage! I cant even backup from the backup file from twrp because it is gone! Can anyone please help me out? There are software to recovery this but I have to pay for all of them and they are not cheap!
Thank you in advance!
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Chance to recover your files are verry slim. Use the TWRP provided by Bluspark, it's on his main thread, stock twrp seems to have many issues.