I have an old backup of my messages, and I have a new backup of my new messages. I can't restore the new one because I have already restored the old backup. Is there anyway I can merge the two backups? That way I can have them all show up at once.
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Tonight I upgraded from stock android 2.1 to Syndicate 2.2 ROM. I thought that I had backed up my sms and calendar data with titanium backup, but apparently I did not.
How can I recover my sms and calendar data from the clockwork nandroid backup? Note that the original backup that contains the data I need is not an EXT4 backup. Any help would be much appreciated.
elevans said:
Tonight I upgraded from stock android 2.1 to Syndicate 2.2 ROM. I thought that I had backed up my sms and calendar data with titanium backup, but apparently I did not.
How can I recover my sms and calendar data from the clockwork nandroid backup? Note that the original backup that contains the data I need is not an EXT4 backup. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Did you try restoring the data in those apps from Titanium and rebooting?
You can try restore/advanced data only from CWM but if there is any incompatible data you may get fc's which will require you to clear data for those apps. If it is that important then it is worth a try. Your calendar should have been backed up in Google and should restore with your contacts though.
elevans said:
Tonight I upgraded from stock android 2.1 to Syndicate 2.2 ROM. I thought that I had backed up my sms and calendar data with titanium backup, but apparently I did not.
How can I recover my sms and calendar data from the clockwork nandroid backup? Note that the original backup that contains the data I need is not an EXT4 backup. Any help would be much appreciated.
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First you would need to unyaffs the data img file from the nandroid backup:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/136176-how-extract-files-nandroid-backup-windows.html
Then get the mmssms.db from /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
and I'm guessing the calendar one is /data/data/com.android.providers.calendar/databases/calendar.db
This is theoretical because I haven't actually tried it. I've seen where the file isn't compatible with the sms software on a different rom. In that case, the titanium backups wouldn't work. For the future I would recommend using some sort of SMS backup software from the market. Good luck!
Thanks guys! I'll try both methods and report back.
To answer KG's question, on stock 2.1, the default calendar save option was to save appointments to my phone calendar and not the android calendar. I had the same issue with gmail, but remembered to backup the phone contacts before flashing. Titanium only backed up my 3rd party apps.
This was my first android ROM upgrade, so at least next time I know what not to do.
KG, your method did the trick. All my data is restored. I'm going to need to do another backup with mybackup root and reinstall the ROM, because some of the ROM software isn't there anymore, but at least my data isn't lost. Thanks for the help!
elevans said:
KG, your method did the trick. All my data is restored. I'm going to need to do another backup with mybackup root and reinstall the ROM, because some of the ROM software isn't there anymore, but at least my data isn't lost. Thanks for the help!
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Glad I could help. When I do something like change ROMs I backup with everything I got, Nandroid, Titanium, Mybackup, export contacts to SD and anything else I can grab. Something has to have my missing data when I need it ;-)
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I was using a stock ATT GS3. I rooted, then performed backup with Titanium backup. Then I installed CM10 rom. For some reason I cannot restore my SMS/MMS. I tried to restore using SMS backup restore as well. I thought the .xml backup would be able to restore with any of the sms restore programs. I need to find a way to restore my SMS/MMS on CM10. Thanks for the help.
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I was using a stock ATT GS3. I rooted, then performed backup with Titanium backup. Then I installed CM10 rom. For some reason I cannot restore my SMS/MMS. I tried to restore using SMS backup restore as well. I thought the .xml backup would be able to restore with any of the sms restore programs. I need to find a way to restore my SMS/MMS on CM10. Thanks for the help.
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go into the titanium backup app main screen->menu->restore data from xml...->find the place where you saved your xml file-> have a good day
I had 2 messages after attempting to restore from .xml. One said complete and the other said failed. That said my messages are back so I am happy! Thanks you sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
I just recently Odined from MI7 to NB4 to flash the new Jedi update. I backed up everything in Titanium Backup, and then used Call Log Backup and SMS Backup & Restore to back up my texts. Since the KitKat updates, in order to restore SMS backups, the app doing the restoration needs to be set as the default messaging app (temporarily).
SMS Backup & Restore has worked fine for me while on Kitkat. I select my backup, click restore, it prompts me to set SMS Backup & Restore as the default messaging app, I click yes, and we're all good. However, when I click restore, I get no prompt to set the app as the default messaging app. I've tried clearing defaults of GO SMS, hangouts, I've tried installing other SMS apps to trigger the 'which do you want as default window' and still nothing.
I also backed up the SMS messages in TItanium, but a restore just hangs there.
Has anyone experienced this? Tearing my hair out right now.
I'll reply to myself.. while I didn't find a solution to the main issue, I worked out another way.
I had a previous nandroid of my unrooted NB4 base. I backed up my current and restored the original-- which still had my data (and SMS) intact. GO SMS has a built in backup tool, so I created a backup there, stored it on the SD, restored Newer Nandroid, and currently restoring the SMS through GO.
Sometimes the nandroid manager will split the backup, did you check to see if that happened?
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Had 4.4.2 Sense 6, flashed GPE 5.0. My question is, how do I restore my contacts? The Sense ROM used HTC People App.. the GPE uses Contacts.
Also, in Titanium restore for People there is a line through the backup? What does that mean? And when I touch it I get options to restore the App or App and Data, no option to restore only data.
were your contacts stored in your google account? if it is then it will auto restore when you sync the device, if not you can use the contacts option in titanium to backup and restore (the green contacts option)
Hello.
I'm using HTC Backup app and I never had any problem with it, but this time it overwrited an older backup with a new one which I don't want because I changed a lot of things in my phone since the older backup, the worst part, it appears that the new backup overwrited the older one. Is there a way to recover my older backup? The HTC Backup App only displays in "History" the most recent backup.
Thanks.