This is strange....I used xBackup yesterday on my PDA2k (which took about 30 minutes) to backup to my SD card and a while later I went to look for a contact and all my contacts are gone. Everything else is there, just my contacts vanished. My backup file is 22mb. I tried a soft reset and that didn't help. My contacts are on my PC but this is a rather strange issue. I selected a system backup rather than a Contacts and Appt backup.
Does anyone know what file holds contacts so I can see the size? I haven't done a sync yet because I want to try to find out why this problem happened.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Tom
I just managed to solve all problems on my previous post, but now after restoring a backup while making some experiences. It appeard 2 inbox and 2 deleted items in the text message account . After that and making some more tries i restored again trying to remove and stayed with 3 inbox and 4 deleted items. I tried everything...searching the registry...all...but didn't found a way to delete them...anyone knows if this could be done without formating and installing all again...
what program do u use to back up your information on your device?
Spb Backup...but this happened when i tried to make a parcial restore after having some problems with a today app. And the backup i made after is already with the 2 inboxes and 4 deleted items. He dont replace if there is any messege in the box just creates a new one.
i believe u might have backed up your messages n emails when u did a backed up using spb backup, u shld have left out those so when u restore them there will not b any problem
Already tried twice deleting and not that's why the inbox number and deleted items number keeps increasing...There were an app for WM2003 that was clean mail made by spritebackup for a problem with the inbox that stoped working after a backup. What that app did was cleaning Messaging and the device restored it on the reeboot but unfortunally this app dont work on WM5. Is there anyway to reset the accounts?
Hi guys
I recently factory restored my HTC Desire and the built-in backup prompted me to restore my settings, which I did, but for some reason my SMS messages were not restored.
I checked the SD card, and there is a backup there, but of course the files are encrypted. Is there any way to read these files, or to restore my messaging SMS?
Thanks in advance!
Am I right in saying that the backups's hashes are salted with the device serial #? If that's the case then decryption should be quite possible.
I have had the exact same problem today. Had to return my Desire as it was faulty for a straight swap (kept the same SIM and SD card). The SD card has restored all contacts and music, but SMS messages have not transferred over. I've looked at every possible option in the settings but can't seem to see how to do this.
I'd be grateful for any advice or info. Thankyou.
slightly old thread, but relevant to my problem....
have been playing around a lot with my desire over the past week, and managed to delete the wrong nandroid backup and lost all my sms. I have a sense auto backup form a day or so earlier, but cannot for the life of me get the phone to read these - there's no option to restore just backup.
So, tried factory reset from recovery, copied the 'old' backup to the sd, and booted. Nothing was restored. Have tried all sorts of combos to try and get the backup to be read, but no joy at all. Even completely wiping everything, flashing the original rom i was using (modaco 3.1) and restarting, but still sense doesnt see the backup.
I definitley remember it doing it once during all the crazy rom swopping of the last few days, and the sms, wifi key etc all restored, but I can't get it to do it again.
Any ideas about 'forcing' the restore? I know that the backup is handset specific (tied to the serial/imei?) but it should restore on any rom using sense yeh?
all help greatly appreciated
ta.
another small thought, there may be an app idea in here for anyone thats interested - reading the sense backup and applying it by force? i know quite a few people tend to backup their sd card regularly, so it could be useful as a last resort option.
I guess there's not much I can help you but to avoid this problem in the future you might want to use SMS backup (by Cristoph Studer, there are 2 others on the Market with the same name) - backs up your sms's to your Gmail account, works great. I love the Cloud!
I have used sms backup in the past, didn't bother this time as i had the nandroid backup. Kicking myself as I'm usually pretty careful about what files i'm getting rid of, and have got all my sms for about the last ten yrs (minus the 2 months i just lost) for blackmail purposes time to crank the delete button paranoia up a notch again
edit: solved tok everything off the sd card, made sure i had the backup set from the date range i wanted, wiped absolutely everything from recovery, reflashed the rom i was running when the backup was taken & rebooted. the backup was picked up fine, all settings, sms etc back with no problems.
the small trick to getting this to occur seems to be just let the phone sit for a minute when it reboots - i assume that if you go into the setup wizard before the sd card is correctly moutned and read that you bypass the restore. i had done the same procedure to try to get it to restore before and it didn't, the pause to allow the sd card to be read was the only thing i did differently.
I'm having the same issue, I want to restore a back-up from my SD card, but cannot see any way to do it. I've tried a factory reset, but still no luck.
Can a restore be forced? The 2.2 upgrade seems to have removed Settings>Privacy
Same problem here, Froyo won't restore my backup.
I tried to downgrade to Eclair, but the installation failed with "Error 140: wrong bootloader version".
I guess my backup is pretty useless now...
Frojo wont restore settings after hardreset
I asked HTC about this, and here's the answer:
Thanks for your question regarding backup of your device. The former feature backup to SD card is missing in this newer version. This is due to Google, which has developed backup feature in the software, changed the system in 2.2, then back out to their servers instead. This applies to the Google devices, such as NexusOne. When your device is the HTC brand, we have some backup features as before. However, you can take backup in the following way (as with older versions of Android): Contacts: You can save contacts via Outlook when they are created as telephone contacts. For this you need HTC Sync and Outlook on your computer. HTC Sync, see your device's SD card. To open the map, select Mount in the device, your device is displayed on the computer as an external disk drive. Then you find the program through your computer's Windows Explorer, and also integrates it on your computer. You can now sync. You can also download HTC Sync from our website under Support tab. If you use Google contacts they can be retrieved back when you set up your email again. If you have configured an Exchange server, you can also download contacts onto the device again. Calendar appointments: These are transferred in the same manner as contacts. Emails: These can be synchronized over again through your Exchange server, or if you have Google mail. Data files: These can be transmitted via computer Explorer when you select Mount as previously described. You can then transfer your files to a folder on your computer. SMS and MMS: Those you can not backup.
Blueyed1
Way to go HTC.... hurray
The more I learn about Google and HTC's way of handling my data I get more determined to Root my phone to get full access of my phone, and to control what data and in what way that data is transferred to either google or HTC.
When you compare to the way Apple is controlling it's sheep herd, Google is not any better when it comes to data gathering and data sniping.
Blueyed1 said:
SMS and MMS: Those you can not backup.
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DRMON said:
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Backup not possible with previeus build in backup, that is..
Today I installed DeFrost Rom on my HTC Desire.
Beforehand I backed up everything with Titanium Backup, including contacts.
After installation however I'm not able to restore my contacts.
The only contacts I can see are 5 Gmail contacts.
I did not sync my phone contacts with Google ( I know, very stupid, I will do it in the future) so no online sync available...
I do have the contacts2.db from before the installation ( from the titanium backup)
I looked on several sites and tried everything I found:
adb pull, adb shell mount, adb push, adb shell chmod
Then afterwards I am told to reboot.
After every reboot I open my contacts, only to see that none are imported.
When I lookup the contacts2.db on the phone ( /data/data/com.android.provider.contacts/databases/contacts2.db) the filesize has changed from 4Mb to 350Kb again.
Does any of you guys have an idea how I can restore my contacts using that db file ? I can open it with sqlite viewer... but can't find an overview of the contacts in it to try to recover manually..
Nobody any idea on how to tackle this ?
Or maybe a way to extract the contacts from the contacts2.db file ?
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Nobody any idea on how to tackle this ?
Or maybe a way to extract the contacts from the contacts2.db file ?
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Didnt you do a Nandroid before?
Complete novice on this.
What is nandroid ? and no I didn't
I have a celphone with rom B704, i do a backup with the program hisuite but i change the rom, when i re-install the backup my notes dont have text and disapear, so i re-install the rom B704, when i tried re-install the backup the program show me a window that said unidentified error, somebody can tell me how open the notes in my pc or reinstall the notes in my cellphone?
I ran into the same problem today. In my case I wanted to move the notes from my old Huawei Ascend P6 to my new (non-Huawei) phone that uses a different Notes/Memo app. My solution was to create a backup using Huawei's custom "Backup" app on the phone (selecting only the Notes app as a source, and disabling Encryption) and then copying the backup .zip file off the SD card onto my PC. On the PC, unzipping the backup showed that it contained a "notepad.db" file in SQLite 3 format. Using a SQLite DB browser tool, I was able to extract the notes.
Obviously this won't work if you can't still use the phone. I never found out exactly where the Notes app stores its data in the normal Android file structure. I searched the phone's internal storage for a notepad.db file, but I didn't see one, so maybe it's hidden/encrypted by default.
Jordan Rieger