Hello. Recently, I was playing around with CyanogenMod. I flashed a new boot animation, and then I wanted to clear cache, but I accidentally wiped /data, and all my SMS messages are gone. Fortunately, I did a backup with Titanium, but now when I want to restore those messages, the phone gets in a boot loop, or the Messages app stops working. Inside the .tar file that Titanium made I found a db-journal file containing all of my messages. Is there any way of restoring these messages? Thanks.
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this is what I tried
fastboot some kernel
wipe everything
flash some ROM
Until that point is fine.
the problem comes when i try to restore system data (using titanium backup pro). It says backup was successfully restored, and a reboot is recommended, but when I do, it gets stuck in the bootloop.
Restoring user apps + data works fine. Its just the system apps thats causing the problem
This happens with any ROM/Kernel combination I try.
Also, while wiping everything, I get the message "no app2sd partition found skipping format of sd-ext"
Are you restoring another ROM's system apps?
What system apps are you restoring and why?
Messages, Wifi pairings, call log, contacts, user dictionary ... etc
Is that a bad idea ?
Other rom system apps won't work and that's the problem I think... Try some other apps for getting back those like message backup, SwiftKey etc... You can start wifi pairings again
solved.
while doing batch restore, the system apps for messaging, call log etc were being restored, even though i wanted just the data. Did them manually.
Thanks
From personal experience restoring the system data like message storage call log contacts is safe.... not sure about wifi pairings.... try restoring each system data one by one.... rebooting each time instead of doing a batch restore.... might just help!
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I'm having some android.process.acore problems after flashing this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031726
restoring things with sms backup, and Tibu.
It (android.process.acore) would crash when I delete or edit contacts, and sometime when I add contacts/syncing.
I wiped everything, and restored system settings and it seemed to have worked fine.
My question is can I back up certain files from the wiped/restored version and tibu it onto my recovery image?
I tried contacts, contact store, phone, phone util, google contact sync etc.
can anybody that really is familiar with system files help?
thanks!!
Short Rule: Never, NEVER, restore systems apps. This never bodes well.
Only system data I ever found with no issues: Contacts Storage, and Clock.
mikoal said:
I'm having some android.process.acore problems after flashing this rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031726
restoring things with sms backup, and Tibu.
It (android.process.acore) would crash when I delete or edit contacts, and sometime when I add contacts/syncing.
I wiped everything, and restored system settings and it seemed to have worked fine.
My question is can I back up certain files from the wiped/restored version and tibu it onto my recovery image?
I tried contacts, contact store, phone, phone util, google contact sync etc.
can anybody that really is familiar with system files help?
thanks!!
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I just save APK's I need to push to system in a folder and do it all that way.
II have around 23k messages and it tooks hours just to backup and to restore SMS after flashing rom everytime when I am using backup applications from playstore. Is there a faster way to backup like maybe a single file from /system or anything like that?
Probably not if you insist on keeping that many stored, which is a ridiculous amount of messages to keep on a Phone, I get sentimentality but still.
Titanium Backup is faster than sms backup app
Is TB accurate? When I first tried it, it lost a lot of my messages. I've stuck with SMS Backup and Restore which also has MMS backup now.
if rooted you can also get the database directly in :
data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
Check out permissions and reapply same when restoring ...:highfive:
Hi all,
I have both a TWRP and a Titanium backup from my phone at an earlier version of my ROM.
I've since done full data format and install so I have lost my MMS/SMS messages.
I did not use another utility to back them up at all.
Does anyone know where in the file system these are stored or how I might be able to restore them from my Ti or TWRP backups?
I've tried doing a TWRP restore to the earlier ROM version but messages was still empty. I've tried doing a full restore and individual restores of dialler storage in TiBU etc but so far have had no luck in restoring the messages.
Thanks in advance
kamold said:
Hi all,
I have both a TWRP and a Titanium backup from my phone at an earlier version of my ROM.
I've since done full data format and install so I have lost my MMS/SMS messages.
I did not use another utility to back them up at all.
Does anyone know where in the file system these are stored or how I might be able to restore them from my Ti or TWRP backups?
I've tried doing a TWRP restore to the earlier ROM version but messages was still empty. I've tried doing a full restore and individual restores of dialler storage in TiBU etc but so far have had no luck in restoring the messages.
Thanks in advance
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If you're using nougat, I believe the location is
/data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
Then it's the mmssms.db file you need.
When I do a clean flash, I always use the backup function that is built in to export messages to sd card.
squ89r97 said:
If you're using nougat, I believe the location is
/data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/
Then it's the mmssms.db file you need.
When I do a clean flash, I always use the backup function that is built in to export messages to sd card.
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Thanks for that info That appears to be the correct location in my case.
Previous to Nougat seems to have been in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases
I restored the whole com.android.providers.telephony folder from the backup as it also contains the pics from attachments. Initially after a the first bootup messages was still empty, so you need to reboot again and they will be restored.
I'll also make sure I backup messages using the inbuilt backup feature in future.
Hello, i have question.
LOS on my phone wont boot so i have installed new build.
So i made backup in TWRP whole folder com.android.messaging folder backup.
Problem is , that i can see after copying this folder into data/data restoring process of my text messages, BUT after restoring ends my sms blank.
I can see messages on restoring...BUT at end still no sms
Can you help me?