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[Q] Can't download Handcent SMS or XDA Forums app

I was told I can download handcent sms to fix a timestamp issue im having (because it automatically displays texts in the order they're received instead of using timestamps). However, I had the program and deleted it once before, but after reading up on it I still have a file somewhere on my phone called com.handcent.newsms, and having that somewhere on there is preventing me from installing handcent. I checked in titanium backup and its one of the files with a line through it (aka-its been deleted supposedly), and my phone has been searching my files using ES File Explorer since about 7 hours ago with 0 progress. Any ideas on where this file might be?
Same problem with the XDA Forums app. Had it, deleted it, but after searching Titanium Backup theres still a file being displayed called com.quoord.tapatalkxda.activity and i'm assuming thats the reason I can download but not install the app. And idea where to find this one?

back everything up, boot into recovery and wipe data/cache. then reinstall everything

ive wiped several times when installing new roms (before i knew i even had this issue).

are you restoring the same rom after wiping? if you wipe then install a new rom there should be nothing leftover to give you issues

nope, ive installed a new one every time (to be more specific- miui, cm6, evozone.pure, evozone.riptide). and ive tried searching for the file on my file explorer and it just stays at 0% (on hour 8 now). It shows the files (the handcent one and the xda one) at the very bottom of Titanium Backup with a line through it.

when you touch that line does it not give you the option to delete it? if it is just a line that means that you have a backup for an app that is not currently installed

nope, and it says that theres no backup for it. it has the yellow sign with an exclamation mark in it next to it, which after i looked means theres "nothing"? this is doing a fantastic job of irritating the piss out of me.

in titanium backup, hit menu then clean dalvik, then reload app list, if still there then with a file explorer go into the titaniumbackup folder and delete the files associated with those entries

cleaned dalvik, still there. and thats the problem, i cant find any files associated with them.

ewingt22 said:
cleaned dalvik, still there. and thats the problem, i cant find any files associated with them.
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Have you ever copied your SD card to your PC? If so - you can go into the TitaniumBackup folder on your SD from previous manual backups and just reinstal the apk from there... I do that all the time. When I flash a ROM, First I make a NAND backup of said ROM, restore all apps and info (Texts,Contacts,Emails etc) then I do a TB back up and a MyBackUpPro Backup and then I copy all the files from my SD (which will contain all the backups you just made)to safely keep all the back ups you just made safe on your PC...If you dont alredy do that kind of thing, maybe its a good idea to start for these types of problems
hope that helps, if not - I do have the Apks for both apps your looking for - I can email them to you if you want

make a backup of your sd card on your computer, then format it and put only a rom .zip file, wipe everything multiple times, install the rom from sd card
check if handcent or xda will install, if yes, replace the files on your sdcard that you copied before format.
if no you have successfully gotten somebody else as frustrated with your phone as you are

Worked, thanks a ton for the help
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App

Titanium Backup showing zero elements after factory reset

I'm having something strange happening. I have done wipes before with no problem with TB but I just did a factory reset and TB was showing my currently installed apps but showing them as not backed up(this was because the location of the back ups) My backups are stored on external sd so at first TB looks at the internel. When I detect the backup location it finds the folder on my external sd card with all of my back ups but now when I exit and go back in TB tells me there are zero app elements. Even the currently installed apps arent showing up. If I copy the TB back up folder to my internal card and detect the location again and select the folder on my internal card it does the same thing, shows zero app elements. But if I use an empty folder the list of my currently installed apps comes back (but obviously doesnt show I have any back ups) it's driving me insane. Its worked for me a bunch of times before and I even used it right before I wiped to back everything up before I did the wipe. Of course I've tried all the normal stuff: killing the app and restarting it, rebooting the phone, pulling the battery. Nothing seems to work. and Yes, I'm rooted and have a correct busy box installed. The app does report that everything with busy box and root is fine. I just dont understand why all of a sudden when I point it to the folder with all my back ups it shows zero app elements and shows there is 0 apps to back up and 0 apps that can be restored. Anyone know how to fix this? I read on another device thread that the guy found backup files with chinese characters and once he deleted these the apps loaded again. I looked though mine and I did find a couple that had chinese characters in the filename. I deleted them but still no luck. Anyone have any other ideas I can try?

Did you try uninstalling and downloading TB again ? I dknt think I saw that listed in combination of xlearing data with fresh install

It probably is looking in a different path than where Titanium previously made the backup. Try this:
Menu > Backup folder location > DETECT!
EDIT: Or, make sure you don't have a filter applied (press Search softkey).

xak944 said:
It probably is looking in a different path than where Titanium previously made the backup. Try this:
Menu > Backup folder location > DETECT!
EDIT: Or, make sure you don't have a filter applied (press Search softkey).
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I did detect the location and it found it, but still showed zero elements. Also there are no filters selected. I think maybe something got corrupted. When I manually copied over just the important apps I wanted to restore to the internal SD card location it was fine, although some hung while trying to restore. So I'm thinking that one or more of the backups I didn't copy over from the original folder are corrupt.
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Ah, sounds like you've already checked everything then. I would check your SD card for errors, both physical and at the filesystem level.
Do you backup to DropBox or sync with Titanium Media Sync? They both work really well (as does everything Titanium) and it's handy to have your stuff automatically saved elsewhere.
Hope you didn't lose anything too important.

[Q] Titanium Backup lost files cant retrieve ?

Ok have Titanium Pro and I was restoring some of my apps after my memory card crashed reformated and managed to pull backup folder off card before this. Everything was still intact. So I tried to reload some apps. And part way thru selecting which apps I wanted restored it force closed on me.
I went back into Titanium and it read 0 apps in list reloaded and didn't help I went to my memorycard and check the folder again everything is intact and there. I went to preferences in TB and made sure it was looking in the correct folder and even had it discover it itself gave me a message said" restore will complete after exiting preferences did this still nothing. Uninstalled and reinstalled TB and still no go. I'm lost as to what to try next.
Any help is welcome
Thanx ED-D

So I gave up trying to get my backup to work found if I didn't have copy of the original app it won't redo it. Which don't sound right but whatever.
Figured I'd just do a new backup of phone and it won't even discover the stuff I have now ? I deleted and reinstalled it but still no go.
Any ideas.

djxedxd said:
So I gave up trying to get my backup to work found if I didn't have copy of the original app it won't redo it. Which don't sound right but whatever.
Figured I'd just do a new backup of phone and it won't even discover the stuff I have now ? I deleted and reinstalled it but still no go.
Any ideas.
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Do you have another card you could try using? Is your phone able to read other stuff on the card?
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Ya I have a few other memory cards I can try. And yes the card in now works phone can view read copy n everything to and from card. So I dunno. It's not detecting anything when I open TB it says number of app elements 0 . Should read what's on here right ? Weather cards good or not ?

[Q] Titanium Backup doesn't detect any backups after wipe

I accidentally deleted the contents of my SD card when installing a rom, and then I reverted back to CM 10.1. This obviously deleted all of my data, backups, ect but I had TB set up to sync with dropbox, so I had the backups. I wiped the phone and installed TB. I put the backups back onto the SD card and set the location in TB preferences. Now it will only detect a few of the backups. I've tried everything that I can think of or that I found on line but to no avail. Does anyone know a fix for this? I really don't want to lose all of my data.

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Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.

goodtimes50 said:
Did you install the Dropbox app and then enable Dropbox in TB's preferences?
Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood. Usually when something like this happens to me it's do to apps being filtered out somehow. Make sure you have "All" selected for all the "Filter by..." options.
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Thanks for the reply! Yeah, that was the first thing that I checked. There are no filters on. I even tried to reinstall TB and delete the settings file on the SD card, but it still won't recognize the backups.
I'm also gonna try to install CM 10 and see what happens. I don't have much hope though.

Ok, more info. I tried installing CM10, but it didn't do anything. When I set it to the backup directory, it only finds 13 backups, but there are well over 100 in the folder.

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I'm running out of hope, but bump.

Sorry man, but you gotta bite the bullet.
Grab a drink, go to play.google.com and reinstall the apps you want.
Has happened to me twice... makes a quick, simple flash on Sunday night turn into a tired lug to work/school on Monday morning.

My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app

Greycloak42 said:
My guess would be that the Dropbox sync in TB was never able to complete. Uploading gigs of files can take some time, even on a decent connection.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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I had something like this happen. I put a new rom on and even though I didn't do anything to my backups now in Ti backup it says im missing a ton of them. There more backups then it claims I have apps.
Anyway I deleted all the history for the app, clear all pref , reinstalled and its working now use Ti backup to uninstall its self lol

Seeeveral months later, but I had the same problem. No version of my backups would be detected, etc. Happened after an incident while redoing a ROM. And this is the only thread anywhere that seemed to say anything about the issue.
What ended up working, for whatever reason: I cleared everything from my SD, probably not entirely necessary, just remove TB and it's folder. Reinstall, update TB. Do a new backup of everything. Then I hooked the phone to the computer, copied my old stuff into the folder, overwriting the many that asked for it. When I went back to TB and did a batch restore, it picked up all the previous programs.
Unfortunately, I did have to sit with my phone, and most applications would ask if I wanted to install it, click Install, then Done, then it would move on to the next. Or if it was a system application, just hit cancel and it would skip it.
But it fixed it. So, I'm not complaining too much.
Next step is to delete all backups, do NEW backups, then go forward from there. Will probably see about doing a full wipe and TB backup, which I sure hope works.

My fix
I logged in through adb as root and found that the external SD card was being hidden from Titanium. So I just copied the files as root onto a directory next to the existing Titanium back up (the one just created that it could see) via bash command
Code:
jfltexx:/ # cp -a /storage/6163-6233/TB_orig/ /mnt/sdcard/
I think each new release the Google people decide to move around the SD card and generally make it hard for old data to be seen by Apps on the new system in the name of security or some fancy new feature.
Painful but as I could see the SD card when plugged into my laptop I knew it was really there.

my titanium back up cant restore data. on MM.

well when i was on LP back ups worked okey..
when i changed to MM i could restore apps . it all started when i wanted to back up new apps.. ther was only a check mark in the restore options.. so i read and did the following.
prefrencs/back up folder location/ i used to select file ystem.. but this time i chose documents and files...
now it works but i cant restore data... lucky me i had a back up of titanium from jun/16/06
but also the data doesnt restore.. i still can see the check mark in the restore option.. and when i do it FC apps then i reboot app opens okey but no data restored.. am using free latest version of titanium..
is there a way for me to install all apps and somehow restore the data.. using another program or another way.?
the files is .tar.gz and properties. ? i been struggling 5 days already..