There seems to be a problem with restoring backups since the end of December.
This weekend, I backuped my girlfriends phone, also WhatsApp to onedrive and tried to do a restore. No luck. at 21 % it stucks. telling me to check the connectivity. By restoring my backup to the same phone in the same house and ISP I proved that this was not the case.
I did a factory reset from the phone to get the above done, so no version conflicts or whatsoever.
I also used the WDRT to reset it to 8.1 ( its a lumia 830) update it to 10, and in between let all the apps install and updates install. but no Luck.
I talked to MS, but they give no direct support on Windowsmobile all B2X !!! what the peeeeep.
I think it's a onedrive/account thing, and nothing what I can discuss with B2X, where they probably tell me that the 830 is out of warrenty?
Also the restore of WhatsApp fails, it's in a loop, do you want to check for backups to restore, yes, do you want to check for backups to restore etc.
Anyone having this issues, or able to replicate and maybe someone has a solution?
BTW al lot of people have this issue since end December.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...r/e84e6f86-cc7f-4091-8410-68277cfd7a54?page=2
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Hey,
I have the official Mango update and SPL-4.5.2250.0 (129185) MNG
I want to revert to NoDo so I can install a custom ROM, how can I downgrade without having a restore in Zune (the restore is damaged).
I got an error 'The Storage Card Is Damaged' and it hard reset itself, so now Zune sees it as a new phone, rendering my backup useless.
Sorry.. Im answering in the wrong forum (have to get used to xda app :[ )
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badboy70 said:
Hey,
I have the official Mango update and SPL-4.5.2250.0 (129185) MNG
I want to revert to NoDo so I can install a custom ROM, how can I downgrade without having a restore in Zune (the restore is damaged).
I got an error 'The Storage Card Is Damaged' and it hard reset itself, so now Zune sees it as a new phone, rendering my backup useless.
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As far as I know, the only way back to NoDo, if you do not have a working backup is to flash a OEM rom.
With out knowing your carrier or phone model, there is not much anyone can do to help. I suggest that you look up the threads to your model phone and check the upgrade thread.
You might find a rom but, to roll back and keep your data, that's a different story.
The backup is not useless just because the phone got hard-reset. People restore backups after hard-reset all the time.
However, you can't restore a backup if the storage of the phone has changed. That means adding, removing, or replacing a microSD card since the backup was made. To restore that backup, put the phone back in its old state (storage-wise), then hard reset it (to initialize the card), then connect to Zune and try to restore.
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.
I've had my M8 since about the end of 2014. Originally on Android 4, have since done OTA upgrades to 5 and 6 as they were flagged as available by my carrier (UK, O2).
I've never managed to get HTC Backup on my PC to recognise the phone, even with the original USB cable, so have never done a proper backup (Yes. I know). Fortunately for me, my Gmail contacts list was almost up to date, and apart from my calendar, that was the most important thing to save, so I've just had to grin and bear it.
Because of the lack of proper backup and therefore the facility to restore from one, I'd never done a factory reset after the various OS upgrades, which I've been told might have avoided my present situation, which is that I can't get any further than a bootloop situation. Other than that, I can get into recovery mode, but no further.
I've tried clearing the cache, I've tried a factory reset. Neither of those have got me anywhere.
I've no great desire (at present) to go fiddling with rooting or anything clever with the phone, I'd just like to get it working again. I've downloaded Android Studio to get the SDK for ADB but don't really know what I'm doing, and if I mess around without expert advice I could end up with a hard brick - which is why I'm here.
Can anyone give me some guidance about what I need to do to get my phone working again?
Thanks in advance...
Hi, I have the same problem, started a few days ago when I was trying to download VLC from the play store, the phone rebooted and said optimizing apps.... It has been in an optimizing apps bootloop since - it gets to the end, then says starting android then freezes and reboots, then starts again... I tried clearing the cache and doing the factory reset as well but nothing helps. We could really use some expert help on this :S
If a stock phone isn't booting, and factory reset doesn't help, the OS is possibly damaged or corrupted in some way; and needs to be restored.
If your version has RUU, you can try to run that.
If no RUU for your version, then probably your only choice is to unlock the bootloader, install custom recovery, so you can restore a stock TWRP backup from the following thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/help/tutorial-how-to-stock-stock-twrp-t3086860
I am in a very similar situation, apparently because of a botched automatic system update, almost same symptoms as airick94. I haven't tried a factory reset yet though, because I want to try to recover what I can from the internal storage first. Can I do that through ADB even if my phone is not recognised as a device by the computer?
Hey guys. I wanna asj something. I know I'm already late to the part and still very new to the Interop unlocking (and other such unlockings) but I already Interop, Cap unlock and jailbreak my phone. But I'm still being careful and know what I'm doing and the repercussions and consequences of the actions I already did. Now after I did all these things, I haven't updated my phone with the latest Insider build yet (yes I'm on WIP, pretty much like any of us here), now I wanna ask?
Does newer WIP or updates gonna harm/undo all my tweaks, registries, and unlocks? Does after every update, do I need to redo somethings that are reverted by the updates? Could updates harm my phone with all these unlockings and tweaks after it update?
I would love a reply and help. Thanks
Should be fine. I currently have my 640 on latest insider build (15063 ->>) with continuum hack-enabled, dynamic page file scaling and interop unlock functioning normally. The updates didn't break any of them but anything can happen out of nowhere so be careful.
worst case it will revert whatever changes you made, its unlikely you will get in a bootloop or something because of whatever tweaks you made, each major build overwrites the current build after creating a backup of it in the recovery partition, after that it then gets user files and settings from the backup to the new working build, that is when something can go wrong, a previous tweak for example could be asking for a certain file to be used that the new build doesn't have, so after a reboot it shows a BSOD, because of a missing file that it supposed was mission critical
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worst case it will revert whatever changes you made, its unlikely you will get in a bootloop or something because of whatever tweaks you made, each major build overwrites the current build after creating a backup of it in the recovery partition, after that it then gets user files and settings from the backup to the new working build, that is when something can go wrong, a previous tweak for example could be asking for a certain file to be used that the new build doesn't have, so after a reboot it shows a BSOD, because of a missing file that it supposed was mission critical
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Hey thanks for y'all replying. So what could I do? List all the tweaks I've made and unlocks I did? And what should I do when I did get on that situation? Is hard reset is the only way out after that?
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Hey thanks for y'all replying. So what could I do? List all the tweaks I've made and unlocks I did? And what should I do when I did get on that situation? Is hard reset is the only way out after that?
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you could wait for people with disposable phones to inform of the situation, chances are they applied all known tweaks and mods so if their phones keep working after RS2 RTM goes to release preview, yours will too
there are things that cant be undone, an example was my 928 that got some files corrupted so I could no longer install-update apps and the registry was locked, as in, not keeping changes after reboots, including interop unlocking so it was a dead end, there's no dism in mobile to fix this, so yea hard reset is the only fix
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you could wait for people with disposable phones to inform of the situation, chances are they applied all known tweaks and mods so if their phones keep working after RS2 RTM goes to release preview, yours will too
there are things that cant be undone, an example was my 928 that got some files corrupted so I could no longer install-update apps and the registry was locked, as in, not keeping changes after reboots, including interop unlocking so it was a dead end, there's no dism in mobile to fix this, so yea hard reset is the only fix
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OMG, I think I'm actually experiencing your 928 issue rn, I'm just only interop unlocked like only for a week rn, and now after had some of tweaking, now I can't update nor install apps from Windows Store, Windows Update also stucked on Initializing too and I can't install latest Fast build, but just today I've noticed that it actually download (I think?) and got passed 50% and still stucked there rn. Can you confirm that we're same on issue? Is hard reset reset really the fix here? How about the WDRT? Is it the same with hard reset?
Also I want to note that my PC too have this issue too, and yea I asked this on MS Answers and they did suggest DISM, but I can't really finished or start properly a DISM with an ISO or ESD. Here's the thread if mind to see it. So what i did is to do a in place upgrade repair, it did work and update apps for like a week, and two, now we're back again and I can't install, update apps from Windows Store, nor Windows Update too. Tho some installs after a very long time, and for only very small apps. I noticed that the netsvcs.exe process from wuaserv (Windows Update service) doesn't respond time to time, and just fades away and end itself even if the downloading isn't finished yet. I still don't know whats wrong with the service nor the Microsoft too. My 830 never experienced this before, updates and downloads are much smoother responsive than on my PC, until now they're on the both state
Also what happened to your 928, you said it does have this issue, why don't you hard reset it?
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OMG, I think I'm actually experiencing your 928 issue rn, I'm just only interop unlocked like only for a week rn, and now after had some of tweaking, now I can't update nor install apps from Windows Store, Windows Update also stucked on Initializing too and I can't install latest Fast build, but just today I've noticed that it actually download (I think?) and got passed 50% and still stucked there rn. Can you confirm that we're same on issue? Is hard reset reset really the fix here? How about the WDRT? Is it the same with hard reset?
Also I want to note that my PC too have this issue too, and yea I asked this on MS Answers and they did suggest DISM, but I can't really finished or start properly a DISM with an ISO or ESD. Here's the thread if mind to see it. So what i did is to do a in place upgrade repair, it did work and update apps for like a week, and two, now we're back again and I can't install, update apps from Windows Store, nor Windows Update too. Tho some installs after a very long time, and for only very small apps. I noticed that the netsvcs.exe process from wuaserv (Windows Update service) doesn't respond time to time, and just fades away and end itself even if the downloading isn't finished yet. I still don't know whats wrong with the service nor the Microsoft too. My 830 never experienced this before, updates and downloads are much smoother responsive than on my PC, until now they're on the both state
Also what happened to your 928, you said it does have this issue, why don't you hard reset it?
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I did hard reset it after all, its just that I dont use it too often nowadays
in your case if you can still make registry changes and they dont revert after a reboot, then its not the same issue, I see you're downloading from cellular, maybe it has something to do with that
hard reset and WDRT is almost the same thing, WDRT just flashes the rom essentially making a clean install, like reformatting a disk and installing windows on pc, hard reset does that but it installs from a recovery partition and it contains a "fresh" image of the last OS installed, so it can contain bugs acquired from the last working state, its just very unlikely anyway
just make sure everything is backed up and do a hard reset, then login to your account while setting it up and it will show a list of the backups, get the latest one you made and it will be back where you left it(almost)
Hi, I'm aware that several people have issues with the new pie rom.
Unfortunately, I have a problem that I haven't seen before on the forum:
It takes like a full 5 sec to call somebody and the same to end it.
It's very frustrating because I never know how to react in this situation (did he heard? Etc...)
I don't want to factory reset and I got everything stock.
Anyone has an idea on how to fix this?
Can I wipe cache with the stock recovery? Maybe install an other phone app?
Thx
i am having issues in pie as well. i cant seem to transfer large files to the phone.doing so makes the phone restarts. i tried it 5 times or so. fhis update is not good
Only way to clear up issues is a clean factory image install if this was not done to begin with.
OK thanks...
Though I blindfully hope someone will be get some alternative has I don't want do execute such extreme solution
b4bass said:
OK thanks...
Though I blindfully hope someone will be get some alternative has I don't want do execute such extreme solution
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It's actually relatively painless. Apps restore automatically when you go through setup, calls and texts are restored, as well as system settings and WiFi networks. Takes me ~30 mins total, and maybe 5 of that is actually looking at the phone, the rest is letting it sync and restore backups automatically.
I was thinking about it doing a factory reset once the final came out but I've heard stories from fellow moviepass owners that are unable to use the app when switching phones. That would make a valid concern for factory resets as well. Not because of lag but I have noticed battery seems worse after the upgrade and wanted to factory reset to rule out. As I ran all the ota betas of pie a factory reset isn't a bad idea anyway.
tiny4579 said:
I was thinking about it doing a factory reset once the final came out but I've heard stories from fellow moviepass owners that are unable to use the app when switching phones. That would make a valid concern for factory resets as well. Not because of lag but I have noticed battery seems worse after the upgrade and wanted to factory reset to rule out. As I ran all the ota betas of pie a factory reset isn't a bad idea anyway.
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Your device ID is tied to the app. When you factory reset and reinstall the app your device ID is reset. You can root using Magisk and then install Titanium Backup to backup the app and data, this will preserve the ID. i had to do this when switching ROMS.