Does anybody knows why is this?
1. After a hard reset I want to restore my backup data with active sync but a lot of things don't want to restore because they are running. I deleted all the files from the \Windows\StartUp I unchecked everything from the New&Today&Start menus. After these I made a reset, and tried to restore my backups, but I realised the same thing than before.
Why is that? And how can I make a full backup, and then how can I restore this full backup with my XDA2 with 1_60ROM.
2. Another interesting things with the synchronise. After the restore I wanted to synchronise my contacts&appointments&tasks but for example if the elements of the contacts is the same in the PC and in the XDA2 active sync says double unsynchronised elements than in the PC or the XDA2. And these are the same with appointments and tasks too.
In the options menu of active sync I checked the 'Leave the item unresolved' if there's a conflict.
(If I check another option there is the same thing happens)
3. A lot of times my activesync disconnects but my XDA2 is in the cradle. Why is that? The best thing was when I started to upgrade my phone to 1_60 and the first second of upgrading Dear Activesync disconnected and my XDA was unuseless. Just a SDcard-upgrade helped.
One of you is an ActiveSync-Magician? :lol:
If yes, please write here for us your experience.
Thx
sO????
I'm the only one with this frustration?
Everybody can do everything allright with the active sync?
How lucky you are
I have all the same problems trying to use acytivesync backup, So i dont use it anymore, i use the inbuilt backup program on the XDA-2 this restores fine (normally just 1 file complains) but dose not seem to make any differance, Then using activesync it says it needs to sync double the contacts, taks, notes, etc etc despite it not needing to do this as they are already there, so i sync a few times and then its all back to normal.
The idea of not using activesync to backup is fine, but do other people have the same problem with duplicated contacts, tasks, etc etc
John
File 'in-use' conflicts are par for the course with activesync backup, as there's no real 'restore mode' on the PocketPC. However removing everything from statup and soft-rebooting usually works for me - although there are still a fair few files in use, these are usually system dlls rather than data files, and can be skipped.
As for duplicate contacts and appointments, do you get the 'replace all items on my device' option? This works fine for me.
Are you using ActiveSync 3.7.1?
Yeah, I'm using the latest (3.7.1) active sync.
My problem is I don't want to use the synchronization as 'replace all items on my device', because the source database is on my phone. Every new contact or data get in my XDA. That's why I need rather the 'replace all items on the desktop' but when I sign it, my phone gets the other half of the double items.
You said, that removing everything from statup and soft-rebooting usually works for you - although there are still a fair few files in use, these are usually system dlls rather than data files, and can be skipped.
In my practice it doesn't happen. Active sync says in the restore mode that something are using the contact, task, appointement...ect databases, not just .dll files. And after it I can't restore my databases in any case.
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Yes, your method would be ok, but I had more than 5 times that all datas from my SD-card were gone. So, I'm afraid to store my datas on my card. One of my faithful deleting was happening when I was using the XDAbackup. If something wrong during your SD-backup, the XDAbackup tool makes your card unuseless. SO, be careful! Your battery has to be full, your radio has to be off....etc.
(If somebody has the the situation with SD seems empty, maybe your datas repairable with some of the system tools on the PC or Norton Utilities)
My problem is I don't want to use the synchronization as 'replace all items on my device', because the source database is on my phone
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Yeah, I guess that is your problem. Activesync really only supports a full backup of the device to the PC, with a restore replacing all data on the device. I presume when you're trying to restore your applications and settings, yet keep all your contacts on the device, the contacts etc databases are not being closed correctly.
Thinking about it logically, have you tried doing a sync with your device so that new contacts etc are in outlook; setting preferences to replace device data with PC data; doing a restore, replacing all device data; then doing another synch so that the new contacts are moved back from outlook to the device? Once this is done, you can set the synch mode back to replace items on the PC with items on the device.
Failing all that, you're probably going to be best off with a third party backup product that allows more fine grained control of what is restored to where.
I'm not sure that I undarstand correctly what you wrote - maybe 'cause I'm hungarian -, but I did your suggestion, and it failed.
Do you know any other PC-XDA backup utility than ActiveSync?
I'm sure it's just my rather confusing sytax: your command of English is very good - I didn't realise you were a non native speaker.
Perhaps the confusion is arising from my understanding of the situation - correct me if I'm wrong here:
- Your activesync is working normally (with the occasional connection glitch, but we all get these). You have the desktop conflict settings set to "Always replace the item on this computer", because you use the XDA as the main entry point for new items.
- You can do a full backup no problem
- When you come to restore the backup, after a hard reset of the device or total power-down, there are problems replacing items on the device becuase the files are considered in use.
- After the backup, on the first synch, all contacts and appointments are duplicated.
So my suggestion was to:
- Synch as normal, so that everything is correct on your PC
- change the conflic resolution to "Always replace the item on my device"
- Un-cradle, remove startup links, soft-reset, re-cradle.
- Do the restore
- Un-cradle, soft-reset, re-cradle
- Synch again, so that everything is correct on the XDA
- change the conflict resolution back to "Always replace the item on this computer" so that new items are taken from the XDA.
If all else fails, I've heard good things about Sprite backup:
http://www.spritesoftware.com/home.html
I wrote minimum three chapters like a novel and after that the explorer freezed, that's why I don't wanna write it again.
The point is: not exactly the problem you understood, but I don't care now. Tahnx the answer and I'm waiting for the new AS update.
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I left my XDA on my bed side table for about a week as I'd forgotten my charger. As expected it lost all power - what I did NOT expect is that when I did eventually plug it in to charge EVERYTHING had gone. All contacts, messages, installed software.
In fact it was as if it was brand new - asking me to realign my touch screen and do that stupid Cut/paste tutorial.
Sounds like a hard reset was done....but because it ran out of power?!
Any comments appreciated.
Dan
...it'll happen, one thing you should always do is keep a backup by using wither the built-in backup utility or purchasing Sprite Pocket Backup so that you can quickly recover from a hard reset.
Sprite Pocket Backup is my number one backup application for its simple ability to back up your entire device's data and applications into a .exe file which you can use after a hard reset - it doesn't even require a reinstallation of Pocket Backup! Just imagine how handy it is when you're on the road away from the PC you sync to - invaluable!
If you go to settings....system........permanent save...you will see the option to save all contacts and also connection settings in nvram, then if it happens again you can get them back.
Okay, so now I've played around with my XDA for quite some time, tried a lot of software and collected quite some data.
All this playing and trying led to lots of scrap files and remainders of different soft on my device, and I feel it gets a bit clogged and unstable now (after a year or so). As I have lost the orientation on what files belong to what software I feel it's time for a hard reset and clean reinstall of the software I found useful.
I was careful and most of my data is on SD anyway.
I also saved the my connection and contacts to flash memory.
I got all my third party software on a CD I can use to reinstall from my PC.
Then I ran the SD backup app that comes with the XDA.
It claims it stores all files of the file system on the SD card, and on request restores them all to thier original position, which in fact is not what I want: That'd only bring me back to a point I was at before. I only want to restore the files I really need.
I want to clear the whole device, but do not want to loose my contacts, my inbox and my connection settings. The manual (I only got the german translated manual, which is a poor job in some places) does not exactly say what data will be erased on a hard reset, and which will be unaffected, so I'm a bit scared to do the step right now.
Are there any specific files I could/should keep a copy of before hard resetting the device?
Thanks for your assistance,
Martin
If you have selected "pemanent save", for your contacts etc, they will not be lost by a hard reset, you can also backup connection settings to flash. I think you will need to backup your emails/messages using sync or another method.
guess what happened.
I selected permanent save, but after hard resetting there was nothing restored. That's quite bad because syncing was one of the features that became unstable the last days (always failed after half done) so I could not save my contacts this way. They were about 300. ;-(
Just now I try what comes back fro SD backup.
Martin
make sure you have the latest activesync 3.71
... at least now active sync is working again, so I got at least most of my contacts back onto the device, only the recently added/changed were lost.
The permanent save option has a bad HMI-bug: You are allowed go to the PIM tag, select what you want to do, then go to the connection tag and start the whole thing by hitting the save button, but then your contacts will not be stored, even if you believe they will because a pop up makes you think everything's allright: Instead you'll have to quit permanent save by tapping OK after you checked the boxes on the PIM tag, then open permanent save again and go to the connection tag to save the settings.
I should have known: It's Microsoft, and they love such HMI oddities...
Why can't we have MacOS on the XDA ... [sigh...] :roll:
Martin
Have you clicked on permanent save again after doing the hard reset, I had to do that as my contacts didnt come back until I did.
No, I didn't dare to: I thought maybe the second time the empty contacts or something else would get written to flash memory overwriting what ever might still be there ...
Martin
i think u have to click permanant save/ RESTORE after the hard reset!
becarful not to save after hard reset, that will save blank entries ontop of the old entries!
Hi, sorry for budging in.
Whenever I want to do a hard reset, I always save it in SD card. After
that I removed my Sd card before I do the hard reset. Once its is done,
I just have to set the GMT time and restore from SD card and thats all
I have to do. Everything including contacts, connections are in order.
By the way I do the hard reset once month so that I can have a stable
qtek.
ntabikha said:
i think u have to click permanant save/ RESTORE after the hard reset!
becarful not to save after hard reset, that will save blank entries ontop of the old entries!
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Hmmm. yes, of cause I tapped permanent save/Restore after the hard reset. (With no result) What is going to happen if I do it time and again?
I'm afraid the german translation of the text in the screen is misleading. In "Permanent Save" there is one "PIM" page that has two checkboxes (one for Contacts, one for Calendar) and the text says "check the boxes and 1. contacts will be stored to flash and 2. calendar will be stored to flash". Nothing else.
Then there is a "Connections" tag that brings up a page that has two buttons (Save to flash and restore from flash) and a text that says "tap save to save connections and restore to restore connections" in short.
So I understood page 1 is for contacts and calendar data to be saved when boxes are checked and I tap OK, while page 2 is for the connection settings to be saved. Is that true?
Or is it true that I'll have to check the boxes on page one, then go to the second page and choose whether I want to save or restore them? (But why is the second page titled "Connections" then?)
This does neither come clear from the text on screen nor from the manual which basically tells me the same with the same words. The translation is awful. (Hope my english is better than MS's german ... )
Martin
aao588 said:
By the way I do the hard reset once month so that I can have a stable
qtek.
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How often do you guys in general perform a hard reset*?
I did my first one after a year of permanent uninterrupted use, but reading this forum I get suspicion that others do it on a regular base?
So what's this forum's users experience and recommendation?
Martin
* Except from now beeing able to delete a formerly undeleteable file, I do not see any effects on stability the hard reset had.
I have the Titanium Backup pro running on my Prime. When I try to do a dropbox sync, it fails about 1/3 way. I've re-tried a few times, with no luck. Anyone get it to work on the Prime? My theory is that since the Dropbox android client can only upload a max file size of around 170 MB, a big backup file is the root of the sync failure. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to tell on what file the dropbox sync fails.
Given my theory, I followed the Titanium Wiki and tried to use labels. I downloaded "apps organizer" and labelled a bunch of apps. When I go into Titanium and try to modify the Dropbox settings, the only option is to uncheck synch everything. I cannot figure out how to set a label for dropbox sync. Any ideas?
Finally, I wanted to submit some sort of bug report to titanium on this subject, but I have not found a link to do so. Does anyone have a link or email address to submit bugs to Titanium?
Thanks!
I had the same problem but just kept re-syncing. It picked up from where it left off the last time.
I don't know how many times you tried but it took me 5 or 6 to finally get it all.
I did try again a few times and it would get a bit further. But now its stuck on ~1.3 GB left and it seems like it doesn't even attempt to upload as the screen flickers right away and says Dropbox syn failed.
Anyone find out any news on how to tell what failed? I'm having issues uploading to both Dropbox and Box with an upload failing eventually. Happens to both my Transformer Prime and my Evo3D
Didn't work for me either. I tried both Dropbox and Box. Both were taking way too long.
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having this problem too. i rub sync with dropbox in titanium but at same point the sync stops and error appe ars. frickin annoying. i'm on shared wlan with familije amd we have crappy upload do i want to backup cca 700 mb but it never finishes the sync. i'm frustrated with this :-(
Same problem here, I just never even get an error message until I force it to stop. Otherwise it will sit there indefinitely at the same percentage.
I've deleted and changed the Dropbox folders for TiBu several times, and it gets stuck in the same place every time. Making current backups and I'll be trying to u/l to Dropbox again (this being a more fresh install), I'll likely also try it out on my phone to see how it works. I never was really interested in it until the Prime and the fact that the internal SD card just has to get formatted by manual updates and factory resets.
I had this issue before too, I found out that the problem is when one of the backup files is bigger than 180ish MB.
the solution I found was to let this file out of the TI Backup I keep on Dropbox.
You can do this by using one of the TI Backup options that let you see the size of your back ups, then just organize it by size and voila, you can easly find the culprit.
Now for the label thing, you could make a label with those files and another label for everything else and that way keep those files away from screwing with Dropbox sync.
The way to actually make these labels is using the label option WITHIN Titanium, not 3rd Apps
Where did you find this option? I cannot find the size of the backups..
I've just setup to go to google drive to see if that will work instead.
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I had this issue before too, I found out that the problem is when one of the backup files is bigger than 180ish MB.
the solution I found was to let this file out of the TI Backup I keep on Dropbox.
You can do this by using one of the TI Backup options that let you see the size of your back ups, then just organize it by size and voila, you can easly find the culprit.
Now for the label thing, you could make a label with those files and another label for everything else and that way keep those files away from screwing with Dropbox sync.
The way to actually make these labels is using the label option WITHIN Titanium, not 3rd Apps
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I have exactly the same problem so I 'solved' it with your lable idea. (I think - this is a very difficult place to mess around with!)
However, when a new app is installed it won't be in the label, right?
So, every new app will not be synchronised with Dropbox!
I wonder whose fault this is:
- Titanium cannot create/manipulate larger files synchronisation
- Dropbox refuses larger files (though it works from my PC!)
- Dropbox has only given Titanium the rights for files up to appr.180Mb
I also had problems with Titanium Backup failing to upload the backup data to the cloud with it's built in cloud backup feature. I scheduled the cloud backup to run once a day, but it fails very often. There was always another error coming up: Low battery (though battery is full charged), network error (my Wifi works flawlessly), internal errors etc. It finished successfully in only about 25 % of the cases. That is not really reliable - reliability beeing very important in respect of backups. So I found a solution, which I want to share with you: I dismissed the Titanium cloud backup schedule and set up the backup schedule with another app. The app is called "FolderSync", available in the playstore and it works superb.
Folder Sync clear winner
I have this problem about 9/10 times. Folder sync has been wonderful to use over the last week, no errors, highly recommend.
Is there anyway to backup everything (all settings, all apps, all data, home screens, shortcuts, BT pairings etc.) on GB and have it perfectly restored after a new OS version upgrade (ICS) ? I have been researching this on various sites but can't find a clear answer. I know if I root my Note I can create a NANDROID backup image. But when restored it restores the OS as well. Correct? Or is there a way to restore a NANDROID backup with out restoring the OS? Or will using Titanium or My Backup Pro accomplish what I'm asking for? THANX!
You are correct on nandroid, no way to do it without the OS. You will have to re set up all of your settings and bt pairings afaik. Titanium will restore all of your installed apps, but not how you had everything set up. As for texts, there are some SMS backup apps on the market. Some launchers also provide the ability to backup how you had them set up, but I'm not sure which ones, and if you're not using it currently it wouldn't do much good anyways. Also, if you're doing the update through kies, it will wrote everything off your phone, so be sure to transfer your photos to your computer before you do. Also, if you use titanium, you would have to transfer that file to your computer before using kies.
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Maybe I'm repeating this... Titanium does not keep the settings? I dont particularly like Titanium because I want to select my important apps and do a batch backup to my SD card. I want it to keep the settings and logins too. Then, when I get a new rom, I can load the app, settings, log ins and everything.
Is this not possible?
I use 128 bit passwords that are about 30 characters long, so I end up texting myself my AndroidMarket password and using the online market to push the apps to the phone over wifi. Then I use USB to copy over a KeePass database and load KeePass Droid to start setting all my logins for VOIP, emails, media apps, etc. since it has a notification bar user/pswd dropdown to copy. It is more time consuming than I prefer, it makes it impossible to really try new roms that often, keepass makes it at least bearable.
Would you care to tell me how people manage to use nightly builds and things of that nature while not spending hours plugging in all the settings?
Titanium restores app data.
The first batch of each sub section is what i use.
Backup:
Backup all user apps
Restore:
Restore missing apps with data
Theoretically you could backup all system data that appears with green txt I'm the list of programs in tibu, which would include things such as Wi-Fi password and bt pairings i believe.
but if you were to have issues by restoring that, because restoring system data can be funky sometimes, you'd have to factory reset and start over, so that part is up to you.
I don't do anything other than the batches i mentioned above.
If you are upgrading ICS from a stock GB then you won't lose your app, its data and contact.
But settings, home keys and shortcuts will be initiated.
I don't know how to back it up but I usually screen shot those and then just redo when I have a new rom installed.
Apart from missing call logs or text messages, am trying to figure out why I need to use Samsung SmartSwitch (setting up another new S21 and have setup previously another S21 and used SmartSwitch)
All apps used are on Google Sync and contacts are all on contacts.google.com for the accounts I primarily use.
What important or essential "stuff" will be missed by non-use of SmartSwitch and just letting Google restore "it's things" ?
This is what samsung backs up
So basically there is no value in SmartSwitch for my additional phone as Google itself has the important bits. It is no trouble to connect wifi for the office, home and bluetooth for car. Old messages are not important at all. Contacts all on Google.
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So basically there is no value in SmartSwitch for my additional phone as Google itself has the important bits. It is no trouble to connect wifi for the office, home and bluetooth for car. Old messages are not important at all. Contacts all on Google.
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Hi. I just used yesterday to change my old A8 to my new S21. I didn't have any trouble. Even my app layout on the screen were similar. I recommend you use it. No damage and it makes migration easier. Just remember to backup you whatsapp history before changing sim to the new phone. Then, when you open wap in the new, it will say that detected a backup and ask if you want to restore it.
Goog luck!
Have setup now several new S21 phones and have *not* used SmartSwitch. Nothing went missing and nothing was missed. All apps that mattered were handled by Google Drive/Docs/Sync. Some apps needed a re-identity verification which was simply password/text or email message for 2-step-auth
Will not continue to use SmartSwitch on any tablets or phones
do you guys know how to copy existing wifi passwords from an old not Samsung device to a brand new S21? during inital setup it doesn't ask to recovery from a google backup and smartswitch copies all but wifi settings
privateer00 said:
do you guys know how to copy existing wifi passwords from an old not Samsung device to a brand new S21? during inital setup it doesn't ask to recovery from a google backup and smartswitch copies all but wifi settings
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/86zkzf
Trust nothing.
Make backup hard copies of all critical data and store in at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other. A flash drive can be used too but it must be backed up by hdds. Verify the copies integrity and -do not- use cloning apks to copy, especially music databases (it can and will lose needed null data).
What's in the cloud isn't in your hand and can be lost forever. Let that sink in...
Plan ahead and backup now or you will lose data.
Google backup wastes a lot of battery backing things up and from there forward. Unfortunately if you have no SD card slot you lost your best backup tool.
As for SmartSwitch it probably will work but it could also drag with it issues from the old OS or fail to work. Have at least one other backup plan using hdds. Stagger doing backups between the hdds to minimize the chances of your database being compromised by malware.
$hit happens... count on it, otherwise sooner or latter the odds will catch up with your data.