I rooted my photon a while back and removed a few stock apps. If I do a master reset, will these deleted stock apps be restored?
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To make a short story long...I've been having a problem with my launcher freezing up after the screen has been off for several hours or longer (I haven't figured out why yet) and I have SBF'd and done a master reset (Settings, Privacy, Factory Data Reset) in the last day or so.
SBF retained my data and installed apps and restored lost stock apps. And Factory Data Reset, as the name implies, wiped all data and installed apps, but does not appear to have restored the deleted system apps.
If you have used TiBu or an equivalent app to freeze a system app it should return after a factory reset. If you delete them, it does it does just that. When you do a factory reset if you do not wipe and/or format /data, cache, and system there may be traces of your old setup left behind. If you've had issues and leave traces you may still have them after restore.
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i dont think u can
i deleted some stock apps using root explorer like the default browser and never got it back whenever i did a phone reset. just a question mark
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I'm running veganTAB 5.1.1 at the moment. I've installed a lot of apps, have some documents stored locally, a lot of data in springpad as well as a good number of media files.
I know switching to the ginger edition requires a wiping data. I have titanium back and ran a full backup of apps and data.
What I'd like to know is the best way to go about restoring my apps and app data and whether I'll be deleting any locally saved files when I "wipe data". I guess i'm not clear whether wiping data means wiping everything, like a reformat, or if it means a specific menu option in clockwork.
I'm a bit of a noob at this still. I have reflashed roms a couple of times but at the time I didn't have a lot of stuff to worry about saving and I'm not sure whether I wiped more than I needed to.
A data wipe will erase user installed applications, their associated data, and system data (but not system apps). It will not harm files stored on sdcard or sdcard2.
Does restoring the apps through titaniumbackup work? I seem to recall trying that once and the app didn't work until I uninstalled it and redownloaded from the market. Maybe I did it wrong.
Restoring apps and data should work. Do not restore system data or you will have trouble. It is quite possible that you'll have to reinstall Titanium Backup to make it work correctly. I've had to do that once or twice when changing ROMs.
Smooth and easy, not sure what I was worried about. Thanks.
I just did the same thing and had real good luck with app mybackup, I just backed up the apps and no data and it worked perfect. Gingerbread was very nice roms. But it seemed the more programs you load the longer it takes to boot. At first it booted in a few secs. Then I did my restore of all my apps and it took like 5 min to boot all the time. Not sure what that was about.. But I switched back to TNT.
I have sold my Gtab to a friend and want to keep all my downloaded app's .
I can move them to the SD card and do a data wipe in CWM and it will remove my personal data like passwords and facebook ,, gmail account ?
and still keep my apps ?
Thanks
I'm getting a really weird error and I can't figure out how to fix it.
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The application Google Search (process com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.
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Anyone have any ideas?
sounds like you either had a bad flash, or you restored system data with titanium backup.
back up the stuff you need, go into cwm recovery, and do a wipe data/factory reset. you will have to set everything up again, but this should take care of your force closes.
if you continue to get force closes, then try to re-flash the ROM you are on (after wiping data/factory resetting).
Is there any way to fix this without re-flashing? I spent a ton of time tweaking everything to get what I wanted and would have to re-do everything.
you could try settings > applications > manage applications > all > google search > clear data
i'm far from 100% positive that google search is the process that is force closing... and even if that is the correct process, i'm not sure that this will permanently solve your problem, but i think it is worth a shot. i think this will clear all of the data from your google search widget, which i assume is what you are trying to use when you get the error.
let me know if it works!
Thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a try, but still no luck. Any other ideas?
When are you getting the error, are you using the Google search widget?
Did you try backing up and wiping cache/factory reset as other user suggested? When restoring with TuBu restore MISSING apps only.
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I only get the error when I try using the Google Search function - either with a homescreen widget, or by pressing the hardware search key on the device.
So, what you're suggesting is that I back up my current rom/settings using Titanium Backup, wipe cache / factory reset with CWM, then restore the backup using Titanium, but for missing apps?
That would give me my current setup, but with any missing system apps?
Fix Permissions and wipe cache/dalvik (both in CWM) - if those fail, time to wipe data and restore your apps in TiBu.
Thanks for your suggestion, Entropy. I reset permissions and wiped both caches, but still have the same issue.
I think what is causing this is that I deleted the system app "ApplicationsProvider.apk", which appears to be related to the Google Search app. I previously tried to restore the file manually using Root Explorer and my original backup and I don't think it fully restored.
Could I use Titanium to restore this file if I've never made a backup with Titanium?
If you never backed it up, then you can't restore it. You could do a google search for the .apk, or else you can see if someone on these forums will pull theirs off of their phone and upload it for you. But you're really better off wiping and starting over at this point.
I have that apk from my original CWM backup before I loaded Cyanogen. I tried to restore using Root Explorer, but it doesn't seem like it "took".
It shows up in my system applications area in SystemApp Remover. But, when I try to delete it again using the program I get an error: "Application not found. The application was not found in the list of installed applications."
Any ideas?
On Wednesday I started getting random FCs on a bunch of programs. I uninstalled all apps from the last few days and then switched from Entropy's DD to the plain kernel with CWM, and that seemed to fix it.
Then today I got the dropbox beta for some free extra space, and now I'm getting FCs on a bunch of unrelated apps. I've uninstalled dropbox, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and tried switching kernels, but nothing is fixing it.
Is there any option other than factory reset? And if I do that, I want to keep my apps/data... I have MyBackup Root. My understanding is that backs up my apps, their associated data, and then also my call logs, sms messages, etc, and then I'll be able to restore them on the fresh install. Is there anything else I'd want to be backing up? Also if I'm going to do a factory reset, I'm thinking of trying shostock. Would MyBackup be able to restore all of my apps to a different rom?
Also I'm on stock 2.3.4.
Whatever programs are force closing, have you tried going into Settings, applications and clearing the cache/data for those programs?
Yeah, they still force close.
You could also grab ROM manager from the market and try using that to fix permissions. might be a long shot, but a try prior to a full wipe.
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In retrospect I could have done that from CWM recovery I think, but I ended up just doing a full wipe and installing SHOstock and haven't had any problems yet. Hopefully it'll stay this way..
If I have apps that I have moved into the system partition, will they survive a factory reset?
For example I took Facebook, Rom Toolbox pro and Yahoo mail and converted them to system apps using Rom toolbox pro. I checked with root explorer and they are all in the /system/app folder now.
So, If I do a normal factory reset using the option under settings, will those apps be there afterwards?
They should. Factory reset should only wipe data and caches.
Thank you
Thank you very much.
or cause problems (ie missing sim card) even after a factory reset of custom ROM?
i. What does crossed out mean in TI?
ii. How do I delete an app I don't need anymore off the TI list? swiping to the left and delete it only changes it so there is 'no backup' I want to make it easy to batch restore without deselecting too many things selectively...anyone?
Can't hard brick from that, but definitely could soft brick or cause other odd issues. Factory reset does not return your phone to stock, but rather just removes your accounts, settings, and data. So, if you remove a system app that is essential, a factory reset will not help. As someone who has flashed 1000++ roms (not kidding), I recommend only freezing the apps and not removing. You do not get any extra space from removing the apps as they are stored in a different partition than the apps you add from the Play Store or other means. However, system apps updated through the Play Store will store some data in the /data partition, and if you are not going to use that then it helps to uninstall the update through the Application Manager, and then disabling the app. It's also way easier to defreeze vs reinstall system apps.
Crossed out means that the app is not installed and there is no backup for it. Once you uninstall an app and it's backup, the app will not be available to restore when you go to do a batch restore. As far as only being selective, just make sure that you uncheck the ones you don't need when you make the initial backup. It is not recommended to backup / restore system data, especially when you are switching roms.