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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoboDad:
Bottom line, you can't get there from here.

Anything that has been copied to your PC through Zune (photos, videos, music) can be copied back to your new phone. Also, anything that is already stored in the cloud will still be available. But anything that is solely on your phone (app/game settings & saves, SMS messages, documents created by apps that don't support cloud storage, etc), will be permanently lost.

Microsoft does not provide (or even allow for) any mechanism to make a transferable backup of your device.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JustinTV773:
yea that was productive...NOT!!! go somewhere. Anyway u can't make a backup of one device and transfer it to another but u can reinstall all ur apps from the web marketplace and resync all media once reconnected to Zune. Text messages and game saves will be gone unless the games get updated for cloud saves.

Sent from my T7575 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottSUmmers:
any chance of using that custom backup tool and then forcing a restore backup? I know the backups that Zune makes before an update store everything (sms, apps, contacts)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
The backup is just like a Image backup in your Windows, which means any changes after the backup is voided if you restore.

What we want is, a working backup that can backup our precious data like SMS, apps data, etc... so that we can quickly restore it after we reseted our phone or switching to a new phone...

Cheers~
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottSUmmers:
No but that's what I'm getting at. If this guy has a new phone, in theory, he'd just have to load the image of backup over the new phone's OS. Unless, Windows Phone freaks out over hardware changes like Windows does
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
To further your knowledge, each backup are encrypted and unique to each phone by reading the device ID and which only restorable to that specific device.

Yeah, means if you switch to new phone, your old phone backup cannot transfer to the new phone
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ohgood:
you're taking a loyalty to a phone far too seriously here mate.

wp7 could benefit from real, full os imaging, just like -any- digital device that reads/writes zeros and ones could.

imaging a device has aboslutely zero security risk, to the owner, developer of applications, or to the market (hardware) place. the unique device ID (hardware) is enough to ensure software piracy is kept at bay.

its a huge plus to the consumer:

at 3am the phone automagically images it's entire self to microSD, and deletes the oldest past 3 backups, saving two.

sms, gamesaves, offline documents, offline settings, CALL LOGS, and system updates are all in a safe, convenient place.

then just mount the microSD to your computer and copy over the phone images to your computer or encrypt and upload to a secure server.

this means destroying a phone is only a hardware loss. within 10 minutes of recieving a new piece of hardware the entire phone could be as it was before whatever damaged the previous.

how people see this as something that isn't needed is beyond me.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ScottSUmmers:
Ah gotcha. Didn't know that.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumpaywk:
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I totally agree. I love wp7 and will fight its corner against anything to anyone however if something is missing and needed its still missing and needed! This is one of them things just like vpn. I am 4 days from upgrading to the lumia 800 and i hate the fact i will lose all my game saves esp as some are working towards xbox live points. As i said you cant pretend something isnt needed just because its not there, this is a real shame. To me though it is like loveing my son but i do hate it when he screams at me cos i didnt give him my malteasers. Dont mean i love him any less but i would hope they sort it out. Or ay least give me some malteasers.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weijoon:
Glad that I can help. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotnikkelz:
The most we can do at this point is VOTE UP that feature in the windows phone feature suggestion page and MAYBE microsoft will implement it. That feature has a ****load of votes, cannot remember link. The idea is quite good.

The reason the dude commented on your post was because your initial post did absolutely NOTHING to help the OP, it only satisfied your urge to bash the platform :-/

Very unproductive.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sarathvenmony:
so no way to restore from old phone ..............hmmmmm
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] </travis>:
What if Microsoft made a feature like the ones found in Windows, the Easy Transfer wizard? They could whip up a feature in Windows Phone settings as "Easy Transfer" and let the user choose how they will transfer the files and settings (wallpaper, sms, system settings, as in ALL including synced emails) from the old phone to the new one, either wifi, or at least bluetooth. EVERYBODEH HAPPEH :D
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoodDayToDie:
I wrote a data backup app for HTC phones a while ago, but nothing for Samsung yet because Heathcliff74 hasn't released a tool for getting filesystem access (like his WP7 Root Tools app does) to other devs yet. No guarantee it'd be immediatley usable anyhow though, since the Focus S seems to use different high-privilege DLLs than the first-gen phones so all our current high-privilege apps (registry editing and provxml and all) don't work yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] newtype311:
just found a way to get my apps back on my Focus S

Its not quite the end all fix,

but I just bought a focus S and wanted to transfer my apps from my old focus, of course the marketplace doesn't show that I own those apps on my new phone and there's no way to transfer them in Zune, but you can do it through the windowsphone site.

if you log into your windowsLive ID at WindowsPhone.com theres an option to reinstall apps from your purchase history. you just select the phone you want to transfer to, and then you select the app or game and then it sends you a text message to reinstall the app.

its not the greatest way, but atleast you dont have to buy all the stuff over again
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisliphart:
Attempting to repurchase an app will simply tell you you've purchased it before and install it for free. So the market doesn't tell you what you've bought before, but there's no risk of repurchasing either.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kapybarus:
last night my battery in wildfire was drain from around 50% to 2 % over the night. previous days i observe nothing strange about battery draining. Strange is that i didn t change anything or install any other app.

Rom: cyanogen mod 7 last stable release.... no 3g network, data connection or wifi during the night.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergiorg222:
I dont know why, but you may install autokillet who dont let at the phone use so much memory
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scratch0805:
Task killers give a placebo effect, don't get me wrong they do what they say they do but in my eyes most apps use the most resources when first starting so is it really better to have an app start then be killed then start again and repeat this process over and over and over again, I think not.

If I was you I'd keep an eye over the next few days to see if it persists, give the phone a reboot before shutting it down for the night to clear out any apps that may be lingering in the background.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kapybarus:
so i have made clean install of cm 7 last stable and calibrate battery. yeasterday before going to sleep i charged buzz to 100%. I tryed something( installing beatiful widgets and putting 4x2 clock with weather on my screen) and morning the battery was drained to 44%.no data network connection during night.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sol_671:
Your widget needs to be configured , it would keep trying to update you're weather every hour or whatever when there's no data available causing more battery drain.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhbakerstreet:
Sorry to disturb, i'm no specialist, but is GPS on? sweep notification bar down and see.

(GPS is on my Wildie allways activated, if i play on a new nightly)

Maype thats a problem.

I think 3G/BT/Wlan is out.

I`m on nightlies and i have no battery drain.

Please do not hurt me, if 'm wrong.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcos:
Well first thing you should look into is apps like facebook, twitter, beautifull widgets and check their sync settings.

Second is to turn off GPS, WIFI, Mobile data

If they are ok, you can try with http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
.... where you're doing anything with your phone while it's plugged into the Computer via USB cable, and the connect screen constantly pops up.

It does it on ALL of them, too. Even the Stock ROM, while I was on it a few minutes ago......

Friggin' aggravating!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Could be a driver issue, though I wouldn't know, as I don't run sense. :p Personally...not that I can't stand it, just lacks the performance of aosp.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going back to AOSP, too.

Wonder if VaelPak is still doing AOSP Roms
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teh roxxorz:
Hmm I wouldn't know. Not that I have seen as of late.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FOXRacing83:
I have gone back and forth with Sense ROMs, but I have finally found my daily driver. Prime XL 3D is by far the most Snappy Sense ROM that i have ever flashed and it is still only just out of the Beta stages. Currently on RC3. This Sense 3.5 ROM is sick!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Yeah, that looks like a good one to try out, too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhxkinMassacre:
I heard Tommytomatoes classic sense is stable as all hell and has some decent battery. Might want to look into that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Thanks, but I'm addicted to 3.5 now lol

Anyhow, like I said, it even did it when my phone was stock

I notice that most of the time it happens when I'm using Titanium Backup, My Backup Pro or while trying to sync to my computer, although it does pop up at other times, too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhxkinMassacre:
Might be that the charging/data port on your phone is a little loose. Does it charge fine? If your under warranty try to get a replacement or just open it up your self and see if it is loose.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Nah, it charges fine. And it only does it on Sense ROMS
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggsack:
Its not the rom its the chord.

Why blame it on sense? Your usb plug on computer is probably a little loose.

Wtf guys? Why do people blaming everything on sense?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Umm, because, like I said over and over, it only happens when I run Sense ROMS. I ran MIUI for the last 5 months til Thursday and it never happened one time, except when I'd flash back to my stock/rooted ROM to update Profile, etc....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bkrodgers:
It's still possible it's your cable. CM7 just doesn't have that popup, and MIUI may not either. The connection still might be getting broken, it's just not as intrusive as the popup window you have on Sense.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggsack:
Exactly, wtf? Use a different chord AND/OR USB slot on ur puter, if it still does it, blame sense!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
OMG, I've already done all that. It's not the chord or the USB Connection, ffs.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhxkinMassacre:
Just had a brainstorm. You prolly tried this already but ill say it anyway. is it perhaps that your computer is putting the usb port (on comp) to sleep due to inactivity? I know my laptop used to do that as a battery saving measure until I disabled it. I'm determined to figure this out haha
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Not bad idea, but noting on my computer is set to sleep at any time, and it happens almost as soon as I plug it in.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
update or downgrade ur HTC drivers sounds like a driver conflict to me also update ur pc's usb drivers

---------- Post added at 04:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:00 AM ----------

sorry to be more. clear first update the pc's usb driver then depending on if you're running a newer sense or older sense upgrade or downgrade the HTC drivers accordingly update for newer sense downgrade for older sense I had a similar issue and it was my driver wasn't properly reading my phone cuz I was on original driver but a newer rom
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I just reformatted 2 weeks ago.

Look, if it was the chord or connection, it would have happened when I ran AOSP Roms, but it didn't, including large file transfers, like when I'd reformat my card and move everything back again.

With Sense, the connection drops just moving a ROM to the SD Card
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] internetpilot:
I've only run Sense ROMs on my Evo (had too many problems with basic things not working on AOSP) , and I've never...ever...had this problem. Never seen the problem reported before in any Sense ROM thread, especially not reports of this occuring on a stock Evo. Pretty sure you're problem is your hardware or configuration -- probably on your computer. The reason why it occurs for you only in Sense ROMs is probably because you have HTC Sync running.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Actually, could be. After I reformatted my computer last week, I used HTC Sync to install my drivers and never uninstalled it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
try my suggestions of changing drivers upgrade or downgrade depending on sense Rom if its newer try a newer driver if its an older stock Rom try an older HTC driver and make sure ur usb driver for ur pc is up to date sometimes u have to go to the manufactures website for the actual usb port to get a driver and not thru win update or a repo if ur running Linux

---------- Post added at 10:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:16 AM ----------

oh and typically u wanna use a rest facing usb port and not one on the front if its a desktop I've found htcs drivers sometimes dont like front ports cuz they are typically a 1.0 or 2.0 port and rear are 3.0
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I use one on the mother board itself, now, but I should note that I have zero problems when I connect via USB Toggle in Recovery.

Uninstalling HTC Sync didn't fix it :(
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
sounds like you may need to change ur HTC driver to match ur sense Rom if its a hybrid try an updated driver or a driver for the phone the Rom is based off of if its stock sense try an older gb HTC.driver I have 4 or 5 diff drivers I swap depending on the Rom my stock driver I started with didn't like to connect on synergy for anything but charging I was pulling my SD and putting it in a reader til I figured out my drivers weren't reading the phone right
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leylomo:
try installing different radio/pri/nv combinations
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Green_Arrow:
if your interested in trying out AOSP Roms/Kernels check out the link in my sig ^_^
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Thanks Green, but I've run AOSP for the last 6 months, exclusively and I think I could probably re-write your guide lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Green_Arrow:
well if you have any suggestions for my guide i'd be more than happy to take it ^_^
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
I'll take a look at it.

Truth is, I haven't even read it yet
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Green_Arrow:
oh... ok ^_^
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cohassetsteve:
Another happy user of [ROM] The EVO Classic v0.0.4 - Sense 1.0 Redefined - Harmony
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] malickie:
Anyone else getting atrocious Benchmarks on this device?

I will include some that I just did. Be interested to see other's results.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] DUTCH Van Atlanta:
I've seen at least two side by side comparisons between the Vivid and the Galaxy Skyrocket; and the Vivid definitely plays second fiddle to it, too.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] randrewm97:
roms play a big role in scores. htc roms are some of the most graphical. try on a less graphical rom like samsung is using and it will prolly be pretty close imo
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] dusty2422:
Probably doesn't help that we're underclocked to 1.2 GHz stock. Once we have root and can overclock back up to 1.5 GHz+ results should be more respectible.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] pside15:
Do people actually care about benchmarks?

My opinion is that they mean basically nothing. Having a great benchmark doesn't always mean great results in everyday use.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] malickie:
In every day usage yea doesn't really matter considering I played with the Samsung Skyrocket at the store and the UI Stuttered and this one runs quite smooth. Yea I can't wait for the custom kernels so we can actual get the Real Speed out of this CPU considering if I recall the Samsung is the same exact chip just clocked up to 1.5ghz so my guess is we should actually probably be able to get this phone slightly faster than 1.5ghz considering it is underclocked unless samsung out of the box OC'd the chip which would mean lot's of returns. Either way can't wait to see some optimized Sense and Custom kernels and see what this thing can really do. I also keep forgetting our pixel resolution is quite a bit better which most likely is effecting part of the scoring.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] nkd:
Why the hell would a manufacturer OC a chip? These chips are designed to run at 1.5 ever since qualcomm showed these chips, HTC decided to underclock these to 1.2ghz because of may be battery reasons.

This phone leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to smoothness, my dad has an evo 3d and for some reason that rom seems to run much smoother than this phone, it seems like this rom is lacking in that department. I am sure it is software given they are using exact same hardware. The phone is smooth but not as smooth as the evo 3d. I would root this thing in a heartbeat when root is available.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] ClippinWings:
I think you may have a bad unit... this phone is as smooth as any I have seen...

not a stutter to be found... AT ALL.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] id10terrordfw:
Benchmarks are for the most part useless. Proof attached from my old Captivate.

(Also, I forgot to screen cap it, but Nenamark 1 hit 63fps on this phone as well)

SOTP is all that matters.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] malickie:
The wonders of OC and optimization eh.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Simba501:
How does the device actually feel? Felt pretty smooth when I briefly played with it. I wish people would put less weight in benchmarks.

Sent from my Galaxy S2
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] malickie:
It is quite smooth actually. I have never actually noticed any slow downs at all as opposed to other people. Plus we more than likely once it is rooted will get the cpu OC past the actual Stock speed the processor is supposed to be so that should make things that much smoother. Granted at the expense of battery life but still if you UC when the screen is off you shouldn't feel it too badly unless you are Constantly on the phone in which case you would probably want to UC it when the screen is on too.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] nkd:
no I dont have a bad unit. I never said it stutters, I just said that the rom doesn't feel as clean as it should be. I don't have any stutters what so ever, I just hate the scroll lag sometimes.
[HTC Amaze 4G] nguyendqh:
I just want some confirmation here (after reading every possible thread on it)

Is there a fix/solution or way around the tethering and wifi hotspot.

Before I go and upgrade my line for this phone I want to make sure that I can use Wifi Hotspot.

I am currently on the MT4G and can't live without hotspot.

I am not the only one who connects to my phone for internet.

I definitely need to know that it will work without me having to pay extra for tethering AND wifi hotspot.

Please let me know if you can personally confirm that you got both tethering AND wifi hotspot working.

Thanks a lot guys.
[HTC Amaze 4G] 338lm:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=19100841&postcount=39

working for me
[HTC Amaze 4G] ws6nightcat:
It works for most people but not all, a definite solution for everyone is being worked on
[HTC Amaze 4G] Binary100100:
This is a duplicate thread.

Closing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] devlmaycry81:
Does anyone have the call of android boot animation with sound for the galaxy s II? I can't seem to find one thats compatable. I have it rooted and flashed with entropy and have a custom boot installed, but I can't seem to find the COA one that works.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Download the bootanimation.zip located in the Attached Files section at the bottom of this post. It is formatted 800 x 480 which is correct for our phones. Copy to your sdcard and then use a root file manager such as root explorer to copy it into the /system/media directory. You may want to rename the bootanimation.zip that is already there so you don't overwrite it. Root explorer is a paid app. Super Manager by GPC includes a free root file explorer is you need one.

For the boot sound, the author provides an mp3 file. Our phone uses PowerOn.wav in the /system/etc directory. So I converted the mp3 to wav which you can download here. (dropbox - click to listen, right click and Save file as to download) Transfer this wav file to the /system/etc directory and you will hear the sound with the boot animation. The only problem is that there seems to be a limit of about 7 seconds on the boot sound. The whole sound file is there, but the phone only plays the first part of it. On my phone, the sound stops about 1 or 2 seconds before the animation stops.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] HTC Chris:
This boot animation is sick, hope it gets properly ported soon :D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Airisire:
How can be the camera focus and shutter sound be silenced? I tried rooting the device and creating a local.prop file in data folder in root as for Galaxy SII but without results. Any hint appreciated!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc6500uk:
Just turn the volume down before you launch the camera app - the volume control controls the zoom level when the camera is launched.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aussiebum:
Delete/rename Camera_Shutter.ogg in the /system/media/ui/ folder?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IcyAirs:
Close, but not quite. /system/media/audio/ui/Shutter_01.ogg is the one. Thanks for the hint, wouldn't have found it so quickly without it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Airisire:
Thank you
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wingod513:
Without rooting, how can I silent the shuttle sound from taking camera and video? Silencing the phone is not working for me.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GSeeker:
thanks!

but where is the focus sound? you know when the camera does auto-focus it makes sound.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jason370:
that worked, i added "(off)" to the file name , in case i ever want to turn it back on, i can always delete the "(off)" part.

thanks!

jason
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenninaz:
i tried using es explorer or super manager but am unable to delete/rename the ogg file.... any idea why? i have enabled ROOT under the menu settings...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Souai:
go into settings, sound and tap volume and set the media volume to 0, see if that works for you.