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[General Questions and Answers] ascanio1:
Hi to everyone.

I am Tommaso, from Tokyo and I need help BIG time.

I backed up all my contacts on my SD card and deleted them from my phone.

When I restored them some "fields" were missing, amongst them "organization" which is vital for sorting: Now I get a long list of numbers (*) and then the remaining contacts sorted by name (correctly). (*) In these contacts the "organization", "Job Position" and others are missing while others as "notes" and numbers are still there.

When I try to send an email, and I try to look up an email address, instead of giving me a list of names, it opens File Expert, with a file address: fe://home and nothing else.

To back up I used Go Contacts (the stock app is disinstalled): export to SD card.

In theory, besides this original backup, I should also have a second back up with Titanium because it is set to backup & syncs with dropbox everything, every night. However, this happened last night and I forgot to freeze the image so I am afraid that tonight's back up might have replaced the correct version.

hTC Desire HD.

GB 2.3.5

Sense 3.5

CoreDroid 9.2 GB 2.3.5

I would really appreciate someone's help. You can imagine how dramatic it is, so TIA for any help.

Tommaso
[General Questions and Answers] noveron:
Idea

Why not first use the back up to restore your phone first then

Go ahead and check the things inside the back up

Sorry if i am wrong it sounds like you are actually checking the contacts on the back up itself rather than letting the phone restore the back up and then viewing the contents

if i am wrong sorry for the speculation

I would like to ask also try using other Apps to restore Back up and restore

I would ask also what is the file output that you have ?

for your back up ?
[General Questions and Answers] ascanio1:
Thank you for your post!

I did as you suggest: I physically restored the contacts to the phone.

Ok, I will try to install another app but it is unlikely anything will change: I backed up using Go Contacts so restoring with Go Contacts should have worked.

Go Contacts backup file is "vcf"

Titanium backup file I don't know what it's called or where to find it.

Tommaso
[General Questions and Answers] Harin Grewal:
Titanium Backup

Did you say that your Titanium Backup for the contacts was already overwritten?

If you have set up Titanium to backup your apps/data automatically on a schedule, you should preferably set the backup history to more than 1. This is in case there is an error in one of your apps, and the automatic backup saves the erroneous version, you can restore an older backup from the history. Otherwise, your last backup will also be corrupted.

If your think your Titanium Backup for Contacts is fine, you don't need to look for the contacts file separately. Just go into titanium backup -> clcik on the back/up restore tab on the top -> look for Contacts -> Click once -> Click on Restore.

Repeat the above for Contacts Storage.

Not sure if I addressed your problem.
[General Questions and Answers] ascanio1:
Thanks for your help!

I tried to restore from titanium back but I could only find GoContatcs. I cannot find "contacts storage". As I said, I have no idea if AND where GoContacts stores the contacts separately so i don't know which file to look for to restore.

I restored GoContacts (app+Data) but 0 contacts were restored.

Thanks for the tip. I am now setting Titanium BU to 2 backups. But I still need help!
[General Questions and Answers] ascanio1:
Restore ROM Manager Backup

If I restore a previously backed up ROM, will this include contacts?

To restore a previously backed up ROM, do I need to FIRST factory reset the device? Or does the restore simply overwrite my present ROM? Do I need any other precaution/procedure to restore a previous ROM?

Tommaso
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camspy:
I kid of didn't use much BT before, but somehow, because of good sound characteristics that will come out of SGS3 with the APT-X i'm thinking of using it for wireless listening to music.

I have read about a few BT headsets, so they usually use 6-10 hours of use between charges.

How much does the Bluetooth usage drain batteries of phones? Could you say your experience with SGS2 or other device? Can you use SGS2 for a day and then listen like 5 hours of music ove BT?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
looks like you'll have to work on the FE16 now ;p Thanks for the work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Just saw Calk's thread. Going to jump into!

Edit: just added FE10/FD26 Tweaks at second post.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] puff601:
Question: if im on calk's 1.5 with fe10 kernel/modem, i need to install the zip for calk's ROM right?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigpeng:
Good stuff, thanks!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick4mitch:
FE16 is out, thanks for this, it is appreciated it :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
That's right. It's based on Rom version and not Kernel.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] peterocc:
Just to 100% sure, if Im running Agat's tFE10_v0.1.0 Rooted, which of the 2 .zip files below should I run?

Also what is the difference between these 2 as they seem to be based on the same ROM version?

1) Kobridge_FE10_Tweaks_v2.4A.zip

2) Kobridge_FE10_Tweaks_v2.4M.zip
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
A - Aggressive power savings mode - slower than 2.4M but batter saving is huge

M - Moderate power savings mode - faster than 2.4A while still extending the battery life
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
I'm running Calks FD26 1.5 ROM, the aggressive tweak and had the 3 or so second lag before screen wake on an incoming phone call.

I only bring it up to get further input from other users running the aggressive tweak as I've only seen it reported once before. I'm going to stick with it to see how that issue goes since it only happened once so far with the new set of tweaks (and everything is going VERY well).

Please report any other issues as they occur for Kobridge please so he can address any ongoing problems. Cheers! TD
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
tdunham, thanks!

Since the script has been changed a little to fix that issue, please use the latest one in this thread. It would make your phone more responsive than previous tweak.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gershee:
hey kobridge,

here's a suggestion but I could be way off..

why not take the build.prop out of the flashable zip since it is version specific and instead just have it as a txt document with only the tweaks. and have the user paste it at the bottom of their current build.prop.

that way you wouldn't need to create flashable zips for each new leak..

maybe I'm just thinking about this all sideways..

I always just chop out tweaks from the build.prop of roms and have a big list that I paste at the bottom of the build.prop on any rom I use..

anyway, once again big thanks for your contributions kobridge.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
I've already considered that option but incorrect editing of build.prop could be a reason of boot loop.

What I'm thinking about is, we may need to separate the build.prop and any other tweaks. So, user can flash the other tweak files separately. For the build.prop, because it's rom dependant, I may need to create a new one each time while keeping the other tweaks same.

Definitely I'll think about this. Thanks for your suggestion, gershee!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] countryteazer:
Thanks Kobridge -- your battery tweaks are phenomenal! Looking forward to FE16!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Posted last screenshot from FE14 at OP - couldn't spend more time on FE14 because have to move on to FE16.

Too busy... FE10 -> FE14 -> FE16 in just couple of days. Maybe some of my tweaks are useless because none uses the previous ROM. Hope FE16 stay a little longer.:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gershee:
wish I could use all your init.d tweaks but I'm aosp for life..

I've included my build.prop tweaks.. basically I compiled a list of tweaks I was able to find about a month ago.. I think I may have incorporated your initial release not sure, but probably many redundancies. just thought I'd share.. I usually just jam this whole file at the end of the my new fresh build.prop..

can't give proper credit cause I went thread to thread reading about tweaks and then rom to rom checking out the build.prop..

so I guess thank you xda..

https://www.box.com/shared/969572e708315f41598b

EDIT:

oops.. I guess the purpose of this was to see.. well I dunna.. maybe see if there are more tweaks? :D

I know I haven't had any boot loops cause I keep my original build.prop from my rom and simple add/override certain settings..

just trying to help/contribute. :cool:

EDIT2:

they aren't all battery related tweaks.. just giving an idea..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Couple of things for AOKP users.

1. build.prop needs to be updated since because AOKP check the build information during the boot. Based on build info, if it's not AOKP, phone wouldn't boot.

2. 31CPU tweak need to be modified or should not be used because it's causing a boot loop.

I've posted all this information in my original thread - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1625299
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gershee:
1. yea i use my original build.prop and add tweaks to it.

2. yea I did independent testing on aokp and posted results 2 weeks ago in your thread here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25677347

pretty sure 41tweaks broke boot for me too but I guess I'll have to try once again!

thanks..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
One time, I tested it on AOKP build35. Because there's no way to check my tweaks on AOKP, I flashed AOKP to my phone and tested it out.

Build.prop and 31 tweak had the problem.

But again, currently I'm stick with stock based rom and I do not formally support AOKP or any other non-stock based ROMs.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] edlee:
I have alternated between V2.4A and v2.4M today on a Calk ICS V1.5 Rom

And I have to say this is awesome.

Before the tweaks I was averaging 2.5% dph on idle with 2-3 bars of EVDO, no wifi, gps on.

After tweaks I average 0.75% dph on idle with 2-3 bars EVDO, no wifi, gps on.

I noticed the V2.4M is alot more fluid when multitasking on the e4gt, while v2.4A will definitely give better battery since it usually sticks to 200mhz speed.

The attached screenshot was of V2.4M, with V2.4a it spends even more time in 200mhz mode than screenshot.

I cannot wait to use these tweaks on Calk's next ics build which should be 4.0.4 based, which hopefully gets even better battery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] CyberpodS2:
Is there an easy way to enable/disable this mod? I wanna check it out with and without in a few different scenarios.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
I've put the [Useful Hint] section in second post. Also, I added announcement area in OP to find a chance to create an APK to easily turn tweaks on and off.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m_reyna_16:
i installed the fe10 mod because i am on blukuban rom, and it erased my taskbar... did i do anything wrong? i just flashed in sfhub's kernel and thats it...

edit: this apparently also breaks the rom manager on the latest blu kuban rom! i flashed the agressive tweak
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] slick4mitch:
So, these tweaks you linked here, can we use them for CM9? I'd like to know since Im staying on that rom for a long term, thanks in advance for the replay ;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Which blu kuban rom are you using? As long as I know, it uses the stock based rom, right? could you show me the link of your blu kuban zip file, so I could make some check on that?

(so far, you are the first guy using blu kuban along with this tweak.)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] m_reyna_16:
sure...

this is the rom link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1625535

and this is the download link:

http://phucku.com/rujelus22/ICS/The_Blu_Kuban_1.0.3.3.zip
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
I remember that you asked me the same question on my different thread and my answer was same. So, you started working for your own build.prop based on my build.prop as long as I know (remember). That's the reason why the build.prop portion that you posted is almost same as mine.

I do not mind using any portion of my build.prop in any other place. Even for me, it took long time to collect the data and test those out. But if you publish something that is came from someone else's note or edition, I would really appreciate that if you say where it's coming from or originated... (IMHO)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
I think, you cannot use the build.prop file in this thread for blu kuban, because Blu Kuban uses customized build.prop based on blu kuban rom (hard to say it's stock based).

Any way, it has lots of tweaks on it and probably lots of portions are for Blu Kuban Rom only. I think If I take build.prop from blu kuban and apply it to stock rom, then the stock rom would not work just like stock build.prop does not work on blu kuban.

(it's hard to say or difine what is 'stock based rom'. But in my opinion, it means the compatibility with stock rom. Almost every Roms are stock based (started from stock rom and made some enhancement on it). So, personally, I define the words 'stock based' as compatibility with stock rom.

Can you please try just init.d scripts without replacing build.prop? I'm just curious.

Edit: Sorry Blu Kuban users. I spent couple of hours to check this Rom. It appears that Blu Kuban requires its own build.prop and there are lots of settings here and there. No one wouldn't able to support this rom except the Dev.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
I know that Ko already replied to this but if anyone needs to go back to stock, please let me know and I can provide a flashable zip. If the need is great enough, perhaps Ko will be kind enough to keep a few on the OP for that purpose as well.

(If the kernels come out any faster we're gonna need a bigger boat captain!) :D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Thanks TD. The doors are always opened!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] timdorr:
Is there an init.d-supporting FE16 kernel released yet? I can only find FE10.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Tewlman252:
If one were to flash these scripts without backing up the original files, would'nt a nandroid fix it by putting back the stock option?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tdunham:
Yes, it sure would.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
sfhub included his fe16 plus kernel in his fe16 rom thread. But actually you don't need init-d supporting kernel because I already included the portion that running the init.d script. So, if you're looking for the kernel only for to run init.d scripts, you don't need to flash the kernel. Init.d scripts run like a charm on the stock rom with my scripts.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gershee:
actually I gathered about 4 different sets of tweaks from the original codename thread where we had a discussion and comparison months ago. then I did some Googling and found threads with a lot of build.prop tweaks. I didn't bite your build.prop nor did I publish this anywhere but here, where I tried to explain the best I could that it was a hodgepodge of stuff I collected from various sources. but sure bro. thanks. once again.. your work is much appreciated.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
gershee, you deserved my thanks but unfortunately I'm out of it right now.

Thanks for your explanation my friend!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] thatdudepoops:
I flashed 2.4A over cm9 with only a system process stall. I do notice the response is slower. Will try 2.4M tomorrow

Edit: didn't notice cus I was on 4g but this breaks data, but wimax and wifi work

Sent from The son of Sammy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigpeng:
No, xda premium? :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
So, is there no limit if I use xda premium? How can I get it when I use my PC?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigpeng:
Yea unlimited on Xda premium, but yea not sure if you have option on PC, you're right. :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Just gave you +1. Working like a charm on my phone using premium!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigpeng:
Lol yea, i just thank people for the hell of it... hahahaha, but yea check out pic, lots of thanks by me on 1 post... I'm sure they disappear because it does say thanks denied after 1st thanks. Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Really good to know. Thanks bigpeng for the info. Ya, unfortunately I only got one +1. But your info is valuable for me and maybe equivalent with +10 or more....:D
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bigpeng:
Btw, supposed to look like this correct?

Seems to work well so far but on charge now. I'll let you know after battery drains from usage all day.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Wow, you've already flashed? All permissions look good!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
So far, best score for me on new FE16! (I'm only comparing with my previous battery usage history)

About 18hours and 80% remaining...

FE16 + Kobridge Tweak 2.4A + Wifi option Never (Always turn on wifi during screen off)

On screen time is minimal, Alarm turned, Email synch + a lot

Edit: I'm sure you'd get more. I mentioned that many times, I'm living in the area where the signal strength is very very low but no drop calls nor los (few times it went to roaming mode). So, with my tweak you'd get more at least if you do the proper tuning on your phone side along with tweak.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
op how good are you at hacking hotspot to work? i wanna work with someone on it cause tons of peeps are asking for it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
I was not been there yet! As you know there are couple of apps working on ICS but I really didn't need that before. Maybe that's the reason why...

I hope someone who is really kind, just like you, just pull out the hotspot portion from (Blu Kuban, Calk's or Blazer, etc) and make it available for any Roms.

The problem is, I know there are already some people who knows everything about this, but they are just pulling it and make it available for just specific Roms and not providing it for common purpose.

There are still many things that we need to work together for our common wealth!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Kebetz:
I give UP! Damn, never thought I'd drunk text xda... next thing you know I won't be calling her again due to some unexpected news from the doctor..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
well im close to getting it, i have a zip of FE07 now that was a request so im trying to get FE16 done but these leaks keep coming and i keep jumping to next leak. i will pm ya to share as you like if i get finished today. least i have FE07 if anybody needs it. lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamice4u:
Will you make a version for the hydra ROM it really needs this tweak.

If I helped you out in any way please thank me. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] gershee:
+1

agreed!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
me, did you ask the op? if you mean me lemme flah his rom and try one i have ready now that i just zipped up, i need 15min to dl his rom and set it up but i wil pm ya results.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
yes, please. I know this is a dumb question but isn't it possible to make it Rom/kernel/modem independent?

Just like other roms, I'll check it out. please show me the thread/link where I can download the zip file.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamice4u:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1641641

Here you go and thanks for the reply.

If I helped you out in any way please thank me. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] darren.wlsn1:
think im little confused, you want hotspot hack for linked rom or is op getting you something?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamice4u:
I want the OP to do the battery saving tweaks for the hydra ROM. This ROM is the best tablet ROM for the epic touch 4g. The battery life on this ROM sucks but it is very stable. The OP told me to provide a link to the ROM.

If I helped you out in any way please thank me. Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Here is the flashable zip file for your rom.

This file is not tested, so do it with your own risk. Any other users, do not use this zip file! You've been warned!

jamice, try flashing it as you do normally - i think your rom flashed thru EL 26 CWM recovery, right? So, do it like that because I extracted files based on HyDrA flashable zip file.

One thing, 31 tweak file disabled because it's known as causing boot loop on AOKP/AOSP.

Make sure that you have the nandroid backup before flashing this zip file. If it's causing a boot loop, have to go back to recovery and recover your system with nandroid backup.

Again, any other users, do not use this zip file!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
Interim Update:

Passed 24 hours and 72% left. On screen time is about 30 min. 3G turned on always during the sleep mode.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamice4u:
Yep, my phone is doing the boot loop thing. I flashed the zip file and followed it up with the FE16 Kernel.

Hold on!! My phone reached the lockscreen. It took about 5 minutes or more to reach the lockscreen but, it finally booted up. I will report back about the battery life. My phone boot up time was very, very, very slow. The Rom it self feels very sluggish. My phone feels 2 or 3 times slower with this tweak.

Overall I believe this is a good start. Getting this bad boy to start up after 5 minutes without any testing and on the first try is very impressive.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
During the first boot, my tweak will try to zipalign all of your /system /data APKs. So, that's right, it takes really long time depending on what you have.

After that, there's no reason the phone is slow down 2 or 3 times. Try to reboot and check the next boot time, it would be quite fast than first time because all APKs are already zipaligned. You may feel a litttle slow but not that much.

If it's slow about 2 or 3 times again, there's something wrong.

The only difference that you can notice is Max CPU speed from 1.2Ghz to 1.0Ghz and a little lag time based on the tweaks that I provided you.

Please report back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jamice4u:
Well I noticed that 63% of the time my phone is running at 200 MHZ, 32% it is running at 500 MHZ and 3% it is running at 1,200 MHZ. This probably explains the sluggishness and the slow boot up times. My battery is at 78% when it get to 100% I will unplug it and then the real test will begin. My boot time range from 2 mins to 8 mins. I do have a 64 GB sdcard which probably explain why it takes my phone so long to boot up.

Okay I reflashed this tweak. I wipe my partition cache, my dalvik cache, my battery stats and fix my permissions. I first flashed the Kernel and then the tweak and it booted up a lot faster this time around in about 2 mins. It is also doing the android upgrade thing which it did not do the last time.

This time my phone booted up in 3 minutes but later reset and took about 10 mins.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] kobridge:
So far, sounds good but I just imagine because I never used your rom before.

Please report back to your battery life and experience. If everything is fine, I'll create an another flashable zip file for all other same rom users.

Edit: Like I mentioned before, one tweak file is not running for your rom because there were some reports that saying it's causing a boot loop. So, I stopped running that script for your rom (it's not exact same rom but it was AOKP build35). I'm not sure it's going to run on your rom or not until we test it out (I'm not asking you to test it out).

I reason why I'm saying this is, because one script is not running, your rom is going to run based on default OnDemand governor configuration with some of changes based on my tweak and couldn't get the full benefit of my tweaks. But I still believe you'll see lots of better or improved things based on my tweak - something like huge battery savings, better performance in several areas (you may not notice the difference or you may experience some lag time because my tweaks still try to save the battery as much as possible). So, while you're getting about the same performance (or with little lag time), if you could get the lots of battery savings, that means that you're a winner! - IMHO