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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
So isn't there any program that it can do a complete backup of any android phone WITHOUT rooted or sing into google?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cwhitney24:
Not that I'm aware of. What are information are you trying to back up?

"I love my Springfield XD40"
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
Everything so even the mobile doesn't open at all i can restore it and recovered at the position it was when i was make the backup.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cwhitney24:
O...nope. your definitely going to have to root to have access to that.

"I love my Springfield XD40"
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] captaindyson:
firstly you need root for any significant backup, withought it the best thing i would sujest is connecting your phone to a computer and just copy everything over, that will save most apps and things. But even with root i am not aware af any comprehensive backup app because there is so much to backup: ROM, Kernel, Contacts, Data, Apps as well as different locations where they are: OS storage, internal SD and external SD.

despite this i have found helpfull combinations of:

App Backup & Restore

Mobile Backup II

MyBackup Root

Titanium Backup

ROM Manager

some need root, some don't and some are partialy limited without root, but all were helpfull and have saved my rear a few times :rolleyes:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thronnos:
There is a way. Bring a storage device like a thumb drive and go into a sprint store or a radio Shack. They have machines (cellebrite) that can backup contacts pictures video and sd contents. Or you can do it yourself buy pushing everything to dropbox.

Shifted from Outer Space
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devlogic:
Yeah, that's not "everything". If you want EVERYTHING backed up on your phone, you're going to need root. Normal "copy everything off of the SD card" doesn't get you things like app data or preferences/settings (like ringtone and notification tone settings, as two out of a thousand possible examples).

Now, if your device has fastboot enabled and you have an on-hand recovery image, you can likely

fastboot boot recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-crespo4g.img

(make appropriate substitutions for your on-hand recovery image file and device), and then do a nandroid backup from there. Aside from the data written to your storage device (on-device or SD card), that shouldn't permanently modify your system in any way.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
With the titanium backup that it work ONLY on a rooted mobile we can make A FULL COMPLETE BACKUP of any android mobile.

And when i am saying full complete backup i mean(Rom, kernel, apps, settings e.t.c.) ALL the things that it has the mobile this time.

And after a change of rom or kernel i can restore ONLY the apps and settings to the changed rom/kernel?

A LOT OF THANKS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj92942000:
TB doesn't backup kernel and its settings, widgets placed on homescreen, and certain system apps when you reflash same Rom. Only one way is a android backup which is same as an image backup in windows.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
So there isn't any program that backups EVERYTHING so you can restore it by choice everything you want....

Clockwork doesn't do a COMPLETE FULL BACKUP of any mobile?

I search one program that can make a A COMPLETE FULL BACKUP of any android mobile device like samsung galaxy s2.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dxppxd:
Clockwork backs up your entire system. Including apps installed to sd card, but it won't backup info on your sd card normal storage (the one you can use a usb mass storage).

clockwork nandroid backup+regular backup of sd card = full backup of everything on your phone.

Of course, successful restore of the backup without modifications will only work in phones with the same model (no restoring a gingerbread backup of an htc device to an ics samsung device for example)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
So clockwork can make a FULL COMPLETE BACKUP of entire monbile into an external usb har disk corrrect?

Then you can restore ONLY the apps if you install a custom rom to the mobile or the restore must be a complete and not a part of it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rignfool:
A 'nandroid' which is done with clockworkmod or twrp or amon-ra is a complete backup...

Titanium backup does an app by app backup...

Titanium backup will also let you open the backup and pick out apps to restore if you use clockworkmod or twrp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RatusNatus:
Yes but not to a USB hard disk. You can chose from internal or externa SD card.

After that you can move it line any other file.

Pretty comon on flashaholics. They try a ROM and a few minutes later flash his entire system(nandroid backup) back.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
What is the twrp.

And the complete system backup you do with clockwork can toy restore ONLY the apps from this backup to a custom rom or kernel that may you have installed at the mobile like samsung galaxy s2?

Where is the clockwork and titanium backup topics so i ask here to.

A LOT OF THANKS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj92942000:
One more time .. recovery=clockworkmod and does a backup equivalent to an image file in windows. You can save backup to pc, flash other roms and restore your user apps+data from titanium backups and start using. If not happy, restore cwm backup and it'll be exactly how you had it before. Do a nandroid backup, transfer to pc and look inside using winrar, 7zip etc and you'll see what it saves.

When flashing different roms you may or may not restore data from apps via TB as certain data may affect stabily, each custom rom lets you know. For TB best to gooble search their site for guide, troubleshooting, q&a.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
So bottom line is that i can make a complete full backup with clockwork and then can make apps restore with titanium backup correct?

If i leave the oficial rom and change the kernel then i have any problems from the apps restorations?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj92942000:
Nandroid does the full image backup everything, system, boot, apps, data just like windows image restore

Titanium backup for apps + data is great when using same apps across different roms .. read up on its site
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
So isn't there any backup program that i can simply backup my apps WITH THEIR SETTINGS into an external file so i can restore it WITH THEIR SETTINGS?

Not kernel or rom of the mobile

ONLY THE APPS WITH THEIR SETTINGS.

A LOT OF THANKS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj92942000:
Only known way is to be rooted, then you can with titanium backup, my backup pro and others.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
And what root i choose without change the basic rom or the aps and settings.

Now my phone it has the xlps 4.0.3 and has some issues like it power of itself, it stuck e.t.c. and as i read this is because the 4.0.3 i try to install the oficial 4.0.4 and did work but it doesn't has greek language on messages or at any other thing so i return to the oficial 4.0.3 eur and i wait the 4.1.2 to become final and install it because i read the 4.1.2 correct/fix all the issues of 4.0.3 but the major thing is when it arrived the final oficial 4.1.2.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radixandroid:
fix

Titanium backup!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fits79:
One more time FOR NOT ROOTED mobiles.

I tallied that at my first post.
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[Android Apps and Games] tjulnev:
Really good math game! My sister learned the multiplication table :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
Before to procede, remember all electrial component can have fault so exist warranty. If you want, procede at your own risk loosing warranty

For this tutorial is raccomanded professional leadfree soldering iron

i solved my gps problem, it is hardware problem, so no settings, gpsaids and no other solution helped me.

Problem is caused by bad gnd conductivity between mainboard and antenna. It is conduced by:

1) CONDUCTIVE GUMMY (suggest me better name if you have :) ) This kind of rubber was used for old nokia 8210 for connect display to mainboard. It was the mayor fault for nokia 8210.

2) back cover gps antenna: When phone become hot, antenna go back and not good touch with motherboard. Then, when phone isn't hot, gps antenna remains with a kind of "hole"

First try software fix (it not helped me) then try my solution

Solution:

Attention: it will avoid warranty, do it at your own risk, i'm not responsable for any fault.

SOLUTION: ​

here is antenna contact not used for my european i9000

Please check by yourself if it touch with your variant antenna,

if it is not used, you can remove and solder where was rubber

Now gps signal is immediate for me

Best regards

Leeno
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dark_knight35:
The first picture is before and the second afterwards?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
i moved in this third post the other solution,

it is easyer then solution in first post but i not like it because is not clean

Attention: it will avoid warranty, do it at your own risk, i'm not responsable for any fault.

For solve it i just removed rubber and soldered antenna to gps gnd mainboard like the picture.

Attention: if you use unprotected wire like picture, make sure it touch only gnd, not other components or you can damage phone.

Gnd require hard conductivity so

DO NOT USE VERY THIN WIRE
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
software can't fix hardware issues,

your posted file will only update settings and north american server for gps

i fixed i9000 froyo with my fix
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SkinBobUk:
Looks interesting. Might give this a go thanks.

Sent from my Android shizzle!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ulsa:
Where do you find the "third antenna contact"? I guess there are three and I do not want to take the second ...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
here is antenna contact not used for my european i9000

Please check by yourself if it touch with your variant antenna
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kristi-Tech:
I thought that the other connection was for GPS :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Trak-X:
What is the reason of this post? This fix is well known. A search might be helpful from time to time. The only useful info in this thread is the fact that you figured out that the other antenna is not used.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878970

Besides yours there is also another post that does the same thing. Takes you to the first one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1043034

So no need for another one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bitblaster:
No, sorry, you're wrong.

THIS fix were not known at all! The thread you linked just refer to pull up the OTHER contact of the gps antenna, not the RUBBER ONE, which actually is the source of the problem.

So the next time please read carefully before suggesting someone a search.

This thread is VERY USEFUL! This man deserves all the praise and should be acknowledged of the REAL FINAL GPS FIX which turned my phone into what should have been since the first day!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lcampori:
I was skeptical to say the least.

but this time, I have to admit: this solution works INSANELY WELL.

I made my own modded version, though. I removed the third unused antenna contact, and placed it over the conductive rubbed. no soldering involved. pressure keeps the contact in position and enhances the connection between antenna and mobo, similar but more effective than the other older solutions.

btw, I also changed server from europe.ntp.org to xtra1.gpsonextra.net, just like in my old acer liquid which locks really instactly.

connecting now in seconds in my living room (!!!) with 7 to 9 satellites. awesome. never happened before.

you deserve a huge thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jeblond:
I did it this morning. I removed the rubber and soldered a wire between the contacts. I never had such a signal on my i9000, the gps works perfectly.

Huge thanks from here too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] duffymm:
anyone can post a picture of the contacts to connect on european i9000 ?

any screenshot of gps test ?

thx a lot to everyone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haimmalka:
oracula whedka

wowww:good:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lcampori:
pictures in first post are self explaining.

I did not bother soldering anything. Just removed the unused antenna with some tweezers and placed it on top of the existing conductive rubber (but reversed upside down, though, to keep it level), I used a tiny bit of duct tape to hold it in place and to be sure it does not touch any other contact on the mobo.

I cannot exclude to solder it or use some conductive glue in the future, anyway, it sounds safer.

I can confirm this is THE solution. I am really astonished.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trut:
I use tutorial from first page, remove useles antenna connector and ruber. Put connector on rubber place (after clean connect) and gently fix with hot glue. After assemble phone use gps test but speed is same slow like before first fix time 03:06. I check contacts and all god.

@lcampori where u change from europe.ntp.org to xtra1.gpsonextra.net ?

(sry for bad english)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] trut:
I use hot glue just from side to fix connect in place and check with multimeter all good. In my gps.conf i change from "pool.ntp.org" to "europe.pool.ntp.org" voila first fix time 00:31 and also me not use any help like wifi or mobile data just clean gps. However this fix work...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] l4m3:
Hmmm....

I will give it a try soon.

Thanks man!!!

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9000 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
I would check how the wire goes underneat the cover. If you can bend it in a way that it stays away from the other contact that would be the best.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] skezza:
had a bash with the sports tracker app after my little fix A bit better, not much though. I am getting more satellites now so it's not absolutely terrible, and I think it'll be fine in the car, but i just think that sports tracker app isn't going to happen for i9000's. I've always got a bluetooth GPS module I can use.

The S2 seems to be better for GPS though. Next phone I have, i'll make sure I check what kind of GPS people have been getting. I know Huawei have an excellent reputation for GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
Well, I have a S2. Lets say that I do not find the GPS module that good.

What I noticed is strange AGPS behaviour that sometimes works and sometimes don't. Locking times vary alot and .... speed is strange. Check in google play 'gps control sirf starIV' and you will notice static and dynamic settings.

My next test phone will be one that has Glonass support. If I were you I would check that too. I have checked for external BT GPS receivers and it seems that Garmin now has one on the market called Glo which also supports Glonass.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] skezza:
I've not heard of Glonass but I'll google it and have a look.

I have a BT GPS receiver, it's just a standard one but it's incredibly accurate. It's scarily accurate tbh.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-rev...?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

This one, it's not actually made by Vodafone, it's just rebadged for UK market.

I highly recommend this, very accurate. I'll check out Glonass now though!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] flapane:
As I wrote, I can use sports App if I keep my phone in my hand (or fixed on my arm), otherwise it will loose the signal if the phone is in my pocket or in the mountain bike bag (where a Bluetooth gps works great).

It's definitely not good for sport tracking. Shame on the engineers who worked on this phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
Follow pictures

Attention: do not make point very hot more then 30 seconds or you can damage power key
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
This thread is about hardware fix.

If software fix not work, then use my solution,

AGPS is automatic internet data download for gps fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
In first post added tips for first solution: Do not use very thin wire

and added gps test picture
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
Now that my friend is excellent!

---------- Post added at 01:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:34 PM ----------

Well was just replying to Skezza about the S2. Never really believed 100% in software.

If the foundation meaning hardware is bad there is no way that software can fix that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laica24:
w

ich also did the hardware fix. but with the stock rom id didn t work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jaskie:
resurrection

hi guys

i'm from italy milan and have sgs i9000 TAJB :good:

i applied version 2 mod, taking the spare from the antenna

a little tricky soldering on the pcb because off my lack of skill but.. finally i got it without damages

now quick and stable fix and many green bars :)

ovv i'll test over, many thanks to all

JJ
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laica24:
Hi i did a hardwatre fix. but it didn t help with the stock rom. I installed Cyanogenmod cm9 and it wors :) . Look at the pictures.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
OMG, what have you done????

That is the shield of coax right?

What is underneat it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
it is deosldering wire, it isn't good as antenna
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
Well, actually same stuff, you can also use coax to desolder :)

But seriously the construction of the antenna is a bit more complex.

Now what is underneat the that desolderwire?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
Took my really old Nokia 3109c apart.

Seems that it has some useful contacts it there ... and I can mess it up
[Galaxy S I9000 General] flapane:
The SNR is not that good...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
Wire solution moved to third post for more comprensible first post
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laica24:
QUOTE=lukesan;30516295]Well, actually same stuff, you can also use coax to desolder :)

But seriously the construction of the antenna is a bit more complex.

Now what is underneat the that desolderwire?[/QUOTE]

How would you do a fix? i didn t solder the deosldering wire to the mainboard. I only put it on the contact. maybe i should solder it and the srn would be better???

Should i solder the deosldering wire only to one contakt or also to the contact with the cunductivity rubber?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
How would you do a fix? i didn t solder the deosldering wire to the mainboard. I only put it on the contact. maybe i should solder it and the srn would be better???

Should i solder the deosldering wire only to one contakt or also to the contact with the cunductivity rubber?[/QUOTE]

Wow ok there you go wrong.

You need to remove the back cover for sure!

Check http://www.formymobile.co.uk/galaxysdisassembly.php up to the 3rd picture.

Hopefully you haven't damaged the antenna already!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] skezza:
So leeno, you think the wire I used is too thin? Ok, ill see if we can use a thicker piece of wire. How thick and how long?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] JazonX:
Thanks a lot. I followed this thread, and This worked like a charm!

Earlier the Accuracy was around 90m. Now It instantly locks at 30m, and then settles at 10m.

This was a headache when I bought this phone, and Now it works perfectly.

Thanks !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laica24:
Wow ok there you go wrong.

You need to remove the back cover for sure!

Hopefully you haven't damaged the antenna already![/QUOTE]

I am not silly! I removed the backcover. Withou removing the backcover it would have been unpossible to replace the origin antenne with a desoldering wire.

I made a test.

1. Picutre: I removed the cover and made my antenne like in picture 2.

3. Picture. i had the antenna like in the first post but held the phone with the back to the sky.

4. picture : i held the phone, like you ususally held a phone with the back to the ground
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laica24:
Hi as you can see in my post before, I did the hardware fix with a desoldering wire.

But can I also take a thin cable etc. and solder one end to the 1.st contacr and the other end to the 2.nd contact? Or would this destroy my phone because of an electrical shortage?

look at my picture:

The red stripe on the picture should be the wire. the green circles are the 2 contacts.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] laica24:
It is a very good antenna. what you say ist not true. look at my pictures.

an furthermore the desoldering wire is pure copper and because ist is very thick and heavy compared to the original antenna or a thin wire, it has a very low resistance.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
Euhm just a sec. The desolder wire I saw on your previous photo was

on top

of the back cover. Maybe you should read my previous posts. For the 10e12 time, we are talking HF here and not some electrical thing! So basically if you hold it against the antenna in the cover it will dampen the signal dramatically.

Just check Leeno's first post. On how to do it

Now please open the cover and cut that desolder so it is a bit higher that the other antenna spring (the golden contact). Now if you close the cover it should make contact with the antenna in the cover.

The antenna is in the back cover and I am confident that the designer of the thing didn't screw up. It is just Samsung that screwed up by using that conductive rubber thing.

I am not going to comment anymore about the width of the wire etc since I explained this a couple of pages ago
[Galaxy S I9000 General] skezza:
Hey luke sorry to ask because I know you dont want to comment but do you think the wire I used was too thin like leeno suggested. I've asked leeno for feedback too but you are clearly very knowledgeable on the subject so I appreciate your opinion too. I'm going to perhaps replace it with some thicker wire this weekend if possible
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
@Laica

Unprotected soldering wire may cause interferences to all gnd connected components: wifi, bluetooth, gsm, wcdma ecc.

See my gps test with original antenna
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LEENO:
@skezza

Have you done software fix before?

If yes, please try fatter wire, length less you can, about 3 cm
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lukesan:
No worries. Personally I don't really like the wire thing.

The antenna design should be ok, just the way on how the connection was made is not so we need to make it like the designer probably designed it or would like to have had it work.

I would check for another way like the shielding of a coax or an old mobile (like my Nokia is waiting to be abused now) which probably have usable spring contacts.

If you go wire I would keep it as short as possible. The thickness, well should be thick but I don't want you to take off the island ... and if you can ... close the cover with the wire above the gnd (the connection where you solder it).

If you see results like Leeno praise yourselfs lucky because I can't even get these SNR's on my S2 (max 1 like 40 or 41)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Trainer_H:
How did you connect the wire to the phone? please make a picture.