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[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Emperor.dk:
Backup and restore of userdata

I agree in the need for a newbie-friendly backup/restore of userdata.

The official SEMC-apk sadly won't work.

This could be a newbie-friendly simple solution:

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Root and backup

Download and install SuperOneClick http://shortfuse.org/

Connect the X10MP to the PC with the USB cable. Celect Charge phone.

Start SuperOneClick and click on Root. Follow instructions. If asked about your Android version is above 2.x, click Yes. Also click Yes to install Busybox.

When finished, turn off the X10MP, and then turn it on again.

Tap Market and search for "My Backup", select My Backup Root and install the app.

Start the app and allow the superuser request, and agree to some license etc.

Tap BACKUP > Data > Local.

Check the data you want to backup and tap OK. Remember the contactlist if you are an off-line person that do not sync to a Google account (now is the time to reconsider to sync it to Google).

Give the backup a name and tap OK, sit back and wait.

Did you use the Notes app, and do wish to keep those notes?

Start Market and search for GTasks and install the app.

When installed, start Notes app. Tap on a note you wish to keep. Longtap on the note (put your finger on the screen and hold it), select Copy all in the popup menu.

Exit Notes and start GTasks. Tap on the plus to add a new task. Longtap in the text field and select Paste in the popup menu, and then tap on Done.

Exit GTasks and repeat for all your notes. When finished, tap Syncronize in GTasks.

All your kopied notes are now available in Google Tasks, and are accessible from any app that accesses the Google Tasks.

If you are an offline-person who don't want to sync online, I can recoment Just Notepad for Android to save all your Notes as simple txt-files. Just follow the copy-paste-instruction from above. Tap the small SD-card icon to save each note as a normal txt-file on the SD-card.

Here you install your new custom ROM

Restore data

If you have your contacts synced to a Google account, tap Settings > Accounts & sync > Add account > Google > Next > Sign in. Wait for your account to sync the contactlist and calandar.

If you are an off-line person, and backed up your contacts etc. using My Backup Root or backed up call log, SMS and MMS, tap Market (and log into your Google acount) and search for "My Backup", select My Backup Root and install the app.

Start the app and allow the superuser request, and agree to some license etc. Tap RESTORE > Data > Local.

Select the data file, and check the data to restore. Sit back and wait.

!!! Do not restore contacts if you also restored from your Google Account !!!

!!! Do not restore contacts if you also restored from your Google Account !!!

!!! Do not restore contacts if you also restored from your Google Account !!!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Rempty:
Good Tutorial
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] jonathanlee323:
I dont have the phone, but the *.sbf backups only. How can I restore them using the Virtual Device in android.

Any one tried the same? Eclipse for android is not available.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farmski:
I've messed arround with my s3 since I got it.. custom Roms and kernels and stuff.. I've made restores but not sure if just restoring is enough to get back to stock to be able to get official update... and not 100% sure if I'm on the right restore or not

Kernel version

3.0.15-928452-user se.infra@SEP PREEMPT Sat Aug 4 16:24:03 KST 2012

Build number

IMM76D.I9300XXBLG8

Is this all back to stock???

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
check your device status in setting >about device >status

Is it normal or modified?

Check latest firmware for your region on www.Sammobile.com and after download, flash it via odin.

Usually restores are of custom roms
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arsaw:
Is the phone status shows normal or modified?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farmski:
Shows as modified... does it show as modified if its just rooted??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terranoid:
Yes
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farmski:
Cheers. Can I still get ota updates when I'm rooted.. or is it best to unroot..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arsaw:
OTA updates will most probably fail on rooted phone. Unroot it or just update firmware using odin.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pec95:
You can't get OTA updates when rooted. Find the last modem on SamMobile and flash it via Odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddicts:
How can i edit this?Because the original is black.So how would i edit this?Please advice.Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddicts:
Anyone..?Please...? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BMaae4:
epoch berrynp

You need to decompile the app. You can't just pull the xml.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddicts:
Trying to decopile it..But got an error,So i gave it up.. :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] oh0:
Hi,

can somebody say me how i get the Lockscreen from JB (4.1.1) for Stock ICS from Xperia S?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DdcCabuslay:
Try Holo Locker from the Play Store
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Neosamus:
I bought my xperia ray second hand, and I would to know if it has locked or unlocked bootloader.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mihahn:
If it is on stock sony rom go to dialer and type *#*#7378423#*#* -> Service Info -> Configuration and look at the bootloader status. If it says:

or

then the bootloader is locked.

If it says:

You guess it? It's unlocked.

To be on the safe site connect the phone in fastboot mode to pc (turn phone off, hold volume up and while holding volume up connect to pc, don't power on, just hold volume up while connecting to pc) and start flashtool.

If flashtools says:

it is locked but unlockable.

If flashtool says

it is unlocked ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] caer_ayu:
Or

if you identify using setool2

check the line:

RUNNING S1_EROM VER "(R)xAxxx"

and

LOADER VERSION: "(R)xAxxx"

if you get a capital 'R', it means your bootloader is locked

if you get a small 'r', it's otherwise
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Neosamus:
My bootloader is locked. Thanks guys!!
[HTC EVO 3D] ramjet73:
Nice guide. Looks a lot like the one here.

Do you know Harsha Raj? Might want to give him some credit.

ramjet73
[HTC EVO 3D] gav83collins:
Thanks, but........

Isn't it a lot easier to use gmote ? , also it comes with more features , like control of pc aswell as media streaming between pc, smart phones, smart TV's and game consoles, to name a few ,
[HTC EVO 3D] mnomaanw:
Yes, was about to do the same but was busy with other thread that I found in SGS2 section :p
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] no friends:
I'm looking at this phone over the Droid 4 (not available in UK either but has been made to work).

So, am I correct in saying that to make it work on a UK network, is to just put a UK sim into the roaming slot and It shall work?

I want to be 100% on this before I go ahead and get one.

If there's anything else, please could someone shed some light on this?

Many thanks
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] fallnSaint:
Unfortunately there is no slot to put the sim into, the sim card is fused to the board &, as of now, you would be stuck w sprints international network.

Saint sent this from his Q using xda premium
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
Indeed.

Supposedly there is a GSM version of the phone coming to AT&T. Look for the XT898 ;)
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] no friends:
Ok, thanks both of you.

I was under the impression that there was an extra sim slot for using roaming sim cards abroad.

Sooo, this XT898 - are there any clues to when it'll be released yet?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
There is a SIM slot, but there's no way to access it. Sprint has embedded their own SIM, and is it encased/soldered to the board literally. Impossible for the user to access without some potentially dangerous hardware hacks.

No clue when the XT898 is going to be released... I get a pretty good deal with Sprint, so I've never really cared about looking at phones on any other carriers... no offense.

Good luck!
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] API182:
How come GSMArena claim that it has a Sim Slot then and that it is GSM capable? :s I too have been looking at importing one of these into the UK to use on the now EE network (Orange UK and T-Mobile UK) Can somebody please confirm that this is deffinately not the case and that it will deffo not work in the UK for us GSM People?

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_photon_q_4g_lte-4885.php

:( We don't get many good phones these days here in Europe... :(

Thanks, Adam
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] arrrghhh:
See my post DIRECTLY above yours... Oy ve.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Armadill0:
I already want to import 2 devices to Germany, but actually I can't find anyone who would send me the devices.:crying:
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] leona:
In the UK (like the rest of Europe) we have little or no choices when it comes to QWERTY phones, so I would be interested to know if its possible to get a UK (or gsm) one over here.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] fallnSaint:
As of right... now, the only option in Europe for this phone is to find an international seller on eBay and mod it as posted here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1929143. There is scuttlebutt about a GSM variety coming soon (898?), but nothing official as of yet. Good luck, hope you find something soon.

-Saint
[HTC One V] miklos08:
Hi guys!

How can i backup all of my data before unlocking my bootloader? Which way is the best

Cheers
[HTC One V] miklos08:
But i saw one guy who made a backup posted in the galaxy nexus forum. Anyways thanks, maybe i will try it
[HTC One V] cybervibin:
Try the default htc back up setting in the settings menu
[HTC One V] shubhamchamaria:
No...you can using adb....look at adb nandroid backup or adv backup no root needed

Sent from my HTC One V

---------- Post added at 11:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:26 AM ----------

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1420351

This should work....

Try backing up all the stuff using the guide I posted....it takes an hour to backup and another hour to restore...

Enjoy!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sweettaniyaa:
It seems many Android phones are exposed to this new USSD hack. Check your phones for it using the information from here
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kibaruk:
I thought I read another story that said this was only localized to samsung phones
[Optimus One, P500, V General] steventrannn:
My phone is affected by this USSD hack. I have the Cyanogenmod 7.2 nightly rom installed.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kotobodj:
i think all rom for p500 be USSD hack.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] steventrannn:
What rom do you have on your phone?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] rr0yy:
Really helpful..!!
[Optimus One, P500, V General] kotobodj:
i'm testing gingersnap 2.2 / gingerblur 1.5 (cm7), oxygen 2.8 (kang) . all attack by ussd hack.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] sweettaniyaa:
There is no need to panic though.... the bug will be fixed in the next release of CM7.2 Nightly and Cyanmobile. Rest developers needs to update their ROMs with the patch.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] neko95:
> Ohh pain
[Optimus One, P500, V General] hephappy:
Don't panic!

Don't panic!

LG phones is affected but it is not harmful. (LEVEL: LOW) . So you don't need a fix for this.

It is a CRITICAL bug for Samsung phones, because you can hard reset it by USSD code. For ex: 2767*3855 reset hardly for samsung. LG phones aren't affected, because there is not a hard reset ussd code for LG phones.

When you entered a malicious site, it can show only IMEI on dialer for LG phones. It can't steal your imei.

To sum, no risk except SAMSUNG products. So all roms in xda are safe for p500.

Anyway, cm fixed the issue. If you have a samsung phone, upgrade immediately:

http://r.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/23952/
[Optimus One, P500, V General] neko95:
> its becoz we dont have secret factory reset codes unlike samsung phones and htc's, thats why ..so what if it can access our IME :cowboy:
[Optimus One, P500, V General] rr0yy:
Let imaginations be imaginations!! :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] neko95:
> good idea.. hackers may do that..now
[Optimus One, P500, V General] mrcorey:
I was asked to remove this quote. If i do that than my important response makes no sense. So, as a compromise, I will remove the reference to the quote and leave the substance. Your point is important because you have a perception that is common. Its important to see what is right. This helps us all. And besides Google cache has your post forever.

Actually, because it is open source, we can have bugs like this fixed extremely quickly. Its the closed systems like wp that we have to worry about. The hackers are still there and they will still compromise the operating system. The difference is the we have to rely on the corporation that controls the os to patch it when there is an exploit, which can sometimes be months or even never. Your idea about open source is backwards. I would trust open source software ANY day over proprietary systems like wp and ios
[Optimus One, P500, V General] rr0yy:
I will remove my post.. so any newbie dev doesnt get the idea and try something like that.

Surprising.. DarkCode thanked you hahahaha :D

Just kiddin!! :p

Edit.. please remove the qoute ^both :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] neko95:
> haha lol may be he's planning to do that? right? :laugh: quote removed
[Optimus One, P500, V General] am486:
Maybe it is impossible to reset our phone but it is possible to let our phone call a very expensive premium number or to enter false PINs and PUKs to disable our SIM. This hack is nevertheless a threat for us.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DarkCoding:
It wasn‘t a HTML file, but if you want to do so...

My name is DarkCoding and not DarkCode :p :D

How did you know that?!? :D
[Optimus One, P500, V General] rr0yy:
No offense Darkcoding.. we were just kidding. :)
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DarkCoding:
And I was kiddin‘ too :D
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sotoskawasaki:
I was reading before about the new Nexus Binaries released and I was wondering if we could use them or developers must compile them in the roms.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nospin:
They are just pieces and must be baked into roms to function. You can do this by just waiting on your favorite dev to merge them, or wait for Google to roll out an OTA soon.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grand Prix:
Rascarlo is uploading a new build of Rasbean with the updated binaries :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigcountry520:
There's a flashable zip on here for those binaries. Download, put you N7 in recovery flash and be done. I think I can notice a difference, but could just be the placebo effect. Lol

Sent from rooted Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sotoskawasaki:
Ok thanks guys..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elgordo2:
Hey guys,

I have been using CM10 for a week now, and I really like it. But I see the official JB update will be released soon, so I'm considering giving it a go.

As I see it I can use my nandroid backup to restore ICS, and then update. I haven't tried this before, and I'm wondering how extensive this restore is. Is it an exact backup of my ICS? And will such a restore effect performance? I do find a fresh ROM running smoother.

My other option is to find a stock ICS for my area, but I can't seem to find the exact same version. This is probably me getting lost in the codes, could someone help me find the ROM? (My ICS version in screenshot).

Elgordo
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Nandroid restores all bar EFS folder and Modem ..

Use CHECKFUS to find firmware .

jje
[HTC Desire S] kosowski:
Hi there,

my power buttom is about to die, so I'm trying different alternatives to lock/unlock. Widgetlocker should allow to wake on volume key press, but is not. I have activated the "Easy wake" option, but nothing happens. I find strange that it didn't ask for special permissions as other wake apps do.

Im running stock ICS, still unrooted. Already installed tap tap app to wake and screen lock and off. Deactivated both apps to check if they were interfering with WidgetLocker.

Any idea? I'd rather not install any custom rom.

Thanks!
[HTC Desire S] treska.sk:
Same problem here...

___________________________

Sent from my HTC Desire S
[HTC Desire S] maxlieb:
Here's a crazy idea, why don't you root your phone and install

one of the MANY ROMs with this functionality available :)
[HTC Desire S] kosowski:
That crazy idea produces a crazy behaviour on my phone: for the last 4 months, using a WIDE range of cooked roms, enabling the 3g connection produces a radio related fatal crash and reboot. Asked in different forums but no answer besides "sent it to HTC", wich I didnt because is out of warranty.

Official ICS release finally solved this. So no plan of going back to hours of research, test and fail.

Pretty crazy, uh?
[HTC Sensation XL] KazumaSaruwatari:
Is there anyway to downgrade to older version of hboot?

Now, i am on hboot 1.25.My phone is thailand region.

I cant install stock ruu.i have 140 error all the time.

I think RUU is too old but i dont know where to find a newer version.

I download ruu from stickied topic in development forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1317895

I think that is the only ruu for thailand region. Anyone can help?

Many thanks.

Btw, my phone is still s-on and i think i cant s-off because i still want a warranty(that is why i am trying to go back to stock rom). Please help.

Sorry for my English. I am not good at English(I am Thai).
[HTC Sensation XL] Lexmazter:
There are only 2 versions of Hboot -> 1.25 and 1.28, there are no official older versions, maybe beta or engineering ones that were not released publicly.

You can S-OFF with unprotected Hboot, but this is not needed for you, check your CID from your phone and flash the according RUU for it, if not, take this tool and flash the S-OFF for 1.25 and after that you can flash any RUU you want as it bypasses that (as far as i know), after the RUU flashing, the HBOOT will be overwrited as well, so you will end up with a stock, locked, S-ON device with the region-stock ROM of your choice, hope this helps :)
[HTC Sensation XL] KazumaSaruwatari:
I just did what you say.

I S-OFF my phone.

I relock bootloader.

Then, I install RUU. It seems to run smoothly but in the end error 140 came up and my phone is S-ON again with still old custom rom.

What should I do?
[HTC Sensation XL] Lexmazter:
Well, as far as i know, you unlock the bootloader again, S-OFF, and after that you flash the RUU, i didn't install any RUU's until now, you should check the guide from stona15 that can be found here, There are more details about what to do and what you want.

Hope this helps :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] limonovich:
I was wondering if anyone else was experiencing this really weird problem. I'm running CM9 and use swiftkey. I have haptic feedback turned off for everything but whenever I enter text with swiftkey I still get random vibrates whenever I press a key. It's like a minefield, I never know which key is going to set off haptic feedback and it's extremely annoying.
[General Questions and Answers] daniel_loft:
Dear fellows,

Lately I've been looking for a way to manage all the sound alerts from one point. You know, one application to manage them all. ...or at least the gapps and whatever comes standard with AOSP.

Is there such an application?

Or, if not, is it possible to modify other application's settings? For example from Tasker? Or maybe even start a project for an Android sound themer. (I would have a good reason to start learning programming)

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Bifurcator:
You mean something like "Notification Manager" by Mikael Setterberg? Or different yet?
[General Questions and Answers] daniel_loft:
No, not something like that. That's something totally different. And I've found n+1 programs that do that.

mean something that would allow me to change the notification/ringtone sounds from one place for many/all apps. Maybe even allow me to apply sound themes (like there are on Symbian).
[General Questions and Answers] Bifurcator:
Well, you could point all your alert-tones to a file or group of files on the external memory card (or anywhere really) and then just replace those files with whatever you want by connecting it to you computer and overwriting the files (same file name) with whatever sound(s) you want that day.

I suppose you could do essentially the same thing with something like Astro in-phone as well.

Also, there's a thread (or threads) on this site that teach how to write scripts. You could handle such (delete - copy - renaming) in a script I assume. The logic would be pretty simple I think.

So to be clear, you're changing the files out from under the alert setting assignments so that the phone settings always point to the same path/filename. Only you're changing (by overwriting) the content of those files.
[General Questions and Answers] daniel_loft:
Bifurcator, I know about this solution too. I was wondering if it's possible to change the actual setting, to make the change in the application's settings.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yekorzh:
Hi,

I hope someone could point me into the right direction to solve one annoying issue with my SGS3. Every time when I fully charge it and disconnect charger it doesn't go into deep sleep due to "hostd" kernel wakelock. If I reload phone after charging - wakelock is not there and I have excellent battery life.

I had this problem with unrooted stock ROM and kernel, so I though that it might be a kernel issue and upgraded to Siyah kernel - but the issue is still there.

Unfortunately BBS (and google) doesn't provide more info about this wakelock. Does anybody have this issue? Is it a known problem?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onslaught86:
Hmm, I've only had that as a wake lock when using a USB OTG cable and a USB DAC, strange that you'd get it without having anything plugged in.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yekorzh:
Yes, very strange. Even if charger (or cable) somehow tricks phone to go into USB host mode, why does wakelock stay on after I unplugged it? I tried different cables and charges - same thing...

At the moment my only hope is JB update :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaitanya91845:
I own a Nexus One running Froyo. I can just not rely on its battery status. The battery rapidly discharges when I use the phone, but then increases by some amount if I keep it in my pocket.

I have had a lot of instances when I have stopped using my phone when the battery level falls below 30%(battery color from green to yellow), only to find it green when I use it again.

I have rooted my phone, allowed the battery to die, reset its stats, but in vain.

Please help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaitanya91845:
Sigh :(

No knows how to correct this?