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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThirdEye_01:
You could also try using their discussion threads on G+, they're actually responsive there too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mastertuga:
:confused::confused:

I've just flashed my SGS i9000 to CM 9.1, and i can't seem to have acess to my 8 Gb card. The Apollo player that came with the rom is able to find my mp3's in the card, but if i try to acess it through ES File Explorer, i can't find it.

If i ask for the phone statistics and choose the option SD card i can see all the files and folders, and see that the card is located at /mnt/emmc/, but it's location isn't shown on ES File Explorer.

Also i can't seem to restore my contacts backup that is in my sd card.

This is my first attempt at rooting/flashing my mobile. So please have some patience. :)

Thanks for the help

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Edit:

I've installed Root Explorer v2.17.2, changed mounted as R/O to R/W, and have successfully accessed my external SD card....hope this info will help others with similar problems...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KUN1:
Reboot?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aburgthing:
This changes everything! All in all should cut 30 mins. off of ROM Flashing!

What if you could cut that time by a solid 20 or 30 minutes? Thanks to a new feature just incorporated in Titanium Backup, you can. With the newest update to TB Pro, you can now create a flashable zip of all your apps and data. That means that you can flash all your goodies right after a new ROM and fire up a system that's ready to go right out of the box.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/11/06/new-in-titanium-backup-create-flashable-zips-of-all-your-apps-and-data/

It'll be interesting how the "data" part works out on new or re-based ROMS though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MMag05:
I saw this today and got super excited. Hope it works good and is bug free.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TokedUp:
Cool! I remember when CWM was supposed to add a feature to create a zip of the Rom you were running but that never came out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
Just tried it, it makes the update.zip file in the root of the SD0 card, even if you have backups to save to SD1 (external SD card)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Samsung.Galaxy.S3:
Yep. I haven't tried restoring via CWM yet though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
I was going to try it since I just downloaded the latest nightly for CM10. I've noticed <off topic> that if I do a dirty upgrade (wiping just dalvik and cache), that my phone answers calls in speakerphone mode</off topic>

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tried the update.zip as the last file to flash after updating on a complete wipe to the latest CM nightly (11/07/2012), flashed GAPPS, then tried to flash update.zip. It "looked" it was flashing, went through about 5 of the 54 applications and then rebooted into CM with none of the applications installed.

Only saving grace was I had the foresight to to a TI backup before I tried the update.zip

I was able to restore all 54 applications from there after downloading TI Backup from the market.

Long and short, it doesn't work yet. Good concept, doesn't work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
An advanced restore in cwm let's you restore all of your apps, data and widgets.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
Could you be a little more specific as to what you mean? Which version, how to run it. and so on?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
This has worked on every version of cwm that I've used (I'm on 6.0.1.2). If you've already made a backup, then flash a new rom:

-go back into recovery

-select backup/restore

-goto advanced restore

-select the rom to get your backup from

-select restore data

-reboot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Samsung.Galaxy.S3:
@sanjsrik

Yeah, not working for me as well. Maybe I'm missing a step here or not doing it in the correct order.

1. Boot to Recovery

2. Wipe/Factory reset

3. Wipe cache

4. Wipe dalvik

5. Install ROM (in this test case, CM10)

6. Install .zip file (created by TI Backup)

7. Boot

8. Nothing restored (it's like a bone stock install of CM10)

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If that's the case, we don't need TI Backup, no? :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
Does this restore the applications before the flash update? It doesn't step on any of the system stuff?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
I flash my new rom, boot up, and let it settle. If by chance the apps don't get installed automatically from the Google restore, then I boot back into recovery and do the advanced restore. This doesn't affect the system (don't want that)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
Next nightly, I'm giving this a shot. Full wipe and restore just the data before rebooting back into ROM.

Thanks for the advice.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] djcyph:
to avoid running into system data restore errors should i deselect everything that is red?

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just tried this and i cant get past boot logo screen..anyone else?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TyroneLT:
Is this safe to do if switching ROMs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dakoop:
I hate letting Google reinstall everything. Takes forever and doesn't restore data

Squirted out of my Samsung's jellybean
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
I just used a backup of Synergy to restore data into Beans. I did the advanced restore right after flashing the rom without rebooting first. Worked perfect!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TyroneLT:
I tried this process tonight and it worked perfectly!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xXJay_RXx:
I flashed rom, gapps n then i hit that install update.zip button after I let the rom boot up n settle. It wouldn't get past the boot animation. I wiped, flashed rom, flashed gapps, let the rom boot up n settle. Then I went back into recovery. I installed the zip as I would a regular zip n I fixed permissions. Then it worked
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shuura:
This looks to be a process to try!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jpeezy1986:
+1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yelkarama:
How I got it working

Same thing happened to me. I got it completing the restore by manually mounting /system in CWM before installing the update.zip file. After the reboot, the phone stayed in the boot animation for a good 10-15 minutes. In adb logcat, the phone was rebuilding the Dalvik cache. After finishing the boot, I got the setup screen. I waited a good 5 minutes without doing the setup, then I got a SuperSU prompt asking to grant root permission to Titanium Backup. After I accepted, TB started restoring all the apps data. I let it go for another 15 minutes and suddenly the setup screen disappeared on itself and I go prompted to chose a launcher.

All the data was restored except System Data (Accounts, Wifi, Bluetooth, SuperSU permissions).

Any one can try this sequence and report his/her findings?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] spenc938:
This seems like it would be the most reliable way to do it. Has anyone else used this method?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] piiman:
If the base has changed it might not boot. If you have to wipe data to get the new rom to boot restoring from your last rom would make it not boot just as though you didn't wipe data. Which makes sense if you think about it. I keep several backups one for tw based and one for aosp based and then restore data accordingly. A zip flash would probably be faster though and tb has had a zip option for a long time but its never worked.it used to not add anything to the zip so maybe he's made some headway on it.

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All the time. I'm surprised at how many didn't know this:)

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Heres a tip. If you Can dirty flash the rom you can restore data from a different rom of the same base. It pretty much the same thing. So save some time and just don't wipe the data to start with. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Rawlster93:
Did you mean fix the permission first? Because whenever i flash the zip it automatically reboots it. I'm wondering maybe its not working because you have to manually mount data or something?

****Because that's what i did right now i manually mounted data fixed permission then i flashed the zip now im getting a screen saying Android is upgrading 96 apps and hopefully data

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I had those same minor setbacks; except my phone booted up real quick and restored data within 5 minutes however for some reason i noticed voice search google now are now no longer working this could be unrelated though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrBrady:
I did the TiBu zip restore on a TW ROM (Clean 3.5 to 4.5 update), full wipe of data and system.

Flashed the restore zip, booted normally and upon boot TiBu automatically launched in the background and began restoring the app data. I launched TiBu and it asked if I wanted to restore the device ID, which I did and the phone rebooted. After the reboot a lot of my apps would FQ.

Not sure if it's related to the restoring device ID or if it was the TiBu restore procedure. Luckily I had a manual TiBu backup and restored from there - all was well afterward.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
It's still not working with the latest update to TI Backup. Same behavior on a fresh install of a CM10 nightly on my GS3. Same behavior as before.

1. I flash the nightly after doing a full wipe

2. I flash GAPPS

3. I try to flash UPDATE.ZIP and it seems to install the backup.zip files and then it just reboots back into the latest nightly CM.

Nothing is installed.

I restored using TI Backup after the ROM has settled and downloading TI Backup from the market.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Rawlster93:
Did you mount data and fix permission in cwm recovery before flashing zip? Once the phone rebooted my apps were being restored next it asked me my preferred launcher I chose nova then TB asked SU permission I granted it then in under 5 minutes my data was restored except for email, wif points,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sanjsrik:
I'll do it again tomorrow after getting the latest nightly. This time I'll mount data and fix permissions.

Did you mount data and fix permissions before or after flashing update.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Rawlster93:
Before because once you flash the app and data zip my phone is automatically rebooted. I might now use it because at least for me google now fc on me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yelkarama:
One can still do it after by returning to the recovery just after the screen goes black and before the full reboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kreeker:
Is there anyway to choose to create an update.zip of only user apps (other than manually selecting only user apps)? Is there any reason to only restore user apps? That's what I've been doing since the I've started romming.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] piiman:
Restoring systems apps could be over writing the new system apps and that can cause problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] The5Venomz:
Download App Organizer, create a category of the apps that you want to back up. Then in TiBu under filter select that category at the bottom. Then batch... But when I do it I get the app only, no user data.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
Here's my experience:

I backed up my apps, then made a zip. I rebooted into recovery flashed the rom, gapps, kernel, and app backups. Everything seemed to run fine. Booted up fine, but no apps were restored. I tried again in recovery and everything was there and just fine. I have however noticed some weird things tho, such as apps not restoring all the way. For example my SwiftKey restored but some parts of my user dictionary did not. A few other odd things like that happened, but overall it made everything much faster and I will continue to use it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yelkarama:
New option

The app was just updated today and it has a new option to include (or not system apks). So by default, only system data are included.

IMHO, including system apks is only useful when reinstalling the same ROM (custom or not) and when user applications were converted to system apps after last ROM installation.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ethanhunt123:
have seen the exact same thing.... do you have to boot into the new rom once before you can run the update.zip app restore?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
Yes
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fishingFreak420:
no luck

OK, newb question. Using TWRP 3.2 and h311s|ROM-SuperStock-Series.VRBLK1, When I first tried to install update.zip durring flashing of new ROM it wouldn't even allow me to run the file,stated invalid file. A. is this caused by the Fix Permissions? or B does the update.zip only work on CM

What I have been reading is to follow the previous six stepsin this thread but neither installing before i initially reboot system nor was I able to after allowing build to complete and then trying it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xpurtwitness:
Hey, guys. I've been having trouble with TiBa Pro lately, and your posts seem to be the most relevant to all the ones I've searched. I'm using 4Ext Recovery, but have used CWM in the past and the process should be no different. I sent a support request to TiBa, but haven't yet received a response.

Reading these two posts, I see a discrepancy between mounting partitions. Is it the system or data that needs to be mounted prior to flashing the TiBa zip?

Does anyone know of any results with Link2SD? It seems not all my apps got restored when I got the TiBa zip to work (although it was a bust, because the most recent zip didn't pass the file check)

I've successfully flashed the TiBa app via the update.zip file, but despite having checked the option to maintain preferences, these are not saved. Anyone have any experience with that?

Also, there are a group of apps that, no matter what settings I try, just will not restore. There is no error message, and it just hangs at 0. I've tried all modes of processing, etc.

Thanks, folks, for any insight!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droid2drummer:
I was using this method on Droid 2...It certainly is useful but thought tb had added the mod to the app long ago. Maybe not. But yeah this has been my way on all the devices ive had since D2..Just fyi. Maybe the app we were using wasnt very popular but glad to hear all are saving time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] new to hacking:
I guess zip needs to be signed as well.... have u guys tried it??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yelkarama:
Signing is not mandatory

Hi,

Signing is not really needed as CWM allows to install unsigned zips. Not sure about TWRP though.

Cheers,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Saurav Mohapatra:
Error Message::: shows "status()" and aborts.. why??

it shows an error message "status()" and aborts.. why and whats dat??

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Oh yes... the phone model needs to be same... and even the same version of clockworkmod is advised or it MAY cause md5 checksum errors..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boycott_france:
0 problems on my last 5 rom updates. Was happy to pay for the pro key!

+1

Galaxy SIII running LiquidSmooth & LK2.9, powered by zero lemon 7000
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Markline:
Restoring backups

When restore the I have find an error is “parse error”.

When I restore the some apps , after completing the app restore my phone is automatically reboot.

I have restore the app manually .

I have restore the app data like MM Sand SMS from different ROM. But system app close when it became.

Why?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WettbackMartyr:
You should never be restoring system apps or their data on clean installs [MENTION=5343209]Markline[/MENTION] only user apps. In my opinion I also avoid restoring data to Google Apps, only the app itself. This may involve you creating 2 flashable zips. 1 for app+data and 1 for app only. However you choose.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] monodose:
very homeat

here too
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WettbackMartyr:
So move the file... Its always worked this way
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Minotaur:
I can't get this working... it goes through adding to the zip, but the final update.zip file is only 2kb in size and only contains the META-INF folder, no other content.

The zip file would be a few GB in size I think, based on file sizes of the app backups.

Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] armavista:
My Titanium backup is too big. I can't create update.zip in the root folder of my phone (as it is done by default).

Is there a way to change the location where update.zip is created to the SD card???

The regular backup is already saved on my external SD card.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] patrickdrd:
exactly the same problem: after starting the process, my phone was left with 4kb free space after a while :D
[LG Optimus Black] Eword:
i have the lg optimus black and i just rooted it but i dont know how to get in the recovery mode somebody can help me ?

tnx
[LG Optimus Black] LGP970:
Try downloading Rom manager from the market and then choose to rebbot in recovery mode ;)
[LG Optimus Black] Carthus:
Download rom manager free, go in" install recovery", the app flash then the recovery partition for you,,

Sent from my LG-P970 using jelly bean
[LG Optimus Black] Acuap:
I have other question. I installed cwm and flashed some rom but now I am stuck on bootanimation bootloop because something went wrong. How can I go to recovery now to fix it?
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
Whats some rom? Be more precise please. You ll always be able to unbrick it using smartflash. But maybe you should simply use an unrooted rom... just use b2c tool and the option emergency recovery. And then first read, what you have to do, what it does and which kind of results you will be confronted with, then try again.

Dont mean to flame, but it seems you already did it wrong twice...
[LG Optimus Black] Acuap:
Nope. Once. My sdcard somehow unmounted itself while installing Marvel rom 9. Dunno why. Well, gonna try your method tomorrow. Thanks for tips!
[LG Optimus Black] LGP970:
have you already tried using G-recovery?

I think you can do it in Marvel ROM, you just have to start pressing for a few times the G button while booting
[LG Optimus Black] Acuap:
Worked like charm. Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] Ali.exe:
I've been using smart keyboard for a while now, and I would like to test swiftkey x and it seems there's no tagalog dictionary for this app, is there any keyboard app with a tagalog dictionary if not is it possible that I make a tagalog dictionary for a keyboard app? If so can't any give me a help on how to do it

from my Gio using xda app-developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] wildstar1010:
Can Somebody PORT this rom" http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1972961 " for S5570??:D:D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rowansmith:
Hi

I am running CyanogenMod 4.1.2.

If I receive a MMS message while Packet Data is turned off, I get a message stating that the image is "downloading", I can see the size of the file and the . However the image never downloads, there is no way to stop/start the download.

Enabling PacketData - results in the message remaining in a "downloading" state. The message will never download and eventually it says Message size: null

If packet data is turned off when I get a notification of a message, I am never able to receive/download that message. If packet data is turned on, then the message downloads just fine.

Thanks

Rowan
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rondine63:
I set permissions ROOT with Odin on the tablet, apparently okay but are no longer able to connect to the PC via USB, it appears message "unknown device". Tried several times to reinstall Kies, I tried resetting to factory settings, I tried to fleshare Mobile Odin with the official firmware downloaded from sammobile (half stopped due to an error), no.

I tried to do some updating via recovery of CyanogenMod or update OTA to 4.0.4. but both are in error.

Now the tablet has no root permissions and still does not connect via USB, "unknown device" in download mode, but in fact when I connect the cable does not appear in the notification icon USB connection.

Do you have any suggestions? thanks
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tel864:
FWIW, I've never rooted my Tab2 and it won't connect to Kies by USB or wifi. Kies seems to be flaky software at best.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aliendex:
Remove kies,

In windows go to "device settings", connect your tablet and refresh the list, now you can see a unknown device under the list called "multimedia device" or similar.

Right click and choose "remove" or "remove driver" and in the confirmation window choose "remove driver too" and click OK.

After this step remove your tablet from the USB and re-plug it in the first left USB port of your computer and wait for driver installation from windows.

I tell you this because I had the same problem 1 month ago and I solved with this method.

Sometimes you need to do this because windows and kies are two big bug
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tel864:
Thanks, I actually had tried that last night, but P3113 was appearing in two places and I missed one apparently. Works now. Thanks again.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rondine63:
I tried as you mentioned but windows still does not recognize the tablet. I also tried on another computer where I had not installed kies.

I'm afraid it's a problem due to the first root of the tablet made. thanks anyway
[HTC Sensation] vinit91:
While charging for an hour from 5% .... my battery voltage reach 4209 and then it slowers down the charging... it takes like ages to reach 100% .... but if i restart my phone after 3 hours .... it says fully charged or some digit closer to full charge :P is there any fix for this???

i am using original htc cable... and tried all different roms... still the problem exist.. !! help
[HTC Sensation] goatee84:
I'm not sure what your "problem" is? If you leave it charging long enough it does actually get to 100% doesn't it?

You'll find if you restart your phone at any level of charge it will report a higher capacity immediately after reboot but that will drop very quickly.

The charging current should level off as the battery charge approaches 100% in order to achieve the best charge, 'trickle' charging the last bit. Like pouring water from a jug into a glass, you pour fast at the start to 'bulk fill' the glass then you slow down as you get closer to full capacity and trickle the last bit to get the glass as full as possible. Not the most accurate analogy but you get the point.
[HTC Sensation] vinit91:
Yes thank you... I get your point... :D
[HTC Sensation] vinit91:
i still have a question... my sensation takes 6-8 hours to charge completely and my friend's htc one x takes 3 hours to charge ....why is it so? :P