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[HTC One X] okhughes:
It should work with CWM 6.0.4.8, that's what I run with my one x, It's good as it's a touch recovery version.

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Sorry 5.8.4.0 my bad.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
Well, I needed to have a good backup today (lol), but unfortunately didn't because titanium backup never backed up my sms/mms, so I figure it is time to get this figured out.

I am running android 4.3, rooted of course.

Everything else seems to backup properly with titaniumbackup.

When I go the backup/restore tab, the "Messages (SMS & MMS) is the one that has "No backup yet"

when I click to back it up it says "Backing up" and has the wheel spinning for about 5-10 minutes, during which I don't touch the phone or anything, at the end of it it just leaves me back at the Backup/restore page and I get a notifcation saying "Backup failed: XML backup failed."

Just to note, the Messaging preferences does backup, but the actual text message and mms message data (the xml file) never backs up successfully

I really want to get this figured out, I appreciate your help!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] es0tericcha0s:
What phone?

Stock or 3rd party messenger?

Which version of Titanium Backup?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
It's a Galaxy Note3,

The messenger is just an app, I use textra but have the basic "messenger" app as well

Titanium backup v 6.1.5.6
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
Anyone? been trying to figure this out for a long time
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
can someone please help me with this??? Does anyone else have this issue. as you can see from the picture, my titanium backup has never backed up my sms/mms, this would have been handy a while ago as my texting app messed up and deleted a bunch of my texts, I dont want this to happen again, please help! (or if I'm in the wrong please please direct me to somewhere that can help!)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
One things I've noticed, is if I do it from the titanium backup menu found by pressing the menu key on my android and bringing up the list of all the actions (like 20 different actions I can take), and then go to the "backup data to xml..." and try to do sms/mms, it goes to 94/2407 (which is weird too because I have a lot more messages(perhaps thats just mms?), but anyway it goes to 94 (3%) and crashed.

(maybe its a certain mms or sms messing it up? can I see an error log of this?)

(Note I took the screenshot early on to show it progressing, but it would go to 94/2407, then crash).

Is there a way to see an error log to perhaps seeing what message or mms is causing the crashing? (then I could try deleting it and retrying)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
TIBU is not great at backing up sms at all. You can try other apps. Also just a heads up, restoring them can break messaging all together if the SMS app is coded differently. Many developers change alot of code in the SMS app of their roms. Not to mention that most sms apps will crash and break restoring that ridiculous amount of sms.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
Ok but is it really unreasonable to want to keep all my texts?

I cant really imagine texts taking up that much data, they are, after all, text messages
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rebel24011:
I guess I'll just add to for anyone thats wants to know- Easy backup let me backup all my sms' (57k sms' were still only 12mb of data :p and I can see them on an excel spreadsheet. It's pretty cool seeing all your texts, ever, on a spreadsheet, lol.

So I guess this would work. Still it would be nice if it worked with titanium backup and am open to input if you guys can think of a solution.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
It's on about the size of the backup. It's the fact that restoring any system data is risky as best. Like I said even with say the 5.0 update sms data base is done differently so restoring them can break the app to the point of sms not working. As for keeping them it's not unreasonable to keep a few but thousands of texts is pointless.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afx-vancouver:
I stumbled onto this old thread with the same issue, but on Android 5.1. For me, the fix was to ensure that Titanium Backup had the correct permissions to read (for backing up) and write (for restoring) SMS messages.
[XDA Assist] Rasa_K:
Hello,

I have an MTK6589 phone GFive G9 phone with 4.2.1 Android version firmware custom added on the phone (not part of the settings coming with the phone). More information about the version is in the attached screenshot.

Generally, the phone is working fine but I have been experiencing issues with random restarts when using the phone. This happens approximately once a day, the phone freezes for around 10s and then restarts and continues working normally.

I believe that this is relate do some of the apps I have installed on the phone, but I am uncertain which ones or if this assumption is correct. I would like to get to the root of the problem, could you help me determine what is causing this issue? Is there any log files that could help me with this?

Do you have any suggestions on the best approach to determine the reasons for this happening?
[XDA Assist] Darth:
Hi,

If you are able, you could try clearing cache in your recovery . Otherwise it could be an app possibly ...but the only way to track that down is the process of elimination .

Also, custom roms can often have some glitches.

Feel free to ask for help here though,

>Android Development and Hacking >Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Good luck!
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sav_uk:
Hi guys,

I've used Android for a long time, and my last phone was a Nexus 5 (which I sold recently). As the iPhone 6 finally got a larger screen, I thought I'd try it out to see how I feel about it. In all honesty, the iPhone is a great phone with a solid OS, however I'm finding that I'm missing Android. I loved being able to have widgets on multiple home screens that gave me information without needing to launch an app, and I miss the way I was able to make the device unique to me. My iPhone home screen looks the same as everyone else's iPhone.

Now, coming from a Nexus 5 (which admittedly, felt cheap) the iPhone immediately feels like a premium smartphone, and I know that the Xperia Z series also have a premium build quality. I feel like the Z3 will be the perfect device to get me back to Android as I want something that is aesthetically great as well as powerful.

My main gripes with my Nexus 5 were that the build quality was cheap-feeling, and the N5 was known to have a really weak cell radio. In fact, I used to think my carrier wasn't great, but realised from having the iPhone that it was the fact that the N5 had a crappy radio. My iPhone has strong reception even in weaker coverage areas, and good signal is important to me - does the Z3 have good cell reception? Also, I travel on the London Underground to work every day, and when I would get above ground my N5 would take ages to lock onto a signal whereas my iPhone locks on immediately. How good is the Z3 at locking onto signal when you emerge from a no-coverage area?

Another thing, I know that the Z3 has a 20.7MP camera which is great, but I'd rather shoot in 8MP for smaller file sizes. Is it possible to change the resolution in the camera app? I was able to choose different resolutions with my N5.

One last thing - I've noticed that the iPhone screen is significantly brighter than my N5 screen was, and doesn't drain battery as quickly on higher brightness as the N5 did. How bright is the Z3 screen? Does the battery suffer significantly when the brightness is cranked up?

Sorry for all the questions. Would really appreciate some input guys.

:)
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] se1000:
I carry both a Z2 and an iPhone 6 on a regular basis, here are some answers, keep in mind this is comparing the older Z2 though.

- The reception on the Z2 is good but not great, the iPhone 6 edges it out but not by a whole lot

- Z2 seems fairly good on picking up a signal after it has gone out of range. I really don't think there's anything in it between the two devices here.

- Both the Z2 and Z3 have a "superior auto" mode which downsamples to 8MP. This is the mode you will most likely shoot in most of the time. Manual mode also has a range of MP choices and not just 20MP.

- The Z2 screen is rated to be dimmer than the Z3 screen so it's tough to say here, but I will say that if I were to set both my Z2 and iPhone 6 to equal perceived brightness, the Z2 would still have much greater screen on time than the iPhone 6 would, by a lot. I believe the Z3 would only be better in this department. It's not even close.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sav_uk:
Thanks for your input :)

Does anyone else have any advice too? Maybe someone else that has also switched from an iPhone?
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waylaidwanderer:
Coming from the Nexus 4, I only have good things to say about my Z3.

Reception is generally a lot better than my old N4. In areas where I used to have no service, I would still have service on my Z3. Picking up the signal again after going from somewhere with no coverage seems a lot faster than my old N4 (think seconds compared to a minute or two).

The Z3 shoots in 8MP using the default mode. You have to switch to manual if you want to pick different MPs. The time it takes to take pictures is a lot slower than the iPhone though, but that's the problem with a lot of Android phones which will be fixed with Android L.

The Z3 is pretty bright. I was able to get 6-7 hours of screen on time with full brightness all day, while listening to about 4-5 hours of music, watching 45 minutes of video, playing 2-3 hours of games and browsing the internet during the other times. If you're not doing too much CPU-intensive stuff, you can expect to get around 10 hours SOT give or take an hour. I wouldn't worry about battery life.

Overall the Z3 looks great and definitely feels like a premium phone.
[Verizon LG G3] dadsterflip:
No we have trwp. I can't wait to see how far we can push this phone. It has been quite awhile not flashing anything that I actually got over my flashaholic issues and now I am itching again...

Thanks to those devs and their talent.. Just amazing.
[Verizon LG G3] kameleongt:
I feel the same way I swear I checked this forum like 5 times today after getting twrp for Roms lol
[Motorola Atrix 2] loai bitawi:
hi, i have Atrix 2 which was operating android 2.3.6, then i flashed custom Rom "Supercharged... something!!".

after that, i tried to flash another ROM but what happened that i followed the steps(wipe data factory reset, wipe cache partition, apply update from SD card) but after that it was stuck on Motorola M logo and restart (boot loop).

as a summery, am trying to restore my bricked atrix 2. I can enter the FastBoot Flash mode, tried to use RSD Lite v6.1.6 to install FXZ or even other official ROM's but it always returns a fail when flashing mbmloader.bin or mbm.bin .

Obviously it is stuck in a bootloop. i also tried to install a custom Rom from SD card Using Recovery Mode but it didn't work.

any ideas plzzzz.

note: i'm not that experienced in flashing and developing such stuff, so some detailed information or links would be very useful.

thx a lot.
[Motorola Atrix 2] jdog1989:
Read the forums, there are many threads on how to fix or problem. Start with the "think your bricked" thread
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] joej:
Quite often these days I am getting the issue mentioned above. Even soft resets do not seem to help. Until I reset a few more times.

What might be the cause of this? Thanks.

Hope someone might be able to assist on this. Thanks.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] BlindDriver:
I'm also getting this message nearly every time I try to make a call. The phone then looks like it resets the connection with the cell tower and it successfully completes the call on the second try. Then the next time I try to call someone else it fails again. I came to this forum to see if anyone else has experienced the same problem.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] BlindDriver:
Hey joej, I found out what might be causing the problem: make sure that your ActiveSync is closed before you try making a call. That fixed the problem for me.

Also, here's a quote from an email from one of my coworkers:

"Your Tytn was probably trying to dial a data connection at the same time that you were trying to dial voice and so it has to cancel the data request before you can dial out. There is a registry tweak you can do to the Tytn to keep the data connection always active when the phone is not in use and this may make it less frequent that you would have a problem

Activesync is supposed to stop when your data connection is unavailable. If you are making or receiving a call on the TyTN (or any GSM phone) your data connection will not be available and therefore not run. Do you have a lot of 3rd party apps running at startup as well? I have rarely had a problem with my Tytn and never during a call unless my battery dies on my BT headset mid call and then the device may get confused."

Hope this helps!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] joej:
thanks for the update, i however am experiencing this issue once in a while and it is not with the activesync running nor a data connection going on. ugh..... guess mine is odd
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] duman95:
Me too

Thank so much for the post count me in there too. I am southern central PA and just last week this started happening to me too. I have an 8525.

I have no acrive data connection nor any apps running that force a data connection. Every morning I have been resetting the phone 5-6 times before the freezing stops and it works. So annoying.

I am suspecting it is a network issue with cingular and them upgrading to 3g in my area. I suspect it as I had to travel north this week and discovered 3g coverage in Harrisburg so I am betting that is it.

I feel your pain and I have no fool proof thing to do on the phone to fix it. But man the phone on the 3g is fantastic.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] joej:
yup, everything rocks in it except the phone functionality really needs to be improved to be more usable.

do you know how i can use the phonepad to do t9 for replying SMS ? right now i am finding it hard to do so as i need to use the normal input methods which is not as easy as a normal cellphone
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] clonic:
omg I'm from Singapore using Starhub think I'm having the same problem too. Dopod 838 pro.

A soft reset works for me, but very frustrating coz you dunno whether you are missing calls - the screen shows mobile is up with signal and all but people can't call in.

Just started happening to me past few days but then again I just took over the phone from a friend who bought it 3 months ago (latest batch)

So frustrating. ... seems related to the activesync.. but then again still happens when activesync's not involved.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] marka2k:
Same here anytime Cingy plays with towers, have you ever got a message stating the call can not be completed at this time? Been getting that one lately as well.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] duman95:
I think that it could be an issue with the phone heightened by the nature of the cell network.

I am wondering if the phone has issues handing off between cell towers as I have the band tab active and there are freq choices so I wonder if the phone even on gsm has some issues dealing with hand offs.

I locked it on gsm and still had issues with the phone. I locked it on 850 and still had phone issues. Put it in auto for the freq and still had issues.

On the U network on Cingular since its the only one the phone is excellent. Data and voice work great. So it will get better in the US for us on Cingular. But man its going to be really annoying during the roll out.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] BlindDriver:
I'm on T-Mobile and I'm seeing this problem as well. (It didn't go away after closing ActiveSync like I said it did earlier.) The weird thing is that this wasn't a problem until about a week or two ago; now all of the sudden it's happening constantly.

Also, I just installed the newest HTC ROM (1.35.255.2) yesterday and now my phone has started to drop calls. I've never had a problem with dropped calls in the 2.5 years I've lived in this apartment.

Ain't technology grand?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] duman95:
Well things have not improved for me. Today after 8 resets the phone finally settled down and did not freeze and was able to get on the network. It has been terrible for me the last 2 weeks...

I removed the eten dialer skin I was using. I wanted to make sure it was not due to replacing the Cingular phone skin.

We shall see tomorrow if the phone is able to work without multiple resets..

If not it is off to a hard reset and re-load to see if that improves it any...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] joej:
I have taken the plunge and did a hard reset plus reinstall of everything. I had the same apps installed again and the problem seems to be gone now. *touch wood* hopefully this doesn't come again... a restore takes too long. I have also installed Sprite and did a full backup of the phone including the memory card just to be safe.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pvs:
This problem started for me this morning. (NYC/NJ Area - USA). I did a hard reset (actually, two) this morning, and it didn't fix it, even when the phone first finished the initial load (in a virgin state). Then, around 11:00am, it began to work again. Now, it's about 6:30pm, and I need the phone to call home to tell them I'm gonna be late, and it's out again. Seems like it's something not to do with the phone, but with the network (I hope). It won't connect in GSM, UMTS, or AUTO modes, FWIW.

Oh well, sure hope it doesn't takle two weeks to "go away".
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] duman95:
returned

Well I returned mine. Did the warrenty exchange. So far so good. No freezing and the phone seems to hold onto the network ok now.

I truly believe mine was defective. As the phone would show searching and not connect to the network.

I think that not being able to make a data connection is a network issue as it clears up in a few days.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] armedmetallica:
also in the same area, experiencing similar problems within certain specific locations. Noteably these are locations that I get SPOTTY UMTS service, so I assume a tower upgrade is in progress or something that is causing this. Where I have full umts service, the problem does not occur.

at times i have signal, but calls don't come through (rings to calling party, but goes to voicemail before my device rings).

This is something related to 3G because when the sim is put in a blackberry 8700c, everything works A-OK.

Glad to know i am not alone in this
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Mac.uni:
I have similar problems. Especially in the university of Hannover. There is UMTS. Since a few days Data Connections via Active Sync don't work.

Before I had problems with calls. For example freezing during call.

And of course in the university and on other places I have often to do calls twice.

I called O2 for that problem. They are upgrading the cell around the university to HSDPA.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] drahtman:
Hi to all !

I had the same problems, then i removed the microSD card and the problem was gone. Now i am testing the phone without miroSD card. I forgot to say that i had the problems with boot too(No GSM) and now it boot perfectly.

Best regards

O2 XDA Trion (dopod rom)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] duman95:
I finally had to return the phone under warrenty. It degraded to no gsm all the time fresh from a hard reset with no mem card. The new device has been flawless radio wise for a week now.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] drahtman:
Problems with XDA Trion SOLVED !!!

Hi again !

The microSD card was NOT the problem ! I tested the phone without SD card but that was not the problem. Then i go to my provider and change the SIM card with new one (the old one was very old so i buy new one) and wauuu it works. The XDA TRION needs the sim card with UMTS suport then it will work fine. So far NO freezing at all. I will let you know in a few days if something strange will hapen. :D

Best regards
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] andreasfuntastic:
Hi, to all with the problem “The operation failed” when trying to make a call:

Try to switch off bluetooth (specially if you are in UMTS (CMDA) network) and then try to make a phonecall again.

For me this helped to solve it.

First I also thought that it’s only a Provider network problem (I have 2 different providers, with one it works, with the other I have the “operation failed” problems).

So it is 100% a phone software problem. (Shame to HTC)

Give feedback if it helped you too.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] armedmetallica:
Something is wrong -- i'm in the nyc/nj area -- and I keep having problems with my 3g phones where i did not before.

cinggy is doing something. anyone that is experiencing these types of issues, you should call 800-331-0500 and file a network incident report.

They will seend someone out to test signal strength, and tweak if/where neccessary.

IF we all report it, perhaps something can/will be done to escalate the problem.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pvs:
FWIW (and knock on wood) my problem disappeared after a few days. I was thinking:

a) Problem with Cing Network - maybe they're doing some work in the area?

b) Problem with new sync/charge cable, maybe frying some circuitry?

c) Problem with Wi-Fi Companion, which passed it's 3-day trial, and I hadn't uninstalled it:eek:

At this point, I'm not sure which it "was" (hopefully I can leave that in the past-tense) ;)

a) My phone reception started giving me problems a few days before. Two people I called asked me to call back on a LAN line because they couldn't make out what I was saying. Also a couple of days before, both UMTS AND GSM gave out on my train ride between Elizabeth and Edison NJ. Neither of these two issues ever had happened before, so this MIGHT be indicative of some network issues in the area.

b) I began to use a different sync cable, and the problem went away. But still not sure if that was coincidence, and because I fear that cable MIGHT be to blame, and might be doing damage to the phone, I really don't want to use it again just to test things out. :o

c) I unistalled Wi-Fi Companion ... not that I had been USING it after the trial, but it DID seem like it was running in the background even if I didn't (couldn't) view the UI Screens. FWIW, I DID try to purchase this app, but their online purchasing methods leave a lot to be desired. I needed to call their support (they don't do any purchasing support via email, it seems (huh?)) and although that was four days ago, I STILL haven't heard back from them. Going to be watching my Credit Card carefully, as I still don't have a working activation code for that application.

Tread carefully if you're interested in this program.

Anyway, since I added to this thread relating my problems, I thought I'd also bang in with the fact that the problem is now gone. Personally, I'm thinking it was network issues, but I am not positive.

Good luck to all still experiencing this problem.

-pvs
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] armedmetallica:
Hmm -- that sounds like a combination of things. I don't have very many 3rd party apps installed. And none that run full time in the background, with the execption of BandSwitch by our very own Daniel [Herro]? -- which I installed AFTER i started having these problems. Helped in certain areas (force the phone to stick to GSM), but not where i need it most.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pvs:
Sorry. Getting poor connections to this board lately. This (and others below) were duplicate posts due to network timeouts.