SD backup between ROM updates - MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading

Hi!
I want to backup to SD before I update ROM. Is it OK to restore from SD with different OS and Radio versions? My friend did it and it seems to work fine, but I don't know what features and/or fixes I may miss if I do that.
Thanks

I did this when upgrading to ROM 3.15.15 and the only thing that strikes me as odd is that my media-player was reverted back to version 8.0 whilst ROM 3.15.15 has version 8.5 installed.
A way around this is to delete the media-player before you use SD-Backup and do the ROM update after that. Then use the restore option from SD-Backup to get your user data back. Works perfect for me.

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Screen color problem when restoring backup after ROM upgrade

My problem started yesterday after restoring the backup i had made with Sprite Backup 6.5.4 built 8 before the ROM upgrade. When the ROM upgrade was finished everything looked OK but after the backup restoration was finished the device was restarted and everything appeard in 8 color or something like that, the only way it got fixed was when i made a call and the screen went off after the call when i turned it on again everything was looking ok, but every time i restart the device everything looks 8 color again and gets fixed when i make the call. I also noticed that if the screen doesn't go off when i make the call it doesn't get fixed.
*The ROM upgrade was downloaded from the official site of HTC Europe http://www.htc.com/europe/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=2&dl_id=533
*The backup was made with migration option on and restored with migration Level 1 option when prompted "Use Level 1 if you are restoring to the same device but different ROM versions" it said.
So i don't think the problem is with the ROM but when i restored the backup file some driver file or system file was overwritten and messed up the graphic settings.
If someone has the same problem and have fixed it please reply, this bug really breaks my nerves.
In the files attached you can see how a picture should look and how it looks on my Blackstone screen.
this is most definitely a flash rom problem
it has been discused under rom threads, but i can't remember now which one
i suggest to read the dummies guide and reflash your rom respecting all instructions
good luck!
TheOnlyPsycho said:
My problem started yesterday after restoring the backup i had made with Sprite Backup 6.5.4 built 8 before the ROM upgrade. When the ROM upgrade was finished everything looked OK but after the backup restoration was finished the device was restarted and everything appeard in 8 color or something like that, the only way it got fixed was when i made a call and the screen went off after the call when i turned it on again everything was looking ok, but every time i restart the device everything looks 8 color again and gets fixed when i make the call. I also noticed that if the screen doesn't go off when i make the call it doesn't get fixed.
*The ROM upgrade was downloaded from the official site of HTC Europe http://www.htc.com/europe/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=2&dl_id=533
*The backup was made with migration option on and restored with migration Level 1 option when prompted "Use Level 1 if you are restoring to the same device but different ROM versions" it said.
So i don't think the problem is with the ROM but when i restored the backup file some driver file or system file was overwritten and messed up the graphic settings.
If someone has the same problem and have fixed it please reply, this bug really breaks my nerves.
In the files attached you can see how a picture should look and how it looks on my Blackstone screen.
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Be very careful when using backup software. When restoring information from a backup, you are restoring old registry settings when may be incompatible with new rom. I only use backup tools like this for contacts/emails etc. Not for anything else. Best backup tool for restoring apps, games registry tweaks, settings etc is SASHIMI
Basically you have upgraded your device to a newer rom which is most likely based on a different build, manila version or from wm6.1 to wm6.5..........and when you perform a restore you are replacing the new registries with older non-compatible registries which is most likely causing your issue.
If you perform a hard reset all colour issues will have gone.
SitRep: the screen gets back to normal colors if i turn it off and on, not just when i make a call, so my mistake.
I have the same problem. I flashed the official ROM update and restored files using SunnySoft Backup Manager. I find that I can restore the colours to their normal state by quickly switching off and back on at the first password screen.
It's a bit of a pain but does not seem to be otherwise detrimental. It's better than having to re-install my software from scratch.
Stefan
HTC Touch HD fan
i have same problem. I unlocked my device and installed an Arabic version ROM instead of the original (purchased from UK).
the HTC icon and windows 6.1 start page colors became like the diffence in the above photos!
the strange thing that if i turn off and then turn on (even if for less than a second) it will become normal!
my old settings were:
ROM version: 1.56.405.1 (43972) WWE
ROM date: 03/06/09
Radio version: 1.13.25.24
Protocol version: 52.62.25.34U
my current settings showing the problem are:
ROM version: 1.14.415.2 (32434) WWE
ROM date: 12/23/08
Radio version: 1.10.25.25
Protocol version: 52.57.25.30U
ExtPkg version: 1.14.415.2
anyone can help.
I Know its an old Thread but i got the same problem after Flashing my HTC Touch HD(German Version) with the ROM "Dusk-Evo v1.08 WM Leo 2.07_2.5.20113626.0" Version 1.07
Hope you can help me,to fix it.
And an other Question,can i normaly Update to version 1.08?
And whats the Different between "grzegorz10_Dusk-Evo_v1.08_24001" and "grzegorz10_Dusk-Evo_v1.08_24001_CHS" ?
I Realy hope that you can help me with my problems.
And i'm sorry for my bad English,but i'm German
i have same problem in arabic language
maybe. agency can repair this problem
who agency for saudi arabia ?
i am bought it from jarir bookstore
did someone know how to repair this problem?
i have same problem after some rom update eror...
To fix this issue just downgrade HSPL....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=137965&d=1229498849

Hard reset

Can anyone tell me if this will wipe any updates etc that have been done to the phone by the phone company?
my phone forgot the lock code so i had to do a hard reset, since then the phone has been freezing quite often, mainly when sending/recieving texts if you change the orientation while typing.
at the moment its either wait 2 minutes for it to sort itself out or just restart sense which is now becoming annoying.
any help appreciated
it also wont play the h.264 recordings i have made on the phone, i just get a black screen that says loading :/
well i have figured out it is definately related to the orientaion of the phone, i cannot turn the phone on its side when sending texts or using the web browsers or it will just lock up or slow to a crawl.
p.s. somone just please reply so i know i aint getting ignored cos my posts seem to be lol
Hmmmm...
Is the issue only occuring since you performed the hard reset and not before?
Have you tried reinstalling any updates you had before the reset?
Do you have a lot of msg's in your inbox?
updates are usually stored in root of phone
have you installed any new cabs or roms ??
if you've not installed anything new another hard reset may be in order just to re-syncronize phone
only help I can give at mo
spookywillow said:
Can anyone tell me if this will wipe any updates etc that have been done to the phone by the phone company?
my phone forgot the lock code so i had to do a hard reset, since then the phone has been freezing quite often, mainly when sending/recieving texts if you change the orientation while typing.
at the moment its either wait 2 minutes for it to sort itself out or just restart sense which is now becoming annoying.
any help appreciated
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Yeah it will. it is like doing a windows system restore using the restore discs that came with your pc. Personally i would look at updating to a newer rom if you haven't already got a 1.66 or 1.72 based stock rom. You could always look at a custom rom. I use energy 23569 and i haven't had any problems with it. Also the energy roms include a newer version of sense that is included with the new TMOUS roms and it appears to be less buggy
thanks for the replies guys,
it was fine before the reset but it did slow a little in landscape mode but nothing anywhere near what its like now, key presses had a slight delay and now they are like a 5 second delay....portrait mode is perfect.
i always delete messages so my inbox is empty, i never applied any updates prior to the reset, i assumed virgin did it all for me.
i have only installed a few tweaks but the main change is bsb tweaks, i'm now using the latest version where as i was using the prior version before the hard reset but this has only started happening about a week after i installed it.
rom version is 1.66.351.1 (76641) WWE
rom date 03/03/10
manilla version 2.5.19211619.0
OS version 5.2.21869
radio version 2.07.51.22_2
i want to use a custom rom or atleast update to newer one but how will i put it back to the stock rom? the phone has some locked items from virgin installed, they will know if those are not there.
No they won't. Just say you removed them by hand because they were of no purpose to you.
If you install a custom rom on your unbranded, unlocked (the phone virgin supplied you is exactly the same as what you would pay for standalone except for the software extras) Leo it will be easy to install a stock rom. just flash it and then remove HSPL3 in favour of the stock spl (1.42 i think).
Your manilla/sense version is actually very old. There are newer versions about (2015 and 2016) that have been developed for the TMOUS devices but as HTC neglect the UK we haven;t been given the officially yet but most of the new custom roms include them.
If you do stay stock try installing LeoCPUSpeed V4 and chainfire's 3D Driver Patch V2. They will improve the speed of the phone in general and you may find the typing lag goes away completely

3.14 HTC Official ROM BUGS (the worst ROM ever ?)

hi,
i have some VERY annoying bugs with this ROM :
1-/ The hour, in the clock have 1 hour more ! ( very annoying for alarm clock )
it's a very random bug : sometimes when i awake the HD2, sometimes when i restart it...
2-/ i delete my mails when i read them.... but the HD2 ALWAYS reload them !
( from a gmail account)...
3-/ Same problem with SMS: i delete them, but after 5 or 10mn, they come back !
4-/ sometimes, HTC Sense have big bug with i put the HD2 in landscape orientation for choosing an album ( music album page)
what about you ? have some tips to resolve these problems ?
5 - Camera flash doesn't work independently anymore
6- MS Office Mobile 10 will not work correctly on this version
Totally Agree
I've waited for the official Asia version to released only to get disappointed. First 30 minutes of usage my HD2 hanged twice. Did a factory reset and finally reflashed the ROM.
When I thought everything is OK. I had the same problem again when I started loading my favorite apps. Don't know how HTC tested this ROM. Their old ROMs are much much more better than this....
Epic Fail!
Just a simple question; did you install stock ROM 3.14 correctly?
I mean with this in the last couple of months I see almost 75% of the user who didn't install it correctly.
1) download the correct ROM version who match with your aria S/N.
2) Remove HSPL from your device.
3) Install stock ROM 3.14
4) Do a hard reset.
I don`t have any problem with the 3.14 rom , everything is ok . And ,I must say , it`s better than 1,66 rom
skodann said:
I don`t have any problem with the 3.14 rom , everything is ok . And ,I must say , it`s better than 1,66 rom
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skodann said:
I don`t have any problem with the 3.14 rom , everything is ok . And ,I must say , it`s better than 1,66 rom
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Same here, few issues now, better battery life, hardly any crashes.
I've found the issue with the reappearing emails as well, but only with an IMAP account and if you delete them from within Sense. If you delete them from the message dialog or inbox it will delete them. As we didn't have the delete function in Sense in 1.66 I don't see the problem.
m.
PS: anyone know if you can mark a message as 'read' from the Sense interface?
ROm bugs
Hi there
3.14 is realy fast ROM.
But full off bugs missing clear type!!!I don't want to go for regedit!!!
UI is fast with lots of lags!
Abouth camera,sms,mail,,, better not talk
3.14 is the best ROM WM 6.5:
1. Very fast first start.
2. No bugs till now.
3. Working microsoft voice command(after install) over BT mic.
4. Great batery life - 2 days (aggressive using).
5. Android friendly.
6. ...
I dont know why but i have very bad battery life with 3.14 ROM stock or customized and i think its because 2.15 RADIO
No problems for me using 3.14 ROM.
Isn't stock ROM supposed to contain everything, I mean besides OS, Radio ROM is also cooked in..... And yes as far as I know I followed correct procedure, I've flushed out HSPL with 1.42 official ROM and then upgrade to 3.14 ROM.
The second time I flashed I've check the bootloader and it says 3.03 SPL. Flashed the official 3.14 ROM twice. Second time I flashed everything looks okay but when I loaded my apps uConvert with flashlight didn't work always hanged. Parlingo always giving notification that it didn't start properly worst even if I uninstall it, HD2 still giving same notification.
On top of this keyboard is very laggy, I though this issue should have been solved, tons of custom ROM had solved this issue for ages.
Now I'm happily back to custom ROM with Laurentius26 WWE latest 3.14 based ROM, still keeping 3.03 SPL. Why can't HTC even match the performance of custom ROM they should know better right? sometimes its difficult to understand this manufacturers.
Instead of removing HSPL you can flash from the SD card.
Its very NB to have the correct stock rom (region) when doing the above. If you don't you end up with SPL 3 and no OS (just the boot loader). At this point you will not be able to get past this without a gold card.
The safest route is to get a gold card first then flash via SD Card.
If you flash with out removing HSPL via the USB you will still have the old spl and you will have a very unstable OS.
no problem with 3.14 rom..only thing that is not working is visual voicemail
At last my stock Rom was on SEA HTC official web site,I put back my spl and flashed it,overall its a good ROM but I dont like the scrolling in Sense and my WIFI suffered terribly,since I heavily depend on it.I hope HTC will update it soon with a better one.
I went back to HSPL and installed the Middle East English ROM 1.66.415.9 WWE,with heavy tweaks from this forum,this is the best ROM Ive ever used,should have been the basis for any future HTC updates.
Anyone having this issue?
Whereby everytime after you sent a message, there's a message sent back from htc??
Anyone know how to disable it? it's very irritating!
Thank you very much!!
website > yfrog.com/0e20101123045103pmj
p/s : i cannot insert picture because of my rank
Missing the Display Settings completely from All Settings?? Why do they make it tough to enable the ClearType? ClearType is disabled by default as well :|
What about RAM of 3.14?
In Settings - About phone - Hardware information RAM size is 448MB.
In SD card & phone storage is written that Total program is 366MB
Is this the same?

Problems with 3g and ROMs

So when I first rooted my phone I put Fresh on there. I installed the ROM and the 2 radio files. I then got the 3d and gave the evo to my gf, but fresh was very slow for me so I installed the CM7 ROM.
CM7 was very buggy for her, especially since she was new to Android I decided Sprint Lover's ROM on there and flashed a newer update on it since.
The problem is that she has been having problems with 3g. She has so many problems and errors with 3g data. It shows that she has 3g, but she gets errors when she tries to access the internet.
My question is, how can I get it back to stock or a nice rooted stock rom to try and fix this problem? Do I just flash a stock rom? I'm guessing the fresh radio's might be messing something up. If there is a simple solution to this without having to do a full erase I'm sure she prefers that, being that we've fully erased her phone like 4 times already, lol.
Thanks guys.
Get the Sprint Lovers all-in-one package from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830153
It's flashed through hboot (it's a PC36IMG.zip) and will flash not just the rom but also the radios. This will wipe everything.
Alternately you can go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485 and get just the latest radios and flash those. Flashing this will not wipe everything.
If the problem is with the radios then that should fix it. If it doesn't, then it's likely that the issue lies somewhere else.
thanks, just installed the new radio's. Will see how it works.
I would definitely just get the app mybackup root and back everything up apps/data , sms etc.. Then just restore everything after you flash a new ROM.
Then just do a fresh install of what ever ROM you want then test out different radios till you find the best ones that work for you I'm on old radios because the newer ones didn't work great for me not all evos work the same .
I hope that helps you out some.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA App
I got simalar problem like u.
I installed new radios, try different roms like MIUI, CM6, CM7, Miks, Minn, OMJ's, etc...... finally I go back to stock rom but still got the same problem.
I almost crazyy
the phone never got 3G signal, it only works 1G no matter what I did.
I've reserched couple days but looks like nobody got my problem.
now I fixed my problem btw... well I'm not sure this thing works to u or not
anyway try it if u still got 3G problem.
*I don't even remember where this posted originally,,, somewhere this forum or not,,
huge thanks to original author btw
download 'MSL reader' at market n get the numbers. it's 6 digits.
go to your phone and type ##3282#
tap 'edit mode'
type that 6 digits from MSL reader
tap 'data profile'
open menu n tap 'restore'
then the phone will be reboot.
when booting is done, your phone will start resistering to network.
after that, if something popup n ask update (mayb PRL update), 'cancel' it.
mine works perfectly now.
hope this work to u.
ok thanks, i'll try it out. I do get "3g" at the top though, but always get an error while trying to retrieve data.
Also, what files in the SD card are necessary? Is there a list? I think there are so many junk files in there taking up space, I don't know whats necessary and whats not.
Please help slow EVO 4G after flashing Sprint Lovers All In One
Obvious Noob here.
having issues with my Evo 4G after flashing Sprint Lovers All in one
phone seemed very fast immediatly after flashing SL but since then has become just overall slow.
in fact, i'm downloading an update to ROM Manager right now (a 2.27MB file) and it's taken literally 20 minutes to get to 75%. it's painful!
when i go in to manage applications...says "computing" on space, data and cache etc.
before i flashed SL all in one i ran factory reset 3x in a row prior to flashing - i did NOT re-format my SD card but had it removed (after unmounting).
Should i try to wipe and re-flash or just go to CM7? Are there any things i can try before re-flashing or moving to another rom? Please help..
thank you OB1B

Refresher on world of custom ROM's

Hi all
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 G900F, which when I got it 18 months ago was very eager to get involved in rooting and getting a custom ROM on it.
Fast forward to present day and the novelty has worn off, I haven't kept up to date with anything, and I am probably very out of date.
As such I would like to either update to the latest ROM or just flash the latest stock - I am not sure I really use much nowadays that even requires anything other than stock (used to play a lot with Tasker, sysadmin apps)
What has prompted this is of late my phone has been very laggy, crashing, sys apps hanging, etc. I also dropped my phone ages ago and occasionally the screen stops working (although still responsive) and I have to take the battery out to get it back (sometimes it reboots to a full screen of coloured static, and I have to repeat this several times). Now I know this seems like a hardware issue but at times the phone will not have been touched or moved and it'll do this, which makes me hope that maybe updating it will help.
I have a paid version of Omega Files Pro but apparently there has been no update for a very long time.
Hopefully you guys can help me get back up to date and on a level
Android Version: 5.0
Baseband version: G900FXXU1ANCE
Kernel Version: 3.4.0-Omega-1.0
Build Number: Omega V17 - XXU1POCF
I have PhilZ Recovery iirc.
Thanks in advance, if you need anymore info please say.
Install the rom from alxndr thread. Its a stock rom slightly optimized. It is the best for stability, performance and battery. There is only great reviews about it, it has a great community, and he updates it very frequently.
He has roms for either android 5 or android 6, which could can find in the second post of the thread.
If you choose to install android 6, you will have to update the bootloader and modem. They, as well as instructions, can be found in his thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/development/rom-ane4-kitkat-4-4-2-multi-csc-t2813628
To correct the issues, you will probably need to perform a full factory reset before installing the rom. Before anything, I recommend you to do a full rom backup (using your recovery). That way, if you forgot to backup something (like your taskers profiles), you can always go back.
Before doing the factory reset, you should backup your SMS, calls and apps. The easiest way to do it is by using the integrated backup tools in your S5 options : in the backup&restore sections, you will find a Samsung section that can backup messages and phone calls. There will also be a Google section where you can choose to backup your apps. If everything is set up correctly, once you will boot the new rom, you will be asked sequentially if you want to restore the samsung (Messges, call logs) and google (apps) data.
Thank you I'll have a read.

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