backup, upgrade rom, restore questions

[jeffr]

I have a Tmo mda gen 3
task: upgrade rom to faria

So I wanted to try the new wm6 rom (faria) so I starting reading and reading here on XDA and other places for any and all information about the best way to do an upgrade, mind you I already upgraded to 2.24 so my mda is already unlocked and ready to get flashed.

So I did a backup with sprite, I didnt do a updatefile step which is suppose to make an upgrade file so when you do get the new rom on its suppose to help ,but anyways I got a backup.

I flashed the rom to my mda and I had it working, just like everyone said, it was faster, more toys and seemed to work!

Now I did a (selective) restore (only restoring needed stuff), well... sprite warned about rom versions ,but it restored my files including my registry.

low and behold EVERY one of my programs worked, GPS, google maps, etc

,but 2 issues I can not resolve.

timewizard.exe randomly pops up :(

voicecommand does not work :(

so it appears the only advice for the timewizard.exe was reflash , which I have done a few times in trying to get voicecommand working ,but the popup message seems to come back, mainly after a registry restore.


voice command is the bigger one, it appears when I restore the registry it blows away some voice command entries from the pre installed voice command 1.6 and then voicecmd.exe does not want to run.


So my question is I am sooooo close to being able to make a backup change roms and get EVERYTHING back WITHOUT reinstall of software I can taste it ,but I need some input!

anyone know some good registry tools / editing suggestions to backup the registry and restore it without killing voice command?


Jeff

[justDave]

Try flashing back and creating an upgrade file. I'd love to know whether it works ;-)

[jeffr]

Thats what I did and it worked, however what I did first was

flash to the orginal rom, 2.24 xcel

I restored the sprite backup , however voice command didnt even work going back to orginal rom.

then I removed voice command 1.5 from installed programs.

cleaned up some file space only had 6 meg left on main storage.

then I create the updatefile and saved it to sd card.

finally did another complete backup

flashed to new rom and then did a restore and now voice command works, I will be doing some more testing ,but I think I got it.

if I would have had to install each program seperately that would have killed me!

jeff

[jeffr]

well.. forget what I just said.... nothing works!

back to the drawing board......

all the files restored correctly ,but the registry did not restore when using the update mode AND the updatefile.

none of my programs appeared in the start menu and none of the registry entires were restored....

I'll try doing some manually restoreing and see what I get... maybe I missed something....

Jeff

[jeffr]

well... I hope my ramblings help someone else!

so I think the key here was simpling removing voice command from the backup file and upon restore everything will work.

so in short, backup upgrade rom , restore works with sprite , but without using the updatefile mode as it seems it just ignores the windows folder and the registry , so whats the point?

I test some more and post my comments to help others who do not want to reinstall everything when they upgrade rom's.

[mfrazzz]

If you get this to work, that would be great, but I think you are playing with a loaded gun trying to do this. Many things are very different between WM5 and WM6. Depending on the type of backup done and what all gets restored, I can see corruption of the registry, and things just not being put in the right place.

[jeffr]

Well... so far ALL my apps are working, gps, google, opera, etc about the only thing now is I am getting a Notification

TimeWizard.exe could execuite.

I am hunting that one down in the reg right now.

any ideas?

jeff

[jeffr]

Well ... to follow up my thread with my self and maybe help a few others.

the last issue I had after a rom upgrade and a restore was the dreaded timewizard.exe notification popup when you turn on the mda or come back from power save.

after hours/days of messaging around I found that in the "Task Manager" tool you can view Notifications and in there I found timewizard.exe listed a few times, I just assume it had this as a warning/notification and was simply "Notifing" me of a "past" problem. after I cleared it out of there the mda has not shown any more Can not execute TimeWizard.exe popups!

I hope this help anyone else with this issue.

Jeff