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Offline Gerard

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Android phone restoring itself?
« on: August 31, 2012, 09:04:43 AM »
i have a galaxy s2 running Android 4.0.4 ( offically update through kies)
went to bed last night after farting about on the internet for a bit, turned the phone off.
turned it back on this morning and apart from my pictures and screen lock and apps the phone has restored itself to factory settings.
home screen plastered in widgets, lost all my contacts, all my apps that do work are running for the first time. all my installed apps are force closing??
thankfully i had a back up of the contacts , be it from a few months ago.
im going to properly restore it now and install all the apps from scratch again and hope that next time i retsart the phone it doesnt have amnesia again
has any one ever came across this on and android phone?
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 09:19:43 AM »
Do The old turn it off wait 10secs then turn it on again see if it helps.
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2012, 01:49:01 PM »
tried that stephen, no joy

back up and running again after formatting and then a complete restore, i just have to sit and re download all my apps etc once i get home to some wifi
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2012, 02:13:00 PM »
Same thing happened to my dads samsung, he lost everything.

It wouldnt have happened if you had an iPhone ;)
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2012, 10:14:49 AM »
same thing happened to my Sony VIAO laptop...big bag of sh**e that it is....
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2012, 12:09:09 PM »
Iphone 4s?
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2012, 08:59:40 PM »
Not an apple fan boy :-)
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Re: Android phone restoring itself?
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2012, 09:21:55 PM »
Never experienced anything like this on my HTC One X (running CyanogenMod 10). Strange.
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