Did you choose the same region as before?
I was using the US region for Cortana, but when setting up I chose my country, Greece, maybe that's the reason?
Hard resetting once again to try with US region from the beginning.
***Edit***
Just set up the phone again. No prompt to restore. I turned on backup in settings. The weird thing is that messages (SMS) were restored. I click manage backups, but it says using 0 out of X GB in Onedrive, and the two check boxes are grayed out. So maybe this means that despite making a backup (I did it 3 times!!!) it never really did anything, I don't know.
This is really awful since I lost all app settings and app data, from whichever app actually used backup and I have to reinstall everything on my own. I already regret not waiting to get cyan on the update 1 DP for whenever MS releases the encryption bug which made them halt the update for all DP users.
***Edit 2***
It's a rollercoaster as it seems. I did hard reset once more. I chose the US region in the setup the very first time the phone asked me to choose. And finally, I got a prompt about restoring my backup and it's restoring as I write this down. My fault in my previous try was that I chose Greece region again, didn't add an account and changed to US later in the settings. Restarted and added my MS account then.
So for anyone who may have the same problem, try setting the same region you had when you did the latest backup. I can't think of any reason why region could affect the restore/backup process, but for me it did.
Last edited by cybernouris; 08-08-2014 at 07:29 AM.
08-08-2014 06:22 AM