so what do you guys do when you flash a new rom and want to reinstall all your apps again? i know you can use titanium backup and reinstall all your backups (app+data), but i also do know that generally this is not a good idea if going from say, touchwiz to aosp or cm. i remember someone telling me that TiBU can generate a zip file with all the apks to install in recovery after a flash.
for the most part nowadays i just go on play.google.com and visit "my apps" and just install from there, and nowadays most apps sync to google or facebook. but i can't help but think that this is a tedious way of accomplishing a recovery
any advice appreciated. thanks!
An easy way to do it without having the apps backed up is to visit the play store and click on "my apps" it should have every app there that you have ever downloaded/purchased using your current gmail address.
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OK... Let me enlighten everyone here...
We don't have AOSP on this device. So you can only go TW to TW.
Apps and app data are fine to transfer from phone to phone no matter what the ROM is. However, system data is not ever a good idea to transfer unless it is the same ROM and the same version of ROM. So with that being said, you can use Titanium Backup to do what you need. It's much quicker.
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Hey guys!
First off I'd like to thank all of the people on the forum for letting me do so many awesome things with my phone.
To the question. What is the easiest way to restore application settings once a kernel is flashed? I just went from root to unrooted stock and then to the SuperRooterExtreme and am trying to put everything back in its place.
Thanks for any tips/suggestions you may have!
Alec5216
Hi Alec,
I'm kind of a noob here, but from what I gather the best way to restore applications + data is to use titanium backup. BEFORE YOU FLASH A NEW KERNEL OR FIRMWARE, go into titanium backup and do a batch backup of all apps plus data. This will save all app data to your internal memory in a folder called Titanium Backup. Once you flash a new firmware and use UltraSuperRooterMegaExtreme, then reinstall titanium backup and do a batch restore. This will then reinstall all the apps you previously had. Batch restore is only available through the paid version
Thanks for the scoop! How much is the pro version?
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I have the paid app. Just wondering how to do the batch restore, I can't seem to find that option.
Edit: meant to answer your question, Its up to you how much you'd donate I believe. I think it [email protected] $3.99 us
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Open Titanium Backup
click on menu key (bottom left button)
a screen will slide up from the bottom click batch
Then choose from the menu what you want to do. There are many options.
I'm a noob too, I hope this helps.
Also get ROM Manager if you are going to flash to a new ROM and back up your current ROM.
Thanks to all for the Titanium Backup advice. It'll save me sooo much time.
Alec5216
Agreed! Great app, I thought all I could do was use AppBrain market to sync my apps. This is better, thanks!
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Hi guys,
I am tired of waiting for the official ICS update and went ahead and flashed the 'We want ICS' rom and it is GREEEEAT. I made a backup but just want to know if I can get all the apps I had before if I restore the backup or will it take me back to GB. I am on Android 4 now so do I restore or no? I did it using ROM manager
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Hi guys,
I am tired of waiting for the official ICS update and went ahead and flashed the 'We want ICS' rom and it is GREEEEAT. I made a backup but just want to know if I can get all the apps I had before if I restore the backup or will it take me back to GB. I am on Android 4 now so do I restore or no? I did it using ROM manager
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Coming from GB to ICS, it's probably best to download your apps again or install apps only if you have a Titanium Backup.
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Coming from GB to ICS, it's probably best to download your apps again or install apps only if you have a Titanium Backup.
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Using Titanium Backup is not recommended...might cause problems in ROM and ud have to reflash. Install all apps again its the best way.
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FCArsenal said:
Hi guys,
I am tired of waiting for the official ICS update and went ahead and flashed the 'We want ICS' rom and it is GREEEEAT. I made a backup but just want to know if I can get all the apps I had before if I restore the backup or will it take me back to GB. I am on Android 4 now so do I restore or no? I did it using ROM manager
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It's probably a NAND backup you did. This backup contains images of all the partitions of your old ROM. So if you restore, it will restore GB as it was when you did the backup. To restore only your apps you should have used an app like Titanium Backup.
Edit : If you really want to restore you apps you can still restore GB from your Backup, install Titanium Backup, make a backup of your apps and flash again We Want ICS in which you will then be able to restore your apps (Edit 2 : you should use compro01's method, it's faster)
2 options
1. redownload your apps - Easiest way is once you have the play store functioning on the device, just go to https://play.google.com/apps, log in, and wail on the install buttons.
2. if you don't want to do that (e.g. excessive drain on transfer cap and no wifi available) or can't for some reason (e.g. app was removed from the store, but you still want it, like the tricorder (CBS are assholes)), open up the backup folder (/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/[nameofbackup]. This is most easily accomplished on a computer rather than on the device) and open the data.[filesystem].tar file. All the apks for the installed apps are in the apps folder. system apps are in same folder in the system.[filesystem].tar file, but you're probably not interested in anything in there.
Just copy out the apks you're needing, and install away. You may need to turn on "install from unknown sources" under the development options.
Note that neither of these methods will preserve your settings from your apps nor any of their other data (saved games, passwords, etc.). if you have stuff you need for some reason, you'd need to go through the above mentioned 3rd option of backing up your current WWICS install, then restoring your previous ROM, backing up all your relevant apps with Ti or another app, restoring your backup of the WWICS ROM, and using Ti/whatever to restore the backed up apps, all whilst hoping that restoring apps from different bases doesn't break things too horribly.
I prefer titanium backup because my app data will also be backup'd
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I prefer titanium backup because my app data will also be backup'd
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What's the method you should use for titanium? As I redownloaded titanium on my rom and it wouldn't find the backed up data I backed up about 10mins previous
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vizzy said:
What's the method you should use for titanium? As I redownloaded titanium on my rom and it wouldn't find the backed up data I backed up about 10mins previous
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Check to see what filters are in use, if any. If you set a filter to show only uninstalled apps you should see your backups.
Ahh.... I'll have a look next time I flash a new rom
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You must be very carefull when using titanium backup and changing roms,since you are coming from GB to ICS thats a completly new and different version of OS and may have problems when restoring too many apps, I suggest that you restore backups one by one app, so if you get some Fc's you can see which app is to blame,and definitly do not restore any settings or system apps
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I use Titanium Backup
I use My Backup and it is great. I have found no problems restoring all my apps between different roms.
And if you need to you can either restore the app or app and data
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I installed Nike aura ics and then used titanium to backup my apps from a gingerbread rom I was using... Haven't had any fc till now
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Thanks guys!! I reinstalled all apps again from the play store but there should be a faster way of doing this. It was a pain but I had to do it. Its great now!!
I know bud. I use Mybackup as well but I forgot to use it while upgrading and thought there would be some other way of doing it
Hi, I'm looking for a way to backup and restore apps in batches. For the backup part it's easy, I use Titanium. But the restore part is strainuous when you have alot of apps because you have to authorize each one by one, long and boring. Maybe I didn't see a setting to do it but I would like to know if there are better ways to do it than others. Also, Is there a "TOTAL" phone backup app or way? Since I try alot of things, sometimes I have to revert back to GB and update from there and all settings, kernels, roms, apps, etc... have to be manually restored. I'm looking for a way to build an image that can be reloaded like a computer backup.
Thanks in advance and have a really nice day!
I use rom tool box pro for this exact reason.
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what happen when you upgrade your honeycomb to ics or jellybean on your 8.9? does all your existing apps get wipe and you have to reinstall it again? how about personal data such as contacts, calenders etc.?
Depends if its an official OTA or not. If it is then all ur apps and everything stays there unchanged. If u install a custom rom like cyanogen then everything is lost.
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well contacts and calendar data is not lost if you have them synced with your google account...they are in the cloud so after reinstalling and adding your account again they will sync up and be there like before!
You can opt to restore your apps / data with appextractor . Have a nandroid in the cwm recovery before u upgrade. In that way u can restore almost anything. I do not use tb, so cant tell. Method for email setup in the sig. This is similar for other restores as well.
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I am currently running CM7 (2013-01-01 nightly) on my Galaxy Ace. When I want to try a new rom I go through the usual steps: make a CWM backup, wipe, flash the new rom, play with it for a while, and then restore my backup to go back to CM7.
Everything works fine, except for one major issue: I can't install apps remotely from the Play Store site after restoring the backup. I click on Install, it says the app will be downloaded to my device shortly, but nothing happens. Wiping and flashing CM7 again fixes it, but that means losing my backups. Is this a known issue? Is there something else I should do after restoring a backup for the Play Store to work correctly again? Thanks!
Can you still login to your GMail account?
Maybe you just have to reconfigure your Google account (and wipe some caches)
Try Menu/Settings/Applications/Manage Applications/All Apps/find the market app and open it, then force stop the app, then clear catch, clear data, then uninstall updates. Now back out and reopen the market app and then follow the sign in instructions.
Hope this helps.
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@ OP : Forget cwm backup. Backup all your data with titanium backup & after a fresh flash, use the " restore data only " option in the titanium backup app.
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Venomous Viper 119 said:
@ OP : Forget cwm backup. Backup all your data with titanium backup & after a fresh flash, use the " restore data only " option in the titanium backup app.
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I'll try that, thanks! If you've restored a Titanium backup before, it'd be awesome if you could check that installing apps from the Play Store site works after the restore. I'm a little weary of losing my CM7 setup again only to fix this issue. Thanks again!
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I'll try that, thanks! If you've restored a Titanium backup before, it'd be awesome if you could check that installing apps from the Play Store site works after the restore. I'm a little weary of losing my CM7 setup again only to fix this issue. Thanks again!
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Really speaking, I never use titanium backup as the only things that matter to me on my phone are the contacts & the info I provided earlier was just from a hint of what I had come across before. I can't try it out for you coz I'm currently unrooted. But definitely the data backup should work fine without any issues at all. Just go ahead & try out
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Is the Play store installed on your phone? If it isn't you won't be able to dl remotely from the store. If it isn't you will have to find a version of gapps to work with your rom.