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I have just recently downloaded Titanium Backup in order to save my apps because I want to try new ROMs that say to do full wipes including EXT wipes. I was just curious what the proper way to use the program to restore apps was. Also, if Titanium Backup saves to your sd card and you do an EXT wipe, won't that delete all of your saved data? How does it restore? I hope this question isnt on the forum somewhere, I tried searching and couldnt quite find the answer i was looking for.
Thanks for the help. You guys on here have been lifesavers.
Hi,
Okay so first Titanium backup will back up your system settings and your applications and does a fine job at it too! When you wipe your Ext2/3/4 partition all your doing is cleaning off any data held in it. This does not effect your fat 32 partition which is where all your stuff is (pictures, albums, films, ringtones etc) I haven't deleted my fat32 partition ever as this never needs touching really. Apps2sd runs from your Ext partiton so wiping will kill all your apps but this is where Titanium comes in and as it saves to the fat32 partition you have no worries wiping. Also suggest backing up on a PC, I do once a week and saved me a few headaches
Open Titanium and hit menu, then batch. This will bring up a list of options to 'Run' backup or restore. I would strongly suggest also to donate $3.99 for the paid version with the hyper shell.
Anything else you need help with?
Nope. Thanks man. I just needed a few things cleared up before I went ahead and wiped my ext. You were a great help.
No problem, glad to have helped
you say it saves system settings...
so i have about 30 ringtones set to specific contacts, if i wipe/flash a new rom.
restore using titanium backup. Will all those ringtones be set back to the proper contacts automatically with TTB? cuz its a pain in the *** setting them each new rom
i tried mybackup pro a long time ago and it didn't do this which is why i don't waste my time with that app. (that may be changed now, it's been about 8 months)
would I be able to Restore my backup if I have flashed a new rom without problems?
I'm having problems with Titanium Backup. I made backup of a lot of apps before flashing some new stuff to my Galaxy S, but now when I try to restore them it just gets stuck. At first there's that little window saying restoring, but that disappears and it seems like everything is fine. However, when I try to restore next app it just says that a process is already running and it stays that way until I kill it via Autokiller. The app gets installed so that's fine, but the problem is that I would really like to just run a batch-operation and not have to kill the Titanium-process for every app i have back-up of...
Any solutions good people of XDA?
check at the new version, it has an alternative restore mode that you need to enable for it to work on the galaxy s
Another restore question
I installed Titanium backup on my Galaxy S Captivate yesterday, did a batch backup of "all user apps + System Data" in the list it showed the bloatware ATT apps which I wanted to uninstall but with the option of reinstalling them if I ever needed to bring the phone back to ATT.
I did a test uninstall of one of the market apps and then did a restore and it worked fine. Then I tried to un installed one of the ATT apps, which worked but when I tried to restore it by clicking on the crossed out app at the bottom of the list, there is no option to restore it, just delete.
Did I do something wrong with the backup or am I not restoring it properly? my test worked fine so I thought I had it figured out but obviously I am doing something wrong.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks!
Similar problem with no luck at reinstalling Att apps. I accidently deleted google talk and now cannot download new apps.
I have a similar question to the OP.
If I use the Master Clear or whatever is called to restore my phone to stock...that is supposed to delete the internal SD Card so, if I were to copy the Titanium Back Up folder to my PC then copy it back to the SD card after the clearing is done...would that be enough to restore all the games and apps?
I have titanium backup stored in sdcard, this backup is settings/wallpaper, is possible to extract from this file only wallpaper, without restoring all backup to the phone??
My news app/widget not working on MY HTC DHD even after several reboot/restart. So I decided to back up the apps and widget trough titanium backup and uninstall the app+widget. After reinstalling the apps/widget. the news app is working again but the widget, I cant find it in widget menus when I tried to add it to home screen.
Any help appreciated.
Thx
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Also have a question about this program
It's restores my apps great. Very happy about it. But when you have installed ur apps back.
When I go to the android market they are not listed in my apps.
Though when i go and look for the app in the store it says installed. Yet can't check the allow automatic update checkbox.
Hope I make sense???
So I can't update it basically???Or when there is an update it will show up in my apps ???
My SD card was fried last night... everything gone. Good thing I backed up everything onto my laptop last week. Got a new SD card and copied everything over from the laptop. When I go into TB app, it doesnt show what I copied over. SHows I have no apps in memory... I made sure to copy everything into the "Titanium Backup" folder in my SD card. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Also have a question about this program
It's restores my apps great. Very happy about it. But when you have installed ur apps back.
When I go to the android market they are not listed in my apps.
Though when i go and look for the app in the store it says installed. Yet can't check the allow automatic update checkbox.
Hope I make sense???
So I can't update it basically???Or when there is an update it will show up in my apps ???
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This happened to me as well. Go into the "more" option thru Titanium and select the Market Doctor. This should link your apps back up with the Market. Also, sometimes simply installing an app thru the Market and/or a reboot will get my installed apps to show up properly.
OK thanks. Will try it out.
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OK thanks. Will try it out.
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Hope that worked, but just in case, there's another way. Once in Titanium, click backup/restore, and then scroll to your desired app. Long press the app and then click the option to "attach to market (forced)."
Market Doctor - Amazon Market
I installed a new ROM and restored my apps with TiBu. I was having some syncing problems in the Android Market so I ran Market Doctor. The problem is that I did not know to de-select the Amazon sourced apps so 47 of them got linked to the Android Market. I have since manually de-linked (long press) each of those apps solving most of the problem but they still show up in the Market list but under the 'Not Installed' section at the bottom. Is there a way to permanently break the link? I am concerned about having to deal with it in the future. Maybe re-run Market Doctor following the proper de-select process?
I backup swype using Titanium before I uninstalled them but for the life of me I can't figure out how to use titanium to restore. Any help is greatly appreciate it. Thanks
tonie972 said:
I backup swype using Titanium before I uninstalled them but for the life of me I can't figure out how to use titanium to restore. Any help is greatly appreciate it. Thanks
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maybe you need the paid version!? or backup/restore "click to edit filters" top right, select all/all and apply.
I can see the files but I don't see a restore button?
I normally click the menu button and then follow that up with the Batch button.
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I normally click the menu button and then follow that up with the Batch button.
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yep
hit menu->batch, on the next screen you will see i bunch of run buttons, look for a run button with blue text, (there will be a few), look for the one that says "restore missing apps with data" and click the run button. then you can choose which apps you want to restore, once you have selected the apps you want hit the button on top that says "run the batch operation"
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hit menu->batch, on the next screen you will see i bunch of run buttons, look for a run button with blue text, (there will be a few), look for the one that says "restore missing apps with data" and click the run button. then you can choose which apps you want to restore, once you have selected the apps you want hit the button on top that says "run the batch operation"
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I follow exactly that too and the uninstalled apps show up on that list and when i hit 'run the batch operation' it says "Batch restore finished' in the notification bar but the apps are nowhere to be found.
Aspeds2989 said:
I follow exactly that too and the uninstalled apps show up on that list and when i hit 'run the batch operation' it says "Batch restore finished' in the notification bar but the apps are nowhere to be found.
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Yeah, same here. This sucks big time.
Try just going into system/apps and copy the swype.apk file to a folder of your choice.
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I have the exact same problem (with Swype and everything), has anyone found a solution?
Swype is a system app on our phones. Hope this explains what you are seeing. If you look a the icon next to the backed up file, the system app (red font), if backed up, will usually have a smiley or a check mark. Menu->Legend will show what they mean. Smiley backed up the app and data, check mark backed up ONLY data.
I'm not sure what differentiates when a system app gets backed up or not. For example, you can backup Market (Vending.apk + Data) completely, but not Swype. I found this out after my first flash and I tried to restore The Simms. It only got data. I had to push it back from a ROM.
If you move the apps you want from /system/app to /data/app, you can back them up and they should work fine. You just run into confusion when you flash/restore ROMS a lot and you have to do some fiddling to get rid of the duplicates. For example, Eugene's Hybrid does not have Swype in it, so your restore will be fine, but his Vibrantx builds do, so you would have to NOT restore swype. When you have upwards of 200 apps, like I do, it starts to get a bit confusing.
Long story short, there are instructions in Eugene's Hybrid thread for how to get Swype back. You basically get it from somewhere (vibrant9 will work) and put it back in /system/app. There is also a library you have to get and put it in /system/lib, but I can't remember what that file is off the top of my head.
EDIT: Found the post. Mikey posted instructions and the files in the Eugene's Vibrant thread here.
From http://matrixrewriter.com/android/
#3: What can it back up ?
All the applications you have installed, included protected ones,
All the data and settings of these applications,
Most (or all) of your phone's settings and data.
NOTE: It will not backup the system applications from your ROM. Only their settings will be backed up.
#10: Why is the "Restore" button disabled for some system apps ?
System apps are part of your ROM, so Titanium Backup will only backup their data (not the apps themselves). For this reason, if you backup a system app, and then switch to a ROM where that app is missing, Titanium Backup obviously cannot restore the data for it.
thanks
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yep
hit menu->batch, on the next screen you will see i bunch of run buttons, look for a run button with blue text, (there will be a few), look for the one that says "restore missing apps with data" and click the run button. Then you can choose which apps you want to restore, once you have selected the apps you want hit the button on top that says "run the batch operation"
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thanks!!! I was looking for this and could not find the answer. Great answer with instructions.
First off let me say if this is adressed in another thread or video, im sorry!
But my question is this: How does titanium backup work?
For example, if I run a full system recovery with TB and then flash the sbf file and then load gingerblur, can I then recover all of the settings and apps from titanium backup? If so, how might one go about doing that?
Another example would be, if I return my atrix for a new atrix for whatever reason, could I recover everything after that?
Thanks in advance for all your help guys!
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When you start tibu press menu then batch, then select "backup all user apps" (I think its first). Let it run. Then you can run SBC and Ginger blur then install tibu from the market, open it press menu, batch, then go about 1/2 down to "restore missing apps with data" and start it and when its done you have all apps with settings back.
A also highly recommend buying tibu premium as it makes most of this automated.
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Ok thanks for the reply! So titanium backup creates a recovery file on the phone that wont be erased and ill always be able to access it?
Also does it work if I get a new phone?
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Yes, that would be my question as that is where I am.
I have the directory on my sdcard-ext; I've copied it to the empty directory of the same name on the sdcard yet I can't seem to get at any of my old backups.
What did I miss in the process? Is there a way to make it LOOK at this saved data?
Well I don't know about not being erased; the program backs up the application and all of its data into a folder. You can do single applications or all of them.
If you are say, resetting the phone or doing a factory reset, this is essential if you want all of your applications back the way you had them.
I'm using two phones and when I got my second, I just installed TB on it and backed up the apps that I wanted transfered wwith data (mostly games and things that don't have cloud data) and copied them to the new phone to be restored.
I just bought the pro version that gives access to dropbox and other things but I haven't used any of the features yet.
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I believe TiBu's default location is in /sdcard/titaniumbackup (From root location). Now once you back up your apps all that information is stored in that "Titaniumbackup" folder. Now what you can do is copy that folder and where, even your computer and it's saved. You can even load that folder on a different phone and run TiBu on the phone and install the apps on that phone. Usually when you flash roms or even the SBF file it wont erase the internal SD card, at least I've never had an issue with my internal SD being erased in the last 2 years. Just take your titaniumbackup folder and put it on to you internal SD card and TiBu should recognize it no problem.
As far as how it saves it, I think it saves the .apk and it also saves another with the app settings.
Hope this helps clear some stuff up.
Ok cool, thank you very much for the help!
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I've just rooted my Galaxy S2, and made a backup of all my system apps using Titanium Backup. The backup was all good and succesful, but when trying to restore a system app from backup, it just hangs on the restore dialog...going nowhere, forcing me to shutdown Titanium Backup forcefully. The very same thing is happening when trying to freeze/unfreeze apps, it just hangs...
Restoring a user app from backup works just fine though.
And yep, I have enabled USB-debugging.
Has anyone experienced the same?
Hopefully someone can cheer me up with a remedy to this problem
Update to latest version
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same problem .. when i freeze the application it will hang on FREEZING APPLICATION .. but just press the home button and end the task with task manager and go back again and freeze the others ... it will hang but it will freeze the application that happened to me after upgrading to KE7 ... there's a new version i didn't tried yet ..
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Update to latest version
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I already have the latest version available on Android Market.
I was thinking, what about readonly / write access to the system apps, do I need to somehow make the system space writable?
Have you switched usb debugging on?
And this thread is in the wrong place. Maybe in Q and A or in Themes and apps would be better.
Oh wait, I just reflashed with a full generic ROM, and now it seems to work, no more hanging on freeze or restore.
Perhaps Titanium Backup was released with a Samsung fix during that time? Anyways...it works now
In titanium backup preferences, set app processing mode to auto, indirect
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In titanium backup preferences, set app processing mode to auto, indirect
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Awesome, that fixed it so far
BenKranged said:
In titanium backup preferences, set app processing mode to auto, indirect
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Also fixed my problem on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. Thanks.
Mine was allso hanging at restoation App+data, but a simple phone restart solved all my problems
Titanium backup deleting system files
I have somewhat of a similar problem. Whenever I want to turn a system app, into a user app, titbkup pro says it's processing, and that's it! It does that, until I have to forceclose it! It deletes the app(except the backups). I choose what I can delete very carefully, read up through various wiki"s to see if what I'm changing will have consequences. Titbkup used to do what I wanted, but just deletes my system files, instead of converting them. I have it on auto/indirect, phones rooted, superuser allows, and it's the pro version. I want to change my golauncher, into a user app again, split it up a little to take certain files to sd, and leave other files in system. I have a very low memory phone, and need all the space on in internal memory I can get.
I have no problem changing a user app into a system app, but it doesn't work in reverse, everything about the app works, except that. Can i use root explorer?
"Whenever I want to turn a system app".....is this terribly required in SGS2?
"I have a very low memory phone" ........what phone do you have, not the I9100?
this is a I9100 phone thread....
I'm doing an app backup using TB Pro and had a question before I flash MeanBean 1.2:
I'm new to TB Pro and I'm stomped on one of the options in Preferences. Under Restoration Settings > Restore Backups to.. option in particular as I'm not sure of the meaning of the options available. The options are:
Default location (chosen by Android)
Original location (for TB 3.2.8+ backups)
Internal storage
External media
* I can pretty much guess the last two options are for restoring apps to internal/external storage but as for the Default and Original location, which one is for restoring the apps to the location they were backed up from in the first place? This is where I'm stomped. I searched the knowledge base (the wiki page for TB Pro but those guides seem to be for an earlier version of the app and doesn't even list 'Restore backups to..' as an option. If anyone could help me out real quick I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you in advance.
Appears to be a specific folder where the backups are placed
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Appears to be a specific folder where the backups are placed
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I was thinking the same thing but the location of the folder [system data/phone storage/ext_sd] is where I get lost. I want my apps to be restored where I backed them up from and not have them all restored as if I were installing them from the play store, forcing me to move them over to the ext_sd again.
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I was thinking the same thing but the location of the folder [system data/phone storage/ext_sd] is where I get lost. I want my apps to be restored where I backed them up from and not have them all restored as if I were installing them from the play store, forcing me to move them over to the ext_sd again.
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Interesting, doesn't titanium backup automatically restore it to its place?
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Interesting, doesn't titanium backup automatically restore it to its place?
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I would think so but the options just threw me off. The default selection was the first option so I guess I'll just keep it at the default.