One of the programs that I have installed is using massive amounts of data in the background, so I have tried doing a complete wipe and re-install so that I can add apps one by one to find out what it is. The problem I am having is that all of my downloaded apps are being automatically re-installed. I have un-checked the option in titanium backup and un-ckecked the box in setup for google to backup and restore. Is there something else that I am missing? This became a problem when I started using Froydvillain 1.5. I know it is not something in Froydvillain because it happened again when I switched to floyo 0.8. Is it just a feature of 2.2? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
bikemaker said:
One of the programs that I have installed is using massive amounts of data in the background, so I have tried doing a complete wipe and re-install so that I can add apps one by one to find out what it is. The problem I am having is that all of my downloaded apps are being automatically re-installed. I have un-checked the option in titanium backup and un-ckecked the box in setup for google to backup and restore. Is there something else that I am missing? This became a problem when I started using Froydvillain 1.5. I know it is not something in Froydvillain because it happened again when I switched to floyo 0.8. Is it just a feature of 2.2? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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This is a 2.2 feature. If you go into menu, settings, privacy, and turn on backup, you can then turn off restore, and turn off backup. That's what I do every flash.
Thanks Pulser! I never would have looked under Privacy Settings.
Hmm...turns out that didn't work either. Everything still auto re-installed. I guess I just have to uninstall my downloaded programs and re-install them one by one.
Hi all,
My phone, an evo shift 4g running 2.3.3, started acting up so i decided i would restore it to factory settings to start fresh. Before i restored, i backed up my contacts, messages, and calendar with android sync manager wifi, which resulted in an .mbk file. Since the phone has been restored, i have been trying to restore my data but android sync manager keeps freezing everytime i start the restore. Can anyone help me figure out how to restore my data? I've seen people get everything back from their google accounts, but apparently i didn't sync my phone correctly so i basically have an empty phone and I didn't backup to my sd (all i have is the .mbk file). I know how to temp root and have a basic knowledge of ADB... if that helps... thanks.
Hi,
I'm looking for an app that backs up the "Accounts & Sync" settings for all my accounts, before flashing a new rom. I tried "MyBackup" from the market and it backed up my Sensation quite nicely, but it doesn't restore the accounts and setting up everything again was a pain.
Does anyone know of an app that does a backup that includes a backup of the "Accounts & Sync" settings?
Thanks!
Hi!
you have many choices!
1- Nandroid backup.
you can do a Nandroid backup by the recovery.
Be careful you must have more than 1Go free space on your sd card.
So install recovery.
Then reboot on recovery mode.
GO on backup/restore
The phone save all your phone.
then you can restored it. or just datas if you want.
2- Save By titanium Backup
This is an app which is created to save all your datas and restore it after.
With full version you can be faster and restore all apps at the same time.
With free it's harder... one by one :s
Don't forget thanks button
Do you need more infos?
I have a follow-up question to this. Several, actually:
* Where can I find nandroid? googling finds me something that is several years old.
* Titanium backup, while it contains a section for "backup/restore all system data" first doesn't actually contain any entries, and second is actually much more than we want.
What we're looking for, if I understand OP correctly, is something that ONLY backs up "Accounts & Sync". This is by far the most annoying thing about wiping and reflashing roms, and is also unlikely to be the cause of errors (at least for reflashing the same rom). Thus, is there an application, or a mode in an application or something, that lets us back up *only* the "Accounts & Sync" settings?
NANDROID refers to the back up process from within your recovery program I.E Clockwork, 4EXT Ect... It will be listed as "Backup" in those programs when you are in recovery mode.
You can just backup the "Accounts and Sync Settings" from within titanium, or you can use ROMToolbox which is what i use, both are pretty much the same program but ROMToolbox does alot more than just backups. You will find the "Accounts and Sync Settings" under the "System" tab from within either program.
Once you have backed up the "Accounts and Sync Settings" it would simply be a case of reinstalling either titanium or toolbox and restoring the afore mentioned .apk once you have flashed your new ROM.
dstylazz said:
NANDROID refers to the back up process from within your recovery program I.E Clockwork, 4EXT Ect... It will be listed as "Backup" in those programs when you are in recovery mode.
You can just backup the "Accounts and Sync Settings" from within titanium, or you can use ROMToolbox which is what i use, both are pretty much the same program but ROMToolbox does alot more than just backups. You will find the "Accounts and Sync Settings" under the "System" tab from within either program.
Once you have backed up the "Accounts and Sync Settings" it would simply be a case of reinstalling either titanium or toolbox and restoring the afore mentioned .apk once you have flashed your new ROM.
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Regarding the NANDROID, ok, that's good to know, thanks =)
Regarding backing up the settings, I can't seem to find anything like that in titanium backup or in (the screenshots for) ROMToolbox (I assume this is what you are referring to: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liteupmobile.secretcodes)
Do I need a pro version or something for this to be available?
No the one i was referring to is made by JRummy Here
The section you will be looking for once installed is "App Manager" once in that or any other program that romtoolbox offers you slide left to switch tabs
EDIT: Ah just installed titanium there to have a look and that displays everything under the same menu (sorry i thought it was similar to toolbox) and it will be highlighted red to indicate it is a system Application / File..
Since we last spoke, I also found it in TitaniumBackup, actually. All I to do was dig a bit =)
I haven't tried restoring it, though. I also don't know where the data actually ended up. It doesn't seem to be in /sdcard/TitaniumBackup like my backed up apps... Any idea?
Em it will be there, on your sdcard / titanium backup folder and there will be in three separate files something like.
The three file names mentioned below contain all the info from your "Accounts & Sync Settings"
com.android.providers.subscribedfeeds-20120418-113609.properties
com.android.providers.subscribedfeeds-20120418-113609.tar.gz
com.android.providers.subscribedfeeds-d6ff2fe87c9c58dd29b2258d83008617.apk.gz
The number and letter strings may be different on your device / sdcard, but those are the files you will be looking for.
I found a bunch of those for the apps I've backed up, but not the settings. I'll look further when I get home.
I simply showed the "system" apps, and some of them showed up as green. Those were the ones I backed up, because they seemed to have reasonable names, like "Accounts" and "SMS/MMS", etc. The red colored ones seemed, indeed, to be system apps, the apps themselves.
I think I found them. It looks like they have names like this:
com.keramidas.virtual.ACCOUNTS-20120417-153858.properties
com.keramidas.virtual.APP_WIDGETS-20120417-153918.properties
com.keramidas.virtual.WIFI_AP_LIST-20120417-154139.properties
Be careful when restoring system data to rooms. This can and has been proven to cause issues as with each update there are changes to where and how things are saved. It is advised by just about every developer to never restore system data and won't except any bug reports if you do restore system data of any kind.
zelendel said:
Be careful when restoring system data to rooms. This can and has been proven to cause issues as with each update there are changes to where and how things are saved. It is advised by just about every developer to never restore system data and won't except any bug reports if you do restore system data of any kind.
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While that is true restoring accounts and sync settings between roms (especially if its not a version jump for example 2.2>>2.3) it won't cause any (critical) errors.
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While that is true restoring accounts and sync settings between roms (especially if its not a version jump for example 2.2>>2.3) it won't cause any (critical) errors.
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That all depends on how the dev setup the rom. Like my personal roms. Restoring any system data from any other rom even from the same OS version will boot loop you and require a reflash.
How do you backup and restore Settings/Accounts?
I tried restoring the Google App but I don't think the configured google accounts are stored in it. How would I be able to restore all of the accounts configured in settings/accounts?
Restore all accounts to tablet
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I tried restoring the Google App but I don't think the configured google accounts are stored in it. How would I be able to restore all of the accounts configured in settings/accounts?
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Yes, I would be interested in this as well. I have many accounts I've configured on my Note 10.1 2014, but after upgrading to 5.1.1, I want to know if I could get all the accounts I had configured previously, somehow configure automatically to my Note, instead of adding them individually and manually.
thanks
Simple you can't. Well you can but it takes root and causes instability
No one App can happen us to backup all the Google accounts settings? I mean with a rooted phone.
Thanks
The first time I flashed a ROM on my phone, google automatically re-installed all the apps I had installed at the time of the flast. I think it also restored many settings and preferences. The last two times I have flashed, none of this happened.
I have made sure the backup option is turned on under "backup & reset" and made sure my gmail account was selected.
Also, I thought HTC was supposed to backup my texts and call history? Is this not automatic and done over wifi or does this have to be done through HTC sync manager on a PC?
Thanks for the help.
It seems that I messed up big time. I recently just setup a Z-Push server to sync with my Zimbra 8 installation. Things were going good for the last day or so but my contacts were not auto-syncing, I had to manually sync them. When I went into the account settings it said "Sync Disabled".
I chose not to sync email with Z-Push because I really didn't see the need since I can just use IMAP and don't really care if I get PUSH notifications. If I get an email 30 seconds later it really doesn't bother me.
So... In an effort to clean things up, I thought, "since I use K-9 mail I wouldn't need the default email client", so I deleted it. I backed it up and then clicked uninstall. I did get a warning that said something like "in order to restore you will have to restore from Titanium Backup with the exact same ROM". I obviously misunderstood this warning because I clicked ok. When I went to re-setup the Exchange account the option was no longer there.
I went to go re-install the email client and my backup was gone.
I have a back up of the app from when I first installed Titanium Backup which is on my desktop. I just copied it over to my Downloads folder on my sd card, but I can't find a way to install the apk or the properties file into Titanium Backup from the sd card.
Could someone please help me restore this app? I would like to get exchange setup.
--- DISREGARD: I searched for the email app and it was found. I restored it. ---