I didn't see another thread on this, so here goes nothing: anybody know of the best way to transfer data for my apps from my phone to the prime?
tbns said:
I didn't see another thread on this, so here goes nothing: anybody know of the best way to transfer data for my apps from my phone to the prime?
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If you are talking about "data" like the progress on Angry Birds, then there is no way to do that without root. (at least on 2.x,afaik)
If you have root you can always create and restore backups with Titanium backup.
Diamondback2010 said:
If you are talking about "data" like the progress on Angry Birds, then there is no way to do that without root. (at least on 2.x,afaik)
If you have root you can always create and restore backups with Titanium backup.
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That's pretty much what I'm talking about – I'd like to transfer all my Tapatalk forum logins etc. over to the prime. I do have root on my phone.
I would think you would need root on phone AND tablet. Use something like Titanium backup on phone.. copy the Titanium folder to tablet.. install Titanium backup there and then restore the app on the tablet.
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I come from the wonderful world of one-step backups and restorations with Titanium Backup. I'm not ready to root my new phone yet and am wondering if there is anything close to TB to do batch backup and restoration of apps on a non-rooted Vibrant.
I know ASTRO can do backups, but from what I understand I have to reinstall one at a time. If that's the case, I can just connect to my WiFi and get each app from the market.
rembonjaski said:
I come from the wonderful world of one-step backups and restorations with Titanium Backup. I'm not ready to root my new phone yet and am wondering if there is anything close to TB to do batch backup and restoration of apps on a non-rooted Vibrant.
I know ASTRO can do backups, but from what I understand I have to reinstall one at a time. If that's the case, I can just connect to my WiFi and get each app from the market.
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There is always My Backup Pro. I'm pretty sure it doesn't restore your data with each app though. I too am waiting to root my Vibrant as I want to wait for roms and see if there are any maintenance updates in the near future. Who knows, maybe even Froyo?
Hey guys I was just wondering if there's any way to root without wiping. I have way too many apps (with settings that are too specific and games that I've gone too far in). I'm not that new to the whole rooting thing (I had a rooted Motorola Droid) but any help would be appreciated.
NO... there is absolutely no way
Hmm so is there a way to backup apps (with their settings and everything) so I can restore them after I wipe and root?
Game4set said:
Hmm so is there a way to backup apps (with their settings and everything) so I can restore them after I wipe and root?
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No way to do that.
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Sure there is buy the full titanium backup and learn how to use its backup feature
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I don't think there is a way. Even temp rooted, I couldn't get much of anything to work so I highly doubt Titanium Backup can do anything.
Titanium backup cant do anything without root. Im looking for a way to back everything up? does anyone have a solution? Mostly the cyanogen mod/system settings and installed apps.
Would an SD Card or Flash Drive work for backing up his stuff?
Opinions please, not just a program but what is your methodology
To back up my apps I use the software that comes preloaded on the device then transfer the backup file to my dropbox account
tylermaciaszek said:
To back up my apps I use the software that comes preloaded on the device then transfer the backup file to my dropbox account
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Can you expand on that? Are you talking about ASUS MyCloud thing?
tylermaciaszek said:
To back up my apps I use the software that comes preloaded on the device then transfer the backup file to my dropbox account
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Will that work for selectively restoring data or some apps and data to the prime?
tbns said:
Can you expand on that? Are you talking about ASUS MyCloud thing?
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I think he means the asus backup program
blackinjun said:
I think he means the asus backup program
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Ahh, just noticed that. Awesome. Haven't been playing around with too many of the stock apps in the app drawer.
The app is called appbackup it was preloaded on the device it displays ask your apps in a list then you just select the ones you want and back them up I then take the backup file which you can get from using a file manager and going to Asus/backup and transfer it to my dropbox or any other cloud storage app to make sure I never lose the file
blackinjun said:
Opinions please, not just a program but what is your methodology
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Here is some software that you might consider
"MyBackup Pro will work on all Android mobile devices, regardless if they have root access or not."
MyBackup Pro - $2.99
https://market.android.com/details?...mNvbS5yZXJ3YXJlLmFuZHJvaWQuTXlCYWNrdXBQcm8iXQ..
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Will that work for selectively restoring data or some apps and data to the prime?
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It only backups the apps for data I just go to Android/data cut that folder to computer then when flagging or something push the file back to device and there y you have data
joepic said:
Here is some software that you might consider
"MyBackup Pro will work on all Android mobile devices, regardless if they have root access or not."
MyBackup Pro - $2.99
https://market.android.com/details?...mNvbS5yZXJ3YXJlLmFuZHJvaWQuTXlCYWNrdXBQcm8iXQ..
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I bought this long ago but moved to Titanium so I may be moving back
tylermaciaszek said:
It only backups the apps for data I just go to Android/data cut that folder to computer then when flagging or something push the file back to device and there y you have data
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Does the prime come with the same program for restore or are you saying it backs them up intact so that you can move them with ADB. Also been so long with root can we adb push without being rooted? Lastly do we need to reset permissions in the data directory
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I bought this long ago but moved to Titanium so I may be moving back
Does the prime come with the same program for restore or are you saying it backs them up intact so that you can move them with ADB. Also been so long with root can we adb push without being rooted? Lastly do we need to reset permissions in the data directory
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The app let's you restore the apps just as easy as backing it up just press a button and it restores the app
I'm still very much a noob and i was wondering if there was a consensus as to which tool between kTool and EFS Pro is the best and most noob friendly way of backing up your efs folder.
I was also wondering if there are any more precautionary steps one should take after rooting for the first time besides doing an EFS backup, a CWM nandroid backup and a titanium backup.
Thanks
kTool. Get it from Market, couple of clicks, keep one copy of your EFS on your external SD card and one copy on your PC (and copies on a CD/DVD and a couple of external drives if you're ultra paranoid ), go to the kTool thread on here & buy Hellcat a beer.
Done
If you're doing a Nandroid backup, EFS backup & Ti backup right after you root your phone for the first time you're well on the way to un-noobing yourself You'd be surprised at how many people who have been here ages don't do those things.
You could go to the trouble of using dedicated contact and SMS backup apps, but you can just as easily backup your contacts to Google, and you can restore them easily enough from your Nandroid backup. There's an app in Market called AppExtractor which allows you to restore individual apps, SMS, contacts and other stuff from your Nandroid. Haven't tried it yet tho.
But I'd reckon you've pretty much got it covered.
As far as backing up sms's goes I find sms backup+ to work really well, backs up your sms to your gmail account!
MistahBungle said:
kTool. Get it from Market, couple of clicks, keep one copy of your EFS on your external SD card and one copy on your PC (and copies on a CD/DVD and a couple of external drives if you're ultra paranoid ), go to the kTool thread on here & buy Hellcat a beer.
Done
If you're doing a Nandroid backup, EFS backup & Ti backup right after you root your phone for the first time you're well on the way to un-noobing yourself You'd be surprised at how many people who have been here ages don't do those things.
You could go to the trouble of using dedicated contact and SMS backup apps, but you can just as easily backup your contacts to Google, and you can restore them easily enough from your Nandroid backup. There's an app in Market called AppExtractor which allows you to restore individual apps, SMS, contacts and other stuff from your Nandroid. Haven't tried it yet tho.
But I'd reckon you've pretty much got it covered.
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Also worth grabbing a copy of original firmware as handy to have......
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stylez said:
Also worth grabbing a copy of original firmware as handy to have......
Sent from the valley of the shadows....
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And in case of corruption of internal SD (Happens) remember to take backups of pictures/etc and store copies of your backups (nandroid/EFS/ETC) off the phone.
Rule of thumb, if you cant afford to lose it, back it up. Speaking of that, better make a nandroid and copy it to the PC
I currently have two b/u's:
-one generated by Hellcat's Ktool,
-one generated by Galaxy S Unlock.
Both live on my sd card, and on my PC.
Both tools available on Market (Ktool also on XDA). Ktool has saved my bacon once already.
Go with kTool, it works flawlessly. EFS Backup failed (freezed) first time I used it (luckily nothing bad happened do efs partition).
Also kTool can easily install new kernels, installing speedmod takes just few seconds.
This is my no 1 root utility (although it has... weird interface).
Best way to restore from a backup?
nakizzzle805 said:
Best way to restore from a backup?
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Ktool, Just deleting the whole thing with root explorer and copying it over, using a terminal editor to extract the backup over your EFS.
All should work.
nakizzzle805 said:
Best way to restore from a backup?
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Both apps have inbuilt restore features; they save .img's and .tar's to your SD. Ktool saves it to the root of your sd and Galaxy S unlock saves to a folder, and each app can call on these files upon you selecting restore.
As far as restoring the EFS via adb, that's one thing I have to learn still. I'm not sure whether extracting EFS from a nandroid is possible, and how it would be done, via adb, etc...
Looks like Veyka replied whilst I was typing this, he's fast
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Looks like Veyka replied whilst I was typing this, he's fast
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Fingers of fury(!)
veyka said:
Fingers of fury(!)
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Sorry, I try to avoid OT comments, but I can't...help...myself:
The girls must dig that
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Sorry, I try to avoid OT comments, but I can't...help...myself:
The girls must dig that
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Hahahah
Having always rooted my phones I never had an issue backing up apps and data via Titanium backup but am now looking for a solution to back up apps and their data on my non-rooted Z2.
Having just flashed the latest Z2 firmware via Flashtool which wipes the phone, I've restored backups I had made with Sonys Back Up and Restore app only to find it didn't backup all it said it did, so had a number of apps and data missing.
Can anyone recommend a solution to this
kersey said:
Having always rooted my phones I never had an issue backing up apps and data via Titanium backup but am now looking for a solution to back up apps and their data on my non-rooted Z2.
Having just flashed the latest Z2 firmware via Flashtool which wipes the phone, I've restored backups I had made with Sonys Back Up and Restore app only to find it didn't backup all it said it did, so had a number of apps and data missing.
Can anyone recommend a solution to this
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I was in the same boat as yourself, Ive found a good one is HELIUM, plus helium will state what apps don't have a backup option coded into them so unlike sonys own app u wont be annoyed when some apps do/don't backup Also Helium allows cloud backups as well as internal and external sd card backups
Im currently using helium for apps and Mybackup pro for my text message backups as I found heliums message backups were weirdly in the opposite date order to normal use( instead of latest being at bottom of list it was at top)
Thanks mate, will give Helium a try
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I was in the same boat as yourself, Ive found a good one is HELIUM, plus helium will state what apps don't have a backup option coded into them so unlike sonys own app u wont be annoyed when some apps do/don't backup Also Helium allows cloud backups as well as internal and external sd card backups
Im currently using helium for apps and Mybackup pro for my text message backups as I found heliums message backups were weirdly in the opposite date order to normal use( instead of latest being at bottom of list it was at top)
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Just confiming, does Hellium doesnt back up the app data like TB?
I know ive read somewhere there is an app by chainfire for app and data backup for non rooted but at first glance it seem a bit long winded so never bothered with it.
I used easy backup which restored my apps, sms, mms, call log etc all no probs but yeah problem was no data backed up so had to set them all up like email, settings etc all over again.
I understand Unlocking and Rooting an Xperia is a tough task. But the stock ROM is good enough.
A good article here. It helped me and it may help you too buddy.
rexboy said:
Just confiming, does Hellium doesnt back up the app data like TB?
I know ive read somewhere there is an app by chainfire for app and data backup for non rooted but at first glance it seem a bit long winded so never bothered with it.
I used easy backup which restored my apps, sms, mms, call log etc all no probs but yeah problem was no data backed up so had to set them all up like email, settings etc all over again.
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well your not gonna get the same level of backup due to lack of root, but for me it saved things like game progression(i.e angry birds) but didn't save things like custom widget sets in HD widgets app. But not the end of the world.
Ive started looking at my backups a bit more in detail and asking do I really need a backup of some apps, as some are just install-login to app and use no custom data to speak of to really backup. Or other apps like XDA app and game progression which have custom settings and progression Id like to save.
SwiftSmoke said:
I was in the same boat as yourself, Ive found a good one is HELIUM, plus helium will state what apps don't have a backup option coded into them so unlike sonys own app u wont be annoyed when some apps do/don't backup Also Helium allows cloud backups as well as internal and external sd card backups
Im currently using helium for apps and Mybackup pro for my text message backups as I found heliums message backups were weirdly in the opposite date order to normal use( instead of latest being at bottom of list it was at top)
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bro, Last time I used Helium is when it was called Carbon, I tried it with Xperia S and it didn't worked at all, after that I saw this in it's description in Play Store
Note: Some Sony devices have issues with Helium. This includes the Xperia S and Xperia Z. Sony has *disabled* backup on these devices completely.
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I lost hope after that, so does it work now on Z2 ?
I'm still not in a hurry to have Z2 as there's still no way to root without unlocking the bootloader, and I will not unlock the bootloader without backing up the TA partition first ( which requires root )... so I've been looking for a way to copy some of my app's data from my old phone to Z2, I used to use Titanium Backup always but you know, no root = no TB...
so can you confirm please that you used Helium to backup AND restore app's data to the Z2 ? or you're just guessing from a non-xperia experience ?
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bro, Last time I used Helium is when it was called Carbon, I tried it with Xperia S and it didn't worked at all, after that I saw this in it's description in Play Store
I lost hope after that, so does it work now on Z2 ?
I'm still not in a hurry to have Z2 as there's still no way to root without unlocking the bootloader, and I will not unlock the bootloader without backing up the TA partition first ( which requires root )... so I've been looking for a way to copy some of my app's data from my old phone to Z2, I used to use Titanium Backup always but you know, no root = no TB...
so can you confirm please that you used Helium to backup AND restore app's data to the Z2 ? or you're just guessing from a non-xperia experience ?
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I used helium to backup my apps on my s3 then install them on my z2, ive also backedup up my current apps on my z2 since, but like ive already said helium cant backup certain apps as the app developer hasn't allowed backup function. Helium did the job for me for my game progression and a few apps where I wanted current setup saved.