My wife just received a x2 as a replacement for her x. It has froyo on it, if I root it to restore some apps with ti backup from a previous back up, and then do the gb ota will there be any problems other than losing root.
Oldmansin said:
My wife just received a x2 as a replacement for her x. It has froyo on it, if I root it to back up some apps with ti backup, and then do the gb ota will there be any problems other than losing root.
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If I understand correctly you will not be able to use titanium backup to restore what you back up if you lose root, so backing up seems like a waste
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You should sbf back to Froyo and update to gingerbread pre-root if you don't wish to lose app data.
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Haven't done the ota yet, still running froyo. Was going to, root, restore some apps that are no longer available in the market, and then ota. She does not care about having a rooted phone, she just doesnt wamt to lose those apps. If I knew how to pull them from the phone I would just do that, but I'm no developer. They're books mostly. I have a thundercrap, so I'm not that familiar with the moto stuff.
Titanium Backup is a root app. If you backup with Titanium backup, do the OTA to GB and lose root how do you plan on restoring what you backed up?
Like EvilTim said earlier, what is the sense of backing up if you do not plan on running GB rooted?
Already have a backup from old phone, am going to use old sd card and restore from ti before I do the ota. I just want to make sure if I do the ota over a rooted froyo all that will happen is lose root. On the tbolt if you flash an ota over some rooted roms it will brick you, and I don't want that to happen. If this won't work can someone tell me how to pull a market downloaded app from the phone so it can be installed on the new phone. I have root explorer on the old phone if that helps.
Verizon recommends you do a factory reset before upgrading, while this may not be necessary, if you encounter an issue after upgrading you will most likely have to sbf and start over
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I have never done a factory reset before an ota, but that's a new one to me. This was somewhat helpful, I think ill just tell her it's not possible to save it.
what apps is she trying to save? if it's not available in the market, you can always find the apk on the net. if it's books, save the books from your sd card to your hd and then put them back on the sd card after you update to gb.
It doesn't seem people are understanding what your're asking.
If you have a rooted Froyo phone you can restore a Titanium backup of apps from another phone (using that phone's SD card). Then you can do an OTA update to Gingerbread. Those apps will still be available, but you will lose root.
You may want to use P3's rooted GB though... there may be other apps she wants to backup/restore in the future with Titanium.
Thank you xeno, you understood.
Xeno62277 said:
It doesn't seem people are understanding what your're asking.
If you have a rooted Froyo phone you can restore a Titanium backup of apps from another phone (using that phone's SD card). Then you can do an OTA update to Gingerbread. Those apps will still be available, but you will lose root.
You may want to use P3's rooted GB though... there may be other apps she wants to backup/restore in the future with Titanium.
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I'm pretty sure that in order to restore those apps into the new GB phone, you'll need root. Titanium Backup will not run without root, as it needs to make changes to both system files and permissions.
It didn't work, exactly. However, I improvised. By going into the ti backup directory and going through the files I extracted the apk files and that turned then them into installable apks. Lost the data, so games were started from beginning, but they were installed.
Oldmansin said:
It didn't work, exactly. However, I improvised. By going into the ti backup directory and going through the files I extracted the apk files and that turned then them into installable apks. Lost the data, so games were started from beginning, but they were installed.
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So, you're saying you restored the files to a rooted 2.2.2 phone and then did an OTA update to 2.3.3? That should work for keeping apps.
If you didn't restore before going to OTA 2.3.3 then I don't think Titanium would work for you.
Yes what you are wanting to do will work root restore than ota
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First off... I have rooted and love the Nook Tablet way more than I had ever imagined thanks to the dedication of XDA!. My problem is that I didn't follow directions and after I rooted and I backed up then deleted Device Manager 2.3.4 instead of freezing it on the free version of Titanium Backup.
My question is this can I restore device manager 2.3.4 from my backup and would I still need to freeze it to prevent the OTA to 1.41?
I wish to view some magazines(Time & Entertainment weekly) that I have thru Barnes and noble, but I cant with the device manager deleted. I still have access to the B&N Shopping and apps but they wont work with the Device manager gone. What can I do to maintain Root, prevent OTA 1.41 and still be able to download my magazines? As always Thanks in advance!
laserbiz said:
First off... I have rooted and love the Nook Tablet way more than I had ever imagined thanks to the dedication of XDA!. My problem is that I didn't follow directions and after I rooted and I backed up then deleted Device Manager 2.3.4 instead of freezing it on the free version of Titanium Backup.
My question is this can I restore device manager 2.3.4 from my backup and would I still need to freeze it to prevent the OTA to 1.41?
I wish to view some magazines(Time & Entertainment weekly) that I have thru Barnes and noble, but I cant with the device manager deleted. I still have access to the B&N Shopping and apps but they wont work with the Device manager gone. What can I do to maintain Root, prevent OTA 1.41 and still be able to download my magazines? As always Thanks in advance!
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Use Titanium Backup to restore the "9.9.9" version. Look in the development section. It will prevent the OTA, but allow access to B&N services.
I uninstalled the app(AntTek App Manager) that I froze my bloatware with. After I realized what I uninstalled I put the app back on my phone and now the bloatware is not listed as frozen. I cannot find a way to uninstall the bloatware and restore the backups. Would a factory reset defrost or restore the bloatware, or should I used the Droid RAZR Utility to restore back to stock? If I go with the utility would it be best to remove superuser and unroot before restoring back? I want to be ready for the OTA ICS update whenever it comes. Sorry this is all new to me and I've been searching for a few days, but not coming up with an exact answer. Thanks for looking.
Droid RAZR
Stock 2.3.6
V. 6.12.181.XT912.Verizon.en.US
You need to post this in your phone forum as I could not understand the first lines. I think you need not remove superuser and root before factory resetting.
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hello guys,
i flashed my i9100 to ICS 4.0.4 UK then rooted it, i disabled some system apps thru system apps remover.
now when i try to re enable them in the default way (settings>applications>all) they are not even listed, and if i used the system app remover to re enable them again, once i exit from it automatically they disabled again.(system app remover is granted as superuser also busybox is on).
looking for help guys.
Did you uninstalled or disabled them? If disabled, I believe it's just like in Titanium Back Up. Install Titanium Back Up and see if the disabled system apps appear "frozen" if they do, click the defrost button! I just tried it and this works
When you are rooted and get to a situation where you are happy with your setup-make a nand backup.
Then use titanium and backup apps then uninstall the ones you dont like or need(being careful obviously).
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theunderling said:
When you are rooted and get to a situation where you are happy with your setup-make a nand backup.
Then use titanium and backup apps then uninstall the ones you dont like or need(being careful obviously).
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would u mind to tell how to root ics 4.0.4? becuz i did it with the same tools & procedure for ics 4.0.3, is it ok?
Nasty_z said:
Did you uninstalled or disabled them? If disabled, I believe it's just like in Titanium Back Up. Install Titanium Back Up and see if the disabled system apps appear "frozen" if they do, click the defrost button! I just tried it and this works
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i installed it and defrost them but still frosted, something wrong with ics 4.0,4 or the root i did!!!!
Hoping someone could help me out here. I have ATT htc one with 4.3 sense 5.0 unlocked and root. I installed titanium backup so that I could uninstall all the att bloatware, etc. I am able to uninstall the att bloatware however few minutes later or when i reboot my phone the apps I uninstalled using titanium backup begin to reinstall via google play...anyone else having this issue? Thanks for the help
Rad0201 said:
Hoping someone could help me out here. I have ATT htc one with 4.3 sense 5.0 unlocked and root. I installed titanium backup so that I could uninstall all the att bloatware, etc. I am able to uninstall the att bloatware however few minutes later or when i reboot my phone the apps I uninstalled using titanium backup begin to reinstall via google play...anyone else having this issue? Thanks for the help
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so looks like this is an issue with 4.3