Hi,
How can we put a negative filter on Titanium Backup so that it excludes specific apps instead of selecting for it (as does the default positive filter)?
For example, I want to exclude Seek Droid from TB's "Backup New Apps" schedule, so that I will back up everything that's been recently installed, but not Seek Droid.
Thanks!
Sorry for bad english.
Tokimiya said:
Hi,
How can we put a negative filter on Titanium Backup so that it excludes specific apps instead of selecting for it (as does the default positive filter)?
For example, I want to exclude Seek Droid from TB's "Backup New Apps" schedule, so that I will back up everything that's been recently installed, but not Seek Droid.
Thanks!
Sorry for bad english.
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I would also like to do this. I have one app that I'd like to exclude from my scheduled backups. There seems to be an option in TB to create a negative filter, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet. Anyone have a walkthrough?
+1 for this feature too.
Tokimiya said:
Hi,
How can we put a negative filter on Titanium Backup so that it excludes specific apps instead of selecting for it (as does the default positive filter)?
For example, I want to exclude Seek Droid from TB's "Backup New Apps" schedule, so that I will back up everything that's been recently installed, but not Seek Droid.
Thanks!
Sorry for bad english.
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andrewNY said:
I would also like to do this. I have one app that I'd like to exclude from my scheduled backups. There seems to be an option in TB to create a negative filter, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet. Anyone have a walkthrough?
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krisg1984 said:
+1 for this feature too.
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To exclude apps with the help of a filter.
- Start Titanium Backup
- Touch the Search-icon
- Touch the Funnel-icon (in the upper right corner)
- Scroll down and and create a label
- Check the box where it sez something like "reverse order" or smth (my locale is swedish), the box is on the same line as the "Create label"-button.
- Go to the Apps-list, longpress an app and assign a label
Now it should be possible to use a filter to exclude an app in a scheduled or manual backup
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Heh, i think my fingers was faster than my brain there, the box you can check is ofc only for excludning labels in the search.. not excludning filters when you schedule a backup.. this is what happens whan you write a "walkthrough" before you test it..
Only other way, I can think of, is to make a label the same way as described and then simply exclude that app from that label, and then remember to add every app to the label every time you install a new one.
any news on this? TB backs up all google music cloud data. and syncs multiple gigabytes into dropbox every night. (
Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
ah got it. thank you so much )
Works for one time backups, not scheduled backups.
goodtimes50 said:
Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
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This method does work but it won't allow you to automate the backups while excluding certain apps.
I am trying to automate moving user apps to the sd card once a week. Some apps however need to be on the internal memory for the widget to work; pandora, shazam, tiny flashlight, google music*, etc.
I was trying to label these certain apps to be excluded from internal user apps that can be selected in the schedule. So far i have run out of ideas.
I would love this to be implemented into the app, and I'll be writing a review onto the play store.
If anyone has a work around I'd appreciate it.
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Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
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Does not really work. I excluded one app (Google Music) and it just backups this one!
Very annoying, that such a simple feature is missing...
I totally agree that this should be added. It should be trivial.
Not having such a simple feature lowers the value of custom filters a great lot, and of the app itself as well.
any update?
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maybe someone can alert the developers at TitaniumTrack.
klau1 said:
any update?
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maybe someone can alert the developers at TitaniumTrack.
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Seriously... I really need this... haha
skim7x said:
Seriously... I really need this... haha
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The method posted above worked perfectly for me. Backup always froze when backing up GOF2, so used the above method to exclude that program, and it worked perfectly - all other apps backup up.
n7000, OMNI ROM 4.4 nightly (2014-02-09), Titanium Backup 6.1.5.2.
Dosent work for me
I tried but still can't get it to work.
Let's say I have 2 apps, xda and Facebook. If I don't want facebook (filter label 'no facebook') I set up a filter to exclude facebook. When I schedule a backup with no filtering, it backs up both, if i schedule a back up with filter' no facebook', it just backs up face book.
How can i back up everything but the Facebook app?
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Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
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I don't know if you will see this reply as your post is from back in 2012, but I wanted to reply back with a big thank you. Using this method I can greatly speed up my backups by excluding things that don't matter like Facebook, and other apps that don't have local data that matters.
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I agree, the filter advice is helpful! (Another many months later ). I can understand why some people thought it doesn't work, because it's unintuitive and it's easy to confuse filters and labels, but once you know how it works, it's pretty powerful and not too complicated either.
This thread is relevant now in that Titanium Backup is causing an authentication issue for WiFi connections in Lollipop when it backs up the two "WiFi Access Points" apps, requiring you to re-connect with WiFi after the backup completes.
Creating a filter that excludes these apps via label, as described in this thread, will prevent the authentication issue (when using TB).
Another decent thread on this is at: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2pdv2y/wifi_authentication_issues_with_nexus_5_after/cmw5vx9
The Google thread on this is at: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=81896
found this
http://androidforums.com/threads/useful-titanium-backup-setting.702456/
Great, got it to work too. Thanks all!
I will admit, this feature isn't terribly obvious. But with simple instructions this has saved me a ton of time and storage space.
Thank you to all who have taken the time to explain it for us uninformed.
The people who are having issues, it sounds like you are creating the filter but selecting the app(s) you don't want in the backup. Some one explained that you select the app(s) you DONT want backed up then press "invert selection". This speeds up the process of creating the filter if you only need to filter out a small number of apps. Otherwise, when you create the filter, just select the apps you DO want to backup.
Once I realized I can filter apps, I just created a filter, selected all apps and went through and deselected the apps I don't want to backup. I did it this way because I wasn't sure what I wanted backed up.
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I've installed tons of apps on my Nexus One (naturally) and am really annoyed to find many of them position themselves in the 'Share' menu on my gallery. There's no way (that I can see) to reorganize or limit this, either.
I typically either use Pixelpipe or Twidroyd to upload from there - I'd like to be able to either
A. pick and choose what does and doesn't show up in this list
OR
B. reorder it so the ones I want to use are closer to the bottom bar.
Currently, Pixelpipe *and* Twidroyd are at the top of the list. This isn't a big deal in portrait mode, but in landscape mode, they're cut off and I can't scroll up to get to them.
I would like such a mod as well!
Not being able to edit it was the main reason I uninstalled twidroid. Cuz I saw no sense why, when in twidroid, twidroid would be the first option under 'share'. That really annoyed me. I mean why whould I need to share a tweet via the 'share' menu in twidroid?
Now...quite happily using twicca which doesn't force itself as the first app under the 'share' settings.
just put a .nomedia file in the folder that has the pics you dont want in the gallery
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just put a .nomedia file in the folder that has the pics you dont want in the gallery
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You didn't get the request.
When you open a photo in the gallery app, click on 'More', and then click on 'Share', there are a TON of apps in there, most of which I don't want to use from that menu. The main one that I want to use is Pixelpipe. However, it shows up in the top of this list. That's fine in portrait mode, but the top of the list is cut-off in landscape mode, which is a hassle. I'd like to be able to either reorganize this list or remove some apps from it at my discretion, so that it's not littered with options I'm not going to use.
one way to modify the app's manifest xml and remove the broadcast receiver or other related lines.
in for this...
Billy
I like the fact that the OS allows this type of integration. It's awesome, but an option should be in settings to turn it on or off for each app.
britoso said:
one way to modify the app's manifest xml and remove the broadcast receiver or other related lines.
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So I'd need to do that for every app that appears in the list?
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So I'd need to do that for every app that appears in the list?
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That's correct. The applications declare in their manifest.xml to which Intents they can respond. They only way to have an application no longer appear in a Share menu item is to have it no longer handle the Intent that is going to be passed, and the only way to do that is to modify the application's manifest.xml.
rpcameron said:
That's correct. The applications declare in their manifest.xml to which Intents they can respond. They only way to have an application no longer appear in a Share menu item is to have it no longer handle the Intent that is going to be passed, and the only way to do that is to modify the application's manifest.xml.
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Would I have to do this again whenever the app is updated, too?
Also, given that I have root, is there any way to set this up as an app somehow? I could launch the app, which would consist of a checklist of the apps that I have installed on my phone (which was compared against a master list somewhere of apps that declare this intent). I could then simply uncheck the ones that I want removed, and the app would automatically remove the declaration from each app's manifest? Or perhaps a way to monitor the Intent, see which apps are declaring that intent, and then populate the checklist like that?
This has been bugging me for the longest time, it would be great to be able to disable Facebook, Picasa and crap like that which I never use.
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Would I have to do this again whenever the app is updated, too?
Also, given that I have root, is there any way to set this up as an app somehow? I could launch the app, which would consist of a checklist of the apps that I have installed on my phone (which was compared against a master list somewhere of apps that declare this intent). I could then simply uncheck the ones that I want removed, and the app would automatically remove the declaration from each app's manifest? Or perhaps a way to monitor the Intent, see which apps are declaring that intent, and then populate the checklist like that?
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You would need to have root access to modify the APKs of protected and system apps. If you updated the application, it's manifest.xml would have to be changed again, too. I'm not completely certain that if you did this to Market apps if they would be updatable because of signing issues; you could do an adb pull, modify the manifest.xml, then adb push the file back, but if it's modified, I'm not sure that the Package Installer would allow the installation because of the signature.
As far as an application to automate this, I'm not sure if the permissions system on Android allows modification of another app's APK. In theory, the application would scan every APK, examine the manifest.xml of each one, and make a list of which apps respond to which Intents. It could then selectively modify the APKs (and possibly re-zipalign), but I'd rather have a slightly over-populated Share menu than deal with the hassles of broken Market application updates because my installed apps are no longer properly signed.
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...I'd rather have a slightly over-populated Share menu than deal with the hassles of broken Market application updates because my installed apps are no longer properly signed.
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Unfortunately, I think I agree with this.
Perhaps it would be easier to figure out a way to re-organize this list so that the apps that I'm actually going to use show up at the bottom (closer to the toolbar) instead of the top? Hypothetically, this would only involve finding the code that populates this list and changing 'descending' to 'ascending', right?
Rather than modifying the apps, wouldn't it be easier to have an exceptions list that the Share menu just ignores? I know that's not a very technical explanation, but what I'm trying to say is a more centralized solution where you cut out programs regardless of whether or not they have made themselves available for the Share menu.
Would be nice to edit this. If i remember correctly, during the Donut days, Cyanogen was experimenting with adding bluetooth share to the gallery app. In his code, he made an error that resulted in the "share" menu to be empty if if bluetooth is turned off. Meaning, Picasa, email, twidryod and everything else won't be there if bluetooth is turned off.
So this means that there was a way to make things disappear from the list.
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Would be nice to edit this. If i remember correctly, during the Donut days, Cyanogen was experimenting with adding bluetooth share to the gallery app. In his code, he made an error that resulted in the "share" menu to be empty if if bluetooth is turned off. Meaning, Picasa, email, twidryod and everything else won't be there if bluetooth is turned off.
So this means that there was a way to make things disappear from the list.
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Interesting - I'll have to see if I can find out how.
Unfortunately, I couldn't code my way out of a paper sack, so at some point I'm going to have to find someone to actually *do* this for us.
I would love this feature too. I currently have so many choices, I can't even see Pixelpipe on the list. I don't need to send photos to Google Googles.
I appreciate the option to, but I'd love to turn it off by app.
Hey guys,
First of all a little intro. I started playing with rooting, flashing mods and ROMs few weeks ago. I have been reading the general, Q&A and dev forums a lot and I have made sure from my end that this question has not yet been asked. In the case that these questions have already been asked and answered, please direct me to that thread.
So, I started off with just rooting my phone, few days later installed a custom kernel, few days later started modding stuff like battery icons and like and just few days back flashed a custom ROM for the first time.
After flashing the ROM (Turkbey 32.1 ported to i777 by LilChris), I restored whatever I could using Titanium backup PRO (restored only missing apps+data). But there were few things that did NOT get restored and have to reconfigure all that from scratch. Here's the list of things that had to be reconfigured.
AUTO START PREFERENCES: Is it possible to port the auto start settings to a new ROM? I had configured many apps to not auto start at bootup using Gemini App Manager. But after flashing this ROM, I have to do everything again. TiBU apparently couldn't backup/restore those settings from Gemini App Manager.
FROZEN STATES: Is it possible to preserve the frozen state of apps when switching ROMs? I had to re-freeze few selected apps (I have few rogue apps which I keep installed but frozen hoping that a future update will improve that app's impact on battery. Example: Facebook, Kik, ..) because restore using TiBU simply restored those apps but did not re-freeze them.
Thanks.
A request to the mod: Please move this to the correct forum in case it is not. I keep seeing questions of this genre in "General" as well as "Q&A" forums. So I am not 100% sure if this is the right place for this question.
Wow! About 100 views and no replies? Is my question too dumb?
Let me rephrase the question this way:
How do you guys do backup/restore of autostart pref and frozen states of apps? Or do you care to do that?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "autostart preferences". And, you cant save the "frozen apps" from TiBu. Just refreeze them when you install a new rom. It should only take a few seconds to do that.
I know what he means, and I don't know of a way to take the preferences with you. I've restored an app with data (autostarts) and it didn't take the saved data with it. It makes sense that you wouldn't be able to do it. Restoring nandroids restores it as it was though, but not across roms. I'll keep an eye on this thread in case someone knows of a way.
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "autostart preferences".
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I use Gemini App Manager to control which apps can auto start under different conditions. For example, I don't want Fluent News to start when the phone boots. If needed I will start the app manually and then let it fetch the latest news. "Autostarts" app can also do the same thing. These apps don't have a way to export my preferences. So when I flash a new ROM, I have to set the auto start preferences of 10s of apps manually. I am looking for a way to avoid this manual step every time I flash a new ROM.
nyydynasty said:
And, you cant save the "frozen apps" from TiBu. Just refreeze them when you install a new rom. It should only take a few seconds to do that.
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I have over 300 apps and I keep quite a few apps frozen and defrost them only when needed. Few examples of such apps: GPS Status, GTalk, bunch of system apps (even on custom ROMs). It takes quite some time for me to scroll through that app list on TiBU, reading the app names one by one and freezing the required.
Well, just today I read somewhere that I could filter the current frozen apps, apply a label to them and export the settings to update.zip. After flashing a new ROM, flashing that update.zip should retrieve my label assignments. I haven't yet tried that, but will on my next ROM flash.
jazzboyrules said:
Well, just today I read somewhere that I could filter the current frozen apps, apply a label to them and export the settings to update.zip. After flashing a new ROM, flashing that update.zip should retrieve my label assignments. I haven't yet tried that, but will on my next ROM flash.
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good luck
Not sure if this will help you, but you may want to have a look at Boot Manager (app)
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That technique worked for freezing my selecting apps using batch operation!
Alright. One problem solved. Now looking for a way to backup/restore my autostart preferences.
jazzboyrules said:
AUTO START PREFERENCES: Is it possible to port the auto start settings to a new ROM? I had configured many apps to not auto start at bootup using Gemini App Manager. But after flashing this ROM, I have to do everything again. TiBU apparently couldn't backup/restore those settings from Gemini App Manager.
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I've used System Tuner (it's on the Market) to do this, that is disable/re-enable individual apps from startup, in the past. It has a LOT of options, can almost replace TiBu (well not really but it does have some backup options). I couldn't find a setting that would easily export/import preferences but I think it puts some of it's data on the sdcard so it might survive wipes.
If I figure it out either way I'll repost.
What is the best way for me to back up my evo lte phones data, apps and settings? I rooted it with the one click root method.
djscissorhands said:
What is the best way for me to back up my evo lte phones data, apps and settings? I rooted it with the one click root method.
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Titanium Backup has worked for me all the time. But I would also recommend to enable the google backup feature in the phone settings, it helps with most of the phone settings.
Titanium Backup all the way man.. its such a great app if you are rooted.. you can backup your phone and then TB can push it to your google drive or drop box.. i have my set up to back up and push to dropbox every friday night at 3am
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Titanium Backup all the way man.. its such a great app if you are rooted.. you can backup your phone and then TB can push it to your google drive or drop box.. i have my set up to back up and push to dropbox every friday night at 3am
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Thanks Ive gone ahead and purchased and Installed titanium backup pro and opened it and granted su permissions but I'm new to this. Can you walk me through how to perform the back up and schedule it to sync to my Dropbox at 3am?
To do a manual backup simply hit the menu button on the top > Batch > Backup all user apps + system data
To create a schedule after loading the app click the "Schedules" tab
Then on the bottom right choose "Add new schedule"
Click Edit on the newly created item
Select the options you want, I personally have a twice a week "Backup all user apps + system data" scheduled. Choose the day(s) and time. On the very bottom where it says "When finished:" select dropbox or whatever else you choose to backup to.
Save and bam, done! If you trigger a manual backup you will need to upload it to dropbox manually as well.
Hope this helps
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Thanks Ive gone ahead and purchased and Installed titanium backup pro and opened it and granted su permissions but I'm new to this. Can you walk me through how to perform the back up and schedule it to sync to my Dropbox at 3am?
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sure thing ok first off you need to go into preferences and make sure you enable dropbox, or google drive (whichever you prefer).
then i would run a batch to back up all user apps
Next thing would be on the main page of TB on the upper right hand cornor you should see schedules,
There you should see a few canned options (backup sll new apps and new versions is the first one i run), bottom one being the sync to dropbox, just click edit and choose what you want to do..
Anyone having an issue with scheduled backups? Mine are set for daily with a reboot when dine. However, they aren't running. If I run the schedule manually it works
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To do a manual backup simply hit the menu button on the top > Batch > Backup all user apps + system data
If you trigger a manual backup you will need to upload it to dropbox manually as well.
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I've triggered a manual backup but don't see how to manually upload it to Dropbox.
Nm I found it.. Thanks everyone for all your help.
On iphone you can enable notifications for an app by jist going in settings- notification
but in android we need to go in each to enable them
why ? isnthere a way to enable all notifications without going in the app?
abelle_abelle said:
On iphone you can enable notifications for an app by jist going in settings- notification
but in android we need to go in each to enable them
why ? isnthere a way to enable all notifications without going in the app?
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As far as I know, each app individually controls the notifications it can send - in some cases you even can't enable/disable them. On the other hand, you can disable the sync of certain accounts which, in turn, could disable most notifications of the corresponding apps, but there's no way to batch enable all notifications.
why? Good Question
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As far as I know, each app individually controls the notifications it can send - in some cases you even can't enable/disable them. On the other hand, you can disable the sync of certain accounts which, in turn, could disable most notifications of the corresponding apps, but there's no way to batch enable all notifications.
why? Good Question
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its just annoying to enable notification u need to run the app first everytime after a full restore
i have like 300 apps on my phone so its impossible for me to do it every now and then
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On iphone you can enable notifications for an app by jist going in settings- notification
but in android we need to go in each to enable them
why ? isnthere a way to enable all notifications without going in the app?
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its because android has a fully open source operating systems, so the app and game developers have to use there own notification settings, so you have to enable or disable the notifications in the app itselfs, there is no app that works perfectly that can switch them all on or off.
i hope i helped you, by the way try out FoxHound Rising 1.9 s3 rom because its mind blowingly awesome
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its just annoying to enable notification u need to run the app first everytime after a full restore
i have like 300 apps on my phone so its impossible for me to do it every now and then
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mate use titanium backup and backup your app data and settings then copy your titanium backup data to a safe place then install your new rom and then install your apps including titanium backup and then place your titanium backup data back into the original location and restore the data for the apps you have installed that you have backups for, this will save you alot of time
thats what i do
i make a titanium backup and then restore the user apps with data
but still you need to atleast start that app once to recieve notifications
for example : Whatsapp or drippler or facebook
unless you are talking about backing up some system apps too using titanium backup that are responsible on notification settings
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thats what i do
i make a titanium backup and then restore the user apps with data
but still you need to atleast start that app once to recieve notifications
for example : Whatsapp or drippler or facebook
unless you are talking about backing up some system apps too using titanium backup that are responsible on notification settings
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i know what you mean... but most apps you need to log in atleast once just to activate the app such as log in account details or get past the tutorial, but saying that i have not had a problem using titanium backup it remembers all the settings and log in info if you backup correctly
well yeah but i dont get notifications for other apps either like Crickbuzz and apps does not requires login or anything
i do a full backup/restore for all user apps only with data using titanium backup
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lordkingdavo said:
... i have not had a problem using titanium backup it remembers all the settings and log in info if you backup correctly
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True. Apps saved via Titanium Backup keep most settings stored - such as login data, notification settings, ringtones settings.
I keep my backups on the external SD, so when I factory reset I can restore the apps just as easily. It would take one big time effort to configure each app, but after that you shouldnt need to do it again... ever.
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True. Apps saved via Titanium Backup keep most settings stored - such as login data, notification settings, ringtones settings.
I keep my backups on the external SD, so when I factory reset I can restore the apps just as easily. It would take one big time effort to configure each app, but after that you shouldnt need to do it again... ever.
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well said my friend
Hello guys, could you advise how to backup and restore learned words in Gboard? Everytime I change my phone/ROM I have start from scratch.
I'll be wiping my phone tomorrow and I'd love not to lose all the learned words over past year again.
(WTF isn't this synced automatically within my account?)
(I don't mean the dictionary, this contains just a handful of words, not sure what's it's purpose)
Thank you for any advice! I'm rooted if any backuping app could help
Swift backup did the trick
There is no auto backup system in Gboard which is very much frustrating. But you can manually backup by yourself from Gboard settings> dictionary> personal dictionary then choose proper category, select three dot menu and select export. Better do this ever week. This is the only way I know. If you are Samsung user you can do this in a single click but you have to install GoodLock and routine module. For other brand you need to purchase tasker to do so. Search in YouTube how to use routine module or tasker. I have 1460+ word saved.