All,
I have been loving the dev community for the EVO LTE. Flashing roms and trying new things out about once a week. However, everytime I wipe I have to put back all my home folders and icons where they were before I flashed. This process takes forever at times.
Is there an app that will back it up and restore it or are there a couple of files I can backup prior to flashing?
Thanks all!!
Have you been executing a nandroid via TWRP or another recovery, and a full Titanium Backup?
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michael.stollaire said:
Have you been executing a nandroid via TWRP or another recovery, and a full Titanium Backup?
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Titanium Backup rocks. I have been using that since the HTC Hero to back up all my apps but I didnt think it had an option for the home screen?
A nandroid backup would work but isnt that like taking an image of your device of a specific rom? If I jump between roms and\or upgrade to a new release of a rom and do a full wipe is there a way to get my home screen ... wallpaper, shortcuts folders etc back in order?
Ive tried MyBackup and it has an option for backing up the home screen but I assume that is for stock android or an older release of Sense. Every time I have tried restoring it never brings back my icons or wallpaper after a restore.
Historically I have never really had a need or want to backup the home screen but with this phone you can tweak and customize so much in regards to the home screens that its becoming a real nice to have.
For example I typically use the traffic widget, create a half dozen folders or more that houses specific types of apps (Utilites, Music, News, Podcasts, etc).
Hope this helps.... I feel like a n00b at the moment because I'm sure I am not the first person with this want or need.
I forget where i read this on here i didn't know it could be done so i tried it yesterday and it worked.
Do a Nan backup before you flash the new Rom, after you flash the rom stay in recovery and go to your Nan backup and just restore data uncheck everything else.
I did it going from flex rom to mean rom, been running all day with no issues
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I will try that........does anyone know of any other options?
dougm0 said:
I will try that........does anyone know of any other options?
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You can backup your screens in TB. It's written in green and listed as htc sense (desktop)
Wow after all that time using titanium never noticed that....guess that will work great until we get a new update from sprint that changes the version . Thanks everyone!!!!!!
njfoses said:
You can backup your screens in TB. It's written in green and listed as htc sense (desktop)
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You also have to backup Application Widgets, which is also highlighted in green. I basically backup all user apps, and all system apps that highlighted in green. Then when you flash, you can do a batch restore, reboot, and your homescreens should come back.
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I'm sure that there are several out there that have a fair amount of customization scattered across the 7 screens. I typically group similar apps in Folders. Anyway, from the 7-8 search phrases I tried there was nothing useful that came up in the TB forums.
Will I have to reconfigure my screens every time I flash a ROM or is there a way to restore the icon/app arrangement? I'm not worried about the middle/home screen just the other 6.
Back when I used a WinMo phone I relied on Sashimi to handle all the icon/screen arrangements; or did it manually using a file explorer. Obviously the Droid directory/config structure is quite different. Not to mention that efforts to locate an app analogous to MyMobilier have turned up dust.
i use titanium backup. you can back up all your apps and there data as well as stuff like homescreens accounts wifi spots etc. when you need to pick which things to backup get all user apps and all the green system data. then restore it all when you switch roms.
dak_181 said:
i use titanium backup. you can back up all your apps and there data as well as stuff like homescreens accounts wifi spots etc. when you need to pick which things to backup get all user apps and all the green system data. then restore it all when you switch roms.
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But it won't put back your widgets. I've heard of nothing that will.
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But it won't put back your widgets. I've heard of nothing that will.
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Widgets are live feeds so no is a limitation for now, best bet is what the other poster said
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I don't think there's anything that will restore widgets.
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it restores stock widgets and gives a little error screen for where other ones are. seriously how hard is it to re set like 2 or three widgets really?
Yeah mine came back with batch restore on titanium but like it was said. Other than stock needed to be manually added
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Agreed on the restore aspect of TiBu. I'm not too bad of a flash junkie so I'll deal for now. Still trying to dig up info on why the Market doesn't show my 40-50 downloaded apps after a flash and google sync though. I did get my app icons/folders restored to the Sense screens w/ TiBu, but it trashed the BAMF3.0 default. I have screen captures from ShootMe so I can manually restore the look next time I flash. Thanks for the replies.
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Agreed on the restore aspect of TiBu. I'm not too bad of a flash junkie so I'll deal for now. Still trying to dig up info on why the Market doesn't show my 40-50 downloaded apps after a flash and google sync though. I did get my app icons/folders restored to the Sense screens w/ TiBu, but it trashed the BAMF3.0 default. I have screen captures from ShootMe so I can manually restore the look next time I flash. Thanks for the replies.
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yeah i dunno about apps, but market.google.com will show you everything youve ever downloaded
True. Just wasn't crazy about clicking every single one to get them back after a flash. Hopefully the hurry-up-n-wait method suggested elsewhere will work; could take a couple of hours to "fully-sync" after a flash.
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I'm sure that there are several out there that have a fair amount of customization scattered across the 7 screens. I typically group similar apps in Folders. Anyway, from the 7-8 search phrases I tried there was nothing useful that came up in the TB forums.
Will I have to reconfigure my screens every time I flash a ROM or is there a way to restore the icon/app arrangement? I'm not worried about the middle/home screen just the other 6.
Back when I used a WinMo phone I relied on Sashimi to handle all the icon/screen arrangements; or did it manually using a file explorer. Obviously the Droid directory/config structure is quite different. Not to mention that efforts to locate an app analogous to MyMobilier have turned up dust.
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I use LauncherPro (free version in market) and there is an option to back up your screens (menu/preferences/backup home screen & settings). Does not do widgets, but I don't have a problem adding the few back that I do use.
After I flash a ROM I get all my apps back either via TiBackup or the market and once I switch to Launcher Pro as my home screen program I just do menu/preferences/restore backup and all my little icons are back where they should be.
Just make sure you restore the LPro backup AFTER you restore your apps or the backup won't be able to point to the right app.
I recently rooted my phone and I'm still using the stock ROM. I downloaded Root Uninstaller to remove some bloatware, and I must have accidentally removed an important phone function because the "slide here" bubble on the unlock screen has disappeared and I cannot access the phone. My computer also does not recognize the phone which is odd.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? I wouldn't imagine the phone is bricked as it still displays the background and receives calls and text messages, I'm just not able to interact with the phone in any way.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
If you have a nandroid then I'd recommend a restore, especially if your not sure what you removed.
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Sounds like you uninstalled htclockscreen.apk I remember reading something on here about how to restore that.
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If you don't have a nandroid backup, and if you don't want to lose any data, I would boot into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik, and reflash the stock rom. Or wipe everything and start fresh.
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Thanks for the information guys - I had backups so I just wiped everything as I wasn't sure exactly what was missing.
Guess I should do some research before I start removing things!
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Sounds like you uninstalled htclockscreen.apk I remember reading something on here about how to restore that.
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I believe you can remove HTClockscreen AFTER you have installed some other lockscreen. As for tinkering, as long as you have backups, no harm, no foul.
I have searched here and Google can't seem to find a good answer I'm looking for.
When I flash a new rom titanium backup ask if i want to restore or keep my android id, i always hit remind me later then after that it doesn't show that message again, it never did this on the evo 4g but i did restore the apps and apps data when i transferred to the evo lte.
My question is should i keep the id or restore, is the one it wants restored from the evo 4g, what happens if i was to restore the other one.
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I always say restore the original device id. Some programs may be tied to that id and won't register to the market if you don't restore.
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I restore it everytime, certain apps look for the device id and would consider your phone a different device after each rom you flash. Play Music and netflix are good examples.
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I always say restore the original device id. Some programs may be tied to that id and won't register to the market if you don't restore.
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I restore it everytime, certain apps look for the device id and would consider your phone a different device after each rom you flash. Play Music and netflix are good examples.
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I never restored it and havnt had any problems with any apps, if i start restoring now could that start giving me problems?
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there are only a handful of apps that rely on it, like Roam Control. If i restore it, roam control works fine, if i dont i have to input my email and key again. not a big deal. Also Bluetooth relys on it apparently. If i restore it, connections work fine, if i dont, i have to repair.
Punch Hero is a Gamevil game that requires it, otherwise it junks the save data and starts a new game.
I'm on SGSII and oddly if I switch to other touchwiz roms, TB always asks me to restore
But when I switch to a AOSP rom, it doesn't ask me.. which means I can't play Punch Hero from where I left off.
Need to figure out how to force change the id when ti doesn't ask. I've been holding off on AOSP until I finish playing Punch Hero.. but I've been playing it for like 5 months now
-EDIT- Found it.. its in the menu under "Manage Android Id"... restore from backup. Sweet!
Having some issues with rom I'm running, but also want to know for when I flash CM10 from sense rom. How can I keep my texts, email accounts synched, app data, or reinstall it after a factory reset type wipe?
Do I go into recovery and install what file? I didn't see data as an option in twrp, only system (for wiping anyways). What is the best way to do this? I'm currently dirty flashing everything, but that won't always be doable.
Specs: S-off, newest radios/firmware, stock/goodies rom. Ummm, twrp 2.2 I believe.
Use titanium backup to back up and restore apps and app data. Emails and contacts are synced with your Google account. It's not a good idea to backup and restore system apps and data. There are apps in the play store for backing up texts.
metalfan78 said:
Use titanium backup to back up and restore apps and app data. Emails and contacts are synced with your Google account. It's not a good idea to backup and restore system apps and data. There are apps in the play store for backing up texts.
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U know, I did that on my og EVO and hated restoring each app one by one. I have tb premium now though, so I can one click restore right? For some reason not all of my contacts restore with Google, so I don't trust it. Isn't chrome supposed to back up all your passwords and usernames for websites as well?
Sorry guys, haven't wiped data since og EVO. It really got me hating to flash New roms, turned into an all day event restoring and getting it running again.
Anthonicia said:
U know, I did that on my og EVO and hated restoring each app one by one. I have tb premium now though, so I can one click restore right? For some reason not all of my contacts restore with Google, so I don't trust it. Isn't chrome supposed to back up all your passwords and usernames for websites as well?
Sorry guys, haven't wiped data since og EVO. It really got me hating to flash New roms, turned into an all day event restoring and getting it running again.
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I use ROM Toolbox Pro rather than Titanium. I have flashed and restored apps/data successfully with RTP, it's worth the price.
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I use ROM Toolbox Pro rather than Titanium. I have flashed and restored apps/data successfully with RTP, it's worth the price.
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Have to look into that. What features make it better than titback, lol? I've seen it in playstore and even reading the reviews don't get too heavy into what's so great about it. I have pretty much all the other tools it has already like file manager, overclock, backup/restore apps.
I believe u. Just really want to know what makes it so good other than a lot of tools in one app.
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Have to look into that. What features make it better than titback, lol? I've seen it in playstore and even reading the reviews don't get too heavy into what's so great about it. I have pretty much all the other tools it has already like file manager, overclock, backup/restore apps.
I believe u. Just really want to know what makes it so good other than a lot of tools in one app.
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Nice interface, easy to use.
Backup/restore of apps actually works (I had issues with Titanium)
build.prop editor is included
Ad blocker
You can manage apps (like Titanium) and freeze/uninstall/etc
It also has some ROM management tools that look pretty sweet, though I have not used them to date.
The developer is also easily accessible via email, and is responsive, so if you have issues you can contact him.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
I love Rom toolbox and its like 50 apps in 1
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I see lots of people restoring data or app backups after a clean ROM flash. Do you think this adds of the instability problems so many people have, while others have very few problems?
I have done it on five phones, countless ROMs and have never ever once had a single issue.
I could never ever NOT restore data.
It's like losing everything I ever did on the app [whether it be countless hours of Ski Safari, Angry Birds, etc]. However on apps like Facebook, twitter, and stuff like that, I could live without the data, but it's nice because I don't have to relogin.
I bounce around on several ROMs from time to time checking out whether I want to run one or another as a daily. Been jumping over to AOSP and AOKP recently to try to get things going, but haven't gotten things quite to my liking.
The ability to reload my entire ICS Sense 3.6 system with a quick Nandroid restore has been invaluable and made that possible. I even store older Nandroids on my PC, and keep an extra one on my sdcard (well, it is 64g) in case I want to roll back a few versions to experiment.
For instance, when Amon Ra 3.16 came out with the fix for rooting in the dev options, I restored my original Global RUU install that I couldn't root with 3.15, rooted it, then backed it up for legacy purposes.
Same thing with my tablet; have played with several ROMs for my tablet, emboldened by the fact that I can always roll back a Nandroid.
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The ability to reload my entire ICS Sense 3.6 system with a quick Nandroid restore has been invaluable and made that possible. I even store older Nandroids on my PC, and keep an extra one on my sdcard (well, it is 64g) in case I want to roll back a few versions to experiment.
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You misunderstand the premise of the question, we're not talking about nandroids. We're referring to changing ROMs and then restoring data and apps from the old ROM to the new ROM. I see people doing this all the time, then they litter the threads complaining of things not working. I don't doubt it's possible to do this on a select and intelligent basis, but in the general population I don't think it works well.
I use gobackup (the older version cuz its free lol) and it restores data fine including game levels and all that good stuff like Facebook sign in
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You misunderstand the premise of the question, we're not talking about nandroids. We're referring to changing ROMs and then restoring data and apps from the old ROM to the new ROM. I see people doing this all the time, then they litter the threads complaining of things not working. I don't doubt it's possible to do this on a select and intelligent basis, but in the general population I don't think it works well.
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Apologies. There are many kinds of backups. As to those kind of backups, before preparing to switch ROMs, I run App2zip backing up all my apps and data to a flashable zip file. Once the new ROM is settled in, I will flash that back. Some apps are routinely not well-behaved on restore, e.g. Swiftkey, PowerAmp, and those I'll simply uninstall then restore a Titanium backup.
I have had very little problems restoring app data this way. The one thing I do NOT do is restore the actual \data partition itself in between ROM flashes, and I don't just batch restore from Titanium or from Rerware's MyBackupPro. Those are for piecemeal restores when data in a particular app becomes problematic.
I agree that you can't just "run a restore" and expect good results; but if you're deliberate and careful about it, you can minimize disruption between ROM flashes.
As often as I flash, I'd never have a working phone if I didn't do restores. I restore apps and selectively restore app data...mainly games, and apps that are a pain to set up.
Titanium baby.
When I use adb to backup I only make it backup apps/there apk never do system or shared, things like media and personal files I take off of the phone and put on pc before adb. There's several ways to backup your contacts to current places so you don't have to type them in again
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There's several ways to backup your contacts to current places so you don't have to type them in again.
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You mean you don't let Google restore your backups automatically? I assumed everyone did that... weird.
Scott586 said:
You mean you don't let Google restore your backups automatically? I assumed everyone did that... weird.
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I hate that. Half the time it ends up restoring stuff I've already uninstalled.
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