Force update of apps? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've got a Samsung Galaxy S Duos (GT-S7562L). I've rooted it by installing clockwork mod and then root. I'm also using a combo of Ext2Int and Link2SD to get around issues with the limited 2gb internal memory.
I've been using this configuration for a while and have been through a few firmware updates where I simply had to reinstall cwm and root, reconfigured Ext2Int and Link2SD and was okay.
However I now ran into an issue where linked apps fail to run.
Titanium Backup wasn't backing up the linked portions of the apps, I think. So restoring them wouldn't be much help.
I tried removing links and running apps again but that fails. I tried uninstalling, downloading and linking an app and that worked.
I don't want to have to go through the rigmarole of doing that for all my apps, is there a way to mark all apps as requiring an update from the Google Play so I can use Google plays "update all" feature with Link2SD's built in "auto linking after updating a linked app" feature
Thanks.
Otherwise, maybe I'll just restore my backup and turn off firmware updates.
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Okay, I tried doing restore from Titanium backup and that seemed to have done the trick. I guess it does backup across links...

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Question about Restoring with Titanium Backup

I have just recently downloaded Titanium Backup in order to save my apps because I want to try new ROMs that say to do full wipes including EXT wipes. I was just curious what the proper way to use the program to restore apps was. Also, if Titanium Backup saves to your sd card and you do an EXT wipe, won't that delete all of your saved data? How does it restore? I hope this question isnt on the forum somewhere, I tried searching and couldnt quite find the answer i was looking for.
Thanks for the help. You guys on here have been lifesavers.
Hi,
Okay so first Titanium backup will back up your system settings and your applications and does a fine job at it too! When you wipe your Ext2/3/4 partition all your doing is cleaning off any data held in it. This does not effect your fat 32 partition which is where all your stuff is (pictures, albums, films, ringtones etc) I haven't deleted my fat32 partition ever as this never needs touching really. Apps2sd runs from your Ext partiton so wiping will kill all your apps but this is where Titanium comes in and as it saves to the fat32 partition you have no worries wiping. Also suggest backing up on a PC, I do once a week and saved me a few headaches
Open Titanium and hit menu, then batch. This will bring up a list of options to 'Run' backup or restore. I would strongly suggest also to donate $3.99 for the paid version with the hyper shell.
Anything else you need help with?
Nope. Thanks man. I just needed a few things cleared up before I went ahead and wiped my ext. You were a great help.
No problem, glad to have helped
you say it saves system settings...
so i have about 30 ringtones set to specific contacts, if i wipe/flash a new rom.
restore using titanium backup. Will all those ringtones be set back to the proper contacts automatically with TTB? cuz its a pain in the *** setting them each new rom
i tried mybackup pro a long time ago and it didn't do this which is why i don't waste my time with that app. (that may be changed now, it's been about 8 months)
would I be able to Restore my backup if I have flashed a new rom without problems?
I'm having problems with Titanium Backup. I made backup of a lot of apps before flashing some new stuff to my Galaxy S, but now when I try to restore them it just gets stuck. At first there's that little window saying restoring, but that disappears and it seems like everything is fine. However, when I try to restore next app it just says that a process is already running and it stays that way until I kill it via Autokiller. The app gets installed so that's fine, but the problem is that I would really like to just run a batch-operation and not have to kill the Titanium-process for every app i have back-up of...
Any solutions good people of XDA?
check at the new version, it has an alternative restore mode that you need to enable for it to work on the galaxy s
Another restore question
I installed Titanium backup on my Galaxy S Captivate yesterday, did a batch backup of "all user apps + System Data" in the list it showed the bloatware ATT apps which I wanted to uninstall but with the option of reinstalling them if I ever needed to bring the phone back to ATT.
I did a test uninstall of one of the market apps and then did a restore and it worked fine. Then I tried to un installed one of the ATT apps, which worked but when I tried to restore it by clicking on the crossed out app at the bottom of the list, there is no option to restore it, just delete.
Did I do something wrong with the backup or am I not restoring it properly? my test worked fine so I thought I had it figured out but obviously I am doing something wrong.
any help would be appreciated.
thanks!
Similar problem with no luck at reinstalling Att apps. I accidently deleted google talk and now cannot download new apps.
I have a similar question to the OP.
If I use the Master Clear or whatever is called to restore my phone to stock...that is supposed to delete the internal SD Card so, if I were to copy the Titanium Back Up folder to my PC then copy it back to the SD card after the clearing is done...would that be enough to restore all the games and apps?
I have titanium backup stored in sdcard, this backup is settings/wallpaper, is possible to extract from this file only wallpaper, without restoring all backup to the phone??
My news app/widget not working on MY HTC DHD even after several reboot/restart. So I decided to back up the apps and widget trough titanium backup and uninstall the app+widget. After reinstalling the apps/widget. the news app is working again but the widget, I cant find it in widget menus when I tried to add it to home screen.
Any help appreciated.
Thx
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Also have a question about this program
It's restores my apps great. Very happy about it. But when you have installed ur apps back.
When I go to the android market they are not listed in my apps.
Though when i go and look for the app in the store it says installed. Yet can't check the allow automatic update checkbox.
Hope I make sense???
So I can't update it basically???Or when there is an update it will show up in my apps ???
My SD card was fried last night... everything gone. Good thing I backed up everything onto my laptop last week. Got a new SD card and copied everything over from the laptop. When I go into TB app, it doesnt show what I copied over. SHows I have no apps in memory... I made sure to copy everything into the "Titanium Backup" folder in my SD card. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
eezdva said:
Also have a question about this program
It's restores my apps great. Very happy about it. But when you have installed ur apps back.
When I go to the android market they are not listed in my apps.
Though when i go and look for the app in the store it says installed. Yet can't check the allow automatic update checkbox.
Hope I make sense???
So I can't update it basically???Or when there is an update it will show up in my apps ???
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This happened to me as well. Go into the "more" option thru Titanium and select the Market Doctor. This should link your apps back up with the Market. Also, sometimes simply installing an app thru the Market and/or a reboot will get my installed apps to show up properly.
OK thanks. Will try it out.
eezdva said:
OK thanks. Will try it out.
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Hope that worked, but just in case, there's another way. Once in Titanium, click backup/restore, and then scroll to your desired app. Long press the app and then click the option to "attach to market (forced)."
Market Doctor - Amazon Market
I installed a new ROM and restored my apps with TiBu. I was having some syncing problems in the Android Market so I ran Market Doctor. The problem is that I did not know to de-select the Amazon sourced apps so 47 of them got linked to the Android Market. I have since manually de-linked (long press) each of those apps solving most of the problem but they still show up in the Market list but under the 'Not Installed' section at the bottom. Is there a way to permanently break the link? I am concerned about having to deal with it in the future. Maybe re-run Market Doctor following the proper de-select process?

Titanium Backup - hanging on app freeze / restore?

I've just rooted my Galaxy S2, and made a backup of all my system apps using Titanium Backup. The backup was all good and succesful, but when trying to restore a system app from backup, it just hangs on the restore dialog...going nowhere, forcing me to shutdown Titanium Backup forcefully. The very same thing is happening when trying to freeze/unfreeze apps, it just hangs...
Restoring a user app from backup works just fine though.
And yep, I have enabled USB-debugging.
Has anyone experienced the same?
Hopefully someone can cheer me up with a remedy to this problem
Update to latest version
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same problem .. when i freeze the application it will hang on FREEZING APPLICATION .. but just press the home button and end the task with task manager and go back again and freeze the others ... it will hang but it will freeze the application that happened to me after upgrading to KE7 ... there's a new version i didn't tried yet ..
soyef said:
Update to latest version
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I already have the latest version available on Android Market.
I was thinking, what about readonly / write access to the system apps, do I need to somehow make the system space writable?
Have you switched usb debugging on?
And this thread is in the wrong place. Maybe in Q and A or in Themes and apps would be better.
Oh wait, I just reflashed with a full generic ROM, and now it seems to work, no more hanging on freeze or restore.
Perhaps Titanium Backup was released with a Samsung fix during that time? Anyways...it works now
In titanium backup preferences, set app processing mode to auto, indirect
BenKranged said:
In titanium backup preferences, set app processing mode to auto, indirect
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Awesome, that fixed it so far
BenKranged said:
In titanium backup preferences, set app processing mode to auto, indirect
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Also fixed my problem on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus. Thanks.
Mine was allso hanging at restoation App+data, but a simple phone restart solved all my problems
Titanium backup deleting system files
I have somewhat of a similar problem. Whenever I want to turn a system app, into a user app, titbkup pro says it's processing, and that's it! It does that, until I have to forceclose it! It deletes the app(except the backups). I choose what I can delete very carefully, read up through various wiki"s to see if what I'm changing will have consequences. Titbkup used to do what I wanted, but just deletes my system files, instead of converting them. I have it on auto/indirect, phones rooted, superuser allows, and it's the pro version. I want to change my golauncher, into a user app again, split it up a little to take certain files to sd, and leave other files in system. I have a very low memory phone, and need all the space on in internal memory I can get.
I have no problem changing a user app into a system app, but it doesn't work in reverse, everything about the app works, except that. Can i use root explorer?
"Whenever I want to turn a system app".....is this terribly required in SGS2?
"I have a very low memory phone" ........what phone do you have, not the I9100?
this is a I9100 phone thread....

[Q] Titanium Backup Restore Problem

First let me say that I never ran into this problem on my Galaxy Nexus.
On my Note 2 I'm running Beans 2, rooted and unlocked bootloader.
Before I flashed the ROM I created two flashable .zip files with TiBu, one for the app, and one for my backed up apps.
After flashing the ROM, I booted the system, went back to recovery and flashed the .zip for the app.
Then I rebooted the system and opened TiBu. It asked me if I wanted to restore the previous Device ID, which I did, then it rebooted.
Then I went back into recovery and flashed the .zip for the backed up apps.
Rebooted the system and my apps were restored. The problem is that many of them don't work. Not all, but many will FC and require uninstalling and reinstalling from the PlayStore. After that they work.
Anyone run into this problem? Some examples are Netflix and Opera Browser. I've had about five or six others.
I had the same problem with Revision 3, before Beans 2.
Thanks.
By the way, all the apps were initially installed onto the Note 2 from the playstore.
I usually use TiBu and just do a batch restore(there's a little check box at the top right of home screen) and then just check the box to only restore apps (not apps + data), then I'll uncheck all and only select the ones I want to restore.
If there are a few that I want to try and restore data on, I'll do that on the next batch restore, and just leave apps + data checked...but keep in mind sometimes it doesn't properly restore data(and sometimes it doesn't even restore the app. If it's restored but not working properly, a lot of times you can just clear the data on the app in the application manager.
Hope that helps, I've never tried your method but it sounds like it restores EVERYTHING including system apps, which wouldn't be the best way to do it.
Sent from my unlocked & underclocked Galaxy Note 2
try this
Izord said:
First let me say that I never ran into this problem on my Galaxy Nexus.
On my Note 2 I'm running Beans 2, rooted and unlocked bootloader.
Before I flashed the ROM I created two flashable .zip files with TiBu, one for the app, and one for my backed up apps.
After flashing the ROM, I booted the system, went back to recovery and flashed the .zip for the app.
Then I rebooted the system and opened TiBu. It asked me if I wanted to restore the previous Device ID, which I did, then it rebooted.
Then I went back into recovery and flashed the .zip for the backed up apps.
Rebooted the system and my apps were restored. The problem is that many of them don't work. Not all, but many will FC and require uninstalling and reinstalling from the PlayStore. After that they work.
Anyone run into this problem? Some examples are Netflix and Opera Browser. I've had about five or six others.
I had the same problem with Revision 3, before Beans 2.
Thanks.
By the way, all the apps were initially installed onto the Note 2 from the playstore.
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TiBu is one of my favs...
don't do the zip. Just backup all app. Put them on the SD card. You can choose that by going into settings and changing the folder where they reside. The boot into android install both tibu and tibu pro then restore missing apps.
I did this tens of time ( I have severe fla****is) never failed. Takes longer but works for me.
Abe
sleevasteve said:
I usually use TiBu and just do a batch restore(there's a little check box at the top right of home screen) and then just check the box to only restore apps (not apps + data), then I'll uncheck all and only select the ones I want to restore.
If there are a few that I want to try and restore data on, I'll do that on the next batch restore, and just leave apps + data checked...but keep in mind sometimes it doesn't properly restore data(and sometimes it doesn't even restore the app. If it's restored but not working properly, a lot of times you can just clear the data on the app in the application manager.
Hope that helps, I've never tried your method but it sounds like it restores EVERYTHING including system apps, which wouldn't be the best way to do it.
Sent from my unlocked & underclocked Galaxy Note 2
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No the .zip flash restore was implemented a month or two ago. It takes your app + app data backups and creates a flashable zip. Worked perfect on the Gnex. It doesn't do system apps, unless you included them in your backups. Like I said I noticed it on Netflix and Opera and some other downloaded apps.
sleevasteve said:
I usually use TiBu and just do a batch restore(there's a little check box at the top right of home screen) and then just check the box to only restore apps (not apps + data), then I'll uncheck all and only select the ones I want to restore.
If there are a few that I want to try and restore data on, I'll do that on the next batch restore, and just leave apps + data checked...but keep in mind sometimes it doesn't properly restore data(and sometimes it doesn't even restore the app. If it's restored but not working properly, a lot of times you can just clear the data on the app in the application manager.
Hope that helps, I've never tried your method but it sounds like it restores EVERYTHING including system apps, which wouldn't be the best way to do it.
Sent from my unlocked & underclocked Galaxy Note 2
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abe_cedar said:
TiBu is one of my favs...
don't do the zip. Just backup all app. Put them on the SD card. You can choose that by going into settings and changing the folder where they reside. The boot into android install both tibu and tibu pro then restore missing apps.
I did this tens of time ( I have severe fla****is) never failed. Takes longer but works for me.
Abe
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Yeah, me too. I started doing the zip restore when it came out. Faster to do it in recovery. But I've done it the old way like you said too. Have you restored any apps on your Note 2 yet? Since unlocking the bootloader and flashing Beans?
old way
Izord said:
Yeah, me too. I started doing the zip restore when it came out. Faster to do it in recovery. But I've done it the old way like you said too. Have you restored any apps on your Note 2 yet? Since unlocking the bootloader and flashing Beans?
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Yes,
and they work like a champ.
I am picky with the aroma settings, so I had to flash 5-6 times beans rel 2 till I got it to my likings.
Each time used the old tibu restore missing apps and data feture. Really nice.
The zip file is cool but if something is wrong with only one app, why mess all of them.
my take.
Abe
The only issue I've had so far with TiBu is restoring my Snote notes. After a reboot can see them (thumbnails) in the business folder, but soon as I click on it the stupid thing goes through a sync and all my notes vaporize.
Root, unlocked, Rev3 ROM. Tried Beans, but wasn't crazy about the ICS graphics.
Did you get this fixed? I ran into some trouble with trying to transfer Opera and Opera Mini onto another device. It transfers my bookmarks, speedial and open pages, so some amount of user data is there. But its missing my login information and feeds and adds the standard speeddials after my own (this actually happens on the source device to, creating a backup changes the source). Whats going on there?
I'm sure it worked before Android 5.1.
Old Skool.....
nurps said:
Did you get this fixed? I ran into some trouble with trying to transfer Opera and Opera Mini onto another device. It transfers my bookmarks, speedial and open pages, so some amount of user data is there. But its missing my login information and feeds and ands the standard speeddials after my own (this actually happens on the source device to, creating a backup changes the source). Whats going on there?
I'm sure it worked before Android 5.1.
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I've always done it the old skool was as well. It's more time consuming but I prefer to keep the rom flashes as clean as possible to help pick out bugs from non-bugs.
I always just restore the apps (no data) - then put in the time getting everything set up again.
Answering a question about how to do something with "I dont do it" isnt really helping.

Are there any app/data backup options that work well with 4.3 as of yet?

After upgrading to CM10.2 nightlies, I noticed that neither of my purchased back-up apps function as intended anymore.
ROM Toolbox Pro fails to backup phone data (such as SMS, accounts, dialer info... etc.), and Titanium Backup gives me an "insufficient free storage space" error any time I try to back up my apps. Now, I've already tried pretty much everything with Titanium Backup outside of installing SuperSU. I've changed the backup directory to every combination of emulated/legacy and sdcard0/legacy... etc. that people have suggested to no avail. The only thing I can think of is that it doesn't play well with Koush's SuperUser app, but I don't want to bother removing it for SuperSU because it's integrated into the ROM nicely.
So is there any way to get Titanium Backup working properly with 4.3 ROMs? I'd like to use it ideally because the update.zip function really makes it the best backup option out there when it's working right.
Otherwise, are there any other backup apps that can backup apps/data/accounts/SMS with 4.3 ROMs without problems?
Did you enable USB debugging and Install from known sources?
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[Q] All apps crash after installing rom update

Hey guys, I have the ViperX+ 2.0.1 rom, but my problem is not really about the rom itself.
A week ago the ota update got released, so I made a backup and installed t, but as I already expected it there was
the same problem I had before: After loading and adjusting all apps it loads my wallpaper, but after that all apps crash,
so I have to turn the phone off by pressing the power button. This is caused by the app LuckyPatcher. In LuckyPatcher
there's a feature which installs a modded playstore, when I installed it for the first time restarted the device but after booting
all apps kept crashing, so I had to restore a backup, then I changed the modded playstore version and it worked fine.
Now back to the ota update problem: I installed the original play store with luckypatcher and removed the app,
then I installed the update and all apps crashed again, so removing luckypatcher doesn't help anymore
(restored the data via backup again). Have you guys any idea how to fix this, cause my latest backup is a few months old..
Or should I just backup my data and do a full wipe? If yes what should I backup in TWRP (only data or boot too,
cause I don't know which of them contains the broken files), or use something like Titanium Backup. I don't mind if I have to set
all the options and tweaks manually again, I just want to keep my files (music, pics, apps, etc.),
so which way would you recommend me? Thanks in advance
Tazmaniiac said:
Hey guys, I have the ViperX+ 2.0.1 rom, but my problem is not really about the rom itself.
A week ago the ota update got released, so I made a backup and installed t, but as I already expected it there was
the same problem I had before: After loading and adjusting all apps it loads my wallpaper, but after that all apps crash,
so I have to turn the phone off by pressing the power button. This is caused by the app LuckyPatcher. In LuckyPatcher
there's a feature which installs a modded playstore, when I installed it for the first time restarted the device but after booting
all apps kept crashing, so I had to restore a backup, then I changed the modded playstore version and it worked fine.
Now back to the ota update problem: I installed the original play store with luckypatcher and removed the app,
then I installed the update and all apps crashed again, so removing luckypatcher doesn't help anymore
(restored the data via backup again). Have you guys any idea how to fix this, cause my latest backup is a few months old..
Or should I just backup my data and do a full wipe? If yes what should I backup in TWRP (only data or boot too,
cause I don't know which of them contains the broken files), or use something like Titanium Backup. I don't mind if I have to set
all the options and tweaks manually again, I just want to keep my files (music, pics, apps, etc.),
so which way would you recommend me? Thanks in advance
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You should wipe / factory reset before you install any ROM. These apps you're loading, how are you loading it ? Through backup or play store ? Is it system apps or downloaded apps ?
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XAlexander_AlexanderX said:
You should wipe / factory reset before you install any ROM. These apps you're loading, how are you loading it ? Through backup or play store ? Is it system apps or downloaded apps ?
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By loading apps I mean the usual process after booting the phone, it says ''Android wird aktualisiert'' (Android gets updated).
*edit: I guess fixing the problem would be much more complicated than performing a full wipe, so which way to backup my data (as written in the main post) would you recommend me?
Tazmaniiac said:
By loading apps I mean the usual process after booting the phone, it says ''Android wird aktualisiert'' (Android gets updated).
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Do a factory reset from TWRP. You will lose your text messages and apps ect. If you don't want to go through the process of re-downloading your apps, you can use titanium backup and backup apps but not app data (not recommended). Flashing roms without doing a wipe/factory reset = hot mess. Unless otherwise said no wipe needed.
Edit just keep check of the Rom discussion to see if anyone has the same problem. Try wiping then install 2.01 make a complete boot then install ota
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