Does anyone know if it is safe to completely uninstall Vlingo (via adb) rather than freeze it with TiBa?
We are freezing just to be safe. If you must delete it make sure you first backed it up w/ TiBU. Let us know if you do experience any problems after you have deleted it. One thing that was a concern at one point is when you update you may have to restore system app(s) otherwise the update will fail.
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.
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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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My SG2 is currently rooted and I used Titanium backup to freeze a few apps. For specific reasons I need to unroot my SG2. I know this will disable Titanium Backup however I want to know if the apps I froze will remain frozen or will they now become unfrozen. Does anyone know the answer to that?
I think they should stay frozen. Titanium backup doesn't stay running. So I don't see why unrooting would stop it. Uninstalling titanium backup may undo it.
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So tonight I got tired of having issues with the Browser and general performance and I have been reading that a lot of people have seen better performance by performing a factory reset. The only problem is that currently unless you are unlocked you can't root (unless I am wrong). I was able to successfully root my tablet using the ASUS AppBackup application.
Before I performed a factory reset I used titanium backup to backup my apps and also used App Backup to backup the critical apps that I really needed restored in case a root method is not discovered soon. During the backup for the heck of it I decided to backup the Superuser app and OTA Rootkeeper application and app data (Note, I had full root access after upgrading to JB by using OTA Root Keeper).
After the backup completed, I backed up the backup file to my desktop and performed a factory reset. Once I went through the initial setup I decided to test if I could restore Superuser and OTA Rootkeeper and to my surprise I was able to (it took about 15 minutes to restore just those two programs & files) restore both applications and root along with it.
I have attached screen shots of OTA Rootkeeper and Titanium Backup both showing that my device is rooted.
Now I am wondering if I just got lucky or can we use this exploit to root the device. So I am looking to see if anybody is willing to try this and also if you are on JB without root, I wonder if somebody is willing to try to restore a backup that i have taken of both applications.
**I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DAMAGED TABLET**
This does not belong in the Dev forum...
And to explain your situation, a factory reset only wipes data (the /data partition)... the su binary is in the /system partition so you won't lose root... you could simply install the Superuser app from the Play Store and you would have root...
What is the step to avoid and update? With titanium backup
Freeze system updates