Been flashing ROMs for awhile now on a Samsung tablet device.
Everything is great with one exception - I have 20+ Google accounts monitoring various emails...
Installing a new ROM clean, means manually reentering all these accounts.
I don't mind loosing the apps on a fresh install, its the passwords and accounts fiasco that gets me down
I have Titanium Backup Pro and a port of Lollipop at the moment. Read an article on"Touch & Go" style port between two NFC devices.
In my case its only to restore all Lollipop- Settings - Accounts data on the same device after flashing a new ROM.
What's a slick way of doing that please?
xda_nikita said:
Been flashing ROMs for awhile now on a Samsung tablet device.
Everything is great with one exception - I have 20+ Google accounts monitoring various emails...
Installing a new ROM clean, means manually reentering all these accounts.
I don't mind loosing the apps on a fresh install, its the passwords and accounts fiasco that gets me down
I have Titanium Backup Pro and a port of Lollipop at the moment. Read an article on"Touch & Go" style port between two NFC devices.
In my case its only to restore all Lollipop- Settings - Accounts data on the same device after flashing a new ROM.
What's a slick way of doing that please?
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The wisest will tell you not to. Depending on the rom these settings are handled very differently and could cause huge issues. With that many accounts I would honestly advise you not to be flashing roms unless you have the time to restore each account one by one
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I am an avid fan of Titanium backup since I'm a data-packrat. But, occasionally when upgrading ROM versions I have Force Close issues when I restore, and this I know can be caused by restoring things that 'shouldn't be' restored. I would like to know how to correctly restore with TiBu, what things can be restored, and what things I'm going to have to just face resetting up.
Below find a list of things that I really would prefer to be able to backup and not have to redo every time:
Contacts
Call Logs
SMS Log
Home Screens and widget/shortcuts
Wifi settings
Bluetooth pairings
Android OS configurations
User App backup and restore, I know, shouldn't be a problem at all.. It's the things integrated in to the ROM that are problematic. I would appreciate any guidance on how to go about figuring this out as I hate the FC issues that I occasionally run in to.
All those are system-related functions and should never be restored across different ROMs.
Use this.
SMS Backup & Restore
Call logs Backup & Restore
Sync contacts with Google.
For launcher you have to redo it to avoid problems unless you use a custom one like GoLauncher where you can backup.
As for - Wifi settings, Bluetooth pairings...I am not exactly sure.
Miami_Son said:
All those are system-related functions and should never be restored across different ROMs.
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True, but there is other methods of backing them up safely.
Thank you for the responses so far. Just for reference I will not ever under any circumstances sync my contacts with my google accounts, that has, in the past, just lead to an INSANELY large contact list.
I have an application called: Super Backup: SMS & Contacts that can backup the Call log, Contacts, and SMS history and sucessfully restore them just fine. I just prefer an integrated solution and not having to backup a dozen different things with a dozen different apps.. that is what Titanium Backup is _FOR_ is it not?
I appreciate the thoughts so far and ask this, In TiBu various items in the app list have different colors. Green, white, red.. Are those indications of 'Safe to restore' vs 'Not safe to restore'. Or are they more 'integrated in to ROM' vs 'user app'?
I hear what you're all saying about 'only restore user apps across roms'.. But resetting wifi config, android config options, etcetcetc every time is frustrating at best.
You should try enabling the setting "I'll add contacts myself" in gmail. That solved my problems at least. After that, just cleaning up the existing contacts was all I needed to do.
LiLChris06 said:
True, but there is other methods of backing them up safely.
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I know, but the question was specifically about TiBU.
Hi,
I've finally set up my desire pretty well with all the best settings etc. I have a spare desire and at the moment have my friends desire too. I want to restore an image of my phone to each of the other desires, but at the same time, not have the google account info restored.
I tried do a clockworkmod backup and restore to each of the other phones, which worked, but I was thinking I could simply "clear data" of each app, to get my account details off the phone. Unfortunately this isn't the case and the only way is to do a factory reset. I'm using mildwild 4.3 and not prepared to change ROM as it's working fine.
Can anyone advise on the best way to get all the apps, settings and other "template" files to each of the new phones without the account info and without having to start from a factory reset with each phone?
The aim is to get all 3 phones set up the exact same way, but just with their own google accounts and no trace of other accounts. It'd also be good to have the template as a backup.
Any feedback appreciated
Silly question...
I have a few Android devices and I play around with them quite a bit - flashing ROMs, etc. - and there's one thing that tends to irk me: When setting up my Google account on the device, there's the following checkbox:
Bring apps, settings and other data that you previously backup up to your Google account
Is there any way to limit this to settings and other data? I've used a TON of Android apps, and there are many, free and paid, that I have no desire to use again.
I know a more robust solution (Titanium Backup, etc.) is better, but I'm not always running with root and I'm not looking for extremely-fine-grain control. I simply want to skip installing apps I haven't used in months!
I know I could simply uninstall the apps, but there are a ton.
I'm willing to uncheck the box if I can get a clear understanding of what I'll be missing if I don't sync. I don't have much time to experiment with it at the moment. For example, I don't remember if known wi-fi networks are synced (compare to Windows 8, which does - if I remember correctly - along with tons of other data)
shawngmc said:
Is there any way to limit this to settings and other data? I've used a TON of Android apps, and there are many, free and paid, that I have no desire to use again.
For example, I don't remember if known wi-fi networks are synced (compare to Windows 8, which does - if I remember correctly - along with tons of other data)[/LIST]
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As for the first point, backup doesn't bring back all the apps you ever downloaded, but -- if all goes well -- just the ones you had on your last install.
Regarding your second point, wi-fi networks; yes, they are backed up.
lyrois said:
As for the first point, backup doesn't bring back all the apps you ever downloaded, but -- if all goes well -- just the ones you had on your last install.
Regarding your second point, wi-fi networks; yes, they are backed up.
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Hmm... that doesn't quite seem to be my experience, but it probably doesn't help that I have multiple android devices active at any given time.
Either way, yeah, still need to figure out if there's a good way to make it selective.
So I've been trying to figure out how to perform post-install actions to my ROM similar to how OEMs do it when you set your phone up for the first time. Here's what I came up with:
This video shows the process of factory resetting your device, booting up for the first time, and post-installing and activating the Xposed Framework along with a module and personalized settings for that module. Please leave feedback on what you think.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnclv60cj2rwk4a/VID_20140127_135834.mp4
Sweet!
Looks cool, kinda reminds me of Sashimi from the Windows Mobile days.
Could this be adapted to restore other settings, like for example, accounts (email, facebook, exchange and the like)?
miguelfp1 said:
Looks cool, kinda reminds me of Sashimi from the Windows Mobile days.
Could this be adapted to restore other settings, like for example, accounts (email, facebook, exchange and the like)?
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It sure can
This seems pretty cool... But isn't this almost the same as restoring app and app data with titanium backup or ROM tool box pro?
DarkManX4lf said:
This seems pretty cool... But isn't this almost the same as restoring app and app data with titanium backup or ROM tool box pro?
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Kinda.... It's more for ROM chefs who would like to provide an out-of-box experience to their users with pre-defined settings, apps, and more.
This will eliminate the need for all these post-setup instructions that ROM chefs like to include in their OP. It also eliminates the need to store apps in /data/app during flash, because after you factory reset, it gets deleted. This way, you don't need to reflash the ROM and no matter how many times you factory reset, it will set up everything the way the ROM chef intended post-boot.
If I turned it into an app, or found a way to make it more user friendly, end users such as yourself would no longer have to worry about incompatibilities between different ROM versions when restoring things with TitaniumBackup.
Hi everyone,
In the last 6 months I've been going back and forth between phones a lot (mainly because of a temperamental GS6, that got replaced by a GS7 last week). To be honest, I never really cared about backing up anything on my Android devices in the past because I would still use an iPhone as a main device (I know, I know...). Now though, my Android has become my main device and I want to back things up as seamlessly as I can - say what you want about Apple and iOS, but as a Mac user, backup is something they do really well.
I've noticed that even if I checked off everything that I had to, nothing got backed up to my account: no Wifi passwords, no app data, nothing. I did see the devices to restore from when I booted a new phone, but selecting one or another backup only asked me which apps I wanted to re-install; once done, no app data was restored. I mean, I can go to Play and re-install apps myself... the whole point is to recover my DATA in the apps... And as I mentioned, all my passwords needed to be input manually and so on.
I'm not talking about contacts or calendars, those are fine; I'm just interested in app data. Did I miss something? Am I misunderstanding what I can and cannot back up?
Thanks!
PS: I know of and have used things like Titanium, but both my GS6 and GS7 are not rooted, and I can't (because of a stupid rule from Canadian Banks of all things...) so those are not an option. I find it hard to believe there are no solutions in 2016 to back up my app data. All the backup apps I've tried back up the APKs but not the data.
Helium backup doesn't require root, so I recommend trying it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup it's not as good as titanium backup though.
mosimchah said:
Helium backup doesn't require root, so I recommend trying it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup it's not as good as titanium backup though.
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Thanks, I've tried it but it doesn't keep application data either just the APKs
You will have to have root for this. This is due to the security of the data partition where the apps and data are being restored. Google does back up the info with apps or so they say but I have never seen it work outside of the nexus line due to oem messing with the code.