Hello have searched high and low and decided to ask in the end. Been using titanium backup without any issues and moving from one phone to another. I recently made a backup on my Asus zenfone 2 and tried to use that backup of titanium onto my galaxy note 4 running 5.1.1. However the app restores some apps but hangs some. Unfortunately the one it hangs are the ones I cannot do without. Anyone else had this issue and if so how did you sort it out please?
I've had this before. Often I can get around it when just restoring one by one or a few at a time because this happens most often to me when restoring a large batch of apps. Another thing you can try is in the Preferences, at the bottom, in the Troubleshooting section, there are a couple of other kinds of restoration options available.
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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.
I used Titanium Backup to freeze some applications (the ones "shipped") on a Motorola XT311.
Then I restored factory settings, but the fronzen applications remained frozen. I cannot see them any more, not event Titanium Backup can.
What can I do? I need the on screen keyboard that came with the phone...
I was facing exactly same issue last week when I froze system app Music 1.2
read post 8 from this thread it will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1422012
My apps do not appear in titanium as frozen. They are nowhere to be found.
So I am going from a rooted 4.3 S3 to a rooted 4.3 S4. I used Titanium Backup pro, but when I restore on the S4 I get flooded with process errors. The apps and data are there, just lots of process errors every 5 seconds.
They are both stock ROMS.
Is there a way to bring the apps/data over to the S4 from the S3 easily???
Thanks in advance!
Dave:laugh:
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Here is some more info about my issue.
So I am not worried about CONTACTS, PICTURES OR VIDEOS
What I am interested in is bringing over all of my APPS and their SETTINGS.
I use APEX for my home-screen etc, so when I bring the app over to the S4 I would like to bring over the app settings.
Titanium Backup will backup all of a phones setting, apps, etc... but can I use this to transfer to a new phone? (S3 to S4)?
thoughts???:good:
sheriffwoody said:
So I am going from a rooted 4.3 S3 to a rooted 4.3 S4. I used Titanium Backup pro, but when I restore on the S4 I get flooded with process errors. The apps and data are there, just lots of process errors every 5 seconds.
They are both stock ROMS.
Is there a way to bring the apps/data over to the S4 from the S3 easily???
Thanks in advance!
Dave:laugh:
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sheriffwoody said:
Here is some more info about my issue.
So I am not worried about CONTACTS, PICTURES OR VIDEOS
What I am interested in is bringing over all of my APPS and their SETTINGS.
I use APEX for my home-screen etc, so when I bring the app over to the S4 I would like to bring over the app settings.
Titanium Backup will backup all of a phones setting, apps, etc... but can I use this to transfer to a new phone? (S3 to S4)?
thoughts???:good:
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I think you'd be better served to simply bite the bullet and reinstall your apps from the Play Store and start from scratch.
This is probably possible, but will almost definitely cause issues. Besides, if it takes you more than an hour to get all your apps installed on your new phone you got too many apps lol. I know it can suck with losing data inside of some apps, but any worthwhile one has proper individual migration methods usually through Google Play Services or some other cloud server.
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.
I just installed the new version of a ported S5 rom Uncarrier V2 and I'm trying to restore all of my apps with TB. I've never had an issue restoring them before until now. TB just sits at 0 percent when restoring in bath mode. Same thing if I try an app by itself. Smaller sized apps have been able to restore with no Issue, larger apps I have issues with. If anyone knows a workaround that would be great.