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if someone knows how to restore data from CM7 to void, pls. help. the thing is, i did a backup of mik's CM7 using CWM and then flashed void. the flashing was successful,.i'm just wondering if there is anyway for me to restore the apps from CM7 to void,.i tried advance restore from CWM (restore data) but when i rebooted, it was stuck on devoid logo..thank you.
roi14 said:
if someone knows how to restore data from CM7 to void, pls. help. the thing is, i did a backup of mik's CM7 using CWM and then flashed void. the flashing was successful,.i'm just wondering if there is anyway for me to restore the apps from CM7 to void,.i tried advance restore from CWM (restore data) but when i rebooted, it was stuck on devoid logo..thank you.
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You cant restore the CM7 system apps to devoid final. You can restore the apps/games that you downloaded to the devoid final though titanium backup. Just dont restore apps like google maps/talk/ etc which comes preinstalled.
PS: hows the devoid final rom ?
That's right, Use Titanium Backup. I haven't flashed void.final yet because of all the hassle of restoring apps and data.
Firs things first... use Titanium Backup or something similar along with you nand backups. This should make restoring apps easy. Run the backup batch and then the restore batch on the new rom. I do not recommend restoring system data, it may cause faults in the system, especially when going from 2.2 to 2.3 and back.
So, man, restore the nand backup of your CM7, use Titanium Backup batch, re-flash your void.final and then restore the Titanium Backups. That should do it. This procedure is a must if you want to test custom roms, or just flash often.
Cheers!
Ruwin said:
Firs things first... use Titanium Backup or something similar along with you nand backups. This should make restoring apps easy. Run the backup batch and then the restore batch on the new rom. I do not recommend restoring system data, it may cause faults in the system, especially when going from 2.2 to 2.3 and back.
So, man, restore the nand backup of your CM7, use Titanium Backup batch, re-flash your void.final and then restore the Titanium Backups. That should do it. This procedure is a must if you want to test custom roms, or just flash often.
Cheers!
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but if i flash void, titanium will disappear right?how can i restore the titanium backups,.and man, i'm not used to using titanium backup, so pls help,.thanks!
roi14 said:
how can i restore the titanium backups,.and man, i'm not used to using titanium backup, so pls help,.thanks!
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Uh, just reinstall it from the market. (And the backups are still there sitting safely on your SD card).
doktornotor said:
Uh, just reinstall it from the market. (And the backups are still there sitting safely on your SD card).
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oh!!!,silly of me,.gee thanks,.gotta try it now! thanks for all ur help!
roi14 said:
but if i flash void, titanium will disappear right?how can i restore the titanium backups,.and man, i'm not used to using titanium backup, so pls help,.thanks!
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Mate, better get used to Titanium Backup, it's a life saver if you like modding.
Word of advice: update your backups, and (this is an important one) backup (copy on HDD) your Titanium backups (you can find them on /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/)!
Ruwin said:
Word of advice: update your backups, and (this is an important one) backup (copy on HDD) your Titanium backups (you can find them on /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/)!
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Yeah. Getting Pro with better scheduling (plus Dropbox sync) is worth it, IMHO. Also, the backups are much faster with Pro.
i really wanna thank you guys but it's only limited to five,.but i'll hit them tomorrow!! thanks guys!!!
roi14 said:
i really wanna thank you guys but it's only limited to five
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Hmmmm? What is limited to five?
the thanks button,.you can only hit it 5 times in one day!
roi14 said:
the thanks button,.you can only hit it 5 times in one day!
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Ah, LOL. I thought your Titanium Backup was limited to 5 backups. Damnit, you confused me.
just want to say that i've completely restored all my apps from CM7 to devoid.final,.thank you all!
but i have another question though,.can titanium backup restore my messages?this time, i want my messages to be exactly what i have in CM7!
all in all,.it's working fine! thanks again!
roi14 said:
but i have another question though,.can titanium backup restore my messages?this time, i want my messages to be exactly what i have in CM7!
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Can you specify what you mean by messages?
roi14 said:
just want to say that i've completely restored all my apps from CM7 to devoid.final,.thank you all!
but i have another question though,.can titanium backup restore my messages?this time, i want my messages to be exactly what i have in CM7!
all in all,.it's working fine! thanks again!
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I dont know if Titanium backup can, but you can try other apps from the market such sa SMSbackup.
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Can you specify what you mean by messages?
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i want to get back my messages from the messaging app on CM7 and put it in devoid.,.they have sentimental value to me.
Vip_blast said:
I dont know if Titanium backup can, but you can try other apps from the market such sa SMSbackup.
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i'll try this one,.thanks man!
roi14 said:
i want to get back my messages from the messaging app on CM7 and put it in devoid.,.they have sentimental value to me.
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Ah, you mean SMS/MMS... Well, dunno about Titanium. I am backing them up via GO SMS Pro; never liked the stock messaging app really. It can do scheduled backups (binary/XML, full/incremental) and even send the backups to your email.
i will try SMS Backup and Restore from market. if it does not work, i'll try yours! thanks for ur time man and all of u there who shared his time answering my questions!
Sorry if this is the wrong section. Mods please move it is.
How can I store, for example, home screen settings in a rom image, so that every time a phone is factory reset, the home screens will be laid out the way I want?
cheers.
You can simply make a backup of your home with applications such as Titanium
polimeno said:
You can simply make a backup of your home with applications such as Titanium
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Make you a drop box account and have Titanium backup save to it to. I have lost my backup on factory wipes before and drop box was a life saver.
I am aware of the backup options but this is for a device that is going to be distributed to a large number of people. If these people do a factory reset then they need to be presented with the preconfigured default homescreen.
They won't have root access so I can't tell them to reset then perform a restore.
Anyone?
LairdPleng said:
Anyone?
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Hey I'm trying to do the same thing. Did anyone find a solution?
Thanks!
.acy said:
Hey I'm trying to do the same thing. Did anyone find a solution?
Thanks!
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I'm trying too. Any solution yet?
As of what i know you can user Titanium Backup to restore setting with the update.zip feature but i dont know if more personal setting are being restored too. In some .properties file there is my gmail i guess for integration with playstore. If i delete this (or any other) entry will the restore work? Is it safe/good method to integrate something like that in my rom?
Also there is ZIPme that restore the whole datal/data/{app} but doesnt seem to work.
Thanks in advance for help!
as title says, everytime i switch from rom to rom and need to restore my app backups, i have to restore them through titanium backup one by one, which is kind of annoying... is there any way to restore ALL my apps (maybe some option of titanium or something)
Thanks !
Poroto said:
as title says, everytime i switch from rom to rom and need to restore my app backups, i have to restore them through titanium backup one by one, which is kind of annoying... is there any way to restore ALL my apps (maybe some option of titanium or something)
Thanks !
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Yes, it is available as an option of Titanium. Might only be in the pro version though.
May i ask which option and how can i select it ? this way i can check if its in the free or payed version
PD: it goes without saying that i already searched this through titanium and failed to find such thing. I either suck at it or there is no such thing ! Thanks a bunch
Poroto said:
May i ask which option and how can i select it ? this way i can check if its in the free or payed version
PD: it goes without saying that i already searched this through titanium and failed to find such thing. I either suck at it or there is no such thing ! Thanks a bunch
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On mine, it's the checkbox icon in the upper right next to the search button. Above the "Schedules" tab.
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On mine, it's the checkbox icon in the upper right next to the search button. Above the "Schedules" tab.
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That did the trick, thanks !
Poroto said:
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That did the trick, thanks !
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Note that this restores all your apps including the ones you installed before.
If I may hijack the thread - does anyone know how to restore only the apps I had installed that would be helpful!
guysoft said:
Note that this restores all your apps including the ones you installed before.
If I may hijack the thread - does anyone know how to restore only the apps I had installed that would be helpful!
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guysoft said:
Note that this restores all your apps including the ones you installed before.
If I may hijack the thread - does anyone know how to restore only the apps I had installed that would be helpful!
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Restore user apps
Another nice feature of Titanium Backup is to create an update.zip from your apps. I guess this is a pro feature. You can find this option when you press the menu button and scroll down to the bottom. Then you can choose all your apps (including app data) you want to backup. TB will save them to a single update.zip file. After installing your (new) rom you can install the update.zip and your chosen apps will be restored. :good:
Can someone help me understand when I should use one or the other. Also when is a good time to do it?, before a flash of a custom rom?
I recently performed the bootloader unlock procedure from Adam and after it completed I ran the twrp backup to my sd card. Does that mean I could restore to that backup should verizon send ota and revert the unlock?
Thanks!!!
JRunner01 said:
Can someone help me understand when I should use one or the other. Also when is a good time to do it?, before a flash of a custom rom?
I recently performed the bootloader unlock procedure from Adam and after it completed I ran the twrp backup to my sd card. Does that mean I could restore to that backup should verizon send ota and revert the unlock?
Thanks!!!
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Titanium would be used when you want to backup all of your apps+data, Twrp would be used when you want to back up EVERYTHING apps, messages, pics(on internal sd), basically everything lol. As for verizon sending a ota, I think it's highly unlikely that they can push a ota to our phones now I think the bootloader unlocking and rooting broke all of that. Especially if you run a custom Rom.
Sent from my rooted, and unlocked Vzw note 2 running beans Rom! U mad?
JRunner01 said:
Can someone help me understand when I should use one or the other. Also when is a good time to do it?, before a flash of a custom rom?
I recently performed the bootloader unlock procedure from Adam and after it completed I ran the twrp backup to my sd card. Does that mean I could restore to that backup should verizon send ota and revert the unlock?
Thanks!!!
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Titanium is backing up apps. So lets say you use CleanROM and you want to flash to a newer version cleanly. Use titanium to back up the apps and you will be able to restore them easily on the new rom.
Backing up via TWRP basically means you are backing up EVERYTHING in the rom. So lets use the previous example, uograding from one rom to another. You do a twrp back up and begin to flash the new rom. If anything screws up, you could just restore the twrp back up and everything would go back to normal, back exactly to how your phone was when you made the backup.
Edit: basically a back up in recovery is creating a safe point to come back to if anything goes wrong EVER with your device. There are things that this typenof back up cannot undo however.
Titanium is for apps and that's it. It helps free up space as well as making backups for apps incase on of your apps screws up.
EDIT 2: next time post this type of thing in Q&A and not in general
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Titanium Backup - Used to back up all of your apps and their data
TWRP - Used to back up the ENTIRE system. Meaning, if anything goes wrong, you can restore a past "save" of your system before the problem.
You can think of it as Titanium Backup would be like copying a MS Word document onto a flash drive and TWRP would be like taking a copy of your entire hard drive.
JRunner01 said:
Can someone help me understand when I should use one or the other. Also when is a good time to do it?, before a flash of a custom rom?
I recently performed the bootloader unlock procedure from Adam and after it completed I ran the twrp backup to my sd card. Does that mean I could restore to that backup should verizon send ota and revert the unlock?
Thanks!!!
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Titanium backup: for backing up apks and their datas, mms and calling history, bookmarks, alarm and wifi settings....i think that's about it. Because your apks keep updating every few days, you should make this backup right before you flash a new rom. Once you retrieve, you don't have to keep this too long.
TWRP backup(aka nandroid): this is just like a saved point when you play a video game. sometimes when you download something, it can alternate other settings and create a mess.....which then may cause your rom to malfunction. At this time, you can flash your nandroid.....it dumps every saved datas, cache, etc etc so that you can go back to your saved point.
Titanium back up- is a app that backs up applications and their data...also has the ability to freeze system apps and create back up .zips of the devices applications.
TWRP back up- is a custom recovery that allows the user to create a back up image... that image will restore the boot image, rom, kernel, data, and cache back to the point of when the back up was created.
It used to be that restoring titanium data from one rom to another was bad. Is this still a recommended no no?
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First thanks to everyone for the replies!!!
Sorry for posting in wrong section.
So I cant use titanium to backup my apps, then to be restored on a custom rom, since I am on what appears to be a stock / rooted rom from Adams unlock procedure? I would have to reinstall them from google / my apps.
My twrp backup would be useful if the custom rom I soon load goes bad any I need to get back to a good state, right?
Also as on reply said, no worries from ota since we are rooted and unlocked? You all agree?
JRunner01 said:
First thanks to everyone for the replies!!!
Sorry for posting in wrong section.
So I cant use titanium to backup my apps, then to be restored on a custom rom, since I am on what appears to be a stock / rooted rom from Adams unlock procedure? I would have to reinstall them from google / my apps.
My twrp backup would be useful if the custom rom I soon load goes bad any I need to get back to a good state, right?
Also as on reply said, no worries from ota since we are rooted and unlocked? You all agree?
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yes you can use titanium to back up your apps and restore them on a custom rom...just restore the apps without data. you have the rest correct.
I always restore my user apps with data, I just don't do system apps.
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I always restore my user apps with data, I just don't do system apps.
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great...but when switching between aosp and touchwiz this can cause apps to force close. the op said "custom rom" so i provided a blanket statement covering all bases.
droidstyle said:
great...but when switching between aosp and touchwiz this can cause apps to force close. the op said "custom rom" so i provided a blanket statement covering all bases.
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I restored all of my apps user that I used on JBSourcery from my Nexus to my Note II.
I think the main problem some people have with restoring their apps is that they're restoring system apps not just user apps. Sometimes what was a user app on one ROM is a system app on another.
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I restored all of my apps user that I used on JBSourcery from my Nexus to my Note II.
I think the main problem some people have with restoring their apps is that they're restoring system apps not just user apps. Sometimes what was a user app on one ROM is a system app on another.
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I agree that folks get into trouble because of what you posted in your last sentence. This is exactly why I do not recommend it because a new user 99% of the time wont know that. So I simply do not suggest it...now somebody more experienced like yourself is a different story.
pool_shark said:
I restored all of my apps user that I used on JBSourcery from my Nexus to my Note II.
I think the main problem some people have with restoring their apps is that they're restoring system apps not just user apps. Sometimes what was a user app on one ROM is a system app on another.
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Disagree.
It won't always happen, but problems can and will happen restoring user data. I have seen it a million times and logcat shows it too. When there is a database conflict (the logcat shows this), the app force closes, and the only fix is to clear data for that app, which undoes what you restored. Might as well forgo the irritation and not restore it the first time.
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Disagree.
It won't always happen, but problems can and will happen restoring user data. I have seen it a million times and logcat shows it too. When there is a database conflict (the logcat shows this), the app force closes, and the only fix is to clear data for that app, which undoes what you restored. Might as well forgo the irritation and not restore it the first time.
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It has yet to happen to me.
The only time it came close was with better terminal emulator pro. I restored using titanium and it refused to work. Downloaded it from the play store, it worked fine. Then restored over that using titanium and it worked fine.
Anyone have any advice on creating the .zip? Is it even a possibility in TWRP? I used CWR for the longest and am a n00b with TWP. There are only 2 options when creating the update.zip: Edify (Android 1.6+, ClockworkMod 3+) and Amend (Android 1.5, ClockworkMod 2). So which is needed to flash in TWRP?
I'm not interested in creating a .zip of all my apps, just a .zip I can flash in recovery after clean wipe/flashing a new ROM. TIA guys
So I get the fundumental difference between utilizing the 2 methods of backing up but what I don't understand is that if TWRP backup is like taking a snapshot or image of EVERYTHING, why is my backup folder created from a TWRP backup such a small size (2.4GB) when everything on my phone equals way more than that? Is it compressed? I don't remember selecting that option.
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So I get the fundumental difference between utilizing the 2 methods of backing up but what I don't understand is that if TWRP backup is like taking a snapshot or image of EVERYTHING, why is my backup folder created from a TWRP backup such a small size (2.4GB) when everything on my phone equals way more than that? Is it compressed? I don't remember selecting that option.
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It only gets /system, /data, and kernel if you don't change the options. It's not getting everything on SD card or internal storage unless you specify that option.
Hello all,
I am kind of new to rooting. I've owned my S3 for like 4 months but only just now did I decide to root it... I've already installed a custom rom and i couldn't be happier, it's Wanamlite 5.3.
Now I would like to try different roms, such as UltimaRom, as it has a far better Aroma installer with much more customization.
But I've got a question... ¿Do i need to wipe all my data in order to flash the other rom on top of Wanamlite?
Cheers.
You might get lucky and be just fine flashing it on top, but there's a very good chance you'll get a lot of problems. In fact, it probably won't boot at all. So it's always good to do a wipe before switching ROMs. Backup your data and apps in Titanium
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You might get lucky and be just fine flashing it on top, but there's a very good chance you'll get a lot of problems. In fact, it probably won't boot at all. So it's always good to do a wipe before switching ROMs. Backup your data and apps in Titanium
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Yeah... I'll most likely end up doing that.
Anyway, I was reading the instructions in the UltimaRom post and they mention that you should make a NANDroid Backup using CWM. What is the purpose of this backup? I mean, with Titatanium you can restore your apps, but what kind of data does NANDroid Backup save and restore?
Cheers.
Alphadan said:
Yeah... I'll most likely end up doing that.
Anyway, I was reading the instructions in the UltimaRom post and they mention that you should make a NANDroid Backup using CWM. What is the purpose of this backup? I mean, with Titatanium you can restore your apps, but what kind of data does NANDroid Backup save and restore?
Cheers.
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Nandroid backup if i am right is like a boot image of your phone when you do the backup, so if things go wrong it will restore the phone with everything you had at the point of backup
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Nandroid backup if i am right is like a boot image of your phone when you do the backup, so if things go wrong it will restore the phone with everything you had at the point of backup
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right
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Learned that from my wii flashing days lol
Cool guys, thanks for your help )