Did anyone try this method. first go to TWRP and make a backup of MIUI (selected all partition except userdata) and install any CM roms. (You needed to wipe userdata, cache and others. not touch Internal storage and system)
CM roms will work well. and If you get bored with CM or got trouble wanna back MIUI. all you needed to do is wipe INTERNAL STORAGE and restore the backup. now every apps and setting you use in CM keep in MIUI. (the first start up will take quiet long). some app will not working well but not all. if you see any pop up about app crashing just delete data and setting up them again. (I have trouble with Mail and Line only, Tinder needed to relogin but facebook working well and still sign in)
So my theory here. you can backup the CM rom with all partition and except userdata partition. so whenever you wanna go back cm rom just wipe internal storage and restore the cm backup. it will saving time to login and setting up again.
Sorry if my English not so well.
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I'm running veganTAB 5.1.1 at the moment. I've installed a lot of apps, have some documents stored locally, a lot of data in springpad as well as a good number of media files.
I know switching to the ginger edition requires a wiping data. I have titanium back and ran a full backup of apps and data.
What I'd like to know is the best way to go about restoring my apps and app data and whether I'll be deleting any locally saved files when I "wipe data". I guess i'm not clear whether wiping data means wiping everything, like a reformat, or if it means a specific menu option in clockwork.
I'm a bit of a noob at this still. I have reflashed roms a couple of times but at the time I didn't have a lot of stuff to worry about saving and I'm not sure whether I wiped more than I needed to.
A data wipe will erase user installed applications, their associated data, and system data (but not system apps). It will not harm files stored on sdcard or sdcard2.
Does restoring the apps through titaniumbackup work? I seem to recall trying that once and the app didn't work until I uninstalled it and redownloaded from the market. Maybe I did it wrong.
Restoring apps and data should work. Do not restore system data or you will have trouble. It is quite possible that you'll have to reinstall Titanium Backup to make it work correctly. I've had to do that once or twice when changing ROMs.
Smooth and easy, not sure what I was worried about. Thanks.
I just did the same thing and had real good luck with app mybackup, I just backed up the apps and no data and it worked perfect. Gingerbread was very nice roms. But it seemed the more programs you load the longer it takes to boot. At first it booted in a few secs. Then I did my restore of all my apps and it took like 5 min to boot all the time. Not sure what that was about.. But I switched back to TNT.
I have sold my Gtab to a friend and want to keep all my downloaded app's .
I can move them to the SD card and do a data wipe in CWM and it will remove my personal data like passwords and facebook ,, gmail account ?
and still keep my apps ?
Thanks
Hi,
I accidently posted this question in the general section, but i think it is more appropriate here. I am running the 07/18 cm7 rom, and after a seemingly random amount of time (anywhere from instantly to 24 hours) after a reflash, or nandroid restore all my apps begin to force close, generally starting with gapps. once the apps start FC there is really no recourse but to restore the phone or try to reflash. i have tried wiping the cache and dalvik, both individually and together, as well as fixing permissions, but none of these options resolves the problem. I have also tried installing all my apps via the market to see if it was titanium backup corrupting backups, but again the phone started crashing. For the life of me i cannot figure this out and i was hoping that someone smarter than i could lend some insight.
Thanks
Same here
I'm actually getting the same problem! I have no idea what the problem is. At first it started with Gapps FC-ing, and now pretty much no apps I have work. Even my Gizmodo app, which is really just a link to the Gizmodo website.
Any ideas?
I tried rebooting .. It works for a little while then the problem continues.
Not sure if your cases are similar to mine.
I made nandroid backup for CM7 and flashed Vanilla GB with wiping dalvik/cache, but without wiping data.
Without wiping data, VGB showed continuous error messages related to foce closing...
Again wiping all three fixed that issue. So wiping data may be necessary.
After restoring my old data with nandroid (data only), it happened again.
I reallized that nandroid restoring was really painful with CM7 or VGB.
My final solution which worked fine was Titanium Backup for restoring old data rather than nandroid.
Nandroid backup is working fine when converting all system, for instance, from CM7 to VGB or vice versa, with wiping data.
Even in this case, you have to restore contacts and calendar separately to SD card using export option.
Nandroid or even Titanium Backup didn't recover my contacts under CM7 or VGB environments.
Hope to help you.
You should always, always wipe data, cache, and dalvik vm cache between flashes, especially if going between roms that utilize different file systems. Otherwise it will be fc city. To fix yours, back up your apps with Titanium, boot into CWM and wipe data/cache/dalvik, reflash ROM and gapps, then boot up and restore only user apps
(not system apps).
Wanting to switch between Turl and jokersax ICS builds.
Is titanium confirmed 100% working on ICS? i.e. I can do a full wipe data, format system, data, cache, dalvik, flash and then restore missing apps/system settings via titanium?
Or just restore individual apps (not system settings)?
Or is it safe to just wipe cache/dalvik and flash over?
Anyone that switches between the two, much appreciate your feedback.
Last time I did so I formatted everything for clean install, but I had just been running jokersax for less than a day so didnt care about restoring anything. However now I have turl setup nicely and don't want to have to bother redoing my homescreen, apps etc.
TiBu worked fine for me on both.
You should however never restore system settings after flashing a new ROM. Even though both CM9 versions are very similar, you do not know exactly what is all different, and may cause issues.
Better to just create a nandroid backup of each one and restore from those.
If I am switching ROMs of the same build, lets say CM10 7/23 build to a future unofficial CM10 build, would it be necessary to do a data wipe and factory reset?
Necessary? Probably not. A good idea? Probably yes.
Okay so similarly if I go to CM10 from another Rom wipe data and reset... but if I backup my with Titanium Backup what is recommended to be restored after flash? All system data + apps + app data, just apps and data or just apps. If I have contacts backed up to email etc, photos and such data stored elsewhere... would it be recommended to use the least amount of data restored from last install to the new Rom? I just donr want to load wrong values upon restoring my apps. I don't mind if app data or system data is factory reset but not if unnecessary and only if its not a prob and won't mess up any Ron specific settings.
I decided to write this guide to describe the method I’ve found to be most useful to restore my data after I've updated my ROM. I’ve discovered this method through trial-and-error for myself, and I thought it could be useful for others who are looking for an easy way to transfer all your apps, settings etc. after doing a clean ROM update.
Prerequisites to use this method
You must have root access
You must have a custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP)
You must have X-posed framework installed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401)
You must have this X-posed mod that disables Play Store encryption (http://www.modaco.com/topic/361776-xmod-disable-play-store-encryption-mntasec/)
Principles behind this method
The idea behind this method is to restore your entire data partition in an easy way when you’ve done a clean ROM update, so that you get the same benefit as doing a dirty flash, except you’re doing it clean instead of dirty (some custom ROMs do not support dirty flashing).
To do this, you must ensure that all your data is actually on the data partition - this is where the X-posed mod comes into play. Normally, paid apps are put in a special encrypted folder (/mnt/asec), and thus not part of the normal /data partition, and therefore also not backed up with a backup of the data partition, but instead backup up as part of the system partition (at least this is what I think, somebody correct me if I’m wrong).
With the X-posed mod mentioned above, all apps go into /data/app instead, and are thus being backed up with the data partition. This is really handy, because you then have all your user apps in one place, instead of several different folders. This again enables you to restore only your data partition, and by that restoring all your apps, settings etc.
This also means that if you previously haven’t used this X-posed mod, you have to uninstall and reinstall all your paid apps with the X-posed mod active, so that they’re installed to /data/app instead of /mnt/asec (I’ve had to do this a couple of times).
I’ve only tried this method when updating a ROM to a later version of the same ROM (like a new build of CM), but it might also work when switching between ROMs, although this is totally untested for my part (I imagine there could be some invalid system settings getting restored, but it would be worth a try if anybody is up for it).
Step-by-step guide
Disable any set-on-boot settings that could be problematic with a new ROM/Kernel (for instance Kernel settings, themes etc).
Backup your apps and data with your backup app (Titanium or the like). This is not strictly necessary as part of the procedure, but acts as a second backup, just in case.
Boot into your custom recovery and make a Nandroid backup of your entire phone. You should do this before every ROM update anyway, and it is especially important here, as you’re later going to restore the data partition from this backup.
Now while in custom recovery, clean flash your new ROM update (factory reset/cache wipe first) - flash any kernel or Gapps as well.
Boot into Android and setup Gapps (if Gapps asks to restore your phone, you can answer no - why use the time and bandwidth to download apps again, when you can use this method?). You now have a freshly installed new system with basic Gapps settings, done as you would with any other ROM update. And now comes the good part...
Boot back into your custom recovery, and clear caches again. From backup/restore, do an advanced restore to restore only your data partition.
Boot back into Android. You will now get the screen “Android is upgrading”, while it initializes all you previous apps.
When this is done, you should basically have your old system back with the all your previous apps and system settings, including launcher, themes etc. (X-posed mods may require an extra reboot though). Some specific system settings might have been lost in translation, but I believe it’s one of the easiest way to get all your user data back, and it’s been working like a charm for me.
You could also dirty flash if your ROM supports it, but sometimes there is an update that requires a clean flash, and then this method will give you basically the same end result.
I hope somebody besides me finds this useful, as it’s been my preferred way to restore my data between updates. In this way, I only keep my app backups as a secondary backup to the data partition. Any feedback on this method is very welcome - all I can say is that it’s been working flawlessly for me so far.
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ameinild said:
I decided to write this guide to describe the method I’ve found to be most useful to restore my data after I've updated my ROM. I’ve discovered this method through trial-and-error for myself, and I thought it could be useful for others who are looking for an easy way to transfer all your apps, settings etc. after doing a clean ROM update.
Prerequisites to use this method
You must have root access
You must have a custom recovery (like CWM or TWRP)
You must have X-posed framework installed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401)
You must have this X-posed mod that disables Play Store encryption (http://www.modaco.com/topic/361776-xmod-disable-play-store-encryption-mntasec/)
Principles behind this method
The idea behind this method is to restore your entire data partition in an easy way when you’ve done a clean ROM update, so that you get the same benefit as doing a dirty flash, except you’re doing it clean instead of dirty (some custom ROMs do not support dirty flashing).
To do this, you must ensure that all your data is actually on the data partition - this is where the X-posed mod comes into play. Normally, paid apps are put in a special encrypted folder (/mnt/asec), and thus not part of the normal /data partition, and therefore also not backed up with a backup of the data partition, but instead backup up as part of the system partition (at least this is what I think, somebody correct me if I’m wrong).
With the X-posed mod mentioned above, all apps go into /data/app instead, and are thus being backed up with the data partition. This is really handy, because you then have all your user apps in one place, instead of several different folders. This again enables you to restore only your data partition, and by that restoring all your apps, settings etc.
This also means that if you previously haven’t used this X-posed mod, you have to uninstall and reinstall all your paid apps with the X-posed mod active, so that they’re installed to /data/app instead of /mnt/asec (I’ve had to do this a couple of times).
I’ve only tried this method when updating a ROM to a later version of the same ROM (like a new build of CM), but it might also work when switching between ROMs, although this is totally untested for my part (I imagine there could be some invalid system settings getting restored, but it would be worth a try if anybody is up for it).
Step-by-step guide
Disable any set-on-boot settings that could be problematic with a new ROM/Kernel (for instance Kernel settings, themes etc).
Backup your apps and data with your backup app (Titanium or the like). This is not strictly necessary as part of the procedure, but acts as a second backup, just in case.
Boot into your custom recovery and make a Nandroid backup of your entire phone. You should do this before every ROM update anyway, and it is especially important here, as you’re later going to restore the data partition from this backup.
Now while in custom recovery, clean flash your new ROM update (factory reset/cache wipe first) - flash any kernel or Gapps as well.
Boot into Android and setup Gapps (if Gapps asks to restore your phone, you can answer no - why use the time and bandwidth to download apps again, when you can use this method?). You now have a freshly installed new system with basic Gapps settings, done as you would with any other ROM update. And now comes the good part...
Boot back into your custom recovery, and clear caches again. From backup/restore, do an advanced restore to restore only your data partition.
Boot back into Android. You will now get the screen “Android is upgrading”, while it initializes all you previous apps.
When this is done, you should basically have your old system back with the all your previous apps and system settings, including launcher, themes etc. (X-posed mods may require an extra reboot though). Some specific system settings might have been lost in translation, but I believe it’s one of the easiest way to get all your user data back, and it’s been working like a charm for me.
You could also dirty flash if your ROM supports it, but sometimes there is an update that requires a clean flash, and then this method will give you basically the same end result.
I hope somebody besides me finds this useful, as it’s been my preferred way to restore my data between updates. In this way, I only keep my app backups as a secondary backup to the data partition. Any feedback on this method is very welcome - all I can say is that it’s been working flawlessly for me so far.
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awesome it worked for me without xposed modules cause i didnt had any paid apps. My data partition was encrypted so every time i was going to recovery i had to put password to decrypt it. But i created backup of data partition after decrypting it. Then copied all thhe internal file to the pc after that clean flashed rom with DFE , magisk , gapps. After booting into rom setting it to like new then go to my orange fox recovery clear dalvik and caches restore data partition. wollah got my encrypted data partition to decrypted partition without getting die from reinstalling apps and data.