I have an LG G5 with LOS 14.1 and the Donate version of Titanium Backup. I'm trying to restore some apps from a recent TWRP backup.
I can select the apps I want to restore and TB goes though the process of restoring the apps.
At the end TB says the restores are complete, but there is no change and none of the missing apps are restored!
Can some please tell me how to fix this? Thanks!
EEngineer said:
I have an LG G5 with LOS 14.1 and the Donate version of Titanium Backup. I'm trying to restore some apps from a recent TWRP backup.
I can select the apps I want to restore and TB goes though the process of restoring the apps.
At the end TB says the restores are complete, but there is no change and none of the missing apps are restored!
Can some please tell me how to fix this? Thanks!
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TiBu is broken.
I've moved to Migrate in Google Play.
I've figured out how to restore an app from a TWRP nandroid backup.
1. Clear the app's cache
2. Put phone in airplane mode (to prevent app communication between steps 3 & 4)
3. Use the Nandroid Manager 2.4.2 app to restore the app only from the TWRP backup.
4. Immediately afterwards use Titanium to restore the data only from the TWRP backup.
5. Disable airplane mode
6. Start the app
This works perfectly, because Nandroid Manager chokes on restoring data, and Titanium chokes on restoring apps. It takes extra time, but so what - restoring an app is an essential operation.
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I'm curious about this. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
Lets say that I'm on stock 2.2, rooted. I do a nandroid backup. Then I allow the upgrade for 2.2.2. Of course I lose root.
Will a nandroid restore, restore root, or will I have to root again?
A full nandroid restore will restore everything - the system and data - and you will be right back where you were, on 2.2 and rooted.
maltloaf said:
A full nandroid restore will restore everything - the system and data - and you will be right back where you were, on 2.2 and rooted.
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Ahh, okay.
So to confirm that I understand you correctly...
...the 2.2.2 update won't hold after the nandroid restore? I'll be back to 2.2, as it was before the (2.2.2) update?
If you just wanna backup and restore your apps, use Titanium Backup (it's free on the Market).
Nandroid backs up your entire phone. When you restore a nandroid backup your phone will be exactly like it was when you made the backup. Restoring a nandroid backup is used to recover from a crash or to revert to a previous ROM.
After a ROM change I will set up my accounts, root if needed and do any other basic setup stuff and then, before installing any apps, do a nandroid backup. I can then go back to a "fresh install" if I want to. I also do a nandroid each weekly to capture the state of my phone.
Backing up apps and restoring them across different ROMs may or may not work for you. When I have tried this with Titanium Backup I had many force closes and ended up reinstalling everything from the market. Others have had success. I have read the MyBackup pro does better, but most suggest that you just backup and restore data not the app itself.
I have not tried backing up my apps to Google, which you can do in later versions of Android. Go to Privacy in the setting menu and then to Backup and restore. There are boxes for data backup and automatic restore you can check. maybe someone who has used this can comment on how well it works.
If your nandroid backups hang up at "backing up firstboot" get the latest version of StreakMod Recovery.
marvin02 said:
Backing up apps and restoring them across different ROMs may or may not work for you. When I have tried this with Titanium Backup I had many force closes and ended up reinstalling everything from the market. Others have had success. I have read the MyBackup pro does better, but most suggest that you just backup and restore data not the app itself.
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After installing a fresh ROM and rooting my device, the first thing I do is install Busybox. Then, with Titanium Backup I do Restore Apps Only, then reboot my device. I never get any FC's with this restore process.
Thanks!
Thank you everyone. I appreciate the info.
I've used Titanium BU, and have busybox installed too.
It was just a matter of if after an update (OTA), and restore with Nandroid, would root still be in place.
I totally understand what you guys are saying now.
I've also been using MyBackup to see how it compares to Titanium. So far so good.
~X
I prefer mybackup root to titanium. It's far more user friendly and more automated (in the free version). As for nandroids, I always take a backup before doing any system changes (hacks or rom updates) so I can roll back to a known good system if needs be.
BTW - it is a good idea to copy your ROM backups to another device, just in case your SD card dies. I copy mine to one of my desktop computers and to a USB drive. I usually back up my entire SD card, except my music folders, every couple of weeks.
Where does Nandroid put the backups so I can rename them and save off phone?
mine (from Streakmod recovery) are in /sdcard/rom_backup
StreakMod recovery puts the backups on the SD Card in a folder named rom_backup.
Each backup is in a sub-folder of it's own and uses a date-time format for the folder name. I rename the folders with a meaningful name by just pre-pending to the name. So my last backup is named BB351-2011-06-18-02.41.04. The following files are created:
.android_secure.img
boot.img
cache.img
data.img
firstboot.img
recovery.img
system.img
nandroid.md5
the md5 file is a text file that contains the md5 sums for the other files. This file is used to verify the other files when they are restored.
I tried checking guides and using search but found nothing, this may be stupid question but when trying new rom or patching newer version of rom which requires wipe all things are reset and apps are gone. So is there program to save settings and all the apps and then after wipe restore them so everything would be like before wiping?
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I tried checking guides and using search but found nothing, this may be stupid question but when trying new rom or patching newer version of rom which requires wipe all things are reset and apps are gone. So is there program to save settings and all the apps and then after wipe restore them so everything would be like before wiping?
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Yes, you can make a Nandroid backup "it saves all setting apps" you installed even The alarm clock that you setted to go to school:
1- Go to CWM" Clockworkmod Recovery menu"
2- Backup and Restore
3- and u will have a bunch of choices (Backup to internal or External SDcard) (Restore from internal or external sdcard)
after you choose wait for the device to complete backup and then reboot, the next time you want everything as it was perfectly you just have to restore the Nandroid backup that you made.
Important : DONT EVER CHANGE NANDROID BACK FOLDER NAME because MD5 checksum recognize only the folder name that was created during the backup.
Hope this helps !
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nhariamine said:
Yes, you can make a Nandroid backup "it saves all setting apps" you installed even The alarm clock that you setted to go to school:
1- Go to CWM" Clockworkmod Recovery menu"
2- Backup and Restore
3- and u will have a bunch of choices (Backup to internal or External SDcard) (Restore from internal or external sdcard)
after you choose wait for the device to complete backup and then reboot, the next time you want everything as it was perfectly you just have to restore the Nandroid backup that you made.
Important : DONT EVER CHANGE NANDROID BACK FOLDER NAME because MD5 checksum recognize only the folder name that was created during the backup.
Hope this helps !
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Thanks alot! I always though that cwm's backup and restore was for ROM
Should i advanced restore and restore data only, wont it restore the whole "older" rom too if you make complete restore?
Using nandroid backups to restore data after flashing is a bad way to do so, because it does exactly that - restores all the apps and settings, which essentially equals to a no-wipe. Use Titanium Backup and backup only user apps
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Using nandroid backups to restore data after flashing is a bad way to do so, because it does exactly that - restores all the apps and settings, which essentially equals to a no-wipe. Use Titanium Backup and backup only user apps
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Okay, thanks. Did not know that. So i can backup my apps with Titanium but what about all the settings? Is there method to back them up? I use Apex launcher so it does have backup but those system settings, anyway to back those up?
read the app details
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDYQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.keramidas.TitaniumBackup%26hl%3Den&ei=pQAJUe_BAtGz0QWKn4GwDQ&usg=AFQjCNF7PIPXrWXqNXp1RpWH3FeelqZu_Q&bvm=bv.41642243,d.d2k
Titanium backup backups apps+settings, so u wont lose any progress on games, even facebook and twitter remain all the same, no need to log back in after restoring the apps. And for your launcher, im using nova launcher and in settings i can make a backup of my homescreens etc. So if i do a full wipe i restore my apps with TB and the nova launcher backup and everything is back to as it was before the wipe! Hope this helps
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Hi all,
I've been using Titatium Backup for several years for the option "Redo backups for modified data" never worked. It always detects all the apps to backup, so it's useless. Even if I back app now and I try to do it in 5 minutes, it will attempt to backup everything again.
So it's not actually the "modified" data, it's just everything.
Is it working for you?
Thanks!
Same for me in 2017. Even right after doing the backup, or right after doing the backup and restarting Titanium backup Any answer?
I took a Nandroid backup of my OnePlus One shortly before it was sent to a watery grave. I got the Oneplus Three to replace it and I installed Titanium (I have the Pro version) in the hopes that I could restore my important information from my Nandroid. Now I know that Nandroid is a full image of the phone and so restoring everything is unwise as I'm on a different phone and OS. But I'd like to get back my app data in addition to the multiple app profiles I set up in Titanium.
Now Titanium WILL find the Nandroid backup I dragged over to the internal SD and it'll extract a list of the apps available to restore and whatnot. I can check them off and hit the restore button. A loading screen will come up that'll be stuck on 0% for a while and then after some time it'll immediately jump to 100% and tell me the batch backup completed. However, upon inspecting the app drawer nothing has changed. The only app I successfully restored was GasBuddy.
I DO have USB Debugging enabled and I have disabled "Mount Namespace Separation" in SuperSu.
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I like to use custom ROMs and typically dirty flash because it is such a hassle to backup and restore my apps and data.
I have had titanium backup pro for years. In the past I'd be able to create a flashable zip of all my apps and data but there seems to be a bug where it places the zip in internal storage eventhough I have the backup location set for external. Therefore I am left with restoring from the titanium app. However the restore and backups are painfully slow for some reason. It may take half an hour to restore one app sometimes. What alternatives are available?
I can use google to restore but it restores over the internet so it takes forever to download apps. It doesnt seem to fully backup app settings.
My primary backup now is just a TWRP backup of the entire rom + data
What do most of you use to backup and restore apps after a clean install?