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Hello , like many of you , i flash my phone quite often. It seems like we always have a new update or new rom . Trust me , im not complaining . I think its amazing .
I am using Titanium Backup now , but its quite a task to sit there and click install on 80+ apps . Is there a way we can auto install our apps with each flash ? Im not positive , but i think busybox can do something to this degree .. but havent really been able to find a cut and dry explanation .
Thanks guys
Just pay the titanium dude and get prO and its a three click task. And while the phones restoring...More time to spend searching for stuff.
Wow I didn't know that was a perk to the pro version. Buying it now. Thanks.
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google also auto restores your apps now.. it did it when I flashed and wiped everything to 2.8 again, and my 3 apps I had previously downloaded were automatically restored by Google, lol.
Yeah that has been hit or miss for me lately ... mostly miss
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wideopn11 said:
Here is a work around I've been using. In TiBu, go to option, more, and create "update.zip". This will put a cwm flashable zip on your SD card that you can use to put TiBu back and everything else before entering your gmail info and giving OTA access to unwanted app downloads. After you restore what you want you can go to manage applications and clear market info so when you finally log on and go to the market it "should" only populate the apps you have installed already in 'my apps'. This might not totally work but it should cut back on unwanted downloads. Let me know if this method works out better for you.
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Just thought I would share this from another thread on the subject of google auto restore.
verrrryyy interesting...
This was offered up in that same thread after the 'update.zip' method was suggested:
You can avoid this by skipping account creations at first boot, just hit skip skip next skip. Then you can go into settings and make sure data backup is unchecked. This prevents automatic data backup/restore when you do log into your account. Now log into your Google account. During setup it will ask if you want your data backed up, make sure to uncheck that! It actually comes up with a message that asks if you really want to delete existing backups on Google servers? Of course you do want it to so this won't happen again.
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.
Hey guys,
First of all a little intro. I started playing with rooting, flashing mods and ROMs few weeks ago. I have been reading the general, Q&A and dev forums a lot and I have made sure from my end that this question has not yet been asked. In the case that these questions have already been asked and answered, please direct me to that thread.
So, I started off with just rooting my phone, few days later installed a custom kernel, few days later started modding stuff like battery icons and like and just few days back flashed a custom ROM for the first time.
After flashing the ROM (Turkbey 32.1 ported to i777 by LilChris), I restored whatever I could using Titanium backup PRO (restored only missing apps+data). But there were few things that did NOT get restored and have to reconfigure all that from scratch. Here's the list of things that had to be reconfigured.
AUTO START PREFERENCES: Is it possible to port the auto start settings to a new ROM? I had configured many apps to not auto start at bootup using Gemini App Manager. But after flashing this ROM, I have to do everything again. TiBU apparently couldn't backup/restore those settings from Gemini App Manager.
FROZEN STATES: Is it possible to preserve the frozen state of apps when switching ROMs? I had to re-freeze few selected apps (I have few rogue apps which I keep installed but frozen hoping that a future update will improve that app's impact on battery. Example: Facebook, Kik, ..) because restore using TiBU simply restored those apps but did not re-freeze them.
Thanks.
A request to the mod: Please move this to the correct forum in case it is not. I keep seeing questions of this genre in "General" as well as "Q&A" forums. So I am not 100% sure if this is the right place for this question.
Wow! About 100 views and no replies? Is my question too dumb?
Let me rephrase the question this way:
How do you guys do backup/restore of autostart pref and frozen states of apps? Or do you care to do that?
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "autostart preferences". And, you cant save the "frozen apps" from TiBu. Just refreeze them when you install a new rom. It should only take a few seconds to do that.
I know what he means, and I don't know of a way to take the preferences with you. I've restored an app with data (autostarts) and it didn't take the saved data with it. It makes sense that you wouldn't be able to do it. Restoring nandroids restores it as it was though, but not across roms. I'll keep an eye on this thread in case someone knows of a way.
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nyydynasty said:
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "autostart preferences".
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I use Gemini App Manager to control which apps can auto start under different conditions. For example, I don't want Fluent News to start when the phone boots. If needed I will start the app manually and then let it fetch the latest news. "Autostarts" app can also do the same thing. These apps don't have a way to export my preferences. So when I flash a new ROM, I have to set the auto start preferences of 10s of apps manually. I am looking for a way to avoid this manual step every time I flash a new ROM.
nyydynasty said:
And, you cant save the "frozen apps" from TiBu. Just refreeze them when you install a new rom. It should only take a few seconds to do that.
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I have over 300 apps and I keep quite a few apps frozen and defrost them only when needed. Few examples of such apps: GPS Status, GTalk, bunch of system apps (even on custom ROMs). It takes quite some time for me to scroll through that app list on TiBU, reading the app names one by one and freezing the required.
Well, just today I read somewhere that I could filter the current frozen apps, apply a label to them and export the settings to update.zip. After flashing a new ROM, flashing that update.zip should retrieve my label assignments. I haven't yet tried that, but will on my next ROM flash.
jazzboyrules said:
Well, just today I read somewhere that I could filter the current frozen apps, apply a label to them and export the settings to update.zip. After flashing a new ROM, flashing that update.zip should retrieve my label assignments. I haven't yet tried that, but will on my next ROM flash.
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good luck
Not sure if this will help you, but you may want to have a look at Boot Manager (app)
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nyydynasty said:
good luck
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That technique worked for freezing my selecting apps using batch operation!
Alright. One problem solved. Now looking for a way to backup/restore my autostart preferences.
jazzboyrules said:
AUTO START PREFERENCES: Is it possible to port the auto start settings to a new ROM? I had configured many apps to not auto start at bootup using Gemini App Manager. But after flashing this ROM, I have to do everything again. TiBU apparently couldn't backup/restore those settings from Gemini App Manager.
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I've used System Tuner (it's on the Market) to do this, that is disable/re-enable individual apps from startup, in the past. It has a LOT of options, can almost replace TiBu (well not really but it does have some backup options). I couldn't find a setting that would easily export/import preferences but I think it puts some of it's data on the sdcard so it might survive wipes.
If I figure it out either way I'll repost.
Hi,
How can we put a negative filter on Titanium Backup so that it excludes specific apps instead of selecting for it (as does the default positive filter)?
For example, I want to exclude Seek Droid from TB's "Backup New Apps" schedule, so that I will back up everything that's been recently installed, but not Seek Droid.
Thanks!
Sorry for bad english.
Tokimiya said:
Hi,
How can we put a negative filter on Titanium Backup so that it excludes specific apps instead of selecting for it (as does the default positive filter)?
For example, I want to exclude Seek Droid from TB's "Backup New Apps" schedule, so that I will back up everything that's been recently installed, but not Seek Droid.
Thanks!
Sorry for bad english.
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I would also like to do this. I have one app that I'd like to exclude from my scheduled backups. There seems to be an option in TB to create a negative filter, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet. Anyone have a walkthrough?
+1 for this feature too.
Tokimiya said:
Hi,
How can we put a negative filter on Titanium Backup so that it excludes specific apps instead of selecting for it (as does the default positive filter)?
For example, I want to exclude Seek Droid from TB's "Backup New Apps" schedule, so that I will back up everything that's been recently installed, but not Seek Droid.
Thanks!
Sorry for bad english.
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andrewNY said:
I would also like to do this. I have one app that I'd like to exclude from my scheduled backups. There seems to be an option in TB to create a negative filter, but I haven't figured out how to use it yet. Anyone have a walkthrough?
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krisg1984 said:
+1 for this feature too.
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To exclude apps with the help of a filter.
- Start Titanium Backup
- Touch the Search-icon
- Touch the Funnel-icon (in the upper right corner)
- Scroll down and and create a label
- Check the box where it sez something like "reverse order" or smth (my locale is swedish), the box is on the same line as the "Create label"-button.
- Go to the Apps-list, longpress an app and assign a label
Now it should be possible to use a filter to exclude an app in a scheduled or manual backup
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Heh, i think my fingers was faster than my brain there, the box you can check is ofc only for excludning labels in the search.. not excludning filters when you schedule a backup.. this is what happens whan you write a "walkthrough" before you test it..
Only other way, I can think of, is to make a label the same way as described and then simply exclude that app from that label, and then remember to add every app to the label every time you install a new one.
any news on this? TB backs up all google music cloud data. and syncs multiple gigabytes into dropbox every night. (
Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
ah got it. thank you so much )
Works for one time backups, not scheduled backups.
goodtimes50 said:
Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
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This method does work but it won't allow you to automate the backups while excluding certain apps.
I am trying to automate moving user apps to the sd card once a week. Some apps however need to be on the internal memory for the widget to work; pandora, shazam, tiny flashlight, google music*, etc.
I was trying to label these certain apps to be excluded from internal user apps that can be selected in the schedule. So far i have run out of ideas.
I would love this to be implemented into the app, and I'll be writing a review onto the play store.
If anyone has a work around I'd appreciate it.
goodtimes50 said:
Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
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Does not really work. I excluded one app (Google Music) and it just backups this one!
Very annoying, that such a simple feature is missing...
I totally agree that this should be added. It should be trivial.
Not having such a simple feature lowers the value of custom filters a great lot, and of the app itself as well.
any update?
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maybe someone can alert the developers at TitaniumTrack.
klau1 said:
any update?
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maybe someone can alert the developers at TitaniumTrack.
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Seriously... I really need this... haha
skim7x said:
Seriously... I really need this... haha
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The method posted above worked perfectly for me. Backup always froze when backing up GOF2, so used the above method to exclude that program, and it worked perfectly - all other apps backup up.
n7000, OMNI ROM 4.4 nightly (2014-02-09), Titanium Backup 6.1.5.2.
Dosent work for me
I tried but still can't get it to work.
Let's say I have 2 apps, xda and Facebook. If I don't want facebook (filter label 'no facebook') I set up a filter to exclude facebook. When I schedule a backup with no filtering, it backs up both, if i schedule a back up with filter' no facebook', it just backs up face book.
How can i back up everything but the Facebook app?
goodtimes50 said:
Create a label and select the apps you want to exclude from the backup (using "Add/remove elements" when editing the label). Enable the label and then click the "Inverse (exclude labels)" checkbox. Configure the other filter settings as desired then save the filter and use it for your backups.
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I don't know if you will see this reply as your post is from back in 2012, but I wanted to reply back with a big thank you. Using this method I can greatly speed up my backups by excluding things that don't matter like Facebook, and other apps that don't have local data that matters.
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I agree, the filter advice is helpful! (Another many months later ). I can understand why some people thought it doesn't work, because it's unintuitive and it's easy to confuse filters and labels, but once you know how it works, it's pretty powerful and not too complicated either.
This thread is relevant now in that Titanium Backup is causing an authentication issue for WiFi connections in Lollipop when it backs up the two "WiFi Access Points" apps, requiring you to re-connect with WiFi after the backup completes.
Creating a filter that excludes these apps via label, as described in this thread, will prevent the authentication issue (when using TB).
Another decent thread on this is at: http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2pdv2y/wifi_authentication_issues_with_nexus_5_after/cmw5vx9
The Google thread on this is at: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=81896
found this
http://androidforums.com/threads/useful-titanium-backup-setting.702456/
Great, got it to work too. Thanks all!
I will admit, this feature isn't terribly obvious. But with simple instructions this has saved me a ton of time and storage space.
Thank you to all who have taken the time to explain it for us uninformed.
The people who are having issues, it sounds like you are creating the filter but selecting the app(s) you don't want in the backup. Some one explained that you select the app(s) you DONT want backed up then press "invert selection". This speeds up the process of creating the filter if you only need to filter out a small number of apps. Otherwise, when you create the filter, just select the apps you DO want to backup.
Once I realized I can filter apps, I just created a filter, selected all apps and went through and deselected the apps I don't want to backup. I did it this way because I wasn't sure what I wanted backed up.
I've been looking absolutely everywhere for an answer to this, and can't find anything more than chains of "I'm looking for the answer to this too" in every thread. How do I backup apps and data of other users, for use in a fresh ROM installation? The repeating of this question appears to have died down lately making me suspicious that it's since been found to be doable and that I'm just missing something.
Titanium Backup is of no help because it only handles multi user data, meaning that the main user must have the app installed also, otherwise restoring the backup only causes Titanium to hang indefinitely. There don't even appear to be any other apps that even try to support multi user. The best I've seen so far is some overly-complicated guide that requires you copy-and-paste the data files to Titanium's multi profile system, and then do the same vice versa.
There can't be no support for such a notable feature that's been around for a such a long time now, so where is it?
How about now?
This is way too hellish.