Is there any chance that when I restore all my apps and data after installing a new Rom it can mess up the stability of the Rom. I flashed CM6 and Myn. They both seemed to work well until I restored my apps and data with Titanium. Are there certain things that should not be restored when flashing a new Rom? It's too hard to recover all your stuff when flashing a new Rom without Titanium.
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Because CM is AOSP and MYn is Sense, you can't just restore everything without problems. Your personal apps should be ok to restore, but system data and apps can't be restored 100%. I suggest you only restore the system data that you can't redo such as sms records and call logs. Just redo all your system settings and stuff from scratch.
When you restore system data such as call logs, check the option in Titanium for "migrate system data" and then only retore data, not app and data.
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Can someone explain a few things about backups and ROM flashes, please?
I've got a custom ROM on my Desire, and I'm using an Ext partition to hold my apps using App2SD.
I've run a full backup with Titanium Backup.
If I want to wipe and flash a new ROM, how does it work?
I do a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvic.
I then flash a new ROM. New ROM will presumably be faced with the apps I've already got on my SD card ext partition.
Do they just install back, or do they cause problems?
If I reinstall Titanium Backup on the new ROM and restore everything, do I end up with new ROM and all my old apps back as they were before?
Or do I need to wipe the ext partition too, before doing a restore?
Any pointers would be great.
Ric
Doing a factory reset wipes all apps so if you do that before flashing the ROM all the apps will be gone from your ext partition.
You can then restore your apps using titanium backup. Be careful though, your market apps are fine to restore but you should be very selective about restoring system apps. I only restore data on the green coloured system apps to get back things like SMS, my custom sense layout, that sort of thing.
If you go from sense to non-sense ROMs then you may not even want to do this much.
I was trying to install MIUI on my Inc2 (i have CM7 on it currently) and when I installed it, it worked, then I restored, and when it turned on it was running CM7! And when I do advanced restore and restore only data, it'll get stuck in a boot loop. Is there a fix for this?
You can't restore like app data using cwm. You gotta use an app like titanium backup and when you install another ROM, you download it from the market and start restoring apps.
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Yea you gotta start off clean when restoring or installing a rom in clockwork. You should wipe data and cache then restore backup. Like said use Titanium to restore app data.
I made backup for all user+system apps including data and flashed new ROM. What do you recommend to restore now? Only user apps or system apps + data as well? I'd like to restore as much as possible, but I'm not sure how system data is compatible accross different ROMs.
I don't recommend you to restore system data with an exception of data usage of you use it. However, if you don't want to set up everything again, you should have too much trouble with restoring non-custom Rom related settings
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Franco Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
The safe way is to restore only user apps+data. However, you can try this:
1. Restore user apps+data
2. Make a nandroid backup
3. Restore system data
You could restore the nandroid backup if you encountered problems after restoring the system data.
buzzcomp said:
The safe way is to restore only user apps+data. However, you can try this:
1. Restore user apps+data
2. Make a nandroid backup
3. Restore system data
You could restore the nandroid backup if you encountered problems after restoring the system data.
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Hello XDA, I am in need of great assistance regarding backups and restores, I am somewhat new and not very experienced with this. I'll keep this short.
Here is what I would like to do:
I have a Galaxy Nexus from the Play store and running 4.2.1 from a stock google image I flashed, I have it set up the way I want to with all my apps, etc. Turns out I don't like the performance from this version on my phone as it feels slugish so I want to either try a 4.2.1 ROM or go back to 4.1.2 but I don't want to set up everything again, both having to download the apps and setting them up the way I have them right now, same with my phone settings (brightness, keyboard settings, etc).
Can I do that and if so how? I have a pro version of Titanium Backup but having my backup restored on another rom breaks it and puts me in a boot loop upon reboot. I also tried making a nandroid backup but upon restoring it brought everything back, including the old ROM! Upon some reading I found out about the advance restore and to just restore data but that puts me back in the same boot loop on the new ROM.
Ultimately what I want to do is restore my phone and app settings in a simple way, I don't care about to manually downloading the apps but I do want to restore their settings and phone's settings in an easy way so I can safely try out new ROMs without having to set up every configuration again.
Please help me I've struggled with this for a while and it always keeps me from trying roms.
dont restore system apps/settings, that can cause you to get bootloops... you can try this if you want
- Backup your current setup either with TWRP or CWM (I prefer TWRP)
- Do a full wipe (cache/dalvik cache, system and factory reset)
- Flash the new ROM, gapps and your preferred kernel
- Restore ONLY data from the backup your made
- Reboot and enjoy
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dont restore system apps/settings, that can cause you to get bootloops... you can try this if you want
- Backup your current setup either with TWRP or CWM (I prefer TWRP)
- Do a full wipe (cache/dalvik cache, system and factory reset)
- Flash the new ROM, gapps and your preferred kernel
- Restore ONLY data from the backup your made
- Reboot and enjoy
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I think that's exactly what I did the last time, I created a backup in CWM, performed a full wipe, flashed the ROM, etc, booted up the phone, then went back into recovery and restored the data only from the advanced restore in CWM and that caused me to be stuck in a boot loop when I rebooted.
Could really use some help hopefully someone else can respond.
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I think that's exactly what I did the last time, I created a backup in CWM, performed a full wipe, flashed the ROM, etc, booted up the phone, then went back into recovery and restored the data only from the advanced restore in CWM and that caused me to be stuck in a boot loop when I rebooted.
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Restoring the /data partition is the problem, it contains the settings for both system and user apps. Probably some system settings are the issue.
Just use TB to restore user apps and their data and then selectively restore system data (NOT the system apps.) I usually restore only SMS/MMS, call logs, and WiFi access points.
Restore system data one or two apps at a time, rebooting after each restore. If bootloop or FC's occur then you know what not to restore next time. Just clear data for the effected app and continue.
Also, in TB the xml restore is usually a safer bet where it's available.
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Restoring the /data partition is the problem, it contains the settings for both system and user apps. Probably some system settings are the issue.
Just use TB to restore user apps and their data and then selectively restore system data (NOT the system apps.) I usually restore only SMS/MMS, call logs, and WiFi access points.
Restore system data one or two apps at a time, rebooting after each restore. If bootloop or FC's occur then you know what not to restore next time. Just clear data for the effected app and continue.
Also, in TB the xml restore is usually a safer bet where it's available.
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This did it! Tried it yesterday and it worked, I got almost everything back, thanks!
guys in philz recovery i noticed under backup and restore i can backup or restore just apps or data , is it actually working ? so i can flash any rom and go too my backups and just restore all my apps and data on the new rom?just a piece of cake?
another question is if this is true , and i could be able to restore all the apps and data, can i choose some apps? i think the system apps are included in the backup and restoring them to the new rom should cause problems.