Has anyone been able to successfully backup gmail accounts and restore them using Titanium Backup? I have multiple accounts (work and personal) and it would be nice to be able to restore all of them without having to reenter them manually. I have tried backing up Gmail 2.3.4 and Accounts and Sync Settings 2.3.4 and upon restoring either of them my accounts are not restored....any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated.
elosogrande7076 said:
Has anyone been able to successfully backup gmail accounts and restore them using Titanium Backup? I have multiple accounts (work and personal) and it would be nice to be able to restore all of them without having to reenter them manually. I have tried backing up Gmail 2.3.4 and Accounts and Sync Settings 2.3.4 and upon restoring either of them my accounts are not restored....any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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dont think any software does backups on user name and password for gmail unless its a nandroid. You have to find the right gapps that will restore your other stuff. Look around and check since its a nice feature to just put in your info and have all your apps and settings return. Entering your own account information is also like a security issue with google. Dont think your going to see that function with any 3rd party app... Good thought tho I guess
Thanks for the quick response. Ya, the version of GAPPS I have works great I was just hoping to have something like this. I know when I was on Windows mobile, someone wrote a program (SASHIMI) that we were able to input our email, wifi, etc accounts to be inputed when we ran the program...guess I was kinda hoping to have something to similar with Android....guess thats the downside of being a flash-aholic....lol...thanks again for your response.
The ability to backup Gmail, especially if one has several Gmail accounts, with Titanium would be very helpful in the restoration process and repair when then get corrupted.
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Apparently my wife decided to unsync her phone from google contacts. I flashed her phone tonight and upped the baseband/pri etc.. so no restoring I am assuming?
Anyway, when I brought her up on Miui, I looked at her contacts and nothing was there.. for some dumb reason she decided to unsync them and now she has nothing.
The question is, I did a nandroid prior, but I updated all the baseband/wimax/pri etc.. Can I view the data.img file somehow to just view/print and then she can type them all in again?
thanks a ton in advance on this stupid one
So resync them. They should still be saved to her Gmail. With MIUI you have to manually add your gmail account by going to menu > settings > personal > accounts and sync and then hit add account.
thats what I am saying, she didnt have them synced, just on her phone which was a different rom prior to miui.
thanks
joey3002 said:
thats what I am saying, she didnt have them synced, just on her phone which was a different rom prior to miui.
thanks
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There was a thread around here, on how to tear into a nanrdoid backup, and access the data.img. Figures that search is down right now, and i 'should try again in 20-30 minutes'. I think the easiest thing for you to do at this point, would be to just restore the nandroid, re-sync to google, then reinstall the rom you want. Then the contacts should be synced to gmail contacts, and you should be good to go to re sync them to the phone.
for some dumb reason she decided to unsync them
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^Implies they were synced at some point. If they were then they should still be in her Gmail.
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^Implies they were synced at some point. If they were then they should still be in her Gmail.
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They have a restore feature that goes back 30 days but she must have deleted the stuff beyond that.. I am doing a nandroid and updating the myn rom to latest build (due to wimax/bb/pri)
Once I get them backed up and synced... then i will just restore to miui
will post update
joey3002 said:
They have a restore feature that goes back 30 days but she must have deleted the stuff beyond that.. I am doing a nandroid and updating the myn rom to latest build (due to wimax/bb/pri)
Once I get them backed up and synced... then i will just restore to miui
will post update
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After you restore your nandroid, export your contacts to SD to have a backup copy of them just in case something like this happens again. That way you can just import them and call it a day.
or the wife could just stop playing in settings
ok, got the contacts exported.. she has 50+ saved on phone only.. is there an easy way to convert them to google under her account?
thanks
issue resolved.. exported the phone contacts to a vcf file, then inported into her account. I am restoring miui now... I am sure the sync will just push to the phone once its done restoring.
thanks guys
joey3002 said:
ok, got the contacts exported.. she has 50+ saved on phone only.. is there an easy way to convert them to google under her account?
thanks
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I think you can upload the exported file as a .CSV to gmail. And then sync the phone with Gmail and they should all be there saved as google contacts.
edit: glad you got it figured out.
Welcome,
I've like to ask you which method is the best to backup/migrate my contacts and sms box before changing rom? My goal is to backup phonebook (which is connected to FB) and sms box before running ROM MANAGER and updating from Revolution to Cyanogen ROM. After updating soft I'd like to restore inbox and contacts into new rom. I've tried backing up data and restoring while flashing but after restoring rom goes back into Revolution. Any ideas for most convenient way to achive my goal?
Your contacts should automatically be synced to your Google Account... check this in your Gmail account (Click "Contacts" on the left).
For SMS i use an App called GOSMS for my messaging and it also has a backup feature in it. It also has the advantage of being a lot better than the stock messaging app.
This solution worked for me great! I didn't also noticed earlier export to sd functionality in my DHD contacts.
Thanks!
Cheers, after reading this I have just noticed export to SD card option in contacts.
This is just what I was looking for.
That was a good find. I also had not noticied this. Nice way to keep backups. I will check the gosms thing later.
Maybe you can try mybackup (pro) from market. It works good for me all the time and you can also backup and restore your system settings, apps, even with data if necessary.
I use SMS Backup & Restore. It is easy to use and you can do regulary Backups
Modriin said:
I use SMS Backup & Restore. It is easy to use and you can do regulary Backups
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Thank you! You have given me an idea and I found free app on the marketplace: SMS Backup Android. Back up is a sore point when it is too late.
Everytime I do a full wipe I have to reset my account info in the stock email client.
Does anyone know how to do this with titanium backup or another method?
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Backup Email 4.0 (red colored) with titanium
while restoring select data only.
dr.ketan said:
Backup Email 4.0 (red colored) with titanium
while restoring select data only.
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Nope, tried this this morging. It tried to restore my IMAP emails, but NOT the account settings
i used default setting, is this a custom option somewhere?
So far i have not been able to get TiBU to restore my email account settings either. By that I mean logins, ports, servers, addresses. Where is this data really saved? it is not in Email Data.
Try k9 for mails is very good and safe. It has backup for everything except passwords also u can backup it with titanium and have the passwords too.
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this works on my galaxy note
It took a bit of time but I have it figured out for Titanium Pro on a Galaxy Note with a rooted android 4.1.2 rom. The steps I need to follow to succeed are:
restore the data for the stock Email 4.0 app and the Titianium Accounts (first item in backup list)
restart the phone right after the restore - if I open email the settings restore is lost
enable email account sync for each email account in Settings->Accounts->Email - it gets turned off during the restore
start email and voilà it's all there
Can you guys share your expertise on how you restore all your email settings after flashing a new rom?
I have become a flashaholic and its a pain re-entering details of my 6 or 7 email accounts every time i flash a new rom.
I use TB (free) to restore my apps.
thanks in advance.
I searched for this by myself just today!
According the changelog of TB ( http://www.titaniumtrack.com/changelog/titanium-backup/5-5-2-1 ) it can backup accounts now on JellyBean. I saw this option in TB (paid version) but haven't tried to restore it for now. Maybe you will also have to backup the data of your mail App.
Anyone can share their idea of how they are restoring accounts??
I don't want to use TB as I hear it causes problems when restoring settings.
Hello,
So a few days ago, My HTC One M8 decided to randomly reboot itself. When it restarted it went through the whole optimizing each app (which was weird) and then loaded the home screen. But now most of my stuff has reset itself! I was logged out of every app I am normally automatically logged into. All my photos are still there and text messages. But I have lost every single person in my contact book and call log history! This is what I would like to get back.
I made a backup a couple months ago using HTC Backup. This is what happens when I try to restore the backup:
Apps>HTC Backup>Restore from backup>Checking for saved backup>
Then it finds the backup on Google Drive (G*******[email protected]) So I select the HTC (This Phone) backup and click next>
Then it saids setting up accounts>Choose an account>G*******[email protected]>
Then I get the following error message
"Incorrect cloud storage account"
"Please sign in with the cloud storage account for the selected backup"
Can someone please help? I have opened the Drive app and logged into my account and tried again but still nothing. I assume this problem is arising because of the Drive app or the HTC backup app resetting itself. But I really need my contacts back!
I am running Android 6.0. Not rooted.
Things I have tried to restore my contacts:
Wondershare Dr.Fone
Resyncing contacts on my Gmail, Hotmail etc. (but i never saved them to those)
HTC Phonebook>Contacts to display>All contacts
None of these have worked.
Thanks in advance!
Ok just found out HTC Backup isn't supported with Android 6.0 :/
So with that option off the table.. Is there any way at all that I can get my contact list back?
Ok well seems like I still should have access to the HTC restore function just not the backup function with Android 6.0.
Does anyone know how to help me restore from the back up?
Thanks
HTC restore will restore the backup that you made prior to Marshmallow.
Don't you backup you contact with gmail account ? When you sync it, it will sync your contact ?
The only way that maybe work (no guarantee) is do factory reset. During the setup, it will ask you to restore from which backup that you recently have with Marshmallow and make your selection to restore (don't choose today .. but earlier)
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HTC restore will restore the backup that you made prior to Marshmallow.
Don't you backup you contact with gmail account ? When you sync it, it will sync your contact ?
The only way that maybe work (no guarantee) is do factory reset. During the setup, it will ask you to restore from which backup that you recently have with Marshmallow and make your selection to restore (don't choose today .. but earlier)
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No I never backup up my contacts to gmail
Hmm thanks for your suggestion. I guess if all else fails that is my only option.
kaotik123 said:
Ok well seems like I still should have access to the HTC restore function just not the backup function with Android 6.0.
Does anyone know how to help me restore from the back up?
Thanks
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Settings - backup and reset - restore from HTC backup.
I'm on an M8 running 6.0 and I can see it.
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kaotik123 said:
No I never backup up my contacts to gmail
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Backing up contacts to Google/Gmail is default and automatic. So unless you changed the default, they should be backed up, and will restore automatically, when you login to your Google account.