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[Q] [APP]Titanium Backup Free hangs when trying to restore a system app.

Hi,
I installed Titanium Backup Free version and tried to use it but it did not work.
I use Gingerbread XXJVS with Semaphore Kernel 1.7.0 (2.6.35.7-I9000XXJVS-CL565837) with Superuser 2.3.6.1 and busybox 1.16.2android minimal.
I made backups with batch processing and option "all apps+system data" (I translate from polish so just to let you know it is the 3rd option in backup section) and then uninstalled the backed up SocialHub 1.00.10102 system app.
When I try to restore it the popup message "Restoring app+data" appears and it does not go any further.
- It does not work neither with v4.4.0 nor the version prior to that (i updated in the meantime).
- It does not work with Superuser 3.0.
- Enabling /system as rw in Terminal Emulator did not help (i found this suggestion somewhere else)
- I cannot change the Settings-> Apps processing mode as suggested here by the author of TiB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=92719462&pp=25&page=2
"Try setting the Apps processing mode to "AUTO, Indirect" and enable USB debugging in your phone settings. "
It is grayed and marked as [PRO only]. I do have USB debugging on.
- Both Busybox and sqlite are internal from TiB. changing option to use system's busybox did not change anything.
Any suggestions how to solve that, please?

Hi,
Yes indeed, it appears you have tried pretty much everything already. This seems to happen on a few devices
If you reboot your device afterwards, does the system app appear as installed or not?
PS: you might want to contact the Titanium Track support directly, at support -=at=- titaniumtrack.com

same here...
with Pro...

bonsiware said:
same here...
with Pro...
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I assume you tried the "AUTO, Indirect" mode already, right?
Is the app present after a reboot or not?

I've tried everything...
I'm using 2.3.5 JVS with cf-root...
After a reboot the "restored" app ISN'T present...

bonsiware said:
I've tried everything...
I'm using 2.3.5 JVS with cf-root...
After a reboot the "restored" app ISN'T present...
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This might be a stupid question, but are you sure your phone is S-OFF ?

joel.bourquard said:
Hi,
Yes indeed, it appears you have tried pretty much everything already. This seems to happen on a few devices
If you reboot your device afterwards, does the system app appear as installed or not?
PS: you might want to contact the Titanium Track support directly, at support -=at=- titaniumtrack_com
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Hi again,
Nothing changes after reboot (see below, mind the Social Hub only).
When I go to titaniumtrack_com it redirects me to wordpress-based login page which requires login+pass. Shall I provide something for anonymous users there?
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The "Odinstaluj=uninstall" is red, however unclickable (what makes sense as it has been uninstalled, but should it not be grayed?)
"Przywróć=restore" is blue.

S-OFF?
I haven't an HTC!

Hmm, this is strange indeed.
Yes, the Titanium Track web site is not ready yet, but you can send an e-mail to support -=at=- titaniumtrack.com

Ok I sent an e-mail there with info from this thread.
It might be worth to add a switchable logging/debug feature to the app to see where it gets stuck.

Today I tried to restore with fresh TiB 4.5.1 and new su 3.0.2 without and with /system as rw. Still nothing.
Has anyone from titaniumtrack.com received e-mail?

My titanium backup pro hangs the same way when trying to restore the motoblur Homescreen app ... droid 3
no idea how the app was removed in the first place when i simply just froze it -.-

TiB 4.5.2 + su 3.0.4 still nothing

The same with latest TB Pro in my Samsung Galaxy S I9000.
Damn, why did I buy this app! I can't restore my backups now!

I contacted the developer the day I made the previous post and he haven't replied yet.
What an awesome support!

I wrote him a week ago and got response. They test it on sgs2. Which rom and kernel do you use?
I want to flash newer if that is worth it but first I want to ensure TiB works properly.

I've the same issue on a Samsung/Droid Charge. Just got this from TiB support:
We're sorry, system apps are critical and should not be removed in the first place. Some apps are tightly ROM bounded, while others are dependent on other system entities which could break things when they are removed. We have already provided the warning in the preferences that you will be held responsible of your own actions upon removing the system apps and we will not provide support for restoring them back. In most cases like this, you will have to reflash your ROM or restore your nandroid backup (you must always keep a nandroid handy).
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FWIW I emailed them earlier today, so they did reply to the email fairly quickly.

Great answer.. Should never had bought the pro license. That's a really lame excuse because I used it on other phones and never had any of those problems with system apps.

http://matrixrewriter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TB+-+Troubleshooting
27 and 28

this happens to me intermittently whether its a system app or not. using 5.5.1.1, and i did change ROMs
is it a bad back up or system app?

Play store installed apps error after data wipe

So I recently did a data wipe in order to upgrade to aokp b29. Before the whole process, my market worked fine, but now my installed apps are not appearing nor can I see that other tab (all apps? Or something... History?) because it gives an error as shown in the attached screenshot. My Installed tab just shows the apps I manually installed after restoring everything with titanium backup. I have about 310 apps on my phone and only the last 4 I installed yesterday show up. I have a suspicion that it was titanium backup that caused my play store account to bug out because I remember the market was fine after I booted up b29 for the first time but haven't used titanium backup yet, then after restoring all my apps + data, my play store became messed up. I tried using the market link doctor function on titanium backup to redo all the attached links to the market but that didn't help. Also tried clearing market data and cache, and restoring phone but obviously that didn't work either. Any suggestions? I was hoping that waiting for it to be fixed on its own would work but it's been like this for 4 days now, I would like to avoid another data wipe if it can be helped :x thanks.
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I had a similar problem, you should wipe your device and start fresh. Don't restore any system data or apps.
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Can I backup my user apps + data before wiping?

Dmw017 said:
Can I backup my user apps + data before wiping?
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By all means yes back them up but the only thing I'd recommend restoring is your SMS, music or pictures. Stuff that's not going to be potentially corrupt is safe. A good idea us to use a tool kit like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310 and use the option to BOOT not flash cwm recovery and create a nandroid backup so if you aren't happy with the results at least you can return to your current state. A fresh install is best IMO just to make sure you don't install things which are broken
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wtf ... i formatted data, cache, dalvik cache, flashed aokp b29 and gapps.. and bam.. the problem is still here.. exactly as it was before .. this is frustrating :/ .......
anyone know what on earth the problem could be ??? btw all my purchased apps are shown as never have been bought either, and when i try to rebuy something, i get an error with transaction email from Google.... the only way to install paid apps on my phone now is through the browser which still works fine ..but ..still... wth :/

There are TONS of people having this and similar problems - a quick search of the forums and the net in general will bear this out.
You can do whatever you like if it makes you feel good, but Google's going to have to fix this one themselves.

....................yea i know their store crashed but that was a week ago and they said its been fixed ...................
can anyone actually help plz, condescending remarks aside

Dmw017 said:
wtf ... i formatted data, cache, dalvik cache, flashed aokp b29 and gapps.. and bam.. the problem is still here.. exactly as it was before .. this is frustrating :/ .......
anyone know what on earth the problem could be ??? btw all my purchased apps are shown as never have been bought either, and when i try to rebuy something, i get an error with transaction email from Google.... the only way to install paid apps on my phone now is through the browser which still works fine ..but ..still... wth :/
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Try vía a computer... go to play store and send it to your phone that way it worked for Me. Hope it helps.
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oyanezg said:
Try vía a computer... go to play store and send it to your phone that way it worked for Me. Hope it helps.
Sent from my LG-P920 using xda premium
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wait, send what to my phone ?

wow im so relieved all functionality returned to my market a few hours after wiping. dunno if it was something i did or googles servers but im just glad its over and i can get back to crack updating my apps...

[Q] 3G stopped working

So a couple days I was playing around with Titanium Backup Pro, and cleared a bunch of caches and stuff that it said it didn't need. It screwed things up and so I just restored everything and it worked fine again. I didn't realize right away though that my 3g was broken since I have wifi nearly everywhere I go, but it won't activate. I know it's not the towers since my wife's GS3 is still connected just fine.
The only time the 3g will activate is when I go and tell the phone to 'update profile'. It will show the 3g icon for a few seconds, then it will disappear again and everything will say there isn't an internet connection.
Help!
I'm using FreeGS3 v3 if it matters.

aclays said:
So a couple days I was playing around with Titanium Backup Pro, and cleared a bunch of caches and stuff that it said it didn't need. It screwed things up and so I just restored everything and it worked fine again. I didn't realize right away though that my 3g was broken since I have wifi nearly everywhere I go, but it won't activate. I know it's not the towers since my wife's GS3 is still connected just fine.
The only time the 3g will activate is when I go and tell the phone to 'update profile'. It will show the 3g icon for a few seconds, then it will disappear again and everything will say there isn't an internet connection.
Help!
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Hey aclays,
A couple of quick questions just so I can narrow down how to help you:
What is your current Rom? Your Profile says you're running FreeGS3.
What modem are you on?
Are you on Sprint or Ting? (I saw some stuff about Ting in your post history)
What recovery are you running?
I'd say you can try flashing the latest modem/firmware (see Freez'a Thread for them) to see if that updates it. Or you can try to reflash your current Rom (after clearing cache and dalvik) to see if you can get it back that way.
Worse-comes-to-worst, you can wipe system, data, and the caches and reinstall your Rom. That'd be a last-chance scenario, in my opinion.

I'd say to connect to Wi-Fi somewhere and force hands free activation
##72786# in the dialer

topherk said:
Hey aclays,
A couple of quick questions just so I can narrow down how to help you:
What is your current Rom? Your Profile says you're running FreeGS3.
What modem are you on?
Are you on Sprint or Ting? (I saw some stuff about Ting in your post history)
What recovery are you running?
I'd say you can try flashing the latest modem/firmware (see Freez'a Thread for them) to see if that updates it. Or you can try to reflash your current Rom (after clearing cache and dalvik) to see if you can get it back that way.
Worse-comes-to-worst, you can wipe system, data, and the caches and reinstall your Rom. That'd be a last-chance scenario, in my opinion.
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1. FreeGS3
2. I'm not sure =X I looked for the names of all the possible modems that are installed with FreeGS3 and can't find any of them in the phone info.
3. Sprint
4. CWM 5.5
I'm reflashing it right now on your recommendation, so I'll find out in a few minutes if that worked. Doh, forgot to clear the cache and davlik first though. Might have to reflash it a second time.

aclays said:
1. FreeGS3
2. I'm not sure =X I looked for the names of all the possible modems that are installed with FreeGS3 and can't find any of them in the phone info.
3. Sprint
4. CWM 5.5
I'm reflashing it right now on your recommendation, so I'll find out in a few minutes if that worked. Doh, forgot to clear the cache and davlik first though. Might have to reflash it a second time.
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Hope that works for you.
The modems are typically not installed with the Rom. If you go into your Settings, then "About Device" you can see which Baseband (modem) you're on. In my friend's screenshot below, you can see his baseband is "MB1." You technically don't have to update your modems, some people have reported that older modems work better in their area. I prefer to have the latest, but that's up for debate.
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topherk said:
Hope that works for you.
The modems are typically not installed with the Rom. If you go into your Settings, then "About Device" you can see which Baseband (modem) you're on. In my friend's screenshot below, you can see his baseband is "MB1." You technically don't have to update your modems, some people have reported that older modems work better in their area. I prefer to have the latest, but that's up for debate.
http://i.imgur.com/5R5kzpz.png[/IMG[/QUOTE]
Looks like I'm using L710VPBLJ7, I've never even thought of updating it to be honest. I might have to give it a shot to see if it improves anything in my area.
I did the force hands free activation bit and it seems to have fixed the problem! Though now I'm going to have to find that guide to remove the system update nag again.
Anyways, thanks folks!
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aclays said:
Looks like I'm using L710VPBLJ7, I've never even thought of updating it to be honest. I might have to give it a shot to see if it improves anything in my area.
I did the force hands free activation bit and it seems to have fixed the problem! Though now I'm going to have to find that guide to remove the system update nag again.
Anyways, thanks folks!
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You mean....the one in my sig?
I need to update it though....wherever it tells you to change the version to "MB1", change it to "MD4" instead because that's the latest

CNexus said:
You mean....the one in my sig?
I need to update it though....wherever it tells you to change the version to "MB1", change it to "MD4" instead because that's the latest
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Oh zing, thanks for saving me the trouble yet again!

[Q] Samsung Contacts App Not Working

Hello,
On Saturday I flashed Clean ROM ACE 5.0 onto mine and my wife's Samsung Galaxy Note 2's.
The one problem we're both having is that the contacts app stops working. (It worked fine for the first day for me and my wife's was good until today)
No amount of wiping and re-flashing is working.
Going to settings->application->all-> and then clearing the data in contacts and contacts storage doesn't work.
Even on a completely fresh flash of the rom, without installing any other apps or setting up our google accounts, we'll still get the message "unfortunately, contacts has stopped".
I've tried installing new samsung contacts apps into the system/app folder with rw-r--r-- to no avail.
I've even changed custom recoveries...
Strangely enough, 3rd party contact apps work, but I'd like to just keep the 'stock' samsung one if I could.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

eboy_gb said:
Hello,
On Saturday I flashed Clean ROM ACE 5.0 onto mine and my wife's Samsung Galaxy Note 2's.
The one problem we're both having is that the contacts app stops working. (It worked fine for the first day for me and my wife's was good until today)
No amount of wiping and re-flashing is working.
Going to settings->application->all-> and then clearing the data in contacts and contacts storage doesn't work.
Even on a completely fresh flash of the rom, without installing any other apps or setting up our google accounts, we'll still get the message "unfortunately, contacts has stopped".
I've tried installing new samsung contacts apps into the system/app folder with rw-r--r-- to no avail.
I've even changed custom recoveries...
Strangely enough, 3rd party contact apps work, but I'd like to just keep the 'stock' samsung one if I could.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Changing recoveries WAS not needed too get a APP to work for you!!!
You ever think that it might be a bad download you had since you flashed the same room on both phones! And got the same results from both!
Anyway you can also access your contacts from the phone APP! Just in case you didn't know.. What I have set up on my Pie app to access the dialer/contacts... pic here:
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I would start over fresh, since you tried flashing other Samsung contact apk. And everything else you were doing trying to get it to work! Might have corrupted your system..
Just my 2¢®
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Bajanman said:
Changing recoveries WAS not needed too get a APP to work for you!!!
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I know, it was a last resort. Just thought I'd follow the dev's instructions to the letter, since stranger things have happened.
Bajanman said:
You ever think that it might be a bad download you had since you flashed the same room on both phones! And got the same results from both!
Anyway you can also access your contacts from the phone APP! Just in case you didn't know.. What I have set up on my Pie app to access the dialer/contacts... pic here:
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Yes, opening up the dialer/phone app and tapping the contacts tab get the same result "unfortunately, contacts has stopped working".
Even, starting a text message and trying to choose a contact doesn't work.
Bajanman said:
I would start over fresh, since you tried flashing other Samsung contact apk. And everything else you were doing trying to get it to work! Might have corrupted your system..
Just my 2¢®
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Well the MD5 checked out, but I guess I could.

Google play services has stopped

I keep getting these messages. Anyone have any idea to fix this?
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I keep getting these messages. Anyone have any idea to fix this?
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I got the same message today but I know exactly why I did. Something changed or modified your google play services app. I am running ZoneROM - 09.17.14 - D85110M - DeODEX with G3 Tweakbox (the latest that was pushed out today) and decided to try one of the themes that the developer warned us may or may not work lol. Needless to say after a reset I got that message. After I uninstalled the theme and set is ALL back to stock and gave it another reset the message came back.
The only fix (that worked for me) was to dirty flash the rom and wipe dalvik cache and chache afterwards. Hope this helps!:good:

xxmilmanxx said:
I got the same message today but I know exactly why I did. Something changed or modified your google play services app. I am running ZoneROM - 09.17.14 - D85110M - DeODEX with G3 Tweakbox (the latest that was pushed out today) and decided to try one of the themes that the developer warned us may or may not work lol. Needless to say after a reset I got that message. After I uninstalled the theme and set is ALL back to stock and gave it another reset the message came back.
The only fix (that worked for me) was to dirty flash the rom and wipe dalvik cache and chache afterwards. Hope this helps!:good:
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Yeah all this started after I installed the latest g3 tweaksbox and messed with the themes. I restored to a nandroid backup but the issue continues. Wtf this is crazy

This doesn't make any sense. I flash back to a much earlier backup and the popups come right back once i try to update apps in the Play Store

I am getting them to. Didn't switch anything up that I can think of..

I started getting this message when i switched to the google keyboard. Switched back to lg keyboard and it went away.

Ok is definitely the Google play services update is to blame. I did a factory reset. Everything was fine until I updated the Google play services plug in again. Instantly the popups returned

I had these issues until I disabled "Disable Location Consent" in xposed. It does not play nice with the new play services yet.
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dragonsofcp said:
I had these issues until I disabled "Disable Location Consent" in xposed. It does not play nice with the new play services yet.
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I don't know who you are but I love you. Thank you... I've been messing with my phone for the past 24hrs Trying to figure this out. Ty

Thx. Now I can go back to xposed

I'm stock room and was getting that at every reboot. I was using Google keyboard. I deleted it and viola problem gone. Some people report SwiftKey doing that as well.

What is everyone version of Play services? I think I have updated to the incorrect version.

OhioDroid80 said:
What is everyone version of Play services? I think I have updated to the incorrect version.
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6.5.87 (1599771-030)
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