I recently wanted to try a different ROM, so I backed up all my apps with Titanium Backup and then did a Nandroid with Amon Ra. After playing with the new ROM for a few hours, I decided I didn't like it and wanted to return to my previous setup. I tried restoring from the Nandroid 3 times, but I kept getting sent into a bootloop. So I cut my loss and just flashed the same ROM again and figured I'd just restore my apps and set everything up again (I've done this so many times, it doesn't even take me that long anymore). However, after setting everything back up again and restoring my apps, I realized that several of my apps hadn't backed up for some reason and I was restoring from versions several months old (some of these were games that I'd made considerable progress in).
Is there any way of extracting apps from a Nandroid and replacing my current version with them (assuming the Nandroid isn't corrupt and the app files are valid - not sure this is a reasonable assumption, since the phone wouldn't restore to this backup, but I figure it's worth a try...).
Thanks in advance!
Dave
Anybody?
I just tried following this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890508, but it didn't have very good instructions once the files were extracted. I didn't find any of my apps in the /app folder, instead the only files I found were in the data.img file and then in the data folder. I tried copying the folder I found onto my phone, but the app crashed as long as I used this replaced folder.
Any suggestions?
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hi, i used clockworkmod for a while now backed-up, but never really tried to restore from those back-ups....
i just tried to restore a nandroid backup, i went on the PC and re-named backup as something i`d remember put it back on the Desire, and nandroid just fails instantly at `MD5 mismatch`
could this be because the folder name changes after the backup has been made??, thanks.
also i thought i was being thorough by doing a wipe, from nandroid 1st.
Luckily I went advanced `restore sys only`, this went back to basic stock, logged into myy acc on market, downloaded My Backup PRO, restored the apps/dATA i did with that app.
restarted phone, all is good
whats up with md5 missmatch ?
cheers
Don't move the file around next time. Probably induced an error.
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Don't move the file around next time. Probably induced an error.
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not sure if its moving the file around so much, as the characters in the filename itself
i did a quick backup this morning, left the filename alone,restored it fine.
booted phone, went into Rom manager and renamed the original back-ups with that instead of PC, they now restore ok.
what i did notice though was when renaming from Rom manager it automaticly replaces spaces with _ seems a bit sensitve to certain characters.
must be filenames (or _+ - spaces etc)the are accepted ok on windows creates, arent freindly when nandriod comes to read them?
I've got some apps that i need in android, so when i test a new build i have to install them all again.
So i'm wondering if there is a way/script that is installing the apps automatically when the build is making a new data.img?
Is there a way to make it myself? It works the same as linux on the pc?
I know you can have multiple build on your sd card, but it won't fit on my sd card. That's because i have a 2gb card and already 1,8gb is in use(android and maps for winmo tomtom)
Thanks in advance.
Well if you have the actual APK, just drop it in the AndroidApps folder - it'll get installed automatically.
Otherwise, Titanium Backup FTW. The free version is still very powerful, but application restoring is kinda painful on the free version - the paid-for version has a '0-click' batch restore, and I've heard it's very fast. I keep considering buying the app, I probably should
I have not been able to find out how to restore backed up programs using Titanium Backup. I did my backups for the programs that I wanted, deleted my data.img so I could try a new build, and when it rebooted Titanium Backup was not there. I reinstalled Titanium Backup thinking it would find the backed up files again, but apparently it stores the backups in the data.img file. I am not sure if this happens to be an issue that I have encountered solely or not, but it kinda aggravated me that it didn't do what it was supposed to do.
Any advice or knowledge of what I may have done wrong?
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I have not been able to find out how to restore backed up programs using Titanium Backup. I did my backups for the programs that I wanted, deleted my data.img so I could try a new build, and when it rebooted Titanium Backup was not there. I reinstalled Titanium Backup thinking it would find the backed up files again, but apparently it stores the backups in the data.img file. I am not sure if this happens to be an issue that I have encountered solely or not, but it kinda aggravated me that it didn't do what it was supposed to do.
Any advice or knowledge of what I may have done wrong?
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It stores the backups on the root of the sdcard in the folder TitaniumBackup. I have version 2.9.4 installed.
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It stores the backups on the root of the sdcard in the folder TitaniumBackup. I have version 2.9.4 installed.
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I checked that directory after I performed my backups, and the files were there, but when I reinstalled the app after wiping the data.img, the directory was empty. Apparently I must have needed to rename the directory prior to reinstalling Titanium Backup or something.
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I checked that directory after I performed my backups, and the files were there, but when I reinstalled the app after wiping the data.img, the directory was empty. Apparently I must have needed to rename the directory prior to reinstalling Titanium Backup or something.
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Probably when you where installing TB again, it emptied the folder.
Sounds likely. I will have to test that theory later on when I go to try a new build, if I remember to do so.
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So I am having a weird issue with Angry Birds, Titanium Backup, and Gingerbread. Here is the deal: I backed up AB using TB while running one of the CM7RC0 builds. Then, when I switched back to CM6.1.1 and went to restore AB, the app would not run upon restoration and kept force closing. I figured the backup might have been corrupted. However, I restored my CM7 backup and was able to restore the AB backup. So, I created another backup of AB hoping that this iteration would restore across ROMs as it always has before. Unfortunately, no dice, and I can't get AB to restore onto any ROM other than the one from which it was backed up. Does anyone have a clue about what the issue may be or how I can go about fixing it?
In addition, I have tried backing up AB using other programs such as My Backup Root and it still will no work. This issue is not happening with any of my other backups.
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I have had similar problems when trying to restore from TB upon flashing of a new ROM (whether it be a GB ROM, Sense ROM, whatever).
Before you try my solution, ensure that you have everything backed via TB or MyBackupPro (MBP) (I am so paranoid I have both paid versions installed).
I was only able to get apps restored by deleting android_secure folder on SD card, restoring/installing ROM, and then running TB or MPP to get apps back.
Oh yeah, standard instructions of full data wipe, cache wipe, dalvik cache wipe apply.
I'm sure there is an easier way to do this, but after an extensive search of XDA I've yet to find it.
And you can't view/edit contents of android_secure file from phone. It has to be done via ADB or simply while phone's SD card is mounted as disk drive when plugged in to your PC.
I forgot to mention: I only deleted the content of android_secure, not the folder itself, i.e., the folder remained on the root of my SD card.
Thanks for the advice. I will give this a shot when i get a chance this afternoon and I'll let you know if it works.
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Hey, no such luck but thats for the advice. I did clear the android_secure folder and the only thing in there, not surprisingly was an ASEC file corresponding to angry birds. I'm out of thanks for the day but I'll be sure to hit you with a few tomorrow.
Well hey guys,
Basically the story goes like this. I nandroided before installing cm7 and before that I made a Titanium backup to dropbox and sd, i was in a rush so deleted the sd backup. Installed CM7 and restored apps only to find out I was missing like 200 or so, and they weren't in titanium, I tried restoring my nandroid but it seems boot.img is corrupted and in unyaffs it says bad file descriptor. It starts to extract some folder, but not the crucial app folder! And due to this weird error it always crashes CWM and so I cannot restore. I've tried all that I can find on the internet, unyaffs, ext2explore but I don't have linux. Do you guys reckon you could give me a few pointers? I've managed to recover a list of what was installed because they're in the data folder, but that takes time :/
Thanks!
I have flashed a CM11 unsuccesfully and today sucessfully flashed AOSP Kitkat. I have found the file system is screwing with my sdcard. I have emulated/o, emulated/legacy, SD0, and SD1. I always run a Nandroid before flashing and that completely disappeared from my internal storage, it was not in any of the directories.
Not only that but after I booted up only a few of my apps were restored by Google restore. I installed Titanium and it had nothing. It informed me that the phone ID had changed and asked me if I wanted to change back for compatibility. I let it do it and ended up with a Titanium backup from a couple phones ago.
What the hell is going on and what is the best way to deal with the storage file system after a flash when one has these extra directories? Can I merge? I'm afraid to delete one because I do not know that it will not have some data I might need.
Thanks