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How to backup Accounts, Blutooth Settings, and Wifi Access Points?

Hey All,
I've been meaning to ask this question for a while. I guess this can pretty much apply to any phone. I was wondering if there's a way to backup Accounts under "Accounts and Sync" as well as Wifi access points and any other miscellaneous settings. I tend to wipe and flash new ROMs periodically so this would be very useful because I have to re-add 2 Exchange accounts, Facebook, Twitter, etc every time. I've tried using Titanium backup for this and have been unsuccessful. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Titanium Backup does all of this for me. Can you be more specific about what problems you've had?

TurboFool said:
Titanium Backup does all of this for me. Can you be more specific about what problems you've had?
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I basically need to know what System App to backup on Titanium backup to ensure that I don't need to re-enter my ActiveSync information every time. This applies to Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Wifi access points, Bluetooth parings, and everything else will sync when you sign in to Google.

phatmanxxl said:
Wifi access points, Bluetooth parings, and everything else will sync when you sign in to Google.
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I've flashed 100's of roms, and I have NEVER had BT, and wifi passwords sync automatically when I sign into google, and I always sign into google first then after flashing a rom...

abstraction21 said:
I basically need to know what System App to backup on Titanium backup to ensure that I don't need to re-enter my ActiveSync information every time. This applies to Twitter, Facebook, etc.
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Actually, come to think of it, no, I did have to manually re-add my Exchange ActiveSync connection. But everything else was automatic. WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. are all very clearly labeled in Titanium. And as for Twitter and Facebook, I just found backing up their apps, in addition to Accounts & Sync, and restoring all of that usually put them back. I'd just have to re-enter my password to re-authenticate them.
phatmanxxl said:
Wifi access points, Bluetooth parings, and everything else will sync when you sign in to Google.
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Uh... what? I've never once had that happen for me. Ever.

phatmanxxl said:
Wifi access points, Bluetooth parings, and everything else will sync when you sign in to Google.
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I agree with everyone else. Wifi, Bluetooth, etc do not autosync with Google. I think they used to sync for me when I had an HTC phone and would sync with HTC hub but not with Samsung.

on my old evo4g, when I would flash a new version on Cyanogen on it, my wifi password would somehow automatically work, even after a full wipe, but NEVER did my BT pairings automatically restore; that was always done manually....

as one said, get titanium back, it'll do it all
it will even back up homescreen widgets

I ment back up wifi access points, and bluetooth pairings with titanium backup. It works I do it all the time. Calendar, contacts and settings are backed up via Google.

SayWhat10 said:
as one said, get titanium back, it'll do it all
it will even back up homescreen widgets
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The thing is that I've had issues backing up ALL on Titanium Backup. When I've backed up system apps in the past and restored the data, I would get constant popups and errors on my screen. I haven't done this on my ET4G but I did do this on my Evo. I guess I can give it a try on this phone to see if I encounter the same issues.

Yeah, on my Evo cyanogenmod, has a option to save all of that to your google log in. Never really thought about how it worked because it only ever worked with cyanogenmod.

abstraction21 said:
The thing is that I've had issues backing up ALL on Titanium Backup. When I've backed up system apps in the past and restored the data, I would get constant popups and errors on my screen. I haven't done this on my ET4G but I did do this on my Evo. I guess I can give it a try on this phone to see if I encounter the same issues.
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i never backed up system apps,because when i install a new rom the system apps are there
so all my were user apps (either side loaded or from the market)
restoring system settings/data can cause problems sometimes
esp is trying to u titatinumbackup from a backup done on another phone,going to a new phone

How to backup All accounts on Android? including Wifi Access Points & Bluetooth ?
Hi guys, I know this is an old thread but I am still hoping to get your replies...:fingers-crossed:
I want to back up all the various accounts I have on the device. I have several google accounts. One main accounts which i don't mind putting in manually, to which everything on the phone is supposed to sync and some other google accounts that are secondary and that I use mostly for gmail purposes.
I am also using TB and never managed to restore all the additional google accounts, which is very frustrating. I have made sure to backup WIFI/ Bluetooth parings (that doesn't restore them) AND accounts. That doesn't help.
Further, I would like to backup all the other accounts that appear under the "Accounts" tab in the settings menu. The only time I managed to restore all those accounts was by restoring a full Nand backup and that I not something I want to do every time I flash my device.
So basically my questions boils down to how to backup the following: wifi APs& Passwords, Bluetooth pairings, and all the accounts on the phone.
I am using a One Plus 3 with OxygenOS
I've uploaded 3 screenshots to my Google Drive just to make sure:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0_qlCGUewOJRzVzRHZZSVdCM00
Thanks a million!

GNex and Kies 2.0

Did anyone manage to make them work together? My kies stays in a loop saying connecting but nothing happens! I'm using windows 7 :-(
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SweetPAIN225 said:
Did anyone manage to make them work together? My kies stays in a loop saying connecting but nothing happens! I'm using windows 7 :-(
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Galaxy Nexus, while a Samsung device, is not compatible with Samsung Kies. Galaxy Nexus runs on native android and not Samsung enhanced version of Android, this is the possible reason why.

SweetPAIN225 said:
Did anyone manage to make them work together? My kies stays in a loop saying connecting but nothing happens! I'm using windows 7 :-(
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I don't think you can use Kies with GN

That daft cause they have it in the support for thp phone on there web site

Infra said:
I don't think you can use Kies with GN
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I think a more appropriate response is "WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO!!?!?!?"
No but seriously Kies is terrible software and you can accomplish everything Kies claims to do pretty easily on your own. All your contacts are saved to your SIM and GMail already and music is pretty easy to transfer.

KIES is the worst software ever. I can't imagine even one reason to use it.

I agree the old one really was bad but the new one that you can connect through wifi works great !!

JDaSilva said:
I think a more appropriate response is "WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO!!?!?!?"
No but seriously Kies is terrible software and you can accomplish everything Kies claims to do pretty easily on your own. All your contacts are saved to your SIM and GMail already and music is pretty easy to transfer.
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Because all of my contacts are in my older phone memory (not SIM), and synced with Outlook. I tried to use Google contacts but this is crap. Want to sync my Nexus contacts with Outlook. Is there another way to this instead of using Kies ?

pdcsq said:
Because all of my contacts are in my older phone memory (not SIM), and synced with Outlook. I tried to use Google contacts but this is crap. Want to sync my Nexus contacts with Outlook. Is there another way to this instead of using Kies ?
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Try exporting all contacts as .csv / .vcf
then importing using Google contacts

momomok said:
Try exporting all contacts as .csv / .vcf
then importing using Google contacts
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Thanks. I will give this a try. Problem is Google keeps messing my contacts by adding email addresses I use to my contact list even when I don't want to. Then it arbitrarily decides to merge with existing contacts, giving priority to its own formatting instead of mine.
I'm so fed up with this that I'm currently doing a major clean up of this.

pdcsq said:
Thanks. I will give this a try. Problem is Google keeps messing my contacts by adding email addresses I use to my contact list even when I don't want to. Then it arbitrarily decides to merge with existing contacts, giving priority to its own formatting instead of mine.
I'm so fed up with this that I'm currently doing a major clean up of this.
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When creating my xda account, I watch the introductory video, had a good laugh§ I now also have the confirmation I'm a noob. I solved my problem of Google arbitrarily creating entries in my contact list : I just had to go in the parameters to prevent it doing so.
Now I still have a problem : when I want to sync my Nexus to my Google account, it seems priority is given to the Nexus contacts (empty list) instead of my up to date list in Google. When I sync my 148 contacts, 53 get deleted from Google. Trying to figure out how to set priority.
EDIT : problem solved, but I don't know how. All 148 contacts now appear in the phone. It did an update by itself. Seems that if I force sync, I lose contacts, if I do nothing, everything's OK. Go figure ....

Browser sync & Datatransfer

Hey Guys,
I'm quite sure these questions have been asked before but I can't find it
1. My Browser doesn't want to sync. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
2. How can I transfer files to any specific location? (sms backup file for example) - SOLVED!
Thanks a lot!

Does no one have this problem?

Browser sync gives me an error too.
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Good I'm not alone. Are you using the Chrome dev version?

i have a problem with browser sync as well, and i'm using Chrome Stable.

flyerwire said:
i have a problem with browser sync as well, and i'm using Chrome Stable.
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It doesn't work on the nexus s AOSP roms floating around either. I think it's broken, or not turned on yet.

Its not broken, i have it working on mine.
To get it to work. Clear the browser data on the device and uncheck sync browser. Then go onto google dashboard and there is an option to "Stop sync and delete data from Google" This will take a few minutes to complete.
When it has done, recheck sync browser on the nexus, and it should sync. This worked for me.

What worked for me is, to delete everything from the Google Dashboard and re synchronize everything.

I have Browser sync issues on my GT8.9 and GT10.1 tabs also, so this seems to be a general problem, not related to Galaxy Nexus.

Is there a way to sync the phone and chrome via BT/Wifi/USB or just anyway that I don't have to sync with the "cloud" first?

With a 3rd party app, yes. With the stock Cal, no.
I'm sorry.

Mehrsau said:
What worked for me is, to delete everything from the Google Dashboard and re synchronize everything.
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worked for me as well, thanks

Mehrsau said:
What worked for me is, to delete everything from the Google Dashboard and re synchronize everything.
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Won't I lose all my chrome data though? (Bookmarks, passwords, etc)
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Bump. Any help on this browser sync thing?

Yeah, I'm curious too. Chrome sync works fine for my desktop, laptop, and work pc, but haven't gotten it to work on ICS.

matt2053 said:
Bump. Any help on this browser sync thing?
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I gave you instructions on how to fix it earlier in the thread.

Love_Velvet said:
I gave you instructions on how to fix it earlier in the thread.
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Yeah, but you didn't answer his question.
If we delete the sync data from google dashboard, do we loose all our bookmarks and passwords from our desktop PC's since they are all synced?

delete the data. then sync it back again via chrome. done.
might gonna do that for my 3 chrome installations
such a hassle w/ 2 step authentication.

Love_Velvet said:
I gave you instructions on how to fix it earlier in the thread.
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Yes but my question was, won't that delete all my passwords and auto fill data etc?
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matt2053 said:
Yes but my question was, won't that delete all my passwords and auto fill data etc?
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no, all it does is remove your sync data off of Google servers, once its deleted and you activate sync on your phone you activate sync on your PC browser and all the data gets re-populated.

[Q] How to backup wifi passwords/settings with Titanium Backup?

All,
I've been going through Titanium Backup Pro list of apps and can't find what I need to do to backup/restore my Wifi settings when I switch out roms.
Also, if anyone knows, if I wanna backup the default email 4.1 app for exchange, do I just backup the email 4.1 and exchange 4.1 settings?
Thanks for any info!

You should NEVER back up default/system apps.
Your wifi settings are backed up to your Google account.

joshnichols189,
Understood, but during a Rom flash, I restore apps via Titanium backup and stopped restoring from Google Account.
I never restore system apps, but would like to restore Wifi Settings and Exchange email via the Email 4.1 app.

Nutzzer said:
joshnichols189,
Understood, but during a Rom flash, I restore apps via Titanium backup and stopped restoring from Google Account.
I never restore system apps, but would like to restore Wifi Settings and Exchange email via the Email 4.1 app.
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When you log into your Google account it restores your WiFi passwords. I don't think you can restore the exchange email via the email app as you shouldn't restore system app data either :/

Wireless Access Points backup is in titbackup, premium at least
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Schiehallion,
I have the PRO version and don't see where I can backup Wireless Access Points. Can you point me to the right direction?

Nutzzer said:
Schiehallion,
I have the PRO version and don't see where I can backup Wireless Access Points. Can you point me to the right direction?
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its a green item listed as "[SMS/MMS/APN] Phone...".
If you make a label and tag that setting, you can make a schedule so you could back up your messages and APN settings weekly (or however often you would need to).

I finally found it listed as "Wi-Fi Access Points" in Titanium Backup Pro.

You don't even have to back up wifi in Titanium Backup.

My wifi access point and password, wallpaper, all restore from Google's server via their backup option.

Google never restore my wifi passwords.
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ddgarcia05 said:
Google never restore my wifi passwords.
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That sucks because all of mine are always restored over all of the devices I've ever had..

joshnichols189 said:
That sucks because all of mine are always restored over all of the devices I've ever had..
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Same for me. Even when I change phones it restores wifi during the first sign in screen upon setup.

joshnichols189 said:
You should NEVER back up default/system apps.
Your wifi settings are backed up to your Google account.
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Could you please explain why?
I have been exploring different ROMs, and my main email is iCloud IMAP asccount that needs manual setup each time, so I would like a way to restore email accounts only.

notmyepic said:
Could you please explain why?
I have been exploring different ROMs, and my main email is iCloud IMAP asccount that needs manual setup each time, so I would like a way to restore email accounts only.
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I have the same problem. when i have change rom i never have from my google's account settings accounts the others emails or apn wifi.I think that ther is something ,in ours accounts that blocks the restore process

notmyepic said:
Could you please explain why?
I have been exploring different ROMs, and my main email is iCloud IMAP asccount that needs manual setup each time, so I would like a way to restore email accounts only.
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Let's say you backup a ICS system app, then you restore it in a Jellybean rom, things could break.
OR
You backup a stock Phone.apk, then you restore it in a cyanogenmod 10 rom, It will not work for obvious reasons.

Titanium backup as wifi passoword erecovery with crDroidAndroid-7.1.1-20170203-i9300-v2.1 and other rom is crashing the wifi no way to activate just reinstall rom.

[Q] Transferring contacts

I just received my Note 2 in the mail and was wondering if anyone knew a way to transfer the contacts from my old phone. Normally I would just import to sim and swap sims and export them. Or I would do it at ATT. However I live an hour from an ATT store and my old phone takes a 3g standard size sim card. Walmart wireless gave me an option to do mobile back up to transfer my contacts however my xperia is blocked from downloading 3rd person apps. So I was wondering if anyone had any tips for transferring contacts. I hope this is an ok place to ask.

Back up to your google account and restore from it .
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You can blue tooth them over
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Mad383Max said:
Back up to your google account and restore from it .
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I always keep contacts backed up with Google, that way after flashing new roms, etc, they come back automatically. You can do it in sync settings on your old phone, then it's the default setting when you first turn on your new phone.
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slaydog said:
I always keep contacts backed up with Google, that way after flashing new roms, etc, they come back automatically. You can do it in sync settings on your old phone, then it's the default setting when you first turn on your new phone.
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+1 Google account is great. Contacts calendar docs cloud storage gmail,sign into one account and everything is synced. Very simple considering you need an account for the play store.

slaydog said:
I always keep contacts backed up with Google, that way after flashing new roms, etc, they come back automatically. You can do it in sync settings on your old phone, then it's the default setting when you first turn on your new phone.
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This.
jethro650 said:
+1 Google account is great. Contacts calendar docs cloud storage gmail,sign into one account and everything is synced. Very simple considering you need an account for the play store.
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And all your bookmarks.

Going from Android to Android should be so easy, if you contacts are synced with you Google account. They just magically appear once you add you add your Google account to you new phone.
I love Google Magic!