I am running ICS 4.04 on SCH-I515. I already unlocked the bootloader and I am currently rooted. I am not using the verizon ROM, I believe I am currently using a regular AOSP build.
I want to upgrade to Jelly Bean when its available but I know that flashing it will erase everything. What can I use to back up everything so when I upgrade to JB I will be able to restore everything. I am hoping to be able to restore contacts, apps, settings, configurations for apps.....maybe even home screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I am running ICS 4.04 on SCH-I515. I already unlocked the bootloader and I am currently rooted. I am not using the verizon ROM, I believe I am currently using a regular AOSP build.
I want to upgrade to Jelly Bean when its available but I know that flashing it will erase everything. What can I use to back up everything so when I upgrade to JB I will be able to restore everything. I am hoping to be able to restore contacts, apps, settings, configurations for apps.....maybe even home screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Check out rom toolbox pro in play store. It'll backup those things and more. Titanium backup is another popular choice for apps and data, but I don't think it backups sms, contacts, settings, etc like rom toolbox does.
Before anything make a android if anything should go wrong you can restore. For messages I suggest SMS Backup and Restore found in the play store. For apps and all that use titanium backup and restore app+data on jellybean which will import all settings and data the application had on the original backup. Contacts should have been backed up to the Google servers so you don't really have to worry about that, once you sign in to jellybean for the first time your contacts will be completely restores automatically. Home screens not possible , to my knowing, unless you use a third party launcher such as Nova which let's you backup home screens.
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iLeopard said:
Home screens not possible , to my knowing, unless you use a third party launcher such as Nova which let's you backup home screens.
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icon placement can be backed up through titanium if you backup the launcher. Widgets wont restore though with any launcher. Except possibly Nova.
smartadmin said:
I am running ICS 4.04 on SCH-I515. I already unlocked the bootloader and I am currently rooted. I am not using the verizon ROM, I believe I am currently using a regular AOSP build.
I want to upgrade to Jelly Bean when its available but I know that flashing it will erase everything. What can I use to back up everything so when I upgrade to JB I will be able to restore everything. I am hoping to be able to restore contacts, apps, settings, configurations for apps.....maybe even home screen setups?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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titanium backup. Only certain launchers can back up your home screen stuff. Like apex.
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Cool I already use Titanium backup, so looks like I am covered on everything other then home screens. If I were to change to nova launcher that would mean I would have to re do my home screens anyway.
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I'm running the stock deodexed 3.29 but want to try out some of the other ROMs out there.
I plan on doing a nand backup and a Titanium backup for my apps and app settings.
But, is there any way for me to save my homescreen settings and then apply them again once I've restored all my apps?
Titanium should backup all your icons and widgets as part of the launcher data. What launcher are you using?
Note that normal widgets can't be restored properly. They will show up in the right place, but it will be an error message instead of the actual widget, and you will have to remove and re-add them. I believe this is an Android limitation. The special LauncherPro widgets don't have this issue.
I'm just running stock Sense launcher, save for a couple Rosie/lockscreen mods.
It's just a pain in the butt to go back in and re-add all my quick contacts and icons. I swear I did a Titanium restore before when going from 3.26 to 3.29 deodexed, and it did not restore anything on my home screens (it went to full OEM stock homescreen setup). Not sure what I'm missing then.
It should be the [Desktop] HTC Sense option, IIRC. You might have to reboot after restoring to get it to show up.
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It should be the [Desktop] HTC Sense option, IIRC. You might have to reboot after restoring to get it to show up.
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Hmmm. It's currently backed up so I'm assuming it was last time I restored also. Well I'll give it a shot again and see what happens. Worst case, it takes me an extra few minutes to set things up.
It's a system app, so if you were just restoring user apps+data, it would've missed it. Other than that, I'm not sure. It's been a while since I used the stock Sense launcher and had to restore it.
Ok thanks.
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So,
everytime I flash a ROM, I have to manually delete and merge my contacts. Is there any way to preserve what I've already done? Will Titanium do this?
Also, is there any way to preserve where I have placed apps on my home pages? I can never remember which apps I put where, and I always get confused for a few days after flashing when I can't find apps.
Thanks
if your contacts are saved through Google, it will automatically sync them every time you log in to your Google account when you flash a new rom.
Not sure about the stock launcher, but I use ADWlauncher which has the ability to back up the screen configuration and launcher settings to SD, and restore them in the new rom. Works flawlessly
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if your contacts are saved through Google, it will automatically sync them every time you log in to your Google account when you flash a new rom.
Not sure about the stock launcher, but I use ADWlauncher which has the ability to back up the screen configuration and launcher settings to SD, and restore them in the new rom. Works flawlessly
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dag16 said:
So,
everytime I flash a ROM, I have to manually delete and merge my contacts. Is there any way to preserve what I've already done? Will Titanium do this?
Also, is there any way to preserve where I have placed apps on my home pages? I can never remember which apps I put where, and I always get confused for a few days after flashing when I can't find apps.
Thanks
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Yes! Titanium back up will do it. just make sure that you do all apps and system data.
Thanks all, tit pro worked perfectly and even restored home screens minus widgets.
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When flashing to a new rom, is it needed for me to completely wipe the phone to Factory reset?
Reason why I am asking is because I have everything placed into folders and located where I want them and when I flashed the rom I had to get everything back (Titanium Backup) but I would still have to put the settings how I liked them, the apps into folders, align the folders, have my home screen how I liked it (which took about 2 hours).
Someone said just use the .data file (and restore that after i have flashed to the ROM i want) I have when I backup my Rom before flashing. Basically, factory reset, install new rom, wipe cache, fix permissions. After I reboot, I go back into recovery, go to advanced restore and JUST RESTORE THE /DATA? Will this work?
Supposedly you can restore the Touchwiz settings by restoring the data component of the app after factory resetting and flashing your new ROM.
...I migrated away from Touchwiz some time ago and am using GoLauncher. One of the features it offers is the ability to backup/restore its settings independently. I also find that when I restore it from a Titanium backup it brings back the location of each item on each desktop screen.
One limitation is that neither way will restore widgets. This is apparently a limitation built into Android. If you have lots of widgets you'll need to make note of which ones were placed on which screens and recreate them after flashing.
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Supposedly you can restore the Touchwiz settings by restoring the data component of the app after factory resetting and flashing your new ROM.
...I migrated away from Touchwiz some time ago and am using GoLauncher. One of the features it offers is the ability to backup/restore its settings independently. I also find that when I restore it from a Titanium backup it brings back the location of each item on each desktop screen.
One limitation is that neither way will restore widgets. This is apparently a limitation built into Android. If you have lots of widgets you'll need to make note of which ones were placed on which screens and recreate them after flashing.
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That's the main thing, I tried to search it but did nto find anything definitive on it. The thing I don't like about Go Launcher and Launcher Pro is that I can't really arrange what I want in folders and label them the folders either. That just leads to a large clutter in apps.
Any thoughts?
I have folders in the app drawer and on the desktops with the latest version of golauncher
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ronin4740 said:
I have folders in the app drawer and on the desktops with the latest version of golauncher
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I like go launcher. Only questions is when backing up, where does it save (I know is says saved to SD but I can't find it in the files to move to the SD card for when I will FLash the phone to a different Rom)?
Also, how much RAM does this take? Does anyone ever use a task manager to close out of apps? It seems that a lot of apps run even when I havent even opened them in weeks.
what's everyone's experience with using the /data technique? Also, does anyone notice a battery drainage use golauncher?
Hi all I got this problem and it happened only once that after a full wipe, my apps has been reinstalled by theirself when i booted up for 1st time.
now it is not happening anymore and when i do full wipe, i have to remember all the apps io downloaded and reinstall them again.
is there a solution? dont tell me to use titanium bck please cos android should do that automatically! thanks
i looked around on found this, same problem different "phone" but none solutions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117511
What ROM were you on and what were you going to? I've found if you've wiped and got to a new build (e.g. 4.0.3 to 4.0.4) then it doesn't automatically do it
thanks for answering!
Im using AOKP, 21 before and now 22 (403), always used this after the stock rom, with AOKP have never been restored :/
P4p3r1n0 said:
thanks for answering!
Im using AOKP, 21 before and now 22 (403), always used this after the stock rom, with AOKP have never been restored :/
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Get Titanium Backup, it backups up your apps including the apps data.
Titanium Backup - LINK
kkl1993 said:
Get Titanium Backup, it backups up your apps including the apps data.
Titanium Backup - LINK
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ok thank u if this is the only way to fix then i will
I think it has something to do with your Google account. I have the same problem and it was ages ago the phone auto installed my market app. I do change rom quite often and i do not like TB to restore apps.
In your goggle account, I don't remember exactly where you can se a list of your devices and their apps. Same device can show as different ones in your account probably due to different build.prop or something like that.
So my theory is that you can only have a limited amount of devices with auto restored apps. Or Google doesn't recognice your device as the same one after you have flashed it with some custom rom.
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qsec said:
I think it has something to do with your Google account. I have the same problem and it was ages ago the phone auto installed my market app. I do change rom quite often and i do not like TB to restore apps.
In your goggle account, I don't remember exactly where you can se a list of your devices and their apps. Same device can show as different ones in your account probably due to different build.prop or something like that.
So my theory is that you can only have a limited amount of devices with auto restored apps. Or Google doesn't recognice your device as the same one after you have flashed it with some custom rom.
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duno.. i find out that logging with my credential onto the web market, i can see all the apps I downloaded and both my phones, G1 and nexus.
I just choosed what i wanted to "restore" and I clicked on install and in which phone to install. now i've got all my aps back onto my nexus
Until the OTA release of JB I was running an unlocked/rooted Galaxy Nexus with custom recovery, franco kernel, and the standard 4.0.4 rom. I was pretty happy with my setup, but then I was alerted to the JB release which I wanted.
So, I reflashed stock/unrooted/OEM locked... and got the OTA release of 4.1.1
Luckily google re-downloaded all my apps, I restored images/etc, and I used SMS backup+ to get back my SMS history and call logs.. BUT, there were still problems.. I had to re-customize my desktop icons and widgets, and I lost lots of other app data. I EXPECTED THIS to happen, but it's still frustrating. Luckily my phone is only two weeks old, so it's no major.
Anyway, moving forward I would like to unlock and root my phone again.. and I'm wondering, what are the best practices for restoring your data.. I don't want a JB update in a couple weeks to cause me all this pain again.
Thanks!
Titanium Backup will restore apps and data. If you use a custom launcher, some give you an option to backup your homescreen locations. When it comes down to it, there will still be some things to setup again.
If you stay stock then another update won't wipe your device... only switching ROMs will.
Thanks
martonikaj said:
Titanium Backup will restore apps and data. If you use a custom launcher, some give you an option to backup your homescreen locations. When it comes down to it, there will still be some things to setup again.
If you stay stock then another update won't wipe your device... only switching ROMs will.
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Thanks for your response. Titanium Backup looks perfect. I found I wasn't able to upgrade to the new OTA without going back to full stock (lock, unroot, OEM lock, etc)... is it possible to update from stock ROM even while being rooted, etc?
funkdified said:
Thanks for your response. Titanium Backup looks perfect. I found I wasn't able to upgrade to the new OTA without going back to full stock (lock, unroot, OEM lock, etc)... is it possible to update from stock ROM even while being rooted, etc?
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Bootloader lock/unlock state doesn't change your ability to receive and apply an OTA.
If you're rooted, you can still apply the OTA, it'll just break root. Some people have success using "OTA root keeper" apps that "hide" your root while you OTA then restore it after.