I got a new Galaxy Nexus GSM.
Shortly after turning it on, it upgraded OTA to JellyBean.
Then, I rooted it.
Installed Titanium Backup.
I copied the TB backup made on my rooted Nexus One running CM7, I just want to restore some regular user apps.
But cannot no matter what I try.
If I copy the Nexus One backups via USB to the Galaxy, there is no restore option for the uninstalled apps in TB. And if I try to verify the backup, TB reports an error. (It doesn't say what the error is, just that there is one.) Of course, the backup and verify on the Nexus One for the same backup is just fine. The MD5 has on the file on the GN (as shown by Root Explorer) matches the MD5 on original backup file on the Nexus One.
If I copy via dropbox, the file shows up in root explorer but it doesn't show up in TB.
I'm getting super frustrated and feel like an idiot.
I can install apps from Google Play, but I paid for TB Pro, and it just doesn't seem to be able to do this.
Also, I hate MTP and lack of SD card in the GN. I might just return the phone it is driving me crazy.
I copied files to the GN yesterday from my computer. I DELETED THE FILES. The files do not show up in Root Explorer on the phone, or when doing ls with ADB, but when use Windows Explorer to look at the GN, the files appear to be there! They really aren't there, because any file operation on it fails (with no error), except for properties - it shows the properties of the non-existent file! What is up with this?
move like that: copy nexus one tb folder to your pc. open it and browse only for .apk files, don't take other file in the backup. put all .apk file in a separate folder. select all and extract all file in a folder (because titanium make compressed apk file, from my experience). put new folder with .apk extracted file into your pbone and with explorer app like ES file explorer install each one. i advise this way because if you restore a tbackup into a phone from another, or from another android os version, you have to restore only app without data. so this is the same way without auto restore for each app function of titanium backup.
i hope this help
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Hello everyone! I've been trying to find the answer to my question in the forum but I have not succeed.
The thing is that I want to get the apk files of some of the app's I have installed on my Desire.
I use Norton Mobile Utilities to check the directory where the apk file of each app is stored. Some of them are in /mnt/asec and these are so easy to find there and save them via copy-paste. On the other hand, some app's are stored in /data/app-private/ but when I check this directory with my file browser it appears completely empty.
What can I do?
Thanks in advance!
Get App Backup & Restore from market and than make backup to specified folder on sdcard.
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For backing up and restoring apps i can highly recommend titanium backup. Using it everytime i change rom or install current new. Never had problems.
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to see /data you would need root explorer.
or you could try My backup Root, backup apps you need and then extract .apk from .rar
some file explorer programs like Astro have this feature as built in component
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Just tried both Titanium Backup and Root Explorer. They both work. Thank you all!
Titanium backup is probably the best way to get APK's quickly.
I use Astro too which you could try too.
I have searched this forum and have not found an answer. I would like to know how to backup the .apk files that are stored on the phone memory, not the SD card. I have used ASTRO file manager but cannot locate the .apk files. I have already used Titanium Backup Pro but I have found that the .apk files are backed up a .tar.gz files. What I want to do is backup the .apk files as .apk files for future resoration or transport to another Android device. I have searched the phone and cannot loacte where the downloaded .apk's are being stored. Could someone out there please help point me in the right direction.
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I have searched this forum and have not found an answer. I would like to know how to backup the .apk files that are stored on the phone memory, not the SD card. I have used ASTRO file manager but cannot locate the .apk files. I have already used Titanium Backup Pro but I have found that the .apk files are backed up a .tar.gz files. What I want to do is backup the .apk files as .apk files for future resoration or transport to another Android device. I have searched the phone and cannot loacte where the downloaded .apk's are being stored. Could someone out there please help point me in the right direction.
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You have a couple of options. You can tell titanium backup not to use compression when backing up, or you can use 'Root Explorer' and navigate to /data/app where you will find all your user installed apps, be aware that the data for the apps, such as save games etc... is stored in /data/data.
Hope that this is of some help to you.
Tahnsk for your help
Doktaphex,
I tried turning compression off but titanium backup still created .tar files, not .apk files. Secon option of using root explorer worked just great.
Thanks for your help.
You can use Titanium backup, which will create compressed file, but you can decompress it on your PC and extract .apk file.
Method I use is with ASTRO. Go to menu-tools-backup programs, choose programs you want to backup and hit 'Backup' button. Then navigate to backup folder and there are your programs. But be aware, they will show market names whic are not always easy to determine which .apk is which program.
I use appmonster as it backs up when you install from any source, using an old version 1.9.0 as they changed the way it puts file names, nopw it does via market, on prior it was a readable name
I am using app saver, it works~
A simple option would be to install appInstaller (the one by Gregory House) from the market.
It's a lightweight app which backs up apk files to a folder on your sd card named app saver.
Noob here,
how can you locate or transfer a apk files? where are they exactly saved? how can you install/run them? what app should i use?
using a Huawei u8860 phone.
Thanks
mojo_ojoj said:
Noob here,
how can you locate or transfer a apk files? where are they exactly saved? how can you install/run them? what app should i use?
using a Huawei u8860 phone.
Thanks
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It all depends of the app...if is a system app or a market one. You have to use a file explorer such as file manager or ES explorer.
If the app you are looking for is a system on you need to be rooted.
Try apk extractor in the market its free, its what I use.
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So I have to transfer my data from one Genx to another, and I do what most people would presumably do: Backup my stuff on phone #1 via TiBu, plug it into my PC and copy the entire TitaniumBackup folder to my PC. I then plug in phone #2 (which is running the same ROM and has TiBu installed), and the TitaniumBackup folder is nowhere to be found on phone #2
So I tried creating a backup of some random app on phone #2, in hopes of generating the folder that I need to drop everything in. Back up created, plugged in phone, no titaniumbackup folder! However, I can find the folder when I use some type of root explorer app.
I proceeded to drop apps+data from phone #1 into the downloads folder of phone #2, and then used the root explorer to cut and paste from the downloads folder into the titaniumbackup folder. Regardless, titanium backup does not recognize any of my backups that I dropped into the folder.
I also tried going into TiBu settings on phone #2 to set the destination folder of the backups to various folders, and to no avail. (It is currently set at /storage/sdcard0/titaniumbackup)
Am I missing something? I've done this a few times before and this is the first time I've had a hick up
I'm on Android 4.1.2 running ParanoidAndroid 2.53 if that makes a difference
Nobody knows a thing about this....?
I rooted my GN this morning, installed CM10.1, did a titanium backup, and then when I tried to copy the backup folder over to my computer, I couldn't find the titanium backup folder in windows explorer. I know that the folder should be in the root folder, but it is simply not showing up. I copied the titanium backup folder into the DCIM folder (on my device), and I was able to transfer that copy to my device, but I want to be able to see the original Titanium backup folder. Yes, hidden files/folders are enabled. Any advice?
Reboot device and try again. The device needs to do a media rescan to appear on your computer. It's happened to me lots of times before. Or use a media rescanning app. Look on Play Store.
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try renaming the folder to something else like Titanium Backup instead of TitaniumBackup
Simple, You kill the batman.
on another note, you need to use adb to pull it, or use NexusToolkit to pull files from it, then TitaniumBackup, location would be /sdcard/ and it will pull the contents of the folder. this is much more reliable as copying and pasting corrupts data.
Are you on the latest recoveries like twrp? If you are on an older one, when you flashed the cm10.1 the files stay on "/data/media" while your new sd location is "/data/media/0" try check there with a root browser or such..
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I was side loading an app from my phone to my tablet, incompatible in market. Well when I tried to copy the obb into the obb folder on my tablet it said access restricted... can't get it to copy even with root explorer.
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I was side loading an app from my phone to my tablet, incompatible in market. Well when I tried to copy the obb into the obb folder on my tablet it said access restricted... can't get it to copy even with root explorer.
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Are you rooted...?
I noticed something similar to this as well. I used TiBu to restore the SwiftKey app and settings from my 1st Gen N7. After restoring it, the English language pack wouldn't download. After Googling around, they recommended deleting languagepacks.json from the sdcard/Android/files/com.whatever directory and even with root access and Root Explorer I wasn't able to delete the file. I had to do it through TWRP and even that didn't solve the issue. I had to format internal storage to solve my issue. Needless to say, I've been much more careful about using TiBu since then.
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Are you rooted...?
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Yes, yes I am. But you should not need root for these folders anyways.
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I got it working with a different file manager, but I am still unable to copy the Titanium backup folder to my computer via usb, or airdroid. Weird thing is I cannot even use a zip app to zip it up then move the zip.
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I got it working with a different file manager, but I am still unable to copy the Titanium backup folder to my computer via usb, or airdroid. Weird thing is I cannot even use a zip app to zip it up then move the zip.
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I actually ran into a similar issue on my N7v1 last night. I wanted to copy over all my apps and settings, so I attempted to copy the various files in my Titanium Backup backup folder. I tried using adb pull, but it failed to copy over any of the apks. The other files (properties, etc.) copied, but not the applications. This seemed very weird. Then things got weirder.
I looked at the ownership/permissions/etc. and they were all identical. I had read/write access to everything. So I tried tar'ing them all up on the device, as root, to copy over one big archive. No dice. Even tar couldn't read the files. I tried coping them to another directory, but that failed too. I could only move or delete them - not copy/read/etc.
I assumed maybe something was wrong with the backups, so I deleted them all and redid the TiBu backup. Problem persisted even on these new files I just made.
It reminded me of an issue I had with TWRP when Android changed around the file system location of the sdcard. When that happened, I couldn't access my nandroid backups either, or even delete them. I actually had to make a flashable zip to get rid of them.
So I had an idea. My current TiBu backup location was "/sdcard/TitaniumBackup". The /sdcard directory points to "/storage/emulated/0/". So I deleted all the backup files again, changed the TiBu backup location to the latter and ran the backup process again.
Voila. I could now read/copy/everything all the files in that same directory, albeit with a different path.
Anyway, I thought I would share this because it sounds like a similar issue. Try using the full path and not the /sdcard shortcut and see if that works.