So I am about to get a GS3, and I currently have a GS2. I was wondering if anybody successfully backed up their apps and app data on one phone using Titanium Backup, moved the backup to a new a different type of phone, and then restored the apps and app data to the new phone.
I carried a backup from my HTC One X to the sgs3 and it worked fine. I only backed up user apps and their data.
cajunaggie87 said:
So I am about to get a GS3, and I currently have a GS2. I was wondering if anybody successfully backed up their apps and app data on one phone using Titanium Backup, moved the backup to a new a different type of phone, and then restored the apps and app data to the new phone.
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I backed up 80+ apps from my HD2 running Ginger Bread with Titanium Backup and restored to my new S3...no problems. What a terrific app!!! A few of the apps/games did not work perfect...but even after fresh installs, they had the same bugs....so that was just app incompatibility and not due to TiB.
I'm doing this exact same thing later today. Do I just need to save my GS2 sdcard folder to my pc then transfer it to my new GS3 and then use TB restore? Also, is there a good way to clean out my GS2 so it's like stock or do I simply delete everything in the sdcard folder? I'm giving my GS2 to my gf and basically want it clean slate for her (not unrooted though).
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AngelsNecropolis said:
I'm doing this exact same thing later today. Do I just need to save my GS2 sdcard folder to my pc then transfer it to my new GS3 and then use TB restore? Also, is there a good way to clean out my GS2 so it's like stock or do I simply delete everything in the sdcard folder? I'm giving my GS2 to my gf and basically want it clean slate for her (not unrooted though).
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Why not just format the SD card from the settings menu?
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Why not just format the SD card from the settings menu?
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Easiest way to do it,yep. Just make sure you transferred everything you want to keep first.
As got the apps, you are correct. Just move your TitaniumBackup folder to the new phone. You may have to manually select the folder as the one to use in TiBu, but that's about it. I've moved mine from a Captivate to an HTC Inspire to my S3 with no problems.
miztaken1312 said:
Why not just format the SD card from the settings menu?
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Or I could do that too
mrhaley30705 said:
Easiest way to do it,yep. Just make sure you transferred everything you want to keep first.
As got the apps, you are correct. Just move your TitaniumBackup folder to the new phone. You may have to manually select the folder as the one to use in TiBu, but that's about it. I've moved mine from a Captivate to an HTC Inspire to my S3 with no problems.
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Awesome. Thanks for the info.
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Actually, you may not even need to manually select the folder in TiBu. When I moved mine from my Captivate to my S3, I didn't need to select. It just knew. I put it in the smae exact spot on the internal sd card as it was on the Cappy.
I usually keep mine on external sd, probably why..
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Is it necessary to keep all nandroid backups or do I only need to keep the one I made after rooting and the most current one? I have about 10 backups and would like to delete some if it's not a bad idea. Thank You for your responses.
Myself I keep my stock-rooted, my latest CM 7 build and latest Miui Build. When I do a new backup of (insert which ever rom name here) I will delete the old version. I also keep a copy of my stock-rooted rom on my notebooks hardrive for just in case times
I agree with pacer,
I have my original stock backup, and the latest backup of whatever Roms I happen to be using. Its also probably wise to have your original rom saved to a off phone place...P.C, Thumb drive or such.
I usually err on the side of keeping unneeded data rather than deleting needed data. PC storage space is so cheap now anyway, that I pretty much keep all my backups in a folder on my computer.
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I keep stock and the latest one or two on the card and then erase the rest. I do save one to the PC every now and then.
I keep newts sense 3d, miui aosp, and the ever so stable skyraider. In general you only need to have one stable backup in case sh*t happens.
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Thanks for the replies. I kept my stock back up and my most recent back up which is of TSMPoolparty on the SD card. The others I put on my computer for future use if needed. I currently am running CM7 and can't wait for kernel.org to get back up so he nightlies can start rolling out again.
Having never had to use a nandroid backup, what does it restore? Will it just restore the phone from whatever Rom/Kernel combo you backup, just like if you did a full data wipe/reset?
prenedo said:
Having never had to use a nandroid backup, what does it restore? Will it just restore the phone from whatever Rom/Kernel combo you backup, just like if you did a full data wipe/reset?
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It puts your phone back to exactly the way it was when you did the backup.
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It puts your phone back to exactly the way it was when you did the backup.
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Yeah a nandroid backup is a perfect image of literally everything on your phone besides the SD card contents. Kernel, ROM, apps, settings, the whole deal.
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only keep the ones you want, you can even name them.. just no spaces do like "my_rom"
I only keep around a backup of the initial stock one.
A copy on the SD card, my computer and also a copy on Dropbox.
So am about to get the 4G N7105 to replace my N7100. On the N7100 I have my apps backed up on Titanium to me ext sd card. To save me the hassle of transferring the apps and resetting the phone up with my apps can I simply root the N7105 and transfer the apps only via Titanium?? Thanks.
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So am about to get the 4G N7105 to replace my N7100. On the N7100 I have my apps backed up on Titanium to me ext sd card. To save me the hassle of transferring the apps and resetting the phone up with my apps can I simply root the N7105 and transfer the apps only via Titanium?? Thanks.
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You can transfer apps to any Android device. You can even transfer apps and their settings for example from HTC HD2 with Android 2.2 to Galaxy Note 10.1 with Android 4.1.1
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You can transfer apps to any Android device. You can even transfer apps and their settings for example from HTC HD2 with Android 2.2 to Galaxy Note 10.1 with Android 4.1.1
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Thank you. So just root phone, install Titanium, point it to the Titanium backup in the ext sd card and restore?
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Thank you. So just root phone, install Titanium, point it to the Titanium backup in the ext sd card and restore?
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Don't reinstall the system apps and settings, just the ones from the Play Store etc.
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Don't reinstall the system apps and settings, just the ones from the Play Store etc.
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No I don't want to use Playstore if possible. As the thread said I want to see if I can restore via TiBu and just use the 'restore missing apps with data' option not system settings.
That's what I meant. Good luck with new phone.
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Hey everyone! I really need your serious help because i was on Hp touchpad with cm9 also rooted so I got new Samsung Galaxy 10.1 note tablets... So I use TB since year ago, I backup the app with data (save game) left off, so I went on pc for copy tb file from hp to pc and then I put tb file to samsung galaxy 10.1 is now rooted also... TB launch and restore it... The App with data working then i went to game... the data save game is gone but not apk.. i repeated over 8 times to make sure everything what i do also i do uninstallled and restailled this sht still not working so I have start all over again...
Help I need to get my data game put to samsung galaxy note 10.1 tablet to get work i still have save tb on pc anyone have issue about that??
getting a replacement soon (screen)... can I just root it, install cwm, and restore a nandroid backup from my current phone?
Absolutely!
In fact, I customized the heck out of a Galaxy Skyrocket ROM and did a nandroid and restored it to my buddies Galaxy Hercules!
awesome. loving this thing now that I got my beans all sorted out, don't really want to rebuild.
I would definitely do a copy/paste of ALL contents of your internal and external SD cards also. Just copy them onto a folder on your computer. And then restore the nandroid. Then copy all the contents from the computer folder back onto the phone. Replacing as you go.
Nandroids are just not fool-proof recovery, IMO. They don't restore EVERYTHING from your internal SD card.
And also a titanium backup (including cache) of all user apps, just in case things go wrong.
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getting a replacement soon (screen)... can I just root it, install cwm, and restore a nandroid backup from my current phone?
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I don't think it will work like that. It doesn't for CDMA phones anyway I can say that for sure. For example I did it for a buddy if mine with his droid incredible. Restored his old meid (in gsms case the imei ) on top of the new one. Replacing it so to say so down the road even if it was operational I'm sure it would cause you problems down the road.
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I would definitely do a copy/paste of ALL contents of your internal and external SD cards also. Just copy them onto a folder on your computer. And then restore the nandroid. Then copy all the contents from the computer folder back onto the phone. Replacing as you go.
Nandroids are just not fool-proof recovery, IMO. They don't restore EVERYTHING from your internal SD card.
And also a titanium backup (including cache) of all user apps, just in case things go wrong.
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of course.
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I don't think it will work like that. It doesn't for CDMA phones anyway I can say that for sure. For example I did it for a buddy if mine with his droid incredible. Restored his old meid (in gsms case the imei ) on top of the new one. Replacing it so to say so down the road even if it was operational I'm sure it would cause you problems down the road.
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interesting. I've read on several threads in the various S3 forums that for those who have lost their IMEI by flashing ROMs, restoring a nandroid backup does NOT restore the IMEI.
regardless, I will do a nandroid of the stock setup before restoring from my backup.
Just got done rooting my ATT GS3, and flashed Cyanogenmod10 onto it. Before I did a full Titanium Backup, and did a backup of my previous ROM on CWM. When I got everything sorted in Cyanogenmod I noticed that my contacts weren't syncing, so I tried to restore them with Titanium Backup. All this did was give me an annoying error where something kept crashing, so I had to clear the data from my contacts app.
Then I found somebodies advice on the forum that said the restore the data from the recovery image I had on CWM. This was terrible advice and left Cyanogenmod frozen on the splash screen. So I reinstalled CM10 and got everything working fine again. Now my question is, is there any way to get my contacts back from my previous stock image, or the backup I made in Titanium before I flashed CM10? I've looked around and haven't found anything that works yet
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Just got done rooting my ATT GS3, and flashed Cyanogenmod10 onto it. Before I did a full Titanium Backup, and did a backup of my previous ROM on CWM. When I got everything sorted in Cyanogenmod I noticed that my contacts weren't syncing, so I tried to restore them with Titanium Backup. All this did was give me an annoying error where something kept crashing, so I had to clear the data from my contacts app.
Then I found somebodies advice on the forum that said the restore the data from the recovery image I had on CWM. This was terrible advice and left Cyanogenmod frozen on the splash screen. So I reinstalled CM10 and got everything working fine again. Now my question is, is there any way to get my contacts back from my previous stock image, or the backup I made in Titanium before I flashed CM10? I've looked around and haven't found anything that works yet
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Your contacts will sync the second you enter your gmail info. Google syncs and backs them up automatically.
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Sorry I forgot to mention that, for some reason, my contacts weren't backed up with my google account. I have no idea why this is, but when I try to sync them with google I get nothing.
"Contacts Storage" holds the contacts. Backup this regularly and restore this when needed.
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diablo009 said:
"Contacts Storage" holds the contacts. Backup this regularly and restore this when needed.
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When I try to back up Contacts Storage and reboot, contacts crashes and then I continuously get the message processes.acore has stopped working. The only way I can get this to stop is if I clear data from the contacts app
Ok. Another way when moving between ROMs.
Install GoContacts free app. This app allows to export contacts and import after a new ROM flash. The safest method i can think of.
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diablo009 said:
Ok. Another way when moving between ROMs.
Install GoContacts free app. This app allows to export contacts and import after a new ROM flash. The safest method i can think of.
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Any of the Go apps are far from safe.
This is why it is known to never restore any system data.
Wayne Tech S-III
zelendel said:
Any of the Go apps are far from safe.
This is why it is known to never restore any system data.
Wayne Tech S-III
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I never told to use it. Install it, export, freeze/uninstall. And when needed, install/defreeze, import, uninstall/freeze. Simple. Plus I use GoContacts from over an year ago, not the GoContactsEx version.
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A general query.
I switched from samsung Y pro DUOS to samsung grand quattro. I had my old device rooted and had a titanium backup. That folder is also available in my laptop. Is there any way to have my contacts etc back again on my new quattro??
Btw, previous device got washed thoroughly! So all i have is a "titanium backup" folder.
PS: In no mood to root my new device.
UchihaMadara08 said:
A general query.
I switched from samsung Y pro DUOS to samsung grand quattro. I had my old device rooted and had a titanium backup. That folder is also available in my laptop. Is there any way to have my contacts etc back again on my new quattro??
Btw, previous device got washed thoroughly! So all i have is a "titanium backup" folder.
PS: In no mood to root my new device.
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Did you backup with contacts to your google account? If so, that's a way to get them back.
Otherwise, you'll have to root your device.
P.S.: This is the S3 section.
Another sort of general question on doing app+system data full backup on the SG3 using Titanium
Assuming I own the 16GB version, I've rooted and installed custom recovery on the device. I've done a custom recovery backup (TWRP or whatever)
Now I'm ready to install my custom rom zip and gapps, but say I have like 100+ downloaded apps with app data & whatnot, so I have Ti Backup installed and do a complete 'apps+system data' backup file...
but my internal 16GB memory doesn't have enough spare room to store the complete Ti backup file in addition to my existing system files, existing custom recovery backup file and existing apps and data/junk. And my options for cloud storage, lets say Google Drive or Dropbox, don't have enough room either.
Is my external SD card (say a 32 GB card in the slot) and option for backup of the Ti backup app+system data file? Will that Ti backup file be readable by the phone once I flash the custom rom on the phone? Or does stock ROM touchwiz format the external microSD card a certain way that once I flash a different custom ROM like CM, that external SD card and all its data is now unreadable?
kayone73 said:
Another sort of general question on doing app+system data full backup on the SG3 using Titanium
Assuming I own the 16GB version, I've rooted and installed custom recovery on the device. I've done a custom recovery backup (TWRP or whatever)
Now I'm ready to install my custom rom zip and gapps, but say I have like 100+ downloaded apps with app data & whatnot, so I have Ti Backup installed and do a complete 'apps+system data' backup file...
but my internal 16GB memory doesn't have enough spare room to store the complete Ti backup file in addition to my existing system files, existing custom recovery backup file and existing apps and data/junk. And my options for cloud storage, lets say Google Drive or Dropbox, don't have enough room either.
Is my external SD card (say a 32 GB card in the slot) and option for backup of the Ti backup app+system data file? Will that Ti backup file be readable by the phone once I flash the custom rom on the phone? Or does stock ROM touchwiz format the external microSD card a certain way that once I flash a different custom ROM like CM, that external SD card and all its data is now unreadable?
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No the external will work fine as that was always my default storage location. But a word of advice. Backing up your system data is a bad idea.
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No the external will work fine as that was always my default storage location. But a word of advice. Backing up your system data is a bad idea.
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Ive heard that (danger or being caught in bootloop?) but for some reason every youtube tutorial on full Ti backups I see they always choose apps+system data in the batch operations. And I've been doing it on my rooted HTC one with no issues.
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kayone73 said:
Ive heard that (danger or being caught in bootloop?) but for some reason every youtube tutorial on full Ti backups I see they always choose apps+system data in the batch operations. And I've been doing it on my rooted HTC one with no issues.
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Never follow videos, they are seldom done by anyone that really knows what they are doing. The issue is with restoring the data. Like you say you are doing it on your HTC one. If you were to restore that system data on a non HTC device or a non Sense rom (if you are using a sense rom) you will corrupt the system data forcing you to reflash from scratch.
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Never follow videos, they are seldom done by anyone that really knows what they are doing. The issue is with restoring the data. Like you say you are doing it on your HTC one. If you were to restore that system data on a non HTC device or a non Sense rom (if you are using a sense rom) you will corrupt the system data forcing you to reflash from scratch.
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So im best off just choosing 'Backup all user apps' I want to save apps and app data?
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So im best off just choosing 'Backup all user apps' I want to save apps and app data?
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Yes your better off saving just user apps. This normally backs up game save data as well but doesnt always work across devices due to different layouts of the partitions.
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Yes your better off saving just user apps. This normally backs up game save data as well but doesnt always work across devices due to different layouts of the partitions.
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Ok thanks for the input.
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Can't find my contacts
So I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy s4 model SCH-I545 NC5. I used the towelroot method and then I used safestrap to flash Hyperdrive onto it. Everything worked fine but then I looked at my contacts and hardly any of them were there. I had previously backed up my data but I can't seem to find the contacts. I used titanium backup and the safestrap backup. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Chapman03 said:
So I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy s4 model SCH-I545 NC5. I used the towelroot method and then I used safestrap to flash Hyperdrive onto it. Everything worked fine but then I looked at my contacts and hardly any of them were there. I had previously backed up my data but I can't seem to find the contacts. I used titanium backup and the safestrap backup. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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You're in the S3 section (SGH-I747). But that being said, if you had your Google account connected to your device, it should restore all your contacts you had on it.
So can you backup and restore contacts using Titanium Backup?
Hi all, I'm switching from Verizon to T-Mobile. After hours of searching, bricking, then recovering my HTC One (don't try flashing a T-Mobile radio to a VZW phone...) I've come to the conclusion I need to buy a T-Mobile HTC One.
I have my device set up the way I like it, with custom launcher, the way things are arranged, etc. Is there an easy way to clone my Verizon One to the T-Mobile One I eventually buy? Without having to reinstall everything and reconfigure all the settings? Thanks.
Use titanium backup to make a backup of all your personal apps and data (do not backup system apps or vzw apps). Then, copy your backup folder on your sd card from titanium backup to your pc. Once you get your t-mo one rooted. Install titanium backup and move your previous backup to the t-mo one. If you have titanium paid you can actually store your backup to a cloud and then download that backup to your new device. Hope that helps. That's how I've been doing things for years. I had a nexus 7 I setup the same way.
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Might want to look into the built in htc backup and restore feature built into the one.
Or pop in tmo sim and it should work
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Use titanium backup to make a backup of all your personal apps and data (do not backup system apps or vzw apps). Then, copy your backup folder on your sd card from titanium backup to your pc. Once you get your t-mo one rooted. Install titanium backup and move your previous backup to the t-mo one. If you have titanium paid you can actually store your backup to a cloud and then download that backup to your new device. Hope that helps. That's how I've been doing things for years. I had a nexus 7 I setup the same way.
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That may be how I try doing it. Any ideas on how to transfer a few gigs of music and movies between the two? Without an SD card, I can't think of a way to do it faster than transferring it all to a cloud or computer.
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That may be how I try doing it. Any ideas on how to transfer a few gigs of music and movies between the two? Without an SD card, I can't think of a way to do it faster than transferring it all to a cloud or computer.
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That is probably your only option. You might even use your pc to put all your music and data into a zip. I have had trouble in the past transferring that much off of the phone not zipped up.
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You could also use an app called Nandroid Manager https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.bkrestore. It allows you to restore apps and their data from a nandroid backup, along with many other things.
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You could also use an app called Nandroid Manager. It allows you to restore apps and their data from a nandroid backup.
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That sounds pretty cool. I might check that out
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Also just an fyi there is another cool app called Online Nandroid Backup https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h3r3t1c.onnandbup, which allows you to do a nandroid backup while still booted to the os. No need to boot to recovery. The only reason i mention it is that the two apps kind of go together and link to each other from within the apps.