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Q: Rooted R800x Ti Backup problems

So I've finally gotten to that point, I can't take this verizon crap anymore. I have a nandroid backup and Ti ready to go. SO I started with installing Verizon crap, I removed VZ navigator, Backup Assistant, and Vcast Apps. After doing this now my Playstation games (both Crash, and ones I made myself) do not show in the launcher anymore, but I tried them and they do run. I guess thats cause of Vcast or???
That problem is livable, the worse problem is I am trying to convert the stock installed games (Asphalt 6 for example) to user apps to move to SD, when I do that it just says "Processing" and seems to sit there forever, I rebooted and restored my backup and tried again, and am still having the same problem. Does it just not work?

anyone? Bueller?

There's an app called preinstalled service or something, that app is needed to play psx games

Rogue Leader said:
anyone? Bueller?
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Ha that's a classic!
But your correct, without vcast my apps didn't show up in game launcher and if you removed pre installed service .apk then they wont show even with vcast .
There's a terminal line you can add to make all apps installable to sd but it will also make all new downloaded apps Install to sd and I felt like downloads were slower, not that 3g is fast in the first place though.. I'll look up the line to punch in terminal and edit my post here
Edit: I think its "pm setinstallocation 2"
That's what I could remember I'll look it up officially though
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Transferring Saved Games Between Android Devices?

I have two android devices right now, my triumph and a kindle fire running cm7. I would like to be able to transfer my saved games, or app data, from one device to the other so I can play on one and then pick up the same saved game on the other device if I want to.
I feel like there is probably a way to do this with titanium backup pro, but I couldn't figure it out.
Thanks.

Copy the 3 files for the app on your main.device, put in the titaniumbackup folder on device 2, restore data then profit.
Btw it's sdcard/titaniumbackup/backupfilesarehere in case you hadn't found it yet.
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[Q] How are people going to migrate their apps to Jelly Bean?

I've been reading that we should not use Titanium Backup to migrate our apps & data to Jelly Bean.
However, my GF has several games where she has spent tons of time and has lots of progress and doesn't want to start over (ie, Smurfs, Sims Free Play, etc)
What's the best migrate path that will move our data over to JB and not cause any issues?

Yeah that's serious issue, my GF plays Smurfvillage too and she doesn't know how to transfer her progress either.
Well she is stuck with my old Nexus One anyway, so she isn't going anywhere

TiBu plays nice for the majority of apps and data, it's just not keen on modifying or removing /system apps.
All my data moved over fine, no problems so far. I'm sure by the time you think about moving over, the app would of been updated anyway.

I seem to be the minority here...
But I used JB for two days with absolutely no problems.
Titanium restored everything just fine :good:.
I also had no problems nandroid restoring back onto AOKP when I was done derping about with JB.
I'd recommend adb pulling your /data/media portion after nandroiding.
Just in case you run into the issues many are reporting.

Neo3D said:
I've been reading that we should not use Titanium Backup to migrate our apps & data to Jelly Bean.
However, my GF has several games where she has spent tons of time and has lots of progress and doesn't want to start over (ie, Smurfs, Sims Free Play, etc)
What's the best migrate path that will move our data over to JB and not cause any issues?
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There are no issues with restoring apps using Titanium Backup. The issues people were having have to do with freezing or uninstalling system apps.

efrant said:
The issues people were having have to do with freezing or uninstalling system apps.
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An issue which Rom Toolbox seems to take care of quite nicely on Jelly Bean (tested personally by me!)

Looks like the best course of action is to do an ADB app backup and wait until TiBu updates to JB.
Thanks!

same no issues with tibu
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Neo3D said:
Looks like the best course of action is to do an ADB app backup and wait until TiBu updates to JB.
Thanks!
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It was already mentioned that there are NO issues with backup/restore in Titanium Backup.

Only my contact list has lost some entries, evererything else perfect!

Why Android doesn't have iTunes alternative? (win, linux, mac app)

Hi,
I hate itunes because we all know why.
But what is great about it - I can make backups of all my settings, apps, game progress etc.
In Andrid case you have to be genius to do all that (root the phone, install titanium etc.).
What s Google position regarding Android companion app fo PC?
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Google Play is the alternative. Your mass storage is the alternative. Any computer music utility is the alternative. That's 3

and google sync is an alternative. btw, what is andrid? :silly:

You can make a backup using adb backup or by installing a toolkit without root. Am I missing something here?

Bcoz its easily mountable
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mmm google sync pretty much does everything itunes does. have you ever done a factory reset?
once you enter your gmail login it starts restoring everything. all your apps, contacts, etc.
plus instead of waiting for your entire music library to download onto your phone again, it's instantly accessible from google music.

The idea is that you shouldn't have to make backup of everything all the time and mannage that yourself, when your phone and google's servers can do it for you(and yes it can do it for you). It's just a shame that so few developers have implemented the data backup service introduced with froyo. Currently the only apps on my device storing a data backup, is the settings app, the wallpaper app and another google application...(it does work fine with those apps, my wifi passwords and wallpaper and so on is always backed up and set automatically) Many games and other third party apps could do great with sending a backup of my progress and settings.

drag and drop ftw!

crixley said:
drag and drop ftw!
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exactly who wants to fck with slow azz itunes nazi crap

I am with the OP on this one.
I just tried the ADB method on my wifes RAZR and it didnt work. All app data restored but no applications restored. iTunes is a PITA, and the way that it is pretty much the ONLY way to use you iDevice is pretty stupid. But the principle behind being able to backup and restore everything including games easily is nice. Comparing ADB backup and iTunes backup is just stupid...
Its similar to the way that Windows Restore is a waste of space quite useless, and the TimeMachine on iMac's is very useful and slick.

I would love to have some quick method of transferring game data to all devices. I do not have my xoom rooted, but my Gnex is. PITA

At least for music there is doubleTwist which is ok
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ADB backup is the way, but unfortunately only good for Nexus devices, but my opinion is that a punishment to fools who buy not a Nexus device, so yes if you use ADB you much smarter the other and maybe bought the device for developer purpose. It's not easy for someone to enter a number of lines in ADB, yes iTunes maybe nazzi crap, but guys OP still have a point there, it an organizer, the app don't need stuff to like sync Gmail or Gcal, but it still would be useful to backup settings and game saves and so, at least just make us a program that could backup without using ADB and with some cute UI..:cyclops:

Play music?
You mean that?:laugh:

Its a pity the play music service isn't available in most countries, we just get a stupid play music app that does nothing besides play music that we dragged an dropped into our sdcard ourselves.
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altimax98 said:
I am with the OP on this one.
I just tried the ADB method on my wifes RAZR and it didnt work. All app data restored but no applications restored. iTunes is a PITA, and the way that it is pretty much the ONLY way to use you iDevice is pretty stupid. But the principle behind being able to backup and restore everything including games easily is nice. Comparing ADB backup and iTunes backup is just stupid...
Its similar to the way that Windows Restore is a waste of space quite useless, and the TimeMachine on iMac's is very useful and slick.
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Actually, you don't need to use iTunes at all anymore unless you want to.

altimax98 said:
I am with the OP on this one.
I just tried the ADB method on my wifes RAZR and it didnt work. All app data restored but no applications restored. iTunes is a PITA, and the way that it is pretty much the ONLY way to use you iDevice is pretty stupid. But the principle behind being able to backup and restore everything including games easily is nice. Comparing ADB backup and iTunes backup is just stupid...
Its similar to the way that Windows Restore is a waste of space quite useless, and the TimeMachine on iMac's is very useful and slick.
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Sorry but how is Windows Restore useless?
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io53 said:
Actually, you don't need to use iTunes at all anymore unless you want to.
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I didnt know that. I thought it was still required for activation... Its been a while lol
Zwarx said:
Sorry but how is Windows Restore useless?
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Have you ever used Time Machine? Its fantastic. Windows Restore has never assisted with an issues when I F'd up. It may be great for full system restores but it has never worked for me when I needed a certain portion or program or folder restored.
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bat0nas said:
Hi,
I hate itunes because we all know why.
But what is great about it - I can make backups of all my settings, apps, game progress etc.
In Andrid case you have to be genius to do all that (root the phone, install titanium etc.).
What s Google position regarding Android companion app fo PC?
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it's usb mountable... so you only have to drag and drop (multimedia...) or sync from google's servers...

bigcignus said:
it's usb mountable... so you only have to drag and drop (multimedia...) or sync from google's servers...
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I wish it was true. I am not talking about multimedia. I have not only mp3 in my phone. But tons of other stuff as well.
And no pc app to manage that.
And google servers can sync just settings and wallpaper. 1% out of what I really want to sync/backup.
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How do you backup your game progress in Android?

I still dont quite know if there is a secure way to backup your progress in every game installed in your android device. Many times I reset the device and lose all my progress in all games.
It's something I miss from iTunes, which easily backups all your apps data.
I tried Helium Premium and didn't worked with the game Asphalt 8. I tried copying my progress from my Nexus 10 to my new Nexus 7. Didn't work.
How do you guys backup your games?
Thanks.
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Sensamic said:
I still dont quite know if there is a secure way to backup your progress in every game installed in your android device. Many times I reset the device and lose all my progress in all games.
It's something I miss from iTunes, which easily backups all your apps data.
I tried Helium Premium and didn't worked with the game Asphalt 8. I tried copying my progress from my Nexus 10 to my new Nexus 7. Didn't work.
How do you guys backup your games?
Thanks.
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Have you tried Titanium Backup? Do a backup with data of the game and it should be restorable later. If you're transferring between devices, then you might need to adb pull the backup files and adb push them into the correct folder on the new device.
Actually, if you do use Titanium Backup, you could also just hook your Nexus 10 up to the computer and use Windows Explorer to browse into the TitaniumBackup folder to copy them onto your computer using the GUI, since it's in /sdcard/. Do the same thing to copy them from your computer onto the new device and restore them. You'll have to figure out which files are the ones you need for that game. If you want to avoid any confusion, only backup the game and no other apps in Titanium Backup, then all the files in that folder all pertain to that game. There should around 3 files, and more-or-less have names that are similar to whatever app you need.
For the record: I don't really play games on my tablet or phone. The steps above are all just what I think should work. I actually bought Asphalt 8 and have two devices (Nexus 4 and Nexus 7) that I would want to sync my saves between if I really got into it and I would use the above method if I really wanted to sync them. One thing to note: it probably won't be very wieldy if you are wanting to continually transfer save files between the two devices (to continue progress on the other device, then back on the other one). It'll get old having to do that often.

Sensamic said:
I still dont quite know if there is a secure way to backup your progress in every game installed in your android device. Many times I reset the device and lose all my progress in all games.
It's something I miss from iTunes, which easily backups all your apps data.
I tried Helium Premium and didn't worked with the game Asphalt 8. I tried copying my progress from my Nexus 10 to my new Nexus 7. Didn't work.
How do you guys backup your games?
Thanks.
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Actually, Asphalt 8 has cloud capabilities. You just need to go to settings on your Nexus 10 and click Connect. Sign in with Google or Facebook and then it is saved. Then all you have to do is go to your Nexus 7 and connect your game with the same social media account that you connected your Asphalt 8 on your Nexus 10 to. It should work, I have done this when switching ROMs on my Nexus 7. ( Btw I use titanium backup and sometimes Helium too)

Ok, I just found out something.
I deleted Asphalt 8 on my Nexus 10, which is where I had all my progress, and the installed it again. When opening the game a pop-up window appeared and told me of I wanted to restore my previous progress, located in the cloud. I said yes and it worked.
So I guess the cloud save feature only works inside each device, meaning it can't be synced to other devices, cause in my Nexus 7 it hasn't told me to restore.

Titanium backup is good. Data Sync is another that let's you automatically sync between various devices over the network and/or save to cloud storage like Dropbox or Box.net
It can automatically find devices to sync with. It is smart enough to compare timestamps and only update newer files. You can sync "on change", on demand, or a set time, WiFi only etc. Works really well. It can also sync your devices and cloud storage at the same time.
Even with one device, it's handy just to get your backups off your device incase there is an accident.
Just install it on all your androids and launch it on one.
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Sensamic said:
I still dont quite know if there is a secure way to backup your progress in every game installed in your android device. Many times I reset the device and lose all my progress in all games.
It's something I miss from iTunes, which easily backups all your apps data.
I tried Helium Premium and didn't worked with the game Asphalt 8. I tried copying my progress from my Nexus 10 to my new Nexus 7. Didn't work.
How do you guys backup your games?
Thanks.
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Are you rooted to begin with? I noticed that this was not mentioned. If you are not, then Titanium Backup is worthless to you.

aarsyl said:
Are you rooted to begin with? I noticed that this was not mentioned. If you are not, then Titanium Backup is worthless to you.
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Not rooted yet. But I would like to know how to backup games whether it's with root or some other way. I can root whenever I want but need to know first how to backup games.

I don't think that you can. But I don't think that you have to delete all of your data to root, but don't quote me on that. Just make sure that you follow each step correctly. Read ahead before you so anything.
I made a mistake while I was routing, and had to wipe the internal memory. Want a big deal for me, since I only had it for one day before I tried.
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Having a hard time syncing my Asphalt 8 progress between my two devices: Nexus 7 and SGS3.
I managed to copy my progress from the Nexus to the phone and then lost everything on the Nexus. Now I can't get it to sync from the phone to the Nexus...
It always appears the screen telling me I have two accounts: local and cloud. Which one I want to keep?
It's a mess.
Anyone knows how can I just keep it synced between the two devices? What options do I need to choose on both for them to sync properly?

I use a combination of both Titanium Backup (TB) AND Helium.
I found out for some apps, either TB failed or Helium failed. For example, I backed up "Walking Dead: Assault" with TB and although the backup was successful, restoring the app did not bring the game back to where I left off. Helium works, though. And yes.. I did select backup "data" too.

how to manually restore helium backup?

I just use go backup. Though I haven't tested it on asphalt, all my games except cytus and deemo work. Those 2 would not launch after and had to clear data of the app to get it to launch.
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Unfortunately, there's nothing like the iTunes backup feature on android. Being root the most advisable app is Titanium backup. Without root, you can use the built in adb backup with -apk option, but beware is not complete. Some games have it's own servers to store savegames or own accounts. Google Saved Games is a feature that allows you to sync savegames between different devices provided that the game has the feature.
[INFO] List of games that do and don't support Google Saved Games

This is how I lost my warranty every time, rooting my samsung to be able to use Titanium Backup, tripping KNOX.
And just because over the last years of Android development there is no native way to save and restore deep app data without root.
Why is that? Is it so hard to implement it?
And why must android apps store user-specific data in more then one place in the memory?
This is a feature that should have been implemented in Android core a long time ago:
Settings > applications > select apps to back up > generate an exportable file (protect it with password if that is the concern)
Settings > applications > restore apps > select your backup > select wick applications to restore
And this to work between all Android devices and versions.
In fact Google Play Store app could be updated by Google to provide this functionality and even make backups on the cloud ...but nobody cares...
Also I am not sure how is that option which is now prompting the user to do a backup/restore at a device initial set-up. How much does it actually back up/restore?