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[Q] A few questions (JB,Modem,Backup)

Hi folks, a few questions if you guys have any thoughts. I'm new to the GS3 (came from the G2X) so bear with me while I try to refigure all this out.
1) I have FrostyJBv4 on my phone now. I want to go to v6, but I hate downloading everything again. I have TiBackup and I used it before, but I felt like there were some random glitches/incompatibilities when I tried to do the restore function and put everything back. Is there a way to just have the appstore just send everything to my phone automatically. I'm hoping there might be an app to download everything from the app store. So basically, I want to just have everything come back fresh onto my phone, without any settings or anything like that. Is that possible, or is TiBackup my only recourse?
2) Regarding the App Store, is there a way to delete apps that I had gotten from there that I would never want to use again. I hate looking at "All Apps" and seeing the more useless stuff still listed there.
3) Modems: referring to this thread. The latest modem is dated 10/17/12 but is listed as ICS 4.0.4. If I had this, would this cause any issues with JB, or should I just have the modem from 9/17/12 that is for JB 4.1.1?
Thanks all

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Batch restore on titanium backup pro is pretty much the way to go
I've had luck with my backup pro, as well
The marketplace should be remembering your app purchases, as well and can restore them
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Regardless of method i try to avoid restoring my app data
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3) that modem will work fine
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I'm enjoying the UVLJ4 one myself
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1) Is hit or miss for me, but if I am correct I think it will link to the playstore and download all your previous app's on the new version of FrostyJB_V6.
2) Follow the link here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1932542 for the new Playstore apk that will allow you to permanently to delete the apps you will never use again.
3) I have tryied all ROM's for the TMO S3 and have played around with all the diffrent modems. They are all compatible as long as they are for TMO S3. you can interchange the ICS and JB modems. I would use the MAP feature in the link to the page you posted (DocHoliday flashable modems).
Damn Android_Monsters your fast, beat me to it....lol

2) I just went to all apps and clicked on a live wallpaper and it asked me if I wanted to uninstall it. So you could do it one at a time.
If you ran across that app while searching the playstore it would say purchased, however, if using the same account
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Or just dirty flash and save yourself the trouble of backing up your apps. Not sure why it's such a taboo subject around here. It's like the myth of wiping everything 3 times does any good at all. Anything past wipe number one is wasted time. Defies logic.

sometimes I'm fast. Can't drink at work. Lol
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Aerowinder said:
Or just dirty flash and save yourself the trouble of backing up your apps. Nandroid first though.
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Djintrege specifically stated to do a full wipe when installing V6 in the download page, I would not recommend it.

saldebot said:
Djintrege specifically stated to do a full wipe when installing V6 in the download page, I would not recommend it.
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If he didn't give a specific reason, dirty flash it anyhow. A lot of devs tell you to do it because someone will try to go from ICS to JB without wiping and wonder why it won't work.

Aerowinder said:
If he didn't give a specific reason, dirty flash it anyhow. A lot of devs tell you to do it because someone will try to go from ICS to JB without wiping and wonder why it won't work.
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Touché, my friend.

Android_Monsters said:
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Batch restore on titanium backup pro is pretty much the way to go
I've had luck with my backup pro, as well
The marketplace should be remembering your app purchases, as well and can restore them
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Yeah, I was wondering if there was a way outside of TiBackupPro, which I have. I just don't fully trust it. But that's probably because when I did it before, I probably saved settings and that played a role in mucking it up.
saldebot said:
1) Is hit or miss for me, but if I am correct I think it will link to the playstore and download all your previous app's on the new version of FrostyJB_V6.
2) Follow the link here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1932542 for the new Playstore apk that will allow you to permanently to delete the apps you will never use again.
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I already have this version apparently, but I hadn't seen that feature. Very cool. It's too bad there aren't checkboxes where you can do a batch removal from the appstore. Glad it's in there regardless.
Aerowinder said:
If he didn't give a specific reason, dirty flash it anyhow. A lot of devs tell you to do it because someone will try to go from ICS to JB without wiping and wonder why it won't work.
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I've had bad experiences with this, but again, could be and probably is chalked up to user ignorance, but I definitely didn't try going from GB to ICS or anything before. At least I hope I wasn't that much of a noob. But I don't mind being safe, especially flashing BB at the same time.

If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure he recommends it whenever he either changes his base builds (its a mixed base) or makes enough changes to where it could cause issues restoring data. Plus the jb builds are leaked/experimental so you just can't tell what may happen with some random app.
That said, you always can dirty flash, but if you have bugs or run into a problem its better to wipe and reflash before reporting issues.
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shahp said:
Hi folks, a few questions if you guys have any thoughts. I'm new to the GS3 (came from the G2X) so bear with me while I try to refigure all this out.
1) I have FrostyJBv4 on my phone now. I want to go to v6, but I hate downloading everything again. I have TiBackup and I used it before, but I felt like there were some random glitches/incompatibilities when I tried to do the restore function and put everything back. Is there a way to just have the appstore just send everything to my phone automatically. I'm hoping there might be an app to download everything from the app store. So basically, I want to just have everything come back fresh onto my phone, without any settings or anything like that. Is that possible, or is TiBackup my only recourse?
2) Regarding the App Store, is there a way to delete apps that I had gotten from there that I would never want to use again. I hate looking at "All Apps" and seeing the more useless stuff still listed there.
3) Modems: referring to this thread. The latest modem is dated 10/17/12 but is listed as ICS 4.0.4. If I had this, would this cause any issues with JB, or should I just have the modem from 9/17/12 that is for JB 4.1.1?
Thanks all
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1) I haven't tried the first thing you asked but I use go backup pro it's a freeware and the best thing about this app is when you're restoring apps it won't ask for your permission meaning you won't have to hit install on each app I know Titanium does that too but last time I checked that option was only available in paid version
2) If you are root then you can get a lot of apps that will un-install apps even if the apps that you can't uninstall normally but be careful when you uninstall system app
3) No it won't cause any issue, infact I am using that modem right now and I am on 4.1.2 JB ROM

Changing From Rom to Rom

Sorry nub Q,...
Best way to switch roms without losing all my apps every time... Running asop 4.2.1 and would like to check out a few others. But jus thinking about having to redownload all these apps and log in again makes me tired. Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions.
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Titanium Backup.

Been some problems with titanium back up when flashing new roms, see galaxy nexus development threads for some examples, if you want a relatively failsafe method that stores your apps off phone you can use a file manager like astro to back up all your apps into apks then drop the backups into a folder on your computer via usb, along with any media or data you want preserved, then reload after fully wiping phone and flashing new rom, you might have to download a file manager to install the apks if rom doesnt have one. Gather you have a custom recovery installed, dont forget to update it prior to flashing new rom so you can recover if all doesnt go to plan. Good luck
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Thanks... Recovery I'm using is twrp. I've done a few rom switches feel comfortable. Just hate re downloading apps and logging back in. Will definitely try pc back up tho.
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matthew0776 said:
Thanks... Recovery I'm using is twrp. I've done a few rom switches feel comfortable. Just hate re downloading apps and logging back in. Will definitely try pc back up tho.
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If you're interested in using your PC to back things up, you may as well give apk batch installer a try: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531880

If you are using the latest version of titanium backup, you have the option of creating flashable zips of all your apps with data included. Tried it a few times and it seems to work flawlessly for me. The key is to avoid restoring any system apps. I have about 70+ apps to restore and setup. Before it would take me an hour or two, now is done in about 10 minutes.

DZYR said:
If you are using the latest version of titanium backup, you have the option of creating flashable zips of all your apps with data included. Tried it a few times and it seems to work flawlessly for me. The key is to avoid restoring any system apps. I have about 70+ apps to restore and setup. Before it would take me an hour or two, now is done in about 10 minutes.
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That was very useful. First time to know such feature. It seems only available if you donate. Thanks anyway

ahmadallica said:
That was very useful. First time to know such feature. It seems only available if you donate. Thanks anyway
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Titanium backup is useless unless you actually have the pro version. Pro version makes it all one click, set it and forget it. Definitely recommend it for any custom rom flasher.
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Rom recommendation please!

I've been using stock since day 1, and I'm looking to make my Nexus a bit more ... oomf.
I want all the stock features with just the ability to fiddle with more. What's a good rom for this?
I've never used other roms so I'm not familiar with any. No idea about kernels either.

What version of the nexus do u have. Best bet is to flash one a day till u find the one u like the most
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Esteway.619 said:
What version of the nexus do u have. Best bet is to flash one a day till u find the one u like the most
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Galaxy Nexus on stock 4.2.1 JOP40D.
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Also just curious, how does updating go on a custom rom? Surely it won't require me to backup everything, install the updated rom and then restoring everything right?

Yanoflies said:
Galaxy Nexus on stock 4.2.1 JOP40D.
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Also just curious, how does updating go on a custom rom? Surely it won't require me to backup everything, install the updated rom and then restoring everything right?
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Yes it will u will need to unlock the boot loader which it will wipe all data on your phone including SD card. U need to do some reading before u proceed.
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Start hear and familiarize your self with adb and fast boot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828061
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Yanoflies said:
Galaxy Nexus on stock 4.2.1 JOP40D.
EDIT:
Also just curious, how does updating go on a custom rom? Surely it won't require me to backup everything, install the updated rom and then restoring everything right?
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Varies from ROM to ROM so read the OP. Slim Bean for example has its own backup/restore mechanism called SlimBackup.

Esteway.619 said:
Yes it will u will need to unlock the boot loader which it will wipe all data on your phone including SD card. U need to do some reading before u proceed.
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Start hear and familiarize your self with adb and fast boot. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828061
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I'm already unlocked/rooted and am familiar with adb/fastboot.
I'll just try a few and see what I like.
Also, how do I access my 'sdcard' directory on my Nexus? When connected to USB it navigates straight into 'Internal Storage'. I'm looking for my Nandroid backup.

Yanoflies said:
I'm already unlocked/rooted and am familiar with adb/fastboot.
I'll just try a few and see what I like.
Also, how do I access my 'sdcard' directory on my Nexus? When connected to USB it navigates straight into 'Internal Storage'. I'm looking for my Nandroid backup.
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We don't have an external SD card. So the internal storage is where all your files are at. Under a "0" folder since your on 4.2.1.
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Esteway.619 said:
We don't have an external SD card. So the internal storage is where all your files are at. Under a "0" folder since your on 4.2.1.
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Yeah I just thought there was an emulated 'sdcard' folder linked to Internal. I just can't find the clockwork folder, or the '0' folder (which I understand is for multi user in 4.2.1) for that matter.

0 is a symlink. Your computer should ignore it for the most part. At least mine always has with both my Xoom and My Gnex. Just takes me straight to the contents of the 0 folder.

I'm pretty fond of CM 10.1 nightlies, but that's for toroplus. I'm just familiar with the feel of CM from using it a lot on my old Optimus S. Among other things, it gives me the old, familiar Notification area toggles instead of JUST offering the quick power tiles (. . . whatever they're called) that AOKP uses.
If you currently use the option to back up your apps and settings to Google's servers, the fresh install of a nightly build will automagically download a lot for you. You'll likely want to use Titanium Backup to save the few settings that can be safely restored, and the most recent app data, before each new flash. It's worth it to get the Pro Key so that batch restores don't involve 85 million "press this button" confirmations. Ask anyone who uses TiBu; they'll tell you it's a good, solid app.
Do definitely shop around for the ROM you like most. They all have different features and flair. (I almost uninstalled AOKP on first run because of the bootloader animation; it's a bit garish.) And don't be afraid to go back to stock if you find that you just don't care about the bells and whistles on offer.
Don't forget to download the latest Gapps and flash it after flashing each latest ROM. You'll have a difficult time setting up your Google account otherwise.

I've used AOKP, Xenon Hd, Paranoid and Stock mostly, the custom roms have some nice features but I've found lack of stability some times, so far I always end up going back to stock.
My recommendation is to do a nandroid back up and/or Titanium backup and try as many roms as you want until you find the one that is ideal for you.
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[Q] Flashing different ROMS SGH-T989

When flashing between ROM's and restoring data i'm having trouble. I just wanted to know if the data from a previous ROM is compatible with the new ROM. I'm doing a full wipe ever time and using TWRP. I tried flashing from slimbean to PACMAN but I always get stuck on the boot in PACMAN when I try to restore data from slim.
Should i be doing a full wipe and restoring apps via Titanium instead?
Thanks

yea restore your apps with tb. from my understanding its never good to restore data

smartguy044 said:
yea restore your apps with tb. from my understanding its never good to restore data
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I've never had a problem restoring data when upgrading the ROM (ie slimbean from 7 to 7.5 most recently). I read somewhere that this was a common practice and have been doing it for a while now with no problems. My issue only surfaced when switching between ROMS.

yea same rom is fine different roms is not

Cbtriplec said:
I've never had a problem restoring data when upgrading the ROM (ie slimbean from 7 to 7.5 most recently). I read somewhere that this was a common practice and have been doing it for a while now with no problems. My issue only surfaced when switching between ROMS.
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U cannot restore system data to different Roms, u can restore apps, apps only with no data, diff Roms have diff signatures, if u try to restore data from one to the other ur going to end up with a soft brick, updating a ROM and restoring is OK because it has the same base files, those same base files are not compatible with a diff ROM, now if its the same base rom like cm or PAC of something like that its doable, still not wise but doable, but seems like u made up t mind already so if anything happens u have been warned lol
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soupysoup said:
U cannot restore system data to different Roms, u can restore apps, apps only with no data, diff Roms have diff signatures, if u try to restore data from one to the other ur going to end up with a soft brick, updating a ROM and restoring is OK because it has the same base files, those same base files are not compatible with a diff ROM, now if its the same base rom like cm or PAC of something like that its doable, still not wise but doable, but seems like u made up t mind already so if anything happens u have been warned lol
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Ahh... got it. Thanks for the explanation (and warning).

Cbtriplec said:
Ahh... got it. Thanks for the explanation (and warning).
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I restore app data all the time....no matter what rom I switch too. Never had an issue. I do NOT restore system app data....just stuff like launcher, bank app, anything I had to set up a lot of settings...like smart keyboard, handcent. I'd say I have about 15 to 20 apps I restore data too.....and have never had a problem. Doesn't matter what rom I flashed.
Just saying!
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Oh....I use titanium backup. And yes...I restore app data for my select apps between 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 roms and vice versa too. Again....never an issue.
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You restore using TB ? Or are you able to do this via Twrp?
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Cbtriplec said:
You restore using TB ? Or are you able to do this via Twrp?
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I use tb. After I'm all flashed, debloated the way I like it and a few other things done, I do 2 batch restores. One for apps with data....and one for the other apps with apps only selected...no data. Never ever had an issue. Maybe the odd app doesn't work right, but nothing I have on my phone lately. Everything works fine. The only thing I need to usually fix are ringtones/notification sounds of anything I restored with data...cause it doesn't restore the previous sounds for some reason. (Alarm clock, handcent, Voxer....for examples)
I think the NEVER restore app data started when our jb roms were new and all ports....was a precaution devs suggested to eliminate that as a reason for problems. Now days I think its fine to restore app data. Again....not system app data tho!
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kj2112 said:
I restore app data all the time....no matter what rom I switch too. Never had an issue. I do NOT restore system app data....just stuff like launcher, bank app, anything I had to set up a lot of settings...like smart keyboard, handcent. I'd say I have about 15 to 20 apps I restore data too.....and have never had a problem. Doesn't matter what rom I flashed.
Just saying!
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Oh....I use titanium backup. And yes...I restore app data for my select apps between 4.1.2 and 4.2.2 roms and vice versa too. Again....never an issue.
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Yes u are right, I misworded myself, as long as its not a system app is what I should've said, user app data will not have any adverse effects since the data is only related to the app and not the ROM itself, sorry for the misunderstanding
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[Q] galaxy S3 keeps crashing when restoring

Hi my name is chris I just bought a galaxy s3 from sprint a couple of weeks ago I previously had a motorola photon 4g and before I traded in the phone I did a backup from my backup pro of my entire phone well everytime I try to restore after a couple minutes my phone crashes and it dosnt stop I just have to keep pullin out the battery untill I do a factory reset my backups from my photon was from android 2.3 and I was on the cm7 ROM and the phone that I'm trying to put it on the galaxy s3 is stock JB android 4.1 but I did do the latest OTA firmware update from sprint...
I just wanna be able to have my phone with some of my apps cause I don't wanna start over the data is what I really wanna restore though...
My phone does have CWM 6.0 and its rooted on stock and its the SCH one I don't know the rest of it though but I just wanna restore without the continous crashing and I've tried serching this before with no luck so if someone can help me it would be really appreciated I can provide any other info..
Thanks
P.s I do have titanium too but on my old phone I saved my backups to the phone SD card not ext. Accidently so I lost it that's why I'm using my backup pro

Are you restoring system apps or just user apps? What else are you trying to restore?

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Are you restoring system apps or just user apps? What else are you trying to restore?
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Just user apps no system apps at all

Are you using the new modified recovery? Older recoveries don't work on newer s3's.
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New recoveries for new phones that won't mount storage!!

Yes I got the modified one on here I'm not sure if its something with the backups or settings or what I just want my app data back
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Yea, I'm at a loss, maybe they were corrupted during the backup process.

Is there a way to find out wats corrupted? ?
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The only way I would know is to do one at a time and see what crashes the phone.

Thats alot lol lik 200 of them nw if I jus did data from the backups ud thnk tht wld b fine?
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Sometimes it takes time to find the bug. I don't know what to tell ya. The data may be corrupted, it's hard to say.

Damn.... so that's the only possible reason it cld b doing that then?
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It's a good possibility considering it doesn't start rebooting until you restore something.

Christopherx999 said:
Hi my name is chris I just bought a galaxy s3 from sprint a couple of weeks ago I previously had a motorola photon 4g and before I traded in the phone I did a backup from my backup pro of my entire phone well everytime I try to restore after a couple minutes my phone crashes and it dosnt stop I just have to keep pullin out the battery untill I do a factory reset my backups from my photon was from android 2.3 and I was on the cm7 ROM and the phone that I'm trying to put it on the galaxy s3 is stock JB android 4.1 but I did do the latest OTA firmware update from sprint...
I just wanna be able to have my phone with some of my apps cause I don't wanna start over the data is what I really wanna restore though...
My phone does have CWM 6.0 and its rooted on stock and its the SCH one I don't know the rest of it though but I just wanna restore without the continous crashing and I've tried serching this before with no luck so if someone can help me it would be really appreciated I can provide any other info..
Thanks
P.s I do have titanium too but on my old phone I saved my backups to the phone SD card not ext. Accidently so I lost it that's why I'm using my backup pro
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If you are talking about restoring Game Data. Then what you may want to try is to install the Game. Open up My Backup Pro, and restore your game data. I would suggest trying this one app at a time.

Ya that's all I'm trying to do is mostly get data like from go launcher, games and some utility apps thers 237 of them and to the previous post ya it only crashes when I restore apps then have to resort to factory restore and nandroid restore which restore of the nandroid works perfect
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Christopherx999 said:
Ya that's all I'm trying to do is mostly get data like from go launcher, games and some utility apps thers 237 of them and to the previous post ya it only crashes when I restore apps then have to resort to factory restore and nandroid restore which restore of the nandroid works perfect
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237 Ummmm.... I think it may be time to do some house cleaning. Restoring Data from that many apps is bound to cause some issues. Especially if done all at once. I would suggest only doing one, or two at a time. That easy it will help narrow issues down if they occur. Also I would suggest not restoring data from Go Launcher. I've seen that cause issues.
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