I've only started purchasing apps regularly in the last month or two. I'm also a crackflasher.
I've now noticed that not all purchased apps get backed up via the Android .ab backup system. It's not all of them but most of them.
For example; Granny Smith backs up fine but Cthulhu Saves the World or GTA3 doesn't. Filepush does but Lapse It doesn't.
I'm running CM10 going between CM10 builds most of the time. Is there something I'm missing about this process or am I just going to have to get used to Titanium Backup backing every app I can think of (sorta annoying in comparison to one big restore file over USB)
I'm still having this issue, can anyone shed any light on this?
I just find it really strange that some paid apps get backed up and some don't.
EDIT: I've used both Galaxy Nexus Toolkit and Nexus Root Toolkit, both giving the same result.
It's not just paid apps. Google Authenticator doesn't get backed up either.
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I was wondering if anyone know how the built in app backup in froyo works. I've noticed that sometimes my applications will automatically be restored after a wipe, but that it isn't dependable when switching between different ROMs. Is google matching a build number or something before restoring apps? Does the list of installed apps get updated when google syncs? I've seen old apps install that I had uninstalled several days previously. Lastly does anyone know of a note keeping app that stores the notes on the sdcard? The few I've tried either lose the notes when you reinstall or store them online.
I tried to find answers to this but not know what the feature is actually called is someone limiting on my searches.
Anyone know how to solve this? Sent my phone to HTC to get repaired. Got it back, logged into gmail iva the phone and only one of my apps is being restored. Only "mybackup" comes up as restored. Nothing else is showing.
I have my apps backed up on mybackup as well as my data but why isn't gmail doing it?
If i restore apps via "mybackup" then they do not show up in the market so i don't want to do it that way. Is there anything else i can do? I logged into the android market via my laptop and it had a list of about 15 of the apps i had but not even close to all of them.
Any advice appreciated. I thought this would be a simple process but evidently it doesn't seem like it.
Edit: Just been back to the a android website via my laptop and none of my apps are listed there anymore. Only the one that restored itself and the stock apps... Great. So i'm screwed now i take it?
I'm not sure about reinstalling from market. As far as I remember it didn't worked well for me either. If you have rooted phone you can use Titanium backup which will backup not only apps but the data too. So, if you set high score in a game or you set up some app to your preferances you will have them all back.
To backup up only apps for later reinstalling I use Astro file manager : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.metago.astro. With Astro you can backup all your apps for later installing after performing factory reset.
I already backed my apps using Astro and mybackup, however im pissed off that googles own inbuilt system won't restore my apps despite suggesting that it would. Plus anything i restore with Astro and mybackup will not show up in the market. Haven't got a choice now i guess.
They also ruined my contacts backup as well while we are at it. I saved my contacts to gmail a few weeks back, came back today and none of them are my contacts, they are however, half of the people i follow on twitter. Neither gmail or twitter are linked to each other so how the hell did gmail manage to get into my twitter account and then replace my saved contacts list with people i follow on twitter. What farce this all is.
I have that backed up in 2/3 places thankfully but what kind of service is this from google? Its worked fine in the past but the one time i need it, everything goes wrong.
Hi all! I tried doing my due diligence to search for this problem on Google and this forum but didn't come up with anything.
I've got a VZW Galaxy Nexus running 4.1.1. I had to get a replacement from Verzion because my old GNex stopped vibrating.
Knowing that Android doesn't backup all of your app data in the cloud I did a adb backup from my computer. Then started up the replacement and did a restore. Most things came back just like before. However, third party apps can't get the current location anymore. System apps like Maps and Google Now get the location just fine. But other apps like Foursquare and Weatherbug can only get the last known location.
I've tried reinstalling apps, clearing the cache and app data but it didn't fix it.
Does anybody know how to fix the location not being able to be accessed by apps after a backup restore?
Thanks!
greenjello4 said:
Hi all! I tried doing my due diligence to search for this problem on Google and this forum but didn't come up with anything.
I've got a VZW Galaxy Nexus running 4.1.1. I had to get a replacement from Verzion because my old GNex stopped vibrating.
Knowing that Android doesn't backup all of your app data in the cloud I did a adb backup from my computer. Then started up the replacement and did a restore. Most things came back just like before. However, third party apps can't get the current location anymore. System apps like Maps and Google Now get the location just fine. But other apps like Foursquare and Weatherbug can only get the last known location.
I've tried reinstalling apps, clearing the cache and app data but it didn't fix it.
Does anybody know how to fix the location not being able to be accessed by apps after a backup restore?
Thanks!
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I just did a reboot and it fixed it. (Hanging my head in shame for not doing this sooner).
Curious what everyone is doing - setting the new phone up from scratch or using the data transfer to move everything over from your old phone? I'm on the fence. Kind of want to start fresh but not looking forward to reconfiguring apps and manually moving over the data I want to keep on my new XL. There's some things like pictures and videos I don't want or need to bring over.
I transferred from my Nexus 6P
I did a backup restore of my pixel xl. It installed all the same apps in the same places in my launcher and I was able to transfer all my text messages over.
Not sure why you'd want a fresh start... won't make any difference. All you'd be doing with a fresh start is manually doing what the transfer would do...
I tried the data transfer from Moto Z Play but didn't work out kept disconnecting on the Moto side.. Restored from Google app ...
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I used the data transfer tool but text messages were severly screwed up so I used a seperate app for that (SMS backup and restore). That worked perfectly. All my apps were transferred over, along with app data for apps that actually are programmed to backup their app data to google drive. Unfortunately not that many apps do that, so I still had to configure a bunch of apps. Titanium Backup has spoiled me rotten and not having root really sucks right now
The only thing that was missed in my transfer were wifi networks... of 23 saved networks, only 3 were restored. No idea why, major pain in the butt.
Did a data transfer from my Pixel XL. Went very smoothly. Some app data transferred over, allowing apps to boot right up without needing to sign into them again while some didn't. All of my texts, wi-fi networks, and call history appear to be intact.
I rooted my phone (Note10+) yesterday and have since then had big issues then it comes to restoring my backup. If I select all missing apps (including data if existing) it only restores few and gets always stuck on same apps like Dropbox, Aliexpress, SwiftKey keyboard etc, other are restored just fine like so many times before. Another strange thing is while it is stuck the phone vibrates like everything is done but there is no notification to be seen. I have googles and tried all kind of things that have helped people with this kind of issue and all are few years old. Why is this happening suddenly? Any kind of help is much appreciated.
I do remember during my S8 plus time I also having this same issue on some apps like banking app etc, try to filter those apps out and create a custom list
I am running into the same issue. Maybe this is due to split apks. I just checked Dropbox using sai tool and indeed that app is built up of split apks...