Touchwiz backup - Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Greetings everyone,
I would like to know that is any possible way to back up my home config ( Folders/Widgets ) ?
I am using Stock touchwiz home launcher .
Maybe a third party app can do this and how ?
Thanks
Vatis

I use titanium backup. Just backup Touchwiz Home. It will only restore folders. Widget cannot be restored.
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Arsaw said:
I use titanium backup. Just backup Touchwiz Home. It will only restore folders. Widget cannot be restored.
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Thank you very much for your reply mate.
From Titanium backup Touchwiz Home 4.1.1-n7100XXALJ3 , when i restored it to 4.1.2 rom its ok ?
Vatis

yeah OK, but restore only data

Use Go backup with root permissions and now you'll be able to backup stock appdrawer and homescreen settings.

Great help here. was finding the method to restore the touchwiz + launcher....:laugh::laugh::laugh:

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Can ICS Folders be backed up?

I really like the new ICS Folders, but do tend to flash a lot. Any way to back them up so you don't have to re-create them every time you flash a new rom?
OR, does anyone know of a folder app that has a similar style to the ICS folders?
bump ... wanna know the same thing!
dspcap said:
I really like the new ICS Folders, but do tend to flash a lot. Any way to back them up so you don't have to re-create them every time you flash a new rom?
OR, does anyone know of a folder app that has a similar style to the ICS folders?
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Nope, not that I'm aware of. You could use a third-party launcher like LauncherPro or ADW that has homescreen backups, but I'm not sure any of them have the same kind of folder capability.
I backed up mine using titanium backup pro and it restore back all my apps including my folders. I did had to setup all my widgets back though.
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asphire23 said:
I backed up mine using titanium backup pro and it restore back all my apps including my folders. I did had to setup all my widgets back though.
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I didn't realize titanium would backup the ISC folders... I guess next time I load a rom, I will give that a try. Thanks
dspcap said:
I didn't realize titanium would backup the ISC folders... I guess next time I load a rom, I will give that a try. Thanks
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the folders should be tied to the launcher. so backup that up with titanium or similar app.
Luxferro said:
the folders should be tied to the launcher. so backup that up with titanium or similar app.
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Get that, but how do you backup the stock launcher?
can this be done with the free version?
vismal said:
can this be done with the free version?
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The Free version of TiBackup works just the same for backing up and restoring. But the paid version gets you batch 1-click restore, and several other advanced features.
martonikaj said:
The Free version of TiBackup works just the same for backing up and restoring. But the paid version gets you batch 1-click restore, and several other advanced features.
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When I was flashing new ROMs, titanium backup was not restoring my ICS folders. However, if you use the Nova Launcher, which is based on ICS and do a titanium backup of that launcher, when you restore, your folders come back.
It's the little things in life that make me happy !
Nova Launcher is really nice !
I backed up the stock ics launcher with titanium, and restored just the data..not the app. This worked fine to restore my folders, but I had to re-create a couple of shortcuts for apps that 'weren't installed' after flashing peter alfonso's 4.03 nightly. It seems to me that the launcher itself might change between 4.02/4.03, so I wanted to play it safe and keep just the data. To be honest...even keeping the data from 4.02 makes me nervous. I just don't know enough about it.

Faster App Install After Flashing

You do not have to go to Google Play when reinstalling all your apps.
On a rooted phone, using a file explorer program, go to the data folder, then go to the app folder.
Here are all the apps that you have downloaded.
All you have to do is to make a folder on your SD card (or where ever you want) and copy all the files to that folder.
Now when you want to reinstall any or all apps, they are there to install.
I have all my apps reinstalled in about 10 minutes after flashing.
Ian
Or just use Titanium Backup. Will Auto re-install all your apps for you.
AUSTIN3:16 said:
Or just use Titanium Backup. Will Auto re-install all your apps for you.
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Yeah. Anyone who flashes uses titanium....it does all the work. So much faster than doing a manual install.
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Make a nandroid before flashing the rom. Flash your new rom. Without leaving recovery, choose advance restore and restore Data form the nandroid you just made. Reboot.
You'll have your apps restored before ever booting your new rom.
kingwp1 said:
Make a nandroid before flashing the rom. Flash your new rom. Without leaving recovery, choose advance restore and restore Data form the nandroid you just made. Reboot.
You'll have your apps restored before ever booting your new rom.
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Same result as not wiping data to begin with...FYI.
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Does titanium or nandroid restore your icon locations and layout?
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ewa8949 said:
Does titanium or nandroid restore your icon locations and layout?
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Restoring a nandroid /data backup will, I don't think titanium can...could be wrong though. But if you do a nandroid restore, you need to be on the same type of Rom. Ie stock ics restoring a stock ics nandroid data file is fine, but if you are on asop and flash nandroid data from a stock backup it may cause issues.
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Does titanium or nandroid restore your icon locations and layout?
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If you use a 3rd party launcher, restoring it from TiBu will restore all settings in most cases.
Thanks. That makes sense. I spent a good hour laying out my icons and widgets that I did not want to go through that again but don't want to test it out to see what works.
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ewa8949 said:
Does titanium or nandroid restore your icon locations and layout?
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If you use Titanium Backup, you can choose to save the layout for your TouchWiz-based home under system settings (shows up as TouchWiz), and if you restore that, it'll keep your layout, except perhaps for widget placement, if they're a third-party widget and not installed when you restore the TW settings. It'll definitely work on third-party launchers too, though.

[Q] how to retrieve sms from nandroid?

anyone know how to retrieve the sms data from a nandroid??
App Extractor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handyandy.appextractor
Idk if it works if your restoring SMS/MMS data from a CM10 ROM to a TW ROM and vice versa but it definitely works if your nandroid is a TW based ROM and your current ROM is also TW based
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Just use SMS backup and restore to backup before switching roms. That's what I used when switching to the S3 and when flashing roms on the E4GT.
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+1 on the SMS Backup/Restore, there are a few on the market...
What I do is use titanium back up to back up the data and later restore the data only, not sure if this works from TW to AOSP though...have not tried it, yet.
dragon_rckr said:
+1 on the SMS Backup/Restore, there are a few on the market...
What I do is use titanium back up to back up the data and later restore the data only, not sure if this works from TW to AOSP though...have not tried it, yet.
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With Titanium, when you restore the data, does that include contacts and apps as well?
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With Titanium, when you restore the data, does that include contacts and apps as well?
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Yea but if you add contacts via your Google account you may get doubles.
Titanium Backup also has a great backup/restore option for SMS and MMS, works regardless of the ROM you are on and the ROM you are restoring to
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fergie716 said:
Yea but if you add contacts via your Google account you may get doubles.
Titanium Backup also has a great backup/restore option for SMS and MMS, works regardless of the ROM you are on and the ROM you are restoring to
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Wasn't sure of that, reason why I didn't respond earlier. Thanks for clearing it. I usually don't flash AOSP roms...
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dragon_rckr said:
Wasn't sure of that, reason why I didn't respond earlier. Thanks for clearing it. I usually don't flash AOSP roms...
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I have just successfully extracted sms and mms from nandroid (CWM) backup.
Backed up system was CM7 and restored to CM10 on Milestone2.
I used Titanium Backup (need the pro version for 'extract from nandroid') and restored 'Phone/Messaging Storage'.

Apps restore after New ROM replacement

Hello Gurus,
Still new to my SGN2. Just wondering how you guys restore all your apps after flashing new ROMS.
I use Titanium to backup all my Apps before flashing new ROM. But I find it very troublesome as I have to click on install each apps individually. Is there other method of restore all the apps at just one click?
Urbanchina said:
Is there other method of restore all the apps at just one click?
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Yup, titanium backup pro
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D3_ said:
Yup, titanium backup pro
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Thx for getting back in lightning speed
How do you back up in Titanium pro? eg. Backup apps with system data or just Backup user apps? Thanks.
Never mind, done further research on how to backup with TiBu Pro

how to backup apps

help i want to backup all of my apps from GB and restore them to JB touchwiz5 cusrom , is it possible ?
and how to ?
OK....first things first......
App only....can be done.
App + data....SHOULDN'T be done.
For backing up apps (to re install without downloading again) you need an app like Titanium Backup. Using it's 'batch actions' you can back up ur apps then create a zip file of them that you can flash in recovery.......don't get much easier than that......
This might be my S2, or it might be my W...but it's definitely CM
keithross39 said:
OK....first things first......
App only....can be done.
App + data....SHOULDN'T be done.
For backing up apps (to re install without downloading again) you need an app like Titanium Backup. Using it's 'batch actions' you can back up ur apps then create a zip file of them that you can flash in recovery.......don't get much easier than that......
This might be my S2, or it might be my W...but it's definitely CM
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To backup the apks and restore, the best way is use Go Backup.
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Thanks for the reply ,
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