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Restoring data after "soft" brick?

I attempted to flash the 15Toggles/CRT mod (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774717) and now my phone stays on the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" boot screen. I tried flashing the "restore" zip also included in that thread and it doesn't do anything. Now I've flashed various mods and what not without any problems before so lately I've gotten into a regretful habit of not backing up. I've learned my lesson from hereon out so please no lecturing, I'm just looking for some help.
Even though my phone is now "soft" bricked, I still went into CWM and did a complete backup ((I assume at this point CWM is the only way to back anything up). Now my question is once I have wiped everything and flashed the stock recovery, will I be able to restore my previous data separately from whatever system files caused the "soft" brick in the first place? Or am I pretty much SOL? Also, does app data include photos, voice recordings, wallpaper, etc. Or only settings for certain apps you've downloaded before?

Please dont use the term "brick" so lightly.
You have a soft brick.
If you made no backup in titanium or a nandroid,start from scratch
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00mred00 said:
Please dont use the term "brick" so lightly.
You have a soft brick.
If you made no backup in titanium or a nandroid,start from scratch
If you made a backup now its most likely useless,as the system is corrupt. In theory you just backed up that corrupt system
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00mred00 said:
Please dont use the term "brick" so lightly.
You have a soft brick.
If you made no backup in titanium or a nandroid,start from scratch
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Hopefully my edits are sufficient enough for your liking. However, it being a soft or hard brick is irrelevant to actual advice I was asking about. If you read it correctly, I made it clear that I made a backup in CWM (nandroid) after the soft brick and I was asking about restoring certain data.

aquariex24 said:
Hopefully my edits are sufficient enough for your liking. However, it being a soft or hard brick is irrelevant to actual advice I was asking about. If you read it correctly, I made it clear that I made a backup in CWM (nandroid) after the soft brick and I was asking about restoring certain data.
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Thought i made it clear that the backup you made is useless in that case. It looks like the app quoted me within my post.
Best of luck to ya tho. I dont stck around to help folks with your type of mentality
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You MAY be able to salvage.. I would try going into clockwork and wipe data cache dalvik.. flash the same ROM zip you were on before.. then advanced restore data from your cw backup you made.. see if it boots up..
My understanding is that it depends on what went wrong on your flash.. if it was the system or data partition that got corrupted.
If that doesn't work you'll have to wipe all three again.. flash the ROM zip and start over setting your stuff up. Go into the market on your now cleanly flashed phone and go into my apps. Then start downloading your stuff.
Presuming you are rooted, I would recommend grabbing titanium backup and running the batch 'backup all user apps' on a regular basis.. that way if this happens again you won't loose your app data.
And of course.. make a nandroid next time prior to flashing.. if you are on the lazier side.. use ROM manager as you can tell it to do a backup then flash and reboot with 'one-click'
Good luck
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DrKaotica said:
You MAY be able to salvage.. I would try going into clockwork and wipe data cache dalvik.. flash the same ROM zip you were on before.. then advanced restore data from your cw backup you made.. see if it boots up..
My understanding is that it depends on what went wrong on your flash.. if it was the system or data partition that got corrupted.
If that doesn't work you'll have to wipe all three again.. flash the ROM zip and start over setting your stuff up. Go into the market on your now cleanly flashed phone and go into my apps. Then start downloading your stuff.
Presuming you are rooted, I would recommend grabbing titanium backup and running the batch 'backup all user apps' on a regular basis.. that way if this happens again you won't loose your app data.
And of course.. make a nandroid next time prior to flashing.. if you are on the lazier side.. use ROM manager as you can tell it to do a backup then flash and reboot with 'one-click'
Good luck
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Thank you very much for the thorough and helpful reply. I actually am rooted using the stock ROM. The zip I flashed was for the original out-of-box ROM, something like "L710VPALEN." And from there I flashed the updates for the phone to bring it to the current LG8 firmware version. Would your method just require me to flash the "L710VPALEN" zip again, update it to LG8, and then attempt the advanced restore using CWM? Thanks again.

Yeah that's what I would try first.. flash the same zips you used to bring yourself to stock lg8..
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aquariex24 said:
I attempted to flash the 15Toggles/CRT mod (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1774717) and now my phone stays on the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" boot screen. I tried flashing the "restore" zip also included in that thread and it doesn't do anything. Now I've flashed various mods and what not without any problems before so lately I've gotten into a regretful habit of not backing up. I've learned my lesson from hereon out so please no lecturing, I'm just looking for some help.
Even though my phone is now "soft" bricked, I still went into CWM and did a complete backup ((I assume at this point CWM is the only way to back anything up). Now my question is once I have wiped everything and flashed the stock recovery, will I be able to restore my previous data separately from whatever system files caused the "soft" brick in the first place? Or am I pretty much SOL? Also, does app data include photos, voice recordings, wallpaper, etc. Or only settings for certain apps you've downloaded before?
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From wat i am gathering, u nandroided after the soft brick... u can try an advanced restore and pick just the data partiton. Are u restoring data to the exact same rom u backed it up from? If u r then the restored data should play nice with the system... however its not gauranteed... As far as wat data includes... it should basically put ur app back to the way it was when u last had it open on ur phone. this is how titanium does it nd i presume nadroid is the same but someone correct me otherwise. Worst case it doesn't work u have to just re-install all ur apps from scratch. Personally i use titanium to do my backups. Set it to auto back up apps nd data nd ur good. Hopefully this helps.

DrKaotica said:
Yeah that's what I would try first.. flash the same zips you used to bring yourself to stock lg8..
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I did exactly what you said and it worked perfectly! Everything is back to how it was before I bricked the phone. Thanks a lot man! Now off to go set up some automatic backups!
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From wat i am gathering, u nandroided after the soft brick... u can try an advanced restore and pick just the data partiton. Are u restoring data to the exact same rom u backed it up from? If u r then the restored data should play nice with the system... however its not gauranteed... As far as wat data includes... it should basically put ur app back to the way it was when u last had it open on ur phone. this is how titanium does it nd i presume nadroid is the same but someone correct me otherwise. Worst case it doesn't work u have to just re-install all ur apps from scratch. Personally i use titanium to do my backups. Set it to auto back up apps nd data nd ur good. Hopefully this helps.
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I did what DrKaotica suggested, re-flashed the stock ROM then updated it to LG8, re-rooted, and then used advanced restore in CWM and chose "data restore." I'm going to TB to do what you said and set it for auto back ups. Thanks for helping out kind sir.

Nice I'm glad that worked.
Make a titanium backup widget for the action 'backup all user apps'.. and touch it from time to time:thumbup:
I don't know that you can schedule automatic app back ups with tb unless you get the pro version so this widget is an easy way to do it frequently with minimal effort
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Any stable JB update?

I really want to flash a JB rom but i keep seeing that other software needs to be reinstalled. Just wondering if there was any JB rom that is close to factory as far as installation? EX. AT&T newest ICS OTA update. I used a modified version but installation went very smooth. I see so many roms but some issues with them an other things that need to be reinstalled.

ViciousLSD said:
I really want to flash a JB rom but i keep seeing that other software needs to be reinstalled. Just wondering if there was any JB rom that is close to factory as far as installation? EX. AT&T newest ICS OTA update. I used a modified version but installation went very smooth. I see so many roms but some issues with them an other things that need to be reinstalled.
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Never installed a new OS so i'm alittle hesitant to install... but would like a rom with the least amount of headache....

Cm10 is pretty painless.
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kinghorsey said:
Cm10 is pretty painless.
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Yea its okay but I had a ton of screen flicker when I used cm10 as did others and got off that rom as quickly as possible
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Flashing any firmware on your phone has inherent danger to it. If you feel nervous about, just wait until att pushes the official JB update. If you don't want to wait, just do a lot of research first.

Screen flicker?
Kinghorsey did you still have to reinstall gapps?

ViciousLSD said:
Screen flicker?
Kinghorsey did you still have to reinstall gapps?
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Yea screen flicker kinda looks like the whole screen is glitching out for a split second
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damn that sounds annoying lol... so none of these are pretty perfect yet?

I was scared to flash a rom on my phone so i decided to flash my kindle with a JB rom. It worked great minus that i had to reinstall all my apps and my data got erased. So my question is, now that i know how to install a rom and Gapps... is there anyway to flash a rom without loosing all my data? What do i use to update this info?

ViciousLSD said:
I was scared to flash a rom on my phone so i decided to flash my kindle with a JB rom. It worked great minus that i had to reinstall all my apps and my data got erased. So my question is, now that i know how to install a rom and Gapps... is there anyway to flash a rom without loosing all my data? What do i use to update this info?
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Purchase Titanium Backup Pro from the play store. Great app. You can back up all of your apps and app settings there (dont backup/restore the system settings though) and then when you flash the new rom, install titanium on that, and restore the backup

Is that the only program that does that? How about astro?

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Is that the only program that does that? How about astro?
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Go Backup did for free, but they made some changes and Im not sure how they work now.
You'll have to look around for an app that will backup/restore apps and data.
Titanium backup is the best though.

thatsupnow said:
Yea its okay but I had a ton of screen flicker when I used cm10 as did others and got off that rom as quickly as possible
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If you would of disabled HW overlays your screen flickers would of went away
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Is that the only program that does that? How about astro?
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Titanium is also free the last time I used it before purchasing the free version made you manually restore each app. (not to big of a deal just time consuming) Just remember to only restore apps no system data. As for SMS there are a lot of SMS backup apps. I use my backup pro for SMS
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brorex said:
If you would of disabled HW overlays your screen flickers would of went away
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Titanium is also free the last time I used it before purchasing the free version made you manually restore each app. (not to big of a deal just time consuming) Just remember to only restore apps no system data. As for SMS there are a lot of SMS backup apps. I use my backup pro for SMS
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You should try titanium backups sms backup feature, it saves the pictures from sms also. A lot of the other apps I've used don't or corrupt them :highfive:

Titanium Backup - Now you can create flashable Zips

For those of you that use Titanium Backup there was a significant update to the application today. You have always had the ability to backup your apps and do a batch restore of your apps and data or just restore the app with no data.
Well now it gives you an option to create a zip (flashable in recovery) of either your apps or your apps with data. This will make the process of switching ROMs and getting your apps back almost seamless. Just flash the ROM, flash the .zip to get all your apps back, reboot and you are ready to go. Fantastic update.
Information below was found on Phandroid. Peace.
http://phandroid.com/2012/11/07/titanium-backup-for-root-users-gets-new-flashable-zip-backups/

Wow nice

This is actually an awesome feature. Unfortunately, I lost my TiBu license quite awhile ago and moved onto RTB. Hoping RTB eventually implements this as well considering they're big competitors. Or I might just pick up another license if it goes on sale again.
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My favorite app because it saves me so much time!.. I'm my opinion this is the most full featured backup/restore app in the play store

I tried the recovery zip after flashing a ROM last night. It restored all my apps no trouble....but no data. And I did select app+data option. Maybe a fluke. See if it works next time.
Anyone else try it?

I love this feature, this is why I bought pro despite the price because of how well it is made
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I never used this app I just started to use app2zip about a month or so ago. It doesnt backup the data just the apps u select including system apps. Seeing this I'm gonna have to give it a go.
enjoying sith3, thank u to all

biglil1 said:
I never used this app I just started to use app2zip about a month or so ago. It doesnt backup the data just the apps u select including system apps. Seeing this I'm gonna have to give it a go.
enjoying sith3, thank u to all
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If you purchase the pro key you will not regret it.. If I was only able to make one purchase in the play Store. this would be the app I would buy

biglil1 said:
I never used this app I just started to use app2zip about a month or so ago. It doesnt backup the data just the apps u select including system apps. Seeing this I'm gonna have to give it a go.
enjoying sith3, thank u to all
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It is supposed to back up data and in a batch restore it will give the options...app only...data only...app and data. And it works fine.
But I tried the new recovery zip feature...chose apps and data and the data didn't restore. I had to do it manually later.

I tried this feature. Some data restored, and on first boot after flashing zip, titanium ran on its own to restore the rest. Couldn't make sure the programs all came out ok because the whole rom went south on me. Not a related issue though.
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Grntrenchman said:
I tried this feature. Some data restored, and on first boot after flashing zip, titanium ran on its own to restore the rest. Couldn't make sure the programs all came out ok because the whole rom went south on me. Not a related issue though.
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I wanted to test it out so I made a zip, and a nandroid. I wiped all my data and tried to restore my apps with my zip. File and everything worked but it took forever for the first boot to complete.. So far I'm finding it quicker to do it from within the app.. But I'll try it out a few more times on different roms to see what results I get
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I just did this as I had to replace my SII and the backup wasn't recognizing any of my apps. Zip file was really quick and I got all my data but I had to install them individually after flashing. Was there a quicker way?
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RedLead550 said:
I just did this as I had to replace my SII and the backup wasn't recognizing any of my apps. Zip file was really quick and I got all my data but I had to install them individually after flashing. Was there a quicker way?
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Back up the apps without app data.
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sirdowski said:
Back up the apps without app data.
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Get App2zip from the market it backs up data apps and system apps. Flash it in cwm recovery. Or look up clockwork combiner its nice it combines multiple zips into one zip that you flash in recovery saving you time because everything you need is all in one zip.
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rymanh said:
I wanted to test it out so I made a zip, and a nandroid. I wiped all my data and tried to restore my apps with my zip. File and everything worked but it took forever for the first boot to complete.. So far I'm finding it quicker to do it from within the app.. But I'll try it out a few more times on different roms to see what results I get
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Hi could you please tell me how long did it take in the first boot ? coz i am having the same problem

Sameh mohamed said:
Hi could you please tell me how long did it take in the first boot ? coz i am having the same problem
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It took like 12 minutes
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Great feature. I have pro licenses for RTB and TB since they were on discount. I go between the two since each has features that I like in particular. Some people like an all-in-one solution but I'm fine with them both.

[Q] How to backup app + data?

I'm currently using an older FrostyJB rom and would like to update to the latest version. The problem is that I've spent alot of time tweaking the settings, downloading apps, and tweaking app settings to my liking.
Is there a way I can save all the apps, app settings, and data? That way after I update to the latest rom version, I can just load it up and won't have to fiddle with downloading all the apps and setting them up again.

Nandroid backup!
From cwm (rom manager)or (goo manager) from the playstore! It does a whole backup of all you're stuff.
Also titanium backup's you're apps n stuff. Either or but if u want the whole thing I suggest a NANDROID BACKUP!!!
U BETTER AXXEEEEE SOMEONE ABOUT IT! dont forget it
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Titanium backup look up a tutorial vids on YouTube. You can just select backup data and then restore it after wards. Make sure you only select data not system
T-Mobile SGS III

mt3g said:
Titanium backup look up a tutorial vids on YouTube. You can just select backup data and then restore it after wards. Make sure you only select data not system
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All of what he said.

Also it might be safe to assume you can just flash over on top of the old version, just don't report bugs if you have some, if things start acting weird and you get force closes, then wipe and start over. Longest run on ever.
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mt3g said:
Titanium backup look up a tutorial vids on YouTube. You can just select backup data and then restore it after wards. Make sure you only select data not system
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Thanks, that worked flawlessly. :victory:

k3vn said:
Thanks, that worked flawlessly. :victory:
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Yeah um gonna try that too thanks for sharing.

Yep. Titanium backup is what you need.

Me I use app2zip in order to backup my apps and what i like about it is that it makes a zip that you can flash right after you flash a rom.
It says that if your data is not erase it will restore it but it doesn't work all the time for me so I use a different app to backup apps and phone data to restore them.
More steps than TB but free
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My backup will restore apps and data and easier to use than titanium.
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backups
depends on the backup i'm doing on which one i prefer:
titanium backup if i want to backup the app and the data
superbox if i want just the .apk backed up for later install

The_F_Word said:
Nandroid backup!
From cwm (rom manager)or (goo manager) from the playstore! It does a whole backup of all you're stuff.
Also titanium backup's you're apps n stuff. Either or but if u want the whole thing I suggest a NANDROID BACKUP!!!
U BETTER AXXEEEEE SOMEONE ABOUT IT! dont forget it
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I don't think he's looking to restore a full backup such as a nandroid. He's wanting to flash a newer version of a rom and make sure all his settings are the same afterwards. I'm sure he wants to have all his messages and bookmarks and apps and widgets to all be there afterward.
Honestly, I don't think there is such an app as I would have found it by now. I hate flashing rom updates every other day and having to restore my messages (and finding out that the backup is from a week ago so I've lost a bunch), downloading my apps and having to reset the settings (usually forgetting an app or 2 every time), not having my bookmarks anymore, etc.
I know you can restore a lot of this stuff from TB, as I usually do, but I always had worries about restoring things from one build onto another for compatibility reasons and to avoid FC's and such. I don't really think there is a foolproof way of doing what he wants. It's a little safer to do this by hand but inevitably you will lose or forget some things along the way.

Using TB I encountered many problems after a frosty upgrade awhile back. Something about the file system? Has anyone encountered this, as I would also like to upgrade from an old nandroid frosty bk
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dito33 said:
My backup will restore apps and data and easier to use than titanium.
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I agree. I prefer this over TB when it comes to backups but that's my personal preference.
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Toz35 said:
Using TB I encountered many problems after a frosty upgrade awhile back. Something about the file system? Has anyone encountered this, as I would also like to upgrade from an old nandroid frosty bk
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Did you try to restore system data? If so, then that's the problem. Never do that for any reason (when updating the rom).

What I usually do is restore apps like evernote with data basically apps that have info on it. While others ones like Pandora without data in which I could start from Scratch without losing anything. If you want to keep actual settings really I think the only way to do it is if your upgrading the same rom to a different version and rom has to support it.
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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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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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