guys in philz recovery i noticed under backup and restore i can backup or restore just apps or data , is it actually working ? so i can flash any rom and go too my backups and just restore all my apps and data on the new rom?just a piece of cake?
another question is if this is true , and i could be able to restore all the apps and data, can i choose some apps? i think the system apps are included in the backup and restoring them to the new rom should cause problems.
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Can someone explain a few things about backups and ROM flashes, please?
I've got a custom ROM on my Desire, and I'm using an Ext partition to hold my apps using App2SD.
I've run a full backup with Titanium Backup.
If I want to wipe and flash a new ROM, how does it work?
I do a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvic.
I then flash a new ROM. New ROM will presumably be faced with the apps I've already got on my SD card ext partition.
Do they just install back, or do they cause problems?
If I reinstall Titanium Backup on the new ROM and restore everything, do I end up with new ROM and all my old apps back as they were before?
Or do I need to wipe the ext partition too, before doing a restore?
Any pointers would be great.
Ric
Doing a factory reset wipes all apps so if you do that before flashing the ROM all the apps will be gone from your ext partition.
You can then restore your apps using titanium backup. Be careful though, your market apps are fine to restore but you should be very selective about restoring system apps. I only restore data on the green coloured system apps to get back things like SMS, my custom sense layout, that sort of thing.
If you go from sense to non-sense ROMs then you may not even want to do this much.
Hi guys,
I've rooted my phone and am looking at installing the android revolution rom. I've made a CWM backup, Titanium backup of my apps + user data and copied them to my computer for safe keeping.
Can I use the titanium backup to load in my current apps once I've flashed the new rom?
The revolution rom requires a partition wipe / format (hence backup paranoia). Would I be able to restore the CWM backup without having to do anything to the data partitions, etc?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
Yes you can but I would only do apps + data and not any system configuration stuff as you never know what works and what does not work between roms.
I made backup for all user+system apps including data and flashed new ROM. What do you recommend to restore now? Only user apps or system apps + data as well? I'd like to restore as much as possible, but I'm not sure how system data is compatible accross different ROMs.
I don't recommend you to restore system data with an exception of data usage of you use it. However, if you don't want to set up everything again, you should have too much trouble with restoring non-custom Rom related settings
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Franco Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
The safe way is to restore only user apps+data. However, you can try this:
1. Restore user apps+data
2. Make a nandroid backup
3. Restore system data
You could restore the nandroid backup if you encountered problems after restoring the system data.
buzzcomp said:
The safe way is to restore only user apps+data. However, you can try this:
1. Restore user apps+data
2. Make a nandroid backup
3. Restore system data
You could restore the nandroid backup if you encountered problems after restoring the system data.
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I have a question:
If I backup my current ROM, flash a completely stock one, then restore only data from the CWM backup. Will I get back my apps and everything I installed and did on the phone？
Thanks。
Buddhism said:
I have a question:
If I backup my current ROM, flash a completely stock one, then restore only data from the CWM backup. Will I get back my apps and everything I installed and did on the phone？
Thanks。
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yes, but be sure that data is selected for backup. also if rom system apps are moved to preload you cant restore it
Hello there
I recently performed a full Nandroid Backup because I was going to install the latest SkyDragon Sense 7 ROM but instead of just wiping the data and system, I decided to format the device in order to do a fresh, clean install. I forgot, however, that obbs don't get backed up with Titanium Backup and there are a couple of games I play that are heavy in size that I don't want to download again if it is possible to restore those obbs from the Nandroid backup.
Would my only option be to restore the Nandroid Backup itself or is there a way around it?
Thanks!