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[Q] Apps not restoring after factory reset.

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.

[Q] Android ADB backup doesn't backup some paid apps

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.

Coming from iPhone, back up?

So I am coming from iOs and so far rooted my S3 and loaded CM 10.2; I love it!
I need help with one thing however. I really liked how the iPhone would automatically backup your entire phone in the cloud as soon as it was pluggd in to a charger AND connected to wifi. It would do this automatically.
Is there such a thing for Android? I understand I will probably need an app like Titanium Backup?
I due have a dropbox account so I can use that for my cloud... I currently have dropbox automatically syncing my camera photos. But I would like something that will also save all of my apps, app data, notes etc... And do it automatically when plugged in and connected to wifi. I'm not sure if Titanium Backup does this.
Can someone make a recommendation?

Your Google account will backup many apps, and your photos automatically. For the rest, you need something like titanium backup
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Does google have a note-taking and reminders app that will back up with google? I cant find anything other than calendar

johndoe12 said:
Does google have a note-taking and reminders app that will back up with google? I cant find anything other than calendar
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Theres a google app in the play store called google keep. Give it a try.
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You can do a NANDROID backup through clockworkmod. Shut off your phone. Enter recovery by holding volume up, power, and the home button.
From there you can back up your system and save it to your SD card. You only need to do this twice: before and after every successful ROM installation. (A NANDROID is just a system backup)
You can use Titanium backup to save you app data. It will save it to your SD card. Do this once every week or so.
Your contacts are saved with Google or on your simcard.
Texts and call log can be saved on special apps, I can't name one because my security and anti-theft app does it for me (Avast)
Manually save /sdcard0/android/ into a zip file. ( This holds some data, such as temple run stats or other things. ) Do this every other week.
I'm not sure about pictures, you can zip them up and upload them yourself.
You can use Easy Unrar to zip files to save space and upload.
ZIP the Titanium backups , pictures, and other things, and upload them to your computer through a USB cable or to your dropbox or Google drive.
You can make this all automatic (except nandroid), but some apps will cost money to add in a scheduled backup.

[Q] What is the best backup/restore app for non rooted?

Since root wont be for a while if ever and Titanium doesnt work right now. What is the best app out there to backup apps, app data, photos, text messages everything?

Look up Helium in the Play Store. I used it to backup and restore my texts, calls, WiFi, and texting dictionary. Save to the internal storage on your old phone. Then copy the "carbon" folder to your Note 4 and restore. I didn't backup up any of my apps. I just redownloaded them so I could start fresh. So I don't know how well it does apps.
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wtd03 said:
Since root wont be for a while if ever and Titanium doesnt work right now. What is the best app out there to backup apps, app data, photos, text messages everything?
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Simple and best one is Samsung Skies3. It will backup/restore everything or just selected one. Included contacts, mms,sms, system settings, apps etc... the only thing you may consider is that you need a PC which I recommend. Keeping backup on the phone is a risk of losing it.

Helium for me worked fine I was used to titanium backup

Samsung smart switch works good too

What if I want to backup my Note 4 and move to a G3? Will these Samsung apps work for that?

Setting up as new or transferring?

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.