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[Q] How to get Nexus to show in Play Store

So I bought 3 Nexus 7 (2013) for Christmas and was poking around the Play Store on my desktop the other day and noticed the one on my account is not showing up on My Devices.
It's stock, not rooted. I've cleared data for play services, and everything else I've read including uninstalling and reinstalling, force closing and restarting. I've installed apps directly from the Nexus but I want to be able to install from desktop as well.
I don't want to root because my main application for this tablet is Flickster which still is @ssaholic about supporting rooted devices.
Any ideas??

Nobody has an idea how to fix this issue? It's a pain as I'm often on PC would like to just send apps to tablet while I don't have it with me.

Wipe play store data, remove all google accounts, reboot, readd account, go to play store, wait a bit, could take an hour or so to see if it shows up.
If that does not work, and you are sure you tried everything else (adding/readding accounts, wiping cache and data of everything google-related, etc), root your device (yes you will have to root, but once the process is done, you can unroot, or use the xposed module that can hide root from apps, works on flickster too), (I'd also install TWRP and do a nandroid, or if you want to keep stock recovery, you can temporarily boot into twrp and do a nandroid too) install Titanium Backup, go into backups, and backup the app called Settings Storage 4.4.2 (similarly named), that will backup or old ID, then you can go into Settings > Manage Android id > Create New Random Android ID (it will also display your current ID, you might want to jot it down just in case before hitting generate), clear play store cache and data, delete all google accounts, reboot, readd account, goto play store and see if it worked (may take some time before it syncs and shows up though).
Another sure fire way (basically does what the above does, but starts fresh just to make sure) is to make a backup of what you don't want to lose with TB (yes you will have to root, but once the process is done, you can unroot, or use the xposed module that can hide root from apps, works on flickster too), install multirom, flash a new rom to secondary (it will get a new id), login with your google account on that rom, download an app or 2, wait a bit, see if it appears on the devices list in play store. If it does, then restore your data, swap secondary with primary, wipe the old rom, profit..if you use TB to backup restore as suggested it may ask you if you want to restore the old id, say 'ask me later' until you see that everything is working, that way you can always restore the old ID if you MUST, though if everything is accessible (things you purchased are there etc) you will want to eventually select, "keep new id".

[Q] Restoring game parameters with LG PC Suite

Hello.
How can I restore only a specific game data with Lg Pc suite ?
I'm a new Lg G3 user (since december the 3rd)
Today, before updating my mobile with the official Lollipop 20e rom using LGMobile Support Tool, I backed up everything with Lg Pc Suite, and also the the fast backup option (contacts, Sms, calendar)
After updating, I did a factory reset, then restored my contacts, Sms, calendar data with Lg Pc Suite.
Then I installed all my apps.
In my Pdesktop backup folder, I get many backpup_xx.tar.gz.enc files - I cannot open them.
I get one PCSuite_FB_2014.brinfo file - it's a kind of xml file that I can read with gedit (Linux)
Is there a way to do what I want without restoring the complete backup ( 1.7 go)
If answer is no, I will uninstall this game, because I do not want to restart it from scratch !
Thanks in advance.

I'm wondering this, too.
Surely there's been other people who have backed up their phone using LG's tool? I can't find much information on how you go about actually getting the data out of the many backup files, though,

OnePlus Switch vs Google backup+restore

I have googled this but not getting a clear answer so hoping someone here can confirm.
I am switching from a OnePlus7T to a Nord and I was just wondering what the best option is for transferring my apps and content etc from 7T to Nord.
Last time I went from OP6 to OP7T I did the google restore on the 7T and then also ran the Switch app.
But I ended with lots of duplicate stuff like contacts and other stuff (can't remember what else was duplicated)
So, should I just install Switch onto the Nord - but don't Google Restore and then just run Switch? Will that do everything?
Or is there a better approach?
With my previous non OnePlus phones I would just use Google and some other SMS + Call History restore app and then do other stuff manually.
Thanks.

Hi harryw66, i think the switch app is the better solution as Google Backup doesn't backup everything.

Thanks - I received the phone earlier today and went the Google router - seems to have backed up most stuff - but not my folders etc - so guess I will have to do them manually - just need to be sure the other stuff does not get duplicated...

harryw66 said:
Thanks - I received the phone earlier today and went the Google router - seems to have backed up most stuff - but not my folders etc - so guess I will have to do them manually - just need to be sure the other stuff does not get duplicated...
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Ok - so it backed up my SMS but not my call logs - weird.

harryw66 said:
Ok - so it backed up my SMS but not my call logs - weird.
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I use..
- SMS Backup & Restore by Sync Tech to backup messages and call logs and it never failed since first use many years ago. Also it has Google Drive backup, auto delete old messages in drive,.. etc.
- SMS organizer by Microsoft as SMS app. It is the best SMS app I used and still using, though it failed a couple of times in backing up the SMSs.
- Titanium Backup to backup all my apps with data daily.
- SyncMe Wireless by bvaisoft for backing up my entire phone contents to my PC after midnight, daily, including Titanium Backup data.
- To clear the storage space taken by Titanium Backup, the Tasker will delete all these contents at early morning.
I've been using these settings for years, though restoring about half number of apps' data didn't work well with Titanium Backup with 7T. So I used OnePlus switch to copy these apps, but without their data.

Thanks - yes I ended up using SMS Backup & Restore by Sync Tech to backup from old phone and restore onto the Nord.
I used to use SMS Backup+ from Jan Berkel with great sucess in the past - but this seems to be broken now due to Google auth changes...
Cheers.

Quick way to back up. If only we could direct this to an OTG?

Droid_Nut said:
Quick way to back up. If only we could direct this to an OTG?
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Into "Switch" app there is an option to do a local backup.
Once done, copy that file to a pendrive.

Pantumaca said:
Into "Switch" app there is an option to do a local backup.
Once done, copy that file to a pendrive.
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I use Titanium Backup, and my files go directly to the OTG. Just how much better of a backup is the one plus switch? Can you incrementally restore apps and data?

Droid_Nut said:
I use Titanium Backup, and my files go directly to the OTG. Just how much better of a backup is the one plus switch? Can you incrementally restore apps and data?
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Sorry, I use Google's backup

OnePlus Switch doesn't backup everything. It didnt back up files in Downloads or documents, unless it was an image, or video.
App Data is random. Works for some apps but not for all.

Keeping Watch Connection And Samsung Pay Across ROMs

This is currently how i keep my Galaxy Active 2 working - connected and Samsung Pay working - across ROM flashes without having to reset it every time, because resetting sucks
Please note: At time of writing theres no known way to keep BP Monitor calibration data (ive tried backing up and restoring the relevant database), so you will lose that
Prerequisites:
Apps:
Android ID Changer: I use this (Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silverlab.app.deviceidchanger.free
Migrate (Free Backup App) -
Main app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate
Flasher Module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate.flasher
Helper Module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate.helper
MyAPK: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andatsoft.myapk.fwa
Steps:
Install all the above on the ROM you're currently on
Use MyAPK (set MyAPK to save somewhere easily navigable) to make a backup of the following apks:
Android ID Changer
Migrate Flasher Module
Migrate Helper Module
Store them safely (i always use PC, as well as sdcard) as you'll want to use these before restoring your apps, and later to restore your apps
Important: Open Magisk Manager and set MagiskHide for all Samsung Wearables packages (Gear/Samsung/Watch/Watch Plugins), you do not have to select all sub-items under the main packages, just select the main packages
To prepare for a new ROM:
This largely only has to be done once....and then reused on subsequent new ROM flashes. I do things to make life easier for myself as in a bad week i can be testing 3 ROMS...
Note: The only steps you might want to do again are make a new Migrate backup (for new apps), and backup /data/adb, if you MagiskHide further apps in future
Steps:
Run Android ID Changer, copy Android ID to a text file or email (i store mine in both)
With a root capable file manager, or in custom recovery, backup /data/adb/magisk.db to a safe place (i always use PC, as well as sdcard))
Important Note: This assumes as mentioned above you have already used Magisk Manager to MagiskHide all Samsung Wearables packages (Gear/Samsung/Watch/Watch Plugins)
Backup your apps and data with Migrate
Note: for most apps you want to tick all 3 boxes per app, but DO NOTbackup up App Data (middle column for both) of:
Samsung Health
Samsung Health Monitor
As we would have to wipe this anyway after ROM flash to get them working. Save yourself the drama and untick them in Migrate. Migrate is smart enough that it stores your selections between backups, so if you make a next Migrate backup it will automatically leave these de-selected in future backups.
Your Migrate backup will be in /sdcard/Migrate, i recommend backing this up to PC as well
On the New ROM:
After a new ROM and Magisk flash:
Setup ROM
Copy Android ID changer from wherever you backed it up, install and open it, copy and paste your original Android ID into the middle (Edit) field, then click Apply
Reboot the device
Enable MagiskHide (Don't hide Magisk Manager yet)
Test for SafetyNet, and if need be use whatever method is preferred for your ROM to achieve SafetyNet
Copy magisk.db from wherever you backed it up back to device
With a root enabled file manager (or from custom recovery), copy magisk.db to /data/adb
Reboot device (Do not skip this trying to be clever)
Open Magisk Manager, it should hopefully not complain that you've just dumped magisk.db back (Note: you will not see the list of MagiskHidden apps, as they are of course not installed yet, but MagiskHide now already knows to block root detection to them when you do install them - if Samsung Pay even gets a whiff of root, it wont work and you will have to reset some, if not all Gear/Watch Plugins, and reset your watch and start from scratch)
Hide Magisk App via Magisk Manager > Settings > Hide The Magisk App, name it anything but Magisk Manager, i call mine App
Copy the following apps from wherever you backed them up to device, and install them:
Migrate Flasher Module
Migrate Helper Module
Run Migrate Flasher
Descend into the backup folder (listed by date & time), and select all the zips inside it, and flash them (Of course if you moved Migrate folder off the device, restore it to /sdcard first)
At the end open Migrate Helper (which is already installed) and restore all the apps you wish - of course for our purposes, we want all the Samsung ones.... Note: Migrate will automatically select all backed up apps and data
At the finish of Migrate restore, leave the default options selected, which will remove the Migrate Helper, and reboot
On phone, open Gear App and press Connect
On watch, you may need to toggle BlueTooth off, and back on
You may need scan a few times and perhaps toggle bluetooth off and on, but it will give you the usual pairing prompt, both on the phone, and the watch, pair, and shortly you will have the watch reconnected, and Samsung Pay intact​​​Next steps:
Open Samsung Health and sign in and restore
Open Samsung Health Monitor, and sign in
Set up ECG as normal
Re-Calibrate the Blood pressure monitor as normal
On any new ROM from now on, you can:
Make a new Migrate Backup, to include any new apps
Make a backup of /data/adb/magisk.db if you MagiskHide any new apps
Then refer to the On The New ROM steps above....
Please let me know if you find an error or issue folks

73sydney said:
This is currently how i keep my Galaxy Active 2 working - connected and Samsung Pay working - across ROM flashes without having to reset it every time, because resetting sucks
Please note: At time of writing theres no known way to keep BP Monitor calibration data (ive tried backing up and restoring the relevant database), so you will lose that
Prerequisites:
Apps:
Android ID Changer: I use this (Free) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silverlab.app.deviceidchanger.free
Migrate (Free Backup App) -
Main app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate
Flasher Module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate.flasher
Helper Module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=balti.migrate.helper
MyAPK: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andatsoft.myapk.fwa
Steps:
Install all the above on the ROM you're currently on
Use MyAPK (set MyAPK to save somewhere easily navigable) to make a backup of the following apks:
Android ID Changer
Migrate Flasher Module
Migrate Helper Module
Store them safely (i always use PC, as well as sdcard) as you'll want to use these before restoring your apps, and later to restore your apps
Important: Open Magisk Manager and set MagiskHide for all Samsung Wearables packages (Gear/Samsung/Watch/Watch Plugins), you do not have to select all sub-items under the main packages, just select the main packages
To prepare for a new ROM:
This largely only has to be done once....and then reused on subsequent new ROM flashes. I do things to make life easier for myself as in a bad week i can be testing 3 ROMS...
Note: The only steps you might want to do again are make a new Migrate backup (for new apps), and backup /data/adb, if you MagiskHide further apps in future
Steps:
Run Android ID Changer, copy Android ID to a text file or email (i store mine in both)
With a root capable file manager, or in custom recovery, backup /data/adb/magisk.db to a safe place (i always use PC, as well as sdcard))
Important Note: This assumes as mentioned above you have already used Magisk Manager to MagiskHide all Samsung Wearables packages (Gear/Samsung/Watch/Watch Plugins)
Backup your apps and data with Migrate
Note: for most apps you want to tick all 3 boxes per app, but DO NOTbackup up App Data (middle column for both) of:
Samsung Health
Samsung Health Monitor
As we would have to wipe this anyway after ROM flash to get them working. Save yourself the drama and untick them in Migrate. Migrate is smart enough that it stores your selections between backups, so if you make a next Migrate backup it will automatically leave these de-selected in future backups.
Your Migrate backup will be in /sdcard/Migrate, i recommend backing this up to PC as well
On the New ROM:
After a new ROM and Magisk flash:
Setup ROM
Copy Android ID changer from wherever you backed it up, install and open it, copy and paste your original Android ID into the middle (Edit) field, then click Apply
Reboot the device
Enable MagiskHide (Don't hide Magisk Manager yet)
Test for SafetyNet, and if need be use whatever method is preferred for your ROM to achieve SafetyNet
Copy magisk.db from wherever you backed it up back to device
With a root enabled file manager (or from custom recovery), copy magisk.db to /data/adb
Reboot device (Do not skip this trying to be clever)
Open Magisk Manager, it should hopefully not complain that you've just dumped magisk.db back (Note: you will not see the list of MagiskHidden apps, as they are of course not installed yet, but MagiskHide now already knows to block root detection to them when you do install them - if Samsung Pay even gets a whiff of root, it wont work and you will have to reset some, if not all Gear/Watch Plugins, and reset your watch and start from scratch)
Hide Magisk App via Magisk Manager > Settings > Hide The Magisk App, name it anything but Magisk Manager, i call mine App
Copy the following apps from wherever you backed them up to device, and install them:
Migrate Flasher Module
Migrate Helper Module
Run Migrate Flasher
Descend into the backup folder (listed by date & time), and select all the zips inside it, and flash them (Of course if you moved Migrate folder off the device, restore it to /sdcard first)
At the end open Migrate Helper (which is already installed) and restore all the apps you wish - of course for our purposes, we want all the Samsung ones.... Note: Migrate will automatically select all backed up apps and data
At the finish of Migrate restore, leave the default options selected, which will remove the Migrate Helper, and reboot
On phone, open Gear App and press Connect
On watch, you may need to toggle BlueTooth off, and back on
You may need scan a few times and perhaps toggle bluetooth off and on, but it will give you the usual pairing prompt, both on the phone, and the watch, pair, and shortly you will have the watch reconnected, and Samsung Pay intact​​​Next steps:
Open Samsung Health and sign in and restore
Open Samsung Health Monitor, and sign in
Set up ECG as normal
Re-Calibrate the Blood pressure monitor as normal
On any new ROM from now on, you can:
Make a new Migrate Backup, to include any new apps
Make a backup of /data/adb/magisk.db if you MagiskHide any new apps
Then refer to the On The New ROM steps above....
Please let me know if you find an error or issue folks
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My God! That's a lot of steps.
But you've written them down quite clearly.
This will certainly be helpful for those that like to flash ROMs frequently but don't want the hassle of setting up the watch again everytime you flash a new ROM on the phone. And of course, keeping Samsung Pay working successfully with root, while jumping across ROMs is quite impressive.

enigmaamit said:
My God! That's a lot of steps.
But you've written them down quite clearly.
This will certainly be helpful for those that like to flash ROMs frequently but don't want the hassle of setting up the watch again everytime you flash a new ROM on the phone. And of course, keeping Samsung Pay working successfully with root, while jumping across ROMs is quite impressive.
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Once you have it set up the process is rather simple and i did have some help with the suggestion it might be tied to the Android ID....so i have to give @Dante63 some credit here (https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/galaxy-watch-features-ecg-bp.4051141/post-84652975)
Hehe If you want to see steps, and lots of words, visit the "My Magisk method for Google Pay SQLite Fix (Tested On P/Q/R)" link in my signature
Luckily at the moment that module isnt needed, but it had its fair share of downloads (23,000+) until recently when Google changed something on the backend again, and you can use Google Pay without it on a rooted device

Honest question: is SHealth so retarded that it doesn't save any backup in cloud, so that it could be restored afterwards?

w41ru5 said:
Honest question: is SHealth so retarded that it doesn't save any backup in cloud, so that it could be restored afterwards?
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Samsung Health Does - All your steps etc are safe and can be restored after signing back in
Samsung Health Monitor (which calibrates and tests ECG/BP) does not.....

Question Backup and transfer Data and Wifi/BT Settings

Hello,
since Titanium Backup which I used for years seems to not work anymore, I am now looking for any other possibilities to transfer my apps+app data and also some system settings like wifi passwords/APN data, BT connections and such.
With TB this was always well working for me.
What I have tried:
OAndBackupX -> I enabled "special backups" and tried to backup wifi, but sadly it just creates a new folder for the wifi backup (special.wifi.access.points) with a properties file. However the subfolder, where the backup should be present is empty.
So this solution doesn't seems to work, at least not on my phone with Android 8.
I also tried to do backups of some apps, however it looks a bit strange to backup an app that shows as 25mb and the base.apk which gets created for it is only 9mb (and no other file besides that, although everything was ticked for backup)
How is everyone here doing this when switching from one phone to another (especially for access point data and data of apps)?
Syncing wifi passwords to google cloud I somehow do not want (even if they're encrypted) and the issue with app+app data is still present then.

Annil said:
Hello,
since Titanium Backup which I used for years seems to not work anymore, I am now looking for any other possibilities to transfer my apps+app data and also some system settings like wifi passwords/APN data, BT connections and such.
With TB this was always well working for me.
What I have tried:
OAndBackupX -> I enabled "special backups" and tried to backup wifi, but sadly it just creates a new folder for the wifi backup (special.wifi.access.points) with a properties file. However the subfolder, where the backup should be present is empty.
So this solution doesn't seems to work, at least not on my phone with Android 8.
I also tried to do backups of some apps, however it looks a bit strange to backup an app that shows as 25mb and the base.apk which gets created for it is only 9mb (and no other file besides that, although everything was ticked for backup)
How is everyone here doing this when switching from one phone to another (especially for access point data and data of apps)?
Syncing wifi passwords to google cloud I somehow do not want (even if they're encrypted) and the issue with app+app data is still present then.
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This was the biggest pain in the ass. I tried plugging my old phone into the new phone but my old phone died midway through so I basically just started fresh. it sucks I have been doing it all last night and this morning and haven't finished. I did use sms back up & restore to get my text messages other than that everything is fresh and annoying.

No one else facing issues with backup/transfer? How is everyone transferring nowadays their appdata and access points and such? Really curious....
Got two phones here (Pixel 6 + Pro) waiting for transfers and I am still not sure how to accomplish completely...
Glad about any inputs!

A lot of people are recommending Swift Backup which is supposed to be the successor to Titanium Backup. I haven't tried it myself though.

If I understand correctly, Swift Backup also requires root to restore app data, network settings etc.

The best backup/restore solution I found was Google One's built in. It just works (albeit not as well as, say, iOS, and definitely not up to the level of Swift/Titanium). Without root, sadly, you won't have many options as you're limited to the APIs Google provides, which themselves are limited. Swift works this around by "manually" backing up all the files/folders for every app.

I do have google one, but sadly most apps I would require, get only backed up for the APK but not the data

Is Titanium Backup now deprecated for latest Android? I have Android10 on a car head unit with a very customised oem Launcher. I managed to root it with universal root from here and Magisk (Thanks). Titanium shows me all the installed apps and bloat with sizes - great!. I want to make a backup of an App in the oem system folder before deleting it. I seem to be able to create a backup on mnt/sdcard, but I can't delete the oem app?
I have 2 system folders, System\ and system (root). They appear mirrors of each other and if I go to system(root) /oem/app/*My bloat app, I can delete it with FX root file browser. But not if I go to folders inside System\. Is this something to do with how Magisk roots and can restore to non root by creating a mirror folder? I used TB to make a backup of this bloat app and it worked. But after deleting the app successfully with a file browser the TB backup folder was empty - is this normal? With one pre-installed (Russian!) nav app I didn't need or trust, I recovered 4.5Gb of memory with more oem apps to look at.
For now I can use TB to locate bloat apps I want to remove with a file browser but I really wanted to back them up first and delete from within the app. Is TB trying to delete from system\ where access seems denied, rather than system(root) where I can delete files with a root explorer? Any help appreciated - Thanks

TB is pretty much dead...
i started using Swift.. and also https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...mate-app-manager-debloat-tool-tweaks.4147837/

Thanks, I was guessing that from the age of posts in this thread. I started off thinking I wanted a full Nandroid backup but that requires a customised TWRP partition and AFIK this car head unit with its OE launcher doesn't seem to follow the partition structure I'm used to in phones. It has 3 external USBs and I can't get it to do anything with adb and a pc connected. The USBs are only active towards the end of boot. However, their factory image and unversal root seems to get picked up with the same 'Upgrade' screen messages from the folder Isec_updatesh. I don't know what I'd do if I bricked it, although I have found the OE Boot.img file packed in their update folders.
Thanks for the link to bloat removal. Nandroid backup creates a full rom image whereas most other backup apps seem to only backup apks and not system files. Android car head units are heavily customised with many added hardware based peripherals so a full backup is important to me. Adb might offer a solution, but as I said, even in developer mode I can't get the USBs to talk to a pc which I assume is because there isn't the usual recovery mode, unless it's on button press combos I haven't found yet? There is a recovery to factory reset, but it's an option in their launcher so I'm guessing it's not in the usual Android recovery partition?

OK I took a quick look at ADB AppControl. First I need to establish an ADB link from PC and I'm struggling with that. Second it does what some other non-root apps do which is to hide the bloatware and stop them running when my objective is to take the 16Gb+ memory they filled from 32Gb and recover memory by deleting bloatware and apps I don't need. There's a tendency now to sell these Chinese car head units with all the GAPPS and many more pre-installed. Unfortunely, most require a mobile network connection to function. I'm not interested in their Satnav, Google maps, Facebook or other social media apps they threw in. The one thing going for me now is I'm running AFwall+ which is the best reason for rooting a Chinese sourced device to stop data leaks to them or Google.
As I ran their factory 'update' I could see all these apps getting installed. If I was clever enough to understand how the Android 10 install 'Manifest' (my words) worked, I would prefer to edit out entries for OE apps in their installer, if it was possible?