My phone has been having some weird problems after rooting (not at first). I want to go back to stock and try rooting again. My question is since I can't install a custom recovery is there anyway I can back my app data? If I back my phone up with Titanium backup will I be able to restore it when I root again?
Fma15 said:
My phone has been having some weird problems after rooting (not at first). I want to go back to stock and try rooting again. My question is since I can't install a custom recovery is there anyway I can back my app data? If I back my phone up with Titanium backup will I be able to restore it when I root again?
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If you root again yes you can use Titanium backup.
But try using LG Backup. It backs up settings, homescreen/lockscreen icons, apps. It's pretty good and it even backs up the Data of your apps, not just the apk itself =).
You can choose SD card, internal storage or LG cloud as storage location! It's great for non-rooted phones.
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So what is the different between a nandroid backup and a backup using titanium backup? What is being saved with either? I hear using titanium back up is a "full" backup. What is titanium backup used for if you are already rooted...wouldn't you already have a custom recovery like amon ra or cwm?
If I do a nandroid back up on stock 2.2 rooted, can i do the same back up while I'm on a custom ROM? Where is this "backup" being saved to? Can i have multiple backups for different ROMS?
Nandroid is more like creating an image backup of your operating system, it backs up both your rom and apps. Titanium just backups app, their data and if you choose system settings.
Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
techdude54 said:
Nandroid is more like creating an image backup of your operating system, it backs up both your rom and apps. Titanium just backups app, their data and if you choose system settings.
Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
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In what situation would i use titanium back up with a rooted evo?
Titanium backs up your app and data from your phone. I am rooted and I use it when I need it, when I want to re install apps when I switch roms.
Using my HTC Evo phone which I'm using Xda app to post
evo4gfan said:
So what is the different between a nandroid backup and a backup using titanium backup? What is being saved with either? I hear using titanium back up is a "full" backup. What is titanium backup used for if you are already rooted...wouldn't you already have a custom recovery like amon ra or cwm?
If I do a nandroid back up on stock 2.2 rooted, can i do the same back up while I'm on a custom ROM? Where is this "backup" being saved to? Can i have multiple backups for different ROMS?
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Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)
Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
honeyBfly said:
Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)
Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
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okay that makes sense. So whenever i flash a new rom, do I need to download titanium back (or MybackupPro) again on the new rom to get the data back? I can't locate the saved file from my sd card?
evo4gfan said:
okay that makes sense. So whenever i flash a new rom, do I need to download titanium back (or MybackupPro) again on the new rom to get the data back? I can't locate the saved file from my sd card?
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Yes
Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
honeyBfly said:
Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)
Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
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I use Titanium Backup for backing up data and restoring it on a new ROM a lot. Before I flash a new ROM I always do a complete Titanium Backup and a nandroid backup. If the flash fails I restore from my nandroid backup and if the flash works I load my apps back with Titanium Backup (that way all my saved data on things like games is there and I don't have to start over).
I will caution against doing a restore of everything on a new ROM though (mostly a problem if you're going from something like a stock Evo based ROM to a AOSP ROM). I've had some issues when I restored a few system files (accounts database for example). If you stick with installable applications you shouldn't run into any trouble though (also I've had no problems restoring my call log and text message database).
When you are in Titanium Backup, when you hit menu and select more you can create a flashable .zip so that after flashing a new rom or resetting the device you don't have to log into the market to reinstall. Makes life a lot easier.
Tuffgong4 said:
When you are in Titanium Backup, when you hit menu and select more you can create a flashable .zip so that after flashing a new rom or resetting the device you don't have to log into the market to reinstall. Makes life a lot easier.
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I didn't know that, thanks for the tip.
I want to backup all of my apps so I can have a clean ICS installation. But I would prefer not to root the tablet. Is there any way to do a backup and restore of apps and data without root?
If I do root and use something Titanium Backup, can I select which apps I want to restore the data for or does it just restore everything?
AFAIK, you can't back up apps unless you use something like Titanium backup. And yes, you can select which apps you want to backup/restore.
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yes, you can select which apps you want to backup/restore.
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On an individual app, can you choose to restore the app without restoring the data? I don't want to restore the problems that I think a particular app is causing. For other apps, I really want to restore the data and personal settings.
adb withn ICS is capable of backing up data without root. I haven't tried it yet but the newest adb binary is needed. There is also an option in Developer Optionsfor desktop password protection. I'd suggest searching google or here on xda to see how it works.
I don't see it anywhere, just info about the ZVA -> ZVC update. I've made too many modifications to my root partition to try to switch them all back and just want to flash ZVC...
fldash said:
I don't see it anywhere, just info about the ZVA -> ZVC update. I've made too many modifications to my root partition to try to switch them all back and just want to flash ZVC...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702422
Havnt seen one, Just unroot, flash, reroot or is your phone not able to un root?
As I said, too many changes to the system partition, there is no way it's going to flash the OTA even if I unroot. If I use the TOT everything gets wiped including sdcard space... Not ideal even if I take a Titanium Backup.
fldash said:
As I said, too many changes to the system partition, there is no way it's going to flash the OTA even if I unroot. If I use the TOT everything gets wiped including sdcard space... Not ideal even if I take a Titanium Backup.
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What about a nandroid backup and then tot then restoring from the nandroid with titanium backup. To be honest though I'm
not sure how exactly the nandroid titanium backup restore process works though as I haven't done it myself.
That may be an option but never used a nandroid to restore in Titanium Backup either...
Your best bet is to use the ZVC tot method. Here's what I did:
Backup apps & settings with Titanium Backup.
Copy the contents of internal SD card to a PC (or Dropbox, etc)
Photos, Titanium Backup files, anything else you want to save
Restore via the .tot method.
Root your phone with IOROOT.
Put the copied SD card contents back on the phone.
Reinstall Titanium Backup from Play Store.
Restore all your apps/settings via Titanium.
I didn't have any problems. You also don't need to have a custom recovery this way, either.
hotbbq said:
Your best bet is to use the ZVC tot method. Here's what I did:
Backup apps & settings with Titanium Backup.
Copy the contents of internal SD card to a PC (or Dropbox, etc)
Photos, Titanium Backup files, anything else you want to save
Restore via the .tot method.
Root your phone with IOROOT.
Put the copied SD card contents back on the phone.
Reinstall Titanium Backup from Play Store.
Restore all your apps/settings via Titanium.
I didn't have any problems. You also don't need to have a custom recovery this way, either.
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This is the method I took as well. It seemed to be the easier approach rather than trying to undo all of the system partition modifications.
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Your best bet is to use the ZVC tot method. Here's what I did:
Backup apps & settings with Titanium Backup.
Copy the contents of internal SD card to a PC (or Dropbox, etc)
Photos, Titanium Backup files, anything else you want to save
Restore via the .tot method.
Root your phone with IOROOT.
Put the copied SD card contents back on the phone.
Reinstall Titanium Backup from Play Store.
Restore all your apps/settings via Titanium.
I didn't have any problems. You also don't need to have a custom recovery this way, either.
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Can you do this using any current version of ROM or recovery? I'm on youdug's ZVA rooted version with TWRP 2.6.3.3 and some mods (camera and hotspot). Plus I have some frozen apps, etc. Don't know what that necessarily means as far as aboot, etc., but I would like to get on ZVC. Sorry for the newb questions.
Thanks.
esoh said:
Can you do this using any current version of ROM or recovery? I'm on youdug's ZVA rooted version with TWRP 2.6.3.3 and some mods (camera and hotspot). Plus I have some frozen apps, etc. Don't know what that necessarily means as far as aboot, etc., but I would like to get on ZVC. Sorry for the newb questions.
Thanks.
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I've used this guide with out any problems
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476
They have the files also.
One thing I have noticed, you don't have to power phone off after you get it set to com 41, while in download mode. Just pull the USB, and reconnect.
I've tot'ted at least 10 times without issue. I've even had a buddy use the same thing no problem. If you have a question just ask
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Hey guys.
Im thinking of switching over to Viper from ARHD. But i have a general question. What is the most effective way of switching to a new ROM without losing ANY data? I know i can use Titanium Backup to back up and restore apps (which is what I do now) , but is there a better way which keeps ALL my data? I read about advanced restoring data from a Nandroid backup, would that cause any problems ?
Thanks
mahdibassam said:
Hey guys.
Im thinking of switching over to Viper from ARHD. But i have a general question. What is the most effective way of switching to a new ROM without losing ANY data? I know i can use Titanium Backup to back up and restore apps (which is what I do now) , but is there a better way which keeps ALL my data? I read about advanced restoring data from a Nandroid backup, would that cause any problems ?
Thanks
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Well all your data stays intact such as songs,pictures, videos etc. It's just app data you will loose so best way like you said is Titanium Backup. Most things are in the cloud now anyway
Of course the SD card remains untouched, I'm talking about app data and home screens and folders and etc.
mahdibassam said:
Of course the SD card remains untouched, I'm talking about app data and home screens and folders and etc.
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Well if you got a launcher such as Nova you can make a backup of your configuration and for app data titanium is the best
You can back up your entire phone via a Nandroid backup done from recovery. Is that what you mean?
You can back up using recovery which is a nandroid back up and restore your data using nandroid manager in the playstore.
mahdibassam said:
Hey guys.
Im thinking of switching over to Viper from ARHD. But i have a general question. What is the most effective way of switching to a new ROM without losing ANY data? I know i can use Titanium Backup to back up and restore apps (which is what I do now) , but is there a better way which keeps ALL my data? I read about advanced restoring data from a Nandroid backup, would that cause any problems ?
Thanks
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If you're going to an aosp ROM from an aosp ROM, then make a backup of launcher3 in titanium backup and restore it after you've restored your apps.
Hey there!
I have a question? What's the best option for backing up my whole device? I want to flash CM 12.1 but I need TWRP for that, and for TWRP, I need to unlock my bootloader, which (according to people here) means to wipe my data and apps.
If I use the Backup app pre installed in my phone, will I be able to restore if say... I re-flash my stock ASUS ZenUI ROM again?
Fraot said:
Hey there!
I have a question? What's the best option for backing up my whole device? I want to flash CM 12.1 but I need TWRP for that, and for TWRP, I need to unlock my bootloader, which (according to people here) means to wipe my data and apps.
If I use the Backup app pre installed in my phone, will I be able to restore if say... I re-flash my stock ASUS ZenUI ROM again?
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Yes you can restore from the backup using the stock Asus backup app if you decide to go back too stock. If you stick with cm12.1 then I would use titanium backup from the play store to backup and restore apps from a custom rom. However titanium backup also works with the stock rom but if it restores stock apps on a custom rom they will likely crash like mad.
Fun note when I unlocked my bootloader using the unofficial method it didn't wipe my data so I didn't need to restore any app backups. As always backup anything you might need just in case something goes wrong and you need to restore anything.
Pro tip, when doing backups on a phone like that zenfone 2 if you can backup to a removable sdcard cause if something goes wrong and you cant power on your phone you will always be able to access the backups using a sdcard reader.
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