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BackUp/Restore with custom ROMs

Currently I'm trialing SPB BackUp and I must say that I really like it a lot! So far I've had no problems backing up, restoring, and re-connecting the phone with Active Sync as I did previously with Sprite BackUp. The best thing about SPB BackUp is that it allows you to restore everything even when you upgrade your custom ROMs...something that I do several times a day testing different ROMs. I highly recommend this program for those of you who flash custom ROMs on your phone and don't like to rely on PIM and go through re-installing each and every software and settings back on your phone. I'm debating whether to wait for my trial to end or just to buy it now!
SPB BackUp website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/backup/

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Im Packing said:
Currently I'm trialing SPB BackUp and I must say that I really like it a lot! So far I've had no problems backing up, restoring, and re-connecting the phone with Active Sync as I did previously with Sprite BackUp. The best thing about SPB BackUp is that it allows you to restore everything even when you upgrade your custom ROMs...something that I do several times a day testing different ROMs. I highly recommend this program for those of you who flash custom ROMs on your phone and don't like to rely on PIM and go through re-installing each and every software and settings back on your phone. I'm debating whether to wait for my trial to end or just to buy it now!
SPB BackUp website:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/pocketpc-software/backup/
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Hi. i also use SPB Backup and love it as it restores all my email a/c's and my tx messages. But i was wondering, u mentioned that with spb backup, u dont have to re-install all your apps/programmes each time u flash? can u please give me a tip on how to do this as i have no idea.i only see options for the usual ieim, texts,emails and there is a device option,but with so may sub catogories!....confusing i have a Htc TD2 with custom UDK Rom and manila sense 2.5.
I am a noob so please be patient with me
Thanks in advance.

It depends on if you do a full back-up. If you do then everything you back-up (including your storage card) is backed up unless you specify in options not to back it up. The only thing I don't back-up are previous SPB Back-ups.
To restore everything including programs that you had just do a full restore. If you choose customized restore then all the programs and settings to restore is in the "System Data". Uncheck PIM Data, Emails, and My Documents, and just leave the System Data checked and click next. From there it will restore all your programs and settings you previously had. BUT ONLY if you previously did a full backup or a custom back-up that included System Data.
I've had ZERO problems since using SPB Back-Up with any custom rom so far. I was using a trial Sprite Back-Up but it wasn't successful in restoring with different custom roms. SPB Back-Up also recently had an update with more finger friendly icons and IMO slightly more user friendly.

Im Packing said:
It depends on if you do a full back-up. If you do then everything you back-up (including your storage card) is backed up unless you specify in options not to back it up. The only thing I don't back-up are previous SPB Back-ups.
To restore everything including programs that you had just do a full restore. If you choose customized restore then all the programs and settings to restore is in the "System Data". Uncheck PIM Data, Emails, and My Documents, and just leave the System Data checked and click next. From there it will restore all your programs and settings you previously had. BUT ONLY if you previously did a full backup or a custom back-up that included System Data.
I've had ZERO problems since using SPB Back-Up with any custom rom so far. I was using a trial Sprite Back-Up but it wasn't successful in restoring with different custom roms. SPB Back-Up also recently had an update with more finger friendly icons and IMO slightly more user friendly.
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Thank You. Just tried it and it worked great. Its just that i was curious on how will it do it without me installing the cab files individually and or making a selection of cabs/programmes to install. Programmes such as Sahsimi work from a pre-difined list we creat ourselves and it installs all cabs one after the other. Thats why i was confused. But now i understand. Thank You again for your help and i totally agree with you. SPB Backup is great and would recommend it to everyone!
Take care and happy new year to all @ XDA!!!

Thanks!
Im Packing - thanks for the info. The fear of having to start over again put me off updating my phone. Could never find out for sure that system files and apps were updated.
Following your advice updating to the latest rom went like a dream

Forgive me but I gave some wrong information. FULL BACKUPS do not include storage card. You must do a Customized Backup and check the Storage Card under the System Files box. That will include everything on your storage card, but you can choose, in the menu options, to skip previous backup files so that you don't take up too much room. Also, High Compression on backups seems to work so far. Have not had one problem using high compression vs. normal.

Im Packing said:
Forgive me but I gave some wrong information. FULL BACKUPS do not include storage card. You must do a Customized Backup and check the Storage Card under the System Files box. That will include everything on your storage card, but you can choose, in the menu options, to skip previous backup files so that you don't take up too much room. Also, High Compression on backups seems to work so far. Have not had one problem using high compression vs. normal.
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what exactly "system" back up do? does it not overwrite roms settings? and/or system data? which i think would cause problems expecially if you restore it to a rom with different version/build?

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thank u so much man for back up solution . i am going to try now .

Backing up my Desire

As far as I can find, there seems to be no simple app that allows you to do a complete backup of an Android phone. I used to use either Sprite or SPB Backup under WM which allowed you to create an executable file which you could run after a hard reset to restore your phone to its position at the date you made the backup.
It looks like that's not possible under Android. The built-in backup doesn't seem to do a lot as I still had to put back my apps and many of my settings.
What I have found are Sprite for Android, My Backup Pro and Titanium Backup, although Titanium needs a rooted phone.
Is there nothing similar in Android that essentially creates an image of the phone so that you can do a full restore after a hard reset?
If not, what is the best way to backup as much as possible?

Well, with custom ROMS there can be app2sd (saves the apps on the sd). That also backs up the apps you have.
Otherwise it's also possible (after a hard reset) to login the market again and download all your previous installed apps again.
For a complete backup (e.g. also to save a certain version of a rom, a full NAND backup) you have to make a 'Nandroid' backup.
But! That is only possible with a custom recovery rom as far as I know. And there isn't one yet for the Desire.
On my Hero I've been updating quite some ROMs without the need of a hard reset. Which is already quite an improvement over the WM rom updating With Android you can update ROM without hard resetting, and it usually keeps working just fine.
But then again, I always make a full Nandroid backup before installing the new ROM just to be safe.

Also a former WM user and Sprite Backup did a great job on those devices. Seems like Android works differently with that respect. In fact Sprite Backup seems to get quite a few bad reviews on the Market.

[Q] Problems with backups, how to restore missing apps

Dear All
Having a rooted Desire with Froyo and Apps2SD+, i needed to migrate to a bigger 16 GB card. In that (failed) effort I decided to remove all apps and then restore them.
I backed them up via MybAckup Pro and Titanium Backup. Then, after reboot, no backups were detected by TB. I even wrote to the support but no answer. I had to revert to MyBackup Pro which apparently had a mind of its own regarding which apps to restore. Now Google Maps is missing on my phone and neither will it install. Also, com.gapps are closing on me every minute.
I have decided to do a factory reset but it'd be nice if a few questions are answered first:
1) I understand that NANDROID is the best way to back up; however, it doesn't provide me a way to restore apps one by one or in batches. Any solutions?
2) When I do a factory reset, will I end up with a clean phone with root and my current custom ROM, or the phone as it came from Orange?
3) Is there a way to install Google Maps and to remove the gapps errors without factory reset?
4) If I restore from NANDROID after factory reset, will all the errors/instability come back as well?
Thanks

1) Nandroid does an image of your custom phone, like for example Norton Ghost would do. Its like saving the setup/state of the phone at the time you do the backup.
2) A factory reset deletes all user data. You end with your current ROM as it was a clean install, it will not change the ROM you're using. If you're using a custom ROM you will still be with that custom ROM.
3) Can't Google Maps be downloaded from Market? Also you can try to extract the .apk from a ROM and copy it to yours via adb for example. As for the errors I dont really know if they're because data corruption and a reset will fix them or its the apk that isnt working as intended.
4) As I said earlier, doing a Nandroid is doing an image of the current state of the phone. If you do a Nandroid of a phone that has errors and you restore it, the errors wont disapear.
If you want to have a backup of the list of apps you already have you can use AppBrain. Its a little app that syncs your list of apps from the phone into a google account so when you do a full wipe you have only to install that app again and sync with the saved google list of apps. It wont save the data of the aplications but it will save the list of the ones you've installed.

Azureus: That is a most helpful reply, I sincerely appreciate it.
Google maps is not appearing in the market. I tried to sideload it and it still doesn't install. Thanks for the GREAT AppBrain trick.
I would appreciate if you could answer:
1) Which is the best, most stable custom ROM to use with official Froyo+Sense, Apps2SD+ ? I have doubts about stability of current ROM.
2) Which app can enable me to back up apps and then restore them one by one, given that Titanium Backup is not working for me somehow?

1) I personally use OpenDesire and its a non Sense UI ROM, so I dont really know what Sense UI ROM is the best. I've tryed several Sense UI ROMs and two that gave me a good feeling where LeeDrOiD Mod and the official Sense ROM of OpenDesire Team.
2) I've tryed several apps for data backups and the one that I liked most was Titanium Backup... May I ask why isnt working for you? I've tested both the free and donate version and they seem to work pretty well...

Thanks. Will try Leedroid now.
As for titanium, or backs up everything all right but when I try to restore it shows nothing. Don't know why is that

Titanium Backup saves the backups by default in a folder as the same name as the app in your SD. Have you tried deleting all the folder and doing backups again to see if the restore works? You can also go to settings and change the default folder in which it saves the backup to see if its a problem with de folder/SD or its the app.

[Q] Can't run Nandroid backup

Ok forgive me, I'm fairly new to all of this...
So I have the SGH-i317m (Telus version) of the Note II. I rooted it many months ago and everything went great. The other day I decided that I wanted to flash the Jelly Beans rom for it. So I ran a Nanadroid backup of the original rom, then used Titanium Backup to backup my apps. Everything went fine with that. So then I rebooted in recovery and did a data wipe/factory reset and also wiped the partition cache, then flashed the rom. Again everything went smoothly.
Here's where my "newb" side comes to play. After I restored my apps, everything backed up fine other than some of my contacts, text message logs, and call logs. I assume this is because I used the wrong backup setting in Titanium Backup? I think I should have used "Backup all user apps + system data", but instead I used "Backup all user apps" (can anyone verify this?)
So anyways, I went to restore the backup so I could retrieve all of this info. Again I wiped data/factory reset and wiped the cache before running the backup (which was a zip on the external sd card). Almost immediately I received a message saying "error while restoring /system!"
So I did some reading and found a thread saying that it didn't work because the nandroid backup can only backup the original rom. So I reflashed the stock firmware (again doing the full wipe), and that didn't work either giving me a message saying "can't open "file name" (bad). Installation aborted".
Can you guys give me a hand? When I try flashing the Jelly Beans rom (also I've flashed the Clean rom as well), they both work fine. I just get troubles trying to run my backup or installing the stock firmware.
Sorry for the length, I just wanted to make sure I provided as many of the details as I could. Thanks!

First yous should Never backup/restore system apps/data. It is a sure way to cause FC.
Second if you want to backup SMS/MMS hit menu on Titanium Backup and scroll down to Backup data to xml. If you don't care about MMS download SMS Backup & Restore from the market (free) as the backup/restore process will be a lot quicker.
What recovery are you using? There apps that let you explore the Backups and retrieve some information. In fact even Titanium Backup PRO restores certain items from nandroids so it's worth checking out.
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I was having an issue restoring the system partition. Data was failing, but running system alone I saw it said:
Can't read: misc/audit/audit/audit/audit/audit/audit/audit...
That went on forever.
It never skipped it, was just stuck trying to read the folder it was in.
Any ideas what could cause this?
I went back to stock so it's not pressing, but I don't want to do it again
Killed one of my backups.
I'm using TWRP 2.6.1.0
Backup had been successful. Restoring it would seem ok until phone reset/shut off. Then would hang on boot.
I got curious and tried restoring partitions individually to see what would happen.
Data always failed and system did that infinite directory thing.
If anyone's got any ideas what I should avoid doing so I don't mess up another backup, I'd appreciate it

The data partition is usually your photos, music, and movies. You should move all that stuff to your external sd card before you make a nandroid. Some versions of custom recoveries have a limit on the size of the backup, so if you have a lot of media in there, it will cause a nandroid to fail.

Jibust I just used the recovery that is already on the phone by pressing volume up/power/home at the same time. You said that there are apps that will retrieve information from my backups? Is this my only option? There is no way to run my backup now? It seems strange that I can't run it in the first place. It seems like it should be a fairly straight forward process. If there is no way to run my full backup, can you give me more details on how to use these apps to pull info from the backups?
Thank you

*Canucklehead* said:
Jibust I just used the recovery that is already on the phone by pressing volume up/power/home at the same time. You said that there are apps that will retrieve information from my backups? Is this my only option? There is no way to run my backup now? It seems strange that I can't run it in the first place. It seems like it should be a fairly straight forward process. If there is no way to run my full backup, can you give me more details on how to use these apps to pull info from the backups?
Thank you
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Take a look at the apps in this search, https://play.google.com/store/search?q=nandroid I have used the Nandroid Manager app, I haven't tried the other ones. Just make sure to read the description as not all of the apps will be able to explore/restore from all types of backups. Warning: I have never tried this, only seen people use it, some of the apps have xda threads so I suggest you take a look.
Also, as mentioned Titanium Backup Pro (at least I use the Pro version) has a feature to restore selected data from the nandroid backup. I have tried it and it works, so maybe you only need to use TB and don't have to purchase another app.
Edit: tried to restore apps from a nandroid using TB and had a FC, so you might want to try one of the other apps.

Nandroid Manager
I have used Nandroid Manager to recover individual apps + data - worth a try. Although people report mixed results.

Flash Rom , Install Apps , Flash again Install apps again ......how long?

hey folks, the biggest advantage of having a good android phone is this community support and access to tons of tuning. But also the biggest downside to having to many options is flashing it and re installing all of our apps and configuring them again .
I just wanted to ask fellow members what is the best and easiest way to restore apps and data after a fresh install .
I have tried titanium backup and is a must have tool for me when ever i flash , but are there better stuff out there ?

I used to use Titanium, but now I don't rely on it anymore. I only use "SMS backup and restore" for sms and call logs, and that's all, I only rely on Google Backup, and i log in all the apps that need it. I rarely lose something, except some game progress that do not matter.
A complete clean flash takes me about two hours, from nandroid backup, to google synchronisation and setting all the parameters in the rom and apps.

There really is no better option than Titanium. It does pretty much everything itself, you just have to wait a bit.
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After doing it over 100 times in the past years, it really becomes a habit to just backup, make a full wipe, then restore.
Personally after years of trying out (a TON of) ROMs, I now rarely make the switch. Because of that, I actually don't make a lot of backups, just the ones that are necessary like SMS and maybe WiFi passwords. For the apps, I just restore them from the PlayStore.