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[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?

[Q] Can't restore Messenger conversations

I've looked everywhere for the solution to this issue but I'm not getting anywhere.
I just did a full wipe and installed slimkat 9.0. Restored all of my apps using Titanium Backup, and all of the apps and their data restored flawlessly. Except Messenger, when I would restore the apps data and go to see a conversation, all of the conversations change order on the screen and it's as if the messages are all being deleted because it keeps on showing the preview for older conversations as the conversation order changes. Then I am left with no conversations whatsoever.
Any help would be appreciated

You mean the sms app? Make sure it's not set to delete messages after a certain limit per thread

I mean the messenger app, the one Google released not too long ago. You can't set the message limit
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Do the messages show with another sms app?

I'm having this exact same problem on a Droid RAZR HD running CM11. The backup is from the same phone using stock Kitkat 4.4.2. Any help?
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Whatsapp doesn't receive messages till manually open. (WiFi)

Whatsapp doesn't receive message until I open it manually. I have seen this issue mostly with WiFi, or i did not notice when using mobile data.
I have tried all remedy like battery optimisation off, unrestrictive data access, cache clear but still issue persists .
I am on OxygenOS 5.1.4. Any solution?

I had the same problems in the past after using TB to restore whatsapp.
Use the internal backup of whatsapp (settings - chat - backup).
Then clear the app data (settings - apps - apps list - whatsapp - storage - clear data).
Reopen whatsapp and use the internal restore process.
Hope this will help
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Thank you, I will try this and post the result.

zohar_ml said:
I had the same problems in the past after using TB to restore whatsapp.
Use the internal backup of whatsapp (settings - chat - backup).
Then clear the app data (settings - apps - apps list - whatsapp - storage - clear data).
Reopen whatsapp and use the internal restore process.
Hope this will help
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This did not resolve my issue

sam1243 said:
This did not resolve my issue
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Try -> Settings -> Battery -> Battery optimisation -> whats app -> Don't optimise
I had the same problem with my mailing app. This solved it.

charlie.. said:
Try -> Settings -> Battery -> Battery optimisation -> whats app -> Don't optimise
I had the same problem with my mailing app. This solved it.
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That was the first thing I did, did not solve my issue.

Are you using google play services. For live notifications you must use it with your google account. Maybe you can clear cache in this app or update it.

But in this case it shouldn't work with mobile data as well. Btw i have deleted cache and data of play services but no avail.

GT2e health data is not synced and I want to change phone

Hi,
Have the GT2e watch
Currently, I don't have any option in the health app to backup my data to the cloud.
currently, I have a Xiaomi mi 9 lite phone and I'm about to get a new one (probably another Xiaomiu) soon.
I'm not rooted ATM - is there a way for me to somehow backup all of the health data so it'll be transferred to my next phone?
Thanks

It should be synced to the cloud automatically(or manually) in the Health app, afaik

Well it doesn't (I read somewhere that it might be related to the region)
Looking for another way to backup without using root

No other way. Sign in in Huawei health app somehow

I did and it won't do anything.... I was looking for a way to do it from outside of the app like any other Android app that you can backup

Question App question

For privacy reasons on every Samsung device I've ever had including the Note 10 I would remove Facebook and messenger accounts from the account screen everyday and would wipe the storage on the Facebook and messenger app and my user info would be cleared. Since getting the z-fold 3, when I do the above messenger still somehow shows the accounts that I have previously logged in with.
I have Samsung pass disabled and the only way to clear that information appears to be uninstalling messenger and reinstalling it. Facebook application manager is uninstalled and I answer no to the dual messenger prompts that pop up when logging in.
Does anyone know how messenger is retaining this information or what app might be doing it?

If you are for sure clearing all the data, then it must be server side
The ANDROID_ID value won't change on package uninstall/reinstall, as long as the package name and signing key are the same. Apps can rely on this value to maintain state across reinstalls
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Maybe the app is still running so your account info is still in memory, or when one is cleared it copes the data to the other? Force stop both apps, then clear data?
How are you clearing the data?
If you are going into Apps -> Facebook -> storage -> Clear Data
There is a Package Manager app that somehow detects you are trying to clear its data and opens a special dialog to clear the data. I am at work and are not next to my test device but I will upload screenshots when I can.
If the force stop clear data doesn't work, then you could look at using Samsung Knox to clear the data.

RRiVEN said:
If you are for sure clearing all the data, then it must be server side
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Maybe the app is still running so your account info is still in memory, or when one is cleared it copes the data to the other? Force stop both apps, then clear data?
How are you clearing the data?
If you are going into Apps -> Facebook -> storage -> Clear Data
There is a Package Manager app that somehow detects you are trying to clear its data and opens a special dialog to clear the data. I am at work and are not next to my test device but I will upload screenshots when I can.
If the force stop clear data doesn't work, then you could look at using Samsung Knox to clear the data.
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Yes I'm first removing the account. Next I end the messenger task. Then I go to storage and clear the storage. Then I go to Facebook and end that task then I also clear that storage.
If it were server side, uninstalling and reinstalling the app shouldn't clear it so I don't think it's server-side. Doing the above method worked fine on my Note 10. There has to be some other samsung app on the fold 3 that is retaining that data.

You said you uninstalled the App manager, some devices have another system app called Facebook App installer. Maybe that one is present on your device?
That is my Fold 3 and Note 9

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You said you uninstalled the App manager, some devices have another system app called Facebook App installer. Maybe that one is present on your device?
That is my Fold 3 and Note 9
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It's a pretty nasty and vicious virus that farcebook thingy!

And you reckon that Google or the keyboard don't keep track of your Facebook accounts? Usually Google retains my Facebook credentials, for fast log in.