We are using Tabs in a hospital for health information. They have some kind of locking software but for what ever reason, it got turned of one of the tabs and someone deleted apps and shortcuts. The coordinator is asking for backup software that backs up everything, not just what Google wants to back up (ie. her health info shortcuts).
Titanium backup used to be the best...is that still the case?
Thanks.
fletchb1 said:
We are using Tabs in a hospital for health information. They have some kind of locking software but for what ever reason, it got turned of one of the tabs and someone deleted apps and shortcuts. The coordinator is asking for backup software that backs up everything, not just what Google wants to back up (ie. her health info shortcuts).
Titanium backup used to be the best...is that still the case?
Thanks.
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Titanium need root I think, Helium does not. I don't know which is better but those are the top choices I think.
bill-e said:
Titanium need root I think, Helium does not. I don't know which is better but those are the top choices I think.
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Thanks. I did not know about that one..will check it out..
Regards..
Backup in samsung cloud? Or smartswitch? Both have worked for me. Settings>cloud & accounts
Still not really sure what you want backed up but assuming you get all your apps and data backed up with Google, you can backup your shortcuts using the backup/restore in third party launchers, Nova, Action launcher, and others have this ability.
https://www.androidcentral.com/backing-your-launcher-and-why-your-should-do-it
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Which once is better....
MyBackup Root
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Titanium Backup
Please put your vote.
Titanium, no competition.
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Titanium, no competition.
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Did you pay for the full version ?
Also since you there is a paid version, does it store online ??
Mybackup Root saves online I notice have not check it out. Waiting for feedback as I will buy one of them to have that option to save online.
Thanks MetalHead, and all.
Yes I have the paid version and yes it can store online, provided you have a drop box account.
I use titanium for the simple fact that i don't need MyBackup to backup my contacts since they are already saved to my GMAIL account.
Plus titanium has the ability to remove bloatware from the phone once it's been rooted.
Neipas09 said:
I use titanium for the simple fact that i don't need MyBackup to backup my contacts since they are already saved to my GMAIL account.
Plus titanium has the ability to remove bloatware from the phone once it's been rooted.
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Yep. Titanium is far more versatile.
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Neipas09 said:
I use titanium for the simple fact that i don't need MyBackup to backup my contacts since they are already saved to my GMAIL account.
Plus titanium has the ability to remove bloatware from the phone once it's been rooted.
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Wow. That I did not know. Thanks for that Neipas09!
Thanks everyone. I guess this was easy.
Tb hands down, I tried mbpro, bad thing is evan with the paid version there is a upload limit.
When I tried it wouldnt bkup all I wanted .
Tbpro is worth every penny, I use it almost everyday
Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
Coming from the Touch Pro 2 and the Windows Mobile side of things for the last decade, I am wondering if there is something like PPCPimBackup for Android? This was a small little utility that would back up SMS/MMS/Call Logs/Email/Contacts and some other settings and files when specified. I kept a copy on my SD Card so that when / if I had to take my phone in for repair, I could backup everything before I handed it over to the Sprint Tech. Now that I am on an android device, I would like to find something with similar functionality. My E4GT has been experiencing the random screen taps / touches that someone mentioned a week or so ago and I want to take it in and have them look at it and want to make sure I don't lose my call logs and sms logs if they should want to factory reset or replace my phone. Any suggestions for a free application?
MyBackup
works good
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackup&feature=search_result
I have used pim backup when I had my TP2 but never had the desire to find something like that here. With google all your contacts are backed up on goggles servers. T
Also if your phone is rooted you can use titanium backup for your Apps or just do a nand backup through recovery and back up everything.... ROM.. Contacts.... Apps.... Mesages.... Emails ect.
Samsung Galaxy S II
Is there an app that will backup desktops / screens? this would be helpful when switching roms.
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Is there an app that will backup desktops / screens? this would be helpful when switching roms.
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Titanium backup will. You backup the launcher and when you restore it will restore the screens. You may have to replace the widgets though..... No biggie though.
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Why would you choose Titanium over MyBackup? I know that a majority of the users have Titanium but I don't understand why. What are the differences? I have MyBackupPro and it has worked flawlessly forever! FIGHT!
I've had Titanium for so long, I can't be bothered to try something new/different..
It just works.
With options like freezing apps, pulling backups from nands, and controlling market links, Titanium is hard to beat. Add to that syncing to dropbox and it is a pretty good package.
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With options like freezing apps, pulling backups from nands, and controlling market links, Titanium is hard to beat. Add to that syncing to dropbox and it is a pretty good package.
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Freezing, wiping cache, and wiping data are also available on mybackup pro, controling market links also. How would syncing to dropbox be helpful?
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Freezing, wiping cache, and wiping data are also available on mybackup pro, controling market links also. How would syncing to dropbox be helpful?
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Your backup is stored safely in your dropbox in case of an sd card crash or your phone gets lost or stolen. You will still have your backup to put on the replacement.
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Your backup is stored safely in your dropbox in case of an sd card crash or your phone gets lost or stolen. You will still have your backup to put on the replacement.
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okay, thats pretty cool, other than that, it looks like a wash. I don't think I need to buy Titanium, MBP works fine, and also offers the option of storing backups online.
After almost 1 year using MBP I tried Titanium Backup. TB is faster at backing up system data and users apps and also restoring but a little too complicated compared to MBP. Also MBP can restore apps directly to the SD card(only apps with that option obviously). Maybe TB can do it too but I can't find that option.
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Right, MyBackup Pro can do ALL item titanium can do, and more.
It can backup the SMS, MMS, contacts, other system data from ANY Android version to a different Android version, so you can go from Android 2.x to Android 4.x, which titanium cannot do.
If you want faster backup and restores of Applications and their Data, you can turn on the Busy Box option in the options of MyBackup (Pro).
Also, MyBackup Root is FREE and does a lot more than the free titanium
When I do full restore of system data on Titanium I get all my settings back and have had no problem going from Froyo to Gingerbread with a backup. I don't think you have used it in a while.
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With options like freezing apps, pulling backups from nands, and controlling market links, Titanium is hard to beat. Add to that syncing to dropbox and it is a pretty good package.
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As well as scheduled back ups and the customizability ( made up word?) of the backups
I bought both and went ultimately with Titanium. Mainly, it was because, at the time, MyBackup did not have a master page to see what apps were frozen. You had to select each one at a time. In Titanium Backup you could see all your apps and the frozen ones had a blue bar highlight.
Titanium. The end. I used to use mbp, but I got fc's or the app just wouldn't show up after restoring
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The best thing to do is really to try both.
You can get the free MyBackup Root application, which gives you just about everything you need, and the free titanium, and try them out.
MyBackup Pro does have all items Root has, plus a few more items like freezing/disabling bloatware, market linking/detaching, etc...
It's seems they are almost identical Apps. The main difference is the interface,
My Backup Pro seems to be a LOT more user friendly whereas Titanium is for more technical minded people who love control over every little thing.
My Backup Pro - Simple interface and seems not to need root, good for the normal user or the occasional rom flashing.
Titanium Backup PRO - Geared more to the technical minded who likes exploring and control, and compulsive rom flashers.
MyBackup Pro doesn't have DropBox functionality because they also make money out of selling more space online for your backups.
A way around it is to manually get your backups on your SD Card to your DropBox yourself.
In the end it comes down to a matter of preference, as they both much do the same thing
I use Titanium and I like to be able to choose every little thing I'm backing up but on the other hand there is the case of the 'unfriendly' interface (which I gotten used by now but had to do some reading on some bits).
Titanium really needs a Usability Engineer(?) on their team. They would benefit having a 'Normal' and an 'Expert' mode for their interface.
Agreed. Titanium Backup should revamp the interface or give us a choice of interfaces: Classic or Simple
I use MBP, but I don't like it. When I first used it on Froyo and Gingerbread, it rocked. Now on Jelly Bean it regularly force closes, it doesn't copy all the data for applications, some applications don't backup or restore properly. I have never had any problems with Titanium, ever. It's just so darn cumbersome.
I have used Titanium backup on 3 different devices, from Froyo to KitKat, over the past 3 years. It has worked fine thru it all. Backups & Restores are a snap to do, and are reliable. Only problems ever has been an occasional hang up, where I have had to do a shutdown, reboot, but it did not seem to affect the restore.
Love MBP, never had a problem.
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MyBackup Pro now supports Dropbox
Hey guys the new version 4.2 of MyBackup Pro now allows you to use your Dropbox account as the Cloud storage option for Backups and Restore. You can use this by running the app and hitting Menu->Options then select the "Cloud Storage Location" option and selecting Dropbox.
Hi All. First time poster. I've been an iOS guy since the 3GS, but over the last 6 months or so started to look at moving away from Apple due to their price structure. After picking up a N7 2 for a fraction of the cost of an rMini, I couldn't be happier and might never go back to Apple. I'm still getting use to the differences between the ecosystems and the differences in how things worked. It's amazing how many things are different.
The one nice thing I liked about Apple/iTunes/iOS was the way you could backup a device and when you restored it even GUI preferences were restored. So if you had a News folder all your news apps were in the folder in the same location on the screen.
I've done some searching, and I know there are some third party apps that do local backups but I haven't been able to find if there is anything, including the stock Google backup, that will do a backup to include system settings to the same level of detail as iTunes did. Can someone point me in the right directions? Does Titanium Backup do this? What all does the stock backup program backup? When you restore an Android device is it smart enough to redownload all the apps that were on the device? Is there a part of this question that I'm missing?
System settings don't get restored for the most part. This is due to it causing problems (especially when flashing ROMs). Homescreens can be saved if you use a third party launcher such as nova or apex. Titanium can backup system apps like settings and restore it, but that can cause major issues, so just avoid it. Stock backup can backup apps, photos, pretty much just core things. When restoring, there's an option to allow the device to restore all your apps.
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System settings don't get restored for the most part. This is due to it causing problems (especially when flashing ROMs). Homescreens can be saved if you use a third party launcher such as nova or apex. Titanium can backup system apps like settings and restore it, but that can cause major issues, so just avoid it. Stock backup can backup apps, photos, pretty much just core things. When restoring, there's an option to allow the device to restore all your apps.
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So what I'm hearing is that if you want to make sure that you get a good restore it's best to always start from scratch.
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So what I'm hearing is that if you want to make sure that you get a good restore it's best to always start from scratch.
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Not always. The restoring of apps is usually only an issue with restoring data of ones that were used on ICS and then you flashed a jb ROM. I've always restored app and data with titanium and never had an issue. Just don't do that with system apk's.
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I let it restore, seemed like it was gonna take a hundred years for 79 apps, so I stopped halfway through and used titanium. But from what I could see, none of my user apps were having any data restored on them. System settings restored fine, but you could already do that before Marshmallow. So has anyone used Google's restore AND had their app data restore?
I got the 5X on Saturday and restored from my Nexus 4 backup .
Restored 79 Apps, it missed a few I think because Marshmallow required a upgraded version
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I got the 5X on Saturday and restored from my Nexus 4 backup .
Restored 79 Apps, it missed a few I think because Marshmallow required a upgraded version
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Did it restore the data for all the 79 apps as well?
When I restored my Nexus 5X from Nexus 5 (Marshmallow), it restored fine for system settings, apps themselves & the most of Google Apps data... but not Google Authenticator data. Any 3rd party app data (include games) were not restored, as far as I remember.
As I remember their was a new option for restoring .. Something about all the accounts and settings
Did not try that one
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When I restored my Nexus 5X from Nexus 5 (Marshmallow), it restored fine for system settings, apps themselves & the most of Google Apps data... but not Google Authenticator data. Any 3rd party app data (include games) were not restored, as far as I remember.
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That's what I'm talking about. No third-party apps seemed to restore data. And that's most of the apps, of course.
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That's what I'm talking about. No third-party apps seemed to restore data. And that's most of the apps, of course.
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I've noticed this as well. Because I read that apps are supposed to restore their data even if you re-install it down the road, outside of the initial phone setup restore. In doing some research, I believe I read somewhere that the third party apps need to support the backing up and restoring of user data. So my assumption was just that maybe not many apps do support it?
Edit: Turns out I read that in the Google documentation. This page points it out in two places -- "third-party app settings and data (varies by app)", and it requires the "app also uses the backup service".
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2819582?hl=en
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I've never had a thrid-party app restore data.
If you look in the settings of Google Drive you can see what apps are using the new backup features.
From what I understand, existing apps will need to be updated to the new API level and may need to have the feature enabled by the developer. New apps written for the new API should automatically have it enabled but the developer still have the option to turn it off if they want.
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If you look in the settings of Google Drive you can see what apps are using the new backup features.
From what I understand, existing apps will need to be updated to the new API level and may need to have the feature enabled by the developer. New apps written for the new API should automatically have it enabled but the developer still have the option to turn it off if they want.
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Thanks,
I was wondering what app I could see what is actually using the new backup service. For me it is quite dissapointing. I have around 100+ third part apps, and only 3 apps are using backup service. (Plume, Tasker and Reddit is fun".
Looks like titanium isn't going anywhere yet.
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Thanks,
I was wondering what app I could see what is actually using the new backup service. For me it is quite dissapointing. I have around 100+ third part apps, and only 3 apps are using backup service. (Plume, Tasker and Reddit is fun".
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You can se what's backed up in the google drive app.
Settings -> Manage backup