Related
Hey i don't know how popular it is but i love this app! It backs up bookmarks, system setting, sms and more and puts the backup on your sd card. For those flashing phone alot saves alot of headache if you need to wipe. I know there are other ways to backup but hey i like it.
Yea i actually found it as soon as i flashed to jf 1.3, saved me from a whole lot of trouble during my first wipe flashing a theme.
I think its a perfect app. Helps so much after a wipe. If you back up your apps with Astro all your data is saved too .
MyBackup is a must have...
This app is great. Its fast and reliable... Everyone needs a backup of their phone and this app does it best...
now we need to add the app backup capability found in astro into mybackup and it would be the ultimate end user backup utility.
korndub said:
now we need to add the app backup capability found in astro into mybackup and it would be the ultimate end user backup utility.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah that would be sweet!!!
App backup now available
The new version of the application backs up apps now... and has capability to schedule a daily or weekly backup... Complete backup utility now
It would be so perfect if it could install all of the backd up apps without you having to click install and done for every single one.
That would be noicee.
topdnbass said:
It would be so perfect if it could install all of the backd up apps without you having to click install and done for every single one.
That would be noicee.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree with that. Astro is the same way isn't it?
if you rooted you g1, and put your apps on you sdcard, you never need backup you apps, even if you flash/factory reset/wipe/anything else that erases your phone you apps will still be on the ext2 partition on your sdcard i think you can even copy them to your computer if you have a linux machine
Astro is even slower when it comes to reinstalling apps.
As for putting apps on the sd, im gonna wait til google does something about that because i have enough memory left for now. Especially cuz i moved the caches.
Problems with MyBackup
ok, so i did the whole multitouch thing, and now im trying to restore my phone with MyBackup, i backed up all my apps, and all my data to an SD card. Now, i have RC33 with the multitouch add in, and i downloaded MyBackup but when i try to restore the data from the SD card, it gives mr this message: "I/O error: unable to write to SD card. Make sure the SD card is mounted properly and is not connected to your PC."
has anyone else had this problem? The apps restore fine, its only my data (sms,contacts,settings) that gives me that message. Thanks for the help
A reboot fixed that problem for me, though I'm not on RC33.
Yeah it was giving me problems, what it was doing to me is when i restored my system settings the topbar was freaking out and it played ringtones like someone was calling me but no one was, like it is getting the system sounds mixed up. No error messages but still i got rid of it.
Feel lucky. Do *not* restore your contacts using MyBackup. Just re-sync with the google server... I restored using MyBackup and I got duplicates of everyhting and it broke the syncing of my contacts.. For everything else, it worked flawlessly (fantastic for SMS!) but gmail has a backup of your contacts, so there's no use.
Yea, the application says in the opening notes to use either the gmail contact backups or the app, not to use both. There are known issues for sync messing up, but I don't think it is because of the app. Because even without this app people are having a lot of problems with their sync...
I dont know if its just me but when ever I restore my home screen shortcuts all of the shortcuts inside my folders are all messed up or even missing.
For example my games will be in my media folder and my browser short cuts will be in my shopping folder. And some folders will be empty for example my apps folder will be empty and it wont be in anyother folder.
Anyone else have this same problem?
MyBackup Pro
Check it out. This new version solves almost every problem. Restoring all the apps at once does not have any problems at all.. And its just a buck, can not go wrong... Love it!
anybody know where to download this app ? thank you
u tried the market?
Was running Phoenix Ultimate rom. Switched to Mosaic III Diet. Restored my apps using Titanium Backup Pro; however, some of the apps did not get installed. When I look at them in TiBu, those apps have a line drawn through them. The legend states this means the app was not installed. Were they not installed because they will not run in GingerBread?
retnuh said:
Was running Phoenix Ultimate rom. Switched to Mosaic III Diet. Restored my apps using Titanium Backup Pro; however, some of the apps did not get installed. When I look at them in TiBu, those apps have a line drawn through them. The legend states this means the app was not installed. Were they not installed because they will not run in GingerBread?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
more than likely they are apps that were once in /system/app/ in your old rom or specific for that rom/build
name an example of some of the apps.
Pirateghost said:
more than likely they are apps that were once in /system/app/ in your old rom or specific for that rom/build
name an example of some of the apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sound Player 1.0
TeleNav GPS Navigator 6.2.6201038
ThinkFree Office 2.0.1011,01
Speed Test 2.0.3
Thanks
Sound Player is a system app, cant reinstall that with TiBu
TeleNav is part of the ATT BLOAT
ThinkFree Office is system app
dont know about speed test
Pirateghost said:
Sound Player is a system app, cant reinstall that with TiBu
TeleNav is part of the ATT BLOAT
ThinkFree Office is system app
dont know about speed test
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually, TeleNav was a separate app that I had downloaded from the market. Liked it a lot more that the Google navigation. I have read other posts where other people are also trying to re-install the app and can no longer find it. One post stated that AT&T had it removed from the market. Since I had the app in my TiBu backup folder, I was in hopes of being able to re-install it.
I'm having much the same problem with Titanium Backup only I flashed Dlev 4.1 ROM from Cognition 4.1.1.
I have lines through many of my apps that I didn't think were system apps. To name just a few:
Angry Birds
Astrid Tasks
Amazon MP3
Barcode Scanner
Evernote
Facebook
Firefox
It says I have a backup of them dated today right before messing with all this ROM flashing. Most of this I don't really care about except for my 3 Angry Birds apps. I can download the others again and hopefully just sign in and all should work okay but I really want my Angry Birds progress back. To be honest a vast majority of my apps have the line through them (all but a handful) and most of those were installed with the Dlev ROM.
Any help someone could give me would be much appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance.
tuckerjdaniel said:
I'm having much the same problem with Titanium Backup only I flashed Dlev 4.1 ROM from Cognition 4.1.1.
I have lines through many of my apps that I didn't think were system apps. To name just a few:
Angry Birds
Astrid Tasks
Amazon MP3
Barcode Scanner
Evernote
Facebook
Firefox
It says I have a backup of them dated today right before messing with all this ROM flashing. Most of this I don't really care about except for my 3 Angry Birds apps. I can download the others again and hopefully just sign in and all should work okay but I really want my Angry Birds progress back. To be honest a vast majority of my apps have the line through them (all but a handful) and most of those were installed with the Dlev ROM.
Any help someone could give me would be much appreciated.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
have you tried restoring them? what error message do you get?
I have not encountered any sort of error messages. The steps I'm following to restore my apps is:
1. Start TiBackup and click the Backup/Restore tab
2. Scroll down to the app I want to restore (in this case one with a line through it)
3. Click on the particular app. When I click on an app with a line through it the following options are given: Backup, Freeze, Uninstall. The backup and freeze buttons are grayed out and thus not selectable. The uninstall button is red but it is also not selectable (because that app is not currently installed on my phone). I also have an option to delete next to the backup.
TiBackup sees the backup and recognizes it as an app I just have no way to restore it or the data. However, if I go into the Market place and download the app and then go back to TiBackup I can see the app without any sort of line drawn through it and I can from there restore the app data. Once I do that all is good and everything is as it should be.
However, I really don't want to spend the time to download all my apps again as that's why I backed them up in the first place. Also, when I go into the Market and download an app it seems to work and install like it should. However, if I try and install a second app after downloading and installing the first app it gives me an error saying "error downloading 'app name'". There is insufficient space on the device." Now I know there is plenty of space on my device. According to the task manager Storage tab I have used 219mb/1.85gbs of internal phone storage. Also, if I reboot my phone and then try to download the exact same app as before I can download and install it just fine.
Thanks again for the help.
---------- Post added at 12:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:30 AM ----------
So I did some searching around the forum it seems the insufficient space error I've been getting is something to do with the new version of the market. And I've had a work around by just going and searching for the app on my computer and it the app store sends the app to my device so that part is fine. So at least I have a work around for that.
However, I still would like to get my apps back in TiBackup for the simply reason I do have a few paid apps and I don't really want to have to purchase the apps again. I've downloaded several of the "free daily apps" from the Amazon App store and can't download them again for free.
Thanks for the help.
On the front page of tibu hit the menu button, choose batch, restore missing apps with data...
If there is a 0 there, go to settings>applications> manage applications>titanium backup> clear data and cache
If you have problem with titanium application backup you must need to hire a developer.
Restore file list has strikethrough / greyed out text and fails to restore.
studacris said:
On the front page of tibu hit the menu button, choose batch, restore missing apps with data...
If there is a 0 there, go to settings>applications> manage applications>titanium backup> clear data and cache
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You obviously have not read this thread. This has been tried and failed. Also, what you explained, is simply the way that TB is supposed to work. Do you not think that if it worked as intended, we would be having these issues?
Markline said:
If you have problem with titanium application backup you must need to hire a developer.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just because there is a bug/glitch/error in an app does NOT the user does not know what they are doing....
I consider myself a very experienced Android user. I had tried clearing the cache for the app as the first thing I did. I then uninstalled the TB, and rebooted my phone. I then reinstalled TB Root, and the Key. When I try to restore my apps from the External SD card, it lists them all, and has each of them with a line striking the names out. If I select an individual one, and try to restore it, TB pops up the RESTORING dialog box, and sits at 0%. It does the same for each and every app, either individual or in a batch restore. In a batch restore it starts with the last file name, alphabetically, Zillow in my case, and sits at 0%. I let it try to restore one single app with data for well over an hour, and it still remained at 0%
Did this ever get fixed? I'm having the very same problem after a factory reset
nightraving said:
Did this ever get fixed? I'm having the very same problem after a factory reset
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nearly 7 months later and no reply....I'm having the same issue. Been using TiBU for many, many, many years. This is the first I've come into issue with this. Backed up my apps to Box cloud storage and also Google Drive Storage. Google's restore successfully restores almost all of my apps with the exception of a few apps that have a strike-through line. When I checked the TiBU backup folder on Drive for those apps, I noticed that of the three files that TiBU creates for each app (for restoring purposes), two of the three files were missing (so it was a bad backup of those apps to the cloud).
Now, with Box.com....all the app's have their corresponding THREE files that TiBU creates during backups BUT....when restoring everything from Box EVERY single app is crossed out with a strike-through. I've been rooting my phones and using backup services like TiBU since the very first Samsung Galaxy S phone ever. My current issue here resides on the Motorola Nexus 6 stock-rom (but rooted).
I'm stumped.
---------- Post added at 11:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:27 AM ----------
Kal-El7 said:
Nearly 7 months later and no reply....I'm having the same issue. Been using TiBU for many, many, many years. This is the first I've come into issue with this. Backed up my apps to Box cloud storage and also Google Drive Storage. Google's restore successfully restores almost all of my apps with the exception of a few apps that have a strike-through line. When I checked the TiBU backup folder on Drive for those apps, I noticed that of the three files that TiBU creates for each app (for restoring purposes), two of the three files were missing (so it was a bad backup of those apps to the cloud).
Now, with Box.com....all the app's have their corresponding THREE files that TiBU creates during backups BUT....when restoring everything from Box EVERY single app is crossed out with a strike-through. I've been rooting my phones and using backup services like TiBU since the very first Samsung Galaxy S phone ever. My current issue here resides on the Motorola Nexus 6 stock-rom (but rooted).
I'm stumped.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Wait...just saw something right now. Per one poster's suggestion, I decided to restore an app from the Play Store and then open up TiBU to see what happened. I noticed that NOW the RESTORE option (which the word "restore" was always missing in all the striked-through apps) was available. When I selected the Restore button, TiBU asks: Data only?
It would seem that the only DATA was restored to Box.com and not the actual app. I'll confirm this further by trying a few more apps.
Problem is, I think one of my apps was a sideloaded app, patched. shucks.
Is it an LG app or official google app? What does it back up? It says system settings, but is that app settings also?
Sent from my LG-P990 using Tapatalk
It's an LG app, Google's cloud backup is integrated (except in the stock LG ROM, they ripped it out) in the settings rather than something in the drawer.
So the LG backup is the same as Google backup, but in the drawer instead of in settings??
Nope, different thing.
So will it back up my entire phone, so I can do a complete Phone reset/erase, and then restore everything I had... including apps......and I don't have to deposit all my personal information onto a Google server?????
No idea, don't use a stock ROM. Have you thought about maybe trying it?
I would expect it not to be great though, generally you need root for that and stock apps don't tend to be made with that in mind.
LG's backup app does not restore apps, or any wi-fi passwords
just restores contacts and messages.
the LG Backup App seems to be (a modified?) Sprite Backup - can anybody confirm this?
Logo is the same, interface also seems to be almost the same and if you back up your data, it's stored in a "spritebackup" folder.
Also backing up the app itself with Titanium Backup creates files which are called ".com.spritemobile.backup.lg-........"
Has anyone tried freezing/disabling the O2x "backup" app? I disabled both packages:
com.spritemobile.system.backup
com.spritemobile.backup.lg
But the darn thing still starts up. Strangely "com.spritemobile.backup.lg" is listed as part of the dialer app.
Also, I've noticed that if I force stop the backup app, the phone will lose its cell connection briefly.
I've no idea why LG integrated backup with the dialer, but it's irritating!
I have heard a few times around here that you should not use titanium backup to restore app data when upgrading to ics from gingerbread. There are however, a few apps which I really need to keep the data from. Is there any way to manually transfer data from gingerbread to ics without transferring any system data that would screw with ics?
thekalby said:
I have heard a few times around here that you should not use titanium backup to restore app data when upgrading to ics from gingerbread. There are however, a few apps which I really need to keep the data from. Is there any way to manually transfer data from gingerbread to ics without transferring any system data that would screw with ics?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Are you talking about system apps or user apps?
lmftmf said:
Are you talking about system apps or user apps?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
User apps.
thekalby said:
User apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Shouldnt be a problem to restore user apps. The app stores data on the same partition and in the same way regardless of the rom.
lmftmf said:
Shouldnt be a problem to restore user apps. The app stores data on the same partition and in the same way regardless of the rom.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
While that is true, some (read: VERY FEW) apps do crap out between versions, in which there is no alternative except to clear the app's data. You can do this on an app-by-app basis in the applications menu or through TiBU.
You shouldn't need to do this unless the app force-closes on opening or something of the like. I'd always maintain a backup of your user data through either TiBU, CWM or MyBackup every month or so. Also, Google does support data backup through the Play Store if you've enabled the options in your Settings -> Privacy menu, but I wouldn't hinge on that fact, and I know cases where it didn't work for me.
Aus_Azn said:
While that is true, some (read: VERY FEW) apps do crap out between versions, in which there is no alternative except to clear the app's data. You can do this on an app-by-app basis in the applications menu or through TiBU.
You shouldn't need to do this unless the app force-closes on opening or something of the like. I'd always maintain a backup of your user data through either TiBU, CWM or MyBackup every month or so. Also, Google does support data backup through the Play Store if you've enabled the options in your Settings -> Privacy menu, but I wouldn't hinge on that fact, and I know cases where it didn't work for me.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't you just love when technology malfunctions and you lose important stuff.
ok ,a quick one,i know there are similar threads about this but i am still unsure as my Z is still a 'virgin' and i need infinite information about the app backup and restore for unrooted XZ. After updated to 253. via pc companion,i feel the need of doing factory reset sorta of refresh everything you know.
But of course i cant risk losing any games data especially when i had gone really far on some games as well as other apps data.
I just want a quick and accurate answer will the backup and restore app really saves the apps data,saved games especially for big games like asphalt ,final fantasy etc?
I checked three of the boxes to backup, system apps, media and downloaded apps data with all the apps ticked below,its backing up to my SD card. (Image in thumbnail below)
After this, can i safely perform the factory reset without worries of losing any data? Any confirmed information would be appreciated, thanks.
anyone? ...