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[Q] Losing my apps when I install a rom

I am a n00b, just wanted to know how I can keep the apps that I have if I want to change from CM 6 to Sapphire 1. When I rooted my phone and put on CM I lost all my apps including the Shazam that allowed unlimited songs. When I reinstalled from the market now I'm only limited to 5/month, which isn't a big deal but I would like to just keep all 'my' data like #'s and photos.
Thx

Titanium backup.free version will do.backup everything before you flash.after you flash, redownload it & restore your apps.awesome app
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So, there isn't a feature in the SYNC software that does a device backup of the apps/contact lists/settings?

Google will sync your contacts back when you sign in. I've seen some apps come back but never any paid ones. Titanium will restore app & data back. Manually with the free , automatic with donate version. It also lets you freeze apps which hides them rather than removing them.
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Few questions about froyo and music player

Hi long time reader new to sgs
..my question is why doesnt samsung music player come with a widget???
2nd......when froyo gets released will thet update cause me to lose all my apps like other official update did? Im using a,Bell samsung galaxy and the,last update wiped my apps
...i used my backup pro to restore them lol
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1: only samsung can answer that. lol. but you can pull down the top tab for music controls. music controls are still accessible when the screen is locked, so +1 for that. but if you really want the widget, there are alternative players you can use. you might also wanna keep an eye on this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766544
2: if it's official thru kies, i have no idea. but if you flash it yourself, it will wipe your apps. it's always best to keep backups anyway in case something you don't expect will happen.

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aridoasis said:
1: only samsung can answer that. lol. but you can pull down the top tab for music controls. music controls are still accessible when the screen is locked, so +1 for that. but if you really want the widget, there are alternative players you can use. you might also wanna keep an eye on this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766544
2: if it's official thru kies, i have no idea. but if you flash it yourself, it will wipe your apps. it's always best to keep backups anyway in case something you don't expect will happen.
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How would I restore apps? Cause I think with mybackup pro the apps don't get updates when restored.....is there a better wzy to update?
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use titanium backup. phone must be rooted. it can backup app + app data.
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ive used My Backup pro to back up my apps but noticed that after restoring the backup, it does not show up in my android market and thus does not notify me for updates, does titanium work better?

I was thinking about using app brain to just reinstall everything as it saves all my previous apps in a list or account
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Qazz~ said:
ive used My Backup pro to back up my apps but noticed that after restoring the backup, it does not show up in my android market and thus does not notify me for updates, does titanium work better?
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titanium works wonders. haven't had any problems so far after 2 flashes.

[ROM] HTC Droid Incredible MIUI.us v4 ICS (4-27-12)

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it is highly recommended to do full wipe between flashes.
data/factory reset
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flash
fix permission
reboot

another just in case

First.... Yea i will try this looks great
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How's this compared to the one over on MIUI.us?

What's broken?
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collins521 said:
How's this compared to the one over on MIUI.us?
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This is, i figured it's stable enough to be updated to beta. And i'm comfortable with having it in more than two threads now.

lolreconlol said:
What's broken?
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emmc music, use doubletwist, or similar to fix for now, no true hw acceleration, and a popup when downloading from market about file size.

Hmmm ok I'll try it out, hopefully the calendar shows this time. I tried the MIUI.us one and didn't have a calendar

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emmc music, use doubletwist, or similar to fix for now, no true hw acceleration, and a popup when downloading from market about file size.
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Thanks! Will give it a shot when I get home later.

Will try this out when I get home, thanks for all your hard work on this!

collins521 said:
Hmmm ok I'll try it out, hopefully the calendar shows this time. I tried the MIUI.us one and didn't have a calendar
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i've been working on that, it's been a lingering issue. but on my last 4 boots with install it's been there.

Just loaded it on and everything works as it should. Even put Apex on so now I have either MIUI launcher or stock launcher!
Although I'm having problems with root permission and the keyboard doesn't do as well as correcting like the AOKP ICS build
**Sorry didn't see the post about the SU flash...I'll try that**

Just thought I would put out my findings so far on this version:
Cons:
- After putting on the SU flash it seems to have helped with the root permissions. Root Explorer crashes on me when I open it, it asked for root permission and this FC's.
- The keyboard doesn't recognize words like the typical ICS keyboard does and puts the red line under normal words that you would use. Even changing keyboards it still does it in the messaging apps and things. Not sure if it's a translation thing or what. Like in notes I have "one call for scheduling" for some notes I took and all four of those words have red lines under them.
- Notes and a few other things aren't translated to English, still is in Chinese even though I have English set as the language.
- Autobrightness doesn't seem to work the best, it stays pretty dim after the screen goes off and back on.
Pros:
- Battery life seems to be good but I haven't charged completely to test, I just charged a light charge and has stayed at the battery level for about a hour now and I have used it slightly so it does appear that it's good.
- Not really by your doing but it's nice being able to use the Apex launcher with the MIUI launcher so you could have the vanilla ICS look as well as MIUI look without changing roms.
- Gallery works fine on my end as well as the external music files. Doesn't read the internal but that's already posted I believe.
Hope that's not to long of a post and provides some good feedback, Calendar showed up this time on this flash and everything else seems to be working like it should

Is the fixed ROM a flashover and is there a way to get rid of the "download size requires WI-fi"?

Hey Mark, loving this rom so far. Seems really solid and am looking forward to the next update.
Was the 1x4 miui music widget removed? I'm only seeing the 4x4. Any way to get that back?
Just rembered: the Facebook sync, under accounts and sync, doesn't work. When you choose it, it just returns you to the account list.
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ChuckFarley said:
Hey Mark, loving this rom so far. Seems really solid and am looking forward to the next update.
Was the 1x4 miui music widget removed? I'm only seeing the 4x4. Any way to get that back?
Just rembered: the Facebook sync, under accounts and sync, doesn't work. When you choose it, it just returns you to the account list.
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If the widget was removed it was because of china, we should see it again soon though. This week they reintroduced their "custom music" app. For facebook sync, ICS removed it, you will need to download an app from market, i use http://tinyurl.com/7snt9sw from market. It syncs all contacts and pictures. Just add account from settings>accounts and sync

s_wall98 said:
Is the fixed ROM a flashover and is there a way to get rid of the "download size requires WI-fi"?
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I am still trying to disable that, a workaround is Downloads app> settings> disable notification

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If the widget was removed it was because of china, we should see it again soon though. This week they reintroduced their "custom music" app. For facebook sync, ICS removed it, you will need to download an app from market, i use http://tinyurl.com/7snt9sw from market. It syncs all contacts and pictures. Just add account from settings>accounts and sync
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Thanks for the info! Surprised to hear ics removed Facebook integration. I'm a sucker for that kind of baked in goodness, but luckily there's usually an app for it.
Thanks for your work on this rom.
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restoring SMS

is there any other way i can do it ??
i cannot use any app like sms backup and restore as it takes forever and i have thousands of msg's
and i cannot use nandroid backup method as sense 3.6 nandroid doesn't work with sense 4 and vice versa

MyBackup Pro works like a charm...
It may take a little while depending on the number of msgs you have, but it works very well (most of the time)
It backs up your home screen setting, phone contacts, calendar events, call log etc...
give it a try

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MyBackup Pro works like a charm...
It may take a little while depending on the number of msgs you have, but it works very well (most of the time)
It backs up your home screen setting, phone contacts, calendar events, call log etc...
give it a try
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i use my back up pro fr apps its great but again vry slow fr smses

Titanium backup does it quickest.
I'm not sure about compatibility between totally different ROMs, but every full system wipe in various generations of ARHD has never seen an sms get lost. If system messages app must be compatible for an sms backup to restore, that must be why the other apps do it slowly, as to order and categorize the different kinds of information so it can put it all into a new database.
Why do you save every single message on your phone? There are export apps which leave the messages in a readable thread format. Maybe do that and save only more recent sms? You'd save time.
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is there any system files related to messaging ?? whic i can just replace in to other roms ... i tried replacing mmssms.db but it didnt work

Dheemanth10 said:
is there any system files related to messaging ?? whic i can just replace in to other roms ... i tried replacing mmssms.db but it didnt work
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Titanium Pro can do it via xml. Some app may be able to do it. But Ti is really good at most things backup.
The messages are encoded and the metadata like contact number and time stamp + text contact are coded and listed in the database files in a unique way. There aren't standards except with incremental OTA's so people's data can be preserved. SMS apps use the phone's manufactured/designated database methods to present the randomly orderly info to you.
Ti Pro can do it with xml (yellow in system app list) and good coding for multiple ROMs.
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Try js backup from play store. Works well for me, 500 + SMS and mms restored from gb to ICS (sense as well as AOSP/aokp roms).
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[SOLVED] How to backup Notes (Stock i9000b 2.3.6, Notes app)?

Hi all. I upgraded to an HTC One and I need to get my Notes (over 200) to my new phone.
I have the regular "Notes" app that came with a stock 2.3.6 rom I upgraded it too, but I remember the old iterations also having that exact same "Notes" app. I was exporting them one by one to my PC. But figured there should be a better way. I know most backup programs simply don't backup notes.
I also know there's a way to do it via ES-File Explorer with root access, which my phone has. But I don't know what's next. I tried to search the forums and could find much of help.
Thank you very much in advance.

You kidding me
Please use proper forums
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Ahmad_Ashraf said:
You kidding me
Please use proper forums
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I'm not kidding and these are the proper forums. Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting. The phone I need to save my notes from is a Samsung Galaxy S i9000b. What other forums should I be looking in, androidforums?
Unhelpful and plain jerky people like you are the only problem about being a newbie anywhere. It drives potentially valuable users away from nice and healthy online communities. Seen it quite a bit elsewhere.
Can some moderator or kind user have the amiability to at least point me in the direction where I could fool myself with a vague hope of getting any help, please?
I wouldn't be asking if I could on my own.

Ahmad_Ashraf said:
You kidding me
Please use proper forums
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maybe he seen ur registered date....as mr Ahmad starts meddling with android for only six month and now he's creating his own ROM. btw, dont take it deeply,maybe he is joking there
anyway. i always use titanium backup to backup all my apps(i9000) n data, its da easiest way to do backup with only one click
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compacity said:
i always use titanium backup to backup all my apps(i9000) n data, its da easiest way to do backup with only one click
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Thank you very much for your reply. I've been using Titanium Backup for quite a while as well, but mostly for uninstalling unneeded apps. I don't think the new Notes app is compatible with the old one, so I don't know of how much use would force-copying program's memory file (looks like a single one, unless I don't even know where to look) with Titanium Bk be.
I was thinking of maybe an app that converts those notes to some other or more usable format. Even better if it upgrades them to some other Notes program file. Uploading those notes online wherever could also work. Or perhaps a way to manage those from Kies. If I knew it would had come to this, I would had used any note app from the very beginning...

Frannyman said:
Thank you very much for your reply. I've been using Titanium Backup for quite a while as well, but mostly for uninstalling unneeded apps. I don't think the new Notes app is compatible with the old one, so I don't know of how much use would force-copying program's memory file (looks like a single one, unless I don't even know where to look) with Titanium Bk be.
I was thinking of maybe an app that converts those notes to some other or more usable format. Even better if it upgrades them to some other Notes program file. Uploading those notes online wherever could also work. Or perhaps a way to manage those from Kies. If I knew it would had come to this, I would had used any note app from the very beginning...
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actually i been using 'those' notes(if ur talking about firmware notes app) app before (1 years ago) n know how hard it is to juz backup all ur notes
so i change my notes app (download any from gstores) that suitable for any version of android n one can backup all in on click
n start copying again 1 by 1 (really takes my time) so... i m sorry but i dont have any method other that as i dont even know why is it that hard juz to copy a mere notes i listed (d**n samsung app)
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Frannyman said:
Thank you very much for your reply. I've been using Titanium Backup for quite a while as well, but mostly for uninstalling unneeded apps. I don't think the new Notes app is compatible with the old one, so I don't know of how much use would force-copying program's memory file (looks like a single one, unless I don't even know where to look) with Titanium Bk be.
I was thinking of maybe an app that converts those notes to some other or more usable format. Even better if it upgrades them to some other Notes program file. Uploading those notes online wherever could also work. Or perhaps a way to manage those from Kies. If I knew it would had come to this, I would had used any note app from the very beginning...
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Try copying your notes to Colornote, sync the notes through, copy them back.
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Soryuu said:
Try copying your notes to Colornote, sync the notes through, copy them back.
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The copying the notes part is the one I'm trying to avoid. I did downloaded Colornote and it does looks really sweet.
But I checked and I have 211 notes to copy and would hate to have to do it one by one. So far, the best I've got is a smm file from Kies with all my notes in it. However, I haven't been able to find a single way to open this file in Windows, change its extension or how to export it to any app in Android.

Frannyman said:
The copying the notes part is the one I'm trying to avoid. I did downloaded Colornote and it does looks really sweet.
But I checked and I have 211 notes to copy and would hate to have to do it one by one. So far, the best I've got is a smm file from Kies with all my notes in it. However, I haven't been able to find a single way to open this file in Windows, change its extension or how to export it to any app in Android.
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Ouuuuch :L
Okay, I digged around settings and stuff for a bit, and under Settings -> Wireles and Network -> Synchronise there is an option to create a profile to sync memos (assumingly the stock memo app obviously). Haven't found this feature until now, so you could try play around with it?
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Soryuu said:
Okay, I digged around settings and stuff for a bit, and under Settings -> Wireles and Network -> Synchronise there is an option to create a profile to sync memos (assumingly the stock memo app obviously). Haven't found this feature until now, so you could try play around with it?
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Hey, that actually did helped! Didn't found that option you are telling me about, but found a way to Sync the Notes in the phone with those in Outlook via Samsung Kies (using latest Kies version, 2.5.3.13043_14).
Once that is done, it's pretty much problem solved.
What would come next is to put them online (can be done with Google or several other apps; I used Evernote, as my HTC came with it) and download them to the new phone. Anyone else needing additional details now, in a couple months, or a few years from now, please feel free to send me a PM.