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[APP-suggestion] Titanium Backup (must have!)

of all the apps that i use on my android phones the most (CoPilot aside) is Titanium Backup Full/Pro/Donate whatever you want to call it.
Just make sure you unlock it to get the DropBox feature.
in the Nexus S with the lack of the extra external storage, it's almost a must have to be able to back/restore all your apps & settings online, and on the go, so that if crap happens, you can easily just restore them all back.
it also facilitates a lot when we are constantly trying out new ROMs
with the 1 click restore feature

How do you do it mate? I backed up to phone then synced with dropbox? Is that it? Would be awesome if someone made a drop box music player lol
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I highly recommend Titanium Backup. The donate version is a must for anyone who flashes ROMs.
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can anyone point me in the direction for a write up or comparison of the different Backup/Restore options for Android. Specifically Nandroid vs MyBackup Pro vs Titanium Backup? Just trying to see what each does and doesnt do...thanks in advance

jblade1000 said:
can anyone point me in the direction for a write up or comparison of the different Backup/Restore options for Android. Specifically Nandroid vs MyBackup Pro vs Titanium Backup? Just trying to see what each does and doesnt do...thanks in advance
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Just google it: "Nandroid vs MyBackup Pro vs Titanium Backup." You'll gain all the information you need. It's been talked a lot.
Nandroid = Every nook and cranny.
Titanium Backup = Basically everything app related and system settings. Doesn't touch the OS itself. Pro version has that auto install feature when you restore apps.
MyBackup Pro = Dunno if it changed much, but it backs up everything app related. No system settings. Also backs up app data if you have root. Restore app one by one.
I might have forgotten something because the last time I used MyBackup was about year or two ago.

DKYang said:
Just google it: "Nandroid vs MyBackup Pro vs Titanium Backup." You'll gain all the information you need. It's been talked a lot.
Nandroid = Every nook and cranny.
Titanium Backup = Basically everything app related and system settings. Doesn't touch the OS itself. Pro version has that auto install feature when you restore apps.
MyBackup Pro = Dunno if it changed much, but it backs up everything app related. No system settings. Also backs up app data if you have root. Restore app one by one.
I might have forgotten something because the last time I used MyBackup was about year or two ago.
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cool thanks, i appreciate it!

>MyBackup Pro = Dunno if it changed much, but it backs up everything app related. No system settings. Also backs up app data if you have root. Restore app one by one.
Actually, MyBackup Pro does back up system settings. Also backs up SMS and MMS and photos. Also batch restores the apps.
What I did not have a good experience is backing up contacts as it conflicts with google's contact sync and I ended up with double contacts..this was almost a year ago though..

Another recommendation here though only for the pro version. The regular version is just a pain to back up and restore all your apps.

tominater12 said:
Another recommendation here though only for the pro version. The regular version is just a pain to back up and restore all your apps.
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it's true about the pain to restore
but the FREE version you still have the 1 button backup everything option

Why can't I restore certain app data with Titanium?

I've noticed that I can't restore my ADW EX desktop configuration with Titanium, and I can't manually restore the backup files from my SD. Anyone know what is up with this?

TheBiles said:
I've noticed that I can't restore my ADW EX desktop configuration with Titanium, and I can't manually restore the backup files from my SD. Anyone know what is up with this?
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Titanium while being able to back up system data won't back up your desktop. ADW has the option to back up your desktop setting. Just go in to the ADW Settings and you'll see an option for back up and restore. then just hit the button that says back up desktop configuration. However I'm not sure if you end up having to wipe the data completely that the back up you made would stick. I would assume that the Desktop back up from ADW would be saved as system data which you can back up with Titanium. Please someone correct me if i'm wrong. Hope that helps.

Steampoet said:
Titanium while being able to back up system data won't back up your desktop. ADW has the option to back up your desktop setting. Just go in to the ADW Settings and you'll see an option for back up and restore. then just hit the button that says back up desktop configuration. However I'm not sure if you end up having to wipe the data completely that the back up you made would stick. I would assume that the Desktop back up from ADW would be saved as system data which you can back up with Titanium. Please someone correct me if i'm wrong. Hope that helps.
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Doesn't work. I tried restoring with the built-in backup, but it wouldn't work. Titanium restores certain parts of the data for my apps, but others aren't touched. I'm guessing this may have something to do with coming from HTC to Motorola or Titanium not being fully compatible with the Bionic yet.
Edit: Titanium does backup your desktop configuration (just not your widgets). I've had a bit of experience with this.
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Use the ADW built in restore option. It'll restore everything, but it'll show grey boxes where your widgets were, you'll know the positions and can simply reapply the widgets from there.

mikeymop said:
Use the ADW built in restore option. It'll restore everything, but it'll show grey boxes where your widgets were, you'll know the positions and can simply reapply the widgets from there.
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That's a negative. Don't you think I would have tried that? I ended up re-doing it by hand.
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[Q] Titanium Backup Freezing

Anyone having Titanium Backup freeze on random apps during a batch restore? It's driving me nuts... Any help would be appreciated. I'm rooted and deodexed.

I had this issue, I suspect I should have waited longer during the batch but....I was impatient, restarted. The one it got stuck on I had to manually do that one and then the batch worked.

I've had this issue as well. It's been with specific games.
Zenonia 2, for instance. Every now and then, when restoring this game, it will freeze and I will have to kill Titanium and restart the batch. I know it's freezing/hanging because when I kill it and start the batch again, Zenonia 2 takes nowhere near as long to restore as I had waited for it to finish the first time.
I've been having the disappearing apps issue with a select few games (Zenonia 2 being one of them). I will reboot for something, and suddenly certain games will be gone from my app drawer. Reboot again and they will reappear (most of the time, sometimes not all of them). I wonder if it's related....

I also have this, mostly game related. However, it hung on the XDA one today.
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If you click on problems on the bottom of the app it will yell you how to fix the hanging issue
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smalltownbird said:
If you click on problems on the bottom of the app it will yell you how to fix the hanging issue
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Good call.....this worked for me.

Sorry to bump a thread, but the suggestion did not work for me. Random apps still hang even after changing the application processing mode.
Are there any other suggestions I can try?

You can watch for what app hangs and do another backup and unchecked that app. Then go back and backup just that app.
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Usually when some of my apps "hang" I just assume it because its got a lot of data to back up.
I have a lot of apps in most cases, so when i run a backup, i usually walk away and do something else anyway. So I don't even notice.

I thought the same thing, but I just got a hang on an app that was 523kb (RSA SecureID in this case). A 523kb app shouldn't take 15 minutes to restore data (before I killed the process). I even get hangs manually restoring items one at a time.
It seems like there's something Titanium Backup doesn't like about our phones.

kasandoro said:
I thought the same thing, but I just got a hang on an app that was 523kb (RSA SecureID in this case). A 523kb app shouldn't take 15 minutes to restore data (before I killed the process). I even get hangs manually restoring items one at a time.
It seems like there's something Titanium Backup doesn't like about our phones.
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I don't even use TTB anymore...Ever since I got AppExtractor.
AppExtractor allows you to extract apps straight from a CWM Backup (Nandroid). It even lets you restore SMS/MMS, Contacts, and Settings from a CWM Backup.
So instead of making a CWM backup AND backing up with TTB, you just make one CWM backup and you're set.
"I use Titanium Backup to freeze my bloat/system apps :trollface:"
Yep, Appextractor does that too!
If you're getting Force Closes after restoring apps, press the Fix Permissions button within AppExtractor and there's a good chance of that fixing the problem.
There's just one catch.
The backup you pull from HAS to be done through ROM Manager.
If you use ROM manager anyway, you have nothing to worry about.
If you make the backup through ROM Manager but it still doesn't show up, you need to update CWR. Scroll to the top of ROM Manager, its the first option, just press it.

The best solution I found was to install from the market and then restore the data

eraursls1984 said:
The best solution I found was to install from the market and then restore the data
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That won't cut it for those people that have hundreds of downloaded apps

HTC Backup

Hi,
i used HTC Backup and made 3 Backups at different times. Now i can only restore the 2nd one because i only get this to choose from.
But in the dropbox folder are all 3 Backups. Is this a bug? Can i force him to use the last backup? HTC phone support was totally useless cause the "specialist" didn't really know what "HTC Backup" really is...
Thx
Daniel

Maybe try moving the other 2 into a different folder to separate them?
Really you shouldn't waste time with HTC's backup anyway. Just run an ADB backup on a PC and use SMS backup for your texts (if you care about that).
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Hi,
i tried to separate them but it also didn't work. I usually do a backup with titanium but i really liked that every setting an the tv app was backuped with htc backup. But as it is, it's just crap.

Dacoco said:
Hi,
i tried to separate them but it also didn't work. I usually do a backup with titanium but i really liked that every setting an the tv app was backuped with htc backup. But as it is, it's just crap.
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You can backup the TV app and setting with Titanium mate

I know but i recently just backed up "All User Apps" and the TV app is not included because it's a system app.
Now i know better

Dacoco said:
I know but i recently just backed up "All User Apps" and the TV app is not included because it's a system app.
Now i know better
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Ahhhhh I normally just do a batch of all system apps then select the ones I need and then another Batch for user apps

How does htc backup work.

I've set my phone to backup daily over wifi with the HTC backup app which it does.
The restore button is greyed out so how do I actually restore my settings?
I'm using TB at the moment to backup and restore my apps but it doesn't restore my home screen settings and icons.
How do I restore through htc backup?
Thanks
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I wondered this a few months ago, my "restore from backup" was greyed out too but never found an answer.
However I have since discoved that after a factory reset or even when my phone was exchanged under warranty that the HTC backup will rebuild your One exactly how it was when the last backup was made, by this I mean the settings, passwords, accounts, apps, even your homescreen will be built including folders and wijets, theapp draw is organised too, such as any folders you may have created there.
I have used it twice now at it does a great job, once you turn you phone on and sign into the HTC account that you backed up with it is pretty much automatic ( it prompts you to log into the dropbox folder when required). What you must not do is use google restore if prompted and it will not restore app data such as level progress or achievemnts in games or passwords etc. I think the backup creates a list of apps that are then down loaded from the appstore in the background rather than backinging up the app itself.
To recap my restore from backup has always been greyed out but when needed after factory reset or setting up a new device it has worked fantastically.
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