Why can't I restore certain app data with Titanium? - Motorola Droid Bionic

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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Wiping and then restoring apps and data

Hrm, how can I say =P
I`m running the last cyanogenmod right now (3.9.5)
I never wiped my phone since I came from JF1.51 (yes, I had to wipe after starting using cyanogenmod
I want to make a wipe when getting to 3.9.6 and clean my ext3 partition as well...
I have a lot of apps configured and don`t want to loose then! Also, I don`t want to loose my configs of that apps (some are hard to configure =P)
How should I proceed?
obs. sorry for my bad english =P
You can try backing up your appdata using one of the various apps on the market (backup for root users, etc.). But theres no real guarantee that its going to work. I doubt the settings will even be saved. You're more than likely going to have to re-set up all of your apps to get them how you want. Thats just the downside of playing with custom roms.
I see =P
thanks man! I`ll try that!
What would be better? Backup for root or Mybackup pro?
I just want to backup my apps, marketdb and the config data of apps
I would stay away from Mybackup pro.... It corrupts the data so that you cannot use the sync features for contacts anymore in gmail. It also corrupts the text message data so that you cannot use SMSBackup. If neither of these don't bother you then Mybackup pro is worth the money except it bothers me now because I want to backup my text messages to my gmail with SMSbackup and I cannot because SMSbackup cannot read them due to whatever Mybackup Pro did to them while it was backing them up..
DirectMatrix said:
I would stay away from Mybackup pro.... It corrupts the data so that you cannot use the sync features for contacts anymore in gmail. It also corrupts the text message data so that you cannot use SMSBackup. If neither of these don't bother you then Mybackup pro is worth the money except it bothers me now because I want to backup my text messages to my gmail with SMSbackup and I cannot because SMSbackup cannot read them due to whatever Mybackup Pro did to them while it was backing them up..
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Anyone else experiencing this? My also use MyBackUp Pro, but not the other stuff mentioned above. Why would it need to alter the data to back the up?
cigar3tte said:
Anyone else experiencing this? My also use MyBackUp Pro, but not the other stuff mentioned above. Why would it need to alter the data to back the up?
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When I used MyBackUp Free back in the day, I also had the same problem. It corrupted the contacts, and no longer synced till I reflashed.. =/
xsnipuhx said:
When I used MyBackUp Free back in the day, I also had the same problem. It corrupted the contacts, and no longer synced till I reflashed.. =/
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You got lucky then! Even after I reflashed, I had no luck restoring my contacts. What I had to end up doing was restoring from what little I had on the SIM card from way back in the day and update the rest by hand. It took a long time but was worth it because now I can use gmail sync without any worries. I will forever stay away from MyBackup Pro! Wish I could get my money back LOL
to back up ur stuff like game saves use this app http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.protocol.x.su.fbs
once installed make ur way to the root of your fone directory not the sd card root. once there find the folder called data click on it, then click on the folder also called data, then look for your app info [like a game save] you wanna back up, long press on it and select copy. then go back to your sd card and press menu then paste. please do not use this app for bad things, i will not say anymore.
i use it to back up my game saves from go go rescue and the bowling game.

Backup TouchWiz 3.0 icon position

Hello,
is there any Way to backup the icon app position from the Stock SGS launcher. Want to enable the ext4 lagfix with binds but this only work after a factory reset for me. Got around 10 pages (one for navigation, internet, multimedia...) and sort the apps after a titanium backup takes to long.
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im looking for the same thing and have checked every where, i mean how hard is it for some to sort this out
Look for the database for TWLauncher under /dbdata and back it up. Not sure if restoring this would work but I don't see why it wouldn't. Looking at the contents of the database I can confirm that this is where the icon positions are stored. Also maybe saving the settings for TWlauncher with Titanium Backup would work too?
EDIT: you would need root to do this.
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did anyone figure this one out?
You should be able to back up TWLauncher data in Titanium Backup and restore it either by batch system data restore or finding it manually on your list of apps and restoring it's data.
i tried that but i ended up getting a bunch of FCs, and theyre still there once i reboot

Titanium Backup issue...

I've GOT to be doing something wrong here... I can get Ti-Ba to backup/restore most of my stuff, but with every flash I've done, I ALWAYS lose (and can't get back for some reason) my Home Screen setups.
Q#1: What option in Ti-Ba SHOULD I be using to BACKUP?
Q#2: What option in Ti-Ba SHOULD I be using to RESTORE(to restore apps/data and home screen stuff?)
Dante04SRT said:
I've GOT to be doing something wrong here... I can get Ti-Ba to backup/restore most of my stuff, but with every flash I've done, I ALWAYS lose (and can't get back for some reason) my Home Screen setups.
Q#1: What option in Ti-Ba SHOULD I be using to BACKUP?
Q#2: What option in Ti-Ba SHOULD I be using to RESTORE(to restore apps/data and home screen stuff?)
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it doesnt restore home screen setups
Not true it remembers my layout for launcher pro but not the widgets obviously. I only backup and restore user apps
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The main reason I even thought it did/SHOULD was because in some of the how-to videos, it clearly shows it being done, real time with Ti-Ba.... but - For whatever reason, it never works for me, using the exact same Batch command.
crystalhand said:
Not true it remembers my layout for launcher pro but not the widgets obviously. I only backup and restore user apps
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this is correct. it does NOT restore your widgets
this is for 3rd party like launcher pro
i dont believe it can restore touchwiz at all

[Q] Backing up homescreens with Titanium Backup

So im just looking to backup my home screens using Titanium Backup. Is there a way to do it? I noticed a "homescreen" entry under Backup/Restore but wondering if it will actually restore homescreens after backing it up. I know there is an option to back up the entire system, but dont know if it lets you restore individual pieces like batch app restore does.
It will restore your apps, but not your widgets. This is a limitation of Android.
Swyped from my Droid Bionic, unless I was in landscape, in which case I Swiftkeyed the hell out of it.

Backup questions

Hello, I'm new to having a rooted phone and doing back ups. I was wondering if there a app or something in titanium that can backup your ringtones settings for your contacts and your home screen, app folders? I am trying out the EclipticONE-Revamped-Inverted DEODEX 3.8 and for some reason it won't let me use htc backup to restore my homescreen and app folder setup.
Tsukiyohikage said:
Hello, I'm new to having a rooted phone and doing back ups. I was wondering if there a app or something in titanium that can backup your ringtones settings for your contacts and your home screen, app folders? I am trying out the EclipticONE-Revamped-Inverted DEODEX 3.8 and for some reason it won't let me use htc backup to restore my homescreen and app folder setup.
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Use ROMCleaner found in my SIG to restore your home screen as and folders
I no longer use titanium or HTC backup
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Thanks I'll look into it. It doesn't seem to be able to back up contacts or ringtones settings. Is there a app that can do this? I figured out how to backup contacts on titanium. I'm sorry if I sound like a noob, I'm trying to look things up and learning the stuff that goes with running a rooted phone.
I'm pretty sure TWRP/CWM backs up EVERYTHING. But you can't transfer that around from ROM to ROM.
You need not worry about contacts. Google backs that up for you.
When I used to be a flashaholic on my gs2, the only thing I would back up was doodle jump. I enjoyed having to toy with all the settings. Ringtones don't take so long to set up, do they?
Not really, I was just curious if there was a app that could do it. I'm trying out a few different roms to find one I like, so I figured I would ask just incase something like that was out there.

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