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Looking for a good backup app to use to save all my apps on a stock captivate...phone keeps randomly shutting down had enough but want to save my paid for apps.
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Flyy58 said:
Looking for a good backup app to use to save all my apps on a stock captivate...phone keeps randomly shutting down had enough but want to save my paid for apps.
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Appbrain will do the trick. It will not save the settings but when you get your replacement phone you will be able to log in and sync/restore your current apps. Only way I know outside of rooting which in your case I would not to make sure they take your current phone back
Captivate
Cog 2.2
Doesn't the market retain what one has downloaded & installed?
the post says it all. i am a noob when it comes to bionic and want to free up my memory (internal) what would be the EASIEST way to accomplish this?directions please with sugar on top.
Root Explorer... navigate to /system/app.
I always make a folder on my SD like "SystemApps" then I move what I don't want out to that folder as opposed to just deleting them, just in case I find out something is acting weird or needed.
"Some" of the bloat can be uninstalled via the built in App Manager also.
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This really should not be in the development section. Until we have a way to back everything up via recovery the only way you can do anything like that is through rooting and using Titanium backup. You can either freeze or uninstall any app. I would not uninstall anything without backing it up first. All I have done is freeze some bloatware so I do not have to see it in the app list. You can really f up your phone if you remove the wrongs stuff. A there is a list somewhere of which apps you can freeze without issues.
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Already rooted and you can already back up
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Ok downloaded root explorer but can't create a new folder is read only how do I alter that
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At the top it says r/o read only press it and itll change to r/w read write
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After uninstalling some bloat ware i got a force close when trying to access some of my contacs anyone have a list of what they unistalled? ?
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nrage23 said:
This really should not be in the development section. Until we have a way to back everything up via recovery the only way you can do anything like that is through rooting and using Titanium backup. You can either freeze or uninstall any app. I would not uninstall anything without backing it up first. All I have done is freeze some bloatware so I do not have to see it in the app list. You can really f up your phone if you remove the wrongs stuff. A there is a list somewhere of which apps you can freeze without issues.
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THIS!!!
I am no where near an expert as some of the Devs in these forums, but I went through a lot of ROMs on my old Eris. Every time, though, I had a Nand backup to go to if/when I screwed up.
Now that I have a nice, new, shiny Bionic I will not root until there is an SBF to allow a return to stock. Yep, people like P3Droid, and others, have successfully rooted and debloated. All it takes, though, is some little glitch, power spike or otherwise, to screw things up. Actually, reading a few forums there are more than a few that have already bricked or really hamstrung their $600 phone by just rooting and borking around trying to debloat.
Patience people. Within 2, 3, 4 weeks I'm sure one of our Dev wizards will have a failsafe method ... WITH BACKUP RESTORE CAPABILITIES.
I just group up my apps to eliminate viewing the bloat. My phone is fine. Fools rush in, for sure.
On a side note: I've seen a couple people mention on other forums that they have bricked their phones and committed fraud by returning their smoldering remnants back to Verizon. Slackers.
GertBFrobe said:
THIS!!!
I am no where near an expert as some of the Devs in these forums, but I went through a lot of ROMs on my old Eris. Every time, though, I had a Nand backup to go to if/when I screwed up.
Now that I have a nice, new, shiny Bionic I will not root until there is an SBF to allow a return to stock. Yep, people like P3Droid, and others, have successfully rooted and debloated. All it takes, though, is some little glitch, power spike or otherwise, to screw things up. Actually, reading a few forums there are more than a few that have already bricked or really hamstrung their $600 phone by just rooting and borking around trying to debloat.
Patience people. Within 2, 3, 4 weeks I'm sure one of our Dev wizards will have a failsafe method ... WITH BACKUP RESTORE CAPABILITIES.
I just group up my apps to eliminate viewing the bloat. My phone is fine. Fools rush in, for sure.
On a side note: I've seen a couple people mention on other forums that they have bricked their phones and committed fraud by returning their smoldering remnants back to Verizon. Slackers.
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Wow is this really needed??????? Suck it up and root the stupid thing.............. its a one click process......... if your not willing to take a risk get off XDA
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What did you use to back up your bionic?
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I'm guessing Titanium Backup. But here's my question.... Is it safer to 'freeze' bloatware instead of moving it into a new folder on your SD card?
As long as you don't delete it when you move it then either option is good from my experience worth moto phones
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Ok I have done both renamed bloat files .bak and moved them into their own folder in my sdcard , my question is how do I free up internal memory? When I do either of those sure it removes then from my application drawer but it doesn't free up any memory?
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Bull174 said:
After uninstalling some bloat ware i got a force close when trying to access some of my contacs anyone have a list of what they unistalled? ?
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You may have uninstalled the Yahoo contacts. You can find a System App dump from here: http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/tbh-discussion-forum/9081-droid-bionic-system-dumps-partial.html
Hope this helps
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I'm guessing Titanium Backup. But here's my question.... Is it safer to 'freeze' bloatware instead of moving it into a new folder on your SD card?
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It's always safer to freeze the bloatware. This way if your phone starts to act up, all you have to do is defrost whatever you froze.
That did the trick thanks Idk why Yahoo is tired to that process.
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I deleted a bunch of bloat ware but it doesn't say that I cleared up any internal memory anybody know why?
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I know this is opinionated, but what apps are bloatware? Let's say I have all the apps I want to use already on a backup and I am starting the Bionic clean. What can I uninstall or move that won't mess up the phone?
There is a list of files ok and not ok to delete at androicentral.com check it out great source.
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We've also compiled a list over at AF for your perusal. Messenger13 has added his own commentary as to what he did and did not remove and why.
http://androidforums.com/bionic-all-things-root/411737-froze-stuff-using-tbu.html#post3199282
I'm always looking to find new, wonderful apps, so, out of all the apps on your Bionic (which you've added from the market, not stock), which would you miss the most if they were to suddenly disappear from the Android world, and why?
For me:
1) FBReader (as I love reading Ebooks, and the Bionic screen is good enough to make reading on it worthwhile)
2) JuiceDefender Ultimate (WiFi control and nearly 2x battery life improvement? Yes, please)
hmm
friendcaster cause the fb app sucks
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xda cause i love reading up on the new gadgets n mods
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Pulse - what else is there for reading the news
Stitcher - Definitely helps with the long drive to work
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Can I say one that was already removed?
Better Keyboard as well as all the other "Better___" apps.
They were kicked off the market cuz of some copywrite violation.
Elixir - One stop shopping for everything going on with your phone.
Caustic - Its like having Reason in your pocket! (for all you musicians)
I've heard recently that FL Studio is coming to Android very soon...can't wait!
Tivo7 said:
Can I say one that was already removed?
Better Keyboard as well as all the other "Better___" apps.
They were kicked off the market cuz of some copywrite violation.
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I'd like that one back also. I bought that app and can no longer download it.
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One app I miss is SNESOID. It was removed a while back and some other developers have been taking it's spot, and in some cases posting the exact same app. I still have the app, but it's a shame that the original SNES emulator for android is no longer up.
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Evernote because it's the all around best note taker/organizer for what I do, and Runkeeper, because it's a great motivator and tracker and saves at least $100 as I don't faced to buy a separate device.
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Tasker - without it, my smartphone feels dumb.
Springpad - better than even Evernote at keeping my life in order.
Swyped from my Droid Bionic, unless I was in landscape, in which case I Swiftkeyed the hell out of it.
DROID iris and fishing 2 go.
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If we're talking root related apps that's hard, bootstrap, CWM, root explorer, and titanium backup. Non rooted apps I'd say dolphin HD and hex defense.
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One app I miss is SNESOID. It was removed a while back and some other developers have been taking it's spot, and in some cases posting the exact same app. I still have the app, but it's a shame that the original SNES emulator for android is no longer up.
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DroidEmu is basically the same thing, but it includes all Atari, Sega, and Nintendo systems. The UI is identical
Way back when I had a Droid 1, there was a very simple app on there (it came with the phone) that was simply called "news and weather". How can I go about getting that little thing back? It was clean and simple... and I was quite upset when I changed phones and lost it.
Any help here would be awesome! My daughter has a Droid 1, but it is not rooted and I really don't want to mess with her phone or possibly break it simply to try and get that. Any ideas?
As long as it's not a moto blur app you should be able to rip the app from her ROM then push it to your phone. If the app FCs, then it was not meant to happen. You may have to root the Droid to rip the app.
Alternatively, you could just ask someone for the app in the Droid forum here on xda. Then just copy it to the correct app folder.
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Is there any good app other than TiBu that can backup apps and data? What can you recommend?
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My Backup Pro. Is the best backup app around according to me. In TB you have to go to individual app in the selection and chose. He you can back up every damn thing on the phone with just few steps. And restoring is why too easy.
It has a lite version too. 1 month trial. Trust me..I have used TB before but now I use this is absolutely wonderful
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What is the big difference between mybackuppro and mybackuproot?
Do you have to confirm every installation of app like with TB? thats pretty annoying ^^
Is it possible to shedule like saving changes in data or newer version?
Can't go wrong purchasing Titanium Backup Pro !! Well worth it. Plus supporting the Dev as well with the buy.
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Echo237 said:
My Backup Pro. Is the best backup app around according to me. In TB you have to go to individual app in the selection and chose. He you can back up every damn thing on the phone with just few steps. And restoring is why too easy.
It has a lite version too. 1 month trial. Trust me..I have used TB before but now I use this is absolutely wonderful
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But you are completely wrong.
If you buy the Pro version of TB, you can batch restore, batch backup, batch delete etc. etc. LOTS of things you can do all at once, like verify all backups, it goes on and on.
Mybackup PRO you have to buy as well and it isn't as nice as TB when it comes to app backup and restore.
But MBP has better functions to save SMS/Contacts/Call Log/APN etc.
TB can only save Wifi, Call log, SMS and one other thing I can't recall.
Titanium Pro is the best app I've ever purchased (twice, actually). But if you are cheap MyBackupPro Root is free.
Useboth TiBu and My backup root. mbr is free, and TiBu pro does a much faster restore than My Backup Root. MBR dies a better job on text messages,etc as previously said.
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But you are completely wrong.
If you buy the Pro version of TB, you can batch restore, batch backup, batch delete etc. etc. LOTS of things you can do all at once, like verify all backups, it goes on and on.
Mybackup PRO you have to buy as well and it isn't as nice as TB when it comes to app backup and restore.
But MBP has better functions to save SMS/Contacts/Call Log/APN etc.
TB can only save Wifi, Call log, SMS and one other thing I can't recall.
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I have used the free version of TB only
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If you are looking for the best way to keep your data and app info in intact Tibu pro is worth the money in my opinion. For me it's the only way to go when trying to restore and keep my data across different ROMs.
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+1 TiBu pro... Well worth the money.
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Well I have restored from Gingerbread to Gingerbread before with no issues.
I backed up with TiBu and tried to go from Gingerbread to ICS and had nothing but headaches. About 60 apps won't install and keep giving me errors such as 'parsing package' etc. and THERE IS NO HELP ONLINE TO SOLVE THIS ERROR.
So I can no longer recommend Titanium Backup.
I would say use multiple backup software BUT DO NOT DEPEND ON TIBU ALONE.
If you haven't bought it, don't, not until they can fix this issue or explain why it happens.
If u restored system apps or system data after going to ics from gb, that would cause issues. Not saying u did...just sayin. Or the apps (some) may not be compatible with ics.
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I did NOT restore system data or system apps.
The apps I'm restoring are compatible, I'm sure of that because some of them are updated and the same version as the market which installs them just fine.
Restoring system data or apps wouldn't cause the package parsing error anyway.
TiBu has some glitches that the developers NEVER fixed and NEVER documented or explained.
So until they can resolve what this package parsing error is, I recommend you either use 2 solutions or stay away from TiBu entirely.
I need a app that can do backups to individual apps titanium backup doesn't worm for me it says insuficient storage and I tried everything, and my backup pro was a waste of money