I have have Zeus 6.28 rom. If I will flash to 6.3 rom with cwm and do "'wipe cache" all settings from rom 6.28 (like programs, account settings, contacts and etc) will be deleted or survive? Because I tired every time reinstall all programs and re-enter setting, paswords and etc. Titanium backup or My backup do not do everything.
First things first, before applying any new ROM make a Nandroid backup (the "Backup" option from the recovery), that way, if you do something wrong you can always go back to how it was before applying the new ROM.
Second, if you do ONLY a "wipe cache" then your settings should not be deleted, but only if the upgrade you apply is an upgrade and not a full ROM.
If i remember well, the 6.30 Zeus is a full ROM as in it contains the entire System (apps/settings), so if you have apps/settings that are system apps, they will be overwritten by the 6.30 ROM, but the user apps/settings will be left alone.
If you don't have the habit to use Titanium Backup's "Convert to system app" feature then you should be safe since the system apps are the same in 6.28 and 6.30.
P.S. as I stated at the beginning, if you make a backup you can always go back to that version in case something goes wrong. To go back to a backup version, boot into recovery, wipe the cache and the dalvic cache too (don't know if it's needed, but it's safer), select "Backup & restore", select "Restore" and then select the backup that you want to restore, wait for it to finish, then reboot the phone and you should be at the version you had (with apps/settings) when you made the backup.
P.S.2 When i upgraded to Zeus 6.30 I've lost many apps since i usually convert my mostly used apps to system apps, but the user apps where all left unchanged. The Contacts, SMS and call log were also unharmed.
maybe somebody could write fastest way how prepare system (backup and etc) for fast settings, apks bring back after re-flashing rom, because now it's took for me about ~2 hours for re-installing programs, entering passwords and etc. I do everything with titanium backup or My backup, but maybe I do something wrong.
i have problems with 6.35.. i was from 6.11, did wipe data/factory reset, then installed 6.3, then installed 6.35.. since then my phone is laggy.. do i have to go to 6.33b, then 6.35 to fix the lag on zeus?
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nevermind, for some unknown issue, lag disappeared after few reboots..
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Hi guys,
I wanted to check out android 2.1 flan, so I installed the rom after making a nandroid backup.
It was fun to check out, but in order to load it I had to wipe my phone and my cache.
After restoring my nandroid, all the applications I had installed but wiped with the cache are acting funny. Basically they still show up in manage applications, but they really arent there, and if I try to reinstall them through market it doesnt let me click install OR uninstall as both are greyed out.
Basically, I will have to wait for all my applications to get "updates" before I can use them again.
Is there a way to clean up these ghost programs... without doing a complete wipe (and loosing text messages and other things)?
I didnt think Nandroid did application backups (what you are seeing are in the ext3 partition)
You need Switchrom or BART to do full backups including apps
I may be (and no dount will be) wrong though.
sjbayer3 said:
Hi guys,
I wanted to check out android 2.1 flan, so I installed the rom after making a nandroid backup.
It was fun to check out, but in order to load it I had to wipe my phone and my cache.
After restoring my nandroid, all the applications I had installed but wiped with the cache are acting funny. Basically they still show up in manage applications, but they really arent there, and if I try to reinstall them through market it doesnt let me click install OR uninstall as both are greyed out.
Basically, I will have to wait for all my applications to get "updates" before I can use them again.
Is there a way to clean up these ghost programs... without doing a complete wipe (and loosing text messages and other things)?
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As mentioned above, nandroid *does not* back up your external apps. It will ONLY backup your *INTERNAL* storage.
If you make a clean restore of your nandroid backup and then run the fix_permissions script from recovery, it *might* be able to fix (some/most of) your external apps. Might try that.
If it doesn't work, then it is a tedious business of reinstalling each application individually and then restoring *ITS* home directory. Either that or a total wipe (internal and external).
The problem is that the database file that keeps track of which apps you have installed/removed is out of sync with the apps that you have installed.
I am uncertain how to fix this (I have the same problem myself).
If you perform a factory wipe, you'll lose that database entirely. All your apps will be installed, but your phone will think that none of them are.
UPDATE:
OK...apparently this is a more widespread issue impacting people running the stock/OEM ROMs as well as those of us with rooted phones.
Read up on this thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=096ef069db2788e9&hl=en
I followed the suggestion near the bottom of the page and copied over the /data/data/com.andriod.vending/databases/assets.db to a new filename (basically I renamed it).
I then launched the market app and then it would let me install (reinstall) the missing apps.
Then I ran into a problem. I deleted the new assets.db that was created and copied the old one (the one I renamed) back to assets.db.
Then the market app would force close. I noticed the UID of the assets.db file was wrong.
I ran the fix_permissions script from RA's recovery image. This fixed the UID problem, including the assets.db file. But now the market app only shows the apps that I've paid for......none of the others that I have installed.
Not sure what's going on there. It may sort itself out within 24 hours.
I have tried everything that i know off but my apps come back to hunt me like a ghosts. I've gone to recovery and wipe everything in th list, reformat my SD card, and repartition it. Everytime I wipe and flash a new rom after a couple of minutes all my old apps get load up on my phone with out me doing nothing. I've been having some problems with my phone and i truly want to wipe it. any help will be appreciated.
As of Eclair, your apps are automatically re-installed when you sign-in after flashing a rom. I'm guessing it's the "Back up my data" option under Settings>Privacy settings that's handling the restore.
so if i don't want all my apps to restore on my next wipe & flash i should turn off both "back up my data" and "Automatic Restore"
I'm not entirely sure if that'll work or not because I really like my apps being restored.
Have you tried uninstalling the apps and forcing a google sync?
Hopefully I can be of some help for you, hit me up on gtalk if you need any more help.
[email protected]
I recall there being on-screen instructions during Google login....
Where it asks to backup your settings on Google don't check it.. then it won't backup or restore settings. (Including installed market apps)
I went ahead and uninstall all my apps, also unchecked "back up My data" and "Automatic Restore" and used Factory data Reset under Privacy Settings. Phone said it needed to reboot... it did.. all my apps loaded again
Hi,
general question about upgrading a new firmware.
When I do that and I got a "wipe" firmware, I usually wipe and reinstall everything and reconfigure all my apps.
It takes a while but, as seasoned windows user, I know this is the best way to have a clean and full speed installation so to avoid "registry" cluttering.
Is this applicable also to Android? Or using Nandroid or Titanium I can restore my apps with "messing up" with my shiny new firmware?
It is quite quick to put your credentials on facebook or foursquare but all the word learnt by swype or all rebuild all the folders structure is taking a while...
Thanks
Sergio
Using Titanium Backup, you can just backup user apps and data, and leave system apps alone. Then when you upgrade to a new firmware (I recently went from KK5 to KL8) you can use your Titanium Backup just to restore the user apps and data you backed up, and leave the system apps and data alone. That way you'll have only the system app data from your new ROM, but all the user apps and data from your old one.
When I flashed my new ROM, I went ahead and selected to restore all user and system apps and data. Of course I can't tell you how my phone's performance compares to if I hadn't done so, but I can tell you that my phone is faster (because of the new code, I'm sure) than it was before, and I'm having absolutely no issues whatsoever.
I do my ROM backup using ROM Manager by CWM, app + data backup using TBP and EFS folder using kTool. It always works well.
In one of the stock LA1 firmware threads in the dev section (stock LA1 is a wipe firmware) a user has reported success by restoring his data partition from a previous Nandroid backup.
Haven't tried it myself, as I agree with your approach of starting from a "clean" slate. Android doesn't have a registry, but the DBDATA partition could be considered similar?
I prefer the clean slate approach, but after I instructed my Custom Dictionary for one month and organized all my apps in nice folders I wanted to understand if there are risks here.
It is not clear for me what are also the information related to a certain fw that an apps saves... is that possibile for instance to do a restore in ICS of a backup done in Gingerbread?
Sergio
Phone model: LG Optimus 2x (P990)
Rooted: Yes, of course.
Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1762494
Hello people!
I need some help restoring my SMS chat with all my friends. I came from the stock LG rom (bought the phone in Denmark, so it's probably some danish/nordic version).
I backed up all my system files + apps using Titanium Backup pro, which included something like "Phone/Messaging Storage (version 4.0.4-eng.tonyp.20120904.052245(SMS/MMS/APN)". After doing so I flashed ParanoidAndroid Build 11 + Hybrid Gapps v2, by first doing factory reset, cache/dalvik cache wipe & battery stats.
I rebooted the phone twice & installed Titanium Backup pro, then went into "Backup/Restore" went down to "Phone/Messaging Storage (version 4.0.4-eng.tonyp.20120904.052245(SMS/MMS/APN)" pressed it and chose restore. It asked what I would like to restore, but I could only choose 'only data'. When that was done, it told me to restart so I did. However, after doing the restart, I keep getting this message:
"Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped."
The error window started appearing when I went into the SMS app thing, and is still showing even after shutting it down.
I have now done a clean install of ParanoidAndroid again, and I do not have this error anymore.
However when ever I try to restore my Messaging it keeps giving me the same problem.
Help me! What should I do in order to restore my beloved chat log? I got some valuable information there.
There are several ways.
TB automatically creates an SMS/MMS backup, but it's labeled "Messages". Look for a TB-icon (Yellow star) labeled "Messages" or possibly a translated string. Restore data for that one. Threads with MMSes in them will not show the correct title, however, this will auto-repair itself after you receive an SMS.
Anther way is to go back to your original ROM, and choose "More/Backup data to XML", and store the file on your SD-card or on a cloud-server TB supports, then "Restore data from XML" on your new ROM.
Use 'super backup' to restore ur contacts
Thanks for the answer! I got it fixed.
TrymHansen said:
There are several ways.
Anther way is to go back to your original ROM, and choose "More/Backup data to XML", and store the file on your SD-card or on a cloud-server TB supports, then "Restore data from XML" on your new ROM.
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This is exactly what I did, but I'm getting a failure to restore error. any ideas?
Hello,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S III mini VE N, GT-I8200N which is rooted.
Those last days, it was unstable (reboot loops) and decide to reinstall it by reflash it and restore the application data.
For that, I used Titanium Backup Pro, where I created an update.zip file with all applications. And I also did a full backup on the external SD card.
So :
1. wipe the data
2. reflash a ROM from Sammobile
3. re-root the phone + update.zip with all data in recovery mode
4. reconfigure the system settings (I didn't dared restore the system settings from a corrupted system backup, only the apps).
Everything seemed ok, but once I reboot the phone, I see Titanium Backup launches a scheduled restore, that restores everything, including the system settings. And after that, I get the same problems as before : boot loops, application that crashes : clock, Google Play Services, Skype, ...
I am sure the problem is related to that automatic scheduled restore from Titanium : if I do steps 1-4 (skipping 2 because), restore only user apps and data, and fast uninstall Titanium, I can use my phone as before.
I even removed TitaniumBackup folders, but Titanium Backup still seems to find some backup somewhere.
And I see it keeps my settings from previous, because I checked the "persist" setting.
Is there a way to erase all data from Titanium Backup, especially that ghost restore scheduled job?
I don't seem to find a similar problem on the forum or other websites...
Kind regards,
Xavier.
EDIT: FIXED by myself : I removed Titanium Backup related data /storage/extSdCard/data/ and in /data/data by finding "com.keramides" and "titanium".
The app has forgotten its corrupted settings and is working fine now.