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[Q]-Transfering apps via titanium backup

I am the recent and happy owner of an HP touchpad dual booting webOS and android. I also have a nook color running android but unlike the touchpad, it's not running ICS. I used TB on my nook to back up several apps I'd like to move over to the touchpad. On the touchpad, I installed TB and had it run a back up of apps so it would create the folder. I then copied over the backup files from the nook into the TB folder on the touchpad. For some reason though, TB is not picking up the apps from the nook. It only sees its own backup files. Is there something I should do?
I can use file explorer, browse into that folder, find a backup file from the nook, open it and install the apk from there but that's not 100% and quite cumbersome.

I uninstalled tb and reinstalled it, pretty sure that's how I got it working. Its amazing how nice most of the games and apps work!
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mrtomaso said:
I uninstalled tb and reinstalled it, pretty sure that's how I got it working. Its amazing how nice most of the games and apps work!
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Thanks for the tip. It didn't take reinstalling to fix it but simply clearing TB's cache. This response gave me that idea

[Q] Apps restore

Is there any program to make backup of apps, but only names (not APKs, not data etc.)?
I want to mass download all my apps, that I had before, but using Google Play.

Hi,
Ultimate Backup provides an option to share your list of installed apps. It can even include the Play Store link and version.
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Ultimate Backup is the best .. but titanium backup is not bad

You can try MyBackup but it may be a problem to backup only names. I tried backup only apk. It works but when i tried to load backup on new soft it fall in bootloop. But i think on rooted phone it will work well

but when you restore programs after flashing a new rom it´s possible that you "build" bugs...for example flashing ics and then restore app´s which were installed under gb isn´t so good

If I got it right, then the question was how to export a list of installed apps to be able to install them again from Market. Manually that would be, without a backup of APK or app data.

with appbrain and also with the last relase of Market you can see the storyline of your app installed in your device

Guys, first of all - thanks for replying.
My idea is to "backup" apps without backing up any APKs or data (DO CLEAN INSTALL DOWNLOADING LATEST VERSIONS OF APPS) to prevent any bugs on new ROM.
Elentirmo74, yes, something like that.
So, for now the only solution is to use Appbrain storyline or Google Play Store history.

Play store has a list of all apps you have ever installed across all devices. That sounds like all you need as you can then redownload and install the ones you want.
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Backup Kindle Fire HD partition

Hi there,
simple question, how can i backup full kindle fire hd partitions? The reason is that i love to test other ROMs. So my idea is that i simply copy
every block device here -- > /dev/block/mmcblk* , and then installin other one ROM.
If i would like to resume to my previsous system, i should only copy all of these files back to kindle.
Am i true ?
The reason why is that i want to restore whole system with every installed apps + cachce + everything else i got. Titanium prog is not usefull for me, because i cannot restore a lot of apps created on STOCK or Kinology ROMs, on other ROM, like Chameleon, Paranoid ..etc.
Will be appreciate if somebody help, despite of broking my dreams about such simple restore method
Cheers

dagelo said:
Hi there,
simple question, how can i backup full kindle fire hd partitions? The reason is that i love to test other ROMs. So my idea is that i simply copy
every block device here -- > /dev/block/mmcblk* , and then installin other one ROM.
If i would like to resume to my previsous system, i should only copy all of these files back to kindle.
Am i true ?
The reason why is that i want to restore whole system with every installed apps + cachce + everything else i got. Titanium prog is not usefull for me, because i cannot restore a lot of apps created on STOCK or Kinology ROMs, on other ROM, like Chameleon, Paranoid ..etc.
Will be appreciate if somebody help, despite of broking my dreams about such simple restore method
Cheers
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The most obvious and easiest way, in my opinion - nandroid backup. You have an option to make a reserve copy of your system in custom recovery.

[Q] Titanium Backup/Restore

Semi Newb here, bear with me (came from IOS). Im having trouble with the restore process after I flashed a Rom for the first time (Pure Shamu). Prior to flashing the ROM is was on stock 5.0, unlocked, rooted. The process I went through to flash Pure Shamu.....1. Full Wipe 2. Wipe Cache 3. Flash Pure Shamu 4. Flash GAPPS 5. Flash SuperSU 6. Reboot. After I rebooted, I was asked to enter a password for Android. Upon searching, I found out this was do to the fact I was still encrypted. Wasn't positive how to get unencrypted without flashing a new kernel so I went ahead and flashed Franco Kernel. Everything then booted normally.
This is where I ran into problems with Titanium. I went to the Play Store and downloaded Titanium and proceeded to restore from the backup I created when I was stock. I made a back up of "all user apps + system data" The restore process seemed to go smoothly but once it was complete, hardly any of my apps actually restored. There is a huge list of apps in Titanium that are greyed out and and have a line strike though them. Im really not sure why this is happening. From what I have searched, I guess I can just redownload all of these apps from the PlayStore, but that seems like it defeats the purpose of backing stuff up. There are also items that are listed that aren't apps, ex: "Android System WebView, Android Work Assistant" among many others. I don't know what these do but they must do something since they were backed up.
I feel like Im banging my head against the wall with this whole process of flashing ROMS and restoring everything on the phone. The whole process seems very convoluted and not streamlined at all. I hear about people flashing different ROMS almost daily and it makes me wonder how they have the time. The actual flashing process is quick but this restore process has taken me forever. Maybe Im just doing it all wrong. If anyone could offer some advice, I'd be greatly appreciative. Thanks

1. Never restore system apps with TB!
2. Grayed apps with strike are not installed but you can restore them,
white apps are already installed/restored,
red and yellow aps are system apps.
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Atomregen said:
1. Never restore system apps with TB!
2. Grayed apps with strike are not installed but you can restore them,
white apps are already installed/restored,
red and yellow aps are system apps.
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Can you elaborate on that please? Why should I never restore system apps from TB? How would I prevent them from restoring?
Also what are all these other things that are greyed out that are not apps.

When you restore system apps, it usually comes to problems because the version of this can be different.
To restore user applications only, go to batch and restore all applications and data and uncheck all system apps.
For me there are no other gray things.
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Atomregen said:
1. Never restore system apps with TB!
2. Grayed apps with strike are not installed but you can restore them,
white apps are already installed/restored,
red and yellow aps are system apps.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Free mobile app
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Sorry to drag this topic up again but I had one more question regarding backups. Is titanium also supposed to backup media (music, photos, videos, etc). From what I can see it is only for backing up apps and texts/call logs etc. It also doesn't appear to backup any settings within apps (maybe it should and isn't?).
What is the best way to backup media besides just keeping a copy on my comp and dragging it to device storage?
If anyone can assist me, that would be great. Thanks

Transfer app data to a new tablet (not Amazon Fire)

Hi,
I got a new Samsung and want to transfer the app data to the new tablet. Fire HD tablet is rooted and had Titanium Backup and Helium. The new tablet is not rooted and can only run Helium.
Helium on Fire HD does not appear to work as it generate error about desktop backup password is not blank. There is no setting in developer option to set it.
Titanium Backup data can be transferred out. But I don't have root on the Samsung so I can't restore it there.
What option do I have?
Thanks

redhonker said:
Hi,
I got a new Samsung and want to transfer the app data to the new tablet. Fire HD tablet is rooted and had Titanium Backup and Helium. The new tablet is not rooted and can only run Helium.
Helium on Fire HD does not appear to work as it generate error about desktop backup password is not blank. There is no setting in developer option to set it.
Titanium Backup data can be transferred out. But I don't have root on the Samsung so I can't restore it there.
What option do I have?
Thanks
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You could monkey around with adb push/pull, 'air dropping' between devices or various other geek centric approaches. Your best best IMHO is to shove what you want to preserve into a freebie cloud service such a Google Drive and then suck it down to the new device if/when needed.

DB126 said:
You could monkey around with adb push/pull, 'air dropping' between devices or various other geek centric approaches. Your best best IMHO is to shove what you want to preserve into a freebie cloud service such a Google Drive and then suck it down to the new device if/when needed.
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adb won't be able to push the app data into the new device as I don't have root access on it.

redhonker said:
adb won't be able to push the app data into the new device as I don't have root access on it.
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Exactly - although you could probably butcher something up which likely wouldn't work well in the end. Google device backup and/or raw file transfer is probably (almost certainly) your best path sans root.

So I'm trapped with Fire HD, right? I guess I'd have to root the new device.