How does htc backup work. - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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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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] Unlock screen not showing

Right before the .902 update my swipe to unlock screen disappeared. I have since run the update hoping that would fix it. It did not. I re-rooted my phone, ran a backup with Titanium Backup, and performed a factory reset. The swipe to unlock screen came back and worked until i got to the point of restoring system data with Titanium Backup. At this point i am stuck with a phone that when woken goes right to the home screen without having to swipe. Given the timeline of when it stopped working again it has something to do with system data, but i have no idea what. Does anyone know what system data i should choose not to restore in order to regain this functionality?
you might have frozen a system app i would start freezing app by app till you find the culprit or follow the thread labeled apps you can freeze or something like that..
I have never frozen anything with the Titanium Backup, I use it strictly for backup and restore. I just double checked and nothing is frozen.
Try enabling disable loxkscreen I thinks it under sec rity maybe wiping dalvic and cache could do it sometimes that works for some odd reason
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I've tried enabling and disabling a pattern, password, and pin to no avail. How would I wipe dalvic and cache as you suggest?
You have recovery right ?
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Now that I think about it what exactly are you restoring in titanium meaning apps system app etc if you are restoring system app that might be the problem restore regular apps only see if that does it
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I'm not sure. I don't think so. I'm pretty new at this stuff.
Will that mean that I'll have to re setup all my ringtones, start all my games at the beginning, etc. if i don't restore the system data?
most likely its play your games from the begginging or keep your save point and have no lockscreen i am not 100 percent sure but that is the only thing i can think of i had to do that once it wasn't a lockscreen issue but i was a consistant force close issue reset titanium and didn't do system apps and it didn't force close anymore sometimes titanium is a problem someone chime in if i am off my rocker!!
let me ask this, what i would care about the most is not losing my texts. Do you know what system data would be responsible for that?
Not sure but I think there a SMS saver app don't know for I don't really care about texts
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there is one its called SMS backup and restore
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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

Truly and Completely Factory Restore

I have the HTC One via AT&T. In an effort to troubleshoot a couple minor annoyances, I have decided to factory restore my device. However, everytime I do, it doesn't truly wipe it completely clean. Yes, all the accounts and apps are wiped but there are still indications that it hasn't been truly factory restored. For instance, after a factory reset, I will go through the initial setup and immediately launch the TuneIn Radio app. The reason I do that is because I have a radio station saved to my favorites list in that app. I thought that a factory restoration would clear all those sorts of settings and so forth, yet my favorite radio station is still saved to that app. The TuneIn Radio app is one of AT&T's bloatware apps, so it's automatically installed after a factory reset. However, I've noticed the same is true with the MLB At Bat app, which I have to go out of my way to download from Google Play. Obviously At Bat isn't on the device after a factory restoration, so after launching Google Play and reinstalling it, you would think the app would operate as if it had never been downloaded before, but no. It still remembers the baseball team that I have marked as my favorite for the purposes of notifications. After a true factory restore, I would expect both the TuneIn app and the At Bat app to operate in a brand new fashion yet they both retain settings from prior to the hardware reset. Am I doing something wrong here? What am I missing? I have launched the Android system recovery and performed a "wipe data/factory reset" as well as a "wipe cache partition." Nothing seems to well and truly wipe this phone as if it was just opened from the packaging. Any ideas?
edit: The phone has not been rooted in any way.
Go into settings then backup and restore and turn off app data and settings restore.
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HTC>Samsung said:
Go into settings then backup and restore and turn off app data and settings restore.
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Under Settings, I can go into "Backup & reset." Once in there, there is a "Backup" option that I can turn off or on, but it's already off. Then there is a "Reset phone" option. Am I in the right place?
There should be another option, app data settings and restore, turn that one off.
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