Best way to use TiBu?
I'm about to update from one Knoxraid KK rom to the latest, AT&T based Knoxraid rom.
After a complete wipe and rom install, what is really the best way for a TiBu restore? I backup "All user apps + system data". Conservatively, I usually restore "Missing apps with data". Can can I restore "missing apps plus all system data"?... or, Can I safely use the system data items that are green in TiBu?
Any ideas?
I highly recommend avoiding system app restoring. Just do a "missing apps restore", but only check the apps YOU'VE installed previously that aren't red. Green and yellow are ok.
Related
I just rooted my phone and I backed up all my apps using "Backup all user apps+system data" in Titanium Backup. I now want to uninstall most of the ATT apps but when I click uninstall I get the message "You have no backup of the current version of this app. Do want to uninstall it?" I click no because I don't want to lose it forever if something goes wrong. How do back up those apps?
Ami supposed to click delete or uninstall it?
You can delete those I [think]. You should be able to flash back to the stock rom, which [should] restore those apps. If you lose them, there's the ATT side of the Market, and always other apps that are generally better than the bloatware.
Water Bottle said:
I just rooted my phone and I backed up all my apps using "Backup all user apps+system data" in Titanium Backup. I now want to uninstall most of the ATT apps but when I click uninstall I get the message "You have no backup of the current version of this app. Do want to uninstall it?" I click no because I don't want to lose it forever if something goes wrong. How do back up those apps?
Ami supposed to click delete or uninstall it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Piece of advice only back up user data. Restoring system data can cause tons of issues if the rom is built using a different build. Example. Restoring system data from the stock rom 2.1 and restoring it to a rom based off of 2.2 will cause issues and sometimes a boot loop
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
Im using romtoolbox pro, and im updating "ALL apps" including system apps. And im planning to restore everything. So im wondering if zv8 has any up to date system apps, such as dialer etc. and if i press "Restore all" would it override the "up to date system apps" and downgrade it? or do i not have to worry?
http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards...volution-software-update-03-slash-16-slash-12
Rom Toolbox Pro's backup is "Ultimate Backup". I use this program regularly and it only restores apps you have downloaded and that is all in /data/apps. Any OTA or THEME will only replace all or some of your /system files. But if going from LG/Stock to Broken Out or any other ROM you need to data wipe.
Ok. So I'm new to a lot of this....I'm installing a new update of firekat V7 from V6. My question is I have I wipe and install correct and if so. Can I backup all my user apps and data using titanium and restore it all back again or do I have to start fresh pretty much? Would it cause any conflicts?
Yes. That is what it is for. You can even backup system data.
If you ever have a major update, or change ROMs completely do not ever restore system data. Just apps and app data.
So just in your case, just backup you apps and app data and then do the normal steps to install your update. After you are booted you can install it from the play store and then restore your apps.
I suggest getting the pro key as well. It will allow you to batch restore all the apps.
This is probably very noob of me but I'll ask it anyways...... This just dawned on me to back up everything via titanium Backup then use the file to restore on new custom ROMs. Instead if using Google back up to download everytime. Can I presumably download like Pico gapps with virtually nothing, back up all my user and system apps with titanium Backup then restore everything everything on the new rom and I'll have all the apps and system apps from my previous rom?
If I back up user apps and system apps with titanium Backup then restore will my call logs, texts, etc also be installed?
mikeprius said:
This is probably very noob of me but I'll ask it anyways...... This just dawned on me to back up everything via titanium Backup then use the file to restore on new custom ROMs. Instead if using Google back up to download everytime. Can I presumably download like Pico gapps with virtually nothing, back up all my user and system apps with titanium Backup then restore everything everything on the new rom and I'll have all the apps and system apps from my previous rom?
If I back up user apps and system apps with titanium Backup then restore will my call logs, texts, etc also be installed?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Rule #1 as you will see as you get more into this you NEVER restore "system" apps this will create FC - force closures and errors all day long. Only restore user apps and data.
If coming from a Samsung going to a Nexus for example, you would TiBu all your users apps/data on Samsung to restore to Nexus. You do not have to restore the Google backup you can...but more senior people like me setup device as a new device. Google restore does not bring over your user data and settings like TiBu will. TiBu will give you exactly what the app was like on the old device....google will not in majority of cases...for me none.
- TiBu user app/data and no system data
- Setup new device as new and restore TiBu app/data. Can do the Google it you like and then let TiBu overwrite it
You can install the Pico gapps. Let's say you had a new rom without Google Newstand...even if it was not in the gapps your TiBu would restore it just fine with no issues.... But the gapps does add other background google services you need not visible to eye like apps...but the apps can fully come from your backup even if they dont exist on the new device.
No you will not get your call log, etc since you do not restore system info. But there are third party apps that can back that up if that is that important. I use apps like Textra and not device messaging apps so when TiBu restores Textra I get it all back old messages\etc....again you do not want to restore 'red' system apps but find 3rd party apps that backup call log, text (if google app), etc.
What if it's the same device but different rom. Would restoring system apps also create issues
mikeprius said:
What if it's the same device but different rom. Would restoring system apps also create issues
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Still you do not want to do that....you could be dealing with a phone that is the same but the build version of the OS could be different and those systems updates could have different version numbers. So restoring systems adds that are not exact as the previous could result in bad situation.
If you are going from same device to same device, then you can backup...do a TWRP or Nandroid backup which will give you an image backup of exactly what you have with data and system.
If you do a full backup, you could experiment and gamble doing it your way and if it goes back...just restore the backup.
parcou said:
Still you do not want to do that....you could be dealing with a phone that is the same but the build version of the OS could be different and those systems updates could have different version numbers. So restoring systems adds that are not exact as the previous could result in bad situation.
If you are going from same device to same device, then you can backup...do a TWRP or Nandroid backup which will give you an image backup of exactly what you have with data and system.
If you do a full backup, you could experiment and gamble doing it your way and if it goes back...just restore the backup.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the info. I'll just stick with the user apps and back them into a folder. You also recommended textra for texts? So it will just back up like a normal user app and you can keep all your text messages that way?