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[Q] Backing up/restoring apps

I've been running Cog 2.2B7 ever since it first came out. I like it fine. But I am thinking of maybe going with a Perception rom to try out the HSUPA and built-in lag fix. I've accumulated tons of apps on my phone.
What is the best way to save the state of my phone so after flashing to a new rom I can restore it quickly without having to go and download 50 or so apps all over again.
I have Titanium Backup, but havent really used it much for backing up/restoring apps. Last time I used it I backed up all the AT&T bloatware apps then uninstalled them. However I was unable to re-install them from the Titanium backups. So, I thought it was a waste.
I also have the premium version of ROM Manager. I've made several Nandroid backups but everytime I go to restore one of those backups the restore process crashes, every single time.
I guess all in all, I have had **** for luck with backing up and restoring.
Any advice or instructions would be appreciated. Thanks!

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derek4484 said:
I've been running Cog 2.2B7 ever since it first came out. I like it fine. But I am thinking of maybe going with a Perception rom to try out the HSUPA and built-in lag fix. I've accumulated tons of apps on my phone.
What is the best way to save the state of my phone so after flashing to a new rom I can restore it quickly without having to go and download 50 or so apps all over again.
I have Titanium Backup, but havent really used it much for backing up/restoring apps. Last time I used it I backed up all the AT&T bloatware apps then uninstalled them. However I was unable to re-install them from the Titanium backups. So, I thought it was a waste.
I also have the premium version of ROM Manager. I've made several Nandroid backups but everytime I go to restore one of those backups the restore process crashes, every single time.
I guess all in all, I have had **** for luck with backing up and restoring.
Any advice or instructions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Most of the ROMs have a wipe and nowipe version. If you install the no wipe version, all your apps and settings are still present after flashing. If you need to install a wipe version, Titanium backup is the best thing.. Here are the steps:
1. Open Titanium Backup
2. Click Menu button -> batch
3. Run backup all user apps (or user apps + system data - maybe dangerous)
4. It gets backed up in the internal SD card (My Files Home) in the folder Titanium backup.
5. Copy this folder to the PC or external SD, coz master clear would clear the internal SD card.
6. After flashing, copy the folder to the internal SD card (if it's not already present coz of master clear)
7. Open Titanium Backup.
8. Click Menu button -> batch
9. Run Restore Missing apps +data (or missing apps +system data)
10. Voila!! done!
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rickysa2000 said:
Most of the ROMs have a wipe and nowipe version. If you install the no wipe version, all your apps and settings are still present after flashing. If you need to install a wipe version, Titanium backup is the best thing.. Here are the steps:
1. Open Titanium Backup
2. Click Menu button -> batch
3. Run backup all user apps (or user apps + system data - maybe dangerous)
4. It gets backed up in the internal SD card (My Files Home) in the folder Titanium backup.
5. Copy this folder to the PC or external SD, coz master clear would clear the internal SD card.
6. After flashing, copy the folder to the internal SD card (if it's not already present coz of master clear)
7. Open Titanium Backup.
8. Click Menu button -> batch
9. Run Restore Missing apps +data (or missing apps +system data)
10. Voila!! done!
6.
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Point to add:
Do NOT restore system data on different versions of ROMs. Some of them tend to fail, and this could cause FCs.
Even when restoring apps data, be careful. When u r moving between android versions, it would recommended to install just the apps, and not data. There is a high possibility of data location changes in db between versions.

[Q] Just flashed new ROM

Hi guys,
I just flashed a new rom -Stocklite 7.1
This is my first attempt at flashing a ROM so bare with me.
I created a Nandroid backup prior to flashing and I also copied the entire contents of the SD card over to my computer.
I am using Link2SD and an ext partion as well.
Flashed succesfully. However none of my previous apps / data show up, this was slightly unexpected. I attempted to peform a nandroid data only backup to get these by going to recovery mode then advanced data only restore.
But i got an md5 mismatch.
Basically.
I am trying to restore my apps / data and I want to keep the stocklite 7.1 ROM. NOT a full restore.
Any help?

I recommend using titanium backup for backing up your apps. But, you can probably get user apps by coppying/flashing them to where they belong.
Options:
1 go back to stock rom by restoring your stock backup, make a backup using titanium backup, flash stock lite, install titanium backup, restore your apps. To succesfully restore your stock nandroid backup use te ext4 manager app, convert system to rfs, go to recovery, restore.
2 - open your stock backup on your computer with unpacking or iso software (like 7 zip), extract your user apps (apk files), create a flashable zip to flash them to data/app, system/app as needed. You can also flash their libs and data files to data/data and dalvik-cache to data/dalvik-cache. That should restore user apps and their data to internal memory if you don't want to use titanium backup.

You lost all your data..you should have a taken app backups with Titanium Backup,Nandroid isn't enough.
MD5 mismatch is showing up because you changed the name of the backup folder ..
You can open the backup manually, and get all the data.It might or not work,that would depend oon your luck

Thanks for the posts guys!
I just wasn't thinking. I had already taken a titanium backup full backup so thats' all good!

Disappearing files and space on Lollipop - found them.

I just got done performing my first TWRP backup after upgrading my Nexus 5 to Lollipop LRX21O via OTA. While the phone was still in recovery, its internal storage appeared on my computer, so I copied the backup to my computer and copied back several directories that I cleared from the phone to make room for the backup. After rebooting the phone, I found no sign of the directories I copied back, or of the backup, but the phone's internal storage was nearly full. No sign of the 5GB of free space that was there before I tried to copy things back to the phone.
I booted back into recovery. The recopied directories were there. I deleted them all and rebooted into recovery, and my free space was back. Rebooted Android and the free space was there too. I was able to copy my 5GB of files back to the phone, where everything is now fine.
Apparently some incompatibility between Lollipop and TWRP makes files written by TWRP inaccessible to Android. My phone is not encrypted, so that's not the problem. This was also never a problem with KitKat - I did a nand backup just before the L upgrade and everything was visible everywhere. If you've done TWRP backups on a Lollipop N5 and found them missing after rebooting, or copied files to your phone in recovery mode and found them missing, you're not crazy. Boot back to your recovery partition and look for your files again.

Since 4.2, that's normal for backups taken in recovery, ClockworkMod Recovery is the same.
You can get to the backups in Android via ADB, they're in mnt/shell/emulated

Odd, I saw no change between 4.1 and 4.2, and I've had no trouble copying files to and from the phone using either Android or recovery (TWRP or CWM) till now. I'll compare the storage between the two and see if I've missed something.

Soft bricked phone after trying to restore backup after LineageOS flash

I flashed the lineageOS 17 roms that is available and it worked but then i realized that gapps was not complete so i went into TWRP to restore my old Backup of ColorOS 6.1 (A.08 version), also it had magisk installed, but it then would show the first boot logo then restart and go into the recovery. I then tried formating everything except internal storage and also factory wipe and now my backup is gone and everything else on my phone. I can still boot into recovery and such but now it wont even ask me for the decryption password. File manager in TWRP shows 3 folders in the internal storage (in sdcard 0, obb and TWRP).
Any help? i dont wont to break things even more.
Edit: I just noticed that in the 0 folder in sdcard there is 65 gb of folders and files. Im assuming that are my old files but they are encrypted. Any way to undo that?

I guess you have to install a rom and set everything up from scratch. You lost all your files when you formated data, including backups, etc.
If you want to update or change your recovery, now it's the time - since there's no rom or files to lost.

johnnyjoe said:
I guess you have to install a rom and set everything up from scratch. You lost all your files when you formated data, including backups, etc.
If you want to update or change your recovery, now it's the time - since there's no rom or files to lost.
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I didnt format the internal storage only data and i edited the post saying that i think i found all the data but still encrypted. Im guessing TWRP wont automatically decrypt it.

For anyone with a similar problem. I reinstalled LineageOS and it decrypted all the files.

TWRP Nandroid Backup and Restore with or without Root Status

Hi, I am new to this forum and also new to Rooting and Flashing.
Recently I rooted my Samsung Galaxy M20 device with Magisk after flashing TWRP Recovery with Odin.
Now I want to take a nandroid backup (full rom backup along with all system settings and apps data).
1. On Backup menu of TWRP, should I select only ''boot'', ''system'' , ''data'' or ''System Image'' along with these?
2. And as I am taking the backup after rooting, will the backup include root access? I mean if I restore the backup later, will then the rom be kept rooted?
3. Is there a way to backup rom with keeping root access for my device?
(I rooted the device by flashing magisk with TWRP. Before that I flashed a zip file ''disable dm verify''. I actually followed a youtube video.)

Maybe your best anwer is here .... official TWRP website.
A nandroid backup gives you back the exact status of the moment of backing up.
In your first backup, backup everything except recovery .... and place this on your external sd-card. Depending on your version of TWRP you might be able to backup a system image (and if so ... then this is your best choise) and if you don't see that choise then backup boot, system, and data . Be sure to have chosen the right and latest TWRP for your phone.
Keep in mind that not all data are backed up, especially not the data on your internal sd-card. (make a backup of them separately !)
Make sure that an external sd-card is added to your phone !