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nandroid only partially backing up/ restoring

Hi all, I did a nandroid restore and it only partially restored my phone content, for example it did restore
- hotkeys
- sms
- wallpaper,
but didn't restore
- contacts
- homescreen setup
- applications (and data).
It worked perfectly well when I tried it, but last time it didn't. Here is what I did:
Installed 6.1 per ClockworkMod without Google Apps and did a nandroid backup as I was asked, booted into 6.1, rebooted, flashed Gapps tiny 201020 something, rebooted, didn't come past "tap the android to begin" (don't know why tapping didn't do anything), so I restored the backup I did prior to installing 6.1 and it restored only what I wrote above.
Any help will be greatly appreciated guys!

Unrelashade said:
but didn't restore
- contacts
- homescreen setup
- applications (and data).
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1. Contacts get restored from Google.
2. Did you use alternative launcher before (i.e ADW or LP). If so, the only way Nand would restore it, if you still have it on your phone but what you say is that it did not restore any apps which leads me to next point.
2. Did you have your apps on SD card? Did you do Nand+Ext backup or just Nand? Regular Nandroid back-up will not touch your ext partition. If you did just a Nandroid backup and wiped your ext partition - your apps are gone for good.

borodin1 said:
1. Contacts get restored from Google.
2. Did you use alternative launcher before (i.e ADW or LP). If so, the only way Nand would restore it, if you still have it on your phone but what you say is that it did not restore any apps which leads me to next point.
2. Did you have your apps on SD card? Did you do Nand+Ext backup or just Nand? Regular Nandroid back-up will not touch your ext partition. If you did just a Nandroid backup and wiped your ext partition - your apps are gone for good.
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Thank you for your answer! Yes I had 6.0 before 6.1 with ADW. Nandroid did restore one or two apps, but not all... (just found that out). Yes I had some apps on my sd card but nandroid didn't recover them, neither the others. Just the few I mentioned before, but I had more on my SD and more on my internal flash storage. And no, I had no ext partition of sd card (copied some of them via froyo apps2sd). Also, I didn't remove any of my files from my SD (except for some songs to make more free space).
It seems like Clockwork didn't warn me that I had not enough free space on my SD and the backup had not enough space... However I managed to get the data I needed with this tool from a German forum: http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-ha...6339-nandroid-backup-auslesen.html#post592908
Copy your .img to your computer, open with and choose the unyaffs.exe, works perfectly well
Now I still don't know why I wasn't able to get past the "Getting Started" Android first steps, but I'm going to flash again (this time with everything safely backed up) and see if it works this time.

Glald you figured it out. Hopefully you'll have better luck with it next time around.

[Q] Restore apps to another ROM

How restore apps from current ROM to another ROM? Is there is possibility can backup specific apps and restore on another ROM.
Tq

Try titanium backup..

need reboot phone after run backup?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567614

Attention!!!
If you use Titanium Backup dont do a mass restore (all file at once) while it dont will put it onto SD card! the apps and the phone memory will be full and some error etc.
restor oance a time the apps. and move it manualy to SD card.

SmXtrem said:
Attention!!!
If you use Titanium Backup dont do a mass restore (all file at once) while it dont will put it onto SD card! the apps and the phone memory will be full and some error etc.
restor oance a time the apps. and move it manualy to SD card.
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No its no necessary..it'l b a lengthy process so do some apps at once like 20.. no error ever occured to me..

in titanium backup setting there is a option which let you choose if you want to install apps in sdcard, phone memory or android way
choose android way then TB will install some apps in phone memory and some apps in sdcard so need to restore app individually
also TB is better than nandroid backup and never ever restore system data with TB

use titanium backup (i recommend pro version)to backup all user apps...then u flash new rom.....then u run restore missing apps with data...not anything else...

I tried yesterday to restore 30 apps from batch and fail.
Apps was backuped form stock rom.
TB dosent remember to restore the apps here it was? exemple cut the rope is sd up but puts it on phone?
I'am refering that what should be on sd to restor to sd what no no.

I use Titanium Backup Pro. Restore and run batch until notify Batch verification finished 0 error found. But not found restore files anywhere. Does I missing some step?

I always restore around 80apps at once and never had any problem..

exz8 said:
How restore apps from current ROM to another ROM? Is there is possibility can backup specific apps and restore on another ROM.
Tq
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Yes its possible.
Simply install titanium backup or Mybackup application from the market. The pro versions are better at a small fee
Then from the current ROM back up all the apps you want. this back up is stored in the SD card and so wount be affected by Flashing a custom ROM.
Now flash the desired ROM and again install either of the applications you used to backup the apps from the market. i.e if you used titanium backup to back up your apps, then install titanium back up from the market.
then select restore option to restore your applications!
Hope this helps.

yeah, try Titanium Backup.

Tqvm for suggestion. Then, what is different compare to CWM backup? Which better?

tha_subchief said:
Yes its possible.
Simply install titanium backup or Mybackup application from the market. The pro versions are better at a small fee
Then from the current ROM back up all the apps you want. this back up is stored in the SD card and so wount be affected by Flashing a custom ROM.
Now flash the desired ROM and again install either of the applications you used to backup the apps from the market. i.e if you used titanium backup to back up your apps, then install titanium back up from the market.
then select restore option to restore your applications!
Hope this helps.
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I tried restoring when I went from Blazer ROM to CM10 but it just gave me errors and force closes. Is there a specific way in TB to restore in a different ROM or do you basically have to start off with a clean slate? 

Move from one Milestone to another (different ROM & SD-Card)

So, I finally have got my hands on another Milestone which means that I can play around with different ROMs as much as I like and still be able to be sure that people can call me on my stable phone. But, installing ~20 apps by hand and restore of messages every time is a pain in the as and therefore I would like to simply make a backup on the SD card and apply all the apps.
I thought that I could simply make a backup via Titanium Backup to SD-Card 1, copy that content to SD-Card 2, install TB on my other Milestone (which uses SD-Card 2) and just restore that way as you do every time you install a new ROM but no, TB can't find anything to restore.
Any thoughts how I should do?
*Milestone 1 uses CM 7.1.5 and Milestone 2 uses CM 9 4.0.4

TB allows you to change to change the directory on the SD card it uses for backups. Make sure it's looking in right one on the 2nd Milestone.

Dave Lister said:
TB allows you to change to change the directory on the SD card it uses for backups. Make sure it's looking in right one on the 2nd Milestone.
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Thx man, turned out the folder with the backup was inside the TB folder (sd/TitaniumBackup/TitaniumBackup/"all backup files").
Well, TB manages to restore some of the apps but not all of em...hmmm...
Think I'm going for installing all the apps by hand insted, takes longer but at least works. Hehe.

As my understanding is with app2ext (default with Kabaldan's CM ROMs) to install all apps you need only copy them from MM1's ext into MM2's ext. During restart all apps should get installed. Obviously its just apps no data, but here the TB may help...
One command, if moving from one ROM to an other do not copy the lib dir from the ext partition.

[Q] how to change fast a New Rom?

change a new Rom with the best performance means:
full wipe (cashe,data,preload,system)
also not restore app (at least app data) from titanium backup.
so, install all app again and make setup for all
guys, how do you this? I have already xxlsz a mounth installed, everything is working, but I know, new rom could be better.
otherwise I am tired of restoring...
sometimes I am thinking I could be happy with a iphone so simply

Bonumy said:
change a new Rom with the best performance means:
full wipe (cashe,data,preload,system)
also not restore app (at least app data) from titanium backup.
so, install all app again and make setup for all
guys, how do you this? I have already xxlsz a mounth installed, everything is working, but I know, new rom could be better.
otherwise I am tired of restoring...
sometimes I am thinking I could be happy with a iphone so simply
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Have you been downloading all of your apps every time you flash a new ROM ?
You can restore user apps and data.
Just don't restore any system app/data
Got it?

for me the RomCustomizer by ficeto is great app for restoring, backuping, uninstalling apps, and I never restore any data. If the app which I use have option to save/restore settings I do that (and this kind of data is usualy saved on internal sd) same thing is for gps navigation programs (maps are always saved on internal sd)
so after flashing new rom, first thing is installing rom customzer, then restoring user and also some system apps (I do backup of some system apps which is updated, it saves my time from updating via playstore)
and thats it, new rom is set up in about 30min
this way I dont have any problems with any rom and any app I used
hope it helped to someone

till now I just have restored some user app+data from titanium, some download again from market. never restore system app or data.
once I have deleted my internal card and download all app again cuz some people had problem with performance of that rom and this want recommend. also I wanted a bit clean my phone.
ok, now I am confuse. it's safe restore user data or better just save data if the app has this in option and then restore?
thanks guys.

Bonumy said:
till now I just have restored some user app+data from titanium, some download again from market. never restore system app or data.
once I have deleted my internal card and download all app again cuz some people had problem with performance of that rom and this want recommend. also I wanted a bit clean my phone.
ok, now I am confuse. it's safe restore user data or better just save data if the app has this in option and then restore?
thanks guys.
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Both are safe. The latter method requires you to individually restore data while in the former you can batch restore data. Which one you want to use is up to you.

so for the best performance of a new ROM is NOT nesesary format internal card and NOT restore app+data ?
Make ROM CUSTOMIZER backup of app with or without data? (I didnt find this option like in Titanium Backup).

[Q] [Important] Best Backup ?

Simple question;
What do you use as backup and restore solution ?
I want my backup software to make an image when I'm doing a backup and only recover from the image when it's restoring (so overwrite any other data that's on my phone before the restoration)

For my apps and their data I use titanium backup.
For contacts,sms, call logs, bookmarks, calendar I use Super Backup.
I use root explorer to move my pictures and music to SD card.
After that . I flash a new ROM. Works every time.
Edit:Never seen anything that actually makes an image backup expect TWRP recover
Sadly. I think you will have to use what I offered.