I just have a quick dev question ... When uninstalling an application, is WM smart enough to perform a rollback or does it just iterate through all the installed files/shortcuts/reg entries and remove them?
I think it just deletes. I don't believe that WM is designed to rollback... then again, that is just my guess based on several years of using WM devices...
Is there a way to make the cab backup the replaced files and then restore them on uninstall?
Or at least overwrite the installed files with backup ones already provided with the cab?
Thanks.
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Is there a way of doing this?
I want to change ROM but tried my SPB backup restore with a different WM6 ROM and causes problems.
Is there a backup program that will backup installed apps only rather than system (registry and system folder in internal memory)
No, of course not. Most programs depend on corresponding registry entries. And restoring the registry will give conflicts with your new ROM.
thought so,
I did have a app on the pc once that you ran before doing an install ran the app, this then logged what changed in the registry hence could restore programs install only to the registry
Right now I have a stable version with many applications installed and customized.
I want to test several new roms.
There is any posibility to make an backup image of my pda in order to quick restore the initial stable image?
Thank you
cer7400 said:
Right now I have a stable version with many applications installed and customized.
I want to test several new roms.
There is any posibility to make an backup image of my pda in order to quick restore the initial stable image?
Thank you
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use SPB Backup if you want to restore your applications/settings etc.,
Its better to restore backup on the same ROM used for taking backup than on an altogether different flavour. eg., you flashed tomal 8.2 and installed several applications on top of it, take a SPB Full Backup and restore on tomal 8.2 after flashing it afresh (in case you need restore) than restoring this backup on someother ROM.
Though it works by restoring the applications etc on any version of os/ROM it will be less stable.
hope this helps.
I always used SPB bakcup and it always worked very well! You can customize auto backups and restoring them is very simple: the program creats an executable.
But, as rbalu72 said, it's not a good idea restore a backup made on a rom on another one. Every installation makes many registry and file changes that may vary rom to rom.
If you want to test other roms always make clean installs!!!
I don't have SPB Backup...
Can you help me?
Here's the Link.
it is very good and useful because when you have backup file you can simple run it without installation the "mother program" to restore files. You can also try to use backup file on other ROM...
it works fine.
thank you.
I see that you can freely download and use this. I even tried the software. Could you please tell me if the trial version has any limitations ? Would I be able to restore the files one month/week later ?
hi, i need some help here.
I have flashed the new ROM recently from the HTC official website and restored all files using Sprite backup. Then, my 'remove programs' list went empty and i couldnt remove any programs installed. I actually wanna delete the analog clock i installed earlier on but i couldnt. Any suggestion?
Same problem But I don't used Sprite backup
benleong2008 said:
hi, i need some help here.
I have flashed the new ROM recently from the HTC official website and restored all files using Sprite backup. Then, my 'remove programs' list went empty and i couldnt remove any programs installed. I actually wanna delete the analog clock i installed earlier on but i couldnt. Any suggestion?
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did you use sprite backup or sprite clone??
nir36 said:
did you use sprite backup or sprite clone??
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i used Sprite Backup. Any ways that i can remove installed programs manually or restored the 'remove programs' list?
unforunately, if you used sprite backup, you can't. sprite backup backs up files as a bunch rather than as a structure. if you used sprite clone you could actually get to save an image of your system and after restoration (since it should be completely rom independent) you'd be able to see the list.
unless there's something i don't know.. this is the case, sorry.
aww
alright thanks , i'll try it soon. Appreciate that.
hello,
I asked in some other treaths also but no 1 could give me a ''good'' answer, I have a question about SPB Backup.
If you have made a backup from a cooked ROM for example Artemis 12.0 and you go to Artemis 14.0 can you use the backup from 12.0 also for 14.0?
or isnt that posible?
Already many thx
zeijlertje1 said:
hello,
I asked in some other treaths also but no 1 could give me a ''good'' answer, I have a question about SPB Backup.
If you have made a backup from a cooked ROM for example Artemis 12.0 and you go to Artemis 14.0 can you use the backup from 12.0 also for 14.0?
or isnt that posible?
Already many thx
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It is possible with spb backup to apply any backup to any new ROM, it has a feature called "ROM upgrade mode"..........
BUT..I wouldn't advise to apply a previous system backup to a new ROM, sometimes it will be ok but, with many ROMs containing Many updated packages and applications it mostly causes more problems than it is worth!
However! SPB also has a custom restore feature which will allow you to restore PIM data or emails or documents or System data and a combination of any of these.
I am just looking at the program now and it seems that you can customise the back-up of whatever files you want to include, In fact ive never noticed how much you can choose before now! you are able to basically tick or un tick any file or folder within the rom, and include the registry or not, but you can only back up and restore the entire registry not parts of it which is a shame.
My advice is to try it out, the program has a very good full program trial period of about 6 backup and restore operations without a time limit so you have plenty of time to try all its functions.
I hope this is helpful to you
realy much thx for your answer
I dotn have the trail but got also the key so i can use it as many as I want
I just will make a backup then before I go run it will tell later if it worked
zeijlertje1 said:
realy much thx for your answer
I dotn have the trail but got also the key so i can use it as many as I want
I just will make a backup then before I go run it will tell later if it worked
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I've been using SPB backup for a long time and learned that it's not a good idea to do a full restore. If you're upgrading from an old to new rom as you mentioned I recommend to do a "Customize" restore and restore everything EXCEPT for PIM data, Emails and System Data. If you restore PIM Data and Emails you'll end up with duplicate contacts and email once you sync with Windows Live. And if you restore System Data you may end up importing registry bugs that were fixed in the new rom. For importing PIM Data only I'd stick with PIM Backup as I use that soley for importing my calendar entries.
zeijlertje1 said:
hello,
I asked in some other treaths also but no 1 could give me a ''good'' answer, I have a question about SPB Backup.
If you have made a backup from a cooked ROM for example Artemis 12.0 and you go to Artemis 14.0 can you use the backup from 12.0 also for 14.0?
or isnt that posible?
Already many thx
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No, what will happen is that SPB backup will ask you if you want to go into force ROM upgrade mode, and it will try to downgrade the ROM to the same as your backup, which will cause errors and force you to have to do Task 29. Trust me I learned this the hard way.
I have a HTC touch Pro running 6.1 Professional, that has alot of apps Ive installed over the years.Id like to backup those apps but without any modified settings.is there a way to rebuild the CAB installer for those apps?Or is it stored somewhere in the OS?
Or maybe a program that can extract the apps to be reinstalled on a new device?