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I've been jumping around between different 2.1 ROMs and every time I have to wipe and upgrade. Is there something I can use that will either save and reinstall all of my apps? I want to still get updates from the android market. The apps I want to keep are all on the market, it's just a pain to reinstall all of these apps each time.
tgm4883 said:
I've been jumping around between different 2.1 ROMs and every time I have to wipe and upgrade. Is there something I can use that will either save and reinstall all of my apps? I want to still get updates from the android market. The apps I want to keep are all on the market, it's just a pain to reinstall all of these apps each time.
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Titanium Backup, if you get the donate version it installs all of your backed up apps automatically after you launch the batch file.
+1 on Titanium Backup. It's worth buying the donate version for the extra features.
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Titanium Backup, if you get the donate version it installs all of your backed up apps automatically after you launch the batch file.
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do they show up in the market as downloaded after being reinstalled, so you can get updates?
Yes they do show up as installed in the market.
tatonka_hero said:
do they show up in the market as downloaded after being reinstalled, so you can get updates?
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Yes they do....I am glad I finally get to give Tatonka advice (you are always the one giving advice on androidforums).
I just got done installing 98 apps with titanium backup (using a2sd). Worked perfectly maybe took 5-10mins but with the donate version you dont have to confirm each app (like you would in the market) it bypasses that and just does all the work for you. And everything is in the market. I am not sure about the free version but titanium also has a feature called market doctor that will scan all of your installed apps and make sure they are all in the market (which normally they are, I think it is a just in case feature)
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Yes they do show up as installed in the market.
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does that only work with the paid version? Because when I used TB free, they didn't show up in the market as downloaded/installed (at least, I don't think they did lol). I've been using Astro more often than not the past few times
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does that only work with the paid version? Because when I used TB free, they didn't show up in the market as downloaded/installed (at least, I don't think they did lol). I've been using Astro more often than not the past few times
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It did for me just give it a bit to update, but I donated $3.99 the next day because of the auto install feature. Pressing OK to confirm each install sucks (over 45 apps)
Hey,
I was wondering what happens when I buy an app and then change ROM? Would it be like the AppStore that I can just download the apps again since I paid for them or will I have to buy them again?
thanks,
co0kie said:
Hey,
I was wondering what happens when I buy an app and then change ROM? Would it be like the AppStore that I can just download the apps again since I paid for them or will I have to buy them again?
thanks,
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Yes, once you've purchased them, there always there for free on AS MANY Android phones as you own, just log in with the same google account.
If you're going to get into the rom flashing game, I highly recommend the paid version of Titanium Pro; most rom flashers consider it a must-have in the rom flashing tool box. Just back up all your apps/data before flashing, then restore them to the newly flashed rom. This is the only way to get some of your apps' data back (the apps that store data on the internal rom space instead of the sdcard).
Also, an appbrain.com account and app on your phone are a big plus.
yep, PAID version of the apps, really pays off themself when you switch phones often, or flash ROM often, and you constantly wipe the phones every few weeks.
just login to android market and hit the download button
it makes life sooo much easier
during app installation (side-step) is there a way to bypass confirmation dialog box? I am using Titanium to restore all backup apps along with app data each time it install app i have to confirm. I just wanna click and let it go all at once. thx
guyenxda000 said:
during app installation (side-step) is there a way to bypass confirmation dialog box? I am using Titanium to restore all backup apps along with app data each time it install app i have to confirm. I just wanna click and let it go all at once. thx
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if you buy the pro version it will allow this. i was leary about the 6 bucks at first, but after flashing a few roms and going through the install process a few times, i realized it was worth every penny
purchased the pro version worked like a magic.
TiBu Pro, the best $6 I spent in the Android Market.
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I've ended up wasting a lot of money in the Android Market, but the 6 bucks I paid to unlock the full potential of Titanium Backup was well worth it.
Titanium must be selling well then.
Best decision I ever made was buying TiBu when I realized I was going to be flashing alot. Also, My Backup Root works well and is free. Only downside is it's slow, compared to TiBu.
interesting thing is that now I got the gingerbread flashed, i dont expect the flash rom amny times, however, in order not to forgot everything i did, i started documenting what i did. because searching for sea of scattered information on the web is pain.
guyenxda000 said:
during app installation (side-step) is there a way to bypass confirmation dialog box? I am using Titanium to restore all backup apps along with app data each time it install app i have to confirm. I just wanna click and let it go all at once. thx
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i have used TiBu hundreds of hundreds of times, to restore my apps, and such. and only ONE time (just the other day actually), it randomly requested the confirmation for each install. and it was quite irritating, bc im not used to having to confirm them all. but it hadd never done that before, and has yet to do it again. not sure why..
nice thanks for the help
Is there a way to force auto install all my apps from the Play Store? It would be easier to have them all install and then use an Auto Uninstaller to remove the ones I don't really want than it is to download them all one by one.
I know sometimes when you flash a new rom or something, it takes over and auto downloads them all for you right away (Cyanogen for examples does that) but the ROM I'm on now never had that prompt come up.
Thanks for the help
You can use Titanium Backup Pro. Once all your apps are backed up with it you can batch install ALL of them (all apps together with the paid version, one by one with the free). It has other features tho to use other than that but its good for batch installing apps.
manimmal said:
You can use Titanium Backup Pro. Once all your apps are backed up with it you can batch install ALL of them (all apps together with the paid version, one by one with the free). It has other features tho to use other than that but its good for batch installing apps.
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yea i know about titanium but i was hoping there was a way to do it from the play store rather than from backed up apks (that way we're at the same time using the most up to date versions of each app). like the way cyanogenmod automatically downloads every app you own from the play store right away the first time you open the play store.
You can use app2zip from the play store. It put whatever apps you want into a flashable zip so you can easily flash in cwm.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=scd.app2zip
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polarbearmc said:
Is there a way to force auto install all my apps from the Play Store? It would be easier to have them all install and then use an Auto Uninstaller to remove the ones I don't really want than it is to download them all one by one.
I know sometimes when you flash a new rom or something, it takes over and auto downloads them all for you right away (Cyanogen for examples does that) but the ROM I'm on now never had that prompt come up.
Thanks for the help
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All of the stock-based ROMs I've used (currently using MikTouch 0.7 based on the OTA 1.63.531.2 ROM) have done this. As soon as I sign into my Google account, it begins syncing the contacts and downloading all my apps. That's why I typically let the phone sit for about 15-20 minutes after flashing a ROM and signing in.
Well it's all good. I already have pretty much everything installed one by one. I'm using Virtuous Inquistion and it never started to sync all my old apps, but it's all good. Everythings working great. And I'll back it all up with titanium for next time around.
polarbearmc said:
Well it's all good. I already have pretty much everything installed one by one. I'm using Virtuous Inquistion and it never started to sync all my old apps, but it's all good. Everythings working great. And I'll back it all up with titanium for next time around.
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I don't know how I did it but I think it was something like this. You just hit back up on the normal settings and google will restore it?
I've flashed my second ROM after I hit backup and all the apps started downloading from the PlayStore after the first log in. Does anyone know how to officially do this?
I know that this can be done using ADB (don't know how to use it but I know how to use the I9300 Int Tool Kit).
Going to hold off trying app2zip until the developer emails and confirms SuperNexus and Paranoid Android 4.1.2 on Siyah 1.7 is supported..It doesn't look to stable!
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Btw, there is this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531880 if you didn't know..
I was wondering about this as well: recently wiped and flashed a stock ROM and when I launched the Play Store for the first time, it began downloading all the apps that were in my account. I tapped 'cancel' as I didn't wan't all of them right away, then I had to install them one by one.
So it would be good if you could control this behaviour - for example to be able to check which apps you want downloaded and to install them automatically, yet in a bit more controlled manner.
killchain said:
I was wondering about this as well: recently wiped and flashed a stock ROM and when I launched the Play Store for the first time, it began downloading all the apps that were in my account. I tapped 'cancel' as I didn't wan't all of them right away, then I had to install them one by one.
So it would be good if you could control this behaviour - for example to be able to check which apps you want downloaded and to install them automatically, yet in a bit more controlled manner.
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i dont know how to make mine install all the apps. i woudl like it to so i dotn have to take up the space backing them all up. download the apps at once from play, then restore teh data from the backup. shrugs
birddseedd said:
i dont know how to make mine install all the apps. i woudl like it to so i dotn have to take up the space backing them all up. download the apps at once from play, then restore teh data from the backup. shrugs
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I came to the conclusion that I'm okay with Titanium Backup for that purpose - bought the pro license a while ago - it can batch restore what you choose. It's slower than I expected at that, but at least you can leave the phone while the job runs.
for some reason this time all my apps auto installed.
shrugs. think i need to flash again, ill backup apps jsut in case, but hopefuly itl auto install again and i can delete the backup and only backup the data, not the apps.
Best way I have found to do this is to go to Settings > Backup & reset
Once there delete the existing account that exist.....
Wait a few minutes and it'll prompt you to put a backup account in....then reenter the same account.
This will prompt google to look at all your apps you currently own and the ones on your device and if not there will download it for you.
I discovered this when I factory reset my phone and when I restarted my phone it connected to a wi-fi network that required a sign-in process and as a result google attempted to download but was unable to.
Hope this helps.
Has anyone found any solution? Cause I have Titanium backup pro but I have read that it is not the best thing to restore apks... better reinstall them (especially for battery life)... There applist apps in market but they just store the link they don't download them automatically....
And I have apps on 2 seperate google accounts so just restoring during first sign in doesn't work well
Titanium backup is great. i use it. works great for installing apk's. but if you want to do it through the app store you have to let it run right when you first have the option. if you try to to it later youll have to do them all individualy
birddseedd said:
Titanium backup is great. i use it. works great for installing apk's. but if you want to do it through the app store you have to let it run right when you first have the option. if you try to to it later youll have to do them all individualy
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With free license, unfortunately, yeah, that's it, but PRO allows you to batch install and restore data for a chosen amount of apps. It also allows a creation of a recovery-flashable image, which is, from my experience, the fastest to deploy, but takes a while to create.
killchain said:
I came to the conclusion that I'm okay with Titanium Backup for that purpose - bought the pro license a while ago - it can batch restore what you choose. It's slower than I expected at that, but at least you can leave the phone while the job runs.
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Well I install several ROMs and I found out that sometimes the Google Play store messes up before restoring all your apps. What I do is got into setup and remove my google account and then just readd it and off it goes downloading and syncing all your apps.
telamon100 said:
Well I install several ROMs and I found out that sometimes the Google Play store messes up before restoring all your apps. What I do is got into setup and remove my google account and then just readd it and off it goes downloading and syncing all your apps.
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I've yet to try to see what happens if I detach apps from Play Store using TB. If it would prevent Play from rushing to download all the stuff (usually 100+ apps) when I first boot up a new install, it would be nice.
I know there are a lot of posts on how to restore apps after flashing a new ROM. I have only done this twice so far and both times I used Titanium Pro to restore the apps and data. However each time I have had a number of apps that didn't work or didn't work correctly until I uninstalled and then reinstalled them. If I let the Play Store reinstall my apps (and side load the ones not in the store) I shouldn't have this problem. I was wondering if anyone could comment on how long that approach would take and what issues I may run into doing it that way. I don't really need to reinstall the data for many apps and I have those settings, etc. (like Nova Launcher and Elixir) backed up where the program can reload them after I install it.
Thanks for any experiences you can share and any advice you can provide.
Wyvern49 said:
I know there are a lot of posts on how to restore apps after flashing a new ROM. I have only done this twice so far and both times I used Titanium Pro to restore the apps and data. However each time I have had a number of apps that didn't work or didn't work correctly until I uninstalled and then reinstalled them. If I let the Play Store reinstall my apps (and side load the ones not in the store) I shouldn't have this problem. I was wondering if anyone could comment on how long that approach would take and what issues I may run into doing it that way. I don't really need to reinstall the data for many apps and I have those settings, etc. (like Nova Launcher and Elixir) backed up where the program can reload them after I install it.
Thanks for any experiences you can share and any advice you can provide.
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Try gobackup not the pro version, just the free one before it was tooken down from the play store. I believe you can Google search the apk.
Wyvern49 said:
I know there are a lot of posts on how to restore apps after flashing a new ROM. I have only done this twice so far and both times I used Titanium Pro to restore the apps and data. However each time I have had a number of apps that didn't work or didn't work correctly until I uninstalled and then reinstalled them. If I let the Play Store reinstall my apps (and side load the ones not in the store) I shouldn't have this problem. I was wondering if anyone could comment on how long that approach would take and what issues I may run into doing it that way. I don't really need to reinstall the data for many apps and I have those settings, etc. (like Nova Launcher and Elixir) backed up where the program can reload them after I install it.
Thanks for any experiences you can share and any advice you can provide.
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It can be pretty quick or it can take seemingly forever depending on the number of apps you have. I have a little 130 and it takes about 2 hours, on a constant 12mbps (1.3-6MBps) connection.
I had a problem when I first used Tibu with Maildroid being crazy as hell until I uninstalled it, reinstalled it, and set it back up. I was also having the same problem when I restored a CWM backup. I went and deleted every backup I had made in Tibu and all my nandroids and tried backing the apps up again and it worked for about 3 flashes and then Maildroid was going crazy again. I finally just Odin'ed back to stock cause I was having a few other issues, GPS & NFC, and once I went back to stock VRALG7 and fully wiped everything and rerooted, flashed recovery, and unlocked I haven't had a problem with anything since. The only thing I have changed is my recovery, went to TWRP, and everything is smooth sailing. I had been using CWM touch, it was the latest version that I was on before Odin'ing, and I really think there is some kind of issue with CWM not backing up right because I had tons of issues and even when restoring to the stock ROM my phone came out of the box on I couldn't get GPS or NFC to work.
But if you don't have many apps you could let the Play store restore you apps, I never used Tibu until this phone and was really skeptical of it cause of the corrupted Maildroid problems I was having but this is hands down one of the best apps I own. Also I'm pretty sure you can use ROM Manager to backup your apps and restore them.
If I were you I would wipe the Tibu backup folder, after you had completely re-downloaded and installed your apps from the market, and then back them up again and see if that worked. Also my Maps backup never ever works, I have to re-download it every time.
There is also MyBackup Pro, I used it before this phone, but its not great in the GS3. It takes about 45 minutes to back up my apps and it freezes constantly, never had this problem with it until this phone though.
You could also try using Tibu's flashable zip creator that was just added. It makes a flashable zip of you app backup folder so you still want to redo all your apps to make sure that it just isn't a once in a lifetime bug that cause a couple of your apps to be corrupted.
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Best way I have found is to use AppMonster Pro.
That app allows you to make an "old style backup" which saves the APK from every app you have installed.
That way, after you flash a rom, you can click the APKs and do a true clean install of every app which is FAR more dependable than a TIBU restore. Although I have TIBU Pro, I rarely use it anymore.
Thanks everyone. All the info is much appreciated.
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Best way I have found is to use AppMonster Pro.
That app allows you to make an "old style backup" which saves the APK from every app you have installed.
That way, after you flash a rom, you can click the APKs and do a true clean install of every app which is FAR more dependable than a TIBU restore. Although I have TIBU Pro, I rarely use it anymore.
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If you actually look in the Tibu folder it saves all of apps as APK's also and you can choose to back up your apps without the app data. The way I've always always understood it is that you can do a true clean install with Tibu too. Now I may be wrong with this but that's just the way I've understood it.
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Wyvern49 said:
Thanks everyone. All the info is much appreciated.
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I hope you figure out how to keep the apps from becoming corrupted. If you do let us know what worked and what all you went through before the apps stopped installing corrupted.
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I just use Titanium Backup.
I'm going to give TiBu a try first since I think it will be the quickest way to do this. I also did a backup using AppMonster. If I run into issues with TiBu I'll start over again and try AppMonster. All I need now is a block of time to do the update. First Thanksgiving, then taking my grandson to see the train display at the Botanical Gardens, today out with both daughters (separately) helping with their Christmas shopping and doing some of our own. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a free block of time.
I'll let everyone know how it goes. Thanks again.
I've made the switch to ROM toolbox. The free version let's me batch install apps just no data which I prefer anyways. Then I don't have to click for every app.
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I finally got time to update to Clean ROM 5.0 and it went fairly well. I used TiBu but had a few apps that had to be reinstalled so I used the AppMonster backup apk's and everything went well. Restoring the data via TiBu went well for all of my apps that need it done except for Red Laser which lost all the loyalty card info. Not a big deal as its easy to rescan the cards.
Thanks again for all the advice and info.
Maybe i'm just a noob but i dont understand how these backup apps work. I've backed up my apps then rom'd my phone but can't get my apps back cause the back up app isn't there anymore... Is it in the cwm recovery ? Confused
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Depends on the backup app you use. In general, you can install the backup app from Play Store and then you should be able to use it to restore your backed up apps. If you use a backup app the saves your apps as apk files, just install them from the apk. You can also install the apps from the Play Store again like you did originally.
Hope this helps.
I have been using TiBu for a long time and it works great and saves a huge amount of time. Sometimes I also get an app acting wacky after a flash. Just use it and if you have a problem with an app just go to settings and clear data for the specific app. It will save a lot of time doing it that way!!
Is there any issues with restoring User Apps & Data that were backed up under an ICS ROM, onto a flashed JellyBean ROM? I wouldn't think so, but wanted to ask. I know system apps & data would be bad, but not sure about user apps.
Wyvern49 said:
I know there are a lot of posts on how to restore apps after flashing a new ROM. I have only done this twice so far and both times I used Titanium Pro to restore the apps and data. However each time I have had a number of apps that didn't work or didn't work correctly until I uninstalled and then reinstalled them. If I let the Play Store reinstall my apps (and side load the ones not in the store) I shouldn't have this problem. I was wondering if anyone could comment on how long that approach would take and what issues I may run into doing it that way. I don't really need to reinstall the data for many apps and I have those settings, etc. (like Nova Launcher and Elixir) backed up where the program can reload them after I install it.
Thanks for any experiences you can share and any advice you can provide.
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I use super back up , its free and backs up apps , sms ,contacts ,call logs and calander. It also has batch install
I use titanium, have been using it for years. Restoring apps plus data can cause them to be a little screwy. I only restore data on games.
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Try this. Make a Nandroid. If you're flashing a ROM that uses the same version of Android, just restore data. When flashing nightlies I learned, that all you have to do is WIPE, flash your ROM, then do an advanced restore of data only (No TiBU, you do this before you leave recovery). Now everything is there, nice and clean, homescreen, apps, setup, and even your alarm clock! Takes 5 minutes.
I'm stilla newb so if you're like "duh," don't flame me! :laugh::laugh:
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Try this. Make a Nandroid. If you're flashing a ROM that uses the same version of Android, just restore data. When flashing nightlies I learned, that all you have to do is WIPE, flash your ROM, then do an advanced restore of data only (No TiBU, you do this before you leave recovery). Now everything is there, nice and clean, homescreen, apps, setup, and even your alarm clock! Takes 5 minutes.
I'm stilla newb so if you're like "duh," don't flame me! :laugh::laugh:
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That works, but if you're doing that don't bother factory resetting before flashing. All you do is erase the data to put it back on
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That works, but if you're doing that don't bother factory resetting before flashing. All you do is erase the data to put it back on
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OK cool! I knew I was putting the data back on but I guess I thought I was wiping other things as well with this method.
Thanks for that!
lennie paz said:
I just use Titanium Backup.
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Same here and I've never had any problems with it. I was restoring apps+data but I started having problems after I became a flashaholic so now I only restore apps and spend the extra time relogging in/setting up my apps. Yes it takes longer but it'll save you from problems in the long run.
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