so i have titanium backup..
anyway..just flashed my first rom....and when i booted the first time. i set up my google account. Before i could even get to titanium my phone was downloading all my apps and contacts from google.
Any opinions on googles ability to restore stuff? Im contemplating wiping again and disabling auto restore before i set up google. Is it worth it?
mikeydee81 said:
so i have titanium backup..
anyway..just flashed my first rom....and when i booted the first time. i set up my google account. Before i could even get to titanium my phone was downloading all my apps and contacts from google.
Any opinions on googles ability to restore stuff? Im contemplating wiping again and disabling auto restore before i set up google. Is it worth it?
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Google backup works just fine for downloaded apps and contacts, so why bother?
Well for me this didn't work. I did some wipes now but the Google backup functionality never worked for me. Therefore I always use TB.
well this is the first time ive flashed a custom rom. Was running stock for the first few weeks of root.
The first time i flashed and set up my phone google didnt do anything
Was having some probs so i decided to wipe and reflash...the second time google went crazy and started dowloading everything from the market.
I always use Ti Backup. In my experience, Google backup doesn't always backup and/or restore all my data and I end up uninstalling and re-installing through TB anyways.
If you choose to go the TB route, remember to force a re-do of all your backups (or at least of user apps) before wiping data and flashing a new rom. That way you'll ensure having the most current data from your apps when you re-install.
Also if you want to only restore from titanium, just skip the google sign in setup, and uncheck the restore from google setting. Go to the market and download titanium restore all the apps and data, wifi and bluetooth settings only. Restoring system data from an old rom or stock rom to a new one may bork your system.
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Also if you want to only restore from titanium, just skip the google sign in setup, and uncheck the restore from google setting. Go to the market and download titanium restore all the apps and data, wifi and bluetooth settings only. Restoring system data from an old rom or stock rom to a new one may bork your system.
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Don't you need to sign in to get the market to work?
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Don't you need to sign in to get the market to work?
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Yes but make sure your phone wont autosync. When you skip the setup that should also skip the autosync as well. Just in case go to settings, accounts and sync and make sure autosync is unchecked. Sign into the market and get titanium backup. If you have a rom like coredroid, it may already be included. Check your particular rom for details.
Well I used titanium after I reflashed. I restored all user apps. System data is where I'm confused cuz there is so much data. I'm thinking contact sms Bluetooth settings wifi settings and sense desktop are what you would want to backup. Most of these were in green type.
However..... After restoring I still noticed multiple copies of friendstream and a lot of weather apps which all seem to be the same thing. I dlfeel like I got a bunch of dupes
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I flash to stock using odin, market still worked. I then flashed cog 2.1 and restored my apps with titanium backup and now it just sits there at starting download.
Which apps or data shouldn't i of restored? I tried clearing cache/data from google apps/talk/market but it still doesn't want to download anything.
Uninstall Google talk/voice and it should be back to normal. It worked out for me when market was hanging like that. It has something to do with titanium when restoring.
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Just tried that, didn't work, same deal stuck at starting download. Or as a last resort flash with odin/cog again and download every apps manuall by itself or restore missing apps and not all apps.
You probably restored your phone with TiBackup. I had the same problem because I restored the system data with Ti. Instead, restore only the apps that are missing and do not restore anything system related. You should be all good after that.
Unfortunately, you'll have to -- as far as I know -- reflash to stock w/ Odin and go back to Cog, but providing you don't restore the system data you should be golden.
Doing that now...
I wish tibackup could automate restoring apps.
I have that problem when I restore the accounts system data with TiB, but not everything else. I've found that I have to either code all system data or leave accounts out.
All good now, except the installed apps dont show in the market but i think i can live with that. I've had enough with all this flashing for the time being...
Have you ran the market doctor operation in TiB?
Nope, but all my apps are back in the android market... weird.
Ti can auto restore if you get the donate version. If you're doing this more than once it's *WELL* worth the money.
After restoring 300+ apps and manually approving each one once, I donated before having to go through that again.
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I've just started trying out custom roms and I've noticed while some roms such as CyanogenMod lets you restore all previously installed apps upon installation other ones doesn't. If I flash a rom which doesn't support it all my apps still stand as installed if I search for them in market on the computer however it's a pain to manually reinstall all apps so is there anyway to trigger something which reinstall all apps like CM do?
well, i don't know what PHONE you are using, but on my inspire 4g with a gingerbread rom, altho the rom doesn't do much with app reloads, just by signing into my google account my apps reappear on their own.
Use Titanium Backup. Run a batch backup of user apps. Then when you install a new rom, run a batch restore. This will restore data as well - game progress, an app's settings, etc. The free version only allows one backup at a time (if you backup the app again, it overwrites the last backup) and you have to agree to the permissions of each app. In the paid version, you can set the max number of backups yourself and everything will install in the background. There's tons of other cool stuff the app can do, I suggest checking it out.
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Use Titanium Backup. Run a batch backup of user apps. Then when you install a new rom, run a batch restore. This will restore data as well - game progress, an app's settings, etc. The free version only allows one backup at a time (if you backup the app again, it overwrites the last backup) and you have to agree to the permissions of each app. In the paid version, you can set the max number of backups yourself and everything will install in the background. There's tons of other cool stuff the app can do, I suggest checking it out.
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This is the way to go. Trust me on that. One more thing if you kind of like a certain rom but you just want to try others make sure you do a nandroid back up. This makes life a hell of a lot easier if you don't like rom boot back to recovery and restore your last back up. I nan once a week so I keep a fresh image cuz I am always adding and removing apps.
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This is the way to go. Trust me on that. One more thing if you kind of like a certain rom but you just want to try others make sure you do a nandroid back up. This makes life a hell of a lot easier if you don't like rom boot back to recovery and restore your last back up. I nan once a week so I keep a fresh image cuz I am always adding and removing apps.
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This saved me a time or two..good advise!!
tazfanatic said:
This is the way to go. Trust me on that. One more thing if you kind of like a certain rom but you just want to try others make sure you do a nandroid back up. This makes life a hell of a lot easier if you don't like rom boot back to recovery and restore your last back up. I nan once a week so I keep a fresh image cuz I am always adding and removing apps.
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As far as my experience when (this afternoon), TI is the ONLY way to go (although, you'll want to root first).
A follow up question on this topic. I have TI Pro and made a backup of apps and data. After flashing an update ROM on my EVO, I could get most of the apps, but not all of them back. Actually, some apps would not even reinstall -- e.g. Twitter gave me some error about a shared library missing. Any ideas?
I bought the paid version of Titanium backup but during batch restore, I still have to press install/cancel and open/done for each app. Is that correct or did I miss changing a setting?
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I bought the paid version of Titanium backup but during batch restore, I still have to press install/cancel and open/done for each app. Is that correct or did I miss changing a setting?
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Not sure, I have never had to do this, and I have not changed any settings that I know of.
I am about to flash my first ROM on my Inspire. I did a NAND backup and copied all the contents of my sd card to my computer.
My question is if I transfer it back onto my sd card after flashing will it restore my apps and other data?
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I am about to flash my first ROM on my Inspire. I did a NAND backup and copied all the contents of my sd card to my computer.
My question is if I transfer it back onto my sd card after flashing will it restore my apps and other data?
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No. Apps need to be installed, not just copied (that's assuming that you're talking about apps on the SD card, and not on the phone's memory).
Do as most of the posts above suggest and do a backup using Titanium Backup. Then you can batch restore (with the paid version) or app-by-app restore (with the free version) after flashing your new ROM.
Titanium is excellent , however I find backups arent always compatible between roms. I sometimes get errors after a restore. For that reason I just sing into Market after flashing a new rom and let the apps re download.
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I purchased the pro version, batch backed up all of my apps. Installed MikG on Evo 4g and now I can't access TI back up. I also did a nand back up. when I restore data nothing happens. Please help. I just want my apps back.
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Use Titanium Backup. Run a batch backup of user apps. Then when you install a new rom, run a batch restore. This will restore data as well - game progress, an app's settings, etc. The free version only allows one backup at a time (if you backup the app again, it overwrites the last backup) and you have to agree to the permissions of each app. In the paid version, you can set the max number of backups yourself and everything will install in the background. There's tons of other cool stuff the app can do, I suggest checking it out.
that's the right way..
Two options.
1. Push your apps recorded in your android market library to your phone.
2. Use titanium backup.
Titanium backup is easier, but since you do a reset to make everything fresh, I would prefer the first option.
What you do is to go to android market library from your PC browser. It has all your apps listed. For each app, use the install button to push it to your phone. You need not wait between apps. Just push which ever app you need and they will automatically get downloaded and installed to your phone. For some reason, Google has kept the reinstall feature hidden. See this for details -
http://www.skipser.com/p/2/p/how-to-reinstall-android-apps.html
I don't know, google play used to reinstall my apps when I was on stock sony rom, but since I use Cyanogen now, it doesn't do it. I always keep checked option "keep backed up with bla bla", but it doesn't restore automatically :/
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boscharun said:
Two options.
1. Push your apps recorded in your android market library to your phone.
2. Use titanium backup.
Titanium backup is easier, but since you do a reset to make everything fresh, I would prefer the first option.
What you do is to go to android market library from your PC browser. It has all your apps listed. For each app, use the install button to push it to your phone. You need not wait between apps. Just push which ever app you need and they will automatically get downloaded and installed to your phone. For some reason, Google has kept the reinstall feature hidden. See this for details -
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thanks
As the title states my phone is stuck with baseband version I997UCKD5. Everytime my phone trys to get a update it tells me that it cannot connect to ATT servers. My phone is rooted, is this why its not updating or do I have a defective phone. I have tried to find the answers for with no luck so if someone could please point me in the right direction that would be great.
this is typical att. it is not the phone. can you connect to odin? if you can then backup your apps with titanium backup then use odin to flash gtg's rooted ucke3 package, then backup the new rom with cwm (just good practice). if the apps are wiped then use titanium to reinstall them. it is not always a good idea to restore system data with titanium but i dont think there are significant system changes to prevent hat from working, id try it then if everything force closes id wipe user data in recovery and try it again without restoring system data.
I had the same problem even when i was UNrooted. I rooted my phone and updated to that Infused ROM. I then used the [ODIN][UCKE3] Return to stock download to return to stock and then I had the new update. Everything turned out fine, I had no problems afterwards. I then proceeded to UNroot the device and a day or 2 after that I recieved a new update but alas my phone STILL cannot connect to the servers.
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this is typical att. it is not the phone. can you connect to odin? if you can then backup your apps with titanium backup then use odin to flash gtg's rooted ucke3 package, then backup the new rom with cwm (just good practice). if the apps are wiped then use titanium to reinstall them. it is not always a good idea to restore system data with titanium but i dont think there are significant system changes to prevent hat from working, id try it then if everything force closes id wipe user data in recovery and try it again without restoring system data.
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Sorry for my stupidity but I'm still learning, are you saying to load odin UCKE3 to my phone and get the update that way and if i loose my app backup up with titanium?
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Sorry for my stupidity but I'm still learning, are you saying to load odin UCKE3 to my phone and get the update that way and if i loose my app backup up with titanium?
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yes, backup just in case. i dont know if gtg's package wipes but it probably does, actually id bet on it.
sometimes if the firmware is different restoring system data causes issues, what that means is you would lose your call logs and things. but if the app+system data restore causes issues you can just clear data in recovery mode and restore app+data rather than apps +all system data.
do you have contacts sync'd with google? att? if not export the contacts to a v-card on the sdcard. then import after the flash. but i recomend the gole contacts sync if you have want to set it up, sometimes simply setting it up on the phone doesnt work the first time. but once it is working it will restore contacts to any android phone you ever own and you can edit and merge contacts from the gmail website to keep it organized.
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yes, backup just in case. i dont know if gtg's package wipes but it probably does, actually id bet on it.
sometimes if the firmware is different restoring system data causes issues, what that means is you would lose your call logs and things. but if the app+system data restore causes issues you can just clear data in recovery mode and restore app+data rather than apps +all system data.
do you have contacts sync'd with google? att? if not export the contacts to a v-card on the sdcard. then import after the flash. but i recomend the gole contacts sync if you have want to set it up, sometimes simply setting it up on the phone doesnt work the first time. but once it is working it will restore contacts to any android phone you ever own and you can edit and merge contacts from the gmail website to keep it organized.
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I just did this and it wont let me open up Titanium or most of the apps installed it forces me to close them any ideas?
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I just did this and it wont let me open up Titanium or most of the apps installed it forces me to close them any ideas?
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this is after the flash? did you have to log into the maket and install titanium backup from the market or were all the old apps still there? did you make a backup before the flash? is super user installed? busybox?
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this is after the flash? did you have to log into the maket and install titanium backup from the market or were all the old apps still there? did you make a backup before the flash? is super user installed?
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yes after flash. I backup everything in titanium, i thought that is what you ment?? yes the apps were still there just cant open them. yes super user is still there and can open it.
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yes after flash. I backup everything in titanium, i thought that is what you ment?? yes the apps were still there just cant open them. yes super user is still there and can open it.
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sorry i think i miss read something, i thought you meant "incase" hand you lose you apps to backup with titanium which would imply it would be before but now i see it says "if" which implies after the fact, sorry if my confussion caused you problems.
so you didn't do the backup before the flash? and all that apps are present but some force close? is this right? just for clerification
if the apps are still there you may just need to clear app data, this can be done in titanium or in setting> apps > manage apps> all go to each app individually and clear data. this will lose progress on games but not usually much else.
you may prefer to use titanium, to get titanium to work go to settings> apps > manage apps > 3rdparty/downloaded scroll down to titanium and clear data (this wont hurt the backups they are on the sd card)
if that doesnt work and you have access to the market then delete titanium and reinstall it.
im about to be away from my computer, if this doesnt get resolved contact me through pm and i will get back to it tonight. i will make every attempt to keep whatever apps you still have.
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if the apps are still there you may just need to clear app data, this can be done in titanium or in setting> apps > manage apps> all go to each app individually and clear data. this will lose progress on games but not usually much else.
you may prefer to use titanium, to get titanium to work go to settings> apps > manage apps > 3rdparty/downloaded scroll down to titanium and clear data (this wont hurt the backups they are on the sd card)
if that doesnt work and you have access to the market then delete titanium and reinstall it.
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i performed a system restore and in the process of doing an all batch data backup restore on titanium now will update in a few min, thanks again for helping me through this!
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im about to be away from my computer, if this doesnt get resolved contact me through pm and i will get back to it tonight. i will make every attempt to keep whatever apps you still have.
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All my apps came back up, just have to reset my screens with my wigets and etc.. but have the new baseband UCKE3 now that is what i was after. Thanks again for the help!
Hey guys
I've recently rooted my 9023i Nexus S and am currently running Codename Android 1.4.0 with the included Kernel.
I did flash and test Matr1x kernel and one other which I can't remember the name of but in both cases I went ahead and reflashed the ROM to get the original kernel back as I felt the phone became unstable and sluggish after a while on the custom kernels.
I use Titanium Backup to backup and restore my apps and system settings which worked beautifully when I was just flashing the same ROM again, but I am wondering if I would like to try a different ROM (would be based on ICS 4.0.3 or 4.0.4) if I could restore my apps AND my system settings with Titanium Backup?
I have seen around here that I should only restore apps and not system settings when going to a different rom which I totally understand, but I would love to be able to keep my call logs, sms, contacts and especially Email (Exchange) settings between ROM flashes.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
I never really liked Titanium Backup, but you shouldn't have an issue, I believe. You should never lose your contacts as long as you are signed into Google. After you flash a new rom, sign back in and your contacts should be there. As for system settings, I have no idea. Wifi settings, etc shouldn't be a problem. Go ahead and try it. Thats what Clockwork Recovery and Titanium Backup are for. If it doesn't work, then restore back to what you had. Its best to learn from trial and error.
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I never really liked Titanium Backup, but you shouldn't have an issue, I believe. You should never lose your contacts as long as you are signed into Google. After you flash a new rom, sign back in and your contacts should be there. As for system settings, I have no idea. Wifi settings, etc shouldn't be a problem. Go ahead and try it. Thats what Clockwork Recovery and Titanium Backup are for. If it doesn't work, then restore back to what you had. Its best to learn from trial and error.
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Thanks, I did do it like that the first couple of times when I flashed a rom, but I really like not having to redo the exchange settings and resync all my email and exchange contacts (all of my contacts come from exchange, none from Google) and also not having to resign into all of my services (Facebook etc.)
I guess I'll just do some tests and see how it goes
Restore apps. Leave the system stuff alone.
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Restore apps. Leave the system stuff alone.
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That's the answer I was expecting
But do you think it's ok to manually restore some settings, for example email settings, rather than doing a batch restore on all settings?
I see a backup in Titanium Backup for Email 4.1 and Exchange Services 4.1 which I assume would include all my emails and settings, right?
You could try restore data only on those. If you get a bunch of force closes .....
The emails are stored on the email server. You log into Gmail/Hotmail/work .. the emails will sync.
If you want to screw with it. Make a current Nandroid of your system. Restore what you want. Screw up ...restore Nandroid. Works... smile
Thanks guys
Tried it yesterday, didn't work
One other question... When restoring apps+data after a flash do you sign into Google and then restore or do you restore and then sign into Google?
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Tried it yesterday, didn't work
One other question... When restoring apps+data after a flash do you sign into Google and then restore or do you restore and then sign into Google?
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Correct me if i'm wrong but with CNA you need to flash Gapps manually. If you don't flash it, you wont have market or anything, so you wont be able to sign in will you?
What i do is just leave google apps alone and flash my user apps. Then when you flash a rom, flash gaps, sign in, then restore user apps.
Yes it's a bit of a pain to reconfigure gmail etc, but most of the data is synced online so it shouldnt be too bad.
The title says it all. I've got this backup on the Google drive cloud from my old phone. There are no options to restore from it. Is the only time to restore from the old phone's backup at setup?!
I was wondering that too and I just assumed you could do so during setup by selecting the "cable doesn't fit" option or saying you didn't have access to your old phone. Not sure about after setup tho..
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I was wondering that too and I just assumed you could do so during setup by selecting the "cable doesn't fit" option or saying you didn't have access to your old phone. Not sure about after setup tho..
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I can't believe there's no other way to utilize our backups except during the time of setup ridiculous. Does anyone know if there's a way to get the backups on our new device after setup or how to force the setup menu?
It's not too tough, using ADB, or it doesn't appear tough (I haven't actually tried this, but retrieving and using the correct token-values seems pretty straightforward): https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/testingbackup
There do appear to have been some "launch apps" that were able to trigger this through a (hidden) system-app-launch, but I see zero mention in more recent (i.e. > A9) times...
My personal peeve is the fact that Google makes it incredibly difficult to access (can't even see these anymore on my Drive account), and create some sort of restore-point backup, of a device. You can use this same adb technique above, but what if you just want to "fiddle with some sketchy apps", or similar, and have a couple of bailout backups, it's sure not easy, by any stretch...
Just use Swiftbackup with Google drive. It backs up and restores all your apps, data, phone logs and messages
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Just use Swiftbackup with Google drive. It backs up and restores all your apps, data, phone logs and messages
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I just moved my swift backup from my PC to my p7p. I'm ready to restore. Google seems to have done a good job restoring my apps through its backup. It didn't seem to restore any of the data though. How should I do the restore with swift? Do I just restore the data for system and user apps? Do I slrwatore the APKs too? Given that most of not all the apps have been restored by Google what happens if I restore the APKs with swift too? Will the apps be duplicated?
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I just moved my swift backup from my PC to my p7p. I'm ready to restore. Google seems to have done a good job restoring my apps through its backup. It didn't seem to restore any of the data though. How should I do the restore with swift? Do I just restore the data for system and user apps? Do I slrwatore the APKs too? Given that most of not all the apps have been restored by Google what happens if I restore the APKs with swift too? Will the apps be duplicated?
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I use Swiftbackup to restore apps with its data which works 90+ percent of the time. I think you can restore the apps again via Swiftbackup.
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I use Swiftbackup to restore apps with its data which works 90+ percent of the time. I think you can restore the apps again via Swiftbackup.
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understood. the question is if I select apps data and apps will it cause an issue if google has already restored a lot of the apps with its backup?
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understood. the question is if I select apps data and apps will it cause an issue if google has already restored a lot of the apps with its backup?
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I think Swiftbackup will just overwrite the apps that you restored from Google. I can't see any problem.
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I think Swiftbackup will just overwrite the apps that you restored from Google. I can't see any problem.
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When I last used Swift to restore from backup all my apps were glitchy. I had started to clear data from them all to get them to work correctly, but ended up doing a factory reset. Restored from Google and everything was fine
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When I last used Swift to restore from backup all my apps were glitchy. I had started to clear data from them all to get them to work correctly, but ended up doing a factory reset. Restored from Google and everything was fine
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There was a bug using Swiftbackup to restore apps to a P7. It has been fixed.