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Is there something I can use to reinstall all my apps after flashing?

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.

koricua74 said:
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)

Bielinsk said:
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

tatonka_hero said:
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)

[Q] App Backup / Install

ok, so I have rooted and installed Revolution 3.0... of course I look today and bam there is 3.1!! I spent the entire day re-installing all my apps from the market. Can someone tell me an easy way to reinstall my apps so I can quickly flash roms? Is there a way to take a "snapshot" so I don't even have to re-enter my accounts for sync/mail?
Thanks in advance!

andysousa said:
ok, so I have rooted and installed Revolution 3.0... of course I look today and bam there is 3.1!! I spent the entire day re-installing all my apps from the market. Can someone tell me an easy way to reinstall my apps so I can quickly flash roms? Is there a way to take a "snapshot" so I don't even have to re-enter my accounts for sync/mail?
Thanks in advance!
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Spend the money on Titanium backup Pro. I think it's like 3-4 bucks and worth every penny. Batch backup/restore.

MyBackup Root in the market will do the same thing as Titanium for free.

[Q] Stupid mistake when I set up my phone

If this has been answered a billion times, please forgive.... I did use Google and the forum search, I just didn't find anything pertinent.
First, I currently only have the free version of TiBU, but it has batch backup/restore functions. Is this an acceptable backup, or does the full version grab more?
Second, When I set up my phone, I used a Google apps account that, upon reflection, I may not always have. If I set up my next rom with my personal gmail account, and then restore my TiBU, will my paid apps transfer to the new account, and continue to update?
Thanks for all the help, and if there's another thread that answers my question, just link me and I'll exhibit my mad literacy skillz!

nope you will just have the app/s, nor will they update.

And Google hasn't opened a way to transfer purchases, have they?
Or even a way to sign in and out of market accounts..... I'd gladly just sign in with this account once a month to check for updates.

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
And Google hasn't opened a way to transfer purchases, have they?
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That is a good question, and I am not sure about it, but I don't believe so.

I guess that I'm just gonna have to hope that a ) I don't ever lose this google apps account or b ) If I do Google has come up with a way to transfer purchases.
Also, is the batch backup in the free version of TiBU the same as the one in the paid version?

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
I guess that I'm just gonna have to hope that a ) I don't ever lose this google apps account or b ) If I do Google has come up with a way to transfer purchases.
Also, is the batch backup in the free version of TiBU the same as the one in the paid version?
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I think the batch restore is different, in that the paid version will do multiple apps in one shot, whereas the free version allows you to restore only one at a time.
It's doesn't *limit* you to only one, it just makes you click on every app you want to restore individually, over and over until they're all restored.
In other words, pro does "unattended" one-click restores of multiple app backups.
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This is correct with titanium backup. As far as your apps purchased, I would contact market support by opening the market and press menu - help and click on contact us.
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Let me get this straight, if I buy the full version of TiBU, I won't have to 'accept' and 'done' every app when I restore a backup? If that's the case, it'll be well worth whatever they're asking. (I do understand that I'll need to restore my full version unlock as a standalone to have access to the unsupervised script).

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
Let me get this straight, if I buy the full version of TiBU, I won't have to 'accept' and 'done' every app when I restore a backup? If that's the case, it'll be well worth whatever they're asking. (I do understand that I'll need to restore my full version unlock as a standalone to have access to the unsupervised script).
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Well, I only used the free version to restore apps once, a long time ago (I bought it early on), but from what I remember, and from what I understand you to be saying, you won't have to confirm then select the next app.
As far as restoring your pro to get the full features, you could do that one separately, or, just go to the market and install TiBU free, as you most likely would have to anyway after a new ROM flash, and then go to the pro key listing, and if you've purchased it, it'll say 'purchased', and you can just download the key again.
Just buy it. It's worth it, if for no other reason than to support the dev.
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The free version allows a batch restore, but you have to confirm and then close each install like a regular market install. Anyway, next flash will see me spending the money for the full version.

ST3ALTHPSYCH0 said:
The free version allows a batch restore, but you have to confirm and then close each install like a regular market install. Anyway, next flash will see me spending the money for the full version.
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Yes, what you just mentioned is exactly what the pro version eliminates.
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Last night Titanium saved my life

Well, not quite, but saved me a lot of aggravation! I know most people know this, but I thought I'd share. I had serious issues with a certain app from the market. After a few attempts and a reboot all my apps and system services were FC'ing. I rebooted several times, and the same happened. I could do nothing.
I researched, and others said you need a factory reset, so I girded my loins and did the deed.
By great fortune I had only recently cleared a couple of GB on my external SD and backed up the entire system with Titanium Backup. I could then easily not only restore the apps, but all the data, relieving me from the need to reconfigure several dozen critical apps. I even had my bluetooth and wireless settings restored.
Cannot praise it enough, just coughed up for the pro version to back up using dropbox too. That way, if my Note should ever get purloined, I can buy another one and restore at will.

TB, Superuser, CWM, Autostarts, SetDNS, Cerberus, all these are indispensable apps on an Android machine

Word!
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+1, I agree too..

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Completely agree! Ever since I converted from Symbian to Android, I could not resist myself with the amount of "playing around" that is possible, and hence the need to wipe all your data.
Over the weekend I used the TB at least 5-6 times and every time it worked flawlessly.
Other uses include- Market application which is a sore point for many custom ROMS, I could solve the issue by just toggling it to user app, uninstalling, installing the newer version and making it a sys app again. As simple as that!

jeremy.chan said:
TB, Superuser, CWM, Autostarts, SetDNS, Cerberus, all these are indispensable apps on an Android machine
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... and DroidWall. I feel naked without it!

TB was the first ever app i paid for. Pro version was not even avaible through android market for my country by that time so i had to donate to his paypal account. It is one of the essential apps on android and it is the biggest reason i root my phone even tho i prefer to use stock roms.

Best Way to Reinstall Apps after Flashing

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.

jmorton10 said:
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:

fretbro6 said:
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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kintwofan said:
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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