Hi there,
I'm trying to use TiBu Free Ver to do a backup of user data and apps, but when I start it, I usually go back to the home screen, I started a back up at 12:53 today and it's still only on 3%, I tried to start another one but it says it's already doing a backup.
Is this normal? Should it take this long?
Cheers,
T-L-H
Userdata + apps should go by very fast. Do you have the latest busybox installed. Did you make sure to allow it to close running apps to do backups (since free version doesn't pause them...)
The-Last-Hylian said:
Hi there,
I'm trying to use TiBu Free Ver to do a backup of user data and apps, but when I start it, I usually go back to the home screen, I started a back up at 12:53 today and it's still only on 3%, I tried to start another one but it says it's already doing a backup.
Is this normal? Should it take this long?
Cheers,
T-L-H
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I thought in TB free version, you have to actually stay in TB to have it run? I have pro so I don't really recall.
From the market on the TB free version;
Backups will operate without closing any apps (with Pro).
Thanks guys,
I haven't tried to run another Backup yet, when I have tried however, if I do go back to the homescreens I do get a TiBu icon in my notification bar but it doesn't do anyhting.
I'll have to run it and just stay in TiBu and not click anywhere else.
I'm sorry I'm not sure about Busybox. Not too sure what it even is!
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OK, I'm getting ready to buy a backup app...
Which one should I go with? From my testing with the free versions, Titanium doesn't do anything and MBP works. (I'm sure this is user error, Titanium wouldn't get the love it does if it only backed up what I've been able to back up with it.)
Why all the love for Titanium? When I try the free version from the market, all it wants to do is back up "Country, Language, Time Zone" and "Wi-Fi Access Points". Kinda useless. It tells me it read all my app data, but those two options are just settings. I'm not seeing a way to back up any apps at all. The amount of time it spends backing up also indicates it's not doing much.
On the other hand, the version of My Backup that I'm testing does a good job with backing up my apps and restoring them, along with their associated data.
I see Titanium getting all this love, so I KNOW I'm missing something.
What exactly is it that I'm missing?
Did you click "Problems?" and install busybox directly from Titanium first?
Also, when you buy Titanium the hypershell makes restoring apps nice and easy as it automates it completely. I don't know if MyBackupPro does this.
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Did you click "Problems?" and install busybox directly from Titanium first?
Also, when you buy Titanium the hypershell makes restoring apps nice and easy as it automates it completely. I don't know if MyBackupPro does this.
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Yep, I did that. From what I've read it downloads it's own busybox and doesn't interfere with the one the rest of the system uses, so I automatically do that each time I install it.
I just had the same problem with TB. I figured it's cause of my A2SD. But, I want and tried the trial of MBP and it works great. I may just buy that one.
I just installed MyBackup and I tried to back up my apps but I get an error that says "Error during Backup: Error opening DB". Anyone know why I'm getting that error?
Edit: Nevermind, got it working.
Yes you got that error message because you were probably connected to you PC via USB and your SD card was mounted so your phone was unable to read it, just so you know!
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The donate version of Titanium Backup is awesome! I could not go on without it!
When using Titanium to backup apps will they show up in the market as 'my downloads' once re-installed?
I've used Astro to backup apps and unfortunately, they don't show up in the 'my downloads' when re-installed to the phone after switching over to new ROMs that require complete wipe. So knowing when an update is out for the app is a bit of a hassle.
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found a review online that says the downloads will show up in the market with titanium. Might give it a try.
i use sprite backup and it works great!
titanium (free) didn't restore my market links to show up in downloads. using latest version and all of my backed up apps show smiley+M
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titanium (free) didn't restore my market links to show up in downloads. using latest version and all of my backed up apps show smiley+M
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Yeah, the market links are only available with the donate version. Considering I only use about Four apps on a regular basis I might not be getting the paid and just re-download the apps if I ever do a wipe. Google backs up pretty much everything else and there is a free text backup app available in the market that gets the job done.
With all the the new updates coming out, I was wondering if some of the more experienced people could put a decent post up on how to completely back up all my data and apps.
All the updates for TnT Lite recommend a data wipe and I am getting tired of finding and installing all my apps over and over. And doing stuff like the Hulu and swype hacks over again really suck.
I know I have read to use adb and Titanium, but honestly I do not know how to use either one correctly. I downloaded Titanium but I guess I have been too lazy to figure out how it works.
One more thing, I know CW has its own backup and I have been using that, but I am talking about something that allows for restoring on a new updated rom...
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With all the the new updates coming out, I was wondering if some of the more experienced people could put a decent post up on how to completely back up all my data and apps.
All the updates for TnT Lite recommend a data wipe and I am getting tired of finding and installing all my apps over and over. And doing stuff like the Hulu and swype hacks over again really suck.
I know I have read to use adb and Titanium, but honestly I do not know how to use either one correctly. I downloaded Titanium but I guess I have been too lazy to figure out how it works.
One more thing, I know CW has its own backup and I have been using that, but I am talking about something that allows for restoring on a new updated rom...
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That thing that you are too lazy to learn about is the thing that will do exactly what you want. Titanium backup is very easy to use, has batch features so you can back up all of your apps, or just what you want. Load a new rom, and then do a restore with titanium and most everything will be back. It is not perfect, but it does a good job.
+2 for Titanium Backup. The free version works fine but I purchased it so that it would do automated backups.
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That thing that you are too lazy to learn about is the thing that will do exactly what you want. Titanium backup is very easy to use, has batch features so you can back up all of your apps, or just what you want. Load a new rom, and then do a restore with titanium and most everything will be back. It is not perfect, but it does a good job.
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Awesome... I tried playing with it for a little while ealier tonight, but I am still not exactly sure how titanium is suppose to work.... is there a guide or faq out there somewhere?
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Awesome... I tried playing with it for a little while ealier tonight, but I am still not exactly sure how titanium is suppose to work.... is there a guide or faq out there somewhere?
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Cool.. Don't know if there is a guide but I believe you need the paid version to do the batch things. That's what I have so I can't remember what the free version lets you do.
Pretty much all you do for apps is select backup/restore from the top menu bar, then just select the item you want backed up and a menu will come up allowing you to back it up. You can do that for each app, or with the paid version you can press the menu button while in backup/restore and it will have a batch selection. It will have a bunch of options to choose from. To backup all of your apps you would just select backup all user apps. Works pretty fast, and saves them all to your internal sd card in the TitaniumBackup folder by default. Restoring is the same except you pick the restore all user apps button.
It can do a lot more but just doing all of your apps will help a lot.
That's the basics to maybe get ya started...
Have fun...
Batch backup is available in the free version. From the restore/backup tab, press the menu button and choose batch. This will let you backup all apps.
The paid version adds ability to verify your backup.
I wasn't sure how to use titanium backup at first but I went back to android market and followed the link to the developers website where they have guides you can following.
Titanium Backup is the way to go! +2 for Pro and Dropbox sync
I had the same problem as many with the missing gmail widget. Here is how I fixed it:
Apps / Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset
PLEASE NOTE this makes your tablet as if it was brand new outta box so please backup any data you don't wanna lose. Everything took me about 10 minutes to get setup again and the gmail widget is now listed under widgets and working once again. Market synced all my installed apps from market back automatically.
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I had the same problem as many with the missing gmail widget. Here is how I fixed it:
Apps / Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset
PLEASE NOTE this makes your tablet as if it was brand new outta box so please backup any data you don't wanna lose. Everything took me about 10 minutes to get setup again and the gmail widget is now listed under widgets and working once again. Market synced all my installed apps from market back automatically.
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Thank you!
thats unacceptable for those of us who actually use this device for more than just the programs included with the stock rom.
nfodiz said:
I had the same problem as many with the missing gmail widget. Here is how I fixed it:
Apps / Settings / Privacy / Factory data reset
PLEASE NOTE this makes your tablet as if it was brand new outta box so please backup any data you don't wanna lose. Everything took me about 10 minutes to get setup again and the gmail widget is now listed under widgets and working once again. Market synced all my installed apps from market back automatically.
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Does that action delete/ format your files in the TF? How about the files on my SD card?
Rio
It wipes everything off the TF and what your left with is a brand new 3.1 installation. It didn't touch my microsd cards data. I know this is not an ideal solution for the power users out there but it may help out some until Asus issues a fix.
Deletes data off the internal storage, but not the sd card.
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thats unacceptable for those of us who actually use this device for more than just the programs included with the stock rom.
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it's called backing up your data and reinstalling your apps. It's a very common thing to do.
download app list backup from the market, that will give you market links for all of your installed apps, and you can download mybackup pro to backup some data.
and BTW, to everyone doing this, backup your internal memory becuase it will be erased as well to my understanding.
going to go ahead and do this when i get home tonight.
Fyi by default Google backs up your app data. So it should automatically redownload the apps you had and have all your settings. Unless of course you pirated them, at which point you're not allowed to complain
The backup/sync option is meant to only restore ones you purchased via the market, not free ones. Although honestly, it's restored a few of the free ones (not all) I've installed too, the last time I reset, so I'm not sure what to think any more.
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The backup/sync option is meant to only restore ones you purchased via the market, not free ones. Although honestly, it's restored a few of the free ones (not all) I've installed too, the last time I reset, so I'm not sure what to think any more.
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For me it restores my free ones as well (I have 2 paid apps and 50 free ones, it restores them all).
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The backup/sync option is meant to only restore ones you purchased via the market, not free ones. Although honestly, it's restored a few of the free ones (not all) I've installed too, the last time I reset, so I'm not sure what to think any more.
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it restores all free ones for me
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it restores all free ones for me
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same here - all of my apps were reinstalled once I did rebooted. The vast majority of them were free.
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it restores all free ones for me
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Note that it does not restore app data. You need root for that and Titanium Backup and if you have root there are other ways to get the widget back. Any save states (ie. completed levels in Angry Birds etc..) will be lost. Any settings and such as well. I'm not saying don't do it, but just getting that out there for those that don't know. 'Restore' is really the wrong word for this, it's just re-installing so you don't have to.
Sounds like they've changed their policy then if it's restoring all apps now. That's certainly welcome news.
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Note that it does not restore app data. You need root for that and Titanium Backup and if you have root there are other ways to get the widget back. Any save states (ie. completed levels in Angry Birds etc..) will be lost. Any settings and such as well. I'm not saying don't do it, but just getting that out there for those that don't know. 'Restore' is really the wrong word for this, it's just re-installing so you don't have to.
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Exactly why I said factory reset is an unacceptable solution.
Titanium backup or backup pro isn't a solution because it requires root to backup app data, but if you have root you could force install Gmail widget directly without factory reseting in the first place
It is an issue to factory restore things, because there is no way to back up app data without root.
For example, playing games on your tablet, there is no way to recover that saved file unless there is root
Thats why I believe, factory resetting is the last resort resolution and really isn't a fix..
And they always make rooting so difficult, but obtaining app data to restore later or just to backup is the best part of root
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I want to know. Do you really need to restore your apps from titanium backup?
I flash a rom every other week and I used to restore ALL my apps after a new flash. Just this week I decided to not restore my apps because I realized I barely use half of them on my phone.
Maybe the ones you know you can't live without, but i have way to many as it is and have started flashing more often. So im getting pickier about what i backup.
apps update so quick, i just use titanium backup to backup my game.
I backup all my apps
But when I flash a new rom I restore only what I need for the moment
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I gave up... i don't restore my apps anymore... lol
nor me unfortunately
I still restore my apps with titanium backup, but I do try to leave off some apps that I haven't been using. It's like moving and getting rid of the stuff you don't use! The more you move - the less boxes of stuff you have - LOL!
I had to factory-default my phone as it started acting strange, and I definitely did not reinstall a bunch of apps I'd installed. When I first got the phone, I went wild on the Marketplace, and installed a ton of free apps that sounded interesting. There were a bunch of apps on the phone that I'd probably never even used once.
yeah like most i backup all my apps but only restore some of them depending on what i want/need at the time.
I backup for my Angry Birds progress .
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I want to know. Do you really need to restore your apps from titanium backup?
I flash a rom every other week and I used to restore ALL my apps after a new flash. Just this week I decided to not restore my apps because I realized I barely use half of them on my phone.
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I hardly use the backup, I am not application/game freak so the apps count is less. I have seen guys backing up lots of apps/games, but instead they only use few.
I don't restore all my old apps, Market is here for that, but it can be useful to backup stock apps that you can't find on Market when you flash an alternative ROM that doesn't bring stock apps.
Had to get warranty replacement Charge today. Had original since debut. (they didn't have re-furb, wanted to send me one, told them I was leaving town and they gave me bran new one !!)
I am rooted, using EE4dxvodo_DXC. I had used free version of Titanium in the past and deleted several appz. I decided to purchase pro so I could freeze appz this time. Installd free, paid for pro and it installed it. I now open Titanium and it only shows the overview screen. There are no tabs to where I can get to the apps on the phone. I click the change profile button and it says 'functin not available on older Charg ROMS' ??
The free version worked just fine with same Odin on last phone. Is there something I am missing here?
Thanx in advance for any help.
Steve
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Had to get warranty replacement Charge today. Had original since debut. (they didn't have re-furb, wanted to send me one, told them I was leaving town and they gave me bran new one !!)
I am rooted, using EE4dxvodo_DXC. I had used free version of Titanium in the past and deleted several appz. I decided to purchase pro so I could freeze appz this time. Installd free, paid for pro and it installed it. I now open Titanium and it only shows the overview screen. There are no tabs to where I can get to the apps on the phone. I click the change profile button and it says 'functin not available on older Charg ROMS' ??
The free version worked just fine with same Odin on last phone. Is there something I am missing here?
Thanx in advance for any help.
Steve
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is the sd card the same? I thought TiBu saves settings/data to a folder on the sd card
I have a copy of that folder on my desktop, yes. I restored the sd card to basic stock before turning in the phone, not wanting them to know it had been rooted. That's not the point however:
When you open Titanium, there is a tab where it will display all apps on the phone and give you the option of deleting or freezing them. If you try to freeze them with the free version, it tells you that option is only available with the pro version.
Now when I open Titanium, none of that is accessible. It only gives a single overview page of ram status and such. There is no way to get to any other pages within Titanium to manipulate the appz.
The phone is rooted successfully, Open Garden Wifi tether gets granted superuser permissions and super user gives the option to allow/deny permissions. Titanium doesn't seem to be working and I was wondering if anyone else had run into this issue.
I was even rooted with the same ROM on the old phone ...
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I have a copy of that folder on my desktop, yes. I restored the sd card to basic stock before turning in the phone, not wanting them to know it had been rooted. That's not the point however:
When you open Titanium, there is a tab where it will display all apps on the phone and give you the option of deleting or freezing them. If you try to freeze them with the free version, it tells you that option is only available with the pro version.
Now when I open Titanium, none of that is accessible. It only gives a single overview page of ram status and such. There is no way to get to any other pages within Titanium to manipulate the appz.
The phone is rooted successfully, Open Garden Wifi tether gets granted superuser permissions and super user gives the option to allow/deny permissions. Titanium doesn't seem to be working and I was wondering if anyone else had run into this issue.
I was even rooted with the same ROM on the old phone ...
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is it the most up to date version? could've been a bad download perhaps? I've never heard of that happening with Tibu, paid or free
I have had tibu do that before. But a reboot seem to fix it.
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*shrug* ... it ain't workin' that's for sure ... I un-installed tibu and re-installed it; made sure superuser had lastest binary; tibu is getting SU permissions, but no apps list is available in tibu, only an overview page.
Though this is the same ROM I was rooted under on other phone before the swap and it worked fine. Not running any kernel with it just straight forward EE4dxvodo_DXC
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I have a copy of that folder on my desktop, yes. I restored the sd card to basic stock before turning in the phone, not wanting them to know it had been rooted. That's not the point however:
When you open Titanium, there is a tab where it will display all apps on the phone and give you the option of deleting or freezing them. If you try to freeze them with the free version, it tells you that option is only available with the pro version.
Now when I open Titanium, none of that is accessible. It only gives a single overview page of ram status and such. There is no way to get to any other pages within Titanium to manipulate the appz.
The phone is rooted successfully, Open Garden Wifi tether gets granted superuser permissions and super user gives the option to allow/deny permissions. Titanium doesn't seem to be working and I was wondering if anyone else had run into this issue.
I was even rooted with the same ROM on the old phone ...
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I assume you have at ready looked at the menu that comes up when you press the menu button. I think that the functionality that you are looking for is under Filters to select stuff that you want to work with and Batch to actually do stuff like bloat freezing, backups, restores, etc..