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How to backup all your data

Some ROMS require you to wipe /data as well as /system. So how would i backup all my stuff so that I can simply restore all my stuff after the changes. Like lets say im running on weapon G2x right now but I want to change my ROM to PhoenixBlood, but i dont want to lose my GTA 3 saves (true story XD). Would be greatly appreciated. And pleas don't tell me just to wipe dalvik cache and /cache. Im going to be using G2X scrubber before the install. Thanks!
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Titanium Backup Pro lets you backup all apps along with their data. You can also backup system data too, but you might run into problems trying to restore Weapon's system data to PB. Basically I just use the default batch backups under "Schedules"
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Will the backup work with the free version?
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zoppp said:
Will the backup work with the free version?
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Yes, backups work w/ the free version. But i highly recommend buying the PRO/Donate version. In the PRO version, it features 0-click batch restores, so you won't have to click "install" for every app you restore. Plus, the developer puts a ton of work into this app, and once you buy the PRO version, its yours for life, no matter how many times it updates. Just a suggestion

zoppp said:
Will the backup work with the free version?
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It works great on the free version. Also you may want to then copy your TI backup to your PC. One time I formatted one too many things including my SD card. Lost everything, which really sucks if you play games.

Okay, thanks for the input, im going to buy the pro version
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Yeah titanium backup is the way to go. Run the batch action for user apps system apps wont do ya any good and can cause issues. I would make a Android backup also can't be to careful
Making bad decision's one at a time.

jcbofkc said:
It works great on the free version. Also you may want to then copy your TI backup to your PC. One time I formatted one too many things including my SD card. Lost everything, which really sucks if you play games.
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Done that more then 1nce, I learned the hard way to backup to external hdd as well lol
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And as clarification, does the g2x scrubber wipe my internal SD and my External SD?
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jcbofkc said:
It works great on the free version. Also you may want to then copy your TI backup to your PC. One time I formatted one too many things including my SD card. Lost everything, which really sucks if you play games.
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You can also backup to dropbox from within the app.
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doesnt cwm restore your entire system? I just restored mine from a recovery file cuz i softbricked my phone today and i am getting all the apps with proper setting from before.

hhwong said:
doesnt cwm restore your entire system? I just restored mine from a recovery file cuz i softbricked my phone today and i am getting all the apps with proper setting from before.
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Yes it does, but i want a different rom, CWM also restores the ROM
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Mr. Apocalypse said:
Yes, backups work w/ the free version. But i highly recommend buying the PRO/Donate version. In the PRO version, it features 0-click batch restores, so you won't have to click "install" for every app you restore. Plus, the developer puts a ton of work into this app, and once you buy the PRO version, its yours for life, no matter how many times it updates. Just a suggestion
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+1
As a recent convert to habitual rom flashing, the pro version of titanium and clockwork mod have been super useful. And I've always believed in rewarding people/companies that produce useful tools

duckjob said:
+1
As a recent convert to habitual rom flashing, the pro version of titanium and clockwork mod have been super useful. And I've always believed in rewarding people/companies that produce useful tools
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Great app wish I knew about it sooner lol, PRO version of titanium backup is great
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Gmail Contacts wont stayed Merged?

OKay everytime I get a new phone i have to merge my gmail contacts and my facebook contacts. Is there a way to permenatly keep them merged?

sadly, no...

that sucks
someone should fix that. lol thank you for your reply

u can try a titanium backup and migrate it to the new phone, that may do it

its weird some stay merged and some dont..... wish I could figure out why?
any suggestions?

icenight89 said:
u can try a titanium backup and migrate it to the new phone, that may do it
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I have a Skyrocket now but have a new one coming. Its a long convoluted story so I won't bore you with it. My question is since I have everything backed up on Titanium backup when I get new phone already rooted is there any way to migrate using Titanium to the new phone? Thanks I'm still pretty new to this.
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robin48 said:
I have a Skyrocket now but have a new one coming. Its a long convoluted story so I won't bore you with it. My question is since I have everything backed up on Titanium backup when I get new phone already rooted is there any way to migrate using Titanium to the new phone? Thanks I'm still pretty new to this.
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Okay the only thing you can restore are missing apps and their data. You cannot restore system data between different phones.

Backing up apps

Hey everyone sorry if this has bee asked already but, I use to use cm7 and I just switched to paranoid android build 8 and was wondering if theres a way to back up my apps like example(on the game 100 floors if I saved it to my SD card and re downloaded would it save all my floors?) Thanks!
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Titanium Backup will be your saving grace. I use it to backup all my user apps and transition them to whatever ROM I switch to. Spend the little extra $$ and get the Pro version too. Well worth the money invested in it.

New2my8125 said:
Titanium Backup will be your saving grace. I use it to backup all my user apps and transition them to whatever ROM I switch to. Spend the little extra $$ and get the Pro version too. Well worth the money invested in it.
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Oh looked it up seems cool(I know how to get paid apps for free not sure if I'm allowed to post that here though lol) and does this save the apps to SD card or phone or is it there own servers online or something? How does it work do I recover my cm7 back up and do this and then go back to paranoid android re download app and restore?
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Laxshanth said:
Oh looked it up seems cool(I know how to get paid apps for free not sure if I'm allowed to post that here though lol) and does this save the apps to SD card or phone or is it there own servers online or something? How does it work do I recover my cm7 back up and do this and then go back to paranoid android re download app and restore?
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We won't go into discussion of the "free"ness you speak of. It's not tolerated here and I HIGHLY discourage it as a practice.
Titanium Backup will put the backups wherever you'd like. It's all in the setup.

Don't rip off the makers of Titanium Backup. Their tool is awesome and is worth the money
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New2my8125 said:
We won't go into discussion of the "free"ness you speak of. It's not tolerated here and I HIGHLY discourage it as a practice.
Titanium Backup will put the backups wherever you'd like. It's all in the setup.
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Alright thanks I don't think I even need the paid version I just got the free one seems pretty simple to use too
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run into another problem... i need to restore my CM7 rom to get all the apps on titanium backup but i cant restore it for some reason after i backed it up with rom manager i put it onto my laptop and now when i put it back on to my SD card root and click restore in CWM it doesnt show up any ideas?

The backup needs to be in the clockwork folder on root

mikew29 said:
The backup needs to be in the clockwork folder on root
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Idk how I did it with it in the root of my SD before but doesn't matter its all gonna now thanks though
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Very important Messages missing after titanium backup restore, HELP!!!

Hey everyone, I hate to be the noob but I recently backed up using titanium backup, flash a rom, didn't like it, flashed back and went to restore using titanium backup and everything went fine apart from the fact that recent messages are missing and they are very important to me, can anyone help me recover them? Thanks in advance.
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TechMitchell said:
Hey everyone, I hate to be the noob but I recently backed up using titanium backup, flash a rom, didn't like it, flashed back and went to restore using titanium backup and everything went fine apart from the fact that recent messages are missing and they are very important to me, can anyone help me recover them? Thanks in advance.
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TB pro? Or free version?
When u open TB does it show that there us a backup for messages on the date u backed it up?
Also if u are gonna be a flasher, may I suggest using Google voice so that no matter what u have a backup to a backup
Good luck
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Yeah, the backup is from the 30 th but no messages since the 14 th are showing up? And there's no voice in my country so that is a no. Any idea why they're no showing up.?
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Oh wait, phone / messaging storage is only at the 15 th, why? I backed up on the 30th? Is there any way to get my messages back? They are very important to me.
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TechMitchell said:
Oh wait, phone / messaging storage is only at the 15 th, why? I backed up on the 30th? Is there any way to get my messages back? They are very important to me.
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Probably not unless u had them backup'd within a ROM backup.
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For future reference...always make a nandroid backup in recovery before wiping and flashing a new ROM. That way if you don't like the new ROM you just restore the nandroid. That's the only 100% way to not lose anything.

Q: Anyway to make nandroid backups without going into recovery?

I used to use Orange Backup to make daily nandroid backups but once KitKat came out, it was no longer supported. Are there any alternatives now?

What's the problem using recovery exactly?
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it requires supervised time. with orange backup you can schedule it to run at a certain time every day. i set it up when i'm asleep.

In which case i'd recommend looking at "tasker" and this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593687
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from what i just read about the orange backup app, it doesnt preform a nandroid backup, it just backups files that you choose.

Only a nandroid can backup your complete rom and restore it. As far as I know. ;l
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Here you go.

PhilipTD said:
Here you go.
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That's the same alternative I moved to when OBackup development stopped. I support PhilipTD's recommendation. To compliment that backup solution I added FolderSync to automate coping the Nandroid backups to another device or a cloud service. To round out the device backup solution I also use Titanium Backup and FolderSync.
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3DSammy said:
That's the same alternative I moved to when OBackup development stopped. I support PhilipTD's recommendation. To compliment that backup solution I added FolderSync to automate coping the Nandroid backups to another device or a cloud service. To round out the device backup solution I also use Titanium Backup and FolderSync.
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Yeah, I use Foldersync, too.

PhilipTD said:
Yeah, I use Foldersync, too.
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Me too, only as a plugin for Tasker

How long does Online Nandroid Backup take to do a regular noncompressed backup? Mine was on for over an hour so I stopped it. My nandroids in recovery usually only take about 5 min.