Hey InfUsers,
I flashed CM9 onto my Infuse formerly coming from ZEUS and find that it runs perfectly! I'm entirely pleased with the performance of the ROM and sincerely thank all involved in making it a reality.
However, I have no way of restoring my backed up apps and data as there is no Play Store preloaded with this wonderful ROM. Usually, I download Titanium Backup through the Play Store and restore everything through there. How can I get the Play Store back?
On the device, I tried using the web browser (I searched "download Titanium Backup" using the Google bar) to download through the Play Store without necessarily having Google Play installed on the device...to no avail. I was given a series of prompts for account login info and compatibility with my device, all of which were handled smoothly, and I finally selected the blue "download" button and received a final prompt that said "the app will be installed on your device in moments" or something to that effect. That screen never changed after I gave it time to process and install. I backed out from that window once I realized the install wouldn't work (though I have no idea why) and went back to the Titanium Backup selection from my Web Browser's Google Search. I clicked the same result again and this time, the button was no longer blue, but green, and indicated that I already had the app installed. I went through this entire process several times after verifying that the app was not on the device (by manually navigating the few preloaded apps, checking the "apps" menu in settings, and searching for it in the Google Bar) again, with no luck.
So, how can I get the Play Store back? Or how can I get Titanium Backup without it?
I'm sorry for starting a new thread if I wasn't supposed to. I really don't know, the old one may be dead as it has thousands of posts throughout hundreds of pages and this particular topic seemed hardly related to the replies. Just really quite stumped on this one! Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
did you flash gapps as the instructions said?
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Be careful with titanium backup...you are no longer on gingerbread so your backups (data) are more than likely no longer compatible
But yeah as long as you flash the gapps you should have playstore...
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I'm not sure. I'll try to but I'm having a lot of trouble navigating clockwork because of the rainbows, multiple highlighted bands, and the bottom half of the screen not displaying.
There were a lot of different links to downloads in the original CM9 thread, I put 3 of them on my SD card in total after spending a lot of time trying (and probably failing) to decide which ones to go with. 1 of them was definitely Gapps, another was one of the versions of the ROM and the third was, I believe, the updated kernel. In any case, I'll try reflashing again and report back here if I run into any trouble.
Thanks a lot for the response! I'm beyond frustrated with the various problems evident in this process. But I am up for the challenge
If you're wondering why I have the signature below right now that indicates I'm posting from my device, it's because I did install Titanium backup lite from another link in the original search and restored what I could for now. Contacts didn't transfer over (despite the backing to the SIM, SD card, and Titanium) and I'm getting Force Close messages for most Apps.
In any case I'm going to wipe and reflash everything though because of all of the many problems.
I'll gladly appreciate any further assistance As you can tell, I'm really bad at this :-/
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Just realized, I'm crazy confused from successfully flashing CM9 to attempting to flash this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1643886) and the "lot of links" I mentioned were probably for this other ROM I just posted the link to. I'm so sorry if I'm confusing you, I confused myself. I'm going to start from the very beginning if I can find just exactly where that is
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mg2195 said:
Be careful with titanium backup...you are no longer on gingerbread so your backups (data) are more than likely no longer compatible
But yeah as long as you flash the gapps you should have playstore...
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You're absolutely right. Much of Titanium's backups weren't compatible. I had similar problems when I went from the Stock ROM in December to MIUI to ZEUS all in the same week. Thank you
How horrible at this am I? I tried to flash the other ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1643886) once I realized that there was no Play Store. I panicked lol.
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Play Store is packaged separately in gapps (Google Apps). As has been posted, if you go back to the part in the instructions for your rom for flashing gapps, you'll have Play Store. No need to flash the rom again.
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Flashed gapps and just as you all said, the Google Apps are back.
Henceforth, I turn my back on Titanium as most of what I wanted to restore is no longer compatible. Web, Messaging, Email, and other stock processes had FCs after I restored everything. Now it appears I have no way to get my data back.
I noticed something, though. When I restored everything in Titanium, some of the toggles in my notification bar reappeared that had been in ZEUS. Prior to the restore, Data, Auto rotate, and a few others weren't there. I guess Titanium somehow put them on?
Last question and I'll do my best to leave you guys alone (thanks so much, by the way), I had backed up contacts to SIM AND my SD card in addition to Titanium. Any way to retrieve from either?
Contacts>Menu Button>Import/Export>Import from SIM Card
^Told me that there were no contacts on my SIM.
How is that possible when I know I backed them up?
And is there any way to navigate my SD card?
Settings>Apps>On SD Card
^Shows me that there isn't anything on the card at all.
Yet when I USB connect to the computer and browse the folders, all my old stuff appears. What's going on?!?!?!
All I really care about getting back is contacts. I tried (and failed) backing up to Google multiple times before doing the SIM backup and Titanium (SD) backup. But if there was a way to restore the toggles in the Notification bar (without risking the FCs again), I'd be very interested.
I thank you all so much and I'm sorry for over complicating everything.
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I actually like and paid for this app but since rooting and installing GummyCharge I don't have it and can for the life of me figure out how to get a working copy. I could use some help.
Thanks,
Brad
Did you pay for it through the market or through the app?
Through the App. I can't find it listed on Market. Couldn't find it in V-Cast Apps either.
Try going to the game's website (http://www.gameloft.com/smartphone/lets-golf-2/) and logging in with whatever info you used during the purchase. They should have a record of it.
Even if I bought it through Verizon? It was billed to my Verizon Wireless account.
The developer should still have a record. They had to be the one to bill it to verizon and had to have known what number to bill to
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The record of us buying it isn't the problem, the problem is that with the rom(gummy charged) it's taken out and also it's not in the toolbox, I want it too, I paid for it, I got my media hub back from the toolbox, but I can't find let's golf 2 either, maybe I can find an apk somewhere.
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The record of us buying it isn't the problem, the problem is that with the rom(gummy charged) it's taken out and also it's not in the toolbox, I want it too, I paid for it, I got my media hub back from the toolbox, but I can't find let's golf 2 either, maybe I can find an apk somewhere.
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I have the exact opposite problem you have. I can't seem to get rid of it. Every time I uninstall it, it reappears in my settings>applications>manage applications list (but not in the apps page where you run everything) I can't actually play it though... and I don't know where the apk would be.
couldn't you pull it from one of the stock roms around. Isn't there a a full odin leak?
You could always just google around and find a lets golf 2 apk file...it shouldn't be too hard honestly.
I did find a copy and installed it. the only problem it didn't fit the screen. I don't know how to pull a file from a ROM.
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I have the exact opposite problem you have. I can't seem to get rid of it. Every time I uninstall it, it reappears in my settings>applications>manage applications list (but not in the apps page where you run everything) I can't actually play it though... and I don't know where the apk would be.
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You're not the only one with that problem lol. I've flashed roms, restored apps, and then go into manage apps and am like WTF! that wasn't on my phone when i created the backup.
I have the opposite problem as you, I want to get rid of it. I uninstall it but every time I reboot my phone it comes back...any suggestions? Already tried deleting it with titanium pro and still came back.
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jbcf05 said:
I have the opposite problem as you, I want to get rid of it. I uninstall it but every time I reboot my phone it comes back...any suggestions? Already tried deleting it with titanium pro and still came back.
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same problem here, thought i deleted it yesterday, but back again today?????
Bump. Just wondering if anybody has figured out how to delete this app - no matter what I try it keeps reinstalling itself. On gummy charged 1.91 EE4, with pbj kernel. I have tried tb uninstall, uninstall from task manager, freeze in tb. It is really annoying. Thanks for the help.
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I have a thought. Go into System/App folder. See if it is there. If not look in the Data/App folder. I believe the name is something like com.gameloft.android.GAND.GloftLG2P.ML-1.apk. If it is rename it or delete it.
I deleted it out of the dalvik cache, the /data folder and the /preinstall folder. After a reboot, this is what shows up:
http://db.tt/UTtW58Y
(dropbox as I don't know how to use the forum app to upload photos)
I can't find it in any more folders....it's super annoying...
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Did you look in the System/App folder?
Yea it isn't in there. I have never had thus happen with an app before. I deleted my titanium backup of it also. I guess I will just try and ignore it....
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permanent delete of lets golf2
Has anyone figured out how to delete this game yet? Like other people the game just keeps coming back after I reboot. I'm sure there are other more important issues out there but if anyone knows how to get ride of this game I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
Update - downloaded root explorer from the market
1) goto preinstall/apps
2) Delete the game
3) reboot
4)Delete from your backup aswell
Looks the game has been permanently removed. found the info on android central post by noobsickle
I SEARCHED FORUMS BEFORE HAND AND FOUND NOTHING THAT WORKED
I am curious if there is a way to backup my Apps and data and restore them to a new ROM?
Simple question I know, but the only method of backup I try that does this is a full on Nandroid and that isn't helpful for switching ROMs.
I would love to try out all these new ROMs but the problem is that my free apps from market NEVER show up after I change ROMs, but the paid ones do, they just have to be reinstalled all manually one by one!
I also have to problem where my contacts have been merged on my phone, and they have sometimes several connected accounts-apps on the phone eg. Twitter Facebook and G+. When I change ROMs they all come back, but they ALL must be re-merged together and I have dozens that are like this. It is a real pain to change ROM for that reason.
Not to mention most of my paid apps are games, and a good 90% of them require a long and tedious download of additional content taking even LONGER.
I have tried Titanium backup of apps and data (Failed) and have tried ROM Toolbox (Also failed) Going from MIUI 2.3.7 to *Insert ROM Name* ICS ones.
Any help is very much appreciated Thanks to all.
Data between roms is sometimes different, this is why titanium has a option to turn on to attempt to do it, if that fails then its possibly due to incompatible data between roms, apart from the fact your going from 2.3.7 or what ever to ics.
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Give this a shot. Its astro file manager http://www.metago.net/astro-file-manager.php
It has a really nice built in app backup tool,I use it all the time when switching from from to from to install the none paid apps from the market. Hope this works for you.
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So does Astro back up all saved data from the apps as well, or just the apps themselves?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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've never figured this out over several devices and many flashed roms... You'd think I would have. Is there a way to auto install all the apps I had on one rom after I re flash? I'm tired of going into the market and hunting down each and every one.
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Two words "titanium backup"! Plus if you use Google play music it backs that up too.
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Thanks, I'll mess around with titanium backup and see if I can figure it out
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Its pretty straightforward. Run a batch to backup all user apps + data. Then after installing a ROM you can run another batch to restore missing apps. I highly recommend this app.
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Its pretty straightforward. Run a batch to backup all user apps + data. Then after installing a ROM you can run another batch to restore missing apps. I highly recommend this app.
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Exactly!
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Sometimes the play store reinstalls everything for me automagically, and sometimes it doesnt. I wish i could track down the reasons behind why its so random.
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Sometimes the play store reinstalls everything for me automagically, and sometimes it doesnt. I wish i could track down the reasons behind why its so random.
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Pretty sure its in the rom. With CM10, upon first boot, there is a choice of "restore my google account to this phone" and if you tick it, it downloads all of your apps (and also wallpaper and wifi passwords, maybe more.) So as far as I can tell, some roms simply dont perform this step.
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Its pretty straightforward. Run a batch to backup all user apps + data. Then after installing a ROM you can run another batch to restore missing apps. I highly recommend this app.
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Just don't do system apps/settings. You're asking for bugs/problems backing them up and restoring them. The only exceptions are "Call Log" and "Messages(SMS & MMS)" both will be in yellow text. Don't do "Messaging" it is the actual app, not the data.
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Pretty sure its in the rom. With CM10, upon first boot, there is a choice of "restore my google account to this phone" and if you tick it, it downloads all of your apps (and also wallpaper and wifi passwords, maybe more.) So as far as I can tell, some roms simply dont perform this step.
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^^What he said. It's ROM specific.
Thanks everyone. I have had most of them automatically reappear, synced through the store, but I have a few apps that were from elsewhere, plus for some reason when going from stock to cm10,not every app appeared. Maybe because of going from an ics to a jb base?
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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 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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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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