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how to backup everthing before flashing a new custom rom

guy's here i am with a all in one collection to backup everthing before flashing a custom rom........
first basically backup your rom by using clockwork mod recovery as anything may go wrong just to be on the safer side.......
then download the file in the attachment.....
there are 3 apk files install them and backup your contacts apps and messages to your sd make a backup of them in your pc..........
after flashing your new rom.......
restore them from your sd...
for apps you will find afolder named appmonster you will nedd to install all the apk files in that folder.........
this is a guide for noobs and releatively new tinkerers of roms......
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devs dont comment saying everyone knows this there might be someone in need of this info....
happy flashing

ajay8055 said:
guy's here i am with a all in one collection to backup everthing before flashing a custom rom........
first basically backup your rom by using clockwork mod recovery as anything may go wrong just to be on the safer side.......
then download the file in the attachment.....
there are 3 apk files install them and backup your contacts apps and messages to your sd make a backup of them in your pc..........
after flashing your new rom.......
restore them from your sd...
for apps you will find afolder named appmonster you will nedd to install all the apk files in that folder.........
this is a guide for noobs and releatively new tinkerers of roms......
press thanks if i helped you.....
and rate the thread......
devs dont comment saying everyone knows this there might be someone in need of this info....
happy flashing
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Thnx for ur effort but i wanna kno that how can we restore all apps including app data and app setting in a new rom?

what if you get a hard brick while flashing some ROM?
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amandeep152 said:
Thnx for ur effort but i wanna kno that how can we restore all apps including app data and app setting in a new rom?
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afaik, you need to reinstall those backup apps and then select restore option.

Gooooood thread

amandeep152 said:
Thnx for ur effort but i wanna kno that how can we restore all apps including app data and app setting in a new rom?
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in sd card you will find a seperate folder for app data if you have installed apps on sd.....if its in internal memory go to data-data and find that app folder check screenshots...and backup that folder before flashing a new rom and paste the folder back where it was to get all app data and setting...this is a lenghty procedure...to save time just copy all the folders instead of single one...this will serve as a app data and setting backup
dont forget to press thanks.....

bricking chances are zeroing these days....i am creating a seperate thread for do's and dont's of flashing read that....

ajay8055 said:
guy's here i am with a all in one collection to backup everthing before flashing a custom rom........
first basically backup your rom by using clockwork mod recovery as anything may go wrong just to be on the safer side.......
then download the file in the attachment.....
there are 3 apk files install them and backup your contacts apps and messages to your sd make a backup of them in your pc..........
after flashing your new rom.......
restore them from your sd...
for apps you will find afolder named appmonster you will nedd to install all the apk files in that folder.........
this is a guide for noobs and releatively new tinkerers of roms......
press thanks if i helped you.....
and rate the thread......
devs dont comment saying everyone knows this there might be someone in need of this info....
happy flashing
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use titanium backup!!
no need of separate apps to take backups of different things...
just a few clicks, and you have all your apps + personal data + app data + cache (optional) backed up, and ready to restore...
and titanium auto restores its data (from previous roms) when you install it in a new rom...

Thanks for the suggestion
I will includE it too
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amandeep152 said:
Thnx for ur effort but i wanna kno that how can we restore all apps including app data and app setting in a new rom?
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ajay8055 said:
guy's here i am with a all in one collection to backup everthing before flashing a custom rom........
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happy flashing
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this can be done simply by an app called "TITANIUM BACKUP "...
its very easy to use.. n you can backup data n all your settings...
anyways..
nice start n thread..

first basically backup your rom by using clockwork mod??
what if you dont have CWM?
(Arc with official ICS, not rooted, locked BL)

Include Titanium backup in all ROMS

Its almost certain that people who change ROMs do so after taking a backup of their apps using Titanium Backup...and after changing ROM, the Titanium Backup has to be downloaded again to restore apps...which is of course a pain in the a$$...So why not include Titanium Backup as a preloaded app in ALL ROMs? It should be standardized...

maybe the devs don't have permission to distribute titanium.
Titanium has a "create update.zip..." function somewhere.
create a flashable titanium zip. flash your new rom, reboot into new rom (i don't think you can flash them on top of each other), then reboot back to recovery, flash the titanium zip.

From within titanium backup you create a flashable zip. This can be flashed from recovery after flashing a ROM.
Tapatalked from a Desire S waiting for Kernel 3 sources. WAKE UP HTC!!!!!!

@ OP : You can download the latest verison apk file of Titanium backup from the official site here & keep it in the root of your SD card, before flashing a new ROM.

Tapur007 said:
@ OP : You can download the latest verison apk file of Titanium backup from the official site here & keep it in the root of your SD card, before flashing a new ROM.
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it's fine in case you have also file manager as a part of a ROM, not?

flyfingersfly said:
maybe the devs don't have permission to distribute titanium.
Titanium has a "create update.zip..." function somewhere.
create a flashable titanium zip. flash your new rom, reboot into new rom (i don't think you can flash them on top of each other), then reboot back to recovery, flash the titanium zip.
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Incredible, first time I heard of this! Is this only available to pro users?
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olyloh6696 said:
Incredible, first time I heard of this! Is this only available to pro users?
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I think so. Never tried before since a short download from play store makes the same solution. It's installed.
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docertabum said:
it's fine in case you have also file manager as a part of a ROM, not?
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Agree, but most dev's include at least ES File Explorer in their ROM's nowadays.

i don't think so. i remember seeing it in the preferences menu even before i bought Pro.
Sent from my HTC Desire S still running Reaper.

olyloh6696 said:
Incredible, first time I heard of this! Is this only available to pro users?
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No..Its available in free version too...

commanderdileep said:
Its almost certain that people who change ROMs do so after taking a backup of their apps using Titanium Backup...and after changing ROM, the Titanium Backup has to be downloaded again to restore apps...which is of course a pain in the a$$...So why not include Titanium Backup as a preloaded app in ALL ROMs? It should be standardized...
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I understand your point BUT considering I don't use it I would have to uninstall it every time I re-ROM'ed my phone.
The ROM makers can not make everyone happy all the time, I'm sorry to say.

Forcefire said:
I understand your point BUT considering I don't use it I would have to uninstall it every time I re-ROM'ed my phone.
The ROM makers can not make everyone happy all the time, I'm sorry to say.
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No disrespect but the needs of many outweigh the few TiBu is amazing albeit confusing but no backup app is even close
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I'd rather just get titanium backup from play. I'm getting all my other apps anyway and I hardly consider one app to be a pain to download. Besides it's much easier to remove if I get it from play.
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dan-fish said:
I'd rather just get titanium backup from play. I'm getting all my other apps anyway and I hardly consider one app to be a pain to download. Besides it's much easier to remove if I get it from play.
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Agreed. I would rather that every custom ROM was built with absolutely NO applications - just the tweaks / settings required for the ROM to boot up and connect to the outside world. Include Google Apps and anything else as zipped add-ons that you can flash if you choose, but I have never used FaceBook or Twitter and hate having to remove them post-install.
Anyone who regularly flashes ROMs will either be happy to download the apps they want each time, will have the .apk files stored on their PC, or will have a Titanium Backup of their apps.

SimonTS said:
Agreed. I would rather that every custom ROM was built with absolutely NO applications - just the tweaks / settings required for the ROM to boot up and connect to the outside world. Include Google Apps and anything else as zipped add-ons that you can flash if you choose, but I have never used FaceBook or Twitter and hate having to remove them post-install.
Anyone who regularly flashes ROMs will either be happy to download the apps they want each time, will have the .apk files stored on their PC, or will have a Titanium Backup of their apps.
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I prefer this way too.
Tried the way to make a flashable .zip which works fine (installed as user app) - but I prefer the fresh dl from play store.
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If I'm allowed to I would like to contribute my opinion from the developer side.
First of all, at cm you can forget about the possibility, because titanium is closed source.
At aokp it's almost the same.
At other roms I guess it won't be included as well, because it isn't the only backup solution (if one is added, others want theirs to be added as well) and no dev wants to shoot into his own leg, because it is for sure handy and one of the best backup solutions out there atm, but it can cause many problems, not only when system data is restored from an incompatible version or at worst case from a different rom, also at other apps it causes fcs sometimes when they got restored with tb and the first thing many users do is to blame the rom for it before they try it clean (for sure not all).
I personally always use the built in backup solution from Google and only restore some save games with titanium.
I also agree with keeping the base as clean as possible, everything else is much user dependent and even if you find a base many users are happy with there still will be some that aren't and with keeping it clean it's fair play for anyone for my opinion.
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Oops, it seems I got confused. I thought by a titanium zip, it was a backup of all your titanium backup apks. So simply flashing it will restore your apps...
I guess not, so I agree with Dan, it's pretty pointless, and it more cumbersome to remove.
Also Simon, I felt this way too during the Windows Mobile days, as there was no possible way to actually remove the apps from the ROM that the chef cooked it. I used to beg them in threads to release RIMs without apps!
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The first time I had seen this option I thought so, too. But I always that it doesn't make any sense to me since I always prefer a clean install of a rom. So I never tried to make an update.zip until I read this thread.
The only time I think it makes sense to do it that way is when you have a limited data plan and don't want to keep your downloads low when you switch roms.
BTW you can install the update.zip as a user app so its easy to remove afterwards. I did that just for research and it works well. But, honestly, I won't do it in the future. As I wrote before I prefer a clean installation and download the needed apps again from the play store.
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olyloh6696 said:
Oops, it seems I got confused. I thought by a titanium zip, it was a backup of all your titanium backup apks. So simply flashing it will restore your apps...
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man wouldn't that be a dream tool for relentless ROM swappers eh?
create a flashable zip of all your user apps, flash new ROM, flash user apps zip, dalvik cache wipe, and you're done restoring everything. hehe
but then thats only a few clicks away from "create a flashable zip of Titanium, flash new ROM, reboot, batch restore missing user apps using Titanium, dalvik cache wipe."

just rooted

hey i guys i just rooted my 2 week old pico now what i should do first flash back to yanou recovery or add partition or what and also i wanted to remove some apps i installed rooot uninstaller but it shows disable wheres uninstall? and tell me if anything else also need to be done am not flashing rom for a while anyway.
and i need to install that app busybox from play store or not and set cpu and gpu will work good on stock rom plz clear all this newb doubts am *** myself soory and thanks and be brief plz

There r so many guides which will help u ....
So refer any one and fly..........
Any method will work
Its on u to decide weather which rom u want to get.....
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ok plz give me a advice on this thread
http://htcexplorertips.blogspot.in/2012/05/configuring-your-sd-card-to-use-link2sd.html
is this all 100% correct for the stock rom ,jaggy and xperia purenes?
and also i need to know i can flash these anyway or need new recovery :|

TUDVAD said:
ok plz give me a advice on this thread
http://htcexplorertips.blogspot.in/2012/05/configuring-your-sd-card-to-use-link2sd.html
is this all 100% correct for the stock rom ,jaggy and xperia purenes?
and also i need to know i can flash these anyway or need new recovery :|
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You don't need recovery for link2sd. But for other things like flashing roms you will need recovery. Twrp is nice option.
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ok downloading jaggy 4.0

u can also partition sd card using cwm
to use link2sd
as i do in my case :
go to cwm recovery
go to advanced in cwm
partition sd card choose required partition (i recommend 1/4th of your sd total )
takes time ( bigger the partition more time)
select swap = 0
choose ext type as .ext2
download link2d it will automatically detect the second partition
ur good to go
also dont uninstall system apps it may make ur rom and other system apps unstable (i tried it using titanium backup pro)
hit thanks if helped i need it

[Q] custom gapps with purchased apps

i want to make a custom gapps.zip with purchased apps. its only for my own phone (same google-acount). i dont want to reinstall all apps, it needs to many time.
how can i extract/porting purchased apps from my phone for a custom gapp-zip?
i only know, i can use an original gapp-zip but cant rezip it, have to open it with winrar and drag`n`drop it... right?
i want to do this because i want to be the maintainer of the HTC One X (endearovu) and dont have a second one... not enough money... but next month i buy a second
its NOT for ilegal use!!!

You can make a new one for your system and user apps. If you know anything about using adb you can manually make flashable zips of your apps and read how to use adb from here.
http://varunbpatil.github.io/2013/03/02/apps-zip/
If you want to use an app to automatically do it you can try ZipMe app from the Google Play Store. I don't know how good it is. I use titanium backup most times. Test it on one app first. ZipMe has worked on my phone.
Make a zip of apps or data or apps + data and then copy it to sd card or to a usb storage then you can flash it using a custom recovery or some other way. Titanium Backup Pro can do it but it's the paid version that has the extra things like making zips.
You can make a nandroid backup then use the nandroid manager app to extract apps and data from the nandroid backup.
I would wipe cache and dalvik cache when flashing any zips before restarting or while in recovery before starting

ryan012 said:
You can make a new one for your system and user apps. If you know anything about using adb you can manually make flashable zips of your apps and read how to use adb from here.
http://varunbpatil.github.io/2013/03/02/apps-zip/
If you want to use an app to automatically do it you can try ZipMe app from the Google Play Store. I don't know how good it is. I use titanium backup most times. Test it on one app first. ZipMe has worked on my phone.
Make a zip of apps or data or apps + data and then copy it to sd card or to a usb storage then you can flash it using a custom recovery or some other way. Titanium Backup Pro can do it but it's the paid version that has the extra things like making zips.
You can make a nandroid backup then use the nandroid manager app to extract apps and data from the nandroid backup.
I would wipe cache and dalvik cache when flashing any zips before restarting or while in recovery before starting
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can you tell me how you make it with titanium? i buyed already xD

cyrok said:
can you tell me how you make it with titanium? i buyed already xD
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Go to Menu, Batch Actions.
Make a backup of any apps and data you want.
Go to Menu, Batch Actions.
In Recovery spot create an update.zip
Select the apps you want and name the zip.
Don't select exclude system APKs
Check sign with Zip file (with zipsigner)
It goes into sdcard folder then you can flash the file when you want to.

ryan012 said:
Go to Menu, Batch Actions.
Make a backup of any apps and data you want.
Go to Menu, Batch Actions.
In Recovery spot create an update.zip
Select the apps you want and name the zip.
Don't select exclude system APKs
Check sign with Zip file (with zipsigner)
It goes into sdcard folder then you can flash the file when you want to.
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thx...
lol, nice fonts, have you a link or a name?

cyrok said:
thx...
lol, nice fonts, have you a link or a name?
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@cyrok
It is courier or haze font.
I can't get it to let me install the courier, and app force closes if i try to install that one. I can't install that font again to see which of the two it is. It is one of those from the app Font Installer root.

thats great ^^ i found the deathnote font!!! thx ^^
great app!

ryan012 said:
@cyrok
It is courier or haze font.
I can't get it to let me install the courier, and app force closes if i try to install that one. I can't install that font again to see which of the two it is. It is one of those from the app Font Installer root.
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to bad, i cant use it via the integrated nor do the app change anything -.-

cyrok said:
to bad, i cant use it via the integrated nor do the app change anything -.-
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What is happening ? Why can't it work ?

ryan012 said:
What is happening ? Why can't it work ?
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i dont know whats the matter... my yoga tab 10 works great with the new fonts, but the deathnote fonts a littlebit to fine :| i think its the new theme-engine... i use my custom rom on my hox, you know... pac rom 4.4.4...
what rom do you use?

cyrok said:
i dont know whats the matter... my yoga tab 10 works great with the new fonts, but the deathnote fonts a littlebit to fine :| i think its the new theme-engine... i use my custom rom on my hox, you know... pac rom 4.4.4...
what rom do you use?
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The font looks a little different on one deathnote than the tablet ? I use CloudyG3 rom , dorimamx kernel and twrp recovery. I like to switch between different roms and try different ones so i have ways to backup and restore everything to new one.

ryan012 said:
The font looks a little different on one deathnote than the tablet ? I use CloudyG3 rom , dorimamx kernel and twrp recovery. I like to switch between different roms and try different ones so i have ways to backup and restore everything to new one.
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thats a great thing to switch but i am more PAC rom specific link
jyes if you see the fine deathnote font on a 10" screen with 1280x800 where the fine lines betwen the pixels goes lost and see the font (theoretical... dont works ) on a 720p screen with 4,7" that can show the fine lines...
however it feels stupid to use an tablet with a lower resolution than my phone...

Guide to reduce TWRP or CWM backup size

Those who are fed up of the disc size acquired by TWRP backup or CWM backup and want that it consumes less space on your disc....
Its just a small trick which work for all android device's.....
Requirements: Romtool box (android app)
Link: http://www.apkhotel.com/apk/24685/start
1) Open the app, grant root..
2) Select Rom Installer - Backup and Restore - Backup Current rom.
3) Device will automatically reboot into twrp mode and backup will start...
4) Then just delete the backup and you will not be able to restore that backup..
5) Now simply boot into twrp recovery and take backup using that....
U will find that backup will start and will show a size of whats original (lets assume a size of 2880 mb)
Let the backup go.....
6) Reboot ur device and open ur file manager and get the property of the file.
U will find that size consume on ur sd card is very less..(size now will be 1708 mb)
Once done u can take backup normally through twrp or cwm.....
No need to use Rom Toolbox again and again.....
Its a one time process...
Hit like if it helped and if anyone didn't catch me then ask me.....
I will share some screenshots or make a video....
Thanks.............??
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Im not sure about posting paid apps to download for free here... But anyways, i dobt understand how this works. Care to explain?

giannism13 said:
Im not sure about posting paid apps to download for free here... But anyways, i dobt understand how this works. Care to explain?
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Mention the step u didn't catch up....
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I dont understand the general concept of this. I backup once using an app, and then my backups taken from recovery are magically smaller in size ? How is that possible? I mean, the factors that affect the backup size, are the total size of the partitions you backup and the compression method used from your recovery. Since rom toolbox doesnt change any of this (or does it?) how the other backups end up being smaller?

I removed the paid app from the OP. If there's a free version of this app, then post the Play Store link to it, otherwise this thread will be closed.

giannism13 said:
I dont understand the general concept of this. I backup once using an app, and then my backups taken from recovery are magically smaller in size ? How is that possible? I mean, the factors that affect the backup size, are the total size of the partitions you backup and the compression method used from your recovery. Since rom toolbox doesnt change any of this (or does it?) how the other backups end up being smaller?
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Really it worked bro.....
I tried on 6-7 phones.....
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