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This is just a friendly tip that you should follow even if you don't plan of rooting or flashing any ROMs. I have personally tried several different Roms and after rooting the phone, I can say it's a major pain to have to rebuild. Every time you modify your device backup the Data and possibly your apps if you don't feel like re-downloading them. Hopefully this helps people who are new to the area of rooting and ROMs like I was a short while ago.
Titanium backup and nandroid are your friend.
My Backup Pro also gets the job done.
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I was wondering about this. So titanium/my backup pro will back up app data on a non-rooted phone, so it can be restored post-rooting?
Even though the app is installed on the SD, the user data is still actually stored on the phone regardless, I take it.
I just want to keep my angry birds progress that exists now on my currently non-rooted phone, and get it back after root.
Any clarification on this would be appreciated.
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I am pretty sure that titanium backup cannot back up app data unless the phone is already rooted - not sure about MyBackupPro.
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It's a good question and I'm not sure only because I was rooted before I backed up when I rooted I forgot to backup and started again.
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3GOD said:
I am pretty sure that titanium backup cannot back up app data unless the phone is already rooted - not sure about MyBackupPro.
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Indeed titanium does require root for its primary functionality, but I'm not sure if that extends to simply reading user data, and then copying it to an additional location (ie backing up).
As far as freezing/uninstalling software or *reinstalling* previously backed-up user data, root certainly is required.
I don't see how it wouldn't be feasible to at least read user data of an app, unless the Android system, by design, limits the access of an apps user data to the app itself.
I just did a my backup pro backup, but I can't really tell if it actually got the user data for sure, (though it indicated that's what it was doing).
Hope I can get this issue squared away, as I'm itching to get this thing rooted.
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When I open backup pro it asks if I want to enable backup of root files. I think it just allows extra files to be backed up if you're rooted.
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I'm gonna have to do a little more in-depth research later-on when I get to my computer, and see how these apps handle backing-up user/app data on an unrooted phone.
I was never in this situation on my previous phone, a captivate, because it was my first Android, and I rooted early-on...it was a lot more straightforward.
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Does anyone know of an App killer that will not allow certain apps to start up and run in the background, IE; bloatware?
Thanks for the help.
Freeze them with tibu
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lrs421 said:
Freeze them with tibu
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Sorry, I should have mentioned I am not rooted. Going to try Auto Task Killer
I use Task Manager, very similar to Auto Task Killer
Task managers are counter productive on Android.
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crupp said:
Does anyone know of an App killer that will not allow certain apps to start up and run in the background, IE; bloatware?
Thanks for the help.
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Why not just root the phone? That seems like a great solution for removing the bloatware.
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dooyoo222 said:
Why not just root the phone? That seems like a great solution for removing the bloatware.
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I am not real comfortable with any of the process's yet. I tried one click and was never able to move off of the Desire (no sound) ROM, so I returned the phone and go another one. I come from a Captivate that I Rooted hundreds of times, with no incident. So hopefuly a more automated version will come out to Root the Inspire
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I am not real comfortable with any of the process's yet. I tried one click and was never able to move off of the Desire (no sound) ROM, so I returned the phone and go another one. I come from a Captivate that I Rooted hundreds of times, with no incident. So hopefuly a more automated version will come out to Root the Inspire
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Don't mean to derail but I wouldnt bet on any easier methods. The
rom must be downgraded to root.
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I am not real comfortable with any of the process's yet. I tried one click and was never able to move off of the Desire (no sound) ROM, so I returned the phone and go another one. I come from a Captivate that I Rooted hundreds of times, with no incident. So hopefuly a more automated version will come out to Root the Inspire
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If you're holding out for a root method for the Inspire that is as true "one-click" as the captivate, you'll be waiting indefinitely.
There are fundamental differences between the two phones in terms of root-ability.
Seriously, the inspire is completely rootable. Your inspire is no less rootable than mine was or any others who have had success.
If the root process fails for you, it is because you overlooked something. Bubbys tool, along with Zonderion's video, produced a rooted phone, with fully functioning sound, for me, and many others.
Having TiBU functioning and able to remove bloat was the primary reason I wanted to root. You will never truly and completely be free of the bloat unless you root.
A properly-made gold card is CRITICAL (format FAT32, allocation size = 32KB).
Having JUST the drivers, without HTCSync installed, "safely removing hardware" (unmounting) the card before switching the USB mode, and basically giving it the chance to do its work, even if it seems like its taking too long, are all things (among others) that need to happen in order for the process to properly complete.
Zonderion's video, if you replicate the actions you see him doing EXACTLY, even down to the way he formats the SD card, will work for you, assuming you starting from a fresh phone.
The only thing I did different than him was use a 4gb card instead of an 8gb card.
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Task Killers are bad for android.
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Hey I was wondering the best way to back up the apps from my phone to maybe my computer or SD card and keep my saves
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Titanium Backup. Buy the premium version.
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My phone is not rooted, should have mentioned that in the first post sorry
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They have a non-rooted version, unless that's changed, but I'm not sure if it still has the same functionality/ability that the rooted version does.
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My phone is not rooted, should have mentioned that in the first post sorry
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Your not going to be able to backup any user-specific data associated with any given app unless your rooted, or the app itself has a mechanism for backing up/exporting your custom data. There may be some way of doing something via adb, but I'm not sure, and it would seem that biting the bullet and rooting, and then being able to backup thoroughly from that point forward, would be less hassle in the long run.
The apps themselves, or at least a list of them is backed-up to Google if you have that option set. So if you get a new phone or reset, the first time you setup the phone, Google retrieves those apps automatically.
I do believe that mybackup pro, and perhaps even titanium, will backup the apps themselves (the .apks) ONLY, even if you aren't rooted, but that really isnt very useful, especially if you have the Google backup mechanism enabled.
These apps need root in order to gain access to the location on the phone where apps store any of the data you have created with those apps.
Does anyone know how to back up the FPse emulator data? I had to restore my phone to a previous date and couldn't back my emulator data up. I lost a month and a halves worth of work from my ff7 game. I was pretty pissed when I found out everything was erased! So is there a way to back up the emulator data to prevent this in the future if I ever need to restore again?
Also, the games save have nothing with the actual games. They save somewhere else. I think it has something to do with the emulator itself.
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Have you tried to backup the data by any means? Try Titanium Backup.
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I'm rooted and running CM7. I have clockworkmod recovery too. Making a back up of my phone is not an issue. I need to back up the emulator itself in its current state.
I have tried copying the emulator itself to my sdcard and still no luck. Which I thought would have solved the issue, but that wasn't the case. So I was thinking maybe there is data from the emulator somewhere on my phone I could back up.(no idea where/how to or I wouldn't be asking!)
I had to restore to a previous back up because I downloaded something and my phone stared getting all wacky. Then a week down the line, the app market wouldn't work. Facebook app and on the browser were blocked. Only on my phone. I tried on a friends phone, and i had no problem signing in.
Just in case something like this happens again, or if ever needed for any reason; I don't want to have to restore and lose a hella game time time.
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Ok, so here's what I want you to try: Titanium backup
It will back up *the apk and related data* just tell it to update the backup when you're asleep.
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When I'm asleep? What does it take forever? Thanks btw!
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Have you tried to backup the data by any means? Try Titanium Backup.
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That it just save the memory card.
Pin it to Win it.
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When I'm asleep? What does it take forever? Thanks btw!
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No, a full backup takes five minutes, I was meaning to say that you should make a schedule for it to do that, though I am not sure if you can specify only one app for it to update, but I've also never tried it either.
Edit: ok, just checked can't do it for only one app,.but I reccomend using it to back up your apps and data anyhow. If you're on GB and staying there you can also backup system data.
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Yeah I'm on GB and staying. I've thought about switching to ICS but heard there are lots of kinks that need to be worked out. Maybe ill try it sometime in the future, when a stable version is released.
Up until now, backing up the system data was done on my Linux box. I just use CWM to make a back up, then store the back up on my Linux box. Titanium will make it that much easier.
I'm gonna check titanium out tonight. Thanks again man!
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Anyone know how to transfer save-states or memory card data to a pc (to use with ePSXe)?
I'd love play Symphony of the night on my phone, and continue on, on my computer, then back again.
I can automatically sync folders with Dropsync, but I don't know where the files are.
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Anyone know how to transfer save-states or memory card data to a pc (to use with ePSXe)?
I'd love play Symphony of the night on my phone, and continue on, on my computer, then back again.
I can automatically sync folders with Dropsync, but I don't know where the files are.
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Well, it would either save on the SD card or with the app data. Try googling it, I hae a hunch someone has asked the exact same question before, maybe not on XDA's G2x forum, per se, but somewhere.
Warlock, nvm I misread your post. But I have tried the titanium app and its pretty cool. Now all I have to do now is restore my phone and figure out how to restore the data
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Ok, I figured it out. I couldn't find them because they are hidden. You need root explorer to access them.
The memory cards on the phone is located at:
data\data\com.emulator.fpse\files\memcards
-copy 'slot1.mcd' to the PC.
-rename it to 'epsxe000.mcr' and put it in the memcards folder in epsxe
-and to get it back to the phone, do the opposite, name it back to 'slot1.mcd' and put it in the folder it came from.
Despite the different extensions, both the android and windows emulators will read the memory cards fine, as long as the name is right.
Cool, so you could play on your PC, save, slap it on your SD card and play on your phone. Maybe it's time I dust off one of my Resident Evil discs. STARS!
Warlock, I tried doing the dame thing. That is essentially backing up the emulator data. So if I ever lost my emulator data I would never lose the spot in the game I am at. I have seen in a bunch of different places that the data would be in the data folder. Oddly, my data folder is empty and has always been empty. Should it be? I even changed the file path of the memory card on my emulator to save to my sdcard. I took a look at it after a save point in FF7 and it was 0kb big.....empty. or was it?
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Warlock, I tried doing the dame thing. That is essentially backing up the emulator data. So if I ever lost my emulator data I would never lose the spot in the game I am at. I have seen in a bunch of different places that the data would be in the data folder. Oddly, my data folder is empty and has always been empty. Should it be? I even changed the file path of the memory card on my emulator to save to my sdcard. I took a look at it after a save point in FF7 and it was 0kb big.....empty. or was it?
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Yeah, that was the problem I was having initially. I gather that you can't see anything inside the 'data' folder with a regular file explorer, you have to use the 'root explorer' app. (I assume your phone has to be rooted to use this).
I'll also add a handy shortcut within Root Explorer. You can bookmark folders, so its really easy to jump to the memcards folder and back to where you want to back them up to. Just long press on the folder you want to bookmark.
Yeah I'm using the regular file manager that came with CM7. I feel really dumb for not thinking about this before. I am rooted so all I had to do was open a terminal and navigate to the data folder lol its not as easy on the eye as a GUI would be but I still don't know why I didn't think of this earlier?! Anywho, ill check out the root explorer app you have suggested. Thanks for the file path to the game data too!
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No Problem.
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Is anybody else having issues installing paid apps after CM11 install?
Nope
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Yes I couldn't install scramble. I grabbed the apk off of another device and side loaded it. Play store recognized it then
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Is anybody else having issues installing paid apps after CM11 install?
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Yeah, but it seems to be random apps. I have large apps that will install and small apps that won't and vice versa. I also have an issue with some apps crash the phone when I try to move it to the sd card - other apps will move. It's odd. Sideloading apps works, but will not update if there is a play store update. I'm sure these issues will work out with later versions - we're pretty bleeding edge with KK right now. This isn't a deal-breaker...
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Yeah, but it seems to be random apps. I have large apps that will install and small apps that won't and vice versa. I also have an issue with some apps crash the phone when I try to move it to the sd card - other apps will move. It's odd. Sideloading apps works, but will not update if there is a play store update. I'm sure these issues will work out with later versions - we're pretty bleeding edge with KK right now. This isn't a deal-breaker...
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Thanks for the heads up, Its still a nice rom. Ill figure something out, trying to sideload later.
Not sure if this is related or not, but I can't install the paid version of SwiftKey on the new Beanstalk build (which is CM-based). It crashes the phone during installation each time, which automatically restarts the phone.
I tried a full reset/wipe and I'm still having the same issue. I don't have any other paid apps to try it out with, but I know this one won't install.
You guys are crazy. I haven't had Problem with any paid apps. Makes me wondering what you guys are doing wrong.
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You guys are crazy. I haven't had Problem with any paid apps. Makes me wondering what you guys are doing wrong.
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Not sure how I would be going about this "wrong". I'm convinced there's something wrong with the ROM itself and I'm hoping there's a workaround. I'm simply downloading and installing from the Play Store - pretty straightforward.
Me too. No problems here. I don't think it's the ROM. If it can't be reproduced, it can't be fixed. Need some more info on what could cause it. Are you using too much of your data partition?
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Me too. No problems here. I don't think it's the ROM. If it can't be reproduced, it can't be fixed. Need some more info on what could cause it. Are you using too much of your data partition?
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No, that can't be it. I had no issues when I was using CM 10 and the storage on my phone is basically empty. It has to be the ROM - by the way I'm using the CM-based BeanStalk with Kitkat. Not the regular CM 11.
go to settings > apps and how much free does it say you have on internal storage? is it less than 400mb?
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go to settings > apps and how much free does it say you have on internal storage? is it less than 400mb?
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I have 1.1 GB free
The only other possiblity that I can think of is that maybe the OS is trying to force SwiftKey to install on the SD card, since that's where all my other apps are installed by default. And since keyboards can't be installed on the SD card, it may be causing it to crash the phone.
Just as a test, I was able to install SwiftKey Free with no issues. It works fine, however the paid version still crashes the phone.
Yep
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I have 1.1 GB free
The only other possiblity that I can think of is that maybe the OS is trying to force SwiftKey to install on the SD card, since that's where all my other apps are installed by default. And since keyboards can't be installed on the SD card, it may be causing it to crash the phone.
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vorsprungtechnik I beleive thats it, sometimes the error "cant install to storage' comes up. Mine crashes too and i have swiftkey, XDA premium or any purchased app. It has to be a prob with storage. i even went back to gingerbread and worked my way to kitkat but the same issue. I contacted the GOOGLE play store, they were no help because they are showing it installed. Any way he or I will figure it out.
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vorsprungtechnik I beleive thats it, sometimes the error "cant install to storage' comes up. Mine crashes too and i have swiftkey, XDA premium or any purchased app. It has to be a prob with storage. i even went back to gingerbread and worked my way to kitkat but the same issue. I contacted the GOOGLE play store, they were no help because they are showing it installed. Any way he or I will figure it out.
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The new version of Beanstalk seems to fix this issue. It took about 5 mins to install for some reason, but other than that it's working fine. Must have been the ROM after all.
http://d-h.st/M5s <- try installing the newest play store if you are still having some sort of problem downloading.