Ok, it is clear, as stated into General Q&A:
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Will i lose all my texts, apps,etc when i install a new rom?
Yes you will. You could make a titanium backup of everything though and restore it when your done flashing the roms so you can get everything back. Download titanium from the market.
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What I don't understand is this: almost all ROM requires wipe data, and this sounds to me settings/data are different among different ROM version. Am I wrong ?
Q1 - If I am not wrong, would a data/settings restore create the same issues like a ROM replacement w/o backup/restore ? At the end, it seems to me, there would not be any difference among backup+ROM replacement+restore and simply ROM replacement without backup&restore
Q2 - would it be better to backup and restore everything (system apps&data, user apps&data) or would it be better to be selective (i.e. only user apps&data) ? What do you generally backup and restore ?
Q3 - assuming a selective backup&restore is the best choice, I would like to know what backup in order to have it safe:
1) contacts' links
2) screens (home & others, in terms of links to applications spread across all the pages)
Awaiting any useful replies from you guys.
Thanks !
i always do a full app/data backup, then when the new rom is settled, do a full app/data + system resotre and then uninstall the apps i dont want.
this will also restore your "desktop" to what it looked like when you backed it up (if you came from the same launcher)
also restores all sms, mms, emails, recent calls etc. this way
I want to switch roms in order to try out a new one but i have some apps and *messages* that i can't afford to lose. I don't want to use boot manager. If i backup my current rom will everything be the same if i want to revert back... even my messages?
Yes, everything will be the same if you do a nandroid backup in clockwork or 4ext.
Even messages.
Okay I am going to try now. thanks
Should check into "SMS Backup & Restore". I use this when flashing to carry over my text messages between ROMs. Use Titanium Backup for apps and app data, works well. I recommend the paid version, less hassle for restoring apps, set it and forget it!
srt4mn said:
Should check into "SMS Backup & Restore". I use this when flashing to carry over my text messages between ROMs. Use Titanium Backup for apps and app data, works well. I recommend the paid version, less hassle for restoring apps, set it and forget it!
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+1 for this. I use the following apps to keep pretty much complete backups of my phone:
SMS Backup & Restore (runs nightly)
App Backup & Restore (runs nightly)
DropSpace (runs nightly)
Dropbox (to dump everything into)
Basically configure DropSpace to back up app settings and APKs, camera pics, navigation (trips, etc) and drop it all into your Dropbox account. App Backup & Restore saves the APK's from your Market apps, so after flashing a new ROM you can just browse your DropBox folder and install the APK directly
Obviously on top of this I always take a nandroid backup (which gets synced to my Dropbox) when flashing new ROMs.
+1 I'm doing the same thing, but I have no idea how to back up contacts...
nikoookami said:
+1 I'm doing the same thing, but I have no idea how to back up contacts...
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Do you store contacts on the phone? I don't have any on the phone. They are in my two Gmail accounts.
You can move them from the phone into your Gmail account. In People, go Menu --> Move and follow the prompts.
OK, so i have one mod and now i want to migrate to another mod.
I have a paid Titanium backup app and i know how to restore apps and their data, but i have a few questions:
1. i have customized my Titanium by having filters and backup schedules, how do i transfer these things to new mod? Reinstalling this app will get these settings lost
2. on a new mod - destination mod, how do i properly restore all the apps? Do i set to recover missing apps and app data only?
3. is it possible to get all the widgets and shortcuts on screens like i had before?
Do you mean ROM not MOD?
Not using titanium, but an easy way to back up your apps, and restore them on a new rom
If you download ext4 recovery from the market.
Find it on your phone install recovery touch beta 8
Do a backup of your current rom, and then when you flash a new rom.
Go back to recovery, choose restore
advance restore
restore only data.
It will restore all your apps etc, but keep the new rom.
sromer said:
Do you mean ROM not MOD?
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YES sure
big_sw2000 said:
Not using titanium, but an easy way to back up your apps, and restore them on a new rom
If you download ext4 recovery from the market.
Find it on your phone install recovery touch beta 8
Do a backup of your current rom, and then when you flash a new rom.
Go back to recovery, choose restore
advance restore
restore only data.
It will restore all your apps etc, but keep the new rom.
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Thank you, but still, there should be some other way to do that, since i might not restore all the apps, but just some of them, and i really want to have Titanium installed with the custom settings i as already use
As I understand Titanium backs up its own settings to he sd card. At least that's what mine does, I don't remember if I had to enable that in the settings though
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ar4l said:
As I understand Titanium backs up its own settings to he sd card. At least that's what mine does, I don't remember if I had to enable that in the settings though
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Yeah, you have to enable it in the tb settings, otherwise it won't backup your tb settings.
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I wouldn't rely on Titanium specially if you have ICS. I would use nandroid or CWM backup and restore data. You will get your Titanium as is too. You can always delete unwanted apps but if you can't restore that a diffrent story.
big_sw2000 said:
Not using titanium, but an easy way to back up your apps, and restore them on a new rom
If you download ext4 recovery from the market.
Find it on your phone install recovery touch beta 8
Do a backup of your current rom, and then when you flash a new rom.
Go back to recovery, choose restore
advance restore
restore only data.
It will restore all your apps etc, but keep the new rom.
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will this also back/restore up text messages?
sykozylot said:
will this also back/restore up text messages?
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Im not 100%, but i think so
I'm not an expert but had done a few restore now after trying ics n goin back to gb. So with titanium, u do a restore missing apps n data...u can still deselect the app u don't want to restore
After that, u can restore some system data (in green) individually which includes ur txt msg, account info. Some can mess things up..like I restore the bookmark from gb to ics, n it crash in ics when opening bookmark
But others seems ok. To get all ur icons organized like b4, I restored the desktop one....these shld all b done just for the data if u r given a choice.
That's kinda my experience n it seems to b working ok now after I restore back to gb
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dadanepal said:
I wouldn't rely on Titanium specially if you have ICS. I would use nandroid or CWM backup and restore data. You will get your Titanium as is too. You can always delete unwanted apps but if you can't restore that a diffrent story.
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Anyone ever tried nandroid backup with gingerbread, then upgrading to ICS and then trying to restore the data partition?
I'm only asking because in this case (my case) most of the restored apps keep FC-ing. Everything else is restored perfectly - call lists, sms, mms, contacts list, favourite lists, backgrounds, sounds, ringtones... - you name it, it's there. So everything besides a lot of apps after restoring from nandroid works perfect even after upgrading from GB to ICS.
SO... any suggestions how to fix the apps FCs problem restoring from nandroid data partition? Thanx
Yes you can save titanium setting to ad card and it will restore by itself. Go to preference and tick first option auto synchronized TB setting. All done
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Unfortunately, i did that but it didn't work. I have the setting ticked, but i installed ICS 4.0.3 ROM and now i have a fresh Titanium Backup without any settings i had
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Yes you can save titanium setting to ad card and it will restore by itself. Go to preference and tick first option auto synchronized TB setting. All done
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camspy said:
OK, so i have one mod and now i want to migrate to another mod.
I have a paid Titanium backup app and i know how to restore apps and their data, but i have a few questions:
1. i have customized my Titanium by having filters and backup schedules, how do i transfer these things to new mod? Reinstalling this app will get these settings lost
2. on a new mod - destination mod, how do i properly restore all the apps? Do i set to recover missing apps and app data only?
3. is it possible to get all the widgets and shortcuts on screens like i had before?
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1. you could always use a secondary backup app like System Tuner Pro to backup your applications (particularly Titanium backup) then installing System Tuner Pro first then use it to Restore Titanium to the right working order.
2. I don't get this question.
3. Sadly, No
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will this also back/restore up text messages?
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YES. it should be able to restore your messages.
jondalar said:
Anyone ever tried nandroid backup with gingerbread, then upgrading to ICS and then trying to restore the data partition?
I'm only asking because in this case (my case) most of the restored apps keep FC-ing. Everything else is restored perfectly - call lists, sms, mms, contacts list, favourite lists, backgrounds, sounds, ringtones... - you name it, it's there. So everything besides a lot of apps after restoring from nandroid works perfect even after upgrading from GB to ICS.
SO... any suggestions how to fix the apps FCs problem restoring from nandroid data partition? Thanx
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I don't think it is a good idea restoring GB data partition onto ICS. It is known to screw up the system/applications. Your applications need to be optimised so if you flashed it, the optimisation process may be skipped or cancelled out when you flash the data partition.
Hey guys, just a quick question regarding restoring User Apps data from recovery.
I find myself flashing new roms more and more often these days, and it's becoming a tedious and repetitive task to install my apps and setup everything manually.
I use Titanium Backup PRO to restore my apps, and for my text messages I use GO SMS PRO to restore them.
The problem is, if you e.g. try to flash from CM7 to CM9, or flash from your current rom to an entirely different rom (which may also require a different kernel to be flashed), then as far as I know you can't simply use Titanium Backup to restore your apps data/settings. You can only use it to restore the apps (simply just installing the .apk files), but you would have to manually configure the settings all over again. I'm sure this has happened to many people with regards to using Titanium Backup when restoring user app data/settings, where they experienced corrupted data or battery drain issues etc.
As for restoring text messages with GO SMS PRO, it works but it lags and takes a long time. It would often popup the force close error box, and I would have to always choose "WAIT" to make it continue running. It may seem it's lagging or not working but in the end it restores all my messages fine.
Anyway, it's annoying to do all this setup manually, so I was wondering if it's possible to simply recover user apps data AND settings from the recovery? As far as I know, you simply recover /data from the recovery? Will that cause any problems if you were to update from CM7 to CM9?
Hi all,
Unlocked and installed CM10 ROM on my Desire S yesterday,all went well and its great having Jelly Bean on my phone. Few bugs here and there but nothing too serious. My problem is restoring my old text messages to the device. Before the installed i backed up my messages from within the Desire S stock messaging app. This created a folder on my SD Card with a file in it,after i unlocked my phone i was able to restore the messages from within the stock app.
After installing the CM10 ROM i cant restore from within the messaging app preinstalled or from any program(SMS Backup etc) in the app store. I take it the HTC stock messaging app can only restore the backup file it made. So is there any work around or are messages gone for good.
Thanks in advance.
You could restore the stock rom, flash SuperSu or superuser to get root access, and backup your messages with titanium backup (preferably xml), then restore cm10 backup and restore messages with titanium backup.
Quite time-consuming, but you would have your messages again.
Or maybe you could extract them straight out of the nandroid backup with titanium backup, but i don't know if that's possible.
A better bet - although it still involves restoring your old ROM - would be to use SMS Backup & Restore. I paid for the full version as I have it set to automatically backup all my text messages at 2am every day, sync the backup with my Dropbox account and keep 3 days of backups.
Yeah thought I'd have to install the old ROM bit of a pain,should of backed them up with a proper app first. Didn't backup the stock ROM take it I can find it somewhere if I decide to go that route..
New to all this,still getting my head around all the terminology. Live and learn. Thanks.
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