All, what is the best way to backup and restore (Apps and Data for those Apps)? Smart switch doesn't seem to restore the actual data for the apps so you will have to reconfigure everything again. In the old days with root it was easy with Titanium Backup. I just don't want to have to setup everything from scratch. Thanks for taking the time to give any input.
Not much you can do without root.
Ive been through this with all tranfers. Nothing can get the app data. But most apps have internel backup to online so you dont lose much data if any.
With my stuff i only had to log in to my apps.
Everything else was auto backup to online or a data file on the phone and i just restore that in those apps
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I changed phones just recently and I backed up all of my apps and contacts using Titanium Backup. Everything went smoothly when restoring, except my contacts aren't being restored. I rooted my old phone and I've been able to restore them every time I switched roms, however with my new phone, they're not. I have gone to the specific file (contact/calls storage) and tried to restore it, rebooted, and everything, but that still doesn't work. Could someone please help me with this? Thank you. If it helps, I'm on a Droid Eris running 2.1.
I just sync all my contacts to Google, just more painless like that. But in backing up contacts on the phone, I'd use MyBackupRoot and Titanium Backup for Apps.
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I didn't really mention this but I can't access my old phone to get my contacts. It's broken lol. I just have a backup from before it broke. Any ideas?
I'm having the same issue:
've made on my previous phone Samsung Galaxy S II a full backup with titanium backup. Now, I have One S (s4) and I want to restore my contacts. It doesn't work with old fashion way (by entering in titanium backup and restoring everything). Can you help me out with this? There is a way to find the contacts in the titanium backup folder and add them manually in the last case?
@SaturnUnleashed did you find out how to do it?
I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but after searching around for a solution to this issue I came up with nothing useful. Unless you can restore to a phone with the exact same ROM the backup was made on, it cannot be restored.
Nobody (as far as I can tell) has found a solution to your problem, so unless you've sync'd your contacts with google I'm afraid they're lost forever.
Yesterday my G2x was caught in a reboot cycle and I could do nothing but use a hard reset. I did not wipe any data however. My phone booted up like the day I bought it, but none of my apps are are in the app drawer. After media scanning, gallery found all my pictures and music app found all my music. I used a file explorer and saw that all my app data is still there too. Is there any way I can make android recognize these apps? There is some personally important data in those apps. My device was almost new and unrooted, but I would be willing to root.
Factory resets wipe user data and apps. You will have to reinstall them. Once reinstalled any data they had stored on your sd card should show up. In the future it would benefit you to use a program like titamium backup to keep your apps backed up.
Although I'm still trying to figure out the difference in a hard reset and a factory reset, I need to do one. So I'm wondering if there is any recommendation out there on the best way toi get my phone back to what I need.
Here is what I am doing - please let me know what I might be missing:
1) Installed appback, sms backup and restore, and call log backup and restore and ran them
2) rooted and installed titanium backup
3) backed up apps and a few system settings (wifi, desktop background, a couple of others) with TiBU
4) Also used several apps own backup utility (like nova launcher allows you to export your settings)
5) Plugged my phone in and copied everything from the "phone" and from the sd card to my computer
All my contacts are in gmail, so I don't have to worry about losing those.
Is there something else I should do here or am I ready for the reset?
Usually when I get a new phone, I root it, get TB on there and restore. Works great. However, I think I'll use my S7 without root for a while, so no TB.
I know about Helium, is that the best way to go? What's your plan for March 11th?
I would say Helium as well, if not rooting. (provided root is found)
Mybackup is good for restoring sms/mms without root, not sure how it does that but it works.
My routine is make a backup with Helium, use smart switch to move most things to the new phone, restore app data from Helium for anything that did not come over with Smart Switch.
nicholb said:
My routine is make a backup with Helium, use smart switch to move most things to the new phone, restore app data from Helium for anything that did not come over with Smart Switch.
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How did this work for you? I've always spent a day reinstalling apps, inputting passwords and losing data on the new phone because I don't want to screw anything up. Maybe I'm wasting my time.
My S7 arrived today, so I'll be moving everything tonight.
Just enable backup in the settings, force sync everything afterwards, then connect the USB cable and adapter that come with the S7 as described in the onscreen instructions.
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How did this work for you? I've always spent a day reinstalling apps, inputting passwords and losing data on the new phone because I don't want to screw anything up. Maybe I'm wasting my time.
My S7 arrived today, so I'll be moving everything tonight.
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It went fairly well. SmartSync copied over all the docs, pics, music, and many other things. I should have used the included adapter but WiFi direct was fast enough. The apps downloaded from the play store. Once that was done I ran the helium restore and got back most of my app data.
There are a few misses. Helium did not bring over my watch face libraries from either Watchmaker nor Pujie Black. I had to use methods in the app to transfer those. Usually Helium brings over the desktop, but this time it did not. I assume that was because I was going from Lollipop to Marshmallow. You do have to open your apps to re-login to them. A password manager is a big help with that. Some of the apps have new Marshmallow permission prompts when first opened so it is smart to just open all your core apps once you have everything transferred.
I use Titanium Backup, but potatoes potatoes.
FazeRN said:
I use Titanium Backup, but potatoes potatoes.
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As do I but won't do much without root.
Helium works really well
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The app data/settings from my old Lollipop phone are backed up on Google Drive.
I bought a new Nougat phone but did not realise that I had to restore app data/settings on the first startup, and so didn't do that.
The old backup still shows up on Google Drive. Is there a way to restore the settings of some specific apps to my new phone?
I'm afraid not. Google drive is for storing data as it is. You can at most download your app data/settings to your new phone. As for whether the app data/settings applies to the related apps on your new phone or not is not sure. Maybe you can try yourself to figure it out. Since its a new phone, when fails you can reset to factory settings without much data loss.