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Best Method of Backing up your phone?

So what's the best way of backing up your device after you root? I used ROM manager... (not sure what all this backs up) It gave me a
cache
data
datadata
nandroid.md5
system
files...
So if i end up bricking/soft bricking my phone will this restore my phone to how it was at that time?
I Downloaded Titanium Backup, but from the looks of it you have to manually back up different resources? I uninstalled it.

I backup my Launcher settings using ADW, there is a option in settings and I believe TW and LauncherPro have same. That is the worst part of reapplying a ROM or reverting to stock IMHO.
For Apps I just use AppBrain. Keep my list synced.
Would love to know if there are other options for other info like all the different Logins for FB, Google, Twitter, and other services.
Again I am pretty new to this platform and eager to learn and help.
Is there a way to make a image of a fresh install or ROM of my system once I have all set the way I like. a Baseline of sorts..

Sighcosis said:
I backup my Launcher settings using ADW, there is a option in settings and I believe TW and LauncherPro have same. That is the worst part of reapplying a ROM or reverting to stock IMHO.
For Apps I just use AppBrain. Keep my list synced.
Would love to know if there are other options for other info like all the different Logins for FB, Google, Twitter, and other services.
Again I am pretty new to this platform and eager to learn and help.
Is there a way to make a image of a fresh install or ROM of my system once I have all set the way I like. a Baseline of sorts..
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I think that's what ROM manager does.. you have to root to use it though

I use titanium backup pro worth the money. Great app it will backup app data and system data can be linked to a dropbox account and will store info there or on SD you choose you need root for general functionality but for backups I think it's hands down the winner in my book.....
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How do you then reinstall using Titanium?
Flash a Rom of choice and ?? does it make a image ? seems it backs up individual apps and settings.
Going a week of having the phone and I almost have it tweaked to the way I want with apps and such. Finally got Firefox installed on it tonight and Beta 4 on PC and syncing away.
I would be so much happier to have 2.2 on here so I could do Chrome for droid. But .. guess its price I pay for living in the sticks and having US Hell...

[Q] How are you guys backing up your Transformer?

Man, I am loving this tablet! I am totally addicted to the higher resolution...
Anyway, I've got almost everything configured the way I like and I was thinking about backups. If my device died, I wouldn't want to reconfigure my settings, add all my bookmarks again, etc.
What are you guys using to backup your device? Any suggestions on applications that work well with Honeycomb? I'd really like to have it so I could take a new Transformer, restore my backup and have things just like they are now.

If you havent rooted, I'd say try this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
It looks **** onscreen but does the job well.
If you have rooted get Titanium Backup Pro:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&feature=search_result
Does a very good job.

Bookmarks, contacts, email accounts, and wifi should all be backed up to your Google account. It will even backup which apps you had installed and redownload those as well.
You can go a step further with the stock browsing app and sync your bookmarks with chrome, which to me is one of my favorite features.

donatom3 said:
It will even backup which apps you had installed and redownload those as well.
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Yeah, but only the ones you got from the Market.
If you are in the habit of getting APKs from... er... different places, you will need something for saving them.
A very nice app to do that is File Expert, which not only works as an excellent file manager (with working SMB support and streaming... whohooo!), but it also backs up all the installed apps (if you want even the system ones) to a single directory.

Auto Install All My Apps

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.

manimmal said:
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.

polarbearmc said:
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.

killchain said:
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

birddseedd said:
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

birddseedd said:
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.

killchain said:
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.

Question Just a heads up Swift Backup will NOT restore data from a 6 pro to a 7 pro

Either the 7 pro has a new file structure, or Swift Backup is a 32 bit app, which ia no longer allowed on the 7 pro version of A13. Whatever the issue is, if you have important data, keep the 7 pro in the box until another option for restoring app data is available.
Just trying to save folks some time amd effort.

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Either the 7 pro has a new file structure, or Swift Backup is a 32 bit app, which ia no longer allowed on the 7 pro version of A13. Whatever the issue is, if you have important data, keep the 7 pro in the box until another option for restoring app data is available.
Just trying to save folks some time amd effort.
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Ive restore my backup successfully ( or almost successfully , cause few apps were crashing afterwards..lol) from my 6pro

I will also try it at the weekend. An alternative (perhaps) is Migrate. But if both won't work, then this would be a quite big deal...

I was gonna open a thread about this!
I got in touch with the dev on Telegram and that's what he said:
1. How many apps have you tried restoring?
2. By any chance are these apps that are secure? Payment apps, apps with accounts, apps that use encryption using Android Keystore, etc.
3. Pick a small app like Geekbench for testing backup and restore and let me know how it goes.
Also, I was linked to this FAQ: https://swiftapps.org/issues#restorefail
I guess I'm not switching to the 7 Pro until I can find a way to transfer my apps (from a 4 XL).

swift backup worked fine for me. (OP20 pro -> P7 Pro)
But needed to log out in swift backup cause it uses google login.
After that yo have to give swift full root access. Then it worked for me

Restoring apps from P6P is working well for me. The apps that are crashing are likely encrypting data with a master key stored in Android keystore and they crash because master keys can't be transferred between devices.

I tried using Titanium Backup to transfer a few apps' data from Pixel 3XL to 7 Pro, and they all failed. Swift was able to restore data for a certain Candy-based game with success, but that was the only one I tried.

Ghisy said:
I was gonna open a thread about this!
I got in touch with the dev on Telegram and that's what he said:
1. How many apps have you tried restoring?
2. By any chance are these apps that are secure? Payment apps, apps with accounts, apps that use encryption using Android Keystore, etc.
3. Pick a small app like Geekbench for testing backup and restore and let me know how it goes.
Also, I was linked to this FAQ: https://swiftapps.org/issues#restorefail
I guess I'm not switching to the 7 Pro until I can find a way to transfer my apps (from a 4 XL).
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Follow up on this: I chatted with the dev on Telegram and he said most people were able to transfer their stuff to the Pixel 7 without any problem.
He's gonna get one himself soon so he'll be able to test things more thoroughly I guess.

I transfered without issue except on a few that had biometrics setup. I had to clear those and setup manually.

It will fail on 32bit native applications. 32bit is enabled in P6 and disabled in P7.

I have been emailing the developer too. Of the 190 apps that I restored, about 20 of them didn't work after being restored.

Keep my new Pixel 7 Pro in the box? I used a neat trick by letting the Playstore download all my apps. Then just took the time to log in and setup as before. Pictures and videos OTG flash drive. Text Messages and MMS I let Next SMS handle it.

Most of the apps I transferred using Swift worked. TB has been dead on my P6P for awhile unfortunately, just crashes on open so I tried Swift and was able to transfer with maybe a 90% success rate out of 20+ apps that I didn't want to set back up manually. I'm only recalling 2 maybe 3 so far that didn't work. I didn't bother trying anything sensitive like banking/stock/crypto etc.

PSA: v4.2.3 is being pushed to the Play Store.
Pixel 7 users should update asap.
Changelog:
Apps: Fixed an issue on Pixel 7 & Pixel 7 Pro where Swift Backup failed to properly restore apps with split APKS
Apps: Fixes for proper backup of permissions like Picture-in-Picture, WiFi Control and Turn screen on OneDrive: Added retry mechanisms for some temporary OneDrive errors
Wallpapers: Some optimizations when user has a very large number of wallpaper backups
Other fixes

4.2.3 not showing for me here in the uk on play store. still 4.2.2.

it will take a while for it to update across playstore

whatsisnametake2 said:
4.2.3 not showing for me here in the uk on play store. still 4.2.2.
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Probably in a few hours. If you want it right away, it's available on the Telegram Swift Backup channel.

Ghisy said:
Probably in a few hours. If you want it right away, it's available on the Telegram Swift Backup channel.
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cool cheers

Amd4life said:
Either the 7 pro has a new file structure, or Swift Backup is a 32 bit app, which ia no longer allowed on the 7 pro version of A13. Whatever the issue is, if you have important data, keep the 7 pro in the box until another option for restoring app data is available.
Just trying to save folks some time amd effort.
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But why? It also has it's own and was super easy, took only a few minutes connect P6P to P7P via USB. Done. And have done it for myself and other, was easiest transfer/backup so far.

zymphad said:
But why? It also has it's own and was super easy, took only a few minutes connect P6P to P7P via USB. Done. And have done it for myself and other, was easiest transfer/backup so far.
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Not everything gets copied over. Best to hook up the old phone to the computer and run adb pull /sdcard to make a backup of the sdcard. Delete the Android folder from the backup and then drag and drop it onto the new phone. Like my Signal folder didn't get backed up so I had to manually copy it over and restore the backup and none of the non-stock folders in the root of the sdcard storage got brought over either.

Question Rooted and moving to a replacement P7P. Best way to transfer?

Hi guys. Had my pixel replaced under Googles Rma warranty service. I'm fully rooted so it's a bit of a pain having to set my phone up all over again, but I use swift backup and Google backup so that should get me most of the way there. Is there anything else I should do before I move? Anyone else had to have their phone replaced under warranty? I'll have both phones so I'm hoping the process won't take too long.

To be on the safe side, and next to what you mentioned, I would also ensure that my WhatsApp history is backed up to Google Drive, and also copy the storage contents to the laptop in case I needed it (documents, Magisk modules, etc).

Fishawy said:
To be on the safe side, and next to what you mentioned, I would also ensure that my WhatsApp history is backed up to Google Drive, and also copy the storage contents to the laptop in case I needed it (documents, Magisk modules, etc).
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Good shout thanks for that. Always forget WhatsApp can be a bit awkward

I don't understand why my grouped apps on the home screen would lose the grouping for one particular P7P. The other two devices seem to be able to retain the groups using Google sign-in to restore so that my home screen remains tidy and organized. Haven't tried Swift Backup, though this is the 2nd time I have heard about it. Thanks for the endorsement. Waiting for TWRP 3.8 to support Android 13 if not 14.
Not a fan of just letting apps sit in the drawers and having to search for them every time. I like to group apps based on the same topic, say banking apps in the group called "Finance," or "Bank."

supermansaga said:
I don't understand why my grouped apps on the home screen would lose the grouping for one particular P7P. The other two devices seem to be able to retain the groups using Google sign-in to restore so that my home screen remains tidy and organized. Haven't tried Swift Backup, though this is the 2nd time I have heard about it. Thanks for the endorsement. Waiting for TWRP 3.8 to support Android 13 if not 14.
Not a fan of just letting apps sit in the drawers and having to search for them every time. I like to group apps based on the same topic, say banking apps in the group called "Finance," or "Bank."
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I do this folder layout too but I do it with nova launcher. You can backup just the nova layout or I use swift backup with root to back it all up as well.

Bxperiaz3 said:
I do this folder layout too but I do it with nova launcher. You can backup just the nova layout or I use swift backup with root to back it all up as well.
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Thanks. I guess retaining the layout is good enough for me. The free non-prime version can do this already? Saw some review complaints on Swift. The app hasn't been updated for 6 months? Not a good sign