I recently have a Samsung tablet running Android 11. (not rooted)
And current phone is a oneplus 7 pro android 11(rooted).
I have some games and data I want to move or copy from phone to tablet.
Here is what I tried so far.
Some things did work some did not.
Moved data (android/data Via pc between devices.
Tried from titanium backup saves then unzip to tablet.
Samsung smart switch worked great for apps but not so much with data.
Appwererabbit. Questionable.
Installed Google play games. (reluctantly). And that gave no results.
Not sure what else to try. The app(s) seem locally saved and offline.
Not sure what else I can do besides root the tablet
Using ADB you can backup apps & their related data housed on device #1 and then restore them to device #2.
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Just got an N5. My first smartphone although I have an N7. I'm trying to move my user apps and app data from the N7 to the N5 but the process is failing. I can't find good instructions that don't assume you are restoring to the same device or assume you have an SD card you can move between devices. I've checked threads here and can't find anything.
N7 3G (2012), Android 4.2.1 Unlocked, rooted, stock ROM
N5 Android 4.4.2 Unlocked, rooted, stock ROM
Titanium backup is installed on both. N7 does TB backups and syncs to Google drive.
I created a filter on the n7 of just the apps to transfer and did another backup of those and sync'd to Google Drive. I copied the files for the ones I wanted (based on files having a just change date/time) from Google Drive to the N5 and put them in a new directory. I set the new folder as the backup folder in titanium backup. Now when I go to TB on the N5 I can see the apps but they all have a line through them. When I try to batch restore, I get a message that ### elements failed. I turned on allow unknown sources and that didn't make a difference. If I select an app in the list, I have options to uninstall or delete.
I have a feeling it would be easier to use one of the newer apps designed just for apps but I've got this far. I don't know why I can't restore them via TB.
Im not a fan of titanium backup I think its a good app but it has no place anymore in kit kat and it just kills battery and resources... Just my opinion
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I did something similar with TB and this worked for me.
I strongly suggest you do it in steps. First step is go to Play Store, My Apps, All. Manually install each app fresh. (Don't panic...keep reading). If you didn't get the app from the Play Store, then copy the apk from your N7.
Once you have them all installed (fresh new versions, yay!) now open Titanium and press the middle tab (Backup/Restore). Go down the list and just tap the individual app name...a box pops up..press Restore...box pops up...Press Data Only. Done! Move on down the list, one by one. As you discovered, you can't batch restore this. It takes time, but they'll all work.
Whatever you do...DO NOT restore data to ANY SYSTEM APPS!. We don't need seeing another thread where you rushed and borked something
In fact, before you start, back up your N5..just in case.
Have fun.
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Thanks. I ended up using the migrate feature on MyBackup Pro. It was kind of slow but less hassle than looking up 150 apps on the play store and installing them. (I'm an app addict). Some of them failed though so I'll have to do those manually and then I'll try the restore in Titanium. Not touching system apps except I wanted to move my wifi hot spots over with passwords which Titanium can supposedly do.
Wondering if I could have use OTG to back them up and then restore to the new device. Found some threads on it but not sure if it would have worked.
This is the first time I have bought a phone without a known method for rooting. I have always used Titanium Backup to backup and restore apps+data whenever I bought a new phone but unfortunately without root, this won't work. Can some one suggest another method to transfer app data from my Oneplus 3T to Pixel 2? I tried Helium but it shows "Backup Disallowed" for several of my installed apps.
Did you try using the data transfer process that is part of the initial setup on the phone? It walks you through connecting a cable between your old phone and new one and then is supposed to transfer everything.
That said, people have had extremely inconsistent results with this. I've seen people say it transferred everything no problem. Others that it didn't work. For me in transferred a lot of phone settings, but not all, wifi passwords, but not contacts or calender data; and all it did with apps was redownload them from the store and not transfer the actual data and settings at all. I had to redo settings myself, manually copy data that was on the sdcard partition, and for any apps that had a feature to export their settings to a file and then reimport them on the other phone I did that by hand.
The other possible option that I'm aware of is to use the settings on your old phone that allows Google to backup your app data to the cloud and then sync it on the new phone. I did not do that, because I don't want Google to have all my personal information. But perhaps that works. I have the sense that the whole data transfer process works best when you just let Google invade your soul as deeply as possible, because that's what they are really after.
But those less than optimal options aside, I think that transferring app data without root is pretty much impossible, since most of it resides in the /data directory which is not accessible without root.
Yeah, this sucks. Personally this is the first and last time I will buy a device at the moment of release, before root is available.
Edit: Never mind, I see you already tried Helium
Android Debug Bridge is what you're looking for. In short: enable USB debugging, install ADB, connect to computer with USB.
You can backup an app with:
adb backup -f backupfileonyourcomputer.ab packagename
You can get the packagename from the address bar if you check the application page on Play Store in a browser.
Restoring an app:
adb restore backupfileonyourcomputer.ab
You could backup all apps at once, but then can only restore the whole bulk later. (Possible to extract apps, but it's tedious)
If you need more details just search for adb backup.
Cloud save is also working really well, as stated above, but some apps don't support it. I use adb to move those from one device to another. Finally some apps have backup disabled by the developers, well.... no luck if you have some of those.
Hello all,
as I am waiting for me new 1+6 and I am thinking about the best way to transfer apps / data etc. from my Redmi Note 4.
The best way to do it is Titanium - but that requires root on both phones.
There are other solutions, which require no root. Here are some of the apps people talk about: SHAREit; Xender or CLONEit
Has anyone here tried these (or similar) apps? What results did you get? Where your apps (all? some?) transferred with their settings / data intact?
Thank you for sharing your experience!
What's wrong with letting Google do it? I've done that with multiple phones. Not all settings transfer, but that's the case with TiBU sometimes too.
Thank you for the reply.
TiBu transferred for me so far (nearly) everything 100%. I will just root my phones - do not want the hassle of transferring 100+ apps and setting them up one by one... With TiBu when moving from one phone to another it took last time less than 5 minutes of set up (not counting the actual data transfer, but that the phone does by itself) and the new setup was exactly like the old one after that.
Google did not transfer for me most app data when I tried to use it (I have for example many apps from the Amazon app store - those are not very well transferred by Google). Plus I am on a Xiaomi phone currently and google app sync does not work so well on it
Just use titanium backup? Root your ****
typoHi There,
I'm sorry for such a noob question (???), but I've been researching this for so long and have not figured out how to solve my problem.
I purchased Titanium Backup Pro, to use on my rooted device (Amazon Fire He 10 tablet - I know, it's not really a "true," full-blooded Android tablet - maybe that's why I'm having no luck?). I had my tablet personalized and modified to a place where I was very happy with it, but needed to perform an OS update. I was hoping i could restore all non-system apps, and their data. I made a backup on the external SD card, synched it with Google Drive just to be safe. Performed a reset, updated the tablet, re-rooted it, reinstalled Titanium, and was ready to restore all of my user apps + data. They show in the list that is populated, but are grey with a line through them. When I reinstall them from the Play Store they become restorable again. But... doesn't that defy the point of using a backup program!? A lot of my apps were customized packages too, via Lucky Patcher, etc. I want my versions/data back, not a new replacement
I've tried many, many different settings and suggestions and methods as I've come across them online, but am getting nowhere. I figured it couldn't hurt to ask if someone was very familiar with this app and possibly had some advice.
Thanks!!!
One of the main games I want to finish is Dragon Quest III. I got really far into the game, but then my phone got stolen. Luckily I had a TB backup of a lot of my apps and games. Fast forward over a year and I've got the itch to finish the game, as well as a few others that only saved data locally on the device. However, I have no way to restore it to my current phone (a bootloader-locked Verizon Galaxy S8+ on Pie, which is unrootable). Is there a way I can restore or resume the game(s) on my current phone? I've tried Helium and DataSync, with no luck.
Ended up trying BlueStacks, couldn't share files between host and guest OSes (no proxy for that between the two). BS Tweaker bypassed this limitation, but no matter what, USB debugging just couldn't be enabled, let alone a USB connection. Supposedly Andy has that capability, but despite everything I did, nothing showed up in the Shared folder in the file browsers. I ended up using the Google Drive feature in ES File Explorer to copy files between the two. But since Andy is almost exactly like an Android device (has the Settings and everything), developer mode was accessible, and USB debugging worked. After I installed all the needed apps and such, I was able to restore my TB backups, test them in-game, and back them up again using Helium, then restore on the phone. Took several hours, but in the end it was worth it.