[HTC EVO 3D] mikedavis120:
Ok I'm building this out some more. I added to the bottom of this post with future changes and am asking for requests of what the community wants in a this. Please read entire op. It's not that long yet..... Yet. Lol. It will be I forgot to nab a couple for changelog. I will get on Ubuntu and format this for the site but I'm on tapatalk til that happens.

So..

How many times have you flashed a new ROM or an update and had to go through the hassle of reinstalling or restoring all your must have apps? I usually have about 60 to 80 apps that I was installing/restoring with titanium backup. It's a pain. You gotta sign into Google and go DL titanium backup or whatever app you use. Wait while it installs all your apps. That, I guess, is if you have TiBu pro, if not its one by one. A painstaking process to say the least.

Well I was sick of it so I did something about it. I made a flashable zip you can add your apps to and flash from recovery to bulk install as many apps as you like all at once.

Here is a simple but endlessly useful tool I whiped up. What this allows the user to do is take any amount of apk files that you want (granted you have enough room) and restore them in a painless onetime flash from recovery.

Simple to use. Just follow this quick guide to get started.

Step 1. Download the file at the bottom of this post. Save it to your SD card wherever you can remember where it is.

Step 2. Using root explorer extract the zip folder to wherever you want to, I recomend makeing a temp folder to work in.

Step 3. Using root explorer or astro file manager navigate to your data/app folder.

Step 4. Start a multiple selection and choose all apps that you would like from your data/app folder to be automatically flashed back to your device next time you need to do so.

Step 5 COPY don't MOVE your selections to the data/app folder of the bulk-installerV1 that you extracted earlier.

Step 5.5 At this time if you have other apks you want to use that are not in there already now is your chance to get them in there as well.

Step 6. Rezip with root explorer or astro. And if you so choose rename the zip to update.zip and place on the root of your sd card. Or leave the original name if you prefer.

That's all, now next time you flash a new ROM or wipe your data and want your base apps back all you need to do is flash it from recovery. Or if you renamed it to update.zip and put in sdcard root you can choose apply sdcard update.zip and it will do it thing.

I have tested this on my evo3d and it works great, I wrote it on my phone with root explorers file editor so I made sure to test it with both twrp and cwm5.

***Disclaimer***

As always if it makes your phone do crazy things or kicks your dog. Or steals your wallet. Well that sucks. Sorry.

***Disclaimer***

If you find it useful remember to hit the thanks button.

Hope you all enjoy it, and I hope it makes life a bit easier for you all.

Download link.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nwodh0grer1rdhf/bulk-installerV1.zip

FAQ..

No it will not save data of any sort. Next version I will see about writing some more to the updater to be able to add data to. That's more reading. This is my first albiet simple script, and ill add to it for sure. However you can put TiBu in the update folder and when you boot up it'll be a few seconds extra to restore just data for certain apps instead of the whole app.

Update...

I'm working on building my "superzip". I will update the op when I get there.

But expected additions are..

Incorporate init.d path for custom scripts.

system/app option.

Cleanup after flash (cache and dalvik)

Path for themes, add what you want.

Two versions also, one with system tweaks from our awesome devs. I'm currently building it and asking permissions to bake in stuff from certain developers and various mods and tweaks from various developers on xda. I want to add the stuff. But further, I would ask everyone what tweaks they might want written in. Please throw stuff out and ill get to putting this together.

Till then.