[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
This makes a HELL of lot of sense! Normally I am very good at using "sort" on different columns to get what I want. Since I never did this in TiBu, I did not know it was an option. This is absolutely the best way I ever heard to make and restore ALL of your currently installed aps and data. It is also very simple too! No need for profiles, update.zip files, or jumping through hoops. I already got the part about "Restore missing apps with data" but did not even *think* you could sort them by date!

Yeah, make a backup of ALL installed apps and data. Then uncheck ALL, sort by date, then start checking from top down until the date changes. Brilliant idea, chap! My Hero! :victory:

* I found in TiBu somewhere, batch maybe, that the number of apps I have installed and the number not installed is not a very big difference. I think it was like 14 that are not currently installed and my app list is near 250. I am going to try your procedure and NOT uncheck all, sort by date, and then UNCHECK items until I reach the target date. That sounds a LOT better to manually uncheck 14 instead of checking like 250 items. If it it works. Otherwise I will use your procedure to the letter. I will let everybody know how it works out. :)

The very first thing I will do on "CM11 to Stock Day" is make 4 backups.

Backup Stock in Safe Strap.

Backup CM11 in Safe Strap.

Backup ALL installed Apps & Data in TiBu and mark down the date.

Take screenshots of every one of my desktops to help restore them afterwards.

You know, with all or the install to stock and how to deal with restoring your stuff information that we have collected over the past 2 days, it might be possible to move the entire cm11 rom, complete, to stock all in one day. Or at least close to it. Wow, now THAT is amazing! I swear we have good people in here and when we put our heads together, stuff gets done, man. :D

[MENTION=838017]sherri[/MENTION] Yep, the *very first* app anyone should reinstall is Titanium Backup and make sure your backup folder is NOT on the internal sdcard if you plan to install and restore to stock slot. You are absolutely correct in only restoring a few apps and data at a time. Since I am going to install the exact same rom, build, device, and date as I am restoring rom, I think it would be quite safe to restore all apps and data in one batch action. Yeah, it might very well freeze and I have to start over, but I think it is safe enough to try, with all things considered in this case. If the roms were different, the date between backup and restore longer, the rom build were different, I would do what you suggest. But what I intend to do in this case is simply move from one slot to another. Same *everything* and only an hour or two between backup and restore of the very same apps and data on the very same rom. If it does not work out, I really do not have a lot to lose as I am starting over again anyway. (I want to "push the envelope" but only if it makes sense and there is a realistic belief that it can and should work. This situation would be "an exception", not what one would ever normally do!) Thanks for the advice! :)

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Ahhh, Mr. Chen, you are back! I booted to recovery to see this for myself. On the Wipe page at the very top of the slider is written:

Factory Reset

Wipe Data, Cache, and Dalvik

.android_secure

Most of the time this is

the only wipe you will need.

THAT is what you were talking about! :D

Yes, I *always* read the console details before moving on, regardless of what the outcome is. I need this pretty badly. I am afraid that my Guide might not contain accurate information on installing to Stock and I would really, really hate to give someone bad advice or cause harm to their device. This is a *much* more detailed, yet simple enough procedure with everything included. Now, I guess I have to do this for real, to verify it. Not to prove you "right or wrong", but to mark down any details that were not included or comments that might be helpful. Ugh, I am looking forward to this like I want to rub a cheese grater over my face! :mad:

But it has to be done, I really have been putting it off for a long time and one thing holding me back was how to restore all apps and data currently on my phone. Shadow just gave me the perfect answer that I have been looking for! Since Trebuchet does not have a backup and restore desktop feature, I guess I will have to take screenshots of each desktop to recreate them. They are not "perfect" in layout, but my main page and one or two others are exactly the way I want them.

Man, we are on a roll here! Everyone is now an experienced member, we all have cm11 installed. And the only really big thing left to do is move it to stock. (For those of us that want it.) And we are all putting our heads together to come up with a sensible and reasonably fast way of getting this done. What really should "save the day" is being able to use TiBu to restore all apps and data currently on the rom. Since the device, rom, build, and everything is exactly the same and all will be done withing a couple of hours, restoring all apps and data with TiBu should be perfectly acceptable in this case. I intend to find out and what a time saver that will be! (I hope/wish that TiBu will restore account data. That would really put the cherry on top. But I am not counting on it. Hmmm, make a screenshot of the Account list in Settings too, I think.

Now I have to find time for this. Might as well plug in the charger in case I end up with time for it later on...

EDIT:

I am making all of the necessary backups now and am biting my nails off! I might not be able to get this done today but to make this work, I want the backups, ALL of them, to be within hours of the actual move to stock operation. This will either be "IT" or a dry run... :eek:

EDIT 2 10:57 PM:

I am actually doing this for real. My Jellybean stock is gone. CM11 is installed with gapps-kk-20150412-minimal-edition-signed.zip. Did the startup wizard to get my Google and CyanogenMod accounts in place. Stopped ALL playstore automatic updates and downloads. Installed Safe Strap apl 3.75, and Titanium Backup with Root key.

Now using Titanium Backup to restore a filter that I setup before like shadow advised, while in old CM11 slot, I backed up all installed apps and gave it a label. Now restoring that list of apps and data, it is a big one. 234. My TiBu license is in place and confirmed, and I got the one shot chance to restore my Android ID, I took it and phone rebooted. What is freaking me out is that the TiBu menu "is not there". I tap the top right corner and only get "Batch Operations". No Preferences or anything else! I see that TiBu did find the correct folder for backup and restore. My previous scheduled jobs are all still there. But I don't get it why I cannot access the TiBu menu, where did it go? Maybe after running this batch restore it will come back? ...biting my nails to hell!

I worked hard on setting up a list that would have gotten the entire thing done in one day. And it still might happen. But if it does not, I can always boot to slot 1 where everything is setup the way I want. This is "wigging me out" because I want to see that TiBu menu come back!

Will keep you posted. :eek: