yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

Yes, with Nandroid everything is backed up, including the Market links and the ROM itself.

Advantages of Nandroid:

- efficiency: it's a snapshot of the whole phone (ROM+apps+settings), excluding the sd card of course.

Advantages of Titanium Backup:

- backups are smaller than Nandroid because the ROM is not included

- can backup and restore apps individually

- no reboot needed (except after restoring some system settings)

- operates "online" (no need for recovery mode like Nandroid)

- apps can be backed up & restored from one ROM to another

- backups can be copied from one phone to another

There's probably more stuff that I forgot :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DefTaker:
Hmm...paid via paypal this afternoon (3/18/2010) around 3:30ish p.m. and saw that the funds went through immediately but I haven't received my license yet for the "donate version?"

I've sent you an email from my gmail account but I don't know if that's the email you need since it's not the one tied to my paypal acct? :confused:

Anyhow, please respond as I'd like to not have to go through the hassle of disputing this and I was operating in the belief that you would send out the license immediately upon payment. Thanks again - I hope to see it sometime tomorrow (Friday, 3/19/2010).
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cigar3tte:
Check your Spam box.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

I just woke up and sent your license to your Yahoo account. Sorry for the delay but please remember that I'm not in the same time zone as you ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silvake:
Upgrade from cupcake to eclair

Hi Joel,

Love your work, I think Titanium backup is one of the "must have" apps on every android device.

I successfully used it to back-up/restore system settings and apps, even from one phone to another.

I would highly recommend it to every reader of this forum.

Now I have this problem and, considering that other people might also encounter this, I wonder if you could enlighten us by posting your opinion.

Last weekend I tried to upgrade the ROM on my HTC Hero (GSM version), from MoDaCo 3.2 (cupcake based) to NeO 1.3 (eclair based).

Both ROMs provides a (different) version of HTC Sense.

I use a 8GB class-6 sdcard, which I previously have setup with both ext3 and swap partitions (partitioned from the recovery menus).

MoDaCo ROM works just fine, with A2SD enabled, and I could even successfully do a backup/restore using nandroid+ext or Bart, as I said before.

Now, after wipe and upgrade to NeO ROM, having the apps on sdcard, the new ROM "found" them already installed, but I had to use Titanium Backup (free version for the moment) to restore system settings and apps settings.

The result was not good: many FC's, especially in HTC sense and in most of the Google's apps, persisting even after reboot, so I had to revert to cupcake using Bart.

Maybe I did something wrong, or maybe there is no way to do this easily, so that's why I'm asking you this:

1. Do you know if there is any recommended procedure for back-up/restore when switching from a ROM to another of a different (i.e. higher) version?

2. Even better, can you positively confirm that using the donate version of Titanium will somehow obtain better results?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi silvake,

This is a good question - and I didn't know about the existence of the NeO ROM, even though I have a Hero too :p

When transporting backups between wildly different ROMs like that, I would be very cautious. Backing up all your stuff can't harm, but personally I would only restore the system items one by one, starting with the MMS/SMS and probably not including things that are likely to be incompatible and that can be quickly set up again by hand, like the system settings.

Imho, the critical thing (ie: the things that take time to set up by hand *and* can be incompatible between ROM versions) would be the [DESKTOP] item. Please report any success or failure dealing with that one - but any problems you encounter with that item, might be very hard to fix in Titanium Backup.

For backing up and restoring non-system apps, Titanium Backup should (and will) have no problems across ROMs, except perhaps with the "new apps2sd method" from Cyanogen (the one which allows to choose between internal memory or SD card for each app) which I don't officially support yet.

And finally, no: the Donate version will restore exactly the same data as the Free version, although it will operate much faster.

PS: For migrating the Desktop widgets from 1.5 to Eclair, have you tried MyBackup Pro - and if yes, does it work ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] protour73:
Hi Joel...had to do a recovery, Titanium Backup Pro would not reinstall, so I ended up buying it for a second time from Market and still nothing. Can you help?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

It's a Market problem, and indeed it can be annoying sometimes !

I would recommend that you try to clear the Market's data, as described there:

http://matrixrewriter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TB+-+Troubleshooting

Don't worry, Google will not charge your CC twice for the same app.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ivoto:
Hi,

I used Titanium Backup on my Samsung Galaxy S to remove some of the

annoying and useless applications, which come with the system. They are indicated in red color, and after I remove them, the are grey and striked-through. And they cannot be restored, although I did a backup before de-installing.

If I need to reinstall them, how can I recover the system to the initial state?

Thank you in advance.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogcontact:
MyBackup Root

Hi guys,

I am the product manager of the MyBackup product line at RerWare, LLC.

Just wanted to let everyone know that we have released MyBackup Root, which is a FREE download from the Android Market and allows Root users to backup and restore All applications + Data + Market Links, as well as all the other stuff we have ever supported ACROSS DIFFERENT ROMs and versions.

It is also 1 Click BATCH RESTORE of application, no need to go through one by one. And the scheduler is also included for FREE...

Make sure to check it out! and leave a 5 star review to help keep it free.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] execudroid:
I just donated to Titanium Backup and after doing a backup and restore, the only apps that are showing up in my market are ones that I have purchased. I try to do an "attach to market" in Titanium, but they still don't show up. What am I doing wrong?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TonyStark R.I.P.:
Backup/Restore

Backup/Restore is not showing a list of.... anything. I've tried the problems button, still nothing. I did find one small oddity, in superuser below Titanium Backup it says Deny. Iv'e had this now for several weeks and it seems when I changed from Phoenix ROM 3.5 to 4.1 it has had the same issue!

How do I get it, not denied?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellishcross:
Titanium Backup Question

Hi,

I just rooted my Samsung Captivate (still running stock 2.1) and confirmed that the Superuser Permissions app was there. I then installed Titanium Backup and made a backup of everything I could. Then just to test it, I used Titanium Backup to "Uninstall" the "3D Matrix III Revolutions 1.1" live wallpaper. It uninstalled but when I tried to "Restore" it I got a message saying:

Do I have to enable sideloading just to restore a backup with Titanium Backup?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
If you use the free version then yes, you need to enable the "allow non-market apps" option in your phone settings. If your phone settings lack this, see the Wiki for more info:

http://matrixrewriter.com/wiki/

The pro/donate version does not need this.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
having all sorts of problems with titanium lately; especially when trying to restore apps after going from cm7 to a sense rom.

I am NOT TRYING TO RESTORE system data or anything like that, JUST APPS and data..

TB starts to restore, than after a minute or so, it just reboots my phone, and I go back to the main lock screen.

This only happens when trying to restore my apps after being on an AOSP rom, and restoring apps to a sense rom; this should not happen, since I am only restoring APPS. not data..

Any ideas?

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

If your phone reboots while attempting to install an app, it means that APK file is corrupted. Please ensure that your backups are fine by running a batch verification.

Corrupted backups are either a result of the SD card going bad, or (more likely) making backups with a malfunctioning version of Busybox. Be sure to hit the Problems button to download a reliable version, before you make the first backups... see the Wiki for more info on deleting bad backups.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
I doubt the APK's are the issue, since it works just fine if I am restoring to a AOSP ROM; the ONLY time this happens is when I restore to a SENSE rom..If the APK's were bad, I would have a problem no matter which type of ROM I am restoring to, wouldnt I?

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigfoot:
Same here. My experience is:

1. Install and use MyTracks on my hero (Stock HTC Android 2.1 ROM) for a while.

2. Backup all app+data by TitaniumBackup.

3. Wipe and install Elelinux-7.0.0-RC0-Hero-v0.6 (Android 2.3 ROM)

4. Restore MyTracks and other APPs by TitaniumBackup

5. Everything works like a charm

After one week, however, problems happens when I try to rollback to Stock Android 2.1 ROM. During that week, I used MyTracks as usual.

My steps of rollback are the same:

1. Backup all app+data by TitaniumBackup.

2. Wipe and install Stock ROM

3. Restore MyTracks and other APPs by TitaniumBackup

4. Got FC when I launch MyTracks.

Here is my guessing - Android 2.1 and 2.3 use different SQLite library which is not binary backward compatible.

When I rollback to 2.1 which is old SQLite, MyTracks still try to access its data generated by new SQLite library through old SQLite library, causing FC then..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogcontact:
You guys should give MyBackup Root a try!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wase4711:
can you restore individual apps with it, or is it always a batch restore?

Do you think its as reliable as titanium?

thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BmoreBadBoy:
Hey, thanks for the great app! I was wondering if there's any way to batch restore apps without data(not system data, app data)? I had a problem after installing roms with the 3.70 base on my evo, and then losing 4G or being unable to install apps from the market no matter what fixes I tried. I finally broke down and used app brain (horrible!) to reinstall all my apps from the market, and then, no more problems. Then I installed the apps I still had missing individually via tit backup without data and still no problems. I think it's the restoring an app WITH data that somehow corrupts databases when changing frameworks or something ( I have no idea what I'm saying I'm just talking out the side of my neck here...) :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigfoot:
I kept that MyTracks and use 2.3 again. MyTracks works fine after using TitaniumBackup to restore app+data. As a result, SQLite library seems the root case.

I'll try MyBackup to backup MyTracks when rollbacking to Android 2.1..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigfoot:
I use MyBackup to backup MyTracks (app+data) on Android 2.3, then wipe and rollback to 2.1 ROM. When I launch MyBackup to restore, error message "error opening db" is appeared. In this case, MyBackup doesn't work either...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AADAMS:
I was using My Backup Pro, but now it says that there is a newer version, please install it. I click no, and now it won't let me make back ups or restore or anything.

Any ideas?

Currentlly I am using TB. Only one problem. I have to select each file to back it up.

Is there a way to select all or do I have to select each and every item in order to back it up?

Please help.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AADAMS:
Never mind. I found it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroiDemon:
I too bought TBP, and I love it... Thank you, and I hope you enjoy the beer I bought you :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bonoventura:
TB

Hello. Need to say only that Titatium Backup is an awesome application. Im using it for few months now and whenever my galaxy S I9000 stop working by any problems, mostly cause of flashing, i just simply restore all the data and it works perfect. Its perfect to have a tool (apps) like this so you can do whatever you like with the phone knowing your data is safe. Great work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wolfspirit68:
I've been trying for about a month to complete and system & data backup with TBP with complete failure and FC every time. Seems it gets to about 44% and pukes every time. Something around the Google apps and it FC's on me.

Any ideas?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RPK925:
hi this is my first time using titanium backup. i backed up all all my user apps and system data, it copied to my internal sd card, but i then copied it to my external sd card i have. but when i try to restore, it dosent reboot, it asks if i want to replace my apps one at a time? can anyone help thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brat.haneq:
Hi there

I don't know if I understand correctly.

In order to do restore automatically You need pro version of titanium. If You don't have it - You will have to confirm each app even with batch restore.

and restoring doesn't cause to reboot.

You should reboot in order to get some of the things working - such as SMS storage :)

Hope this helps

brat.haneq
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gltorost:
hey its my first time using titanum.. just wondering.. i backup all my data, wipe everything, flash my rom.. then tried to restore my contacts..but then my contacts column became empty and i cant seem to recover the contacts.. any ideas how to fix this? thanks for any help..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikitosina:
hmm...Have a problems with restoring contacts on CM
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plutusmaximus:
Hey thanks for your work on Titanium Backup. I am a little new to this but I am learning quick. I've gotten myself to this point just from reading everything you guys have posted. But I can't figure out how to install apps when its not an *.apk file but instead it is a zip file with a few other files and folders one of which is named AndroidManifest.xml.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've searched and searched but I can't find anything on this.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k0zmic:
Flash via recovery.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plutusmaximus:
Thanks for the help k0zmic

You rock! It's tough to find information sometimes when you do not know how to adequately describe what you are trying to find. I would have spent several hours trying to find that.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plutusmaximus:
It didn't work.

I did the recovery install for the zip for two apps: Titanium Backup and the Tron Legacy theme for ADW.Launcher. It went so quick I couldnt read whether it failed or succeeded, it just flashed some text across the screen and put me back at the reboot now menu option. I rebooted each time seperately for each install and I when I looked in the ADW.Launcher settings the theme is not listed and when I looked in the list of apps, Titianium Backup is not listed either. Did I miss something?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Regii:
Having problems too... Just today I received a replacement for my broken xArc and tried to restore what I backed up from my previous phone... thing is it won't get past the "restoring ..." screen. Been like that for about 10 minutes now and I just wanted to restore a live Wallpaper...

Does it have to do with the phones not being the same?

EDIT: Strangely enough, it seems to work with every other App. Ah well, gotta do it all by hand then again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

Try setting the Apps processing mode to "AUTO, Indirect" and enable USB debugging in your phone settings.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] witschey:
Questions about Titanium Backup.

Hi Joel,

I am fairly new to Android, having recently switched from Windows Mobile. I have a couple questions about Titanium Backup.

1) I want to be able to upgrade my ROM frequently, but the restoration and deletion process is very painful. Is Titanium Backup limited to restoring backed-up applications, or can it also automatically remove applications that I have removed through Titanium Backup after a new ROM is installed?

If that is not possible with Titanium Backup, is there any application out there that can do that?

2) I have noticed that Titanium backup is unable to restore 'Contacts' when using a Microsoft Exchange account. It doesn't seem to have problems with the calendar and the email. Is there a reason why that happens, and is there any way to solve that?

Regards,

Paul
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mulkave:
Well I am kind of flashoholic :D and Titanium backup has given me a huge helping hand in that! so I thought to share my experience, might be helpful

1) I usually copy the Titanium Backup folder on the root of my SD-Card to the pc before flashing or partitioning or whatever.. and then copy it back in case lost.. as for quick operations i use the "Batch" option and that is found by pressing the menu

2) No idea :D as i don't really back those up, n i don't use Microsoft Exchange account

hope i was helpful enough though :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kav4:
I installed Titanium Backup Pro & backed up all the apps installed.

Then I reflashed the phone. (I did it without the SD card). After this I re inserted the SD card & installed Titanium Backup Pro again. Then when I try to restore my previous apps. But I don't see any of the apps to restore.

How to do this? Have I done anything wrong?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

Are your backups on the external SD card? (to be absolutely sure, you can also read the SD card from a PC).

Try hitting MENU -> Preferences -> Backup location -> DETECT
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kav4:
Thanks for the reply. I don't see "Backup location" in the Preferences.

I have sub menus under Preferences as follows

General Settings

Dropbox Settings

Backup protection settings

Backup Settings

Restoration settings

Freeze settings

Un-installer settings

Batch mode settings

Troubleshooting settings

Under which sub heading the "Backup location" available?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Come on... it's under "Backup settings" => "Backup folder location" ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kav4:
I'm sorry to trouble you friend. I also though it's under "Backup settings"

But there I only have

Backup folder name

Normal Apps (apk)

Protected apps (apk)

Market link

Max backup history

Compression

There's no "Backup settings"

I have a doubt on my Samsung Galaxy SL GT I9003

In settings > SD card and phone storage

it says

SD card (Total Space 7.38GB)

there's something else available called "USB storage" with 1.52 GB other than Device memory (1.73 GB)

What is this? I don't have any other storage other than the SD card. I suspect this is part of the internal memory & Titanium backup do the backup to here. It may wipe out when I do reflashing the rom.

This does not give me the option to format the SD card. only allow to unmount the SD card. But the phone allows to format USB storage.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
"Backup settings" in indeed the name of the section that you mentioned.

About the precise setting: it was labeled "Backup folder name" in old versions. Now it's "Backup folder location" so you obviously have an older TB version. You should upgrade to the latest TB version first, and then you can change the backup location much more easily.

I don't know what the "USB storage" actually is, to be honest. Maybe other users could confirm that, or you could run "su" followed by "mount" in a shell and post the output.

I really hope your backups weren't deleted during the wiping process - but unfortunately Samsung doesn't seem to care a lot about their users' data in some cases.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonnyjett:
Hi Joel,

I'm having a bit of a problem upgrading to the Pro version. I moved the txt file to sdcard root and reinstalled Ti Backup, but it's still the free version. I tried using the txt file emailed to me, and renaming the .bin file to .txt and using that.

What should I try next?

Jon
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi Jon,

I would recommend that you try once again by following the exact instructions from the Licensing section of the Wiki:

http://matrixrewriter.com/wiki/

If the problem persists then I'd recommend that you e-mail Titanium Track directly at: support ++at++ titaniumtrack ++dot++ com, and attach the license file you have.

Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macruadhi:
Backup exists, I can't restore

Hi, I'm using a Vibrant, with Bionix Nextgen V2. I just restored my phone to factory settings, formatted internal SD, then copied my backup folder, along with my license to sd root, then flashed Bionix as I've done at least half a dozen times before. Titanium sees all of my backups, but refuses to restore any of them. I've read this entire thread, made sure all the settings are correct, pointed titanium at the correct folder, upgraded superuser, busybox (on the older version) and I can't get anything to work. I am fairly sure the apps are actually there, the titaniumbackup folder is 502 mb.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi macruadhi,

When you say TB refuses to restore any of your backups, what do you mean exactly? Does the "restore" button not appear when you click on a backup? Do you see the correct icons for every app in the list?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macruadhi:
The apps that are not installed have the typical line through them, the names are com.appdeveloper.appname. When I try to manually restore an app, I only have the option to delete the backup. And no icons are shown on those that are unrestorable.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
You seem to be a long-time user so perhaps my question is stupid - but are you sure these aren't data-only backups? Also if no icon appears it's definitely not normal. I'd recommend that you report this to support --at-- titaniumtrack.com and include a screen shot if possible...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vil-2:
Hi,

I can't install my pro version after a wipe.

I hâve a notification by Tb saying there is a problem w ith my license and asking for a check of my order.

The app stays on free version of course. I tried To reinstall, reboot, check wiki... nothing worked. That's weird because My previous flashes and wipes did not triggered Such bugs...

Any tips, someone?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eezdva:
I have one question. It backsup and restores great.

Just one question . Once restored. I can't update an app in the android market???
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] concreteman:
Msg for Joel

Hey Joel - paid for pro a few days ago via paypal - still waiting for Pro key.

Please PM me or reply to my e-mail i sent you.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joel.bourquard:
Hi,

If you haven't received anything it's most probably a spam filtering issue. In that case please send an e-mail directly from the contact information shown on the Market. Thanks!